Patents by Inventor Charles Andrews

Charles Andrews 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).

  • HARDENED OPTICAL WINDOWS FOR LIDAR APPLICATIONS AT 850-950NM
    Publication number: 20220317353
    Abstract: A window for a sensing system is provided. The window includes a substrate having a predetermined thickness and an index of refraction for electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of 905 nm and a layered film disposed on the substrate, the layered film including alternating layers of a high refractive index material and a lower refractive index material, the high refractive index material having a higher refractive index than the lower refractive index material, wherein each layer of the alternating layers of the layered film has a thickness, and the thicknesses of the alternating layers are configured so that the window has a transmittance of at least 80% for electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength within the range of 850 nm to 950 nm. The window further includes a hardness of at least 10 GPa, at the layered film, as measured by the Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Automatic detection of personal information in cloud-based infrastructure configurations
    Patent number: 11463416
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided detecting personal information in cloud-based infrastructure configuration. A method may include sending, by a computer-based system, a first request to a first service associated with the computer-based system, the first request associated with first application programming interface (API) call data. The method may include receiving the first API call data from the first service. The method may include determining, based on the first API call data, first data associated with the first service, and determining that the first data includes personal information. The method may include sending a message to a device, the message indicative of the personal information. The method may include receiving a second request to modify the first data, and modifying the first data based on the second request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Ashman, Charles Andrew Schuetz
  • GLASS ARTICLES HAVING DAMAGE-RESISTANT COATINGS AND METHODS FOR COATING GLASS ARTICLES
    Publication number: 20220306524
    Abstract: A coated glass article and methods for producing the same are provided herein. The coated glass article includes a glass body having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, wherein the first surface is an exterior surface of the glass body, and a damage-resistant coating formed by atomic layer deposition, the damage-resistant coating being disposed on at least a portion of the first surface of the glass body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Lewis Allington, Matthew Lee Black, Steven Edward DeMartino, Jody Paul Markley, Charles Andrew Paulson, Jamie Todd Westbrook
  • HARDENED OPTICAL WINDOWS WITH ANTI-REFLECTIVE, REFLECTIVE, AND ABSORBING LAYERS FOR INFRARED SENSING SYSTEMS
    Publication number: 20220299606
    Abstract: A window for a sensing system is provided. The window includes a substrate, a layered film disposed on a first surface of the substrate, the layered film including alternating layers of higher refractive index materials and lower refractive index materials, wherein the refractive index of the higher refractive index materials is greater than the refractive index of the lower refractive index materials, and a maximum hardness, measured at the layered film and by the Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test, of at least 8 GPa. The window has: an average percentage transmittance of greater than 75% for electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of 1550 nm at normal or near normal incidence; and an average percentage reflectance of less than 10% for electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of 1550 nm at any angle of incidence within the range of 0° to 8°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Carlo Anthony Kosik Williams, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • System, method and apparatus for resource access control
    Patent number: 11429958
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for resource access control. An authorization record is created when a requestor has been authorized to access a resource, the authorization record created from an authorization event template stored on an authorization blockchain network. The authorization resource comprises one or more conditions that must generally be true in order for the user to access the resource. The authorization record may additionally comprise one or more permissions for the user to manage the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Beyond Aerospace LTD.
    Inventors: Oliver Michaelis, Mike Ball, Charles Andrew Hugh Baker, Peter Alexander Carides
  • Distributed ledger-based ad-hoc system, apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11431508
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for routing traffic in ad-hoc networks. A routing blockchain network processes routing node information proposals received from manager nodes of network clusters. Performance metrics of one or more nodes in the system are verified using distributed ledger techniques and provided to the manager nodes as updates to each manager node's routing information. The manager nodes further determine routing paths for ad-hoc communication requests based on an authentication event that defines conditions necessary to route traffic streams in association with a particular resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Oliver Michaelis, Mike Ball, Charles Andrew Hugh Baker, Peter Alexander Carides
  • DURABLE ANTI-REFLECTIVE ARTICLES
    Publication number: 20220251396
    Abstract: Embodiments of durable, anti-reflective articles are described. In one or more embodiments, the article includes a substrate and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the major surface. The article exhibits an average light transmittance of about 94% or greater over an optical wavelength regime and/or an average light reflectance of about 2% or less over the optical wavelength regime, as measured from an anti-reflective surface. In some embodiments, the article exhibits a maximum hardness of about 8 GPa or greater as measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test along an indentation depth of about 50 nm or greater and a b* value, in reflectance, in the range from about ?5 to about 1 as measured on the anti-reflective surface only at all incidence illumination angles in the range from about 0 degrees to about 60 degrees under an International Commission on Illumination illuminant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Eric Louis Null, Xu Ouyang, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Safety packaging channel
    Patent number: 11407569
    Abstract: A packaged bundle using a special designed packaging channel for dunnage is disclosed. The packaging channel dunnage has a channel with hemmed edges and swedged ends exhibiting a two-curved profile to provide a more secure bundle and improved safety during transport and handling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Telling Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Andrew Haba, William J. Gibbs, Stephen Charles Linch
  • Oven appliance with an adjustable camera assembly
    Patent number: 11408611
    Abstract: An adjustable camera assembly mounted within a door of an oven appliance includes a vertical guide rail and a camera movably mounted to the guide rail. A drive mechanism, such as a lead screw driven by a stepper motor, is mechanically coupled to the camera for moving the camera along the guide rail. A heat shield is positioned proximate a bottom of the door and extends around the guide rail to define a protective cavity for receiving the camera and providing a thermal break from a heating element of the oven appliance. A controller is configured for moving the camera into the protective cavity during high temperature operation of the oven appliance, such as during a self-clean cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Ian Moore, Marcelo Torrentes, Charles Andrew Bierbaum
  • COATED ARTICLES WITH OPTICAL COATINGS HAVING RESIDUAL COMPRESSIVE STRESS
    Publication number: 20220242781
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are coated articles which may include a substrate and an optical coating that includes one or more layers of deposited material. At least a portion of the optical coating may include a residual compressive stress of more than 100 MPa. The coated article may include a strain-to-failure of 0.4% or more as measured by a Ring-on-Ring Tensile Testing Procedure. The optical coating may include a maximum hardness of 8 GPa or more and an average photopic transmission of 50% or greater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Shandon Dee Hart, Guangli Hu, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Electric hot water heater energy management
    Patent number: 11402127
    Abstract: A control module for an electrical appliance is provided. The control module comprises a wireless interface, a processor coupled to the wireless interface and a plurality of pins extending from the bottom of the module coupled to the processor, the pins for twist lock interfacing with a receptacle of an appliance, wherein the processor can send and receive command related to the control of the appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Think Tank Water Heaters Ltd.
    Inventors: Charles Andrew Cartmill, Simon Lightbody, Damon Langlois, Kent Mader
  • Process for fabricating a colored powder coating composition from solid filaments
    Patent number: 11396112
    Abstract: A process for fabricating a powder coating composition having a desired color from solid input filaments. A plurality of solid input filaments is fed to a mixer in accordance with an input formulation for a color. The input filaments are liquefied at the mixer, and the liquefied input filaments are combined together in the mixer into an extrudate mixture. The extrudate mixture is removed from the mixer, solidified, and then the solidified extrudate mixture is milled into a powder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Inventor: Scott Charles Andrews
  • Magnetic field detection and interaction
    Patent number: 11393322
    Abstract: An electric utility meter including a three-axis Hall Effect sensor configured to detect the presence of a magnetic field in two or more directions surrounding the electric utility meter. The electric utility meter also includes a controller having an electronic processor. The controller is configured to receive a signal indicative of an abnormal magnetic field proximate the electric utility meter from the three-axis Hall Effect sensor, determine an amount of time for which the abnormal magnetic field has been detected, and log a magnetic field tamper event in an event log when the amount of time for which the abnormal magnetic field has been detected exceeds a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Aclara Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Lee McDougall, Jr., Charles Andrew Waters
  • Expression of Nitrogenase Polypeptides In Plant Cells
    Publication number: 20220170038
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and means for producing nitrogenase polypeptides in the mitochondria of plant cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Silas ALLEN, Maria Christina GREGG, Shoko OKADA, Amratha MENON, Charles Andrew WARDEN, Matthew Craig TAYLOR, Craig Christopher WOOD
  • COOLING SYSTEM FOR A CONTROL PANEL OF AN OVEN APPLIANCE
    Publication number: 20220146111
    Abstract: A control panel assembly for an oven appliance includes an external housing and an internal housing spaced apart to define an air plenum. A display assembly is positioned in a top opening in the external housing and a cooling port is defined between a cooktop of the oven appliance and the display assembly. A fan assembly is positioned within the air plenum for drawing a flow of cooling air in through an ambient port and urging the flow of cooling air through the cooling port to create an air curtain that cools the display assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Megan Etgen, Charles Andrew Bierbaum
  • UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20220127000
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for application of an active ingredient to agricultural crops comprises at least one liquid reservoir, at least one liquid application unit, a processing unit, at least one set of rotor blades, and a plurality of legs. The at least one liquid application unit is configured to receive at least one input from the processing unit. The at least one input is useable to activate the at least one liquid application unit. The UAV is configured to fly within an environment using the at least one set of rotor blades, land within the environment, and walk on the plurality of legs to a location to apply liquid from the liquid reservoir to at least one plant. A location to apply the liquid is determined based on image analysis of one or more image of at least one image of the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Malcolm FAERS, Charles Andrew CHAPPLE
  • Distributed ledger-based ad-hoc system, apparatus and method
    Patent number: 11316700
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus for routing traffic in ad-hoc networks. A routing blockchain network processes routing node information proposals received from manager nodes of network clusters. Performance metrics of one or more nodes in the system are verified using distributed ledger techniques and provided to the manager nodes as updates to each manager node's routing information. The manager nodes further determine routing paths for ad-hoc communication requests based on an authentication event that defines conditions necessary to route traffic streams in association with a particular resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: BEYOND AEROSPACE LTD.
    Inventors: Oliver Michaelis, Mike Ball, Charles Andrew Hugh Baker, Peter Alexander Carides
  • LOW-COLOR SCRATCH-RESISTANT ARTICLES WITH A MULTILAYER OPTICAL FILM
    Publication number: 20220075097
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure pertain to articles that exhibit scratch-resistance and improved optical properties. In some examples, the article exhibits a color shift of about 2 or less, when viewed at an incident illumination angle in the range from about 0 degrees to about 60 degrees from normal under an illuminant. In one or more embodiments, the articles include a substrate, and an optical film disposed on the substrate. The optical film includes a scratch-resistant layer and an optical interference layer. The optical interference layer may include one or more sub-layers that exhibit different refractive indices. In one example, the optical interference layer includes a first low refractive index sub-layer and a second a second high refractive index sub-layer. In some instances, the optical interference layer may include a third sub-layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Alan Bellman, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • Durable anti-reflective articles
    Patent number: 11267973
    Abstract: Embodiments of durable, anti-reflective articles are described. In one or more embodiments, the article includes a substrate and an anti-reflective coating disposed on the major surface. The article exhibits an average light transmittance of about 94% or greater over an optical wavelength regime and/or an average light reflectance of about 2% or less over the optical wavelength regime, as measured from an anti-reflective surface. In some embodiments, the article exhibits a maximum hardness of about 8 GPa or greater as measured by a Berkovich Indenter Hardness Test along an indentation depth of about 50 nm or greater and a b* value, in reflectance, in the range from about ?5 to about 1 as measured on the anti-reflective surface only at all incidence illumination angles in the range from about 0 degrees to about 60 degrees under an International Commission on Illumination illuminant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Shandon Dee Hart, Karl William Koch, III, Eric Louis Null, Xu Ouyang, Charles Andrew Paulson, James Joseph Price
  • plant named ‘White001’
    Patent number: PP34112
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Plectranthus plant named ‘White001’ that is characterized by its large white flowers with pink tones, its floriferous blooming habit, its well-branched plant habit, and its vigorous growth habit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Charles Andrew de Wet