Patents by Inventor Stephen R. Ely

Stephen R. Ely 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: 11924055
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display system and control circuitry. The user's environment may be presented on the display system. The environment on the display system may be a captured image of the environment, may be the actual real world viewed through an optical combiner, or may be a completely virtual image representing the environment. The control circuitry may gather information about external electronic devices in the user's environment, including determining a type and location of each external electronic device and a status of wireless communications links between external electronic devices. The display system may overlay computer-generated display elements onto the user's environment to indicate the status of wireless communications links between the external electronic devices. In response to touch or gesture input, the control circuitry may send control signals to the external electronic devices to establish or break wireless communications links between external electronic devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Colin M. Ely, Erik G. de Jong, Stephen Brian Lynch, Fletcher R. Rothkopf
  • Patent number: 5419833
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for an anaerobic process to reduce caustic requirements and to facilitate dissolution of organic acid having limited solubility by combining effluent from an anaerobic reactor having dissolved carbon dioxide with fresh feed containing the organic acid and stripping the carbon dioxide from the mixture to raise the pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen R. Ely, George P. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4826600
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for an anaerobic process to reduce caustic requirements and to facilitate dissolution of organic acid having limited solubility by combining effluent from an anaerobic reactor having dissolved carbon dioxide with fresh feed containing the organic acid and stripping the carbon dioxide from the mixture to raise the pH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1989
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen R. Ely, George P. Olsen
  • Patent number: 4748576
    Abstract: A pseudo-random binary sequence generator comprises at least one shift register (S, T) arranged in a recirculating loop and having a plurality of logic gates (G) for logically combining the outputs of selected stages of the register to provide a pseudo-random sequence, and a multiplexer (M), having a p data inputs and q address inputs all connected to selected shift register stages, and which selects at any instant one of the p data input bits in accordance with the q-bit address word to provide the generator output. The number s of logic gates is especially high and is related to the total number r of shift register stages (r>p+q) by the expression: 2.sup.s .gtoreq.r.sup.2. Some of the shift register stages of the or each shift register are connected to selected data inputs of the multiplexer and others of the stages of the same shift register are connected to selected address inputs of the multiplexer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1988
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Henry J. Beker, Luc Emiel L. Boes, Peter R. Brennand, Edmund R. Brown, Gerald O. Crowther, Wilhelmus M. Dorn, Stanley M. Edwardson, Stephen R. Ely, Louis C. Guillou, Peter M. Jenner, Sylvia M. Jennings, Michael J. Knee, Arthur G. Mason, Jean-Marie C. Nicolas
  • Patent number: 4677240
    Abstract: A catalytic process is provided for upgrading a hydrocarbon feed stream containing pseudocumene together with a fraction of close boiling hydrocarbon compounds having a normal boiling point in a temperature range of about 320.degree. F. to about 365.degree. F. comprising contacting such hydrocarbon feed steam in the presence of hydrogen with a catalyst comprising AMS-1B crystalline borosilicate molecular sieve whereby such close boiling hydrocarbon compounds are converted to compounds having a normal boiling point below a temperature of about 300.degree. F., and fractionating the effluent product stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 30, 1987
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald E. Carlson, Stephen R. Ely, Allen I. Feinstein, Ibrahim Ghanayem
  • Patent number: 4619821
    Abstract: A process to decompose ozone comprises passing an ozone-containing gas with a catalyst comprised of an AMS-1B crystalline borosilicate catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1985
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1986
    Assignee: Amoco Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen R. Ely
  • Patent number: 4285919
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for preparing a metal-cation-deficient crystalline borosilicate, which method comprises: (1) preparing a mixture containing an oxide of silicon that is substantially free of metal cations, an oxide of boron, ammonium hydroxide, alkylammonium cation or a precursor of an alkylammonium cation, and water; and (2) maintaining the mixture at suitable reaction conditions to effect formation of the borosilicate.There are also disclosed the crystalline borosilicate that results from the above-described method of preparation and uses of that borosilicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1981
    Assignee: Standard Oil Company (Indiana)
    Inventors: Marvin R. Klotz, Stephen R. Ely