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: 20170362545
    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: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Lindsay Suzanne BEWICK, Alan Thomas BROOKER, James Elliot GOODWIN, Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD
  • Publication number: 20170355929
    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: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Nathalie Sophie LETZELTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Stefano SCIALLA, James Elliot GOODWIN, Frank HULSKOTTER, Martin RUEBENACKER, Aaron FLORES-FIGUERO
  • Publication number: 20170350340
    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: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Azeem Sarwar, Chaitanya Sankavaram, Ian J. Macewen, Steven Ward Majors, Scott R. Jeffrey, Rafat F. Hattar
  • Patent number: 9828954
    Abstract: A fuel control system for an engine includes a closing module and a purge control module. The closing module commands closing of a purge valve in response an engine speed transitioning from greater than a predetermined speed to less than the predetermined speed while the purge valve is in an open state. The predetermined speed is less than a predetermined target speed of the engine and is greater than zero. The purge control module transitions the purge valve from the open state to a closed state in response to the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Steven Ward Majors, Scott Jeffrey, Jason West
  • Publication number: 20170292093
    Abstract: A dishwashing composition including a copolymer which includes polyalkylene oxide groups and quaternary nitrogen atoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Glenn Steven WARD, Stefano SCIALLA, Frank HULSKOTTER, Martin RUEBENACKER, Aaron FLORES-FIGUEROA
  • Publication number: 20170029797
    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: October 17, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Frits GOEDEGEBUUR, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, David A. ESTELL, Richard Ray BOTT, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA
  • Publication number: 20170002755
    Abstract: A fuel control system for an engine includes a closing module and a purge control module. The closing module commands closing of a purge valve in response an engine speed transitioning from greater than a predetermined speed to less than the predetermined speed while the purge valve is in an open state. The predetermined speed is less than a predetermined target speed of the engine and is greater than zero. The purge control module transitions the purge valve from the open state to a closed state in response to the command.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Steven Ward MAJORS, Scott JEFFREY, Jason WEST
  • Publication number: 20160362641
    Abstract: The present invention provides consumer products comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically subtilisin variants produced there from. Specifically, the present invention provides consumer products comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically a subtilisin variant having one or more substitutions as compared to a reference serine protease. In addition, the present invention provides methods of making such compositions and methods of treating surfaces, particularly fabric surfaces comprising contacting a surface with an aqueous liquor comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically subtilisin variants and an adjunct material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Euan John MAGENNIS, Glenn Steven WARD, Neelam S. AMIN, Katherine AUGUSTYN, Joshua R. BASLER, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA, Katherine D. COLLIER, Edward M. CONCAR, David A. ESTELL, James T. KELLIS, Alexander PISARCHIK, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, Jian YAO
  • Patent number: 9499666
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are monofunctional benzoxazine compounds having at least one electron-withdrawing group. The monofunctional benzoxazine compounds may be combined with one or more multifunctional benzoxazine compounds to form a unique benzoxazine blend. This benzoxazine blend may be combined with additional components such as catalysts and toughening agents to form a curable resin composition suitable for forming resinous films or composite materials. The presence of monofunctional benzoxazine improves the processability of the benzoxazine-based resin composition by reducing the viscosity of the resin composition, and results in improved tack and drape in the films and composite materials formed from the composition without the loss of modulus in the cured resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: Cytec Technology Corp.
    Inventors: Steven Ward, Mark Harriman
  • Publication number: 20160208198
    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: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Frits GOEDEGEBUUR, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, David A. ESTELL, Richard Ray BOTT, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA
  • Patent number: 9330140
    Abstract: A data processing method comprising using an application server computer, establishing a shared multi-tenant system in which tenant data that is associated with tenants is stored together in a real shared data store system; providing to a tenant computing device identifiers that identify virtual objects, wherein each of the virtual objects represents a data entity that is stored in the real shared data store system; receiving a SQL query from the tenant computing device that specifies a data operation on a first virtual object of the virtual objects; rewriting the SQL query by dynamically replacing the first virtual object with an identifier of a function; executing the function and the rewritten query without explicit metadata to generate a result set; sending the result set to the tenant computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: XACTLY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Steven Ward Bogrett
  • Patent number: 9234449
    Abstract: A diagnostic system for a vehicle is disclosed. A first difference module generates a first difference based on a first pressure measured at a first secondary air injection (SAI) valve and a previous value of the first pressure. A first summer module generates a first accumulated difference based on a sum of values of the first difference generated during a predetermined period. A second difference module generates a second difference based on a second pressure measured at a second SAI valve and a previous value of the second pressure. A second summer module generates a second accumulated difference based on a sum of values of the second difference generated during the predetermined period. A fault indication module selectively indicates that a fault is present downstream of one of the first and second SAI valves based on the first and second accumulated differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Ian J. Mac Ewen, Steven Ward Majors, Eric Russell Clark, II
  • Patent number: 9230371
    Abstract: A fault diagnostic system of a vehicle includes an error module, a proportional integral (PI) module, and a fault module. The error module determines an error based on a difference between a sample of a signal generated by an exhaust gas oxygen sensor and a target value of the sample. The PI module determines a proportional correction based on the error, determines an integral correction based on the error, and determines a fueling correction based on the proportional and integral corrections. The fault module selectively diagnoses a fault based on the integral correction and the fueling correction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Daniel W. Jecks, Steven Ward Majors, Ian J. MacEwen
  • Patent number: 9217383
    Abstract: Fueling to one cylinder of an engine is selectively adjusted based on a correction associated with the cylinder. An instability module increments a counter value when the correction is equal to one of a first predetermined value and a second predetermined value and was previously equal to the other one of the first and second predetermined values. The instability module selectively generates a first indicator based on the counter value. A variance of imbalance values can be determined based on samples of an exhaust gas oxygen signal. Two variances are determined: one variance with adjustment based on the correction, one without adjustment based on the correction. A variance checking module selectively generates a second indicator based on the first and second variances. A re-synchronization module re-synchronizes the imbalance values with the cylinders, respectively, in response to generation of the first indicator and/or the second indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Andrew P. Bagnasco, Steven Ward Majors, Ian J. MacEwen, Scott Jeffrey
  • Publication number: 20150315523
    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: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Inventors: Frank HULSKOTTER, Patrick Firmin August DELPLANCKE, Glen Steven WARD, Anna ASMANIDOU
  • Publication number: 20150125925
    Abstract: The present invention provides consumer products comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically subtilisin variants produced there from. Specifically, the present invention provides consumer products comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically a subtilisin variant having one or more substitutions as compared to a reference serine protease. In addition, the present invention provides methods of making such compositions and methods of treating surfaces, particularly fabric surfaces comprising contacting a surface with an aqueous liquor comprising a serine protease variant, more specifically subtilisin variants and an adjunct material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2013
    Publication date: May 7, 2015
    Applicant: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Euan John MAGENNIS, Glenn Steven WARD, Neelam S. AMIN, Katherine AUGUSTYN, Joshua R. BASLER, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA, Katherine D. COLLIER, Edward M. CONCAR, David A. ESTELL, James T. KELLIS, JR., Alexander PISARCHIK, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, Jian YAO
  • Publication number: 20150087572
    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: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Frits GOEDEGEBUUR, Ayrookaran Joseph POULOSE, David A. ESTELL, Richard Ray BOTT, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA
  • Publication number: 20150081160
    Abstract: A fault diagnostic system of a vehicle includes an error module, a proportional integral (PI) module, and a fault module. The error module determines an error based on a difference between a sample of a signal generated by an exhaust gas oxygen sensor and a target value of the sample. The PI module determines a proportional correction based on the error, determines an integral correction based on the error, and determines a fueling correction based on the proportional and integral corrections. The fault module selectively diagnoses a fault based on the integral correction and the fueling correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Daniel W. Jecks, Steven Ward Majors, Ian J. Mac Ewen
  • Patent number: 8841245
    Abstract: An automatic dishwashing detergent composition comprising: a) an alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine said alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine comprising a polyalkyleneimine backbone, alkoxy chains and quaternization groups wherein the alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine has a degree of quaternization of at least 5% and wherein: i) the polyalkyleneimine backbone represents from 0.5% to 40% by weight of the alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine; ii) the alkoxy chains represent from 60% to 99% by weight of the alkoxylated polyalkyleneimine; and b) a bleach system comprising bleach and optionally a bleach enhancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Stefano Scialla, Michael Stanford Showell, Frank Hulskotter, Anju Deepali Massey Brooker, Phan Shean Lim, Melissa Cuthbertson, Glenn Steven Ward, Rainer Anton Dobrawa
  • Patent number: 8793976
    Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes a change determination module, a sulfur determination module, and a final equivalence ratio (EQR) module. The change determination module estimates a change in an amount of sulfur within a catalyst of an exhaust system of the vehicle. The sulfur determination module estimates the amount of sulfur within the catalyst based on the change. The final EQR module selectively adjusts fueling of an engine based on the amount of sulfur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Inventors: Scott Jeffrey, Michael S. Emmorey, Jon C. Miller, Ian J. Mac Ewen, Steven Ward Majors