Patents by Inventor Nathan Davies
Nathan Davies 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: 12122284Abstract: A vehicle for delivering packages, comprising a tractor comprising a motor, a pair of front wheels, a rear wheel, and a rail between the pair of front wheels and the rear wheel, and a removable container comprising a space for storing packages where a bottom of the container is configured to fit over and mount to the rail.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 12091294Abstract: A line tensioner is disclosed. A winch has a winch drum with at least one groove over which a line is passed. The winch has a line tensioner assembly with a stationary cam surface and a plurality of line tensioners rotating with the winch drum. Each has a line gripping portion and a cam follower. The line gripping portion is brought into and out of contact with the line as the cam follower rides along at least a portion of the cam surface.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Michael Hall, David R. Hall, Michael Shinedling, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 12077087Abstract: A system for delivering packages from a warehouse to end destinations, the system comprising a fleet of self-propelled long-range transports and a fleet of containers, each configured to be loaded at the warehouse with packages destined for end destinations. Each long-range transport is configured to be loaded with at least four of the loaded containers and transport the at least four of the loaded containers from the warehouse to one or more intermediate destinations. Upon arrival of one of the loaded long-range transports at one of the one or more intermediate destinations, at least one of the loaded containers is separated from the loaded long-range transport, whereupon the separated container delivers packages to end destinations proximate to the one of the one or more intermediate destinations. After delivery of at least some of the packages loaded thereon at the warehouse, the container is once again loaded on the long-range transport and returned to the warehouse to be loaded with more packages.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 12030000Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for separating solids from liquids are disclosed. A vessel includes an inlet, a carrier liquid outlet, a product outlet, a purifying section, and a heater. The inlet directs a slurry into the purifying section. The slurry comprises particles of a solid and a carrier liquid. The purifying section preferentially drives the particles of the solid towards a heating zone of the purifying section versus the carrier liquid. This displaces a first portion of the carrier liquid away from the heating zone of the purifying section. The heater heats the slurry. The carrier liquid outlet drives a majority of the carrier liquid out of the vessel. The product outlet is adjacent to the heating zone of the purifying section.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: Sustainable Energy Solutions, LLCInventors: Larry Baxter, David Frankman, Skyler Chamberlain, Kyler Stitt, Christopher Hoeger, Eric Mansfield, Andrew Baxter, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 12024409Abstract: A winch drum is disclosed. In a first aspect, a first set of teeth are positioned around an outer perimeter of a drum. The first set of teeth taper from a first crown to a first base. A second set of teeth are positioned around the outer perimeter of the drum. The second set of teeth taper from a second crown to a second base. The second set of teeth are offset from the first set of teeth such that a gap between the first bases and the second bases forms a sinusoidal channel for a line to follow the first set of teeth and the second set of teeth becomes a guide for the line so that the line can engage the sinusoidal channel. The line follows the sinusoidal channel and each change of direction along the sinusoidal path causes the line to engage by friction with the first bases and the second bases. In a second aspect, the drum includes a trough that follows a sinusoidal path and wherein the trough is narrower at its bottom than at its top.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Michael Hall, David R. Hall, Michael Shinedling, Chandler Flinders, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 11873240Abstract: Methods and systems for reducing an average particle size of blackwater solids is disclosed. A vessel is configured to receive a blackwater stream through a one-way inlet. The one-way inlet is configured to allow the blackwater stream into the vessel and prevent backflow. The blackwater stream contains blackwater solids and water. A device in a bottom portion of the vessel is configured to receive the blackwater and comminute the blackwater solids. A recirculating pump is configured to recirculate the blackwater stream under pressure through the device until the average particle size of the blackwater solids is reduced below a size threshold, resulting in a sized blackwater stream.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: David Hall, Michael Hall, Cody Rees, Thomas Corie, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 11803807Abstract: A fleet for delivering packages comprising a first number of containers, each container comprising at least one compartment for receiving packages at a main distribution center. The container comprises a first attachment member on an outer surface and a second attachment member on an outer surface. The fleet comprises a second number of long-range transports, each long-range transport is configured to carry multiple containers from the main distribution center to an intermediate distribution center, each long-range transport comprising multiple first attachment receivers, whereby the multiple containers are attached to the long-range transports during transport from the main distribution center to the intermediate distribution center.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 11584660Abstract: Systems and methods for disposing of blackwater are disclosed. A first vessel contains a screw running through the vessel from a first end to a second end. The screw is surrounded radially by a filter. The first vessel has a blackwater inlet adjacent the first end. An extrusion plate is adjacent the second end of the first vessel. A combustor vessel is configured to receive a solids component from the extrusion plate. A blackwater stream, consisting of a liquid component and the solids component, is passed through the blackwater inlet into the first vessel, is conveyed by the screw from the first end to the second end, and is pressurized against the extrusion plate. The liquid component is thereby forced from the blackwater stream through the filter and the solids component is forced through the extrusion plate into the combustor. The combustor is configured to combust the solids component.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: David R. Hall, Michael Hall, Cody Rees, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 11547783Abstract: A blood filter device having an iron-chelating molecule, a haem-binding molecule and a haemoglobin-binding molecule bound to a support. Use of the device in a vessel containing blood, for example a blood bag or a flow line, removes haemolysis-derived components from the blood.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2015Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignees: IMPERIAL COLLEGE INNOVATIONS LIMITED, UCL BUSINESS LTDInventors: Alan Christopher Spivey, Gregory John Quinlan, Nathan Davies
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Publication number: 20220324684Abstract: A winch drum is disclosed. In a first aspect, a first set of teeth are positioned around an outer perimeter of a drum. The first set of teeth taper from a first crown to a first base. A second set of teeth are positioned around the outer perimeter of the drum. The second set of teeth taper from a second crown to a second base. The second set of teeth are offset from the first set of teeth such that a gap between the first bases and the second bases forms a sinusoidal channel for a line to follow the first set of teeth and the second set of teeth becomes a guide for the line so that the line can engage the sinusoidal channel. The line follows the sinusoidal channel and each change of direction along the sinusoidal path causes the line to engage by friction with the first bases and the second bases. In a second aspect, the drum includes a trough that follows a sinusoidal path and wherein the trough is narrower at its bottom than at its top.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Michael Hall, David R. Hall, Michael Shinedling, Chandler Flinders, Nathan Davis
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Publication number: 20220324683Abstract: A line tensioner is disclosed. A winch has a winch drum with at least one groove over which a line is passed. The winch has a line tensioner assembly with a stationary cam surface and a plurality of line tensioners rotating with the winch drum. Each has a line gripping portion and a cam follower. The line gripping portion is brought into and out of contact with the line as the cam follower rides along at least a portion of the cam surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Michael Hall, David R. Hall, Michael Shinedling, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 11451567Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for providing a secure connection to a medical device for remote servicing of the medical device. In one embodiment, a computing device is in communication with a medical device, the computing device comprising non-transitory memory including executable instructions for: communicating with the medical device via a first protocol; and communicating with a remote computing device via an encrypted, second protocol. The computing device also includes a processor for executing said executable instructions.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2019Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLCInventors: William Barbiaux, Michael Walls, Nathan Davis
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Publication number: 20220090865Abstract: Methods and devices are disclosed for reacting and separating components. An elongated vessel has a microchannel heat pipe with a hollow space inside the microchannel heat pipe being surrounded by inner walls. A feed stream and a reactant stream are passed into the hollow space, the reactant reacting, resulting in a product stream. A first end of the microchannel heat pipe is heated and an opposite end of the microchannel heat pipe is cooled, producing a gas phase and a liquid phase in reflux. The liquid phase attaches to the inner walls via capillary forces and the vapor phase makes up the balance of the hollow space. The reflux separates components in the product stream, a first portion passing out of a first end of the heat pipe as a liquid stream and a second portion passing out of a second end of the heat pipe as a vapor stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Nathan Davis, Anthony C. Muscatello
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Publication number: 20220084340Abstract: A multi-use package receptacle for deliveries to and pickups from a home or business, the receptacle comprising a first compartment for receiving a package delivered from a delivery service and a second compartment for receiving an item to be picked up by a pickup service. An access control unit configured to lock and unlock the first and second compartments, wherein the access control unit grants access to both the first and second compartments to a user associated with the home or business, and the access control unit grants access to the first compartment to a verified delivery service and grants access to the second compartment to a verified pickup service.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Publication number: 20220079368Abstract: A container for delivering packages comprising a plurality of package storage modules, each module comprising an individually controlled access door on an external wall of the transport, wherein one or more packages are placed in at least some of the plurality of modules at a distribution point, wherein the container is configured to be transported to multiple delivery destinations, and wherein, upon arrival at each delivery destination, the appropriate access door receives a signal to allow access to the package intended for that delivery destination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Publication number: 20220084154Abstract: A system for delivering packages from a warehouse to end destinations, the system comprising a fleet of self-propelled long-range transports and a fleet of containers, each configured to be loaded at the warehouse with packages destined for end destinations. Each long-range transport is configured to be loaded with at least four of the loaded containers and transport the at least four of the loaded containers from the warehouse to one or more intermediate destinations. Upon arrival of one of the loaded long-range transports at one of the one or more intermediate destinations, at least one of the loaded containers is separated from the loaded long-range transport, whereupon the separated container delivers packages to end destinations proximate to the one of the one or more intermediate destinations. After delivery of at least some of the packages loaded thereon at the warehouse, the container is once again loaded on the long-range transport and returned to the warehouse to be loaded with more packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Publication number: 20220081230Abstract: A fleet for delivering packages comprising a first number of containers, each container comprising at least one compartment for receiving packages at a main distribution center. The container comprises a first attachment member on an outer surface and a second attachment member on an outer surface. The fleet comprises a second number of long-range transports, each long-range transport is configured to carry multiple containers from the main distribution center to an intermediate distribution center, each long-range transport comprising multiple first attachment receivers, whereby the multiple containers are attached to the long-range transports during transport from the main distribution center to the intermediate distribution center.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Publication number: 20220080875Abstract: A vehicle for delivering packages, comprising a tractor comprising a motor, a pair of front wheels, a rear wheel, and a rail between the pair of front wheels and the rear wheel, and a removable container comprising a space for storing packages where a bottom of the container is configured to fit over and mount to the rail.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2021Publication date: March 17, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Stephen Hall, David R. Hall, Jeff Duncan, Nathan Davis
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Publication number: 20220064041Abstract: Methods and system for treating blackwater are disclosed. A pyrolysis chamber and a condensing heat exchanger are provided. A blackwater slurry, consisting of blackwater solids, water, and volatiles, is passed into the pyrolysis chamber. The blackwater slurry is heated to produce steam, to separate at least a portion of the volatiles, and pyrolyze the blackwater solids, the separated volatiles passing out of the pyrolysis chamber. The steam and separated volatiles are cooled in a condensing heat exchanger, condensing at least a portion of the steam and at least a portion of the separated volatiles as a contaminated water stream. A water-clarifying chemical is added into the contaminated water stream that reacts with the volatiles, resulting in a treated water stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Hall Labs LLCInventors: Michael Hall, David R. Hall, Prabhakar Ramaraj, Carson Richards, Nathan Davis
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Patent number: 11173426Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed to separate solids from liquids. A vessel includes a screw, an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. The inlet receives a first slurry having an incoming solids concentration. The first slurry consists of solids and a contact liquid. The first outlet is disposed toward the first end of the vessel. The second outlet is disposed toward a second end of the vessel. The screw preferentially conveys the solids over the contact liquid towards the second end of the vessel, the solids displacing at least a portion of the contact liquid, causing that portion of the contact liquid to flow toward the first outlet. A melting device is included.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Sustainable Energy Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Larry Baxter, David Frankman, Skyler Chamberlain, Nathan Davis