Patents by Inventor Grayden Howard
Grayden Howard 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: 11498234Abstract: A tension knife includes an elongate knife body with a thin, flat profile. The tension knife defines first and second mounting points at opposing ends of the knife body. The knife body has a characteristic width across a length of the knife body between the first and second mounting points. The characteristic width of the knife body defines a centerline between a leading edge of the knife body and a trailing edge of the knife body. One or more of the first and second mounting points has a focus between the centerline of the knife body and the leading edge. A frame can be configured to support and tension the tension knife to form a tension knife assembly. Clamp blocks can be used to mount the tension knife to the frame at the first and second mounting points, where one or more of the clamp blocks is configured to rotate with respect to the frame to tension the leading edge of the tension knife.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Monk, Danelle Roan, Mark Alan Fow, Grayden Howard, Daniel L. Banowetz, Michael S. Jacko
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Publication number: 20220184839Abstract: A food product cutting system can include a food product carrier for carrying food product circumferentially around an axis of rotation, where the food product carrier includes food cutters each having a knife and a corresponding pusher. Each knife is for receiving and engaging with food product, and each pusher is slidably coupled with a knife and movable for pushing food product out of engagement with the food cutter. The food product cutting system can also include a track oriented generally circularly with respect to the food product carrier. The track can be arranged at varying radial distances from the axis of rotation and coupled with followers. Each follower can be connected to a corresponding pusher. In operation, food product moved into the knife of a food cutter and carried around the axis of rotation is incrementally pushed out of engagement with the food cutter by the corresponding pusher.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: GRAYDEN HOWARD, SAMUEL MONK, TAYLER WONDERS, MARK ALAN FOW, DIRK JACOB VAN DIJK
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Patent number: 11207793Abstract: A food product cutting system can include a food product carrier for carrying food product circumferentially around an axis of rotation, where the food product carrier includes food cutters each having a knife and a corresponding pusher. Each knife is for receiving and engaging with food product, and each pusher is slidably coupled with a knife and movable for pushing food product out of engagement with the food cutter. The food product cutting system can also include a track oriented generally circularly with respect to the food product carrier. The track can be arranged at varying radial distances from the axis of rotation and coupled with followers. Each follower can be connected to a corresponding pusher. In operation, food product moved into the knife of a food cutter and carried around the axis of rotation is incrementally pushed out of engagement with the food cutter by the corresponding pusher.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignees: Lamb Weston, Inc., Lamb-Weston/Meijer V.O.F.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Samuel Monk, Tayler Wonders, Mark Alan Fow, Dirk Jacob Van Dijk
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Publication number: 20210347077Abstract: A tension knife includes an elongate knife body with a thin, flat profile. The tension knife defines first and second mounting points at opposing ends of the knife body. The knife body has a characteristic width across a length of the knife body between the first and second mounting points. The characteristic width of the knife body defines a centerline between a leading edge of the knife body and a trailing edge of the knife body. One or more of the first and second mounting points has a focus between the centerline of the knife body and the leading edge. A frame can be configured to support and tension the tension knife to form a tension knife assembly. Clamp blocks can be used to mount the tension knife to the frame at the first and second mounting points, where one or more of the clamp blocks is configured to rotate with respect to the frame to tension the leading edge of the tension knife.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: SAMUEL MONK, DANELLE ROAN, MARK ALAN FOW, GRAYDEN HOWARD, DANIEL L. BANOWETZ, MICHAEL S. JACKO
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Publication number: 20210245386Abstract: A food cutter assembly can include a spindle body defining an interior passage for receiving a food product. A cutting tool can be connected to an end of the spindle body for cutting the food product. The food cutter assembly can also include a housing for rotationally mounting the spindle body. Rotation of the spindle body can be controlled by one or more magnets mounted to the spindle body and by a stator and/or pulley magnetically or electromagnetically coupled with the magnet to drive the one or more magnets about a rotational axis, which in turn spins the spindle body about the rotational axis, driving the rotational cutting motion of the cutting tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Samuel Monk, Tayler Wonders, Grayden Howard, Mark Fow
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Publication number: 20200391400Abstract: A food product cutting system can include a food product carrier for carrying food product circumferentially around an axis of rotation, where the food product carrier includes food cutters each having a knife and a corresponding pusher. Each knife is for receiving and engaging with food product, and each pusher is slidably coupled with a knife and movable for pushing food product out of engagement with the food cutter. The food product cutting system can also include a track oriented generally circularly with respect to the food product carrier. The track can be arranged at varying radial distances from the axis of rotation and coupled with followers. Each follower can be connected to a corresponding pusher. In operation, food product moved into the knife of a food cutter and carried around the axis of rotation is incrementally pushed out of engagement with the food cutter by the corresponding pusher.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2020Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventors: GRAYDEN HOWARD, SAMUEL MONK, TAYLER WONDERS, MARK ALAN FOW, DIRK JACOB VAN DIJK
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Patent number: D856076Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Jerry Hopkins, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Tony Henson, Maryann Stanko
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Patent number: D856077Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Jerry Hopkins, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Tony Henson, Maryann Stanko
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Patent number: D856078Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Jerry Hopkins, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Tony Henson, Maryann Stanko
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Patent number: D856079Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Jerry Hopkins, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Tony Henson, Maryann Stanko
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Patent number: D857332Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2018Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Jerry Hopkins, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Tony Henson, Maryann Stanko
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Patent number: D884309Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Jerry Hopkins, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Tony Henson, Maryann Stanko
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Patent number: D896031Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Monk, Grayden Howard, Mark Fow
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Patent number: D896032Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Monk, Grayden Howard, Mark Fow
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Patent number: D907887Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Maryann Stanko, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Grayden Howard
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Patent number: D907888Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Maryann Stanko, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Grayden Howard
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Patent number: D907889Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Maryann Stanko, Clifford Hoye, Jr., Grayden Howard
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Patent number: D941100Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Lamb Weston, Inc.Inventors: Grayden Howard, Kevin Mellor
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Patent number: D953112Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: LAMB WESTON, INC.Inventors: Samuel Monk, Grayden Howard, Mark Fow
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Patent number: D957880Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: LAMB WESTON, INC.Inventors: Samuel Monk, Grayden Howard, Mark Fow