Patents by Inventor Clayton James

Clayton James 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).

  • Patent number: 12166357
    Abstract: An under-cabinet wireless power system is mountable to an underside of a wall cabinet that is positioned over a countertop and includes a wireless power transmitter capable of powering a wirelessly powered appliance positioned proximate thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Daniel J. Trice, Brian Langness, Clayton James O′Donoghue, John Kenneth Hooker
  • Publication number: 20240346514
    Abstract: A network-connected, electronic refund processing system encourages household saving by enabling consumers to receive a card payment refund in forms other than the conventional method of crediting the consumer's account with fiat currency. The enhanced refund processing system connects legacy payment/refund systems to distributed stored value systems such as virtual currency wallets, and to systems for recording ownership of other financial assets such as commercial paper and securities. In exemplary embodiments, the consumer can choose to receive refunds in the form of various non-cash financial assets, including virtual currencies, and more specifically cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, ether and Litecoin; commercial paper (loans, contracts, forms and others); and securities (stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other financial assets).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Jared Adam Paris, Clayton James Stewart
  • Publication number: 20240341539
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an appliance. In one embodiment, the appliance has an enclosed structure which includes a first portion configured to receive one or more meal cartridges, and store and preserve the meal cartridges at a selected temperature range; a second portion; and transfer mechanism configured to transfer at least one meal cartridge in the first portion to the second portion within the enclosed structure in response to a command input for cooking the at least one meal cartridge. The second portion is configured to accept the at least one meal cartridge, receive a cooking instruction command including a cooking duration and temperature determined for the at least one meal cartridge, and cook the at least one meal cartridge based upon the cooking duration and temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Maxwell Henry Wieder, Edward David Holzinger, Clayton James
  • Publication number: 20240213801
    Abstract: An under-cabinet wireless power system is mountable to an underside of a wall cabinet that is positioned over a countertop and includes a wireless power transmitter capable of powering a wirelessly powered appliance positioned proximate thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel J. Trice, Brian Langness, Clayton James O'Donoghue, John Kenneth Hooker
  • Patent number: 12016497
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an appliance. In one embodiment, the appliance has an enclosed structure which includes a first portion configured to receive one or more meal cartridges, and store and preserve the meal cartridges at a selected temperature range; a second portion; and transfer mechanism configured to transfer at least one meal cartridge in the first portion to the second portion within the enclosed structure in response to a command input for cooking the at least one meal cartridge. The second portion is configured to accept the at least one meal cartridge, receive a cooking instruction command including a cooking duration and temperature determined for the at least one meal cartridge, and cook the at least one meal cartridge based upon the cooking duration and temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Counter Intuitive Cooking, Inc.
    Inventors: Maxwell Henry Wieder, Edward David Holzinger, Clayton James
  • Publication number: 20240066425
    Abstract: A system for an entertainment venue includes an enclosure comprising a display surface, a light emitter disposed within the enclosure and configured to output a light, and a tube disposed within the enclosure. The tube is configured to receive the light and transmit the light through the display surface of the enclosure to form imagery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Clayton James Tripp, Gregory Addison Hill, JR., Stephen Burnham Swift, Eli J. Romaire, Jonathan Harris Sangel, Alex Christopher Merryman, Anthony Joseph Domingo, Jeffrey Gontar Small, Camille Ann Smolucha
  • Patent number: 11853022
    Abstract: A cooking appliance may employ one or both of a post-preheat phase and a two stage preheat phase to both accelerate preheating of an oven cavity while minimizing temperature differentials therein. A post-preheat phase may be performed subsequent to a preheat phase, but prior to a cooking phase, to cycle a cooking element disposed in a cooler portion of an oven cavity to reduce a temperature differential between the top and bottom of the oven cavity. A two stage preheat phase may sequentially activate each of top and bottom cooking elements in an oven cavity a single time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Vern A. Neal, Clayton James O'Donoghue
  • Publication number: 20230244962
    Abstract: A model evaluation system evaluates the effect of a feature value at a particular time in a time-series data record on predictions made by a time-series model. The time-series model may make predictions with black-box parameters that can impede explainability of the relationship between predictions for a data record and the values of the data record. To determine the relative importance of a feature occurring at a time and evaluated at an evaluation time, the model predictions are determined on the unmasked data record at the evaluation time and on the data record with feature values masked within a window between the time and the evaluation time, permitting comparison of the evaluation with the features and without the features. In addition, the contribution at the initial time in the window may be determined by comparing the score with another score determined by masking the values except for the initial time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Maksims Volkovs, Kin Kwan Leung, Saba Zuberi, Jonathan Anders James Smith, Clayton James Rooke
  • Publication number: 20230214771
    Abstract: An intelligent supply-chain wide tracking and analysis system is described. In some instances, the system may receive variant data describing a variant of a product from a first client system, generate a variant profile based on the variant data, and determine a connection definition specific to the variant profile and defining a connection between the first client system and a second system. The system may provide access to a first data field containing data in the client profile from the first client system to the second client system based on the connection definition. The system may also receive an inventory value for the variant from the second client system and, using the variant profile and connection definition, provide access to the inventory value to the first client system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Parker Baird, Clayton James Perkins, Matthew Robert Newman, Daniel Larry Duncan
  • Publication number: 20230203899
    Abstract: A jaw assembly for gripping tubular goods in a power tong. The jaw assembly has at least three (3) jaw members: a first primary jaw member, a second primary jaw member, and at least one intermediate jaw member disposed between the first and second primary jaw members. The jaw assembly can be easily and conveniently installed within a conventional 2-jaw power tong without extensive modification thereto, and increases the pipe gripping capacity of the tong (and particularly small size pipe) without damaging the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Clayton James Claxton, Mark S. Sibille, Douglas J. Guidry
  • Publication number: 20230200589
    Abstract: A scraping and tamping device for an appliance. The scraping and tamping device may tamp and/or scrap contents within the appliance. The scraping and tamping device may include a tamper and/or scraper. The scraping and tamping device may include a releasable engagement between one or more portions thereof. A retention device may be used to releasably engage the scraper between a stowed position and a deployed position. The scraping and tamping device may include a blender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Paul R. Staun, Clayton James O'Donoghue, Bryce Bornhorn
  • Publication number: 20230165407
    Abstract: A tamper for an appliance. The tamper may include one or more tamping cycles. The tamper may include a motor. The tamper may include one or more mixing mechanisms. The mixing mechanism may be a vibration mechanism. The mixing mechanism may be a blade mechanism. The tamper may include a motion limiter. The tamper may include one or more locking mechanisms releasably engaging the blender. The tamper may include a blender.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Clayton James O'Donoghue, Paul R. Staun
  • Publication number: 20230153824
    Abstract: A network-connected, electronic refund processing system encourages household saving by enabling consumers to receive a card payment refund in forms other than the conventional method of crediting the consumer's account with fiat currency. The enhanced refund processing system connects legacy payment/refund systems to distributed stored value systems such as virtual currency wallets, and to systems for recording ownership of other financial assets such as commercial paper and securities. In exemplary embodiments, the consumer can choose to receive refunds in the form of various non-cash financial assets, including virtual currencies, and more specifically cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, ether and Litecoin; commercial paper (loans, contracts, forms and others); and securities (stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other financial assets).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Jared Adam Paris, Clayton James Stewart
  • Publication number: 20220308537
    Abstract: A cooking appliance may employ one or both of a post-preheat phase and a two stage preheat phase to both accelerate preheating of an oven cavity while minimizing temperature differentials therein. A post-preheat phase may be performed subsequent to a preheat phase, but prior to a cooking phase, to cycle a cooking element disposed in a cooler portion of an oven cavity to reduce a temperature differential between the top and bottom of the oven cavity. A two stage preheat phase may sequentially activate each of top and bottom cooking elements in an oven cavity a single time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Vern A. Neal, Clayton James O'Donoghue
  • Publication number: 20220192428
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an appliance. In one embodiment, the appliance has an enclosed structure which includes a first portion configured to receive one or more meal cartridges, and store and preserve the meal cartridges at a selected temperature range; a second portion; and transfer mechanism configured to transfer at least one meal cartridge in the first portion to the second portion within the enclosed structure in response to a command input for cooking the at least one meal cartridge. The second portion is configured to accept the at least one meal cartridge, receive a cooking instruction command including a cooking duration and temperature determined for the at least one meal cartridge, and cook the at least one meal cartridge based upon the cooking duration and temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Maxwell Henry Wieder, Edward David Holzinger, Clayton James
  • Patent number: 11266273
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an appliance. In one embodiment, the appliance has an enclosed structure which includes a first portion configured to receive one or more meal cartridges, and store and preserve the meal cartridges at a selected temperature range; a second portion; and transfer mechanism configured to transfer at least one meal cartridge in the first portion to the second portion within the enclosed structure in response to a command input for cooking the at least one meal cartridge. The second portion is configured to accept the at least one meal cartridge, receive a cooking instruction command including a cooking duration and temperature determined for the at least one meal cartridge, and cook the at least one meal cartridge based upon the cooking duration and temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Counter Intuitive Cooking, Inc.
    Inventors: Maxwell Henry Wieder, Edward David Holzinger, Clayton James
  • Publication number: 20210282599
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an appliance. In one embodiment, the appliance has an enclosed structure which includes a first portion configured to receive one or more meal cartridges, and store and preserve the meal cartridges at a selected temperature range; a second portion; and transfer mechanism configured to transfer at least one meal cartridge in the first portion to the second portion within the enclosed structure in response to a command input for cooking the at least one meal cartridge. The second portion is configured to accept the at least one meal cartridge, receive a cooking instruction command including a cooking duration and temperature determined for the at least one meal cartridge, and cook the at least one meal cartridge based upon the cooking duration and temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Maxwell Henry Wieder, Edward David Holzinger, Clayton James
  • Publication number: 20210019749
    Abstract: A network-connected, electronic refund processing system encourages household saving by enabling consumers to receive a card payment refund in forms other than the conventional method of crediting the consumer's account with fiat currency. The enhanced refund processing system connects legacy payment/refund systems to distributed stored value systems such as virtual currency wallets, and to systems for recording ownership of other financial assets such as commercial paper and securities. In exemplary embodiments, the consumer can choose to receive refunds in the form of various non-cash financial assets, including virtual currencies, and more specifically cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, ether and Litecoin; commercial paper (loans, contracts, forms and others); and securities (stocks, bonds, derivatives, and other financial assets).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Jared Adam Paris, Clayton James Stewart
  • Patent number: 7963196
    Abstract: A tong unit having a ring gear, an upper cage plate, and a jaw assembly is disclosed. The cage plate has a removable window section, through which the jaw assembly may be inserted into and removed from the central opening in the ring gear. The jaw assembly may be attached to the removable window section, so that the window section and the jaw assembly can be lifted out and inserted together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2011
    Assignee: Mech-Tech Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Clint Musemeche, Clayton James Claxton, Terrence James Musemeche
  • Patent number: D807391
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Stasis Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Dinesh Seemakurty, Michael Andrew Maylahn, Clayton James Brand, Derek Vogel Nielsen