Patents by Inventor Richard Simmers
Richard Simmers 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: 20230055637Abstract: A cooking appliance, such as a toaster or oven, has a lifting arm including ribs that form a support surface for a food product in a cooking cavity of the appliance. Each rib can include an opening configured to permit infrared radiation from a heating assembly to pass through the rib to the food product supported by the lifting arm and/or to reduce a thermal mass and capacitance of the lifting arm. The heating assembly can include a support and/or heating element with a curved shape having a concave side facing a cooking cavity. The support and/or heating element can have a planar shape when unstressed and a curved shape when stressed. The heating element may be coupled to the support so as to be slidably movable relative to the support, e.g., so the heating element can slide relative to the support.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicant: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: 11517148Abstract: A cooking appliance, such as a toaster or oven, has a lifting arm including ribs that form a support surface for a food product in a cooking cavity of the appliance. Each rib can include an opening configured to permit infrared radiation from a heating assembly to pass through the rib to the food product supported by the lifting arm and/or to reduce a thermal mass and capacitance of the lifting arm. The heating assembly can include a support and/or heating element with a curved shape having a concave side facing a cooking cavity. The support and/or heating element can have a planar shape when unstressed and a curved shape when stressed. The heating element may be coupled to the support so as to be slidably movable relative to the support, e.g., so the heating element can slide relative to the support.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: 11517147Abstract: A heating assembly for a cooking appliance, such as a toaster or oven, has a support and/or heating element with a curved shape having a concave side facing a cooking cavity. The support and/or heating element may be flexible, e.g., having a planar shape when unstressed and a curved shape when stressed. The support and/or heating element may define a sheet, e.g., having a length and width. The heating element may have openings in the sheet. The heating element may be coupled to the support so as to be slidable movable relative to the support, e.g., so the heating element can slide relative to the support when the support and heating element are bent into a curved shape.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: 11452405Abstract: A toaster includes a housing that defines one or more cooking cavities. Each cooking cavity has a lift to lower and raise a food product inside the cooking cavity depending on food product type, and heating elements to cook the food product arranged inside the cooking cavity. The toaster includes a user interface operable to control a cooking cycle inside the one or more cooking cavities. The user interface can be used to select a combination of food product, cooking mode, and doneness level, and to initiate a cooking cycle performed by the toaster.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Shannon Galvin, Kristin Cefalo, Ryan O'Donnell, Richard Simmers, Joyce Tu, Jay Hunt, Martin Fisher, James Poon, Eric David Cohen
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Publication number: 20210315420Abstract: A cooking appliance, such as a toaster or oven, has a lifting arm including ribs that form a support surface for a food product in a cooking cavity of the appliance. Each rib can include an opening configured to permit infrared radiation from a heating assembly to pass through the rib to the food product supported by the lifting arm and/or to reduce a thermal mass and capacitance of the lifting arm. The heating assembly can include a support and/or heating element with a curved shape having a concave side facing a cooking cavity. The support and/or heating element can have a planar shape when unstressed and a curved shape when stressed. The heating element may be coupled to the support so as to be slidably movable relative to the support, e.g., so the heating element can slide relative to the support.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Applicant: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: 11122934Abstract: A heating element for a cooking appliance includes terminals that act as electrically conductive contact points. One or more buses are arranged between the terminals, and connect one or more heating element segments in a zig-zag configuration. The heating element segments are connected in series and are arranged parallel with one another. Each heating element segment includes a plurality of cutouts linked together and having an elliptical shape. The terminals, heating element segments, and buses are a continuous single sheet of conductive material. A method of making the heating element includes forming a pattern into the sheet of conductive material by etching the pattern into the conductive sheet using photolithography.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Benjamin F. Feldman, Joseph D. Ellena, Thomas Musman, Noah Bergel, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers, Pat Lollar, David Hull
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Publication number: 20210106175Abstract: A toaster includes a housing that defines one or more cooking cavities. Each cooking cavity has a lift to lower and raise a food product inside the cooking cavity depending on food product type, and heating elements to cook the food product arranged inside the cooking cavity. The toaster includes a user interface operable to control a cooking cycle inside the one or more cooking cavities. The user interface can be used to select a combination of food product, cooking mode, and doneness level, and to initiate a cooking cycle performed by the toaster.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Shannon Galvin, Kristin Cefalo, Ryan O'Donnell, Richard Simmers, Joyce Tu, Jay Hunt, Martin Fisher, James Poon, Eric David Cohen
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Publication number: 20210030205Abstract: A heating element for a cooking appliance includes terminals that act as electrically conductive contact points. One or more buses are arranged between the terminals, and connect one or more heating element segments in a zig-zag configuration. The heating element segments are connected in series and are arranged parallel with one another. Each heating element segment includes a plurality of cutouts linked together and having an elliptical shape. The terminals, heating element segments, and buses are a continuous single sheet of conductive material. A method of making the heating element includes forming a pattern into the sheet of conductive material by etching the pattern into the conductive sheet using photolithography.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2020Publication date: February 4, 2021Applicant: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Benjamin F. Feldman, Joseph D. Ellena, Thomas Musman, Noah Bergel, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers, Pat Lollar, David Hull
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Patent number: 10842318Abstract: A heating element for a cooking appliance includes terminals that act as electrically conductive contact points. One or more buses are arranged between the terminals, and connect one or more heating element segments in a zig-zag configuration. The heating element segments are connected in series and are arranged parallel with one another. Each heating element segment includes a plurality of cutouts linked together and having an elliptical shape. The terminals, heating element segments, and buses are a continuous single sheet of conductive material. A method of making the heating element includes forming a pattern into the sheet of conductive material by etching the pattern into the conductive sheet using photolithography.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Benjamin F. Feldman, Joseph D. Ellena, Thomas Musman, Noah Bergel, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers, Pat Lollar, David Hull
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Publication number: 20200260912Abstract: A heating assembly for a cooking appliance, such as a toaster or oven, has a support and/or heating element with a curved shape having a concave side facing a cooking cavity. The support and/or heating element may be flexible, e.g., having a planar shape when unstressed and a curved shape when stressed. The support and/or heating element may define a sheet, e.g., having a length and width. The heating element may have openings in the sheet. The heating element may be coupled to the support so as to be slidable movable relative to the support, e.g., so the heating element can slide relative to the support when the support and heating element are bent into a curved shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 13, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Applicant: Revolution Cooking LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers
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Publication number: 20190008322Abstract: A heating element for a cooking appliance includes terminals that act as electrically conductive contact points. One or more buses are arranged between the terminals, and connect one or more heating element segments in a zig-zag configuration. The heating element segments are connected in series and are arranged parallel with one another. Each heating element segment includes a plurality of cutouts linked together and having an elliptical shape. The terminals, heating element segments, and buses are a continuous single sheet of conductive material. A method of making the heating element includes forming a pattern into the sheet of conductive material by etching the pattern into the conductive sheet using photolithography.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Benjamin F. Feldman, Joseph D. Ellena, Thomas Musman, Noah Bergel, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers, Pat Lollar, David Hull
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Publication number: 20180325311Abstract: A cooking appliance, system, and method use one or more split-surface-area radiative heating elements and may also use one or more additional heating elements, such as microwave and convection heating elements, to heat or cook food. The radiative heating elements are used in a cooking chamber having an improved geometry. A controller includes features to adaptively learn and adjust cooking recipes based on modifications and user ratings of a particular cooking recipe or based on learning in response to analysis of modifications and user ratings of plural cooking recipes. The controller may learn from ratings of other users of similar cooking appliances via a network connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: November 15, 2018Inventors: Benjamin F. Feldman, Martin Fisher, Jay Hunt, Dan Morgan, Joseph Ellena, Thomas Musman, Noah Bergel, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers, Pat Lollar, David Hull
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Publication number: 20060291211Abstract: A single intravenous drip components illumination device containing a source of light that can illuminate IV bags or bottles, drip chambers and tubing. The directed light of the light source provides adequate lighting for use of the invention in unlit or dimly lit settings with minimum lateral scattering. The invention is powered by an external AC or DC power supply and/or by batteries mounted internally to the base of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2006Publication date: December 28, 2006Inventors: Joel Rodriguez, Richard Simmers, Joan O'Donnell, Alejandro Berenstein
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Patent number: 7052158Abstract: A single intravenous drip components illumination device containing a source of light that can illuminate IV bags or bottles, drip chambers and tubing. The directed light of the light source provides adequate lighting for use of the invention in unlit or dimly lit settings with minimum lateral scattering. The invention is powered by an external AC or DC power supply and/or by batteries mounted internally to the base of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2005Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Embo-Optics, LLCInventors: Joel J. Rodriquez, Richard A Simmers, Joan O'Donnell, Alejandro Berenstein
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Patent number: D907949Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Shannon Galvin, Benjamin Hines, Steffen Koury, Paul K. Metaxatos, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: D929786Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Shannon Galvin, Benjamin Hines, Steffen F. Koury, Paul K. Metaxatos, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: D934020Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: D937622Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: D938216Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Shannon Galvin, Benjamin Hines, Steffen F. Koury, Paul K. Metaxatos, Richard Simmers
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Patent number: D939262Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Revolution Cooking, LLCInventors: Philip C. Carbone, Peter J. Loftus, Ryan O'Donnell, Cody O'Sullivan, James Poon, Aurelio Reyes, Richard Simmers