Patents by Inventor Ralph Jones
Ralph Jones 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).
-
Patent number: 11961139Abstract: Geographical mapping and linking of security and risk indicator data. Cross-references are created between location indicators and geo-spatial areas based on a statistical algorithm, in accordance with geo-spatial data. The cross-references are stored in a first data table. A credit risk indicator (CRI) is generated for each geo-spatial area based on other data, forming CRI data that is stored in second data table. A security associated with one of the location indicators is identified among security data. A first link is created between the security and a geo-spatial area based on the cross-references in the first data table. Based on the first link, a second link is created between an indicator among the CRI data in the second data table and the security. The second link is used to form instrument-level data for the security that includes the indicator. The instrument-level data is stored in a third data table.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Intercontinental Exchange Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Richard Jones, Vincent Procacci, Spencer Gallagher, Caroline Tom, Ralph Harary
-
Publication number: 20150328791Abstract: The utility knife device generally comprises a blade housing covering a portion of the user's hand, including a casing, a blade and a trigger. The blade housing is made up of a casing which preferably encloses the user's index finger, a blade housed within the casing and a trigger which extends out of the casing and manipulates the blade. The blade is capable of extending outward from the casing being held in place for use. The blade is also capable of automatically retracting within the casing so that the blade is not exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2015Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventor: Ralph Jones
-
Publication number: 20150183120Abstract: The utility knife device generally comprises a blade housing covering a portion of the user's hand, including a casing, a blade and a trigger. The blade housing is made up of a casing which preferably encloses the user's index finger, a blade housed within the casing and a trigger which extends out of the casing and manipulates the blade. The blade is capable of extending outward from the casing being held in place for use. The blade is also capable of automatically retracting within the casing so that the blade is not exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2013Publication date: July 2, 2015Inventor: Ralph Jones
-
Patent number: 9056399Abstract: The utility knife device generally comprises a sheath, covering a portion of the user's hand and a blade housing which attach together at a connection point. The blade housing is made up of a casing which preferably encloses the user's index finger, a blade housed within the casing and a trigger which extends out of the casing and manipulates the blade. The blade is capable of extending outward from the casing being held in place for use. The blade is also capable of automatically retracting within the casing so that the blade is not exposed.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Inventor: Ralph Jones
-
Publication number: 20120304471Abstract: The utility knife device generally comprises a sheath, covering a portion of the user's hand and a blade housing which attach together at a connection point. The blade housing is made up of a casing which preferably encloses the user's index finger, a blade housed within the casing and a trigger which extends out of the casing and manipulates the blade. The blade is capable of extending outward from the casing being held in place for use. The blade is also capable of automatically retracting within the casing so that the blade is not exposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventor: Ralph Jones
-
Patent number: 8242343Abstract: A mount for mounting and affixing an object to a supporting structure, for example, a drum to a drum stand. The mount includes a hanger plate that mounts to the drum and a bracket that mounts to the drum stand. The hanger plate has a downwardly depending L-shaped flange that is received by a cavity in the bracket. Once inserted into the cavity, the weight of the drum translates through the flange to form a locking engagement of the drum to the drum stand such that the drum is supported substantially adjacent to the drum stand.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2009Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Noble & CooleyInventors: Nicholas Pierce Jones, Jonathan Ralph Jones
-
Patent number: 7936172Abstract: A self test adapter (STA) for automatic test equipment (ATE) is provided. The STA includes an enclosure. A backplane is housed by the enclosure. A dual data bus is integrated into the backplane. At least one STA card module is inserted into the backplane. The at least one STA card module has a port for interconnection with an ATE station receiver. The at least one STA card module includes a generic region adapted for interfacing with an additional STA card module over the dual data bus, and a resource specific region adapted for self test of at least one ATE station resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2008Date of Patent: May 3, 2011Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Kenny Nordstrom, Ralph Jones, Krishna Munirathnam
-
Patent number: 7909619Abstract: A cassette includes a shell having a housing and a cover mated together to define an inner chamber. The housing has a plurality of plug cavities configure to receive plugs therein. A contact subassembly is received in the inner chamber. The contact subassembly has a circuit board and a plurality of contacts coupled to the circuit board. The contacts are arranged in contact sets that are received in corresponding plug cavities to mate with different corresponding plugs. A latch member couples the housing to the cover. The latch member has a latch element configured to secure the shell to a panel.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 22, 2011Assignee: Tyco Electronics CorporationInventors: Paul John Pepe, Richard Ralph Jones
-
Publication number: 20100307316Abstract: A mount for mounting and affixing an object to a supporting structure, for example, a drum to a drum stand. The mount includes a hanger plate that mounts to the drum and a bracket that mounts to the drum stand. The hanger plate has a downwardly depending L-shaped flange that is received by a cavity in the bracket. Once inserted into the cavity, the weight of the drum translates through the flange to form a locking engagement of the drum to the drum stand such that the drum is supported substantially adjacent to the drum stand.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2009Publication date: December 9, 2010Inventors: Nicholas Pierce Jones, Jonathan Ralph Jones
-
Publication number: 20100221954Abstract: A cassette includes a shell having a housing and a cover mated together to define an inner chamber. The housing has a plurality of plug cavities configure to receive plugs therein. A contact subassembly is received in the inner chamber. The contact subassembly has a circuit board and a plurality of contacts coupled to the circuit board. The contacts are arranged in contact sets that are received in corresponding plug cavities to mate with different corresponding plugs. A latch member couples the housing to the cover. The latch member has a latch element configured to secure the shell to a panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2009Publication date: September 2, 2010Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATIONInventors: PAUL JOHN PEPE, RICHARD RALPH JONES
-
Publication number: 20100079151Abstract: A self test adapter (STA) for automatic test equipment (ATE) is provided. The STA includes an enclosure. A backplane is housed by the enclosure. A dual data bus is integrated into the backplane. At least one STA card module is inserted into the backplane. The at least one STA card module has a port for interconnection with an ATE station receiver. The at least one STA card module includes a generic region adapted for interfacing with an additional STA card module over the dual data bus, and a resource specific region adapted for self test of at least one ATE station resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2008Publication date: April 1, 2010Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Kenny Nordstrom, Ralph Jones, Krishna Munirathnam
-
Publication number: 20090313023Abstract: The invention converts raw data in a base language (e.g. English) into conversational formatted messages in multiple languages. The process converts input data rows into related sequences to a set of prerecorded audio phrase files. The sequences reference both recorded phrases of input data components and user-created text phrases inserted before and after the input data. When the audio sequences are played in sequence, a coherent conversational message in the language of the caller results. An IVR server responding to a caller's menu selection uses the invention's output data to generate the coherent response. Two embodiment are presented, a simple embodiment that responds to messages, and a more complex embodiment that converts enterprise demographic and member-event data collected over a period into audio sentences played in response to a menu item section by a caller in the caller's language.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventor: Ralph Jones
-
Publication number: 20090167865Abstract: This invention describes a set of simple yet novel methods for capturing photographs of moving objects that are constrained to lie within a relatively flat object region that is not necessarily perpendicular to the axis of the camera lens. Using these methods, one can select a focal plane and an object region that is not that of a normal camera, and, when objects are constrained to move within that object region, one can successfully photograph them no matter where they appear within the field without losing focus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventor: William Ralph Jones, JR.
-
Publication number: 20090167863Abstract: A stroboscopic system for the purpose of capturing an image of a rapidly moving scene under low-light conditions but having widely varying interfering ambent light sources present, which sources vary with each video frame captured. The system includes a referencing method which removes the effects of the ambient light that would otherwise overlap the features of interest of the image being captured and would otherwise act to obscure the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2008Publication date: July 2, 2009Inventor: William Ralph Jones, JR.
-
Patent number: 7463828Abstract: An optical channel monitor is provided that sequentially or selectively filters an optical channel(s) 11 of light from a (WDM) optical input signal 12 and senses predetermined parameters of the each filtered optical signal (e.g., channel power, channel presence, signal-noise-ratio). The OCM 10 is a free-space optical device that includes a collimator assembly 15, a diffraction grating 20 and a mirror 22. A launch pigtail emits into free space the input signal through the collimator assembly 15 and onto the diffraction grating 20, which separates spatially each of the optical channels 11 of the collimated light, and reflects the separated channels of light onto the mirror 22. A ?/4 plate 26 is disposed between the mirror 22 and the diffraction grating 20. The mirror reflects the separated light back through the ?/4 plate 26 to the diffraction grating 20, which reflects the channels of light back through the collimating lens 18.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Inventors: John Moon, Ralph Jones, Charles Winston, James Sirkis, David Fournier, Joseph Pinto, Robert Brucato, James Dunphy, Christopher Chestnut
-
Patent number: 7253897Abstract: An optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) 10 sequentially or selectively samples (or filters) a spectral band(s) 11 of light from a broadband optical input signal 12 and measures predetermined optical parameters of the optical signal (e.g., spectral profile) of the input light 12. The OSA 10 is a free-space optical device that includes a collimator assembly 15, a diffraction grating 20 and a mirror 22. A launch pigtail emits into free space the input signal through the collimator assembly 15 and onto the diffraction grating 20, which separates or spreads spatially the collimated input light, and reflects the dispersed light onto the mirror 22. A ?/4 plate 26 is disposed between the mirror 22 and the diffraction grating 20. The mirror reflects the separated light back through the ?/4 plate 26 to the diffraction grating 20, which reflects the light back through the collimating lens 18. The lens 18 focuses spectral bands of light (?1–?N) at different focal points in space.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignee: CiDRA CorporationInventors: John A. Moon, James S. Sirkis, Ralph Jones, Charles R. Winston, David R. Fournier, Joseph Pinto, Robert N. Brucato, James R. Dunphy, Christopher J. Chestnut
-
Patent number: 7006206Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for detecting peaks in an optical signal. The method comprises the three basic steps of: (1) sampling the optical signal to obtain sampled data containing information about the optical signal; (2) applying a cross-correlation filter on the sampled data to obtain cross-correlated data containing information about one or more peaks in the optical signal; and (3) detecting the one or more peaks in the optical signal based on the cross-correlation data. In one embodiment, the cross-correlation filter has an average value that is less than zero. The step of applying the cross-correlation filter includes reducing random noise present in the sampled data to remove quasi-dc components from the sampled data.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2003Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: CiDRA CorporationInventors: D. Ralph Jones, David G. Bellemore
-
Publication number: 20040246477Abstract: An optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) 10 sequentially or selectively samples (or filters) a spectral band(s) 11 of light from a broadband optical input signal 12 and measures predetermined optical parameters of the optical signal (e.g., spectral profile) of the input light 12. The OSA 10 is a free-space optical device that includes a collimator assembly 15, a diffraction grating 20 and a mirror 22. A launch pigtail emits into free space the input signal through the collimator assembly 15 and onto the diffraction grating 20, which separates or spreads spatially the collimated input light, and reflects the dispersed light onto the mirror 22. A &lgr;/4 plate 26 is disposed between the mirror 22 and the diffraction grating 20. The mirror reflects the separated light back through the &lgr;/4 plate 26 to the diffraction grating 20, which reflects the light back through the collimating lens 18. The lens 18 focuses spectral bands of light (&lgr;1-&lgr;N) at different focal points in space.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2004Publication date: December 9, 2004Inventors: John A. Moon, James S. Sirkis, Ralph Jones, Charles R. Winston, David R. Fournier, Joseph Pinto, Robert N. Brucato, James R. Dunphy, Christopher J. Chestnut
-
Publication number: 20040218170Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for detecting peaks in an optical signal. The method comprises the three basic steps of: (1) sampling the optical signal to obtain sampled data containing information about the optical signal; (2) applying a cross-correlation filter on the sampled data to obtain cross-correlated data containing information about one or more peaks in the optical signal; and (3) detecting the one or more peaks in the optical signal based on the cross-correlation data. In one embodiment, the cross-correlation filter has an average value that is less than zero. The step of applying the cross-correlation filter includes reducing random noise present in the sampled data to remove quasi-dc components from the sampled data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2003Publication date: November 4, 2004Applicant: CiDRA CorporationInventors: D. Ralph Jones, David G. Bellemore
-
Patent number: 6565093Abstract: A seal structure is provided for a downhole tool. In a described embodiment, a seal structure includes a seal support ring having at least one annular groove formed thereon and a longitudinal axis. At least one seal is included in the seal structure. The seal is disposed at least partially in the groove, and the seal is bonded to the ring. An annular recess is positioned longitudinally between opposing side walls of the groove. The recess may be formed in a body of the seal.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2001Date of Patent: May 20, 2003Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Stephen L. Crow, William D. Henderson, Timothy E. Harms, Robert W. Crow, Ralph Jones