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).

  • Publication number: 20220325440
    Abstract: Processes for making fibrous structures and more particularly processes for making fibrous structures comprising filaments are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Michael Donald Suer, Douglas Jay Barkey, Jonathan Paul Brennan, Ronald Thomas Gorley
  • Publication number: 20220322495
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an electronic smoking article that provides for improved aerosol delivery. Particularly, the article comprises one or more microheaters. In various embodiments, the microheaters provide for improved control of vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition and provide for reduced power requirements to achieve consistent aerosolization. The present disclosure further relates to methods of forming an aerosol in a smoking article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: William Robert Collett, Stephen Benson Sears, Dennis Lee Potter, Steven Lee Alderman, Mo Kebaili
  • Publication number: 20220305313
    Abstract: A sprinkler assembly includes a body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid passage extending along a longitudinal axis between the inlet and the outlet. A guide pin aperture is defined by at least one of the body or a bushing coupled to the body. The sprinkler assembly further includes a deflector slidably coupled to the body. The deflector includes a deflector body coupled to a guide pin. The guide pin includes a shaft portion extending through the guide pin aperture and a shoulder that is wider than the shaft portion and configured to engage at least one of the body or the bushing to limit movement of the deflector body away from the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Steven Lee Shields, Manuel R. Silva, JR., Sean E. Cutting, William K. Rucker, Daniel A. Cross
  • Publication number: 20220297165
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing solid additives, and more particularly, fibrous structures containing two or more regions that comprise different average weight % levels of solid additives and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    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
  • Publication number: 20220296946
    Abstract: A sprinkler assembly includes a fire protection sprinkler and a push-to-connect-rotate-to-release (PCRR) fitting. The fire protection sprinkler has a body defining an inlet and an outlet, a deflector spaced from the outlet, the body having an outer encasing surface surrounding a first longitudinal axis, the outer encasing surface including a seal member disposed about the encasing surface and a helical surface between the deflector and the seal member. The PCRR fitting includes a tubular member with a first end, a second end, an exterior surface, and an inner surface defining an internal conduit extending along a second longitudinal axis, the body received in the internal conduit such that the first longitudinal axis is axially aligned with the second longitudinal axis, the inner surface including a sealing surface portion circumscribed about the second longitudinal axis. The gripper ring is disposed along the inner surface and in contact with the helical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Manuel R. Silva, JR., Kevin W. Pressnell, Steven Lee Shields, Gary J. Luiz
  • Publication number: 20220296947
    Abstract: A sprinkler assembly includes a connection fitting and a fire protection sprinkler. The connection fitting includes a tubular member with a first insertion end and a second insertion end with an internal conduit extending between the first and second insertion end along a longitudinal axis, the tubular member including an exterior surface and an inner surface, the inner surface defining a sealing surface between the first and second insertion ends circumscribed about the longitudinal axis and including a gripping portion axially spaced from the sealing surface. The fire protection sprinkler has a body defining an inlet and an outlet, a deflector spaced from the outlet, the body having an outer encasing surface surrounding the longitudinal axis and including a leading portion and a trailing portion for insertion in the second insertion end with the leading portion received within the sealing surface before the trailing portion engages the gripping portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Manuel R. Silva, Jr., Steven Lee Shields, Gary J. Luiz
  • Publication number: 20220290982
    Abstract: A method, system, and apparatus for light fixture installation using a downlight laser jig. The downlight laser jig can have a housing structure to house a laser. The housing structure can have two or more walls, and a floor for a laser to sit in the housing structure. The housing structure can have one or more handles to assist in a lifting of the downlight laser jig. The housing structure can have at least one of 1) two or more magnets, 2) two or more spring clips, and 3) any combination of both to hold the downlight laser jig in place and support a weight of the downlight laser jig and the laser during an installation process for a series of downlight fixtures. The downlight laser jig and the laser combine to assist in aligning and installing the series of downlights fixtures in a ceiling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Steven Lee Rose
  • Publication number: 20220292179
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for a hardware accessory, with embedded logical features, that facilitates communication with a password manager and expeditious text entry in application login dialogue screens. The hardware accessory is embodied as a portable electronic apparatus, such as a USB accessory that may be physically attached and detached form a personal computer. The hardware accessory may also be embodied as a portable computing device such as a mobile phone that may be wirelessly coupled to and decoupled from the personal computer. The passwords may be maintained in a cloud-based vault and retrieved through either the personal computer or the mobile computing device. The hardware accessory converts the password into keystrokes that are transmitted to the personal computer for automated insertion into the respective application login dialogue screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Lee Fisher-Stawinski, Shikhar Kwatra, Moitreyee Mukherjee-Roy, Scott E. Schneider
  • Patent number: 11432655
    Abstract: A fan-equipped apparatus comprising an elongated fan plenum for a cooling chair is disclosed. In some embodiments, an elongated fan plenum can be configured to direct airflow through a chair back and concentrate on a user's back. In some embodiments, a chair with a fan-equipped cooling apparatus and a porous chair back is provided. In some embodiments, a fan-equipped apparatus can be attached to a chair selected by the user. Thermal imaging demonstrates cooling of a user by operation of the apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Ganer Zackson, LLC
    Inventor: Steven Lee Garner
  • Publication number: 20220274373
    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: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    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
  • Publication number: 20220266569
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, comprising fibrous structures, and more particularly articles comprising fibrous structures comprising a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved consumer relevant properties, for example improved bulk and absorbent properties, compared to known articles and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    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
  • Patent number: 11414798
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing a mixture of three or more different fibrous elements (filaments and/or fibers) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: David William Cabell, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Steven Lee Barnholtz
  • Patent number: 11408126
    Abstract: Fast-wetting (hydrophilic) coform fibrous structures, more particularly fast-wetting composite fibrous structures, for example dry fast-wetting composite fibrous structures, employing a wet-laid fibrous structure such as a paper web, and a coform fibrous structure, multi-ply fibrous structures, for example multi-ply sanitary tissue products such as multi-ply absorbent products for example multi-ply paper towel products, employing one or more fast-wetting composite fibrous structures, and methods for making same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Todd Leon Mansfield, Michael Gomer Stelljes
  • Publication number: 20220243742
    Abstract: A spatially controllable, for example CD controllable, eductor, and more particularly an eductor that is capable of providing a variable motive fluid and processes using such an eductor are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Fei Wang, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Hasan Eroglu, Edwin Arthur Stewart, John Ferney McKibben
  • Patent number: 11402136
    Abstract: A magnetic refrigeration apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a magnetic-field source and two or more bed rings. The bed rings can be arranged in pairs with shared cold and hot fluid plenums. A flow of heat transfer fluid may pass at least partially radially through the shared fluid plenum or through a connection between the fluid plenum and one or more flow tubes. The MR apparatus and systems of the present disclosure may further include one or more circumferential flux returns with radial through-hole passageways to accommodate flow tubing. For apparatus configurations with an even number of bed rings, the axial dimension of the passageways may be smaller than the circumferential dimension of the passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: Astronautics Corporation of America
    Inventors: Kyle Charles Rule, Andre Michael Boeder, Carl Bruno Zimm, Bryant Wayne Mueller, Steven Lee Russek, Jeremy Jonathan Chell
  • Patent number: 11389682
    Abstract: A sprinkler assembly includes a body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid passage extending along a longitudinal axis between the inlet and the outlet. A guide pin aperture is defined by at least one of the body or a bushing coupled to the body. The sprinkler assembly further includes a deflector slidably coupled to the body. The deflector includes a deflector body coupled to a guide pin. The guide pin includes a shaft portion extending through the guide pin aperture and a shoulder that is wider than the shaft portion and configured to engage at least one of the body or the bushing to limit movement of the deflector body away from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Steven Lee Shields, Manuel R. Silva, Jr., Sean E. Cutting, William K. Rucker, Daniel A. Cross
  • Patent number: 11389681
    Abstract: A sprinkler assembly includes a body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid passage extending along a longitudinal axis between the inlet and the outlet. A guide pin aperture is defined by at least one of the body or a bushing coupled to the body. The sprinkler assembly further includes a deflector slidably coupled to the body. The deflector includes a deflector body coupled to a guide pin. The guide pin includes a shaft portion extending through the guide pin aperture and a shoulder that is wider than the shaft portion and configured to engage at least one of the body or the bushing to limit movement of the deflector body away from the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LP
    Inventors: Steven Lee Shields, Manuel R. Silva, Jr., Sean E. Cutting, William K. Rucker, Daniel A. Cross
  • Publication number: 20220219427
    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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    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
  • Publication number: 20220212438
    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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    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
  • Publication number: 20220212439
    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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    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