Patents by Inventor Gary Vernon
Gary Vernon 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: 12003086Abstract: Method and system allowing more accurate detection and identification of unwanted arcing include novel processing of signal voltage representing recovered power-line current. In one implementation, arc-faults are detected based on numerical analysis where individual cycles of line voltage and current are observed and data collected during each cycle is processed to estimate likelihood of presence of arc-event within each individual cycle based on pre-defined number of arc-events occurring within pre-defined number of contiguous cycles.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: William Vernon Miller, III, Gary Michael Miller
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Patent number: 11940498Abstract: Passive monitoring the integrity of current sensing devices and associated circuitry in GFCI and AFCI protective devices is provided. A protection circuit interrupter employs a capacitively coupled noise signal obtained by an arrangement of one or both of line side arms relative to a Rogowski coil. The noise signal is monitored while the line and load sides of a protective circuit interrupter are disconnected, and the connection of the line and load sides disabled if the noise signal fails to correlate sufficiently to a reference noise cycle. When the line and load sides are connected, the RMS value of the observed current signal is monitored such that the line and load sides are disconnected if the observed current signal fails to meet an RMS threshold. The observed current signal is compensated by subtracting the reference noise cycle prior to monitoring for the fault condition applicable to the protective device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Hubbell IncorporatedInventors: Gary Michael Miller, William Vernon Miller, Edward Shi Chen
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Patent number: 11877981Abstract: A container for personal health compositions with melatonin. The container has a polyester and a colorant composition with at least two dyes and a pigment. The container can filter out the wavelengths of visible light that contribute to the photodegradation of melatonin during storage in normal factory or home light conditions.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Michael Devon Hayes, Leigh Mahoney, Lonnie Stuckert, Greg Veintimilla, Gary Vernon
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Patent number: 11732325Abstract: A method of controlling the acid balance in a high chloride heap leach process tomaximise the copper dissolution in a cure step and to increase overall copper recovery which include an agglomeration stage in which acid and process solutions are combined with the ore prior to stacking to form a heap followed by a cure phase to leach a portion of the copper in the ore in the heap followed by an irrigated leach phase in which the remaining copper minerals are leached and copper is recovered from a pregnant leach solution by a solvent extraction step followed by an electrowinning step wherein the acid concentration in the pregnant leach solution which reports to the solvent extraction step is less than 10 g/L to allow effective copper recovery from the pregnant leach solution in the solvent extraction step.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: BHP Chile IncInventors: Damaso Barrios Ormeno, Clement Chilowa Chibwana, Johannes Mattheus Strauss, Gary Vernon Rorke
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Publication number: 20220098403Abstract: A composition to protect light-sensitive therapeutics includes a combination of two different anthraquinone dyes and titanium dioxide to protect the light-sensitive therapeutics from UV-Vis light in the range of 190 to 750 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: Avient CorporationInventor: Gary VERNON
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Publication number: 20210207245Abstract: A method of controlling the acid balance in a high chloride heap leach process tomaximise the copper dissolution in a cure step and to increase overall copper recovery which include an agglomeration stage in which acid and process solutions are combined with the ore prior to stacking to form a heap followed by a cure phase to leach a portion of the copper in the ore in the heap followed by an irrigated leach phase in which the remaining copper minerals are leached and copper is recovered from a pregnant leach solution by a solvent extraction step followed by an electrowinning step wherein the acid concentration in the pregnant leach solution which reports to the solvent extraction step is less than 10 g/L to allow effective copper recovery from the pregnant leach solution in the solvent extraction step.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: BHP CHILE INCInventors: Damaso BARRIOS ORMENO, Clement Chilowa CHIBWANA, Johannes Mattheus STRAUSS, Gary Vernon RORKE
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Patent number: 10947606Abstract: A method for recovering one or more of copper, uranium and a precious metal from an ore material, including: (a) forming a heap of the ore material; (b) during active heap irrigation, contacting the heap of the ore material with an iron containing acidic leach liquor having a high chloride content in the presence of an oxygen containing gas, and producing a pregnant leach solution; and (c) recovering one or more of copper, uranium and a precious metal from the pregnant leach solution.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation Pty LtdInventor: Gary Vernon Rorke
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Publication number: 20200283552Abstract: Three different agents are used to improve hydrophilic surface active efficacy of hydrophilic surface active masterbatches, the polymer compounds these hydrophilic surface active masterbatches are let down into, and the articles made therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2017Publication date: September 10, 2020Applicant: PolyOne CorporationInventor: Gary VERNON
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Publication number: 20200179223Abstract: A container for personal health compositions with melatonin. The container has a polyester and a colorant composition with at least two dyes and a pigment. The container can filter out the wavelengths of visible light that contribute to the photodegradation of melatonin during storage in normal factory or home light conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2019Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Michael Devon Hayes, Leigh Mahoney, Lonnie Stuckert, Greg Veintimilla, Gary Vernon
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Publication number: 20190218641Abstract: A process for recovering copper, uranium and one or more precious metals from an ore material, including: a. forming a heap of the ore material; b. subjecting the heap of the ore material to an acidic heap leach using an iron containing acidic leach solution in the presence of an oxygen containing gas, and producing a pregnant leach solution and a ripios; c. subjecting the ripios to flotation to produce a copper containing ripios concentrate and tailings; and d. subjecting the ripios concentrate to a smelting process to produce a smelted copper product. e. recovering copper and uranium from the pregnant leach solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: BHP BILLITON OLYMPIC DAM CORPORATION PTY LTDInventors: David BOJCEVSKI, John Kenneth ENGLAND, Gary Vernon RORKE
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Patent number: 10289186Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention allow to dynamically transition between clock-driven and even-driven circuit elements to enable automatic multi-mode operation to enable low-power and high-throughput applications. In certain embodiments, dynamic transitioning is accomplished through a mode control unit that evaluates input data from a number of sources to determine whether to initiate a transition. Certain embodiments take advantage of dynamic transitioning to allow for energy harvesting in a data gathering phase by switching to high power communication phase as needed. The energy harvesting scheme is particularly suited for battery-operated applications that benefit from a reduction in overall power consumption.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.Inventors: Hung Thanh Nguyen, Nancy Kow Iida, Edward Tangkwai Ma, Robert Michael Muchsel, Gary Vernon Zanders
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Patent number: 10001569Abstract: A positron emission tomography (PET) detector assembly is provided. The PET detector assembly includes a plate having a first side and an opposite second side, the plate being fabricated from a thermally conductive material. The PET detector assembly also includes multiple PET detector units coupled to the first side of the plate. The PET detector assembly further includes a readout electronics section coupled to the second side of the plate, wherein, during operation, the readout electronics section generates heat that is transferred to the plate. The plate comprises a heat pipe disposed within the plate and configured to extract the heat from the plate and to transfer the heat away from the plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Gary Vernon McBroom, Adam Clark Nathan
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Publication number: 20170349972Abstract: A method for recovering one or more of copper, uranium and a precious metal from an ore material, including: (a) forming a heap of the ore material; (b) during active heap irrigation, contacting the heap of the ore material with an iron containing acidic leach liquor having a high chloride content in the presence of an oxygen containing gas, and producing a pregnant leach solution; and (c) recovering one or more of copper, uranium and a precious metal from the pregnant leach solution.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: December 7, 2017Inventor: Gary Vernon Rorke
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Publication number: 20170059720Abstract: A positron emission tomography (PET) detector assembly is provided. The PET detector assembly includes a plate having a first side and an opposite second side, the plate being fabricated from a thermally conductive material. The PET detector assembly also includes multiple PET detector units coupled to the first side of the plate. The PET detector assembly further includes a readout electronics section coupled to the second side of the plate, wherein, during operation, the readout electronics section generates heat that is transferred to the plate. The plate comprises a heat pipe disposed within the plate and configured to extract the heat from the plate and to transfer the heat away from the plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2015Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Gary Vernon McBroom, Adam Clark Nathan
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Patent number: 8985449Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic stripe reader, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of directly extracting binary information embedded in a magnetic stripe using simple analog and digital signal processing techniques. Once information stored in the magnetic stripe is extracted as a F-2F waveform by the magnetic stripe reader, peaks, valleys and mid-level transition points between every consecutive peak and valley are detected. A peak-to-peak period and an average time are directly derived to determine whether the corresponding peak-to-peak transition is associated with a binary bit of “1” or “0”. This magnetic stripe reader spares a need for a multi-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a large memory, and thus, constitutes a simple and self-contained solution that may read out the binary information stored on the magnetic stripe with reduced power consumption and improved cost efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.Inventors: Mark Henry Weldele, Sung Ung Kwak, Gary Vernon Zanders
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Patent number: 8871003Abstract: A process for producing a ferric containing solution by the controlled oxidation of a ferrous containing solution, said process including providing a solution containing at least ferrous ions; treating the solution with one or more inlet gases containing sulfur dioxide and oxygen in order to oxidize said ferrous ions to ferric ions, wherein the delivery rate of the sulfur dioxide gas is oxidation rate limiting; and controlling the concentration of dissolved oxygen in said solution at an optimum value.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2009Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: BHP Billiton Olympic Dam Corporation Pty Ltd.Inventor: Gary Vernon Rorke
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Patent number: 8779907Abstract: A control circuit for a portable x-ray medical imaging system detector. The control circuit operates to reduce power consumption of the portable x-ray detector. The detector control circuit includes a multi-function switch coupled to the portable detector, and a detector control module installed in the portable detector, the detector control module receiving an input from the multi-function switch and based on the received input reconfiguring the portable detector from a first operational mode to a different second operational mode. A portable detector including the detector control circuit and a method of operating the portable detector are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2009Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: James Zhengshe Liu, Scott William Petrick, Donald Fayette Langler, Gary Vernon McBroom, Roy Allan Schley
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Patent number: 8721176Abstract: An X-ray imaging system includes a portable cart, a power source disposed on the portable cart, and a detector bin disposed on the portable cart. The detector bin includes a power adaptor configured to adapt power from the power source to power suitable for charging a rechargeable battery, and a first coupling component configured to receive power from the power adaptor. The imaging system also includes a digital X-ray detector configured to be inserted into the detector bin for charging. The detector includes a rechargeable battery, and a second coupling component configured to couple with the first coupling component and transfer power from the first coupling component to the rechargeable battery.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2011Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Gary Vernon McBroom, Arturo Eduardo Alcala
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Publication number: 20140070006Abstract: The invention relates to a magnetic stripe reader, and more particularly, to systems, devices and methods of directly extracting binary information embedded in a magnetic stripe using simple analog and digital signal processing techniques. Once information stored in the magnetic stripe is extracted as a F-2F waveform by the magnetic stripe reader, peaks, valleys and mid-level transition points between every consecutive peak and valley are detected. A peak-to-peak period and an average time are directly derived to determine whether the corresponding peak-to-peak transition is associated with a binary bit of “1” or “0”. This magnetic stripe reader spares a need for a multi-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a large memory, and thus, constitutes a simple and self-contained solution that may read out the binary information stored on the magnetic stripe with reduced power consumption and improved cost efficiency.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2012Publication date: March 13, 2014Inventors: Mark Henry Weldele, Sung Ling Kwak, Gary Vernon Zanders
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Patent number: 8575296Abstract: A polyester article is made to appear lustrously metallic or pearlescent by the addition of polymethylpentene and non-metallic, non-pearlescent colorant; and optionally other functional additives. The colorant can be one or more pigments, one or more dyes, or combination thereof. A stretch blow molded plastic article, such as a bottle, using the polymethylpentene in the polyester can simulate the appearance of a metallic surface or a pearlescent luster even though non-metallic and non-pearlescent colorants are used.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2009Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: PolyOne CorporationInventors: Gary Vernon, David Rosendale