Patents by Inventor Joseph A. Ray

Joseph A. Ray 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: 11473866
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an electromechanical sear that is implementable in a gun. The gun may include a fire control manager, and the fire control manager may identify a trigger break based on a trigger sensor, transmit, based on the trigger break, a first signal to a first actuator located in a displacement path of a sear, so as to cause the first actuator to be displaced in a first direction, and transmit, based on the trigger break, a second signal to a second actuator located in the displacement path of the sear, so as to cause the second actuator to be displaced in a second direction. The transmitting the first signal to the first actuator and the transmitting the second signal to the second actuator may cause displacement of the sear and firing of the gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Donna Kelley, Sara Elizabeth Falcone, Katherine Joanne Lund, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Timothy Joel Thorson, Benjamin William Dwyer, Christopher James Owens, Joseph Ray Wilding, Karl Fredrick Brakora, John Andrew Tomasik
  • Publication number: 20220307789
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an electromechanical sear that is implementable in a gun. The gun may include a fire control manager, and the fire control manager may identify a trigger break based on a trigger sensor, transmit, based on the trigger break, a first signal to a first actuator located in a displacement path of a sear, so as to cause the first actuator to be displaced in a first direction, and transmit, based on the trigger break, a second signal to a second actuator located in the displacement path of the sear, so as to cause the second actuator to be displaced in a second direction. The transmitting the first signal to the first actuator and the transmitting the second signal to the second actuator may cause displacement of the sear and firing of the gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Donna Kelley, Sara Elizabeth Falcone, Katherine Joanne Lund, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Timothy Joel Thorson, Benjamin William Dwyer, Christopher James Owens, Joseph Ray Wilding, Karl Fredrick Brakora, John Andrew Tomasik
  • Publication number: 20220232931
    Abstract: Disclosed is a quick release tool belt for the waist of a user, which includes a support strap, a release band with belt teeth on a first end and a binding with a release mechanism on the second end and slidably coupled to the release band. The binding has a base, a release rotationally attached to the base with a tooth lock, a tooth coupling rotationally attached to the base and engaged with the release and the release band, and a lever rotationally attached to the release and engaged with the release band with a tightening tooth. When the release is in the engaged position the tooth coupling and the lever are engaged with the release band and when the release is in the release position, the tooth coupling is operably engaged with the release and the tooth coupling and the lever are disengaged with the release band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Ray Simpson, James Nelson
  • Patent number: 11356494
    Abstract: A technique implements an administrative user interface of a backend service used to manage and administer on-premises resources, such as storage nodes of a cluster, within a private customer network. The backend service includes a browser configured to issue cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests among target storage nodes and a publicly-hosted web application on remote computing systems accessed via a public computer network (i.e., internet) that can be loaded on the browser within the customer network to manage and administer the on-prem resources on the private network. The technique involves the use of CORS over HyperText Transfer Protocol to access an origin that is not reachable via the public internet from a predetermined location of the browser, e.g., within the same customer network as the target storage nodes, particularly to facilitate management of the nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Ray Thomas, III, John Mears, Nathan Hammernik
  • Patent number: 11297907
    Abstract: Disclosed is a quick release tool belt for the waist of a user, which includes a support strap, a release band with belt teeth on a first end and a binding with a release mechanism on the second end and slidably coupled to the release band. The binding has a base, a release rotationally attached to the base with a tooth lock, a tooth coupling rotationally attached to the base and engaged with the release and the release band, and a lever rotationally attached to the release and engaged with the release band with a tightening tooth. When the release is in the engaged position the tooth coupling and the lever are engaged with the release band and when the release is in the release position, the tooth coupling is operably engaged with the release and the tooth coupling and the lever are disengaged with the release band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: TRU-FIT BELTS, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Ray Simpson, James Nelson
  • Publication number: 20220107292
    Abstract: A device for ion chromatography comprises a tube with an inlet opening and an outlet opening and an inner diameter from about 40 microns to about 10 microns. There is an aperture through one side of the tube into a lumen of the tube. At least a portion of the inner surface of the tube has a first charge. An ion exchange barrier covers the aperture on an outside surface of the tube. The inner surface of the tube, from the inlet opening to the aperture, is coated with ion exchange particles having a diameter ranging from about 30 nm to about 200 nm. The ion exchange particles have a second charge opposite the first charge. The inner surface of the tube, from the outlet opening to the aperture, is not coated with ion exchange particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Purnendu K. Dasgupta, Bikash Chouhan, Joseph Ray
  • Publication number: 20210337008
    Abstract: A technique implements an administrative user interface of a backend service used to manage and administer on-premises resources, such as storage nodes of a cluster, within a private customer network. The backend service includes a browser configured to issue cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) requests among target storage nodes and a publicly-hosted web application on remote computing systems accessed via a public computer network (i.e., internet) that can be loaded on the browser within the customer network to manage and administer the on-prem resources on the private network. The technique involves the use of CORS over HyperText Transfer Protocol to access an origin that is not reachable via the public internet from a predetermined location of the browser, e.g., within the same customer network as the target storage nodes, particularly to facilitate management of the nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Joseph Ray Thomas, III, John Mears, Nathan Hammernik
  • Publication number: 20210300544
    Abstract: Commercial supersonic aircraft and associated systems and methods. A representative commercial supersonic aircraft includes a fuselage configured to carry a crew and between 20 and 60 passengers, a delta wing mounted to the fuselage, and a propulsion system carried by at least one of the wing and the fuselage, the propulsion system including a plurality of engines, at least one variable-geometry inlet, and at least one variable-geometry nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nathaniel Blake Scholl, Joseph Ray Wilding, Joshua Krall, Andrew P. Berryann, Michael Reid
  • Publication number: 20210300543
    Abstract: Commercial supersonic aircraft and associated systems and methods. A representative commercial supersonic aircraft includes a fuselage configured to carry a crew and between 20 and 60 passengers, a delta wing mounted to the fuselage, and a propulsion system carried by at least one of the wing and the fuselage, the propulsion system including a plurality of engines, at least one variable-geometry inlet, and at least one variable-geometry nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nathaniel Blake Scholl, Joseph Ray Wilding, Joshua Krall, Andrew P. Berryann, Michael Reid
  • Publication number: 20210300542
    Abstract: Commercial supersonic aircraft and associated systems and methods. A representative commercial supersonic aircraft includes a fuselage configured to carry a crew and between 20 and 60 passengers, a delta wing mounted to the fuselage, and a propulsion system carried by at least one of the wing and the fuselage, the propulsion system including a plurality of engines, at least one variable-geometry inlet, and at least one variable-geometry nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Nathaniel Blake Scholl, Joseph Ray Wilding, Joshua Krall, Andrew P. Berryann, Michael Reid
  • Publication number: 20210169181
    Abstract: Disclosed is a quick release tool belt for the waist of a user, which includes a support strap, a release band with belt teeth on a first end and a binding with a release mechanism on the second end and slidably coupled to the release band. The binding has a base, a release rotationally attached to the base with a tooth lock, a tooth coupling rotationally attached to the base and engaged with the release and the release band, and a lever rotationally attached to the release and engaged with the release band with a tightening tooth. When the release is in the engaged position the tooth coupling and the lever are engaged with the release band and when the release is in the release position, the tooth coupling is operably engaged with the release and the tooth coupling and the lever are disengaged with the release band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Joseph Ray Simpson, James Nelson
  • Publication number: 20210174205
    Abstract: A modular Artificial Intelligence (AI) processing system is provided, comprising: an input module configured to receive input data; an output module configured to output data processed by the system; a first agent module operatively connected to the input module and to the output module, the first agent module being configured in use to process the input data and to generate the output data for the output module, and comprising two or more first sub-agent modules, each sub-agent module comprising an internal memory state and being operatively connected via a communication channel to at least one other sub-agent module within the first agent; each first sub-agent module being configured with a communication algorithm, the communication algorithm defining how the sub-agent module communicates with other sub-agent modules to enable the first agent module to process the input data, and in use at least one of the two or more first sub-agent modules is configured to process the input data in dependence on its inter
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Marek ROSA, Jan FEYEREISL, Jaroslav VITKU, Martin POLIAK, Joseph Ray DAVIDSON, Jens Simon ANDERSSON, Olga AFANASJEVA
  • Publication number: 20210139142
    Abstract: Commercial supersonic aircraft and associated systems and methods. A representative commercial supersonic aircraft includes a fuselage configured to carry a crew and between 20 and 60 passengers, a delta wing mounted to the fuselage, and a propulsion system carried by at least one of the wing and the fuselage, the propulsion system including a plurality of engines, at least one variable-geometry inlet, and at least one variable-geometry nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Nathaniel Blake Scholl, Joseph Ray Wilding, Joshua Krall, Andrew P. Berryann, Michael Reid
  • Patent number: 10952509
    Abstract: Disclosed is a quick release tool belt for the waist of a user, which includes a support strap, a release band with belt teeth on a first end and a binding with a release mechanism on the second end and slidably coupled to the release band. The binding has a base, a release rotationally attached to the base with a tooth lock, a tooth coupling rotationally attached to the base and engaged with the release and the release band, and a lever rotationally attached to the release and engaged with the release band with a tightening tooth. When the release is in the engaged position the tooth coupling and the lever are engaged with the release band and when the release is in the release position, the tooth coupling is operably engaged with the release and the tooth coupling and the lever are disengaged with the release band.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: TRU-FIT BELTS, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Ray Simpson, James David Nelson
  • Patent number: 10793266
    Abstract: Commercial supersonic aircraft and associated systems and methods. A representative commercial supersonic aircraft includes a fuselage configured to carry a crew and between 20 and 60 passengers, a delta wing mounted to the fuselage, and a propulsion system carried by at least one of the wing and the fuselage, the propulsion system including a plurality of engines, at least one variable-geometry inlet, and at least one variable-geometry nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: BOOM TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Blake Scholl, Joseph Ray Wilding, Joshua Krall, Andrew P. Berryann, Michael Reid
  • Publication number: 20190350294
    Abstract: The device of this invention comprises: (1) a multi-layer carbon fiber football helmet with four separate interior air bag bladders for padding; (2) Velcro attachments to the interior air bag bladders that connect to the inside of the carbon fiber football helmet at four points, which include the back of the helmet, the front of the helmet, the right side of the helmet, and the left side of the helmet; (3) a clear polycarbonate military grade face shield, (4) an air pump valve with a hose that is attached to the four interior air bag bladders inside the back of the helmet; (5) nylon hardware that attaches the clear polycarbonate face shield to the multi-layer carbon fiber football helmet; (6) a four point chin strap manufactured by Shock Doctor; and (7) a multi-layer carbon fiber chin guard formed to the carbon fiber football helmet adding strength to the helmet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventor: Joseph Ray Paiz
  • Publication number: 20190200711
    Abstract: Disclosed is a quick release tool belt for the waist of a user, which includes a support strap, a release band with belt teeth on a first end and a binding with a release mechanism on the second end and slidably coupled to the release band. The binding has a base, a release rotationally attached to the base with a tooth lock, a tooth coupling rotationally attached to the base and engaged with the release and the release band, and a lever rotationally attached to the release and engaged with the release band with a tightening tooth. When the release is in the engaged position the tooth coupling and the lever are engaged with the release band and when the release is in the release position, the tooth coupling is operably engaged with the release and the tooth coupling and the lever are disengaged with the release band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Joseph Ray SIMPSON, James David NELSON
  • Patent number: 10077933
    Abstract: An air hood is described and which is arranged so as to be mounted on a refrigeration device of conventional design; the air hood is moveable between a first position where the air hood is collapsed and is placed in juxtaposed, covering relation relative to an air intake side of the refrigeration device, and a second position where the air hood is placed into an operational position which places it laterally outwardly relative to the air intake side of the refrigeration device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Colmac Coil Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Ian Nelson, Joseph Ray Harold, Roger Bruce Williams
  • Publication number: 20170003066
    Abstract: An air hood is described and which is arranged so as to be mounted on a refrigeration device of conventional design; the air hood is moveable between a first position where the air hood is collapsed and is placed in juxtaposed, covering relation relative to an air intake side of the refrigeration device, and a second position where the air hood is placed into an operational position which places it laterally outwardly relative to the air intake side of the refrigeration device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: COLMAC COIL MANUFACTURING, INC.
    Inventors: Bruce Ian Nelson, Joseph Ray Harold, Roger Bruce Williams
  • Publication number: 20160184684
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system of athletic training that comprises a plurality of boxing training aids. The system consists of two end frames which provide support for the system, and which provide mobility to the system through a series of casters. Two main beams connect the end frames, and support a number of training aids suspended between the beams. The system is made modular through the use of interchangeable connecting pieces, which allow for multiple system sections to be utilized simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventor: Christopher Joseph Ray