Patents by Inventor Douglas Vincent
Douglas Vincent 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: 20240131772Abstract: A method for manufacturing a container includes forming a top portion of a preform by injecting a first material into a mold. A bottom portion of the preform is formed by injecting a second material into the mold to form inner and outer layers of the bottom portion and injecting a third material into the mold to form an intermediate layer of the bottom portion that is positioned between the inner layer and the outer layer. The third material includes virgin polyethylene terephthalate and an additive.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: RING CONTAINER TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: PAUL VINCENT KELLEY, MICHAEL GREEN, DOUGLAS MILES DYGERT, DANIEL M. FUTRAL
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Publication number: 20220324177Abstract: Described is automatic, configurable manufacturing workflow (ACMW) technology for additive manufacturing (AM) systems. Apparatus, methods and systems employing ACMW technology provide AM systems with increased flexibility. ACMW technology is particularly suitable for lights-out AM and for continuous AM. In various embodiments of ACMW technology, efficiency and/or reliability of an AM system are increased and/or need for maintenance and/or human intervention is decreased. Broadly, ACMW technology can enable practical scale up of production AM, including automatic configuration of 3D printing clusters as may be desired, such automatic configuration including automatic reconfiguration as desired. This increases manufacturing flexibility and can lead to lower total cost per part (TCPP). ACMW technology addresses several cost and efficiency drivers involved in calculation of TCPP.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: Mitchell Oliver Debora, Derek Alan Vogt, Christopher Patrick Labelle, Alireza Olia, Robert Douglas Vincent Wood
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Patent number: 11102624Abstract: Approaches provide for generating an introductory text message to be delivered to a recipient when a voice-enabled communications device is used to send a message to the recipient for a first time. For example, audio input data that includes an instruction to send a text message can be received and an application can analyze the audio input data to determine an instruction to send a text message, a message body, and an intended recipient of the text message. The application can determine whether a text message has previously been sent to the intended recipient using the voice-enabled communications device or another device associated with the customer's account. In the situation where a text message has been sent, a text message is generated that includes the message body and the application causes the text message to be sent to the intended recipient.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Ryan Christopher Rapp, Douglas Vincent O'Dell, Kathryn Lynn Parker, Jonathan Leonard Da Silva, Ian Michael Menzies, Christo Frank Devaraj, David Michael Rowell
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Publication number: 20180310144Abstract: Approaches provide for generating an introductory text message to be delivered to a recipient when a voice-enabled communications device is used to send a message to the recipient for a first time. For example, audio input data that includes an instruction to send a text message can be received and an application can analyze the audio input data to determine an instruction to send a text message, a message body, and an intended recipient of the text message. The application can determine whether a text message has previously been sent to the intended recipient using the voice-enabled communications device or another device associated with the customer's account. In the situation where a text message has been sent, a text message is generated that includes the message body and the application causes the text message to be sent to the intended recipient.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Ryan Christopher Rapp, Douglas Vincent O'Dell, Kathryn Lynn Parker, Jonathan Leonard Da Silva, Ian Michael Menzies, Christo Frank Devaraj, David Michael Rowell
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Patent number: 9992642Abstract: Approaches provide for generating an introductory text message to be delivered to a recipient when a voice-enabled communications device is used to send a message to the recipient for a first time. For example, audio input data that includes an instruction to send a text message can be received and an application can analyze the audio input data to determine an instruction to send a text message, a message body, and an intended recipient of the text message. The application can determine whether a text message has previously been sent to the intended recipient using the voice-enabled communications device or another device associated with the customer's account. In the situation where a text message has been sent, a text message is generated that includes the message body and the application causes the text message to be sent to the intended recipient.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Ryan Christopher Rapp, Douglas Vincent O'Dell, III, Kathryn Lynn Parker, Jonathan Leonard Da Silva, Ian Michael Menzies, Christo Frank Devaraj, David Michael Rowell
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Patent number: 9494551Abstract: Provided herein is a system, including a platform for performing at least one assay protocol. The platform may include a flow cell that can include at least one sensor. The platform may also include a reader that can be in communication with the sensor. Moreover, the sensor may maintain communication with the reader for the entirety of the performance of the assay protocols to transmit data regarding physical events within the flow cell or an electrochemical state of any substance contained within the flow cell.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2014Date of Patent: November 15, 2016Assignee: Vantix Holdings LimitedInventors: Andy Gover, Kathleen Vincent, Julianne Dillon, Bryan Perrotti, Christopher J. Morse, Douglas Vincent, Kristin Jugenheimer Size
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Patent number: 9471203Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for determining and/or presenting supplemental content associated with media content. In some embodiments, supplemental content may include information regarding characters, places, events, and/or user generated data associated with media content. Supplemental content may be determined through the use of one or more indexes and/or data structures that relate media content with supplemental content items. User interfaces may be generated to present the supplemental content items in a particular order, layout, and/or streaming animation to provide context for the user. In some embodiments, the user interfaces including the supplemental content may be configured to receive user input for navigation of the media content.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2014Date of Patent: October 18, 2016Assignee: AUDIBLE, INC.Inventors: Douglas Vincent O'Dell, III, Colin Anton Ochel
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Patent number: 9411422Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for enabling user interaction with content markers of a content item. Content markers can generally correspond to any point of interest in the content item. In one embodiment, a scrub bar is provided enabling user navigation to locations within the content item. As a user utilizes the scrub bar to select a location corresponding to a content marker, a haptic notification is provided to the user indicative of a corresponding point of interest. Thereafter, the user may halt interaction with the scrub bar to being playback of the content item at the point of interest. In another embodiment, a user is enabled to provide input perpendicular to a displayed scrub bar to alternate between multiple available scrub bars and/or points of interest. For example, multiple scrub bars may be provided, each associated with a given type of point of interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2013Date of Patent: August 9, 2016Assignee: Audible, Inc.Inventors: Phillip Scott McClendon, Ajay Arora, Timothy Thomas Gray, Douglas Vincent O'Dell, III
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Publication number: 20150346143Abstract: Provided herein is a system, including a platform for performing at least one assay protocol. The platform may include a flow cell that can include at least one sensor. The platform may also include a reader that can be in communication with the sensor. Moreover, the sensor may maintain communication with the reader for the entirety of the performance of the assay protocols to transmit data regarding physical events within the flow cell or an electrochemical state of any substance contained within the flow cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2014Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Andy Gover, Kathleen Vincent, Julianne Dillon, Bryan Perrotti, Christopher J. Morse, Douglas Vincent, Kristin Jugenheimer Size
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Publication number: 20140377721Abstract: A computing device may provide an interface that enables a user to synchronously present an item of primary content and a corresponding braille translation. The item of primary content may be an audio book, an e-book, or other form of media. The item of primary content may include supplemental information which may correspond, for example, to character descriptions, place descriptions, image descriptions, endnotes, footnotes, glossaries, appendices, commentary from an author, editor, or other party, or to additional supplemental information, and which may also have a corresponding braille translation. During presentation of the item of primary content, a user may indicate that an item of supplemental information associated with a current presentation position of the item of primary content should be presented. In some embodiments, this indication may be in response to an indication to the user that supplemental information is available.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: David W. Reid, Guy Ashley Story, JR., Ajay Arora, Douglas Vincent O'Dell, III, Douglas Cho Hwang
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Publication number: 20140377722Abstract: A computing device may provide an interface that enables a user to synchronously present an item of primary content and a corresponding braille translation. The item of primary content may be an audio book, an e-book, or other form of media. The item of primary content may include supplemental information which may correspond, for example, to character descriptions, place descriptions, image descriptions, endnotes, footnotes, glossaries, appendices, commentary from an author, editor, or other party, or to additional supplemental information, and which may also have a corresponding braille translation. During presentation of the item of primary content, a user may indicate that an item of supplemental information associated with a current presentation position of the item of primary content should be presented. In some embodiments, this indication may be in response to an indication to the user that supplemental information is available.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2013Publication date: December 25, 2014Inventors: David W. Reid, Guy Ashley Story, Ajay Arora, Douglas Vincent O'Dell, Douglas Cho Hwang
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Patent number: 8714092Abstract: A switch system for a guided automatic transit vehicle (GATV) is adapted for maintaining a first path of travel or for redirecting the first path of travel of the GATV. The switch includes a continuous guide having a first end and a pivotable second end opposite the first end. The continuous guide has a first edge with a first edge profile and a first continuous sidewall and a second edge with a second edge profile and a second continuous sidewall. A pivot point having a pivot axis is provided at the pivotable second end. The switch system pivots about the pivot point from a first position and a second position. In the first position, the switch system maintains the GATV along the first path of travel via the first continuous sidewall. In the second position, the GATV travels along a second path via the second continuous sidewall.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbHInventor: Douglas Vincent Heitzenrater
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Publication number: 20130199404Abstract: A switch system for a guided automatic transit vehicle (GATV) is adapted for maintaining a first path of travel or for redirecting the first path of travel of the GATV. The switch includes a continuous guide having a first end and a pivotable second end opposite the first end. The continuous guide has a first edge with a first edge profile and a first continuous sidewall and a second edge with a second edge profile and a second continuous sidewall. A pivot point having a pivot axis is provided at the pivotable second end. The switch system pivots about the pivot point from a first position and a second position. In the first position, the switch system maintains the GATV along the first path of travel via the first continuous sidewall. In the second position, the GATV travels along a second path via the second continuous sidewall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2012Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicant: BOMBARDIER TRANSPORTATION GMBHInventor: Douglas Vincent Heitzenrater
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Patent number: 7850593Abstract: A pumping system 10, FIG. 1, provides a physiological pulsatile flow and includes controller 121, a pump drive head 50 coupled to a motor 12 and a fluid housing 52 having at least one port 60. The port 60 includes a ball valve retainer region 69, a valve seat 73, and an occluder ball 71 disposed in the ball valve retainer region 69. During operation, the motor 12 forces the fluid in and out the fluid housing 52 and causes the occluder ball 71 to move from a first position whereby the fluid cannot pass through the port 60, to a second position whereby the fluid moves annular to and generally around the occluder ball 71. This movement creates a slight flow reversal that “breaks up” any blood clots that may form. The pumping system may be used as part of a cardiopulmonary bypass system, a ventricular assist device (VAD) and/or a heart pump.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Design Mentor, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Vincent, Matthew J. Murphy
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Publication number: 20070255089Abstract: A pumping system 10, FIG. 1, provides a physiological pulsatile flow and includes controller 121, a pump drive head 50 coupled to a motor 12 and a fluid housing 52 having at least one port 60. The port 60 includes a ball valve retainer region 69, a valve seat 73, and an occluder ball 71 disposed in the ball valve retainer region 69. During operation, the motor 12 forces the fluid in and out the fluid housing 52 and causes the occluder ball 71 to move from a first position whereby the fluid cannot pass through the port 60, to a second position whereby the fluid moves annular to and generally around the occluder ball 71. This movement creates a slight flow reversal that “breaks up” any blood clots that may form. The pumping system may be used as part of a cardiopulmonary bypass system, a ventricular assist device (VAD) and/or a heart pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: November 1, 2007Applicant: Design Mentor, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Vincent, Matthew Murphy
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Patent number: 7238165Abstract: A pumping system 10 provides a physiological pulsatile flow and includes controller 121, a pump drive head 50 coupled to a motor 12 and a fluid housing 52 having at least one port 60. The port 60 includes a ball valve retainer region 69, a valve seat 73, and an occluder ball 71 disposed in the ball valve retainer region 69. During operation, the motor 12 forces the fluid in and out the fluid housing 52 and causes the occluder ball 71 to move from a first position whereby the fluid cannot pass through the port 60, to a second position whereby the fluid moves annular to and generally around the occluder ball 71. This movement creates a slight flow reversal that “breaks up” any blood clots that may form. The pumping system may be used as part of a cardiopulmonary bypass system, a ventricular assist device (VAD) and/or a heart pump.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2003Date of Patent: July 3, 2007Assignee: Design Mentor, Inc.Inventors: Douglas Vincent, Matthew J. Murphy
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Patent number: 7237084Abstract: A method of allocating memory operates to avoid overlapping hot spots in cache that can ordinarily cause cache thrashing. This method includes steps of determining a spacer size, reserving a spacer block of memory from a memory pool, and allocating memory at a location following the spacer block. In an alternative embodiment, the spacer size is determined randomly in a range of allowable spacer size. In other alternative embodiments, spacers are allocated based upon size of a previously allocated memory block.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2003Date of Patent: June 26, 2007Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Douglas Vincent Larson, Richard Glen Fowles, Blaine Douglas Gaither, Benjamin Daniel Osecky
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Publication number: 20040015042Abstract: A pumping system 10 provides a physiological pulsatile flow and includes controller 121, a pump drive head 50 coupled to a motor 12 and a fluid housing 52 having at least one port 60. The port 60 includes a ball valve retainer region 69, a valve seat 73, and an occluder ball 71 disposed in the ball valve retainer region 69. During operation, the motor 12 forces the fluid in and out the fluid housing 52 and causes the occluder ball 71 to move from a first position whereby the fluid cannot pass through the port 60, to a second position whereby the fluid moves annular to and generally around the occluder ball 71. This movement creates a slight flow reversal that “breaks up” any blood clots that may form. The pumping system may be used as part of a cardiopulmonary bypass system, a ventricular assist device (VAD) and/or a heart pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2003Publication date: January 22, 2004Inventors: Douglas Vincent, Matthew J. Murphy
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Patent number: 5650808Abstract: A color ink-jet pen for printing different colors of ink while simultaneously minimizing or eliminating color bleed. The pen includes a printhead having a nozzle plate for ejecting ink from the printhead onto the print medium. The nozzle plate includes a plurality of groups of nozzles, with each nozzle group dispensing a different color of ink and with adjacent nozzles in each group being separated by an index length. Adjacent groups of nozzles are always separated from each other by a group spacing distance greater than the index length. The group spacing distance is equal to an integer multiple of the index length, yet less than the swath width for each group. The pen is used in an ink-jet printer wherein the swath advance distance by which the paper is advanced between each swath is equal to the number of nozzles within a color group times the index distance.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 1995Date of Patent: July 22, 1997Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Kent Douglas Vincent, John Phillip Ertel
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Patent number: D1019406Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Ring Container Technologies, LLCInventors: Paul Vincent Kelley, Christopher Marcrum, Douglas Miles Dygert