Patents by Inventor David Gray

David Gray 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: 12265094
    Abstract: A sample tube includes a barcode split into components at the bottom of the sample tube. Each barcode component stores less than the full data output from the barcode, but the components combine to full data output. Redundant diagonal components provide for error checking. A center region between the barcode components supports an electrical circuit or an optical or acoustic window. The sample tube may have a sidewall with a substantially cylindrical open end and non-cylindrical end closed with a bottom, the non-cylindrical end orienting the sample tube in a rack. Additional non-cylindrical surfaces are provided to orient the sample tube relative to complementary surfaces at a gripper. The sample tube of a particular application is positioned in an acoustic dispensing system where acoustic waves are transmitted through a center window for surveying and dispensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Azenta US, Inc.
    Inventors: Robin D. Grimwood, Hans Harzl, David Harding, David Gray
  • Publication number: 20250075619
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, SR., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, Abdell Wadood M. El-Rabaa, David Lynn Copeland
  • Publication number: 20250075946
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, SR., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, Abdell Wadood M El-Rabaa
  • Publication number: 20250075593
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, SR., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, David Walter Edward Brown, David Lynn Copeland
  • Publication number: 20250075947
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, SR., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, Abdell Wadood M El-Rabaa
  • Patent number: 12241661
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, Sr., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, Abdell Wadood M El-Rabaa
  • Patent number: 12235021
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, Sr., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, Abdell Wadood M El-Rabaa
  • Patent number: 12140344
    Abstract: Methods and systems for geothermal energy production wherein multiple horizontal or vertical wells may be used to pass fluids through the Earth from an injector well to a producer well through induced cracks, splits, fractures, conduits, or channels in the rock. Such methods and systems may include controlling tensile-split conduits in a subterranean geothermal formation by providing an injection well, providing a production well, configuring the injection well for injection of a tensile-splitting fluid into a production zone, configuring the production well to produce a heated fluid from the production zone, applying pressure to the production well, creating a plurality of tensile-split conduits, raising or lowering the pressure in the production well, establishing fluid communication between the injection well and the production well, and producing the heated fluid to the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Roy Chambers, Sr., Timothy David Gray Hillesden Lines, Carl Bradley Pate, Robert Mansell Pearson, Abdell Wadood M El-Rabaa
  • Patent number: 12067616
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing personalized financing information and, more particularly, systems and methods for providing personalized financing information via a dealership website using an API associated with a financial service provider. In one embodiment, a system includes memory hardware storing instructions that configure processing hardware to receive a loan request for a buyer via a real-time API that includes at least buyer identification and financial information and information associated at least one inventory item presented on a dealership website. The system may also determine financing information comprising prospective financing terms for the at least one item based on at least the loan request. The server may also provide, to the dealership server via the real-time API, the determined financing information for presentation on the dealership website, including prospective financing terms information corresponding to each of the at least one item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Katherine Forrester, Nicholas Dolle, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Kurt Johnson, Jeffrey Whalen, David Gray, Shaun Webb, Maninder Suri, Ruhaab Markas
  • Publication number: 20240209656
    Abstract: A latch system for capturing a striker, the latch system comprising an actuator, a position sensor, or a combination thereof is disclosed. The latch system includes a latch having a latch cam and a trigger; an actuator having a connector and a motor; and a sensor assembly having a sensing arm and a sensor. The latch cam of the latch is configured to capture the striker when in a closed position. The latch cam is retained in the closed position when the trigger of the latch is in the locked position. The trigger of the latch is moved from an unlocked position toward the locked position by the connector of the actuator when it is moved by the motor from the unlocking position toward the locking position. The sensing arm contacts the striker when the striker is captured by the latch system. The sensor is deactivated when the sensing arm is in one of the latched position or the unlatched position and activated when the sensing arm is in the other one of the latched position or the unlatched position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Applicant: Southco, Inc.
    Inventors: David Gray Judah, Gregory Gilbert Garneau
  • Patent number: 12018212
    Abstract: A plastic catalytic pyrolysis process that can produce high yields of ethylene, propylene and other light olefins from waste plastics is disclosed. The catalytic product stream is quenched to below catalytic pyrolysis temperature quickly after exiting the reactor or bulk separation from the catalyst. Quench preserves selectivity of light olefinic monomers. The catalytic pyrolysis process can be operated in a single stage or a two-stage process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: UOP LLC
    Inventors: David Gray, Scott Nauert, Yili Shi
  • Publication number: 20240100670
    Abstract: A fastener system comprising one or more fasteners and a fastener tool is disclosed. The fastener tool comprises a housing; an elongate magazine attached to the housing comprising an elongate partial surface between its ends configured to engage a support structure; a fastener carrying mechanism configured to carry the one or more fasteners with receptacles thereof accessible through the elongate partial surface; a pusher comprising a first end member and a second end member, the second end member providing a receptacle; and a location system formed from a receptacle of the one or more fasteners and the receptacle of the pusher second end member, each configured to locate the fastener tool over and in line with an elongate object on the support surface, and a drive system configured to drive a lead fastener to fasten the elongate object to the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventor: David Gray
  • Publication number: 20240044187
    Abstract: A vehicle glove box latch includes a housing, a paddle pivotably connected to the housing, a rotor pivotably connected to the housing, a pawl coupled to the rotor and having an end that is engaged with an opening in the vehicle, and a lock barrel mounted to the housing for locking and unlocking the vehicle glove box latch. In a locked state of the lock barrel, the pawl cannot be disengaged from the opening in the vehicle. In an unlocked state of the lock barrel, the pawl can be disengaged from the opening for opening the vehicle glove box. The lock barrel, the rotor and the rotor mounting portion are concentrically aligned along an axis, which reduces the depth of the latch, which reduces the space in the glove box necessary for accommodating the latch, thereby resulting in an increase in the available storage space in the glove box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Southco, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Minnich, Andrew S. Matejka, David Gray Judah, Jeffrey L. Antonucci
  • Patent number: 11814881
    Abstract: A vehicle glove box latch includes a housing, a paddle pivotably connected to the housing, a rotor pivotably connected to the housing, a pawl coupled to the rotor and having an end that is engaged with an opening in the vehicle, and a lock barrel mounted to the housing for locking and unlocking the vehicle glove box latch. In a locked state of the lock barrel, the pawl cannot be disengaged from the opening in the vehicle. In an unlocked state of the lock barrel, the pawl can be disengaged from the opening for opening the vehicle glove box. The lock barrel, the rotor and the rotor mounting portion are concentrically aligned along an axis, which reduces the depth of the latch, which reduces the space in the glove box necessary for accommodating the latch, thereby resulting in an increase in the available storage space in the glove box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Southco, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Minnich, Andrew S. Matejka, David Gray Judah, Jeffrey L. Antonucci
  • Publication number: 20230255741
    Abstract: Medical implants that include a containment layer surrounding, or surrounded by, a biodegradable medical device provide the benefit that pieces formed during degradation of the medical device are held within a constrained place and thus do not causes injury to a hosts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Scott Taylor, Jennifer Cartledge, Kenneth David Gray, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230175295
    Abstract: A latch assembly includes a frame and a pawl including a surface for receiving a striker and being movably coupled to the frame between an open and a closed position. In the closed position, the pawl is positioned to retain the striker to the latch assembly, and, in the open position, the pawl is not positioned to retain the striker to the latch assembly. A spring guide is connected to the pawl and the frame, wherein, in the closed position of the pawl, the spring guide is configured to bias the pawl such that the pawl remains in the closed position, and in the open position of the pawl, the spring guide is configured to bias the pawl such that the pawl remains in the open position. One end of the spring guide is connected to the pawl, and the opposite end of the spring guide is unconstrained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Southco, Inc.
    Inventors: Ismael Rodriguez, Leslie Catherine Rabian, David Gray Judah, Kevin A. McCloskey, SeoJun Yang
  • Patent number: 11514520
    Abstract: This disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing personalized financing information and, more particularly, systems and methods for providing personalized financing information via a dealership website using an API associated with a financial service provider. In one embodiment, a system includes memory hardware storing instructions that configure processing hardware to receive a loan request for a buyer via a real-time API that includes at least buyer identification and financial information and information associated at least one inventory item presented on a dealership website. The system may also determine financing information comprising prospective financing terms for the at least one item based on at least the loan request. The server may also provide, to the dealership server via the real-time API, the determined financing information for presentation on the dealership website, including prospective financing terms information corresponding to each of the at least one item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Katherine Forrester, Nicholas Dolle, Xiaoxiang Zhang, Kurt Johnson, Jeffrey Whalen, David Gray, Shaun Webb, Maninder Suri, Ruhaab Markas
  • Publication number: 20220356619
    Abstract: A moisture-retentive fabric medium includes a hydrophilic, thermoplastic polyester fiber as a blend of from 10-905% or 20-80% by total weight of textile fibers and 90-10% or 80-20% by total weight of hydrophilic textile fibers and less than 0.5% by weight of total fabric medium as microfibrillated cellulose fiber and less than 0.05% by weight superabsorbent polymers, the polyester having a melting point between 190-500 F when measured in accordance with ASTM D-3418.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: John Garner, Brian Babcock, Gilbert Patrick, David Gray
  • Publication number: 20220340819
    Abstract: A plastic catalytic pyrolysis process that can produce high yields of ethylene, propylene and other light olefins from waste plastics is disclosed. The catalytic product stream is quenched to below catalytic pyrolysis temperature quickly after exiting the reactor or bulk separation from the catalyst. Quench preserves selectivity of light olefinic monomers. The catalytic pyrolysis process can be operated in a single stage or a two-stage process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: David Gray, Scott Nauert, Yili Shi
  • Patent number: D1059145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Grays Clip Limited
    Inventor: David Gray