Patents by Inventor John R. Hill

John R. Hill 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).

  • Publication number: 20240091077
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides substrates and laminates for absorbent articles and absorbent articles comprising the substrates or laminates. The substrates and laminates may have three-dimensional elements, land areas, and increased permeability regions intermediate at least some of the land areas and at least some of the three-dimensional elements. The increased permeability regions may be positioned adjacent to the three-dimensional elements. The land areas may have a first basis weight and the increased permeability regions may have a second basis weight. The first basis weight may be greater than the second basis weight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Kelyn A. ARORA, John L. HAMMONS, Donna R. HILL
  • Patent number: 5825989
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for diagnosing a selected print job transmitted to a printing system, the selected print job causing the printing system to malfunction when the selected print job is processed by the printing system. The diagnosing apparatus includes an apparatus for capturing the selected print job as it is transmitted to the printing system, and a storage section, communicating with the capturing arrangement, for holding the selected print job. A medium receives the selected print job from the storage section to transfer the selected print job to a diagnostic device for ascertaining the cause of the printing system malfunction with the selected print job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1998
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Atashi C. Sonty, John R. Hill, Jr., Thomas B. Zell
  • Patent number: 5155849
    Abstract: The method of changing system files to be able to change either the primary or secondary language or both on a rigid disk to another language, and to provide the operator with the option of selecting either the primary or secondary language as the medium for the display messages and prompts by providing the language requirements on a floppy disk, identifying the specific files of the control to be altered to produce the language requirements, loading the floppy disk into a floppy disk drive, and transferring the language requirements to the rigid disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Westfall, Dale T. Platteter, Richard K. Patterson, Eugene L. Smith, John R. Hill, Jr.
  • Patent number: 5057866
    Abstract: A technique for monitoring machine status conditions and initiating communicating with a remote computer relative to the status conditions of the machine comprising the steps of monitoring with a calculator the predetermined status conditions relative to the operation of the machine, recognizing the deviation of the machine operation from said predetermined status conditions, responding to the deviation of the machine operation from the predetermined status conditions, automatically initiating the communication of a message to the remote computer regarding said deviation of the machine from the predetermined status conditions, and remotely altering the pretermined status conditions by which to monitor the machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: John R. Hill, Jr., Jeff C. Carter
  • Patent number: 5038319
    Abstract: System for recording and remotely accessing certain operating data in an electrostatographic reproduction machine for use in analyzing machine faults and software crashes, with transfer of the data to a remote service site either by floppy disk or telecommunications line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 6, 1991
    Assignee: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Jeff C. Carter, Robert S. Westfall, Robert M. VanDuyn, Joseph L. Filion, Dale T. Platteter, Douglas T. Rabjohns, Vincent A. Capaccio, John R. Hill, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4700126
    Abstract: An automobile circuit tester is provided having an end connection receivable in the taillight socket, parking light socket, brake light socket or directional signal socket in place of the bulb. When a circuit is completed to the socket in which the tester is received, an audible signal is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1987
    Inventor: John R. Hill
  • Patent number: 4315628
    Abstract: A card game for amusement requiring an active physical participation of the players causing exercising of the human body, comprising a pair of deck of cards of a substantial rectangular shape, said cards of one of said pair of deck of cards having the word Toucher printed on a back side thereof and the other of said pair of deck of cards having the word Touchee printed on a back side thereof for being stacked into two different and distinct stacks of cards, said cards of said pair of deck of cards each having a pictorial representation of a human body part on a front playing side thereof, whereby one player who picked a card from the toucher deck of cards touches with his body part according to the human body part shown on the front playing side of said card the body part of another player according to the human body part shown on the front playing side of a card picked by the other player from the touchee deck of cards thereby causing the players to assume various physical positions resulting in a physical e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1982
    Inventors: Charles M. Balash, John R. Hill, Paul A. Moore
  • Patent number: D248426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1978
    Inventors: Mary Jane Hill, John R. Hill