Patents by Inventor John Franks

John Franks 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: 10846482
    Abstract: A document processing system is configured to identify, for each accessed electronic document in a first set of multiple electronic documents, a set of identified multi-word phrases determined to be in ordered text information in the accessed electronic document, each multi-word phrase of the set of identified multi-word phrases including adjacent words in the ordered text information; and determine, for each accessed electronic document in the first set of multiple electronic documents, a selected document type from the first set of document types based at least on an analysis of the set of identified multi-word phrases with respect to multi-word-phrase characteristics identified by a first definition and associated with each document type in a first set of document types associated with a first document-set type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CLOUDDOCS.COM, LLC
    Inventor: John Frank Walsh
  • Publication number: 20200012723
    Abstract: A document processing system is configured to identify, for each accessed electronic document in a first set of multiple electronic documents, a set of identified multi-word phrases determined to be in ordered text information in the accessed electronic document, each multi-word phrase of the set of identified multi-word phrases including adjacent words in the ordered text information; and determine, for each accessed electronic document in the first set of multiple electronic documents, a selected document type from the first set of document types based at least on an analysis of the set of identified multi-word phrases with respect to multi-word-phrase characteristics identified by a first definition and associated with each document type in a first set of document types associated with a first document-set type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventor: John Frank WALSH
  • Patent number: 10465558
    Abstract: A shroud hanger assembly or shroud assembly is provided for components which may be formed of materials having differing coefficient thermal expansion. The assembly includes a multi-piece hanger including a shroud positioned in a cavity between a first hanger portion and a second hanger portion. A shroud may be formed of a low coefficient of thermal expansion material which may have a differing coefficient thermal expansion than the material defining the shroud hanger. The shroud is deflected by an axial force acting between the hanger and the shroud which also forms a seal. The seal compensates for differing rates of thermal growth between the shroud and the hanger throughout the engine operating envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jason David Shapiro, Michael John Franks, David Scott Stapleton
  • Patent number: 10445430
    Abstract: A document processing system is configured to identify, for each accessed electronic document in a first set of multiple electronic documents, a set of identified multi-word phrases determined to be in ordered text information in the accessed electronic document, each multi-word phrase of the set of identified multi-word phrases including adjacent words in the ordered text information; and determine, for each accessed electronic document in the first set of multiple electronic documents, a selected document type from the first set of document types based at least on an analysis of the set of identified multi-word phrases with respect to multi-word-phrase characteristics identified by a first definition and associated with each document type in a first set of document types associated with a first document-set type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: COULDDOCS.COM. LLC
    Inventor: John Frank Walsh
  • Patent number: 10316515
    Abstract: A structural insulated sheathing including a rigid foam insulation board having a first face, a structural member having a second face, wherein the first face of the foam insulation board is laminated to the second face of the structural member over substantially 100% of the interface between the first face and the second face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: John Frank Budinscak, Jr., Matthew Daniel Gawryla
  • Patent number: 10309244
    Abstract: A shroud and shroud hanger are provided wherein at least the shroud is formed of ceramic matrix composite material. The shroud and hanger extend in a circumferential direction. A generally C-shaped clip extends radially to retain the hanger and shroud together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jason David Shapiro, Roger Lee Doughty, Michael John Franks
  • Patent number: 10253497
    Abstract: A board with preformed seals. In an exemplary embodiment, a sealing material is applied to at least one edge of a board to form a preformed seal on that edge. The board is configured such that when the board is attached to a frame adjacent to a another board, at least a portion of the sealing material applied to the edge of the board seals against at least a portion of an edge another board. In one exemplary embodiment, the boards are configured to seal against edges of substantially identical boards. A plurality of the sheathing boards may be installed on a building frame to form a sheathing system that provides a moisture and/or gas barrier between and interior and exterior of a building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Clancy, John Frank Budinscak, Jr., Leandro John Burlingame
  • Patent number: 10196937
    Abstract: A composite duct panel assembly is provided. The composite duct panel assembly includes a composite duct panel having a curved cross-section in a circumferential direction and a width based on the panel including a portion of a circumference of an annular bypass duct. In one embodiment, at least two adjacent corners of the panel are greater than 90°. In one embodiment, the panel includes a circumferential flange along a circumferential edge and an axial flange along an axial edge, and the assembly further includes a corner bracket coupled to the panel, the circumferential flange, and the axial flange. The corner bracket includes a flange corner having an approximate 90° angle, the flange corner extending the axial flange and the circumferential flange to an intersection at a corner of the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: John Joseph Wunsch, Michael John Franks, Danielle Marie Greenfield, Michael Stephens Bodey, Randall Maurice Prather
  • Publication number: 20190034415
    Abstract: A document processing system is configured to identify, for each accessed electronic document in a first set of multiple electronic documents, a set of identified multi-word phrases determined to be in ordered text information in the accessed electronic document, each multi-word phrase of the set of identified multi-word phrases including adjacent words in the ordered text information; and determine, for each accessed electronic document in the first set of multiple electronic documents, a selected document type from the first set of document types based at least on an analysis of the set of identified multi-word phrases with respect to multi-word-phrase characteristics identified by a first definition and associated with each document type in a first set of document types associated with a first document-set type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: John Frank WALSH
  • Patent number: 10143767
    Abstract: An appliance for delivering agent. The agent-delivery appliance includes an agent-releasing mechanism, an air-moving device that generates a flow of air moving from upstream to downstream, and at least one filter. The agent-releasing mechanism includes a chamber configured to release agent into the flow of air generated by the air-moving device. The chamber includes multiple openings, one of which is configured to provide air loaded with agent from the chamber to a first location within the flow of air generated by the air-moving device. At least one filter is located upstream from the first location within the flow of air generated by the air-moving device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: Helen of Troy Limited
    Inventors: John Franks, Rich Thrush
  • Publication number: 20180334806
    Abstract: A board with preformed seals. In an exemplary embodiment, a sealing material is applied to at least one edge of a board to form a preformed seal on that edge. The board is configured such that when the board is attached to a frame adjacent to a another board, at least a portion of the sealing material applied to the edge of the board seals against at least a portion of an edge another board. In one exemplary embodiment, the boards are configured to seal against edges of substantially identical boards. A plurality of the sheathing boards may be installed on a building frame to form a sheathing system that provides a moisture and/or gas barrier between and interior and exterior of a building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Clancy, John Frank Budinscak, JR., Leandro John Burlingame
  • Patent number: 10087633
    Abstract: A clip (61) for holding together an upper roof cladding sheet (29a) and a lower roof cladding sheet (29b) in an end to end, i.e. end lap, relationship on a roof. The clip is formed to fit over and lock onto a rib (31) of the lower cladding sheet and to retain the upper sheet on the clip. An elongate weather strip (57) is formed from a compressible material and includes a pan section (81) that can fill a gap between overlapping pans of the cladding sheets. The pan section includes an upper surface having a series of troughs (87) and ridges (89) along the length of the pan section that has the result of providing the pan section with a variable height along the length of the pan section. The ridges of the pan section compress when the upper roof cladding sheet is positioned on and engaged with the lower cladding sheet in an overlapping relationship with the pan section filling the gap between the cladding sheets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Bluescope Steel Limited
    Inventors: John Frank Kralic, Rodney John Gallaty, Michael Celeban
  • Patent number: 10017941
    Abstract: A board with preformed seals. In an exemplary embodiment, a sealing material is applied to at least one edge of a board to form a preformed seal on that edge. The board is configured such that when the board is attached to a frame adjacent to a another board, at least a portion of the sealing material applied to the edge of the board seals against at least a portion of an edge another board. In one exemplary embodiment, the boards are configured to seal against edges of substantially identical boards. A plurality of the sheathing boards may be installed on a building frame to form a sheathing system that provides a moisture and/or gas barrier between and interior and exterior of a building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Owens Corning Intellectual Capital, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Robert Clancy, John Frank Budinscak, Lee John Burlingame
  • Publication number: 20180018746
    Abstract: A system for monitoring class attendance includes a database, an attendance detection mobile application, and a processor. The database stores a profile for a student including a mobile device identifier for a mobile device, and a class schedule including a class identifier, a scheduled date, a scheduled time, and a class location. The attendance detection mobile application is installed on the mobile device, and obtains and transmits a mobile device location in response to a device location request. The processor is in electronic communication with the database and the mobile device and is configured to monitor the class schedule, and, at the scheduled date and time, request a mobile device location from the mobile device using the mobile device identifier. The processor compares the mobile device location to the class location, and, as a result, stores an attendance status corresponding to the class identifier and the student in the database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: John Frank WHORLEY, JR., Joseph Wade MONTGOMERY
  • Publication number: 20170303963
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sternal locators for placement of an intraosseous device into the sternum of a human patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Kilcoin, John Frank Morgan, III, Larry J. Miller, Robert W. Titkemeyer
  • Publication number: 20170241135
    Abstract: A structural insulated sheathing including a rigid foam insulation board having a first face, a structural member having a second face, wherein the first face of the foam insulation board is laminated to the second face of the structural member over substantially 100% of the interface between the first face and the second face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: John Frank Budinscak, JR., Matthew Daniel Gawryla
  • Patent number: 9730729
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for sternal locators for placement of an intraosseous device into the sternum of a human patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFLEX MEDICAL DEVICES S.A R.L.
    Inventors: Christopher Brian Kilcoin, John Frank Morgan, III, Larry Miller, Robert Titkemeyer
  • Patent number: 9726043
    Abstract: A shroud apparatus for a gas turbine engine includes: an annular metallic hanger; a shroud segment disposed inboard of the hanger, comprising low-ductility material and having a cross-sectional shape defined by opposed forward and aft walls, and opposed inner and outer walls, the walls extending between opposed first and second end faces, wherein the inner wall defines an arcuate inner flowpath surface; and a retainer mechanically coupled to the hanger which engages the shroud segment to retain the shroud segment to the hanger while permitting movement of the shroud segment in a radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael John Franks, Jason David Shapiro, Samuel Ross Rulli, Roger Lee Doughty
  • Publication number: 20170198607
    Abstract: A shroud hanger assembly or shroud assembly is provided for dimensionally incompatible components wherein the assembly includes a multi-piece hanger, for example having a forward hanger portion and a rearward hanger portion. A cavity is formed between the parts; wherein a shroud may be positioned which is formed of a low coefficient of thermal expansion material. The hanger and shroud may be formed of the same material or differing materials in order to better match the thermal growth between the hanger and the shroud. When the shroud is positioned within the hanger opening or cavity, one of the forward and rearward hanger portions may be press fit or otherwise connected into the other of the forward and rearward hanger portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Jason David SHAPIRO, Jan Christopher SCHILLING, Michael John FRANKS
  • Patent number: 9700477
    Abstract: A basket apparatus with enhanced strength for use with a water-based pet cremation machine includes a lower basket assembly having an inner compartment formed by a lower frame assembly that constructs a plurality of faces including a front face, a rear face, side faces, and a bottom face, each face having a perforated mesh coupled thereto, at least one divider disposed within the lower basket inner compartment to create a first set of compartments to store pets, an upper basket assembly disposed on the lower basket assembly and having an inner compartment formed by an upper frame assembly that constructs a plurality of faces including a front face, a rear face, side faces and a bottom face, each face having a perforated mesh coupled thereto, and at least one divider disposed within the upper basket inner compartment to create a second set of compartments to store pets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Inventors: Alec John Franks, Jeffrey Alan Franks