Patents by Inventor Sara James

Sara James 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).

  • Publication number: 20240183204
    Abstract: In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a door assembly for a motor vehicle, including: a door mounted relative to an opening in a body of the motor vehicle such that the door is moveable between a fully closed position and a fully open position; and a fixed door handle projecting outward from an exterior surface of the door, and wherein the fixed door handle includes a switch assembly configured to generate an electric signal when pressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Rajesh K. Patel, Constantin Manolescu, Floyd Anthony Harter, Laeth Zahed, Tony Nguyen, Sara James
  • Publication number: 20240121240
    Abstract: Computing platforms, methods, and storage media for providing multi-channel authentication are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from a plurality of system access channels, authentication data related to a plurality of data transfers and to a plurality of users; consolidate the authentication data from the plurality of access channels to generate a set of consolidated authentication data; and generate a user interface, based on the set of consolidated authentication data, to enable execution of a centrally-provided authentication function at a selected system access channel for a selected user initiating a data transfer. An authentication hub according to an implementation may provide a common authentication experience and improved authentication for the plurality of access channels, which may include a telephone contact center, an in-person or branch location, and online services such as web-based or app-based.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jacquelyn LIDDY, Robert Dean ALLEN, Joel David HAMMOND, Vamshidhar PONNAMANENI, Ryan James TEVLIN, Sara Sabrina Albuen SANTOS, Richard JONES, Bijoy NAICK, Blerina HOXHA, Merad KESTAY, Catharine Eugenie BOUCHARD, Aniruddha Prakash KUNDLEY, Meredith Katharine Carter GREENFIELD
  • Patent number: 11950990
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system and a waist gasketing element. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge. The leg gasketing system may also include a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Zachary Aaron Freije, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Donald Carroll Roe, Andrew James Sauer, Christopher Erin Kiger, Sara Lyn Giovanni
  • Publication number: 20240101277
    Abstract: A device to assemble a skin and a frame of an aircraft fuselage. The device includes first and second brace members that extend along opposing sides of a gap. Arches are spaced apart and fixedly connected to the first and second brace members and that extend across the gap. A strongback is attached to and movable along the first and second brace members with the strongback having a curved shape that matches the plurality of arches. The strongback includes clamps configured to engage with the frame. First and second tension devices apply tension to the skin at the strongback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Santiago Mejia, Patrick James Macko, Byron James Autry, Paul Gabriel Werntges, Larry Scott Smotherman, David Raines, Sara Murphy
  • Patent number: 11919617
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for splicing airframe components. One embodiment is a method for assembling an airframe of an aircraft. The method includes forming a first skin of a first circumferential section of fuselage, the first skin including a distal portion comprising a lip and a shoulder, aligning a second skin of a second circumferential section of fuselage with the shoulder such that the lip overlaps the second skin, and affixing the first skin and the second skin together via a circumferential splice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Patrick J. Macko, Byron James Autry, James R. Kendall, Samuel James Knutson, Brian T. Peters, Michael J. Bailey, Matthew S. Stauffer, Steven Wanthal, Santiago M. Mejia, Sara Murphy
  • Patent number: 11919887
    Abstract: Compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as inhibitors of sodium channels are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and methods of using the compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of various disorders, including pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven John Durrant, Nadia M. Ahmad, Elizabeth Mary Beck, Lidio Marx Carvalho Meireles, Ewa Iwona Chudyk, Gorka Etxebarria Jardi, Bhairavi Galan, Sara S. Hadida Ruah, Dennis James Hurley, Ronald Marcellus Knegtel, Timothy Donald Neubert, Joanne Louise Pinder, Joseph Pontillo, Robert Pullin, Yvonne Schmidt, David Matthew Shaw, Sarah Skerratt, Dean Stamos, Stephen Andrew Thomson, Anisa Nizarali Virani, Christopher Wray
  • Patent number: 11623588
    Abstract: An apparatus and method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, providing a vehicle with a hard top option where a hard top can be attached to the vehicle, a soft top option where a soft top can be attached to the vehicle, and a dual top option where either the hard top or the soft top can be attached to the vehicle. A hard top applique is provided for the hard top and a soft top applique is provided for the soft top, and a common set of fasteners is used to attach the hard top applique and the soft top applique to a pillar as needed to attach the hard top or soft top to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald M. Lovasz, Sara James
  • Publication number: 20210394690
    Abstract: An apparatus and method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, providing a vehicle with a hard top option where a hard top can be attached to the vehicle, a soft top option where a soft top can be attached to the vehicle, and a dual top option where either the hard top or the soft top can be attached to the vehicle. A hard top applique is provided for the hard top and a soft top applique is provided for the soft top, and a common set of fasteners is used to attach the hard top applique and the soft top applique to a pillar as needed to attach the hard top or soft top to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ronald M. Lovasz, Sara James
  • Patent number: 11148616
    Abstract: An apparatus and method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, providing a vehicle with a hard top option where a hard top can be attached to the vehicle, a soft top option where a soft top can be attached to the vehicle, and a dual top option where either the hard top or the soft top can be attached to the vehicle. A hard top applique is provided for the hard top and a soft top applique is provide for the soft top, and a common set of fasteners is used to attach the hard top applique and the soft top applique to a pillar as needed to attach the hard top or soft top to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald Lovasz, Sara James
  • Publication number: 20210129645
    Abstract: An apparatus and method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, providing a vehicle with a hard top option where a hard top can be attached to the vehicle, a soft top option where a soft top can be attached to the vehicle, and a dual top option where either the hard top or the soft top can be attached to the vehicle. A hard top applique is provided for the hard top and a soft top applique is provide for the soft top, and a common set of fasteners is used to attach the hard top applique and the soft top applique to a pillar as needed to attach the hard top or soft top to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Ronald Lovasz, Sara James
  • Patent number: 9114765
    Abstract: An applique assembly for a vehicle door includes a body defining an attachment surface with an edge. The body has a margin extension member coupled with the attachment surface inward of the edge that defines a margin channel open toward the edge. The assembly also includes a margin seal having a first portion receivable within the margin channel with a second portion extending inward over and spaced apart from the margin extension member outside the margin channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sara James, Paul Lawrence Lipinski