Patents by Inventor Donald A. Hess

Donald A. Hess 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: 20240158665
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multilayer coating system present on a substrate and including at least two coating layers L1 and L2 different from one another, namely a first coating layer L1 applied over at least a portion of the substrate, and a second topcoat layer L2 applied over the first coating layer L1, where the topcoat layer L2 is formed from a coating composition including at least one block copolymer containing a backbone and at least two blocks B1 and B2 and side chains S1 and S2 including different polymeric moieties M1 and M2. Also disclosed herein are a method of preparing said multilayer coating system, a coated substrate obtainable therefrom, and a method of using a coating composition including the block copolymer for improving, in particular for increasing, the chromaticity of the multilayer coating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Rosalva Castrejon BOKHART, Qingling ZHANG, Donald H. CAMPBELL, Daniel Patrick FERRIS, Garret MIYAKE, Ryan PEARSON, Matthew RYAN, Luke WHITSON, Alexander HESS
  • Publication number: 20240150609
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multilayer coating system present on a substrate and including at least three coating layers L1, L2 and L3 different from one another, namely a first pigmented coating layer L1 applied over at least a portion of the substrate, a second coating layer L2 applied over the first pigmented coating layer L1, and a third coating layer L3 applied over the second coating layer L2, where the second coating layer L2 is formed from a coating composition including at least one block copolymer containing a backbone and at least two blocks B1 and B2 and side chains S1 and S2 including different polymeric moieties M1 and M2. Also disclosed herein are a method of preparing said multilayer coating system, a coated substrate obtainable therefrom, and a method of using a coating composition including the block copolymer for improving the chromaticity of the multilayer coating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Rosalva Castrejon BOKHART, Qingling ZHANG, Donald H. CAMPBELL, Daniel Patrick FERRIS, Garret MIYAKE, Ryan PEARSON, Matthew RYAN, Luke WHITSON, Alexander HESS
  • Publication number: 20240020649
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to email verification. A computing platform may receive an electronic message and identify one or more portions of content in the message. Then, the computing platform may generate and embed one or more message-specific identifiers into the electronic message and store electronic message information associating the one or more portions of content with the one or more embedded message-specific identifiers. Thereafter, the computing platform may receive an electronic message verification request to verify authenticity of an identified electronic message received by a computing device. The computing platform may prompt a user of the computing device to provide authentication information associated with one or more portions of content of the identified electronic message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Sheedy, Steven Sinks, Brian P. Prange, Matthew W. Findley, Jared D. Wilson, Donald Hess, Brian Devine
  • Publication number: 20230403256
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to preventing data loss using enhanced analysis of the URLs and URIs in webpage requests. A computing platform may receive a user request to access a webpage, and may determine whether the webpage is regularly accessed by the user and whether the user is permitted to access the webpage. Based on determining the user might not regularly access the website, but that the user is permitted to access the webpage, the computing platform may engage an artificial intelligence (AI) engine to parse the URL and URI from the webpage request. The AI engine may compare the URL to source code associated with the webpage to determine whether the URI was re-written. The computing platform may grant the webpage request based on determining the source code corresponds to the URL and based on determining the URI might not have been re-written.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jonathan Sheedy, Donald Hess, Steven Sinks
  • Patent number: 4168718
    Abstract: A passive propellant acquisition and feed system is disclosed which will acquire and feed gas-free propellant in low or zero-g environments during orbital maneuvers which will also retain this propellant under high axially directed acceleration such as may be experienced during launch of a space vehicle and orbit-to-orbit transfers wherein the propellant system includes a dual compartment propellant tank with independent surface tension acquisition channels in each compartment to provide gas-free flow of pressurized liquid propellant from one compartment to the other in one direction only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 25, 1979
    Inventors: Robert A. Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, with respect to an invention of Frosch, Donald A. Hess, William W. Regnier, Virgil L. Jacobs