Patents by Inventor Craig A. Richards
Craig A. Richards 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: 11964711Abstract: A track link for a ground-engaging track system includes a link body having a pin bore formed in a first link strap and a bushing bore formed in a second link strap. The link body includes, upon an outboard link side, a bore peripheral surface extending circumferentially around a bore center axis, and a guide protrusion including an outer bump surface located outboard of the bore peripheral surface. The pin bore receives a track pin attached by swaging and defines a diametric plane through the bore center axis oriented parallel to an upper rail surface. At least a majority of the outer bump surface is between the diametric plane and the upper rail surface, and an entirety of the outer bump surface may be between the bore center axis and the upper rail surface. The guide protrusion protects material of the track link and/or track pin from wear that can prevent re-swaging.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Craig Richard Rust, Allen Jay Weeks
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Patent number: 11964191Abstract: A golf club head is provided with an electronic display that is visible to a user of the golf club head when the golf club head is in the address position, such as for displaying one or more images to the user. The electronic display may include a memory, a microprocessor, and a battery, and may be configured to communicate with a user operable electronic device via a wired or a wireless communication protocol. For example, the electronic display may be configured to receive one or more images from the user operable electronic device, to store the one or more images in the memory, and to display the one or more images to the user.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield
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Publication number: 20240115810Abstract: The present disclosure relates to medicament injection devices. An injection device includes: a movable dosage programming component comprising a rotary encoder system having a predefined angular periodicity, a sensor arrangement including a first optical sensor configured to detect movement of the movable dosage programming component relative to the sensor arrangement during dosing of a medicament, wherein the first optical sensor is configured to operate in a strobe-sampling mode at a first frequency, a second optical sensor configured to detect movement of the rotary encoder system relative to the second optical sensor wherein the second optical sensor is configured to operate in a strobe-sampling mode at a second frequency lower than the first frequency, and a processor arrangement configured to, based on the detected movement, determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Michael Schabbach, Anthony Paul Morris, Ronald Antony Smith, Brian Charles Molyneux, Paul Richard Draper, Craig Ashley Mason, Oliver Charles Gazeley, Daniel Edward Clark, David Aubrey Plumptre, Aidan Michael O'Hare, Richard James Thomas, Felix Kramer, Beat Wyss, Philipp Müller
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Patent number: 11945455Abstract: A control system for a vehicle may include a plurality of vehicle subsystems associated with respective different dynamic vehicle control functions and a plurality of subsystem controllers associated with respective ones of the vehicle subsystems. The subsystem controllers may be configured to control actuators associated with the respective different dynamic vehicle control functions to change an operational state of components of the vehicle subsystems based on respective configuration settings. The system further includes an attribute configuration module operably coupled to the subsystem controllers. The attribute configuration module may include processing circuitry configured to save current configuration settings as a saved configuration responsive to a first actuation of a configuration mode actuator and, after an on/off cycle of the vehicle, instruct the subsystem controllers to implement the saved configuration responsive to a second actuation of the configuration mode actuator.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Craig Edward Esler, Ehab Aleid, Ahmed Awadi, Matheus Bianchi Dambros, Helmuth Bosch, Thomas Richard Wroblewski
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Patent number: 11931513Abstract: A patient interface for delivery of a supply of pressurised air or breathable gas to an entrance of a patient's airways comprising: a cushion member that includes a retaining structure and a seal-forming structure permanently connected to the retaining structure; a frame member attachable to the retaining structure; and a positioning and stabilising structure attachable to the frame member.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Rupert Christian Scheiner, William Laurence Hitchcock, Anthony Paul Barbara, Adam Francis Barlow, Craig David Edwards, Lachlan Richard Goldspink, Kirrily Michele Haskard, Murray William Lee, Frederick Arlet May, Gerard Michael Rummery, Shiva Kumar Shanmuga Sundara, Chia Ik Tan, Stewart Joseph Wagner, Alicia Kristianne Wells, Martin Forrester, Ralph Jourdan
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Publication number: 20240042286Abstract: A golf club head and golf club having large head dimensions, and large face characteristics, as well as unique mass property attributes driven by relationships not often considered in conventional club head design, to achieve a resistance to squaring the club head during a golf swing that is comfortable to the novice golfer, while increasing stability during off-center impacts and obtaining preferred launch characteristics. This is achieved in part via establishing a club head configuration and associated weight distribution to yield a center of gravity location that results in a preferred magnitude of Delta1 and Delta2 values, CG angle, moments of inertia, and associated ratios, relationships, and club head mass property characteristics influenced by these variables to achieve improved performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, John Francis Lorentzen, Matthew Greensmith, Craig Richard Slyfield
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Patent number: 11883876Abstract: Provided herein is a system, apparatus, and method for continuous casting of metal, and more particularly, to a mechanism for controlling the shape of a direct chill casting mold to dynamically control a profile of an ingot cast from the mold during the casting process. Embodiments may provide an apparatus for casting material including: first and second opposing side walls; first and second end walls extending between the first and second side walls, where the first and second opposing side walls and the first and second opposing end walls form a generally rectangular shaped mold cavity. At least one of the first and second opposing side walls may include two or more contact regions, where each of the two or more contact regions may be configured to be displaced relative to a straight line along the side wall.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: WAGSTAFF, INC.Inventors: Craig Richard Cordill, Craig Lee Shaber, Michael Kim Anderson
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Publication number: 20240005402Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to the electronic communication of messages via a communications network reflective of substantially continuously updated data in an electronic transaction processing system. The disclosed embodiments conserver electronic communications resources, e.g. bandwidth, while preserving real time delivery of critical data via selective or conditional publication and transmission of messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Inventors: Pearce Ian Peck-Walden, Zachary Bonig, Craig Richard LeVeille, Dileep Chakravarthi Konduru
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Patent number: 11861708Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to the electronic communication of messages via a communications network reflective of substantially continuously updated data in an electronic transaction processing system. The disclosed embodiments conserver electronic communications resources, e.g. bandwidth, while preserving real time delivery of critical data via selective or conditional publication and transmission of messages.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Inventors: Pearce Ian Peck-Walden, Zachary Bonig, Craig Richard LeVeille, Dileep Chakravarthi Konduru
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Publication number: 20230405417Abstract: Golf clubs have a primary alignment feature including a paint or masking line which delineates the transition between at least a first portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with the shade or color of the face. Some have a primary alignment feature including a paint or masking line which delineates the transition between a first portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color and the area of shade or color of the face. A secondary alignment feature includes a paint or masking line that delineates the transition between the first portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with the shade or color of the face and a second portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with the shade or color of the first portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Todd P. Beach, Andrew Kickertz, Craig Richard Slyfield
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Publication number: 20230356038Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed to golf club having a crown, a sole, a face, and a primary alignment feature hard tooled into the golf club head. In some embodiments the golf club has a primary alignment feature comprising a line delineating a transition between at least a portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with a shade or color of the face. The primary alignment feature is hard tooled into the golf club head with the face of the golf club body.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield, Christopher John Harbert
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Publication number: 20230349444Abstract: A mounting device for an elongate member, comprising: an elongate housing having an elongate axis; an internal passageway passing through the elongate housing parallel to the elongate axis; an elongate sleeve located within the internal passageway and being configured for longitudinal movement along the passageway; a plurality of ball-receiving recesses in the wall of the internal passageway, each recess having a ball-guiding surface inclined to the longitudinal axis; a plurality of apertures in the sleeve; a ball located in each of the ball-receiving recesses and engaged with a respective aperture in the sleeve, the balls and the apertures being configured to allow the balls to project partially through the apertures but to prevent balls from passing through; biasing means configured to bias the sleeve in a direction to urge the balls to project radially inwardly through their respective apertures in the sleeve and into the internal passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2020Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Craig Richard THOMSON, Anthony John LITTLE, Stephen BENNETT, Daniel Mark GIDDINGS
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Patent number: 11752404Abstract: A golf club head and golf club having a lightweight non-metallic face insert bonded in an insert opening, large head dimensions, and large face characteristics, as well as unique mass property attributes driven by relationships not often considered in conventional club head design, to achieve a resistance to squaring the club head during a golf swing that is comfortable to the novice golfer, stability during off-center impacts, and preferred launch characteristics. This is achieved in part via establishing a club head configuration and associated center of gravity location that results in a preferred magnitude of Delta1 and Delta2 values, CG angle, moments of inertia, and associated ratios, relationships, and club head mass property characteristics influenced by these variables to achieve improved performance.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, John Francis Lorentzen, Matthew Greensmith, Craig Richard Slyfield
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Publication number: 20230264080Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body having a face, a crown and a sole together defining an interior cavity. The body having a head-shaft connection system, a rear weight fastened to the golf club head proximate the rear end of the club head and proximate the Y-Z plane, and a front weight port or an internal cap connection system for securing the rear weight; in combination with specific windows regarding the moments of inertia and center of gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Reeve Nielson, Nathan T. Sargent, Christopher John Harbert, Todd P. Beach, Brian Bazzel, Mark Vincent Greaney, Christian Reber Wester, Craig Richard Slyfield, Matthew David Johnson, Matthew Greensmith, Kraig Alan Willett
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Patent number: 11731014Abstract: Golf clubs have a primary alignment feature including a paint or masking line which delineates the transition between at least a first portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with the shade or color of the face. Some have a primary alignment feature including a paint or masking line which delineates the transition between a first portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color and the area of shade or color of the face. A secondary alignment feature includes a paint or masking line that delineates the transition between the first portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with the shade or color of the face and a second portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with the shade or color of the first portion.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Todd P. Beach, Andrew Kickertz, Craig Richard Slyfield
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Patent number: 11701555Abstract: Aspects of the invention are directed to golf club having a crown, a sole, a face, and a primary alignment feature hard tooled into the golf club head. In some embodiments the golf club has a primary alignment feature comprising a line delineating a transition between at least a portion of the crown having an area of contrasting shade or color with a shade or color of the face. The primary alignment feature is hard tooled into the golf club head with the face of the golf club body.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield, Christopher John Harbert
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Publication number: 20230147315Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to the electronic communication of messages via a communications network reflective of substantially continuously updated data in an electronic transaction processing system. The disclosed embodiments conserver electronic communications resources, e.g. bandwidth, while preserving real time delivery of critical data via selective or conditional publication and transmission of messages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Inventors: Pearce Ian Peck-Walden, Zachary Bonig, Craig Richard LeVeille, Dileep Chakravarthi Konduru
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Publication number: 20230119368Abstract: A putter head having an upward-facing surface portion and a diffusely reflecting area of at least 5% of a total upward-facing area, which is also has a low gloss value and preferential CIELab L* value, an alignment feature delineating a transition between a first portion of the upward-facing surface having an area of contrasting shade or color with a shade or color of a portion of the face adjacent the upward-facing surface, and a face with at least a portion adjacent the upward-facing surface having a diffusely reflecting face surface area with a low gloss value and preferential chroma value. The alignment feature may have a preferential contrasting color difference between the first portion of the upward-facing surface and a portion of the face, and preferential CIELab ?L difference value between a portion of the face and the diffusely reflecting surface of the upward-facing surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, Andrew Kickertz, Todd P. Beach, Craig Richard Slyfield
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Patent number: 11617927Abstract: A golf club head comprises a body having a face, a crown and a sole together defining an interior cavity. The body having a head-shaft connection system, a rear weight fastened to the golf club head proximate the rear end of the club head and proximate the Y-Z plane, and a front weight port or an internal cap connection system for securing the rear weight; in combination with specific windows regarding the moments of inertia and center of gravity.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Reeve Nielson, Nathan T. Sargent, Christopher John Harbert, Todd P. Beach, Brian Bazzel, Mark Vincent Greaney, Christian Reber Wester, Craig Richard Slyfield, Matthew David Johnson, Matthew Greensmith, Kraig Alan Willett
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Publication number: 20230033046Abstract: A track link for a ground-engaging track system includes a link body having a pin bore formed in a first link strap and a bushing bore formed in a second link strap. The link body includes, upon an outboard link side, a bore peripheral surface extending circumferentially around a bore center axis, and a guide protrusion including an outer bump surface located outboard of the bore peripheral surface. The pin bore receives a track pin attached by swaging and defines a diametric plane through the bore center axis oriented parallel to an upper rail surface. At least a majority of the outer bump surface is between the diametric plane and the upper rail surface, and an entirety of the outer bump surface may be between the bore center axis and the upper rail surface. The guide protrusion protects material of the track link and/or track pin from wear that can prevent re-swaging.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Craig Richard Rust, Allen Jay Weeks