Patents by Inventor Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank 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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Publication number: 20250223171Abstract: Anti-inflammatory agents, antioxidants, electronic devices, batteries, capacitors, lubricants, coatings and paints, each containing a newly discovered allotrope of carbon having a multilayered nanocarbon array, and which exhibits, among other properties, exceptional stability, electrical conductivity and electromagnetic frequency (emf) attenuation characteristics. Members of this new allotrope include nanocarbon structures possessing vast electron delocalization in multiple directions, unavailable to known fullerene-characterized materials like carbon nano-onions (CNOs), multiwalled carbon nano-tubes (MWNTs), graphene, carbon nano-horns, and carbon nano-ellipsoids. Such stabilizing electron delocalization crosses or proceeds between layers, as well as along layers, in multiple directions within a continuous cyclic structure having an advanced interlayer connectivity bonding system involving the whole carbon array, apart from incidental defects.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2024Publication date: July 10, 2025Applicant: Structured Nano Carbon LLCInventors: Charles Danny CROSS, Larry Herbert KIRBY, Thomas Frank BAILEY
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Patent number: 12324431Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an agricultural formulation comprising an anucleated minicells and an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and scalable delivery of biologically active compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of biologically active compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells onto and/or into a target cell. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of biologically active compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells and delivering biologically active compounds into a target cell.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: AgroSpheres, Inc.Inventors: Ameer Hamza Shakeel, Zachery George Davis, Joseph Thomas Frank, Sepehr Zomorodi, Payam Pourtaheri
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Publication number: 20250180036Abstract: A fan assembly configured to address expansion losses and associated noises in centrifugal fans modifies the blades and housing to enhance the efficiency of air flow. The fan assembly can include a centrifugal fan wheel and shaped housing incorporating curved walls that guide the airflow along an efficient path, minimizing abrupt directional changes and resulting in improved energy efficiency and reduced noise levels compared to conventional housed centrifugal fans. Additionally, fan assembly includes a low-profile, energy-efficient motor positioned within an interior region defined by the centrifugal fan wheel, reducing the overall size of the fan assembly. In embodiments, the fan assemblies can function as standalone fans or be arranged in an array configuration to effectively move large volumes of air.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2025Publication date: June 5, 2025Inventors: Vijaya K. Kollipara, Thomas Frank, Shamus Doran, Shawn Michael Koeppel
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Patent number: 12253096Abstract: A fan assembly configured to address expansion losses and associated noises in centrifugal fans modifies the blades and housing to enhance the efficiency of air flow. The fan assembly can include a centrifugal fan wheel and shaped housing incorporating curved walls that guide the airflow along an efficient path, minimizing abrupt directional changes and resulting in improved energy efficiency and reduced noise levels compared to conventional housed centrifugal fans. Additionally, fan assembly includes a low-profile, energy-efficient motor positioned within an interior region defined by the centrifugal fan wheel, reducing the overall size of the fan assembly. In embodiments, the fan assemblies can function as standalone fans or be arranged in an array configuration to effectively move large volumes of air.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: Greenheck Fan CorporationInventors: Vijaya K. Kollipara, Thomas Frank, Shamus Doran, Shawn Michael Koeppel
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Publication number: 20250052252Abstract: A fan assembly includes an internal housing having an outer internal housing, and an inner internal housing partially disposed within the outer internal housing. The inner internal housing defines an internal cavity, and has a curved exterior surface. Stator blades extend between the inner internal housing and the outer internal housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Thomas Frank, Vijaya Kumar Kollipara, Shamus William Doran, Matthew Keener
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Patent number: 12193439Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an agricultural formulation comprising an anucleated minicells and an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and scalable delivery of biologically active compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of biologically active compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells onto and/or into a target cell. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of biologically active compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells and delivering biologically active compounds into a target cell.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: AgroSpheres, Inc.Inventors: Ameer Hamza Shakeel, Zachery George Davis, Joseph Thomas Frank, Sepehr Zomorodi, Payam Pourtaheri
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Patent number: 12158765Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for managing task assignments for a fleet of haul trucks at a mine site. An assignment engine may: receive state data for a haul truck including haul weight data and second state data for the mine site that is indicative of a plurality of available tasks and associated task material weight data; assign a task to the haul truck by inputting the state data into a trained reinforcement-learning model, wherein: the model has been trained to learn an assignment policy that optimizes a reward function, such that the learned policy accounts for vehicle performance variance due to changing vehicle haul weight and/or road conditions; and cause the at least one haul truck to be operated according to the at least one task assignment.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Stefan Jacob Wulf, Cameron T Lane, Andrew Seungyul Yun, Greg Davis, Thomas Frank Doherty, Darryl Collins
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Patent number: 12084350Abstract: Alloys, emf attenuation materials or emf reception materials, materials for biotechnology or biomedical materials, and materials for toxin and heavy metal removal, each containing a newly discovered allotrope of carbon having a multilayered nanocarbon array, and which exhibits, among other properties, exceptional stability, electrical conductivity and electromagnetic frequency (emf) attenuation characteristics. Members of this new allotrope include nanocarbon structures possessing vast electron delocalization in multiple directions, unavailable to known fullerene-characterized materials like carbon nano-onions (CNOs), multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs), graphene, carbon nano-horns, and carbon nano-ellipsoids. Such stabilizing electron delocalization crosses or proceeds between layers, as well as along layers, in multiple directions within a continuous cyclic structure having an advanced interlayer connectivity bonding system involving the whole carbon array, apart from incidental defects.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2023Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Structured Nano Carbon LLCInventors: Charles Danny Cross, Larry Herbert Kirby, Thomas Frank Bailey
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Publication number: 20240255857Abstract: Method for operating a mask-metrology measurement apparatus, wherein an image of a section of a photomask is recorded with a first image sensor and wherein an aerial image is generated by virtue of the image raw data obtained with the image sensor being subjected to a clear normalization. The aerial image is subjected to a non-linearity adaptation, which comprises the following steps. In step a., the aerial image is mathematically combined with a clear image (CT2T). In step b., linearity correction (Plin1) is applied to the image data generated in step a. to correct a linearity error of the first image sensor. In step c., a non-linearity adaptation (P?1lin2) is applied to the linearity-corrected image data obtained in step b. to imprint a linearity signature of a second image sensor not arranged in the beam path of the measurement apparatus on the image data. In step d., a clear normalization is applied to the linearity-adapted image data generated in step c.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Jan Reisloehner, Thomas Frank, Ulrich Matejka
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Publication number: 20240254170Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and delivery of agricultural compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of agricultural compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of agricultural compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: Ameer Hamza SHAKEEL, Sepehr ZOMORODI, Joseph Thomas FRANK, Zachery George DAVIS, Payam POURTAHERI
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Patent number: 12023769Abstract: A drilling detection system may include a drilling detection circuitry including one or more detection processors configured to receive a vibration signal indicative of vibration associated with a drilling machine configured to drill holes into a substrate and receive a movement signal indicative of movement of the drilling machine relative to one or more positions on the substrate. The one or more detection processors may also be configured to determine vibration associated with the drilling machine, and determine movement associated with the drilling machine. The one or more detection processors may also be configured to determine, based at least in part on the vibration associated with the drilling machine and the movement associated with the drilling machine, the drilling machine has drilled holes into the substrate and a position on the substrate at which the drilling machine has drilled the holes into the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Global Mining LLC.Inventors: Thomas Frank Doherty, Ben Lincoln Clare, Darryl Victor Collins
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Patent number: 11970518Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and delivery of agricultural compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of agricultural compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of agricultural compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: AgroSpheres, Inc.Inventors: Ameer Hamza Shakeel, Sepehr Zomorodi, Joseph Thomas Frank, Zachery George Davis, Payam Pourtaheri
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Patent number: 11971047Abstract: A fan assembly includes an internal housing having an outer internal housing, and an inner internal housing partially disposed within the outer internal housing. The inner internal housing defines an internal cavity, and has a curved exterior surface. Stator blades extend between the inner internal housing and the outer internal housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2023Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Greenheck Fan CorporationInventors: Thomas Frank, Vijaya Kumar Kollipara, Shamus William Doran, Matthew Keener
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Publication number: 20240130363Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an agricultural formulation comprising an anucleated minicells and an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and scalable delivery of biologically active compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of biologically active compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells onto and/or into a target cell. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of biologically active compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells and delivering biologically active compounds into a target cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: AgroSpheres, Inc.Inventors: Ameer Hamza SHAKEEL, Zachery George DAVIS, Joseph Thomas FRANK, Sepehr ZOMORODI, Payam POURTAHERI
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Publication number: 20240081325Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an agricultural formulation comprising an anucleated minicells and an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and scalable delivery of biologically active compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of biologically active compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells onto and/or into a target cell. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of biologically active compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells and delivering biologically active compounds into a target cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Ameer Hamza SHAKEEL, Zachery George Davis, Joseph Thomas Frank, Sepehr Zomorodi, Payam Pourtaheri
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Publication number: 20240018970Abstract: A fan assembly configured to address expansion losses and associated noises in centrifugal fans modifies the blades and housing to enhance the efficiency of air flow. The fan assembly can include a centrifugal fan wheel and shaped housing incorporating curved walls that guide the airflow along an efficient path, minimizing abrupt directional changes and resulting in improved energy efficiency and reduced noise levels compared to conventional housed centrifugal fans. Additionally, fan assembly includes a low-profile, energy-efficient motor positioned within an interior region defined by the centrifugal fan wheel, reducing the overall size of the fan assembly. In embodiments, the fan assemblies can function as standalone fans or be arranged in an array configuration to effectively move large volumes of air.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Vijaya K. Kollipara, Thomas Frank, Shamus Doran, Shawn Michael Koeppel
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Publication number: 20230383761Abstract: A fan assembly includes an internal housing having an outer internal housing, and an inner internal housing partially disposed within the outer internal housing. The inner internal housing defines an internal cavity, and has a curved exterior surface. Stator blades extend between the inner internal housing and the outer internal housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Thomas Frank, Vijaya Kumar Kollipara, Shamus William Doran, Matthew Keener
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Patent number: 11812743Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an agricultural formulation comprising an anucleated minicells and an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and scalable delivery of biologically active compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of biologically active compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells onto and/or into a target cell. The present disclosure also provides methods of improving encapsulation and retention of biologically active compounds in achromosomal and/or anucleated cells and delivering biologically active compounds into a target cell.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: AgroSpheres, Inc.Inventors: Ameer Hamza Shakeel, Zachery George Davis, Joseph Thomas Frank, Sepehr Zomorodi, Payam Pourtaheri
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Publication number: 20230357018Abstract: Alloys, emf attenuation materials or emf reception materials, materials for biotechnology or biomedical materials, and materials for toxin and heavy metal removal, each containing a newly discovered allotrope of carbon having a multilayered nanocarbon array, and which exhibits, among other properties, exceptional stability, electrical conductivity and electromagnetic frequency (emf) attenuation characteristics. Members of this new allotrope include nanocarbon structures possessing vast electron delocalization in multiple directions, unavailable to known fullerene-characterized materials like carbon nano-onions (CNOs), multiwalled carbon nano-tubes (MWNTs), graphene, carbon nano-horns, and carbon nano-ellipsoids. Such stabilizing electron delocalization crosses or proceeds between layers, as well as along layers, in multiple directions within a continuous cyclic structure having an advanced interlayer connectivity bonding system involving the whole carbon array, apart from incidental defects.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Applicant: Structured Nano Carbon LLCInventors: Charles Danny CROSS, Larry Herbert KIRBY, Thomas Frank BAILEY
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Publication number: 20230357330Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to an anucleated cell-based platforms for encapsulation and delivery of agricultural compounds. Disclosed herein are compositions for the stable and targeted delivery of agricultural compounds within achromosomal and/or anucleated cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Ameer Hamza SHAKEEL, Sepehr ZOMORODI, Joseph Thomas FRANK, Zachery George DAVIS, Payam POURTAHERI