Patents by Inventor Kenneth Stephens

Kenneth Stephens 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: 20130292415
    Abstract: Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl STANLEY, Kenneth Stephen McGUIRE
  • Publication number: 20130292395
    Abstract: Non-durable self-supporting flexible containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2013
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Scott Kendyl STANLEY, Kenneth Stephen McGUIRE
  • Publication number: 20130287953
    Abstract: A process of manufacturing a stretch composite is disclosed. The process comprises providing a polyolefin based substrate, providing a letterpress adhesive application system comprising a pattern roll and an applicator roll, and depositing a molten, non-adhesive, elastomeric composition onto the applicator roll. The process further comprises transferring only a portion of the elastomeric composition that is on the applicator roll, from the applicator roll to the pattern roll, by contacting the pattern roll with the elastomeric composition that is on the applicator roll, and transferring substantially all of the elastomeric composition from the pattern roll to the substrate, by contacting the substrate with the elastomeric composition that is on the pattern roll, without damaging the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2013
    Publication date: October 31, 2013
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Mary Lee Amirpour, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Fred Naval Desai, Charles Bruce Lambert, David Richard Tucker
  • Patent number: 8555238
    Abstract: Programming and development infrastructure for an autonomic element is provided. The system includes a control plane (ISAC), a host server, a management console, and a module development environment. The ISAC contains an Autonomic Controller Engine (ACE) and management module(s). The management module is comprised of a set of scenarios. The ISAC is embedded in a control plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: Embotics Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony Richard Phillip White, Daniel G. Calvert, Fabio Katz, Mark David Rollins, Jesse Stockall, David Sugden, Kenneth Stephen Webb, Jean-Marc L. Sequin, David Alan Watson
  • Publication number: 20130260637
    Abstract: A toy with a frame assembly having a plurality of frame members each having a gear and centering aperture. Each gear has a plurality of rounded tetrahedral teeth. A flexible fastener connects the first and second frame members together with their gears in alignment with one another. The flexible fastener applies a force to the first and second gears to releasably engage said first and second gears with one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Lisa McCue Karsten, Kenneth Stephen Karsten, JR.
  • Publication number: 20130234681
    Abstract: A modular multilevel converter system. The system includes a plurality of series connected two-terminal M2LC cells arranged into at least two output phase modules. A first one of the output phase modules has an inductance and an effective capacitance associated therewith. The first one of the output phase modules is configured so that a natural resonant frequency of the inductance with the effective capacitance of the first one of the output phase modules is greater than at least one of the following: an operating frequency of the first one of the output phase modules; a switching frequency of the first one of the output phase modules; and a switching frequency of any of the M2LC cells of the first one of the output phase modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation
    Inventors: MARC FRANCIS AIELLO, Kenneth Stephen Berton, Walter Gilbert Barie
  • Patent number: 8496776
    Abstract: The invention provides a process to deliver an elastomeric composition to a substrate. The elastomeric composition is cooled. The cooling also results in substantially complete transfer of the elastomeric composition from the pattern roll to the substrate with a resulting reduction in elastomer degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Mary Lee Amirpour, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Fred Naval Desai, Charles Bruce Lambert, David Richard Tucker
  • Patent number: 8467775
    Abstract: Video clips are stored and converted on a website into different formats which are compatible with different cellular phones. The source for the video can be sources such as DVDs, other cellular phones, or broadcast television. The system can automatically store profiles from multiple different phones and automatically carry out a conversion based on information stored in the profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Ubiquity Holdings
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen Bailey, Christopher Carmichael
  • Patent number: 8446252
    Abstract: A communications-enabled packaged product allows a consumer to partake of communications within a product-centric network. The packaged product performs the functions of a communications node in the network. The packaged product may include two portions, one portion being a reactive label which may be affixed to the packaging and a second part being a “smart communications card” that is separate from the packaging and portable. Each part includes a communications element and an information storage and retrieval element and may include various means for downloading and uploading information into the storage and retrieval elements. In one aspect of its use, the invention allows the consumer to transmit and receive information about the product. In another aspect of its use, the invention allows the consumer to carry information about other similarly enabled products in their possession for use in shopping trips.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Dean Larry DuVal
  • Patent number: 8350679
    Abstract: A product system comprises a package base unit and a package. The package base unit comprises a control element and a package interface operatively connected to the control element. The package comprises a package base interface, and a printed element. The printed element comprises a control circuit element and an output circuit element. Each of the control circuit element and the output circuit element are operatively connected to the package base interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Cathy Wen, Kevin Rodgers, Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Robert Joseph Schick, William Paul Mahoney, III
  • Publication number: 20120252308
    Abstract: This method of interconnection utilizes aesthetic features of the toy itself to alloy interconnection in a safe and secure way, without the use of snaps and pins that can cause a safety hazard to young children. The proposed method also allows for interconnection of multiple toys to create a toy chain as well as an adapter that allows for toys that embody this feature to be connected to clothing, back packs, shoes as an accessory. By extension of this basic interconnection method, any two or more objects can be connected this same way.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2011
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Lisa McCue Karsten, Kenneth Stephen Karsten, JR.
  • Publication number: 20120112545
    Abstract: A system. The system is a modular multilevel converter system and includes a plurality of series connected modular multilevel converter cells. At least one of the modular multilevel converter cells is a three-level modular multilevel converter cell. The plurality of series connected modular multilevel converter cells are coupled to a rectifier system via a DC bus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Francis AIELLO, Dustin Matthew KRAMER, Kenneth Stephen BERTON
  • Publication number: 20120068756
    Abstract: A two-level two-terminal modular multilevel converter subsystem. The subsystem includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The modular multilevel converter subsystem is configured to selectively place the first capacitor in series with the second capacitor. The modular multilevel converter subsystem is also configured to selectively place the first capacitor in parallel with the second capacitor relative to first and second output terminals of the modular multilevel converter subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Francis AIELLO, Dustin Matthew Kramer, Kenneth Stephen Berton
  • Publication number: 20120068555
    Abstract: A modular multilevel converter system. The system includes a plurality of series connected two-terminal M2LC subsystems and a control system module. The two-terminal M2LC subsystems are arranged into at least two output phase modules. A first one of the output phase modules defines a total value of inductance and includes a positive arm and a negative arm. The control system module is configured to apply selectively reassigned modulated switch functions to only one of the following at a given instance of time: the two-terminal M2LC subsystems of the positive arm of the first one of the output phase modules or the two-terminal M2LC subsystems of the negative arm of the first one of the output phase modules. The selective reassigning of the modulated switch functions forces charge balance of the individual capacitors of the series connected two-terminal M2LC subsystems at a predetermined rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Francis AIELLO, Dustin Matthew Kramer, Kenneth Stephen Berton
  • Publication number: 20120032512
    Abstract: A system. The system is a modular multilevel converter system and includes a plurality of series connected two-terminal modular multilevel converter subsystems. The subsystems are magnetically coupled to an AC current source power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2011
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Curtiss-Wright Electro-Mechanical Corporation
    Inventors: Marc Francis AIELLO, Dustin Matthew Kramer, Kenneth Stephen Berton
  • Patent number: 8102275
    Abstract: A sensory interactable packaging assembly having a base and a container. The base has a power supply. The container may contain a consumer product. The container is removably attachable to the base. The container has an outer surface and a sensory interactable element disposed on the outer surface and a control system having an output. The control system is s in electrical communication with the sensory interactable element and the sensory interactable element is responsive to the output of the control system when the container is proximate to the base and the control system is in electrical communication with the power supply.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Procter & Gamble
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, John Patrick Goodall, Jerry Ray Stephens, Michael G. Ferrari
  • Patent number: 8065724
    Abstract: An unattended computer-based machine is authenticated by the present invention method, system or apparatus. The subject machine may be an auto-restarted machine or similar machine configured to be unattended. Upon receipt of initializing input from a user at a subject computer-based machine, a working process authenticates the user and generates resulting credentials. The working process stores the generated credentials in a memory area of the subject machine. Separate from and independent of the working process is a security monitor of the present invention. A monitoring module of the present invention monitors user activity on the subject machine and upon detecting suspect activity destroys the stored credentials of the working process. Suspect activity includes any activity raising a suspicion of compromise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Theodore Waltenberg, Kenneth Stephen, Timothy Simon Bartley
  • Publication number: 20110239497
    Abstract: A communications-enabled packaged product allows a consumer to partake of communications within a product-centric network. The packaged product performs the functions of a communications node in the network. The packaged product may include two portions, one portion being a reactive label which may be affixed to the packaging and a second part being a “smart communications card” that is separate from the packaging and portable. Each part includes a communications element and an information storage and retrieval element and may include various means for downloading and uploading information into the storage and retrieval elements. In one aspect of its use, the invention allows the consumer to transmit and receive information about the product. In another aspect of its use, the invention allows the consumer to carry information about other similarly enabled products in their possession for use in shopping trips.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2010
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Dean Larry DuVal
  • Patent number: D683483
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: The Proctor & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Corey Michael Bischoff, Mark John Steinhardt, Benjamin Janes Beck, Douglas A. Marsden, Christopher James Page
  • Patent number: D689630
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kenneth Stephen McGuire, Corey Michael Bischoff, Mark John Steinhardt, Benjamin Janes Beck, Douglas A. Marsden, Christopher James Page