Patents by Inventor Craig Allen

Craig Allen 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: 11465914
    Abstract: An apparatus for dispensing a liquid is disclosed. The apparatus can include a cap configured to connect to a container body having a chamber for containing the liquid. The cap can include a fill aperture through which the liquid is supplied to the container body and a pour aperture through which the liquid exits the apparatus. A fill lid can be rotatable about a pivot axis in a first direction to close the fill aperture and rotatable about the pivot axis in a second direction to open the fill aperture, the first direction opposite the second direction. A pour lid can be rotatable about the pivot axis in the first direction to open the pour aperture and rotatable about the pivot axis in the second direction to close the pour aperture. A filter assembly comprising a filter cartridge can connect to the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hydros Bottle, LLC
    Inventors: David Michael Pehar, Trevor L. Jackson, Robert Craig Allen, Marc Louis Vitantonio, Jess Paul Carlson, Winston Ibrahim, Jon Holland
  • Publication number: 20220314517
    Abstract: Disclosed are additively manufactured extruder components comprising a lattice structure formed within a structural support frame that defines an impervious surface and an axial aperture. An axial aperture of a screw segment is configured to couple to a drive shaft, and its impervious surface is configured to contact extrudable material. An axial aperture of a barrel segment is configured to contact extrudable material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Craig Allen Benjamin
  • Publication number: 20220297369
    Abstract: Disclosed are additively manufactured extruder components including a surface layer configured to contact extrudable material. The surface layer has a first additively manufactured metal composition. A base support for the surface layer has a second additively manufactured metal composition that is different from the first additively manufactured metal composition. A functionally graded material (FGM) is formed from the first and second additively manufactured metal compositions connecting the surface layer to the base support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: Craig Allen Benjamin
  • Patent number: 11448486
    Abstract: An intelligent munition can position circuitry in a 12 gauge form factor that detects the distance from a target in real-time in order to deploy a parachute to slow the munition to a speed that is conducive to accurate, but non-lethal, deployment of at least one electrode toward the target. The munition can intelligently discharge electrical charge into the target via an electrode to disable the target. The munition may further monitor the target and deliver a subsequent electrical discharge in response to detected target movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventors: Craig Allen Gallimore, Kelley Stewart Weiland
  • Patent number: 11403312
    Abstract: To improve efficiency of computing devices and improve the user experience thereon when searching for relevant events, the systems and methods disclosed herein provide event management and automated relevant event discovery. User information and event information are collected and stored, and events are searched for based on relevancy to a user. Relevancy to a user may be based at least in part on at least one of: non-conflict with calendar items in the user's calendar, location, the user's interests, the user's preferences and activity of the user's friends or contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jose Ramon Calzada Gomez, Peter Loren Engrav, Craig Allen Lee
  • Publication number: 20220176565
    Abstract: Systems and methods for authoring and modifying presentation conversation files are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, at a renderer module, voice files, visual effect files, facial expression files, and/or mobility files; analyze, by the language processor module, the voice files, the visual effect files, the facial expression files, and/or mobility files follow guidelines of a multimodal authoring system; generate, by the renderer module, one or more presentation conversation files based at least in part on the received voice files, visual effect files, facial expression files, and/or mobility files; test, at an automatic testing system, the one or more presentation conversation files to verify correct operation of a computing device that receives the one or more presentation conversation files as an input; and identify, by a multimodal review module, changes to be made to the voice input files, the visual effect files, the facial expression files, and/or the mobility files.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Mario E Munich, Stefan Scherer, Paolo Pirjanian, Craig Allen
  • Publication number: 20220163295
    Abstract: A small arms form factor munition may package a control section with a deployment section in a munition case. The control section can have a first drag mechanism and a second drag mechanism. Firing the munition case from a firearm propels the load from the munition case and barrel of the firearm towards a target. A drag mechanism is selected and activated by the control section in response to a detected distance to the target while the load is in flight. The drag mechanism alters a flight characteristic of the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Craig Allen Gallimore, Kelley Stewart Weiland
  • Patent number: 11327951
    Abstract: In one example, a computer-implemented method of generating a weather product is disclosed that comprises receiving a product generation input, the product generation input being indicative of a weather product. The method further comprises retrieving a weather data point, based on the product generation input. Further, the method comprises analyzing the weather data point with a weather analysis component to identify weather parameters relevant to the weather product. In addition, the method comprises generating the weather product to include the identified relevant weather parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Whether or Knot LLC
    Inventors: David James Hubbard, Craig Allen Mataczynski
  • Publication number: 20220130000
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system for broadcasting on-duty adventure opportunities among computing devices includes an adventure management computer system to transmit (a) push notifications to selected mobile computing devices related to activated on-duty adventure opportunities and (b) local beacon signal identifiers for mobile-to-mobile beacon signal transmissions for the activated on-duty adventure opportunities, a guide mobile computing device to locally broadcast information for the on-duty adventure opportunity, and a participant mobile computing device (i) to detect the local beacon signals with the local beacon signal identifier for the on-duty adventure opportunity, (ii) to obtain the adventure information for the on-duty adventure opportunity from the adventure management computer system, and (iii) to reserve the on-duty adventure opportunity with the adventure management computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Craig Allen Nordstrom, Daniel James Ellyson, Joshua Aaron Smith
  • Publication number: 20220093000
    Abstract: Systems and methods to process reading articles for a multimodal book application are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: identify a title of a reading article; store the title of the reading article in a database; scan two or more pages of the reading and generating text representing content of the reading article; analyze the generated text to identify characteristics of the reading article; store the identified characteristics in the database; associate the identified characteristics with the reading article title; generate augmented content files for one or more portions of the reading article based at least in part on the identified characteristics, and; and store the augmented content files in the database and associating the augmented content files with different portions of the reading article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Mario E Munich, Stefan Scherer, Paolo Pirjanian, Craig Allen
  • Patent number: 11280591
    Abstract: An intelligent munition can position circuitry in a 12 gauge form factor that detects the distance from a target in real-time in order to deploy a parachute to slow the munition to a speed that is conducive to accurate, but non-lethal, deployment of at least one electrode toward the target. The munition can intelligently discharge electrical charge into the target via an electrode to disable the target. The munition may further monitor the target and deliver a subsequent electrical discharge in response to detected target movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Harkind Dynamics, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Allen Gallimore, Kelley Stewart Weiland
  • Patent number: 11256710
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein that relate to string transformation sub-program suggestion. One example provides, at a computing device, a method comprising receiving a dataset having a plurality of input strings; receiving a declarative user input associated with a desired string transformation sub-program to be performed using the dataset as input; in a search space having a plurality of string transformation sub-programs, reducing the search space based on (i) the user input and (ii) one or more of the plurality of input strings of the dataset, to thereby form a reduced search space, the reduced search space having at least one string transformation sub-program that is configured to transform one or more of the plurality of input strings of the dataset; and selecting, from the reduced search space, one or more suggested string transformation sub-programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Sumit Gulwani, Ranvijay Kumar, Abhishek Udupa, Craig Allen Lee, Giovanni M. Della-Libera
  • Patent number: 11236624
    Abstract: A turbine nozzle for a turbine includes: an airfoil having a shape with a nominal profile substantially in accordance with at least a portion of Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in TABLE I. The Cartesian coordinate values are non-dimensional values of from 0% to 100% convertible to distances by multiplying the values by a height of the airfoil expressed in units of distance. The X and Y values are connected by smooth continuing arcs to define airfoil profile sections at each distance Z along at least a portion of the airfoil, and the profile sections at the Z distances are joined smoothly with one another to form the nominal profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Craig Allen Bielek, Kristen Barbara Coletti, Matthew Scott Lutz
  • Publication number: 20220017147
    Abstract: An axle system and a method of assembly. The axle system may include an axle lift kit. The axle lift kit may have a first bracket subassembly that may be fastened to the hanger bracket and a second bracket subassembly that may be fastened to first and second lateral sides of the trailing arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Gustavo Schuck, Craig Allen Holt, Sarvesh Satam
  • Patent number: 11225287
    Abstract: An axle system and a method of assembly. The axle system may include an axle lift kit. The axle lift kit may have a first bracket subassembly that may be fastened to the hanger bracket and a second bracket subassembly that may be fastened to first and second lateral sides of the trailing arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Luis Gustavo Schuck, Craig Allen Holt, Sarvesh Satam
  • Patent number: 11221036
    Abstract: A shear bolt and an axle suspension system having a shear bolt. The shear bolt may have a shear head and an enlarged head. The shear head may be configured to detach from the shear bolt. The enlarged head may have first and second protrusions that may be grasped by a tool in a manner that prevents tightening of the shear bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: ArvinMeritor Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Allen Holt, Luis Gustavo Schuck
  • Publication number: 20220004938
    Abstract: In one implementation, a computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a computer system, a request for outdoor adventures that satisfy one or more criteria; accessing a centralized data repository of outdoor adventures that are provided by a plurality of different guides; identifying, by the computer system, one or more outdoor adventures based on a comparison of the one or more criteria to data associated with the outdoor adventures; generating code that includes information for the one or more outdoor adventures, the code being generated for execution or interpretation on the client computing device; and transmitting the code to the client computing device, wherein the client computing device is programmed to automatically execute or interpret the code upon receipt so as to present a graphical user interface presenting the one or more outdoor adventures and a selectable feature to reserve at least a portion of the one or more adventures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Craig Allen Nordstrom, Daniel James Ellyson, Joshua Aaron Smith
  • Publication number: 20210401034
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a combination of Lighter holder, tobacco pipe, stash box, bottle opener and snuffer which have been combined for convenience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Allen McCloud, Brian Eugene Robinson
  • Patent number: 11200628
    Abstract: In one implementation, a system for broadcasting on-duty adventure opportunities among computing devices includes an adventure management computer system to transmit (a) push notifications to selected mobile computing devices related to activated on-duty adventure opportunities and (b) local beacon signal identifiers for mobile-to-mobile beacon signal transmissions for the activated on-duty adventure opportunities, a guide mobile computing device to locally broadcast information for the on-duty adventure opportunity, and a participant mobile computing device (i) to detect the local beacon signals with the local beacon signal identifier for the on-duty adventure opportunity, (ii) to obtain the adventure information for the on-duty adventure opportunity from the adventure management computer system, and (iii) to reserve the on-duty adventure opportunity with the adventure management computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Eventyr Outdoors Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Allen Nordstrom, Daniel James Ellyson, Joshua Aaron Smith
  • Publication number: 20210322805
    Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) can be configured for fire suppression and ignition. In some examples, the UAV includes an aerial propulsion system, an ignition system, and a control system. The ignition system includes a container of delayed-ignition balls and a dropper configured, by virtue of one or more motors, to actuate and drop the delayed-ignition balls. The control system is configured to cause the UAV to fly to a site of a prescribed burn and, while flying over the site of the prescribed burn, actuate one or more of the delayed-ignition balls. After actuating the one or more delayed-ignition balls, the UAV drops the actuated one or more delayed-ignition balls from the UAV onto the site of the prescribed burn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Carrick Detweiler, Sebastian Elbaum, James Higgins, Christian Laney, Craig Allen, Dirac Twidwell, Evan Michael Beachly