Patents by Inventor Geoffrey Allen

Geoffrey Allen 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).

  • Patent number: 11440311
    Abstract: An ink composition for use in digital offset printing including at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer; an optional dispersant; an optional photoinitiator; and at least one non-radiation curable additive, wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a detergent or an emulsifying agent, or wherein the non-radiation curable additive functions as a detergent or emulsifying agent when in the presence of a cleaning fluid, and wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a solid at a temperature of from about 20° C. to about 40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: C. Geoffrey Allen, Carolyn Moorlag, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis, Biby Esther Abraham, Jonathan Siu-Chung Lee
  • Publication number: 20220195221
    Abstract: A white ink composition comprises an ink vehicle comprising at least one compound chosen from acrylate monomers, methacrylate monomers, acrylate oligomers and methacrylate oligomers; at least one polyol adhesive resin that is solid at 25° C.; at least one photoinitiator; and at least one white colorant. A method of printing the ink composition is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: C. Geoffrey Allen, Mihaela Maria Birau, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis
  • Publication number: 20220162461
    Abstract: Aqueous inkjet ink compositions are provided. In an embodiment, such a composition comprises water; resin particles; and a colorant; wherein the resin particles comprise a polymerization product of reactants comprising a monomer, an acidic monomer, a multifunctional monomer, and a reactive surfactant, the resin particles having a D(z, ave) of no greater than about 150 nm, a D(v,90) of less than about 200 nm, and a polydispersity index (PDI) of no greater than about 0.050. Methods of forming and using the aqueous inkjet ink compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Sepehr M. Tehrani, Marcel P. Breton, Syed Mohsin Ali, Carlos Dondon, Biby Esther Abraham, C. Geoffrey Allen, Mihaela Maria Birau
  • Publication number: 20220162460
    Abstract: Aqueous inkjet ink compositions are provided. In an embodiment, such an aqueous inkjet ink composition comprises water; a high viscosity latex; a colorant; and optionally, a wax. The high viscosity latex comprises water and resin particles comprising a polymerization product of a monomer, an acidic monomer, a hydrophilic monomer, a difunctional monomer, and a reactive surfactant. The high viscosity latex is characterized by a viscosity in a range of from 10 cP to 100 cP as measured at a solid content of 30% and at room temperature. The aqueous inkjet ink composition is free of a water-soluble binder. Methods of forming and using the aqueous inkjet ink compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Sepehr M. Tehrani, Syed Mohsin Ali, Carlos Dondon, Biby Esther Abraham, C. Geoffrey Allen, Mihaela Maria Birau, Jennifer L. Belelie
  • Publication number: 20220162465
    Abstract: Aqueous inkjet ink compositions are provided. In an embodiment, such a composition comprises water; a monodisperse latex; and a colorant; wherein the monodisperse latex comprises resin particles comprising a polymerization product of a monomer, an acidic monomer, a multifunctional monomer, and a reactive surfactant, the resin particles having a D(z, ave) of no greater than 150 nm, a D(z, 90) of less than 200 nm, and a polydispersity index (PDI) of no greater than 0.050. Methods of forming and using the aqueous inkjet ink compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Marcel P. Breton, Sepehr M. Tehrani, Syed Mohsin Ali, Carlos Dondon, Biby Esther Abraham, C. Geoffrey Allen, Mihaela Maria Birau
  • Publication number: 20220162462
    Abstract: Aqueous inkjet ink compositions are provided. In an embodiment, such an aqueous inkjet ink composition comprises water; resin particles; a colorant; and optionally, a wax. The resin particles comprise a polymerization product of reactants comprising a monomer, an acidic monomer, a hydrophilic monomer, a difunctional monomer, and a reactive surfactant. The acidic monomer, the hydrophilic monomer, and the difunctional monomer may be present at an amount in a range of from about 10 weight % to about 30 weight % in the resin particles. Methods of forming and using the aqueous inkjet ink compositions are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Sepehr Tehrani, Syed Mohsin Ali, Carlos Dondon, Biby Esther Abraham, C. Geoffrey Allen, Mihaela Maria Birau, Jennifer L. Belelie
  • Patent number: 11248131
    Abstract: A support material for use in additive manufacturing includes greater than about 30 weight percent up to about 70 weight percent of a C12 to C18 fatty alcohol ethoxylate, about 30 weight percent to about 70 weight percent of a C16 to C22 fatty alcohol, and a tackifier, a transition temperature measured as the temperature immediately before phase change, based on viscosity measurement, is less than about 65° C. A system for additive manufacturing includes such a support material and a build material, the ratio of C12 to C18 fatty alcohol ethoxylate to C16 to C22 fatty alcohol is selected for property matching of the support material to the build material. A method of additive manufacturing includes providing such a system and printing via an inkjet printer the support material and the build material to provide a precursor to a three-dimensional printed article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Naveen Chopra, Baharak Bakhshaei, Carolyn Moorlag, C. Geoffrey Allen, Mandakini Kanungo, Santokh S. Badesha, Seemit Praharaj
  • Publication number: 20210284851
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a metallic ink composition for use in digital offset printing, comprising: metallic effect pigment particles, wherein an average equivalent sphere diameter of at least about 90% of the metallic effect pigment particles ranges from greater than 1 micrometer (?m) to 150 ?m; at least one dispersant; at least one curable oligomer; and a photo initiator, wherein the metallic ink composition has a viscosity ranging from 150,000 to 1,000,000 millipascal seconds (mPa·s) at 0.1 rad/s at 25° C. Also provided is a method of digital offset printing using the metallic ink composition of the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mihaela Maria Birau, C. Geoffrey Allen, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis
  • Patent number: 11010779
    Abstract: A server receives an indication that a first user of a social network arrived at business, and identifies one or more second users associated with a predetermined area surrounding the commercial establishment, the one or more second users being connected to the first user through a social graph in the social network. The server sends to the one or more second users a first offering related to the business in conjunction with an indication that the first user arrived at the business. The server subsequently receives an indication that the one or more second users arrived at the business within a predetermined period of time after the first user arrived at the business, and sends a second offering related to the business to the first user in response to receiving the indication that the one or more second users arrived at the business.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Geoffrey Allen Borggaard
  • Patent number: 10927543
    Abstract: An acoustic attenuation structure comprises a gas permeable composite facesheet, a cellular core, and an impermeable backing. The gas permeable composite facesheet has a designated porosity. The designated porosity causes the permeability of the gas permeable composite facesheet. The gas permeable composite facesheet comprises a carbon fiber fabric. The cellular core is bonded to the gas permeable composite facesheet using a resin of the gas permeable composite facesheet without any additional adhesive. The impermeable backing is connected to the cellular core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Geoffrey Allen Butler, Justin Honshune Lan
  • Patent number: 10828851
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus are presented. The method locally compensates for cure related deformations in a composite skin by laying up a composite material on a compensation surface of a slip sheet designed to form a modified outer mold line different from a designed shape, wherein the slip sheet is held against a forming surface of a layup tool, wherein the forming surface is designed to form an outer mold line of the designed shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Max U. Kismarton, Karl Marius Nelson, Geoffrey Allen Butler
  • Publication number: 20200303704
    Abstract: A microporous film having at least one of the following properties: unrestrained MD shrinkage, when the film is baked unrestrained at 90° C. for 1 hour, of 2% or more; unrestrained MD shrinkage, when the film is baked unrestrained at 105° C. for 1 hour, of 2.5% or more; MD restrained growth, when measured using the MD restrained growth test, of less than or equal to 0.2%; rebound or recovery of 5% or greater when measured by the compressibility test; a max compression greater than or equal to 18% when measured by the compressibility test; swelling in DEC when measured according to the swelling in DEC test of 0.95% or less; the film exhibits a round-shaped, not a slit-shaped opening when subjected to the puncture test; the lamellae of the film have a thickness no greater than 250 nm; a normalized puncture strength above 350 g/16 micron; and having higher modulus and lower elongation before break of less than 40% in the machine direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Changqing Adams, Geoffrey Allen Tice, Gary Michael Shirah
  • Patent number: 10563079
    Abstract: An ink composition including a metal nanoparticle; at least one aromatic hydrocarbon solvent, wherein the at least one aromatic hydrocarbon solvent is compatible with the metal nanoparticles; at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent, wherein the at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon solvent is compatible with the metal nanoparticles; wherein the ink composition has a metal content of greater than about 45 percent by weight, based upon the total weight of the ink composition; wherein the ink composition has a viscosity of from about 5 to about 30 centipoise at a temperature of about 20 to about 30° C. A process for preparing the ink composition. A process for printing the ink composition comprising pneumatic aerosol printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Pedram Salami, Ping Liu, C. Geoffrey Allen, Naveen Chopra, Kurt I. Halfyard
  • Patent number: 10535116
    Abstract: An immersive three dimensional (3-D) virtual reality sharing program is disclosed. The system comprises a content controller configured to determine the physical locations of a reference point and boundary in a physical space and map them to a corresponding point and boundary in a virtual world. The physical location and orientation of a user device relative to the reference point and boundary are used to determine a corresponding location and orientation in the 3-D virtual world. A representation of a portion of the 3-D virtual world corresponding to the determined location and orientation is rendered at the user device. As the user device is moved in the physical world, a corresponding updated location in the 3-D virtual world is determined, and the rendered representation updated. Thus, the user device acts as a window into the 3-D virtual world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Jason Monk, Geoffrey Allen Borggaard, Richard Daniel Borovoy
  • Publication number: 20190390072
    Abstract: An ink composition including at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer; at least one non-radiation curable poly-alpha-olefin; at least one photoinitiator that absorbs at an ultraviolet light-emitting diode wavelength; and an optional colorant. A process of digital offset printing including applying an ink composition onto a re-imageable imaging member surface at an ink take up temperature, the re-imageable imaging member having dampening fluid disposed thereon; forming an ink image; transferring the ink image from the re-imageable surface of the imaging member to a printable substrate at an ink transfer temperature; wherein the ink composition comprises at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer; at least one non-radiation curable poly-alpha-olefin; at least one photoinitiator that absorbs at an ultraviolet light-emitting diode wavelength; and an optional colorant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: C. Geoffrey Allen, Carolyn Moorlag, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis, Biby Esther Abraham, Jonathan Siu-Chung Lee
  • Publication number: 20190390073
    Abstract: A composition including at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer; at least one photoinitiator that absorbs at an ultraviolet light-emitting diode wavelength; and at least one photoinitiator that does not absorb radiation at the ultraviolet light-emitting diode wavelength. A process of digital offset printing including applying a composition onto a re-imageable imaging member surface at an ink take up temperature, the re-imageable imaging member having dampening fluid disposed thereon; forming an ink image; transferring the ink image from the re-imageable surface of the imaging member to a printable substrate at an ink transfer temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: C. Geoffrey Allen, Carolyn Moorlag, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis, Biby Esther Abraham, Jonathan Siu-Chung Lee
  • Publication number: 20190283395
    Abstract: An ink composition for use in digital offset printing including at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer; an optional dispersant; an optional photoinitiator; and at least one non-radiation curable additive, wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a detergent or an emulsifying agent, or wherein the non-radiation curable additive functions as a detergent or emulsifying agent when in the presence of a cleaning fluid, and wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a solid at a temperature of from about 20° C. to about 40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: C. Geoffrey Allen, Carolyn Moorlag, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis, Biby Esther Abraham, Jonathan Siu-Chung Lee
  • Publication number: 20190270897
    Abstract: An ink composition for use in digital offset printing including at least one component selected from the group consisting of a curable monomer and a curable oligomer; an optional colorant; an optional dispersant; an optional photoinitiator; and at least one non-radiation curable additive, wherein the non-radiation curable additive is a solid at a temperature of from about 20° C. to about 40° C. A process of digital offset printing including applying the ink composition onto a re-imageable imaging member surface at an ink take up temperature, the re-imageable imaging member having dampening fluid disposed thereon; forming an ink image; transferring the ink image from the re-imageable surface of the imaging member to a printable substrate at an ink transfer temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: C. Geoffrey Allen, Carolyn Moorlag, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis, Biby Esther Abraham, Jonathan Siu-Chung Lee
  • Patent number: 10363726
    Abstract: An acoustic liner having a honeycomb core is fabricated by forming septa in a sheet of material, and assembling the sheet of material and the core. During the assembly process, the septa are respectively inserted as a group into cells of the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2019
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Geoffrey Allen Butler, Justin Honshune Lan, Noel T. Gerken, Garry M. Duschl, Benjamin Julius Day
  • Patent number: 10323154
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a white ink composition for use in digital offset printing, including a first white colorant including a first plurality of white pigment particles, wherein an average diameter of at least about 40% of the first plurality of white pigment particles is in a range of about 250 nanometers to about 350 nanometers, a second white colorant including a second plurality of white pigment particles, wherein an average diameter of at least about 40% of the second plurality of white pigment particles is in a range of about 350 nanometers to about 550 nanometers, at least one dispersant, at least one component selected from a curable monomer or a curable oligomer, and a photo-initiator. Also provided is a method of digital offset printing using the white ink composition of the present disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2019
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mihaela Maria Birau, C. Geoffrey Allen, Aurelian Valeriu Magdalinis