Patents by Inventor Scott A. Watkins

Scott A. Watkins 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: 20160221653
    Abstract: A boat includes a hull, a deck, an engine disposed between the hull and the deck, and a jet propulsion unit including a jet nozzle configured to jet water therefrom. The jet nozzle includes a hole to which a water passage is connected and is configured to supply pressurized water from the jet nozzle to a water intake opening located in an interior of the hull. The water intake opening is connected to an interior water passage disposed in the interior of the hull and between the hull and the deck. The interior water passage is connected to a deck hose used to wash the boat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventor: Scott WATKINS
  • Publication number: 20150381941
    Abstract: A motor vehicle usage tracking system for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on operations of motor vehicles each having a modular connected headrest with an imaging device for imaging in a viewpoint from a driver's seating position and communicating with a data bus in the motor vehicle for the operational data correlated with the imaging and communicated to the servicer having an analyzer configure for evaluating and reporting on motor vehicle operations. An aftermarket sleeve is disclosed for retro-fit installation of the motor vehicle tracking device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: MOBILE DATA HOLDINGS LIMITED, INC.
    Inventors: D Scott Watkins, John Lamont
  • Patent number: 9132805
    Abstract: An unattended-vehicle engine-idling system controls a vehicle powertrain in a non-motive mode with the engine running. An ignition switch operables with a removable ignition key. A control circuit has multiple states including a PREARMED state which is entered when the powertrain is in the motive mode and the user generates a manual activation signal. An ARMED state is entered when the transmission is in Park and holds an ignition switch status signal at RUN. An ACTIVE state is entered when the ignition switch is moved to the Accessory or Off positions or the key is removed. The powertrain is switched to non-motive mode and the switch status signal stays at RUN. A DISARMED state is entered in response to a manual deactivation signal generated independently of the ignition switch. In the DISARMED state, the ignition switch status signal corresponds with the ignition switch position, thereby turning off the engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel M. King, Thomas L. Miller, Kevin T. Hille, Scott A. Watkins, James E. Kaminske
  • Patent number: 9079638
    Abstract: A watercraft is provided. The watercraft includes a cockpit. The watercraft further includes a stern-facing seat having a movable backrest. The seat is outside of the cockpit. An aquatic activity platform extends to a stern of the watercraft from the seat, and defines a foot rest for the seat. An engine is positioned substantially further towards a bow of the watercraft than the seat. A storage compartment has an opening positioned further towards the bow than the backrest of the seat. The backrest is movable to a first position to expose the opening and provide access to the storage compartment, and to a second position to conceal the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignees: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, YAMAHA JET BOAT MANUFACTURING U.S.A., INC.
    Inventors: Mike Ricciardi, Scott Watkins, Ed Miller, Thomas Griffin
  • Publication number: 20150144052
    Abstract: A watercraft is provided. The watercraft includes a cockpit. The watercraft further includes a stern-facing seat having a movable backrest. The seat is outside of the cockpit. An aquatic activity platform extends to a stern of the watercraft from the seat, and defines a foot rest for the seat. An engine is positioned substantially further towards a bow of the watercraft than the seat. A storage compartment has an opening positioned further towards the bow than the backrest of the seat. The backrest is movable to a first position to expose the opening and provide access to the storage compartment, and to a second position to conceal the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicants: YAMAHA JET BOAT MANUFACTURING U.S.A,, INC., YAMAHA MOTOR CORPORATION, U.S.A.
    Inventors: Mike RICCIARDI, Scott WATKINS, Ed MILLER, Thomas GRIFFIN
  • Patent number: 9027494
    Abstract: A jet boat including a hull including a keel extending in a fore and aft direction of the jet boat, at least one jet propulsion nozzle mounted to a rear of the hull, and an articulating keel attached at the rear of the hull, the articulating keel arranged to pivot about a pivot axis extending vertically or substantially vertically. A bottom surface of the articulating keel does not extend below a bottom surface of the keel when the articulating keel is parallel or substantially parallel to the fore and aft direction of the jet boat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Yamaha Motor Corporation, USA
    Inventor: Scott Watkins
  • Patent number: 8883320
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising: an anode; a cathode; a light emissive layer located between the anode and the cathode, said light emissive layer comprising a charged metal complex for emitting light and a counterion or counterions with sufficient charge to balance the change on the charged metal complex; characterized in that the counterion or counterions are substantially immobile so (that light output from the device is immediate, provided that the combined charged metal complex and counterion do not have General Formula: (I) or (II); where C—N is a cyclometallated liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: CDT Oxford Ltd.
    Inventors: Michael Frampton, Sophie Heidenhain, Annette Steudel, Jonthan N. G. Pillow, Scott Watkins, Nigel Male
  • Publication number: 20140137783
    Abstract: A jet boat including a hull including a keel extending in a fore and aft direction of the jet boat, at least one jet propulsion nozzle mounted to a rear of the hull, and an articulating keel attached at the rear of the hull, the articulating keel arranged to pivot about a pivot axis extending vertically or substantially vertically. A bottom surface of the articulating keel does not extend below a bottom surface of the keel when the articulating keel is parallel or substantially parallel to the fore and aft direction of the jet boat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: YAMAHA MOTOR CORPORATION, USA
    Inventor: Scott WATKINS
  • Patent number: 8518262
    Abstract: A method of integrating individual water treatment assemblies into a seamless water treatment control system. A Reverse Osmosis assembly contains a controller wherein all other pretreatment and post-treatment assemblies are electrical coupled thereto. The controller is preprogrammed for use in recognizing the coupling of the pretreatment and/or post treatment assemblies wherein and for receiving all control commands for operation thereof. The controller employs cells that allows and installer to interconnect assemblies by coupling low voltage control signal wiring having predefined inputs, set up as PnP, or by use of a personal wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Nalco Company
    Inventors: Scott Watkins, Raymond Perdue
  • Patent number: 8277588
    Abstract: Dissolving paper (22) covers pressure sensitive adhesive (20) on a mounting face (18) of an object (16) to be mounted on an exterior surface of a body panel (10) of a motor vehicle by a mechanical fastening system (24). The mounting is exposed to a water wash. Water begins to be absorbed by the dissolving paper through the edge of the paper's outer perimeter. As the paper increasingly absorbs water, it dissolves in the water exposing the adhesive which then adheres to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Gayle Goodrich, Scott Watkins
  • Patent number: 7956206
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode, a light emissive layer located between the anode and the cathode, said light emissive layer comprising a compound for emitting light, said compound comprising a metal complex and X, said metal complex containing a metal (M) and a phosphorous atom that is coordinated directly to M, and an aryl or heteroaryl group Ars that is directly bonded to the phosphorous atom, where Ars is substituted with X, and characterized in the X comprises an aryl or heteroaryl group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Cambridge Display Technology Limited
    Inventor: Scott Watkins
  • Publication number: 20100330322
    Abstract: Dissolving paper (22) covers pressure sensitive adhesive (20) on a mounting face (18) of an object (16) to be mounted on an exterior surface of a body panel (10) of a motor vehicle by a mechanical fastening system (24). The mounting is exposed to a water wash. Water begins to be absorbed by the dissolving paper through the edge of the paper's outer perimeter. As the paper increasingly absorbs water, it dissolves in the water exposing the adhesive which then adheres to the panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2009
    Publication date: December 30, 2010
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Gayle Goodrich, Scott Watkins
  • Patent number: 7700148
    Abstract: A method of forming an electroluminescent device comprising the steps of: providing a substrate comprising a first electrode for injecting charge carriers of a first type; forming an electroluminescent layer having a surface by depositing onto the substrate a composition comprising a host material and a light-emitting dopant monomer of formula (I): A-C—(X)n??(I) wherein X represents a polymerisable group; A represents a light-emitting group; C represents a bond or a spacer group and n is an integer; rendering at least some of the electroluminescent layer insoluble in a solvent by polymerising the monomer of formula (I); exposing the electroluminescent layer to the solvent; and depositing a second electrode capable of injecting charge carriers of a second type over the electroluminescent layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2010
    Assignee: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Annette Steudel, Nigel Male, Scott Watkins
  • Publication number: 20080088224
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising an anode, a cathode, a light emissive layer located between the anode and the cathode, said light emissive layer comprising a compound for emitting light, said compound comprising a metal complex and X, said metal complex containing a metal (M) and a phosphorous atom that is coordinated directly to M, and an aryl or heteroaryl group Ars that is directly bonded to the phosphorous atom, where Ars is substituted with X, and characterized in the X comprises an aryl or heteroaryl group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Applicant: CDT OXFORD LIMITED
    Inventor: Scott Watkins
  • Publication number: 20080036368
    Abstract: A light emitting device comprising: an anode; a cathode; a light emissive layer located between the anode and the cathode, said light emissive layer comprising a charged metal complex for emitting light and a counterion or counterions with sufficient charge to balance the charge on the charged metal complex; characterised in that the counterion or counterions are substantially immobile so that light output from the device is immediate, provided that the combined charged metal complex and counterion do not have General Formula I or II: where C—N is a cyclometallated ligand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2005
    Publication date: February 14, 2008
    Applicant: CDT OXFORD LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Frampton, Sophie Heidenhain, Annette Steudel, Jonthan Pillow, Scott Watkins, Nigel Male
  • Patent number: D627034
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Nalco Crossbow Water, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Perdue, Scott Watkins
  • Patent number: D627426
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: Nalco Crossbow Water, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Perdue, Scott Watkins
  • Patent number: D634695
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2011
    Assignee: Tennessee Watercraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Watkins, Michael J. Ricciardi
  • Patent number: D641682
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Tennessee Watercraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Watkins, Michael J. Ricciardi
  • Patent number: D665719
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2012
    Assignee: Tennessee Watercraft, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Watkins, Michael J. Ricciardi