Patents by Inventor John A. Thies
John A. Thies 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: 11922113Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for rendering and displaying e-mails are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a first file, wherein the first file comprises an e-mail written in HTML; determine a display structure of the contents of the email written in HTML; access a DOM structure of the first file; create a second file in a first file format by parsing the DOM structure, wherein the second file comprises a first object; create a third file comprising one or more first markup language blocks in a first markup language format; process the one or more first markup language blocks to create a plurality of second markup language components; identify a mapping between the first file and the plurality of second markup language components; create, based on the mapping, a fourth file in a HTML format; and render and display the fourth file in one or more email clients.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Email on Acid, LLCInventor: John Thies
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Patent number: 11881936Abstract: A method for automatically modifying hyper-text markup language (HMTL) code of an e-mail within an email pre-deployment platform comprises receiving previously-created e-mail content comprising a plurality of e-mail content types, each of the e-mail content types written in HMTL code, automatically detecting, by parsing the received HTML code, one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content, identifying the one or more deficiencies in the HTML of the e-mail content types for a user by presenting a natural language explanation of the one or more deficiencies on the user interface, guiding a user of the platform to rectify the one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content by using one or more user interface tools for rectifying the one or more deficiencies; and automatically editing the HTML code based on the user's use of the one or more user interface tools.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Email on Acid, LLCInventor: John Thies
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Publication number: 20230388257Abstract: A method for automatically modifying hyper-text markup language (HTML) code of an e-mail within an email pre-deployment platform comprises receiving previously-created e-mail content comprising a plurality of e-mail content types, each of the e-mail content types written in HTML code, automatically detecting, by parsing the received HTML code, one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content, identifying the one or more deficiencies in the HTML of the e-mail content types for a user by presenting a natural language explanation of the one or more deficiencies on the user interface, guiding a user of the platform to rectify the one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content by using one or more user interface tools for rectifying the one or more deficiencies; and automatically editing the HTML code based on the user's use of the one or more user interface tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventor: John Thies
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Publication number: 20230374787Abstract: A shingle comprises an overlay, an underlay, and a height increasing material disposed between the overlay and the underlay. The height increasing material includes a first adhesive adhered to the overlay, height increasing granules adhered to the first adhesive, and a second adhesive adhered to the height increasing granules and the underlay. The height increasing material can extend along front ends of tab portions of the overlay, along front cutout edges that extend between tab portions of the overlay, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, Douglas S. Penrod, William E. Smith, John A. Thies, Jacob Paul Honsvick
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Patent number: 11761210Abstract: A shingle comprises an overlay, an underlay, and a height increasing material disposed between the overlay and the underlay. The height increasing material includes a first adhesive adhered to the overlay, height increasing granules adhered to the first adhesive, and a second adhesive adhered to the height increasing granules and the underlay. The height increasing material can extend along front ends of tab portions of the overlay, along front cutout edges that extend between tab portions of the overlay, or both.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2021Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, Douglas S. Penrod, William E. Smith, John A. Thies, Jacob Paul Honsvick
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Publication number: 20220222422Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for rendering and displaying e-mails are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a first file, wherein the first file comprises an e-mail written in HTML; determine a display structure of the contents of the email written in HTML; access a DOM structure of the first file; create a second file in a first file format by parsing the DOM structure, wherein the second file comprises a first object; create a third file comprising one or more first markup language blocks in a first markup language format; process the one or more first markup language blocks to create a plurality of second markup language components; identify a mapping between the first file and the plurality of second markup language components; create, based on the mapping, a fourth file in a HTML format; and render and display the fourth file in one or more email clients.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventor: John Thies
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Publication number: 20220052971Abstract: A method for automatically modifying hyper-text markup language (HMTL) code of an e-mail within an email pre-deployment platform comprises receiving previously-created e-mail content comprising a plurality of e-mail content types, each of the e-mail content types written in HMTL code, automatically detecting, by parsing the received HTML code, one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content, identifying the one or more deficiencies in the HTML of the e-mail content types for a user by presenting a natural language explanation of the one or more deficiencies on the user interface, guiding a user of the platform to rectify the one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content by using one or more user interface tools for rectifying the one or more deficiencies; and automatically editing the HTML code based on the user's use of the one or more user interface tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventor: John Thies
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Publication number: 20210285217Abstract: A shingle comprises an overlay, an underlay, and a height increasing material disposed between the overlay and the underlay. The height increasing material includes a first adhesive adhered to the overlay, height increasing granules adhered to the first adhesive, and a second adhesive adhered to the height increasing granules and the underlay. The height increasing material can extend along front ends of tab portions of the overlay, along front cutout edges that extend between tab portions of the overlay, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, Douglas S. Penrod, William E. Smith, John A. Thies, Jacob Paul Honsvick
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Patent number: 11021876Abstract: A shingle comprises an overlay, an underlay, and a height increasing material disposed between the overlay and the underlay. The height increasing material includes a first adhesive adhered to the overlay, height increasing granules adhered to the first adhesive, and a second adhesive adhered to the height increasing granules and the underlay. The height increasing material can extend along front ends of tab portions of the overlay, along front cutout edges that extend between tab portions of the overlay, or both.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, Douglas S. Penrod, William E. Smith, John A. Thies, Jacob Paul Honsvick
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Patent number: 11019009Abstract: A method for automatically modifying hyper-text markup language (HMTL) code of an e-mail within an email pre-deployment platform comprises receiving previously-created e-mail content comprising a plurality of e-mail content types, each of the e-mail content types written in HMTL code, automatically detecting, by parsing the received HTML code, one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content, identifying the one or more deficiencies in the HTML of the e-mail content types for a user by presenting a natural language explanation of the one or more deficiencies on the user interface, guiding a user of the platform to rectify the one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content by using one or more user interface tools for rectifying the one or more deficiencies; and automatically editing the HTML code based on the user's use of the one or more user interface tools.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: AQUA FORTIS, LLCInventor: John Thies
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Publication number: 20200153771Abstract: A method for automatically modifying hyper-text markup language (HMTL) code of an e-mail within an email pre-deployment platform comprises receiving previously-created e-mail content comprising a plurality of e-mail content types, each of the e-mail content types written in HMTL code, automatically detecting, by parsing the received HTML code, one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content, identifying the one or more deficiencies in the HTML of the e-mail content types for a user by presenting a natural language explanation of the one or more deficiencies on the user interface, guiding a user of the platform to rectify the one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content by using one or more user interface tools for rectifying the one or more deficiencies; and automatically editing the HTML code based on the user's use of the one or more user interface tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2019Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventor: John Thies
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Publication number: 20190177978Abstract: A shingle comprises an overlay, an underlay, and a height increasing material disposed between the overlay and the underlay. The height increasing material includes a first adhesive adhered to the overlay, height increasing granules adhered to the first adhesive, and a second adhesive adhered to the height increasing granules and the underlay. The height increasing material can extend along front ends of tab portions of the overlay, along front cutout edges that extend between tab portions of the overlay, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, Douglas S. Penrod, William E. Smith, John A. Thies, Jacob Paul Honsvick
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Patent number: 9097020Abstract: Shingle blanks are provided. The shingle blanks include an underlay portion having a substrate coated with an asphalt coating and granules, the underlay portion having an upper edge and a lower edge. An overlay portion is adhered to the underlay portion, the overlay portion having a plurality of continuous layered segments, the layered segments having a sealant bead therebetween. A plurality of perforation lines extend in a substantially perpendicular direction from the upper edge to the lower edge of the underlay portion. The plurality of perforation lines are sufficient to facilitate separation of the shingle blank to form hip and ridge roofing shingles configured for application across a ridge or hip.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2010Date of Patent: August 4, 2015Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, John A. Thies, III, Mike J. Kuklock
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Patent number: 8713883Abstract: A roofing shingle includes an underlay sheet, an overlay sheet, and a structural lattice layer bonded between the underlay sheet and the overlay sheet.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2012Date of Patent: May 6, 2014Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLCInventor: John A. Thies, III
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Publication number: 20120266559Abstract: A roofing shingle includes an underlay sheet, an overlay sheet, and a structural lattice layer bonded between the underlay sheet and the overlay sheet.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2012Publication date: October 25, 2012Applicant: OWENS CORNING INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL, LLCInventor: John A. Thies, III
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Publication number: 20110214378Abstract: Shingle blanks are provided. The shingle blanks include an underlay portion having a substrate coated with an asphalt coating and granules, the underlay portion having an upper edge and a lower edge. An overlay portion is adhered to the underlay portion, the overlay portion having a plurality of continuous layered segments, the layered segments having a sealant bead therebetween. A plurality of perforation lines extend in a substantially perpendicular direction from the upper edge to the lower edge of the underlay portion. The plurality of perforation lines are sufficient to facilitate separation of the shingle blank to form hip and ridge roofing shingles configured for application across a ridge or hip.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2010Publication date: September 8, 2011Inventors: Lawrence J. Grubka, John A. Thies, III, Mike J. Kuklock