Patents by Inventor Ronald Frank
Ronald Frank 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: 11960189Abstract: This disclosure provides spacers for smart windows. In one aspect, a window assembly includes a first substantially transparent substrate having an optically switchable device on a surface of the first substrate. The optically switchable device includes electrodes. A first electrode of the electrodes has a length about the length of a side of the optically switchable device. The window assembly further includes a second substantially transparent substrate a metal spacer between the first and the second substrates. The metal spacer has a substantially rectangular cross section, with one side of the metal spacer including a recess configured to accommodate the length of the first electrode such that there is no contact between the first electrode and the metal spacer. A primary seal material bonds the first substrate to the metal spacer and bonds the second substrate to the metal spacer.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: View, Inc.Inventors: Yashraj Bhatnagar, Trevor Frank, Fabian Strong, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam, Robert Babcock, Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki
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Patent number: 11921916Abstract: Image editing on a wearable device includes a system which obtains sensor data via the wearable device. The sensor data includes a representation of hand movement, head movement or voice command associated with a user. The system executes an application for editing an image based on the obtained sensor data. The system provides for display a list of image adjustment types associated with the application. The system selects an image adjustment type based on one or more of the hand movement, the head movement or the voice command. The system provides for display a prompt having options to adjust a property of the selected image adjustment type. The system selects one of the options included in the prompt. The system modifies an image based on the selected option. The system then provides the modified image for storage in a data structure of a memory unit in the wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Thomas Binder, Ronald Frank Wotzlaw
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Patent number: 11751732Abstract: A retractable platform for use in conjunction with a toilet seat configured to be compact when in the retracted position. The retracted platform becomes a generally leveled standing platform when engaged in the opened position providing a stable platform for a child to stand on and turn around to position oneself to sit on a toilet seat. When the platform is in the retracted position, it allows an adult to sit on a toilet seat without any obstruction from the stool to their legs or feet. A cut out on its front panel receive adult-sized feet so the platform in the retracted position does not have to be physically moved when an adult needs to use the toilet. The retracted platform can be easily moved to assist a child needing a vertical advantage in a different location.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, Jr.
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Patent number: 11695263Abstract: Methods for installing electronic connections into a Factory Mutual certified cabinet may comprise providing a double walled cabinet. The double walled cabinet ay comprise an outer cabinet wall, and inner cabinet wall, and an airgap between the inner cabinet wall and the outer cabinet wall. The method may comprise the steps of including a first large hole in a surface of the outer cabinet wall and including a first small hole in a surface of the inner cabinet wall. Methods can additionally include the steps of inserting a first bulkhead fitting into the first small hole in the surface of the inner cabinet wall via the first large hole and covering the first large hole in the surface of the outer cabinet wall. Methods may additionally include the first small hole at least partially overlapping the first large hole when viewed from a plane normal to the first large hole.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2022Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: JUSTRITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, L.L.C.Inventor: Ronald Frank Auer
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Publication number: 20230200599Abstract: A retractable platform for use in conjunction with a toilet seat configured to be compact when in the retracted position. The retracted platform becomes a generally leveled standing platform when engaged in the opened position providing a stable platform for a child to stand on and turn around to position oneself to sit on a toilet seat. When the platform is in the retracted position, it allows an adult to sit on a toilet seat without any obstruction from the stool to their legs or feet. A cut out on its front panel receive adult-sized feet so the platform in the retracted position does not have to be physically moved when an adult needs to use the toilet. The retracted platform can be easily moved to assist a child needing a vertical advantage in a different location.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, JR.
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Publication number: 20230071406Abstract: Methods for installing electronic connections into a Factory Mutual certified cabinet may comprise providing a double walled cabinet. The double walled cabinet ay comprise an outer cabinet wall, and inner cabinet wall, and an airgap between the inner cabinet wall and the outer cabinet wall. The method may comprise the steps of including a first large hole in a surface of the outer cabinet wall and including a first small hole in a surface of the inner cabinet wall. Methods can additionally include the steps of inserting a first bulkhead fitting into the first small hole in the surface of the inner cabinet wall via the first large hole and covering the first large hole in the surface of the outer cabinet wall. Methods may additionally include the first small hole at least partially overlapping the first large hole when viewed from a plane normal to the first large hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: JUSTRITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LLC DBA JUSTRITE SAFETY GROUPInventor: Ronald Frank Auer
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Patent number: 11589719Abstract: A retractable platform for use in conjunction with a toilet seat configured to be compact when in the retracted position. The retracted platform becomes a generally leveled standing platform when engaged in the opened position providing a stable platform for a child to stand on and turn around to position oneself to sit on a toilet seat. When the platform is in the retracted position, it allows an adult to sit on a toilet seat without any obstruction from the stool to their legs or feet. A cut out on its front panel receive adult-sized feet so the platform in the retracted position does not have to be physically moved when an adult needs to use the toilet. The retracted platform can be easily moved to assist a child needing a vertical advantage in a different location.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, Jr.
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Publication number: 20230033958Abstract: Systems for treating dairy wastewater. The systems typically include an equalization tank configured to receive a dairy wastewater stream; a flash pump in fluidic communication with the equalization tank to receive the dairy wastewater stream, wherein the dairy wastewater stream includes dairy wastewater and an acid; and a pipe reactor in fluidic communication with the flash pump and configured to receive the pump outlet stream. The pipe reactor is fluidically coupled to a cationic coagulant feed stream conduit to receive a cationic coagulant feed stream and fluidically coupled to a flocculation feed stream conduit to receive the flocculation feed stream. The system also includes a dissolved air flotation unit configured to produce a liquid stream by separating coagulated and/or flocculated materials from a pipe reactor outlet stream.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: Shamrock Foods CompanyInventors: Ronald Frank Elkins, Alexander James Rozanski, Kevin M. Walkinshaw, Joshua Handrick Moody
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Patent number: 11502493Abstract: Methods for installing electronic connections into a Factory Mutual certified cabinet may comprise providing a double walled cabinet. The double walled cabinet ay comprise an outer cabinet wall, and inner cabinet wall, and an airgap between the inner cabinet wall and the outer cabinet wall. The method may comprise the steps of including a first large hole in a surface of the outer cabinet wall and including a first small hole in a surface of the inner cabinet wall. Methods can additionally include the steps of inserting a first bulkhead fitting into the first small hole in the surface of the inner cabinet wall via the first large hole and covering the first large hole in the surface of the outer cabinet wall. Methods may additionally include the first small hole at least partially overlapping the first large hole when viewed from a plane normal to the first large hole.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: JUSTRITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, L.L.C.Inventor: Ronald Frank Auer
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Patent number: 11372339Abstract: A device manufacturing method using a lithographic apparatus having a localized immersion system for confining an immersion liquid to a space between a projection system and a substrate to be exposed by the projection system, the method including: predicting a set of first locations on the substrate having a risk of residual liquid from the immersion system when exposed using an initial route for a substrate to expose a plurality of fields thereon; determining a set of modifications to the initial route to reduce the risk of residual loss; test exposing at least one test substrate using the initial route; obtaining a set of second locations of defects in the exposed test substrate; selecting a subset of the set of modifications by comparing the first locations and the second locations; and exposing a plurality of production substrates using the initial route modified by the selected subset of modifications.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Giovanni Luca Gattobigio, Pieter Jeroen Johan Emanuel Hoefnagels, Ronald Frank Kox, Marcus Johannes Van Der Zanden, Maarten Marinus Van Oene, Jorge Alberto Vieyra Salas
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Publication number: 20220187717Abstract: A device manufacturing method using a lithographic apparatus having a localized immersion system for confining an immersion liquid to a space between a projection system and a substrate to be exposed by the projection system, the method including: predicting a set of first locations on the substrate having a risk of residual liquid from the immersion system when exposed using an initial route for a substrate to expose a plurality of fields thereon; determining a set of modifications to the initial route to reduce the risk of residual loss; test exposing at least one test substrate using the initial route; obtaining a set of second locations of defects in the exposed test substrate; selecting a subset of the set of modifications by comparing the first locations and the second locations; and exposing a plurality of production substrates using the initial route modified by the selected subset of modifications.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Giovanni Luca GATTOBIGIO, Pieter Jeroen Johan Emanuel HOEFNAGELS, Ronald Frank KOX, Marcus Johannes VAN DER ZANDEN, Maarten Marinus VAN OENE, Jorge Alberto VIEYRA SALAS
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Patent number: 11143969Abstract: A method of performance testing working parameters of a fluid handing structure in an immersion lithographic apparatus, the method including: placing a test substrate having an upper surface with a first portion with a resist defining the upper surface and a second portion with a material different from the resist defining the rest of the upper surface on a table in the immersion lithographic apparatus, confining liquid on a region of an upper surface of the table and/or the upper surface of the test substrate by operating the fluid handing structure using the associated working parameters, moving the table such that the region moves from the second portion to the first portion, and detecting change to and/or residue on the first portion as a result of liquid being left behind on the first portion during the moving.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Giovanni Luca Gattobigio, Nirupam Banerjee, Johan Franciscus Maria Beckers, Erik Henricus Egidius Catharina Eummelen, Ronald Frank Kox, Theodorus Wilhelmus Polet, Cornelius Maria Rops, Mike Paulus Johannes Van Gils, Wouterus Jozephus Johannes Van Sluisveld, Rik Vangheluwe
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Publication number: 20210234351Abstract: Methods for installing electronic connections into a Factory Mutual certified cabinet may comprise providing a double walled cabinet. The double walled cabinet ay comprise an outer cabinet wall, and inner cabinet wall, and an airgap between the inner cabinet wall and the outer cabinet wall. The method may comprise the steps of including a first large hole in a surface of the outer cabinet wall and including a first small hole in a surface of the inner cabinet wall. Methods can additionally include the steps of inserting a first bulkhead fitting into the first small hole in the surface of the inner cabinet wall via the first large hole and covering the first large hole in the surface of the outer cabinet wall. Methods may additionally include the first small hole at least partially overlapping the first large hole when viewed from a plane normal to the first large hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Inventor: Ronald Frank Auer
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Publication number: 20210124414Abstract: Image editing on a wearable device includes a system which obtains sensor data via the wearable device. The sensor data includes a representation of hand movement, head movement or voice command associated with a user. The system executes an application for editing an image based on the obtained sensor data. The system provides for display a list of image adjustment types associated with the application. The system selects an image adjustment type based on one or more of the hand movement, the head movement or the voice command. The system provides for display a prompt having options to adjust a property of the selected image adjustment type. The system selects one of the options included in the prompt. The system modifies an image based on the selected option. The system then provides the modified image for storage in a data structure of a memory unit in the wearable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2020Publication date: April 29, 2021Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Thomas Binder, Ronald Frank Wotzlaw
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Patent number: 10895907Abstract: Image editing on a wearable device includes a system which obtains sensor data via the wearable device. The sensor data includes a representation of hand movement, head movement or voice command associated with a user. The system executes an application for editing an image based on the obtained sensor data. The system provides for display a list of image adjustment types associated with the application. The system selects an image adjustment type based on one or more of the hand movement, the head movement or the voice command. The system provides for display a prompt having options to adjust a property of the selected image adjustment type. The system selects one of the options included in the prompt. The system modifies an image based on the selected option. The system then provides the modified image for storage in a data structure of a memory unit in the wearable device.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2019Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Thomas Binder, Ronald Frank Wotzlaw
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Patent number: 10881256Abstract: A retractable platform for use in conjunction with a toilet seat configured to be compact when in the retracted position. The retracted platform becomes a generally leveled standing platform when engaged in the opened position providing a stable platform for a child to stand on and turn around to position oneself to sit on a toilet seat. When the platform is in the retracted position, it allows an adult to sit on a toilet seat without any obstruction from the stool to their legs or feet. A cut out on its front panel receive adult-sized feet so the platform in the retracted position does not have to be physically moved when an adult needs to use the toilet. The retracted platform can be easily moved to assist a child needing a vertical advantage in a different location.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2015Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200150545Abstract: A method of performance testing working parameters of a fluid handing structure in an immersion lithographic apparatus, the method including: placing a test substrate having an upper surface with a first portion with a resist defining the upper surface and a second portion with a material different from the resist defining the rest of the upper surface on a table in the immersion lithographic apparatus, confining liquid on a region of an upper surface of the table and/or the upper surface of the test substrate by operating the fluid handing structure using the associated working parameters, moving the table such that the region moves from the second portion to the first portion, and detecting change to and/or residue on the first portion as a result of liquid being left behind on the first portion during the moving.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Giovanni Luca GATTOBIGIO, Nirupam BANERJEE, Johan Franciscus Maria BECKERS, Erik Henricus Egidius Catharina EUMMELEN, Ronald Frank KOX, Theodoras Wilhelmus POLET, Cornelius Maria ROPS, Mike Paulus Johannes VAN GILS, Wouterus Jozephus Johannes VAN SLUISVELD, Rik VANGHELUWE
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Patent number: 10534270Abstract: An immersion lithography apparatus has a controller configured to control a substrate table to move along an exposure route including in order: an entry motion in which the substrate moves from an off-substrate position at which the immersion space does not overlap the substrate to an on-substrate position at which the immersion space at least partially overlaps the substrate, a transfer motion in which the substrate table changes speed and/or direction and moves for at least a transfer time after the substrate moves to the on-substrate position, and an expose motion in which the substrate is scanned and the patterned beam is projected onto the substrate, wherein throughout the transfer motion at least a part of the immersion space overlaps the substrate and wherein the patterned beam is not projected onto the substrate during the entry motion and the transfer motion.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2019Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Norbertus Josephus Martinus Van den Nieuwelaar, Victor Manuel Blanco Carballo, Casper Roderik De Groot, Rolf Hendrikus Jacobus Custers, David Merritt Phillips, Frederik Antonius Van der Zanden, Pieter Lein Joseph Gunter, Erik Henricus Egidius Catharina Eummelen, Yuri Johannes Gabriƫl Van de Vijver, Bert Dirk Scholten, Marijn Wouters, Ronald Frank Kox, Jorge Alberto Vieyra Salas
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Patent number: 10534271Abstract: A device manufacturing method includes: confining a liquid to an immersion space between a projection system and an object; starting application of an underpressure to an extraction unit to remove fluid from a position proximate an edge of the object before the immersion space moves onto the object; moving the support table along a route comprising a series of motions such that a plurality of target positions on the object pass under the projection system; projecting through the immersion space a beam onto the target portions as the target portions pass under the projection system, the projecting performed to account for a certain predetermined thermal profile in the object; and stopping application of the underpressure at a predetermined time after the immersion space moves off the object for the last time during the series of motions to at least partly induce the certain predetermined thermal profile in the object.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Pieter Jeroen Johan Emanuel Hoefnagels, Ronald Frank Kox, John Maria Bombeeck, Johannes Cornelis Paulus Melman, Ruud Hendrikus Martinus Johannes Bloks, Patricius Jacobus Neefs
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Publication number: 20190361357Abstract: A device manufacturing method includes: confining a liquid to an immersion space between a projection system and an object; starting application of an underpressure to an extraction unit to remove fluid from a position proximate an edge of the object before the immersion space moves onto the object; moving the support table along a route comprising a series of motions such that a plurality of target positions on the object pass under the projection system; projecting through the immersion space a beam onto the target portions as the target portions pass under the projection system, the projecting performed to account for a certain predetermined thermal profile in the object; and stopping application of the underpressure at a predetermined time after the immersion space moves off the object for the last time during the series of motions to at least partly induce the certain predetermined thermal profile in the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.Inventors: Pieter Jeroen Johan Emanuel HOEFNAGELS, Ronald Frank KOX, John Maria BOMBEECK, Johannes Cornelis Paulus MELMAN, Ruud Hendrikus Martinus Johannes BLOKS, Patricius Jacobus NEEFS