Patents by Inventor Keith A. Hamilton
Keith A. Hamilton 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: 20240090394Abstract: Facility layouts and configurations for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture. In particular implementations, the core of the facility comprises a controlled growth environment and a central processing system. The controlled growth environment includes systems for exposing crops housed in modules, such as grow towers, to controlled environmental conditions. The central processing system may include various stations and functionality both for preparing crop-bearing modules to be inserted in the controlled growth environment, for harvesting crops from the crop-bearing modules after they have been extracted from the controlled growth environment, and for cleaning or washing crop-bearing modules for re-use. The controlled growth environment may include vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers along one or more grow lines.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: MJNN LLCInventors: Gage Goodspeed Coffin, Michael Peter Flynn, Nicholas Kalayjian, Alan Colbrie Schoen, Andrew Keith James, Arvind Sankaran, Alexandre Le Roux, Nadav Sahar Hendel, Anna Olson, Michael Bennett Hamilton, Theodore Howe St. George, Loren Raymond Pilorin
-
Publication number: 20230136623Abstract: Systems and methods for providing an automated quality assurance framework for infrastructure as code (“IaC”) implementations are provided. Pull requests with proposed change to existing IaC source code (“changed code”) are received from user devices, each associated with either a service enablement team member or an applications development team member. Team specific versions of the quality assurance framework are automatically triggered for the changed code which require successful passage through multiple modules in a successive manner before automatically being merged into the existing IaC source code.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Srirama Murthy Chivukula, Mohan Chintakayala, Sumit Kumar Singh, Keith Hamilton Meyer, Stephen Beasey
-
Patent number: 11375660Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Keith Hamilton, Justin Barkley, Tyler Knight, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, David A. Miller
-
Publication number: 20200178463Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2020Publication date: June 11, 2020Inventors: Keith HAMILTON, Justin BARKLEY, Tyler KNIGHT, Oleksiy SERGYEYENKO, David A. MILLER
-
Patent number: 10598634Abstract: Embodiments provide a couplant and an arrangement of a couplant, a transducer, and a construction component. The couplant is adapted to couple the transducer to the surface of the construction component. The couplant provides 36% to 40% mass portion of hard metal.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Sebastian Ziegler, Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith, Allan Thomson, Mairi Joan Torrie, Andreas Clemens von der Ham
-
Patent number: 10588257Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Black & Decker, Inc.Inventors: Keith Hamilton, Justin Barkley, Tyler Knight, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, David A. Miller
-
Patent number: 10417915Abstract: A system for dynamic flight tracking of an aircraft comprises a ground center configured to communicate with a flight tracking application onboard an aircraft, wherein the flight tracking application is preloaded with default flight tracking preferences comprising a normal time rate interval for sending normal condition position reports to the ground center when a flight condition is normal; abnormal time rate intervals for sending abnormal condition position reports to the ground center when abnormal flight conditions are detected, with the abnormal time rate intervals less than the normal time rate interval; and abnormal flight condition criteria to determine which aircraft conditions to monitor for detecting abnormal flight conditions.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: Thomas D. Judd, Bradley Fessler, Kathryn Bates Hill, Keith Hamilton Redner, III, Scott Madaras, Sarah Baird Weinhardt
-
Publication number: 20190104679Abstract: According to examples, a machine may include a base housing and a handle assembly mounted to the base housing and extending at an angle from the base housing along a handle plane. The handle assembly may include a mating component having a plurality of slots arranged at multiple angular positions along a slot plane, the slot plane being parallel to the handle plane. The mating assembly may also include a handle segment rotatably mounted to the mating component, the handle segment housing a locking member, in which the handle segment is rotatable along the slot plane relative to the base housing and the locking member is removably insertable into a first slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a first angular position and is removably inserted into a second slot of the plurality of slots when the handle segment is in a second angular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2017Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: BLACK & DECKER INC.Inventors: Keith Hamilton, Justin Barkley, Tyler Knight, Oleksiy Sergyeyenko, David A. Miller
-
Patent number: 10119943Abstract: A couplant and an arrangement of a couplant include a transducer and a construction component. The couplant is adapted to couple the transducer to a surface of the construction component. The couplant comprises basically 15% to 75% mass portion of hard metal.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2012Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith, Allan Thomson, Mairi Joan Torrie, Sebastian Ziegler, Andreas Clemens Van Der Ham
-
Patent number: 10104049Abstract: A distributed event system includes a plurality of publishers, a communication infrastructure, and a key manager that manages access to publishing of events by one or more applications. An event is published, by a publisher, when the publisher determines an occurrence of an event and, in response, obtains a key from the key manager. The publisher then encrypts the event with the key to produce an encrypted event and transmits the encrypted event for consumption by a subscriber to the event.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: VMware, Inc.Inventor: Keith Hamilton
-
Publication number: 20180082593Abstract: A system for dynamic flight tracking of an aircraft comprises a ground center configured to communicate with a flight tracking application onboard an aircraft, wherein the flight tracking application is preloaded with default flight tracking preferences comprising a normal time rate interval for sending normal condition position reports to the ground center when a flight condition is normal; abnormal time rate intervals for sending abnormal condition position reports to the ground center when abnormal flight conditions are detected, with the abnormal time rate intervals less than the normal time rate interval; and abnormal flight condition criteria to determine which aircraft conditions to monitor for detecting abnormal flight conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2017Publication date: March 22, 2018Inventors: Thomas D. Judd, Bradley Fessler, Kathryn Bates Hill, Keith Hamilton Redner, Scott Madaras, Sarah Baird Weinhardt
-
Publication number: 20180045715Abstract: Compositions and methods for identifying agents which 1) mimic salicyclic acid binding to human, animal and plant high mobility group box proteins or 2) alter activities of these HMGBs by binding in or around their salicyclic acid-binding sites and agents so identified are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Daniel F. Klessig, Sang-Wook Park, Hyong Woo Choi, Frank C. Schroeder, Gaetano T. Montelione, Keith Hamilton, Swapna Gurla, Fei Song, Marco E. Bianchi
-
Publication number: 20170176398Abstract: Embodiments provide a couplant and an arrangement of a couplant, a transducer, and a construction component. The couplant is adapted to couple the transducer to the surface of the construction component. The couplant provides 36% to 40% mass portion of hard metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: Aktiebolaget SKFInventors: Sebastian Ziegler, Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith, Allan Thomson, Mairi Joan Torrie, Andreas Clemens von der Ham
-
Patent number: 9526818Abstract: A protective cap for fluidly sealing a connector of a cable is provided. The protective cap includes a flexible body having an interior cavity with a distal opening through which the connector is inserted. The distal opening is defined by an annular ridge that engages a cable portion proximal the connector to fluidly seal the entire connector within the cavity. The body portion may have an oval-shaped cross-section while the interior cavity is cylindrical so that the portions wider portions of the body provide longitudinal rigidity to facilitate installation and removal of the cap by a manual pushing and pulling. A tether may be included to attach the cap to a distal portion of the cable. The protective cap and tether may be integrally formed of a soft, highly flexible material to improve ease of use, biocompatibility and patient comfort.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: December 27, 2016Assignee: THORATEC CORPORATIONInventors: Keith Hamilton Kearsley, Gabe Wegel, Kathryn B. Frederick, Julien Duhamel, Brian Barber
-
Patent number: 9453780Abstract: A measurement module for monitoring an operating condition of a roller bearing having a first bearing ring and a second bearing ring rotating with respect to each other around a rotation axis comprises an energy harvesting device operable to generate energy from a relative movement between the first and second bearing rings and at least one deformation sensor operable to provide a deformation signal indicative of a deformation of a surface region of one bearing ring of the first and the second bearing rings. The deformation sensor is powered by the energy harvesting device. An evaluation circuit is operable to determine, using the deformation signal, a strain signal indicative of a present load on the bearing. The evaluation circuit is powered by the energy harvesting device and a common housing encloses the energy harvesting device, the deformation sensor and the evaluation circuit.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2012Date of Patent: September 27, 2016Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKFInventors: Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Brian Murray, Andreas Clemens van der Ham
-
Publication number: 20160139086Abstract: A couplant and an arrangement of a couplant include a transducer and a construction component. The couplant is adapted to couple the transducer to a surface of the construction component. The couplant comprises basically 15% to 75% mass portion of hard metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2012Publication date: May 19, 2016Inventors: Sebastian ZIEGLER, Joseph ERSKINE, Keith HAMILTON, Tim SMITH, Gerard MCGOOGAN, Mairi Joan TORRIE, Allan THOMSON, Andreas Clemens VAN DER HAM
-
Publication number: 20160080334Abstract: A distributed event system includes a plurality of publishers, a communication infrastructure, and a key manager that manages access to publishing of events by one or more applications. An event is published, by a publisher, when the publisher determines an occurrence of an event and, in response, obtains a key from the key manager. The publisher then encrypts the event with the key to produce an encrypted event and transmits the encrypted event for consumption by a subscriber to the event.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2014Publication date: March 17, 2016Inventor: Keith HAMILTON
-
Publication number: 20160041181Abstract: This invention relates generally to a field of rational drug design. In particular, the present invention relates to a 19 F NMR assay for screening inhibitors of specific protein-target interactions, preferably those that inhibit influenza A NS 1 protein and can be useful in treating influenza A viral infections. The invention also relates to agents, compositions, and methods for treating influenza A viral infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEYInventors: Gaetano T. Montelione, Patrick L. Nosker, Vikas Nanda, James M. Aramini, Douglas Pike, Lichung Ma, Keith Hamilton, Srinivas Annavarapu
-
Publication number: 20160011076Abstract: A method for monitoring a bearing comprising the step of obtaining data concerning one or more of the factors that influence the residual life of the bearing using at least one sensor, such as a load sensor. The at least one sensor comprises an acoustic emission sensor and a temperature sensor. The method also comprises the steps of obtaining identification data uniquely identifying the bearing, transmitting data to and/or from the at least one sensor, using an industrial wireless protocol, and recording the data concerning one or more of the factors that influence the residual life of the bearing and the identification data as recorded data in a database.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: January 14, 2016Inventors: Keith HAMILTON, Brian MURRAY
-
Publication number: 20150369697Abstract: A method for predicting the residual life of a bearing comprising the step of: measuring frequency of occurrence of events that result of high frequency stress waves emitted by rolling contact of the bearing, recording measurement data as recorded data, and predicting the residual life of the bearing using the recorded data and a mathematical residual life prediction model, whereby accumulated fatigue damage is determined from the measurements of the frequency of occurrence of events that result in high frequency stress waves being emitted by rolling contact of the bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2013Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Keith HAMILTON, Brian MURRAY