Patents by Inventor Douglas Graham

Douglas Graham 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: 20250121903
    Abstract: A bicycle includes a front wheel and a rear wheel and a frameset supported on the front wheel and the rear wheel. The frameset includes a main frame and a front fork rotationally coupled to the main frame. The main frame includes a top tube, a head tube rotationally supporting the front fork, a down tube coupling the head tube to a bottom bracket, a seat tube extending downward from the top tube and including a lower end spaced from the bottom bracket, a seatstay extending rearward from the lower end of the seat tube, and a strut member extending forward from the lower end of the seat tube and connecting the seat tube to the down tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Douglas Graham Russell, Eric Robert Fischer, Chad Nathaniel Price, Philip Alan Primeaux
  • Publication number: 20240367703
    Abstract: A media drive security bin with a hydraulic lift table for storing and transporting media drives while ensuring secure tracking and retrieval of the media drives from the bin. The lift table features a foot pedal operation to raise the table and hand lever for lowering. A secure scanner is mounted along a chamber entrance to provide recordation of all information pertinent to the holding and transportation of the media data drives. A window provides ease of visual confirmation of the media bin contents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: M. Ali Ebadian, Raul Travieso, Douglas Graham
  • Patent number: 12122477
    Abstract: A bicycle includes a front wheel and a rear wheel and a frameset supported on the front wheel and the rear wheel. The frameset includes a main frame and a front fork rotationally coupled to the main frame. The main frame includes a top tube, a head tube rotationally supporting the front fork, a down tube coupling the head tube to a bottom bracket, a seat tube extending downward from the top tube and including a lower end spaced from the bottom bracket, a seatstay extending rearward from the lower end of the seat tube, and a strut member extending forward from the lower end of the seat tube and connecting the seat tube to the down tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Graham Russell, Eric Robert Fischer, Chad Nathaniel Price, Philip Alan Primeaux
  • Patent number: 12114589
    Abstract: A device detects a trigger to dispense a product at a dispense point using a tool operably coupled to a tractor. In response to detecting the trigger, the device determines a delay time between commanding the tool to dispense the product and the product actually being dispensed, and determines a release point based on operating parameters of the tractor, the release point being a point at which the tractor is predicted to be an amount of time away from the dispense point equal to the delay time. The device determines that the tractor has reached the release point, and commands the tool to dispense the product, where the product reaches the dispense point based on the delay time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Solomon J. Sawlaw, Sean A. Mahrt, Ray M. Scheufler, William Douglas Graham, Samuel Santiago
  • Publication number: 20240269721
    Abstract: An apparatus for destroying electronic data and providing selective storage for recycling having a first stage for shredding data storage devices into particles less than 20 mm×20 mm; a second stage that separates metal particles from non-metal particles; and a third stage for shredding non-metal into particle sizes of less than 2 mm×2 mm. A first bin is used to collect separated metal particles, a second bin is used to collect separated non-metal particles, and a vacuum system is used to collect airborne particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: M. Ali Ebadian, Raul Travieso, Douglas Graham
  • Patent number: 12011958
    Abstract: An exemplary self-locking actuator mechanism includes a floating plate and a linear actuator. The floating plate defines a first slot that includes a first central portion, a first jog extending laterally from a first end of the first central portion, and a second jog extending laterally from a second end of the first central portion. The linear actuator includes a shaft pivotably connected to the floating plate, and is operable to drive the shaft between a first shaft position and a second shaft position to thereby move the self-locking actuator mechanism between a first locking state and a second locking state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2024
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: William Douglas Graham, Anand Mudanur, Anant Dnyanoba Nimbalkar, Pravin Pawar
  • Publication number: 20240090366
    Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for air seeding using an agricultural seeder. The agricultural seeder includes an air seeder for an agricultural implement having a frame, a plurality of seeding units coupled to the frame, and a linkage coupling an arm to the frame, wherein the arm is coupled to a ground engaging member. The air seeder further includes an actuator having a piston and cylinder arrangement operationally coupled to the arm and configured to adjust a ground penetration depth of the ground engaging member. The piston and cylinder arrangement include a two-stage cylinder operable to change a height of the ground engaging member by movement of the two-stage cylinder to adjust the ground penetration depth of the ground engaging member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Andrew W. Harmon, William Douglas Graham
  • Patent number: 11818976
    Abstract: A dispensing machine dispenses a material on a field. A blockage is detected, and an initial blockage location, where the blockage started, is identified. A blockage characterization system identifies characteristics of the blockage, and a control signal generator generates control signals based upon the detected blockage, and the characteristics of the blockage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Sandeep Ekhe, Mandar Mhalsakant Kale, Sean A Mahrt, William Douglas Graham, Peter R. Nedved, Grant J. Wonderlich, Robert T. Casper, Omkar Joshi
  • Patent number: 11788957
    Abstract: Methods and systems for analyzing a sample and generating a predictive model using cavity ring-down spectroscopy are disclosed. At least part of a sample is loaded in a ring-down cavity. For each of a set of wavelengths, a laser beam is generated and directed into the ring-down cavity. The laser beam entering the ring-down cavity is extinguished. Light intensity decay data for light exiting the ring-down cavity is registered via a light intensity sensor system. A probability is determined from the light intensity decay data for the set of wavelengths that a subject from which the sample was received has a physiological condition or a degree of the physiological condition at least indirectly using a dataset of light intensity decay data for previously analyzed samples for which the presence or the absence of the physiological condition or the degree of the physiological condition have been identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Picomole Inc.
    Inventors: Gisia Beydaghyan, Christopher Quentin Purves, Stephen Douglas Graham, Erik Justin Scheme, Angkoon Phinyomark
  • Publication number: 20230034772
    Abstract: A bicycle includes a front wheel and a rear wheel and a frameset supported on the front wheel and the rear wheel. The frameset includes a main frame and a front fork rotationally coupled to the main frame. The main frame includes a top tube, a head tube rotationally supporting the front fork, a down tube coupling the head tube to a bottom bracket, a seat tube extending downward from the top tube and including a lower end spaced from the bottom bracket, a seatstay extending rearward from the lower end of the seat tube, and a strut member extending forward from the lower end of the seat tube and connecting the seat tube to the down tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas Graham Russell, Eric Robert Fischer, Chad Nathaniel Price, Philip Alan Primeaux
  • Patent number: 11560195
    Abstract: A bicycle includes a frame having cross sectional profiles. The profiles are designed according to certain criteria to enhance bicycle performance. The profiles for multiple frame members may each fall within a range for each of aspect ratio, circumference, drag coefficient, first moment of inertia and/or second moment of inertia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Ingmar Jungnickel, Christopher Yu, Douglas Graham Russell
  • Publication number: 20230000007
    Abstract: A device detects a trigger to dispense a product at a dispense point using a tool operably coupled to a tractor. In response to detecting the trigger, the device determines a delay time between commanding the tool to dispense the product and the product actually being dispensed, and determines a release point based on operating parameters of the tractor, the release point being a point at which the tractor is predicted to be an amount of time away from the dispense point equal to the delay time. The device determines that the tractor has reached the release point, and commands the tool to dispense the product, where the product reaches the dispense point based on the delay time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Solomon J. Sawlaw, Sean A. Mahrt, Ray M. Scheufler, William Douglas Graham, Samuel Santiago
  • Patent number: 11511938
    Abstract: Systems and method for retaining a downspout onto a spout are disclosed. The downspout may be retained on the spout using hook and loop fasteners. In some implementations, a portion of a spout may include a first portion of a hook and loop fastener and the downspout may include a second portion of the first hook and loop faster. The first and second portions of the hook and loop faster are complimentary such that the first and second portions of the hook and loop fastener combine to interlocking secure the downspout and the spout together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: William Douglas Graham, Nicholas Geiger
  • Patent number: 11389805
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for use in destroying a data storage device and separating materials for recycling. The apparatus employs: a first stage of rough cutting wherein the data storage device is shredded into pieces approximately 30 mm×30 mm; a second stage that separates shredded metal material, such as spindles, from non-metal material by use of a magnetized roller having a scraper to the metal material to a first bin and non-metal material to a third stage having an upper level shredder and a lower level shredder for grinding the non-metal material into particle sizes of 10 mm×10 mm or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Phiston Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Ali Ebadian, Raul Travieso, Douglas Graham
  • Publication number: 20220214201
    Abstract: A product distribution device shown as an agricultural air seeder in which product distribution can be selective stopped and started in sections of the machine width. The functioning of the section control system is monitored by sensors that directly detect the control member position as opposed to sensing the commanded position of the control member. Likewise, in generating a map of the area covered, the actual detected position of the control member is used instead of the commanded position of the control member. An operator is notified of inconsistencies between the commended position of the control member and the sensed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew David Arnold, William Douglas Graham, Michael Eugene Frasier
  • Publication number: 20220212507
    Abstract: An exemplary self-locking actuator mechanism includes a floating plate and a linear actuator. The floating plate defines a first slot that includes a first central portion, a first jog extending laterally from a first end of the first central portion, and a second jog extending laterally from a second end of the first central portion. The linear actuator includes a shaft pivotably connected to the floating plate, and is operable to drive the shaft between a first shaft position and a second shaft position to thereby move the self-locking actuator mechanism between a first locking state and a second locking state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: William Douglas Graham, Anand Mudanur, Anant Dnyanoba Nimbalkar, Pravin Pawar
  • Publication number: 20220174858
    Abstract: A metering system includes a plurality of metering elements that are independently controllable. A calibration method of the present disclosure includes generating calibration factors for the individual metering elements. Also, a method of the present disclosure includes operating the metering elements according to the respective calibration factor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew W. Harmon, Robert T. Casper, William Douglas Graham
  • Patent number: 11267647
    Abstract: A security bin formed from a commercially available rectangular plastic bin having removable lids that are secured to the bin to prevent unauthorized access to the items placed therein. The lids are locked with a tamperproof flap and latching hook to prevent access to the bin contents. Plexiglass windows allow viewing of materials placed within the bin. Spring pins allow ease of lid movement for access to the bin contents, or allow removal of the windows to allow stacking for storage and shipping. An optional scanner can be mounted to one of the lids for recording and tracking of storage media placed within the bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Phiston Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: M. Ali Ebadian, Raul Travieso, Douglas Graham
  • Publication number: 20220009709
    Abstract: A security bin formed from a commercially available rectangular plastic bin having removable lids that are secured to the bin to prevent unauthorized access to the items placed therein. The lids are locked with a tamperproof flap and latching hook to prevent access to the bin contents. Plexiglass windows allow viewing of materials placed within the bin. Spring pins allow ease of lid movement for access to the bin contents, or allow removal of the windows to allow stacking for storage and shipping. An optional scanner can be mounted to one of the lids for recording and tracking of storage media placed within the bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: M. Ali Ebadian, Raul Travieso, Douglas Graham
  • Patent number: D1009715
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Graham Russell, Eric Robert Fischer, Chad Nathaniel Price, Philip Alan Primeaux