Patents by Inventor A. Gary Evans

A. Gary Evans 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: 20240294859
    Abstract: A multi-level port vessel includes a vessel body defining an interior volume. The vessel body has a front wall, a rear wall, two side walls, a bottom, and a top. The top is open and adapted to be covered by a removable lid. A vertically oriented mixing wheel is disposed within the interior volume. The vertically oriented mixing wheel has a substantially horizontal rotation axis when the vessel body is disposed on a substantially horizontal surface. A plurality of ports is disposed in one of the rear wall, the front wall, or the side walls. At least one port in the plurality of ports is located at an elevation that is at least partially encompassed by a projection of the perimeter of the vertically oriented mixing wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Gary Evans, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 11945588
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an internal cabin, a plurality of stowage bin assemblies within the internal cabin, a plurality of passenger service units (PSUs) within the internal cabin, and an emergency oxygen system within the internal cabin. The plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled (for example, separate and distinct) from one or both of the plurality of PSUs or the emergency oxygen system. In an example, the plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled from the emergency oxygen system. In another example, the plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled from the plurality of PSUs. In another example, the plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled from both the plurality of PSUs and the emergency oxygen system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Franco Marino Cagnina, Andrew Leo Fabry, Gary Evans Liljebeck
  • Publication number: 20230271910
    Abstract: A process for the production of formaldehyde from methanol comprising the steps of: feeding to a reactor a feed stream comprising the methanol and an oxygen-containing gas; reacting the methanol in the gas phase with the oxygen-containing gas in the reactor in the presence of a catalyst comprising oxides of iron and molybdenum; and recovering a formaldehyde reactor outlet stream from the reactor, the formaldehyde reactor outlet stream comprising formaldehyde and carbon monoxide. The catalyst comprises copper in an amount of at least 0.025 wt %, or at least 0.05 wt %, of the catalyst and in that the molar ratio of carbon monoxide to formaldehyde in the formaldehyde reactor outlet stream is at least 5% less than the molar ratio of carbon monoxide to formaldehyde in the formaldehyde reactor outlet stream in the same process using a catalyst containing essentially no copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Gary EVANS, Robert HÄGGBLAD, Kaisa KISKO
  • Publication number: 20230196293
    Abstract: A method of executing a project has the steps of collecting contract documents between a plurality of stakeholders involved in executing the project, the contract documents defining more than one relationship between subsets of the plurality of stakeholders, analyzing the contract documents to extract contract data, visualizing the plurality of project steps and the links relative to the plurality of stakeholders, identifying a plurality of problem-opportunity pairs (“POPs”), assigning a consequence value and an implementation value to each of the POPs, creating a plot of the POPs based on the consequence values and the implementation values, identifying a subset of the POPs to be implemented, modifying the contract data associated with a subset of the POPs to satisfy the predetermined criteria, and completing the project according to the modified contract data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventor: Gary Evans
  • Publication number: 20230099129
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an internal cabin, a plurality of stowage bin assemblies within the internal cabin, a plurality of passenger service units (PSUs) within the internal cabin, and an emergency oxygen system within the internal cabin. The plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled (for example, separate and distinct) from one or both of the plurality of PSUs or the emergency oxygen system. In an example, the plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled from the emergency oxygen system. In another example, the plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled from the plurality of PSUs. In another example, the plurality of stowage bin assemblies are uncoupled from both the plurality of PSUs and the emergency oxygen system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Franco Marino Cagnina, Andrew Leo Fabry, Gary Evans Liljebeck
  • Patent number: 11357523
    Abstract: A device for the fragmentation of a calculus includes a probe, and a drive unit for deflecting the probe along the longitudinal extension thereof. The drive unit includes a first drive element for periodically deflecting the probe and a second drive element for the pulsed deflection of the probe. The drive unit is configured such that periodic deflection and pulsed deflection can be superimposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: FERTON HOLDING S.A.
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain Bionda, Jean-Yves Girod, Gary Evans
  • Publication number: 20220008282
    Abstract: A pressure wave device for the treatment of a human or animal body having a pneumatic drive for generating a pressure wave for coupling into the human or animal body, having at least one compressor for generating source gas and having a handpiece into which the source gas can be introduced and by means of which a pressure wave is generated, and having a pressure regulating device for adjusting a pressure wave generating pressure for generating the pressure wave, where the at least one compressor for generating source gas is adjustable in steps to at least two power levels, and the pressure regulating device regulates the pressure wave generating pressure (PD_i) by adjusting the source gas pressure (Ps_i) at each power level, such that each power level is thereby preferably determined by a range of pressure wave generating pressure values and frequencies of the activation of the pressure waves, and the selection of a power level is preferably carried out using a table in which the respective ranges of pressure
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Gary EVANS, Nicolas SUMI
  • Publication number: 20210038238
    Abstract: A device for the fragmentation of a calculus includes a probe, and a drive unit for deflecting the probe along the longitudinal extension thereof. The drive unit includes a first drive element for periodically deflecting the probe and a second drive element for the pulsed deflection of the probe. The drive unit is configured such that periodic deflection and pulsed deflection can be superimposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Pierre-Alain BIONDA, Jean-Yves GIROD, Gary EVANS
  • Publication number: 20210002598
    Abstract: A vessel having a mixer that ensures a homogeneous cell distribution in dispensed quantities. The vessel has a mixer therein for stirring contents of the vessel and an orifice in a lower wall to which a cell dispenser is attached. The cell dispenser dispenses quantities of suspended cells having a homogeneous cell distribution. The vessel may be a closed system with no option or instructions for removing a cap or other access port, whereby after manufacturing the vessel is shipped to a customer and the interior remains closed to the exterior environment and fluids are transferred through tubes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: Chanyong Brian Lee, Yasunori Hashimura, Oscar Garza, Gary Evans
  • Patent number: 10620379
    Abstract: The present invention includes an optical waveguide with a grating and a method of making the same for increasing the effectiveness of the grating. In one example, the grating is at least partially covered by a liner layer disposed on at least a portion of a grating; and a cover layer disposed on the liner layer, wherein a first material selected for the core and ridges and a second material selected for the liner layer are selected to provide a difference in the index of refraction between the first and second material that is sufficient to provide a contrast therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: Southern Methodist University, Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A. Evans, Jerome K. Butler, Jay B. Kirk, Ruo-Hua He, Jin Yao, Guoliang Li, Xuezhe Zheng, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 10620378
    Abstract: The present invention includes an optical waveguide with a grating and a method of making the same for increasing the effectiveness of the grating. In one example, the grating is at least partially covered by a liner layer disposed on at least a portion of a grating; and a cover layer disposed on the liner layer, wherein a first material selected for the core and ridges and a second material selected for the liner layer are selected to provide a difference in the index of refraction between the first and second material that is sufficient to provide a contrast therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignees: Southern Methodist University, Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A. Evans, Jerome K. Butler, Jay B. Kirk, Ruo-Hua He, Jin Yao, Guoliang Li, Xuezhe Zheng, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy
  • Publication number: 20190353846
    Abstract: The present invention includes an optical waveguide with a grating and a method of making the same for increasing the effectiveness of the grating. In one example, the grating is at least partially covered by a liner layer disposed on at least a portion of a grating; and a cover layer disposed on the liner layer, wherein a first material selected for the core and ridges and a second material selected for the liner layer are selected to provide a difference in the index of refraction between the first and second material that is sufficient to provide a contrast therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gary A. Evans, Jerome K. Butler, Jay B. Kirk, Ruo-Hua He, Jin Yao, Guoliang Li, Xuezhe Zheng, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy
  • Publication number: 20190353847
    Abstract: The present invention includes an optical waveguide with a grating and a method of making the same for increasing the effectiveness of the grating. In one example, the grating is at least partially covered by a liner layer disposed on at least a portion of a grating; and a cover layer disposed on the liner layer, wherein a first material selected for the core and ridges and a second material selected for the liner layer are selected to provide a difference in the index of refraction between the first and second material that is sufficient to provide a contrast therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Gary A. Evans, Jerome K. Butler, Jay B. Kirk, Ruo-Hua He, Jin Yao, Guoliang Li, Xuezhe Zheng, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 10371898
    Abstract: The present invention includes an optical waveguide with a grating and a method of making the same for increasing the effectiveness of the grating. In one example, the grating is at least partially covered by a liner layer disposed on at least a portion of a grating; and a cover layer disposed on the liner layer, wherein a first material selected for the core and ridges and a second material selected for the liner layer are selected to provide a difference in the index of refraction between the first and second material that is sufficient to provide a contrast therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Southern Methodist University
    Inventors: Gary A. Evans, Jerome K. Butler, Jay B. Kirk, Ruo-Hua He, Jin Yao, Guoliang Li, Xuezhe Zheng, Ashok V. Krishnamoorthy
  • Patent number: 10323223
    Abstract: A vessel having a mixer that ensures a homogeneous cell distribution in dispensed quantities. The vessel has a mixer therein for stirring contents of the vessel and an orifice in a lower wall to which a cell dispenser is attached. The cell dispenser dispenses quantities of suspended cells having a homogeneous cell distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: PBS Biotech, Inc.
    Inventors: Chanyong Brian Lee, Yasunori Hashimura, Oscar Garza, Gary Evans
  • Publication number: 20190169561
    Abstract: The bioreactor may include a single-use, rigid-sided bioreactor vessel containing a fluid to be mixed and a vertical mixing wheel. A perfusion dip tube with a screen filter incorporated on the end is secured to the vessel from the top lid and partially submerged in the fluid, preferably into close proximity with an outer circumference of the vertical mixing wheel. The screen filter of appropriate mesh size allows spent cell culture medium to be withdrawn from the bioreactor vessel while retaining cell aggregates or microcarriers on which cells are attached and growing in the vessel. Alternating flow of fluid out from and into the dip tube enables removal of spent medium and unclogging of the dip tube filter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Chanyong Brian Lee, Yasunori Hashimura, Gary Evans, Sunghoon Jung
  • Patent number: 10114188
    Abstract: A novel panel-mountable fiber optic cable feedthrough is described that has two main body parts that can be brought together around single or multiple fiber optic cables and secured in place to prevent slippage of the cable(s). Use of two such main body parts that split along a plane that passes through the axis of the fiber optic cable(s) allows joining the two main parts at any position along the cable(s) without the need to thread the cable(s) through one or more pre-formed cylindrical cavities in the body of the feedthrough. The main parts for this fiber optic feedthrough can be made by plastic injection molding suitably shaped to relieve bending strain in the glass optical fiber(s) within the cable(s). The foot-print for mounting such a feedthrough can be made compatible with that of a number of popular fiber optic connector mounts, including the SC-connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: M2 OPTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Gary Evan Miller
  • Publication number: 20180299425
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an apparatus for segregating particles on the basis of their ability to flow through a stepped passageway. At least some of the particles are accommodated in a passage bounded by a first step, but at least some of the particles are unable to pass through a narrower passage bounded by a second step, resulting in segregation of the particles. The apparatus and methods described herein can be used to segregate particles of a wide variety of types. By way of example, they can be used to segregate fetal-like cells from a maternal blood sample such as maternal arterial blood.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: George Hvichia, David Counts, Gary Evans
  • Patent number: 10063559
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and software for sharing content in social networks. A request from a user of the social network to share content is received, the request comprising the content and at least one sharing parameter. A command is sent to the social network on behalf of the user to cause the content to be published to a profile related to the user on the social network, the command comprising an URL associated with the content. Requests to retrieve the content may then be received from the social network, the requests comprising the URL associated with the content. When requests to retrieve the content are received, it is determined whether the content is authorized for viewing based on the at least one sharing parameter. If the content is authorized for viewing, the content is returned in response to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Van Azul Media, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Evans, Elliott Rothman, Mason Forrest Hugus, Matt Cohen
  • Patent number: 9850450
    Abstract: A process for the production of an ester product from a mixture of at least two different ester compounds includes the steps of mixing together at least two different starting ester compounds to form a first ester mixture; and contacting the first ester mixture with a catalyst including from 30-60% of calcium oxide and at least one second metal oxide at a temperature of at least 180° C., for a duration of at least one hour, with mixing, to form a second ester mixture having a melting point which is lower than the melting point of the first ester mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited Company
    Inventors: Peter Richard Ellis, Gary Evans, Aalbert Zwijnenburg