Patents by Inventor PATRICK DEAN CUMMINS

PATRICK DEAN CUMMINS 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: 20210005341
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to a system for manipulating mass. The system can include one or more radiation emitting apparatuses and a material chamber that includes a material. The material can be caused to experience a centrifugal force according to a motion of the material chamber. While the material is experiencing the centrifugal force, the one or more radiation emitting apparatuses can cause the material to increase in temperature and experience an electromagnetic force. The combination of forces can affect properties of the material and/or any other materials that can be in direct and/or indirect contact with the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Patent number: 10856043
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating hardware generated video between two or more devices. The devices can operate to mimic chance interactions, or “stop-and-chats,” that normally occur when two or more persons are living together or otherwise in the same locations. For example, each computer or circuit can determine whether a person is proximate to the computer. If two persons that designate each other as connections are simultaneously proximate to their respective devices, a video hardware connection will be created between their computers. Furthermore, respective circuitry can be connected to a third device associated with a person who is proximate to their respective device and also indicated as a connection by both of the two persons who are already connected. A video hardware connection can disconnect when one person participating in the video is no longer proximate to their respective device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Cummins, Adam Ryan Moller
  • Publication number: 20200053316
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating hardware generated video between two or more devices. The devices can operate to mimic chance interactions, or “stop-and-chats,” that normally occur when two or more persons are living together or otherwise in the same locations. For example, each computer or circuit can determine whether a person is proximate to the computer. If two persons that designate each other as connections are simultaneously proximate to their respective devices, a video hardware connection will be created between their computers. Furthermore, respective circuitry can be connected to a third device associated with a person who is proximate to their respective device and also indicated as a connection by both of the two persons who are already connected. A video hardware connection can disconnect when one person participating in the video is no longer proximate to their respective device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Cummins, Adam Ryan Moller
  • Patent number: 10405038
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating hardware generated video between two or more devices. The devices can operate to mimic chance interactions, or “stop-and-chats,” that normally occur when two or more persons are living together or otherwise in the same locations. For example, each computer or circuit can determine whether a person is proximate to the computer. If two persons that designate each other as connections are simultaneously proximate to their respective devices, a video hardware connection will be created between their computers. Furthermore, respective circuitry can be connected to a third device associated with a person who is proximate to their respective device and also indicated as a connection by both of the two persons who are already connected. A video hardware connection can disconnect when one person participating in the video is no longer proximate to their respective device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Patent number: 10148151
    Abstract: This application relates to an electric piston for a vehicle. The electric piston can include magnetic device configured to repel and attract each other in order to force a crankshaft of a vehicle to rotate and propel the vehicle. The electric piston can receive an oscillating current or voltage signal from a control system of the vehicle in order to realize the motion of the electric piston. The control system can modify the shape of the oscillating signal in order to improve energy consumption of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Publication number: 20180063582
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating hardware generated video between two or more devices. The devices can operate to mimic chance interactions, or “stop-and-chats,” that normally occur when two or more persons are living together or otherwise in the same locations. For example, each computer or circuit can determine whether a person is proximate to the computer. If two persons that designate each other as connections are simultaneously proximate to their respective devices, a video hardware connection will be created between their computers. Furthermore, respective circuitry can be connected to a third device associated with a person who is proximate to their respective device and also indicated as a connection by both of the two persons who are already connected. A video hardware connection can disconnect when one person participating in the video is no longer proximate to their respective device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Patent number: 9874288
    Abstract: An apparatus for allowing the repetitive oscillation of pressure in a container or vessel having a finite volume. The apparatus comprises a valve having first opening, a valve enclosure having a second opening, and a first tension device. In some embodiments the apparatus can have a chamber capable of oscillating in volume. The oscillation of the chamber volume causes a decrease in the pressure of the container. As the pressure of the space or container decreases, two openings of the apparatus become more proximate. Eventually the openings partially overlap, allowing a gas, or fluid, to enter the container, increasing pressure of the space or container. As a result of the pressure increase, the first opening and second opening become less proximate by a force of the first tension device. The apparatus can allow the container to approach substantially perfect vacuum and rise toward atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Publication number: 20160308421
    Abstract: This application relates to an electric piston for a vehicle. The electric piston can include magnetic device configured to repel and attract each other in order to force a crankshaft of a vehicle to rotate and propel the vehicle. The electric piston can receive an oscillating current or voltage signal from a control system of the vehicle in order to realize the motion of the electric piston. The control system can modify the shape of the oscillating signal in order to improve energy consumption of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Publication number: 20150247590
    Abstract: An apparatus for allowing the repetitive oscillation of pressure in a container or vessel having a finite volume. The apparatus comprises a valve having first opening, a valve enclosure having a second opening, and a first tension device. In some embodiments the apparatus can have a chamber capable of oscillating in volume. The oscillation of the chamber volume causes a decrease in the pressure of the container. As the pressure of the space or container decreases, two openings of the apparatus become more proximate. Eventually the openings partially overlap, allowing a gas, or fluid, to enter the container, increasing pressure of the space or container. As a result of the pressure increase, the first opening and second opening become less proximate by a force of the first tension device. The apparatus can allow the container to approach substantially perfect vacuum and rise toward atmospheric pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Inventor: PATRICK DEAN CUMMINS