Patents by Inventor Jack A. Smith

Jack A. Smith 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).

  • Publication number: 20250177917
    Abstract: A system and method recover process gas from a source volume at a source pressure to a destination volume at an equal or greater pressure. A regulation process receive the process gas from the source volume and steps down the pressure. Each regulation uses one or more stage each using a pressure control valve for pressure step down and a heat exchanger for reheating the process gas thereafter. A gas scrubber receives the process gas from the regulation stages and collecting liquid from the process gas. A compression process receives the process gas from the gas scrubber and steps up the intermediate pressure to a final pressure. The compression can use one or more compression stages, each having a compression cycle for pressure step up and a heat exchanger for cooling the process gas thereafter. A discharge vessel receives the process gas from the compression process and discharges the process gas at the final pressure to the destination volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Adam Scott Murray, Eric Heinle, Jack A. Smith, William Stratton
  • Publication number: 20240109030
    Abstract: A system and method recover process gas from a source volume at a source pressure to a destination volume at an equal or greater pressure. A regulation process receive the process gas from the source volume and steps down the pressure. Each regulation uses one or more stage each using a pressure control valve for pressure step down and a heat exchanger for reheating the process gas thereafter. A gas scrubber receives the process gas from the regulation stages and collecting liquid from the process gas. A compression process receives the process gas from the gas scrubber and steps up the intermediate pressure to a final pressure. The compression can use one or more compression stages, each having a compression cycle for pressure step up and a heat exchanger for cooling the process gas thereafter. A discharge vessel receives the process gas from the compression process and discharges the process gas at the final pressure to the destination volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Scott Murray, Eric Heinle, Jack A. Smith, William Stratton
  • Patent number: 11890574
    Abstract: A system and method recover process gas from a source volume at a source pressure to a destination volume at an equal or greater pressure. A regulation process receive the process gas from the source volume and steps down the pressure. Each regulation uses one or more stage each using a pressure control valve for pressure step down and a heat exchanger for reheating the process gas thereafter. A gas scrubber receives the process gas from the regulation stages and collecting liquid from the process gas. A compression process receives the process gas from the gas scrubber and steps up the intermediate pressure to a final pressure. The compression can use one or more compression stages, each having a compression cycle for pressure step up and a heat exchanger for cooling the process gas thereafter. A discharge vessel receives the process gas from the compression process and discharges the process gas at the final pressure to the destination volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: WELDFIT LLC
    Inventors: Adam Scott Murray, Eric Heinle, Jack A. Smith, William Stratton
  • Patent number: 11655978
    Abstract: A high turn down ratio flare tip assembly, that allows for both low and high flowrate and pressure flows using a single flare. The flare assembly comprising a nozzle tube connected to the waste stream fuel inlet at one end. The other end of the flare tip assembly providing a seat for a conical structure with flow through orifices/ports that allow the waste stream to flow therethrough during low pressure operation. The conical structure connected to one end of a connecting rod, the connecting rod extending longitudinally downward through the nozzle tube and connected to a spring assembly. The flare tip assembly is designed to allow low flow and pressure to pass through the cone orifices, and during high flow and pressure operation, the cone is unseated from the nozzle tube, allowing the waste stream to flow therethrough. The flare tip assembly also includes a slotted/holed shroud that allows for smokeless combustion of the waste stream during high flow and pressure conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: MONEYHUN EQUIPMENT SALES & SERVICES CO.
    Inventors: Jesse S. Chambers, Simon Scott Fuentes, Jack A. Smith, Sammie Jo Van Grinsven, Zhili Qin
  • Publication number: 20220314165
    Abstract: A system and method recover process gas from a source volume at a source pressure to a destination volume at an equal or greater pressure. A regulation process receive the process gas from the source volume and steps down the pressure. Each regulation uses one or more stage each using a pressure control valve for pressure step down and a heat exchanger for reheating the process gas thereafter. A gas scrubber receives the process gas from the regulation stages and collecting liquid from the process gas. A compression process receives the process gas from the gas scrubber and steps up the intermediate pressure to a final pressure. The compression can use one or more compression stages, each having a compression cycle for pressure step up and a heat exchanger for cooling the process gas thereafter. A discharge vessel receives the process gas from the compression process and discharges the process gas at the final pressure to the destination volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Adam Scott Murray, Eric Heinle, Jack A. Smith, William Stratton
  • Patent number: 11029026
    Abstract: A high turn down ratio flare tip assembly, that allows for both low and high flowrate and pressure flows using a single flare. The flare assembly comprising a nozzle tube connected to the waste stream fuel inlet at one end. The other end of the flare tip assembly providing a seat for a conical structure with flow through orifices/ports that allow the waste stream to flow therethrough during low pressure operation. The conical structure connected to one end of a connecting rod, the connecting rod extending longitudinally downward through the nozzle tube and connected to a spring assembly. The flare tip assembly is designed to allow low flow and pressure to pass through the cone orifices, and during high flow and pressure operation, the cone is unseated from the nozzle tube, allowing the waste stream to flow therethrough. The flare tip assembly also includes a slotted/holed shroud that allows for smokeless combustion of the waste stream during high flow and pressure conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Moneyhun Equipment Sales & Service Co.
    Inventors: Jesse S. Chambers, Simon Scott Fuentes, Jack A. Smith, Sammie Jo Van Grinsven, Zhili Qin
  • Publication number: 20200256327
    Abstract: A fluid pumping system may include an engine, an electric generator, an electrically driven pump, and a first electrical resistance heating element. The engine may drive the generator, and the generator may supply power to the electrically driven pump and the electrical resistance heating element. The first electrical resistance heating element may be positioned to apply heat to fluid pumped by the electrically driven pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Applied Cryo Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam G. Van de Mortel, Randy L. Black, Jack A. Smith
  • Patent number: 9807576
    Abstract: A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A shared control channel information element (501) is sent to the group of mobile stations (101) and provides a bitmap having fields for group ordering (511), resource allocations (530), continuation resources (540) for HARQ, and an ordering pattern (513). If a mobile station requires retransmission it will access the resources indicated by the continuation resources field (54) in order to receive data. The HARQ blocks may be assigned to a mobile station based upon an index (601) which may correspond to the mobile station vocoder rate. Further, HARQ subgroups may be defined to associate subgroups of mobile stations with specific HARQ transmission opportunities on the super-frame and allocated by a rotating bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Jack A. Smith, Hao Bi, Sean M. Mcbeath, James M. O'connor, Danny Pinckley, John D. Reed
  • Publication number: 20150256983
    Abstract: A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A shared control channel information element (501) is sent to the group of mobile stations (101) and provides a bitmap having fields for group ordering (511), resource allocations (530), continuation resources (540) for HARQ, and an ordering pattern (513). If a mobile station requires retransmission it will access the resources indicated by the continuation resources field (54) in order to receive data. The HARQ blocks may be assigned to a mobile station based upon an index (601) which may correspond to the mobile station vocoder rate. Further, HARQ subgroups may be defined to associate subgroups of mobile stations with specific HARQ transmission opportunities on the super-frame and allocated by a rotating bitmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Jack A. Smith, Hao Bi, Sean M. Mcbeath, James M. O'connor, Danny Pinckley, John D. Reed
  • Patent number: 9065651
    Abstract: A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (770). A shared control channel information element (501) is sent to the group of mobile stations (101) and provides a bitmap having fields for group ordering (511), resource allocations (530), continuation resources (540) for HARQ, and an ordering pattern (513). If a mobile station requires retransmission it will access the resources indicated by the continuation resources field (54) in order to receive data. The HARQ blocks may be assigned to a mobile station based upon an index (601) which may correspond to the mobile station vocoder rate. Further, HARQ subgroups may be defined to associate subgroups of mobile stations with specific HARQ transmission opportunities on the super-frame and allocated by a rotating bitmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Jack A. Smith, Hao Bi, Sean M. McBeath, James M. O'Connor, Danny T. Pinckley, John D. Reed
  • Patent number: 8923321
    Abstract: A base station (103) assigns a set of mobile stations (101) to a group wherein the group will share a set of radio resources (710). A shared control channel information element (501) is sent to the group of mobile stations (101) and provides a bitmap having fields for group ordering (511), resource allocations (530), failure handling resources (540), and an ordering pattern (513). If a mobile station fails to decode the shared control channel information element (501) it will access the failure handling resources in order to receive data. The failure handling channel may be persistent in some embodiments, or may be released after the mobile station is once again able to decode the shared control channel information element (501) and thereby share in the shared resource pool allocated to its mobile station group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Jack A. Smith, Hao Bi, Sean M. McBeath, James M. O'Connor, Danny T. Pinckley, John D. Reed
  • Patent number: 8379622
    Abstract: The PDCAB packet (300) and the RRA packet (308) are transmitted together on the F-SCCH. For example, 9 RRA bits (305) are appended to the PDCAB field (303), in place of the pad bits (205), thereby allowing both the PDCAB (303) and RRA (311) messages to be protected against errors by a 16-bit CRC (307). In accordance with the embodiments, a receiver is able to distinguish between the varying PDCAB (303) and RRA (305) message formats and transmitting the packets (300) and (308) together is a normal mode of operation in the embodiments. Therefore, in accordance with the embodiments, when the PDCAB packet (300) and RRA packet (308) are transmitted together, the network replaces the N PDCAB pad bits, such as pad bits (205), with the first N bits from the RRA bitmap (311), in order to use the nominal CRC length for both packets (300) and (308).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility LLC
    Inventors: Sean M. McBeath, Hao Bi, John D. Reed, Jack A. Smith
  • Patent number: 8380540
    Abstract: A method is described for reducing medication purchasing costs for a member of a pharmaceutical benefits plan. A member's currently prescribed medications are analyzed, and at least one substitute medication is recommended for the analyzed medication, this recommendation is based the member's pharmaceutical benefit plan. In response to the recommendation, the system receives at least one of an authorization and selection of a substitute medication. Approval for this medication is requested from the member's doctor. Further, the requested approval is sent along with a plurality of other medication substitution requests. The responses are processed to complete the substitution of the medication for the member. The member is informed that the substitute medication was approved for their purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack A. Smith, Thomas E. Feitel, Brian W. Cavanagh, Vicente L. Caride, Giovanni C. Minardi, Shannon Sue Scullin, John E. Gobinski
  • Patent number: 8249607
    Abstract: A wireless communication infrastructure entity assigns a plurality of schedulable wireless communication entities to a group wherein each entity is assigned a location within the group. The infrastructure entity indicates which of the plurality of schedulable wireless communication entities assigned to the group have been assigned a radio resource, for example in a first bitmap (510), and indicates radio resource allocation policy information (520) and indicates a weighting for each assigned wireless communication entity, for example, in a second bitmap (530), to the schedulable wireless communication entities that have been assigned a radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean M. McBeath, Hao Bi, Danny T. Pinckley, John D. Reed, Jack A. Smith
  • Patent number: 8194696
    Abstract: A communication system distributes, in the time domain, acknowledgment transmissions by a group of access terminals sharing a same time domain resource. A position of one or more access terminals in the group of access terminals is determined and each of the one or more access terminals then sends an acknowledgment transmission, such as an acknowledgment or negative acknowledgement, in a time slot that is N time slots after the shared time domain resource, where N is a function of the position of the access terminal in the group of access terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean M. McBeath, Danny T. Pinckley, John D. Reed, Jack A. Smith
  • Patent number: 7944866
    Abstract: A wireless communication infrastructure entity transmits an offset to a packet format table to a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal uses the received offset to determine the transmission characteristics for packets received from the wireless communication infrastructure entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2011
    Assignee: Motorola Mobility, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean M. McBeath, Hao Bi, John D. Reed, Jack A. Smith
  • Patent number: 7734483
    Abstract: A method is described for reducing medication purchasing costs for a member of a pharmaceutical benefits plan. A member's currently prescribed medications are analyzed, and at least one substitute medication is recommended for the analyzed medication, this recommendation is based the member's pharmaceutical benefit plan. In response to the recommendation, the system receives at least one of an authorization and selection of a substitute medication. Approval for this medication is requested from the member's doctor. Further, the requested approval is sent along with a plurality of other medication substitution requests. The responses are processed to complete the substitution of the medication for the member. The member is informed that the substitute medication was approved for their purchase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: Medco Health Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack A. Smith, Thomas E. Feitel, Brian W. Cavanagh, Vicente L. Caride, Giovanni C. Minardi, Shannon Sue Scullin, John E. Gobinski
  • Patent number: RE44758
    Abstract: Interconnect cabinets for optical fibers include an enclosure and a splitter and termination panel mounted in the enclosure. The splitter has a plurality of optical fiber-connectorized pigtails extending therefrom. Each of the connectorized pigtails is associated with an optical fiber feeder cable to be coupled to a central office. The termination panel has a plurality of optical fiber connection members, ones of which are associated with respective subscriber locations. The connectorized pigtails have a cable length sufficient to allow connection to the plurality of connection members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Barry W. Allen, Douglas F. Dowling, Jack A. Smith, Jr.
  • Patent number: RE46945
    Abstract: Interconnect cabinets for optical fibers include an enclosure and a splitter and termination panel mounted in the enclosure. The splitter has a plurality of optical fiber-connectorized pigtails extending therefrom. Each of the connectorized pigtails is associated with an optical fiber feeder cable to be coupled to a central office. The termination panel has a plurality of optical fiber connection members, ones of which are associated with respective subscriber locations. The connectorized pigtails have a cable length sufficient to allow connection to the plurality of connection members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Barry W. Allen, Douglas F. Dowling, Jack A. Smith
  • Patent number: RE48675
    Abstract: Interconnect cabinets for optical fibers include an enclosure and a splitter and termination panel mounted in the enclosure. The splitter has a plurality of optical fiber-connectorized pigtails extending therefrom. Each of the connectorized pigtails is associated with an optical fiber feeder cable to be coupled to a central office. The termination panel has a plurality of optical fiber connection members, ones of which are associated with respective subscriber locations. The connectorized pigtails have a cable length sufficient to allow connection to the plurality of connection members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Barry W. Allen, Douglas F. Dowling, Jack A. Smith, Jr.