Patents by Inventor Scott A. Taylor
Scott A. Taylor 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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Publication number: 20240158922Abstract: A cathodic arc coating system includes alternating layers of at least one of titanium vanadium nitride (TiVN) and titanium silicon vanadium nitride (TiSiVN) disposed on a substrate; and alternating layers of titanium vanadium chromium nitride (TiVCrN) and titanium silicon vanadium nitride (TiSiVCrN) disposed on a substrate. A cathodic arc process includes a sub-hertz variable bias forming the alternating layers of alternating layers of at least one of titanium vanadium nitride (TiVN) and titanium silicon vanadium nitride (TiSiVN) disposed on a substrate; and alternating layers of titanium vanadium chromium nitride (TiVCrN) and titanium silicon vanadium nitride (TiSiVCrN) disposed on a substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Scott Andrew Weaver, Joshua Roger Salisbury, Aida Amroussia, Jon Michael Wilcox, Patrick Taylor Shower
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Publication number: 20240149120Abstract: An iron-type golf club head that includes a rear wall having a variable thickness region. The variable thickness region includes a plurality of recesses formed in an interior surface of the rear wall. A thickness of the rear wall, defined by the recesses, is less than the thickness of the rear wall between the recesses. A body of the golf club head includes a face opening, a toe port, and an internal-weight cavity. The golf club head also includes a strike plate, attached to the body so that the strike plate covers the face opening, and an internal weight, seated in the internal-weight cavity. An internal cavity of the golf club head is configured to receive the filler material through the toe port. A ratio of a minimum rear wall thickness to a minimum face thickness is between 0.15 to 0.65.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Connor Halberg, Adam Warren, Allan Saliba, Scott Taylor, Brian Hill, Conner Sarich, Mike Walker
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Patent number: 11975249Abstract: Disclosed herein is an iron-type golf club head comprising a body comprising a heel portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, and a topline portion. The topline portion has a mass per unit length of between 0.09 g/mm and 0.40 g/mm. The golf club head also comprises a strike plate coupled to the body at a front portion of the golf club head and a cavity defined between the topline portion, the sole portion, and the strike plate. The golf club head further comprises a bridge bar at a rear portion of the golf club head. The bridge bar spans the cavity, is spaced apart from the strike plate, and is rigidly fixed to and extends uprightly between the sole portion and the topline portion. The bridge bar has a mass per unit length of between 0.09 g/mm and 0.40 g/mm.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Scott Taylor, Adam Warren, Jason Issertell
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Patent number: 11972660Abstract: A system for proximity-based digital interactions includes a beacon transmitter configured to wirelessly broadcast a first interaction prompt message that includes a first interaction event code. A system server is configured to: receive an event activation message that includes the first interaction event code; identify and perform a first pre-programmed action; identify proximity between a mobile computing device and the beacon transmitter based on receipt of the first interaction event code from the mobile computing device; create a second interaction event code that is targeted to be performed by the mobile computing device; and transmit a configuration message to the beacon transmitter that includes the second interaction event code, causing the beacon transmitter to begin broadcasting a second interaction prompt message including the second interaction event code together with the first interaction prompt message, where the first interaction event code is different than the second interaction even code.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric Taylor, Damian Tarnawsky, Scott Kania
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Patent number: 11951365Abstract: A shim or badge is affixed to a golf club body to produce a cap-back iron, giving the appearance of a hollow-body iron. In this way, the golf club can be manufactured with the performance benefits of a game improvement iron, while providing the appearance of a blade, player's iron, and/or a hollow-body iron. For example, by using a lightweight and rigid shim or badge to close a cavity opening and extend into the toe portion in the golf club body, the golf club head can provide increased stiffness in the topline, while lowering CG. Various shim or badge arrangements and materials can be used, and a filler material and/or damper can be included within the cavity to improve sound and feel, while minimizing loss in COR.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Connor Mark Halberg, Adam Robert Warren, John Bernard Krzywiec, Scott Taylor, Bret H. Wahl, Mattieu Bovee
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Publication number: 20240108951Abstract: An iron-type golf club head is provided with a body having a volume less than 120 cc. The body can include a sole portion with two or more slots extending upwardly into the body through the sole portion into a cavity behind a face portion. A damper can be included in the cavity and in contact with a rear surface of the face portion. The club head can have a maximum CT proximate to the ideal striking location and a CT dropoff of no more than 110 ?s at a point located between a first and second scoreline proximate to the sole portion. The club head can also have a CG along the y-axis (CG-y) between 0.25 mm and 20 mm and a CG along a positive z-up axis (CG-z) between 12 mm and 25 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Scott Taylor, Peter L. Larsen, Bret H. Wahl, Joshua J. Dipert
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Patent number: 11943096Abstract: The technology may be utilized in network environments that use fiber optic cables to connect components. Components of the network perform functions as transceivers that transmit and receive light signals via the fiber cable. When optic power data received from the transceivers is recognized as a fault, an event is identified. The system logs each received event and converts all measurements into a common unit of measurement. The system analyzes aggregated data from the transceivers to detect patterns and trends, monitor the received data and provide real time fault predictions. For example, a machine learning process may recognize subtle trends or patterns in the data, and use the recognition to predict potential failures. The system uses the received data to create a graphical user interface (“GUI”) that represents the health of the network.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: CITIBANK, N.A.Inventors: Raja Balasubramanian, Rene Wilfredo Villatoro Escalante, Chike Gideon Okechukwu, Terry John Jenkins, Scott Taylor
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Patent number: 11938383Abstract: Described herein is a golf club head that comprises a body and a strike plate. The body comprises a heel portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, and a top portion. The strike plate comprises an outer peripheral edge and at least a portion of a strike face. Furthermore, the strike plate is welded to the body via a peripheral weld between the outer peripheral edge of the strike plate and the body. The outer peripheral edge of the strike plate comprises at least one welded portion, welded to the body via the peripheral weld, and at least one non-welded portion, not welded to the body.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Paul M. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Scott Taylor
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Publication number: 20240084131Abstract: Porous and microporous parts prepared by additive manufacturing as disclosed herein are useful in medical and non-medical applications. The parts are prepared from a composition containing both a solvent soluble component and a solvent insoluble component. After a part is printed by an additive manufacturing process it is exposed to solvent to extract solvent soluble component away front the printed part, resulting in a part having surface cavities.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Michael Scott Taylor, James Hyde, Brian Gaerke, Brad Johns, Michael Aaron Vaughn, Seth Dylan McCullen, David Gravett
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Publication number: 20240075356Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of iron-type golf club heads that include weight reducing features in the topline region of the club head that facilitate changing the Z-up location of the club head. In some embodiments the body includes a weight reducing feature in a topline weight reduction zone of the club head that extends over the entire face length from the par line to the toe portion ending at approximately the Z-up location of the iron type golf club head. The weight reducing feature results in a mass savings of about 2 g to about 20 g, and a Zup shift of about 0.5 mm to about 2.0 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Jason W. Issertell, Joshua J. Dipert, Bret H. Wahl, Maresala Milo, Zac Atwell, Scott Taylor
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Patent number: 11918874Abstract: A damper is provided within the cavity of a golf club head and spans substantially the full length of the striking face from heel-to-toe of the golf club head. One or more cutouts and/or other relief is provided in the damper to reduce the surface area of the damper that contacts the rear surface of the striking face. By reducing the surface area that the damper contacts the rear surface of the striking face, the full length damper improves the sound and feel of the golf club head at impact and only minimally reduces performance of the golf club head. For example, the one or more cutouts and/or other relief maintains face flexibility, characteristic time (CT) and coefficient of restitution (COR) of the striking face.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Connor Mark Halberg, Adam Robert Warren, John Bernard Krzywiec, Scott Taylor, Bret H. Wahl
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Patent number: 11911482Abstract: Disclosed herein are self-assembling protein nanoparticles comprising passenger molecules of interest.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Todd Yeates, Yen-Ting Lai, Justin Miller, Phillip Nguyen, Yashes Srinivasan, Nithin Dharmaraj, Scott Taylor, Andrew Liu
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Patent number: 11891727Abstract: Thermally stable absorbable fiber populations, i.e. fiber populations that do not undergo thermally induced crystallization, can be intermixed with thermally unstable fibers to yield a stabilizing effect without altering morphological properties of a fiber system. Via this, one may minimize thermally induced shrinkage and maintain physical properties of electrospun materials in the as-formed state.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Poly-Med, Inc.Inventors: Michael Scott Taylor, Seth Dylan McCullen
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Patent number: 11890516Abstract: Disclosed herein is an iron-type golf club head that comprises a strike plate, an enclosed internal cavity, and a rear aperture formed in a rear wall. The iron-type golf club head also comprises a stiffening plug, within the internal cavity and compressed between the back surface of the strike plate and the rear wall. The stiffening plug is insertable, through a rear aperture, into the internal cavity. The iron-type golf club head further comprises a rear fascia covering the rear aperture and at least a portion of the rear wall. A characteristic time (CT) at a geometric center of the strike face is at least 250 microseconds. A maximum thickness of the strike plate, at the strike face, is less than 3.5 millimeters, inclusive. The strike plate, excluding grooves, has a minimum thickness between 1.1 millimeters and 2.2 millimeters.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Scott Taylor, Joseph H. Hoffman, Matthew D. Johnson, Todd Beach
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Patent number: 11883724Abstract: A shim or badge is affixed to a golf cub body to produce a cap-back iron, giving the appearance of a hollow-body iron. In this way, the golf club can be manufactured with the performance benefits of a game improvement iron, while providing the appearance of a blade, player's iron, and/or a hollow-body iron. For example, by using a lightweight and rigid shim or badge to close a cavity opening in the golf club body, the golf club head can provide increased stiffness in the topline, while maintaining a low CG. Various shim or badge arrangements and materials can be used, and a filler material and/or damper can be included within the cavity to improve sound and feel, while minimizing loss in COR.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Connor Mark Halberg, Adam Robert Warren, John Bernard Krzywiec, Scott Taylor, Bret H. Wahl
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Publication number: 20240018707Abstract: Thermally stable absorbable fiber populations, i.e. fiber populations that do not undergo thermally induced crystallization, can be intermixed to yield a stabilizing effect without altering morphological properties of a first fiber system. By addition of a stabilizing fiber population one may minimize thermally induced shrinkage and maintain physical properties of electrospun materials in the as-formed state. In one particular abstract, medical barrier materials may be formed from the electrospun materials to provide improved medical barriers for treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Michael Scott Taylor, Seth Dylan McCullen, David Shalaby
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Publication number: 20230415008Abstract: Iron-type golf club heads are disclosed having a heel portion, a sole portion, a toe portion, a top-line portion, a front portion, a rear portion, and a striking face. The iron-type golf club heads include a localized stiffened region that is located on the striking face of the club head such that the localized stiffened region alters the launch conditions of golf balls struck by the club head in a way that wholly or partially compensates for, overcomes, or prevents the occurrence of a rightward deviation. In particular, the localized stiffened region is located on the striking face such that a golf ball struck under typical conditions will not impart a right-tending sidespin to the golf ball.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Applicant: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Joshua J. Dipert, Scott Taylor, Yong Ling
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Patent number: 11802203Abstract: Porous and microporous parts prepared by additive manufacturing as disclosed herein are useful in medical and non-medical applications. The parts are prepared from a composition containing both a solvent soluble component and a solvent insoluble component. After a part is printed by an additive manufacturing process it is exposed to solvent to extract solvent soluble component away from the printed part, resulting in a part having surface cavities.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2023Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Poly-Med, Inc.Inventors: Michael Scott Taylor, James Hyde, Brian Gaerke, Brad Johns, Michael Aaron Vaughn, Seth Dylan McCullen, David Gravett
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Patent number: 11801427Abstract: An iron-type golf club head is provided with a body having a volume less than 120 cc. The body can include a sole portion with two or more slots extending upwardly into the body through the sole portion into a cavity behind a face portion. A damper can be included in the cavity and in contact with a rear surface of the face portion. The club head can have a maximum CT proximate to the ideal striking location and a CT dropoff of no more than 110 ?s at a point located between a first and second scoreline proximate to the sole portion. The club head can also have a CG along the y-axis (CG-y) between 0.25 mm and 20 mm and a CG along a positive z-up axis (CG-z) between 12 mm and 25 mm.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Scott Taylor, Peter L. Larsen, Bret H. Wahl, Joshua J. Dipert
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Patent number: 11787354Abstract: A vehicle is electrically connected to one or more accessories. The vehicle includes at least one controller that may be configured to identify the accessory based on accessory identification information. The controller may also be configured to provide one or more commands to control an operation of the accessory.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Polaris Industries Inc.Inventors: Brian D. Krosschell, Aidan B. Shaughnessy, Joshua T. Weed, Benjamin S. Fuchs, Adam C. Koosmann, Austin A. Holt, Scott Taylor, Aaron T. Reay