Patents by Inventor Christopher A. Reed
Christopher A. Reed 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: 20170001159Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and devices for mixing the contents of a mixing container, the device including a container defining a container cavity, the container including a bottom wall supporting a hollow shaft, the shaft supporting an impeller thereon such that the impeller is free to rotate about the shaft, the impeller including a central passageway therethrough for receiving the shaft, the container further including an elongate evacuation tube having a first end positioned within the passageway of the shaft and an opposed second end extending to a port of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2014Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Kevin M. Helle, Robert F. CHISHOLM, Jay Christopher Reed, Michael T. SCHNEIDER
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Publication number: 20160348564Abstract: A modular exhaust manifold includes a plurality of exhaust manifold segments coupled together along a common axis. Exhaust manifold segments include a water jacket tube defining a liquid coolant passage around each of the plurality of exhaust manifold segments. The internal combustion engine also includes a coupling assembly for joining adjacent exhaust manifold segments. The coupling assembly includes a plurality of annular sealing devices configured to fit within a first set of grooves formed on an end portion of a first exhaust manifold segment. The coupling assembly also includes a spacing collar configured to attach to the end portion of the first exhaust manifold segment and couple with a fixed radial flange formed on an adjacent end portion of a second exhaust manifold segment to join the first exhaust manifold segment and the second exhaust manifold segment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ronald Maloney, Craig Hittle, Christopher Reed, Anwarul Karim, Daniel Barb
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Patent number: 9488081Abstract: An exhaust runner includes an exhaust runner inlet, an exhaust nozzle outlet aperture, and an impingement insulator. The exhaust runner inlet is configured to receive a first flow of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust nozzle outlet aperture is defined by an intersection of a tip flow passage and an internal surface of the exhaust runner. The exhaust nozzle outlet aperture is configured to introduce a second flow of the exhaust gas into the first flow of the exhaust gas. An impingement zone is defined by a projection of the outlet aperture onto the internal surface of the runner in a direction of the second flow of the exhaust gas. The impingement insulator is collocated with the impingement zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ryan McHenry, Christopher Reed, Ronald Maloney, Lee Kress
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Patent number: 9422857Abstract: An exhaust nozzle tip for an exhaust runner conveying a first flow of an exhaust gas includes an inlet, outlet, and nozzle passageway. The inlet receives a second flow of the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The outlet introduces the second flow into the first flow in the exhaust runner. The nozzle passageway conveys the second flow from the inlet to the outlet and is defined by an upstream curved surface, and a downstream surface. The downstream surface includes a first downstream curve, a straight portion, and a second downstream curve. The first downstream curve transitions from perpendicular to the first flow to between 60 degrees and 15 degrees relative to the first flow. The straight portion extends from the first downstream curve. The second downstream curve transitions from the straight portion to a downstream portion of the exhaust runner.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: August 23, 2016Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ryan McHenry, Ronald Maloney, Andrew Gaarder, Christopher Reed, Lee Kress
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Patent number: 9400692Abstract: A memory management system for managing objects which represent memory in a multi-threaded operating system extracts the ID of the home free-list from the object header to determine whether the object is remote and adds the object to a remote object list if the object is determined to be remote. The memory management system determines whether the number of objects on the remote object list exceeds a threshold. If the threshold is exceeded, the system batch-removes the objects on the remote object list and then adds those objects to the appropriate one or more remote home free-lists.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 26, 2016Assignee: Software AGInventors: Christopher Reed, Mark Horsburgh
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Publication number: 20160177815Abstract: An exhaust nozzle tip for an exhaust runner conveying a first flow of an exhaust gas includes an inlet, outlet, and nozzle passageway. The inlet receives a second flow of the exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The outlet introduces the second flow into the first flow in the exhaust runner. The nozzle passageway conveys the second flow from the inlet to the outlet and is defined by an upstream curved surface, and a downstream surface. The downstream surface includes a first downstream curve, a straight portion, and a second downstream curve. The first downstream curve transitions from perpendicular to the first flow to between 60 degrees and 15 degrees relative to the first flow. The straight portion extends from the first downstream curve. The second downstream curve transitions from the straight portion to a downstream portion of the exhaust runner.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ryan McHenry, Ronald Maloney, Andrew Gaarder, Christopher Reed, Lee Kress
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Publication number: 20160177795Abstract: An exhaust runner includes an exhaust runner inlet, an exhaust nozzle outlet aperture, and an impingement insulator. The exhaust runner inlet is configured to receive a first flow of an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. The exhaust nozzle outlet aperture is defined by an intersection of a tip flow passage and an internal surface of the exhaust runner. The exhaust nozzle outlet aperture is configured to introduce a second flow of the exhaust gas into the first flow of the exhaust gas. An impingement zone is defined by a projection of the outlet aperture onto the internal surface of the runner in a direction of the second flow of the exhaust gas. The impingement insulator is collocated with the impingement zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Ryan McHenry, Christopher Reed, Ronald Maloney, Lee Kress
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Publication number: 20160092273Abstract: A memory management system for managing objects which represent memory in a multi-threaded operating system extracts the ID of the home free-list from the object header to determine whether the object is remote and adds the object to a remote object list if the object is determined to be remote. The memory management system determines whether the number of objects on the remote object list exceeds a threshold. If the threshold is exceeded, the system batch-removes the objects on the remote object list and then adds those objects to the appropriate one or more remote home free-lists.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2014Publication date: March 31, 2016Inventors: Christopher Reed, Mark Horsburgh
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Patent number: 9288888Abstract: A plasma arc torch includes an annular baffle defining distinct faces A, B, C, and D. Faces A and C are opposite from each other, and faces B and D are opposite from each other. First passages for fluid flow extend between the faces A and C, and second passages extend between the faces B and D. The baffle is installable in an annular space between an inner wall and an outer wall, in either of two orientations. In a first orientation, the first passages are open to fluid flow and the second passages are closed by engagement of the inner and outer walls with the faces B and D, and in a second orientation, flipped over relative to the first orientation, the second passages are open to fluid flow and the first passages are closed by engagement of the inner and outer walls with the faces A and C.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: The ESAB Group, Inc.Inventors: David Charles Griffin, Gregory William Diehl, Christopher Reed Martin, Wayne Stanley Severence, Jr.
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Patent number: 9262233Abstract: A method and/or computer for a tuned spin count in a multithreaded system determines a re-calculation time interval at which to re-calculate a current spin lock value. Then, a spin-lock-re-calculation is repeatedly executed at the re-calculation time interval to perform: observing a current environment of the multithreaded system, determining, using a second-order tuning and values of the current environment, a dynamically calculated heuristic to provide the newly-recalculated spin lock value, and memorizing the newly re-calculated spin lock value, in a memory, as the current spin lock value. Meanwhile, thread(s) in the multithreaded system which want to execute a spinlock will obtain the current spin lock value which is memorized in the memory, and execute the spin lock using the current spin lock value to set a length of the spin lock.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2014Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignee: Software AGInventors: Christopher Reed, Mark Horsburgh, Matthew Johnson
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Publication number: 20160018812Abstract: An automated oxy-fuel thermal processing system including an oxy-fuel torch, an automated machine tool operatively coupled to the torch for moving the torch relative to a work piece, and a circuit including a voltage source or a current electrically connected to the torch and configured to be electrically connected to the work piece. The automated oxy-fuel thermal processing system may further include a processor that is operatively connected to the torch, the automated machine tool, the circuit, and the voltage source or current source, wherein the processor is configured to control the operation of the torch, the automated machine tool and the voltage source or current source, and to monitor a current or voltage in the circuit in a predefined manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2014Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventor: Christopher Reed Martin
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Patent number: 8971220Abstract: A base station including at least a transceiver switch is provided enabling the base station to transmit and receive data in either FDD or TDD mode from an antenna. The base station may be provided with a synthesizer which can be retuned from FDD to TDD mode or alternatively, an FDD and a TDD synthesizer and a switch enabling the transmitter and receiver of the base station to process FDD or TDD mode data respectively.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2010Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Christopher Reed, Simon Gale, Andrew Urquhart
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Publication number: 20140380488Abstract: Real time security, integrity, and reliability postures of operational (OT), information (IT), and security (ST) systems, as well as slower changing security and operational blueprint, policies, processes, and rules governing the enterprise security and business risk management process, dynamically evolve and adapt to domain, context, and situational awareness, as well as the controls implemented across the operational and information systems that are controlled. Embodiments of the invention are systematized and pervasively applied across interconnected, interdependent, and diverse operational, information, and security systems to mitigate system-wide business risk, to improve efficiency and effectiveness of business processes and to enhance security control which conventional perimeter, network, or host based control and protection schemes cannot successfully perform.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2014Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: Partha DATTA RAY, Alturi Bhima Ranjit KUMAR, Christopher REED, Atul Prakash AGARWAL
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Patent number: 8899423Abstract: A compact mobile variable angle vibrating screen with fines diverting systems configured to accommodate variable angles and still deliver material, via a plurality of partially nested fines chutes, to a fixed location despite angular adjustment of the vibrating screen. The system comprises a diverting pan attached to the underside and at a top end of a bottom screen and centrally positioned, such that fines material which quickly passes through the several decks encounters the diverting pan instead of falling directly onto a discharge conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Terex USA, LLCInventors: Kenneth Irwin, Christopher Reed
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Publication number: 20140333615Abstract: A method reconstructs at three-dimensional (3D) real-world scene from a single two-dimensional (2D) image by identifying junctions satisfying geometric constraint of the scene based on intersecting lines, vanishing points, and vanishing lines that are orthogonal to each other. Possible layouts of the scene are generated by sampling the 2D image according to the junctions. Then, an energy function is maximized to select an optimal layout from the possible layouts. The energy function use's a conditional random field (CRF) model to evaluate the possible layouts.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2013Publication date: November 13, 2014Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Srikumar Ramalingam, Yuichi Taguchi, Jaishanker K Pillai, Dan J Burns, Christopher Reed Laughman
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Patent number: 8856936Abstract: Real time security, integrity, and reliability postures of operational (OT), information (IT), and security (ST) systems, as well as slower changing security and operational blueprint, policies, processes, and rules governing the enterprise security and business risk management process, dynamically evolve and adapt to domain, context, and situational awareness, as well as the controls implemented across the operational and information systems that are controlled. Embodiments of the invention are systematized and pervasively applied across interconnected, interdependent, and diverse operational, information, and security systems to mitigate system-wide business risk, to improve efficiency and effectiveness of business processes and to enhance security control which conventional perimeter, network, or host based control and protection schemes cannot successfully perform.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2012Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: Albeado Inc.Inventors: Partha Datta Ray, Atluri Bhima Ranjit Kumar, Christopher Reed, Atul Prakash Agarwal
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Publication number: 20140274377Abstract: Systems and methods for pre-game and post-game video game character presentation and equipping are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, a computer implemented method useful for video game play comprises: determining identities and equipment of at least some game characters for participation in game play; in a time period outside of game play, providing information for rendering the game characters with their equipment in a scene having visual characteristics of a virtual world for game play; providing game players the opportunity to change and/or purchase equipment for their game characters; and providing for game play including the game characters.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Jean-Marc Morel, Evan Webb, Christopher Reed
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Publication number: 20140217069Abstract: A plasma arc torch includes an annular baffle defining distinct faces A, B, C, and D. Faces A and C are opposite from each other, and faces B and D are opposite from each other. First passages for fluid flow extend between the faces A and C, and second passages extend between the faces B and D. The baffle is installable in an annular space between an inner wall and an outer wall, in either of two orientations. In a first orientation, the first passages are open to fluid flow and the second passages are closed by engagement of the inner and outer walls with the faces B and D, and in a second orientation, flipped over relative to the first orientation, the second passages are open to fluid flow and the first passages are closed by engagement of the inner and outer walls with the faces A and C.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: The ESAB Group, Inc.Inventors: David Charles Griffin, Gregory William Diehl, Christopher Reed Martin, Wayne Stanley Severence, JR.
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Patent number: 8624149Abstract: A plasma arc torch includes an annular baffle defining distinct faces A, B, C, and D. Faces A and C are opposite from each other, and faces B and D are opposite from each other. First passages for fluid flow extend between the faces A and C, and second passages extend between the faces B and D. The baffle is installable in an annular space between an inner wall and an outer wall, in either of two orientations. In a first orientation, the first passages are open to fluid flow and the second passages are closed by engagement of the inner and outer walls with the faces B and D, and in a second orientation, flipped over relative to the first orientation, the second passages are open to fluid flow and the first passages are closed by engagement of the inner and outer walls with the faces A and C.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2012Date of Patent: January 7, 2014Assignee: The ESAB Group, Inc.Inventors: David Charles Griffin, Gregory William Diehl, Christopher Reed Martin
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Patent number: 8599072Abstract: A broadband antenna structure has an electrically conductive enclosure with a closed end, over which a non-electrically conductive cover is placed. A radiating portion of an antenna feed layer comprising a conductive patch antenna element is placed in between the enclosure and the cover. The patch antenna element design is inherently broader band than that of conventional cavity-backed slot-radiating antennas, which are constrained in bandwidth by the need to keep the cavity formed in the enclosure small. The dielectric constant of the dielectric material of the cover reduces the required size of the conductive antenna element. The broadband antenna structure may be connected with an electronic device to form an antenna arrangement in which a portion of the antenna feed layer extends through an opening in a surface of an antenna housing, the portion being within an electronic device enclosure of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Reed, Simon Bates, Graham Dolman, David Adams, William Waddoup, Dean Kitchener