Patents by Inventor John M. Brown
John M. Brown 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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Publication number: 20240118790Abstract: A computer readable media, a method, and a system registering a third party application providing an available communication system between a local user and a remote user identity, storing information related to the available communication system in a first database, obtaining contact information for the remote user identity from the third party application, determining a communication type for the third party application, pairing the remote user identity with a contact, and updating a graphical representation of contact information.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey D. Harris, Joseph H. Engel, Keith Stattenfield, John-Peter E. Cafaro, Colter S. Reed, Bruce M. Stadnyk, James C. Wilson, David A. McLeod, Alexander B. Brown
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Publication number: 20240114318Abstract: Techniques for adjusting the strengths of signals received from a transmitter based on the transmitter's likely location are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, by one or more processors, location information corresponding to one or more respective areas expected to be visited by an individual; receiving, by the one or more processors, measurements indicative of signal strengths of one or more signals transmitted by a transmitter associated with the individual and received by one or more receivers configured to receive one or more signals transmitted by the transmitter, the one or more receivers being positioned at respective receiver locations corresponding to one or more respective areas; and adjusting, by the one or more processors, the received measurements indicative of the signal strengths of the one or more signals transmitted by the transmitter based on the one or more respective areas expected to be visited by the individual.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Richard Mark Clayton, Patrick Martin Brown, John M. Seimer, Andrew Ehlers, Seth David Silk
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Patent number: 11877561Abstract: A door for use with a cage for transporting poultry including a door assembly for mounting the door to the cage which is configured to limit vibration associated with the transporting of poultry in the cage and prevent the unintentional opening of the door.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Inventors: Everett Waid, Timothy G. Youngquist, John M. Brown
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Patent number: 11832592Abstract: A door for use with a cage for transporting poultry including a door assembly for mounting the door to the cage which is configured to limit vibration associated with the transporting of poultry in the cage and prevent the unintentional opening of the door.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Inventors: Everett Waid, Timothy G Youngquist, John M Brown
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Publication number: 20230247969Abstract: A door for use with a cage for transporting poultry including a door assembly for mounting the door to the cage which is configured to limit vibration associated with the transporting of poultry in the cage and prevent the unintentional opening of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Everett Waid, Timothy G. Youngquist, John M. Brown
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Publication number: 20220287279Abstract: A door for use with a cage for transporting poultry including a door assembly for mounting the door to the cage which is configured to limit vibration associated with the transporting of poultry in the cage and prevent the unintentional opening of the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Everett Waid, Timothy G. Youngquist, John M. Brown
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Publication number: 20220156768Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: obtaining, using the set of one or more processors, a plurality of user selections provided via a graphical user interface (GUI); establishing, using the set of one or more processors, an association between the plurality of user selections and display data for a time series of a plurality of inventory items; obtaining, using the set of one or more processors, a time series of forecasting data via an application programming interface (API) call to a remote system; associating, using the set of one or more processors, the time series of forecasting data with the time series of the plurality of inventory items; and thereafter generating or updating, using the set of one or more processors, the display data for the time series of the plurality of inventory item on one or more web pages of an entity associated with the GUI based on the forecasting data and the plurality of user selections. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Golfback LLCInventors: John M Brown, Brent Miller, Bryce Voisin
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Patent number: 10540951Abstract: An onboard electronic system and associated method enables a player of an acoustic stringed instrument to control an electronic signal for modifying and amplifying sound while playing an instrument is described. The onboard electronic system is embedded in the tailpiece and/or the chinrest portions of the stringed instrument, and includes at least one pickup, a battery-powered amplification unit and at least one controller. The method includes steps for controlling sound amplification and tonal modification onboard an acoustic stringed instrument. The steps include sensing vibration from strings with a pickup, generating an electrical signal and transmitting the electrical signal to an amplification unit via an input cable, and modifying the electrical signal in response to one or more controllers located onboard the instrument.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2016Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Inventors: James Connell, John M Brown
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Publication number: 20190254259Abstract: A poultry transport system and method involving at least one frame structure configurable for baseless suspension in which said system and method may include a frame structure top of a first frame structure engageable to a frame structure bottom of a second frame structure to form paired frame structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Everett Waid, Tim Youngquist, John M. Brown
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Publication number: 20180130453Abstract: An onboard electronic system and associated method enables a player of an acoustic stringed instrument to control an electronic signal for modifying and amplifying sound while playing an instrument is described. The onboard electronic system is embedded in the tailpiece and/or the chinrest portions of the stringed instrument, and includes at least one pickup, a battery-powered amplification unit and at least one controller. The method includes steps for controlling sound amplification and tonal modification onboard an acoustic stringed instrument. The steps include sensing vibration from strings with a pickup, generating an electrical signal and transmitting the electrical signal to an amplification unit via an input cable, and modifying the electrical signal in response to one or more controllers located onboard the instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2016Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: James Connell, John M. Brown
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Patent number: 8236894Abstract: The present invention relates generally to monovinylarene-conjugated diene block copolymers adapted for shrinkable film applications. In one embodiment, a block copolymer is provided wherein an oriented 2 mil film of the block copolymer oriented at 100° C. or less exhibits less than 10% shrinkage at 70° C., and at least 70% shrinkage at 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: John M. Brown, Carleton E. Stouffer, John D. Wilkey
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Patent number: 8016650Abstract: An aircraft air distribution system includes a base and first and second arrays of nozzle air transfer ports in the base. An adjustable flow plate is positioned over the nozzle air transfer ports. A compressible member is located between the base and the adjustable flow plate and between the first and second arrays. First and second air ejector regions are located, respectively, on the sides of the compressible member between the base and the adjustable flow plate to connect to the first and second arrays, and direct air from the first and second arrays from the sides of the base. Fasteners moveably connect the adjustable flow plate to the base and are adjustable to change a size of different sections of the first and second air ejector regions to change an amount of airflow originating from the different sections of these regions.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2006Date of Patent: September 13, 2011Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Raymond H. Horstman, Scott W. Bohm, Kenneth J. Walter, Steven L. Williams, Kirk D. Skaggs, John M. Brown, Chao-Hsin Lin
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Publication number: 20100234532Abstract: The present invention relates generally to monovinylarene-conjugated diene block copolymers adapted for shrinkable film applications. In one embodiment, a block copolymer is provided wherein an oriented 2 mil film of the block copolymer oriented at 100° C. or less exhibits less than 10% shrinkage at 70° C., and at least 70% shrinkage at 100° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2010Publication date: September 16, 2010Applicant: Chevron Phillips Chemical CompanyInventors: John M. Brown, Carleton E. Stouffer, John D. Wilkey
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Patent number: 7737216Abstract: The present invention relates generally to monovinylarene-conjugated diene block copolymers adapted for shrinkable film applications. In one embodiment, a block copolymer is provided wherein an oriented 2 mil film of the block copolymer oriented at 100° C. or less exhibits less than 10% shrinkage at 70° C., and at least 70% shrinkage at 100° C.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2006Date of Patent: June 15, 2010Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LPInventors: John M Brown, Carleton E Stouffer, John D Wilkey
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Patent number: 7557810Abstract: A system for identification and assessment of performance optimizations implemented in the graphics environment, the identification and assessment of the performance optimizations based upon an optimized graphics call sequence generated by an application of one or more optimizations applied to a captured graphics call sequence occurring between said first and second drivers. The resulting optimized graphics call sequence causes the same graphics rendering to occur when provided to the graphics system as the original graphics call sequence. As such, the graphics application and associated graphics interface driver may then be analyzed by the application developer to identify specific modifications which, when implemented, would generate such an optimized graphics call sequence. This may include implementing specific modifications to the graphics application as well as implementing portions or all of the present invention into the driver for real-time execution.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2003Date of Patent: July 7, 2009Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: John M. Brown, Don W. Dyer, Gautam Mehrotra, Carol L. Lang
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Publication number: 20080139100Abstract: An aircraft air distribution system includes a base and first and second arrays of nozzle air transfer ports in the base. An adjustable flow plate is positioned over the nozzle air transfer ports. A compressible member is located between the base and the adjustable flow plate and between the first and second arrays. First and second air ejector regions are located, respectively, on the sides of the compressible member between the base and the adjustable flow plate to connect to the first and second arrays, and direct air from the first and second arrays from the sides of the base. Fasteners moveably connect the adjustable flow plate to the base and are adjustable to change a size of different sections of the first and second air ejector regions to change an amount of airflow originating from the different sections of these regions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Raymond H. Horstman, Scott W. Bohm, Kenneth J. Walter, Steven L. Williams, Kirk D. Skaggs, John M. Brown, Chao-Hsin Lin
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Patent number: 7351767Abstract: We disclose a composition comprising (i) a monovinylarene-conjugated diene copolymer and (ii) an acrylate terpolymer. The composition can be in the form of a film. We also disclose a container comprising a container structure and a shrink label in contact with the container structure's exterior surface. We also disclose a method of applying a shrink label to a container structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2004Date of Patent: April 1, 2008Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LPInventors: David L Hartsock, John M Brown, James A Keane
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Patent number: 7193014Abstract: We disclose compositions, comprising (i) from about 25 parts by weight to about 95 parts by weight of a monovinylarene-conjugated diene coupled block copolymer comprising at least one tapered block, having a blocky monovinylarene content of less than 90 wt % of total monovinylarene units, and comprising a terminal monovinylarene block having a molecular weight of less than 60,000 g/mol; and (ii) from about 5 parts by weight to about 75 parts by weight of a monovinylarene-alkyl(meth)acrylate copolymer, comprising (ii-a) monovinylarene units and (ii-b) either alkyl acrylate units, alkyl methacrylate units, or both. The compositions can be used in shrink film or rigid packaging applications.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2007Assignee: Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, LPInventors: John D. Wilkey, Carleton E. Stouffer, Vergil H. Rhodes, Jay M. Chaffin, John M. Brown, David Hartsock, James A. Keane
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Patent number: 6984513Abstract: Recombinant anaerobic bacterial compositions that under anaerobic conditions present in a solid tumor and produce an enzyme capable of catalyzing the conversion of a prodrug to its cytotoxic product in situ are described. Methods of treating tumors using the composition are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2002Date of Patent: January 10, 2006Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: John M. Brown, Shie-Chau Liu, Amato J. Giaccia, Nigel P. Minton
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Patent number: 6941483Abstract: A computer system is disclosed having a bus capability determination mechanism. In a preferred embodiment, the computer system includes a backplane having sockets into which system and peripheral boards may be inserted. The sockets are coupled together by a backplane bus that includes a bus capability line. Each board preferably includes a voting circuit that, when enabled, limits the voltage on the capability signal line to no more than a predetermined voltage that is indicative of the capability of the board. The voltage on the capability signal line will thus be determined by the board having the lowest voltage limit. The clock source for the bus can then be set to the clock rate indicated by the voltage on the capability signal line. Zener devices are preferably used to carry out the voting operation, and may be disabled after the voting operation is complete.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2001Date of Patent: September 6, 2005Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: John M. Brown, James E. Holeman