Patents by Inventor Frank Andrews
Frank Andrews 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: 10352825Abstract: A system for controlling an operation of a combustor in a gas turbine that includes: an acoustic sensor configured to periodically measure a pressure of the combustor and generate a raw data stream having the pressure data points resulting from the periodic measurements; and a blowout detection unit configured to receive the raw data stream from the acoustic sensor. The blowout detection unit may include a processor and a machine-readable storage medium on which is stored instructions that cause the processor to execute a procedure related to a detection of a blowout precursor. The procedure may include an ensemble approach in which the detection of the blowout precursor depends upon a outcomes generated respectively by separate detection analytics.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Peter Frank Andrews, Paul Oliver Caffrey, Robert Daniel Reviere
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Publication number: 20190207944Abstract: A method for controlling an operation of an industrial machine that includes authenticating control commands remotely issued by command issuers through a network. The control commands each describe a modifying action to the operation of the industrial machine. The method includes: providing a jump host as a communication buffer between a unit controller of the industrial machine and the network; maintaining within a memory of the jump host whitelisted commands, the whitelisted commands including a list of the approved control commands; receiving, at the jump host, a first control command via the network; determining, at the jump host, whether the first control command is contained within the whitelisted commands; in response to an affirmative determination that the first control command is contained within the whitelisted commands, deeming the first control command as being authenticated; and transmitting the first control command to the unit controller of the industrial machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2017Publication date: July 4, 2019Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Paul Oliver Caffrey, Robert Scott Garry, Peter Frank Andrews, Clemens Karl Woeste, Robert Hugh Putman, Gregory Pearson Fry
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Patent number: 10299410Abstract: A modular cooling apparatus for cooling one or more rack-mounted electronic component enclosures in a datacenter includes a base duct section and a duct assembly. The base duct section includes an inlet to receive a cooling airflow and an outlet to transfer to the cooling airflow to the duct assembly. The duct assembly is connected to the base duct section. The duct assembly includes one or more modular duct sections. Each of the one or more modular duct sections has a vent and is configured such that the vent aligns with an exterior opening in the respective one of the one or more electronic component enclosures.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Shawn Duane Patrick, Frank Andrew Glynn, Alan Joseph Lachapelle, Giorgio Arturo Pompei
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Patent number: 10175737Abstract: Techniques are described for providing an automatic transfer switch (ATS), such as in a data center, to switch between a primary power system and a reserve power system based on a priority of the computing systems to which the ATS is supplying power. The ATS obtains the priority from a centralized database and obtains an existing load on the reserve power system. If the existing load is too high and the priority of the computing systems coupled to the ATS is too low, then the ATS may not switch to utilizing the reserve power system upon a failure in the primary power system.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Yuan Kong, Frank Andrew Glynn, Hoang Pham, John William Eichelberg, Christopher M. Ballard
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Publication number: 20180328518Abstract: A push rack pipe pusher having a base. A first frame coupled to the base. A second frame coupled to the base. A first pressurized cylinder coupled to the base. A second pressurized cylinder coupled to the base. A third pressurized cylinder coupled to the base. A fourth pressurized cylinder coupled to the base. A lower track conveyer system coupled to the base and positioned between the first frame and the second frame. An upper track conveyer system coupled to the pressurized cylinders and positioned between the first frame and the second frame. A control unit coupled to the upper track conveyer system, the lower track conveyer system, and the pressurized cylinders.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Broussard Brothers Inc.Inventors: Noah Raywood Broussard, III, Frank Andrew Young
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Publication number: 20180328817Abstract: A system for controlling an operation of a combustor in a gas turbine that includes: an acoustic sensor configured to periodically measure a pressure of the combustor and generate a raw data stream having the pressure data points resulting from the periodic measurements; and a blowout detection unit configured to receive the raw data stream from the acoustic sensor. The blowout detection unit may include a processor and a machine-readable storage medium on which is stored instructions that cause the processor to execute a procedure related to a detection of a blowout precursor. The procedure may include an ensemble approach in which the detection of the blowout precursor depends upon a outcomes generated respectively by separate detection analytics.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2017Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Peter Frank Andrews, Paul Oliver Caffrey, Robert Daniel Reviere
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Publication number: 20180265196Abstract: A quick-deploying portable unmanned aerial system/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) pad that provides a landing zone in a variety of different environments. The pad includes a flexible basal platform, a flexible band, a plurality of electronic accessories, and an operations management hub. The flexible basal platform outlines a landing zone and is composed of a non-permeable fabric. The flexible band is concentrically aligned with a central axis of the flexible basal platform and is tensionably mounted to the flexible basal platform. The plurality of electronic accessories includes a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and a wireless communication device for facilitating landing procedures. The plurality of LEDs is distributed and adjacently connected about the flexible basal platform for increased visibility. The wireless communication device allows for wireless connection with a user and or a UAV. The operations management hub electrically and electronically controls the electronic accessories.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Frank Andrew Phillips, Al Eckford
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Publication number: 20180068868Abstract: Articles including a glass-based substrate with holes, semiconductor packages including an article with holes, and methods of fabricating holes in a substrate are disclosed. In one embodiment, an article includes a glass-based substrate having a first surface, a second surface, and at least one hole extending from the first surface. The at least one hole has an interior wall having a surface roughness Ra that is less than or equal to 1 ?m. The at least one hole has a first opening having a first diameter that is present the first surface. A first plane is defined by the first surface of the glass-based substrate based on an average thickness of the glass-based substrate. A ratio of a depression depth to the first diameter of the at least one hole is less than or equal to 0.007.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Inventors: Andres Covarrubias Jaramillo, Yuhui Jin, Frank Andrew Kramer, IV, Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Kuksenkova, Daniel Wayne Levesque, JR., Garrett Andrew Piech, Aric Bruce Shorey, Robert Stephen Wagner
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Patent number: 9832263Abstract: System, computer implemented process and computer program product for managing media content among a plurality of devices which includes the exchange of device status data among two or more devices. The exchanged device status data includes individual device capabilities and indicia of available media content stored within each of the devices. Each device determines from the exchanged device status data whether any differences exist in available media content stored among the plurality of devices and also whether any of the determined differences in media content will require transcoding to compatible data formats. Once the determinations have been completed, synchronizing and optionally transcoding of the available media content is performed based on the determinations made from the exchanged device status data. Any required transcoding may be performed either before or after media content synchronizing.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Frank Andrew Welts, Ben Morrelli, Gregory Montalvo, Daniel Thomas Tapuitea Reynolds, Andreas Marc Benamou
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Patent number: 9505416Abstract: A superstructure for a railcar comprising at least a first side assembly, a roof extending from the first side assembly and being comprised of at least a first top chord extending inwardly and upwardly from the first side assembly and a first top chord stiffener comprised of at least a first leg and a second leg. The first and second legs are disposed at a right angle to each other, and the first top chord stiffener is attached to the first top chord and the first side assembly.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: TTX CompanyInventors: Richard W. Dawson, Ronald P. Sellberg, Frank Andrew Nibouar
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Publication number: 20160269484Abstract: System, computer implemented process and computer program product for managing media content among a plurality of devices which includes the exchange of device status data among two or more devices. The exchanged device status data includes individual device capabilities and indicia of available media content stored within each of the devices. Each device determines from the exchanged device status data whether any differences exist in available media content stored among the plurality of devices and also whether any of the determined differences in media content will require transcoding to compatible data formats. Once the determinations have been completed, synchronizing and optionally transcoding of the available media content is performed based on the determinations made from the exchanged device status data. Any required transcoding may be performed either before or after media content synchronizing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: FRANK ANDREW WELTS, BEN MORRELLI, GREGORY MONTALVO, DANIEL THOMAS TAPUITEA REYNOLDS, ANDREAS MARC BENAMOU
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Patent number: 9361298Abstract: System, computer implemented process and computer program product for managing media content among a plurality of devices which includes the exchange of device status data among two or more devices. The exchanged device status data includes individual device capabilities and indicia of available media content stored within each of the devices. Each device determines from the exchanged device status data whether any differences exist in available media content stored among the plurality of devices and also whether any of the determined differences in media content will require transcoding to compatible data formats. Once the determinations have been completed, synchronizing and optionally transcoding of the available media content is performed based on the determinations made from the exchanged device status data. Any required transcoding may be performed either before or after media content synchronizing.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2008Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Frank Andrew Welts, Ben Morrelli, Gregory Montalvo, Daniel Thomas Tapuitea-Reynolds, Andreas Marc Benamou
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Patent number: 9289701Abstract: An open-channel infeed conduit of a feed dilution system of a thickener/clarifier settling tank is provided with orifices between its upstream inlet end and its outlet end. The orifices are positioned proximate to and in fluid communication with the clarified liquid phase in the tank to draw clarified liquid from the tank into the conduit responsive to or by virtue of momentum transfer between the flow of the liquid slurry feed stream in the conduit and the clarified liquid in the tank.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: FLSMIDTH A/SInventors: Timothy John Laros, Frank Andrew Baczek
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Patent number: 9073666Abstract: Container including a bottom and sidewalls with undulating pattern of peaks and valley. At least one stacking feature is provided to allow a plurality of containers to be stacked. In one embodiment, the stacking feature is disposed proximate a bottom edge of the sidewall at a peak. In another embodiment, the stacking feature is a stack flap disposed proximate a top edge of the container. Alternatively, the stacking feature is a stack ring having a shape which corresponds to the sidewall perimeter and has an inwardly protruding lip.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: July 7, 2015Assignee: PACTIV LLCInventors: Frank Andrew Petlak, H. Bernard Kirkland, Craig Edward Cappel
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Publication number: 20150000212Abstract: A superstructure for a railcar comprising at least a first side assembly, a roof extending from the first side assembly and being comprised of at least a first top chord extending inwardly and upwardly from the first side assembly and a first top chord stiffener comprised of at least a first leg and a second leg. The first and second legs are disposed at a right angle to each other, and the first top chord stiffener is attached to the first top chord and the first side assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: January 1, 2015Inventors: Richard W. DAWSON, Ronald P. SELLBERG, Frank Andrew NIBOUAR
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Patent number: 8833269Abstract: A superstructure for a railcar comprising at least a first side assembly, a roof extending from the first side assembly and being comprised of at least a first top chord extending inwardly and upwardly from the first side assembly and a first top chord stiffener comprised of at least a first leg and a second leg. The first and second legs are disposed at a right angle to each other, and the first top chord stiffener is attached to the first top chord and the first side assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: TTX CompanyInventors: Richard W. Dawson, Ronald P. Sellberg, Frank Andrew Nibouar
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Patent number: 8777960Abstract: An interlock driving instrument is configured to be releasably lockable to a fastener, such as a bone anchor. A bone anchor can be locked to the interlock driving instrument by inserting an expandable distal end of the shaft of the interlock driving instrument into the driving opening of the bone anchor and expanding the distal end within the driving opening by translating an expansion member into the expandable distal end. Alternatively, the bone anchor can be locked to the interlock driving instrument by inserting the distal end of the shaft of the interlock driving instrument into the driving opening of the bone anchor and translating a sliding member along a sloped surface defined in a channel extending into the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: DePuy Synthes Products, LLCInventors: Nicole Murray, Frank Andrew Wilson, Kyle Henning, Sean Powell
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Publication number: 20130256243Abstract: An open-channel infeed conduit of a feed dilution system of a thickener/clarifier settling tank is provided with orifices between its upstream inlet end and its outlet end. The orifices are positioned proximate to and in fluid communication with the clarified liquid phase in the tank to draw clarified liquid from the tank into the conduit responsive to or by virtue of momentum transfer between the flow of the liquid slurry feed stream in the conduit and the clarified liquid in the tank.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Applicant: FLSMIDTH A/SInventors: Timothy John Laros, Frank Andrew Baczek
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Publication number: 20130240459Abstract: An irrigation diverter for diverting a flow of liquid from a larger flow includes a housing, a filter to trap unwanted debris, a cleaner to remove the trapped debris from the filter, and a turbine to power the cleaner. The housing has an inlet and an outlet. The filter is disposed between the inlet and the outlet and operable to allow liquid entering the housing through the inlet to flow to the outlet while preventing debris in the liquid from reaching the outlet. The cleaner scrapes the filter to remove the debris trapped by the filter, and the turbine extracts energy from the larger flow of liquid to power the cleaner. By powering the cleaner with energy extracted from the flowing liquid, one does not have to frequently visit the diverter to manually remove debris from the filter. And, the filter may be continuously cleaned to prevent a buildup of debris trapped by the filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Inventor: Frank Andrews
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Patent number: 8454253Abstract: Disclosed is an arrangement of keypads, entitled Cenky Keyboards, which are uniquely-designed keyboard layouts that utilize data entry keypads having the letters of the English language arranged in natural alphabetical order. This arrangement, or layout, is applicable to electronic hand-held or desktop computing, typing, and calculating devices, and assists users in locating letters and typing more efficiently. Letters A through Z are arranged alphabetically on the keyboard, either horizontally in rows or vertically in columns, thus facilitating quick typing. This product may be used in conjunction with any i-pad, smart phone, computer, or other devices, including those with fixed keyboards, touch screens, and slider keyboards.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2011Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Inventor: Frank Andrew Cenky