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).

  • Publication number: 20250124675
    Abstract: A method of transferring data via an adaptive bit rate is described. The method includes, (i) in conjunction with capturing video data at the glasses and in response to receiving a request from the user of the glasses to stream the video data at the first device, receiving data used to assess a data transmission characteristic of the first narrow bandwidth communication channel, (ii) in accordance with a determination that the data transmission characteristic satisfies a first threshold, causing the video data to be sent at a first bitrate, (iii) in conjunction with capturing additional video data at the glasses, receiving new data used to assess a new data transmission characteristic of the first narrow bandwidth communication channel, and (iv) in accordance with a determination that the new data transmission characteristic satisfies a second threshold, causing the additional video data to be sent at a second bitrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Si Liang Eugene Soo, Brian Laphun Tang, Timothy Wong, Nainesh Solanki, Akhil Ramachandran, Christopher Wolf, Glenn Banisaba
  • Patent number: 12234759
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Discovery Energy, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. Griswold, David Hasler, Brittany Nicole Tremblay, Sean Leroy Winter, Christopher Wolf, Alexander Anthony Yosick
  • Publication number: 20250011248
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: E5 Incorporated
    Inventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
  • Patent number: 12157706
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: E5 Incorporated
    Inventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
  • Patent number: 12110349
    Abstract: A process for polymerizing ethylene in a high-pressure polymerization system having a continuously operated polymerization reactor and a reactor blow down system having an emergency valve, a reactor blow down vessel containing an aqueous medium and a reactor blow down dump vessel, wherein the process includes the steps of monitoring the polymerization system for a disturbance, opening the emergency valve when a disturbance occurs to allow the content of the polymerization system to expand into the reactor blow down vessel, contacting the content of the polymerization system in the reactor blow down vessel with the aqueous medium to obtain an aqueous polymer slurry, separating the polymer slurry and gaseous components, and transferring the polymer slurry to the reactor blow down dump vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Littmann, Andre-Armand Finette, Christoph Wolf, Michael Deuerling, Juergen Mohrbutter, Danir Khayrullin, Giulia Mei, Erich Neumann
  • Publication number: 20240212396
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher WOLF, Michael W. DEGNER
  • Publication number: 20240199502
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: E5 Incorporated
    Inventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
  • Publication number: 20240183296
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Robert A. GRISWOLD, David Hasler, Brittany Nicole Tremblay, Sean Leroy Winter Leroy Winter, Christopher Wolf, Alexander A Anthony Yosick
  • Publication number: 20240149700
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yue Nie, Christopher Wolf, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 11951683
    Abstract: A method for improving z-axis strength of a 3D printed object is disclosed. For example, the method includes printing a three-dimensional (3D) object with a polymer and magnetic particles, heating the 3D object to a temperature at approximately a melting temperature of the polymer, and applying a magnetic field to the 3D object to locally move the magnetic particles in the polymer to generate heat and fuse the polymer around the magnetic particles to improve a z-axis strength of the 3D object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Chunliang Lu, Christopher Wolfe, John Ianni, Mark Mercandetti, John Pawlak, Chieh-Min Cheng
  • Publication number: 20240094024
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher WOLF, Michael W. DEGNER
  • Patent number: 11933209
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Robert A. Griswold, David Hasler, Brittany Nicole Tremblay, Sean Leroy Winter, Christopher Wolf, Alexander Anthony Yosick
  • Patent number: 11923184
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an ionization apparatus 10 for ionizing an analyte S, comprising an inlet E, an outlet A, a first electrode 1, a second electrode 2 and a dielectric element 3. The first electrode 1, the second electrode 2 and the dielectric element 3 are arranged relative to one another such that, by applying an electric voltage between the first electrode 1 and the second electrode 2, a dielectric barrier discharge is establishable in a discharge area 5 in the ionization apparatus 10. The first and second electrodes 1, 2 are arranged such that they are displaceable or movable relative to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Plasmion GmbH
    Inventor: Jan-Christoph Wolf
  • Publication number: 20230382815
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Specification Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William Archie Joseph Shetterley, Na Lu, Dustin A. Hartman, Christopher Wolf
  • Patent number: 11796574
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Wolf, Michael W. Degner, Franco Leonardi, Seth Avery
  • Patent number: 11677283
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Wolf, Franco Leonardi, Michael W. Degner
  • Patent number: 11644389
    Abstract: An apparatus for testing a fuel cap includes a gas manifold, a fuel cap connector, a base, and a removable cover. The gas manifold is configured to provide a bidirectional flow path through the fuel cap. The fuel cap connector is integrated with or coupled to the gas manifold, and the fuel cap connector is configured to connect the fuel cap to the gas manifold. The base is configured to support the gas manifold and provide at least a first gas input to the gas manifold and through the fuel cap via the bidirectional flow path. The removable cover is configured to be removably connected to the gas manifold and provide at least a second gas input to the gas manifold and through the fuel cap via the bidirectional flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: David Hasler, Christopher Wolf
  • Publication number: 20230085266
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Robert A. Griswold, David Hasler, Brittany Nicole Tremblay, Sean Leroy Winter, Christopher Wolf, Alexander Anthony Yosick
  • Publication number: 20230014128
    Abstract: A process for preparing ethylene polymers including the step of polymerizing ethylene or copolymerizing ethylene and one or more comonomers at a temperature from 100° C. to 350° C. and a pressure of from 110 MPa to 350 MPa in a continuously operated tubular polymerization reactor, thereby yielding a reaction mixture, wherein the tubular polymerization reactor has a reactor cooling jacket for removing the heat of the reaction and a pressure control valve, the reaction mixture leaves the reactor through the pressure control valve, the reaction mixture then passes a post-reactor cooler equipped with a post-reactor cooling jacket, the reactor cooling jacket is provided with a reactor coolant having an inlet temperature and the post-reactor cooling jacket is provided with a post-reactor coolant having an inlet temperature, and the inlet temperature of the post-reactor coolant is independently controlled from the inlet temperature of the reactant coolant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Andre-Armand Finette, Juergen Mohrbutter, Christoph Wolf, Michael Deuerling, Danir Khayrullin, Dieter Littmann
  • Patent number: 11549749
    Abstract: Method for the preparation of dried polymer pellets in a facility having a dryer with a first chamber and a mechanical agitator, and the facility further having a degassing silo with a second chamber, the method includes the steps of guiding a drying gas flow made from or containing a first gas mixture for drying wet polymer pellets into the first chamber, transferring the dried polymer pellets into the second chamber, guiding a second gas mixture for degassing the dried polymer pellets into the second chamber thereby transforming the second gas mixture into a third gas mixture and guiding a portion of the third gas mixture into the first chamber; and process for manufacturing LDPE pellets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Basell Polyolefine GmbH
    Inventors: Giulia Mei, Juergen Mohrbutter, Dieter Littmann, Christoph Wolf, Andre-Armand Finette, Michael Deuerling, Giuseppe Penzo