Patents by Inventor Gene Cloud
Gene Cloud 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: 20230358573Abstract: Fiber-optic equipment is often deployed in various locations, and performance of fiber-optic transmissions may be monitored as a gauge of equipment status to prevent costly and inconvenient communication outages. Events that damage equipment that eventually result in outage and may be desirable to address proactively, but the occurrence of such events may be difficult to detect only through equipment performance. Presented herein are techniques for monitoring and maintaining fiber-optic equipment performance via enclosure sensors that measure physical properties within a fiber-optic equipment enclosure, such as temperature, pressure, light, motion, vibration, and moisture, which are often diagnostic and predictive of causes of eventual communication outages, such as temperature-induced cable loss (TICL), incomplete flash-testing during installation, exposure to hazardous environmental conditions, and tampering.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Daniel Joseph LEVAC, Adam Michael DEEL, Randy Gene CLOUD, David Anthony KOEHLER, Jaanki Kirit THAKKAR, Benjamin Franklin CIESIELCZYK
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Publication number: 20230339521Abstract: A line bypass system includes a support structure including a first support portion and a second support portion spaced apart from the first support portion. The support structure includes an attachment portion that attaches the first support portion to the second support portion. The first support portion and the second support portion define a first opening on a first side of the attachment portion and a second opening on a second side of the attachment portion. The first opening movably receives a first guide wire and the second opening movably receives a second guide wire.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Adam DEEL, Randy Gene CLOUD
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Patent number: 11703360Abstract: Fiber-optic equipment is often deployed in various locations, and performance of fiber-optic transmissions may be monitored as a gauge of equipment status to prevent costly and inconvenient communication outages. Events that damage equipment that eventually result in outage and may be desirable to address proactively, but the occurrence of such events may be difficult to detect only through equipment performance Presented herein are techniques for monitoring and maintaining fiber-optic equipment performance via enclosure sensors that measure physical properties within a fiber-optic equipment enclosure, such as temperature, pressure, light, motion, vibration, and moisture, which are often diagnostic and predictive of causes of eventual communication outages, such as temperature-induced cable loss (TICL), incomplete flash-testing during installation, exposure to hazardous environmental conditions, and tampering.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: PREFORMED LINE PRODUCTS CO.Inventors: Daniel Joseph Levac, Adam Michael Deel, Randy Gene Cloud, David Anthony Koehler, Jaanki Kirit Thakkar, Benjamin Franklin Ciesielczyk
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Patent number: 11248676Abstract: A vibration damper for reducing a vibration in a cable is provided. The vibration damper includes an attachment portion that is attached to the cable. The vibration damper includes a flexible leg portion attached to the attachment portion. The vibration damper includes a weighted portion attached to the flexible leg portion. The weighted portion is spaced a distance apart from the attachment portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2018Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: Preformed Line Products Co.Inventors: Randy Gene Cloud, Ashley Elizabeth Briskey, Jessica Brooke Dalton, Samuel David Intihar, Darnell Deshaun Johnson
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Publication number: 20210285799Abstract: Fiber-optic equipment is often deployed in various locations, and performance of fiber-optic transmissions may be monitored as a gauge of equipment status to prevent costly and inconvenient communication outages. Events that damage equipment that eventually result in outage and may be desirable to address proactively, but the occurrence of such events may be difficult to detect only through equipment performance Presented herein are techniques for monitoring and maintaining fiber-optic equipment performance via enclosure sensors that measure physical properties within a fiber-optic equipment enclosure, such as temperature, pressure, light, motion, vibration, and moisture, which are often diagnostic and predictive of causes of eventual communication outages, such as temperature-induced cable loss (TICL), incomplete flash-testing during installation, exposure to hazardous environmental conditions, and tampering.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Daniel Joseph LEVAC, Adam Michael DEEL, Randy Gene CLOUD, David Anthony KOEHLER, Jaanki Kirit THAKKAR, Benjamin Franklin CIESIELCZYK
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Patent number: 11022465Abstract: Fiber-optic equipment is often deployed in various locations, and performance of fiber-optic transmissions may be monitored as a gauge of equipment status to prevent costly and inconvenient communication outages. Events that damage equipment that eventually result in outage and may be desirable to address proactively, but the occurrence of such events may be difficult to detect only through equipment performance. Presented herein are techniques for monitoring and maintaining fiber-optic equipment performance via enclosure sensors that measure physical properties within a fiber-optic equipment enclosure, such as temperature, pressure, light, motion, vibration, and moisture, which are often diagnostic and predictive of causes of eventual communication outages, such as temperature-induced cable loss (TICL), incomplete flash-testing during installation, exposure to hazardous environmental conditions, and tampering.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Preformed Line Products Co.Inventors: Daniel Joseph Levac, Adam Michael Deel, Randy Gene Cloud, David Anthony Koehler, Jaanki Kirit Thakkar, Benjamin Franklin Ciesielczyk
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Publication number: 20200049532Abstract: Fiber-optic equipment is often deployed in various locations, and performance of fiber-optic transmissions may be monitored as a gauge of equipment status to prevent costly and inconvenient communication outages. Events that damage equipment that eventually result in outage and may be desirable to address proactively, but the occurrence of such events may be difficult to detect only through equipment performance. Presented herein are techniques for monitoring and maintaining fiber-optic equipment performance via enclosure sensors that measure physical properties within a fiber-optic equipment enclosure, such as temperature, pressure, light, motion, vibration, and moisture, which are often diagnostic and predictive of causes of eventual communication outages, such as temperature-induced cable loss (TICL), incomplete flash-testing during installation, exposure to hazardous environmental conditions, and tampering.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: February 13, 2020Inventors: Daniel Joseph LEVAC, Adam Michael DEEL, Randy Gene CLOUD, David Anthony KOEHLER, Jaanki Kirit THAKKAR, Benjamin Franklin CIESIELCZYK
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Publication number: 20190376575Abstract: A vibration damper for reducing a vibration in a cable is provided. The vibration damper includes an attachment portion that is attached to the cable. The vibration damper includes a flexible leg portion attached to the attachment portion. The vibration damper includes a weighted portion attached to the flexible leg portion. The weighted portion is spaced a distance apart from the attachment portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2018Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Preformed Line Products Co.Inventors: Randy Gene Cloud, Ashley Elizabeth Briskey, Jessica Brooke Dalton, Samuel David Intihar, Darnell Deshaun Johnson
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Patent number: 5982682Abstract: A sense amplifier senses and stores data from a memory cell in an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The sense amplifier includes a sense circuit having a pair of first and second complementary digit lines which senses a voltage differential between the first and second complementary digit lines and in response to the sensed voltage differential drives the first and second complementary digit lines to voltage levels corresponding to complementary logic states. An isolation circuit is coupled between the pair of first and second complementary digit lines of the sense amplifier and a pair of first and second complementary digit lines associated with a column of memory cells. The isolation circuit is operable to couple the first complementary digit line of the sense amplifier to the first complementary digit line of the column of memory cells and the second complementary digit line of the sense amplifier to the secondary complementary digit line of the column of memory cells.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 1998Date of Patent: November 9, 1999Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Leland R. Nevill, Ray Beffa, Warren M. Farnworth, Gene Cloud
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Patent number: 5754486Abstract: A sense amplifier senses and stores data from a memory cell in an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The sense amplifier includes a sense circuit having a pair of first and second complementary digit lines which senses a voltage differential between the first and second complementary digit lines and in response to the sensed voltage differential drives the first and second complementary digit lines to voltage levels corresponding to complementary logic states. An isolation circuit is coupled between the pair of first and second complementary digit lines of the sense amplifier and a pair of first and second complementary digit lines associated with a column of memory cells. The isolation circuit is operable to couple the first complementary digit line of the sense amplifier to the first complementary digit line of the column of memory cells and the second complementary digit line of the sense amplifier to the secondary complementary digit line of the column of memory cells.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 1997Date of Patent: May 19, 1998Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Leland R. Nevill, Ray Beffa, Warren M. Farnworth, Gene Cloud
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Patent number: 5588759Abstract: An expandable keyboard with three degrees of freedom in the translation assembly which allows the lower keyboard section to move: forward, the second degree of freedom; up, the third degree of freedom; and out, the first degree of freedom, to expand the keyboard. In the collapsed position, the lower keyboard section rests below a fixed wrist support which forms a portion of the housing for the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1996Date of Patent: December 31, 1996Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventor: Gene Cloud