Patents by Inventor John Hinkle

John Hinkle 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: 12161912
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device used for physical therapy, rehabilitation, or strengthening of the hands, arms, wrists, shoulders, elbows, or fingers of a user. The device is a ball with a stem extending from a surface of the ball, and a rotatable member that is rotatably engaged with the stem. The physical therapy, rehabilitation, or strengthening exercises are performed when the user holds the ball in the user's hand while using the fingers of that hand to rotate the rotatable member on the stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Inventor: John Hinkle
  • Patent number: 11483971
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle header having a frame, at least one support arm extending, a cutter assembly attached to the distal ends of the support arms, a draper belt with an upper belt portion located above the support arms, and a parallel linkage connected to each support arm to operatively connect the cutter assembly to the frame. The linkage includes upper and lower links. The upper belt portion extends along a cross-belt direction that is perpendicular to a travel direction of the upper belt portion, and the proximal pivots of the upper and lower links are positioned on a line that is oriented at an angle of 60 to 120 degrees relative to the cross-belt direction when the header is in a freestanding static state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Eugene Ricketts, Herbert M. Farley, Wayne T. Flickinger, John Hinkle
  • Patent number: 11115272
    Abstract: Techniques are described for identifying “out-of-band” modifications to an interrelated set of computing resources, also referred to herein as a computing resource stack, that was provisioned at a service provider network using an infrastructure modeling service. An infrastructure modeling service generally allows users to describe a computing resource stack in a text file or other type of descriptive representation, referred to herein as an infrastructure template, and to automatically provision computing resource stacks defined in templates at a service provider network. Users may at times make so-called out-of-band modifications to one or more computing resources of a provisioned computing resource stack, either inadvertently or in response to time-sensitive demands, where an out-of-band modification is made outside of the infrastructure modeling service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Anil Kumar, Matthew John Hinkle, Rajesh Viswanathan, Prashant Prahlad
  • Publication number: 20210112715
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle header having a frame, at least one support arm extending, a cutter assembly attached to the distal ends of the support arms, a draper belt with an upper belt portion located above the support arms, and a parallel linkage connected to each support arm to operatively connect the cutter assembly to the frame. The linkage includes upper and lower links. The upper belt portion extends along a cross-belt direction that is perpendicular to a travel direction of the upper belt portion, and the proximal pivots of the upper and lower links are positioned on a line that is oriented at an angle of 60 to 120 degrees relative to the cross-belt direction when the header is in a freestanding static state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Jonathan Eugene Ricketts, Herbert M. Farley, Wayne T. Flickinger, John Hinkle
  • Patent number: 10980178
    Abstract: A harvesting reel assembly for a header of an agricultural harvester is disclosed. The harvesting reel assembly includes a central rotatable shaft, a plurality of support members, a cam assembly and an extendable reel arm. The plurality of support members extend widthwise across the reel assembly and connect to the central rotatable shaft for rotation therewith. The cam assembly guides rotation of the plurality of support members. The extendable reel arm includes a first end engaged with the central rotatable shaft for rotation therewith. The extendable reel arm also includes a distal end opposite the first end connected to one of the plurality of support members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Ricketts, Herbert M. Farley, John Hinkle, Blaine R. Noll
  • Patent number: 10951473
    Abstract: Technologies are disclosed herein for providing an asynchronous fleet configuration service for deploying and updating a fleet of network resources. The asynchronous fleet configuration service exposes an asynchronous application programming interface (API) that allows for individual resources to indicate an initialization status. Accordingly, the asynchronous fleet configuration service can asynchronously monitor the status of individual resources being deployed or updated, while performing other duties related to the fleet of network resources.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Avinash Jaisinghani, Prashant Jayaraman, Christopher Whitaker, Matthew John Hinkle, Pete Peerapong Janes, Adam M. Thomas, Jaykumar Harish Gosar, Chetan Manohar Dandekar
  • Patent number: 10568259
    Abstract: A knife head drive assembly for a header of an agricultural harvester including a knife head assembly for attachment to a forward end of the header. A first pivot arm and a second pivot arm are carried by the knife head assembly and are pivotably connected by a linkage. A rotating crank is operatively connected to and extending substantially transverse to the knife head assembly for engagement with a drive. A reciprocating shaft is connected to the rotating crank and either of the pivot arms or the linkage. Operation of the knife head drive assembly results in substantially linear, opposed oscillating motion of cutter bars carried by the knife head assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Joel Cook, John Hinkle, Herb Farley, David M. DeChristopher, Barry Lehman
  • Publication number: 20190208702
    Abstract: A knife head drive assembly for a header of an agricultural harvester including a knife head assembly for attachment to a forward end of the header. A first pivot arm and a second pivot arm are carried by the knife head assembly and are pivotably connected by a linkage. A rotating crank is operatively connected to and extending substantially transverse to the knife head assembly for engagement with a drive. A reciprocating shaft is connected to the rotating crank and either of the pivot arms or the linkage. Operation of the knife head drive assembly results in substantially linear, opposed oscillating motion of cutter bars carried by the knife head assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Joel Cook, John Hinkle, Herb Farley, David M. DeChristopher, Barry Lehman
  • Publication number: 20190124842
    Abstract: A harvesting reel assembly for a header of an agricultural harvester is disclosed. The harvesting reel assembly includes a central rotatable shaft, a plurality of support members, a cam assembly and an extendable reel arm. The plurality of support members extend widthwise across the reel assembly and connect to the central rotatable shaft for rotation therewith. The cam assembly guides rotation of the plurality of support members. The extendable reel arm includes a first end engaged with the central rotatable shaft for rotation therewith. The extendable reel arm also includes a distal end opposite the first end connected to one of the plurality of support members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Ricketts, Herb Farley, John Hinkle, Blaine Noll