Patents Examined by John Fitzgerald
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Patent number: 11768138Abstract: The disclosure provides a method for determining a composition of a fluid. The method comprises diverting a sample of a portion of the fluid to a test chamber. The method further comprises actuating a heat source disposed around the test chamber to increase the temperature within the test chamber to produce vapors from the sample of the portion of the fluid and directing the vapors from the sample of the portion of the fluid to a chemical sensor array comprising one or more chemical sensors. The method further comprises determining a composition of the vapors from the sample of portion of the fluid, wherein the composition of the vapors is associated with the composition of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, William W. Shumway, Preston A. May
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Patent number: 11763705Abstract: A flag demonstration apparatus which prevents flag furling is provided. The apparatus comprises a flagpole which further comprises a bottom portion and a top portion that removably fasten together and sandwich a lower swivel bracket. The apparatus also includes an upper bracket attached near the top of the top portion of the flagpole and is attached to at least one portion of a flag and the lower swivel bracket is attached to at least two portions of the flag. The lower swivel bracket allows the flag to rotate less than 360 degrees about the flagpole and also keeps at least a portion of the flag displayed, regardless of environmental conditions.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Inventor: Thomas D'Amico
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Patent number: 11761845Abstract: A process, product, and system for detecting a defective vacuum in a packaged product. The process may include providing a packaged product including a product enclosed within a packaging article. The packaging article may include a film having at least one layer containing a fluorescence-based indicator. The process may further include exposing the packaged product to incident electromagnetic energy to produce an excited fluorescence-based indicator, such that the excited fluorescence-based indicator emits fluorescent electromagnetic energy; and determining, based on the fluorescent electromagnetic energy emitted by the excited fluorescence-based indicator, that gas is present within the packaging article.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Cryovac, LLCInventors: Honglei Li, Dewitt Jones, Elyse Ford, Wafic Omar El-Kara, Solomon Bekele, Kalpit Shailesh Mehta, Richard Keith Watson, Kevin Heitz, Benjamin Scott Oslund
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Patent number: 11761746Abstract: A method for rapidly measuring the roller pass major semi-axis of a three-roller reducing mill to improve the outer-diameter precision and surface quality of a steel pipe includes selecting a corresponding value of the average diameter of an elliptical pass, a value of a first major semi-axis, and a value of a minor semi-axis according to a rack station number of a special numerical control lathe; calculating a value of a first line segment according to an elliptic equation, the obtained value of the first major semi-axis, and the obtained value of the minor semi-axis; calculating a value of a second major semi-axis according to the right-angle triangle theorem and the value of the first line segment; and measuring a value of the first dimension by attaching three claws of a three-claw internal micrometer to three roller gaps.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: DAYE SPECIAL STEEL CO., LTD.Inventors: Hua Cao, Youli Huangfu, Housheng Zhang, Jun Wu, Fan Xie
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Patent number: 11754431Abstract: An apparatus for determining a vertical position of at least one interface between a first component and at least one second component, the components comprised as different layers in a sample container. The apparatus comprises a first sensing unit and a first light detector configured to generate a first sensing signal, a second sensing unit comprising a second light detector configured to generate a second sensing signal, a driving unit configured to move the sample container, a position sensing unit configured to output a position sensing signal indicative of a vertical position of the sample container, a vertical position determining unit configured to match the first and the second sensing signal such that first and the second sensing signal correspond to identical vertical positions, and to determine the vertical position of the at least one interface in response to the matched sensing signals and the position sensing signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Espy
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Patent number: 11754751Abstract: The present application relates to a freezing precipitation detection device (10) comprising at least one first wetness detection means (1) in thermo-conducting contact with the upper (3A) surface of a sloped thermo-conducting sheet (3), at least one second wetness detection means (2) in thermo-conducting contact with the lower (3B) surface of said sloped thermo-conducting sheet (3), at least one surface temperature detection means (4) in thermo-conducting contact with said sloped thermo-conducting sheet (3), at least one processor (5) configured to receive at least one first signal (11;11A,11B,11C) from the first wetness detection means (1) and from the second wetness detection means (2) and from the surface temperature detection means (4), analyzing said first signal (11;11A,11B,11C) and determining the presence or the absence of a freezing precipitation on the surface of the sloped thermo-conducting sheet (3), at least one first apparatus (7) for external power relay receiving at least a second signal (12)Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (LIST)Inventor: Oliver O'Nagy
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Patent number: 11756460Abstract: A flag holder for vehicles including a rack assembly and a clamp assembly is disclosed. These assemblies in conjunction with one another provide a simple solution to retrofitting a flag holder to various pickup truck bed sizes. The rack assembly includes multiple pole sleeves linked together through horizontal segments that run parallel to the truck bed edge the rack assembly is mounted on. The clamp assembly includes a gripping member and a securing member that can tighten and loosen the present invention from the truck bed via a knob. The horizontal segments as well as the pole sleeves include an attachment portion for bumpers to be mounted to. The bumpers help level the rack assembly as well as protect the present invention and vehicle from damage while the vehicle is in motion. Also disclosed is a light assembly that is capable of illuminating face plates from the interior or exterior.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventor: John Mingee
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Patent number: 11747188Abstract: A liquid-level-detector support made of metal includes a support body engaged with a thickness-direction first portion of the liquid level detector and a fixing portion provided in the support body configured to fix the liquid level detector to the support body.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: YAZAKI CORPORATIONInventors: Ryo Hirose, Shintaro Nakajima
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Patent number: 11747178Abstract: A physiological monitor gauge panel defines parameters to display on a physiological monitor via corresponding gauges. Gauge faces depict a range of parameter values for each of the parameters. An indicator designates a position on each gauge face corresponding to the current parameter value within the range of parameter values. The indicated position on each of the gauges is at the mid-point of each of the gauge faces when each of the parameters is at a nominal value.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Bilal Muhsin, Keith Indorf, Massi Joe E. Kiani
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Patent number: 11739636Abstract: Disclosed are methods in which measurements are obtained from a plurality of sensors secured in spaced relation to one another across at least a portion of the depth of reservoir of some form in order to identify one or more characteristics of the fluids within the reservoir. The sensors are used to monitor ambient forces exerted by fluids within the tank proximate each sensor. An example mechanism for obtaining the measurements includes a plurality of sensors, such as strain gauges, supported on a structure that supports the sensors in fixed relation to one another, and can, in some examples, support the sensors in a known relation relative to boundaries of the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Dale E. Jamison, Kenneth Heidt Matthews, Andrew D. Vos, Sandeep D. Kulkarni
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Patent number: 11740114Abstract: The Coriolis mass flowmeter includes a measuring tube, an exciter mechanism, a sensor arrangement, and an electronic transmitter circuit including measuring and control electronics and drive electronics connected to the measuring and control electronics. The drive electronics are adapted, in a first operating mode, to generate an electrical driver signal that supplies electrical power to the exciter mechanism such that the measuring tube executes forced oscillations having an excitation frequency and, in a second operating mode, to cease generating the electrical driver signal. The transmitter circuit is adapted to switch the drive electronics from the first operating mode to the second operating mode such that the measuring tube executes free, damped oscillations in the second operating mode, and the measuring and control electronics are adapted to, based on a phase difference between oscillation measuring signals from the sensor arrangement, to generate measured values representing the mass flow rate.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Endress+Hauser Flowtec AGInventor: Rémy Scherrer
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Patent number: 11740153Abstract: A method and an apparatus for detecting a defect in a sealed container are provided. The method includes: placing the sealed container in a pressure chamber; filling the chamber with a liquid that is saturated by a test gas such that the sealed container is fully submerged; subjecting the chamber to a pressurized volume of a gaseous mixture that includes the test gas, and then removing the sealed container from the chamber; performing a laser-based headspace analysis of the sealed container in order to measure a partial pressure of the test gas; and using a result thereof to determine whether the sealed container has the defect. The defect may be located on a body of the sealed container that is at or below a level of a product that is contained within the sealed container.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: LIGHTHOUSE INSTRUMENTS, LLCInventors: Michael A. Timmins, Ken G. Victor
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Patent number: 11733079Abstract: A method for estimating a flow rate of a material (e.g., a multiphase fluid) may include: flowing the material through one or more of a plurality of receptacles of a dielectric contrast analysis structure that includes: a bulk dielectric substance and the plurality of receptacles in the bulk dielectric substance; exposing the dielectric contrast analysis structure to incident electromagnetic radiation; detecting and analyzing a resultant electromagnetic radiation from the exposed dielectric contrast analysis structure to yield a phase fraction in the material and a phase distribution in the material; measuring a differential pressure across the dielectric contrast analysis structure; and estimating the flow rate of the material using the differential pressure, the phase fraction, and the phase distribution in the material.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Lang Feng, John J. Valenza
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Patent number: 11732573Abstract: There is provided a method for determining an optimal condition for artificial recharge by using a computer in an artificial recharge system provided with an injection well for injecting fresh water into an aquifer, the method including: a step of calculating a maximum permissible quantity of injection of fresh water to be injected into the aquifer; a step of determining a height of a screen which is an area on a side surface of the injection well where penetrating holes are formed, based on the calculated maximum permissible quantity of injection; and a step of determining an injection pressure of the fresh water to be injected into the aquifer, based on the height of the screen.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: DONG-A UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION FOR INDUSTRY-ACADEMY COOPERATIONInventors: Byunghee Nam, Namsik Park, Roshina Babu
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Patent number: 11732579Abstract: A method of designing a cement blend for a wellbore isolation barrier based on the analysis of a stress state of the wellbore isolation barrier from the injection of CO2 into a porous formation. The analysis software may determine an optimized cement blend for a future CO2 injection schedule. The analysis software may determine a current near wellbore stress state for a current CO2 injection schedule. The analysis software may optimize a CO2 injection schedule based on the analysis of a future near wellbore stress state of the wellbore isolation barrier. The near wellbore stress state of the isolation barrier may be determined by at least one model accessed by the analysis software. The inputs into the model comprise periodic CO2 injection pressure and flowrate datasets, cement properties, and formation properties.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Siva Rama Krishna Jandhyala, Katherine Evans, Florence Mazouzi, Kalyan Saikia
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Patent number: 11735074Abstract: In a particular illustrative embodiment of the present invention, a retractable safety banner system and method are disclosed having a retractable safety banner, a reel housing and a reel. The reel winds in and contains the wound up safety banner inside of the reel housing. The safety banner is reeled into and out of the reel housing through an organizing guide that is formed in the reel housing. The organizing guide forces the reeled out safety banner's flags and strap into longitudinal alignment on the reel so that the safety banner is restored to its original configuration when wound back into the reel housing after deployment. The safety banner includes but is not limited to longitudinal strap with a plurality of safety flags attached to the strap and so that the flags hang at a substantially perpendicular angle from the strap forming the safety banner when the safety banner is deployed.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Fallswood, LLCInventors: Daniel Patrick Daly, Jeffrey Cole Sandel
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Patent number: 11733261Abstract: A wind detection device with a flexible enclosure, and opening, and a dispensing tube, filled with powder or liquid and designed to be attached to hunting equipment, headgear, or clothing, wherein pressing on the outside of the device causes a puff of powder or vapor to be dispensed into the air, allowing the user to determine wind direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventor: John Pahrmann
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Patent number: 11733262Abstract: A physical quantity sensor module includes: a resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor whose frequency adjusts with a adjust in physical quantity; a reference signal oscillator which outputs a reference signal; a frequency delta-sigma modulator which performs frequency delta-sigma modulation of the reference signal, using an operation signal based on a measurement target signal as an output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor, and generates a frequency delta-sigma modulated signal; a first low-pass filter provided on an output side of the frequency delta-sigma modulator and operating synchronously with the measurement target signal as the output from the resonant frequency shift based physical quantity sensor; and a second low-pass filter provided on an output side of the first low-pass filter and operating synchronously with the reference signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Inventors: Kenta Sato, Masayoshi Todorokihara
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Patent number: 11732570Abstract: A drilling system includes an internal assembly comprising a chassis, a flow diverter, or both, and a strain gauge coupled to the chassis, the flow diverter, or both, in which the strain gauge is configured to output a signal associated with a strain deformation of the internal assembly. The drilling system also includes a drill collar coupled to the internal assembly, in which the internal assembly extends along the drill collar, and the drill collar encloses the internal assembly of the internal assembly such that a strain deformation of the drill collar causes the strain deformation of the internal assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Joachim Sihler, John George Allen Charlesworth, Adam Ian Bowler, Michael Hayes Kenison, John Mervyn Cook
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Patent number: 11724269Abstract: A smoke generator for anti-burglar purposes comprising canister holding means for holding a canister for chemicals to be used to generate smoke wherein the smoke generator further comprises a smoke deflector arranged below the position of the canister for even distribution of generated smoke, and wherein the smoke deflector have a smoke deflector cavity of sector shape. The smoke generator is provided with a cartridge for the canister to ease replacement of used or expired canister. The smoke deflector is provided with a residual collector to prevent residuals and debris from littering the room where the smoke generator is used.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: VERISURE SÀRInventor: Jon Noble Echeverria