Patents by Inventor Kevin Menice
Kevin Menice 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).
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Publication number: 20240002146Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle as well as a hopper. A method of using the storage receptacle can include receiving a force on a hopper handle of a hopper of a storage receptacle, the hopper having a cable connection point connected to a cable, based on the force, rotating the hopper to enable a user to place material in a storage bin of the storage receptacle, wherein the rotating causes the cable to have slack and preventing the cable having the slack from coming out of a groove in a pulley via a shroud positioned over at least a portion of the pulley.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David J. Skocypec, Thomas Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael E. Feldman
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Patent number: 11760566Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle as well as a hopper. A method of using the storage receptacle can include receiving a force on a hopper handle of a hopper of a storage receptacle, the hopper having a cable connection point connected to a cable, based on the force, rotating the hopper to enable a user to place material in a storage bin of the storage receptacle, wherein the rotating causes the cable to have slack and preventing the cable having the slack from coming out of a groove in a pulley via a shroud positioned over at least a portion of the pulley.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: BIG BELLY SOLAR LLCInventors: Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David J. Skocypec, Thomas Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael E. Feldman
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Publication number: 20230031379Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle as well as a hopper. A method of using the storage receptacle can include receiving a force on a hopper handle of a hopper of a storage receptacle, the hopper having a cable connection point connected to a cable, based on the force, rotating the hopper to enable a user to place material in a storage bin of the storage receptacle, wherein the rotating causes the cable to have slack and preventing the cable having the slack from coming out of a groove in a pulley via a shroud positioned over at least a portion of the pulley.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David J. Skocypec, Thomas Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael E. Feldman
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Patent number: 11465837Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle. The pedal can rotate downward when pressure is applied in order to pull on a first cable coupled to the pedal. The first cable is connected to a spring, and the spring is connected to a second cable. The second cable connects the spring to a door via an upper pulley of the receptacle. The second cable causes the door to open when the second cable is pulled based on force applied to the pedal. A bottom pulley can be coupled to the pedal via the first cable and configured to translate an upward pull of the first cable to a downward pull of the spring and second cable. The spring controls the motion of the door such that the door does not open too quickly upon a force being applied to the pedal.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Big Belly Solar LLCInventors: Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David J. Skocypec, Thomas Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael E. Feldman
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Publication number: 20200140193Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle. The pedal can rotate downward when pressure is applied in order to pull on a first cable coupled to the pedal. The first cable is connected to a spring, and the spring is connected to a second cable. The second cable connects the spring to a door via an upper pulley of the receptacle. The second cable causes the door to open when the second cable is pulled based on force applied to the pedal. A bottom pulley can be coupled to the pedal via the first cable and configured to translate an upward pull of the first cable to a downward pull of the spring and second cable. The spring controls the motion of the door such that the door does not open too quickly upon a force being applied to the pedal.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2020Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David J. Skocypec, Thomas Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael E. Feldman
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Patent number: 10526138Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle. The pedal can rotate downward when pressure is applied in order to pull on a first cable coupled to the pedal. The first cable is connected to a spring, and the spring is connected to a second cable. The second cable connects the spring to a door via an upper pulley of the receptacle. The second cable causes the door to open when the second cable is pulled based on force applied to the pedal. A bottom pulley can be coupled to the pedal via the first cable and configured to translate an upward pull of the first cable to a downward pull of the spring and second cable. The spring controls the motion of the door such that the door does not open too quickly upon a force being applied to the pedal.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2016Date of Patent: January 7, 2020Assignee: BIG BELLY SOLAR, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey T. Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David J. Skocypec, Thomas Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael E. Feldman
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Publication number: 20170240355Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bin that has a first portion configured to hold at least one item therein and an adjustable second portion. The adjustable second portion is configured to couple with the first portion and slide relative to the first portion between a collapsed position and an expanded position. The collapsed position provides a minimum combined height for the first portion and the adjustable second portion in which the adjustable second portion encapsulates the first portion in order for the bin to be placed inside a receptacle. The expanded position provides a maximum combined height for the first portion and the adjustable second portion in order for the bin to interface with a mechanical device for disposing of the at least one item. The bin also includes one or more holding mechanisms for securing the bin in at least one of the collapsed and expanded positions.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Jeffrey SATWICZ, David J. SKOCYPEC, Kevin MENICE, Thomas OLSEN, Brian PHILLIPS
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Patent number: 9658870Abstract: The invention provides in some aspects a computing device that includes a central processing unit that executes a native operating system including one or more native runtime environments within which native software applications are executing, where each such native software application has instructions for execution under the native operating system. One or more hosted runtime environments execute within the one or more native runtime environments, each of which hosted runtime environments executes hosted software applications that have instructions for execution under a hosted operating system that differs from the native operating system. A first hosted software application executing as a first process of the hosted runtime environments includes an instruction that references a member (hereinafter, “referenced member”) of an object defined by an object-oriented programming (OOP) class (“referenced class”).Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2014Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: OpenMobile World Wide, Inc.Inventors: Xianghai Liu, Chandra Bajpai, Kevin Menice, Jarrett Goetz
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Publication number: 20160221752Abstract: A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle. The pedal can rotate downward when pressure is applied in order to pull on a first cable coupled to the pedal. The first cable is connected to a spring, and the spring is connected to a second cable. The second cable connects the spring to a door via an upper pulley of the receptacle. The second cable causes the door to open when the second cable is pulled based on force applied to the pedal. A bottom pulley can be coupled to the pedal via the first cable and configured to translate an upward pull of the first cable to a downward pull of the spring and second cable. The spring controls the motion of the door such that the door does not open too quickly upon a force being applied to the pedal.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2016Publication date: August 4, 2016Inventors: Jeff Satwicz, Kevin Menice, David Skocypec, Tom Olsen, Brian Phillips, Michael Feldman
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Publication number: 20150242223Abstract: The invention provides in some aspects a computing device that includes a central processing unit that executes a native operating system including one or more native runtime environments within which native software applications are executing, where each such native software application has instructions for execution under the native operating system. One or more hosted runtime environments execute within the one or more native runtime environments, each of which hosted runtime environments executes hosted software applications that have instructions for execution under a hosted operating system that differs from the native operating system. A first hosted software application executing as a first process of the hosted runtime environments includes an instruction that references a member (hereinafter, “referenced member”) of an object defined by an object-oriented programming (OOP) class (“referenced class”).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Xianghai Liu, Chandra Bajpai, Kevin Menice, Jarrett Goetz
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Publication number: 20150193285Abstract: The invention provides, in some aspects, a computing device that includes a central processing unit that is coupled to a hardware interface and that executes a native operating system including one or more native runtime environments within which native software applications are executing. A first native software application executing within the one or more native runtime environments defines one or more hosted runtime environments within which hosted software applications are executing. One or more further native software applications (“IO proxies”), each executing within the one or more native runtime environments and each corresponding to a respective one of the one or more hosted software applications, receives the graphics generated by the respective hosted software application and effects writing of those graphics to the video frame buffer for presentation on the display of the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Thierno Diallo Hamzata, Jaap Vermeulen, Ashwin Bihari, Onyeka Igabari, Tim Johnson, Robert F. Angelo, Harrison Reid Zajac, Emma Kate Angelo, Chandra Bajpai, Kevin Menice
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Publication number: 20150193284Abstract: According to further aspects of the invention, there is provided a computing device that executes a hybrid application in a single application address space established within a runtime environment defined under a native operating system executing on the device. That hybrid application includes (i) instructions comprising a “hosted” software application built and intended for execution under an operating system that differs from the native operating system, i.e., a hosted operating system, and (ii) instructions from at least one of a runtime library and another resource of the native runtime environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2014Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Thierno Diallo Hamzata, Jaap Vermeulen, Ashwin Bihari, Onyeka Igabari, Kevin Menice
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Publication number: 20140115606Abstract: The invention provides, in some aspects, a computing device that includes a central processing unit that is coupled to a hardware interface and that executes a native operating system including one or more native runtime environments within which native software applications are executing. A first native software application executing within the one or more native runtime environments defines one or more hosted runtime environments within which hosted software applications are executing. One or more further native software applications (“IO proxies”), each executing within the one or more native runtime environments and each corresponding to a respective one of the one or more hosted software applications, receives the graphics generated by the respective hosted software application and effects writing of those graphics to the video frame buffer for presentation on the display of the computing device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Inventors: Thierno Diallo Hamzata, Jaap Vermeulen, Ashwin Bihari, Onyeka Igabari, Tim Johnson, Zigurd Mednieks, Robert F. Angelo, Harrison Reid Zajac, Emma Kate Angelo, Chandra Bajpai, Kevin Menice