Patents Examined by Robert A. Hopkins
  • Patent number: 12290629
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating system includes an aerosol-generating device and at least two consumables. Each consumable includes an aerosol-forming substrate. The aerosol-generating device further includes a device housing comprising at least two receiving chambers, wherein each consumable is accommodated in a separate receiving chamber of the at least two receiving chambers. The aerosol-generating device further includes at least two mouthpieces, wherein each mouthpiece of the at least two mouthpieces is aligned with a separate consumable of the at least two consumables and wherein the aerosol-generating device is configured to isolate airflows through separate, respective mouthpieces of the at least two mouthpieces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventor: Tony Reevell
  • Patent number: 12292208
    Abstract: An airflow appliance for mitigating spread of infectious disease. The appliance may include an elongated body configured for being disposed across the top surface of a table, first and second side surfaces of the body respectively facing first and second sides of the table; at least one air intake disposed along at least one of top or side surfaces of the body; at least one air exhaust disposed along at least one of bottom or end surfaces of the body; at least one fan disposed in the body, the at least one fan drawing air from the at least one air intake and expelling air from the at least one air exhaust; wherein the at least one air intake is configured to draw air from at least one of the first and second sides of the table; and wherein the at least one air exhaust is configured to blow air away from at least one of the first and second sides of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Andrea Pacelli
  • Patent number: 12290764
    Abstract: A system for removing particulate matter from a multiphase stream comprising gas, liquid and the particulate matter. The system comprises a first vessel for receiving the multiphase stream and separating a majority of gas from the multiphase stream and collecting a slurry of liquid and particulate matter; a second vessel for receiving the slurry and causing separation of the particulate matter from the liquid and for generating a pressure head of liquid against the particulate matter; a third vessel for receiving the particulate matter from the second vessel and collecting the particulate matter until a pre-determined mass or volume of particulate matter is collected; and an outlet in the third vessel for conveying the particulate matter out of the third vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: 2144811 Alberta Inc., Norcan Steel Products Inc., Donald Clifford BOWES
    Inventors: Andrew Kenneth Magnus, Donald Clifford Bowes, Anthony James Vanderlee
  • Patent number: 12285730
    Abstract: A milk frothing head and a frother are provided. The milk frothing head includes a first frothing frame and a second frothing frames detachably connected to the first frothing frame. A connecting rod configured to connect to an external power device is disposed on the first frothing frame. At least one filter screen of a ring shape is mounted between the first frothing frame and the second frothing frame. A head end of the at least one filter screen is connected to a tail end of the at least one filter screen. The first frothing frame defines a first through hole. The second frothing frame defines a second through hole corresponding to the first through hole. When the milk frothing head rotates, bubbles are divided into small bubbles by the at least one filter screen, and the small bubbles form delicate and dense milk foam with milk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: SHENZHEN SEENDA TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Sai Hung Tsoi
  • Patent number: 12280389
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a microbubble-producing water outlet assembly, which includes a housing, a water inflow component, a water through-flow disc and at least three layers of bubble mesh plates. The microbubble-producing water outlet assembly provided by the present invention has a simple structure, is easy to manufacture and easy to implement, has a low cost, and solves a problem that the water flow strength is too high but the content of microbubbles is too low in existing water outlet assemblies in the prior art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Purity (Xiamen) Sanitary Ware Co., LTD
    Inventors: Pawel Xie, Kaiqing Xie
  • Patent number: 12280325
    Abstract: A porous composite structure including a substrate including a plurality of nanostructures; a particle layer disposed on a surface of the substrate; and a liquid, a method of preparing the porous composite structure, an article including the porous composite structure, and an air purifier including the porous composite structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Hyoungwoo Choi, Hyomin Lee, Min Ryu, Jinkyu Kang, Joonseon Jeong, Dongwook Kim, Daehoon Park, Hyun Chul Lee
  • Patent number: 12274971
    Abstract: Apparatuses and methods are provided for applying accelerated electrons to a gaseous medium by means of an electron beam generator, which has at least one cathode for emitting electrons and at least one electron exit window, wherein a) the at least one cathode is annular and the at least one electron exit window is in the form of an annular first hollow cylinder, the annular electron exit window in the form of the first hollow cylinder forms an inner wall of an annular housing of the electron beam generator, wherein the electrons emitted by the cathode are accelerated to the ring axis of the annular housing; b) an annular second hollow cylinder is arranged within the electron exit window in the form of the first hollow cylinder and delimits an annular space between the first hollow cylinder and the second hollow cylinder; c) a cooling gas is fed through the annular space between the first hollow cylinder and the second hollow cylinder; and d) the gaseous medium to which accelerated electrons are to be applied
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gösta Mattausch, André Weidauer, Ralf Blüthner, Jörg Kubusch, Frank-Holm Rögner, Volker Kirchhoff, Rainer Labitzke, Burkhard Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 12274959
    Abstract: A degassing chamber for an ozone solution system includes a cylindrical housing defining a cavity. A mixture of water and ozone gas is delivered to the cavity, the mixture containing excess ozone gas. A cylindrical float is positioned centrally within the cavity to rise in accordance with the mixture column within the cavity. A piston is connected to move in accordance with the float. When the mixture level rises above a threshold, the piston the piston moves upward and seals an ozone outlet. As a pressure of ozone gas in the degassing chamber increases, the float is forced downward causing the piston to open a channel to an upper ozone outlet through which excess ozone gas is released. After removal of excess ozone gas, a mixture of water and ozone gas is output from the degassing chamber which is suitable for use as a general purpose cleaner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Liquid O3, LLC
    Inventor: Evan D. Marlow
  • Patent number: 12268996
    Abstract: A gas-saturated liquid generator having a vessel of the generator, a hollow bell in its upside down position located with a tube for gas supply, and a mixer situated in the area for saturated liquid covered by the bell is disclosed. The entire bell is submerged below the surface of the saturated liquid. On a shaft projecting from a driving equipment, the mixer provided with a foaming spring is situated. The mixer provided with a magnetic carrier seated rotatably on the protrusion formed by a bulge in the bottom part of the generator vessel may be used. The preferred bell forms are dome-shaped, cylindrical or conical.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: NUTRISTAMINA s.r.o.
    Inventors: Gocal Radan, Pes Ladislav
  • Patent number: 12269319
    Abstract: A vehicle humidification assembly for humidifying a cabin of a vehicle includes a vehicle has a cabin and an air conditioning system. A humidification unit is positioned in the vehicle and the humidification unit vaporizes a fluid when the humidification unit is turned on. The humidification unit is in fluid communication with the air conditioning system in the vehicle for humidifying an interior of the cabin. In this way the humidification unit can enhance comfort for a driver of the vehicle. A control is positioned within the cabin such that the control is accessible to the driver. The control is in communication with the humidification unit for turning the humidification unit on and off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventors: Antonio Wynn, Tammy Wynn
  • Patent number: 12259754
    Abstract: A virtual reality system that increases humidity within a virtual reality headset via at least one humidification element incorporated into the headset. The humidification element may comprise a water retaining reservoir which includes at least one evaporative surface that allows for diffusion of the water from within the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Inventor: Suraj Pratap
  • Patent number: 12251657
    Abstract: A carbon dioxide capture system, fluid contactor and method are disclosed. In embodiments, a gas-liquid contactor unit is disposed along a process fluid flow axis and includes a contactor of network flow diversions barriers with flow voids for movement of process fluids therebetween. A plurality of heat exchange channels are provided in the flow diversion barriers to transport a heat exchange fluid through the contactor network. A heat exchange feed channel is provided to deliver feed of the heat exchange fluid to the heat exchange channels at multiple feed locations spaced along the flow axis. At least one heat exchange bypass channel may extend beyond the multiple feed locations to deliver a portion of the feed of the heat exchange fluid to additional heat exchange channels located downstream from the multiple feed locations for the heat exchange channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ION Clean Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Panaccione, Erik Everhardus Bernardus Meuleman, Gregory Allan Staab, Nathan R. Brown
  • Patent number: 12247781
    Abstract: A system for separating carbon dioxide from a carrier gas includes a CO2 enrichment subsystem that receives a carrier gas stream and produces an enriched carbon dioxide fluid stream. The system also includes a CO2 polishing subsystem in fluid communication with the CO2 enrichment subsystem that produces a carbon dioxide rich fluid stream. In a corresponding method, a carrier gas is received in a CO2 enrichment subsystem and an enriched carbon dioxide fluid stream is produced. The enriched carbon dioxide fluid stream is directed to a CO2 polishing subsystem wherein a stream further enriched in carbon dioxide is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Chart Energy & Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Larry L. Baxter, Stephanie Burt, Catherine Dorsi, Ravikumar Vipperla
  • Patent number: 12239931
    Abstract: A foreign substance capturing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise: a capturing body unit having an inlet port for introducing the air including magnetic foreign substances and an outlet port for discharging the air from which the magnetic foreign substances have been removed; and a magnetic isolation unit connected to the capturing body unit, including a magnetic member for isolating, by an attractive force, the magnetic foreign substances from the air flowing in the capturing body unit, and provided with a nonmagnetic member surrounding the magnetic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: POSCO
    Inventors: Seong-Cheol Hong, Ki-Young Min, Dong-Geun Kim, Oho-Cheal Kwon, Chang-Ho Kim
  • Patent number: 12240773
    Abstract: A system for mixing and mixing processes and structures are disclosed. In addition a nozzle used for mixing is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Enviromix, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Elliott Locklair, Theodore K. Jenkins
  • Patent number: 12233369
    Abstract: An air filter element for an air filter for an internal combustion engine is provided with a filter medium surrounding annularly a longitudinal axis of the air filter element. A first end disk is provided at a first end face of the air filter element, wherein the filter medium is embedded in the first end disk at the first end face. A clean air seal is configured to seal a raw side of the air filter against a clean side of the air filter. The clean air seal and the first end disk are embodied together as one piece. The clean air seal protrudes continuously radially past the filter medium. A filter housing for the air filter element is provided with a filter pot and a cover and has a clean air outlet and a raw air inlet arranged at a side wall of the filter pot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Pascal Neef, Torsten Fritzsching, Philipp Hettkamp, Arthur Sudermann, Friedrich Kupfer, Mario Rieger
  • Patent number: 12233370
    Abstract: The technology disclosed herein relates to a filter element having a first endcap, a second endcap, and filter media extending between the first endcap and the second endcap. The filter media defines a central opening and is coupled to the first endcap and the second endcap. A filter cover is coupled to the first endcap, and a breather filter is integral to the filter cover. The breather filter defines a first flow face and a second flow face. The filter element defines an airflow pathway from ambient environment through the first flow face and the second flow face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason A. Wells, Larry E. Gerken
  • Patent number: 12233371
    Abstract: A phase separator includes an inlet of an inlet duct to receive two-phase flow from a two-phase flow source that is in line with the inlet duct. The two-phase flow includes gas and liquid. The phase separator also includes a liquid permeable membrane arranged at an outlet of the inlet duct to pass the liquid for capture while diverting the gas to result in an annular flow of the gas around the liquid permeable membrane. An outlet of an outlet duct outputs the gas that is separated from the liquid and that results in the annular flow of the gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: HAMILTON SUNDSTRAND CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jeremy M. Strange
  • Patent number: 12235015
    Abstract: A lasting effect essential oil supply aromatherapy humidifier comprises: a water storage bucket is located the top of a seat, the inner bottom of the bucket is provided with an atomizer, an inner cover shell is covered on the water storage bucket, and the outermost layer is covered with an outer cover shell. The essential oil releaser is located on the water storage bucket, and the essential oil releaser has a placed seat, and a threaded connection port upwards on one side of for supplying an opening of the essential oil bottle to be butted, and another side is located with a control amount release opening which is sunk low into the water storage bucket. The essential oil can be slowly released into the water storage bucket for an extended period for perfume fusion, the application can produce a consistent and elegant light fragrance spray, which is released into the air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Majestic-M&A International Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Hsuan-Yu Chao
  • Patent number: 12233378
    Abstract: An atmospheric water generation system comprises water vapor consolidation systems configured to increase the relative humidity of a controlled air stream prior to condensing water from the controlled air stream. The water vapor consolidation system comprises a fluid-desiccant flow system configured to decrease the temperature of the desiccant to encourage water vapor to be absorbed by the desiccant from an atmospheric air flow. The desiccant flow is then heated to encourage water vapor evaporation from the desiccant flow into a controlled air stream that circulates within the system. The humidity of the controlled air stream is thereby increased above the relative humidity of the atmospheric air to facilitate condensation of the water vapor into usable liquid water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: GENESIS SYSTEMS LLC
    Inventor: David J. Stuckenberg