Patents by Inventor James Baird

James Baird 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: 20240342667
    Abstract: A steam dispersion system including insulation is disclosed. The steam dispersion system may include a steam dispersion tube with at least one opening defined on an outer surface of the steam dispersion tube and a hollow interior. The insulation covers at least a portion of the steam dispersion tube, the insulation defining an opening aligned with the opening of the steam dispersion tube, wherein the insulation meets 25/50 flame/smoke indexes for UL723/ASTM E-84 and has a thermal conductivity less than about 0.35 Watts/m-K (2.4 in-hr/ft{circumflex over (?)}2 deg F.). A nozzle defining a throughhole may be placed within the opening of the steam dispersion tube, the throughhole being in fluid communication with the hollow interior of the steam dispersion tube to provide a steam exit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: James Michael Lundgreen, David Baird, Joseph T. Haag, Mark Allen Kirkwold, Scott Allen Nuteson
  • Patent number: 12101532
    Abstract: A transcoding engine communicatively coupled to a broadcast source receiver for receiving the broadcast stream, decoding the broadcast stream, extracting and storing the PSIP tables from the broadcast stream and inserting metadata into the decoded broadcast stream, encoding the broadcast stream and the metadata, and attaching the PSIP tables to the encoded broadcast stream. A listener server device is communicatively coupled to the transcoding engine for receiving the encoded broadcast stream and establishing a low-latency tunnel with a caller client over a public internet and providing the encoded broadcast stream to the caller client through the low-latency tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Circle Computer Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: James Baird, Seth Kelly, Josh Merrifield
  • Patent number: 12045590
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium receive a container image and an attestation log. The container image is built from a build pipeline and the attestation log includes information corresponding to tasks utilized by the build pipeline to build the container image. The system, method, and computer readable medium compare the information in the attestation log with policies that includes build pipeline requirements. The system, method, and computer readable medium release the container image to a destination based on the comparison indicating that tasks utilized by the build pipeline to build the container image meet the build pipeline requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Judy Bean, Simon Cobden Baird, Zoran Regvart, Cuiping Huo, Joseph James Stuart, Christophe Giuseppe Augello, Brandon Caton, Luiz Renato Ferreira Carvalho, Robert Garland Nester
  • Publication number: 20220132211
    Abstract: A transcoding engine communicatively coupled to a broadcast source receiver for receiving the broadcast stream, decoding the broadcast stream, extracting and storing the PSIP tables from the broadcast stream and inserting metadata into the decoded broadcast stream, encoding the broadcast stream and the metadata, and attaching the PSIP tables to the encoded broadcast stream. A listener server device is communicatively coupled to the transcoding engine for receiving the encoded broadcast stream and establishing a low-latency tunnel with a caller client over a public internet and providing the encoded broadcast stream to the caller client through the low-latency tunnel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Circle Computer Resources, Inc.
    Inventors: James BAIRD, Seth KELLY, Josh MERRIFIELD
  • Patent number: 9469557
    Abstract: An ozonating water treatment and filtration apparatus is provided wherein a groundwater containing contaminates including hydrogen sulfide, ferrous oxide, carbon dioxide, manganese, arsenic, coliform bacteria and other pathogens and compounds, are removed by filtration utilizing a zeolite and pea gravel filter media and by application of an oxidant using low concentrations of ozone. A silent ozone generator and injector feature provides silent operation and no ozone pumping mechanism. The apparatus is self regenerating, low cost, and low maintenance requiring few consumables and minimal user intervention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Alberic Corporation
    Inventor: James Baird
  • Patent number: 9390438
    Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing user engagements with Ad content included in a webpage. An example method renders a webpage having an Ad unit within a browser on a display of a user's computer. Then, a cursor event for an Ad unit included in the rendered webpage is recorded based on cursor position relative to an area on the webpage associated with the Ad unit and the recorded cursor event is transmitted to a server via a network for reporting to interested parties. The cursor event includes an initial cursor entry event, any click actions or any hover actions, and all related timings of such events. The recordation of a cursor event is further based on location information associated with the browser within the display, the webpage within the browser and the ad area within the webpage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: COMSCORE, INC.
    Inventors: James Baird, Nick Redmond, Gregory Harrison, Brian Gebala, John Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8412683
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining delivery hierarchical information for an Ad unit. In an example method performed at a server, location information is received from a user computer system via a network. The location information is associated with an Ad unit presented on a webpage accessed by the user computer system. The server determines if any previously stored signature information matches with at least a portion of the received location information, then extracts domain information for any portions of the received location information that matches with any previously stored signature information. Then, at least partial delivery hierarchical information is generated based on the extracted domain information. The process repeats for other location information associated with the Ad unit that is received at the server. The generated delivery hierarchical information is aggregated. Then a report is generated based on the aggregated delivery hierarchical information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: Comscore, Inc.
    Inventors: James Baird, Nick Redmond, Gregory Harrison, Brian Gebala, John Kawamoto
  • Patent number: 8191883
    Abstract: A system uses a plurality of sensors to detect and manage conditions within a moving pocket, such as a pocket carrying a flat product from one location to another. The system is particularly useful in connection with a newspaper insert machine. One sensor detects whether the product has been opened properly at a particular time; another sensor detects whether the product has been properly gripped by a gripper at a particular time; another sensor detects whether the pocket is empty at a particular time and another sensor detects whether the pocket is open or closed at a particular time. In the event an error condition is detected, the error condition is corrected by a control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Muller Martini Corp.
    Inventors: Eric W. Bader, Timothy Goszka, James Baird, John R. Shaffer, Richard J. Sterner
  • Publication number: 20110137737
    Abstract: Systems and methods for capturing user engagements with Ad content included in a webpage. An example method renders a webpage having an Ad unit within a browser on a display of a user's computer. Then, a cursor event for an Ad unit included in the rendered webpage is recorded based on cursor position relative to an area on the webpage associated with the Ad unit and the recorded cursor event is transmitted to a server via a network for reporting to interested parties. The cursor event includes an initial cursor entry event, any click actions or any hover actions, and all related timings of such events. The recordation of a cursor event is further based on location information associated with the browser within the display, the webpage within the browser and the ad area within the webpage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MPIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Baird, Nick Redmond, Gregory Harrison, Brian Gebala, John Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20110137733
    Abstract: Systems and methods for recording impression events of Ad content on a webpage. An example method renders on a display of a computer device a webpage accessible over a network. The webpage includes at least one Ad unit. Then Ad tag information associated with the at least one Ad unit and browser viewport information (display location and size information) is retrieved. The occurrence of an Ad Placement event is determined if based on the comparison a predefined percentage of the Ad unit is within the browser viewport. An Ad Placement event timer is begun upon the determination of occurrence of the Ad Placement event. The Ad Placement event timer is stopped if an out-of-view event has occurred based on the Ad tag information and the browser viewport information. An Ad Placement event is then recorded. The recorded Ad Placement event is transmitted to a previously designated server over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MPIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Baird, Nick Redmond, Gregory Harrison, Brian Gebala, John Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20110137925
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining delivery hierarchical information for an Ad unit. In an example method performed at a server, location information is received from a user computer system via a network. The location information is associated with an Ad unit presented on a webpage accessed by the user computer system. The server determines if any previously stored signature information matches with at least a portion of the received location information, then extracts domain information for any portions of the received location information that matches with any previously stored signature information. Then, at least partial delivery hierarchical information is generated based on the extracted domain information. The process repeats for other location information associated with the Ad unit that is received at the server. The generated delivery hierarchical information is aggregated. Then a report is generated based on the aggregated delivery hierarchical information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2010
    Publication date: June 9, 2011
    Applicant: MPIRE CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Baird, Nick Redmond, Gregory Harrison, Brian Gebala, John Kawamoto
  • Publication number: 20100276862
    Abstract: A system detects the sheet quantity of sheet material such as paper by use of a detection roller which deforms from concentric when sheet material passes between the detection roller and another roller, and using a detector to detect the degree of de-concentricity and provide an output indicating the number of sheets passing through. The system has particular application to insert machines for detecting the number of sheets of insert material being inserted into host material such as newspapers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: November 4, 2010
    Applicant: MULLER MARTINI MAILROOM SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Timothy GOSZKA, James BAIRD, John MESSENGER, Harry NOLL, John SHAFFER
  • Publication number: 20100207318
    Abstract: A vacuum apparatus holds flat printed product in a feeder tray of a document feeding apparatus. The apparatus is particularly useful for feeding sheet material such as newspapers one at a time from the bottom of a stack. The apparatus uses existing vacuum connections in the document feeder and is easily mounted to existing feeder trays as part of a retrofit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2010
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Inventor: James Baird
  • Publication number: 20090243179
    Abstract: A system uses a plurality of sensors to detect and manage conditions within a moving pocket, such as a pocket carrying a flat product from one location to another. The system is particularly useful in connection with a newspaper insert machine. One sensor detects whether the product has been opened properly at a particular time; another sensor detects whether the product has been properly gripped by a gripper at a particular time; another sensor detects whether the pocket is empty at a particular time and another sensor detects whether the pocket is open or closed at a particular time. In the event an error condition is detected, the error condition is corrected by a control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Publication date: October 1, 2009
    Applicant: MULLER MARTINI MAILROOM SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric W. Bader, Timothy Goszka, James Baird, John R. Shaffer, Richard J. Sterner
  • Publication number: 20070217874
    Abstract: A milling cutter includes a milling-cutter body. The milling-cutter body includes a longitudinal axis, a proximal end portion, and a distal end portion. The distal end portion has a first cutting land, wherein the first cutting land, when viewed in a side elevational view, has an outline including a first substantially circular arc portion, a first substantially straight portion, a first transition zone where the first substantially circular arc portion transitions to the first substantially straight portion, and a distal tip. The distal tip is located substantially on the longitudinal axis. The first substantially straight portion extends proximally from the distal tip to the first transition zone at an acute angle with respect to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Publication date: September 20, 2007
    Inventors: Roy Meece, James Baird
  • Patent number: 7062262
    Abstract: A method of tracking, at a remote, central information store 140, elements in a production chain. The chain comprises a plurality of processes, 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120, each process having one or more input ingredients 10, 30, 50, 70, 90, 110 and one or more output products, 30, 50, 70, 90, 110, 130. The central information store 140 is remote from the location of at least one of the processes. The method comprises carrying out the following steps in respect of each of the processes 20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120: (1) recording at the remote central information store 140, via a telecommunications link, an identifier identifying each of the input ingredients of the process; (2) marking each of the output products of the process with a respective identifier; and (3) recording at the remote central information store 140, via a telecommunications link, the identifiers of each of the output products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2002
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Moy Park Limited
    Inventor: Kenneth James Baird
  • Patent number: 6585460
    Abstract: A drill having a cutting edge that is less prone to chipping or fracturing when used in drilling operations, and that can be sharpened or resharpened uniformly and consistently from drill to drill by machine grinding. The drill comprises a body and at least one flute formed in the body that terminates in a cutting edge at the cutting end of the drill. The flute has a cutting surface, the cutting surface having formed therein a dub face having a substantially planar surface over at least a portion thereof that is proximate to the cutting edge. The cutting edge has formed therein a cutting land having a substantially planar surface over at least a portion thereof connected at an edge to the planar surface portion of the dub face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Roy D. Meece, James A. Baird, Jr., Gerald R. Geverdt
  • Patent number: 6467343
    Abstract: The present liquid level gauge for a liquid holding tank is comprised of a first tube with an inner section positioned inside the tank, and an outer section positioned vertically outside the tank. A larger diameter transparent tube is positioned around the outer section of the first tube, and has a sealed lower end. The outer end of the first tube is open to the interior of the transparent tube. The inner end of the first tube is connected to a bladder positioned at the bottom of the tank. The bladder and the first tube are filled with an indicator fluid. The transparent tube is partially filled with the indicator fluid that flow from the outer end of the first tube. The height of the indicator fluid in the transparent tube is the same as the level of the liquid in the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Inventor: James Baird
  • Patent number: 5937657
    Abstract: A controller is provided for controlling the operation of a Joule-Thomson cooler. When the cooler has cooled down to its operating temperature, the rate of gas flow to the cooler is controlled as a function of the ambient temperature in order to maintain the gas flow at a minimum level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1999
    Assignee: Ultra Electronics Limited
    Inventors: Trevor Paul Benson, Nicholas James Baird
  • Patent number: D745632
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Inventor: James Baird Beasley