Patents by Inventor Elizabeth A. Mercer

Elizabeth A. Mercer 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).

  • System and method of a mobile electrical system
    Patent number: 11938825
    Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle having a prime mover motively coupled to a drive line; a motor/generator selectively coupled to the drive line, and configured to selectively modulate power transfer between an electrical load and the drive line; a battery pack; a DC/DC converter electrically interposed between the motor/generator and the electrical load, and between the battery pack and the electrical load, the DC/DC converter comprising a DC/DC converter housing; and a covering tray positioned over a plurality of batteries of the battery pack, the covering tray comprising a connectivity layer configured to provide electrical connectivity to terminals of the plurality of batteries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Nihal Sukhatankar, Mahesh Prabhakar Joshi, Shivaprasad Vithal Goud, Thomas Joseph Stoltz, Matthew Richard Busdiecker, Kaylah J. Berndt, Glenn Clark Fortune, Sarah Elizabeth Behringer, Mark Steven George, Dennis Dukaric, Thomas Alan Genise, Gary Baker, Tissaphern Mirfakhrai, Elizabeth Jane Mercer, Viken Rafi Yeranosian, Lesley Earl Candler, Nicole Downing, Lalit Murlidhar Patil, Suyog Shekhar Kulkarni, Sunil Kumar Kunche, Rishabh Kumar Jain, Juan Chen
  • Feedback system and method for assessing fixation and stability of implantable leads
    Patent number: 9212981
    Abstract: A lead fixation and stability feedback assembly for testing stability and anchoring of a fixation tip of a distal end of an implantable lead to a tissue is disclosed. The assembly includes a first member including a first coupling arrangement configured to couple to a proximal end of an implantable lead, wherein the proximal end of the implantable lead is coupled to a distal end of the implantable lead configured to be anchored to a tissue, and a second member including a second coupling arrangement configured to couple the first member to the second member, the second coupling arrangement configured to decouple the second member from the first member when a predetermined force is applied to pull the second member away from the first member to thereby test the anchoring of the distal end of the implantable lead to the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Elizabeth Mercer, Johnny Zhang, Joseph Michael Pellettiere, Jason Wenhaw Lee
  • Feedback System and Method for Assessing Fixation and Stability of Implantable Leads
    Publication number: 20140165738
    Abstract: A lead fixation and stability feedback assembly for testing stability and anchoring of a fixation tip of a distal end of an implantable lead to a tissue is disclosed. The assembly includes a first member including a first coupling arrangement configured to couple to a proximal end of an implantable lead, wherein the proximal end of the implantable lead is coupled to a distal end of the implantable lead configured to be anchored to a tissue, and a second member including a second coupling arrangement configured to couple the first member to the second member, the second coupling arrangement configured to decouple the second member from the first member when a predetermined force is applied to pull the second member away from the first member to thereby test the anchoring of the distal end of the implantable lead to the tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2013
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Applicant: PURDUE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Elizabeth Mercer, Johnny Zhang, Joseph Michael Pellettiere, Jason Wenhaw Lee
  • Liquid sorbent materials
    Patent number: 4379804
    Abstract: Composite, liquid-sorbent media which can be applied to various substrates to provide improved liquid-sorbent materials. The composite media comprise a liquid-sorbent underlayer and, overlying said underlayer, a liquid-permeable surface layer, the liquid sorptivity of said underlayer being greater than the liquid sorptivity of said surface layer. Transparent sheets having the liquid-sorbent composite media coated on the surface are described as a preferred embodiment of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1980
    Date of Patent: April 12, 1983
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: John F. Eisele, Elizabeth A. Mercer
  • Transparent sheet material
    Patent number: 4301195
    Abstract: Transparent sheet material comprising a transparent backing having an ink-receptive stratum thereon. The ink-receptive stratum comprises either a mixture of two polymers or individual layers of each polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 1980
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1981
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Mercer, John F. Eisele
  • Transparent sheet material
    Patent number: 4225652
    Abstract: Transparent sheet material comprising a transparent backing having an ink-receptive stratum thereon. The ink-receptive stratum comprises either a mixture of two polymers or individual layers of each polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 1979
    Date of Patent: September 30, 1980
    Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth A. Mercer, John F. Eisele