Patents by Inventor Kevin Wagner

Kevin Wagner 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: 20240353066
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for dispensing a cryogenic fluid can include an apparatus and process configured for dispensing the cryogenic fluid into a fuel tank. Embodiments can be configured for dispensing of liquid hydrogen into fuel tanks of vehicles, for example. Embodiments can be provided so no pump usage is necessary for filing the fuel tank or substantially filling the fuel tank (e.g., filling the fuel tank to a level of 90% filled or a level of 95% filled, etc.) during the dispensing. This can permit embodiments to avoid cryogenic boil off and fugitive emission losses as well as reducing power consumption, reducing maintenance costs, and permitting dispensing start-up to occur more quickly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: ANUP VASANT SANE, JOSEPH P. COHEN, ROBERT KEVIN WAGNER, STEVEN W. HOFFMAN, PRASAD PRABHAKAR JOSHI, DAVID JONATHAN CHALK, ARIE VAN DEN AKKER
  • Patent number: 11745905
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for validating a tensioning and locking procedure for a band using a banding tool and for determining at least one characteristic of the banding tool for determining whether a component needs repair or replacement. The systems and methods include receiving data from one or more sensors disposed on a banding tool, validating and releasing one or more components of the tool based on the data meeting one or more thresholds, and/or determining that the one or more components of the tool requires repair or replacement. The systems and methods also provide for predictive maintenance based on the received data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Band-It-IDEX, Inc.
    Inventors: Braden Andrew Roberts, Kevin Wagner
  • Publication number: 20220391249
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for cognitive resource scheduling for radar systems. Embodiments of the present disclosure demonstrate the implementation of a policy neural network to perform task scheduling, which offers superior performance to existing heuristic methods while maintaining feasible execution times to enable real-time implementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Wagner, Paul Rademacher
  • Publication number: 20210354863
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for validating a tensioning and locking procedure for a band using a banding tool and for determining at least one characteristic of the banding tool for determining whether a component needs repair or replacement. The systems and methods include receiving data from one or more sensors disposed on a banding tool, validating and releasing one or more components of the tool based on the data meeting one or more thresholds, and/or determining that the one or more components of the tool requires repair or replacement. The systems and methods also provide for predictive maintenance based on the received data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: Band-It-IDEX, Inc.
    Inventors: BRADEN ANDREW ROBERTS, KEVIN WAGNER
  • Patent number: 10620922
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, including a display and a processor. The processor may be configured to execute a source code authoring application program. The processor may be further configured to output a graphical user interface (GUI) of the source code authoring application program for display on the display. The processor may be further configured to receive source code including one or more code instructions at an editor window included in the GUI. The editor window may provide real-time mark-up of the source code. At a compiler platform, the processor may be further configured to determine that the source code includes at least one test method based on at least one syntactic test method indicator or symbolic test method indicator included in the source code. The processor may be further configured to output a notification of the at least one test method for display on the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Manish Kumar Jayaswal, Ghanashyam Chandrasekhar Namboodiripad, Artur Zbigniew Spychaj, En-Shuo Hsu, Peter Bern Waldschmidt, Kevin Wagner Halverson, John Austin Fleisher, Gen Lu
  • Publication number: 20190339951
    Abstract: A computing device is provided, including a display and a processor. The processor may be configured to execute a source code authoring application program. The processor may be further configured to output a graphical user interface (GUI) of the source code authoring application program for display on the display. The processor may be further configured to receive source code including one or more code instructions at an editor window included in the GUI. The editor window may provide real-time mark-up of the source code. At a compiler platform, the processor may be further configured to determine that the source code includes at least one test method based on at least one syntactic test method indicator or symbolic test method indicator included in the source code. The processor may be further configured to output a notification of the at least one test method for display on the display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Manish Kumar JAYASWAL, Ghanashyam Chandrasekhar NAMBOODIRIPAD, Artur Zbigniew SPYCHAJ, En-Shuo HSU, Peter Bern WALDSCHMIDT, Kevin Wagner HALVERSON, John Austin FLEISHER, Gen LU
  • Patent number: 10046910
    Abstract: A trash bin tug carried on a pair of drive wheels driven by reversible motors and carrying a swivel support arm projecting upwardly and rearwardly towards a bin. The support arm carries a latch which cooperates with the support arm and tug to, upon being latched, support the front of the bin elevated from the support surface. The steps of selecting a tug with a support arm and carried on reversible drive wheels to be maneuvered from a remote control into position to engage a handle on a trash bin and latch onto the handle to elevate the front of the trash bin from the support surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Inventor: Kevin Wagner
  • Publication number: 20170174427
    Abstract: A trash bin tug carried on a pair of drive wheels driven by reversible motors and carrying a swivel support arm projecting upwardly and rearwardly towards a bin. The support arm carries a latch which cooperates with the support arm and tug to, upon being latched, support the front of the bin elevated from the support surface. The steps of selecting a tug with a support arm and carried on reversible drive wheels to be maneuvered from a remote control into position to engage a handle on a trash bin and latch onto the handle to elevate the front of the trash bin from the support surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Kevin Wagner
  • Publication number: 20160116364
    Abstract: A leak test apparatus for leak testing a tank including a gas supply system configured to provide to the tank a leak detection gas mixture including hydrogen, a test chamber having a cavity for sealably enclosing the tank such that dead space exists outside the tank and within the cavity, and a gas conduit configured to interconnect the gas supply system and the tank, a control system including a controller programmed to pressurize the tank with the leak detection mixture by flowing gas from the gas supply system through the gas conduit, and a leak detector to determine the presence or absence of a leak in the tank by measuring a concentration of hydrogen in the dead space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Vaccaro, Jeffrey Michael Barna, David Charles Winchester, David John Farese, Robert Kevin Wagner, Brian Elwin Miller, Christopher Michael Albright, Lucas Anthony White
  • Patent number: 8479178
    Abstract: A batch compiler is employed to enable compilation of code provided at runtime. A managed application receives code during execution and invokes the compiler to transform the code to enable it to execute within the context of the receiving application. Among other things, employment of a batch compiler preserves investments made to such compilers while also opening up new scenarios in application scripting and/or hosting that are otherwise unavailable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Avner Y. Aharoni, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Timothy Yat Tim Ng, Amanda K. Silver, Scott Daniel Wisniewski, Kevin Wagner Halverson, David N. Schach, Aleksey V. Tsingauz, Paul A. Vick
  • Publication number: 20090328012
    Abstract: A batch compiler is employed to enable compilation of code provided at runtime. A managed application receives code during execution and invokes the compiler to transform the code to enable it to execute within the context of the receiving application. Among other things, employment of a batch compiler preserves investments made to such compilers while also opening up new scenarios in application scripting and/or hosting that are otherwise unavailable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2008
    Publication date: December 31, 2009
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Avner Y. Aharoni, Henricus Johannes Maria Meijer, Timothy Yat Tim Ng, Amanda K. Silver, Scott Daniel Wisniewski, Kevin Wagner Halverson, David N. Schach, Aleksey V. Tsingauz, Paul A. Vick
  • Patent number: 7191674
    Abstract: A stepper mechanical drive system includes a carriage, a support for the carriage that permits the carriage to move bidirectionally along a travel direction, and a follower structure on the carriage, The follower structure has two ramp structures that each extends longitudinally along the travel direction of the carriage and includes a plurality of sawtooth ramp faces. An actuator structure is not on the carriage and is stationary relative to the travel direction of the carriage. The actuator structure has a pair of actuators, and each actuator includes an actuator arm having an actuator element thereon, wherein the actuator arm is movable so that the actuator element may be controllably contacted to at least one of the ramp structures, and a controllable actuator drive operable to move the actuator arm. Each actuator drive may also include a disengageable latch that disengagably retains the actuator arm in a selected position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Gabor Devenyi, Kevin Wagner
  • Patent number: 6836201
    Abstract: A mechanical actuator includes an annular electromagnet and a ferromagnetic plunger disposed within a bore of the electromagnet and slidable therein. A first permanent magnet is positioned outside of the bore and in facing relation to a first end face of the plunger, and a second permanent magnet is positioned outside of the bore and in facing relation to the second end face of the plunger. The plunger is slidable in the bore between a first position with the first end face adjacent to the first permanent magnet and a second position with the second end face adjacent to the second permanent magnet. Activation of the electromagnet with the current flowing in a first direction drives the plunger toward the first permanent magnet, where it is retained. Activation of the electromagnet with the current flowing in a second (opposite) direction drives the plunger away from the first permanent magnet and toward the second permanent magnet, where it is retained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2004
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Gabor Devenyi, Kevin Wagner
  • Patent number: 6614967
    Abstract: An optical fiber and an optical component, such as a collimating lens, are positioned along an optical axis. An alignment end of the optical fiber is first positioned so that the optical fiber axis is coincident with the optical axis, and visible light passing through the optical fiber is focused upon an imaging light detector, without the optical component present on the optical axis. The optical component is inserted onto the optical axis and coarse positioned using visible light transmitted through the optical fiber and through the optical component to be incident upon a light energy detector. The optical component is thereafter fine positioned using infrared light transmitted through the optical fiber and through the optical component to be incident upon the imaging light detector. The optical fiber and the optical component are thereafter fixed in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Gabor Devenyi, Roger W. Ball, Kevin Wagner
  • Patent number: 6519861
    Abstract: A workpiece (22) having a periphery is centered using a centering apparatus (20) having a workpiece spindle (24, 28) operable to rotate the workpiece (22) about a rotational axis (26), and a centering head (29). The centering head (29) includes a mount (30) movable in a movement direction lying in a plane (40) perpendicular to the rotational axis (26), and generally along a radial line (38) extending outwardly from the rotational axis (26). A swivel head (32) is pivotably supported on the mount (30) and is pivotable about a pivot axis (46) parallel to the rotational axis (26). The swivel head (32) has a pair of bearings (66) spaced apart along a direction lying generally perpendicular to the movement direction, with the bearing axis of each bearing (46) parallel to the rotational axis (26). A distance measuring device (34) is operable to measure the distance between the periphery of the workpiece (22) and a measurement location on the mount (30).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Guenter Brueck, Joerg Hollmann, Kevin Wagner
  • Patent number: 5675406
    Abstract: A portable lens measuring device (10) comprises a plurality of optical fibers (23) and a lamp (18) for providing light to a common end. The portable lens measuring device (10) includes a sensor (32) for detecting light from the common end through the second arm, the light sensor (32) generating a signal responsive to the amount of light detected, and a lens assembly (25), the lens assembly being connected to the common end and having a fixed focal point. The portable lens measuring device (10) includes a controller (12) for controlling the lens assembly (25), for regulating the lamp and for receiving the signal generated by the detector. The portable lens measuring device (10) also includes a sensor motor (14) for moving the lens assembly (25) across a first and second surfaces of the lens to provide a value of the center thickness of the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 7, 1997
    Assignee: Hughes Electronics
    Inventors: Joerg Hollmann, Gabor Devenyi, Kevin Wagner