Patents by Inventor Steven Ward

Steven Ward 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: 20200184214
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for predicting subfield soil properties for an agricultural field comprises: receiving satellite remote sensing data that includes a plurality of images capturing imagery of an agricultural field in a plurality of optical domains; receiving a plurality of environmental characteristics for the agricultural field; generating a plurality of preprocessed images based on the plurality of satellite remote sensing data and the plurality of environmental characteristics; identifying, based on the plurality preprocessed images, a plurality of features of the agricultural field; generating a subfield soil property prediction for the agricultural field by executing one or more machine learning models on the plurality of features; transmitting the subfield soil property prediction to an agricultural computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: ANGELES CASAS, XIAOYUAN YANG, STEVEN WARD
  • Patent number: 10645845
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing forced flow cooling in a circuit card environment is provided includes at least one circuit card including first and second longitudinally spaced circuit card subassemblies, connected together into a single circuit card oriented substantially in a lateral-longitudinal plane. The first and second circuit card subassemblies have first and second operating temperatures, which are different from one another. A housing defines a housing internal volume which completely three-dimensionally surrounds the circuit card. A first temperature-control fluid is directed laterally across at least a portion of the first circuit card subassembly within the housing internal volume in a first flow path to induce the first operating temperature concurrently with a second temperature-control fluid being directed laterally across at least a portion of the second circuit card subassembly within the housing internal volume in a second flow path to induce the second operating temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Brokner Christiansen, Stanley Katsuyoshi Wakamiya, Elie K. Track, Steven Ward Van Sciver, Kelsey McCusker
  • Patent number: 10633615
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including a dispersant polymer and a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stefano Scialla, Glenn Steven Ward, James Elliot Goodwin, Yonas Gizaw
  • Patent number: 10595441
    Abstract: A heat sink includes a plurality of apertures extending therethrough. The heat sink is arranged substantially parallel to a circuit board and includes at least one aperture transversely aligned with a corresponding IC chip of the circuit board. An underside of the heat sink is structurally connected to the circuit board. A plurality of thermal bridges is provided. Each thermal bridge includes a center bridge pad and at least one footer pad, connected via at least one offset wire. Each thermal bridge is aligned with a corresponding aperture. An underside of each footer pad is attached to the heat sink, with the offset wire extending into the corresponding aperture to suspend the center bridge pad at least partially into the aperture above the IC chip, thus creating a thermal load path. The apparatus separates a thermal load path from a structural load path in a circuit board environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Martin Brokner Christiansen, Steven Ward Van Sciver
  • Publication number: 20190351138
    Abstract: An infusion pump includes a housing with a door pivotally mounted to the housing, a tube channel on the housing configured to hold a tube in the infusion pump, a pumping mechanism including a shuttle, and a slide clamp ejection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Bhagyesh Kishore Bhandar, Steven Ward Fischer, Aaron M. Hexamer, Jiri Slaby, Jason Andrew Maine, Scott Christian Ofslager, Morris Wilson Wallace, Keerthika Lakshmi Niharika Chinthapalli, Peter M. Bojan
  • Publication number: 20190320557
    Abstract: An apparatus for providing forced flow cooling in a circuit card environment is provided includes at least one circuit card including first and second longitudinally spaced circuit card subassemblies, connected together into a single circuit card oriented substantially in a lateral-longitudinal plane. The first and second circuit card subassemblies have first and second operating temperatures, which are different from one another. A housing defines a housing internal volume which completely three-dimensionally surrounds the circuit card. A first temperature-control fluid is directed laterally across at least a portion of the first circuit card subassembly within the housing internal volume in a first flow path to induce the first operating temperature concurrently with a second temperature-control fluid being directed laterally across at least a portion of the second circuit card subassembly within the housing internal volume in a second flow path to induce the second operating temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventors: MARTIN BROKNER CHRISTIANSEN, STANLEY KATSUYOSHI WAKAMIYA, ELIE K. TRACK, STEVEN WARD VAN SCIVER, KELSEY MCCUSKER
  • Patent number: 10435648
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition having a pH as measured in 1% weight aqueous solution at 25° C. of from about 5 to about 7.5, the composition includes a sulfonated polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne Bewick, Alan Thomas Brooker, James Elliot Goodwin, Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward
  • Publication number: 20190276813
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of automatic dishwashing detergent compositions, as well as methods of making and using same. In particular, it relates to an automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising a new protease. The automatic dishwashing detergent composition provides improved cleaning and finishing. In particular the composition of the invention provides better proteinaceous removal at the same level of other proteases available in the market. This also alternatively allows for the use of a lower level of the protease of the invention and therefore a more cost effective composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Frits (NMN) GOEDEGEBUUR, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, David A. ESTELL, Richard Ray BOTT, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA
  • Publication number: 20190256802
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing composition including an amine and an enzyme.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Patrick Firmin August DELPLANCKE, James Elliot GOODWIN, Glenn Steven WARD
  • Patent number: 10385293
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition having a pH as measured in 1% weight aqueous solution at 25° C. of from about 5 to about 7.5, the composition includes a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne Bewick, Alan Thomas Brooker, James Elliot Goodwin, Stefano Scialla, Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward
  • Patent number: 10287533
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including a dispersant polymer and a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer wherein the composition leaves glass after being washed with the composition in an automatic dishwasher with a contact angle with deionised water of less than about 50° and wherein the surface-modification surface-substantive polymer has a rivulet forming effect on water drainage from glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Nathalie Sophie Letzelter, Glenn Steven Ward, Stefano Scialla, James Elliot Goodwin, Frank Hulskotter, Martin Ruebenacker, Aaron Flores-Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10227553
    Abstract: A dishwashing composition including a copolymer which includes polyalkylene oxide groups and quaternary nitrogen atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Glenn Steven Ward, Stefano Scialla, Frank Hulskotter, Martin Ruebenacker, Aaron Flores-Figueroa
  • Patent number: 10190078
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising: a) from about 0.1% to about 20% by weight of a cleaning surfactant selected from the group consisting of an anionic surfactant, a zwitterionic surfactant, an amphoteric surfactant, and mixtures thereof; b) from about 0.1% to about 20% by weight of a cleaning amine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Frank Hulskotter, Patrick Firmin August Delplancke, Glen Steven Ward, Anna Asmanidou
  • Patent number: 10167803
    Abstract: An engine includes a plurality of combustion cylinders configured to burn a fuel to power the engine, and a plurality of fuel injectors. Each of the fuel injectors is arranged to distribute fuel delivered from a fuel tank to one of the plurality of combustion cylinders. The engine also includes a controller programmed to adjust a fuel trim signal gain based on sensing exhaust flow downstream of the combustion cylinders. The controller is also programmed to monitor a cumulative misfire count for each of the plurality of combustion cylinders. The controller is further programmed to issue a prognosis message identifying a state of health of at least one of the plurality of fuel injectors in response to a fuel trim signal gain exceeding an adjustment threshold and a cumulative misfire count greater than a misfire threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Azeem Sarwar, Chaitanya Sankavaram, Ian J. Macewen, Steven Ward Majors, Scott R. Jeffrey, Rafat F. Hattar
  • Publication number: 20180355340
    Abstract: The present invention is in the field of automatic dishwashing detergent compositions, as well as methods of making and using same. In particular, it relates to an automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising a new protease. The automatic dishwashing detergent composition provides improved cleaning and finishing. In particular the composition of the invention provides better proteinaceous removal at the same level of other proteases available in the market. This also alternatively allows for the use of a lower level of the protease of the invention and therefore a more cost effective composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Frits GOEDEGEBUUR, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, David A. ESTELL, Richard Ray BOTT, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA
  • Publication number: 20180179469
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing cleaning composition having an alkyl amphocarboxylate surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2017
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Glenn Steven Ward, James Elliot Goodwin
  • Publication number: 20180171268
    Abstract: This invention relates to fabric and home care products comprising one or more cold water proteases and processes for making and using such products. Such compositions provide improved cleaning and freshness. Such cold water proteases may be derived from parent enzymes, including BPN? subtilisin and subtilisin derived from Bacillus lentus, by substitution, insertion and/or deletion of one or more of the parent enzymes' amino acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward, Viktor Yuryevich Alekseyev, Joshua Roy Basler, Luis Gustavo Cascao-Pereira, David A Estell, Ayrookaran J Poulose, James T Kellis, JR., Alexander Pisarchik, Daniel Torres-Pazmino
  • Publication number: 20180134992
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing cleaning composition including a dispersant polymer and a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Stefano SCIALLA, Glenn Steven WARD, James Elliot GOODWIN, Yonas GIZAW
  • Patent number: 9856466
    Abstract: The present invention provides serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants produced there from. Specifically, the present invention provides serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants having one or more substitutions as compared to a reference serine protease. In addition, the present invention provides compositions comprising these serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants. In some embodiments, the present invention provides cleaning compositions comprising at least one of these serine protease variants, more specifically subtilisin variants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: DANISCO US INC.
    Inventors: Neelam S. Amin, Katherine Augustyn, Joshua R. Basler, Luis G. Cascao-Pereira, Katherine D. Collier, Edward M. Concar, David A. Estell, James T. Kellis, Jr., Euan John Magennis, Alexander Pisarchik, Ayrookaran J. Poulose, Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward, Jian Yao
  • Publication number: 20170362546
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition having a pH as measured in 1% weight aqueous solution at 25° C. of from about 5 to about 7.5, the composition includes a surface-modification surface-substantive polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Alan Thomas BROOKER, James Elliot GOODWIN, Stefano SCIALLA, Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD