Patents by Inventor Lewis Green
Lewis Green 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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Patent number: 11693816Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for flexible data ingestion. Data including a file including a database table may be received at a computing device. The file may be in a non-standard binary format. The data including the file may be stored unaltered as a source data chunk. A processed data chunk may be generated from the source data chunk by converting the file to a standard binary format and storing the file in the processed data chunk without altering the source data chunk. A materialized data chunk may be generated from the processed data chunk by performing, with a database server engine of the computing device, a database operation on the database table of the file of the processed data chunk and storing the file in the materialized data chunk without altering the processed data chunk. The database table of the file of the materialized data chunk may be made available for querying by the database server engine.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: ActionIQ, Inc.Inventors: Nitay Joffe, Allen Ajit George, Casey Lewis Green, Mitesh Patel, Panagiotis Mousoulis
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Publication number: 20220083501Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for flexible data ingestion. Data including a file including a database table may be received at a computing device. The file may be in a non-standard binary format. The data including the file may be stored unaltered as a source data chunk. A processed data chunk may be generated from the source data chunk by converting the file to a standard binary format and storing the file in the processed data chunk without altering the source data chunk. A materialized data chunk may be generated from the processed data chunk by performing, with a database server engine of the computing device, a database operation on the database table of the file of the processed data chunk and storing the file in the materialized data chunk without altering the processed data chunk. The database table of the file of the materialized data chunk may be made available for querying by the database server engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Nitay Joffe, Allen Ajit George, Casey Lewis Green, Mitesh Patel, Panagiotis Mousoulis
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Patent number: 10315096Abstract: A blade arrangement for an ice skate boot, the blade arrangement comprising a support for an ice skate boot with a blade runner mounted to the support and a suspension structure arranged between the support and the blade runner.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2015Date of Patent: June 11, 2019Assignee: HD SPORTS LIMITEDInventors: Lewis Green, Thomas Cantwell, Liam Rains, Adrian Pearce, Patricia Ineson
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Patent number: 10166726Abstract: A method and device for producing a three-dimensional component by in-bath additive manufacturing comprising a bath (12) of a first fluid component and a nozzle (15) for dispensing a second fluid component. In use the nozzle is moved in the bath, and the fluid components react to produce said component. The second fluid component may be varied to change the visual and/or physical properties of the component. A computer (24) contains a digital record to control respective position of the nozzle and the bath.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: FRIPP DESIGN LIMITEDInventors: Tom Fripp, Neil Frewer, Lewis Green
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Publication number: 20170165050Abstract: A method of manufacturing an artificial eye for fitting as a whole or partial replacement of a patient's original eye. This is done by providing an image of an iris on a substrate (100, 300) comprising at least a frontal region of an artificial eye, providing a support (108, 308) for the substrate, positioning the substrate and support in a mould (122, 322), and encapsulating the substrate within a mould material (136, 336).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2014Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Thomas George Fripp, Lewis Green, Lesley Elizabeth Gill
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Publication number: 20170028291Abstract: A blade arrangement for an ice skate boot, the blade arrangement comprising a support for an ice skate boot with a blade runner mounted to the support and a suspension structure arranged between the support and the blade runner.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2015Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Lewis Green, Thomas Cantwell, Liam Rains, Adrian Pearce, Patricia Ineson
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Publication number: 20160263827Abstract: A method and device for producing a three-dimensional component by in-bath additive manufacturing comprising a bath (12) of a first fluid component and a nozzle (15) for dispensing a second fluid component. In use the nozzle is moved in the bath, and the fluid components react to produce said component. The second fluid component may be varied to change the visual and/or physical properties of the component. A computer (24) contains a digital record to control respective position of the nozzle and the bath.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2014Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: Tom Fripp, Neil Frewer, Lewis Green
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Patent number: 9327249Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for humidifying a gas stream. Methods for providing a humidified gas stream comprise providing a dry gas, directing the dry gas to a humidification device, humidifying the dry gas to provide a humidified gas stream having an amount of moisture in excess of a predetermined amount, directing the humidified gas stream to a cooling device, cooling the humidified gas to a predetermined temperature, and directing the cooled humidified gas to a point of usage. Systems for providing a humidified gas stream comprise a dry gas stream, a humidification device configured to receive and humidify the dry gas stream to form a humidified gas stream having an amount of moisture in excess of a predetermined amount, and a cooling device configured to receive and cool the humidified gas stream to a predetermined temperature to form a cooled humidified gas stream.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Robert Scott Albro, Anna K. Wehr-Aukland, John Lewis Green, Donald James Bowe
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Patent number: 9290823Abstract: Described herein are a method, an apparatus, and a system for metal processing that improves one or more properties of a sintered metal part by controlling the process conditions of the cooling zone of a continuous furnace using one or more cryogenic fluids. In one aspect, there is provided a method comprising: providing a furnace wherein the metal part is passed therethough on a conveyor belt and comprises a hot zone and a cooling zone wherein the cooling zone has a first temperature; and introducing a cryogenic fluid into the cooling zone where the cryogenic fluid reduces the temperature of the cooling zone to a second temperature, wherein at least a portion of the cryogenic fluid provides a vapor within the cooling zone and cools the metal parts passing therethrough at an accelerated cooling rate.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Ranajit Ghosh, Lisa Ann Mercando, Xiaoyi He, John Lewis Green, David Scott Nelson
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Patent number: 9200356Abstract: A nozzle and process are set forth for contacting a cryogenic liquid and a gas, and discharging the resulting fluid through the nozzle. In one embodiment, the ratio of the discharged fluid's liquid component to its gaseous component is controlled as a function of the gas pressure.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2007Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Ellsworth Knorr, Jr., John Lewis Green
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Publication number: 20150320546Abstract: A method of manufacturing an artificial eye for fitting as a whole or partial replacement of a patient's original eye is provided. The method includes providing a digitally acquired image of an iris and transferring the image to a substrate comprising at least the frontal region of an artificial eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2015Publication date: November 12, 2015Inventors: Lewis Green, Thomas George Fripp, Lesley Elizabeth Gill
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Patent number: 9109277Abstract: Described herein is a method that can be used for heat treating a metal in at least one of the following processes: carburizing, carbonitriding, nitrocarburizing, and neutral carbon potential annealing operations that are used in a 1 atmosphere pressure furnace and in an atmosphere that is oxygen free and comprises nitrogen and at least one hydrocarbon.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2011Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Xiaolan Wang, Guido Plicht, John Lewis Green, Anna K. Wehr-Aukland
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Patent number: 9101464Abstract: A method of manufacturing an artificial eye for fitting as a whole or partial replacement of a patient's original eye is provided. The method includes providing a digitally acquired image of an iris and transferring the image to a substrate comprising at least the frontal region of an artificial eye.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: The Manchester Metropolitan UniversityInventors: Lewis Green, Thomas George Fripp, Lesley Elizabeth Gill
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Patent number: 9016076Abstract: A fluid spray device system (1) that maintains a resultant fluid discharge, or a material onto which the resultant fluid is discharged, within a predetermined range of a set-point temperature by regulating the flow rate of a throttling gas using a proportional valve (22). The resultant fluid has throttling gas and cryogenic fluid components. Both the throttling gas and cryogenic fluid are preferably supplied from a single tank (11) and the cryogenic fluid supply is pressure-regulated and includes a triaxial delivery hose (33) having a return line with a back-pressure regulator (54).Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2008Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Kevin John Giardiniere, John Lewis Green, Ranajit Ghosh, Daniel James Gibson, Zbigniew Zurecki
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Patent number: 8986605Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and gas atmosphere for a metal component in a continuous furnace. In one embodiment, the method and gas atmosphere comprises the use of an effective amount, or about 1 to about 10 percent volume of endo-gas, into an atmosphere comprising nitrogen and hydrogen. In another embodiment, there is provided a method sintering metal components in a furnace at a one or more operating temperatures comprising: providing a furnace comprising a belt comprising a wire mesh material wherein the metal components are supported thereupon; and sintering the components in the furnace in an atmosphere comprising nitrogen, hydrogen, and effective amount of endothermic gas at the one or more operating temperatures ranging from about 1800° F. to about 2200° F. wherein the amount of endothermic gas in the atmosphere is such that it is oxidizing to the wire mesh material and reducing to the metal components.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2010Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Donald James Bowe, Anna K. Wehr-Aukland, John Lewis Green
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Publication number: 20130317609Abstract: A method of manufacturing an artificial eye for fitting as a whole or partial replacement of a patient's original eye, the method comprising the steps of: a) providing a digitally acquired image of an iris; and b) transferring the image to a substrate comprising at least the frontal region of an artificial eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2012Publication date: November 28, 2013Inventors: Lewis Green, Thomas George Fripp, Lesley Elizabeth Gill
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Publication number: 20130270724Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for humidifying a gas stream. Methods for providing a humidified gas stream comprise providing a dry gas, directing the dry gas to a humidification device, humidifying the dry gas to provide a humidified gas stream having an amount of moisture in excess of a predetermined amount, directing the humidified gas stream to a cooling device, cooling the humidified gas to a predetermined temperature, and directing the cooled humidified gas to a point of usage. Systems for providing a humidified gas stream comprise a dry gas stream, a humidification device configured to receive and humidify the dry gas stream to form a humidified gas stream having an amount of moisture in excess of a predetermined amount, and a cooling device configured to receive and cool the humidified gas stream to a predetermined temperature to form a cooled humidified gas stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2012Publication date: October 17, 2013Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Robert Scott Albro, Anna K. Wehr-Aukland, John Lewis Green, Donald James Bowe
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Publication number: 20130008565Abstract: Described herein is a method that can be used for heat treating a metal in at least one of the following processes: carburizing, carbonitriding, nitrocarburizing, and neutral carbon potential annealing operations that are used in a 1 atmosphere pressure furnace and in an atmosphere that is oxygen free and comprises nitrogen and at least one hydrocarbon.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2011Publication date: January 10, 2013Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Xiaolan Wang, Guido Plicht, John Lewis Green, Anna K. Wehr-Aukland
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Patent number: 8268094Abstract: A gas injector including in which a gas is passed through high-voltage/low-current electrical discharges before being discharged into the chamber of a thermal treatment furnace. The electrical activation of the gas accelerates desirable reactions between the gas, gases in the furnace chamber, and the chamber workload. Preferably, a hot electrode is electrically charged and the other parts of the gas injector and the furnace are grounded. Also provided is a method for activating an atmosphere within the reaction chamber of a controlled-atmosphere reactor.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2008Date of Patent: September 18, 2012Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.Inventors: Zbigniew Zurecki, Robert Ellsworth Knorr, Jr., John Lewis Green
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Publication number: 20120216550Abstract: A fluid spray device system (1) that maintains a resultant fluid discharge, or a material onto which the resultant fluid is discharged, within a predetermined range of a set-point temperature by regulating the flow rate of a throttling gas using a proportional valve (22). The resultant fluid has throttling gas and cryogenic fluid components. Both the throttling gas and cryogenic fluid are preferably supplied from a single tank (11) and the cryogenic fluid supply is pressure-regulated and includes a triaxial delivery hose (33) having a return line with a back-pressure regulator (54).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2008Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.Inventors: Kevin John Giardiniere, John Lewis Green, Ranajit Gosh, Daniel James Gibson, Zbigniew Zurecki