Patents by Inventor Paul Kurtz
Paul Kurtz 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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Patent number: 11939900Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing emissions of an internal combustion engine are described. In one example, an electric heater and a passive NOx absorber or other emissions control device are positioned in a passage downstream of a combustor so as to process emissions from the combustor before an engine is started.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jason Martz, Michiel J. Van Nieuwstadt, Eric Kurtz, Paul Tennison, Brien Lloyd Fulton, Daniel Styles
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Patent number: 11802180Abstract: Polymeric polyoxazolines of the following structure are disclosed: where X is the residue of a polymeric polyol after reaction with a dicarboxylic acid/anhydride; where R5 is an organic moiety; where Y is an organic moiety containing one or more oxazoline groups; and wherein each R10 is independently hydrogen or an organic moiety. Methods of making such polyoxazolines and using them in a coating, and packages coated therewith, are also within the scope of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Hongying Zhou, Dennis Allan Simpson, Christopher Paul Kurtz, Tsukasa Mizuhara
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Publication number: 20210277179Abstract: Polymeric polyoxazolines of the following structure are disclosed: where X is the residue of a polymeric polyol after reaction with a dicarboxylic acid/anhydride; where R5 is an organic moiety; where Y is an organic moiety containing one or more oxazoline groups; and wherein each R10 is independently hydrogen or an organic moiety. Methods of making such polyoxazolines and using them in a coating, and packages coated therewith, are also within the scope of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Hongying Zhou, Dennis Allan Simpson, Christopher Paul Kurtz, Tsukasa Mizuhara
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Patent number: 11078389Abstract: In the present invention, a solvent-based (SB) adhesive for the purpose of closing or sealing the open end of a bag, such as a plastic trash bag, liner or like, is coated to the exterior or interior surface of said bag and creates a neat, tight functional seal to said bag when twist activated.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: Sun Chemical CorporationInventors: Paul Kurtz, Philippe Schottland, Russell Schwartz, Kohei Nakane
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Patent number: 10988573Abstract: Polymeric polyoxazolines of the following structure are disclosed: where X is the residue of a polymeric polyol after reaction with a dicarboxylic acid/anhydride; where R5 is an organic moiety; where Y is an organic moiety containing one or more oxazoline groups; and wherein each R10 is independently hydrogen or an organic moiety. Methods of making such polyoxazolines and using them in a coating, and packages coated therewith, are also within the scope of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Hongying Zhou, Dennis Allan Simpson, Christopher Paul Kurtz, Tsukasa Mizuhara
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Publication number: 20210087439Abstract: In the present invention, a solvent-based (SB) adhesive for the purpose of closing or sealing the open end of a bag, such as a plastic trash bag, liner or like, is coated to the exterior or interior surface of said bag and creates a neat, tight functional seal to said bag when twist activated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Kurtz, Philippe Schottland, Russell Schwartz, Kohei Nakane
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Patent number: 10836928Abstract: Coated packaging and methods for coating such packaging are disclosed. The coating compositions comprise a polymer comprising acid functionality and a polyoxazoline, wherein the coating composition is substantially free of formaldehyde. The coating compositions may be applied onto at least a portion of the interior and/or exterior of packaging, such as metal cans and can ends.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Max Aaron Molleo, Hongying Zhou, Carl Allen Seneker, Christopher Paul Kurtz, Qin Li
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Publication number: 20190185706Abstract: Coated packaging and methods for coating such packaging are disclosed. The coating compositions comprise a polymer comprising acid functionality and a polyoxazoline.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Max Aaron Molleo, Hongying Zhou, Carl Allen Seneker, Christopher Paul Kurtz, Qin Li
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Publication number: 20190185618Abstract: Polymeric polyoxazolines of the following structure are disclosed: where X is the residue of a polymeric polyol after reaction with a dicarboxylic acid/anhydride; where R5 is an organic moiety; where Y is an organic moiety containing one or more oxazoline groups; and wherein each R10 is independently hydrogen or an organic moiety. Methods of making such polyoxazolines and using them in a coating, and packages coated therewith, are also within the scope of the present invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Hongying Zhou, Dennis Allan Simpson, Christopher Paul Kurtz, Tsukasa Mizuhara
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Patent number: 8201027Abstract: A method utilizes a virtual flight recorder to harvest a subset of events being collected by an active system tracing facility during operation of a computer system. The virtual flight recorder is “virtual” from the sense that it is not specifically instrumented into a component with which the virtual flight recorder is associated, which eliminates the burden on developers to specifically instrument components of interest, and minimizes the impact on system performance as a result of performance metric collection.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2005Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John Michael Attinella, Larry J. Cravens, Michael James Denney, Edwin C. Grazier, Jay Paul Kurtz, David Ferguson Legler
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Patent number: 7761658Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing feedback directed deferral on nonessential direct access storage device (DASD) operations. A kernel DASD I/O manager maintains a queue depth count value for a DASD unit and maintains a busy flag that indicates when the queue depth count value is greater than a predefined threshold. The kernel DASD I/O manager defers optional operations responsive to the busy flag being set for the DASD unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2008Date of Patent: July 20, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Larry J. Cravens, Jay Paul Kurtz, Kenneth Gerald Linn, Glen W. Nelson, Kenneth Charles Vossen, Donald L. Ward
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Publication number: 20080294842Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing feedback directed deferral on nonessential direct access storage device (DASD) operations. A kernel DASD I/O manager maintains a queue depth count value for a DASD unit and maintains a busy flag that indicates when the queue depth count value is greater than a predefined threshold. The kernel DASD I/O manager defers optional operations responsive to the busy flag being set for the DASD unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Larry J. Cravens, Jay Paul Kurtz, Kenneth Gerald Linn, Glen W. Nelson, Kenneth Charles Vossen, Donald L. Ward
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Patent number: 7444466Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for implementing feedback directed deferral on nonessential direct access storage device (DASD) operations. A kernel DASD I/O manager maintains a queue depth count value for a DASD unit and maintains a busy flag that indicates when the queue depth count value is greater than a predefined threshold. The kernel DASD I/O manager defers optional operations responsive to the busy flag being set for the DASD unit.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2006Date of Patent: October 28, 2008Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Larry J. Cravens, Jay Paul Kurtz, Kenneth Gerald Linn, Glen W. Nelson, Kenneth Charles Vossen, Donald L. Ward
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Patent number: 7137120Abstract: Diagnostic data, such as a time increment corresponding to how long a thread waits to access a shared resource, is stored within a predetermined location in a data structure, such as a hash bucket in a hash table. The location is preferably correlated to the resource such that a display of the diagnostic data may be tailored to reflect a user-specified relationship between the data and resource.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2001Date of Patent: November 14, 2006Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Ryan Harvey Bishop, Michael Brian Brutman, Chris Francois, Richard Karl Kirkman, Jay Paul Kurtz, Henry Joseph May, Naresh Nayar, Dennis A. Towne
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Publication number: 20030114949Abstract: Diagnostic data, such as a time increment corresponding to how long a thread waits to access a shared resource, is stored within a predetermined location in a data structure, such as a hash bucket in a hash table. The location is preferably correlated to the resource such that a display of the diagnostic data may be tailored to reflect a user-specified relationship between the data and resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2001Publication date: June 19, 2003Applicant: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: William Joseph Armstrong, Ryan Harvey Bishop, Michael Brian Brutman, Chris Francois, Richard Karl Kirkman, Jay Paul Kurtz, Henry Joseph May, Naresh Nayar, Dennis A. Towne
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Patent number: 6563985Abstract: An optical filter that is tunable over a wide portion of the spectrum, such as the infrared portion. The filter has a core of silica fiber with a first cladding layer of silica fiber disposed thereon. A long period grating is disposed on the core. A second electro-optical cladding layer is disposed on the first cladding layer. The first cladding layer is ultra thin so as to support only a single resonant band over the spectral portion. The resonant band is tunable to different wavelengths in the spectral portion by a voltage applied to the second electro-optic layer. The electro-optic layer is a copolymer that has a refractive index less than that of the silica fiber material. The optical filter has fast tuning speed (nanosecond range), wide tuning range (>50 nm), low insertion loss (<0.1 dB), narrow bandwidth (<0.5 nm), and low sidelobe (<30 dB).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2001Date of Patent: May 13, 2003Assignee: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Shizhuo Yin, Paul Kurtz, Karl Reichard, Hongyu Liu, Qiming Zhang
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Publication number: 20020062269Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a method for providing customer service to a consumer of a credit product. The method includes receiving a service request from a consumer and performing an automated security check in response to the service request. The service request is processed in real time upon satisfying the security check and a database is updated in real time upon completion of said service request.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2000Publication date: May 23, 2002Inventors: Syed Kirmani, Lynn Allard, Rob Lisch, Scott Mulloy, Tiffany Hartzell, Chris Hatchett, Janine Movish, Paul Kurtz
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Publication number: 20020008913Abstract: An optical filter that is tunable over a wide portion of the spectrum, such as the infrared portion. The filter has a core of silica fiber with a first cladding layer of silica fiber disposed thereon. A long period grating is disposed on the core. A second electro-optical cladding layer is disposed on the first cladding layer. The first cladding layer is ultra thin so as to support only a single resonant band over the spectral portion. The resonant band is tunable to different wavelengths in the spectral portion by a voltage applied to the second electro-optic layer. The electro-optic layer is a copolymer that has a refractive index less than that of the silica fiber material. The optical filter has fast tuning speed (nanosecond range), wide tuning range (>50 nm), low insertion loss (<0.1 dB), narrow bandwidth (<0.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2001Publication date: January 24, 2002Applicant: The Penn State Research FoundationInventors: Shizhou Yin, Paul Kurtz, Karl Reichard, Hongyu Liu, Qiming Zhang