Patents Assigned to The IT Group, Inc.
  • DECORATIVE LIGHT STRING
    Publication number: 20210062985
    Abstract: A light string of ornamental piece is provided wherein each ornamental piece includes electrical wiring that provides electrical power to a light element for each ornamental piece. The ornamental piece includes a shroud that is made up of mated shroud halves that are constructed and arranged to receive the electrical wiring and capture the light element therebetween. The shroud halves are each formed with a decorative base and integral neck having a top surface through which the electrical wiring extends. The light element is supported so as to be disposed within the base of the shroud so as to illuminate the base of the shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Fourstar Group Inc.
    Inventors: Huang Cheng Chung, Xu Xiang Yang
  • Polyester polyols with increased clarity
    Patent number: 10934390
    Abstract: Polyester polyols, processes for making them, and applications for the polyols are disclosed. Some of the polyols comprise recurring units from a digested thermoplastic polyester (e.g., recycled polyethylene terephthalate), a diol, an optional hydrophobe, and a clarifier. The clarifier, which in some cases is a bisphenol, bisphenol alkoxylate, bisphenol polycarbonate, sulfonyl diphenol, or sulfonyl diphenol alkoxylate, helps the polyol remain clear for weeks or months after its preparation. In some aspects, the clarifier is a monophenol, bisphenol, or poly-phenol having two or more phenylene rings wherein at least two of the phenylene rings lack a common molecular axis. The clarifier may also be an alkylated phenol, an epoxy resin, an epoxy novolac resin, a diphenylmethane, or a tris(aryloxy)phosphate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: RESINATE MATERIALS GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Rick Tabor, Eric D. Vrabel
  • Adjustable lighting fixture for decorative light
    Patent number: 10935229
    Abstract: A lighting fixture includes, a lower portion including a plurality of lighting elements and an upper portion. An exterior protective casing is configured to house the upper and lower portions to protect them from an outside environment. An accordion gasket connects the lower portion and the upper portion. The accordion gasket is configured to maintain a seal between the lower portion and the upper portion when the lower portion is tilted with respect to the upper portion and when the lower portion and the upper portion are rotated with respect to the exterior protective casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LUMENPULSE GROUP INC.
    Inventor: Felix Gauthier
  • Electromechanical spring system
    Patent number: 10935096
    Abstract: A spring system that includes an adjustable spring system that is operated by a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Barnes Group Inc.
    Inventors: Jack W. Adoline, Adrian A. Vine, David D. Johnson, Phillip A. McConnell
  • Training a deep learning system for maritime applications
    Patent number: 10936907
    Abstract: An object detection network can be trained with training images to identify and classify objects in images from a sensor system disposed on a maritime vessel. The objects in the images can be identified, classified, and heat maps can be generated. Instructions can be sent regarding operation of the maritime vessel. For some training images, water conditions, sky conditions, and/or light conditions in the image can be changed to generate a second image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Buffalo Automation Group Inc.
    Inventors: Thiru Vikram Suresh, Mohit Arvind Khakharia
  • Enhanced shape support grid
    Patent number: 10933353
    Abstract: A support grid assembly for use in a vessel. The support grid assembly includes panels each including a first wall including a media-supporting screen and a second wall to be supported by the vessel wall inner surface. A manifold is coupled to the panels and is in hydraulic communication with vessel outlet. The manifold and the panels permit fluid to flow through the screen in each panel, through the panels, into the manifold, and through the manifold to the outlet of the vessel, as well as in the reverse direction. At least a portion of the first wall may slope downward toward the manifold, and at least a portion of the second wall may form a bottom surface that is curved to substantially conform to a curvature of the vessel wall inner surface. The panels may be arranged in a circular configuration extending radially from the manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Aqseptence Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Garth Hayes Saul, Robert Glen Norell, Dean Gerald Brabec, Benjamin Schmitt, Dusan Visekruna, Michael Richard Ekholm, Eugene Eberhardt, Edmund M. Wolfe
  • Lockout for hydraulic rotary valve in control system for oil well blow-out preventer
    Patent number: 10934801
    Abstract: A locking handle assembly for a rotary valve used in a hydraulic control system for a blow-out preventer used in oil and gas wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: PacSeal Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph O. Beard, Frode Sveen, Douglas W. Beard
  • Movable barrier operator and method
    Patent number: 10934763
    Abstract: A movable barrier operator includes a communication interface configured to receive commands that cause the motor to move the movable barrier. The movable barrier operator further includes a processing circuit configured to cause the motor to automatically move the movable barrier from a first open position toward a closed position and then from the closed position toward a second open position different from the first open position in response to receipt of an intermediate open command by the communication interface. The processing circuit can also cause the motor of the movable barrier operator to move the movable barrier toward the first open position in response to the processing circuit determining that the movable barrier had been obstructed while moving from the first open position toward the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Chamberlain Group, Inc.
    Inventor: James J. Fitzgibbon
  • Synthetic collagen threads for cosmetic uses including skin wrinkle treatments and associated methods
    Patent number: 10933161
    Abstract: Cosmetic threads for reducing wrinkle size include at least one synthetic collagen fiber that wells after placement under the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: MiMedx Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Rebeccah Brown, Thomas J. Koob
  • Building performance assessment system and method
    Patent number: 10936764
    Abstract: A virtual data acquisition component generates a building performance model having a plurality of predicted building performance metrics. A physical data acquisition component obtains a plurality of trended building performance metrics. An integrated interface receives the building performance model from the virtual data acquisition component having the plurality of predicted building performance metrics and the plurality of physical building performance metrics from the physical data acquisition component. The integrated interface enables the comparison of the predicted building performance consumption metrics with the trended building performance metrics to identify performance gaps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: The AUROS Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Beth Ann Eckenrode, Craig Enrico Stevenson
  • Method and apparatus for using a storage system as main memory
    Patent number: 10936492
    Abstract: A data access system including a processor, multiple cache modules for the main memory, and a storage drive. The cache modules include a FLC controller and a main memory cache. The multiple cache modules function as main memory. The processor sends read/write requests (with physical address) to the cache module. The cache module includes two or more stages with each stage including a FLC controller and DRAM (with associated controller). If the first stage FLC module does not include the physical address, the request is forwarded to a second stage FLC module. If the second stage FLC module does not include the physical address, the request is forwarded to the storage drive, a partition reserved for main memory. The first stage FLC module has high speed, lower power operation while the second stage FLC is a low-cost implementation. Multiple FLC modules may connect to the processor in parallel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FLC Technology Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Sehat Sutardja
  • Grinder head cooler
    Patent number: 10935297
    Abstract: An apparatus for cooling a food processing grinder head with an integrated heatsink is captively retained between two halves of a cooling pack. The heatsink and cooling pack have a circumference that matches the circumference of the grinder head thereby attaching to and in direct thermal communication with the grinder head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: BLUE SKY INNOVATION GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey W. Palese, Gregg M. Kloeppel
  • Process for producing fabric of continuous graphene fiber yarns from functionalized graphene sheets
    Patent number: 10934637
    Abstract: A process for producing a fabric comprising at least a graphene-based continuous or long fiber, comprising: (a) preparing a graphene dispersion having chemically functionalized graphene sheets dispersed in a fluid; (b) dispensing, depositing, and shearing at least a continuous or long filament of the graphene dispersion onto a substrate, and removing the fluid to form a continuous or long fiber comprising aligned chemically functionally graphene sheets; and (c) inducing chemical reactions between chemical functional groups attached to adjacent graphene sheets to form the graphene fiber; (d) combining the graphene fiber with a plurality of fibers, the same type as or different than the graphene fiber, to form at least one fiber yarn; and (e) combining the at least one fiber yarn and a plurality of fiber yarns, the same type as or different than the at least one fiber yarn, to form the fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Global Graphene Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Aruna Zhamu, Bor Z. Jang
  • Power supply fan management
    Patent number: 10939593
    Abstract: A power supply includes a casing; an AC-to-DC converter; an inverter electrically coupled to the AC-to-DC converter; a transformer having a primary side and a secondary side, wherein the inverter is electrically coupled to the primary side of the transformer; an output rectifier electrically coupled to the secondary side of the transformer; a fan, disposed in the casing and configured to remove heat from the casing generated by the AC-to-DC converter, the inverter and the output rectifier; and a fan controller configured to control when the fan is operational, wherein the fan controller is configured to execute a state machine that is configured to change states based at least on a dynamically adjustable counter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: The ESAB Group Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Roy Mantell, Karunakar Reddy Gujja, Roger Clinton Williamson, IV
  • Footwear article
    Patent number: D911691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Fuerst Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Otto Stefan
  • Footwear article
    Patent number: D911692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Fuerst Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Otto Stefan
  • Furniture
    Patent number: D911756
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Norix Group, Inc.
    Inventor: Karim Rashid
  • Sensor enhanced parking meter
    Patent number: D911857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: IPS GROUP INC.
    Inventors: David William King, Andre Malan Joubert, David Andrew Jones, Choor-Hong Tan, Abigail Maude Thomas
  • Inverter generator
    Patent number: D911935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FNA Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Gus Alexander, Christopher C. Alexander
  • LED light fixture mounted on bollard
    Patent number: D912294
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: LUMENPULSE GROUP INC.
    Inventors: Charles Arsenault, Cynthia Gauthier, Charles-Antoine Poirier