Patents by Inventor Scott A Brown

Scott A Brown 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).

  • Solar Panel Case
    Publication number: 20170040935
    Abstract: A solar panel system may include a case having built-in space for housing equipment, such as advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) hardware and other components. The solar panel case may provide a face angled at approximately 45 degrees for mounting at least one solar panel. A modular system that may include a battery holder may be easily placed inside of the case and quickly removed from the case. The solar panel case and solar panel system may be provided to simultaneously house equipment and support at least one solar panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventor: Scott Brown
  • Meter Box Lid
    Publication number: 20170023612
    Abstract: A meter box lid includes electronic meter reading equipment that may be disposed in areas of the meter box lid, so as to prevent the equipment from becoming damaged when the lid is removed. A transmitter antenna may be mounted to the meter box lid to deliver a signal to data collection device and may remain intact whether or not the meter box lid is removed from a meter box. A solar panel may provide an extended battery life, and a tamper switch may provide notification of removal of the meter box lid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventor: Scott Brown
  • DEVICE WITH DILATED OXIDATION ZONE FOR GASIFYING FEEDSTOCK
    Publication number: 20160348015
    Abstract: A downdraft gasifier that utilizes a plurality of vertically positioned tubes to create a pyrolysis zone, an oxidation zone beneath the pyrolysis zone and a reduction zone beneath the oxidation zone. The shape of the tubes eliminates the need for a restriction (hearth), which limits the maximum achievable throughput. A rotating and vertically adjustable grate is located beneath, but not attached to, the reduction zone of the gasifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2016
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Deon John POTGIETER, Billy Freeman Hopper, Jeffrey Scott Brown, Mark Oliver Loftin
  • Coin feeder
    Patent number: 9501886
    Abstract: The invention provides a coin feeder for feeding coins to a coin sensor. The coin feeder comprises a hopper disc having a first surface and arranged to receive coins on the first surface, and to transport the coins along a first path towards the coin sensor. The coin feeder also comprises one or more coin deflectors to deflect coins received on the first surface from the first path if the coins are above a threshold thickness. At least one of the one or more coin deflectors comprises a rotatable member spaced from the first surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: SCAN COIN AB
    Inventor: Simon Scott-Brown
  • Bearing assembly for a connecting rod
    Patent number: 9453528
    Abstract: A bearing assembly including a connecting rod (30) with a first end (32) and a second end (36), the second end (36) defining a first outer raceway (44a) and a second outer raceway (44b) with a thrust ring (60) therebetween, a crankshaft (10) defining a cylindrical inner raceway (14), a first plurality of radial roller elements (52a) disposed between the first outer raceway (44a) and the inner raceway (14), and a second plurality of radial roller elements (52b) disposed between the second outer raceway (44b) and the inner raceway (14). An axial length of at least one of the first radial roller elements (52a) is greater than an axial length of the first outer raceway (44a) and the axial length of at least one of the second radial roller elements (52b) is greater than an axial length of the second outer raceway (44b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Koyo Bearings North America LLC
    Inventors: Gary Schick, Scott Brown
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO DETECT CONTENT SKIPPING BY A CONSUMER OF A RECORDED PROGRAM
    Publication number: 20160261913
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program are disclosed. An example disclosed apparatus includes a segment identifier to identify a first number of times a media segment was fast-forwarded and a second number of times the media segment was rewound; and a recapture identifier to determine whether the media segment was recaptured based on a comparison of the first number of times and the second number of times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: William A. Feininger, Scott Brown
  • BEADED PARTIALLY COATED ANTI-MARKING JACKETS
    Publication number: 20160250842
    Abstract: A removable flexible jacket for use in a printing press having a transfer cylinder for transferring a freshly printed substrate comprises a sheet of woven fabric, a beaded film sheet coupled to the sheet of woven fabric, and an image disposed between the sheet of woven fabric and the beaded film sheet. The image is visible through the beaded film sheet, and wherein the image divides at least a portion of a surface of the beaded film sheet into a plurality of zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Howard W. DeMoore, Arnold Cooper, David Dean Douglas, W. Scott Brown, Joey V. Le
  • ANTI-MARKING JACKETS HAVING AN IMAGE
    Publication number: 20160229176
    Abstract: A removable flexible jacket for use in a printing press having a transfer cylinder for transferring a freshly printed substrate comprises a sheet of woven fabric, a beaded film sheet coupled to the sheet of woven fabric, and an image disposed between the sheet of woven fabric and the beaded film sheet. The image is visible through the beaded film sheet, and wherein the image divides at least a portion of a surface of the beaded film sheet into a plurality of zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Howard W. DeMoore, Arnold Cooper, David Dean Douglas, W. Scott Brown, Joey V. Le
  • Device with dilated oxidation zone for gasifying feedstock
    Patent number: 9375694
    Abstract: A downdraft gasifier that utilizes a plurality of vertically positioned tubes to create a pyrolysis zone, an oxidation zone beneath the pyrolysis zone and a reduction zone beneath the oxidation zone. The shape of the tubes eliminates the need for a restriction (hearth), which limits the maximum achievable throughput. A rotating and vertically adjustable grate is located beneath, but not attached to, the reduction zone of the gasifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: PHG ENERGY, LLC
    Inventors: Deon John Potgieter, Billy Freeman Hopper, Jeffrey Scott Brown, Mark Oliver Loftin
  • METHOD FOR CLEANING PRODUCER GAS USING A MICROWAVE INDUCED PLASMA CLEANING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20160145515
    Abstract: A device and method for cleaning producer gas includes a filter bed housing and a microwave chamber. The filter bed housing comprises an inlet for carbon-based material and a spent carbon outlet. The microwave chamber comprises a permeable top and wave guides around the perimeter through which microwaves can be introduced into the device using magnetrons. The method comprises using the device by filling the filter bed housing with carbon-based material, introducing microwaves into the microwave chamber using the magnetrons and wave guides, passing the gas through carbon-based material in the filter bed chamber, the microwave chamber, the gas permeable top and the gas outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Inventors: Deon John POTGIETER, Mark Oliver LOFTIN, Tom STANZIONE, Jeffrey Scott BROWN
  • Method for cleaning anti-marking jackets
    Patent number: 9346258
    Abstract: A removable flexible jacket for use in a printing press having a transfer cylinder for transferring a freshly printed substrate comprises a sheet of woven fabric, a beaded film sheet coupled to the sheet of woven fabric, and an image disposed between the sheet of woven fabric and the beaded film sheet. The image is visible through the beaded film sheet, and wherein the image divides at least a portion of a surface of the beaded film sheet into a plurality of zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: PRINTING RESEARCH, Inc.
    Inventors: Howard W. DeMoore, Arnold Cooper, David Dean Douglas, W. Scott Brown, Joey V. Le
  • Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program
    Patent number: 9350939
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to detect content skipping by a consumer of a recorded program are disclosed. An example disclosed apparatus includes a segment identifier to identify a first number of times a media segment was fast-forwarded and a second number of times the media segment was rewound; and a recapture identifier to determine whether the media segment was recaptured based on a comparison of the first number of times and the second number of times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: William A. Feininger, Scott Brown
  • METHODS OF FORMING A CONDITIONED ISOLATION ELEMENT FOR A SENSOR ASSEMBLY, AND RELATED CONDITIONED ISOLATION ELEMENTS AND SENSOR ASSEMBLIES
    Publication number: 20160138992
    Abstract: A method of forming a conditioned isolation element for a sensor assembly comprises subjecting a preformed isolation element structure to at least one thermal annealing process to form a conditioned isolation element structure substantially less susceptible to at least one of hydrogen permeation, hydrogen-based embrittlement, and hydrogen-based stress-cracking. Conditioned isolation elements and sensor assemblies are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Nicholas B. Durrant, G. Scott Brown, K. Robert Harker
  • DYNAMICALLY INFERRING VARIABLE DIMENSIONS IN USER-ADDED EQUATIONS
    Publication number: 20160140324
    Abstract: A processor executable method, system, and computer-readable media expedite the process of entering equations for use in developing simulations of chemical processes. The process of entering equations is expedited by dynamically inferring the dimensions of variables. The process infers the dimensions of all variables in user-added equations, and infers the dimensions of each variable in a user-added equation sequentially. The process automatically creates variables with unassigned dimensions in response to indications, such as inputs from a user, to declare new equations. The process assigns dimensions to variables based on relations between variables, such as logical relations between the dimensions of variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: INVENSYS SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventor: Harry Scott Brown
  • DOWNHOLE DISTRIBUTED PRESSURE SENSOR ARRAYS, DOWNHOLE PRESSURE SENSORS, DOWNHOLE DISTRIBUTED PRESSURE SENSOR ARRAYS INCLUDING QUARTZ RESONATOR SENSORS, AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20160123133
    Abstract: Downhole distributed pressure sensor arrays include sensor housings each comprising at least one pressure sensor in a pressure housing. Downhole pressure sensors include a housing, at least one pressure sensor in a pressure housing portion of the housing, and at least one isolation element positioned at an outer wall of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Brian T. Leeflang, G. Scott Brown
  • PASS-THROUGHS FOR USE WITH SENSOR ASSEMBLIES, SENSOR ASSEMBLIES INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE PASS-THROUGH AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20160123830
    Abstract: Transducer assemblies may include a sensor and a housing including a pass-through portion comprising at least one aperture in a portion of the housing extending along a longitudinal axis of the housing and the sensor. Methods of forming transducer assemblies may include welding a first housing section of the transducer assembly to a second housing portion of the transducer assembly and forming at least one aperture in the first housing section extending along a longitudinal axis of the transducer assembly, along a chamber for holding a sensor, and through the weld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: G. Scott Brown, K. Robert Harker, Scott S. Merkley
  • DOWNHOLE DISTRIBUTED SENSOR ARRAYS FOR MEASURING AT LEAST ONE OF PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE, DOWNHOLE DISTRIBUTED SENSOR ARRAYS INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE WELD JOINT, AND METHODS OF FORMING SENSOR ARRAYS FOR DOWNHOLE USE INCLUDING WELDING
    Publication number: 20160123135
    Abstract: A downhole sensor array includes sensor housings, and each sensor housing contains one or more of a pressure sensor and a temperature sensor. Cable segments connect the sensor housings. A weld joint bonds a sensor housing to a jacket of a cable segment, and a conductor of the cable segment and the jacket of the cable segment may be separated by a void proximate the weld joint. Methods relate to forming such sensor arrays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Brian T. Leeflang, G. Scott Brown
  • System, apparatus and method for determining correct metadata from community-submitted data
    Patent number: 9305119
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method for processing or correcting metadata used to characterize content such as images, video, books, or music, where that metadata may be provided by a community of users or other source. The metadata may be searched as part of a process of identifying and accessing content of interest to a user or of sharing content among users of a network. The metadata is typically a string or strings of characters that is submitted by a community, so that the accuracy of specific data cannot be guaranteed and consistent formats and unambiguous descriptions may not be used by all members of the community.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: MYSPACE LLC
    Inventors: Hadi Partovi, Yevgeny Zarakhovsky, Nathaniel Scott Brown
  • MICROFINANCE FUNDS AGGREGATION FOR A RETAIL INVESTOR
    Publication number: 20160092983
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method supporting aggregation for clients are disclosed. A particular example embodiment includes selecting listings for clients based on profiles; causing display of the listings at the clients; receiving, from at least some of the clients, authorization to aggregate resources; aggregating the authorized resources; and providing the aggregated resources to another party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: March 31, 2016
    Inventors: Robert Scott Brown, Ashwini Narayanan, Amyn Thawer
  • Auto injector
    Patent number: D774641
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Stephen G. Miggels, Inyoung Jang, Henry Mack, Wail Rasheed, Scott Brown, Robert Berger, Peter Basile