Patents by Inventor Douglas Gregory
Douglas Gregory 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).
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Publication number: 20240214061Abstract: In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a device for detecting a zone of communication between a user terminal and a satellite constellation including a plurality of satellites in non-geosynchronous (non-GEO) orbit includes one or more processors and memory. The memory stores instructions that, as a result of being executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to: determine a location of the device, wherein the location corresponds to a field of regard for detecting the zone of communication, and wherein the field of regard corresponds to an antenna aperture of the phased array antenna; evaluate a level of communication between the phased array antenna and the satellite constellation associated with the field of regard; and output, to a user of the device, an indication of the level of communication between the phased array antenna and the satellite constellation associated with the field of regard.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Thomas Laurance Robinson, Calder Christiansen Foster Coalson, Jared Michael Greene, Steven Douglas Gregory, Elliott MacDonald Schwartz, Aidan Bauer
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Patent number: 11943042Abstract: In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a device for detecting a zone of communication between a user terminal and a satellite constellation including a plurality of satellites in non-geosynchronous (non-GEO) orbit includes one or more processors and memory. The memory stores instructions that, as a result of being executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to: determine a location of the device, wherein the location corresponds to a field of regard for detecting the zone of communication, and wherein the field of regard corresponds to an antenna aperture of the phased array antenna; evaluate a level of communication between the phased array antenna and the satellite constellation associated with the field of regard; and output, to a user of the device, an indication of the level of communication between the phased array antenna and the satellite constellation associated with the field of regard.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.Inventors: Thomas Laurance Robinson, Calder Christiansen Foster Coalson, Jared Michael Greene, Steven Douglas Gregory, Elliott Macdonald Schwartz, Aidan Bauer
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Publication number: 20230310225Abstract: An array of absorbent articles each having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core is described. A first absorbent article has a first physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core, and a second absorbent article has a second physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core. The first physical feature has a first length between 27 and 77 percent of a first absorbent core length. The second physical feature has a second length between 27 and 77 percent of a second absorbent core length. The first length is less than the second length, and the first physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the first absorbent article and/or the second physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the second absorbent article.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Bret Darren SEITZ, Douglas Gregory STEVENS
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Patent number: 11712375Abstract: An array of absorbent articles each having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core is described. A first absorbent article has a first physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core, and a second absorbent article has a second physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core. The first physical feature has a first length between 27 and 77 percent of a first absorbent core length. The second physical feature has a second length between 27 and 77 percent of a second absorbent core length. The first length is less than the second length, and the first physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the first absorbent article and/or the second physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the second absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: THE PROCTER & GAMBLE COMPANYInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Douglas Gregory Stevens
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Publication number: 20230027692Abstract: A facility for creating resource graphs based on inherent and derived resource attributes is configured to assist domain experts in the processing and analyses of resource data. The facility obtains input indicating inherent resource attributes and relationships to other the resource attributes. The facility identifies derived resource attributes based on the inherent resource attributes and the relationships to other resource attributes. The facility generates a resource graph based on the derived resource attributes, inherent resource attributes, and the relationships. The facility obtains attributed data from a repository of resource attribute data and evaluates the resource data based on the resource graph and attribute data.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: Michael Scott Ritthaler, Gary Grant Johnson, Douglas Gregory Hamilton
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Publication number: 20220308841Abstract: A facility for creating custom software to analyze resource data is configured to assist domain experts in the creation of custom software. The facility obtains user input indicating one or more global inputs and one or more global outputs. The facility obtains user input creating one or more nodes, each having one or more inputs and one or more outputs, and each configured to evaluate resource data based on the inputs to produce the outputs. The facility obtains user input mapping between outputs and inputs of nodes to establish a network among the nodes. The facility evaluates each node in accordance with the established network based on the global inputs and global outputs. The facility displays the nodes and the network among the nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Kaitlyn Ella Coil, Jason Roy Mauzey, Michael Scott Ritthaler, Gary Grant Johnson, Steven Lewis Raeder, Dana Jo Salk, Douglas Gregory Hamilton
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Publication number: 20220116105Abstract: In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a device for detecting a zone of communication between a user terminal and a satellite constellation including a plurality of satellites in non-geosynchronous (non-GEO) orbit includes one or more processors and memory. The memory stores instructions that, as a result of being executed by the one or more processors, cause the device to: determine a location of the device, wherein the location corresponds to a field of regard for detecting the zone of communication, and wherein the field of regard corresponds to an antenna aperture of the phased array antenna; evaluate a level of communication between the phased array antenna and the satellite constellation associated with the field of regard; and output, to a user of the device, an indication of the level of communication between the phased array antenna and the satellite constellation associated with the field of regard.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Inventors: Thomas Laurance Robinson, Calder Christiansen Foster Coalson, Jared Michael Greene, Steven Douglas Gregory, Elliott MacDonald Schwartz, Aidan Bauer
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Publication number: 20200345560Abstract: An array of absorbent articles each having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core is described. A first absorbent article has a first physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core, and a second absorbent article has a second physical feature disposed between the topsheet and the absorbent core. The first physical feature has a first length between 27 and 77 percent of a first absorbent core length. The second physical feature has a second length between 27 and 77 percent of a second absorbent core length. The first length is less than the second length, and the first physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the first absorbent article and/or the second physical feature comprises a convex portion oriented toward a first end of the second absorbent article.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Douglas Gregory Stevens
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Patent number: 10751226Abstract: An array of absorbent articles each having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core; the absorbent article having a physical feature to at least partially fill a wearer's panty-body void; for a wearer having a BMI greater than about 25.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2015Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Douglas Gregory Stevens
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Patent number: 10286328Abstract: Systems and method for using a modular game accessory to play a video game. A smart toy is presented that can be reconfigured by the player on the fly while playing the video game by adding and removing modules. When the smart toy is reconfigured, the capabilities of the player's in-game avatar are modified accordingly. In this way, the smart toy exists as a hybrid of a physical toy and video game avatar. Modules for modifying the smart toy can represent components and crew of the vehicle represented by the smart toy, and different modules can offer different capabilities to the in-game avatar.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Ubisoft EntertainmentInventors: Vlad Adamenko, Matthew Severin, Douglas Gregory, James Everett
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Publication number: 20180177648Abstract: An absorbent article comprises a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, the chassis having a body-facing surface and an outer-facing surface. The article also comprises a pair of side flaps comprising a first surface, a second surface opposite the first surface, and a first adhesive. The side flaps have a proximal end and a free distal end wherein each distal end is foldable around an edge of an undergarment when applied on the undergarment during use to attach the first adhesive to the underside of the undergarment thereby attaching the absorbent article to the undergarment.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Frederick Michael LANGDON, Remo BELLUCCI, Bruce William LAVASH, Callida Williams LUDHER, Douglas Gregory STEVENS
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Publication number: 20170354889Abstract: Systems and method for using a modular game accessory to play a video game. A smart toy is presented that can be reconfigured by the player on the fly while playing the video game by adding and removing modules. When the smart toy is reconfigured, the capabilities of the player's in-game avatar are modified accordingly. In this way, the smart toy exists as a hybrid of a physical toy and video game avatar. Modules for modifying the smart toy can represent components and crew of the vehicle represented by the smart toy, and different modules can offer different capabilities to the in-game avatar.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2016Publication date: December 14, 2017Inventors: Vlad Adamenko, Matthew Severin, Douglas Gregory, James Everett
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Publication number: 20150272787Abstract: An array of absorbent articles each having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core; the absorbent article having a physical feature to at least partially fill a wearer's panty-body void; for a wearer having a BMI greater than about 25.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Bret Darren Seitz, Douglas Gregory Stevens
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Patent number: 9144294Abstract: An attachment system principally use on garment (10, 30) provides a number of aligned loops (15) on the garment and a number of aligned loops (24) on a load such as an equipment pack (17). The load also includes an elongate securing member that extends from the load with a flexible proximal portion (26) and a stiffened distal portion (27). The stiffened distal portion (27) can be very readily threaded through successive ensemble loops (15) and load loops (24) to pull the flexible proximal portion (26) through the loops (15, 24) to attach the load (17) to the garment (10, 30). The stiffened distal portion (27) is then fed back through the loops (15, 24) to provide a geometric lock that prevents the load (17, 18) detaching from the garment (10, 30). Various loads can be attached in this way.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2009Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: SURVITEC GROUP LIMITEDInventors: Stuart Douglas Gregory, Paul Alan Oliver, Richard Craig Griffin
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Publication number: 20140005983Abstract: Methods of using computer based models for simulating a porous media.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Inventors: Thomas Alva BAER, Mel ALLENDE-BLANCO, Jianjun FENG, Douglas Gregory STEVENS, Matthew Joseph MACURA
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Patent number: 8195475Abstract: A business method for optimally determining appropriate ergonomics of occupants of a workspace including a metric determined from personal-, environmental- and task-related attributes.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2003Date of Patent: June 5, 2012Assignee: Atlas Ergonomics LLCInventors: James Landsman, Sherman Robbins, Douglas Gregory, Drew Bossen
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Publication number: 20110191933Abstract: An attachment system principally use on garment (10, 30) provides a number of aligned loops (15) on the garment and a number of aligned loops (24) on a load such as an equipment pack (17). The load also includes an elongate securing member that extends from the load with a flexible proximal portion (26) and a stiffened distal portion (27). The stiffened distal portion (27) can be very readily threaded through successive ensemble loops (15) and load loops (24) to pull the flexible proximal portion (26) through the loops (15, 24) to attach the load (17) to the garment (10, 30). The stiffened distal portion (27) is then fed back through the loops (15, 24) to provide a geometric lock that prevents the load (17, 18) detaching from the garment (10, 30). Various loads can be attached in this way.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2009Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: SURVITEC GROUP LIMITEDInventors: Stuart Douglas Gregory, Paul Alan Oliver, Richard Craig Griffin
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Patent number: 7979256Abstract: A method for determining absorbent article effectiveness of a virtual absorbent article. The steps of the method include providing a virtual body model, providing a virtual absorbent article model, providing virtual simulation software, running a virtual simulation of deformation of the virtual absorbent article model in proximity with the virtual body model, running a virtual simulation of the fluid balance of the virtual absorbent article model in proximity with the virtual body model, coupling the virtual simulation of deformation of the virtual absorbent article model and the virtual simulation of the fluid balance of the virtual absorbent article model, and determining absorbent article effectiveness of the virtual absorbent article model in proximity with the virtual body model.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2007Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Matthew Joseph Macura, Paul Martin Lipic, Mel Allende-Blanco, James Kenneth Comer, Jr., Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruce William Lavash
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Patent number: 7947835Abstract: At least one chemical entity chosen from compounds of Formula 2 and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, chelates, non-covalent complexes, prodrugs, and mixtures thereof is described herein. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising at least one chemical entity of the invention, together with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle chosen from carriers adjuvants, and excipients, are described. Methods of treating patients suffering from certain diseases responsive to inhibition of Btk activity and/or B-cell activity are described. Methods for determining the presence of Btk in a sample are described.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2006Date of Patent: May 24, 2011Assignee: CGI Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Inventors: David R. Brittelli, Kevin S. Currie, James W. Darrow, Jeffrey E. Kropf, Seung H. Lee, Steven L. Gallion, Scott A. Mitchell, Douglas A. I. Pippin, Peter A. Blomgren, Douglas Gregory Stafford
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Patent number: 7684939Abstract: A method for designing an absorbent article. The steps of the method are generating a physical spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a physical test environment, generating a virtual spatial map of saturation of a fluid within an absorbent in a virtual test environment, identifying absorbent-fluid interaction properties for the absorbent such that the virtual spatial map of saturation approximates the physical spatial map of saturation, inputting the absorbent-fluid interaction properties into a virtual model of the absorbent article to produce a representation of at least one feature of the absorbent article, evaluating the virtual model of the absorbent article to determine the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article, modifying the design of the absorbent article in response to the performance of the at least one feature of the absorbent article determined from the virtual model of the absorbent article.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2006Date of Patent: March 23, 2010Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Mel Allende-Blanco, Brian Bert Anderson, William Handy Hartt, IV, Paul Martin Lipic, Mattias Schmidt, Douglas Gregory Stevens, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger