Patents by Inventor A. Carter

A. Carter 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).

  • Publication number: 20230412031
    Abstract: An electric machine includes a rotor extending along an axis and a stator lamination stack radially spaced from the rotor. The stator lamination stack has circumferentially spaced teeth defining gaps therebetween. The electric machine also includes a coil winding disposed in the gaps between the circumferentially spaced teeth and a guard plate disposed at one of the first and second stator ends. The guard plate extends radially away from the axis and includes a plurality of teeth guards extending radially, with each of the teeth guards aligned with one of the teeth of the stator lamination stack to electrically insulate the coil winding from the teeth of the stator lamination stack. The plurality of teeth of the stator lamination stack extend radially inward toward the axis and the teeth guards of the guard plate extend radially inward toward the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Joel Maurus, Jeffrey Carter, Tyler Ransom Garrard
  • Patent number: 11845173
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting and acting on bind-up conditions of a power tool. The power tool includes a housing, a motor, a battery pack, and a motion sensor configured to sense rotational motion of the housing. An electronic controller is connected to the motor, the battery pack, and the motion sensor. The electronic controller is configured to determine whether a battery fetting event is occurring and adjust a rotational motion threshold used to determine a bind-up event based on the battery fetting event. The electronic controller is further configured to receive, from the motion sensor, a first signal associated with a rotational motion of the housing, compare a value based on the signal to the rotational motion threshold, and initiate, in response to the value being greater than or equal to the rotational motion threshold, a protective operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Abbott, Maxwell L. Merget, Carter H. Ypma
  • Publication number: 20230397605
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for increasing the growth of a plant or the harvest yield of a plant comprising, contacting the plant with a trisulfide or a tetrasulfide. The methods of the invention may conveniently be employed in indoor growth facilities or in conjunction with a hydroponic growth system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Ned B. BOWDEN, Erin E. IRISH, Aliasgar SALEM, Justin M. CARTER, Eric M. BROWN
  • Publication number: 20230400213
    Abstract: A system includes a vapor compression assembly and a free cooling assembly. The free cooling assembly corresponds to a cooling fluid and includes an air cooled heat exchanger, an additional heat exchanger, and a valve. The system also includes a controller configured to receive data indicative of an ambient condition, an operating condition of the system, or both. The controller is also configured to actuate, based on the data, the valve between a first setting in which the cooling fluid is directed to the additional heat exchanger and blocked from a condenser of the vapor compression assembly, a second setting in which the cooling fluid is directed to the condenser and blocked from the additional heat exchanger, and a third setting in which a first portion of the cooling fluid is directed to the additional heat exchanger and a second portion of the cooling fluid is directed to the condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas P. Carter, William L. Kopko
  • Publication number: 20230399032
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a longitudinal door system comprising one or more longitudinal doors for a railcar and a longitudinal operating beam coupled to the one or more longitudinal doors via one or more struts. A translation of the longitudinal operating beam is coupled to an opening and closing of the one or more longitudinal doors. The door system further comprising a gearbox coupled to the longitudinal operating beam and a first capstan receptacle. The gearbox is operable to translate a rotational movement of the first capstan receptacle to a linear movement of the longitudinal operating beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel G. CORTEZ, Lee A. REITZ, Jerry W. Vande Sande, Carter R. ANDREWS, Kenneth W. HUCK, Craig J. STEVENS, William F. DEAKYNE
  • Publication number: 20230402815
    Abstract: A light emitting device includes a semiconductor structure comprising an n-type layer, an active region, and a p-type layer, first and second electrical contacts on the n-type layer and the p-type layer, respectively, and an integrated fuse structure in or on the semiconductor structure. The integrated fuse structure is electrically coupled in series between the first and second electrical contacts, and is actuatable to provide an electrically open state between the first and second electrical contacts responsive to a control signal. Related emitter arrays, methods of fabrication, and methods of operation are also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Scott BURROUGHS, James CARTER, Caesar GARCIA, Kristopher MCGUIRE
  • Publication number: 20230397981
    Abstract: A composite scaffold having a highly porous interior with increased surface area and void volume is surrounded by a flexible support structure that substantially maintains its three-dimensional shape under tension and provides mechanical reinforcement during repair or reconstruction of soft tissue while simultaneously facilitating regeneration of functional tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: CONMED Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin A. Rocco, Bhavana Mohanraj, Jeffrey Ott, Justin Bendigo, Jacob Edward Komenda, Mark Theodore Aronson, Andrew James Carter
  • Publication number: 20230398349
    Abstract: A method includes receiving information regarding a position and/or an orientation of an implantable device relative to a body portion of a recipient during and/or after implantation of at least a portion of the device on and/or into the body portion. The device includes a plurality of electrodes configured to apply electroporation to first cells of the body portion while not damaging second cells of the body portion. The method includes estimating, in response at least in part to the information, first interactions of the electrodes with respect to the first cells. The method further includes estimating, in response at least in part to the information, second interactions of the electrodes with respect to the second cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Michael Carter, Daniel Smyth, Wolfram Frederik Dueck, Stefan Jozef Mauger
  • Publication number: 20230401378
    Abstract: A system for automated preparation and submission of electronic registration may obtain a pre-existing entity identifier that had been previously used by an electronic system of at least one authority entity to identify a primary entity. The system may electronically associate the pre-existing entity identifier with the primary entity and use it to perform automated actions to electronically collect one or more support content from the Internet or other sources regarding the primary entity. The system may electronically identify data from the support content relevant to the electronic registration and electronically extract the identified data from the support content. The system may also electronically verify the extracted data before electronically generating and submitting the electronic registration based on the extracted data. An adaptive UI may be automatically modified in response to a determination whether to electronically present a query via the adaptive UI for the supplemental data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Albert Kumar Boulus, Masa Karahashi, Emmanuel Thangaraj, Anup David Parekh, Will Colborn, Scott Seely, Matt Johnson, Anh Carter, Patricia Oakley, Matt Buckley, Graham Edwards
  • Publication number: 20230398365
    Abstract: A method includes providing an electrode configured to be implanted within a body portion of a recipient in tissue at a target implantation location, the electrode comprising a screw portion. The method further includes driving the screw portion into the tissue at the target implantation location, monitoring at least one signal indicative of insertion of the screw portion into the tissue, and stopping the driving in response to the at least one signal being indicative of a predetermined insertion of the screw portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Gibson, Nicholas Charles Kendall Pawsey, Paul Michael Carter
  • Publication number: 20230401362
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electronic device peripheral includes obtaining a model of a peripheral, where the model has a plurality of components. The method further includes identifying one or more fit components of the model and identifying one or more functional components. The method includes receiving at least one change to the model and, based at least partially on the at least one change, changing at least one property of a fit component of the one or more fit components without altering a functional component of the plurality of components before providing at least an altered fit component to an additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Elizabeth Rose MILLER, Benjamin Casey KELLY, Ebin BENNY, Jurgen Karl BRENKERT, Balin Dean LUSBY, Chantal OLIEMAN, Samuel Antonio VALENZUELA PEREZ, Susanne DUSWALD, Tara HANRATTY, Arlene K. CARTER, Cade Dowling RYAN, Luca TOSCANO, David Ciaran HOPKINS, Darragh Garrett MURPHY, Emilio DETTORI, Luc Eugène VAN DEN ENDE
  • Publication number: 20230401175
    Abstract: A disclosed method may include receiving user information for electronically filing or updating an electronic data sheet that corresponds to a user and a domain; maintaining a record of past electronic activities by the user; electronically receiving interchange data associated with interchanges executed by the user; automatically generating the electronic data sheet for the user based on the user information and the interchange data, the electronic data sheet indicating a finalized amount of resources to be transmitted to the domain; and electronically adjusting an electronic value for the user according to a remittance risk determination that is based on the interchange data and the record of past electronic activities by the user, the adjusted electronic value indicating a maximum amount of resources for which an online software platform will transmit and receive protocols to enable providing by the online software platform the maximum amount of resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: John Tindell, Tobin Mathew, Will Colborn, Albert Kumar Boulus, Anup David Parekh, Masa Karahashi, Emmanuel Thangaraj, Narasimha Paila, Alex Huang, Anh Carter, Swapnil Singh, Patricia Oakley, Matt Buckley, Graham Edwards
  • Publication number: 20230401344
    Abstract: A method of modifying an object model includes, defining a template page having a plurality of nodes; obtaining a model of a peripheral, wherein the model includes a fit component and functional component; presenting to a user with a rendering engine of the template page, a rendering of the model in a first node of the plurality of nodes of the template page; presenting to the user, in a second node of the plurality of nodes of the template page, at least one UI input; receiving a user input with the UI input that changes the UI value of the UI input through the second node; changing the model value of the at least one property of at least one fit component in response to the UI value; updating the rendering of the model based on the model value; and providing an altered fit component to an additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Elizabeth Rose MILLER, Benjamin Casey KELLY, Ebin BENNY, Jurgen Karl BRENKERT, Balin Dean LUSBY, Chantal OLIEMAN, Samuel Antonio VALENZUELA PEREZ, Susanne DUSWALD, Tara HANRATTY, Arlene K. CARTER, Cade Dowling RYAN, Luca TOSCANO, David Ciaran HOPKINS, Darragh Garrett MURPHY, Emilio DETTORI, Luc Eugène VAN DEN ENDE
  • Publication number: 20230401108
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for automated preparation and transmission of electronic registrations, data sheets and resources. This may include electronically initiating a process to collect data via a graphical user interface (GUI) to facilitate automated preparation of an electronic registration, including electronically obtaining a pre-existing entity identifier. The system may use the entity identifier to perform automated actions to electronically collect one or more support content. The system may generate the electronic registration based on the one or more support content and also receives interchange data. The system then automatically generates an electronic data sheet based on the registration and interchange data. The system may then electronically file the generated electronic data sheet, electronically issuing an alert to electronically request additional resources and automatically transmitting the finalized amount of resources to the domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: John Tindell, Tobin Mathew, Will Colborn, Albert Kumar Boulus, Anup David Parekh, Masa Karahashi, Emmanuel Thangaraj, Narasimha Paila, Alex Huang, Anh Carter, Swapnil Singh, Patricia Oakley, Matt Buckley, Graham Edwards, Scott Seely, Matt Johnson
  • Publication number: 20230399613
    Abstract: The present invention provides an isolated cell composition suitable for adoptive immunotherapy, as well as methods of manufacturing the cell compositions and methods of treatment with the cell compositions. The composition comprises, in a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, at least about 106 CD8+ T cells specific for target peptide antigen(s). In various embodiments, the composition is predominately CD8+ T cells, and at least about 20% of T cells in the composition exhibit a central or effector memory phenotype, providing for a robust and durable adoptive therapy from a natural T cell repertoire that has undergone natural selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Mathias OELKE, Kristi JONES, Sojung KIM, Lauren SUAREZ, Ken CARTER, Scott CARMER, Dan BEDNARIK
  • Patent number: 11839900
    Abstract: A screen drive for a mobile material processing screen which can be at a travel width without having to fold or disable the screen drive. The screen drive system includes a drive motor, which is tucked at least partially under the vibrating screen; a sheave, having a double row ball bearing being supported by a shaft; a belt, coupling sheave and drive motor; a drive shaft coupled to a first universal joint, and a second universal joint, which is coupled to an opposing end of the drive shaft and to sheave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Terex USA, LLC
    Inventors: Rex Mikle Carter, Michael Peter Stemper, Alexander Evan Ross, Ryan Anthony Mumm
  • Patent number: 11842884
    Abstract: Systems and methods for plasma processing are disclosed. An exemplary system may include a plasma processing chamber including a source to produce a plasma in the processing chamber and at least two bias electrodes arranged within the plasma processing chamber to control plasma sheaths proximate to the bias electrodes. A chuck is disposed to support a substrate, and a source generator is coupled to the plasma electrode. At least one bias supply is coupled to the at least two bias electrodes, and a controller is included to control the at least one bias supply to control the plasma sheaths proximate to the bias electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Denis Shaw, Kevin Fairbairn, Daniel Carter
  • Patent number: 11843544
    Abstract: A server device, system, method, and for controlling access to project resources is disclosed. The disclosure includes a processor, and a communications module and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to generate a plurality of zones for a project, each zone defining a set of access rights to: i) a database; and ii) at least one tool. The processor configures each set of access rights to allow a proxy service to access the zones, and receives, from a client device and via the proxy service, an access query to access at least one zone. The processor provides the client device access to, via the proxy service, the at least one dataset and at least one tool of the at least one zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Toronto-Dominion Bank
    Inventors: Amir Mahmood Modir, James Anthony Begg, ZeZhong Zheng, Sertac Kabadayi, Tadd Axon, Mark Edward Carter, Nikita Islamov
  • Patent number: 11839346
    Abstract: A robotic cleaner includes a housing, a suction conduit with an opening, and a leading roller mounted in front of a brush roll. An inter-roller air passageway may be defined between the leading roller and the brush roll wherein the lower portion of the leading roller is exposed to a flow path to the suction conduit and an upper portion of the leading roller is outside of the flow path. Optionally, a combing unit includes a plurality of combing protrusions extending into the leading roller and having leading edges not aligned with a center of the leading roller. Optionally, a sealing strip is located along a rear side of the opening and along a portion of left and right sides of the opening. The underside may define side edge vacuum passageways extending from the sides of the housing partially between the leading roller and the sealing strip towards the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Steven Paul Carter, Adam Udy, Catriona A Sutter, Christopher Pinches, David S. Clare, Andre David Brown, John Freese, Patrick Cleary, Alexander J. Calvino, Lee Cottrell, Daniel Meyer, Daniel John Innes, David Jalbert, Jason B. Thorne, Peter Hutchinson, Gordon Howes, Wenxiu Gao, David Wu, David W. Poirier, Daniel R. Der Marderosian
  • Patent number: D1008143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Jaguar Land Rover Limited
    Inventors: Richard Carter, Malcolm Whyte