Patents by Inventor Eric A. SOLLER
Eric A. SOLLER 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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Patent number: 11659840Abstract: An oven may include a cooking chamber, a user interface, a first energy source, a second energy source and a cooking controller. The cooking chamber may be configured to receive a food product. The user interface may be configured to display information associated with processes employed for cooking the food product. The first energy source may provide primary heating of the food product placed in the cooking chamber. The second energy source may provide browning for the food product. The cooking controller may be operably coupled to the first and second energy sources. The cooking controller may include processing circuitry configured to enable an operator to make a browning control selection via the user interface by providing operator instructions to a selected control console rendered at the user interface. The selected control console may be selected based on a cooking mode of the oven.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2020Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Joshua B. Murphy, Jeffrey T. Debord, Eric A. Soller, Richard W. Cartwright
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Patent number: 11301788Abstract: A method for enabling network communication relating to a food preparation asset may include receiving, from a third party participant, a registration request to join a community including asset operators that operate at least one food preparation asset, registering the third party participant as a community member, providing the third party participant with access to a communication network for sharing information related to the asset, receiving data indicative of asset related activity, providing the third party participant with data indicative of asset related activity, and enabling the third party participant to establish communications with the asset or asset operators via the communication network based on the data indicative of asset related activity.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Illinois Tool Works, Inc.Inventors: Richard W. Cartwright, Damon C. Childers, Eric A. Soller
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Publication number: 20200187509Abstract: An oven may include a cooking chamber, a user interface, a first energy source, a second energy source and a cooking controller. The cooking chamber may be configured to receive a food product. The user interface may be configured to display information associated with processes employed for cooking the food product. The first energy source may provide primary heating of the food product placed in the cooking chamber. The second energy source may provide browning for the food product. The cooking controller may be operably coupled to the first and second energy sources. The cooking controller may include processing circuitry configured to enable an operator to make a browning control selection via the user interface by providing operator instructions to a selected control console rendered at the user interface. The selected control console may be selected based on a cooking mode of the oven.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 25, 2020Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Joshua B. Murphy, Jeffrey T. Debord, Eric A. Soller, Richard W. Cartwright
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Patent number: 10584881Abstract: An oven includes a cooking chamber configured to receive a food product, a user interface configured to display information associated with processes employed for cooking, first and second energy sources, and a cooking controller. The first energy source provides primary heating and the second energy source provides secondary heating for the food product. The cooking controller may be operably coupled to the first and second energy sources. The cooking controller may include processing circuitry configured to enable an operator to make a browning control selection via the user interface by providing operator instructions to a selected control console rendered at the user interface. The selected control console may be selected based on a cooking mode of the oven. The browning control selection may provide control parameters to direct application of heat to the food product via the second energy source.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.Inventors: Joshua B. Murphy, Jeffrey T. Debord, Eric A. Soller, Richard W. Cartwright
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Patent number: 9740998Abstract: A content distribution platform may include processing circuitry having a processor and memory. The memory may store a plurality of content items associated with at least one content library. The processor may be configured to enable distribution of the content items to at least a selected asset among a plurality of food preparation assets via a network. The content items may include at least visible content descriptive of a food item preparable using the selected asset and invisible content including non-human readable instructions for enabling the selected asset to prepare the food item.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2012Date of Patent: August 22, 2017Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.Inventors: Richard W. Cartwright, Damon C. Childers, Eric A. Soller
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Patent number: 9303879Abstract: A jet plate for directing a flow of air in a cooking chamber of an oven may include a body and a plurality of air delivery orifices. The body may be configured to be disposed along a sidewall of the cooking chamber proximate to a rack or pan support. The air delivery orifices may pass through the body. The air delivery orifices may be disposed to extend transversely across the body and may be distributed along a longitudinal length of the body such that a density of air delivery orifices proximate to one portion of the jet plate is higher than a density of air delivery orifices at another portion of the jet plate.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2013Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Dale L. Price, Eric A. Soller, Kenneth A. Gratz
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Publication number: 20140330908Abstract: A content distribution platform may include processing circuitry having a processor and memory. The memory may store a plurality of content items associated with at least one content library. The processor may be configured to enable distribution of the content items to at least a selected asset among a plurality of food preparation assets via a network. The content items may include at least visible content descriptive of a food item preparable using the selected asset and invisible content including non-human readable instructions for enabling the selected asset to prepare the food item.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: November 6, 2014Applicant: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Richard W. Cartwright, Damon C. Childers, Eric A. Soller
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Publication number: 20140310189Abstract: A method for enabling network communication relating to a food preparation asset may include receiving, from a third party participant, a registration request to join a community including asset operators that operate at least one food preparation asset, registering the third party participant as a community member, providing the third party participant with access to a communication network for sharing information related to the asset, receiving data indicative of asset related activity, providing the third party participant with data indicative of asset related activity, and enabling the third party participant to establish communications with the asset or asset operators via the communication network based on the data indicative of asset related activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: October 16, 2014Inventors: Richard W. Cartwright, Damon C. Childers, Eric A. Soller
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Publication number: 20140297467Abstract: A method for enabling network communication relating to a food preparation asset may include receiving, from a third party participant, a registration request to join a community including asset operators that operate at least one food preparation asset and registering the third party participant as a community member. The method may further include providing the third party participant with access to a communication network for sharing content items related to the asset and providing the third party participant with content creation tools to facilitate the creation of content items that include instructions associated with operation of the asset relative to preparation of a food product. The method may further include enabling the third party participant to distribute the content items to the asset operators via the communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2012Publication date: October 2, 2014Inventors: Eric A. Soller, Damon C. Childers, Richard W. Cartwright
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Publication number: 20130306052Abstract: A jet plate for directing a flow of air in a cooking chamber of an oven may include a body and a plurality of air delivery orifices. The body may be configured to be disposed along a sidewall of the cooking chamber proximate to a rack or pan support. The air delivery orifices may pass through the body. The air delivery orifices may be disposed to extend transversely across the body and may be distributed along a longitudinal length of the body such that a density of air delivery orifices proximate to one portion of the jet plate is higher than a density of air delivery orifices at another portion of the jet plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.Inventors: Dale L. Price, Eric A. Soller, Kenneth A. Gratz
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Publication number: 20130092145Abstract: An oven includes a cooking chamber configured to receive a food product, a user interface configured to display information associated with processes employed for cooking, first and second energy sources, and a cooking controller. The first energy source provides primary heating and the second energy source provides secondary heating for the food product. The cooking controller may be operably coupled to the first and second energy sources. The cooking controller may include processing circuitry configured to enable an operator to make a browning control selection via the user interface by providing operator instructions to a selected control console rendered at the user interface. The selected control console may be selected based on a cooking mode of the oven. The browning control selection may provide control parameters to direct application of heat to the food product via the second energy source.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: April 18, 2013Applicant: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS, INC.Inventors: Joshua B. MURPHY, Jeffrey T. DEBORD, Eric A. SOLLER, Richard W. CARTWRIGHT
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Publication number: 20070298071Abstract: A device for inhibiting adhesion of apposing human body tissue layers includes a scaffold having a designated mean pore size, relative density, and degradation half-life. The scaffold may be operably positioned between apposing tissue layers, such as proximate adhesiogenic layers at a wound site, so as to permit remesothelialization of the tissue without formation of fibrous adhesions. The scaffold device of the invention inhibits adhesion formation by promoting contractile cell migration away from the wound site for a predetermined period of time. The invention further relates to device and methods for promoting internal tissue regeneration, and for provision and/or dispensation of therapeutic and/or diagnostic agents in vivo.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventors: Brendan Harley, Eric Soller, Eric Aiazian