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).

  • Patent number: 12263956
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Airbus Americas, Inc., Airbus Operations GmbH, National Research Council of Canada
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20250105720
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20250099030
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: 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
  • Publication number: 20250096769
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew KAY, Sean MCHUGH, John KOULAKIS, Albert CARDONA
  • Patent number: 12255608
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Kay, Sean McHugh, John Koulakis, Albert Cardona
  • Patent number: 12255630
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Kay, Sean McHugh, John Koulakis, Albert Cardona
  • Patent number: 12255607
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Kay, Sean McHugh, John Koulakis, Albert Cardona
  • Publication number: 20250059167
    Abstract: Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds and methods of use thereof for the modulation of certain chemokine receptor activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20250043619
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin HATTON, Raphael KAY, John Alstan JAKUBIEC
  • Patent number: 12193833
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20240389935
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Martin John KAY, Amanda Yim AMYX, Adam REINECK, Stuart Gregory TYRRELL, Jillian LOCKS, Catherine Coffman HAMMILL, Ann Crady WEISS
  • Patent number: 11984289
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
  • Patent number: 11750715
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David C. Mazur, Rob A. Entzminger, Corey A. Peterson, John A. Kay
  • Patent number: 11644065
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Holdings LLC
    Inventors: John Kay Mack, Joseph Scott Thompson, Kenneth O'Grady, David Farnsworth McManus, Mark Levi Bellmyer
  • Publication number: 20230100626
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter Johnston, Paul Michael Carter, Stuart John Kay, Andrea Lam, Shaun Ashwin Kumar, Joerg Pesch
  • Publication number: 20230043360
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
  • Patent number: 11484218
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Cochlear Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Peter Johnston, Paul Michael Carter, Stuart John Kay, Andrea Lam, Shaun Ashwin Kumar, Joerg Pesch
  • Publication number: 20220344913
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
  • Patent number: 11476647
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Navinchandra Bhatt, Paul van Heeswyk, John Kay, Ashwin Baliga B
  • Patent number: D1060799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Hatch Baby, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin John Kay, Amanda Yim Amyx, Adam Reineck, Stuart Gregory Tyrrell, Jillian Locks, Catherine Coffman Hammill, Ann Crady Weiss