Patents by Inventor Joseph King

Joseph King 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: 9286436
    Abstract: Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a three-dimensional CAD model in the data processing system, the CAD model including a plurality of geometries. The method includes identifying equivalence relationships between multiple ones of the geometries and receiving at least one Relationship Implication (RI) definition. Each RI definition defines a relationship implication according to a plurality of the geometries and at least one type of the equivalence relationships. The method includes applying each RI definition to the geometries to produce groups of geometries corresponding to each RI definition and selecting a representative geometry for each group. The method includes filtering out geometric relationships for each geometry in each group other than the representative geometry and manipulating the CAD model without the filtered-out geometric relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Yanong Zhu, Douglas Joseph King, Howard Charles Duncan Mattson
  • Patent number: 9271531
    Abstract: A detachable wrist coach has a detachable sheet of football plays in a transparent pocket joined to a sweatband by hook-and-loop fasteners. The detachable sheet can be separated from the sweatband so that the sweatband can be cleaned without degrading the transparent pocket or getting water into it. One or more flaps with transparent pockets can be attached to the detachable sheet by a hinge that multiple pages of plays may be viewed by opening the flap. The flap is held down by a second hook-and-loop fasteners with a lower peel strength than the sweatband's hook and loop fasteners so that a top flap can be opened without removing the detachable sheet from the sweatband.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: Sound Shore Innovations L.L.C.
    Inventors: Kyle D. Rothschild, Joseph King
  • Patent number: 9253986
    Abstract: A wash product and method for both washing and disinfecting articles during a washing cycle where the washing can be done in a conventional washing machine using the combination of a conventional detergent for removing residue from the articles and a source of silver ions and a hydantoin for increasing the level of available silver ions to a level that is greater than the level of available silver ions normally available if the source of silver ions were used without the hydantoin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: KING TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventor: Joseph A. King
  • Publication number: 20160017621
    Abstract: A system for limiting the flow from a dispensing valve when a dispensing cartridge is replaced with the system including a dispenser cartridge with a cam and a water socket with a flow limiter therein that is activeable in response to the position of the dispenser cartridge in the dispensing valve and operable in response to an upstream fluid pressure in the dispensing valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Joseph King, Jeffrey Johnson, Paul Freeberg, Kenneth V Schomburg, David Guy, Terry Goeman
  • Patent number: 9235659
    Abstract: Methods for CAD editing and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a CAD model including a plurality of entities and receiving a user input including a selection of at least one entity and a movement of the selected entity. The method includes applying any basic condition behaviors that correspond to the user input and applying any optional condition behaviors that correspond to the user input. The method includes building a variational system to be solved based on the user input, any applied basic condition behaviors, and any optional condition behaviors. The method includes performing a variational solve on the variational system to produce an edited CAD model and storing the edited CAD model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Charles Duncan Mattson, Douglas Joseph King, Yanong Zhu, Feng Yu
  • Patent number: 9227860
    Abstract: A system for sensing and measuring water characteristics or an external factor and initiating controlling the water characteristics of the body of water which may be based on external factor where the controlling of the water characteristics can be achieved through dosing or nondosing of an inactive material through an active material or dosing both an active material and an inactive material in the body of water in response to measured levels of water characteristics to enable the water to be used for either internal or external use in controlling harmful organisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: KING TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventor: Joseph A. King
  • Publication number: 20150376037
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for treating a body of water to kill microorganisms by enhancing the concentration metal ions therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventor: Joseph A. King
  • Patent number: 9226373
    Abstract: A programmable light timer for implementing a timing pattern is described. The programmable light timer comprises a memory storing a plurality of timing patterns, each timing pattern being associated with a unique timing pattern code and having one or more on/off settings for a time period; and a user interface enabling the selection of a timing pattern code associated with a timing pattern of the plurality of timing patterns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Inventor: John Joseph King
  • Publication number: 20150368128
    Abstract: A floating dispenser having an external float or an internal float for supporting a cartridge or cartridges for floating delivering a dispersant or dispersants to a body of water with the floating dispenser having cartridges rotationally positionable with respect to one another to control the rate of dispensing while the dispenser floats in an upright condition with the floating dispenser changing its flotation orientation in response to consumption of the dispersant or dispersants in the cartridge or cartridges to thereby provide a visual alert to replace a spent cartridge with a fresh cartridge. In addition, the inventions described herein permit changing the dispensing nature of the system from a multiple dispensing system to a single dispensing system without changing the floating characteristics of the floating dispensers through replacement of a dispersant in one of the cartridges with an inert or ballast material that has no effect on the water characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 24, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph A. King, Paul Freeberg, Jeffrey D. Johnson, Lyle Enderson, Donald Dalland, Terry Goeman
  • Patent number: 9195753
    Abstract: Displaying communities associated with personalized data provides a user with access to relevant communities based on the user's activity with an electronic catalog. The communities include content which may be manipulated by user activity or non-user activity. The communities may facilitate user discussion or viewing of information related to the user's interests. The communities may be associated with elements associated with user interaction and/or based off recommended elements or categories associated with the user. Communities may be ranked or scored to improve the relevancy of the community for the user. Communities may be displayed with, for example, a personalized page for the user that may include other user recommendations, or the communities may be associated with other personalized pages within a website, among other possibilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph King, Waquas Ahmed, William W. Gronim, Carl K. Lim, Gregory J. Meyers, Alexander J. Cox, Aaron D. Wilson, Scott Allen Mongrain
  • Patent number: 9187351
    Abstract: A sanitizing agent for maintaining a biocidal effective bacteria count in a body of water comprising a metal ion donor for donating a metal ion and a compound containing a hydantoin ring with the combination of the compound containing the hydantoin ring with the metal ion donor enhancing the effectiveness of the sanitizing agent to enable the sanitizing agent to maintain a biocidal effective bacteria count in the body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: KING TECHNOLOGY INC.
    Inventors: Joseph A. King, John E. Hill
  • Patent number: 9174177
    Abstract: A floating dispenser having an external float or an internal float for supporting a cartridge or cartridges for floatingly delivering a dispersant or dispersants to a body of water with the floating dispenser having cartridges rotationally positionable with respect to one another to control the rate of dispensing while the dispenser floats in an upright condition with the floating dispenser changing its flotation orientation in response to consumption of the dispersant or dispersants in the cartridge or cartridges to thereby provide a visual alert to replace a spent cartridge with a fresh cartridge. In addition, the inventions described herein permit changing the dispensing nature of the system from a multiple dispensing system to a single dispensing system without changing the floating characteristics of the floating dispensers through replacement of a dispersant in one of the cartridges with an inert or ballast material that has no effect on the water characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: KING TECHNOLOGY, INC
    Inventors: Joseph A. King, Jr., Paul Freeberg, Jeffrey D. Johnson, Lyle Enderson, Donald Dalland, Terry Goeman
  • Publication number: 20150310002
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for selectively and dynamically determining one or more words of an electronic book to present with comprehension guides. For instance, an electronic device rendering an electronic book may determine whether to display some, all, or no words of the book with comprehension guides for words within the electronic book based on word difficulty, contextual importance or aspects of the user. Techniques are also provided for determining the content of comprehension guides to be presented with the words.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wainwright Gregory Siady Yu, Joon Hao Chuah, Gregory Nicholas Hullender, James Joseph Poulin, Mohammed Kanso, Manigandan Natarajan, Brandon LaBranche Watson, Robert Wayne Roth, Joseph King
  • Publication number: 20150278401
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying members of offset pairs in CAD models. A method includes receiving a CAD model that includes a plurality of entities each having an underlying geometry. The method includes identifying a first offset pair chain corresponding to a first entity of the plurality of entities, including identifying a first partner entity that is part of the same offset pair. The method includes determining whether the first offset pair chain is a strong chain. The method includes when the first offset pair chain is a strong chain, then marking the first entity as a part of an offset pair. The method includes storing the CAD model including the marked first entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Howard Charles Duncan Mattson, Douglas Joseph King, Yanong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150278400
    Abstract: Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a CAD model with a plurality of elements, each element having a plurality of features. The method includes receiving a CAD operation to be performed on the plurality of elements and performing a variational solve on a first one of the plurality of elements according to the CAD operation to produce an edited first element. The method includes calculating corresponding CAD operations for the remaining plurality of elements according to the edited first element and a relationship between the edited first element and the remaining elements to produce an edited plurality of elements. The method includes storing the edited first element and the edited plurality of elements in the CAD model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Howard Charles Duncan Mattson, Douglas Joseph King, Paul Jonathon Sanders
  • Publication number: 20150269284
    Abstract: Methods for identifying chamfers in CAD models and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes applying filters to a set of candidate chamfers, the candidate chamfers identified from a plurality of faces in a CAD model, to produce filtered candidate chamfers. The method includes generating maximal chains of the candidate chamfers and grouping conflicting chains from the maximal chains to produce chain groups. The method includes determining best conflicting chains from the chain groups, including designating at least one of the chain groups as accepted. The method includes storing the faces of the CAD model that correspond to the accepted chain group as realistic chamfers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Charles Duncan Mattson, Douglas Joseph King, Michael John Gibbens
  • Patent number: 9141731
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying symmetry relationships in product data management (PDM) systems. A method includes receiving a 3D model including a plurality of components and identifying a plurality of target components from the plurality of components. The method includes identifying a symmetry plane in the 3D model and determining the location of each of the target components with respect to the symmetry plane. The method includes adding the target components to respective groups according to the determined locations, and creating an equivalence class for each group of target components. The method includes storing a symmetry relationship between the created equivalence classes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Howard Charles Duncan Mattson, Douglas Joseph King, Yanong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150261889
    Abstract: Methods for CAD editing and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a CAD model including a plurality of entities and receiving a user input including a selection of at least one entity and a movement of the selected entity. The method includes applying any basic condition behaviors that correspond to the user input and applying any optional condition behaviors that correspond to the user input. The method includes building a variational system to be solved based on the user input, any applied basic condition behaviors, and any optional condition behaviors. The method includes performing a variational solve on the variational system to produce an edited CAD model and storing the edited CAD model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Howard Charles Duncan Mattson, Douglas Joseph King, Yanong Zhu, Feng Yu
  • Publication number: 20150261890
    Abstract: Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a CAD model including a plurality of input features and initializing a data structure representing multi-level structures in the CAD model. The method includes identifying at least two equal groups of the plurality of input features and applying a single-level structure recognition process on the groups of features to produce detected structures such as patterns, mirrors etc. The method includes populating the data structure according to the detected structures and storing the data structure as associated with the CAD model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS PRODUCT LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Howard Charles Duncan Mattson, Douglas Joseph King, Michael John Gibbens, Yanong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20150251142
    Abstract: A kit for increasing the capacity and versatility of an inline dispenser with the kit including a set of stackable dispenser cartridges and an extension for increasing the capacity of the system with the extensions having fasteners thereon for changing the capacity of the system without having to replace existing components of the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Inventors: Joseph A King, Jeffrey D Johnson