Patents by Inventor Morris Brown
Morris Brown 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: 20240115573Abstract: This disclosure relates to formulations containing arginine and other ingredients useful in managing acute and chronic complications of coronavirus infections, including respiratory symptoms fatigue, hypercoagulable state, cardiac symptoms, conditions that result from endothelial dysfunction, altered T-cell function/immune dysregulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, and/or and other complications often associated with coronavirus or other viral infections.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Claudia R. Morris, Lou Ann S. Brown
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Patent number: 11530769Abstract: A reactor pressure vessel includes a reactor pressure vessel body, a nozzle structure connected to the reactor pressure vessel body, a conduit structure connected to the nozzle structure, and a restraint device attached around a portion of the conduit structure. The restraint device includes collar parts that have cross sections corresponding to respective segments of a periphery of the portion of the conduit structure, brackets attached to the nozzle structure, and rods connecting the brackets to the collar parts. The collar parts are connected end-to-end to each other such that a cross section of the collar parts connected to each other corresponds to the periphery of the portion of the conduit structure. The collar parts are pinned to each other. The brackets spaced apart from each other around a periphery of the nozzle structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Melito, Gerald Alan Deaver, Randy Morris Brown, Lorne Eugene Nix
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Patent number: 11232874Abstract: A flow restrictor nozzle for a pressurized vessel of a nuclear reactor may comprise a nozzle body including an inlet face and an outlet face. The nozzle body may define a plurality of internal flow paths extending from the inlet face to the outlet face. Each of the plurality of internal flow paths may include a convergent section, a throat section, and a divergent section.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Melito, Randy Morris Brown, Zhe Zhang, Robin D. Sprague, Adrian M. Mistreanu, Gerald A. Deaver
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Publication number: 20200116286Abstract: A reactor pressure vessel includes a reactor pressure vessel body, a nozzle structure connected to the reactor pressure vessel body, a conduit structure connected to the nozzle structure, and a restraint device attached around a portion of the conduit structure. The restraint device includes collar parts that have cross sections corresponding to respective segments of a periphery of the portion of the conduit structure, brackets attached to the nozzle structure, and rods connecting the brackets to the collar parts. The collar parts are connected end-to-end to each other such that a cross section of the collar parts connected to each other corresponds to the periphery of the portion of the conduit structure. The collar parts are pinned to each other. The brackets spaced apart from each other around a periphery of the nozzle structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Melito, Gerald Alan Deaver, Randy Morris Brown, Lorne Eugene Nix
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Patent number: 10473255Abstract: A reactor pressure vessel includes a reactor pressure vessel body, a nozzle structure connected to the reactor pressure vessel body, a conduit structure connected to the nozzle structure, and a restraint device attached around a portion of the conduit structure. The restraint device includes collar parts that have cross sections corresponding to respective segments of a periphery of the portion of the conduit structure, brackets attached to the nozzle structure, and rods connecting the brackets to the collar parts. The collar parts are connected end-to-end to each other such that a cross section of the collar parts connected to each other corresponds to the periphery of the portion of the conduit structure. The collar parts are pinned to each other. The brackets spaced apart from each other around a periphery of the nozzle structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Melito, Gerald Alan Deaver, Randy Morris Brown, Lorne Eugene Nix
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Publication number: 20190189297Abstract: A flow restrictor nozzle for a pressurized vessel of a nuclear reactor may comprise a nozzle body including an inlet face and an outlet face. The nozzle body may define a plurality of internal flow paths extending from the inlet face to the outlet face. Each of the plurality of internal flow paths may include a convergent section, a throat section, and a divergent section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2017Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Joel Patrick Melito, Randy Morris Brown, Zhe Zhang, Robin D. Sprague, Adrian M. Mistreanu, Gerald A. Deaver
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Patent number: 9881702Abstract: A method of shutting down a nuclear reactor may include compressing a scram gas that is in fluid communication with a scram accumulator. The scram accumulator defines a chamber therein and contains bellows within the chamber. The bellows are configured to hold a scram liquid in isolation of the scram gas. The scram gas exerts a compressive force on the bellows in a form of stored energy. The method may additionally include releasing the stored energy in response to a scram signal such that the scram gas expands into the chamber of the scram accumulator to compress the bellows and expel the scram liquid from the scram accumulator to insert control rods into a core of the nuclear reactor.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Kenneth Allan Morgan, Filemon Tecson Cabrera, Randy Morris Brown
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Publication number: 20170184244Abstract: A reactor pressure vessel includes a reactor pressure vessel body, a nozzle structure connected to the reactor pressure vessel body, a conduit structure connected to the nozzle structure, and a restraint device attached around a portion of the conduit structure. The restraint device includes collar parts that have cross sections corresponding to respective segments of a periphery of the portion of the conduit structure, brackets attached to the nozzle structure, and rods connecting the brackets to the collar parts. The collar parts are connected end-to-end to each other such that a cross section of the collar parts connected to each other corresponds to the periphery of the portion of the conduit structure. The collar parts are pinned to each other. The brackets spaced apart from each other around a periphery of the nozzle structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2015Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy Americas LLCInventors: Joel Patrick Melito, Gerald Alan Deaver, Randy Morris Brown, Lorne Eugene Nix
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Publication number: 20160358676Abstract: A method of shutting down a nuclear reactor may include compressing a scram gas that is in fluid communication with a scram accumulator. The scram accumulator defines a chamber therein and contains bellows within the chamber. The bellows are configured to hold a scram liquid in isolation of the scram gas. The scram gas exerts a compressive force on the bellows in a form of stored energy. The method may additionally include releasing the stored energy in response to a scram signal such that the scram gas expands into the chamber of the scram accumulator to compress the bellows and expel the scram liquid from the scram accumulator to insert control rods into a core of the nuclear reactor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2014Publication date: December 8, 2016Applicant: GE-HITACHI NUCLEAR ENERGY AMERICAS LLCInventors: Kenneth Allan MORGAN, Filemon Tecson CABRERA, Randy Morris BROWN
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Publication number: 20160347508Abstract: A bag or package which can separate and retain fines or particles filtered from the contents of the bag or package is disclosed. The bag or package may be dual-layered. The inner layer, or second layer, may include one or more grates, holes, mesh portions, openings, perforations, or slits disposed in one or more surfaces of the second layer. The openings can filter fines or particles from the contents of the second layer into a gap or pocket formed between a portion of the inner layer and the outer layer, or first layer. Alternatively, the bag or package may be single layered and include a septum in its interior. The septum can have one or more openings that filter fines or particles from the contents of the bag into a gap or pocket.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2015Publication date: December 1, 2016Inventors: Cory VanLoocke, S. Cory Blanton, Morris Brown, Lani Craddock, Kara DeBorde, Barry Grant, Dave Long
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Patent number: 8832430Abstract: A system for managing security certificates on a plurality of remote computers comprises a certificate manager that can determine in accordance with at least one preestablished criterion whether a security certificate on a remote computer is to be managed. The system also includes an installer module that can access an account of the remote computer to manage the security certificate. Methods of using the system are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: September 9, 2014Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adam E. Zilinskas, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, S. Morris Brown
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Publication number: 20130332865Abstract: A user interface that includes an activity initiation area that includes an activity initiation control that may be interacted with in order to initiate respective activities, and a notification area in which one or more notifications related to the activity may be displayed. The notification area is spatially related to the activity initiation control in a fixed manner for multiple activities. The activity initiation area may appear along a lower boundary of the display much as a partially pulled out drawer as viewed from above. The notification area may also appear along the lower boundary of the display, but extend further vertically, much as a fully pulled out drawer as viewed from above. This helps give a contextual understanding of the subject matter of the notifications in relation to the activities that have been, or may be, initiated from the activity initiation area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: December 12, 2013Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Stephen Michael Danton, Jonah B. Sterling, Michael Bach, Jefferson King, Jesse David Francisco, Adam Mohamed Abdelhamed, Mark S. D'Urso, Jonathan Harris, Karandeep Singh Anand, Bharat Ahluwalia, S. Morris Brown, William J. Staples, Dina-Marie Ledonne Supino
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Publication number: 20110066848Abstract: A system for managing security certificates on a plurality of remote computers comprises a certificate manager that can determine in accordance with at least one preestablished criterion whether a security certificate on a remote computer is to be managed. The system also includes an installer module that can access an account of the remote computer to manage the security certificate. Methods of using the system are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2010Publication date: March 17, 2011Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATIONInventors: Adam E. Zilinskas, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, S. Morris Brown
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Patent number: 7809940Abstract: A system for managing security certificates on a plurality of remote computers comprises a certificate manager that can determine in accordance with at least one preestablished criterion whether a security certificate on a remote computer is to be managed. The system also includes an installer module that can access an account of the remote computer to manage the security certificate. Methods of using the system are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: October 5, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Adam E. Zilinskas, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, S. Morris Brown
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Patent number: 7730183Abstract: A system and method for generating and/or managing virtual network(s) is provided. The system provides an interface for end-user(s) to create a virtual network (e.g., on-demand). The virtual network comprises a plurality of servers that allow the user to, for example, develop and/or test software, migrate applications, apply tasks and/or troubleshoot scenarios in a simulated, distributed environment. A user can communicate with the system via an interface (e.g., web-based) to create and/or manage the virtual network. Additionally, the system can employ a common infrastructure to facilitate creation and/or management of a variety of virtual deployment configurations. The common infrastructure can be designed, for example, by administrator(s) having knowledge of hardware and/or software available for employment within the virtual network. The system can further provide a load-balancing mechanism to determine and/or distribute workload to computer(s) with available resource(s).Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2005Date of Patent: June 1, 2010Assignee: Microsoft CorporationInventors: S. Morris Brown, Adam E. Zilinskas, Danny Huang, Erwin C. Abinion, Laura Delhy Machado de Wright, Randall J. Feigner
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Patent number: 7605200Abstract: A scintillating composition for detecting neutrons and other radiation comprises a phenyl containing silicone rubber with carborane units and at least one phosphor molecule. The carborane units can either be a carborane molecule dispersed in the rubber with the aid of a compatiblization agent or can be covalently bound to the silicone.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2006Date of Patent: October 20, 2009Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLCInventors: Zane William Bell, Gilbert Morris Brown, Leon Maya, Frederick Victor Sloop, Jr.
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Publication number: 20090236530Abstract: A scintillating composition for detecting neutrons and other radiation comprises a phenyl containing silicone rubber with carborane units and at least one phosphor molecule. The carborane units can either be a carborane molecule dispersed in the rubber with the aid of a compatiblization agent or can be covalently bound to the silicone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2006Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Zane William Bell, Gilbert Morris Brown, Leon Maya, Frederick Victor Sloop, JR.
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Publication number: 20090044869Abstract: An irrigation valve box includes a body for shielding the valve, which forms an opening at the top, and a removable lid for fitting into the opening formed by the body. Access to the valve is normally gained by removing the lid. Metal is associated with the valve box for the purpose of being detected by a metal detector. In one arrangement the metal forms a plate which fits into the removable lid. In an arrangement especially suited for a larger or commercial valve box, the metal forms a metal ring which fits into the removable lid. In yet another arrangement, the lid comprises molded plastic or molded rubber and the metal is molded into the lid. In one such an arrangement, the metal forms a wire mesh.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Wayne Brown, Morris A. Brown
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Patent number: PP19974Abstract: A hybrid Bermudagrass cultivar, named ‘Emerald Dwarf,’ is distinguished by greater rhizome development and rooting depth in conjunction with low surface stolon development. The cultivar is especially suited to golf greens.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2007Date of Patent: May 5, 2009Assignee: Coastal Turf, Inc.Inventors: Richard Morris Brown, Michael Andrew Brown, Scott Derek Brown
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Patent number: D393307Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 1996Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Inventors: Betty Carolyn Golston, Morris Brown