Patents by Inventor James Bair

James Bair 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: 20240277184
    Abstract: A vertical grill comprises a back chimney within the housing having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in the form of one or more first openings in the back frame member, and the outlet being a second opening which is higher than the inlet. A first air intake located in at least one of the grill's panels. A removable tray module comprises a slide positioned at an incline between the front and back sides, configured to direct fats and break away solids to the front side of the tray. At least one channel is covered by the slide and configured for air flow. An external receptacle is positioned at the front side of the tray, wherein the slide leads into the receptacle so that fats and break away solids may be channeled into the external receptacle after traveling downwards along the incline of the slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Publication number: 20240197113
    Abstract: A vertical grill for cooking food items is disclosed wherein the vertical grill is comprised of a body containing at least one vertical grilling area disposed between at least two sources of radiant heat energy, and wherein the body is adapted to direct fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food into an external receptacle via the external opening. It achieves this by including evacuation slides which are contained within the body of the grill and arranged in various shaped assemblies such that food and fats falling on the evacuation slide travels down until it is collected by evacuation slide guide which delivers the food and fats to the external receptacle where they are not in any danger of catching fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Publication number: 20230106349
    Abstract: A vertical grill for cooking food items is disclosed wherein the vertical grill is comprised of a body containing at least one vertical grilling area disposed between at least two sources of radiant heat energy, and wherein the body is adapted to direct fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food into an external receptacle via the external opening . It achieves this by including evacuation slides which are contained within the body of the grill and arranged in various shaped assemblies such that food and fats falling on the evacuation slide travels down until it is collected by evacuation slide guide which delivers the food and fats to the external receptacle where they are not in any danger of catching fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Patent number: 11190518
    Abstract: The innovation disclosed and claimed herein, in one aspect thereof, comprises systems and methods of an improved multi-domain management system. The innovation provides mitigation of uncontrolled privilege and access, lacking defined roles for at user. The innovation mitigates risk of inadvertent error while not diminishing desired trans-domain user capability. Functions such as creating user and/or service accounts, group creations, group memberships, host memberships, and the like, may thus be undertaken from a single high level location, based on controlled user rules at that level, and may do so without regard or limitation to the specific domains or master server controls at the specific domains. Agnostic aspects are coupled with scalability regardless of number of domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Robyn Alexis Alexander, Patrick James Bair, Zachery Phillip Hostens, Arian Adolfo Amador, Joseph Gregory Acklin, Raymond Lawson Gump, Robert Patrick Smith
  • Publication number: 20180228317
    Abstract: A vertical grill comprises a back chimney within the housing having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in the form of one or more first openings in the back frame member, and the outlet being a second opening which is higher than the inlet. A first air intake located in at least one of the grill's panels. A removable tray module comprises a slide positioned at an incline between the front and back sides, configured to direct fats and break away solids to the front side of the tray. At least one channel is covered by the slide and configured for air flow. An external receptacle is positioned at the front side of the tray, wherein the slide leads into the receptacle so that fats and break away solids may be channeled into the external receptacle after traveling downwards along the incline of the slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Patent number: 9883770
    Abstract: A vertical grill comprises a back chimney within the housing having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in the form of one or more first openings in the back frame member, and the outlet being a second opening which is higher than the inlet. A first air intake located in at least one of the grill's panels. A removable tray module comprises a slide positioned at an incline between the front and back sides, configured to direct fats and break away solids to the front side of the tray. At least one channel is covered by the slide and configured for air flow. An external receptacle is positioned at the front side of the tray, wherein the slide leads into the receptacle so that fats and break away solids may be channeled into the external receptacle after traveling downwards along the incline of the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2018
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Publication number: 20160360923
    Abstract: An electric grill for cooking food items comprises: a receptacle for receiving fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food; and a safety mechanism configured to prevent the grill from operating without at least one movement of the receptacle subsequent to the grill being powered on. Optionally, other safety features include, a fire suppression system, temperatures sensors, proximity sensors for detecting obstructions near the grill, weight sensors, liquid level sensors and infrared photo-interrupter sensors for detecting whether the tray has been removed from the grill, since the grill's last operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Patent number: 9357878
    Abstract: An electric grill for cooking food items comprises: a receptacle for receiving fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food; and a safety mechanism configured to prevent the grill from operating without at least one movement of the receptacle subsequent to the grill being powered on. Optionally, other safety features include, a fire suppression system, temperatures sensors, proximity sensors for detecting obstructions near the grill, weight sensors, liquid level sensors and infrared photo-interrupter sensors for detecting whether the tray has been removed from the grill, since the grill's last operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2016
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Publication number: 20150257593
    Abstract: A vertical grill comprises a back chimney within the housing having an inlet and an outlet. The inlet is in the form of one or more first openings in the back frame member, and the outlet being a second opening which is higher than the inlet. A first air intake located in at least one of the grill's panels. A removable tray module comprises a slide positioned at an incline between the front and back sides, configured to direct fats and break away solids to the front side of the tray. At least one channel is covered by the slide and configured for air flow. An external receptacle is positioned at the front side of the tray, wherein the slide leads into the receptacle so that fats and break away solids may be channeled into the external receptacle after traveling downwards along the incline of the slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Robert James Bair, Bonnie Lee Buzick
  • Publication number: 20150208863
    Abstract: A vertical grill for cooking food items is disclosed wherein the vertical grill is comprised of a body containing at least one vertical grilling area disposed between at least two sources of radiant heat energy, and wherein the body is adapted to direct fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food into an external receptacle via the external opening. It achieves this by including evacuation slides which are contained within the body of the grill and arranged in various shaped assemblies such that food and fats falling on the evacuation slide travels down until it is collected by evacuation slide guide which delivers the food and fats to the external receptacle where they are not in any danger of catching fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Publication number: 20140102316
    Abstract: An electric grill for cooking food items comprises: a receptacle for receiving fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food; and a safety mechanism configured to prevent the grill from operating without at least one movement of the receptacle subsequent to the grill being powered on. Optionally, other safety features include, a fire suppression system, temperatures sensors, proximity sensors for detecting obstructions near the grill, weight sensors, liquid level sensors and infrared photo-interrupter sensors for detecting whether the tray has been removed from the grill, since the grill's last operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Patent number: 8463587
    Abstract: A method of simulating an integrated circuit design is provided. In this method, a node order ranking of nodes in a netlist can be determined. Circuits of the netlist can then be partitioned based on the node order ranking with both static current driving and dynamic current driving schemes. A hierarchical data structure can be built based on the node order partitioning. In one embodiment, intermediate node orders can be dynamically merged for simulation optimization. Then, the circuits can be re-partitioned based on one or more merged intermediate node orders. Solving and integration can be performed using the hierarchical data structure to generate an order-ranked hierarchy engine. Analysis on the order-ranked hierarchy engine can be performed. At this point, simulation data of the IC design can be exported based on the analysis. By using this method, linear network reduction with its attendant accuracy loss is unnecessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Ningjia Zhu, James Bair, Zhishi Peng
  • Publication number: 20120255449
    Abstract: A vertical grill (11) for cooking food items is disclosed wherein the vertical grill is comprised of a body (12) containing at least one vertical grilling area disposed between at least two sources of radiant heat energy (24), and wherein the body (12) is adapted to direct fats and breakaway solids generated during the cooking of the food into an external receptacle (32) via the external opening (22). It achieves this by including (Evacuation Slides) guides (28) and (30) which are contained within the body (12) of the grill (11) and arranged in various shaped assemblies such that food and fats falling on (Evacuation Slide) guide 28 travels down until it is collected by (Evacuation Slide) guide (30) which delivers the food and fats to the external receptacle (32) where they are not in any danger of catching fire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2011
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Inventors: Robert James Bair, Bonnie Lee Buzick
  • Publication number: 20110029299
    Abstract: A method of simulating an integrated circuit design is provided. In this method, a node order ranking of nodes in a netlist can be determined. Circuits of the netlist can then be partitioned based on the node order ranking with both static current driving and dynamic current driving schemes. A hierarchical data structure can be built based on the node order partitioning. In one embodiment, intermediate node orders can be dynamically merged for simulation optimization. Then, the circuits can be re-partitioned based on one or more merged intermediate node orders. Solving and integration can be performed using the hierarchical data structure to generate an order-ranked hierarchy engine. Analysis on the order-ranked hierarchy engine can be performed. At this point, simulation data of the IC design can be exported based on the analysis. By using this method, linear network reduction with its attendant accuracy loss is unnecessary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2009
    Publication date: February 3, 2011
    Applicant: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Ningjia Zhu, James Bair, Zhishi Peng
  • Patent number: D751853
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Patent number: D758784
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair
  • Patent number: D758798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Inventors: Bonnie Lee Buzick, Robert James Bair