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).

  • Patent number: 11960189
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Yashraj Bhatnagar, Trevor Frank, Fabian Strong, Sridhar Karthik Kailasam, Robert Babcock, Ronald M. Parker, Robert T. Rozbicki
  • Patent number: 11921916
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Ronald Frank Wotzlaw
  • Patent number: 11751732
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11695263
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: JUSTRITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Auer
  • Publication number: 20230200599
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230071406
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: JUSTRITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LLC DBA JUSTRITE SAFETY GROUP
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Auer
  • Patent number: 11589719
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230033958
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Shamrock Foods Company
    Inventors: Ronald Frank Elkins, Alexander James Rozanski, Kevin M. Walkinshaw, Joshua Handrick Moody
  • Patent number: 11502493
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: JUSTRITE MANUFACTURING COMPANY, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Auer
  • Patent number: 11372339
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20220187717
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: 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
  • Patent number: 11143969
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20210234351
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Auer
  • Publication number: 20210124414
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Ronald Frank Wotzlaw
  • Patent number: 10895907
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Binder, Ronald Frank Wotzlaw
  • Patent number: 10881256
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventor: Ronald Frank Luque, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20200150545
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: 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
  • Patent number: 10534270
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: 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
  • Patent number: 10534271
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20190361357
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: 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