Patents by Inventor Douglas Thornton

Douglas Thornton 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: 11605899
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections arranged to define a curved aperture surface, such as a semi-cylinder aperture surface, or a cylinder aperture surface (which may be constructed as two semi-circular aperture surfaces mutually arranged to define the cylinder aperture surface). The RF aperture may further include a top array of electrically conductive tapered projections arranged to define a top aperture surface. The top aperture surface may be planar, and a cylinder axis of cylinder aperture surface may be perpendicular to the plane of the planar top aperture surface. The RF aperture may further include baluns mounted on at least one printed circuit board, each having a balanced port electrically connected with two neighboring electrically conductive tapered projections of the array and further having an unbalanced port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton
  • Patent number: 11552670
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Publication number: 20220376391
    Abstract: A multiband digital data network infrastructure comprises a network of access points (APs). Each AP includes a differential segmented aperture (DSA) comprising a two-dimensional array of electrically conductive tapered projections disposed on a support board, modular analog front ends (MAFE's) configuring the DSA for different respective wireless services, an in phase/quadrature (IQ) board, and one or more network cards. The network of APs support two or more different wireless communication protocols operating in different RF bands. In some embodiments, each AP of the network supports both a cellular service and a WiFi service using the same DSA. In some embodiments, the network of APs form a network of cell towers of a cellular service. In some embodiments, the network of APs form a network of APs of an indoor wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Douglas A. Thornton
  • Patent number: 11342955
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Patent number: 11057072
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Patent number: 11040244
    Abstract: Golf performance and equipment characteristics may be determined by analyzing the impact between a golf ball and an impacting surface. In some examples, the impacting surface may be a golf club face. The impact between the golf ball and the surface may be measured based on sound and/or motion sensors (e.g., gyroscopes, accelerometers, etc.). Based on motion and/or sound data, various equipment-related information including golf ball compression, club head speed and impact location may be derived. Such information and/or other types of data may be conveyed to a user to help improve performance, aid in selecting golf equipment and/or to insure quality of golfing products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Hadden, Douglas A. Thornton, Bradley C. Glenn, Nicholas A. Leech, Arthur Molinari
  • Patent number: 11038545
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Publication number: 20210159935
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Publication number: 20210155859
    Abstract: A fuel processing system and method for a sulfur bearing fuel include a hydrodesulfurization reactor followed by an adsorbent bed for removing sulfur or sulfur containing species from the fuel. In certain embodiments, the adsorbent bed is a ZnO bed. In another embodiment, a fuel processing system and method for a sulfur bearing fuel include a steam reformer, a hydrodesulfurization reactor, and an adsorbent bed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Paul E. George, II, Vincent J. Contini, Greg A. Whyatt, Douglas A. Thornton
  • Patent number: 10941359
    Abstract: A fuel processing system and method for a sulfur bearing fuel include a hydrodesulfurization reactor followed by an adsorbent bed for removing sulfur or sulfur containing species from the fuel. In certain embodiments, the adsorbent bed is a ZnO bed. In another embodiment, a fuel processing system and method for a sulfur bearing fuel include a steam reformer, a hydrodesulfurization reactor, and an adsorbent bed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Paul E. George, II, Vincent J. Contini, Greg A. Whyatt, Douglas A. Thornton
  • Publication number: 20210029147
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed, which is connectable with a CAN bus or other broadcast network. The electronic device programmed to compute expected periods and period variability metrics for historical accumulations of messages for different message headers and to identify periodic message headers based on the period variability metrics, and is further programmed to detect a temporal anomaly as a deviation of a period of a most recent set of two or more messages with a periodic message header from the expected period for the periodic message header, and to generate an alert indicating the detected temporal anomaly. The electronic device may be further programmed to maintain a state machine for a vehicle (or other platform) including the CAN bus and perform state-aware anomaly detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Aaron McCanty, Jason Goodman, Douglas Thornton
  • Publication number: 20210029148
    Abstract: CAN bus signal format inference includes: extracting candidate signals from training CAN bus message traffic; defining one or more signals, each signal being a candidate signal that matches structural characteristics of a matching data type and each signal being assigned the matching data type; and generating an inferred CAN bus protocol with which the defined one or more signals conform. Signals are extracted from CAN bus message traffic using the inferred CAN bus protocol, an anomaly in an extracted signal is detected, and an alert is generated indicating the detected anomaly. In another aspect, a transport protocol (TP) signal is extracted and analyzed to determine a fraction of the TP signal that matches opcodes of a machine language instruction set, and an anomaly is detected based at least in part on the determined fraction exceeding an opcode anomaly threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Colin Wee, Ian LoVerde, Douglas A. Thornton
  • Publication number: 20200343927
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Publication number: 20200343929
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Publication number: 20200343646
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an array of electrically conductive tapered projections arranged to define a curved aperture surface, such as a semi-cylinder aperture surface, or a cylinder aperture surface (which may be constructed as two semi-circular aperture surfaces mutually arranged to define the cylinder aperture surface). The RF aperture may further include a top array of electrically conductive tapered projections arranged to define a top aperture surface. The top aperture surface may be planar, and a cylinder axis of cylinder aperture surface may be perpendicular to the plane of the planar top aperture surface. The RF aperture may further include baluns mounted on at least one printed circuit board, each having a balanced port electrically connected with two neighboring electrically conductive tapered projections of the array and further having an unbalanced port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton
  • Publication number: 20200343928
    Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) aperture includes an interface board. An array of electrically conductive tapered projections have bases disposed on a front side of the interface printed circuit board and extend away from the front side of the interface printed circuit board. RF circuitry is disposed at the back side of the interface board and is electrically connected with the electrically conductive tapered projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Raphael Joseph Welsh, Douglas A. Thornton, Daniel A. Perkins, Micah Blue, Amy M. Heintz, Daniel G. Loesch
  • Patent number: 10478690
    Abstract: A golf club head having accelerometer and gyroscope sensors measuring swing motion acceleration and angular rate values. Inputs of force and torque to the golf club head during the swing motion may be unknown, such that a system of motion equations may be used to calculate functions for the unknown input force and torque, as well as roll angle and pitch angle for the golf club head, and compensate for gyroscope bias, without using static leveling processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley C. Glenn, Douglas A. Thornton, Jeffrey A. Hadden
  • Publication number: 20190329097
    Abstract: Golf performance and equipment characteristics may be determined by analyzing the impact between a golf ball and an impacting surface. In some examples, the impacting surface may be a golf club face. The impact between the golf ball and the surface may be measured based on sound and/or motion sensors (e.g., gyroscopes, accelerometers, etc.). Based on motion and/or sound data, various equipment-related information including golf ball compression, club head speed and impact location may be derived. Such information and/or other types of data may be conveyed to a user to help improve performance, aid in selecting golf equipment and/or to insure quality of golfing products.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Hadden, Douglas A. Thornton, Bradley C. Glenn, Nicholas A. Leech, Arthur Molinari
  • Patent number: 10391358
    Abstract: Golf performance and equipment characteristics may be determined by analyzing the impact between a golf ball and an impacting surface. In some examples, the impacting surface may be a golf club face. The impact between the golf ball and the surface may be measured based on sound and/or motion sensors (e.g., gyroscopes, accelerometers, etc.). Based on motion and/or sound data, various equipment-related information including golf ball compression, club head speed and impact location may be derived. Such information and/or other types of data may be conveyed to a user to help improve performance, aid in selecting golf equipment and/or to insure quality of golfing products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey A. Hadden, Douglas A. Thornton, Bradley C. Glenn, Nicholas A. Leech, Arthur Molinari
  • Patent number: 10363470
    Abstract: A golf club head having accelerometer and gyroscope sensors measuring swing motion acceleration and angular rate values. Inputs of force and torque to the golf club head during the swing motion may be unknown, such that a system of motion equations may be used to calculate functions for the unknown input force and torque, as well as roll angle and pitch angle for the golf club head, and compensate for gyroscope bias, without using static leveling processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: NIKE Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley C. Glenn, Douglas A. Thornton, Jeffrey A. Hadden