Patents by Inventor Rachel Z. Pytel
Rachel Z. Pytel 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: 20240125122Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to building surface products, for example, panels suitable for forming a building surface. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a building surface product including a gypsum panel with an upper edge that overlaps a lower edge of a neighboring gypsum panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Robert L. Jenkins, Garrett Loomis, Kim Dupont-Madinier, Brock Jacobites, David Knutson, James Dimitrakopoulos, Stephen W. Reynolds, Douglas J. Wambaugh, Rachel Z. Pytel, Dennis Michaud
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Publication number: 20240119663Abstract: Methods and systems for real-time visualization of building structures are disclosed. A computing system may calculate physical illumination characteristics for each of a plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements layered in simulation at specified surface locations of a virtual three-dimensional (3D) model of a building structure, wherein the virtual 3D model is constructed based on data descriptive of the building structure. Each of the plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be associated with its calculated illumination characteristics in a database. A spatially-manipulable rendered image of the building structure may displayed on an interactive display in real-time based on the virtual 3D model. On the interactive display device, one or more of the plurality of the predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be rendered in real-time at respectively specified locations on the rendered image.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Brice Dubost, Sizhu You, Rachel Z. Pytel
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Publication number: 20240087148Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to evaluating the surfaces of a building. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a method of characterizing a surface texture of a building surface. The method includes illuminating a first area of the building surface from a single direction and capturing an image of the first area using a camera while the first area is illuminated. The first image includes a first group of digital pixel values. The method further includes calculating a first set of values that characterize a first surface texture of the first area based on a first group of digital pixel values of the image, and comparing the first set of values to a second set of values that characterize a second surface texture, so as to produce a comparator value.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Rachel Z. Pytel, Sidath S. Wijesooriya, Simon Mazoyer, Brice Dubost
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Patent number: 11904552Abstract: A connection including a first profile having a first end and a first lumen, the first profile including a first polymeric material and a second profile having a second end and a second lumen, the second profile including a second polymeric material, a metal, or combination thereof, wherein the first end and the second end are coincidently welded via an ionized gas treatment.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Rachel Z Pytel, Jian L. Ding
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Patent number: 11905712Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to wallboards, for example, suitable for use in constructing internal walls. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a wallboard and a method that provides simplified high-quality surface finishing. The wallboard includes a wall panel having a front surface and a rear surface. A sandable coating is disposed on the front surface of the wall panel. The method includes positioning wallboards adjacent to one another, applying sandable joint compound over joint formed between the wallboards, and sanding the joint compound and the sandable coating of the wallboards.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc.Inventors: Garrett Loomis, David Knutson, Rachel Z. Pytel, Dennis Michaud, John C. Phillips, Stephen W. Reynolds
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Patent number: 11851874Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to building surface products, for example, panels suitable for forming a building surface. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a building surface product including a gypsum panel with an upper edge that overlaps a lower edge of a neighboring gypsum panel.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc.Inventors: Robert L. Jenkins, Garrett Loomis, Kim Dupont-Madinier, Brock Jacobites, David Knutson, James Dimitrakopoulos, Stephen W. Reynolds, Douglas J. Wambaugh, Rachel Z. Pytel, Dennis Michaud
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Patent number: 11845230Abstract: A connection includes: a first profile having a first end, the first profile including a first polymeric material comprising a thermoset material; and a second profile having a second end, the second profile including a second polymeric material, a metal, or combination thereof, wherein the first end and the second end are coincidently bonded without a bonding material at an interface of the first end and the second end.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN PERFORMANCE PLASTICS CORPORATIONInventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Rachel Z. Pytel, Jian L. Ding
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Patent number: 11704866Abstract: Methods and systems for real-time visualization of building structures are disclosed. A computing system may calculate physical illumination characteristics for each of a plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements layered in simulation at specified surface locations of a virtual three-dimensional (3D) model of a building structure, wherein the virtual 3D model is constructed based on data descriptive of the building structure. Each of the plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be associated with its calculated illumination characteristics in a database. A spatially-manipulable rendered image of the building structure may displayed on an interactive display in real-time based on the virtual 3D model. On the interactive display device, one or more of the plurality of the predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be rendered in real-time at respectively specified locations on the rendered image.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: CertainTeed LLCInventors: Brice Dubost, Sizhu You, Rachel Z. Pytel
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Patent number: 11688085Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to evaluating the surfaces of a building. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a method of characterizing a surface texture of a building surface. The method includes illuminating a first area of the building surface from a single direction and capturing an image of the first area using a camera while the first area is illuminated. The first image includes a first group of digital pixel values. The method further includes calculating a first set of values that characterize a first surface texture of the first area based on a first group of digital pixel values of the image, and comparing the first set of values to a second set of values that characterize a second surface texture, so as to produce a comparator value.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: CERTAINTEED GYPSUM, INC.Inventors: Rachel Z. Pytel, Sidath S. Wijesooriya, Simon Mazoyer, Brice Dubost
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Publication number: 20220290439Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to wallboards, for example, suitable for use in constructing internal walls. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a wallboard and a method that provides simplified high-quality surface finishing. The wallboard includes a wall panel having a front surface and a rear surface. A sandable coating is disposed on the front surface of the wall panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Garrett Loomis, David Knutson, Rachel Z. Pytel, Dennis Michaud, John C. Phillips, Stephen W. Reynolds
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Patent number: 11427507Abstract: The present disclosure relates to roofing granules, such as solar-reflective roofing granules having one or more of low crystalline silica content, high stain resistance and algae resistance. The present disclosure provides a mineral roofing granule having at its mineral outer surface a first fired mixture comprising an aluminosilicate clay, the first fired material having no more than 2 wt % crystalline silica. The present disclosure also provides a mineral roofing granule having a mineral body and a mineral outer surface, the mineral roofing granule having at its mineral outer surface a first fired material, the first fired material being a first fired mixture comprising an aluminosilicate clay; one or more of a feldspar, a sodium silicate and a nepheline syenite; and, optionally, a zinc source.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: CertainTeed LLCInventors: Bojana Lante, Tracy Panzarella, Rachel Z. Pytel
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Publication number: 20220237858Abstract: Methods and systems for real-time visualization of building structures are disclosed. A computing system may calculate physical illumination characteristics for each of a plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements layered in simulation at specified surface locations of a virtual three-dimensional (3D) model of a building structure, wherein the virtual 3D model is constructed based on data descriptive of the building structure. Each of the plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be associated with its calculated illumination characteristics in a database. A spatially-manipulable rendered image of the building structure may displayed on an interactive display in real-time based on the virtual 3D model. On the interactive display device, one or more of the plurality of the predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be rendered in real-time at respectively specified locations on the rendered image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Brice Dubost, Sizhu You, Rachel Z. Pytel
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Publication number: 20220204901Abstract: The disclosure relates generally to a cell culture apparatus and a cell culture method. One aspect of the disclosure is an oxygen-permeable bag comprising one or more polymer films defining a boundary of an interior compartment of the bag, each of the one or more polymer films comprising an inner layer adjacent the interior compartment of the bag, the inner layer comprising a fluoropolymer, and adhered to the inner layer, an outer layer comprising polymer; a first port formed in an exterior surface of the bag and in fluid communication with the interior compartment; a second port formed in an exterior surface of the bag and in fluid communication with the interior compartment; and contained in the interior compartment, a plurality of microcarriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Katie Campbell, Natalie Fekete, Lei Zhang, Rachel Z. Pytel, Robert Gordon Pleydon
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Publication number: 20220170575Abstract: A tube includes a layer including a fluoropolymer having a refractive index of less than 1.42, wherein the fluoropolymer includes a copolymer including vinylidene fluoride and polymethyl methacrylate, a crosslinked terpolymer including tetrafluoroethylene, hexafluoropropylene, vinylidene fluoride, or combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2021Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: John J. HEINDEL, Katie CAMPBELL, Rachel Z. PYTEL
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Patent number: 11261607Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to wallboards, for example, suitable for use in constructing internal walls. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a wallboard and a method that provides simplified high-quality surface finishing. The wallboard includes a wall panel having a front surface and a rear surface. A sandable coating is disposed on the front surface of the wall panel. The method includes positioning wallboards adjacent to one another, applying sandable joint compound over joint formed between the wallboards, and sanding the joint compound and the sandable coating of the wallboards.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: CertainTeed Gypsum, Inc.Inventors: Garrett Loomis, David Knutson, Rachel Z. Pytel, Dennis Michaud, John C. Phillips, Stephen W. Reynolds
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Publication number: 20220057196Abstract: A system for visually enhancing a surface. For example, the system may include an assembly that may be configured to project a laser line across at least a portion of the surface. Versions of the laser line may be projected at an angle of incidence relative to a plane defined by the surface. For example, the angle of incidence may be in a range of about 5 degrees to about 60 degrees. In one version, the laser line may be substantially perpendicular to a central axis of the surface. In addition, the laser line may enable enhanced, qualitative user visualization of the surface and non-planar distortion in the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Inventors: Brice Dubost, Sidath S. Wijesooriya, Rachel Z. Pytel
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Patent number: 11199399Abstract: A system for visually enhancing a surface. For example, the system may include an assembly that may be configured to project a laser line across at least a portion of the surface. Versions of the laser line may be projected at an angle of incidence relative to a plane defined by the surface. For example, the angle of incidence may be in a range of about 5 degrees to about 60 degrees. In one version, the laser line may be substantially perpendicular to a central axis of the surface. In addition, the laser line may enable enhanced, qualitative user visualization of the surface and non-planar distortion in the surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: CERTAINTEED GYPSUM, INC.Inventors: Brice Dubost, Sidath S. Wijesooriya, Rachel Z. Pytel
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Patent number: 11195324Abstract: Methods and systems for real-time visualization of building structures are disclosed. A computing system may calculate physical illumination characteristics for each of a plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements layered in simulation at specified surface locations of a virtual three-dimensional (3D) model of a building structure, wherein the virtual 3D model is constructed based on data descriptive of the building structure. Each of the plurality of predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be associated with its calculated illumination characteristics in a database. A spatially-manipulable rendered image of the building structure may displayed on an interactive display in real-time based on the virtual 3D model. On the interactive display device, one or more of the plurality of the predefined virtual external building-surface elements may be rendered in real-time at respectively specified locations on the rendered image.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: CertainTeed LLCInventors: Brice Dubost, Sizhu You, Rachel Z. Pytel
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Patent number: 11151752Abstract: A system for rendering a building material comprising a database including an adjustable parameter relating to a characteristic of a contemplated building material, wherein the system is adapted to provide a rendered image of the contemplated building material, wherein the system is adapted to be used in conjunction with manufacturing of the building material, and wherein the rendered image has a ?E, as measured according to a Color Test with respect to the building material, of less than 10, less than 8, less than 6, less than 5, less than 4, less than 3, less than 2, or even less than 1.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2019Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: CERTAINTEED LLCInventors: Rachel Z. Pytel, Gregory F. Jacobs, Robert L. Jenkins, Alex C. Nash, Anthony Jouanin, Brice Dubost, Simon Mazoyer, Minas R. Apelian
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Publication number: 20210291291Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that include an operation chamber, a plasma generator having at least one plasma head disposed within the operation chamber and in proximity to a profile formed by cutting a piece of tubing, and a mechanical motion module. The plasma generator generates a plasma treatment and applies the plasma treatment via the at least one plasma head to the profile to activate material on an end surface of the profile, within a lumen of the profile, or a combination thereof. Once the material of the profile is activated by the plasma treatment, the mechanical motion module manipulates the profile to close the lumen of the profile to aseptically seal the profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Jianfeng Zhang, Rachel Z. Pytel, Jian L. Ding, Anthony P. Pagliaro, Clemens E. Zoellner