Patents by Inventor Scott A. Foster

Scott A. Foster 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: 20240318508
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for anchoring a drill rig at a borehole are disclosed. An anchor assembly includes a rod mountable within a borehole, an adapter positioned on an end of the rod, an anchor face unit having a plurality of drill rig assembly mounting features, and an anchor clamp mounted to the anchor face unit. The anchor clamp has a plurality of jaws movable from an engagement position wherein said plurality of jaws are positioned within an adapter groove to a disengagement position wherein said plurality of jaws are positioned away from said adapter groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Lee Gagne, Mark Foster, Jay Christensen, Scott Krug, Carl Kauppila
  • Patent number: 12060731
    Abstract: Locking mechanisms and methods of operating the locking mechanisms are disclosed. In one example, a locking mechanism may include a main hub assembly coupleable with a deadbolt, a clutch assembly coupled to the main hub assembly, and an actuator assembly coupled to the clutch assembly. The actuator assembly may include an actuator operable to bias a carriage along a first direction to bring the clutch assembly and the main hub assembly closer to one another along a second direction, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The locking mechanism may further include a thumbturn assembly coupled to the clutch assembly, the thumbturn assembly comprising a thumbturn positionable on an exterior side of a door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Latch Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Brian Jones, Luke Andrew Schoenfelder, Sarah Margaret Plis, John Thomas Jacobsen, Euan Scott Foster Abraham, Sage Wright, Michael Farid Jaja
  • Publication number: 20240173950
    Abstract: A cover for vehicle interior components is provided. The cover includes a fabric sheet comprising a yarn composed of polyester microfibers. The fabric sheet has a first face and a second face wherein the first face is an A-side surface with separated and raised microfibers that provide a suede-like appearance and feel. A polyester backing layer is laminated to the fabric sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: LEAR CORPORATION
    Inventors: Travis PETERSON, Larry KOCHER, Rebecca BERGER, Beth THOMAS, Elliot HILL, Sarah SMITH, Scott FOSTER, Kent STEPHENSON
  • Publication number: 20240005717
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and techniques to provide smart access control devices with legacy access control systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Luke Andrew SCHOENFELDER, Michael Brian JONES, Tracy VAN DYK, Sage WRIGHT, Euan Scott Foster ABRAHAM, Kevin CHEN, Aaron SIRKEN
  • Patent number: 11798327
    Abstract: A smart module configured to control electronic locking devices may include a plurality of wireless interfaces configured to operate in accordance with at least one of a plurality of wireless protocols. The smart module may include a communications interface having a plurality of pins to couple to an electronic locking device. The smart module may include a memory coupled with the plurality of wireless interfaces, processing circuitry, the communications interface, and a touch display. The memory may include instructions, that when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive, via the touch display, a request to cause an action on the electronic locking device, and transmit a command to the electronic locking device via the communications interface to cause the action on the electronic locking device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Latch Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Brian Jones, Luke Andrew Schoenfelder, Sarah Margaret Plis, John Thomas Jacobsen, Euan Scott Foster Abraham, Sage Wright, Tracy Van Dyk, Tim Stonelake, Anna Petruczynik
  • Patent number: 11676437
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and techniques to provide smart access control devices with legacy access control systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Latch Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Luke Andrew Schoenfelder, Michael Brian Jones, Tracy Van Dyk, Sage Wright, Euan Scott Foster Abraham, Kevin Chen, Aaron Sirken
  • Publication number: 20230154264
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and techniques to provide smart access control devices with legacy access control systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Luke Andrew SCHOENFELDER, Michael Brian JONES, Tracy VAN DYK, Sage WRIGHT, Euan Scott Foster ABRAHAM, Kevin CHEN, Aaron SIRKEN
  • Patent number: 11536335
    Abstract: A backing plate and associated brake pad that includes a reinforcement plate and a retention plate. The reinforcement plate has an outboard surface, an inboard surface, and a mold hole. The retention plate has an outboard surface, an inboard surface, and a locking projection that cooperates with the mold hole of the reinforcement plate to mechanically lock the retention plate to the reinforcement plate so that the inboard surface of the reinforcement plate faces the outboard surface of the retention plate. A dampening layer may be included between the reinforcement plate and the retention plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: FEDERAL-MOGUL MOTORPARTS LLC
    Inventors: Jason Scott Foster, Stefan Ulrich Anger
  • Patent number: 11397106
    Abstract: A fiber optic sensor arrangement is disclosed that includes a plurality of optical fiber based sensor elements, the sensor elements configured to modify an associated optical carrier signal in accordance with changes in a sensed quantity at a location of the sensor element and a phase modulation arrangement for phase modulating each optical carrier signal in accordance with respective uncorrelated pseudorandom binary sequence signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
    Inventor: Scott Foster
  • Publication number: 20220172261
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for a receiving user to trade things of value digitally for other things of greater value delivered in person comprising creating a profile on a software application for a seeking user, the profile including a transfer protocol for transferring an asset owned by the seeking user user to another user; requesting a good, service or thing of value from a group of fulfilling users of a software application deployed upon a personal device; selecting a fulfilling user from the group of delivering users; authenticating the identify of a seeking user and a fulfilling user using at least one security protocol; receiving a delivery of the good, service or other thing of value from the fulfilling user; and transferring an asset having a value greater than the amount of cash to the fulfilling user user using the transfer protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Scott Foster
  • Patent number: 11196621
    Abstract: A power grid network is provided that features a signal processor configured to: receive signaling containing information about digital content requested by one or more smart assets locally deployed in a smart asset infrastructure and communicatively coupled to the apparatus that is mounted in relation to a transformer configured in a grid network; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about the digital content requested by the one or more smart assets for providing back to a central location in the grid network for further processing, based upon the signaling received. The signal processor provides the corresponding signaling back to the central location in the grid network for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: DELTA ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Foster, Angelo Borrelli, Keith Teichmann
  • Patent number: 11172273
    Abstract: A transformer monitor, communication and data collection device features a signal processor configured to receive signaling containing information about collected data, including some combination of electrical signaling data related to electrical signaling being processed by a transformer located and arranged in a grid network and to which the apparatus is mounted, metered data related to associated electrical signaling being provided from the transformer to a building or structure in the grid network, and other wireless network data related to other wireless network communication devices/nodes/end points deployed in the grid network; and determine corresponding signaling containing information about collected data for transmitting back to a central location or other connection device for further processing, based upon the signaling received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: DELTA ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Foster, Angelo Borrelli, Keith Teichmann
  • Publication number: 20210225100
    Abstract: A smart module configured to control electronic locking devices may include a plurality of wireless interfaces configured to operate in accordance with at least one of a plurality of wireless protocols. The smart module may include a communications interface having a plurality of pins to couple to an electronic locking device. The smart module may include a memory coupled with the plurality of wireless interfaces, processing circuitry, the communications interface, and a touch display. The memory may include instructions, that when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to receive, via the touch display, a request to cause an action on the electronic locking device, and transmit a command to the electronic locking device via the communications interface to cause the action on the electronic locking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Brian JONES, Luke Andrew SCHOENFELDER, Sarah Margaret PLIS, John Thomas JACOBSEN, Euan Scott Foster ABRAHAM, Sage WRIGHT, Tracy VAN DYK, Tim STONELAKE, Anna PETRUCZYNIK
  • Publication number: 20210222458
    Abstract: Locking mechanisms and methods of operating the locking mechanisms are disclosed. In one example, a locking mechanism may include a main hub assembly coupleable with a deadbolt, a clutch assembly coupled to the main hub assembly, and an actuator assembly coupled to the clutch assembly. The actuator assembly may include an actuator operable to bias a carriage along a first direction to bring the clutch assembly and the main hub assembly closer to one another along a second direction, wherein the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The locking mechanism may further include a thumbturn assembly coupled to the clutch assembly, the thumbturn assembly comprising a thumbturn positionable on an exterior side of a door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Brian JONES, Luke Andrew SCHOENFELDER, Sarah Margaret PLIS, John Thomas JACOBSEN, Euan Scott Foster ABRAHAM, Sage WRIGHT, Michael Farid JAJA
  • Publication number: 20210004926
    Abstract: A method for delivering remote instructional services for educational institutes and learning groups, including setting qualifications for a substitute assignment of instruction at the educational institute or group, soliciting instruction services from at least one qualifying instructor for a substitute assignment, achieving an agreement with the qualifying instructor to deliver a substitute assignment to at least one audience member, arranging the delivery of instructional services by instructors to at least one audience member by video streaming and paying a fee for the instruction to the qualifying instructor or its agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Scott Foster
  • Publication number: 20200410888
    Abstract: The invention comprises a system for combining educational modules with recreational gaming into an administrative control delivered to users across a network. The invention further comprises the system having a user profile comprising information relevant to the user including educational skill levels, testing information, and a learning path, and even further comprises an administrative control panel for setting rules for each user's interfacing with the system, and further comprises recreational games accessible by users to be played as regulated by the rules; and further comprises educational modules required by rules to be finished by the users, whereby the users acquire additional gaming play by virtue of finishing educational.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Scott Foster
  • Publication number: 20200386610
    Abstract: A fiber optic sensor arrangement is disclosed that includes a plurality of optical fiber based sensor elements, the sensor elements configured to modify an associated optical carrier signal in accordance with changes in a sensed quantity at a location of the sensor element and a phase modulation arrangement for phase modulating each optical carrier signal in accordance with respective uncorrelated pseudorandom binary sequence signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventor: Scott FOSTER
  • Patent number: 10791020
    Abstract: A power grid network is provided featuring a mesh network having a mesh node with a signal processor. The signal processor receives signaling containing information about collected data, which includes electrical signaling data related to electrical signaling being processed by a transformer to which the mesh node is coupled, metered data related to associated electrical signaling being provided from the transformer to a building or structure, and other mesh network data from one or more other mesh nodes deployed in the mesh network. The signal processor also determines corresponding signaling containing information about the collected data for transmitting back to a central location or one or more corresponding mesh nodes in the mesh network for further processing, based upon the signaling received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: DELTA ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Foster, Angelo Borrelli, Keith Teichmann, Mike Ratliff
  • Patent number: 10749739
    Abstract: A power grid network is provided featuring a mesh network having a mesh node with a signal processor. The signal processor receives signaling containing information about collected data, which includes electrical signaling data related to electrical signaling being processed by a transformer to which the mesh node is coupled, metered data related to associated electrical signaling being provided from the transformer to a building or structure, and other mesh network data from one or more other mesh nodes deployed in the mesh network. The signal processor also determines corresponding signaling containing information about the collected data for transmitting back to a central location or one or more corresponding mesh nodes in the mesh network for further processing, based upon the signaling received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: DELTA ENERGY & COMMUNICATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Foster, Angelo Borrelli, Keith Teichmann, Mike Ratliff
  • Patent number: D941794
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: LATCH SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Meyerhoffer, Luke Andrew Schoenfelder, Michael Caroselli, Euan Scott Foster Abraham