Patents by Inventor John Bakker

John Bakker 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: 20250258661
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating an exit scenario output that characterizes an exit scenario for a business enterprise. In one aspect, a method comprises receiving, at an execution engine, data that represents ownership of assets by multiple participants and source code that defines distribution rules of distributing the assets over one or more steps among the multiple participants using a programming language; receiving, at the execution engine, an exit scenario input; automatically parsing, by the execution engine, the distribution rules defined in the source code into a parse tree; and interpreting, by the execution engine, the parse tree to produce an exit scenario output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 14, 2025
    Inventors: Adam Nathan Savitzky, Sahas Singh, Desmond Robert Duggan, Arash Shahkar, Alex John Bakker
  • Patent number: 11292624
    Abstract: A robotic end of arm tool to effectuate loaded case closure is provided. The tool includes a loaded case flap folding assembly to effectuate folding of flaps extending from a first case panel of a loaded case and, advantageously, loaded case squaring assemblies. The folding assembly includes flap engaging elements, a linkage and an actuator, the flap engaging elements operatively united with the linkage, the linkage actuatable via the actuator in furtherance of causing the flap engaging elements to engage the flaps extending from the first case panel. Flap engaging elements include a first flap engaging element for engagement with a first flap extending from the first case panel of the loaded case, and second and third flap engaging elements for engagement with second and third flaps opposingly extending from the first case panel, each of the second and third flaps adjacent the first flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Douglas Machine Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron M. Frederick, Travis John Bakker, Robert Allan Danner, Jr., Christopher Todd Davis, Richard W. Lukanen, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20130092791
    Abstract: A method of reducing noise from an aircraft in a noise abatement zone during flight of the aircraft includes determining where the flight path of the aircraft will intersect the noise abatement zone and then operating the aircraft in a quieter manner when the aircraft is within the noise abatement zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2011
    Publication date: April 18, 2013
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael John Bakker, Joachim Karl Ulf Hochwarth, Sean Edward Flanary
  • Patent number: 8311687
    Abstract: A method and systems for controlling an aircraft during descent are provided. The control system includes an input device configured to receive a speed margin for the vehicle and a processor communicatively coupled to the input device wherein the processor is programmed to automatically determine a flight path of the vehicle that is shallower than an idle flight path for the vehicle and generate a flight control surface control signal configured to maintain the determined flight path using the received speed margin. The control system further includes an output device communicatively coupled to the processor. The output device is configured to transmit the flight control surface control signal to a flight control system of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventor: Michael John Bakker
  • Publication number: 20120029735
    Abstract: A method and systems for controlling an aircraft during descent are provided. The control system includes an input device configured to receive a speed margin for the vehicle and a processor communicatively coupled to the input device wherein the processor is programmed to automatically determine a flight path of the vehicle that is shallower than an idle flight path for the vehicle and generate a flight control surface control signal configured to maintain the determined flight path using the received speed margin. The control system further includes an output device communicatively coupled to the processor. The output device is configured to transmit the flight control surface control signal to a flight control system of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2010
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Inventor: Michael John Bakker
  • Publication number: 20070045173
    Abstract: A candle filter assembly for a filter device includes, in an exemplary embodiment, a tubular core having an outer surface and an inner surface, and including a plurality of openings extending therethrough, a filter media supported by the core defining a core and filter media subassembly, and a drain pipe including a plurality of openings extending therethrough to permit fluid to flow between an outer surface of the drain pipe and the inside of the drain pipe. The drain pipe is located inside the core. The candle filter assembly also includes an end cap, a first sealing block including a drain pipe opening. The drain pipe extends through the drain pipe opening in the first sealing block. The candle filter assembly further includes a compression nut threadingly engaging the drain pipe extending through the first sealing block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: March 1, 2007
    Inventors: William Zimmerman, John Bakker
  • Patent number: 4745856
    Abstract: A trash compactor which is hydraulically actuated and which has a compactor blade which can be moved the full length of a truck body with a telescoping cylinder with one actuation of the cylinder and wherein one end of the cylinder is connected by a bracket to the rear end of the body of the truck and the other end of the cylinder extends into a nose portion of the compactor blade where it is attached with a bracket. A relatively low pressure hydraulic system actuates the compactor blade and a release valve limits the maximum pressure to which the system is subjected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 24, 1988
    Inventors: David P. Bakker, David W. Van Sickle, John Bakker