Patents by Inventor Alan Merritt

Alan Merritt 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: 20240100720
    Abstract: A vacuum head and corresponding method for moving product at the end of a robotic arm includes a housing having a product contact surface. An array of at least two rows and at least three ranks of valves are arranged with respect to the product contact surface. A solenoid is connected with respect to each of the valves to selectively activate air pressure in one or more valves thereby enabling multiple switchable zones on the product contact surface and thereby enable transfer of product between stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Brian Keith Merritt, Brett Alan Stripe
  • Publication number: 20230372209
    Abstract: Oral care compositions including boron nitride as an opacifier in place of titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide. Toothpaste and/or dentifrice compositions including boron nitride as an opacifying agent. Oral care compositions, such as toothpaste and/or dentifrice compositions including boron nitride as the sole opacifying agent. Oral care compositions with a suitable opacity without titanium dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Sanjeev MIDHA, William Michael GLANDORF, Todd Alan MERRITT, Lauren G. TIGHE
  • Publication number: 20230372213
    Abstract: Oral care compositions including ?-calcium pyrophosphate as an opacifier in place of titanium dioxide and/or zinc oxide. Toothpaste and/or dentifrice compositions including ?-calcium pyrophosphate as an opacifying agent. Oral care compositions, such as toothpaste and/or dentifrice compositions including ?-calcium pyrophosphate as the sole opacifying agent. Oral care compositions with a suitable opacity without titanium dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Sanjeev MIDHA, William Michael GLANDORF, Todd Alan MERRITT, Lauren G. TIGHE
  • Publication number: 20230187012
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for implementing fault isolation in memory without incurring a die size penalty. For example, systems disclosed herein may involve identifying row addresses for sub-word line drivers accessing data from a memory block (e.g., a dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) block of memory). The systems disclosed herein may further serialize or otherwise compile bit rows into a prefetch bit including a pattern of bits. In generating the prefetch bit, the systems described herein may selectively group bits of data into respective regions that enable an error correction scheme to be applied to the pattern of data while minimizing a likelihood of uncorrectable errors within the prefetch bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Todd Alan MERRITT
  • Publication number: 20230062873
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, a portable booster or charging device is provided that provides emergency power to an electric vehicle. In one or more configurations, such an electric vehicle (“EV”) charger is configured to supply an EV with sufficient power that so that the vehicle will not require a tow-truck or otherwise be stranded. Specifically, the present invention is directed to providing on-demand or emergency power to EVs that are out of power and away from a dedicated charging facility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Anthony Vito Dipaola, Chad Alan Merritt
  • Publication number: 20220113868
    Abstract: A computing apparatus in an implementation comprises a memory device and a controller. The memory device comprises banks of cells arranged in rows and columns and is configured to maintain a row-level activation count on a per-row basis. The controller is operatively coupled with the memory device and is configured to maintain a bank-level activation count on a per-bank basis. The controller initiates a refresh operation for at least a given row in the memory device when at least both the bank-level activation count for a given bank satisfies a bank-level condition, and the row-level activation count for the given row satisfies a row-level condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Tim COWLES, Terry M. GRUNZKE, Brett Kenneth DODDS, Todd Alan MERRITT, Gary Lee VAN ACKERN
  • Patent number: 9929477
    Abstract: A torque limited screw is used to secure a conductor to an electrical connector. The screw has a torque limiting feature between a head and a body of the screw which must be overcome by force to break the head free from the screw body. The screw assembly includes a threaded body configured to be releasably coupled to a coupling portion of the connector. A head of the screw assembly is joined to the body via a neck portion which under a specified torque applied to the head fractures to break the head away from the body seated in the connector and securing the conductor. In one embodiment, the screw includes a plate spaced from and coupled to the threaded body for contacting the conductor. The plate is rotatable relative to the threaded body when the threaded body is coupled to the coupling portion of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: Ilsco Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Beiler, Eric D. Besterman, Stephen M. Jackson, Alan Merritt, Philip G. Reed, Richard L. Shank, Thomas M. Sweeney, Carl J. Taylor
  • Publication number: 20160322715
    Abstract: A torque limited screw is used to secure a conductor to an electrical connector. The screw has a torque limiting feature between a head and a body of the screw which must be overcome by force to break the head free from the screw body. The screw assembly includes a threaded body configured to be releasably coupled to a coupling portion of the connector. A head of the screw assembly is joined to the body via a neck portion which under a specified torque applied to the head fractures to break the head away from the body seated in the connector and securing the conductor. In one embodiment, the screw includes a plate spaced from and coupled to the threaded body for contacting the conductor. The plate is rotatable relative to the threaded body when the threaded body is coupled to the coupling portion of the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Ilsco Corporation
    Inventors: Michael W. Beiler, Eric D. Besterman, Stephen M. Jackson, Alan Merritt, Philip G. Reed, Richard L. Shank, Thomas M. Sweeney, Carl J. Taylor
  • Patent number: 8298081
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the gaming system, gaming device, and gaming method disclosed herein utilizes a single display device to display at least one event indicator which conveys information that is otherwise displayed over a plurality of display devices. In one embodiment, the gaming system employs a multiple layered display device, wherein at least one layer of the display device displays the play of the primary game and at least one layer of the display device displays one or more event indicators. Such event indicators indicate information regarding the play of a secondary game displayed on a secondary display device. Such a configuration alleviates the player from having to frequently look up at the secondary display to determine information regarding the play of the secondary game and then look back down to the primary display to view the play of the primary game.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Brent Alan Merritt, Cullen Patrick O'Day, Cari L. Blomquist, David James Stoveld, Kevin Norman Taylor, George Gordon Ridge