Patents by Inventor Eric Davidson
Eric Davidson 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: 20240083010Abstract: An omnidirectional tool handle that may be optimized for users with different hand sizes is described. The tool handle may include a curved body with various recesses and protuberances, associated with different usage motions. The tool handle may include various user interface features. The tool handle may be coupled to various tools or implements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Rutabaga Education LLCInventors: Kaitlin Davidson Mitchell, Eric Georges Duvauchelle
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Publication number: 20230058857Abstract: Provided herein are modified tomato plants comprising an introduced modification of genomic DNA at the SlFSR gene or a transcription regulatory region thereof. In some instances, the introduced modification is heritable. In some instances, the introduced modification is an epigenetic such as hypermethylation. Also provided are progeny plants produced from the modified tomato plants, tomato seeds and tomato fruit produced by the modified tomato plants or progeny plants. Also provided are methods of making and growing the modified tomato plant and obtaining modified tomato fruit as well as nucleic acid reagents useful in the methods.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Sound Agriculture CompanyInventors: Travis Bayer, Jennifer Samson, Eric Davidson, Shaneece Flores Gonzales, Jack Colicchio, Alex Greenlon
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Publication number: 20210329917Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds, salts, solvates of Formula (1), and any formulation thereof. Also disclosed are methods of increasing soil nutrient availability to a plant by contacting a plant or soil with compounds, salts, solvates of Formula (1), or any formulation thereof. The compounds and methods disclosed herein may increase an amount of nitrogen or soluble phosphate in a soil.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Travis BAYER, Allison SCHWARTZ, Kevin SCHNEIDER, Eric DAVIDSON, Christian IBARRA, Aden KINNE, Megan KAVANAUGH
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Patent number: 10655056Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to guanidine- or guanidinium-containing clay or shale stabilizers for treatment of subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation that can include placing a composition including a clay or shale stabilizer including at least one of a substituted guanidine group and a substituted guanidinium group in a subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Cato Russell McDaniel, William Walter Shumway, Eric Davidson
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Publication number: 20200100855Abstract: Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for endoscopically-assisted percutaneous medical procedures. A method can include inserting a first medical instrument having an elongated shaft and a first position sensor into a treatment region of a patient through a natural orifice of the patient. A first position of the first medical instrument within the treatment region can be determined with the first position sensor. A target location can be defined within the treatment region that is distanced from the determined first position. A second medical instrument can be percutaneously guided toward the target location. The method can be performed on a robotically-enabled medical system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Richard August Leparmentier, Eric Davidson, Enrique Romo
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Patent number: 10577358Abstract: Disclosed herein are plant propagation materials, methods of manufacturing, formulations and uses thereof. The plant propagation materials disclosed herein may comprise a strigolactone obtained by a biosynthetic process. The plant propagation material may comprise a chemical mimic of a strigolactone. The strigolactone may be 5-deoxystrigol. Methods of manufacturing the plant propagation materials may comprise a chemical process. Alternatively, methods of manufacturing the plant propagation material may comprise a biosynthetic process. The methods may comprise use of one or more polynucleotides. The polynucleotides may encode a metabolite. The polynucleotides may comprise one or more genes encoding one or more components of a strigolactone pathway.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: SOUND AGRICULTURE COMPANYInventors: Eric A. Davidson, Travis S. Bayer, Oliver Windram, Yonek Hleba
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Patent number: 10550319Abstract: A method of servicing a wellbore in a subterranean formation comprising preparing a wellbore servicing fluid comprising (i) a breaking agent, a breaking agent precursor, or combinations thereof, wherein the breaking agent comprises a sugar acid and (ii) an aqueous base fluid, and contacting the wellbore servicing fluid with a filter cake in the wellbore and/or subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2013Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Cato Russell McDaniel, Eric Davidson
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Publication number: 20190225873Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to guanidine- or guanidinium-containing clay or shale stabilizers for treatment of subterranean formations. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation that can include placing a composition including a clay or shale stabilizer including at least one of a substituted guanidine group and a substituted guanidinium group in a subterranean formation.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Cato Russell McDaniel, William Walter Shumway, Eric Davidson
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Patent number: 10294410Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to guanidine- or guanidinium-containing clay or shale stabilizers for treatment of subterranean formations, in various embodiments, the present invention provides a method of treating a subterranean formation that can include placing a composition including a clay or shale stabilizer including at least one of a substituted guanidine group and a substituted guanidinium group in a subterranean formation.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Cato Russell McDaniel, William Walter Shumway, Eric Davidson
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Patent number: 10267156Abstract: A turbine bucket assembly and turbine system are disclosed. The turbine bucket assembly includes a single-lobe joint having an integral platform, the joint having a first axial length; a segmented airfoil having a root segment extending radially outward from the platform and a tip segment coupled to the root segment, the tip segment having a second axial length, which is less than the first axial length; and a turbine wheel defining a receptacle with a geometry corresponding to the single-lobe joint and being coupled to the single-lobe joint. The tip segment includes a tip segment material, the root segment includes a root segment material, and the turbine wheel includes a turbine wheel material, the root segment material and the turbine wheel material having a lower heat resistance and a higher thermal expansion than the tip segment material.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Dwight Eric Davidson, Michael David McDufford, Brian Denver Potter, Stephen Joseph Balsone, Stephen Paul Wassynger
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Patent number: 10246631Abstract: Methods of stimulating a subterranean formation using an acid precursor composition. A method of stimulating a subterranean formation. The method includes placing a fracturing composition in a subterranean formation. The method includes hydraulically fracturing the subterranean formation with the fracturing composition, to form at least one fracture and a spent fracturing composition. The method includes flushing the subterranean formation. The method includes placing an acid precursor composition in the subterranean formation, the acid precursor composition including an acid precursor. The method includes forming an acid from the acid precursor. The method also includes acidizing the subterranean formation with the formed acid.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2014Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Steven Blattel, Eric Davidson
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Publication number: 20190084970Abstract: Disclosed herein plant propagation materials, methods of manufacturing, formulations and uses thereof. The plant propagation materials disclosed herein may comprise a strigolactone obtained by a biosynthetic process. The plant propagation material may comprise a chemical mimic of a strigolactone. The strigolactone may be 5-deoxystrigol. Methods of manufacturing the plant propagation materials may comprise a chemical process. Alternatively, methods of manufacturing the plant propagation material may comprise a biosynthetic process. The methods may comprise use of one or more polynucleotides. The polynucleotides may encode a metabolite. The polynucleotides may comprise one or more genes encoding one or more components of a strigolactone pathway.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Eric A. Davidson, Travis S. Bayer, Oliver Windram, Yonek Hleba
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Publication number: 20190010868Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a shaft assembly including: a first shaft extending through a compressor and a turbine of the turbomachine; a second shaft coupled to the first shaft through a load coupling component; a generator mounted on the second shaft, wherein the turbine drives the generator; a plurality of mono-type low-loss bearings supporting the first and second shafts at the compressor, turbine, and generator; and a plurality of rotating blade structures within the compressor and the turbine of the turbomachine, wherein at least one of the plurality of rotating blade structures in the compressor includes a low-density material, and at least one of the plurality of rotating blade structures in the turbine includes the low-density material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Dwight Eric Davidson, Jeffrey John Butkiewicz, Jeremy Daniel Van Dam, Thomas Edward Wickert
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Patent number: 10167872Abstract: A compressor includes a first stage of stator vanes having a first position and a second group of stator vanes arranged in two or more stages downstream from the first stage of stator vanes, each stage having a respective second position. A first actuator is engaged with the first stage of stator vanes, and a second actuator is engaged with a bar connecting the second group of stator vanes. A method for operating a compressor includes adjusting a first position of a first plurality of stator vanes and adjusting the respective second positions of a second group of stator vanes separately from the first position of the first stage of stator vanes.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Dwight Eric Davidson, Paul Griffin Delvernois
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Patent number: 10132330Abstract: A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Prabakaran Modachur Krishnan, Dwight Eric Davidson
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Patent number: 10066641Abstract: A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Prabakaran Modachur Krishnan, Dwight Eric Davidson, Nandakumar Aladahalli Rangaswamy
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Publication number: 20180230822Abstract: In some embodiments, a gamma titanium aluminide alloy consists essentially of, in atomic percent, about 38 to about 50% aluminum, about 6% niobium, about 0.25 to about 2% tungsten, optionally up to about 1.5% boron, about 0.01 to about 1.0% carbon, optionally up to about 2% chromium, optionally up to about 2% vanadium, optionally up to about 2% manganese, and the balance titanium and incidental impurities. In some embodiments, the gamma titanium aluminide alloy forms at least a portion of a gas turbine component. In some embodiments, a gamma titanium aluminide alloy, consisting essentially of, in atomic percent, about 40 to about 50% aluminum, about 3 to about 5% niobium, about 0.5 to about 1.5% tungsten, about 0.01 to about 1.5% boron, about 0.01 to about 1.0% carbon, optionally up to about 2% chromium, optionally up to about 2% vanadium, optionally up to about 2% manganese, and the balance titanium and incidental impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Stephen Joseph BALSONE, Dwight Eric DAVIDSON, Michael Francis Xavier GIGLIOTTI, JR., Pazhayannur Ramanathan SUBRAMANIAN, Akane SUZUKI
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Publication number: 20180230576Abstract: In some embodiments, a gamma titanium aluminide alloy consists essentially of, in atomic percent, 38 to about 50% aluminum, 1 to about 6% niobium, 0.25 to about 2% tungsten, 0.01 to about 1.5% boron, up to about 1% carbon, optionally up to about 2% chromium, optionally up to about 2% vanadium, up to about 2% manganese, and the balance titanium and incidental impurities. In some embodiments, the gamma titanium aluminide alloy forms at least a portion of a gas turbine component. In some embodiments, a gamma titanium aluminide alloy, consists essentially of, in atomic percent, about 40 to about 50% aluminum, about 1 to about 5% niobium, about 0.3 to about 1% tungsten, about 0.1 to about 0.3% boron, up to about 0.1% carbon, up to about 2% chromium, up to about 2% vanadium, up to about 2% manganese, up to about 1% molybdenum, and the balance titanium and incidental impurities.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2017Publication date: August 16, 2018Inventors: Stephen Joseph BALSONE, Dwight Eric DAVIDSON, Michael Francis Xavier GIGLIOTTI, JR., Pazhayannur Ramanathan SUBRAMANIAN, Akane SUZUKI
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Patent number: 9994557Abstract: Disclosed herein plant propagation materials, methods of manufacturing, formulations and uses thereof. The plant propagation materials disclosed herein may comprise a strigolactone obtained by a biosynthetic process. The plant propagation material may comprise a chemical mimic of a strigolactone. The strigolactone may be 5-deoxystrigol. Methods of manufacturing the plant propagation materials may comprise a chemical process. Alternatively, methods of manufacturing the plant propagation material may comprise a biosynthetic process. The methods may comprise use of one or more polynucleotides. The polynucleotides may encode a metabolite. The polynucleotides may comprise one or more genes encoding one or more components of a strigolactone pathway.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Asilomar Bio, Inc.Inventors: Eric A. Davidson, Travis S. Bayer, Oliver Windram, Yonek Hleba
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Publication number: 20180094643Abstract: A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2016Publication date: April 5, 2018Inventors: Prabakaran Modachur Krishnan, Dwight Eric Davidson, Nandakumar Aladahalli Rangaswamy