Patents by Inventor Ronald Thomas

Ronald Thomas 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: 20240307517
    Abstract: The invention is directed to fentanyl analogues and a conjugate comprising same, as well as a method of inducing an immune response against fentanyl.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Cornell University
    Inventors: Ronald G. Crystal, Stephen Kaminsky, Tristan H. Lambert, Dolan Sondhi, Bishnu De, Philip L. Leopold, Andrew Thomas Holm
  • Patent number: 12094485
    Abstract: Techniques for low power gunshot detection are disclosed. Infrared information is collected using a gunshot sensor device. The infrared information is collected using mid-infrared band sensing to provide motion detection. Additional infrared information is buffered using the gunshot sensor device. The additional infrared information is collected using near-infrared band sensing. The buffering is enabled by the motion detection. Acoustic information is collected using the gunshot sensor device. The collecting acoustic information is enabled by the motion detection. A gunshot is detected using the gunshot sensor device. The detecting is based on the additional infrared information and the acoustic information. The detecting includes monitoring the acoustic information to identify a high-intensity gunshot sound and correlating the high-intensity gunshot sound to the infrared information that was buffered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Shooter Detection Systems, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Thomas Onofrio, Ronald A Fowler, Frank Ray Bachmann
  • Patent number: 12072598
    Abstract: Methods are provided for fabricating electrochromic devices that mitigate formation of short circuits under a top bus bar without predetermining where top bus bars will be applied on the device. Devices fabricated using such methods may be deactivated under the top bus bar, or may include active material under the top bus bar. Methods of fabricating devices with active material under a top bus bar include depositing a modified top bus bar, fabricating self-healing layers in the electrochromic device, and modifying a top transparent conductive layer of the device prior to applying bus bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: View, Inc.
    Inventors: Sridhar Karthik Kailasam, Dhairya Shrivastava, Zhiwei Cai, Robert Tad Rozbicki, Dane Thomas Gillaspie, Todd William Martin, Anshu Ajit Pradhan, Ronald M. Parker
  • Patent number: 12074464
    Abstract: A universal serial bus (USB) charging system includes a power supply including a plurality of power converters and a plurality of power supply outputs electrically coupled to the plurality of power converters, respectively. Each of the plurality of power converters is configured to convert an input voltage to a plurality of output voltages. A plurality of charging ports are electrically connected with the plurality of power supply outputs, respectively. Each of the plurality of charging ports is configured to provide an output voltage selected from the plurality of output voltages to an electronic device. A logic circuit is in electrical communication with the power supply and the plurality of charging ports. The logic circuit is configured to provide direct feedback to the power supply to output a particular output voltage of the plurality of output voltages to the plurality of charging ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LEVITON MANUFACTURING CO., INC.
    Inventors: A. M. Sarwar Jahan, Levan Papismedov, Benjamin R. Weiss, Ronald Jansen, Desiree Thomas, William Randall, Ankit Milan Sanghvi
  • Patent number: 12037750
    Abstract: A gauge plate insulator includes an L-shaped insulating member having a base configured to be positioned between first and second gauge plate members and a leg extending from the base, a metallic backing plate having a first part configured to engage a first gauge plate member, a second part configured to engage the leg of the L-shaped insulating member, and a third part extending between the first part and the second part of the metallic backing plate, a first fastener configured to be received by a first opening and a second fastener configured to be received by a second opening defined by the second part of the metallic backing plate and an opening defined by the leg of the L-shaped insulating member, and an insulation plate configured to be positioned between a portion of the second fastener and the second part of the metallic backing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Koppers Delaware, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven D. Singleton, William Thomas Urmson, Jr., John W. Mospan, Ronald K. Junk
  • Patent number: 11839626
    Abstract: Antimicrobial polymer coating formulations are prepared that protect biological surfaces by treating, reducing, ameliorating, preventing or inhibiting pathogenic microorganism ingress to a human or animal host, reducing the potential for infection, particularly by necrotizing fasciitis originating microorganisms, through use of a polymer coating barrier containing antimicrobial agents that facilitates sustained release of biocidal agents active against such opportunistic microorganisms. Such formulations are effective for inhibiting microbial ingress pertaining to soft tissue and skin tears, abrasions, punctures and surgical wounds, and can be used as in water environments and as a skin protectant sunscreen and insect repellent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: ROCHAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Charles Salamone, Katelyn Elizabeth Reilly, Ronald Thomas Nixon, Ann Beal Salamone, Kelly Xiaoyu-Chen Leung
  • Publication number: 20230301299
    Abstract: Cleaning compositions that include carvacrol, in an amount sufficient to provide an antimicrobial effect. For example, the compositions can include 0.1% to 2% by weight of carvacrol. The cleaning compositions advantageously further include a surfactant, particularly an anionic surfactant, which enhances the antimicrobial efficacy characteristics of the carvacrol. For example, the composition can include at least 0.1%, at least 0.3%, or at least 0.5% of one or more anionic surfactants. Alkyl sulfates (e.g., C8 to C12 alkyl sulfates) are particularly suitable. A buffer may also be present. The compositions may have a relatively high pH, e.g., 9 to 12. The cleaning composition may exhibit a significant log reduction against a target microorganism (e.g., Staphylococcus aureus and/or others) within a given time period (e.g., 10 minutes, 5 minutes, or the like), when used on a target surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Nancy A. FALK, Crystal BELL, William KING, Marjan HASHEMI, Nipa MODI, Keith MAINQUIST, Xuanrong GUO, Walter SCHENCK, Ronald Thomas ANDERSON, Kelly DICKSON, Miguel LOPEZ, Giselle JANSSEN, Bryan K. PARRISH, Claire DENTINGER, Thomas FAHLEN
  • Patent number: 11731129
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical apparatus for imaging and/or manipulating micro-objects in a microfluidic device, such as a light-actuated microfluidic (LAMF) device, and related systems and methods. The optical apparatus can comprise a structured light modulator, a first and a second tube lens, an objective lens, a dichroic beam splitter, and an image sensor. The structured light modulator can be configured to receive unstructured light beams and transmit structured light beams for illuminating micro-objects located within an enclosure of the microfluidic device and/or selectively activating one or more of a plurality of dielectrophoresis (DEP) electrodes of the microfluidic device. The image light beams received by the image sensor can be used to form an image of at least a portion of the microfluidic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Berkeley Lights, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul M. Lundquist, Paul M. Lebel, Phillip Ronald Thomas Jess
  • Publication number: 20220325440
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer, Douglas Jay Barkey, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Patent number: 11339514
    Abstract: A material web is disclosed. The material web includes a fiber layer having a first side and an opposing second side. The fiber layer has a plurality of fibers, each of which having an intimate admixture of a thermoplastic polymer, and a wax and/or oil, wherein at least some of the wax and/or oil is exposed at an outer surface of the fibers. A surface energy treatment is disposed on the first side and/or the second side of the fiber layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: William Maxwell Allen, Jr., Eric Bryan Bond, Isao Noda, Ronald Thomas Gorley, Olaf Erik Alexander Isele
  • Patent number: 11326276
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer, Douglas Jay Barkey, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Publication number: 20220100799
    Abstract: A distributed database receives an instruction to read or write data. The instruction includes a key. The database includes a key space defined by attoshards. An attoshard is a segment of key space having a size, in keys, proportional to a total number of nodes in the database. The attoshard includes keys for cluster segments at predefined positions in the attoshard. Each cluster segment corresponds to one cluster. A node of the database hashes the key to generate a token. The node performs a modulo operation on the token using the total number of nodes in the database to compute a remainder value. The node determines a cluster segment of an attoshard based on a position in the attoshard defined by the remainder value. The node determines a cluster for the instruction based on the cluster segment and executes the instruction at the determined cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald Thomas Crocker, Jonathan Brian Owens, Joshua Tyler Galbraith
  • Patent number: 11288325
    Abstract: A distributed database receives an instruction to read or write data. The instruction includes a key. The database includes a key space defined by attoshards. An attoshard is a segment of key space having a size, in keys, proportional to a total number of nodes in the database. The attoshard includes keys for cluster segments at predefined positions in the attoshard. Each cluster segment corresponds to one cluster. A node of the database hashes the key to generate a token. The node performs a modulo operation on the token using the total number of nodes in the database to compute a remainder value. The node determines a cluster segment of an attoshard based on a position in the attoshard defined by the remainder value. The node determines a cluster for the instruction based on the cluster segment and executes the instruction at the determined cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: New Relic, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Thomas Crocker, Jonathan Brian Owens, Joshua Tyler Galbraith
  • Publication number: 20210316306
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical apparatus for imaging and/or manipulating micro-objects in a microfluidic device, such as a light-actuated microfluidic (LAMF) device, and related systems and methods. The optical apparatus can comprise a structured light modulator, a first and a second tube lens, an objective lens, a dichroic beam splitter, and an image sensor. The structured light modulator can be configured to receive unstructured light beams and transmit structured light beams for illuminating micro-objects located within an enclosure of the microfluidic device and/or selectively activating one or more of a plurality of dielectrophoresis (DEP) electrodes of the microfluidic device. The image light beams received by the image sensor can be used to form an image of at least a portion of the microfluidic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Paul M. LUNDQUIST, Paul M. LEBEL, Phillip Ronald Thomas JESS
  • Patent number: 11077438
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an optical apparatus for imaging and/or manipulating micro-objects in a microfluidic device, such as a light-actuated microfluidic (LAMF) device, and related systems and methods. The optical apparatus can comprise a structured light modulator, a first and a second tube lens, an objective lens, a dichroic beam splitter, and an image sensor. The structured light modulator can be configured to receive unstructured light beams and transmit structured light beams for illuminating micro-objects located within an enclosure of the microfluidic device and/or selectively activating one or more of a plurality of dielectrophoresis (DEP) electrodes of the microfluidic device. The first tube lens can be configured to capture the structured light beams transmitted by the structured light modulator. The second tube lens can be configured to transmit image light beams from the dichroic beam splitter to the image sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: BERKELEY LIGHTS, INC.
    Inventors: Paul M. Lundquist, Paul M. Lebel, Phillip Ronald Thomas Jess
  • Patent number: 11040834
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a conveyor skirt system, the system comprising: a support member; a series of skirting panels releasably fixed to the support member; a rail assembly positioned outside the conveyor, extending in a direction substantially parallel to the direction of the conveyor; and a trolley assembly mounted on the rail assembly, the trolley assembly being adapted to engage and support one or more of the skirting panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: CPC ENGINEERING PTY LTD
    Inventors: Graham Trevor Warner, Ronald Thomas Bell, Brad Michael John Lloyd
  • Patent number: 10934097
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a conveyor skirt system, the system comprising: a support member; a series of skirting panels releasably fixed to the support member; a rail assembly positioned outside the conveyor, extending in a direction substantially parallel to the direction of the conveyor; and a trolley assembly mounted on the rail assembly, the trolley assembly being adapted to engage and support one or more of the skirting panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: CPC ENGINEERING PTY LTD
    Inventors: Graham Trevor Warner, Ronald Thomas Bell, Brad Michael John Lloyd
  • Publication number: 20200331703
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a conveyor skirt system, the system comprising: a support member; a series of skirting panels releasably fixed to the support member; a rail assembly positioned outside the conveyor, extending in a direction substantially parallel to the direction of the conveyor; and a trolley assembly mounted on the rail assembly, the trolley assembly being adapted to engage and support one or more of the skirting panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: CPC ENGINEERING PTY LTD
    Inventors: Graham Trevor WARNER, Ronald Thomas BELL, Brad Michael John LLOYD
  • Patent number: 10718664
    Abstract: A micro-fluidic system comprising means for optically trapping a particle and a Raman excitation source for causing Raman scatter from the particle whilst it is in the optical trap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
    Inventors: Kishan Dholakia, Phillip Ronald Thomas Jess, Michael Mazilu
  • Publication number: 20200198898
    Abstract: In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a conveyor skirt system, the system comprising: a support member; a series of skirting panels releasably fixed to the support member; a rail assembly positioned outside the conveyor, extending in a direction substantially parallel to the direction of the conveyor; and a trolley assembly mounted on the rail assembly, the trolley assembly being adapted to engage and support one or more of the skirting panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Applicant: CPC ENGINEERING PTY LTD
    Inventors: Graham Trevor WARNER, Ronald Thomas BELL, Brad Michael John LLOYD