Patents by Inventor Alan Bailey
Alan Bailey 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).
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Publication number: 20240030532Abstract: A power supply assembly for an e-vaping device may include a coupling interface configured to couple with a cartridge to configure the e-vaping device to generate a vapor, a light-emitting device, and a light tube structure extending from the light-emitting device and through the coupling interface. The light tube structure may channel light emitted by the light-emitting device to emit the light into a reservoir of the cartridge to cause at least one portion of the cartridge to emit at least a portion of the channeled light to an external environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Sean SUNDBERG, Ryan Alan BAILEY, Charles DENDY, Robert ARENTS, Christopher S. TUCKER, Nam TRAN
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Publication number: 20230384307Abstract: The current invention relates to an improved method for detecting and/or measuring interaction between lymphocytes and target cells. In particular the current invention relates to a method for improved differentiation between lymphocytes and target cells that have formed (mature) immunological synapses and lymphocytes and target cells that have not, or only to a limited extend, formed such immunological synapses. The current invention can be used to discriminate between lymphocytes and target cells that specifically interact with each other, for example when the lymphocyte specifically interacts with an antigen presented on the target cell, and those that do not or only to a limited extend.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Andrea CANDELLI, Keith Alan BAILEY
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Publication number: 20220102847Abstract: A deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system for extraterrestrial deployment of an electromagnetic radiation directing surface, the deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system comprising is provided. The deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system includes one or more deployable support structures, an electromagnetic radiation directing surface, a plurality of actuators, each coupled to one or more of the one or more deployable support structures and the electromagnetic radiation directing surface, and a satellite body, wherein the electromagnetic radiation directing surface is coupled to the satellite body by the one or more deployable support structures and the electromagnetic radiation directing surface is deployable from the satellite body by the one or more deployable support structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Mark Alan BAILEY, Mitchell Todd WIENS
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Publication number: 20220102868Abstract: A deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system is provided. The deployable electromagnetic radiation antenna system includes one or more support structures, an electromagnetic radiation directing lens adapted to pass a beam of electromagnetic radiation, and a satellite body including at least one deployment mechanism, wherein the electromagnetic radiation directing lens is deployable in a first direction away from the satellite body, the electromagnetic radiation directing lens being coupled to the satellite body by the one or more support structures, wherein the at least one deployment mechanism deploys the one or more support structures to deploy the electromagnetic radiation directing lens from an undeployed state to a deployed state by at least forming a substantially planar surface of the deployed electromagnetic radiation directing lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: March 31, 2022Inventors: Mark Alan BAILEY, Mitchell Todd WIENS
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Publication number: 20200029619Abstract: A power supply assembly for an e-vaping device may include a coupling interface configured to couple with a cartridge to configure the e-vaping device to generate a vapor, a light-emitting device, and a light tube structure extending from the light-emitting device and through the coupling interface. The light tube structure may channel light emitted by the light-emitting device to emit the light into a reservoir of the cartridge to cause at least one portion of the cartridge to emit at least a portion of the channeled light to an external environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Sean SUNDBERG, Ryan Alan BAILEY, Charles DENDY, Robert ARENTS, Christopher S. TUCKER, Nam TRAN
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Patent number: 10435231Abstract: The package includes a front panel and a back panel, a first side formed by an intermediate panel connected to the front panel and the back panel, and a second side sealed by an adhesive, where the adhesive connects a rear surface of a side panel to a front surface of a side glue panel. An upper end of the package is formed by a front upper panel connected to an upper portion of the front panel, where the upper end is sealed by a front upper tuck panel being tucked into the outer package so that a front surface of the front upper tuck panel contacts an upper portion of the back panel. The upper end is sealed by a front upper tuck panel and a back tuck panel, the back tuck panel being retained in a front upper slit defined by the front upper panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventors: Robert T. Mitten, Scott A. Fath, William J. Bogdziewicz, III, Ryan Alan Bailey
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Patent number: 10188143Abstract: Display packages include a packaging including a cavity for holding an item, and a trap seal card including a first opening. The trap seal card retains the packaging such that the item held within the cavity is visible to a consumer through the first opening, and a portion of the packaging protrudes through the first opening. The trap seal card includes a front panel integral with a back panel. The packaging is between the front panel and the back panel. Blanks for the trap seal card include the back panel or the front panel having a first length and a second length less than the first length. The first and second lengths extend in a perpendicular direction to a first fold line. Blanks for the display box include a tab detachable from a remaining portion of the back panel when the back panel is separated along a ninth fold line.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Scott. A. Fath, William J. Bogdziewicz, III, Robert T. Mitten, Ryan Alan Bailey
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Publication number: 20180029785Abstract: The package includes a front panel and a back panel, a first side formed by an intermediate panel connected to the front panel and the back panel, and a second side sealed by an adhesive, where the adhesive connects a rear surface of a side panel to a front surface of a side glue panel. An upper end of the package is formed by a front upper panel connected to an upper portion of the front panel, where the upper end is sealed by a front upper tuck panel being tucked into the outer package so that a front surface of the front upper tuck panel contacts an upper portion of the back panel. The upper end is sealed by a front upper tuck panel and a back tuck panel, the back tuck panel being retained in a front upper slit defined by the front upper panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: February 1, 2018Inventors: Robert T. MITTEN, Scott A. FATH, William J. BOGDZIEWICZ, III, Ryan Alan BAILEY
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Patent number: 8323779Abstract: A cleaning card for use in cleaning internal surfaces of a machine-reading mechanism includes a substrate having plurality of discrete raised areas in opposed surfaces thereof. The discrete raised areas each include a peak and a peripheral wall having an edge remote from the peak, and the peak of each raised area is farther from a central plane of the card than the edge of the peripheral wall remote from the peak. Relief means are provided in the substrate for preventing the peaks of at least some of the discrete raised areas from flattening toward the central plane to an extent that such peaks will not effectively engage and clean desired internal surfaces of a machine-reading mechanism when the cleaning card moves in the machine direction in other than a single, substantially linear plane.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2004Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Kicteam, Inc.Inventors: Glen Alan Bailey, John Edward Condon
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Publication number: 20120022178Abstract: The invention relates to a various methods of adding a liquid additive to a foam whereby the location of the additive within the foam can be precisely controlled. It also describes embodiments of a foam wherein the additive has been localized at particular areas of the foam.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: DIVERSIFIED GLOGAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Michael McCluskey, John Edward Condon, Glen Alan Bailey
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Patent number: 8055838Abstract: A partition manager includes an I/O reconfiguration mechanism and a logical partition suspend/resume mechanism that work together to perform autonomic I/O reconfiguration in a logically partitioned computer system. When I/O reconfiguration is required, the affected logical partitions are suspended, the I/O is reconfigured, and the affected logical partitions are resumed. Because the logical partitions are suspended during I/O reconfiguration, any ghost packet that may occur when the I/O is reconfigured is ignored.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2003Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Alan Bailey, William Joseph Armstrong, Naresh Nayar, Gregory Michael Nordstrom
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Patent number: 7877471Abstract: In a clustered computer system with multiple power domains, a bus number manager within each power domain manages multiple nodes independently of other power domains. A node within a specified power domain includes a non-volatile memory that includes bus numbering information for its own buses as well as bus numbering information for two of its logically-interconnected neighbors. This creates a distributed database of the interconnection topology for each power domain. Because a node contains bus numbering information about its logical neighbor node(s), the bus numbers for the buses in the nodes are made persistent across numerous different system reconfigurations. The clustered computer system also includes a bus number manager that reads the non-volatile memories in the nodes during initial program load (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: January 25, 2011Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Alan Bailey, Timothy Roy Block
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Patent number: 7854445Abstract: An equalizer for a suspension system for a trailer is configured to absorb or dampen the harsh shocks or vibrations coming off of the leaf springs proximate to a center frame hangar, thus allowing for a “softer” ride. The equalizer utilizes one or two independent equalizer arm assemblies or castings which are each rotatably secured within the equalizer. Each equalizer arm assembly or casting is operatively associated with one of the leaf springs such that upon upward movement of the leaf spring, the associated equalizer arm assembly or casting is forced to rotate within the equalizer and to deform a shock absorber provided within the equalizer. The shock absorber, upon the deformation thereof, absorbs the harsh shocks or vibrations which would otherwise normally be transferred from the leaf springs, to the equalizer, and thus to the frame of the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2010Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: Lippert Components, Inc.Inventors: E. Dale Fenton, Bruce Alan Bailey
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Patent number: 7846534Abstract: A cleaning card for use in cleaning internal surfaces of machine components includes a substrate having a central plane between opposed surfaces thereof, a machine direction dimension defined between opposed end edges and a transverse direction dimension defined between opposed side edges. The substrate includes an embossment forming angled, substantially non-collapsible, elongate raised ridges on opposite sides of the cleaning card substrate, with the raised ridges being oriented at an angle to the machine direction for incrementally wiping transversely across the internal surfaces to be cleaned, which can include peripheral surfaces of idler rolls. Preferably the opposed surfaces of the substrate each have a plurality of discrete, raised and collapsible working areas for engaging and cleaning internal surfaces of machine components.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2005Date of Patent: December 7, 2010Assignee: Enefco International, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Anthony Bouchard, Peter Klein, John Edward Condon, Glen Alan Bailey
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Publication number: 20100253046Abstract: An equalizer for a suspension system for a trailer is configured to absorb or dampen the harsh shocks or vibrations coming off of the leaf springs proximate to a center frame hangar, thus allowing for a “softer” ride. The equalizer utilizes one or two independent equalizer arm assemblies or castings which are each rotatably secured within the equalizer. Each equalizer arm assembly or casting is operatively associated with one of the leaf springs such that upon upward movement of the leaf spring, the associated equalizer arm assembly or casting is forced to rotate within the equalizer and to deform a shock absorber provided within the equalizer. The shock absorber, upon the deformation thereof, absorbs the harsh shocks or vibrations which would otherwise normally be transferred from the leaf springs, to the equalizer, and thus to the frame of the trailer.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2010Publication date: October 7, 2010Applicant: Lippert Components, Inc.Inventors: E. Dale Fenton, Bruce Alan Bailey
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Patent number: 7753399Abstract: An equalizer for a suspension system for a trailer is configured to absorb or dampen the harsh shocks or vibrations coming off of the leaf springs proximate to a center frame hangar, thus allowing for a “softer” ride. The equalizer utilizes one or two independent equalizer arm assemblies or castings which are each rotatably secured within the equalizer. Each equalizer arm assembly or casting is operatively associated with one of the leaf springs such that upon upward movement of the leaf spring, the associated equalizer arm assembly or casting is forced to rotate within the equalizer and to deform a shock absorber provided within the equalizer. The shock absorber, upon the deformation thereof, absorbs the harsh shocks or vibrations which would otherwise normally be transferred from the leaf springs, to the equalizer, and thus to the frame of the trailer.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: July 13, 2010Assignee: Lippert Components, Inc.Inventors: E. Dale Fenton, Bruce Alan Bailey
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Patent number: 7732040Abstract: A machine-actuating mechanism cleaning card includes a substrate having a central plane between opposed surfaces, a machine direction dimension between opposed end edges and a transverse direction dimension between opposed side edges. The opposed surfaces each have a plurality of discrete raised areas arranged in transversely extending rows. At least some of the discrete raised areas in at least some of the transversely extending rows extend outwardly on each side of the central plane. The discrete raised areas each include a peak and a peripheral wall joined at one edge to the peak and having an opposed edge that is closer to the central plane than the peak. The cleaning substrate has an effective thickness that is greater than the nominal thickness. Methods of making cleaning cards also are part of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2004Date of Patent: June 8, 2010Assignee: Enefco International, Inc.Inventors: Peter Klein, Glen Alan Bailey, Stephen Anthony Bouchard
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Publication number: 20090198807Abstract: In a clustered computer system with multiple power domains, a bus number manager within each power domain manages multiple nodes independently of other power domains. A node within a specified power domain includes a non-volatile memory that includes bus numbering information for its own buses as well as bus numbering information for two of its logically-interconnected neighbors. This creates a distributed database of the interconnection topology for each power domain. Because a node contains bus numbering information about its logical neighbor node(s), the bus numbers for the buses in the nodes are made persistent across numerous different system reconfigurations. The clustered computer system also includes a bus number manager that reads the non-volatile memories in the nodes during initial program load (i.e.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: David Alan Bailey, Timothy Roy Block
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Patent number: D830853Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventors: Robert T. Mitten, Scott A. Fath, William J. Bogdziewicz, III, Ryan Alan Bailey
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Patent number: D860811Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLCInventors: Robert T. Mitten, Scott A. Fath, William J. Bogdziewicz, III, Ryan Alan Bailey