Patents by Inventor Alan Forbes

Alan Forbes 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: 20240206778
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of assessing the ability of a test fragrance ingredient or a test fragrance composition to improve the invigoration state of a human subject and of creating fragrance compositions having a positive activation effect on a human subject. It further relates to fragrance compositions for improving the invigoration state of a human subject, to consumer products comprising such fragrance compositions, and to methods of improving the invigoration state of a human subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Giuliano GAETA, Alan Forbes PROVAN, Natalie Anuradha T.D. GUNASEKARA
  • Publication number: 20240197222
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of assessing the ability of a test oral care flavour ingredient or a test oral care flavour composition to improve the happiness state of a human subject and of creating oral care flavour compositions having a positive happy effect on a human subject. It further relates to oral care flavour compositions for improving the happiness state of a human subject, to consumer products comprising such oral care flavour compositions, and to methods of improving the happiness state of a human subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Giuliano GAETA, Alan Forbes PROVAN, Imogen Maria MATHEWS, Salla Katja Emilia PARKKINEN
  • Publication number: 20240197221
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of assessing the ability of a test fragrance ingredient or a test fragrance composition to improve the happiness state of a human subject and of creating fragrance compositions having a positive happy effect on a human subject. It further relates to fragrance compositions for improving the happiness state of a human subject, to consumer products comprising such fragrance compositions, and to methods of improving the happiness state of a human subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Giuliano GAETA, Alan Forbes PROVAN, Natalie Anuradha T.D. GUNASEKARA
  • Publication number: 20240197183
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of assessing the ability of a test oral care flavour ingredient or a test oral care flavour composition to improve the invigoration state of a human subject and of creating oral care flavour compositions having an invigorating effect on a human subject. It further relates to oral care flavour compositions for improving the invigoration state of a human subject, to consumer products comprising such oral care flavour compositions, and to methods of improving the invigoration state of a human subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Giuliano GAETA, Alan Forbes PROVAN, Imogen Maria MATHEWS, Salla Katja Emilia PARKKINEN
  • Publication number: 20240197243
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of assessing the ability of a test fragrance ingredient or a test fragrance composition to improve the relaxation state of a human subject and of creating fragrance compositions having a relaxing effect on a human subject. It further relates to fragrance compositions for improving the relaxation state of a human subject, to consumer products comprising such fragrance compositions, and to methods of improving the relaxation state of a human subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Giuliano GAETA, Alan Forbes PROVAN, Natalie Anuradha T.D. GUNASEKARA, Ioannis KONTARIS
  • Publication number: 20240197223
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of assessing the ability of a test oral care flavour ingredient or a test oral care flavour composition to improve the relaxation state of a human subject and of creating oral care flavour compositions having a relaxing effect on a human subject. It further relates to oral care flavour compositions for improving the relaxation state of a human subject, to consumer products comprising such oral care flavour compositions, and to methods of improving the relaxation state of a human subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Giuliano GAETA, Alan Forbes PROVAN, Imogen Maria MATHEWS, Salla Katja Emilia PARKKINEN
  • Patent number: 11711994
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for monitoring the condition of a seedbed within a field may include a seedbed tool configured to ride along a seedbed floor as an implement frame is moved across the field. The system may also include an actuator configured to adjust the position of the seedbed tool along a lateral direction relative to the implement frame such that the seedbed tool traverses a lateral swath of the seedbed floor along the lateral direction. Furthermore, the system may include a seedbed floor sensor configured to detect the position of the seedbed tool relative to the implement frame. The position of the seedbed tool may be indicative of a profile of the lateral swath of the seedbed floor as the seedbed tool rides along the seedbed floor with movement of the implement frame in the forward travel direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, James W. Henry, Robert A. Zemenchik
  • Patent number: 11483959
    Abstract: A disk assembly for agricultural implements comprises a disk hanger including a proximal end and a distal end opposite the proximal end. The disk assembly further includes a hanger spindle supported relative to the distal end of the disk hanger for rotation about a first axis of rotation, and a blade spindle supported relative to the hanger spindle, with the blade spindle being rotatable about a second axis of rotation oriented non-parallel relative to the first axis of rotation. Additionally, the disk assembly includes a blade coupled to the blade spindle for rotation therewith about the second axis of rotation. Moreover, the disk assembly is configured such that rotation of the hanger spindle relative to the disk hanger about the first axis of rotation results in an adjustment of both an angle-of-engagement and a camber angle of the blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, Michael G. Kovach, David Long, Timothy R. Blunier
  • Patent number: 11297757
    Abstract: A system for monitoring the displacement of a ground engaging tool of an agricultural implement includes a controller of the system may be configured to monitor a magnitude of a displacement defined between a current position of a ground engaging tool of the implement and a predetermined ground engaging tool position. The controller may also be configured to initiate a first control action when it is determined that the magnitude of the displacement of the ground engaging tool exceeds a first threshold displacement value. Moreover, the controller may further be configured to initiate a second control action when it is determined that the magnitude of the displacement of the ground engaging tool exceeds a second threshold displacement value, with the second threshold displacement value corresponding to a greater displacement relative to the predetermined ground engaging tool position than the first displacement threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Kovach, Christopher Barrick, John C. Endlsey, James W. Henry, Tracey D. Meiners, Klint J. Peterson, Alan Forbes, David Long, Christopher A. Lursen
  • Patent number: 11083125
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for determining field characteristics of a field across which an implement is being moved may include a tine configured to engage a surface of soil within the field. The system may also include a sensor configured to detect a parameter indicative of a load being applied to the ground engaging tine by the soil. Furthermore, the system may include a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor, with the controller being configured to determine a field characteristic of the field based on measurement signals received from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, James W. Henry, Robert A. Zemenchik
  • Publication number: 20210092894
    Abstract: A disk assembly for agricultural implements comprises a disk hanger including a proximal end and a distal end opposite the proximal end. The disk assembly further includes a hanger spindle supported relative to the distal end of the disk hanger for rotation about a first axis of rotation, and a blade spindle supported relative to the hanger spindle, with the blade spindle being rotatable about a second axis of rotation oriented non-parallel relative to the first axis of rotation. Additionally, the disk assembly includes a blade coupled to the blade spindle for rotation therewith about the second axis of rotation. Moreover, the disk assembly is configured such that rotation of the hanger spindle relative to the disk hanger about the first axis of rotation results in an adjustment of both an angle-of-engagement and a camber angle of the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, Michael G. Kovach, David Long, Timothy R. Blunier
  • Publication number: 20200305334
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for monitoring the condition of a seedbed within a field may include a seedbed tool configured to ride along a seedbed floor as an implement frame is moved across the field. The system may also include an actuator configured to adjust the position of the seedbed tool along a lateral direction relative to the implement frame such that the seedbed tool traverses a lateral swath of the seedbed floor along the lateral direction. Furthermore, the system may include a seedbed floor sensor configured to detect the position of the seedbed tool relative to the implement frame. The position of the seedbed tool may be indicative of a profile of the lateral swath of the seedbed floor as the seedbed tool rides along the seedbed floor with movement of the implement frame in the forward travel direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, James W. Henry, Robert A. Zemenchik
  • Patent number: 10722607
    Abstract: Perfume compositions comprise between 10% and 30% in total weight of perfume ingredients selected from two groups, Group A, Group B, with the provisos that over 5% but less than 15% of the perfume composition must comprise Group A ingredients, and for compositions comprising less than 10% of Group A ingredients in the aggregate percentage of Group B ingredients present must be at least equal to the expression (2*/10?A %) where A % is the total percentage of Group A ingredients in the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: GIVAUDAN S.A.
    Inventors: Keith Douglas Perring, Michael Gordon Evans, Alan Forbes Provan, David Jonathan Bradshaw, John Martin Behan
  • Publication number: 20200187408
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for determining field characteristics of a field across which an implement is being moved may include a tine configured to engage a surface of soil within the field. The system may also include a sensor configured to detect a parameter indicative of a load being applied to the ground engaging tine by the soil. Furthermore, the system may include a controller communicatively coupled to the sensor, with the controller being configured to determine a field characteristic of the field based on measurement signals received from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, James W. Henry, Robert A. Zemenchik
  • Publication number: 20190246548
    Abstract: In one aspect, a system for monitoring the displacement of a ground engaging tool of an agricultural implement. A controller of the system may be configured to monitor a magnitude of a displacement defined between a current position of a ground engaging tool of the implement and a predetermined ground engaging tool position. The controller may also be configured to initiate a first control action when it is determined that the magnitude of the displacement of the ground engaging tool exceeds a first threshold displacement value. Moreover, the controller may further be configured to initiate a second control action when it is determined that the magnitude of the displacement of the ground engaging tool exceeds a second threshold displacement value, with the second threshold displacement value corresponding to a greater displacement relative to the predetermined ground engaging tool position than the first displacement threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Michael G. Kovach, Christopher Barrick, John C. Endlsey, James W. Henry, Tracey D. Meiners, Klint J. Peterson, Alan Forbes, David Long, Christopher A. Lursen
  • Publication number: 20190241832
    Abstract: An encapsulated perfume composition comprising malodour-counteracting perfume ingredients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: GIVAUDAN SA
    Inventor: Alan Forbes PROVAN
  • Patent number: 10072234
    Abstract: A fragrance composition and use thereof by inhalation to promote activated, pleasant moods. The fragrance composition comprises at least 75% by weight of perfume materials including at least 10% by weight of at least three specific materials from a group identified as Group IMP and optionally up to 90% of specific materials selected from groups identified as HMR, HMI, HMP, RMP and GEN, the amounts of materials from said Groups falling within specified relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Givaudan S.A.
    Inventors: John Martin Behan, Briony Care, Anne Churchill, Michael Gordon Evans, Keith Douglas Perring, Alan Forbes Provan
  • Patent number: 9125828
    Abstract: A Malodour counteracting composition, in particular a deodorant composition, comprising at least 25% w/w in total of at least 3 compounds drawn from Group A and Group B following: A. at least 5% in total of at least one of the following compounds: 2-Cyclohexylidene-2-phenylacetonitrile, 2-Acetyl-1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8-octahydro-1,2,8,8-tetramethylnapthalene, cyclohexylidene(2-methylphenyl)acetonitrile, 2-Ethoxy-4-formylphenyl (E)-3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)acrylate and (E)-Dec-9-enyl 3-(2-hydroxyphenyl)acrylate. B. optionally, at least one of the following compounds: 3,8,8,11a-Tetramethyldodecahydro-5H-3,5a-epoxy-napth[2,1-C]oxepin, Oxacycloheptadec-10-en-2-one, 3-Methyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethyl-3-cyclopenten-1-yl)-4-penten-2-ol, Ethyl 2,6,6-trimethyl-1,3-cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylate, 2-Methyl-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)propanal, 3-(3-isopropylphenyl)butanal, 2(6)-Methyl-8-(1-methylethyl)bicyclo[2.2.2]oct-5-en-2(3)-yl-1,3-dioxolane, 1-Methyl-2-(1,2,2-trimethylbicyclo[3.1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Givaudan SA
    Inventors: John Martin Behan, Keith Douglas Perring, Alan Forbes Provan
  • Patent number: D879113
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, David Long, Christopher A. Lursen, Kinga Babinski
  • Patent number: D887422
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Alan Forbes, David Long, Christopher A. Lursen, Kinga Babinski