Patents by Inventor Paul Howard
Paul Howard 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: 11978931Abstract: Molten carbonate fuel cell configurations are provided that allow for introduction of an anode input gas flow on a side of the fuel cell that is adjacent to the entry side for the cathode input gas flow while allowing the anode and cathode to operate under co-current flow and/or counter-current flow conditions. It has been discovered that improved flow properties can be achieved within the anode or cathode during co-current flow or counter-current flow operation by diverting the input flow for the anode or cathode into an extended edge seal region (in an extended edge seal chamber) adjacent to the active area of the anode or cathode, and then using a baffle to provide sufficient pressure drop for even flow distribution of the anode input flow across the anode or cathode input flow across the cathode.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: ExxonMobil Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Christopher Howard, Brandon J. O'Neill, Paul J. Rubas, Frank Hershkowitz, Lu Han, Lawrence J. Novacco, Frank J. Dobek, Jr., Keith E. Davis, Brian Bullecks
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Publication number: 20240137116Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive resource allocation information associated with an uplink physical control channel, wherein the uplink physical control channel and a physical uplink shared channel have different resources. The UE is configured to send data over the physical uplink shared channel in assigned time intervals. The UE is further configured to, in a time interval that it is not sending information over the physical uplink shared channel, to send a signal over the uplink physical control channel based on the received resource allocation information, wherein the UE is further configured to transmit the signal over the uplink physical control channel between transmissions of data over the physical uplink shared channels within a frame. The UE is configured to receive feedback information from a downlink control channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Intellectual Ventures II LLCInventor: Paul Howard
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Patent number: 11965479Abstract: A rotor lock assembly for locking a rotor of a wind turbine. The rotor lock assembly has at least one relocatable rotor lock. The relocatable rotor lock has a housing, a bushing element, a pin shaft position within the bushing element, and a locking mechanism. The housing includes a mounting portion adapted for mounting to a bearing housing adjacent to a rotor lock plate of the rotor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLCInventors: Brian William Manikas, Paul Howard Davidson, Michael Frederick Sander, Jacob Thomas Hoyt, Jason James Welsh, Kevin L Holmes
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Patent number: 11946503Abstract: A connector is provided to attach a supported member to a supporting member, with the supported member being in sloped and skewed relation to the supporting member. The connector has back members attached to side members. A seat member attaches to the side members through a hinged connection. The seat member interfaces with the bottom face of the supported member and can be disposed at a sloped angle. A pair of seat side members extend from the seat member.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.Inventors: Thomas G. Evans, Dustin P. Muhn, Rachel Marie Holland, Benedict Ang, Paul Howard Oellerich, James M. Benton, Timothy Patrick Murphy
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Patent number: 11922434Abstract: Systems, methods and software merge a Virtual World, Live Event and Entertainment Channel, thus creating “The Perfect Storm” of gaming and entertainment whereby the characters of a social network game (e.g., an online fantasy sports league) are represented by human beings who register to be avatars of characters supported by a “Character Service Center,” while players compete to bring avatars to life in a Real World event (e.g., a Real World sports league), where the human beings behind the avatars compete for prizes while staying in character, as these competitors and players are incentivized by a “Collaboration Incentive Platform.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MWE Live, LLCInventors: Kenneth Lloyd Tayloe, Paul Howard Glass, David Eugene Williamson, Jr., Jordan William Snider
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Publication number: 20240070672Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for detecting actionable transaction risks. The method includes grouping an inbound event related to a transaction with a target event group and determining an actionable group of events that are deemed high risk and a non-actionable group of non-actionable events that are deemed low risk. The method also includes evaluating the target event group relative to the actionable and non-actionable groups of events. This includes computing a first distance between the target event group and the non-actionable group and a second distance between the target event group and actionable group. The first distance is compared with the second distance to determine if the target event group, including the inbound event, is closer to the actionable group or to the nonactionable group.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: John Mariano, Victor Christian, Christopher Janes, David Ferris, Paul Howard, Christopher Baril
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Patent number: 11898662Abstract: A hose assembly includes an inner hose component, a first braid of reinforcement fiber material that extends around the inner hose component, and a second braid of reinforcement fiber material that extends around the first braid. The first braid and the second braid each has a 3 over 3 braid design, and the first braid has a first modulus and the second braid has a second modulus different from the first modulus. The first braid may be a high strength braid having a strength greater than a strength of the second braid, and the second braid may be a high modulus braid having a modulus greater than a modulus of the first braid. The hose assembly optionally may have a third braid with a high angle configuration of the braid segments. The hose assembly may be combined with an enhanced fitting for securing the hose assembly to fluid system equipment.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Parker-Hannifin CorporationInventors: Steven Morgan Powell, Ty Anthony Henry, Paul Howard Webster, Gerald Kuzmiak
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Patent number: 11870545Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a control message over a physical control channel in a first of a plurality of time slots, wherein the control message has power control bits for a plurality of UEs. Further, the first of the plurality of time slots has a second downlink physical control channel and a downlink physical shared channel. The UE is further configured to transmit a signal in uplink physical channel in a second time slot to a base station having a transmission power level based on the power control bits received in the control message.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLCInventor: Paul Howard
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Patent number: 11781389Abstract: A bottom hole assembly has a tubular component with an axis, a first axial end, a second axial end and a poppet valve assembly mounted in the second axial end. An orifice retainer is mounted inside the tubular component adjacent the first axial end. The orifice retainer has a retainer first axial end, a retainer second axial end opposite the retainer first axial end and an orifice pocket adjacent the retainer second axial end. The orifice retainer is installed in and can be removed from the first axial end of the tubular component, opposite the poppet valve assembly. In addition, an orifice is mounted in the orifice pocket of the orifice retainer. The orifice operates in conjunction with the poppet valve assembly.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignees: ERDOS MILLER, INC., BLACK DIAMOND OILFIELD RENTALS, LLCInventors: Kenneth C. Miller, David Cramer, Steven Paul Howard
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Publication number: 20230299846Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a control message over a physical control channel in a first of a plurality of time slots, wherein the control message has power control bits for a plurality of UEs. Further, the first of the plurality of time slots has a second downlink physical control channel and a downlink physical shared channel. The UE is further configured to transmit a signal in uplink physical channel in a second time slot to a base station having a transmission power level based on the power control bits received in the control message.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Intellectual Ventures II LLCInventor: Paul Howard
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Publication number: 20230193709Abstract: A bottom hole assembly has a tubular component with an axis, a first axial end, a second axial end and a poppet valve assembly mounted in the second axial end. An orifice retainer is mounted inside the tubular component adjacent the first axial end. The orifice retainer has a retainer first axial end, a retainer second axial end opposite the retainer first axial end and an orifice pocket adjacent the retainer second axial end. The orifice retainer is installed in and can be removed from the first axial end of the tubular component, opposite the poppet valve assembly. In addition, an orifice is mounted in the orifice pocket of the orifice retainer. The orifice operates in conjunction with the poppet valve assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Kenneth C. Miller, David Cramer, Steven Paul Howard
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Patent number: 11674359Abstract: A centralizer for stabilizing fluid flow through a hollow shaft has a body with an axis, an outer surface and a circumference. Fins extend from the outer surface and include a first pair of fins that are axially aligned with each other and circumferentially spaced from each other. A second pair of fins are axially spaced a first distance from the first pair of fins. The second pair of fins are axially aligned with each other and circumferentially spaced from each other. The first and second pairs of fins are circumferentially offset from each other.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignees: ERDOS MILLER, INC., BLACK DIAMOND OILFIELD RENTALS, LLCInventors: Steven Paul Howard, Christopher W. Lane, Charles Kibbe, Kyle W. Scholl
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Patent number: 11664889Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a control message over a physical control channel in a first time slot, wherein the control message has power control bits for a plurality of UEs, wherein the plurality of UEs include the first UE. The UE is further configured to extract power control information for the first UE from the control message, and to transmit a signal over a physical control channel to a base station in a second time slot at a transmission power level based on the extracted power control information.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Intellectual Ventures II LLCInventor: Paul Howard
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Patent number: 11636278Abstract: An example system includes an x-ray absorber. The x-ray absorber is to convert received x-rays into electrical energy. The system also includes a memory. The memory is to receive the electrical energy. The memory also is to output a stored value using the electrical energy. The system includes a transmitter. The transmitter is to produce x-rays representative of the stored value.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2017Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.Inventors: Troy A Farrar, Paul Howard Mazurkiewicz
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Publication number: 20220397095Abstract: A wind turbine includes a nacelle, a generator housed with the nacelle, a rotor having a rotatable hub with at least one rotor blade mounted thereto, at least one shaft rotatably coupled to the hub for driving the generator, and a rotor lock arranged with the shaft(s) for locking the shaft(s) in a locked position. The wind turbine also includes a bolted-joint connection at an interface between the hub and the shaft(s). The bolted-joint connection includes a first plurality of fasteners extending through the hub, the shaft(s), and the rotor lock. As such, a load transfer path from the hub to the shaft(s) travels through each of the hub, the shaft(s), and the rotor lock so as to increase a load capacity of the interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Jay F. Leonard, Brian Thomas Misavage, Michael Royce Johnson, Paul Howard Davidson, Gregory Clarence Thomas
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Publication number: 20220360325Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a control message over a physical control channel in a first time slot, wherein the control message has power control bits for a plurality of UEs, wherein the plurality of UEs include the first UE. The UE is further configured to extract power control information for the first UE from the control message, and to transmit a signal over a physical control channel to a base station in a second time slot at a transmission power level based on the extracted power control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: Intellectual Ventures II LLCInventor: Paul Howard
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Patent number: 11430367Abstract: In example implementations, a display is provided. The display includes a cover lens, a phosphorescent component, a display module and a processor. The phosphorescent component is located adjacent to the cover lens. The display module is located adjacent to the phosphorescent component opposite the cover lens. The processor is communicatively coupled to the display module to cause the display module to generate a desired image that activates corresponding portions of the phosphorescent component before the display is powered down.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Hui He, Hang Yan Yuen, Paul Howard Mazurkiewicz
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Patent number: 11423277Abstract: In some examples, a fluidic conductive trace based radio-frequency identification device may include a flexible substrate layer including a channel, and a trace formed of a conductive fluid that is disposed substantially within the channel. The fluidic conductive trace based radio-frequency identification device may further include a sealing layer disposed on the flexible substrate layer and the trace to seal the conductive fluid in a liquid state within the channel.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Ning Ge, Jarrid Wittkopf, Robert Ionescu, Helen A. Holder, Paul Howard Mazurkiewicz
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Patent number: 11411642Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive control information indicating resources in a frame to receive a downlink physical control channel in a plurality of time slots. Further, the UE is configured to receive a plurality of power control commands for a plurality of UEs in a first of the plurality of time slots in a first downlink physical control channel. A number of bits carried by the first physical control channel is based on a number of the plurality of UEs, wherein the first of the plurality of time slots has a second downlink physical control channel and a downlink physical shared channel. The UE is configured to transmit an uplink physical channel having a power level based on the received power control command for the UE. The UE is configured to receive in a third of the plurality of time slots a third downlink physical control channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLCInventor: Paul Howard
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Patent number: D1016877Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Emmanuel Laffon de Mazieres, Michael O'Connor, Jonathan Howard Biddle, Paul Douglas Grearson, Thomas Burns