Patents by Inventor Troy Thomas
Troy Thomas 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: 20240156107Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry powder composition comprising particles of a carrier material coated with a fatty acid glyceride, a dry bakery pre-mix comprising the composition, a method of making the composition and its use to make bakery products.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Troy Thomas Boutte, John P. Neddersen
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Patent number: 11971277Abstract: A rotor-hub-flap anisotropic-sensor system includes a rotor hub, a plurality of anisotropic-sensor arrangements interoperably coupled to the rotor hub and operable to measure flapping of the rotor hub, a plurality of rotor blades connected to the rotor hub, and at least one flight control computer interoperably coupled to the plurality of anisotropic-sensor arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Kyle Thomas Cravener, Patrick Smith, Troy Cyril Schank, Brady Garrett Atkins, Kynn Jerald Schulte
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Publication number: 20240133409Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a blind fastener and a method of installation thereof. The blind fastener comprises a sleeve and a mandrel. The sleeve comprises a first sleeve end, a second sleeve end, and a cavity extending from the first sleeve end to the second sleeve end. The mandrel is configured to be at least partially received by the cavity of the sleeve. The mandrel comprises a first mandrel end disposed adjacent to the first sleeve end and comprising an enlarged portion having a diameter greater than a diameter of the cavity, a second mandrel end comprising a pull region, and a shank region extending intermediate the first mandrel end and the second mandrel end. The pull region comprises an axial length no greater than four times a diameter of the shank region and is configured to be engaged by an installation tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Robert B. Wilcox, James Thomas Smith, Troy Don Pierce
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Publication number: 20240123785Abstract: A joint assembly couples a linear actuator to a body. The joint assembly includes a first body having a first surface and a second body having a second surface. The first body is coupled with the second body. The first surface and the second surface have arcuate configurations that are complementary to facilitate rotation of the first body relative to the second body about a first axis, a second axis, orthogonal to the first axis, and a third axis, orthogonal to both the first axis and the second axis. The joint assembly also includes a damper disposed between the first body and the second body and configured to dampen translational motion of the first body toward the second body in response to movement of the linear actuator relative to the body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Troy A. Carter, Daniel Thomas Harsh, Joshua Edward Cook
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Publication number: 20230405438Abstract: A score tracking system may include a tracking module, companion device, and location system. The tracking module may be configured to be carried by a player competing in a golf tournament. The companion device may be configured to receive an input corresponding to a stroke event and that includes a time stamp corresponding to an occurrence of the stoke event. The location system may collect or receive location data, which comprises or is used by the location system to generate a plurality of sets of location coordinates. Each set of location coordinates may correspond to a location of the tracking module at a specified time. The location system may pair the time stamp with a set of the location coordinates corresponding to the location of the tracking module at the occurrence of the stroke event.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: PGA TOUR, INC.Inventors: Walter Kenneth Lovell, Jonas Henrik Gredenhag, Jeremy Craven, Marianne Marie Davis, Troy Thomas Cooke, Barry Thomas Walker, Jeffrey Luke Howell
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Patent number: 11745084Abstract: A score tracking system may include a tracking module, companion device, and location system. The tracking module may be configured to be carried by a player competing in a golf tournament. The companion device may be configured to receive an input corresponding to a stroke event and that includes a time stamp corresponding to an occurrence of the stoke event. The location system may collect or receive location data, which comprises or is used by the location system to generate a plurality of sets of location coordinates. Each set of location coordinates may correspond to a location of the tracking module at a specified time. The location system may pair the time stamp with a set of the location coordinates corresponding to the location of the tracking module at the occurrence of the stroke event.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: PGA TOUR, INC.Inventors: Walter Kenneth Lovell, Jonas Henrik Gredenhag, Jeremy Craven, Marianne Marie Davis, Troy Thomas Cooke, Barry Thomas Walker, Jeffrey Luke Howell
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Patent number: 11607601Abstract: A score tracking system may include a tracking module, companion device, and location system. The tracking module may be configured to be carried by a player competing in a golf tournament. The companion device may be configured to receive an input corresponding to a stroke event and that includes a time stamp corresponding to an occurrence of the stroke event. The location system may collect or receive location data, which comprises or is used by the location system to generate a plurality of sets of location coordinates. Each set of location coordinates may correspond to a location of the tracking module at a specified time. The location system may pair the time stamp with a set of the location coordinates corresponding to the location of the tracking module at the occurrence of the stroke event.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: PGA TOUR, INC.Inventors: Walter Kenneth Lovell, Jonas Henrik Gredenhag, Jeremy Craven, Marianne Marie Davis, Troy Thomas Cooke, Barry Thomas Walker, Jeffrey Luke Howell
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Patent number: 11456143Abstract: A fuse holder for holding a fuse is provided that includes a body, a line side connector supported by the body, and a load side connector supported by the body. The fuse holder also includes a toggle switch supported by the body and capable of toggled engagement in a first position that provides electrical connection. The switch is also capable of toggled engagement in a second position that provides electrical isolation between the line side connector and the load side connector. The fuse holder also includes a fuse carrier. The fuse carrier is supported by the body and adapted for holding the fuse and the fuse carrier is adapted to be removed from the fuse holder. The fuse holder includes a blocking device blocking the toggled engagement of the switch from the second position to the first position when the fuse carrier is not within the fuse holder.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2017Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Joseph Brakefield, Troy Thomas Minnick, Isaac Phillip Shaffer, Paul Scott Buskey, Joseph Allen Brown
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Patent number: 11056307Abstract: A fuse holder for holding a fuse is provided that includes a body, a line side connector supported by the body, and a load side connector supported by the body. The fuse holder also includes a toggle switch supported by the body and capable of toggled engagement in a first position that provides electrical connection. The switch is also capable of toggled engagement in a second position that provides electrical isolation between the line side connector and the load side connector. The fuse holder also includes a fuse carrier. The fuse carrier is supported by the body and adapted for holding the fuse and the fuse carrier is adapted to be removed from the fuse holder. The fuse holder includes a blocking device blocking the toggled engagement of the switch from the second position to the first position when the fuse carrier is not within the fuse holder.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Joseph Brakefield, Troy Thomas Minnick, Isaac Phillip Shaffer, Paul Scott Buskey
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Publication number: 20210142972Abstract: A fuse holder for holding a fuse is provided that includes a body, a line side connector supported by the body, and a load side connector supported by the body. The fuse holder also includes a toggle switch supported by the body and capable of toggled engagement in a first position that provides electrical connection. The switch is also capable of toggled engagement in a second position that provides electrical isolation between the line side connector and the load side connector. The fuse holder also includes a fuse carrier. The fuse carrier is supported by the body and adapted for holding the fuse and the fuse carrier is adapted to be removed from the fuse holder. The fuse holder includes a blocking device blocking the toggled engagement of the switch from the second position to the first position when the fuse carrier is not within the fuse holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2017Publication date: May 13, 2021Applicant: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Joseph Brakefield, Troy Thomas Minnick, Isaac Phillip Shaffer, Paul Scott Buskey, Joseph Allen Brown
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Patent number: 10956838Abstract: A computer-implemented method for tracking information technology (IT) incidents across a network of retail stores via a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of a user device is disclosed. The method includes, via an IT manager that is accessible from the user device, receiving, from the user device, a store identifier; determining one or more IT incidents based on the store identifier; and via an application running on the user device, displaying on the display of the user device, a status of the one or more IT incidents based on the store identifier.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Target Brands, Inc.Inventors: Thierry Fernaine, Troy Thomas Collings
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Patent number: 10889370Abstract: One embodiment is an apparatus including an airfoil-shaped body; and a chordwise variable vortex generation system associated with the airfoil-shaped body, the chordwise variable vortex generation system controlling a deployment of at least one vortex generator on a surface of the airfoil-shaped body, wherein the deployment of the at least one vortex generator is dependent on a current angle of attack of the airfoil-shaped body. In some embodiments, the chordwise variable vortex generation system includes an actuator for controlling a location of the deployment of the at least one vortex generator responsive to a control signal indicative of the current angle of attack of the airfoil-shaped body. In certain embodiments, the surface of the airfoil-shaped body is a top surface of the airfoil-shaped body. In some embodiments, the airfoil-shaped body is an aircraft wing.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.Inventor: Troy Thomas Bushmire
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Publication number: 20200367513Abstract: The present invention relates to a dry powder composition comprising particles of a carrier material coated with a fatty acid glyceride, a dry bakery pre-mix comprising the composition, a method of making the composition and its use to make bakery products.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Troy Thomas Boutte, John P. Neddersen
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Publication number: 20200001973Abstract: One embodiment is an apparatus including an airfoil-shaped body; and a chordwise variable vortex generation system associated with the airfoil-shaped body, the chordwise variable vortex generation system controlling a deployment of at least one vortex generator on a surface of the airfoil-shaped body, wherein the deployment of the at least one vortex generator is dependent on a current angle of attack of the airfoil-shaped body. In some embodiments, the chordwise variable vortex generation system includes an actuator for controlling a location of the deployment of the at least one vortex generator responsive to a control signal indicative of the current angle of attack of the airfoil-shaped body. In certain embodiments, the surface of the airfoil-shaped body is a top surface of the airfoil-shaped body. In some embodiments, the airfoil-shaped body is an aircraft wing.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2018Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventor: Troy Thomas Bushmire
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Publication number: 20190180967Abstract: A fuse holder for holding a fuse is provided that includes a body, a line side connector supported by the body, and a load side connector supported by the body. The fuse holder also includes a toggle switch supported by the body and capable of toggled engagement in a first position that provides electrical connection. The switch is also capable of toggled engagement in a second position that provides electrical isolation between the line side connector and the load side connector. The fuse holder also includes a fuse carrier. The fuse carrier is supported by the body and adapted for holding the fuse and the fuse carrier is adapted to be removed from the fuse holder. The fuse holder includes a blocking device blocking the toggled engagement of the switch from the second position to the first position when the fuse carrier is not within the fuse holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Timothy Joseph Brakefield, Troy Thomas Minnick, Isaac Phillip Shaffer, Paul Scott Buskey
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Patent number: 10249465Abstract: A fuse holder for holding a fuse is provided that includes a body, a line side connector supported by the body, and a load side connector supported by the body. The fuse holder also includes a toggle switch supported by the body and capable of toggled engagement in a first position that provides electrical connection. The switch is also capable of toggled engagement in a second position that provides electrical isolation between the line side connector and the load side connector. The fuse holder also includes a fuse carrier. The fuse carrier is supported by the body and adapted for holding the fuse and the fuse carrier is adapted to be removed from the fuse holder. The fuse holder includes a blocking device blocking the toggled engagement of the switch from the second position to the first position when the fuse carrier is not within the fuse holder.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2016Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Regal Beloit America, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Joseph Brakefield, Troy Thomas Minnick, Isaac Phillip Shaffer, Paul Scott Buskey
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Publication number: 20190066006Abstract: A computer-implemented method for tracking information technology (IT) incidents across a network of retail stores via a graphical user interface (GUI) on a display of a user device is disclosed. The method includes, via an IT manager that is accessible from the user device, receiving, from the user device, a store identifier; determining one or more IT incidents based on the store identifier; and via an application running on the user device, displaying on the display of the user device, a status of the one or more IT incidents based on the store identifier.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Thierry FERNAINE, Troy Thomas COLLINGS
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Patent number: 10048103Abstract: The present invention includes an adjustable Pitot tube and method for using the same for operating or flight testing an aircraft comprising: a Pitot probe; a streamline tube connected to the Pitot probe; a mount on the aircraft connected to the streamline tube, wherein the streamline tube can at least one of rotate about an axis of the mount, or the streamline tube can move the Pitot probe closer to, or away from, a skin of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.Inventors: Troy Thomas Bushmire, David Bryan Roberts, Brad John Roberts
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Publication number: 20180087940Abstract: The present invention includes an adjustable Pitot tube and method for using the same for operating or flight testing an aircraft comprising: a Pitot probe; a streamline tube connected to the Pitot probe; a mount on the aircraft connected to the streamline tube, wherein the streamline tube can at least one of rotate about an axis of the mount, or the streamline tube can move the Pitot probe closer to, or away from, a skin of the aircraft.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2016Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Troy Thomas Bushmire, David Bryan Roberts, Brad John Roberts
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Publication number: 20170365436Abstract: A fuse holder for holding a fuse is provided that includes a body, a line side connector supported by the body, and a load side connector supported by the body. The fuse holder also includes a toggle switch supported by the body and capable of toggled engagement in a first position that provides electrical connection. The switch is also capable of toggled engagement in a second position that provides electrical isolation between the line side connector and the load side connector. The fuse holder also includes a fuse carrier. The fuse carrier is supported by the body and adapted for holding the fuse and the fuse carrier is adapted to be removed from the fuse holder. The fuse holder includes a blocking device blocking the toggled engagement of the switch from the second position to the first position when the fuse carrier is not within the fuse holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2016Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Timothy Joseph Brakefield, Troy Thomas Minnick, Isaac Phillip Shaffer, Paul Scott Buskey