Patents by Inventor Douglas Bates

Douglas Bates 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: 10969147
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for a high-rise building includes a condenser unit and a compressor separate from the condenser unit and in fluid communication with the condenser unit. The compressor is to be located at a floor of a high-rise building that is below a location of the condenser unit at a roof top of the high-rise building. The system may also include an oil separator to separate oil from a refrigerant. The oil separator is in a path of the refrigerant from the compressor to the condenser unit, where the oil separator is distal from the condenser unit and proximal to the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventor: Douglas Bates
  • Publication number: 20200410790
    Abstract: Camera systems for allowing a rider (e.g., a driver, a passenger or an owner of a vehicle) to view all or a portion of a rider compartment or a storage compartment of a vehicle. The images from the cameras may be provided on a display for view by one or more of the riders. The display may be provided on a dash or mobile communication device of the rider. The view of the cameras shown on the display may be varied by the rider to view various portions of the rider compartment or the storage compartment. The systems, methods, and devices may be utilized with ride hailing services, and may be utilized with semi-autonomous or autonomous vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Derek A. Thompson, Derek L. Lewis, Douglas Bates
  • Publication number: 20200394923
    Abstract: Methods and systems for synchronizing navigation destination between a plurality of vehicles. The system includes an input/output unit of a first vehicle configured to receive a destination from a user of the first vehicle. The system includes an ECU of the first vehicle configured to communicate the destination to all other vehicles in the plurality of vehicles. The system includes a transceiver of a second vehicle in the plurality of vehicles configured to receive the destination from the transceiver of the first vehicle. The system includes an input/output unit of the second vehicle configured to provide a prompt to a user of the second vehicle regarding the destination of the first vehicle and whether to accept or reject the destination. The system includes an ECU of the second vehicle configured to determine navigation directions to the destination when the user of the second vehicle accepts the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Derek A. Thompson, Derek L. Lewis, Douglas Bates
  • Publication number: 20190086125
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for a high-rise building includes a condenser unit and a compressor separate from the condenser unit and in fluid communication with the condenser unit. The compressor is to be located at a floor of a high-rise building that is below a location of the condenser unit at a roof top of the high-rise building. The system may also include an oil separator to separate oil from a refrigerant. The oil separator is in a path of the refrigerant from the compressor to the condenser unit, where the oil separator is distal from the condenser unit and proximal to the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Douglas Bates
  • Patent number: 10180270
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for a high-rise building includes a condenser unit and a compressor separate from the condenser unit and in fluid communication with the condenser unit. The compressor is to be located at a floor of a high-rise building that is below a location of the condenser unit at a roof top of the high-rise building. The system may also include an oil separator to separate oil from a refrigerant. The oil separator is in a path of the refrigerant from the compressor to the condenser unit, where the oil separator is distal from the condenser unit and proximal to the compressor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY
    Inventor: Douglas Bates
  • Publication number: 20180266732
    Abstract: An air conditioning system for a high-rise building includes a condenser unit and a compressor separate from the condenser unit and in fluid communication with the condenser unit. The compressor is to be located at a floor of a high-rise building that is below a location of the condenser unit at a roof top of the high-rise building. The system may also include an oil separator to separate oil from a refrigerant. The oil separator is in a path of the refrigerant from the compressor to the condenser unit, where the oil separator is distal from the condenser unit and proximal to the compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Douglas Bates
  • Patent number: 9613416
    Abstract: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for automated reorientation and/or analysis of medical scans and/or images. The methods, systems, and devices for automated analysis of medical scans can be configured to mark, score, grade, and/other otherwise classify medical scans that are more time-sensitive, severe, and/or the like to allow a medical professional reviewing and/or analyzing medical scans to view and/or analyze such scans more efficiently by using a common image orientation and/or taking into account knowledge of the risk of severity, time-sensitiveness, and/or other priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: ZEPMED, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Bates, Nathan S. White
  • Patent number: 9501361
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method of performing recovery for a customer server system that has an associated backup of server system data of the customer server system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a server recovery request at a portal for a rebuild of at least part of the customer server system; and, sending a request from the portal to a cloud-based data center for on-demand provisioning of cloud-based server resources, wherein the request includes information on the location of at least part of the backup of the server system data to enable the deployment of a rebuild of at least part of the customer server system at the cloud-based data center. Advantages include a user being able to easily manage disaster recovery testing as well as actual live recovery operations. The use of temporary servers in the cloud is an efficient, and inexpensive, use of resources as the servers can be rented and used only when required.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Silverstring Ltd.
    Inventor: Richard Douglas Bates
  • Publication number: 20160092308
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method of performing recovery for a customer server system that has an associated backup of server system data of the customer server system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a server recovery request at a portal for a rebuild of at least part of the customer server system; and, sending a request from the portal to a cloud-based data centre for on-demand provisioning of cloud-based server resources, wherein the request includes information on the location of at least part of the backup of the server system data to enable the deployment of a rebuild of at least part of the customer server system at the cloud-based data centre. Advantages include a user being able to easily manage disaster recovery testing as well as actual live recovery operations. The use of temporary servers in the cloud is an efficient, and inexpensive, use of resources as the servers can be rented and used only when required.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventor: Richard Douglas Bates
  • Patent number: 9165360
    Abstract: The disclosure herein provides methods, systems, and devices for automated reorientation and/or analysis of medical scans and/or images. The methods, systems, and devices for automated analysis of medical scans can be configured to mark, score, grade, and/other otherwise classify medical scans that are more time-sensitive, severe, and/or the like to allow a medical professional reviewing and/or analyzing medical scans to view and/or analyze such scans more efficiently by using a common image orientation and/or taking into account knowledge of the risk of severity, time-sensitiveness, and/or other priority.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: ZEPMED, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Bates, Nathan S. White
  • Publication number: 20140234623
    Abstract: A fine denier poly(trimethylene arylate) spun drawn fiber is characterized by high denier uniformity. A process for preparing uniform fine denier yarns at spinning speeds of 4000 to 6000 m/min is further disclosed. The poly(trimethylene arylate) fiber hereof comprises 0.1 to 3% by weight of polystyrene dispersed therewithin. Fabrics prepared therefrom are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: E I DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventor: W. Douglas Bates
  • Patent number: 8753741
    Abstract: A fine denier poly(trimethylene arylate) spun drawn fiber is characterized by high denier uniformity. A process for preparing uniform fine denier yarns at spinning speeds of 4000 to 6000 m/min is further disclosed. The poly(trimethylene arylate) fiber hereof comprises 0.1 to 3% by weight of polystyrene dispersed therewithin. Fabrics prepared therefrom are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: W. Douglas Bates
  • Patent number: 8689985
    Abstract: Filtration media including at least one layer of nanofibers having average diameters less than 1000 nanometers with optional scrim layer(s) are disclosed for filtering particulate matter in liquid. The media achieve flow rates of at least 0.055 L/min/cm2 at relatively high levels of solidity. The media have also advantageously been found to have non-diminishing flow rates as differential pressures increase between 2 psi (14 kPa) and 15 psi (100 kPa).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: W. Douglas Bates, III, Henricus Jacobus Cornelis Gommeren, Hageun Suh
  • Patent number: 8563655
    Abstract: A film of poly(trimethylene arylate) and a polystyrene wherein the polystyrene concentration is in the range of 0.5 to 40 weight %. Poly(trimethylene terephthalate) and polystyrene are particularly useful. Also, disclosed are processes for preparing the film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventors: W. Douglas Bates, Brett Collin Dobrick
  • Patent number: 8540912
    Abstract: A fine denier poly(trimethylene arylate) spun drawn fiber is characterized by high denier uniformity. A process for preparing uniform fine denier yarns at spinning speeds of 4000 to 6000 m/min is further disclosed. The poly(trimethylene arylate) fiber hereof comprises 0.1 to 3% by weight of polystyrene dispersed therewithin. Fabrics prepared therefrom are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: E I du Pont de Nemours and Company
    Inventor: W. Douglas Bates
  • Publication number: 20130158465
    Abstract: A device and method for treating an occluded infection collection along the digestive tract with a stent delivered to an appendix, diverticulum or other anatomical structure of the digestive tract. A device and method to remove an obstruction from an occluded infection collection along the digestive tract with an obstruction removal device delivered to an appendix, diverticulum or other anatomical structure of the digestive tract.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: June 20, 2013
    Inventors: Douglas Bates, Steven F. Bierman
  • Patent number: 8343088
    Abstract: A device and method for treating an occluded infection collection along the digestive tract with a stent delivered to an appendix, diverticulum or other anatomical structure of the digestive tract. A device and method to remove an obstruction from an occluded infection collection along the digestive tract with an obstruction removal device delivered to an appendix, diverticulum or other anatomical structure of the digestive tract.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Inventors: Douglas Bates, Steven F Bierman
  • Publication number: 20120296043
    Abstract: A composition of poly(trimethylene arylate), especially poly(trimethylene terephthalate), and polystyrene that is useful in the production of shaped articles such as fibers, films, and molded structures. The invention is useful as a masterbatch, also known as a concentrate, composition for combining with a PTT diluent in the economical production of fiber spinning compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: W. Douglas Bates, Brett Collin Dobrick
  • Publication number: 20120292808
    Abstract: A concentrate of poly(trimethylene arylate), particularly poly(trimethylene terephthalate) and polystyrene containing 15 to 40 wt % polystyrene is employed in the production of shaped articles such as films, pellets, and fibers. In one embodiment the concentrate is melt mixed with a polymeric diluent comprising a poly(trimethylene arylate) to form a spin blend comprising 0.5 to 1.5 wt % polystyrene, and the spin blend is extruded through a spinneret comprising a plurality of identical orficies, producing a plurality of filaments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: W. Douglas Bates, Brett Collin Dobrick
  • Publication number: 20120283389
    Abstract: A film of poly(trimethylene arylate) and a polystyrene wherein the polystyrene concentration is in the range of 0.5 to 40 weight %. Poly(trimethylene terephthalate) and polystyrene are particularly useful. Also, disclosed are processes for preparing the film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS AND COMPANY
    Inventors: W. Douglas Bates, Brett Collin Dobrick