Patents by Inventor Stephen Bauer

Stephen Bauer 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: 20190299474
    Abstract: A handle for a shaving razor in which the handle comprises a frame and a movable member assembly operably coupled to the frame such that the frame is disposed between the movable member assembly and where the movable member assembly portions are configured to move both above and below the frame. The movement can be linear or rotational. The movable member assembly comprises one or more springs. A razor handle includes a rigid member, a first member having one or more movable elements wherein a portion of the first member is connected to a first surface of the rigid member, a second member, the second member coupled to a second surface of the rigid member wherein a benefit delivery assembly is disposed in an area between the rigid member and the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Steven Michael Bourque, Robert Harold Johnson, Matthew Stephen Bauer, Jack Anthony Washington, Charles James Bassett, Christopher Ramm, Ashok Bakul Patel
  • Patent number: 10298471
    Abstract: Included are embodiments of a system for monitoring device usage. The system may include a handheld device for performing an action, where the handheld device includes an engagement sensor and a computer that includes a processor and a memory component. The memory component stores logic that causes the computer to determine a minimum device engagement time of the handheld device. In some embodiments, the logic causes the computer to receive output data from the engagement sensor, where the output data includes an actual device engagement time, determine if the actual device engagement time is at least as long as the minimum device engagement time, and in response to determining that the actual device engagement time is at least as long as the minimum device engagement time, determine the action taken by the handheld device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen Bauer, Pawan Sudarshan Kodandapani, Jeffrey Dean McDowell, Eric Viveros Borges, Gordon Allen Briggs
  • Publication number: 20180304289
    Abstract: An actuator is provided. The actuator includes a nozzle; a valve; a conduit in fluid communication with the valve at one end portion and in fluid communication with the nozzle at an opposite end portion; and a trigger operatively connected with the valve, wherein the trigger includes a first zone and a second zone, wherein the first and second zones are independently movable about a common axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen BAUER, Linda Magenis GIRARD, Laura Lynn HEILMAN, James Alexander MORLEY
  • Publication number: 20180304290
    Abstract: An actuator includes a nozzle; a valve; and a trigger operatively connected with the valve, wherein the trigger comprises an elastomeric material, wherein the trigger is configured to reciprocate from a forward position to a rearward position and back to a forward position upon actuation, wherein upon actuation from a forward position to a rearward position the trigger comprises a changing moment arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen BAUER, Linda Magenis GIRARD, Laura Lynn HEILMAN, James Alexander MORLEY
  • Publication number: 20170099199
    Abstract: Included are embodiments of a system for monitoring device usage. The system may include a handheld device for performing an action, where the handheld device includes an engagement sensor and a computer that includes a processor and a memory component. The memory component stores logic that causes the computer to determine a minimum device engagement time of the handheld device. In some embodiments, the logic causes the computer to receive output data from the engagement sensor, where the output data includes an actual device engagement time, determine if the actual device engagement time is at least as long as the minimum device engagement time, and in response to determining that the actual device engagement time is at least as long as the minimum device engagement time, determine the action taken by the handheld device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen Bauer, Pawan Sudarshan Kodandapani, Jeffrey Dean McDowell, Eric Viveros Borges, Gordon Allen Briggs
  • Publication number: 20170097758
    Abstract: Included are embodiments for device tuning. Some embodiments of the method include identifying a razor device, where the razor device includes a sensing system, determining a first operating parameter of the razor device, where the first operating parameter relates to the sensing system, and providing a user interface to a user, where the user interface includes a user option to adjust the first operating parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Matthew Stephen Bauer, Pawan Sudarshan Kodandapani, Jeffrey Dean McDowell
  • Publication number: 20090151807
    Abstract: A container suitable for containing a liquid composition and comprising an insert located in the neck of said container, and wherein when said container is filled with a liquid composition, zero headspace exists below said insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Inventors: Chanda Janese DAVIS, Matthew Stephen Bauer, Daniel James Kinne
  • Publication number: 20080017066
    Abstract: A neutral gray or black ink and combinations thereof for ink-jet printing, comprising: an ink vehicle; carbon black; another colored pigment or pigments such as a combination of cyan and violet pigments; wherein the carbon black and colored pigments are associated with a polymer or polymers which render the carbon black and pigments dispersible in aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Stephen Bauer, Zeying Ma
  • Publication number: 20070120928
    Abstract: Inkjet ink formulations and methods using the same, with improved performance, wherein the inks are formulated to work as an ink set with darker inks having a higher dynamic surface tension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2005
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Zeying Ma, Peter Morris, Anne Kelly-Rowley, Stephen Bauer, William Cressman, Sean Dobbins
  • Publication number: 20070097193
    Abstract: An ink set for inkjet printing includes a cyan ink having a first hue angle h° value between approximately 200 and approximately 260, a magenta ink having a second hue angle h° value between approximately 320 and approximately 10, a yellow ink having a third hue angle h° value between approximately 80 and approximately 120, an ink selected from the group consisting of orange and red inks having a fourth hue h° value between approximately 10 and approximately 80, a green ink having a fifth hue h° value between approximately 120 and approximately 200, an ink selected from the group consisting of blue and violet inks having a sixth hue h° value between approximately 260 and approximately 320, and at least one matte black ink having an average carbon black particle size of from about 70 to about 200 nm and a first lightness L* value, and at least one photoblack ink having an average carbon black particle size of from about 20 to about 130 nm and a second lightness L* value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2005
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Inventors: Zeying Ma, Stephen Bauer
  • Publication number: 20070079890
    Abstract: A fluid dispenser, or dispensing needle, cleaning station which provides a non-contact apparatus and method of cleaning the dispensing end of a fluid dispenser. The cleaning station includes gas dispensing devices attached to a frame. The gas dispensing devices control the application of pressurized gas to the dispensing end of a fluid dispenser such that excess material on the fluid dispenser is removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2005
    Publication date: April 12, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Bauer, Scott Bettinger, Steven Damari, Michael Gorda, James McDonough, Scott Watson
  • Publication number: 20070013756
    Abstract: A neutral gray or black ink and combinations thereof for ink-jet printing, comprising: an ink vehicle; carbon black; another colored pigment or pigments such as a combination of cyan and violet pigments; wherein the carbon black and colored pigments are associated with a polymer or polymers which render the carbon black and pigments dispersible in aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2006
    Publication date: January 18, 2007
    Inventors: Stephen Bauer, Zeying Ma
  • Publication number: 20060181587
    Abstract: An ink set for ink-jet printing includes a medium cyan ink-jet ink, a magenta ink-jet ink, and a gray ink-jet ink. Each of the medium cyan ink-jet ink, the magenta ink-jet ink, and the gray ink-jet ink are configured to have a lightness at a predetermined/given number of drops per unit area of an image-receiving medium such that the lightness of each of the inks are substantially matched.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Inventors: Stephen Bauer, Howard Doumaux, Tienteh Chen
  • Publication number: 20050171239
    Abstract: A neutral gray or black ink and combinations thereof for ink-jet printing, comprising: an ink vehicle; carbon black; another colored pigment or pigments such as a combination of cyan and violet pigments; wherein the carbon black and colored pigments are associated with a polymer or polymers which render the carbon black and pigments dispersible in aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Bauer, Zeying Ma
  • Publication number: 20050171238
    Abstract: A neutral gray or black ink and combinations thereof for ink-jet printing, comprising: an ink vehicle; carbon black; another colored pigment or pigments such as a combination of cyan and magenta pigments; wherein the carbon black and colored pigments are associated with a polymer or polymers which render the carbon black and pigments dispersible in aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Bauer, Zeying Ma
  • Publication number: 20050171240
    Abstract: A neutral gray or black ink and combinations thereof for ink-jet printing, comprising: an ink vehicle; carbon black; another colored pigment or pigments such as a combination of cyan and violet pigments; wherein the carbon black and colored pigments are associated with a polymer or polymers which render the carbon black and pigments dispersible in aqueous solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2005
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventors: Stephen Bauer, Zeying Ma