Patents by Inventor John Glenn
John Glenn 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: 11939806Abstract: An electromechanical biasing member for moving a closure panel between an open and a closed position relative to a motor vehicle body is provided. The electromechanical biasing member includes a housing having an inner cavity for housing an electric motor having a motor shaft and a rotary output member rotatable relative to the housing. An extension member within the housing and engageable with the rotary output member moves the closure panel between the open and closed positions in response to driving the electric motor. Also provided is a control unit positioned within the inner cavity and configured to drive the electric motor, the control unit including at least one controller board juxtaposed to the electric motor, and a plurality of control components mounted to the at least one controller board and configured to supply a drive signal to the electric motor and receive signals representative of operation of the electric motor.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: MAGNA CLOSURES INC.Inventors: John Glenn Zeabari, Joshua Michael Bernhardt
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Publication number: 20240097406Abstract: In some implementations, a laser diode array may comprise a cavity that includes a rear facet and a front facet and multiple emitters that are transversely single mode and disposed within the cavity. In some implementations, the multiple emitters each include a seeding section having a constant emitter width that is single mode at the rear facet and a flared section having a monotonically expanding emitter width that increases adiabatically over a majority of a length of the cavity such that outputs from the multiple emitters are single mode at the front facet. In some implementations, the emitter width is less than twenty micrometers at the front facet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Martin H. MUENDEL, Matthew Glenn PETERS, James J. MOREHEAD, John G. BAI, Victor ROSSIN
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Publication number: 20240097777Abstract: A user equipment (UE) includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, and at least one processor coupled to the one or more non-transitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: estimate a first Doppler frequency shift in a signal received from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) node at a first time instance, estimate a second Doppler frequency shift in the signal at a second time instance, estimate a signal propagation delay between the NTN node and the UE based on the first Doppler frequency shift and the second Doppler frequency shift, and apply the signal propagation delay to compensate for an uplink transmission from the UE to the NTN node.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 24, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Thomas Glenn MCGIFFEN, JOHN MICHAEL KOWALSKI
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Patent number: 11933704Abstract: A digital dispense system and methods for preparing samples for analysis. The digital dispense system includes a fluid droplet ejection system housed in a housing unit. The fluid droplet ejection system contains a fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge containing one or more fluids to be dispensed. A cartridge translation mechanism is provided for moving the fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge back and forth over a sample holder in an x direction. A sample tray translation mechanism moves a sample tray back and forth beneath the fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge in a y direction orthogonal to the x direction.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: James D. Anderson, Jr., John Glenn Edelen, Manish Giri, Michael A. Marra, III, Sam Norasak
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Patent number: 11920347Abstract: A joist assembly system that is structured for dynamic retrieval of components, dynamic and precise positioning and location of retrieved components, assembly of the components to form a joist, and delivery of the assembled joist. The joist assembly system has a plurality of material handling systems, a plurality of welding systems, and a rigging table system. The material handling systems are structured to load and position the components such as chords and webs onto the rigging table. The rigging table in turn supports the chords or webs. Subsequently, the plurality of welding systems weld the webs to the chords to form the joist.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NUCOR CORPORATIONInventors: Jason Alan Freidenberger, Joseph Patrick Cagle, Christopher Ray Couch, Richard Thomas Erickson, Travis Marshall Fuhrman, John Lyman Hale, Matthew Glenn Hire, Christopher William Martin, James E. Ogburn, III, Jonathan Pressley Poston, Peter Michael Puglisi, Phillip Murray Sylvester, Jr., Adam Taylor Watkins
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Publication number: 20240073036Abstract: Techniques are described for embedded device based fingerprint signing and public ledger registering management. A digital fingerprint associated with media content can be identified. An embedded integrated circuit (IC) of the computing device can be utilized to store security data associated with the media content. The security data can include at least one digital certificate. The at least one digital certificate can include a device certificate utilized to generate a cryptographic signature associated with the metadata and the digital fingerprint. A file can be generated and registered with a public ledger. The file can include the digital fingerprint, the metadata, the at least one certificate, and the cryptographic signature.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: John Herman Hess III, Nikhil Sainath Kale, Foster Glenn Lipkey, John Joseph Groetzinger
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Publication number: 20240002317Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to compositions and processes for producing Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. In particular, the disclosure provides for a process for producing a product composition comprising alcohols and liquid hydrocarbons via a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction, the process comprising: contacting a mixture of hydrogen and a gaseous carbon oxide that is carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide or a combination thereof and an olefin co-feed with a supported cobalt-manganese Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst to provide the product composition; wherein the olefin co-feed comprises at least one C2-C14 olefin and is present in an amount in the range of 0.001 wt % to 40 wt % relative to the total amount of hydrogen, the gaseous carbon oxide and olefin; wherein a weight ratio of manganese to cobalt in the catalyst is at least 0.05 on an elemental basis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Alexander James Paterson, John Glenn Sunley
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Patent number: 11848531Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument. The mode-locked laser can produce sub-50-ps optical pulses at a repetition rates between 200 MHz and 50 MHz, rates suitable for massively parallel data-acquisition. The optical pulses can be used to generate a reference clock signal for synchronizing data-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the portable instrument.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. Fife, Benjamin Cipriany
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Patent number: 11768215Abstract: An open fluid droplet ejection cartridge containing one or more fluids to be dispensed by digital fluid dispense system and a method for digitally dispensing fluids. The open fluid droplet ejection cartridge includes a cover having one or more openings therein, fluid funnels pending from each of the one or more openings in the cover, a chamber separator attached to the fluid funnels for directing fluid to one or more fluid chambers, a fluid overflow chamber for fluid overflow from the one or more fluid chambers, fluid vias associated with each of the one or more fluid chambers, and a plurality of fluid ejection devices adjacent to the fluid vias on a single semiconductor substrate in fluid flow communication with the fluid vias.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Inventors: James D. Anderson, Jr., John Glenn Edelen, Michael A. Marra, III
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Patent number: 11673851Abstract: A process the dehydration of methanol to dimethyl ether in the presence of a solid Brønsted acid catalyst selected from aluminosilicate zeolites which have a maximum free sphere diameter of greater than 3.67 Angstroms and heteropolyacids and a promoter selected from methyl formate, dimethyl oxalate and dimethyl malonate and the molar ratio of promoter to methanol is maintained at less than 1.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: BP p.l.c., BP (China) Holdings LtdInventors: Benjamin James Dennis-Smither, Neil Sainty, John Glenn Sunley
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Publication number: 20230173472Abstract: A process for the preparation of ethylene by the dehydration of ethanol in the presence of a zeolite catalyst having the MOR framework code, wherein the process is operated at a temperature in the range of from 100° C. to 300° C., for example from 140° C. to 270° C., such as from 150° C. to 250° C., and wherein the zeolite catalyst having the MOR framework code has been modified by the adsorption of an optionally substituted pyridine compound.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Corneliu Buda, Benjamin James Dennis-Smither, Fiona Jackson, John Glenn Sunley
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Patent number: 11634310Abstract: A container filling assembly that can be used with container filling systems to fill containers during successive filling cycles with the same or different fluid compositions at high rates of speed, with little to no machinery changeover, and/or with little to no fluid waste.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Justin Thomas Cacciatore, Eric Shawn Goudy, Bernard George Durham, Benny Leung, John Glenn Kuley, Scott William Capeci, Vincenzo Guida, Emilio Javier Tozzi
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Patent number: 11613505Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the hydrogenation of polyunsaturated hydrocarbon compounds, in particular di-olefins and alkynes, more particularly di-olefins, said process comprising contacting a feed comprising one or more polyunsaturated hydrocarbon compounds with a catalyst comprising copper and carbon in the presence of hydrogen, preferably wherein the catalyst is a copper catalyst on a carbon-containing support. The present invention also provides a process for producing a copper catalyst on a carbon-containing support and the use of a copper catalyst on a carbon-containing support to increase the selectivity towards di-olefin hydrogenation over mono-olefin hydrogenation in a process for hydrogenation of one or more di-olefins.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: BP P.L.C.Inventors: Rolf Beerthuis, Krijn De Jong, Petra De Jongh, John Glenn Sunley
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Patent number: 11578026Abstract: A process for dehydrating C2+ alcohols to ether products in the presence of a catalyst and promoter, wherein the catalyst is at least one aluminosilicate zeolite catalyst which is a medium pore zeolite having a 3-dimensional framework structure, and the promoter is one or more organic carbonyl compounds or derivatives thereof, and wherein and the molar ratio of promoter to C2+ alcohols is maintained at less than 1.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: BP P.L.C.Inventors: Benjamin James Dennis-Smither, John Glenn Sunley, Fiona Jackson
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Publication number: 20220397496Abstract: A digital dispense system and methods for preparing samples for analysis. The digital dispense system includes a fluid droplet ejection system housed in a housing unit. The fluid droplet ejection system contains a fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge containing one or more fluids to be dispensed. A cartridge translation mechanism is provided for moving the fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge back and forth over a sample holder in an x direction. A sample tray translation mechanism moves a sample tray back and forth beneath the fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge in a y direction orthogonal to the x direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Applicant: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventors: James D. ANDERSON, JR., John Glenn Edelen, Manish GIRI, Michael A. Marra, III, Sam NORASAK
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Patent number: 11474007Abstract: A digital dispense system and methods for preparing samples for analysis. The digital dispense system includes a fluid droplet ejection system housed in a housing unit. The fluid droplet ejection system contains a fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge containing one or more fluids to be dispensed. A cartridge translation mechanism is provided for moving the fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge back and forth over a sample holder in an x direction. A sample tray translation mechanism moves a sample tray back and forth beneath the fluid droplet ejection head and fluid cartridge in a y direction orthogonal to the x direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2019Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Inventors: James D. Anderson, Jr., John Glenn Edelen, Manish Giri, Michael A. Marra, III, Sam Norasak
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Patent number: 11466316Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument for biological or chemical analyses. The pulsed laser may produce sub-100-ps optical pulses at a repetition rate commensurate with electronic data-acquisition rates. The optical pulses may excite samples in reaction chambers of the instrument, and be used to generate a reference clock for operating signal-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. Fife
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Patent number: 11427524Abstract: A process for dehydrating methanol to dimethyl ether product in the presence of a solid Brønsted acid catalyst which is an aluminosilicate zeolite or a heteropolyacid and a promoter which is (i) a ketone of formula R1COR2 (Formula I) in which R1 and R2 are identical or different and are each a C1-C11 alkyl group and furthermore R1 and R2 together with the carbonyl carbon atom to which they are bonded may form a cyclic ketone; or (ii) a ketal derivative of a ketone of Formula I; and the molar ratio of promoter to methanol is maintained at 0.5 or less.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: BP P.L.C.Inventors: Benjamin James Dennis-Smither, John Glenn Sunley
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Publication number: 20220243265Abstract: Apparatus and methods for producing ultrashort optical pulses are described. A high-power, solid-state, passively mode-locked laser can be manufactured in a compact module that can be incorporated into a portable instrument for biological or chemical analyses. The pulsed laser may produce sub-100-ps optical pulses at a repetition rate commensurate with electronic data-acquisition rates. The optical pulses may excite samples in reaction chambers of the instrument, and be used to generate a reference clock for operating signal-acquisition and signal-processing electronics of the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Quantum-Si IncorporatedInventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Jason W. Sickler, Lawrence C. West, Faisal R. Ahmad, Paul E. Glenn, Jack Jewell, John Glenn, Jose Camara, Jeremy Christopher Jordan, Todd Rearick, Farshid Ghasemi, Jonathan C. Schultz, Keith G. Fife
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Publication number: 20220220053Abstract: A process for the preparation of a composition comprising oxygenates and hydrocarbons by means of a Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction, said process comprising contacting a mixture of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide gases with a supported Co—Mn Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst, wherein the supported synthesis catalyst comprises at least 2.5 wt % of manganese, on an elemental basis, based on the total weight of the supported synthesis catalyst; the weight ratio of manganese to cobalt, on an elemental basis, is 0.2 or greater; and, wherein carbon dioxide is present in the Fischer-Tropsch synthesis reaction is at least 5% v/v.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2019Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: John Glenn Sunley, Alexander James Paterson