Patents by Inventor Walter Kern

Walter Kern 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: 11946553
    Abstract: An explosion protection valve for decoupling system parts or workpieces, in particular for the installation in a pipeline, comprising a housing, a closing body which is axially guided inside the housing on a guide rod and can be displaced from a defined open position in the event of one of the group comprising a pressure and suction wave in the pipeline in at least one closing movement direction into a sealing closed position in which the closing body can be fixed by means of a locking device, a spring assembly, which is in operative connection to the closing body, on the guide rod for holding the closing body in the open position, bearing assemblies each carrying the end of the guide rod, which are each connected to the housing by means of at least one suspension cross-member, and a bearing arrangement, which is subject to play, of the at least one suspension cross-member in a receiving opening on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Rico Sicherheitstechnik AG
    Inventors: Loïc Zaugg, Walter Aloi, Jürgen Kern, Aleksandar Agatonovic, Daniel Zellweger
  • Publication number: 20200104945
    Abstract: A method for use in populating a user profile comprises the steps of: determining that a first person within a database of people is associated with a given award within a database of awards; determining that a first project within a database of projects is associated with the given award within a database of awards; and populating the profile for the first person with information associated with the first project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: Shocase, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald P. Young, David Anthony Burgess, Robert Walter Kerns, Peter Rugg
  • Publication number: 20190362442
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an identifier of an individual. The individual is associated with an entity such that the individual has an email address in a domain corresponding to the entity. The method also includes determining one or more candidate domains such that: the one or more candidate domains potentially correspond to the entity; and the individual potentially has the email address in at least one of the one or more candidate domains. The method further includes determining one or more candidate email addresses in at least one of the one or more candidate domains. The method additionally includes testing the one or more candidate email addresses and the one or more candidate domains to determine the email address of the individual in the domain corresponding to the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: Shocase, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald P. Young, Peter Rugg, David Anthony Burgess, Joao Paulo Aumond, Robert Walter Kerns
  • Publication number: 20190035034
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an identifier of an individual. The individual is associated with an entity such that the individual has an email address in a domain corresponding to the entity. The method also includes determining one or more candidate domains such that: the one or more candidate domains potentially correspond to the entity; and the individual potentially has the email address in at least one of the one or more candidate domains. The method further includes determining one or more candidate email addresses in at least one of the one or more candidate domains. The method additionally includes testing the one or more candidate email addresses and the one or more candidate domains to determine the email address of the individual in the domain corresponding to the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Ronald P. Young, Peter Rugg, David Anthony Burgess, Joao Paulo Aumond, Robert Walter Kerns
  • Publication number: 20170061552
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining an identifier of an individual. The individual is associated with an entity such that the individual has an email address in a domain corresponding to the entity. The method also includes determining one or more candidate domains such that: the one or more candidate domains potentially correspond to the entity; and the individual potentially has the email address in at least one of the one or more candidate domains. The method further includes determining one or more candidate email addresses in at least one of the one or more candidate domains. The method additionally includes testing the one or more candidate email addresses and the one or more candidate domains to determine the email address of the individual in the domain corresponding to the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald P. Young, Peter Rugg, David Anthony Burgess, Joao Paulo Aumond, Robert Walter Kerns
  • Publication number: 20160253766
    Abstract: A method for use in populating a user profile comprises the steps of: determining that a first person within a database of people is associated with a given award within a database of awards; determining that a first project within a database of projects is associated with the given award within a database of awards; and populating the profile for the first person with information associated with the first project.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Ronald P. Young, David Anthony Burgess, Robert Walter Kerns, Peter Rugg
  • Patent number: 8552229
    Abstract: With a method for utilization of the reaction heat that occurs in the production of 1,2-dichloroethane from ethylene, by reaction with oxygen and hydrochloride (oxychlorination), in a fluidized bed reactor, with dissipation of this reaction heat through cooling pipe bundles situated within the reactor, positioned in the fluidized bed, utilization of the heat is supposed to be improved, while simultaneously reducing the size of the corresponding system elements. This is achieved in that part of the reaction heat is dissipated by heating boiler feed water, whereby the heated boiler feed water is used to heat heat sinks in the production process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignees: ThyssenKrupp Uhde GmbH, Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrike Gnabs, Michael Benje, Walter Kern
  • Publication number: 20110178345
    Abstract: With a method for utilization of the reaction heat that occurs in the production of 1,2-dichloroethane from ethylene, by reaction with oxygen and hydrochloride (oxychlorination), in a fluidized bed reactor, with dissipation of this reaction heat through cooling pipe bundles situated within the reactor, positioned in the fluidized bed, utilization of the heat is supposed to be improved, while simultaneously reducing the size of the corresponding system elements. This is achieved in that part of the reaction heat is dissipated by heating boiler feed water, whereby the heated boiler feed water is used to heat heat sinks in the production process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2009
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicants: UHDE GmbH, Vinnolit GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrike Gnabs, Michael Benje, Walter Kern