Patents by Inventor Roy Thomas

Roy 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).

  • Patent number: 10941996
    Abstract: A firearm obstructer (100) for obstructing a passage (200) between a chamber and a muzzle of a firearm. The firearm obstructer (100) has an arm (101) and a tapered region (105). The arm (101) moves relative to the tapered region (105) to transition the firearm obstructer (100) between locking and unlocking configurations. In the locking configuration, the firearm obstructer (100) engages with the passage (200) to hold the firearm obstructer 100 in place in the passage (200). The firearm obstructer (100) so positioned provides an obstruction in the passage (200). In the unlocking configuration, the firearm obstructer (100) is removable from the passage (200). A method of operating the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Inventors: Roy Thomas, John David Tradewell
  • Patent number: 10904614
    Abstract: A universal competition generating system and method are provided which may be configured to enable users to create competition events which may each have one or more competition tasks that establish or describe a competition behavior they want done or performed by one or more users. Users performing the competition tasks may record the competition task behavior as a completion proof via their client device by saving a picture, video, and/or other digital media, preferably with accompanying text description to a system database for retrieval. This uploading of proof is a “completion”, and the system may screen and accept only unique completion proofs as satisfying the competition task(s) of a competition event to prevent fraud. The completion proofs submitted by the users and the data associated with them may be used by the system to rank the users and groups thereby enabling competition between the users and/or groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Inventor: Glenn Roy Thomas
  • Publication number: 20200173747
    Abstract: A firearm obstructer (100) for obstructing a passage (200) between a chamber and a muzzle of a firearm. The firearm obstructer (100) has an arm (101) and a tapered region (105). The arm (101) moves relative to the tapered region (105) to transition the firearm obstructer (100) between locking and unlocking configurations. In the locking configuration, the firearm obstructer (100) engages with the passage (200) to hold the firearm obstructer 100 in place in the passage (200). The firearm obstructer (100) so positioned provides an obstruction in the passage (200). In the unlocking configuration,the firearm obstructer (100) is removable from the passage (200). A method of operating the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Roy Thomas, John David Tradewell
  • Patent number: 9476363
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a fuel control valve assembly including a valve and an actuator is disclosed. The method includes determining an encoder offset by actuating the valve until a predetermined value for the effective flow area is measured to obtain an actual calibration encoder count and comparing the actual calibration encoder count to an initial calibration encoder count. The method also includes adjusting an alignment encoder count and a maximum encoder count by an amount of the encoder offset. The method further includes associating the adjusted alignment encoder count with an alignment command value and the adjusted maximum encoder count with a maximum command value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Louis James Bertsch, IV, Roy Thomas Collins
  • Publication number: 20160201575
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a fuel control valve assembly including a valve and an actuator is disclosed. The method includes determining an encoder offset by actuating the valve until a predetermined value for the effective flow area is measured to obtain an actual calibration encoder count and comparing the actual calibration encoder count to an initial calibration encoder count. The method also includes adjusting an alignment encoder count and a maximum encoder count by an amount of the encoder offset. The method further includes associating the adjusted alignment encoder count with an alignment command value and the adjusted maximum encoder count with a maximum command value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2015
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Applicant: SOLAR TURBINES INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Louis James Bertsch, IV, Roy Thomas Collins
  • Patent number: 9011500
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a fixation device for positioning and immobilizing at least two adjacent vertebrae. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an anterior clivus plate that immobilizes at least two adjacent vertebrae.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Suh, Roy Thomas Daniel
  • Patent number: 8919129
    Abstract: A method for controlling a gas turbine engine fuel control valve during low flow conditions includes positioning the fuel control valve in an operating position. The method also includes determining a fuel control valve flow sensor flow rate while in the operating position and determining a corrected effective flow area (“Cda”) of the fuel control valve. The method further includes generating Cda versus command data with the corrected Cda and the operating position and inserting the generated Cda versus command data into the nominal Cda versus command data set when nominal Cda versus command data is not known at the operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Inc.
    Inventors: Chad M. Holcomb, Saliha Kenyon Lacoursiere, Roy Thomas Collins
  • Publication number: 20140290261
    Abstract: A method for operating a gas turbine engine fuel system with a fuel control valve is disclosed. The method includes metering fuel through the fuel control valve with an effective flow area versus command data set. The method also includes detecting that a change in an effective flow area of the fuel control valve has occurred. The method further includes modifying the effective flow area versus command data set to reflect the detected change in the effective flow area of the fuel control valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Chad M. Holcomb, Saliha Kenyon Lacoursiere, Roy Thomas Collins
  • Publication number: 20140290262
    Abstract: A method for controlling a gas turbine engine fuel control valve during low flow conditions includes positioning the fuel control valve in an operating position. The method also includes determining a fuel control valve flow sensor flow rate while in the operating position and determining a corrected effective flow area (“Cda”) of the fuel control valve. The method further includes generating Cda versus command data with the corrected Cda and the operating position and inserting the generated Cda versus command data into the nominal Cda versus command data set when nominal Cda versus command data is not known at the operating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Chad M. Holcomb, Saliha Kenyon Lacoursiere, Roy Thomas Collins
  • Patent number: 8623883
    Abstract: This invention provides quinazoline compounds of the formula: wherein: R1 is halo; R2 is H or halo; R3 is a) C1-C3 alkyl, optionally substituted by halo; or b) —(CH2)n-morpholino, —(CH2)n-piperidine, —(CH2)n-piperazine, —(CH2)n-piperazine-N(C1-C3 alkyl), —(CH2)n-pyrrolidine, or —(CH2)n-imidazole; n is 1 to 4; R4 is —(CH2)m-Het; Het is morpholine, piperidine, piperazine, piperazine-N(C1-C3 alkyl), imidazole, pyrrolidine, azepane, 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyridine, or 3,6-dihydro-2H-pyridine, each optionally substituted by alkyl, halo, OH, NH2, NH(C1-C3 alkyl) or N(C1-C3 alkyl)2; m is 1-3; and X is O, S or NH; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as processes and intermediate compounds for making them, useful pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the compounds in the treatment of proliferative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Alan Fakhoury, Helen Tsenwhei Lee, Jessica Elizabeth Reed, Kevin Matthew Schlosser, Karen Elaine Sexton, Haile Tecle, Roy Thomas Winters
  • Publication number: 20130312421
    Abstract: A fuel valve for a gas turbine engine includes a passageway configured to direct a fuel to the engine and a flow restriction positioned in the passageway. The fuel valve may also include a first pressure sensor coupled to the passageway upstream of the restriction through an upstream port, and a second pressure sensor coupled to the passageway downstream of the restriction through a downstream port. The fuel valve may further include a third pressure sensor coupled to the upstream port through a first branch port, and a fourth pressure sensor coupled to the downstream port through a second branch port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: November 28, 2013
    Inventors: Gregory Palczewski, Roy Thomas Collins, Jim R. Waddell
  • Publication number: 20130272630
    Abstract: A packaging receptacle, made from a flexible film, has a first side sealed to a second side, a top edge and an open top, an interior chamber, and a tear initiator. A product is placed in the internal chamber within the packaging receptacle, and the receptacle sealed closed. The flexible film has a linear tear property and an imbalanced internal stress so that the film exhibits a linear tear property in combination with the torn edges curling outwardly and away from the interior chamber within the packaging article. The packaging receptacle is particularly suited for the packaging of medical products to be sterilized while in the package. Also disclosed is a manually-openable packaged product, a process for preparing and transferring a product, and a process of opening a packaged product made from a packaging receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: CRYOVAC, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Roy Thomas, Rick Merical, Russell Darley, Jennifer Blocher
  • Publication number: 20130274275
    Abstract: This invention provides quinazoline compounds of the formula: wherein: R1 is halo; R2 is H or halo; R3 is a) C1-C3 alkyl, optionally substituted by halo; or b) —(CH2)n-morpholino, —(CH2)n-piperidine, —(CH2)n-piperazine, —(CH2)n-piperazine-N(C1-C3 alkyl), —(CH2)n-pyrrolidine, or —(CH2)n-imidazole; n is 1 to 4; R4 is —(CH2)m-Het; Het is morpholine, piperidine, piperazine, piperazine-N(C1-C3 alkyl), imidazole, pyrrolidine, azepane, 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyridine, or 3,6-dihydro-2H-pyridine, each optionally substituted by alkyl, halo, OH, NH2, NH(C1-C3 alkyl) or N(C1-C3 alkyl)2; m is 1-3; and X is O, S or NH; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as processes and intermediate compounds for making them, useful pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the compounds in the treatment of proliferative diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Stephen Alan FAKHOURY, Helen Tsenwhei LEE, Jessica Elizabeth REED, Kevin Matthew SCHLOSSER, Karen Elaine SEXTON, Haile TECLE, Roy Thomas WINTERS
  • Publication number: 20130239577
    Abstract: A method of operating a drive system for a load is disclosed. The drive system may have an electric motor/generator and a gas turbine engine. The engine may have a combustor, and main and pilot flow paths via which fuel is supplied to the combustor. The engine may be operable in low and standard emissions modes. A proportion of the fuel that is supplied to the combustor via the pilot flow path may be greater in the standard emissions mode than in the low emissions mode. The method may include determining an engine power requirement of the load, and whether the engine power requirement of the load is sufficiently large to operate the engine in the low emissions mode. Additionally, the method may include operating the electric motor/generator if the engine power requirement of the load is not sufficiently large to operate the engine in the low emissions mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Steven Howard DeMoss, Robert Eleazar Mendoza, Roy Thomas Collins
  • Patent number: 8468835
    Abstract: A method of operating a drive system for a load is disclosed. The drive system may have an electric motor/generator and a gas turbine engine. The engine may have a combustor, and main and pilot flow paths via which fuel is supplied to the combustor. The engine may be operable in low and standard emissions modes. A proportion of the fuel that is supplied to the combustor via the pilot flow path may be greater in the standard emissions mode than in the low emissions mode. The method may include determining an engine power requirement of the load, and whether the engine power requirement of the load is sufficiently large to operate the engine in the low emissions mode. Additionally, the method may include operating the electric motor/generator if the engine power requirement of the load is not sufficiently large to operate the engine in the low emissions mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2013
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Howard DeMoss, Robert Eleazar Mendoza, Roy Thomas Collins
  • Patent number: 8466165
    Abstract: This invention provides quinazoline compounds of the formula: wherein: R1 is halo; R2 is H or halo; R3 is a) C1-C3 alkyl, optionally substituted by halo; or b) —(CH2)n-morpholino, —(CH2)n-piperidine, —(CH2)n-piperazine, —(CH2)n-piperazine-N(C1-C3 alkyl), —(CH2)n-pyrrolidine, or —(CH2)n-imidazole; n is 1 to 4; R4 is —(CH2)m-Het; Het is morpholine, piperidine, piperazine, piperazine-N(C1-C3 alkyl), imidazole, pyrrolidine, azepane, 3,4-dihydro-2H-pyridine, or 3,6-dihydro-2H-pyridine, each optionally substituted by alkyl, halo, OH, NH2, NH(C1-C3 alkyl) or N(C1-C3 alkyl)2; m is 1-3; and X is O, S or NH; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, as well as processes and intermediate compounds for making them, useful pharmaceutical compositions and methods of using the compounds in the treatment of proliferative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 18, 2013
    Assignee: Warner-Lambert Company LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Alan Fakhoury, Helen Tsenwhei Lee, Jessica Elizabeth Reed, Kevin Matthew Schlosser, Karen Elaine Sexton, Haile Tecle, Roy Thomas Winters
  • Patent number: 8132435
    Abstract: A locking apparatus having a body, at least one arm and a tapered member; wherein relative movement between the arm and the tapered member extends the arm from the body. In use, the arm is arranged to press against a wall of a channel to hold the locking apparatus in place and prevent the opening of a roller shutter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2012
    Inventors: Roy Thomas, John Tradewell
  • Patent number: D766935
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Thompson Hoang An Pham, Fabrice Mario Murgia, Neal Watkins, Roy Thomas Collins, Cody Wayne Allen, Paul F. Cameron, Marco Ezra Leon, Jonathan Bendert
  • Patent number: D766936
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Thompson Hoang An Pham, Fabrice Mario Murgia, Neal Watkins, Roy Thomas Collins, Cody Wayne Allen, Paul F. Cameron, Marco Ezra Leon, Jonathan Bendert
  • Patent number: D769268
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Thompson Hoang An Pham, Fabrice Mario Murgia, Neal Watkins, Roy Thomas Collins, Cody Wayne Allen, Paul F. Cameron, Marco Ezra Leon, Jonathan Bendert