Patents by Inventor John Thatcher

John Thatcher 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: 20240118567
    Abstract: Various devices and systems for display surface temperature reduction are provided. For example, such a device can comprise a vented display having a display assembly configured to generate and project images, a backlight assembly configured to generate light to illuminate the display assembly, and an air gap that separates the display assembly from the backlight assembly and that is configured to permit a flow of air through the air gap to thereby facilitate the transfer of heat from the display assembly to the air flowing through the air gap to cool the display. For example, such a system can comprise a convective cooling system that is configured to direct a flow of cooling air across an exterior surface of a display and thereby lower the temperature of the exterior surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas Reiter, Daniel Jeremy Holmes, Randal Scott Kretzler, Mackenzie Graham Thatcher, Thad John Harbour
  • Patent number: 8239714
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for bad block remapping. A bad block identifier module identifies one or more data blocks on a solid-state storage element as bad blocks. A log update module writes at least a location of each bad block identified by the bad block identifier module into each of two or more redundant bad block logs. A bad block mapping module accesses at least one bad block log during a start-up operation to create in memory a bad block map. The bad block map includes a mapping between the bad block locations in the bad block log and a corresponding location of a replacement block for each bad block location. Data is stored in each replacement block instead of the corresponding bad block. The bad block mapping module creates the bad block map using one of a replacement block location and a bad block mapping algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Fusion-io, Inc.
    Inventors: David Flynn, John Strasser, John Thatcher, David Atkisson, Michael Zappe, Joshua Aune, Kevin Vigor
  • Publication number: 20070029011
    Abstract: A retractable workbench is provided that is mounted to a vertical surface such as a wall. The workbench is retractable between a horizontally oriented deployed position, and a vertically oriented retracted position. The workbench is vertically adjustable along wall mounts. Bench mounted tools may be mounted on rotatable panels, and the panels may be inverted when the workbench is retracted, thereby allowing the workbench to be fully rotated to the vertically oriented retracted position without removing the tools. Storage of tools and hardware may be achieved by a rotatable mounting surface that attaches to the workbench. Workbench legs that support the workbench when deployed are also retractable, and the legs may be adjusted for height and securely attached to the floor for additional stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2005
    Publication date: February 8, 2007
    Inventor: John Thatcher
  • Patent number: 6008977
    Abstract: An electrical surge arrester comprises a stack of varistors (10) separated by conductive spacers (12), the respective faces of the varistors and the spacers being bonded for electrical and physical contact, and the outer surfaces of the stack having an insulating coating (14). The varistors have different cross-sectional size from the spacers, the elements of larger size thereby providing the `sheds` of the arrester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1999
    Assignee: Bowthorpe Components Limited
    Inventor: John Thatcher
  • Patent number: 5750291
    Abstract: A process for the formation of a patterned resist of a photocurable material on a circuit board, the uncured portion of which is water soluble. The process includes the steps of forming a layer of an aqueous emulsion of a photocurable material upon the circuit board, drying the layer to a substantially dry and non-tacky state, imagewise exposing the layer to radiation to cure portions of the layer exposed to the radiation, and removing unexposed portions of the layer by washing with water. In a preferred embodiment, the photocurable material is an organic solvent solution of an epoxy acrylate derived from an epoxy novolac resin which has been carboxylated to render it alkali-developable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1998
    Assignee: Coates Brothers PLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Eric Ivory, Wrenford John Thatcher
  • Patent number: 5656411
    Abstract: A two-part system for the preparation of a thermally curable coating composition, in which one-pack contains a thermally curable material and the other contains a curing system potentially reactive therewith, at least one of the packs having water as the principal liquid carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1994
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Coates Brothers PLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Eric Ivory, Wrenford John Thatcher
  • Patent number: 4411985
    Abstract: Stabilizer precursors which comprise triarylphosphines and triarylphosphoranes and which, upon being heated to a temperature above about 100.degree. C., release a phosphorous compound silver halide stabilizer that is useful in a heat stabilizable photographic silver halide material comprising photographic silver halide. A stabilized image is produced in the photographic material following exposure and development by heating the material to processing temperature. The triarylphosphines and triarylphosphoranes are useful in a dry physical development photographic material and process. Alternatively, the triarylphosphines and triarylphosphoranes are useful in a dry chemical photographic material and process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Lawrence R. Morrow, John Thatcher
  • Patent number: D1022025
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LEGERE REEDS LTD.
    Inventors: Ronald James Thatcher, Christopher Mark Kortschot, Mark Timothy Kortschot, Christopher John Pearen, David Chotenovsky