Patents by Inventor Lawrence Floyd
Lawrence Floyd 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: 20240090491Abstract: An insert for an arthropod trapping device. The insert comprising a substrate and a frame for supporting the substrate, where a surface of the substrate has an adhesive disposed thereon, an optional mounting bracket spaced apart from the adhesive surface of the insert and located at a first end of the insert, and an optional graspable tab extending from the frame at a second end of the insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Christopher Lawrence SMITH, Benjamin Patrick HALE, Adam James BURT, Erik John HASENOEHRL, Danilo ROSSI, Andrea PEDROTTI, Walter SORDO, Alessio GIOVANELLI, Brian Lee FLOYD, Hirotaka UCHIYAMA, Thomas Bernard WALKER, III, Anthony Xavier Jean-Yves CLERC
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Patent number: 10536475Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing communication over a network. A co-located assessment agent may monitor communication traffic and determine assets and interactions with communication clients associated with one or more remote services. Asset groups associated with the assets may be determined based on characteristics of the assets. Representative assets from each asset group may be determined. Risk scores associated with each asset in a same asset group as the representative assets may be determined based on the remote services associated with the representative assets and the interactions with the communication clients such that a first risk score is initially generated based on a catalog local to a communication client and a succeeding risk score may be generated remotely based on an assessment model. The assets may be modified based on the first risk score or the succeeding risk score and provided to communication clients for display to a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: PhishCloud, Inc.Inventors: Terry Stephen McCorkle, Jr., Kyle Moody Hurst, William Lawrence Floyd
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Patent number: 9581954Abstract: A printer cleaning device cleans an image receiving surface with a surface preparation material, includes a roller having a perforated cylindrical wall surrounded by a foam material. The cylindrical wall has an interior volume for holding a fluid pumped into the interior volume by a pump. The pressurized fluid flows through the cylindrical wall into the foam material as the roller is moved into engagement with the image receiving surface. The roller is rotated in a direction opposition to a direction of movement of the image receiving surface to help the foam material to scrub the image receiving surface and apply the fluid to the surface. As the roller is moved away from the surface, the foam material expands to facilitate absorption of fluid and remove material from the image receiving surface. The foam material in one embodiment is hydrophobic.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Bruce E. Thayer, Lawrence Floyd, Jr.
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Publication number: 20160257147Abstract: A printer cleaning device cleans an image receiving surface with a surface preparation material, includes a roller having a perforated cylindrical wall surrounded by a foam material. The cylindrical wall has an interior volume for holding a fluid pumped into the interior volume by a pump. The pressurized fluid flows through the cylindrical wall into the foam material as the roller is moved into engagement with the image receiving surface. The roller is rotated in a direction opposition to a direction of movement of the image receiving surface to help the foam material to scrub the image receiving surface and apply the fluid to the surface. As the roller is moved away from the surface, the foam material expands to facilitate absorption of fluid and remove material from the image receiving surface. The foam material in one embodiment is hydrophobic.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2015Publication date: September 8, 2016Inventors: Bruce E. Thayer, Lawrence Floyd, JR.
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Patent number: 8899737Abstract: An approach is provided for controlling ultraviolet-curable gel ink spread of a printed image. The approach involves causing, at least in part, one or more inks to be applied to a first substrate image area by one or more inkjets in a printing zone of a printer, the one or more inkjets being configured to form one or more first ink spots on the first substrate image area. The approach also involves determining a temperature of at least the first substrate image area in the printing zone. The approach further involves determining a first spot size of at least one of the one or more first ink spots. The approach additionally involves causing, at least in part, a temperature of at least a second substrate image area in the printing zone to be based, at least in part, on the determined first spot size.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2012Date of Patent: December 2, 2014Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Jacques K. Webster-Curley, Paul McConville, Anthony S. Condello, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., Fusheng Xu, Bryan Roof, Jason O'Neil
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Publication number: 20130342621Abstract: An approach is provided for controlling ultraviolet-curable gel ink spread of a printed image. The approach involves causing, at least in part, one or more inks to be applied to a first substrate image area by one or more inkjets in a printing zone of a printer, the one or more inkjets being configured to form one or more first ink spots on the first substrate image area. The approach also involves determining a temperature of at least the first substrate image area in the printing zone. The approach further involves determining a first spot size of at least one of the one or more first ink spots. The approach additionally involves causing, at least in part, a temperature of at least a second substrate image area in the printing zone to be based, at least in part, on the determined first spot size.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2012Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Jacques K. WEBSTER-CURLEY, Paul MCCONVILLE, Anthony S. CONDELLO, Lawrence FLOYD, JR., Fusheng XU, Bryan ROOF, Jason O'NEIL
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Patent number: 8197024Abstract: An inkjet printer has been developed that reduces the effects of show-through by depositing ink onto a cooled print medium. The inkjet printer includes a printhead and a cooler. The printhead is configured to eject ink onto an ink receiving member as the ink receiving member is transported along a portion of a media path through the inkjet printer. The cooler is positioned proximate the media path to cool the ink receiving member prior to the printhead ejecting ink onto the ink receiving member.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2009Date of Patent: June 12, 2012Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Gregory Joseph Kovacs, Bryan James Roof, Michael D. Thompson, Edward B. Caruthers, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., Shawn R. Rowan
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Publication number: 20110102491Abstract: An inkjet printer has been developed that reduces the effects of show-through by depositing ink onto a cooled print medium. The inkjet printer includes a printhead and a cooler. The printhead is configured to eject ink onto an ink receiving member as the ink receiving member is transported along a portion of a media path through the inkjet printer. The cooler is positioned proximate the media path to cool the ink receiving member prior to the printhead ejecting ink onto the ink receiving member.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2009Publication date: May 5, 2011Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Gregory Joseph Kovacs, Bryan James Roof, Michael D. Thompson, Edward B. Caruthers, Lawrence Floyd, JR., Shawn R. Rowan
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Patent number: 7887176Abstract: Methods and devices for forming, such as by printing, high quality, high throughput, ultraviolet curable gel ink images on flexible substrates for packaging applications are disclosed. The methods and devices have excellent image quality and do not require pinning of the ink during color printing or nitrogen inerting during curing.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2008Date of Patent: February 15, 2011Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Gregory Joseph Kovacs, Steven E. Ready, Allen W. Denham, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., James Fallon, Jr., Jennifer L. Belelie, Barkev Keoshkerian, Peter Gordon Odell, Christopher A. Wagner
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Patent number: 7706728Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a trim roll that receives developer material from the reservoir and delivers the developer material to a first magnetic brush roller that delivers toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Palghat S. Ramesh, John F. Knapp, Paul John McConville, Daniel M. Bray, Robert Pictor, Todd Kenneth Preston, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., James Edward Williams, Michael Donald Thompson
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Patent number: 7660551Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a rotatable first magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the reservoir and delivers the toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2007Date of Patent: February 9, 2010Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Palghat S. Ramesh, John F. Knapp, Daniel M. Bray, Robert Pictor, Todd Kenneth Preston, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., James Edward Williams, Michael Donald Thompson
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Publication number: 20080226354Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a rotatable first magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the reservoir and delivers the toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Palghat S. RAMESH, John F. KNAPP, Daniel M. BRAY, Robert PICTOR, Todd Kenneth PRESTON, Lawrence FLOYD, James Edward WILLIAMS, Michael Donald THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20080226353Abstract: An apparatus for loading one or more donor rolls of a developer unit, comprising a developer housing having a reservoir for a developer material, a rotatable first donor roll that delivers the toner onto a moving photoconductive member, a trim roll that receives developer material from the reservoir and delivers the developer material to a first magnetic brush roller that delivers toner to the first donor roll, and a rotatable second magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the first magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the first donor roll. The apparatus may further comprise a rotatable second donor roll that receives the toner from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner onto the photoconductive member, and a rotatable third magnetic brush roll that receives the developer material from the second magnetic brush roll and delivers the toner to the second donor roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2007Publication date: September 18, 2008Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Palghat S. RAMESH, John F. KNAPP, Paul John MCCONVILLE, Daniel M. BRAY, Robert PICTOR, Todd Kenneth PRESTON, Lawrence FLOYD, James Edward WILLIAMS, Michael Donald THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20080218570Abstract: Methods and devices for forming, such as by printing, high quality, high throughput, ultraviolet curable gel ink images on flexible substrates for packaging applications are disclosed. The methods and devices have excellent image quality and do not require pinning of the ink during color printing or nitrogen inerting during curing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2008Publication date: September 11, 2008Applicants: XEROX CORPORATION, PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATEDInventors: Gregory Joseph Kovacs, Steven E. Ready, Allen W. Denham, Lawrence Floyd, James Fallon, Jennifer L. Belelie, Barkev Keoshkerian, Peter Gordon Odell, Christopher A. Wagner
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Patent number: 7228080Abstract: A closed-loop toner concentration adjustment system extends xerographic process control performance with a system and method including a first controller to adjust toner concentration (TC) in a developer of the imaging device to alter a DMA level of the imaging device, the TC being adjusted based on a TC target value; a second controller to adjust an electrostatic development field to alter the DMA level; and an adjustment logic device to adjust the TC target value based on adjustments made to the electrostatic development field. The first controller outputs a dispense amount to the developer based on a difference between a measurement of the actual TC and the TC target value, thereby adjusting the TC based on the dispense amount to the developer. The second controller adjusts the electrostatic development field based on a difference between a measurement of the actual DMA level and a DMA target value.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: June 5, 2007Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Eric S Hamby, Yongsoon Eun, Eric M Gross, Lawrence Floyd, Joseph A Mastrandrea
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Publication number: 20070003297Abstract: A closed-loop toner concentration adjustment system extends xerographic process control performance with a system and method including a first controller to adjust toner concentration (TC) in a developer of the imaging device to alter a DMA level of the imaging device, the TC being adjusted based on a TC target value; a second controller to adjust an electrostatic development field to alter the DMA level; and an adjustment logic device to adjust the TC target value based on adjustments made to the electrostatic development field. The first controller outputs a dispense amount to the developer based on a difference between a measurement of the actual TC and the TC target value, thereby adjusting the TC based on the dispense amount to the developer. The second controller adjusts the electrostatic development field based on a difference between a measurement of the actual DMA level and a DMA target value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2005Publication date: January 4, 2007Applicant: XEROX CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Hamby, Yongsoon Eun, Eric Gross, Lawrence Floyd, Joseph Mastrandrea
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Patent number: 7123850Abstract: The exemplary embodiments are directed to a control system and method of predicting how a machine will respond to occasional or periodic maintenance or service, and adjusting the machine accordingly to account for the change in machine behavior due to the maintenance or service action. More specifically, in a machine under closed-loop control subject to occasional maintenance or service, the maintenance or service results in transient in machine performance. To mitigate transients in machine performance due to maintenance or service, a prediction of the maintenance or service effect is fed forward the existing control system just prior to the occurrence of maintenance or service in order to compensate for the maintenance or service effect. This prediction is continually updated and refined using subsequent measurements of the effect of maintenance or service on machine performance.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2005Date of Patent: October 17, 2006Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Eric S. Hamby, Yongsoon Eun, Eric M. Gross, Lawrence Floyd, Jack Lestrange, James M. Chappell, Joseph C. Sheflin
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Patent number: 5978630Abstract: A system for removing residual contaminants from an image conditioning apparatus that removes excess liquid from a developed image made up of toner particles immersed in a liquid carrier medium on an image bearing member. The system includes a vacuum blotting device that contacts the liquid developed image and absorbs a portion of the liquid carrier and residual contaminants remain thereon. A contact member adapted to be shifted from a non-operative position spaced from the vacuum blotting device, to an operative position in contact with the vacuum blotting device operates to transfer the contaminants therefrom. A scraper removes the transferred contaminants from the contact member. The contact member is pivotally mounted about the pivot point to effect shifting of the contact member between the non-operative and the operative position.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1998Date of Patent: November 2, 1999Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Shu Chang, John F. Knapp, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., Stephen T. Chai, Robert E. Trott
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Patent number: 5873014Abstract: A system for removing excess carrier liquid from an electrostatic image developed with liquid developing material made up of toner particles immersed in a liquid carrier medium on an image bearing member. The system includes an absorbent contact roller for absorbing at least a portion of the liquid carrier off of the liquid image, and vacuum source coupled to the contact roller for generating both negative pressure at the surface of the roller to draw the absorbed liquid through the contact roller, and positive air pressure for pushing contaminated liquid out of the roller.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 1998Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: John F. Knapp, Lawrence Floyd, Jr.
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Patent number: 5745826Abstract: An image protecting conditioning roll for conditioning developed images in a liquid immersion development reproduction machine. The image protecting conditioning roll includes a rigid, conductive and porous core; an absorbent intermediate layer formed over the rigid core; and an inelastic image protecting top, outer layer formed over the absorbent intermediate layer, for contacting and protecting an image being conditioned, by preventing undesirable image offset and image smearing.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1997Date of Patent: April 28, 1998Assignee: Xerox CorporationInventors: Shu Chang, Lawrence Floyd, Jr., Santokh S. Badesha, Donald S. Sypula, John F. Knapp