Patents by Inventor Steven A. Edwards
Steven A. Edwards 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: 20250135742Abstract: A system includes a source of sheet material and a conversion machine. The conversion machine is configured to receive the sheet material and to form the sheet material into a fill material. The conversion machine further includes a cutting system configured to selectively cut the fill material either partially or completely to form two pieces of the fill material. When the cutting system partially cuts the fill material, uncut portions of the fill material remain between the two pieces of the fill material. When the cutting system completely cuts the fill material, no uncut portions remain between the two pieces of the fill material.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: May 1, 2025Inventors: Patrick G. White, Cody Frederick Morse, Junkai He, Thomas Paul Orsini, Steven Edward Maston, Russell Thomas Christman
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Publication number: 20250126226Abstract: A content management platform automatically identifies content items that are presented during videoconferences. The platform is configured to access a video file that contains a plurality of frames of a recording of a videoconference, where the recording of the videoconference contains a record of screen sharing by one or more participants in the videoconference. The platform can classify one or more of the frames as content-containing frames. For each of these content-containing frames, the platform generates a vector representation of an image of at least a portion of the respective frame. An image of a respective frame can then be matched to a selected content item from a content repository, based on a degree of similarity between the image of the frame and the content item. The platform can then store a representation that links the video file to the selected content item.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Inventors: Lowell Geoffrey Vaughn, Steven Edward Lucco, Ming Ma, Bryan Pirtle, Ryan Buchmayer
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Patent number: 12275671Abstract: The embodiments described herein relate to chemically and mechanically durable glass compositions and glass articles formed from the same. In embodiments, the glass composition may include 74-78 mol. % SiO2; X mol. % Al2O3, wherein X is 5-7; alkaline earth oxide comprising MgO and CaO, wherein: CaO is 0.1-1.0 mol. %; MgO is 4-7 mol. %; and a ratio (CaO (mol. %)/(CaO (mol. %)+MgO (mol. %)) is less than or equal to 0.5. The glass composition may further include Y mol. % alkali oxide, wherein the alkali oxide comprises 9-13 mol. % Na2O and less than or equal to 0.4 mol. % of a fining agent. The glass composition may be free of boron and compounds of boron.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Paul Stephen Danielson, Steven Edward DeMartino, Melinda Ann Drake, Robert Michael Morena, Santona Pal, Robert Anthony Schaut
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Publication number: 20250082545Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Christy Lynn Chapman, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, JR., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, JR., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Publication number: 20250073145Abstract: A stick deodorant composition that includes a solvent with at least one polyhydric alcohol and a structurant that includes a blend of fatty acids. The fatty acid blend has a lower amount of sodium palmitate (C16:0), as compared to current deodorant products with stearic acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Edward Dewey Smith, III, David Frederick Swaile, Steven Edward Witt, Min Wei, Shane Whitaker
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Publication number: 20250075767Abstract: A damper assembly includes a damper tube having a tubular shape defining an inner surface and extending for an axial length. The damper assembly also includes a rod disposed at least partially within the damper tube, and a piston connected to the rod and slidably disposed within the damper tube and configured to contact the inner surface of the damper tube along a stroke region less than the axial length. The inner surface of the damper tube includes a hardened surface including martensite and extending along the stroke region and less than the axial length of the damper tube. A method of treating a damper tube includes directing a laser beam onto an inner surface of the damper tube along a stroke region and less than an axial length of the damper tube and to cause steel of the inner surface of the damper tube to form a hardened surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Frank Gerard PIRRELLO, James Louis LOPEZ, JR., Michael James CHISOM, Tania TANNAHILL, Steven Edward PYLE
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Patent number: 12226370Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Christie Leigh McCarthy, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Steven Edward DeMartino, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut
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Patent number: 12221178Abstract: A steering system for an articulated truck. The articulated truck is formed of a tractor and a trailer and an articulation joint. The steering system includes a hydraulic cylinder, with a cylinder barrel and a piston. The steering system provides for changes in angle between the tractor and the trailer. The hydraulic cylinder includes a snubbing tube projecting into the cylinder barrel. A hydraulic fluid passage opens into the cylinder barrel within the snubbing tube. The snubbing tube includes a main slot and a plurality of channels each extending between an interior and an exterior of the snubbing tube. The plurality of channels have a cross sectional area smaller than a cross sectional area of the main slot. When the articulated truck is steered, the piston moves in the cylinder barrel and the snubbing tube dampens the movement to prevent forces generated by the piston damaging the articulated truck.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2021Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: Caterpillar SARLInventors: Matthew Lee Dixon, Steven Edward Johnson, Adam J. Adeeb
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Publication number: 20250041827Abstract: This disclosure relates to liquid dispersion compositions that are suitable to provide absorbent materials (e.g., an absorbent coating), and methods of preparing the compositions and absorbent materials thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2024Publication date: February 6, 2025Inventors: Steven Edward Brown, Paul Sevier McClellan, JR., Bradlee Watts Gustavesen, Jason Randall
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Patent number: 12218812Abstract: Techniques are described for verifying connectivity in a virtualized computing environment comprising networked computing devices having internal endpoints that are configured with operational connectivity to external endpoints. A connectivity test component is configured to execute as a virtual resource in the virtualized computing environment, execute protocol-aware connectivity tests that enable detection of connectivity errors between the internal endpoints and external endpoints, and instantiate or access network interfaces for establishing connectivity between the internal endpoints and external endpoints. A configuration file defines connectivity types between the internal endpoints and external endpoints. Based on the configuration file, the connectivity test component is executed in the virtualized computing environment. An output is generated by the connectivity test component that is indicative of results of connectivity attempts in accordance with the configuration file.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Philip Joel Davies, Jonathan Phillips, Stephen Christopher Madden, Andrew Chrissie Edmonds, Steven Edward Orbell, Andrew McCurdy, Catherine Gallagher, Jason Dackins
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Patent number: 12209049Abstract: A glass container comprises a glass body comprising a first region under a compressive stress extending from a surface of the glass body to a depth of compression and a second region extending from the depth of compression into a thickness of the glass body, the second region being under a tensile stress. The glass container also includes a localized compressive stress region having a localized compressive stress extending from the surface to a localized depth of compression within the body. The localized depth of compression is greater than the depth of compression of the first region. The glass container also includes a crack re-direction region extending in a predetermined propagation direction, wherein the crack re-direction region possesses a higher tensile stress than the tensile stress in the second region in a sub-region of the crack re-direction region, the sub-region extending substantially perpendicular to the predetermined propagation direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Steven Edward DeMartino, William James Miller, Christopher Lee Timmons, David Inscho Wilcox
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Patent number: 12203313Abstract: A method for operating a multi-door oven apparatus is provided. In one example, the method comprises moving, by a mechanical device, a first oven door along a first path in a first direction orthogonal to a side surface of an oven, the side surface comprising an entrance to the oven. The method further comprises moving, by the mechanical device, the first oven door along a second path in a second direction parallel to the side surface, wherein moving the first oven door along the second path comprises moving the first oven door past a second oven door.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: TPS IP, LLCInventors: Lyle Oscar Dingman, Michael Abraham Schneck, Gary Allen Hanson, David Allen Strand, Michael Laddie Grande, Geoffry Allen Gromiuk, Steven Edward Kempowski, Jon Allen Ludlum, Zachary Alan Griffa
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Patent number: 12203662Abstract: Techniques regarding the composition and/or structure of oven walls are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an oven with a heat source configured to heat a hollow space within the oven. The oven further can comprise an oven body that can define the hollow space. Also, the oven body can comprise a plurality of connected sides, wherein one or more of the connected sides comprise a plurality of carbon nanotubes.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: TPS IP, LLCInventors: Lyle Oscar Dingman, Michael Abraham Schneck, Gary Allen Hanson, David Allen Strand, Michael Laddie Grande, Geoffry Allen Gromiuk, Steven Edward Kempowski, Jon Allen Ludlum
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Patent number: 12186267Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Christy Lynn Chapman, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Patent number: 12181160Abstract: Techniques regarding the composition and/or structure of oven walls are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an oven with a heat source configured to heat a hollow space within the oven. The oven further can comprise an oven body that can define the hollow space. Also, the oven body can comprise a plurality of connected sides, wherein one or more of the connected sides comprise a plurality of carbon nanotubes.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 31, 2024Assignee: TPS IP, LLCInventors: Lyle Oscar Dingman, Michael Abraham Schneck, Gary Allen Hanson, David Allen Strand, Michael Laddie Grande, Geoffry Allen Gromiuk, Steven Edward Kempowski, Jon Allen Ludlum
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Patent number: 12175463Abstract: A resource request that is directed to a first online resource of a resource provider is detect by a computing device. A first user that initiated the resource request is identified based on the resource request. A set of challenge questions is determined in response to the resource request and based on the first user. A first challenge question of the set of challenge questions is present, to a first client device of the first user.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven Edward Atkin, Alisha Moore
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Publication number: 20240401858Abstract: A sensor for detecting contamination of a cryogenic refrigerant in a cryogenic refrigeration system, a method and a refrigeration system are disclosed. The sensor comprises: an inlet for coupling to a cryogenic refrigerant flow path in the cryogenic refrigeration system and a thermal conductivity detector in fluid communication with the inlet. The thermal conductivity detector is configured to generate a signal indicative of a detected thermal conductivity of the cryogenic refrigerant received from the cryogenic refrigeration system when the sensor is coupled thereto. The sensor also comprises circuitry configured to convert the thermal conductivity signal to an indication of contamination of the cryogenic refrigerant; and an output configured to output the indication of contamination of the cryogenic refrigerant.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Peter F. Moran, Steven Edward Zacharski
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Patent number: 12139420Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for separating an amount of a perfluoroalkyl or polyfluoroalkyl substance (PFAS) from water which is contaminated with the substance. The method comprises the steps of: admitting an amount of the water, which includes an initial concentration of the substance, into a chamber via an inlet thereinto, and introducing a flow of gas into the chamber. The introduced gas induces the water in the chamber to flow, and produces a froth layer which is formed at, and which rises above, an interface with the said flow of water and of introduced gas in the chamber. The froth layer includes an amount of water, and also a concentrated amount of the substance in comparison compared with its initial concentration. The step of removal of at least some of the froth layer from an upper portion of the chamber occurs.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: OPEC Remediation Technologies Pty LimitedInventors: Steven Edward Phillips, David John Burns
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Publication number: 20240366474Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter di of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2024Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Connor Thomas O'Malley, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Steven Edward DeMartino, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Patent number: 12134147Abstract: Systems and methods for low-manganese welding alloys are disclosed. An example arc welding consumable may comprise: between 0.4 and 1.0 wt % manganese; strengthening agents selected from the group consisting of nickel, cobalt, copper, carbon, molybdenum, chromium, vanadium, silicon, and boron; and grain control agents selected from the group consisting of niobium, tantalum, titanium, zirconium, and boron. The grain control agents may comprise greater than 0.06 wt % and less than 0.6 wt % of the welding consumable. The resulting weld deposit may comprise a tensile strength greater than or equal to 70 ksi, a yield strength greater than or equal to 58 ksi, a ductility (as measured by percent elongation) of at least 22%, and a Charpy V-notch toughness greater than or equal to 20 ft-lbs at ?20° F. The welding consumable may provide a manganese fume generation rate less than 0.01 grams per minute during the arc welding operation.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: HOBART BROTHERS LLCInventors: Steven Edward Barhorst, Kevin M. Krieger, Joseph C. Bundy, Mario Anthony Amata, Daryl L. Duncan, Susan Renata Fiore