Patents by Inventor Paul R. Davies

Paul R. 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).

  • Patent number: 11506453
    Abstract: A heat exchanger system includes a core-in-shell heat exchanger and a liquid/gas separator. The liquid/gas separator is configured to receive a liquid/gas mixture and to separate the gas from the liquid. The liquid/gas separator is connected to the core-in-shell heat exchanger via a first line for transmitting gas from the liquid/gas separator to a first region in the core-in-shell heat exchanger and connected to the core-in-shell heat exchanger via a second line for transmitting liquid from the liquid/gas separator to a second region of the core-in-shell heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul R. Davies, James L. Harris
  • Publication number: 20220358802
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enhanced auditing features for administration of remote electronic keys. An electronic key delivers electrical power to an electronic lock to energize circuitry thereof. The electrical power may energize an electric motor or solenoid. Based on access control information associated with the electronic key, an unlocking signal is conveyed from the electronic key that causes the electronic lock to change from a locked state to an unlocked state, thereby permitting a user of the key to access one or more resources secured by the lock. The electronic key stores details related to the unlocking event in memory sites. In some aspects, the electronic key broadcasts a message via a wireless wide area network (WWAN). The message may include a request to establish a WWAN communications link with an access control server located away from the electronic key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: 11423723
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enhanced access control features based on proximity between a portable electronic key and an electronic locking device. The portable electronic key receives first authentication information from an access administration device. Based on the portable electronic key being located within a threshold distance to the electronic locking device, the portable electronic key receives second authentication information from the access administration device. In some aspects, determining whether the key is located within the threshold distance to the electronic locking device comprises detecting a communication between the locking device and the portable electronic key. The portable electronic key may initiate an unlocking event at the electronic locking device based on the first authentication information and the second authentication information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: 11421554
    Abstract: An aircraft gas turbine engine comprises at least a first main engine shaft an electric machine coupled to the main engine shaft, and a lubrication pump configured to provide oil to at least a part of the electric machine. The lubrication pump is controlled by a controller. The controller is configured to operate the lubrication pump in a main gas turbine engine running mode, in which the lubrication pump is driven to provide lubrication to the electric machine at a first flow rate relative to the rotational rate of the main engine shaft, and a fault mode, in which the lubrication pump is driven to provide lubrication to the electric machine at a second, higher flow rate relative to the rotational rate of the main engine shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Paul R. Davies
  • Patent number: 11384655
    Abstract: An aircraft gas turbine engine (10) comprises a main engine shaft (22, 23), a main engine shaft bearing arrangement (36, 44, 49, 50) configured to rotatably support the main engine shaft (22, 23) and an electric machine (30) comprising a rotor (34) and a stator (32). The rotor (34) is mounted to the main engine shaft (22, 23) and is rotatably supported by the main engine shaft bearing arrangement (36, 44, 49, 50), and the stator (32) is mounted to static structure (46) of the gas turbine engine (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE PLC
    Inventor: Paul R Davies
  • Patent number: 11367343
    Abstract: Methods and systems relating to administration of access credentials for electronic access control are disclosed. Web resources are provided for rendering a webpage including an access credential. A server device receives an access instruction authorizing a user to access an electronic lock associated with the access credential. A client device of the user transmits a first request for the access credential. The first request may be generated by a browser application of the client device. The server device provides the web resources and a browser cookie to the client device. Responsive to subsequent requests for the access credential, the server device determines whether the client device is authorized to receive the access credential based on the client device providing the browser cookie. When the server device determines that a subsequent request authorizes the client device to receive the access credential, the web resources are provided to the browser application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: 11320197
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system, method and apparatus for removing heavies from natural gas. Natural gas and an external rich reflux gas feed are processed in a single column refluxed absorber. A bottoms stream is routed to a first heat exchanger and then to a stabilizer column where an overhead stream from the stabilizer column is routed through a condenser for partial separation into an overhead stream. A rich solvent may be introduced to the stabilizer column. The overhead stream is routed through a condenser for partial separation into a stabilizer reflux and a second overhead stream lights. The second overhead stream lights is routed to a heat exchanger and then routed to a partial condenser where the stream is separated into a heavies rich reflux stream, a distillate stream and heavies treated natural gas stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Dale L. Embry, Paul R. Davies, Qi Ma, David W. Larkin, Michael J. Calderon
  • Publication number: 20220081268
    Abstract: A tractor trailer jacking assembly f includes a plurality of jacks that is each mounted on a bottom of a tractor trailer. Each of the jacks is positionable in an extended position to engage the ground to inhibit the tractor trailer from tipping. A control circuit is mounted on a semi tractor and the control circuit detects the speed of the semi tractor. A gyroscope unit is mounted on the semi tractor to detect a degree and a direction to which the semi tractor is tipping. The control circuit actuates the respective jacks into the deployed position on a corresponding side of the tractor trailer when the gyroscope unit detects the semi tractor has tipped beyond a pre-determined angle of tilt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: 11236678
    Abstract: An aircraft gas turbine engine includes a main engine shaft, a main engine shaft bearing arrangement for rotatably supporting the main engine shaft, and an electric machine including a rotor and a stator. The rotor is mounted to the main engine shaft and is rotatably supported by a further electric machine bearing arrangement extending between the rotor and the stator, and the stator is mounted to static structure of the gas turbine engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Paul R Davies
  • Patent number: 11162746
    Abstract: A core-in-shell heat exchanger, a method of fabricating the core-in-shell heat exchanger, and a method of exchanging heat in a core-in-shell heat exchanger disposed on a slosh-inducing moving platform are described. The method of exchanging heat includes introducing a shell-side fluid into a shell of the core-in-shell heat exchanger and introducing a fluid to be cooled into each of one or more cores of the core-in-shell heat exchanger, the one or more cores being arranged along an axial length of the shell with a plurality of baffles disposed on either side of the one or more cores along the axial length of the shell to reduce slosh of the shell-side fluid. The method also includes draining excess shell-side fluid using a plurality of drains, at least two of the plurality of drains being disposed on opposite sides of one of the plurality of baffles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: ConocoPhillips Company
    Inventors: Paul R. Davies, Amal C. Phadke
  • Publication number: 20210295579
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for generating an avatar configured to represent traits of a human subject. First interactions of the human subject are observed, and characteristics of the human subject are extracted from the observed first interactions. An avatar characteristic table is generated or updated based on the extracted personality characteristics. Second interactions of the human subject are observed, and the avatar characteristic table is updated based on the observed second interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: 11067035
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes a main gas flow exhaust nozzle having an annular inner surface which, in use, bounds a flow of exhaust gas. The gas turbine engine further includes cooling passages having respective outlets therefrom to provide a flow of cooling air over a surface of the engine or an adjacent airframe component, thereby protecting the cooled surface from the exhaust gas flow. Adjacent cooling passages of the or each pair of the nested cooling passages are separated from each other by a respective dividing wall. The outlets from the nested cooling passages are staggered in the axial direction of the exhaust nozzle such that cooling air flowing out of an inner one of the adjacent cooling passages of the or each pair of the nested cooling passages flows over the dividing wall separating the adjacent passages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Edward C Gower, Paul R Davies
  • Publication number: 20210217303
    Abstract: Methods and systems relating to administration of access credentials for electronic access control are disclosed. Web resources are provided for rendering a webpage including an access credential. A server device receives an access instruction authorizing a user to access an electronic lock associated with the access credential. A client device of the user transmits a first request for the access credential. The first request may be generated by a browser application of the client device. The server device provides the web resources and a browser cookie to the client device. Responsive to subsequent requests for the access credential, the server device determines whether the client device is authorized to receive the access credential based on the client device providing the browser cookie. When the server device determines that a subsequent request authorizes the client device to receive the access credential, the web resources are provided to the browser application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: 10991240
    Abstract: Methods and systems relating to administration of authentication information for electronic access control are disclosed. Authentication information is conveyed to an electronic locking device configured to restrict access to an entry point. In various embodiments, a smart device comprises a display screen for presenting a machine-readable optical code comprising encoded authentication information. An image sensor of the electronic locking device can decode the machine-readable optical code to obtain the authentication information. The electronic locking device is configured to permit access to the entry point in response to the image sensor detecting a machine-readable optical code corresponding to an access credential. A server device can provide authentication information to the smart device based on an access criterion. Conveying authentication information to the locking device may include rendering a webpage comprising the machine-readable optical code corresponding to the access credential.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Patent number: 10911954
    Abstract: A device includes a processor configured to detect that a mobile device is within a coverage area of a wireless transceiver. The processor is also configured to select, based at least in part on a mobile device identifier of the mobile device, a data package identifier from a plurality of data package identifiers. The device also includes the wireless transceiver. The wireless transceiver is configured to transmit a command instructing the mobile device to access a data package corresponding to the selected data packet identifier. The command includes authorization data indicating that the processor is a trusted source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Jeffrey H. Lierman, Brian W. Pippen, Robert L. Vitali, Mark J. Boyer, Paul R. Davies, Brian D. Laughlin, Joseph Anelle
  • Patent number: 10899974
    Abstract: The invention relates to various nonlimiting embodiments that include methods, apparatuses or systems for processing natural gas comprising a heavies removal column processing natural gas and light oil reflux. The overhead stream goes to heavies treated natural gas storage. The heavies removal column reboiler bottoms stream product is input to a debutanizer column. The debutanizer column overhead lights are input to a flash drum where the bottoms is pumped through a heat exchanger as a light oil reflux input to the heavies removal column, while the debutanizer reboiler bottoms product is stored as stabilized condensate. Alternatively, debutanizer column overhead lights are sent to heavies treated gas storage and the bottoms stream product goes to a depentanizer column, the overhead lights are pumped through a heat exchanger as a light oil reflux input to the heavies removal column, while the depentanizer reboiler bottoms product is stabilized condensate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY
    Inventors: Paul R. Davies, Michael J. Calderon, Dale L. Embry, David W. Larkin, Qi Ma
  • Publication number: 20200386474
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for processing liquefied natural gas (LNG). In one implementation, a feed gas is received and partially condensed into a two-phase stream by expanding the feed gas. A liquid containing fouling components is removed from the two-phase stream. A vapor generated from the two-phase stream is compressed into a compressed feed gas. The compressed feed gas is directed into a feed chiller heat exchanger. The compressed feed gas is free of the fouling components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: Jinghua Chan, Paul R. Davies, Qi Ma, Michael J. Calderon, Dale L. Embry
  • Publication number: 20200340741
    Abstract: Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for processing liquefied natural gas (LNG). In one implementation, a solvent is injected into a feed of natural gas at a solvent injection point. A mixed feed is produced from a dispersal of the solvent into the feed of natural gas. The mixed feed contains heavy components. A chilled feed is produced by chilling the mixed feed. The chilled feed includes a vapor and a condensed liquid. The condensed liquid contains a fouling portion of the heavy components condensed by the solvent during chilling. The liquid containing the fouling portion of the heavy components is separated from the vapor. The vapor is directed into a feed chiller heat exchanger following separation of the liquid containing the fouling portion of the heavy components from the vapor, such that the vapor being directed into feed chiller heat exchanger is free of freezing components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Inventors: Michael J. Calderon, Dale L. Embry, Paul R. Davies, Attilio J. Praderio
  • Patent number: 10810565
    Abstract: Vending machine circuitry adapted to interface with vending machine electronics so as to provide data communications between a handheld device, preferably a wireless handheld device operated by a potential consumer, and the vending machine electronics, with the handheld device providing the network communications connectivity for transmitting and receiving information to and from remote data centers, data bases, and/or servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Videx, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis
  • Publication number: 20200258335
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to enhanced access control features based on proximity between a portable electronic key and an electronic locking device. The portable electronic key receives first authentication information from an access administration device. Based on the portable electronic key being located within a threshold distance to the electronic locking device, the portable electronic key receives second authentication information from the access administration device. In some aspects, determining whether the key is located within the threshold distance to the electronic locking device comprises detecting a communication between the locking device and the portable electronic key. The portable electronic key may initiate an unlocking event at the electronic locking device based on the first authentication information and the second authentication information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Paul R. Davis