Patents by Inventor David A. Steele

David A. Steele 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: 11060309
    Abstract: Pools, methods of fabricating pools, and pool panel junctions are provided. The pool includes a first internal surface having a first radius; a second internal surface, for example, of a wading pool, having a second radius; a third internal surface having a third radius, different from the second radius; and a junction where the first internal surface transitions to the second internal surface at a first elevation and the first internal surface transitions to the third internal surface at a second elevation, different from the first elevation. The pool panel junction includes at least one elongated member having a pair of opposing sides defining planes that converge at an apex, such as, a triangular member, and wherein each of the opposing sides is adapted to engage an adjacent connector operatively mounted to a pool panel. An elongated pool panel structural member and a method of fabricating a pool are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Collin J. Sirco, David A Steele, Stephen E. Deeb
  • Patent number: 10774554
    Abstract: A swimming pool consisting of a plurality of panels that withstands water pressure in both a concave and convex configuration to create any freeform shape or size. Each panel consists of an adhered wall of skinning of metal or plastic over expanded polystyrene or expanded urethane foam. The density of the foam is adjusted as necessary to increase the strength of the wall based on static loading of water when swimming pool is assembled as a whole and fully filled with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Charles M. Foster, David A. Steele, Collin J. Sirco
  • Patent number: 10655351
    Abstract: Pool stair assemblies having stair structures fabricated from plastic foam are provided. The stair structures include protective tread sheets and protective riser sheets and a vinyl pool liner mounted over the stair structure, tread sheets, and riser sheets. The stair structure, which may be buoyant, is retained in a pool by the weight of pool water on the liner and stair structure. Aspects of the invention overcome the disadvantages of conventional pool stair assemblies and ladders positioned on top of pool liners. Other related pool structures, methods of installing stair assemblies, stair structures, and methods of fabricating stair structures are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Collin J. Sirco, David A. Steele
  • Patent number: 10407929
    Abstract: Pool stair assemblies having stair structures fabricated from plastic foam are provided. The stair structures include protective tread sheets and protective riser sheets and a vinyl pool liner mounted over the stair structure, tread sheets, and riser sheets. The stair structure, which may be buoyant, is retained in a pool by the weight of pool water on the liner and stair structure. Aspects of the invention overcome the disadvantages of conventional pool stair assemblies and ladders positioned on top of pool liners. Other related pool structures, methods of installing stair assemblies, stair structures, and methods of fabricating stair structures are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Collin J. Sirco, David A. Steele
  • Patent number: 10344490
    Abstract: A swimming pool consisting of a plurality of panels that withstands water pressure in both a concave and convex configuration to create any freeform shape or size. Each panel consists of an adhered wall of skinning of metal or plastic over expanded polystyrene or expanded urethane foam. The density of the foam is adjusted as necessary to increase the strength of the wall based on static loading of water when swimming pool is assembled as a whole and fully filled with water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Charles M. Foster, David A. Steele, Collin J. Sirco
  • Patent number: 10240359
    Abstract: Pool stair assemblies having stair structures fabricated from plastic foam are provided. The stair structures include protective tread sheets and protective riser sheets and a vinyl pool liner mounted over the stair structure, tread sheets, and riser sheets. The stair structure, which may be buoyant, is retained in a pool by the weight of pool water on the liner and stair structure. Aspects of the invention overcome the disadvantages of conventional pool stair assemblies and ladders positioned on top of pool liners. Other related pool structures, methods of installing stair assemblies, stair structures, and methods of fabricating stair structures are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Collin J. Sirco, David A. Steele
  • Patent number: 10182666
    Abstract: A refrigerated case includes an insulated ceiling member defining the top of a refrigerated space, and an end cap defining a front of the insulated ceiling member. The end cap includes an aperture having an opening at a bottom edge of the end cap. A mullion is arranged substantially normal to the insulated ceiling member. A mullion cap defines a front of the mullion and includes a tongue portion extending above the mullion. The tongue portion is arranged to fit within the aperture. The mullion cap and the end cap cooperate to define a first planar sealing surface. A door is pivotably attached to the refrigerated case and includes a second planar sealing surface that is engageable with the first planar sealing surface when the door is in a closed position to define a substantially air tight seal therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: Zero Zone, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Simon, Eric Gray, Steve Searl, David A. Steele
  • Patent number: 10167646
    Abstract: Pools, methods of fabricating pools, and pool panel junctions are provided. The pool includes a first internal surface having a first radius; a second internal surface, for example, of a wading pool, having a second radius; a third internal surface having a third radius, different from the second radius; and a junction where the first internal surface transitions to the second internal surface at a first elevation and the first internal surface transitions to the third internal surface at a second elevation, different from the first elevation. The pool panel junction includes at least one elongated member having a pair of opposing sides defining planes that converge at an apex, such as, a triangular member, and wherein each of the opposing sides is adapted to engage an adjacent connector operatively mounted to a pool panel. An elongated pool panel structural member and a method of fabricating a pool are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Collin J. Sirco, David A. Steele, Stephen E. Deeb
  • Publication number: 20180103776
    Abstract: A refrigerated case includes an insulated ceiling member defining the top of a refrigerated space, and an end cap defining a front of the insulated ceiling member. The end cap includes an aperture having an opening at a bottom edge of the end cap. A mullion is arranged substantially normal to the insulated ceiling member. A mullion cap defines a front of the mullion and includes a tongue portion extending above the mullion. The tongue portion is arranged to fit within the aperture. The mullion cap and the end cap cooperate to define a first planar sealing surface. A door is pivotably attached to the refrigerated case and includes a second planar sealing surface that is engageable with the first planar sealing surface when the door is in a closed position to define a substantially air tight seal therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Simon, Eric Gray, Steve Searl, David A. Steele
  • Patent number: 9884822
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a cost effective and environmentally friendly process to prepare 1-hydroxy-6-substituted pyridones from 2,6-dichloropyridine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Assignee: Arch Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Rahim Hani, David A. Steele, John Joseph Jardas
  • Patent number: 9447594
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pool wall and deck support member including modular and symmetrical upper and lower halves adapted to be interconnected to one another to form a unitary support member. Each half is essentially V-shaped with the bottom of the V having a pair of fastening elements disposed thereon and adapted to securely engage corresponding fastening elements disposed on the bottom of the V of the opposite half. Disposed on the ends of the upwardly extending legs of the V-shaped members are fastening elements that are adapted to engage a cross bar that extends across the V-shaped member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: RADIANT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventors: Charles M. Foster, David A. Steele, Collin J. Sirco
  • Publication number: 20140208687
    Abstract: A swimming pool consisting of a plurality of panels that withstands water pressure in both a concave and convex configuration to create any freeform shape or size. Each panel consists of an adhered wall of skinning of metal or plastic over expanded polystyrene or expanded urethane foam. The density of the foam is adjusted as necessary to increase the strength of the wall based on static loading of water when swimming pool is assembled as a whole and fully filled with water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Applicant: Trojan Leisure Products, LLC
    Inventors: Charles M. Foster, David A. Steele, Collin J. Sirco
  • Publication number: 20120304373
    Abstract: The present invention provides a pool wall and deck support member including modular and symmetrical upper and lower halves adapted to be interconnected to one another to form a unitary support member. Each half is essentially V-shaped with the bottom of the V having a pair of fastening elements disposed thereon and adapted to securely engage corresponding fastening elements disposed on the bottom of the V of the opposite half. Disposed on the ends of the upwardly extending legs of the V-shaped members are fastening elements that are adapted to engage a cross bar that extends across the V-shaped member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: RADIANT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES LLC
    Inventors: Charles M. Foster, David A. Steele, Collin J. Sirco
  • Patent number: 6907308
    Abstract: A remote track editor system, method, and computer readable medium is provided to remotely edit track flows and recipes of semiconductor processing tools. The editor system includes a processing track, a track controller, and a remote track editor for remotely editing recipes of at least one semiconductor processing tool. The editor system communicates with remote terminals and accesses multiple flows and recipes stored on network databases through a SECS/GEM interface. The remote track editor edits recipes without interrupting the process track and correctly renumbers line and flow numbers of the recipes when editing, deleting, or inserting steps. The remote track editor also performs side-by-side comparisons of multiple recipes, verifies the contents of recipes to master recipes, and provides indicators of mismatches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2005
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard J. Bartlett, Anthony P. Coniglio, David A. Steele
  • Patent number: 6680165
    Abstract: The invention provides a color negative photographic element comprising a light sensitive silver halide emulsion imaging layer having associated therewith a cyan dye-forming coupler dispersion comprising a first 2-ureido-5-acylamino substituted phenolic cyan dye-forming coupler [P], a second phenolic cyan dye-forming coupler [AP] where the 2-substituent is other than an ureido group, a substantially non-color-developable phenolic activator compound [ACT], and a non-phenolic organic coupler solvent having a boiling point of at least 150C; wherein compounds represented by [P], [AP], and [ACT] are present in the coupler dispersion in relative weight fractions of from 0.30 to 0.65 for [P], from 0.15 to 0.35 for [AP], and from 0.15 to 0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2004
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jerrold N. Poslusny, Paul B. Merkel, David A. Steele, Drake M. Michno, David S. Ross, Richard K. Rothrock, Paul L. Zengerle
  • Patent number: 6222936
    Abstract: An arrangement for optimizing a lithographic process forms a pattern on a silicon wafer using a photocluster cell system to simulate an actual processing condition for a semiconductor product. The resist pattern is then inspected using a wafer inspection system. An in-line low voltage scanning electron microscope (SEM) system reviews and classifies defect types, enabling generation of an alternative processing specification. The alternative processing specification can then be tested by forming patterns on different wafers, and then performing split-series testing to analyze the patterns on the different wafers for comparison with the existing lithographic process and qualification for production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2001
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Khoi A. Phan, Gurjeet S. Bains, David A. Steele, Jonathan A. Orth, Ramkumar Subramanian
  • Patent number: 6174662
    Abstract: A photographic element comprises: (a) a support; and (b) at least one silver halide emulsion layer; wherein said emulsion layer contains (c) at least one magenta dye-forming pyrazolone DIR coupler of structure I; and (d) at least one magenta dye-forming imaging coupler of structure II, structure IIIa or structure IIIb, below: wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Jerrold N. Poslusny, David A. Steele
  • Patent number: 6171771
    Abstract: This invention comprises a photographic element having a support bearing one or more silver halide emulsions and one or more DIR couplers of structure I or II below: wherein: Z is a moiety which can react with oxidized developer to release a coupling-off group; R1 is a hydrogen atom or a substituent selected from the group consisting of halogen atom, alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, alkylthio, arylthio, amino, alkylamino, arylamino, carbonamido, carbamoyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, aryloxy, arylcarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, sulphonyl and sulphonamido groups; each of the R2 substituents is a halogen atom or a substituent selected from the group consisting of alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, alkylthio, arylthio, amino, alkylamino, arylamino, carbonamido, carbamoyl, alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, aryloxy, arylcarbonyl, alkylcarbonyl, sulphonyl and sulphonamido groups; X represents the atoms required to make a second ring which is aromatic and contains at least one nitrogen atom; and n is between 0 and the num
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Philip A. Allway, David A. Steele, Jerrold N. Poslusny
  • Patent number: 6146820
    Abstract: This invention comprises a photographic element having a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion and at least one DIR coupler of structure I: ##STR1## wherein: Z is a moiety which can react with oxidized developer to release a coupling-off group;R.sub.1 is selected from the substituents shown in formulas II, III, IV and V:II --SCH.sub.2 CO.sub.2 R.sub.2, III --NHCOR.sub.3, IV --OCH.sub.2 CO.sub.2 R.sub.4, V --OR.sub.5 ;R.sub.2 is an alkyl group with at least 3 carbon atoms or an aryl group with at least 7 carbon atoms;R.sub.3 is an alkyl or alkoxy group with at least 4 carbon atoms or an aryl or phenoxy group with at least 7 carbon atoms; andR.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are alkyl groups with at least 4 carbon atoms or aryl groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Philip A. Allway, David A. Steele, Jerrold N. Poslusny
  • Patent number: 6130031
    Abstract: This invention comprises a photographic element, comprising a support bearing at least one silver halide emulsion and at least one benzoylacetanilide yellow dye-forming DIR coupler of structure I, below: ##STR1## wherein: each R.sub.1 is individually selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms and alkyl and alkoxy groups;m is 0, 1, 2 or 3;R.sub.2 is selected from the group consisting of halogen atoms and alkoxycarbonyl, aryloxycarbonyl, carbonamido, sulfonamido, sulfamoyl, alkylsulfonyl, arylsulfonyl, sulfonyloxy, acyloxy and cyano groups and each is in the para position or in either meta position relative to the NH group of the anilide;X is a hydrogen or halogen atom or an alkyl or alkoxy group;R.sub.3 is a halogen atom or an alkyl group and may be in the para position or either meta position relative to the NH group of the anilide;n is 0 or 1; andR.sub.4 is an alkyl group with 3 to 10 carbon atoms or a phenyl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Paul B. Merkel, Jerrold N. Poslusny, David A. Steele