Patents by Inventor Nicholas Harvey
Nicholas Harvey 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: 20240079890Abstract: A battery charging system includes a charging rack comprising multiple receptacle, multiple battery assemblies. Each of the battery assemblies includes a housing having a handle, rechargeable battery cells disposed within the housing, and a mating feature protruding away from the housing, wherein the mating feature is configured to selectively connect the battery assembly with the receptacle of the charging rack and includes multiple ports electrically connected to the battery cells and configured receive power from the charging rack to charge the battery cells, and wherein the handle comprises a release button configured to selectively disengage the battery assembly from the receptacle of the charging rack.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Briggs & Stratton, LLCInventors: Jeffrey Zeiler, Christopher Krajewski, Kyle Harvey, Ryan S. Jaskowiak, Nicholas Zeidler, Mark Noller, Todd Johnson
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Publication number: 20230190063Abstract: A surface cleaning apparatus includes a base assembly with a suction nozzle and at least one wheel. A hand-held portion has a hand grip, a recovery container, and a suction source in fluid communication with the suction nozzle and the recovery container and configured for generating a working airstream. A wand is operably coupled between the base assembly and the hand-held portion and defines at least a portion of a working air path extending from the suction nozzle to an air outlet in the hand-held portion and including the suction source.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Mackenzie Leigh Knapp, Brian Robert Dexter, Tyler Newkirk, Churu Yun, Connor Canavan, Nicholas Harvey Jobbitt
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Patent number: 11397278Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a numerical age for new geological events within a new scheme by ordering relations between geological events within a new scheme and/or within a new scheme and a preexisting scheme into a preferred hierarchy, dynamically excluding lower relations in the preferred hierarchy that conflict with higher relations due to irreconcilable ages of the relations, and using the ordered relations remaining in the preferred hierarchy to determine a numerical age for the new geological events within the new scheme.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 26, 2022Assignee: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Nicholas Scott Tiedemann, Nicholas Alan Matthies, Rachel Bernadette Zaborski, Edward Patrick Ellwyn Collins, Richard James Martin, Loring Nicholas Harvey, Kieran Bowen
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Patent number: 10909248Abstract: A secure boot mechanism is described. The secure boot mechanism can operate in environments not originally designed to support such a mechanism. Downstream boot components can be executed from an encrypted boot partition. A first stage boot loader (FSBL) can load a second stage boot loader (SSBL) from an encrypted disk partition. The FSBL can decrypt and load the SSBL. The FSBL can intercept all I/O initiated by the SSBL so that the SSBL can transparently operate on an encrypted disk partition as though the encrypted disk were unencrypted.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2017Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael Eugene Brasher, Nicholas Harvey Meier
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Publication number: 20200326455Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a numerical age for new geological events within a new scheme by ordering relations between geological events within a new scheme and/or within a new scheme and a preexisting scheme into a preferred hierarchy, dynamically excluding lower relations in the preferred hierarchy that conflict with higher relations due to irreconcilable ages of the relations, and using the ordered relations remaining in the preferred hierarchy to determine a numerical age for the new geological events within the new scheme.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: LANDMARK GRAPHICS CORPORATIONInventors: Nicholas Scott TIEDEMANN, Nicholas Alan MATTHIES, Rachel Bernadette ZABORSKI, Edward Patrick Ellwyn COLLINS, Richard James MARTIN, Loring Nicholas HARVEY, Kieran BOWEN
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Patent number: 10520367Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein for alerting customers to product temperature compliance during delivery whereby a retail product intended to be maintained below one or more temperature threshold values through a supply chain delivery process is identified, a temperature threshold value of the retail product is determined, an irreversible thermochromic indicator having an activation temperature that corresponds to the temperature threshold value of the retail product is identified, the thermochromic indicator is affixed to the retail product prior to commencing the supply chain delivery process, and verification, via a user interface, is obtained from a customer receiving the retail product that the thermochromic indicator is in its inactivated state.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 31, 2019Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLCInventor: Robert Nicholas Harvey
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Publication number: 20190043059Abstract: In one aspect of specific embodiments, methods are provided for monitoring a supply chain, including detection of the gray market, stolen, or counterfeit goods. In another aspect of specific embodiments, methods are provided for determining an authenticity of goods during a payment process, and reporting authenticity results to an actor in the payment process to allow that actor to determine whether to complete or cancel the process. In some embodiments, at least one of an open key, hidden key, authentication request counter, and optionally, authentication request timer are associated in an authentication database with an item in an authentication server.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2015Publication date: February 7, 2019Inventors: Bin Xie, Paul Borchardt, Yuqi Wang, Charles Walter, Nicholas Harvey, Kieran McCarthy, John Aynsley
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Publication number: 20190005244Abstract: A secure boot mechanism is described. The secure boot mechanism can operate in environments not originally designed to support such a mechanism. Downstream boot components can be executed from an encrypted boot partition. A first stage boot loader (FSBL) can load a second stage boot loader (SSBL) from an encrypted disk partition. The FSBL can decrypt and load the SSBL. The FSBL can intercept all I/O initiated by the SSBL so that the SSBL can transparently operate on an encrypted disk partition as though the encrypted disk were unencrypted.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2017Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: Michael Eugene BRASHER, Nicholas Harvey MEIER
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Publication number: 20170363479Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods are provided herein for alerting customers to product temperature compliance during delivery whereby a retail product intended to be maintained below one or more temperature threshold values through a supply chain delivery process is identified, a temperature threshold value of the retail product is determined, an irreversible thermochromic indicator having an activation temperature that corresponds to the temperature threshold value of the retail product is identified, the thermochromic indicator is affixed to the retail product prior to commencing the supply chain delivery process, and verification, via a user interface, is obtained from a customer receiving the retail product that the thermochromic indicator is in its inactivated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2017Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventor: Robert Nicholas Harvey
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Patent number: 9810339Abstract: A thermal relief valve, comprising a housing having a channel, a first aperture, and a second aperture, wherein the first aperture and the second aperture are arranged symmetrically about a central axis, an actuator within the housing arranged about the axis, a first seal secured to the actuator, the first seal comprising a plurality of apertures, and having a first upwardly facing surface, and a second downwardly facing surface, a first spring arranged between the second surface of the first seal and the housing component, a second seal comprising a first upwardly facing surface and a second downwardly facing surface, the first surface of the second seal positioned on the second surface of the first seal and, a second spring arranged between the second surface of the second seal and the housing, wherein the first seal and the second seal are axially movable by the actuator along the central axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 7, 2017Assignee: Oetiker NY, Inc.Inventors: James Anthony Kujawski, Jr., Nicholas Harvey Ihle
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Publication number: 20160230901Abstract: A thermal relief valve, comprising a housing having a channel, a first aperture, and a second aperture, wherein the first aperture and the second aperture are arranged symmetrically about a central axis, an actuator within the housing arranged about the axis, a first seal secured to the actuator, the first seal comprising a plurality of apertures, and having a first upwardly facing surface, and a second downwardly facing surface, a first spring arranged between the second surface of the first seal and the housing component, a second seal comprising a first upwardly facing surface and a second downwardly facing surface, the first surface of the second seal positioned on the second surface of the first seal and, a second spring arranged between the second surface of the second seal and the housing, wherein the first seal and the second seal are axially movable by the actuator along the central axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: James Anthony Kujawski, JR., Nicholas Harvey Ihle
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Publication number: 20050256879Abstract: A method for designating communication paths in a computer network is provided, in which communication paths are designated for the transmission of data throughout a network. The network may have both recipient computers, which are the intended recipients of the data, and intermediary computers, which are not the intended recipients, but merely relay the data. Each intermediary computer is grouped with the “closest” recipient computer (i.e. the recipient computer with whom it is “least expensive” to communicate). Communication paths between the resulting groups are then identified. A representation of the network is then created. The representation replaces the intermediary computers with the inter-group communication paths, so that the inter-group communication paths appear to pass directly through the locations occupied by the intermediary computers. The created representation is then further processed so that the “least expensive” communication paths may be designated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2005Publication date: November 17, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Parham, Mark Brown, William Lees, Van Vu, Laszlo Lovasz, Nicholas Harvey, Katalin Vesztergombi
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Publication number: 20050083834Abstract: A guaranteed distributed failure notification method is described, wherein a failure notification (FN) facility allows applications using the facility to create FN groups to which the application associates an application state. The application registers failure handlers with the FN facility on nodes in the FN group; each failure handler is associated with a specific FN group. When, on a given node, the FN facility learns of a failure in the FN group, the facility executes the associated failure handler on that node. System failures detected by the application are signaled to other FN group members using the facility. The facility detects system failures that occur in an overlay network on which the facility is implemented, and signals a failure notification to the other FN group members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: April 21, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Dunagan, Nicholas Harvey, Michael Jones, Dejan Kostic, Marvin Theimer, Alastair Wolman
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Publication number: 20050086469Abstract: A scalable, fault-tolerant, federated event notification method is described, wherein clients express interest in a topic by subscribing, and published event notifications are delivered to all current topic-subscribers. Event notifications are disseminated by a multicast tree that does not require participation by unwilling nodes. The multicast tree is constructed so that nodes belonging to the organization owning the tree do not rely on nodes outside the organization to forward message traffic. Event notifications are delivered using redundant tree-based application-level multicast to ensure reliable delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2003Publication date: April 21, 2005Applicant: Microsoft CorporationInventors: John Dunagan, Nicholas Harvey, Michael Jones, Marvin Theimer, Alastair Wolman