Patents by Inventor Christopher Wolf
Christopher Wolf 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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Patent number: 12260740Abstract: Devices, methods, and systems for a self-testing fire sensing device are described herein. One device includes an adjustable particle generator and a variable airflow generator configured to generate an aerosol density level sufficient to trigger a fire response without saturating an optical scatter chamber and the optical scatter chamber configured to measure a rate at which the aerosol density level decreases after the aerosol density level has been generated, determine an airflow rate from an external environment through the optical scatter chamber based on the measured rate at which the aerosol density level decreases, and determine whether the self-testing fire sensing device is functioning properly based on the fire response and the determined airflow rate.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Christopher Dearden, Michael Barson, Benjamin Wolf
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Patent number: 12261270Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fluoride ion batteries and structures of metal based electrode materials for various fluoride ion batteries. The structures of the metal based electrode materials comprise one or more shells or interfaces, enabling the electrodes to operate at room temperature with a liquid electrolyte.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignees: Honda Motor Co., Ltd., California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Qingmin Xu, Christopher J. Brooks, Kaoru Omichi, Ryan K. McKenney, Simon Jones, Victoria Davis, Stephen Munoz, Jeongmin Kim, Keith Billings, Thomas Miller, III, Robert H. Grubbs, William Wolf, Nam Hawn Chou
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Patent number: 12234759Abstract: A heat management system for air-cooled engines suitable to power yard care equipment or vehicles. The system may generally comprise an engine, a blower configured to blow ambient cooling air across the engine, and an exhaust system comprising an exhaust header and a muffler. The exhaust header has an inlet end which receives heated exhaust gas from the engine and an outlet end fluidly coupled to the muffler. An air control baffle is configured to redirect a portion of the cooling air from the blower towards the exhaust header and the muffler to enhance cooling the exhaust system. The system may further include an outermost protective shield exposed to equipment operators and an inner heat barrier or shield located between the muffler and protective shield. The system is designed to ameliorate both radiative and convective sources of heat transfer to maintain the protective shield at temperatures below established industry standards.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Discovery Energy, LLCInventors: Robert A. Griswold, David Hasler, Brittany Nicole Tremblay, Sean Leroy Winter, Christopher Wolf, Alexander Anthony Yosick
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Publication number: 20250011248Abstract: In various embodiments, a process is described for the preparation of a concrete mixture in a Ready-mix or for an installation. A quantity of amorphous silica is added with an average particle size in the range of from about 1 to about 55 nanometers and/or wherein the surface area of the particles of the amorphous silica is in the range of from about 50 to about 900 m2/g. The amorphous silica may be added in colloidal form or otherwise, and is added at a particular stage to ensure efficacy.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Applicant: E5 IncorporatedInventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
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Patent number: 12157706Abstract: In various embodiments, a process is described for the preparation of a concrete mixture in a Ready-mix or for an installation. A quantity of amorphous silica is added with an average particle size in the range of from about 1 to about 55 nanometers and/or wherein the surface area of the particles of the amorphous silica is in the range of from about 50 to about 900 m2/g. The amorphous silica may be added in colloidal form or otherwise, and is added at a particular stage to ensure efficacy.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2024Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: E5 IncorporatedInventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
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Publication number: 20240212396Abstract: A signal is received from a sensor or other controller of the vehicle. A bucket state is incremented responsive to the signal exceeding a signal threshold. An event is generated responsive to the bucket state exceeding a bucket threshold value. The event is sent, in an event message, to a cloud server.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Christopher WOLF, Michael W. DEGNER
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Publication number: 20240199502Abstract: In various embodiments, a process is described for the preparation of a concrete mixture in a Ready-mix or for an installation. A quantity of amorphous silica is added with an average particle size in the range of from about 1 to about 55 nanometers and/or wherein the surface area of the particles of the amorphous silica is in the range of from about 50 to about 900 m2/g. The amorphous silica may be added in colloidal form or otherwise, and is added at a particular stage to ensure efficacy.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2024Publication date: June 20, 2024Applicant: E5 IncorporatedInventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
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Publication number: 20240183296Abstract: A heat management system for air-cooled engines suitable to power yard care equipment or vehicles. The system may generally comprise an engine, a blower configured to blow ambient cooling air across the engine, and an exhaust system comprising an exhaust header and a muffler. The exhaust header has an inlet end which receives heated exhaust gas from the engine and an outlet end fluidly coupled to the muffler. An air control baffle is configured to redirect a portion of the cooling air from the blower towards the exhaust header and the muffler to enhance cooling the exhaust system. The system may further include an outermost protective shield exposed to equipment operators and an inner heat barrier or shield located between the muffler and protective shield. The system is designed to ameliorate both radiative and convective sources of heat transfer to maintain the protective shield at temperatures below established industry standards.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Robert A. GRISWOLD, David Hasler, Brittany Nicole Tremblay, Sean Leroy Winter Leroy Winter, Christopher Wolf, Alexander A Anthony Yosick
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Patent number: 11989095Abstract: The described embodiments set forth techniques for preserving clone relationships between files at a computing device. In particular, the techniques involve identifying clone relationships between files in conjunction with performing operations on the files where it can be beneficial to preserve the clone relationships. The operations can include, for example, preserving clone relationships between files that are being copied from a source storage device (that supports file cloning) to a destination storage device that supports file cloning. Additionally, the operations can include preserving clone relationships when backing up and restoring files between a source storage device (that supports file cloning) and a destination storage device that does not support file cloning. In this manner, the various benefits afforded by the clone relationships between files can be retained even as the files are propagated to destination storage devices that may or may not support file cloning.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Pavel Cisler, Christopher A. Wolf, Loic E. Vandereyken, Eric A. Weiss
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Publication number: 20240149700Abstract: A controller, while parameters are indicative of electromagnetic interference exceeding a predetermined value, generates voltage reference vectors or duty cycle commands such that differences between switching times of any two phases of an inverter are always greater than a threshold, and while the parameters are indicative of the electromagnetic interference being less than the predetermined value, generates the voltage reference vectors or duty cycle commands such that the differences are sometimes greater than the threshold and other times less than the threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Yue Nie, Christopher Wolf, Michael W. Degner
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Publication number: 20240094024Abstract: Location-synchronous averaging of connected vehicle data is provided. Connected vehicle data, including events occurring to a plurality of vehicles driving along roadways and location coordinates at which the respective events occurred, is aggregated. A kernel density estimation is performed to smoothly aggregate neighboring event counts. The locations of conditions along the roadways are indicated as being where the aggregate neighboring event counts have a value over a predefined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Christopher WOLF, Michael W. DEGNER
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Patent number: 11933209Abstract: A heat management system for air-cooled engines suitable to power yard care equipment or vehicles. The system may generally comprise an engine, a blower configured to blow ambient cooling air across the engine, and an exhaust system comprising an exhaust header and a muffler. The exhaust header has an inlet end which receives heated exhaust gas from the engine and an outlet end fluidly coupled to the muffler. An air control baffle is configured to redirect a portion of the cooling air from the blower towards the exhaust header and the muffler to enhance cooling the exhaust system. The system may further include an outermost protective shield exposed to equipment operators and an inner heat barrier or shield located between the muffler and protective shield. The system is designed to ameliorate both radiative and convective sources of heat transfer to maintain the protective shield at temperatures below established industry standards.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Robert A. Griswold, David Hasler, Brittany Nicole Tremblay, Sean Leroy Winter, Christopher Wolf, Alexander Anthony Yosick
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Patent number: 11886299Abstract: The described embodiments set forth techniques for providing a backup progress estimate for a backup of a source file system volume (FSV). The techniques involve determining, for the source FSV, a backup size during performance of backup operations. The operations can include determining the backup size based on a number of files on the source FSV. Additionally, the operations can include copying files of the source FSV and/or propagating corresponding files of a destination FSV to a location of the backup of the source FSV on a destination storage device and updating one or more metrics using a number of files and/or a number of bytes copied and/or propagated to the backup. In this manner, a progress indication for the backup may be determined based on the one or more metrics responsive to files and/or directories of the source file system volume being stored on a destination storage device.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Cadwallader, Christopher A. Wolf
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Publication number: 20230382815Abstract: A method for the preparation of industrial-scale concrete installations with improved compression strength, curling, shrinking and cracking characteristics, the method comprising the addition of nanosilica particulate, and more preferably, colloidal amorphous silica, having specific size and surface area characteristics, to a concrete mix after water has been added to the mix and the mix has been agitated.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Specification Products, Inc.Inventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Na Lu, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
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Patent number: 11796574Abstract: An electrical current sensing arrangement includes a busbar, a dielectric material containing therein a magnetic field sensor, and a ferromagnetic over-mold encapsulating a portion of the busbar and the dielectric material. The dielectric material is disposed against the busbar such that the magnetic field sensor is spaced away from the busbar and the ferromagnetic over-mold is not between the busbar and the magnetic field sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Christopher Wolf, Michael W. Degner, Franco Leonardi, Seth Avery
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Patent number: 11677283Abstract: An electric machine includes a stator formed from a plurality of stacked laminations and defining a center bore and a rotor disposed within the center bore. The rotor is configured to output a rotational torque in response to an input current delivered to the stator. At least one of the stacked laminations of the stator includes a pattern of perforations disposed at a yoke portion of the stator to attenuate structure-bore transmission of vibration during operation of the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Christopher Wolf, Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner
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Patent number: D1064844Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: STRATEC SE, Instrumentation Laboratory CompanyInventors: Ralf Wolf, Christopher Almy, Jr., Joshua A Shreve, Candice Bell, Benjamin E Newton
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Patent number: D1065583Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignees: STRATEC SE, Instrumentation Laboratory CompanyInventors: Ralf Wolf, Christopher Almy, Jr., Joshua A Shreve, Candice Bell, Benjamin E Newton
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Patent number: D1066736Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: STRATEC SE, Instrumentation Laboratory CompanyInventors: Ralf Wolf, Christopher Almy, Jr., Joshua A Shreve, Candice Bell, Benjamin E Newton
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Patent number: D1066737Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: March 11, 2025Assignees: STRATEC SE, Instrumentation Laboratory CompanyInventors: Ralf Wolf, Christopher Almy, Jr., Joshua A Shreve, Candice Bell, Benjamin E Newton