Patents by Inventor Robert Whiteman
Robert Whiteman 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: 20240109797Abstract: A method of providing and using thermophilic microbes for the treatment of high temperature wastewater, for the treatment of wastewater in elevated environmental temperatures and both. High temperature wastewater treatment systems using thermophilic microbes for treating waste water for use in conjunction with an industrial facility, using water in its processing or manufacturing of products or materials, such as a paper mill, pulp mill or both. In Thermophilic treatment methods and systems provide solutions that allow, among other things, a manufacturing industry, such as the pulp and paper industry, to achieve one or more and all of: reduced energy costs; increased water conservation; and increased water recycling and reuse.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Advanced Innovators, Inc.Inventors: Robert Whiteman, Christopher Whiteman
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Publication number: 20230174400Abstract: A method of providing, maintaining and using a youthful added microbe population for the treatment of wastewater. A method of providing green sustainable microbiology net zero carbon solution to waste water and waste material treatment using biofermentation to treat the waste water and waste material with aa treatment containing biofermented microbes.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Advanced Innovators Inc.Inventor: Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 11612209Abstract: The invention relates to articles of footwear having traction elements, and systems and methods for manufacturing same. An example shoe includes an upper and a sole plate, the sole plate including a lower surface adapted for ground contact having a first sole portion including first traction elements, the first traction elements having a distal end and a side wall with extensions extending from a central core, and a second sole portion including second traction elements, the second traction elements having at least one geometrical feature differing in one or more aspects from a corresponding geometrical feature of the first traction elements.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: New Balance Athletics, Inc.Inventors: Robert Lee Ashcroft, Lee Blackwell, Matt Bullock, Bryan Decker Gothie, Timothy Kelvin Robinson, Stephen Bradford Shepard, Michael Nelson White, John Robert Whiteman
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Publication number: 20220234922Abstract: A method of providing, maintaining and using a youthful added microbe population for the treatment of wastewater. A method to obtain Class A sludge without the need for disinfecting procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Advanced Biological Services, Inc.Inventor: Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 11383507Abstract: There is described a printing press (100***; 100****) adapted to carry out printing on a sheet-like or web-like substrate (S), in particular for the production of security documents such as banknotes, comprising a printing unit (2*; 2**; 2***; 2****) designed to print a first side (I) and/or a second side (II) of the substrate (S). The printing press (100***; 100****) further comprises an in-line casting device (80; 80*; 80**; 80***) adapted to apply a layer of material acting as an optical medium on a portion of a first side (I, II) of the substrate (S) and to replicate and form a micro-optical structure (L) in the layer of material acting as optical medium.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignees: KBA-NOTASYS SA, DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Robert Stierman, Ana Dimitrijevic, Martin Palme, Thomas Kersten, Aurélie Berthon, John Godfrey, Robert Whiteman, Lawrence Commander
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Patent number: 11304473Abstract: The invention relates to embroidered material portions for incorporation into an article of footwear, and systems and methods for the manufacture thereof. More particularly, the invention relates to an article of footwear having an upper with a sole structure, the upper including a first upper element including a base layer and a first structural layer including at least one first fiber embroidered onto the exterior surface of the base layer, the at least one first fiber forming a plurality of first elongate structural elements extending over the exterior surface of the base layer to provide discrete localized structural support to the base layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: New Balance Athletics, Inc.Inventors: John Robert Whiteman, Bryan Decker Gothie, Timothy Kelvin Robinson, Michael Nelson White
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Patent number: 11155484Abstract: A method of providing, maintaining and using a youthful added microbe population for the treatment of wastewater. A method to obtain Class A sludge without the need for disinfecting procedures.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2019Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Advanced Biological Services, Inc.Inventor: Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 10995024Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus, methods, and applications for treating wastewater, and more particularly to biological processes for removing pollutants from wastewater. This invention further relates to apparatus and methods for growing microbes on-site at a wastewater treatment facility, and for economically inoculating sufficient microbes to solve various treatment problems rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Advanced Biological Services, Inc.Inventor: G. Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 10836199Abstract: A security device is disclosed, comprising an array of focussing elements with regular periodicity in at least a first direction, each focusing element having an optical footprint of which different portions will be directed to the viewer in dependence on the viewing angle; and an array of image elements with regular periodicity in at least the first direction overlapping the array of focusing structures, the image elements representing portions of at least two respective images, and at least one image element from each respective image being located in the optical footprint of each focusing structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Brian William Holmes, John Godfrey, Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 10759213Abstract: A security device manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate having a viewing region; providing an obscuring layer in the region; providing a first image; applying a mask to the first image and swapping colour components of first and second sub-images of the first image forming: a mask pattern, and a background pattern representing the unswapped colour components on their assigned side; and printing the mask and background patterns on corresponding layer sides. The layer reduces colours visibility on one side when the other side of the layer is viewed in reflection, and allows light through the region when the security device is viewed in transmitted light. When either side of the region is viewed in reflected light, the patterns on that side are dominantly visible and may be distinguished. When the region is viewed in transmitted light from either side, the region is transparent and the colour-composite image is visible.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2017Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventor: Robert Whiteman
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Publication number: 20200087183Abstract: A method of providing, maintaining and using a youthful added microbe population for the treatment of wastewater. A method to obtain Class A sludge without the need for disinfecting procedures.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Advanced Biological Services, Inc.Inventor: Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 10543710Abstract: A security device is provided including a first pattern of elements and a second, overlapping, pattern of elements spaced by a transparent layer, the first and second patterns in combination obstructing the passage of light transmitted to a viewer through the device to a varying degree depending on the viewing position. The first and second patterns of elements are configured such that a first region of the device exhibits a maximum change in the degree of obstruction when the device is tilted relative to the viewer about a first tilt axis, and a second region of the device exhibits a maximum change in the degree of obstruction when the device is tilted relative to the viewer about a second tilt axis which is not parallel to the first tilt axis.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Robert Whiteman, Alice Smith, Adam Lister
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Publication number: 20200009856Abstract: There is described a printing press (100***; 100****) adapted to carry out printing on a sheet-like or web-like substrate (S), in particular for the production of security documents such as banknotes, comprising a printing unit (2*; 2**; 2***; 2****) designed to print a first side (I) and/or a second side (II) of the substrate (S). The printing press (100***; 100****) further comprises an in-line casting device (80; 80*; 80**; 80***) adapted to apply a layer of material acting as an optical medium on a portion of a first side (I, II) of the substrate (S) and to replicate and form a micro-optical structure (L) in the layer of material acting as optical medium.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Rob STIERMAN, Ana DIMITRIJEVIC, Martin PALME, Thomas KERSTEN, Aurélie BERTHON, John GODFREY, Robert WHITEMAN, Lawrence COMMANDER
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Patent number: 10479129Abstract: A method of manufacturing a hybrid security structure for a security document, the method comprising the steps of: providing a document substrate; applying to the document substrate, by a first process, a first element comprising a first electrically conductive region of the hybrid security structure; applying to the document substrate, by a second process, a second element comprising a second electrically conductive region of the hybrid security structure, wherein the first process is different from the second process; and electrically coupling the first and second electrically conductive regions of the hybrid security structure for detection by a capacitance sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventor: Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 10467721Abstract: Methods of manufacturing security documents and security devices, and corresponding products, provide a lenticular device effect in a first registration zone. Viewing its appearance from two different angles in this way, the relative positioning of the focussing element array and the image array can be judged to a high degree of accuracy. If the two arrays do not have the desired relative position, this will be clearly apparent since the different first and second images will not be captured at the first and second test viewing angles.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Brian William Holmes, Robert Whiteman, Lawrence George Commander
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Patent number: 10421310Abstract: A method of forming a security document, comprises providing a thread comprising at least one region of heat-transformable material, this material having an optical effect which is transformable in response to applied heat. The thread is integrated with a document substrate material during a substrate forming process, so as to produce a security document substrate having at least one windowed region in which the thread is exposed at the substrate surface, and at least one bridge region in which the thread is not exposed. A patterned heat process is then applied, causing a structural modification in the heat-transformable layer of the thread so as to produce an observable optical effect representative of the heat pattern at one or more predetermined positions with respect to one or more of the said windowed region or bridge region. Security documents bearing threads with such optically transformable materials are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventor: Robert Whiteman
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Publication number: 20190283394Abstract: The invention relates to articles of footwear having traction elements, and systems and methods for manufacturing same. An example shoe includes an upper and a sole plate, the sole plate including a lower surface adapted for ground contact having a first sole portion including first traction elements, the first traction elements having a distal end and a side wall with extensions extending from a central core, and a second sole portion including second traction elements, the second traction elements having at least one geometrical feature differing in one or more aspects from a corresponding geometrical feature of the first traction elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Robert Lee Ashcroft, Lee Blackwell, Matt Bullock, Bryan Decker Gothie, Timothy Kelvin Robinson, Stephen Bradford Shepard, Michael Nelson White, John Robert Whiteman
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Patent number: 10377649Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus, methods, and applications for treating wastewater, and more particularly to biological processes for removing pollutants from wastewater. This invention further relates to apparatus and methods for growing microbes on-site at a wastewater treatment facility, and for economically inoculating sufficient microbes to solve various treatment problems rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2008Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Inventor: G. Robert Whiteman
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Publication number: 20190232708Abstract: A security device is disclosed, comprising an array of focussing elements with regular periodicity in at least a first direction, each focusing element having an optical footprint of which different portions will be directed to the viewer in dependence on the viewing angle; and an array of image elements with regular periodicity in at least the first direction overlapping the array of focusing structures, the image elements representing portions of at least two respective images, and at least one image element from each respective image being located in the optical footprint of each focusing structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: DE LA RUE INTERNATIONAL LIMITEDInventors: Brian William HOLMES, John GODFREY, Robert WHITEMAN
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Patent number: 10322956Abstract: The present invention relates to apparatus, methods, and applications for treating wastewater, and more particularly to biological processes for removing pollutants from wastewater. This invention further relates to apparatus and methods for growing microbes on-site at a wastewater treatment facility, and for economically inoculating sufficient microbes to solve various treatment problems rapidly.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2017Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignee: Advanced Biological Services, Inc.Inventor: G. Robert Whiteman