Patents by Inventor Steven Powers
Steven Powers 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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Patent number: 11957960Abstract: A method is disclosed for using an artificial intelligence engine to modify resistance of one or more pedals of an exercise device. The method includes generating, by the artificial intelligence engine, a machine learning model trained to receive one or more measurements as input, and outputting, based on the one or more measurements, a control instruction that causes the exercise device to modify the resistance of the one or more pedals. The method includes receiving the one or more measurements from a sensor associated with the one or more pedals of the exercise device, determining whether the one or more measurements satisfy a trigger condition, and responsive to determining that the one or more measurements satisfy the trigger condition, transmitting the control instruction to the exercise device.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Rehab2Fit Technologies Inc.Inventors: Michael Bissonnette, Luis Berga, Steven Mason, Philip Powers, James D. Steidl
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Patent number: 11951359Abstract: A method is disclosed for using an artificial intelligence engine to modify resistance of pedals of an exercise device. The method includes generating, by the artificial intelligence engine, a machine learning model trained to receive measurements as input, and outputting, based on the measurements, a control instruction that causes the exercise device to modify, independently from each other, the resistance of the pedals. While a user performs an exercise using the exercise device, the method includes receiving the measurements from sensors associated with the pedals. The method includes determining, based on the measurements, a quantifiable or qualitative modification to the resistance provided by a pedal of the pedals. The resistance provided by another pedal of the pedals is not modified. The method includes transmitting the control instruction to the exercise device to cause the resistance provided by the pedal to be modified.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: REHAB2FIT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Michael Bissonnette, Luis Berga, Steven Mason, Philip Powers, James D. Steidl
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Patent number: 11926170Abstract: A banknote having a substrate with polymeric outer surfaces, including one or more coatings applied to at least one of the outer surfaces, at least one coating being a paper feel layer which provides a feel, substantially similar to that of a paper banknote, wherein the paper-feel layer includes tactile particles, to provide the paper-feel, and the tactile particles are conductive and/or the paper-feel layer includes conductive particles, or at least one of the or each coating includes conductive particles, to improve antistatic properties of the banknote.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CCL SECURE PTY LTDInventors: Gary Fairless Power, Ben Stevens
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Publication number: 20240055841Abstract: A conductor trimmer may be provided. The conductor trimmer may comprise a grip and a trimmer. The grip may comprise a grip handle and a trimmer groove. The trimmer may comprise a trimmer handle. The trimmer may be configured to engage the trimmer groove. With trimmer snuggly attached to both the grip and a conductor, the trimmer may be rotated about conductor by a user holding the grip handle stationary and rotating the trimmer by the trimmer handle. As the trimmer rotates about the conductor, a first roller rail and a second roller rail may ride in the trimmer groove as a blade cuts layers of strands from the conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Samuel Campbell, Adlar Tuten, Jason Ishoy, Lucas Cheney, Drew Pearson, Casey Spradlin, Steven Powers, Charles L. Holcombe
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Patent number: 11637416Abstract: A conductor trimmer may be provided. The conductor trimmer may include a grip and a trimmer. The grip may include a grip handle and a trimmer groove. The trimmer may include a trimmer handle. The trimmer may engage the trimmer groove. With trimmer snuggly attached to both the grip and a conductor, the trimmer may be rotated about conductor by a user holding the grip handle stationary and rotating the trimmer by the trimmer handle. As the trimmer rotates about the conductor, a first roller rail and a second roller rail may ride in the trimmer groove as a blade cuts layers of strands from the conductor.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Southwire Company, LLCInventors: Samuel Campbell, Adlar Tuten, Jason Ishoy, Lucas Cheney, Drew Pearson, Casey Spradlin, Steven Powers, Charles L. Holcombe
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Publication number: 20220144578Abstract: Disclosed herein are disposable cable payoff systems that maintain the performance standards required for operation at commercial sites, such as durability during transport from the manufacturer and cable payoff, and low resistance cable payoff. Preloaded cable reels comprising a disposable cable payoff system are also disclosed herein. Methods for providing the preloaded cables reels are also disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2021Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Southwire Company, LLCInventors: Mark D. Dixon, John Armstrong, Steven Powers, Stephen L. Spruell, Randy D. Kummer
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Publication number: 20210104876Abstract: A conductor trimmer may be provided. The conductor trimmer may comprise a grip and a trimmer. The grip may comprise a grip handle and a trimmer groove. The trimmer may comprise a trimmer handle. The trimmer may be configured to engage the trimmer groove. With trimmer snuggly attached to both the grip and a conductor, the trimmer may be rotated about conductor by a user holding the grip handle stationary and rotating the trimmer by the trimmer handle. As the trimmer rotates about the conductor, a first roller rail and a second roller rail may ride in the trimmer groove as a blade cuts layers of strands from the conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventors: Samuel Campbell, Adlar Tuten, Jason Ishoy, Lucas Cheney, Drew Pearson, Casey Spradlin, Steven Powers, Charles L. Holcombe
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Patent number: 10784661Abstract: A conductor trimmer may be provided. The conductor trimmer may include a grip and a trimmer. The grip may have a grip handle and a trimmer groove. The trimmer may include a trimmer handle. The trimmer may engage the trimmer groove. With trimmer snuggly attached to both the grip and a conductor, the trimmer may be rotated about conductor by a user holding the grip handle stationary and rotating the trimmer by the trimmer handle. As the trimmer rotates about the conductor, a first roller rail and a second roller rail may ride in the trimmer groove as a blade cuts layers of strands from the conductor.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Southwire Company, LLCInventors: Samuel Campbell, Adlar Tuten, Jason Ishoy, Lucas Cheney, Drew Pearson, Casey Spradlin, Steven Powers, Charles L. Holcombe
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Patent number: 8858849Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and pressure vessels for solid-state microcellular processing of thermoplastic rolls and sheets. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for making a gas impregnated interleaved roll, which method comprises: providing a pressure vessel having an internal pressure chamber and a rotatable shaft horizontally positioned within the pressure chamber; placing an interleaved roll about the rotatable shaft and within the pressure chamber, wherein the interleaved roll is made from a thermoplastic material sheet interleaved together with a gas-channeling material sheet; pressurizing the pressure chamber to a selected pressure; rotating the rotatable shaft having the interleaved roll thereabouts (thereby rotating the interleaved roll) while under pressure for a selected period of time; and depressurizing the internal chamber to yield the gas impregnated interleaved roll.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2013Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: MicroGREEN Polymers Inc.Inventors: Krishna V. Nadella, Steven Powers, Thomas Malone
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Publication number: 20130303643Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and pressure vessels for solid-state microcellular processing of thermoplastic rolls and sheets. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for making a gas impregnated interleaved roll, which method comprises: providing a pressure vessel having an internal pressure chamber and a rotatable shaft horizontally positioned within the pressure chamber; placing an interleaved roll about the rotatable shaft and within the pressure chamber, wherein the interleaved roll is made from a thermoplastic material sheet interleaved together with a gas-channeling material sheet; pressurizing the pressure chamber to a selected pressure; rotating the rotatable shaft having the interleaved roll thereabouts (thereby rotating the interleaved roll) while under pressure for a selected period of time; and depressurizing the internal chamber to yield the gas impregnated interleaved roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2013Publication date: November 14, 2013Inventors: Krishna V. Nadella, Steven Powers, Thomas Malone
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Patent number: 8517709Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and pressure vessels for solid-state microcellular processing of thermoplastic rolls and sheets. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for making a gas impregnated interleaved roll, which method comprises: providing a pressure vessel having an internal pressure chamber and a rotatable shaft horizontally positioned within the pressure chamber; placing an interleaved roll about the rotatable shaft and within the pressure chamber, wherein the interleaved roll is made from a thermoplastic material sheet interleaved together with a gas-channeling material sheet; pressurizing the pressure chamber to a selected pressure; rotating the rotatable shaft having the interleaved roll thereabouts (thereby rotating the interleaved roll) while under pressure for a selected period of time; and depressurizing the internal chamber to yield the gas impregnated interleaved roll.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2011Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: MicroGREEN Polymers, Inc.Inventors: Krishna V Nadella, Steven Powers, Thomas Malone
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Publication number: 20120065287Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and pressure vessels for solid-state microcellular processing of thermoplastic rolls and sheets. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for making a gas impregnated interleaved roll, which method comprises: providing a pressure vessel having an internal pressure chamber and a rotatable shaft horizontally positioned within the pressure chamber; placing an interleaved roll about the rotatable shaft and within the pressure chamber, wherein the interleaved roll is made from a thermoplastic material sheet interleaved together with a gas-channeling material sheet; pressurizing the pressure chamber to a selected pressure; rotating the rotatable shaft having the interleaved roll thereabouts (thereby rotating the interleaved roll) while under pressure for a selected period of time; and depressurizing the internal chamber to yield the gas impregnated interleaved roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Inventors: Krishna Nadella, Steven Powers, Thomas G. Malone
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Patent number: 8080194Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and pressure vessels for solid-state microcellular processing of thermoplastic rolls and sheets. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for making a gas impregnated interleaved roll, which method comprises: providing a pressure vessel having an internal pressure chamber and a rotatable shaft horizontally positioned within the pressure chamber; placing an interleaved roll about the rotatable shaft and within the pressure chamber, wherein the interleaved roll is made from a thermoplastic material sheet interleaved together with a gas-channeling material sheet; pressurizing the pressure chamber to a selected pressure; rotating the rotatable shaft having the interleaved roll thereabouts (thereby rotating the interleaved roll) while under pressure for a selected period of time; and depressurizing the internal chamber to yield the gas impregnated interleaved roll.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2009Date of Patent: December 20, 2011Assignee: MicroGREEN Polymers, Inc.Inventors: Krishna Nadella, Steven Powers, Thomas Malone
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Patent number: 7687454Abstract: A method of identifying a polynucleotide or pattern of polynucleotides regulated by one or more sepsis or inflammatory inducing agents and inhibited by a peptide is described. A method of identifying a pattern of polynucleotide expression for inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. The method includes contacting cells with LPS, LTA, CpG DNA and/or intact microbe or microbial components in the presence or absence of a cationic peptide; detecting a pattern of polynucleotide expression for the cells in the presence and absence of the peptide, wherein the pattern in the presence of the peptide represents inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. Also included are compounds and agents identified by the methods of the invention. In another aspect, the invention provides methods and compounds for enhancing innate immunity in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2003Date of Patent: March 30, 2010Assignee: The University of British ColumbiaInventors: Robert E. W. Hancock, B. Brett Finlay, Monisha Gough Scott, Dawn Bowdish, Carrie Melissa Rosenberger, Jon-Paul Steven Powers
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Publication number: 20090309250Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and pressure vessels for solid-state microcellular processing of thermoplastic rolls and sheets. In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method for making a gas impregnated interleaved roll, which method comprises: providing a pressure vessel having an internal pressure chamber and a rotatable shaft horizontally positioned within the pressure chamber; placing an interleaved roll about the rotatable shaft and within the pressure chamber, wherein the interleaved roll is made from a thermoplastic material sheet interleaved together with a gas-channeling material sheet; pressurizing the pressure chamber to a selected pressure; rotating the rotatable shaft having the interleaved roll thereabouts (thereby rotating the interleaved roll) while under pressure for a selected period of time; and depressurizing the internal chamber to yield the gas impregnated interleaved roll.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2009Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Krishna Nadella, Steven Powers, Thomas Malone
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Patent number: 7507787Abstract: A method of identifying a polynucleotide or pattern of polynucleotides regulated by one or more sepsis or inflammatory inducing agents and inhibited by a peptide is described. A method of identifying a pattern of polynucleotide expression for inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. The method includes contacting cells with LPS, LTA, CpG DNA and/or intact microbe or microbial components in the presence or absence of a cationic peptide; detecting a pattern of polynucleotide expression for the cells in the presence and absence of the peptide, wherein the pattern in the presence of the peptide represents inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. Also included are compounds and agents identified by the methods of the invention. In another aspect, the invention provides methods and compounds for enhancing innate immunity in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2002Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: The University of British ColumbiaInventors: Robert E. W. Hancock, B. Brett Finlay, Monisha Gough Scott, Dawn Bowdish, Carrie Melissa Rosenberger, Jon-Paul Steven Powers
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Publication number: 20070143455Abstract: Provided are methods, apparatus and computer programs for monitoring operational data relating to a sequence of data processing operations in a network of data processing units. In response to specified boundaries for data gathering, operational data is selectively gathered into discrete data partitions for a desired time period, a desired set of processing nodes, and/or a desired set of process executions. A set of event listeners invoke operations of a data gatherer in response to events within a processing sequence and the data gatherer allocates operational data to different ones of a set of discrete logical data containers in response to notifications from the event listeners. The data collection is responsive to system events such as a collection interval expiry to end data collection for a first partition and start data collection for a second partition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2004Publication date: June 21, 2007Inventors: David Gorman, Michael Johnson, Martin Naish, Anthony O'Dowd, Steven Power, Stephen Toledo-Brown
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Publication number: 20070134261Abstract: The present invention provides a method of identifying agents that enhance innate immunity in a subject. The invention further provides a method of selectively supressing sepsis by suppressing expression of a proinflammatory gene while maintaining expression of an anti-inflammatory gene. Also provided are methods of identifying a polynucleotide or pattern of polynucleotides regulated by one or more sepsis or inflammatory inducing agents and inhibited by a peptide is described, methods of identifying a pattern of polynucleotide expression for inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response, and compounds and agents identified by the methods of the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2006Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventors: Robert Hancock, B. Finlay, Monisha Gough Scott, Dawn Bowdish, Carrie Rosenberger, Jon-Paul Steven Powers, Jie Yu, Neeloffer Mookherjee
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Publication number: 20040180038Abstract: A method of identifying a polynucleotide or pattern of polynucleotides regulated by one or more sepsis or inflammatory inducing agents and inhibited by a peptide is described. A method of identifying a pattern of polynucleotide expression for inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. The method includes contacting cells with LPS, LTA, CpG DNA and/or intact microbe or microbial components in the presence or absence of a cationic peptide; detecting a pattern of polynucleotide expression for the cells in the presence and absence of the peptide, wherein the pattern in the presence of the peptide represents inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. Also included are compounds and agents identified by the methods of the invention. In another aspect, the invention provides methods and compounds for enhancing innate immunity in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2003Publication date: September 16, 2004Inventors: Robert E. W. Hancock, B. Brett Finlay, Monisha Gough Scott, Dawn Bowdish, Carrie Melissa Rosenberger, Jon-Paul Steven Powers
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Publication number: 20040001803Abstract: A method of identifying a polynucleotide or pattern of polynucleotides regulated by one or more sepsis or inflammatory inducing agents and inhibited by a peptide is described. A method of identifying a pattern of polynucleotide expression for inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. The method includes contacting cells with LPS, LTA, CpG DNA and/or intact microbe or microbial components in the presence or absence of a cationic peptide; detecting a pattern of polynucleotide expression for the cells in the presence and absence of the peptide, wherein the pattern in the presence of the peptide represents inhibition of an inflammatory or septic response. Also included are compounds and agents identified by the methods of the invention. In another aspect, the invention provides methods and compounds for enhancing innate immunity in a subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2002Publication date: January 1, 2004Inventors: Robert E.W. Hancock, B. Brett Finlay, Monisha Gough Scott, Dawn Bowdish, Carrie Melissa Rosenberger, Jon-Paul Steven Powers