Patents by Inventor Patrick Nolan

Patrick Nolan 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).

  • Interlocking decorative trim system
    Patent number: 8375660
    Abstract: An interlocking decorative trim system has a backing strip and a cover strip interlocked together. The backing strip has a top, a bottom, a back face, a front face, a tongue extending from the top, and a projection adjacent the bottom and extending away from the front face. The front face has a recess and the projection has a slot. The cover strip has a top, a bottom, a front face, a back face, a tab extending from the bottom, and a second projection adjacent the top and extending away from the front face. The back face has a recess and the second projection has a groove. The tongue of the backing strip fits inside the groove of the cover strip and the tab of the cover strip fits into the slot of the backing strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Water barrier trim
    Patent number: 8347567
    Abstract: A water barrier trim has a base, a top flange, and an overhang section. The base has at least one ridge extending away from the base in a first direction and a projection extending in the first direction. The top flange section is positionable adjacent to the base. The overhang section is positionable adjacent to the base and defines a drip cap. The at least one ridge is sized and configured to rest on a top of a trim board. The projection is sized and configured to fit into a slot defined in the top of the trim board to provide an interference connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2013
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • RECORDING LAYER FOR HEAT ASSISTED MAGNETIC RECORDING
    Publication number: 20130004796
    Abstract: A magnetic stack includes multiple granular layers, at least one of the multiple granular layers is a magnetic layer that includes exchange coupled magnetic grains separated by a segregant having Ms greater than 100 emu/cc. Each of the multiple granular layers have anisotropic thermal conductivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Yingguo Peng, Jan-Ulrich Thiele, Ganping Ju, Thomas Patrick Nolan, Yinfeng Ding, Alexander Qihong Wu
  • Recording layer and multilayered soft underlayer
    Patent number: 8338005
    Abstract: A media for perpendicular recording and a method of creating the media is provided. The media includes a hard recording layer and a soft underlayer (SUL). The SUL is composed of at least two anti-ferromagnetically coupled (AFC) sub-underlayers. The sub-underlayers respond to a magnetic field established during dynamic reversal with respective magnetic fields. The sub-underlayers are formed and disposed to differ in one or more magnetic moment, anisotropy, and thickness, so that their respective magnetic fields constructively interfere in one or more points in the hard recording layer, thereby reducing a total SUL magnetic field response to the dynamic reversal field approximately to zero at one or more points in the hard recording layer, which reduces side track erasure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Kaizhong Gao, Qixu Chen, Chung-Hee Chang, Thomas Patrick Nolan
  • Data versioning through data transformations
    Patent number: 8341193
    Abstract: In response to receiving a request for data stored according to a first version of a data type, a second version of the data type supported by the requester is determined, and the requested data is transformed from the first version to the second version to provide access to the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Jones, Umesh Madan, Sean Patrick Nolan, Daniel J. Young, Gaurav Kalmady
  • Multiple entity authorization model
    Patent number: 8327456
    Abstract: An authorization framework is provided that protects data records in a platform, such as a service-based platform, by requiring multiple level entities to be authorized with respect to the data records. For example, the data records can have an associated owner user that can grant access to other users with respect to the data. Additionally, however, the user can also grant access to certain applications that access the platform such that the data records can be initially closed for a user requiring the user to explicitly grant desired access to applications and/or users. In this regard, applications can be forbidden from accessing the data, even on behalf of the user, unless expressly authorized to do so by the user. Thus, the user can make informed decisions regarding who is to have access to its data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dick Jones, Sean Patrick Nolan, Johnson T. Apacible, Vijay Varadan, Brian J. Guarraci, Christopher C. White
  • Perpendicular media with Cr-doped Fe-alloy containing soft underlayer (SUL)
    Patent number: 8313848
    Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a substrate, a Cr-doped Fe-alloy-containing underlayer containing about 8 to 18 at % Cr and a perpendicular recording magnetic layer, and a process for improving corrosion resistance of the recording medium and for manufacturing the recording medium are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Raj Nagappan Thangaraj, Mariana Rodica Munteanu, Erol Girt, Michael J. Stirniman, Thomas Patrick Nolan
  • Health integration platform protocol
    Patent number: 8316227
    Abstract: A protocol is provided for communicating data between two applications. The protocol can support communication of an extensible markup language (XML) document over hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) by associating the XML document with a data envelope and sending the data envelope to a disparate application. The data envelope can comprise a header, which can specify supported compression methods, encryption keys, and/or data specific to the disparate application and/or the sending application. The protocol adds a layer of security to the communication and can prevent malicious requests and other attacks. This protocol can also be used in conjunction with a health integration network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2012
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Sean Patrick Nolan, Johnson T. Apacible, Jeffrey Dick Jones, Cezary Marcjan
  • Universal Skirt Board
    Publication number: 20120174495
    Abstract: A universal skirt board has a base, a top flange section, an overhang section, and a sealing flange attached to the top flange section. The base has at least one ridge extending away from the base in a first direction, and a projection extending in the first direction. The top flange section is attached to the base. The overhang section is also attached to the base and defines a drip edge. The sealing flange is attached to the top flange section. The at least one ridge is formed to rest on a top of a base board. The projection is formed to fit into a slot defined in the top of the base board to provide an interference connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: AZEK BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Water Barrier Trim
    Publication number: 20120174496
    Abstract: A water barrier trim has a base, a top flange, and an overhang section. The base has at least one ridge extending away from the base in a first direction and a projection extending in the first direction. The top flange section is positionable adjacent to the base. The overhang section is positionable adjacent to the base and defines a drip cap. The at least one ridge is sized and configured to rest on a top of a trim board. The projection is sized and configured to fit into a slot defined in the top of the trim board to provide an interference connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: AZEK BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Interlocking Decorative Trim System
    Publication number: 20120174514
    Abstract: An interlocking decorative trim system has a backing strip and a cover strip interlocked together. The backing strip has a top, a bottom, a back face, a front face, a tongue extending from the top, and a projection adjacent the bottom and extending away from the front face. The front face has a recess and the projection has a slot. The cover strip has a top, a bottom, a front face, a back face, a tab extending from the bottom, and a second projection adjacent the top and extending away from the front face. The back face has a recess and the second projection has a groove. The tongue of the backing strip fits inside the groove of the cover strip and the tab of the cover strip fits into the slot of the backing strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: AZEK BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Perpendicular media with dual soft magnetic layers
    Patent number: 8147996
    Abstract: A recording medium having a substrate, a first soft magnetic underlayer, a second soft magnetic underlayer and a perpendicular magnetic recording layer without a spacer layer between the first and second soft magnetic underlayers is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Qixu Chen, Charles Frederick Brucker, Chung-Hee Chang, Thomas Patrick Nolan, Samuel Dacke Harkness, IV
  • Perpendicular Media with Cr-Doped Fe-Alloy Containing Soft Underlayer (SUL)
    Publication number: 20120070694
    Abstract: A perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a substrate, a Cr-doped Fe-alloy-containing underlayer containing about 8 to 18 at % Cr and a perpendicular recording magnetic layer, and a process for improving corrosion resistance of the recording medium and for manufacturing the recording medium are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2011
    Publication date: March 22, 2012
    Applicant: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Raj Nagappan Thangaraj, Mariana Rodica Munteanu, Erol Girt, Michael J. Stirniman, Thomas Patrick Nolan
  • Tuning exchange coupling in magnetic recording media
    Patent number: 8119263
    Abstract: A magnetic recording medium having a substrate, a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer, in this order, wherein an exchange coupling in the first magnetic layer is lower than an exchange coupling in the second magnetic layer, and the first and second magnetic layers are in a film stack so that magnetic grains in the first magnetic layer are exchange coupled by a pathway through the second magnetic layer is disclosed. A method of manufacturing a magnetic recording medium by obtaining a substrate, depositing a first magnetic layer at a first sputter gas pressure and depositing a second magnetic layer at a second sputter gas pressure, in this order, wherein the first sputter gas pressure is higher than the second sputter gas pressure, and an exchange coupling in the first magnetic layer is lower than an exchange coupling in the second magnetic layer is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Patrick Nolan, Samuel D. Harkness, IV
  • Paper roll dispenser
    Patent number: D674634
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2013
    Assignee: SCA Hygiene Products AB
    Inventors: Michael A. Dotsey, Patrick Nolan
  • Interlocking finish trim base
    Patent number: D679380
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Gori, Stephen Koytek, Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Universal skirt board
    Patent number: D679417
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Interlocking finish trim
    Patent number: D679419
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Gori, Stephen Koytek, Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Finish grade trim base
    Patent number: D679420
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey
  • Finish grade trim
    Patent number: D679421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2013
    Assignee: AZEK Building Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Nolan, Michael A. Dotsey