Patents by Inventor Richard Bates

Richard Bates 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).

  • Publication number: 20240423343
    Abstract: A hair styling appliance has first and second arms coupled together for reciprocal movement towards and away from each other, and arranged to receive hair within a region between each other. A plenum is disposed within at least one of the first arm and the second arm, the plenum including an air inlet for receiving airflow from a fan unit and an air outlet for emitting airflow towards hair within the region. A hair clamp including a pair of clamping members for gripping hair therebetween, includes at least one flexible projection for guiding hair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Antoine Francois ATKINSON, Jack Richard BATES, Ben Matthew GALLIENNE, Byron James Douglas GOODSIR, Matthew Johnathon LANGMEAD, Daniel William EVANS, Rory William BEAUMONT, Robert Mark Brett COULTON
  • Publication number: 20230296645
    Abstract: The present invention relates primarily to a method of fabrication of one or more free-standing micromachined parts. The method includes performing reactive ion etching of photoresist and tungsten-based layers supported on a carrier substrate to thereby define one or more micromachined parts, followed by separating the resulting one or more micromachined parts from the carrier substrate such that the parts are free-standing. The invention also relates to tungsten-based microprobe obtainable by such a method, wherein the microprobe has a substantially square or rectangular cross-section in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the microprobe, and to probe cards comprising a plurality of such microprobes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas McMullen, Richard Bates
  • Patent number: 11708103
    Abstract: A material handling cart is provided, having a frame with wheels and engaging members for supporting a part carried by the cart. Each engaging member has an engaging surface including a material for protecting a corresponding surface of the part from damage. Upper supports are attached to the frame and extend upward to a distal end, and have a height equal to or greater than a height of the part when the part is carried by the cart. Each upper support has an upper stacking coupler at its distal end. Lower stacking couplers are attached to the bottom of the frame. The lower stacking couplers engage upper stacking couplers of a second identical cart, to stack the cart above the second cart. The upper stacking couplers engage lower stacking couplers of a third identical cart, to stack the third material handling cart above the cart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: MARLIN STEEL WIRE PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Drew A. Greenblatt, Andrew Montgomery, Richard Bates
  • Publication number: 20220251749
    Abstract: A thermal insulation and fire protection felt product is provided. The felt product includes a first layer including a first plurality of nonwoven mechanically entangled oxidized polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor fibers bonded together by a first plurality of melted thermoplastic polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) fibers homogeneously mixed with the first plurality of mechanically entangled PAN precursor fibers. The first plurality of melted thermoplastic PPS fibers form a matrix of bond points between individual fibers of the first plurality of mechanically entangled PAN fibers. A second layer includes a second plurality of nonwoven mechanically entangled oxidized PAN precursor fibers bonded together by a second plurality of melted thermoplastic PPS fibers homogeneously mixed with the second plurality of mechanically entangled PAN precursor fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Gary BORCHARDT, Richard BATES, Brian JARRARD
  • Patent number: 11280102
    Abstract: A vehicular parking apparatus includes a frame defining horizontal rows and vertical columns of parking spaces. Subframes are configured to have a vehicle parked thereon and can move vertically in the columns. Platforms move horizontally in the rows and are configured to engage and move the subframes with the vehicles thereon. The subframes, the platforms and the frame provide electrical connections for charging parked electric vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Park Plus, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Richard Bates
  • Patent number: 11205160
    Abstract: An electronic payment and authentication system that includes features to verify the authenticity of a payer, validate debit data, and facilitate debit (as opposed to credit) payment transactions. The electronic payment system allows a consumer to purchase items and services via a network while utilizing a debit transaction. The invention provides merchants with the ability to verify the identity of the consumer, determine if the consumer is a good debit transaction risk, and retrieve debit data associated with a particular consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: FIDELITY INFORMATION SERVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Whitney Hilton Stewart, Matthew Lacey Peterson, Brian John Gallmeier, Teresa Marie Crews, Mark Andrew Nipe, James Michael Haire, Robert Lawrence Hill, Michael Richard Bates
  • Publication number: 20210213990
    Abstract: A material handling cart is provided, having a frame with wheels and engaging members for supporting a part carried by the cart. Each engaging member has an engaging surface including a material for protecting a corresponding surface of the part from damage. Upper supports are attached to the frame and extend upward to a distal end, and have a height equal to or greater than a height of the part when the part is carried by the cart. Each upper support has an upper stacking coupler at its distal end. Lower stacking couplers are attached to the bottom of the frame. The lower stacking couplers engage upper stacking couplers of a second identical cart, to stack the cart above the second cart. The upper stacking couplers engage lower stacking couplers of a third identical cart, to stack the third material handling cart above the cart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Drew A. Greenblatt, Andrew Montgomery, Richard Bates
  • Publication number: 20210131134
    Abstract: A vehicular parking apparatus includes a frame defining horizontal rows and vertical columns of parking spaces. Subframes are configured to have a vehicle parked thereon and can move vertically in the columns. Platforms move horizontally in the rows and are configured to engage and move the subframes with the vehicles thereon. The subframes, the platforms and the frame provide electrical connections for charging parked electric vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: Paul Richard Bates
  • Publication number: 20200354105
    Abstract: A material handling basket is provided comprising a base having two opposing pairs of substantially vertical outer walls. First and second sheet-metal dividers respectively extend between a first and second pair of the opposed vertical outer walls, and have a tab at each opposing end extending toward one of the walls of the first and second pairs of walls. Each of the walls of the first pair of walls has openings for accepting one of the tabs for positioning the first dividers relative to the respective wall; and each of the walls of the second pair of walls has openings for accepting one of the tabs for positioning the second dividers relative to the respective wall. Each of the tabs is rigidly joined to the respective opening to retain the first and second dividers between the first and second pairs of outer walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Drew A. Greenblatt, Andrew Montgomery, Richard Bates
  • Publication number: 20200294005
    Abstract: An electronic payment and authentication system that includes features to verify the authenticity of a payer, validate debit data, and facilitate debit (as opposed to credit) payment transactions. The electronic payment system allows a consumer to purchase items and services via a network while utilizing a debit transaction. The invention provides merchants with the ability to verify the identity of the consumer, determine if the consumer is a good debit transaction risk, and retrieve debit data associated with a particular consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Whitney Hilton Stewart, Matthew Lacey Peterson, Brian John Gallmeier, Teresa Marie Crews, Mark Andrew Nipe, James Michael Haire, Robert Lawrence Hill, Michael Richard Bates
  • Publication number: 20190284729
    Abstract: A process and system for forming an apparel fabric having a predetermined requisite optical colour and pattern effect and predetermined physical fabric properties are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Applicant: LIDL HONG KONG LIMITED
    Inventors: Tse Hung CHAN, Dean Richard BATES, Jacob Adriaan VAN ELDIK
  • Publication number: 20190279171
    Abstract: An electronic payment and authentication system that includes features to verify the authenticity of a payer, validate debit data, and facilitate debit (as opposed to credit) payment transactions. The electronic payment system allows a consumer to purchase items and services via a network while utilizing a debit transaction. The invention provides merchants with the ability to verify the identity of the consumer, determine if the consumer is a good debit transaction risk, and retrieve debit data associated with a particular consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Whitney Hilton Stewart, Matthew Lacey Peterson, Brian John Gallmeier, Teresa Marie Crews, Mark Andrew Nipe, James Michael Haire, Robert Lawrence Hill, Michael Richard Bates
  • Patent number: 10318934
    Abstract: An electronic payment and authentication system that includes features to verify the authenticity of a payer, validate debit data, and facilitate debit (as opposed to credit) payment transactions. The electronic payment system allows a consumer to purchase items and services via a network while utilizing a debit transaction. The invention provides merchants with the ability to verify the identity of the consumer, determine if the consumer is a good debit transaction risk, and retrieve debit data associated with a particular consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: eFunds Corporation
    Inventors: Whitney Hilton Stewart, Matthew Lacey Petersen, Brian John Gallmeier, Teresa Marie Crews, Mark Andrew Nipe, James Michael Haire, Robert Lawrence Hill, Michael Richard Bates
  • Patent number: 10286943
    Abstract: A material handling device is provided. The material handling device includes a bottom, a frame, a wall, an a plurality of wheels. The bottom includes an upper surface and a lower surface. The frame includes an upper surface and a lower surface. The wall surrounds the bottom and the frame, and includes an inner surface, an outer surface and an inner shelf attached to a lower portion of the inner surface. The inner surface includes an upper surface attached to a portion of the lower surface of the bottom, and a lower surface attached to a portion of the upper surface of the frame. Each wheel is attached to the lower surface of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: MARLIN STEEL WIRE PRODUCTS LLC
    Inventors: Drew A. Greenblatt, Wesley Chan, Andrew Montgomery, Richard Bates, Kendall Browning
  • Patent number: D750101
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Bates, Namu Kim, Mauro Porcini, Joon Park, Chad Tafolla
  • Patent number: D750104
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Bates, Namu Kim, Mauro Porcini, Joon Park, Chad Tafolla
  • Patent number: D750668
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Bates, Namu Kim, Mauro Porcini, Diego De Lara Miguel
  • Patent number: D821129
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Lim, Richard Bates, Namu Kim, Bart Ruijpers, Adrian Taylor
  • Patent number: D850984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Richard Bates, Joseph Dale Martens
  • Patent number: D938679
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: MARLIN STEEL WIRE PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Drew A. Greenblatt, Andrew Montgomery, Richard Bates