Patents by Inventor David Byrd

David Byrd 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: 20260117877
    Abstract: A handle for a valve assembly having a valve member. The handle includes a body configured to be coupled to the valve member, a body insert including a head that is graspable for opening and closing the valve member, and an adjustable stop assembly. The adjustable stop assembly is positioned on and engaged with the body insert and includes a first plate, a second plate, and a fastener. The first plate is rotatable relative to the body insert between an open state, a closed state, and a memory-stop state, each of which corresponds to a different orientation of the valve member. The fastener couples the first plate and the second plate together. The fastener is engageable by a user to move the first plate to the memory-stop state. The valve member is at least partially open when the first plate is in the memory-stop state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: David Byrd, Aaron Trefftzs, Brian Suchla, Austin Schmidt, Ryan Murphy
  • Publication number: 20240058864
    Abstract: The broad applicability of at least certain aspects of the present invention derives from the ability to determine the critical location where secondary satellite formation occurs for any atomization system or design and allows for the rapid assessment of the effectiveness of various satellite reduction strategies, including but not limited to several embodiments detailed herein. Aspects of this invention can be utilized during initial atomization system design in order to evaluate effective chamber geometries and enabling strategies which reduce/eliminate satelliting, or can be retrofit to existing systems and allows for economic evaluation of effectiveness based off of initial capital expenditures versus increased operating requirements/expenses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Iver E. Anderson, Jordan A. Tiarks, Timothy E. Prost, Bo Kong, Emma H. White, Trevor M. Riedemann, Eric J. Deaton, Ross Anderson, David Byrd, Franz Hugolino Hernandez Gaitan
  • Patent number: 11780012
    Abstract: The broad applicability of at least certain aspects of the present invention derives from the ability to determine the critical location where secondary satellite formation occurs for any atomization system or design and allows for the rapid assessment of the effectiveness of various satellite reduction strategies, including but not limited to several embodiments detailed herein. Aspects of this invention can be utilized during initial atomization system design in order to evaluate effective chamber geometries and enabling strategies which reduce/eliminate satelliting, or can be retrofit to existing systems and allows for economic evaluation of effectiveness based off of initial capital expenditures versus increased operating requirements/expenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Iowa State University Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Iver E. Anderson, Jordan A. Tiarks, Timothy E. Prost, Bo Kong, Emma H. White, Trevor M. Riedemann, Eric J. Deaton, Ross Anderson, David Byrd, Franz Hugolino Hernandez Gaitan
  • Publication number: 20220222603
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders having items and generating customer order data. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. An order generating unit for receiving the customer order data and generating in response consolidated order fulfillment data, a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour, and a bulk pick order fulfillment unit for grouping together similar ones of the items associated with the plurality of customer orders to form a plurality of bulk picks. An automated fulfillment system receives the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and automatically selects one or more of the items from one or more carousels, employing the pick tour or the bulk pick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: George F. Willard, III, Lei Cao, Dustin W. Cole, Mahendra Satrasala, David Byrd, G. Shannon Meade, Bradley K. Waller
  • Patent number: 11195129
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders from a plurality of customers and generating customer order data that includes data associated with each of the plurality of customer orders and the plurality of customers. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. The system also includes an order generating unit for receiving the customer order data from the order collection unit and generating in response thereto consolidated order fulfillment data, and a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour from the consolidated order fulfillment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Willard, III, Lei Cao, Dustin W. Cole, Mahendra Satrasala, David Byrd, G. Shannon Meade, Bradley K. Waller
  • Patent number: 11113648
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders having items and generating customer order data. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. An order generating unit for receiving the customer order data and generating in response consolidated order fulfillment data, a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour, and a bulk pick order fulfillment unit for grouping together similar ones of the items associated with the plurality of customer orders to form a plurality of bulk picks. An automated fulfillment system receives the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and automatically selects one or more of the items from one or more carousels, employing the pick tour or the bulk pick.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: America's Collectibles Network, Inc.
    Inventors: George F. Willard, III, Lei Cao, Dustin W. Cole, Mahendra Satrasala, David Byrd, G. Shannon Meade, Bradley K. Waller
  • Publication number: 20200311644
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders from a plurality of customers and generating customer order data that includes data associated with each of the plurality of customer orders and the plurality of customers. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. The system also includes an order generating unit for receiving the customer order data from the order collection unit and generating in response thereto consolidated order fulfillment data, and a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour from the consolidated order fulfillment data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: George F. WILLARD, III, Lei CAO, Dustin W. COLE, Mahendra SATRASALA, David BYRD, G. Shannon MEADE, Bradley K. WALLER
  • Publication number: 20200272970
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment system includes an order collection unit for collecting information associated with a plurality of customer orders having items and generating customer order data. Each of the plurality of customer order includes one or more items associated therewith. An order generating unit for receiving the customer order data and generating in response consolidated order fulfillment data, a pick tour generating subsystem for receiving the consolidated order fulfillment data and in response thereto generating pick tour instructions associated with a pick tour, and a bulk pick order fulfillment unit for grouping together similar ones of the items associated with the plurality of customer orders to form a plurality of bulk picks. An automated fulfillment system receives the consolidated order fulfillment data from the order generating unit and automatically selects one or more of the items from one or more carousels, employing the pick tour or the bulk pick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: George F. WILLARD, III, Lei CAO, Dustin W. COLE, Mahendra SATRASALA, David BYRD, G. Shannon MEADE, Bradley K. WALLER
  • Publication number: 20200265381
    Abstract: The customer order fulfillment and return system for returning items from a customer order to specified locations in a warehouse. The returned items are assigned to specific sub-compartments of a tote, and the tote is assigned to a specific mobile return cart. The system then generates a return tour and the returned items are then returned to specific locations in the warehouse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: George F. WILLARD, III, Lei CAO, Dustin W. COLE, Mahendra SATRASALA, David BYRD, G. Shannon MEADE, Bradley K. WALLER
  • Publication number: 20180116453
    Abstract: A cast iron kamado style cooker system includes a cooker base and a cooker top hingedly connected to the cooker base. The cooker base includes a top end and a bottom end. The cooker base also includes a base cavity having a top opening at the top end, a side wall, and a bottom wall. The cast iron kamado style cooker system includes at least one support leg within the base cavity that extends inwardly from the side wall of the base cavity and upwardly from the bottom wall of the base cavity. The cooker top is hingedly connected to the cooker base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: George Golden Boyd, Sr., George Golden Boyd, Jr., Edward Sprouse Boyd, Sr., John Thomas Boyd, II, John Toland, David Byrd, Aurelio Hernandez, Wallace Sims, JR.
  • Publication number: 20180078090
    Abstract: A kamado style cooker system includes a kamado style cooker and a cooker cart. The kamado style cooker includes a pot and a cover hingedly connected to the pot. The cooker cart includes a base having a first side, a second side opposite the first side, and at least one horizontal base support on which the cooker sits.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: Goldens' Foundry & Machine Company
    Inventors: George Golden Boyd, SR., George Golden Boyd, JR., Edward Sprouse Boyd, SR., John Thomas Boyd, II, John Toland, David Byrd, Wallace Sims, JR., Aurelio Hernandez
  • Patent number: 8632579
    Abstract: Systems for delivering a bifurcated stent to a bifurcation site include catheters and/or bifurcated systems delivered therefrom. A catheter includes a balloon with a bulge region that allows a portion of the stent to be expanded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Brucker, Enrique Malaret, Todd Hall, David Byrd, Gerald Hubbs, Gregory Furnish, Josh Barber, Indaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Morris, Valerie Futral Maron, Sava A. Chernomordik, William C. Mers Kelly, William A. Reuss, Jr., Simon Furnish, Michael W. Wilson, Hacene Bouadi, John C. Muskivitch, Matthew L. Pease, David A. Rahdert, Travis Rowe, Gregory M. Ruhf, Brandon G. Walsh, Claude A. Vidal, Thomas Banks, Russ J. Redmond
  • Patent number: 7883227
    Abstract: Methods are provided for adapting existing manufacturing processes for non-illuminated data-entry devices and mouses to the manufacture of illuminated data-entry devices. Luminescent sheets of one or more colors underlying optically transmissive device components provide illumination of the components visual to a user of the device. The optically transmissive components may be doped with phosphors or tinted to provide components that emit light of different colors. The intensity of illumination of the luminescent sheet may be controlled by the user and may vary in response to the background light of the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Inventors: Andrew Katrinecz, David Byrd
  • Publication number: 20110004287
    Abstract: Systems for delivering a bifurcated stent to a bifurcation site comprise catheters and/or bifurcated stents delivered therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2010
    Publication date: January 6, 2011
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Brucker, Enrique Malaret, Todd Hall, David Byrd, Gerald Hubbs, Gregory Furnish, Josh Barber, Indaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Morris, Valerie Futral, Sava A. Chernomordik, William C. Mers Kelly, William A. Reuss, JR., Simon Furnish, Michael W. Wilson, Hacene Bouadi, John C. Muskivitch, Matthew L. Pease, David A. Rahdert, Travis Rowe, Gregory M. Ruhf, Brandon G. Walsh, Claude A. Vidal, Thomas Banks, Russ J. Redmond
  • Patent number: 7799064
    Abstract: Systems for delivering a bifurcated stent to a bifurcation site comprise catheters and/or bifurcated stents delivered therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2010
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Brucker, Enrique Malaret, Todd Hall, David Byrd, Gerald Hubbs, Gregory Furnish, Josh Barber, Indaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Morris, Valerie Futral, Sava A. Chernomordik, William C. Mers Kelly, William A. Reuss, Jr., Simon Furnish, Michael W. Wilson, Hacene Bouadi, John C. Muskivitch, Matthew L. Pease, David A. Rahdert, Travis Rowe, Gregory M. Ruhf, Brandon G. Walsh, Claude A. Vidal, Thomas Banks, Russ J. Redmond
  • Patent number: 7758634
    Abstract: A bifurcated stent includes a first stent section and a second stent section. The first stent section is balloon expandable, has an unexpanded configuration, an expanded configuration, and a tubular wall defining a secondary opening. The secondary stent section is self-expanding and an end of the secondary stent section is engaged to a portion of the tubular wall of the primary stent section defining the secondary opening. The secondary stent section has an unexpanded configuration with a first length and an expanded configuration with a second length where the first length is less than the second length. The secondary stent section is expanded to the expanded configuration after the primary stent section is expanded to the expanded configuration. The secondary stent section forms a portion of the tubular wall of the primary stent section in the unexpanded configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory G. Brucker, Enrique Malaret, Todd Hall, David Byrd, Gerald Hubbs, Gregory Furnish, Josh Barber, Indaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Morris, Valerie Futral, Sava A. Chernomordik, William C. Mers Kelly, William A. Reuss, Simon Furnish, Michael A. Wilson, Hacene Bouadi, John C. Muskivitch, Matthew L. Pease, David A. Rahdert, Travis Rowe, Gregory M. Ruhf, Brandon G. Walsh, Thomas Banks, Russ Redmond, Claude Vidal
  • Publication number: 20070168020
    Abstract: A bifurcated stent includes a first stent section and a second stent section. The first stent section is balloon expandable, has an unexpanded configuration, an expanded configuration, and a tubular wall defining a secondary opening. The secondary stent section is self-expanding and an end of the secondary stent section is engaged to a portion of the tubular wall of the primary stent section defining the secondary opening. The secondary stent section has an unexpanded configuration with a first length and an expanded configuration with a second length where the first length is less than the second length. The secondary stent section is expanded to the expanded configuration after the primary stent section is expanded to the expanded configuration. The secondary stent section forms a portion of the tubular wall of the primary stent section in the unexpanded configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2007
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Gregory Brucker, Enrique Malaret, Todd Hall, David Byrd, Gerald Hubbs, Gregory Furnish, Josh Barber, Indaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Morris, Valerie Futral, Sava Chernomordik, William Mers Kelly, William Reuss, Simon Furnish, Michael Wilson, Hacene Bouadi, John Muskivitch, Matthew Pease, David Rahdert, Travis Rowe, Gregory Ruhf, Brandon Walsh, Claude Vidal, Thomas Banks, Russ Redmond
  • Publication number: 20050119731
    Abstract: Systems for delivering a bifurcated stent to a bifurcation site comprise catheters and/or bifurcated stents delivered therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2005
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Gregory Brucker, Enrique Malaret, Todd Hall, David Byrd, Gerald Hubbs, Gregory Furnish, Josh Barber, Indaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Morris, Valerie Futral, Sava Chernomordik, William MersKelly, William Reuss, Simon Furnish, Michael Wilson, Hacene Bouadi, John Muskivitch, Mathew Pease, David Rahdert, Travis Rowe, Gregory Ruhf, Brandon Walsh, Thomas Banks, Russ Redmonds, Claude Vidal
  • Patent number: 6695877
    Abstract: A bifurcated stent comprises a first stent section and a second stent section. Each stent section is expandable from a predeployed state to a deployed state independently from one another. The second stent section having an end engaged to a receiving region of the first stent section. In the deployed state the first stent section defines a primary flow path and the second stent section defines a secondary flow path in fluid communication with the first flow path. At least a portion of one or both the first stent section and second stent section is constructed from a wire member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2004
    Assignee: SciMed Life Systems
    Inventors: Gregory G. Brucker, Todd Hall, Enrique Malaret, David Byrd, Gerald Hubbs, Gregory Furnish, Josh Barber, Indaka Gunasekara, Benjamin Morris, Valerie Futral, Sava A. Chernomordik, William C. Mers Kelly, William A. Reuss, Jr., Simon Furnish, Michael W. Wilson, Hacene Bouadi, John C. Muskivitch, Matthew L. Pease, David A. Rahdert, Travis Rowe, Gregory M. Ruhf, Brandon G. Walsh, Claude Vidal, Thomas Banks, Russ Redmond
  • Patent number: D668715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: DTG International GmbH
    Inventors: Rich Lieske, Brian Lau, David Byrd