Patents by Inventor John A. KAYS
John A. KAYS 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: 12263956Abstract: An aircraft with an aircraft fuselage, and a passenger cabin and a cockpit, where the aircraft includes a center-forward attendant space between the passenger cabin and the cockpit. A cabin crew member of the aircraft can stand in the center-forward attendant space for monitoring progress of an emergency evacuation of the aircraft. The aircraft has one or more emergency exits for providing egress of passengers from the aircraft fuselage during the emergency evacuation. The aircraft also has a situational awareness monitoring (SAM) system for use in evacuating the passengers from the aircraft during the emergency evacuation. The SAM system includes one or more imaging devices and one or more display modules, each of which displays within the passenger cabin images captured by a corresponding one of the one or more imaging devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 1, 2025Assignees: Airbus Americas, Inc., Airbus Operations GmbH, National Research Council of CanadaInventors: Joyce S. T. Tan, Tina Kay Griffin, Patrick Alexander Rollfink, Christophe J. P. J. Legare, Natalia Cooper, John Russell Thomas, Shelley M. Roberts, Caidence S. Paleske
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Publication number: 20250105720Abstract: Presented herein are systems and methods of selectively activating legs of converters. The system can include a power converter comprising a plurality of legs to convert electrical power conveyed between a source and a load. The system can include a controller structured to be coupled with the power converter. The controller can identify a parameter defining an operating condition of the power converter. The controller can determine a number of legs of the power converter to use based on the parameter. The controller can identify a metric indicating a utilization of each leg of the plurality of legs. The controller can cause activation of at least a subset of legs of the plurality of legs in accordance with the number of legs and the metric, to convey the electrical power between the source and the load.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Jennifer Kay Light-Holets, John P. Kresse, III, Subbarao Dakshina Murthy-Bellur, Minyu Cai, Bradford K. O. Palmer, Mohammad Noor Bin Shaheed
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Publication number: 20250099030Abstract: A multifunction device for improving sleep and methods of use are disclosed herein. The device can comprise an outer housing, a front panel, a front textile wrapped partially around the front panel, a plurality of LEDs within the outer housing, and an internal reflector coupled to the outer housing. The internal reflector can be configured to reflect light generated by the plurality of LEDs towards the front textile such that the light generated by the plurality of LEDs shines through the front panel and the front textile when a sleep-related program of the multifunction device is automatically initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: Hatch Baby, Inc.Inventors: Martin John KAY, Amanda Yim AMYX, Adam REINECK, Stuart Gregory TYRRELL, Jillian LOCKS, Catherine Coffman HAMMILL, Ann Crady WEISS, David WEISS
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Publication number: 20250096769Abstract: A filter device is provided that includes a plurality of bulk acoustic resonators that each includes a piezoelectric layer; a conductor pattern on the piezoelectric layer and including an interdigital transducer (IDT) having a first plurality of fingers extending from a first busbar and a second plurality of fingers extending from the second busbar, such that the first plurality of fingers and the second plurality of fingers are interleaved with each other; a dielectric strip that overlaps a margin of the first plurality of fingers and that extends into a gap between ends of the first plurality of fingers and the second busbar. Moreover, a thickness ts of the dielectric strip a first bulk acoustic resonator of the plurality of bulk acoustic resonators is different than a thickness ts of the dielectric strip of a second bulk acoustic resonator of the plurality of bulk acoustic resonators.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Andrew KAY, Sean MCHUGH, John KOULAKIS, Albert CARDONA
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Patent number: 12255608Abstract: Acoustic resonators, filters, and methods. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric plate, and a diaphragm including a portion of the piezoelectric plate spanning a cavity in a substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes first and second sets of interleaved interdigital transducer (IDT) fingers extending from first and second busbars respectively. The interleaved IDT fingers extend onto the diaphragm. Overlapping portions of the interleaved IDT fingers define an aperture of the acoustic resonator. First and second dielectric strips are on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. Each dielectric strip has a first portion under the IDT fingers in a respective margin of the aperture and a second portion extending into a gap between the respective margin and the respective busbar.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Kay, Sean McHugh, John Koulakis, Albert Cardona
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Patent number: 12255630Abstract: Acoustic resonators, filters, and methods. A filter includes a piezoelectric plate supported by a substrate; and three or more diaphragms of the piezoelectric plate spanning a respective cavity in the substrate. A conductor pattern on the plate has interdigital transducers (IDTs) of three or more acoustic resonators. Each IDT has two sets of interleaved fingers extending from two busbars respectively. Overlapping portions of the fingers define an aperture of each acoustic resonator. Sometimes, each of the resonators has two dielectric strips that overlap the IDT fingers in first and second margins of the aperture and that extend into first and second gaps between the first and second margins and the busbars. Other times, the first and second dielectric strips are on the front surface of the plate, have a first portion under the IDT fingers and have a second portion extending into a gap between the margins and the busbars.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Kay, Sean McHugh, John Koulakis, Albert Cardona
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Patent number: 12255607Abstract: Acoustic resonators, filters, and methods. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, a piezoelectric plate, and a diaphragm including a portion of the piezoelectric plate spanning a cavity in a substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes first and second sets of interleaved interdigital transducer (IDT) fingers extending from first and second busbars respectively. The interleaved IDT fingers extend onto the diaphragm. Overlapping portions of the interleaved IDT fingers define an aperture of the acoustic resonator. First and second dielectric strips are on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate. Each dielectric strip has a first portion under the IDT fingers in a respective margin of the aperture and a second portion extending into a gap between the respective margin and the respective busbar.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.Inventors: Andrew Kay, Sean McHugh, John Koulakis, Albert Cardona
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Publication number: 20250059167Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds and methods of use thereof for the modulation of certain chemokine receptor activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2024Publication date: February 20, 2025Inventors: Jeffrey J. Jackson, John Michael Ketcham, Akinori Okano, Maureen Kay Reilly, Omar Robles-Resendiz, Jacob Bradley Schwarz, Parcharee Tivitmahaisoon, David Juergen Wustrow, Ashkaan Younai, Mikhail Zibinsky
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Publication number: 20250043619Abstract: A device for regulating light passing through the device comprises a multi-layered stack. The stack comprises a first layer and a second layer. The first layer and the second layer allow the light to pass through the first layer and the second layer. A first fluid channel is defined between the first layer and the second layer. The first fluid channel allows the light to pass through the first fluid channel. A first fluid is operably received into the first fluid channel and operably withdrawn from the first fluid channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Benjamin HATTON, Raphael KAY, John Alstan JAKUBIEC
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Patent number: 12193833Abstract: A multifunction device for improving sleep and methods of use are disclosed herein. The device can comprise an outer housing, a front panel, a front textile wrapped partially around the front panel, a plurality of LEDs within the outer housing, and an internal reflector coupled to the outer housing. The internal reflector can be configured to reflect light generated by the plurality of LEDs towards the front textile such that the light generated by the plurality of LEDs shines through the front panel and the front textile when a sleep-related program of the multifunction device is automatically initiated.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: Hatch Baby, Inc.Inventors: Martin John Kay, Amanda Yim Amyx, Adam Reineck, Stuart Gregory Tyrrell, Jillian Locks, Catherine Coffman Hammill, Ann Crady Weiss, David Weiss
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Publication number: 20240389935Abstract: A multifunction device for improving sleep and methods of use are disclosed herein. The device can comprise an outer housing, a front panel, a front textile wrapped partially around the front panel, a plurality of LEDs within the outer housing, and an internal reflector coupled to the outer housing. The internal reflector can be configured to reflect light generated by the plurality of LEDs towards the front textile such that the light generated by the plurality of LEDs shines through the front panel and the front textile when a sleep-related program of the multifunction device is automatically initiated.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: November 28, 2024Inventors: Martin John KAY, Amanda Yim AMYX, Adam REINECK, Stuart Gregory TYRRELL, Jillian LOCKS, Catherine Coffman HAMMILL, Ann Crady WEISS
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Patent number: 11984289Abstract: A motor control center includes an enclosure comprising an isolation switch, a main contactor device, and a ground switch device. The isolation switch is selectively manually operable between a connected state and a disconnected state. In the connected state the isolation switch is adapted to conduct electrical power from an associated power source to the main contactor device and wherein the isolation switch in the disconnected state interrupts conduction of electrical power from the associated power source to the main contactor device.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
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Patent number: 11750715Abstract: A system for performing industrial automation control may include a first device that generates a first set of data formatted according to a first protocol and a second device that generates an automation command. The automation command may control the first device based on the first set of data. The second device may interpret data formatted according to a second protocol. The system may include a broker system coupled between the first device and the second device to transform data communicated between the devices, such as the first set of data, the automation command, or both. For example, the broker system may transmit a set of data generated to communicate the first set of data to the second device formatted according to the second protocol as opposed to being formatting according to the first protocol.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: David C. Mazur, Rob A. Entzminger, Corey A. Peterson, John A. Kay
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Patent number: 11644065Abstract: A shaft coupling for connecting an upper shaft with a lower shaft within a pumping system is designed to handle a large tensile load between the upper and lower shafts. In some embodiments, the upper shaft includes a shaft ring groove and the coupling has a body and a first receiving chamber within the body that receives an end of the upper shaft. The coupling also includes an upper internal groove extending into the body from the first receiving chamber and an upper split ring that is configured to be compressed into a position occupying both the upper internal groove and the shaft ring groove of the upper shaft. Set screws compress the upper split ring into the shaft ring groove of the upper shaft. In another embodiment, the coupling includes a plurality of locking screws that extend through the body into corresponding lock screw grooves in the upper and lower shafts.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLCInventors: John Kay Mack, Joseph Scott Thompson, Kenneth O'Grady, David Farnsworth McManus, Mark Levi Bellmyer
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Publication number: 20230100626Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the physical state of a stimulating assembly to, for example, detect the occurrence of an adverse event. More specifically, an elongate stimulating assembly comprising a plurality of longitudinally spaced contacts is at least partially implanted into a recipient. Electrical measurements are performed at one or more of the plurality of contacts and the electrical measurements are evaluated relative to one another to determine the physical state of the stimulating assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Benjamin Peter Johnston, Paul Michael Carter, Stuart John Kay, Andrea Lam, Shaun Ashwin Kumar, Joerg Pesch
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Publication number: 20230043360Abstract: A motor control center includes an enclosure comprising an isolation switch, a main contactor device, and a ground switch device. The isolation switch is selectively manually operable between a connected state and a disconnected state. In the connected state the isolation switch is adapted to conduct electrical power from an associated power source to the main contactor device and wherein the isolation switch in the disconnected state interrupts conduction of electrical power from the associated power source to the main contactor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
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Patent number: 11484218Abstract: Presented herein are techniques for monitoring the physical state of a stimulating assembly to, for example, detect the occurrence of an adverse event. More specifically, an elongate stimulating assembly comprising a plurality of longitudinally spaced contacts is at least partially implanted into a recipient. Electrical measurements are performed at one or more of the plurality of contacts and the electrical measurements are evaluated relative to one another to determine the physical state of the stimulating assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Benjamin Peter Johnston, Paul Michael Carter, Stuart John Kay, Andrea Lam, Shaun Ashwin Kumar, Joerg Pesch
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Publication number: 20220344913Abstract: A motor control center includes an enclosure comprising an isolation switch, a main contactor device, and a ground switch device. The isolation switch is selectively manually operable between a connected state and a disconnected state. In the connected state the isolation switch is adapted to conduct electrical power from an associated power source to the main contactor device and wherein the isolation switch in the disconnected state interrupts conduction of electrical power from the associated power source to the main contactor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
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Patent number: 11476647Abstract: A motor control center includes an enclosure comprising an isolation switch, a main contactor device, and a ground switch device. The isolation switch is selectively manually operable between a connected state and a disconnected state. In the connected state the isolation switch is adapted to conduct electrical power from an associated power source to the main contactor device and wherein the isolation switch in the disconnected state interrupts conduction of electrical power from the associated power source to the main contactor device.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
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Patent number: D1060799Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Hatch Baby, Inc.Inventors: Martin John Kay, Amanda Yim Amyx, Adam Reineck, Stuart Gregory Tyrrell, Jillian Locks, Catherine Coffman Hammill, Ann Crady Weiss