Patents by Inventor Steven Lees

Steven Lees 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).

  • Aerostat deployable from sonobuoy launch container
    Patent number: 11249175
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for aerostat deployable from sonobuoy launch container. One embodiment is an apparatus that includes a capsule configured to launch from an aircraft and float in seawater with one or more sonobuoys. The capsule includes a receiver configured to receive sonobuoy data from the one or more sonobuoys, a transmitter configured to transmit the sonobuoy data to the aircraft, a cable configured to power the transmitter via a battery, and a reaction chamber including a reactant and configured to generate a gas from the seawater mixing with the reactant. The capsule also includes an aerostat tethered to the capsule via the cable and configured to inflate with the gas produced by the reaction chamber, and to ascend above the capsule with the transmitter to increase a distance for transmitting the sonobuoy data to the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: James Joseph Bonang, Steven Lee Gall, Michael Jeffrey Greenfield, Randall L. Mosten, Matthew Joseph Ragozzino
  • Poly gate extension design methodology to improve CMOS performance in dual stress liner process flow
    Patent number: 11251093
    Abstract: An integrated circuit and method with dual stress liners and with NMOS transistors with gate overhang of active that is longer than the minimum design rule and with PMOS transistors with gate overhang of active that are not longer than the minimum design rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Younsung Choi, Steven Lee Prins
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 11247431
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Securement Assembly for Enteral and Vesical Access Devices and Related Methods
    Publication number: 20220040046
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a securement assembly for an enteral access device or vesical access device (“access device”). The securement assembly includes a base and a lid. The base is generally configured to support an external port of the access device and the lid is pivotably coupled to the base. The base comprises a border rim and a central portion, wherein the border rim is configured to engage a skin surface of a patient around a stoma and the central portion is configured to engage the external port of the access device. The central portion may comprise opposing side arms defining an aperture through which a tube of the access device extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Lee Moulton, Tyler Mironuck
  • Discretizer and Method of Using Same
    Publication number: 20220032310
    Abstract: Discretizers that exhibit improved solid additive laden fluid flow emanating from the discretizers and methods of using same, particularly for making fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
  • Atomizer for an aerosol delivery device and related input, aerosol production assembly, cartridge, and method
    Patent number: 11234463
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to atomizers for an aerosol delivery device such as a smoking article. The atomizer may include a liquid transport element and a wire extending along at least a portion of a longitudinal length thereof. The wire may define contact portions configured to engage heater terminals and a heating portion configured to produce heat. The heating portion may include a variable coil spacing. In other atomizers, the wire may extend at least partially through the liquid transport element proximate the contact portions. Related inputs, cartridges, aerosol production assemblies, and methods of forming atomizers are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: John DePiano, David Smith, Patsy Coppola, Charles Jacob Novak, III, Steven Lee Alderman, James William McClellan, John William Wolber, Frank S. Silveira, Michael Laine, Paul A. Brinkley, Grady Lance Dooly
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 11235551
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Self-disinfecting teeth-whitening device
    Patent number: 11229508
    Abstract: Devices for whitening teeth that include a mouth piece and an ultraviolet light source, a sterilizer that sterilizes the mouth piece, or at least one Hall-effect sensor. At least a portion of the device or mouth piece may be sterilized. A wireless charging system may drive the sterilizer or UV source, which may operate only when the mouth piece is not in the user's mouth or when the mouth piece is charging. A safety mechanism may protect the user from eye damage. The mouth piece may be charged while the mouth piece and UV source are in an enclosure. The UV source or sterilizer may turn on only while the mouth piece is in the enclosure or only while the enclosure is closed. The Hall-effect sensor(s) may control whether the UV source or sterilizer is on or may detect whether the mouth piece is docked within the charger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Foresold LLC
    Inventors: Jason Lynn Whitney, Steven Lee Lane, Celina Chen, Joshua F. Valdez-Elizetxe
  • Low-cobalt and cobalt-free, high-energy cathode materials for lithium batteries
    Patent number: 11233239
    Abstract: Described herein are low or no-cobalt materials useful as electrode active materials in a cathode for lithium or lithium-ion batteries. For example, compositions of matter are described herein, such as electrode active materials that can be incorporated into an electrode, such as a cathode. The disclosed electrode active materials exhibit high specific energy and voltage, and can also exhibit high rate capability and/or long operational lifetime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Arumugam Manthiram, Wangda Li, Steven Lee
  • Article of manufacture making system
    Patent number: 11220789
    Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system with a relatively low Stokes Number for the dry solid additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
  • Article of manufacture making system
    Patent number: 11214929
    Abstract: An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
  • RESERVOIR AND HEATER SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLABLE DELIVERY OF MULTIPLE AEROSOLIZABLE MATERIALS IN AN ELECTRONIC SMOKING ARTICLE
    Publication number: 20210401059
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic smoking article that provides for improved aerosol delivery. Particularly, the article provides for separate delivery of two or more components of an aerosol precursor composition to one or more heaters so as to control the rate of delivery or the rate of heating of the separate components of the aerosol precursor composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Andries Don Sebastian, Karen V. Taluskie, Stephen Benson Sears, Bradley James Ingebrethsen, Balager Ademe, Steven Lee Alderman, William Robert Collett, Grady Lance Dooly, Charles Jacob Novak, III
  • Dynamic sensing updates using postural input in a multiple device cardiac rhythm management system
    Patent number: 11207532
    Abstract: Methods and systems in which a first medical device provides patient status details to a second medical device. Patient status details may include one or more of patient posture and/or patient activity level, or other indications of patient status. The second medical device, in response to information about patient status and changes in patient status, uses a sensing configuration management function to respond to and accommodate the change in patient status. In an example, a first medical device monitors patient posture and communicates information related to patient posture to a second medical device, which then tailors sensing configurations to the patient posture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Lee Eddy, Brendan Early Koop
  • Appliance network connectivity apparatus
    Patent number: 11196650
    Abstract: An appliance network connectivity apparatus includes a voltage sensor that generates a signal at an output that is proportional to a voltage provided to the appliance. A current sensor generates a signal at an output that is proportional to a current flowing through the appliance. A processor determines the electrical characteristics of power consumed by the appliance and executes web server software for communicating data through a network. A relay controls power from the power source to the appliance. A memory stores the electrical characteristics. A network interface provides the electrical characteristics to the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Tenrehte Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Allen Indovina, Jennifer Marie Indovina, Russell Dean Priebe, Carlos Antonio Barrios, Steven Lee Boggs
  • Fibrous structures comprising three or more regions
    Patent number: 11186954
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives, and more particularly to fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives wherein the fibrous structure has three or more regions that exhibit different characteristics and/or properties and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Arman Ashraf, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus DeBeer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alexander P. King
  • Fibrous structures comprising regions having different micro-CT intensive property values and associated transition slopes
    Patent number: 11186953
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing solid additives, and more particularly, fibrous structures containing two regions that exhibit at least one common micro-CT intensive property that differs in value and wherein the common micro-CT intensive property transitions between the two regions and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus DeBeer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, J. Michael Bills, Alexander P. King
  • Textured fibrous structures
    Patent number: 11174590
    Abstract: Textured fibrous structures, and more particularly textured fibrous structures having a plurality of deformations such that the textures fibrous structures exhibit novel surface height properties compared to known fibrous structures, and methods for making such textured fibrous structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Michael Donald Suer, Fei Wang, John Daniel Algers, Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Timothy Duane Smith, Douglas Jay Barkey, Kamilah Gbadamosi Gillispie
  • Gentle and Flexible Massage Head for Percussion Massager
    Publication number: 20210322257
    Abstract: A massage head for use on a percussion massager in order to provide a gentle and body-contour-following massage, includes a plurality of flexible arms extending radially away from the reciprocation axis, and a soft dome made of hollow silicone rubber, soft foam, or the like at the end of each arm. Centrally located among the massage features and on the reciprocation axis is an additional soft dome that is recessed from the massage features, and contacts the skin of the subject being massaged in order to prevent the hard frame of the massage head from “bottoming out” on the subject when the arms flex too much. The massage head also has a ball joint that allows the massage head to pivot relative to the reciprocation axis, allowing the massage head to more closely follow the body contours of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Applicant: Pado, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Lee, Alejandro Garfio
  • Discretizer and method of using same
    Patent number: 11148147
    Abstract: Discretizers that exhibit improved solid additive laden fluid flow emanating from the discretizers and methods of using same, particularly for making fibrous structures are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Fei Wang
  • Reservoir and heater system for controllable delivery of multiple aerosolizable materials in an electronic smoking article
    Patent number: 11140921
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic smoking article that provides for improved aerosol delivery. Particularly, the article provides for separate delivery of two or more components of an aerosol precursor composition to one or more heaters so as to control the rate of delivery or the rate of heating of the separate components of the aerosol precursor composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Andries Don Sebastian, Karen V. Taluskie, Stephen Benson Sears, Bradley James Ingebrethsen, Balager Ademe, Steven Lee Alderman, William Robert Collett, Grady Lance Dooly, Charles Jacob Novak, III