Patents by Inventor Paul Griffin
Paul Griffin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Publication number: 20200072242Abstract: A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Griffin DeIvernois, Steven Lynn Huskins
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Patent number: 10576214Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament and to a non-numerical display for such a device. The display comprises a housing with at least one window, a dosing element movable relative to the housing during dose setting and/or dose dispensing, and a movable indicator element visible through the at least one window The indicator element is coupled to the dosing element and/or to the housing such that it moves not proportional to the dosing element.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: SanofiInventors: Robert Frederick Veasey, Paul Griffin, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Matthew Meredith Jones, Richard James Vincent Avery
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Publication number: 20200004587Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses, methods, and systems for a multithreaded processor core with hardware-assisted task scheduling are described. In an embodiment, a processor includes a first hardware thread, a second hardware thread, and a task manager. The task manager is to issue a task to the first hardware thread. The task manager includes a hardware task queue in which to store a plurality of task descriptors. Each of the task descriptors is to represent one of a single task, a collection of iterative tasks, and a linked list of tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Paul Griffin, Joshua Fryman, Jason Howard, Sang Phill Park, Robert Pawlowski, Michael Abbott, Scott Cline, Samkit Jain, Ankit More, Vincent Cave, Fabrizio Petrini, Ivan Ganev
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Patent number: 10471217Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising a feedback feature. The feedback feature is configured to indicate an end of the dispense operation to a user by giving an audible and/or tactile feedback.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Griffin, Stephen Francis Gilmore
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Patent number: 10449301Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising an actuator which is configured to be operated in order to dispense a dose of medication and a feedback feature being configured to give a feedback signal to a user at the end of a dwell period after the actuator has reached an end position.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Griffin, Stephen Francis Gilmore
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Publication number: 20190303159Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to an instruction set architecture to facilitate energy-efficient computing for exascale architectures. In one embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of accelerator cores, each having a corresponding instruction set architecture (ISA); a fetch circuit to fetch one or more instructions specifying one of the accelerator cores, a decode circuit to decode the one or more fetched instructions, and an issue circuit to translate the one or more decoded instructions into the ISA corresponding to the specified accelerator core, collate the one or more translated instructions into an instruction packet, and issue the instruction packet to the specified accelerator core; and, wherein the plurality of accelerator cores comprise a memory engine (MENG), a collective engine (CENG), a queue engine (QENG), and a chain management unit (CMU).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: October 3, 2019Inventors: Joshua B. FRYMAN, Jason M. HOWARD, Priyanka SURESH, Banu Meenakshi NAGASUNDARAM, Srikanth DAKSHINAMOORTHY, Ankit MORE, Robert PAWLOWSKI, Samkit JAIN, Pranav YEOLEKAR, Avinash M. SEEGEHALLI, Surhud KHARE, Dinesh SOMASEKHAR, David S. DUNNING, Romain E. Cledat, William Paul GRIFFIN, Bhavitavya B. BHADVIYA, Ivan B. GANEV
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Patent number: 10406293Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising at least one feedback feature. The feedback feature is configured to indicate the end of a dispense operation to a user by giving an audible and/or tactile feedback.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Paul Richard Draper, Paul Griffin
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Patent number: 10376645Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a drive mechanism for a drug delivery device, having a first and a second state and comprising a piston rod configured to be moved in a distal direction when the drive mechanism is operated and an adjusting member, wherein the adjusting member is rotatable relative to a body of the drug delivery device in the first state of the drive mechanism and is prevented from rotating relative to the body in the second state of the drive mechanism, and wherein the adjusting member is configured to adjust an axial position of the piston rod in the first state of the drive mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Griffin, David Richard Mercer
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Patent number: 10287886Abstract: A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Griffin Delvernois, Patrick Daniel Noble
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Patent number: 10273975Abstract: An article of manufacture having a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in a scalable table, the scalable table selected from the group of tables consisting of TABLE 1, wherein the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a number, and wherein X and Y are coordinates which, when connected by continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z height, the airfoil profile sections at each Z height being joined with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Griffin DeIvernois, Kenneth Paul Rivard
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Patent number: 10195358Abstract: The piston rod arrangement is in an assembled state before use and comprises a piston rod, a bung, which is intended to be driven by the piston rod, a body member, and a drive member. The piston rod is threadedly engaged with the body member, and the drive member is threadedly engaged with the piston rod and movable relative to the body member. A mechanism is provided defining unit steps of movement of the drive member and corresponding unit steps of movement of the piston rod. The piston rod is arranged in contact with the bung or at a distance from the bung that is less than a distance of one corresponding unit step of movement. When the piston rod, the bung and the drive member are assembled in the body member, the piston rod is advanced with respect to the body member towards the bung, until the piston rod is stopped by the bung. The drive member is rotated until the piston rod begins to advance again and the drive member is then stopped, and the piston rod is fixed at or near the position obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper, David Richard Mercer, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Griffin, Robert Veasey
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Publication number: 20190001066Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an assembly for a drug delivery device having a housing part, a piston rod displaceable relative to the housing part, a first sleeve member and a second sleeve member. First and second sleeve members are coupled to the housing part. In an initial state of the assembly the first sleeve member is movable from an initial position to a second position relative to the second sleeve member which allows the piston rod to axially travel from an initial position to a predetermined second position such that the assembly is in a primed state. Moreover, in the primed state of the assembly, with the first sleeve member being in the second position relative to the second sleeve member, first and second sleeve members are permanently rotationally and axially locked to each other by a first engagement feature such that first and second sleeve members together form a sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper, David Richard Mercer, Naceur Rekaya, Paul A. Griffin
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Patent number: 10167872Abstract: A compressor includes a first stage of stator vanes having a first position and a second group of stator vanes arranged in two or more stages downstream from the first stage of stator vanes, each stage having a respective second position. A first actuator is engaged with the first stage of stator vanes, and a second actuator is engaged with a bar connecting the second group of stator vanes. A method for operating a compressor includes adjusting a first position of a first plurality of stator vanes and adjusting the respective second positions of a second group of stator vanes separately from the first position of the first stage of stator vanes.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dwight Eric Davidson, Paul Griffin Delvernois
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Patent number: 10099014Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an assembly for a drug delivery device having a housing part, a piston rod displaceable relative to the housing part, a first sleeve member and a second sleeve member. First and second sleeve members are coupled to the housing part. In an initial state of the assembly the first sleeve member is movable from an initial position to a second position relative to the second sleeve member which allows the piston rod to axially travel from an initial position to a predetermined second position such that the assembly is in a primed state. Moreover, in the primed state of the assembly, with the first sleeve member being in the second position relative to the second sleeve member, first and second sleeve members are permanently rotationally and axially locked to each other by a first engagement feature such that first and second sleeve members together form a sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper, David Richard Mercer, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Griffin
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Patent number: 10065751Abstract: Liquid storage systems for space vehicles include at least one storage tank including a tank inlet, a tank outlet, and a plurality of liquid storage compartments coupled to each other in series between the tank inlet and the tank outlet. Each liquid storage compartment includes an end plate including a porous outlet at an end of the liquid storage compartment adjacent to another liquid storage compartment. Propulsion systems for space vehicles include at least one such liquid storage tank. Methods of providing a liquid propellant to a thruster of a space vehicle include withdrawing a liquid propellant from a first compartment within a tank and flowing the liquid propellant from a second compartment into the first compartment through a porous element associated with an end plate separating the first compartment from the second compartment.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Orbital ATK, Inc.Inventors: Gary H. Kawahara, Donald E. Jaekle, Jr., Paul Griffin, James Avramov, Walter Tam
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Publication number: 20180080328Abstract: A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2016Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Paul Griffin DeIvernois, Patrick Daniel Noble
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Publication number: 20180017077Abstract: An article of manufacture having a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in a scalable table, the scalable table selected from the group of tables consisting of TABLE 1, wherein the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a number, and wherein X and Y are coordinates which, when connected by continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z height, the airfoil profile sections at each Z height being joined with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Griffin DeIvernois, Kenneth Paul Rivard
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Publication number: 20170304550Abstract: The present invention is generally directed to an assembly for a drug delivery device comprising a first threaded member (50, 50?), a second threaded member (40, 60?) with a longitudinal axis and a thread (61), having at least two consecutive portions (62, 63, 64) with different leads. The first threaded member (50, 50?) and the second threaded member (40, 60?) are adapted and arranged to rotate with respect to one another about the longitudinal axis of the second threaded member (40, 60?) during dose setting operation of the assembly, the first threaded member (50, 50?) thereby being axially displaced along the second threaded member (40, 60?) from a start position to an end position with respect to the second threaded member (40, 60?) due to the mechanical cooperation of the first threaded member (50, 50?) with the thread (61).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Anthony Paul Morris, Paul Griffin
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Publication number: 20170283096Abstract: Liquid storage systems for space vehicles include at least one storage tank including a tank inlet, a tank outlet, and a plurality of liquid storage compartments coupled to each other in series between the tank inlet and the tank outlet. Each liquid storage compartment includes an end plate including a porous outlet at an end of the liquid storage compartment adjacent to another liquid storage compartment. Propulsion systems for space vehicles include at least one such liquid storage tank. Methods of providing a liquid propellant to a thruster of a space vehicle include withdrawing a liquid propellant from a first compartment within a tank and flowing the liquid propellant from a second compartment into the first compartment through a porous element associated with an end plate separating the first compartment from the second compartment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2016Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Gary H. Kawahara, Donald E. Jaekle, JR., Paul Griffin, James Avramov, Walter Tam
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Patent number: 9777744Abstract: An article of manufacture having a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z set forth in a scalable TABLE 1, wherein the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z by a number, and wherein X and Y are coordinates which, when connected by continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z height, the airfoil profile sections at each Z height being joined with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2015Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Griffin Deivernois, Jeremy Peter Latimer