Patents by Inventor Nathan Andrews

Nathan Andrews 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: 20230008580
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system is disclosed for use in fabricating a structure. The additive manufacturing system may include a support, and an outlet configured to discharge a material. The outlet may be operatively connected to and moveable by the support in a normal travel direction during material discharge. The outlet may include a guide, and a compactor operatively connected to the guide at a trailing location relative to the normal travel direction. The compactor may be moveable in an axial direction of the guide. The outlet may also include at least one cure enhancer mounted to move with the compactor relative to the guide. The at least one cure enhancer may be configured to expose the material to a cure energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Applicant: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Andrew STRANBERG
  • Patent number: 11548220
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for additively manufacturing a composite structure. The method may include discharging a composite material from a print head and moving the print head during discharging to fabricate a preform from the composite material. The method may also include densifying the preform with a densifying material, and heating the preform to pyrolize the at least one of the composite material and the densifying material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler B. Alvarado, Brock Adam Jahner, Andrew John Overby, Jeremiah R. Smith, Ryan C. Stockett, Nathan Andrew Stranberg
  • Publication number: 20230001110
    Abstract: A personal vapor inhaling unit is disclosed. An electronic flameless vapor inhaler unit that may simulate a cigarette has a cavity that receives a cartridge in the distal end of the inhaler unit. The cartridge brings a substance to be vaporized in contact with a wick. When the unit is activated, and the user provides suction, the substance to be vaporized is drawn out of the cartridge, through the wick, and is atomized by the wick into a cavity containing a heating element. The heating element vaporizes the atomized substance. The vapors then continue to be pulled by the user through a mouthpiece and mouthpiece cover where they may be inhaled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Terry, Noah Mark Minskoff
  • Patent number: 11543364
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of automatically generating inspection templates of a plurality of known good fasteners to identify fasteners at an inspection station is provided. The method includes providing a data entry mechanism to provide content needed to identify a plurality of unidentified mixed fasteners. The method also includes storing the content in a database, extracting the content from the database and creating the inspection templates from the extracted content. Each of the templates including a fastener profile and a set of features. Each of the features includes a range of acceptable values. Each of the templates has a fastener identification code associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: General Inspection, LLC
    Inventors: Michael G. Nygaard, Nathan Andrew-Paul Kujacznski, Christopher Michael Alexander, Laura L. Poletti, Gregory M. Nygaard, James W. St. Onge
  • Patent number: 11541598
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for additively manufacturing a composite structure. The system may include a support, and a print head operatively connected to and moveable by the support. The print head may include a first supply configured to hold a liquid matrix, a second supply configured to hold a continuous reinforcement, and a wetting module configured to separately receive the liquid matrix and the continuous reinforcement from the first and second supplies, respectively, and to discharge a composite material including the continuous reinforcement wetted with the liquid matrix. The wetting module may include a body forming an internal chamber having an upstream open end and a downstream open end, an entrant nozzle disposed within the upstream open end and configured to receive the continuous reinforcement, and an exit nozzle disposed within the downstream closed end and configured to discharge the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor David Budge, Brock Adam Jahner, Jeremiah R. Smith, Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew Michael Stulc, Samuel VanDenBerg, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Andrew John Overby
  • Patent number: 11541603
    Abstract: A print head is disclosed for use in an additive manufacturing system. The print head may include an outlet configured to discharge a material, and a compacting device mounted to trail behind the outlet during movement of the print head in a normal direction. The print head may also include a spring configured to bias the compacting device against the material and to allow movement of the compacting device in a direction parallel with a discharge direction of the material through the outlet, and a locker configured to selectively lock a position of the compacting device relative to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Samuel VanDenBerg
  • Publication number: 20220410474
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for additively manufacturing a structure. The method may include discharging a composite material, including a reinforcement and a matrix, from a print head, and moving the print head during discharging to form the structure from the composite material. The method may further include exposing the composite material during discharging to a cure energy to trigger the matrix to harden, and selectively adding a filler to the composite material to cause the composite material to increase a temperature achieved when the composite material is exposed to the cure energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Andrew Stranberg
  • Patent number: 11530577
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a cutting head adapted to removably couple to a bit body of a drill bit assembly. The cutting head includes a leading cutting tip for cutting into earth and a trailing receiving portion for receiving a second end of the bit body in an internal cavity defined by the trailing receiving portion to allow the cutting head to be removably coupled to the second end of the bit body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ulterra Drilling Technologies, L.P.
    Inventor: Nathan Andrew Brooks
  • Patent number: 11524886
    Abstract: A cartridge and an associated beverage mixture dispensing system are disclosed. The cartridge is detachable from the associated beverage mixture dispensing system. The cartridge includes a casing and at least twenty ingredient reservoirs located within the casing and storing at least twenty respective ingredients. The cartridge also includes a dispensing interface for dispensing the at least twenty ingredients into the beverage mixture dispensing system. The at least twenty ingredient reservoirs include a first reservoir of a concentrated salt and a second reservoir of a concentrated food grade acid. The remaining ingredient reservoirs include additional concentrated ingredients. The beverage mixture dispensing system includes a solvent reservoir and a receiving interface for receiving the at least twenty ingredients from the cartridge. The beverage mixture dispensing system also includes a mixing area fluidly connected to the solvent reservoir and the at least twenty ingredient reservoirs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cana Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Lance Kizer, Gregory Allen Springer, Matthew Ambauen, Stephan Weidi Tai, Erik James Shahoian, David Friedberg, Andrés Ornelas Vargas, Simon Spence, Peter Delmenico, Andrew Christopher Jenkins, Nathan Andrew Ray
  • Patent number: 11518669
    Abstract: Systems and methods for sanitizing a fluid mixture dispensing system are disclosed. One system comprises at least one reservoir for storing a substance, a mixing area, and a controller. The controller is programmed to cause the system to execute a mixing cycle and a cleaning cycle. During the mixing cycle the substance is dispensed from the at least one reservoir to the mixing area to prepare an ingestible fluid mixture. During the cleaning cycle, the substance is dispensed from the at least one reservoir to the mixing area to sanitize the mixing area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Cana Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Ambauen, Gregory Allen Springer, Jeffery Lance Kizer, Stephan Weidi Tai, Erik James Shahoian, David Friedberg, Andrés Ornelas Vargas, Simon Spence, Peter Delmenico, Andrew Christopher Jenkins, Nathan Andrew Ray, Elijah S. Kashi, Dale Word, Nicholas D. Posner, Kristopher Bernardo Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 11514536
    Abstract: A disclosed computer-implemented method may include determining that a user of a social networking system is a participant in a dating service of the social networking system. The method may also include identifying a set of interest-based communities of the social networking system of which the user is a member and that include an activated community-based dating feature. The method may also include selecting a set of additional participants in the dating service. Each additional participant included in the set of additional participants may be an additional member of at least one interest-based community included in the set of interest-based communities. The method may also include presenting, within a dating interface of the social networking system, dating information associated with at least a portion of the set of additional participants. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Sharp, Xue Ding, Qiang Wang, Jordan Springstroh
  • Publication number: 20220371274
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system is disclosed for use in fabricating a structure. The additive manufacturing system may include a support, and a print head configured to discharge a material and being operatively connected to and moveable by the support in a normal travel direction during material discharge. The print head may include a module located at a trailing side of the discharging material relative to the normal travel direction and being configured to compact the material and expose the material to a cure energy at a tool center point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: CONTINUOUS COMPOSITES INC.
    Inventors: MARCUS RAYE VINCENT BRODIE, KYLE FRANK CUMMINGS, ANDREW MICHEAL STULC, NATHAN ANDREW STRANBERG, BROCK ADAM JAHNER, STEPHEN TYLER WILSON
  • Patent number: 11505443
    Abstract: A fluid mixture dispensing system using a membrane to seal multiple reservoirs is disclosed. The multiple reservoirs each contain a respective ingredient. The reservoirs are coupled to respective orifices in a plate. The respective ingredients are dispensable via the respective orifices. The membrane seals the respective orifices. The ingredients are dispensed into one or more channels formed between the membrane and the plate. In specific embodiments, the membrane is an integral part of a cartridge which contains the multiple reservoirs. In specific embodiments, the cartridge includes an inlet and an outlet. A solvent flows from the inlet to the outlet through the one or more channels, and the ingredients are dispensed into the solvent in the one or more channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Cana Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Springer, Jeffery Lance Kizer, Matthew Ambauen, Stephan Weidi Tai, Erik James Shahoian, David Friedberg, Andrés Ornelas Vargas, Simon Spence, Peter Delmenico, Andrew Christopher Jenkins, Nathan Andrew Ray, Kristopher Bernardo Dos Santos, Elijah S. Kashi, Andrew Scott Davies, Danilo Bueno
  • Patent number: 11492246
    Abstract: Ingredient dispensing systems and methods in a fluid mixture system using a monitored chamber pressure are disclosed. One system includes a chamber, an inlet to the chamber, a set of ingredient reservoirs, in the chamber, storing a respective set of ingredients and sealed by a respective set of valve, a pressure source, and a controller. The system is programmed to set a pressure of the chamber using the pressure source and the inlet to the chamber. The system is also programmed to dispense, using the pressure, at least two ingredients from the respective set of ingredients by actuating at least two valves from the respective set of valves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Cana Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Springer, Jeffery Lance Kizer, Matthew Ambauen, Stephan Weidi Tai, Erik James Shahoian, David Friedberg, Andrés Ornelas Vargas, Simon Spence, Peter Delmenico, Andrew Christopher Jenkins, Nathan Andrew Ray, Kristopher Bernardo Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 11492245
    Abstract: A fluid mixture dispensing system using a membrane to seal multiple reservoirs is disclosed. The multiple reservoirs each contain a respective ingredient. The reservoirs are coupled to respective orifices in a plate. The respective ingredients are dispensable via the respective orifices. The membrane seals the respective orifices. The ingredients are dispensed into one or more channels formed between the membrane and the plate. In specific embodiments, the membrane is an integral part of a cartridge which contains the multiple reservoirs. In specific embodiments, the cartridge includes an inlet and an outlet. A solvent flows from the inlet to the outlet through the one or more channels, and the ingredients are dispensed into the solvent in the one or more channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Cana Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Allen Springer, Jeffery Lance Kizer, Matthew Ambauen, Stephan Weidi Tai, Erik James Shahoian, David Friedberg, Andrés Ornelas Vargas, Simon Spence, Peter Delmenico, Andrew Christopher Jenkins, Nathan Andrew Ray, Kristopher Bernardo Dos Santos, Elijah S. Kashi, Andrew Scott Davies, Danilo Bueno
  • Patent number: 11485070
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing system is disclosed for use in fabricating a structure. The additive manufacturing system may include a support, and an outlet configured to discharge a material. The outlet may be operatively connected to and moveable by the support in a normal travel direction during material discharge. The outlet may include a guide, and a compactor operatively connected to the guide at a trailing location relative to the normal travel direction. The compactor may be moveable in an axial direction of the guide. The outlet may also include at least one cure enhancer mounted to move with the compactor relative to the guide. The at least one cure enhancer may be configured to expose the material to a cure energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventor: Nathan Andrew Stranberg
  • Publication number: 20220339874
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for use in additively manufacturing an object. The system may have a support and a first module operatively mounted to an end of the support and configured to discharge a material during motion of the support to form an object. The system may also have a second module configured to sever the material, at least a third module configured to at least one of compact or cure the material, and an actuator configured to cause movement of the second and the at least a third modules relative to the first module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew John Overby, Andrew Michael Stulc, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Ryan C. Stocket, Brock Adam Jahner
  • Publication number: 20220339872
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for additively manufacturing an object. The method may include extending a first module of a print head to push a tag end of material adjacent a second module during a feeding routine. The method may also include extending the second module to push against the tag end, and activating a third module to at least partially cure the tag end and thereby adhere the tag end as an anchor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Continous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew John Overby, Andrew Michael Stulc, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Ryan C. Stocket, Brock Adam Jahner, Christopher Losee
  • Publication number: 20220339866
    Abstract: A print head is disclosed for use in additively manufacturing an object. The print head may have a housing, and a wetting module configured to wet a reinforcement with a liquid matrix. The print head may also include a matrix supply configured to hold a quantity of the liquid matrix and supply the liquid matrix to the wetting module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew John Overby, Andrew Michael Stulc, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Ryan C. Stocket, Brock Adam Jahner
  • Publication number: 20220339871
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for use in additively manufacturing an object. The system may have a reinforcement supply, a matrix supply, and a wetting module configured to separately receive reinforcement from the reinforcement supply and matrix from the matrix supply and to discharge the reinforcement wetted with the matrix. The wetting module may include a body forming an enclosure and having an inlet end configured to receive the reinforcement and an outlet end configured to discharge the reinforcement wetted with the matrix. The wetting module may also include a plurality of nozzles dividing the enclosure into at least a wetting chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Applicant: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew John Overby, Andrew Michael Stulc, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Ryan C. Stocket, Brock Adam Jahner