Patents by Inventor Gary An

Gary An 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).

  • Roof mounted ventilation assembly
    Patent number: 11460202
    Abstract: A roof mounted ventilation assembly having fluidly coupled supply and relief fans is provided. One drive unit assembly may be operatively associated with both fans. A rotatably and vertically movable duct fluidly couples a supply discharge plenum to a roof-mounted air intake hood so that the former may move vertically and rotatably relative to the latter, thereby the present invention can selectively pressurize the spaced inhabited by the supply discharge plenum through a positive supply to relief air volume ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventor: Gary Gerard Powers
  • Electric water heater having internal heat concentrator
    Patent number: 11460220
    Abstract: A water heater has one or more heating elements and an internal wall that causes an increased rate of heating within a sub-volume within the water heater tank. Water from the sub-volume is directed to the tank outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Jozef Boros, Arthur Y. Hinton, Raheel A. Chaudhry, Gary A. Elder
  • Method and system for ocular stimulation
    Patent number: 11458316
    Abstract: Devices and methods to deliver microcurrent stimulation therapy to the human body, when connected to a micro-stimulation current-generating apparatus. The method of applying microcurrent stimulation therapy to key points around the eye for treatment of problems such as macular degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa, glaucoma, optic neuritis and other eye-related or nerve-related conditions, as well as other diseases, such as Bell's Palsy, requiring localized stimulation to the eyes and/or on other body parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: i-Lumen Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Blair P. Mowery, Marshall T. Masko, John B. Jarding, Gary A. Tapp
  • Additive manufacturing methods for modification and improvement of the surfaces of micro-scale geometric features
    Patent number: 11459232
    Abstract: The present disclosure addresses methods to refine the geometry of micro features manufactured in various substrates. Such refinement includes improvement in edge roughness and roughness of aperture channel walls. The methods include deposition of material onto feature edges and surfaces as well as placement of micro fabricated inserts into coarse features. Foremost among the candidate technologies that can be employed for these purposes are two photon polymerization-based 3D nano printing and atomic force microscope nanopipette-based electroplating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Inventors: Dennis Willard Davis, Gary James Gaggiani, James Grant Wallin
  • Hybrid bipolar plate for fuel cell
    Patent number: 11462747
    Abstract: A hybrid bipolar plate assembly for a fuel cell includes a formed cathode half plate and a stamped metal anode half plate. The stamped metal anode half plate is unnested with and affixed to the formed cathode half plate. Each of the half plates has a reactant side and a coolant side, a feed region, and a header with a plurality of header apertures. The coolant side of the formed cathode half plate need not correspond with cathode flow channels formed on the opposite reactant side. The coolant side of the stamped metal anode half plate has lands corresponding with anode channels formed on the opposite oxidant side. The lands define a plurality of coolant channels on the coolant side of the stamped metal anode half plate and abut the coolant side of the formed cathode half plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: JIANGSU HORIZON NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Zhijun Gu, Steve Goebel, Chen Jie, Gary M. Robb
  • Gas turbine engine spool coupling
    Patent number: 11459946
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine engine having a low speed spool and a high speed spool. The system also includes a spool coupling system configured to mechanically link the low speed spool and the high speed spool. A controller is operable to determine a mode of operation of the gas turbine engine, monitor for a spool coupling activation condition associated with the mode of operation, and activate the spool coupling system based on the controller detecting the spool coupling activation condition. Engagement and power transfer between the low speed spool and the high speed spool occurs based on activation of the spool coupling system and reaching an engagement condition of the spool coupling system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: RAYTHEON TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew R. Feulner, Gary Collopy
  • Integrated transmitter unit and sensor introducer mechanism and methods of use
    Patent number: 11457869
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing an integrated transmitter unit and sensor insertion mechanism is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.
    Inventor: Gary Ashley Stafford
  • Creating lesson asset information
    Patent number: 11462117
    Abstract: A method for execution by a computing entity for creating a multi-disciplined learning tool regarding a topic includes obtaining a first learner approach associated with a first learner of a set of learners. The method further includes creating first lesson asset information regarding the topic for the first learner based on the first learner approach associated with the first learner. The method further includes sending the first lesson asset information to a first learner computing entity associated with the first learner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Enduvo, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Bramlet, Justin Douglas Drawz, Steven J. Garrou, Joseph Thomas Tieu, Joon Young Kim, Gary W. Grube
  • Formulations for use in food products
    Patent number: 11457642
    Abstract: The invention provides formulations for use in food products. The formulations provided herein are comprised of stabilizers, including modified food starches, sweeteners, dairy or non-dairy products, and optionally flavorings, and colorings. The formulations can be used in dessert food products, especially in tres leches cakes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ALADDIN FOODS, LLC
    Inventor: Gary B. Nickel
  • User interfaces for non-visual output of time
    Patent number: 11460925
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing time feedback on an electronic device, and in particular to providing non-visual time feedback on the electronic device. Techniques for providing non-visual time feedback include detecting an input and, in response to detecting the input, initiating output of a first type of non-visual indication of a current time or a second type of non-visual indication of the current time based on the set of non-visual time output criteria met by the input. Techniques for providing non-visual time feedback also include, in response to detecting that a current time has reached a first predetermined time of a set of one or more predetermined times, outputting a first non-visual alert or a second non-visual alert based on a type of watch face that the electronic device is configured to display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Giovanni M. Agnoli, Kevin Will Chen, Shawn Henning, Stephen O. Lemay, Catherine B. B. Morrison, Camille Moussette, Tu Nguyen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Molly Pray Wiebe, Christopher Wilson, Alan C. Dye, Gary Ian Butcher, Hugo Verweij, Jules K. Fennis, Charles C. Hoyt
  • Apparatus, system, and method to remove contaminates from a fluid with minimized scaling
    Patent number: 11459246
    Abstract: An apparatus, system and method to remove purified vapor from a contaminated fluid using energy. The apparatus comprises an inlet wherein contaminated fluid flows in the apparatus through the inlet; at least two outlets wherein a first outlet exits purified vapor and a second outlet wherein contaminated fluid with a portion removed as purified vapor exits the apparatus; an energy source that causes the contaminated fluid to heat to a temperature wherein at least a portion of the contaminated fluid is converted to purified vapor; at least two different flow paths from at least one inlet to the first outlet and second outlet, the first and second flow paths flow through at least a portion of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Katz Water Tech, LLC
    Inventor: Gary P. Katz
  • Configurable short locators
    Patent number: 11461427
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using parameters with shortened resource locators to access a resource are provided. A short resource locator is associated with a full resource locator template in a resource locator association datastore. Parameters provided with the short resource locator are used to replace one or more parameter identifiers within a full resource locator template to generate a full resource locator. The full resource locator is used to access a resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Jonathan Michael Devlin, Joseph Kessler, Daniel Thane Davidson, Gary Alan Rainwater
  • Split and side-ported catheter devices
    Patent number: 11458281
    Abstract: A catheter for use in medical applications is disclosed. The catheter comprises tubing with a tip hole at one end and an end portion at the other end. Fluid exits the catheter at the tip hole thereof. One or more alternative fluid pathway(s) are provided on the sidewall of the catheter to permit outflow of fluid medication from the catheter to ensure proper delivery of the medication to the intended target area, particularly when the tip opening is occluded or restricted for any reason.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Joshua Horvath, Victor Politis, Stephen Richards, Ronald Pettis, Gary Searle, Monica Rixman Swinney, Natasha Bolick
  • Chase for connecting tables
    Patent number: 11457732
    Abstract: A furniture system includes a first table having a first tabletop and one or more first legs supporting the first tabletop. The first tabletop includes a first upper surface and a first lower surface opposite the first upper surface. The furniture system also includes a second table having a second tabletop and one or more second legs supporting the second tabletop. The second tabletop includes a second upper surface and a second lower surface opposite the second upper surface. A chase is coupled to the first lower surface and the second lower surface to physically connect the first table to the second table. The chase includes a first channel extending therethrough. The first channel is configured to receive one or more cables.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: MillerKnoll, Inc.
    Inventors: Kimberlee Colin, Luca Corvatta, Samuel Hecht, Gary Craig Smith, Romain Voulet, Tyler Gregory Finses
  • Machine vision-based method and system for measuring 3D pose of a part or subassembly of parts
    Patent number: 11461926
    Abstract: A machine vision-based method and system for measuring 3D pose of a part or subassembly of parts having an unknown pose are disclosed. A number of different applications of the method and system are disclosed including applications which utilize a reprogrammable industrial automation machine such as a robot. The method includes providing a reference cloud of 3D voxels which represent a reference surface of a reference part or subassembly having a known reference pose. Using at least one 2D/3D hybrid sensor, a sample cloud of 3D voxels which represent a corresponding surface of a sample part or subassembly of the same type as the reference part or subassembly is acquired. The sample part or subassembly has an actual pose different from the reference pose. The voxels of the sample and reference clouds are processed utilizing a matching algorithm to determine the pose of the sample part or subassembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Liberty Reach Inc.
    Inventors: G. Neil Haven, Gary William Bartos, Michael Kallay, Fansheng Meng
  • Methods of determining a state of a dependent user
    Patent number: 11462322
    Abstract: In some examples, a computer-implemented method for determining a state of a dependent user is provided. A flag is generated if a measured first parameter for a dependent user is within a range of values of a respective defined first parameter and a measured second parameter for the dependent user is within a range of values of a respective defined second parameter, and the measured first parameter and the measured second parameter occur within a temporal window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: C/HCA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Cuthbert, Gary Winfield
  • Footwear with a reel based closure device
    Patent number: D965257
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Boa Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary R. Hammerslag, Anna Hetman, Theresa Hauser, Tamara White
  • Vehicle grille
    Patent number: D965479
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Gary W. Ruiz
  • Vehicle grille
    Patent number: D965481
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Gary W. Ruiz
  • Vertical electrical connector
    Patent number: D965530
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Samtec, Inc.
    Inventors: Chadrick Paul Faith, Gary Ellsworth Biddle, Randall Eugene Musser, Jonathan Earl Buck