Patents by Inventor John McCullough
John McCullough 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: 20240070393Abstract: An online concierge system generates suggested instructions for presentation to a user. The online concierge system access instruction examples corresponding to a target item category and generates candidate instruction representations based on instruction messages within each instruction example. The online concierge system generates preliminary scores for the candidate instruction representations that are directly related to an intra-category frequency of use of the instruction tokens of the candidate instruction representation within the target item category. The online system normalizes these preliminary scores for the candidate instruction representations based on the inter-category frequency of use of the instruction tokens in all item categories to generate final scores for the candidate instruction representations. The online concierge system selects a set of instruction representations based on these final scores and generates suggested instructions based on the set of instruction representations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Shishir Kumar Prasad, Cameron Nicholas Taylor, John Salaveria, Joey Loi, Kevin McCullough
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Patent number: 11915203Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate scheduling maintenance services for a special-purpose vehicle. In an exemplary embodiment, a user device comprises a user interface, a processor, and memory comprising instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to output, to the user interface, a plurality of service method icons. The plurality of service methods comprise a first service method icon corresponding to a service being performed on the special-purpose vehicle at a first location and a second service method icon corresponding to the service being performed on the special-purpose vehicle at a second location. The first location and the second location are different locations. The memory also comprises instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to receive, via the user interface, a selection of a service method icon of the plurality of service method icons and send, to a scheduling server, a signal corresponding to the selected service method icon.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.Inventors: Douglas Koch, John Kastanek, Bridget McLennan, Nicole Wolverton, Josh Grube, Adam McCullough, Deirdre O'Connell, Alex Royalty, David Duckworth, Jamie Curran, Evan Hoffman
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Patent number: 11453486Abstract: A rotorcraft main rotor system, including a yoke, a rotor blade, and a grip assembly attaching the rotor blade to the yoke. The grip assembly includes a grip body formed from a contiguous laminated composite and has a substantially constant thickness, where the grip body has an upper extension, a lower extension and a connecting portion connected between an inboard end of the upper extension and an inboard end of the lower extension. An inside surface of the upper extension faces, and is substantially parallel to, an inside surface of the lower extension, and the upper extension has first features and the lower extension has second features that are aligned with the first features, where the first features and second features each include at least one of an edge contour, attachment holes, or first protective elements.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.Inventors: Mark Adam Wiinikka, John McCullough, Russell Steven Cole, William Russell Cleary, Jr., Zachary Edwin Dailey
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Patent number: 11255316Abstract: A pump includes a pair of valves, coupled to a camshaft that selectively opens and closes the valves such that when one valve opens the other valve closes. The valves are in fluid communication with a piston chamber. A crankshaft operates a piston in a piston cylinder with the opening and closing of the valves such that as the piston is drawn from the piston chamber, the inlet valve is open and the outlet valve is closed and when the piston is forced into the chamber, the outlet valve is open and the inlet valve is closed. The camshaft and crankshaft are coupled together to cause synchronous operation of the valves and piston.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Inventors: John McCullough, Wayco Scroggin
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Publication number: 20210403152Abstract: A rotorcraft main rotor system, including a yoke, a rotor blade, and a grip assembly attaching the rotor blade to the yoke. The grip assembly includes a grip body formed from a contiguous laminated composite and has a substantially constant thickness, where the grip body has an upper extension, a lower extension and a connecting portion connected between an inboard end of the upper extension and an inboard end of the lower extension. An inside surface of the upper extension faces, and is substantially parallel to, an inside surface of the lower extension, and the upper extension has first features and the lower extension has second features that are aligned with the first features, where the first features and second features each include at least one of an edge contour, attachment holes, or first protective elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2021Publication date: December 30, 2021Inventors: Mark Adam Wiinikka, John McCullough, Russell Steven Cole, William Russell Cleary, JR., Zachary Edwin Dailey
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Patent number: 11155347Abstract: An embodiment rotorcraft main rotor system, including a yoke, a rotor blade, and a grip assembly attaching the rotor blade to the yoke. The grip assembly includes a grip body formed from a contiguous laminated composite and has a substantially constant thickness, where the grip body has an upper extension, a lower extension and a connecting portion connected between an inboard end of the upper extension and an inboard end of the lower extension. An inside surface of the upper extension faces, and is substantially parallel to, an inside surface of the lower extension, and the upper extension has first features and the lower extension has second features that are aligned with the first features, where the first features and second features each include at least one of an edge contour, attachment holes, or first protective elements.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.Inventors: Mark Adam Wiinikka, John McCullough, Russell Steven Cole, William Russell Cleary, Jr., Zachary Edwin Dailey
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Publication number: 20210290842Abstract: A pump comprises a drive mechanism, a tube coupled to the drive mechanism, a filament coupled to the tube and extendable into the tube by the drive mechanism and at least one check valve coupled to the tube. As the filament is forced by the drive mechanism into the tube, fluid contained in the tube is forced by the filament through the at least one check valve and out of the tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2019Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: John McCullough, Wayco Scroggin
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Patent number: 10959575Abstract: An apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprises a roasting chamber for containing coffee beans. The roasting chamber is positioned within a resonant cavity of a waveguide. A microwave emitter produces microwave energy within the waveguide with one or more stable high intensity microwave regions within the roasting chamber to heat the coffee beans in the roasting chamber to a temperature sufficient to roast the coffee beans. A device configured to move the coffee beans within the one or more high intensity microwave regions is coupled to the roasting chamber.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Inventors: John McCullough, Wayco Scroggin
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Publication number: 20210069889Abstract: A teleoperated robotic system that includes master control arms, slave arms, and a mobile platform. In use, a user manipulates the master control arms to control movement of the slave arms. The teleoperated robotic system can include two master control arms and two slave arms. The master control arms and the slave arms can be mounted on the platform. The platform can provide support for the master control arms and for a teleoperator, or user, of the robotic system. Thus, a mobile platform can allow the robotic system to be moved from place to place to locate the slave arms in a position for use. Additionally, the user can be positioned on the platform, such that the user can see and hear, directly, the slave arms and the workspace in which the slave arms operate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2020Publication date: March 11, 2021Inventors: Stephen C. Jacobsen, Fraser M. Smith, John McCullough, Glenn Colvin, JR., Wayco Scroggin, Marc X. Olivier
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Publication number: 20210033079Abstract: A self-energizing valve includes a valve body defining an inner chamber having an inlet and an outlet. A valve head within the inner chamber is moveable between a first position and a second position. A valve seal in fluid communication with the inlet has a sealing surface with a sealing member between the valve head and the valve seal. The sealing member is movable between a closed position where the sealing member engages with the sealing surface and an open position where the sealing member disengages from the sealing surface to allow flow through the inlet into the inner chamber. A cam is coupled to the valve head. Rotation of the cam causes movement of the valve head between the first position and the second position to move the valve head to the first position to hold the sealing member in the closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Inventors: John McCullough, Wayco Scroggin
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Patent number: 10864985Abstract: A centrifugal force (CF) bearing for a rotorcraft rotor assembly includes an inner-member, an outer-member, and an elastic member interposed between the inner- and outer-members. The inner-member includes a boss configured for location to and engagement with a yoke. The boss includes a tapered profile (e.g., conic) portion. A tapered recess region of the yoke includes a profile that is substantially matched to receive and contact the tapered profile of the boss. The CF bearing is configured for attachment to a grip of the rotor assembly. The boss is configured to communicate mechanical loads (e.g., centrifugal force, lateral shear, vertical shear) from the grip to the yoke during operation of the rotor assembly.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: John McCullough, Mark Adam Wiinikka, Matthew Curtis Ledbetter
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Publication number: 20200317329Abstract: An embodiment rotorcraft main rotor system, including a yoke, a rotor blade, and a grip assembly attaching the rotor blade to the yoke. The grip assembly includes a grip body formed from a contiguous laminated composite and has a substantially constant thickness, where the grip body has an upper extension, a lower extension and a connecting portion connected between an inboard end of the upper extension and an inboard end of the lower extension. An inside surface of the upper extension faces, and is substantially parallel to, an inside surface of the lower extension, and the upper extension has first features and the lower extension has second features that are aligned with the first features, where the first features and second features each include at least one of an edge contour, attachment holes, or first protective elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Mark Adam Wiinikka, John McCullough, Russell Steven Cole, William Russell Cleary, JR., Zachary Edwin Dailey
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Publication number: 20190316573Abstract: A pump includes a pair of valves, coupled to a camshaft that selectively opens and closes the valves such that when one valve opens the other valve closes. The valves are in fluid communication with a piston chamber. A crankshaft operates a piston in a piston cylinder with the opening and closing of the valves such that as the piston is drawn from the piston chamber, the inlet valve is open and the outlet valve is closed and when the piston is forced into the chamber, the outlet valve is open and the inlet valve is closed. The camshaft and crankshaft are coupled together to cause synchronous operation of the valves and piston.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2019Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: John McCullough, Wayco Scroggin
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Patent number: 10412988Abstract: An apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprises a roasting chamber for containing coffee beans. The roasting chamber is positioned within a resonant cavity of a waveguide. A microwave emitter produces microwave energy within the waveguide with one or more stable high intensity microwave regions within the roasting chamber to heat the coffee beans in the roasting chamber to a temperature sufficient to roast the coffee beans. A device configured to move the coffee beans within the one or more high intensity microwave regions is coupled to the roasting chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: JACOBSEN INNOVATIONS, INC.Inventors: Stephen C. Jacobsen, John McCullough
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Patent number: 10407152Abstract: According to one embodiment, an aircraft features a fuselage, a wing member, and two fuselage beam. The fuselage features a first plurality of structural supports, a second plurality of structural supports, a first opening disposed between the first plurality of structural supports, and a second opening disposed between the second plurality of structural supports. The wing member is disposed above the first opening and above the second opening. The wing features a plurality of ribs including a first rib and a second rib. The first fuselage beam couples the first rib of the wing member to the fuselage and has an elongated body portion extending across the first plurality of structural supports. The second fuselage beam couples the second rib of the wing member to the fuselage and features an elongated body portion extending across the second plurality of structural supports.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2018Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.Inventors: James Everett Kooiman, Mark Loring Isaac, John Elton Brunken, Jr., John McCullough
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Publication number: 20190191802Abstract: A garment weight having a weight portion comprising a plurality of exterior surfaces, a coating layer applied to each of the plurality of exterior surfaces of the weight portion and an adhesive layer applied to the coating layer of at least one of the exterior surfaces, wherein the adhesive layer is configured to releasably adhere to a garment such that the garment weight weighs down the garment.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Christina Marie Dunn, Peter John McCullough
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Publication number: 20190133377Abstract: An apparatus for roasting coffee beans comprises a roasting chamber for containing coffee beans. The roasting chamber is positioned within a resonant cavity of a waveguide. A microwave emitter produces microwave energy within the waveguide with one or more stable high intensity microwave regions within the roasting chamber to heat the coffee beans in the roasting chamber to a temperature sufficient to roast the coffee beans. A device configured to move the coffee beans within the one or more high intensity microwave regions is coupled to the roasting chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: May 9, 2019Inventors: John McCullough, Wayco Scroggins
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Publication number: 20190031328Abstract: A centrifugal force (CF) bearing for a rotorcraft rotor assembly includes an inner-member, an outer-member, and an elastic member interposed between the inner- and outer-members. The inner-member includes a boss configured for location to and engagement with a yoke. The boss includes a tapered profile (e.g., conic) portion. A tapered recess region of the yoke includes a profile that is substantially matched to receive and contact the tapered profile of the boss. The CF bearing is configured for attachment to a grip of the rotor assembly. The boss is configured to communicate mechanical loads (e.g., centrifugal force, lateral shear, vertical shear) from the grip to the yoke during operation of the rotor assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: John McCullough, Mark Adam Wiinikka, Matthew Curtis Ledbetter
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Publication number: 20180354602Abstract: According to one embodiment, an aircraft features a fuselage, a wing member, and two fuselage beam. The fuselage features a first plurality of structural supports, a second plurality of structural supports, a first opening disposed between the first plurality of structural supports, and a second opening disposed between the second plurality of structural supports. The wing member is disposed above the first opening and above the second opening. The wing features a plurality of ribs including a first rib and a second rib. The first fuselage beam couples the first rib of the wing member to the fuselage and has an elongated body portion extending across the first plurality of structural supports. The second fuselage beam couples the second rib of the wing member to the fuselage and features an elongated body portion extending across the second plurality of structural supports.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2018Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.Inventors: James Everett Kooiman, Mark Loring Isaac, John Elton Brunken, JR., John McCullough
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Patent number: 10040534Abstract: According to one embodiment, an aircraft features a fuselage, a wing member, and two fuselage beam. The fuselage features a first plurality of structural supports, a second plurality of structural supports, a first opening disposed between the first plurality of structural supports, and a second opening disposed between the second plurality of structural supports. The wing member is disposed above the first opening and above the second opening. The wing features a plurality of ribs including a first rib and a second rib. The first fuselage beam couples the first rib of the wing member to the fuselage and has an elongated body portion extending across the first plurality of structural supports. The second fuselage beam couples the second rib of the wing member to the fuselage and features an elongated body portion extending across the second plurality of structural supports.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: BELL HELICOPTER TEXTRON INC.Inventors: James Everett Kooiman, Mark Loring Isaac, John Elton Brunken, Jr., John McCullough