Patents by Inventor Ross A. Smith
Ross A. Smith 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: 11970316Abstract: An enclosable and stackable container comprising a tray and lid is provided with structural elements to permit rapid covering and uncovering of the tray, efficient stacking of containers, and safe transportation. At least one catching mechanism may be engaged quickly to securely cover the tray and its food contents and disengaged quickly to uncover the tray and its food contents, improving food hygiene practices. Foldable flange flaps enhance stacking strength to permit safe transportation of stacked containers and their food contents.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Inventors: David Chapman, Elton Ross Farren, Pascale Didit Grenier, Daniel Albert McCallie, Mark Steven Smith
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Publication number: 20240122931Abstract: The invention features methods of treating a SARS-CoV-2 infection in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of sepiapterin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Gene Chatman CLARK, Eleonora MEZZAROMA, Christopher RABENDER, Ross B. MIKKELSEN, Vasily YAKOVLEV, Neil SMITH
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Publication number: 20240115572Abstract: The invention features methods of treating glioblastoma in a subject, the method comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of sepiapterin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Christopher RABENDER, Gene Chatman CLARK, Eleonora MEZZAROMA, Ross B. MIKKELSEN, Vasily YAKOVLEV, Neil SMITH
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Publication number: 20240083244Abstract: An electric power take-off system for mounting to a truck body to complement an existing power-take-off system powered by an internal combustion engine. The system includes a motor, battery, fluid reservoir, pump and a digital sensing unit for sensing at least one of fluid pressure or a fluid flow rate within the fluid delivery conduit. The digital sensing unit also includes an output capability. The system also includes a motor controller in operable communication with the digital sensing unit as well as the motor for instantaneously controlling the rotational speed of the motor. The motor controller in turn limits operation of the motor only to occasions of truck function operation initiated by the system operator.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Frank Miele, Fred Ross, JR., Benjamin A. Link, Richard L. Smith, Nathanael Quinn Armstrong
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Publication number: 20240076875Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Carmen Anthony LaTorre, Jacob Paul Honsvick, Christopher Patrick Kasprzak, Daniel James Buckwalter, Edward R. Harrington, Jonathan Ross Davis, Laurand Henry Lewandowski, David Michael Ploense, William Edwin Smith, Scott W. Schweiger, Ganesh Latta
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Patent number: 11916369Abstract: A dropout recloser is capable of in accordance with its operating programming after a predetermined number of fault interrupting operations, e.g., 1, 2, 3 or more but typically 3, to drop out of a cutout and hang freely in a hinge contact of the cutout providing sectionalization with an observable visible gap. The recloser includes fault interrupting and reclosing components, a drop out mechanism and a controller. The drop out mechanism may include a bi-stable actuator to affect fault interrupting operation and dropout operation. The device may include motion limiting structures. The recloser may have a number of operating modes or sequences.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventors: Richard G. Smith, Yujian Zhou, Jorge Montante, Alejandro Montenegro, Michael Ross
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Patent number: 11803784Abstract: A system and method in which various sensors collect and/or generate data that are analyzed to provide automated transit features. In the automatic capacity management feature, a transit operator is alerted of potential capacity issues in advance to enable the operator to handle the situation before a station or a vehicle reaches its capacity limit. The automatic trip planning feature allows a passenger to dynamically plan the fastest route to a destination according to real time data and historical data trends. The automatic fraud detection feature alerts a fare inspector to a ticket fraud or other fraudulent activity at a specific transit station or on a specific transit vehicle. The automatic vehicle routing feature dynamically routes autonomous transit vehicles to stations, notifies transit vehicle drivers to stop at a particular station, and/or notifies transit operators to route a vehicle to a particular station based on current and historical demand from passengers.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Siemens Mobility, Inc.Inventors: Micah Bergdale, Edward Donovan, Michael O'Haire, Nicholas Ihm, Ross Smith
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Publication number: 20230209310Abstract: Techniques for locating a misplaced primary wireless device (within a spatial region. In particular, the techniques presented herein use a secondary wireless device to collect a plurality of multivariate wireless data points within the spatial region. An artificially intelligent search algorithm analyzes the plurality of multivariate wireless data points to estimate the location of the wireless device. Directional instructions that guide the user to the estimated location of the primary wireless device are generated and then provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Hieu Lee, Daniel Ross Smith, Ryan Orin Melman, Ricardo Sarmiento
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Patent number: 11546731Abstract: Techniques for locating a misplaced primary wireless device (within a spatial region. In particular, the techniques presented herein use a secondary wireless device to collect a plurality of multivariate wireless data points within the spatial region. An artificially intelligent search algorithm analyzes the plurality of multivariate wireless data points to estimate the location of the wireless device. Directional instructions that guide the user to the estimated location of the primary wireless device are generated and then provided to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventors: Hieu Lee, Daniel Ross Smith, Ryan Orin Melman, Ricardo Sarmiento
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Patent number: 11464219Abstract: An apparatus for use in finding a center of balance of a hoof a horse, and methods for using the apparatus for fitting a shoe for the hoof based on the center of balance. The apparatus includes a body, an elongated member, and an attachment means for removably attaching the apparatus to the hoof. The apparatus is useful for finding the center of balance in a horse's hoof and that information may then be used by a farrier to trim and shoe the hoof in balance with each horse's individual center of balance.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2021Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Inventor: Ross Smith
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Patent number: 11040412Abstract: In some aspects, torch receptacles for coupling a plasma arc torch to a torch lead can include: a body having a first end to connect to the torch lead and a second end to connect to a torch body; a set of ports within the first end to fluidly connect to a set of fluid conduits within the torch lead; and a multiway valve within the body and fluidly connected to the set of ports and to a torch gas conduit formed in the second end, the multiway valve being configured to: i) manipulate a flow of fluids between the first end and the second end to select from primary gases entering the set of ports, ii) deliver a selected primary gas to the torch body through the torch gas conduit, and iii) fluidly connect the torch gas conduit to a gas supply manifold of the plasma cutting system.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: June 22, 2021Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.Inventors: Harshawardhan Jogdand, Larry Benson, Liming Chen, John Peters, Ross A. Smith
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Publication number: 20200413224Abstract: Techniques for locating a misplaced primary wireless device (within a spatial region. In particular, the techniques presented herein use a secondary wireless device to collect a plurality of multivariate wireless data points within the spatial region. An artificially intelligent search algorithm analyzes the plurality of multivariate wireless data points to estimate the location of the wireless device. Directional instructions that guide the user to the estimated location of the primary wireless device are generated and then provided to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Hieu Lee, Daniel Ross Smith, Ryan Orin Melman, Ricardo Sarmiento
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Publication number: 20200009677Abstract: In some aspects, torch receptacles for coupling a plasma arc torch to a torch lead can include: a body having a first end to connect to the torch lead and a second end to connect to a torch body; a set of ports within the first end to fluidly connect to a set of fluid conduits within the torch lead; and a multiway valve within the body and fluidly connected to the set of ports and to a torch gas conduit formed in the second end, the multiway valve being configured to: i) manipulate a flow of fluids between the first end and the second end to select from primary gases entering the set of ports, ii) deliver a selected primary gas to the torch body through the torch gas conduit, and iii) fluidly connect the torch gas conduit to a gas supply manifold of the plasma cutting system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Harshawardhan Jogdand, Larry Benson, Liming Chen, John Peters, Ross A. Smith
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Publication number: 20190210143Abstract: In some aspects, torch receptacles for coupling a plasma arc torch to a torch lead can include: a body having a first end to connect to the torch lead and a second end to connect to a torch body; a set of ports within the first end to fluidly connect to a set of fluid conduits within the torch lead; and a multiway valve within the body and fluidly connected to the set of ports and to a torch gas conduit formed in the second end, the multiway valve being configured to: i) manipulate a flow of fluids between the first end and the second end to select from primary gases entering the set of ports, ii) deliver a selected primary gas to the torch body through the torch gas conduit, and iii) fluidly connect the torch gas conduit to a gas supply manifold of the plasma cutting system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Harshawardhan Jogdand, Larry Benson, Liming Chen, John Peters, Ross A. Smith
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Patent number: 10279417Abstract: In some aspects, torch receptacles for coupling a plasma arc torch to a torch lead can include: a body having a first end to connect to the torch lead and a second end to connect to a torch body; a set of ports within the first end to fluidly connect to a set of fluid conduits within the torch lead; and a multiway valve within the body and fluidly connected to the set of ports and to a torch gas conduit formed in the second end, the multiway valve being configured to: i) manipulate a flow of fluids between the first end and the second end to select from primary gases entering the set of ports, ii) deliver a selected primary gas to the torch body through the torch gas conduit, and iii) fluidly connect the torch gas conduit to a gas supply manifold of the plasma cutting system.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2019Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.Inventors: Harshawardhan Jogdand, Larry Benson, Liming Chen, John Peters, Ross A. Smith
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Publication number: 20190078181Abstract: A steel strip having a coating of an aluminium-zinc-silicon alloy on at least one surface of the strip is disclosed. The strip is characterised in that the aluminium-zinc-silicon alloy contains less than 1.2 wt. % silicon and also contains magnesium. A method of forming a coating of an aluminium-zinc-silicon alloy on a steel strip is also disclosed. The method includes moving steel strip upwardly through a coating pot containing a bath of an aluminium-zinc-silicon alloy and having an opening in a bottom wall of the pot and forming a coating of the alloy on the strip. The method is characterized by minimizing residence time of steel strip in contact with the aluminium-zinc-silicon alloy bath in the pot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Qiyang Liu, Joe Williams, Ross Smith
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Publication number: 20180293523Abstract: A system and method in which various sensors collect and/or generate data that are analyzed to provide automated transit features. In the automatic capacity management feature, a transit operator is alerted of potential capacity issues in advance to enable the operator to handle the situation before a station or a vehicle reaches its capacity limit. The automatic trip planning feature allows a passenger to dynamically plan the fastest route to a destination according to real time data and historical data trends. The automatic fraud detection feature alerts a fare inspector to a ticket fraud or other fraudulent activity at a specific transit station or on a specific transit vehicle. The automatic vehicle routing feature dynamically routes autonomous transit vehicles to stations, notifies transit vehicle drivers to stop at a particular station, and/or notifies transit operators to route a vehicle to a particular station based on current and historical demand from passengers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Micah Bergdale, Edward Donovan, Michael O'Haire, Nicholas Ihm, Ross Smith
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Publication number: 20180211188Abstract: A system and method in which a user application on a mobile device facilitates hands-free fare validation and gateless entry/exit at a transit facility like a transit station or a transit vehicle. The user application communicates with a Bluetooth gateway to authenticate the device and provides device-specific information for device identification and location determination. The user application also sends a secure token to the gateway to validate an electronic ticket stored in the device. A positioning unit uses the device-specific information to generate a timestamped location data for the device. A camera monitors the device user's movement and generates another timestamped location data for the device. A controller driver compares two timestamped location data to determine that the user of the device is approaching a gateless entry point and allows the user to avail a transit service through the gateless entry point when the electronic ticket is valid and active.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Micah Bergdale, Edward Donovan, Michael O'Haire, Nicholas Ihm, Ross Smith
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Patent number: 10028492Abstract: Operating at constant depth, various embodiments are provided equipped with automatic depth-control mechanisms in dynamic devices such as lures and carriers that acquire and maintain a constant target depth when pulled through a medium such as water. The depth-control mechanism incorporates a mechanical pressure measurement of depth using a bladder with changing dimensionality and mechanical coupling to a variable angle dive plane. The measured pressure is compared with the target depth pressure causing the dive plane angle to adjust and converge to an adjustable target depth with forward motion due to retrieval or trolling. The dive plane extension is optionally a variable angle lip or bill protruding from the front of the lure or a pectoral fin-like configuration. Multi-purpose carriers are provided that can perform various underwater sensing and measuring tasks. Included are systems and methods for using a lure or platform equipped with a depth-controlling device.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 24, 2018Inventors: Jeremy Adam Lehl, Michael Bryan Ross Smith
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Patent number: 9900972Abstract: The invention features methods and apparatuses for regulating a shielding liquid in a plasma torch. A liquid-injection shield for a plasma torch includes a body having an exterior surface and an interior surface and a liquid injection regulation component circumferentially disposed within and in direct contact with the interior surface of the body. The liquid injection regulation component and the interior surface of the body define a chamber. The liquid injection regulation component also defines a first set of ports sized to regulate a liquid entering the chamber and a second set of ports oriented to distribute a fluid exiting the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: Hypertherm, Inc.Inventors: Soumya Mitra, Adam Chevalier, Stephen M. Liebold, Ross A. Smith, Nicholas A. Sanders