Patents by Inventor Eric Jacob
Eric Jacob 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: 9535427Abstract: Temperature-controlled pressure regulators are described. An example temperature-controlled pressure regulator described herein includes a regulator body having a process fluid inlet fluidly coupled to a process fluid outlet via a first passageway and a heat transfer medium inlet to be fluidly coupled to a heat transfer medium outlet via a second passageway, where the heat transfer medium inlet is integrally formed with the regulator body. A heat chamber body is removably coupled to the regulator body to form a chamber between the heat transfer medium inlet and the heat transfer medium outlet. At least a portion of the first passageway is disposed within the chamber, and the chamber is to receive a heat transfer medium via the heat transfer medium inlet to provide heat to the process fluid as the process fluid flows through the chamber via the first passageway, which separates the process fluid from the heat transfer medium.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2009Date of Patent: January 3, 2017Assignee: Tescom CorporationInventors: Daryll Duane Patterson, Eric Jacob Burgett
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Patent number: 9527697Abstract: A fully articulated and continuous rotation jib crane system includes a first crane arm connected to a crane post by a first pivot joint and a second crane arm connected to the first crane arm by a second pivot joint, each pivot joint including a shaft having a plurality of apertures in fluid communication with the pivot joints and internal bores of the crane arms to transfer a vacuum system pressure, the pivot joints facilitating continuous rotation of each of the first and the second crane arms for any degree of rotation while maintaining the vacuum system pressure through the first and the second pivot joints and the first and the second crane arms.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2014Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: RAKA CORPORATIONInventor: Eric Jacob Steffes
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Publication number: 20160349773Abstract: Temperature-controlled pressure regulators are described. An example method for controlling temperature-controlled pressure regulator includes receiving an input signal indicative of a value representative of a temperature setpoint, where the input signal is within an operating temperature range. The method includes regulating a heat output of a heat source via a control signal based on the received input signal, measuring a temperature of the heat source, comparing the temperature of the heat source to a first threshold, and modifying the control signal to the heat source when the measured temperature is greater than the first threshold, where the first threshold is greater than an upper limit of the operating temperature range.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Wayne David Borowicz, Eric Jacob Burgett
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Patent number: 9454265Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for touch and gesture recognition, using a field sequential color display. The display includes a processor, a lighting system, and an arrangement for spatial light modulation that includes an array of light modulators. Each light modulator is switchable between an open position that permits transmittance of light from the lighting system through a respective aperture and a shut position that blocks light transmission through the respective aperture. The processor switches the light modulators in accordance with a first modulation scheme to render an image and in accordance with a second modulation scheme to selectively pass object illuminating light through at least one of the respective apertures. A light sensor receives light resulting from interaction of the object illuminating with an object and outputs a signal to the processor. The processor recognizes, from the output of the light sensor, a characteristic of the object.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2013Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Paul Eric Jacobs, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Chung-Po Huang, Hae-Jong Seo, Xiquan Cui, Jacek Maitan
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Publication number: 20160085440Abstract: An improved wireless device generates a customized representation of a keyboard for a touch-sensitive screen. The wireless device generates an anatomical model specific to the operator of the wireless device in response to an operator contacting their fingertips in a “typing” position as if the operator were about to use a standard QWERTY keyboard. The anatomical model is used to derive a keyboard layout optimized for a present operator of the wireless device.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2014Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Michael-David Nakayoshi Canoy, Zachary David Rattner, Stephen Alton Sprigg, Paul Eric Jacobs
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Patent number: 9151401Abstract: Fail-safe apparatus for use with fluid valves are disclosed herein. An example fail-safe apparatus includes a first piston, a second piston movably coupled relative to the first piston, and a fluid chamber between the first and second pistons to receive a control fluid. The control fluid is to operatively couple the first and second pistons when the control fluid is provided in the fluid chamber. The first piston is operatively decoupled from the second piston when at least some of the control fluid is removed from the fluid chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2012Date of Patent: October 6, 2015Assignee: TESCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Jacob Burgett, Brian J. Tutt
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Patent number: 9135886Abstract: Process of color calibrating an electronic display screen comprising the steps of displaying at least one trial color of at least one physical sample having standardized color on an electronic display screen, visually comparing the color of the at least one physical sample and the at least one trial color displayed on the electronic display screen, selecting the trial color having the best visual match with the at least one physical sample, and using the selected trial color on the electronic display screen having the best visual match with the at least one physical sample color to color calibrate the electronic display screen.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2011Date of Patent: September 15, 2015Assignee: AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Eric Jacob Jan Kirchner, Ivo Bernardus Nicolaas Van Der Lans, Swie Lan Njo, André Half, Roelof Johannes Baptist Gottenbos
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Patent number: 9109711Abstract: Apparatus to visually indicate a leak from a relief valve are disclosed. In one example, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a pipe plug having a head and a shaft. The pipe plug is to attach to a relief valve. An opening is to extend through the head and shaft. The apparatus also includes a first flexible membrane to cover an end of the opening. In some examples, the first flexible membrane is to expand when fluid is released via the relief valve into the opening of the pipe plug.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2012Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: TESCOM CORPORATIONInventors: Scott Douglas Mattson, Eric Jacob Burgett, Thomas William Logan
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Publication number: 20150211552Abstract: An electronic regulator includes an inlet valve coupled to an inlet port, the inlet port configured to receive a supply pressure, and an exhaust valve coupled to an exhaust port, the exhaust port configured to release a pilot pressure when the exhaust valve is open. The electronic regulator also includes a pilot pressure output pneumatically coupled to the inlet valve and exhaust valve and configured to be coupled to an external process control device to provide the pilot pressure to the external process control device. A setpoint input coupled to both the inlet valve and the exhaust valve receives a setpoint signal indicative of a setpoint value, and the electronic regulator operates the inlet valve and the exhaust valve to control the pilot pressure according to the setpoint value. Further, the electronic regulator includes a vent valve coupled to a venting port and pneumatically coupled to the pilot pressure output.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2014Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: TESCOM CORPORATIONInventors: ERIC JACOB BURGETT, BRIAN J. TUTT
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Publication number: 20150137750Abstract: Exemplary embodiments are directed to wireless power. A wireless charging device may comprise a charging region configured for placement of one or more chargeable devices. The charging device may further include at least one transmit antenna configured for transmitting wireless power within the charging region. Furthermore, the charging device is configured to exchange data between at least one chargeable device of the one or more chargeable devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2015Publication date: May 21, 2015Inventors: Miles Alexander Lyell Kirby, Ernest Tadashi Ozaki, Rinat Burdo, Virginia Walker Keating, Michael John Mangan, Anne Katrin Konertz, Paul Eric Jacobs, William Henry Von Novak, III, Roy Franklin Quick, JR., Roy Howard Davis, Nigel P. Cook, Lukas Sieber, Hanspeter Widmer
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Publication number: 20150084927Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for touch and gesture recognition, using a field sequential color display. The display includes a processor, a lighting system, and an arrangement for spatial light modulation that includes an array of light modulators. Each light modulator is switchable between an open position that permits transmittance of light from the lighting system through a respective aperture and a shut position that blocks light transmission through the respective aperture. The processor switches the light modulators in accordance with a first modulation scheme to render an image and in accordance with a second modulation scheme to selectively pass object illuminating light through at least one of the respective apertures. A light sensor receives light resulting from interaction of the object illuminating with an object and outputs a signal to the processor. The processor recognizes, from the output of the light sensor, a characteristic of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Paul Eric Jacobs, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Chung-Po Huang, Hae-Jong Seo, Xiquan Cui, Jacek Maitan
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Publication number: 20150084928Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for touch and gesture recognition, using a field sequential color display. The display includes a processor, a lighting system, and an arrangement for spatial light modulation that includes an array of light modulators. Each light modulator is switchable between an open position that permits transmittance of light from the lighting system through a respective aperture and a shut position that blocks light transmission through the respective aperture. The processor switches the light modulators in accordance with a first modulation scheme to render an image and in accordance with a second modulation scheme to selectively pass object illuminating light through at least one of the respective apertures. A light sensor receives light resulting from interaction of the object illuminating with an object and outputs a signal to the processor. The processor recognizes, from the output of the light sensor, a characteristic of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Paul Eric Jacobs, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Chung-Po Huang, Hae-Jong Seo, Xiquan Cui, Jacek Maitan
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Publication number: 20150083917Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for touch and gesture recognition, using a field sequential color display. The display includes a processor, a lighting system, and an arrangement for spatial light modulation that includes a number of apertures, and devices for opening and shutting the apertures. A light directing arrangement includes at least one light turning feature. The display lighting system is configured to emit visible light and infrared (IR) light through at least a first opened one of the plurality of apertures. The light turning feature is configured to redirect IR light emitted through the opened aperture into at least one lobe, and to pass visible light emitted by the display lighting system through the opened aperture with substantially no redirection.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Paul Eric Jacobs, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Chung-Po Huang, Hae-Jong Seo, Xiquan Cui, Jacek Maitan
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Publication number: 20150084994Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for touch and gesture recognition, using a field sequential color display. The display includes a processor, a lighting system, and an arrangement for spatial light modulation that includes an array of light modulators. Each light modulator is switchable between an open position that permits transmittance of light from the lighting system through a respective aperture and a shut position that blocks light transmission through the respective aperture. The processor switches the light modulators in accordance with a first modulation scheme to render an image and in accordance with a second modulation scheme to selectively pass object illuminating light through at least one of the respective apertures. A light sensor receives light resulting from interaction of the object illuminating with an object and outputs a signal to the processor. The processor recognizes, from the output of the light sensor, a characteristic of the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2013Publication date: March 26, 2015Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Paul Eric Jacobs, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Chung-Po Huang, Hae-Jong Seo, Xiquan Cui, Jacek Maitan
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Patent number: 8985137Abstract: Mounting assemblies for use with fluid control devices are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a bonnet to be coupled to a valve and a mounting assembly including a first side to be coupled to an actuator and a second side to be rotatably coupled at an end of the bonnet to enable a rotational position of the mounting assembly to change relative to the bonnet.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Tescom CorporationInventors: Eric Jacob Burgett, Brian J. Tutt, Todd William Larsen
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Publication number: 20150071648Abstract: A display device may include a display, an optical touch system proximate the display and a control system. The control system may be capable of receiving input for initiating a peer-to-peer data transfer and of performing an authentication process for the peer-to-peer data transfer. The authentication process may involve obtaining fingerprint images via the optical touch system. The display device may provide a prompt to position the display device proximate a second device, e.g., with the display adjacent to a display of the second device. The display may display data transfer parameters for the peer-to-peer data transfer. The optical touch system may receive a confirmation that the second device received the data transfer parameters. The peer-to-peer data transfer may be performed, at least in part, by an array of optical transceivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: John Hyunchul Hong, Paul Eric Jacobs, Matthew Stuart Grob
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Publication number: 20150070323Abstract: A display device may include a display, an optical touch system proximate the display and a control system. The control system may be capable of receiving input for initiating a peer-to-peer data transfer and of performing an authentication process for the peer-to-peer data transfer. The authentication process may involve obtaining fingerprint images via the optical touch system. The display device may provide a prompt to position the display device proximate a second device, e.g., with the display adjacent to a display of the second device. The display may display data transfer parameters for the peer-to-peer data transfer. The optical touch system may receive a confirmation that the second device received the data transfer parameters. The peer-to-peer data transfer may be performed, at least in part, by an array of optical transceivers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Applicant: Qualcomm IncorporatedInventors: John Hyunchul Hong, Paul Eric Jacobs, Matthew Stuart Grob
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Publication number: 20150026298Abstract: The invention relates to a method of selecting the most probable variant of a matching paint candidate colour standard for vehicle repair using a mobile device having a colour display and an input unit and which is capable of data exchange with a central computer via an at least partly wireless communication line, wherein verbal or symbolic characterizations describing visual differences between a selected candidate colour standard and identified variants are displayed on the display of the mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2012Publication date: January 22, 2015Applicant: AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Eric Jacob Jan Kirchner, Swie Lan Njo, Jeroen Hoogink
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Publication number: 20140360961Abstract: A fully articulated and continuous rotation jib crane system includes a first crane arm connected to a crane post by a first pivot joint and a second crane arm connected to the first crane arm by a second pivot joint, each pivot joint including a shaft having a plurality of apertures in fluid communication with the pivot joints and internal bores of the crane arms to transfer a vacuum system pressure, the pivot joints facilitating continuous rotation of each of the first and the second crane arms for any degree of rotation while maintaining the vacuum system pressure through the first and the second pivot joints and the first and the second crane arms.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2014Publication date: December 11, 2014Inventor: Eric Jacob Steffes
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Patent number: 8415462Abstract: The present invention provides novel peptides of specified sequence and their use as a signal peptide or a membrane-anchoring peptide. It also relates to chimeric polypeptide comprising one or more such peptides and a polypeptide of interest as well as nucleic acid molecules, vectors, infections vital particles and host cells encoding such peptides and chimeric polypeptides. The present invention also relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such elements and a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. The present invention also provides a method for recumbently producing a polypeptide using such peptides, especially for directing expression of a polypeptide of interest extracellularly or anchored at the surface of the plasma membrane.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2008Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Transgene S.A.Inventors: Nathalie Sylvestre, Eric Jacobs