Patents by Inventor Joseph Daniel

Joseph Daniel 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).

  • FUEL DISPENSER WITH FRAUD RESISTANT FLOW CONTROL VALVE
    Publication number: 20220153569
    Abstract: A flow control valve is provided including a valve aperture in a valve body configured to convey fuel from an inlet to an outlet, a valve element configured to close the valve aperture to block flow of the fuel, a valve actuator configured to shift the position of the valve element between a closed position and an open position, and an antifraud circuit. The antifraud circuit is configured to receive a signal to open the flow control valve, determine if the signal is legitimate based on a signal characteristic, cause the flow control valve to shift to the open position in response to determining that the signal is legitimate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventor: Joseph Daniel Long
  • Rotating chromatic range sensor system with calibration objects and method
    Patent number: 11326865
    Abstract: A calibration configuration for a chromatic range sensor (CRS) optical probe of a coordinate measurement machine (CMM) includes a cylindrical calibration object and a spherical calibration object. The cylindrical calibration object includes at least a first nominally cylindrical calibration surface having a central axis that extends along a Z direction that is intended to be aligned approximately parallel to a rotation axis of the CRS optical probe. The spherical calibration object includes a nominally spherical calibration surface having a first plurality of surface portions. The CMM is operated to obtain radial distance measurements and determine cylindrical calibration data using radial distance measurements of the cylindrical calibration object and to determine spherical calibration data using radial distance measurements of the spherical calibration object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventor: Joseph Daniel Tobiason
  • Autonomous Payload Deployment Aircraft
    Publication number: 20220135217
    Abstract: An aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a biplane orientation. The aircraft has an airframe including first and second wings with first and second pylons coupled therebetween. A distributed thrust array is coupled to the airframe including a plurality of propulsion assemblies coupled to the first wing and a plurality of propulsion assemblies coupled to the second wing. A cargo pod is coupled between the first and second pylons. The cargo pod is rotatable between a loading configuration, substantially perpendicular to the wings and a transportation and deployment configuration, substantially parallel to the wings. A flight control system is configured to independently control each of the propulsion assemblies and to autonomously deploy a payload from the cargo pod at a desired location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: John Robert Wittmaak, JR., Joshua Allan Edler, Eric Christopher Terry, Joseph Daniel Leachman
  • System and method for compression dual in-line memory module scalability
    Patent number: 11321009
    Abstract: A Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) includes a plurality of memory devices mounted on a circuit board of the DIMM. The memory devices are arranged to be accessed via at least two memory channels. The DIMM further includes an array of surface contact connections. Each surface contact connection is configured to be engaged with an associated contact element of a z-axis compression connector. The array of surface contact connections are arranged to conduct signals for the memory channels. The memory devices are placed upon the memory circuit board in an array of X rows of memory devices and Y columns of memory devices, where X and Y are integers. When the DIMM has a first number of the memory devices A=X1×Y1 that is less than when the DIMM has a second number of memory devices B=X2×Y2, then either X1 is less than X2, or Y1 is less than Y2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Arnold Thomas Schnell, Joseph Daniel Mallory
  • Autonomous payload deployment aircraft
    Patent number: 11319064
    Abstract: An aircraft operable to transition between thrust-borne lift in a VTOL orientation and wing-borne lift in a biplane orientation. The aircraft has an airframe including first and second wings with first and second pylons coupled therebetween. A distributed thrust array is coupled to the airframe including a plurality of propulsion assemblies coupled to the first wing and a plurality of propulsion assemblies coupled to the second wing. A cargo pod is coupled between the first and second pylons. The cargo pod is rotatable between a loading configuration, substantially perpendicular to the wings and a transportation and deployment configuration, substantially parallel to the wings. A flight control system is configured to independently control each of the propulsion assemblies and to autonomously deploy a payload from the cargo pod at a desired location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: John Robert Wittmaak, Jr., Joshua Allan Edler, Eric Christopher Terry, Joseph Daniel Leachman
  • Vehicle Control System
    Publication number: 20220119020
    Abstract: A control system includes a controller that may determine whether a second speed limit, which is less than or equal to a first speed limit, is in effect for a segment of the route. The controller may switch one or more operational settings of a vehicle from the first speed limit to the second speed limit, and may operate the vehicle at the first speed limit outside of the segment of the route and operate the vehicle at or below the second speed limit while the vehicle is approaching or within the segment of the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Ankit Sharma, Prakarsh Paritosh, David Allen Eldredge, William Cherrick Schoonmaker, Kaitlyn Ann Hrdlicka, Joseph Daniel Wakeman
  • Automatic injection system
    Patent number: 11298462
    Abstract: An automatic injection device is provided, where the device includes a syringe carrier and a retraction assembly. The syringe carrier includes two identical parts that are discrete from one another and interlock with one another. The retraction assembly includes a shuttle and a follower, the follower having a moveable latch. The follower has a coupled configuration in which the latch is biasedly coupled to the shuttle, and a decoupled configuration in which the latch is in sliding engagement with a curvilinear surface of the shuttle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: William Godwin Atterbury, Joseph Daniel Dennis, Jr., Brian Charles Kelley, Mark Lafever, Steven Michael Madland, Andrew Thomas Snow, Jessica Diane Young
  • Systems and methods providing pattern recognition and data analysis in welding and cutting
    Patent number: 11267065
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems and methods providing pattern recognition and data analysis in welding and cutting are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes a server computer and a data store connected to the server computer. The server computer receives welding data, including core welding data and non-core welding data, over a computer network from welding systems used to generate multiple welds to produce multiple instances of a same type of part. The server computer performs an analysis on the welding data to identify and group same individual welds of the multiple welds without relying on weld profile identification numbers as part of the analysis. A group of the same individual welds corresponds to a same weld location on the multiple instances of the same type of part. The data store receives the welding data from the server computer and digitally stores the welding data as identified and grouped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph A. Daniel
  • Method of starting a gas turbine engine including a bowed-rotor cooling phase
    Patent number: 11268446
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine and method of starting, the gas turbine engine having a rotor comprising at least a shaft mounted compressor and turbine, with a casing surrounding the rotor. The method comprises an acceleration phase, a bowed-rotor cooling phase, during the acceleration, and a combustion phase. The bowed-rotor cooling phase comprises a time where the rotational speed of the rotor is maintained below a bowed-rotor threshold speed until a non-bowed condition is satisfied, wherein the air forced through the gas turbine engine cools the rotor. The combustion phase occurs after the bowed-rotor cooling phase and upon reaching the combustion speed, wherein fuel is supplied to the gas turbine engine is turned on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Joseph Daniel Garrett, III, Mark Edward Linz, Tod Robert Steen, Thomas Charles Swager, Andrew Todd Lehmann, Michael Scott McCambridge, Robert Charles Hon, Thomas Earl Gillingham, Daniel Roy Kiracofe, Kenneth Kirchmayer, Joseph Roger Broda, Kevin Richard Graziano, Steven Alan Ross, Amid Ansari
  • DISPENSING NOZZLE ASSEMBLIES WITH STATIC MIXERS
    Publication number: 20220055883
    Abstract: The present application provides a dispensing nozzle assembly for mixing a first fluid and a second fluid. The dispensing nozzle assembly may include a target assembly with a number of fins and a number of channels and a static mixer positioned about the fins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jevawn Sebastian ROBERTS, Benjamin Campbell STEINHAUS, Joseph Daniel DENNIS
  • Fuel dispenser with fraud resistant flow control valve
    Patent number: 11242239
    Abstract: A flow control valve is provided including a valve aperture in a valve body configured to convey fuel from an inlet to an outlet, a valve element configured to close the valve aperture to block flow of the fuel, a valve actuator configured to shift the position of the valve element between a closed position and an open position, and an antifraud circuit. The antifraud circuit is configured to receive a signal to open the flow control valve, determine if the signal is legitimate based on a signal characteristic, cause the flow control valve to shift to the open position in response to determining that the signal is legitimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Gilbarco Inc.
    Inventor: Joseph Daniel Long
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMPRESSION DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE SCALABILITY
    Publication number: 20220027078
    Abstract: A Dual In-Line Memory Module (DIMM) includes a plurality of memory devices mounted on a circuit board of the DIMM. The memory devices are arranged to be accessed via at least two memory channels. The DIMM further includes an array of surface contact connections. Each surface contact connection is configured to be engaged with an associated contact element of a z-axis compression connector. The array of surface contact connections are arranged to conduct signals for the memory channels. The memory devices are placed upon the memory circuit board in an array of X rows of memory devices and Y columns of memory devices, where X and Y are integers. When the DIMM has a first number of the memory devices A=X1×Y1 that is less than when the DIMM has a second number of memory devices B=X2×Y2, then either X1 is less than X2, or Y1 is less than Y2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Arnold Thomas Schnell, Joseph Daniel Mallory
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR STACKING COMPRESSION DUAL IN-LINE MEMORY MODULE SCALABILITY
    Publication number: 20220029322
    Abstract: An information handling system includes a first z-axis compression connector, a first dual in-line memory module (DIMM), a second z-axis compression connector, a second DIMM, and a printed circuit board. A first side of the first compression connector is affixed to the printed circuit board. A first surface of a first memory circuit board of the first DIMM is affixed to a second side of the compression connector. A first side of the second compression connector is affixed to a second side of the first memory circuit board. A first side of a second memory circuit board of the second DIMM is affixed to a second side of the second compression connector. The first compression connector has a first depth, and the second compression connector has a second depth that is different from the first depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Arnold Thomas Schnell, Joseph Daniel Mallory
  • Weld sequencer part and statistical limits analyzer
    Patent number: 11224930
    Abstract: Various systems and methods are provided that allow a weld sequencer to use a statistical analysis of generated reports to automatically determine weld parameter limits for the welds defined by various functions in a sequence file. For example, the weld sequencer can take reports generated for a specific type of part and statistically analyze the weld data included in the reports according to a set of analysis parameters provided by a user. The weld sequencer can use the statistical analysis to identify and remove outlier data and define a set of weld parameter limits based on the remaining data. The weld parameter limits can define a low limit and/or a high limit for one or more weld parameters associated with a function. The weld sequencer can then update the sequence file to include the weld parameter limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph A. Daniel
  • Illumination Waveguide
    Publication number: 20220004003
    Abstract: An illumination waveguide is described having a top surface and a bottom surface, and a plurality of reflective elements within the waveguide, the reflective elements at an angle to the top surface of the waveguide, the reflective elements providing one or more of: an in-coupler, an out-coupler, and an extender to the waveguide. The illumination waveguide is configured such that light from the waveguide is directed to a spatial light modulator, and the modulated light is directed through the waveguide to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Avegant Corp.
    Inventors: Aaron Matthew Eash, Andrew John Gross, Christopher David Westra, Edward Chia Ning Tang, Warren Cornelius Welch, III, Joseph Daniel Lowney
  • Dispensing nozzle assemblies with static mixers
    Patent number: 11214473
    Abstract: The present application provides a dispensing nozzle assembly for mixing a first fluid and a second fluid. The dispensing nozzle assembly may include a target assembly with a number of fins and a number of channels and a static mixer positioned about the fins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: THE COCA-COLA COMPANY
    Inventors: Jevawn Sebastian Roberts, Joseph Daniel Dennis
  • Systems and Methods for Acquiring Data with a Handheld Device
    Publication number: 20210409910
    Abstract: A method for covertly acquiring data. Information about an activity associated with a first hand-held device is monitored by initiating covert application software in a first configuration in which a log-in must first be input to the first device. When running the software in the first configuration, no image which overtly exhibits a self-evident association with the software can be viewed on the display to identify the software or indicate that the software is running on the client. Prior to initiating monitoring with the software, a feature having no self-evident association with the covert application software can be accessed on a touch screen display of the device to initiate the software.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Brittin Kane, Joseph Daniel McCall, Joshua Witter, Jason Alan Stonebraker
  • Vehicle control system
    Patent number: 11208125
    Abstract: A control system dictates operational settings of a rail vehicle system based a transitory second speed limit that is no faster than a current first speed limit and which is issued for a determined segment of the track for a determined time period. The control system obtains a current time, determines whether the transitory second speed limit has started, is in effect, or has expired based on the current time relative to the determined time period, and, in response to such determination, performs one or more of (a) generate a prompt to indicate that the determined time period has expired, (b) operate the rail vehicle system at the first speed limit, and/or (c) modify the operational settings of the rail vehicle system to exceed the second speed limit in the determined segment but not exceed the first speed limit for the determined segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: transportation ip holdings, llc
    Inventors: Saravanan Thiyagarajan, Ankit Sharma, Prakarsh Paritosh, David Allen Eldredge, William Cherrick Schoonmaker, Kaitlyn Ann Hrdlicka, Joseph Daniel Wakeman
  • HAND-HELD DISPENSER AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20210380389
    Abstract: A hand-held beverage dispenser includes a handle body, within which multiple valve units are contained. Two sets of fluid flow paths are provided into the handle body. The sets of fluid flow paths are mutually exclusive one to the other. Each flow path of the first set is in fluid communication with each valve unit, whereas only a predetermined one of the second set of fluid flow paths is in fluid communication with each valve unit. Each valve unit includes a flow control valve and a selection valve. The selection valve determines on an ad hoc basis which of the first set of flow paths will be utilized at any given time, while the flow control valve provides single action simultaneous ON-OFF control of fluid flows through both the selected flow path and the predetermined flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Applicant: LANCER CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph Daniel Martin, Anthony Joseph Behe, JR., Paul Watkins, Ricardo Abugarade Rodriguez, Merrill R. Good
  • Rotating chromatic range sensor system with calibration object and method
    Patent number: 11187521
    Abstract: A calibration configuration for a chromatic range sensor (CRS) optical probe of a coordinate measurement machine (CMM) includes a calibration object. The calibration object includes at least a first nominally cylindrical calibration surface having a central axis that extends along a Z direction that is intended to be aligned approximately parallel to a rotation axis of the CRS optical probe. The first nominally cylindrical calibration surface is arranged at a known first radius R1 from the central axis that extends along the Z direction. A first set of angular reference features is formed on or in the first nominally cylindrical calibration surface. The angular reference features are configured to be sensed by the radial distance sensing beam and are located at known angles or known angular spacings around the central axis from one another on or in the first nominally cylindrical calibration surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: MITUTOYO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Joseph Daniel Tobiason