Patents by Inventor Raymond Paul
Raymond Paul 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: 11960104Abstract: Control systems for liquid lenses can use feedback control using one or more measured parameters indicative of a position of the fluid interface in the liquid lens. Capacitance between a fluid and an electrode in the liquid lens can vary depending on the position of the fluid interface. Current mirrors can be used for making measurements indicative of the capacitance and/or the fluid interface position. The liquid lens can be calibrated using the measurements indicative of capacitance and/or fluid interface position as the voltage is driven across an operational range. A control system can use pulse width modulation (PWM) for driving a liquid lens, and a carrier frequency for the PWM signals can be varied to control power consumption in the liquid lens. The slew rate can be adjustable to control power consumption in the liquid lens.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Jann Paul Kaminski, Raymond Miller Karam, Robert Bruce Lyon, Dragon Pikula, Daniel Ohen Ricketts
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Publication number: 20240108076Abstract: Smoking articles, and methods for forming such smoking articles, such as an electronic smoking article, are provided. An exemplary smoking article comprises a control body portion having a control body engagement end, and having a first control component therein. A cartridge body portion includes a cartridge body engagement end configured to removably engage the control body engagement end of the control body portion. The cartridge body portion further includes a consumable arrangement comprising at least an aerosol precursor composition and at least one heating element operably engaged therewith, and a second control component. At least the consumable arrangement is configured to be in communication with the first control component upon engagement between the cartridge body and control body portions.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Stephen Benson Sears, Timothy Brian Nestor, Charles Jacob Novak, III, Steven Lee Alderman, Michael Ryan Galloway, Quentin Paul Guenther, JR., Frederic Philippe Ampolini, Raymond C. Henry, JR., Allen Michael East
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Patent number: 11925208Abstract: A reservoir assembly that holds a non-nicotine pre-vapor formulation in a reservoir includes a reservoir assembly connector assembly defining a connector conduit, and which may be configured to detachably couple with a non-nicotine vaporizer assembly based on a connector element of the non-nicotine vaporizer assembly engaging with the connector conduit of the connector conduit. The reservoir assembly may include an isolation structure configured to move in relation to both the reservoir and the non-nicotine vaporizer connector assembly between a first position where the isolation structure exposes the non-nicotine vaporizer assembly to the reservoir and at least partially obstructs the connector conduit to restrict the connector element from disengaging from the connector conduit, and a second position where the isolation structure isolates the non-nicotine vaporizer assembly from the reservoir and opens the connector conduit to enable the connector element to disengage from the connector conduit.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Altria Client Services LLCInventors: Eric Hawes, Raymond W. Lau, Jose Jesus Paolo Montalvan, John Paul Muring
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Patent number: 11882814Abstract: A horizontal feed storage system may comprise an elongated feed container having a length and a width, wherein the length is at least ten times greater than the width. The elongated feed container may have a fill opening through which the feed is deposited into the elongated feed container and a feed removal opening through which feed is removed from the elongated feed container. The elongated feed container may be movable. The elongated feed container may include multiple conveyance mechanisms disposed within the elongated feed container. The multiple conveyance mechanisms may include a first conveyance mechanism and a second conveyance mechanism, wherein the first conveyance mechanism may displace feed by moving the feed in a first direction away from the fill opening, and/or the second conveyance mechanism may displace feed by moving the feed in a second direction toward the feed removal opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Perdue Farms, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Paul Greive, Jeffrey Lane McDaniel, Daniel J. Coady
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Patent number: 11778088Abstract: An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method provide an improved call log that presents information relating to logged phone calls in a collapsed manner, meaning that for each phone number having a call stored in the memory of the device, only the most recent in time call is listed on the call log. An improved handheld electronic device and an associated method also provide a call history for any phone call from the improved call log that is selected by the user. The call history includes a listing of all of the calls stored by the device that are associated with the selected call log call.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Andrew Douglas Bocking, Raymond Paul Vander Veen
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Patent number: 11732759Abstract: A flexible coupling for coupling a first shaft and a second shaft includes a first body and a second body. The first body includes a first end to be fixed to the first shaft, a second end to be fixed to the second shaft and a first tooth, fixed to the radially inner face. The second body is secured to the first body, and has a radially outer face and a second tooth fixed to the radially outer face. The first tooth and the second tooth come into contact when a torque is applied to the first end of the first body so as to transmit the torque to the second end of the first body by the intermediary of the second body.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2019Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Stéphane Rousselin, Mathieu Raymond Paul Sezeur, Frédéric Raymond Renault
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Publication number: 20230225296Abstract: An at least partially floorless semirigid poultry enclosure configured to flex and/or adjust to accommodate undulating terrain during movement across a field. The semirigid poultry enclosure may comprise a semirigid foundation. The semirigid foundation may include one or more flexible portions disposed between two or more rigid structural elements. The semirigid poultry enclosure may include an automated movement system configured to facilitate movement of the semirigid poultry enclosure on a field. The automated movement system may be configured to move a semirigid poultry enclosure that is at least 90 feet in length via multiple drive units coupled to a semirigid foundation.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Raymond Paul Greive, Jeffrey Lane McDaniel, Daniel J. Coady
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Publication number: 20230151281Abstract: The invention is directed to a process to prepare a gas oil product from a carbonaceous particles of a biomass source comprising the following steps: (a) pyrolysis of the carbonaceous particles to a gaseous mixture of hydrocarbons in the absence of oxygen, (b) quenching the gaseous mixture of hydrocarbons by contacting with a liquid quench mixture of hydrocarbons having a lower temperature than the gaseous mixture thereby obtaining a rich liquid quench mixture and a quenched gas, and (c) isolating from the quenched gas a gas oil product by means of vacuum distillation, wherein the liquid gas oil is partly supplied to the top of the vacuum distillation column as a distillation reflux, partly used as part of the liquid quench mixture in (b) and partly discharged as the gas oil product.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventor: Raymond Paul FLETCHER
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Publication number: 20230146172Abstract: The invention is directed to a process to prepare propylene from a mixture of hydrocarbons having an olefin content of between 5 and 50 wt. % and boiling for more than 90 vol. % between 35 and 280 ?C or from a hydrocarbon feed comprising paraffins, naphthenics and/or aromatics and optionally up to 10 wt. % of olefins, by first contacting the feed with a low acidic density cracking catalyst in a reactor, separating propylene and subsequently contacting the residue with a high acidic density cracking catalyst in a reactor at a more elevated temperature, separating propylene and recycling the residue to first and second cracking reactors. Aromatics may be added to first and second cracking step to improve cycle length.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2020Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: GASOLFIN B.V.Inventors: Elbert Arjan DE GRAAF, Raymond Paul FLETCHER
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Patent number: 11606934Abstract: An at least partially floorless semirigid poultry enclosure configured to flex and/or adjust to accommodate undulating terrain during movement across a field. The semirigid poultry enclosure may comprise a semirigid foundation. The semirigid foundation may include one or more flexible portions disposed between two or more rigid structural elements. The semirigid poultry enclosure may include an automated movement system configured to facilitate movement of the semirigid poultry enclosure on a field. The automated movement system may be configured to move a semirigid poultry enclosure that is at least 90 feet in length via multiple drive units coupled to a semirigid foundation.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Perdue Farms, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Paul Greive, Jeffrey Lane McDaniel, Daniel J. Coady
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Publication number: 20230034472Abstract: A processor-implemented method comprises displaying a user interface for responding to a first message; receiving a second message after the first message; and displaying an update message that indicates receipt of the second message.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Neil Patrick ADAMS, Raymond Paul VANDER VEEN
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Patent number: 11503811Abstract: An at least partially floorless semirigid poultry enclosure configured to flex and/or adjust to accommodate undulating terrain during movement across a field. The semirigid poultry enclosure may comprise a semirigid foundation. The semirigid foundation may include one or more flexible joints disposed between two or more rigid structural elements. The semirigid poultry enclosure may include multiple wall barriers coupled to the semirigid foundation. The semirigid poultry enclosure may include a roof barrier coupled to one or more of the multiple wall barriers and/or the semirigid foundation. Multiple wheels may be coupled to the semirigid foundation to facilitate movement of the semirigid poultry enclosure, wherein poultry within the semirigid poultry enclosure have access to the field from within the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2020Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: Perdue Foods LLCInventors: Raymond Paul Greive, Jeffrey Lane McDaniel, Daniel J. Coady
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Patent number: 11468407Abstract: A method for updating an electronic mail (“email”) message presented to a user on a display screen of a data processing system, the email message belonging to a thread of email messages received by the data processing system, the method comprising: determining whether one or more of the email messages in the thread was received after the email message is opened on the display screen; and, if so, displaying an update message on the display screen indicating that one or more of the email messages in the thread was so received.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Neil Patrick Adams, Raymond Paul Vander Veen
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Patent number: 11465952Abstract: The invention is directed to a process to prepare propylene from a mixture of hydrocarbons having an olefin content of between 5 and 50 wt. % and boiling for more than 90 vol. % between 35 and 280° C. or from a hydrocarbon feed comprising paraffins, naphthenics, aromatics and optionally up to 10 wt. % of olefins, by first contacting the feed with a low acidic density cracking catalyst in a fixed bed reactor, separating propylene and subsequently contacting the residue with a high acidic density cracking catalyst in a fixed bed reactor at a more elevated temperature, separating propylene and recycling the residue to first and second cracking reactors. Aromatics may be added to first and second cracking step to improve cycle length.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: GASOLFIN B.V.Inventors: Raymond Paul Fletcher, Elbert Arjan De Graaf
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Patent number: 11447432Abstract: The invention is directed to a process to prepare propylene from a hydrocarbon feed comprising pentane by contacting the hydrocarbon feed with a heterogeneous cracking catalyst as present in one or more fixed beds thereby obtaining a cracked effluent. The heterogeneous catalyst comprises a matrix component and a molecular sieve comprising framework alumina, framework silica and a framework metal selected from the group of Zn, Fe, Ce, La, Y, Ga and/or Zr. Propylene is isolated from the cracked effluent.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2017Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: GASOLFIN B.V.Inventor: Raymond Paul Fletcher
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Patent number: 11323687Abstract: Structured light approaches utilize a laser to project features, which are then captured with a camera. By knowing the disparity between the laser emitter and the camera, the system can triangulate to find the range. Four, 185 degree field-of-view cameras provide overlapping views over nearly the whole unit sphere. The cameras are separated from each other to provide parallax. A near-infrared laser projection unit sends light out into the environment, which is reflected and viewed by the cameras. The laser projection system will create vertical lines, while the cameras will be displaced from each other horizontally. This relative shift of the lines, as viewed by different cameras, enables the lines to be triangulated in 3D space. At each point in time, a vertical stripe of the world will be triangulated. Over time, the laser line will be rotated over all yaw angles to provide full a 360 degree range.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2018Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Assignee: Robotic Research OpCo, LLCInventors: Alberto Daniel Lacaze, Karl Nicholas Murphy, Raymond Paul Wilhelm, III
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Publication number: 20220030827Abstract: A circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock. The circular grazing system including a center pivot structure installed at a field. The center pivot structure may have a center pivot axis. The field may be a poultry and/or livestock grazing field. The circular grazing system for poultry and/or livestock may include an enclosure for containing poultry and/or livestock. The enclosure may extend generally radially from the center pivot structure to a circumference of the field. The enclosure may be rotably coupled to the center pivot structure such that the enclosure rotates around the center pivot axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: Perdue Farms, Inc.Inventors: Raymond Paul Greive, Jeffrey Lane McDaniel, Mitchell Robert Combs, Cory Michael Combs
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Publication number: 20220035051Abstract: An atomic clock is used in conjunction with the GNSS receiver and the inertial sensors, creating a more capable inertial navigation system (INS). The system can be composed of a GNSS receiver, an accurate clock, and a mechanism for measuring relative pose changes. For example, the system can utilize an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to provide the relative pose changes, but other mechanisms, such as visual or LADAR odometry, can be used. The GNSS receiver measures the pseudo-ranges to the GNSS satellites in the field of view. These measurements are “time tagged” with the accuracy of the atomic clock. The relative motion between the pseudo-ranges is measured using the IMU. Finally, a lock is achieved by filtering these measurements. The filtering mechanism can be a traditional Kalman Filter or other mechanisms that attempt to minimize a mean square error.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Alberto Daniel LACAZE, Karl Nicholas MURPHY, Raymond Paul WILHELM, III
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Publication number: 20220009065Abstract: The dolly arm release tool is a tool that safely releases the dolly arm on a set of trailers allowing the operator to have three points of contact throughout the entirety of movement. As described above, the dolly arm release tool streamlines two useful applications into one tool and allows the operator the ability to carry only one piece of equipment to accomplish multiple tasks.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventor: Raymond Paul Carnes, II
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Publication number: 20210375509Abstract: Cross-web for use in cable manufacture having a tape-like appearance in their relaxed state and their method of manufacture.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: WEB INDUSTRIES, INC.Inventors: Raymond Paul Stockwell, James Andrew Evans