Patents by Inventor Thomas Gerard
Thomas Gerard 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: 11247765Abstract: A method for energy generation includes receiving, at a carbon negative energy generation system, input including calcium oxide and water and reacting, within a reaction chamber of the carbon negative energy generation system, the calcium oxide and water to release energy and generate calcium hydroxide. The method further includes directing, by the carbon negative energy generation system, the released energy to facilitate propulsion or onboard electricity generation and dispensing, by the carbon negative energy generation system, the calcium hydroxide into the ocean to sequester atmospheric CO2.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: X Development LLCInventors: William Raymond Regan, Thomas Peter Hunt, Thomas Gerard Schuhmann, Jr., Benjamin Lundquist Saenz, Joel Fraser Atwater, James Daniel Haley, Kevin Forsythe Smith, Charles Nordstrom
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Publication number: 20210340710Abstract: The present invention provides multi-layered tissue webs, and tissue product comprising the same, comprising long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers selectively deposited in one or more outer layers of the multi-layered web. Surprisingly disposing long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers in one or more outer layers, even in relatively modest amounts, may improve certain product properties, such as durability, without negatively affecting softness. In certain instances, both the softness and durability may be improved by selectively incorporating long, high-coarseness wood pulp fibers in one or more of the outer layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Stephen Michael Lindsay, Brent Merrik Thompson, Richard Louis Underhill
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Patent number: 11085090Abstract: A method for determining the presence or absence of a member of a group of bacterial organisms in a sample, wherein the method comprises determining whether a target region of the smpB gene is present in said sample is provided. Primers, probes and kits for use in these methods also form part of the invention, as does the use of an smpB gene target region to detect the presence or absence of a member of a group of bacterial organisms in a sample, in a range of clinical and non-clinical applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2016Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: National University of Ireland, GalwayInventors: Kate Mary Reddington, Nina Tuite, Elizabeth Minogue, Thomas Gerard Barry
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Publication number: 20210156093Abstract: Soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers are disclosed. The tissue products preferably comprise at least about 5 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber and have relatively modest tensile strengths, such as a geometric mean tensile (GMT) greater than about 1,000 g/3?, and improved durability and cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as a CD Stretch greater than about 10 percent. Additionally, at the foregoing tensile strengths the products are not overly stiff. For example the tissue products may have a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Kayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, David John Paulson, Felicia Marie Sauer, Thomas Gerard Shannon
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Publication number: 20210129967Abstract: A method for energy generation includes receiving, at a carbon negative energy generation system, input including calcium oxide and water and reacting, within a reaction chamber of the carbon negative energy generation system, the calcium oxide and water to release energy and generate calcium hydroxide. The method further includes directing, by the carbon negative energy generation system, the released energy to facilitate propulsion or onboard electricity generation and dispensing, by the carbon negative energy generation system, the calcium hydroxide into the ocean to sequester atmospheric CO2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: William Raymond Regan, Thomas Peter Hunt, Thomas Gerard Schuhmann, JR., Benjamin Lundquist Saenz, Joel Fraser Atwater, James Daniel Haley, Kevin Forsythe Smith, Charles Nordstrom
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Publication number: 20210129078Abstract: A method for ship ballasting includes receiving, at a carbon negative energy storage system, input comprising calcium oxide and water and reacting, within a reaction chamber of the carbon negative energy storage system, the calcium oxide and water to release energy and generate calcium hydroxide. The method includes directing, by the carbon negative energy storage system, the released energy to a requesting end user and providing, by the carbon negative energy storage system, the calcium hydroxide to a marine vessel ballasting system. The method includes releasing a mixture of the calcium hydroxide and ballast water from the marine vessel ballasting system into the ocean to sequester atmospheric COCO2.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: William Raymond Regan, Thomas Peter Hunt, Thomas Gerard Schuhmann, JR., Benjamin Lundquist Saenz, Joel Fraser Atwater, James Daniel Haley, Kevin Forsythe Smith, Charles Nordstrom
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Publication number: 20210081960Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for providing information relating to suspicious financial activities to investigative agencies are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive a digital access token from a financial institution; cause an application programming interface to be displayed on a computing device corresponding to the financial institution in response to receipt of the digital access token; receive case information from the financial institution create a case corresponding to the access token and the case information; determine one or more relevant investigative agencies for receiving a report based on the case information; retrieve a data model corresponding to each relevant investigative agency; and file a Suspicious Activity Report based on the case information in each of the one or more relevant jurisdictions in correspondence with the access token.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Hummingbird RegTech Inc.Inventors: Joseph Loree Robinson, Jesse Lee Reiss, Ryan Thomas Gerard, Matthew Van Buskirk
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Patent number: 10947673Abstract: Soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers are disclosed. The tissue products preferably comprise at least about 5 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber and have relatively modest tensile strengths, such as a geometric mean tensile (GMT) greater than about 1,000 g/3?, and improved durability and cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as a CD Stretch greater than about 10 percent. Additionally, at the foregoing tensile strengths the products are not overly stiff. For example the tissue products may have a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Kayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, David John Paulson, Felicia Marie Sauer, Thomas Gerard Shannon
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Publication number: 20210054572Abstract: The invention provides fibrous structures, such as tissue products, manufactured using non-compressive dewatering and drying methods, such as through-air drying, where the structures are multi-layered and have cross-linked fibers selectively disposed in one or more outer most layers. Compared to similarly prepared fibrous structures that are substantially free from cross-linked fibers the instant fibrous structures have improved surface properties, such as good softness and smoothness, as well as improved bulk. Further, by layering the cross-linked fibers and manufacturing the fibrous structures without compressive dewatering the tensile strength of the finished structure is not degraded.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: February 25, 2021Inventors: Michael Andrew Zawadzki, Stephen Michael Lindsay, Thomas Gerard Shannon
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Patent number: 10914039Abstract: The present invention provides soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly hesperaloe fiber. The inventors have discovered that high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber, when incorporated in amounts of at least about 5 percent by weight of the tissue product, produces products having a GMT less than about 1000 g/3? and a GM Slope less than about 7.0 kg. At the foregoing tensile strengths and modulus the tissue products of the present invention are also generally soft, such as having a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0, and more preferably less than about 9.0, such as from about 7.0 to about 9.0.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Richard Louis Underhill, Kevin Leon LaBerge, John Matthew Reiser, Gilbert Darrell Gafford
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Publication number: 20200271058Abstract: The invention relates to a semiconductor body revolving around a main axis (A) for a spark plug of a turbine engine, the semiconductor body comprising a baseplate and an upper portion extending from the baseplate along the main axis, the baseplate comprising a bottom surface substantially defined in a plane perpendicular to the main axis and a first conical surface intended to cooperate by form-fitting at least partially with a contact surface of an outer electrode of the spark plug. According to the invention, the upper portion comprises an interface located opposite the bottom surface along the main axis (A) and featuring a profile that is at least partially corrugated.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2020Publication date: August 27, 2020Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Thomas GĂ©rard Daniel Riviere, Guillaume Thierry Richen, David Gino Stifanic
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Patent number: 10738869Abstract: A method for manufacturing a case-hardened ring gear/differential case assembly includes attaching a ring gear to a differential case. The case-hardened ring gear and the differential case are fabricated of materials each having differing properties of at least carbon content and melting temperature. The attaching includes placing a flange of the case-hardened ring gear in intimate contact with a flange of the differential case whereby a predetermined gap is defined between a remainder of the ring gear and a remainder of the differential case. The ring gear flange is attached to the differential case flange by a friction welding process. The predetermined gap defines an outflow channel that receives a carburized portion of the case-hardened ring gear as overflow material created by an upset forging step of the friction welding process. Differential assemblies and vehicles including such are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Paul John Bojanowski, Andreas Evangelos Perakes, Thomas Gerard Neumann, Mark E. Briscoe
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Patent number: 10640222Abstract: The invention relates to an aircraft propulsion assembly comprising a cradle receiving a turbine engine comprising at least one propeller having a longitudinal axis of rotation, a gas turbine engine having a longitudinal axis of rotation offset from the axis, and a reduction gear by means of which said propeller receives drive power from said engine, wherein the propeller and the gas turbine engine are designed such that axes and are offset from one another within said cradle at least by a given value in a transverse direction, the axis of the gas turbine engine being transversely closer to a proximal lateral side of the cradle than to an opposite distal lateral side of the cradle in order to create a lateral space between said engine and said distal lateral side of the cradle, thereby forming at least one region for installing equipments, components or accessories of said turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINESInventors: Nora El Ghannam, Matthieu Etienne Attali, Romain Jean-Claude Ferrier, Caroline Marie Frantz, Thomas Gerard Daniel Riviere, Nicolas Xavier Trappier
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Publication number: 20200115853Abstract: The present invention provides soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly hesperaloe fiber. The inventors have discovered that high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber, when incorporated in amounts of at least about 5 percent by weight of the tissue product, produces products having a GMT less than about 1000 g/3? and a GM Slope less than about 7.0 kg. At the foregoing tensile strengths and modulus the tissue products of the present invention are also generally soft, such as having a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0, and more preferably less than about 9.0, such as from about 7.0 to about 9.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Richard Louis Underhill, Kevin Leon LaBerge, John Matthew Reiser, Gilbert Darrell Gafford
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Publication number: 20200102705Abstract: Soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers are disclosed. The tissue products preferably comprise at least about 5 percent, by weight of the product, high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber and have relatively modest tensile strengths, such as a geometric mean tensile (GMT) greater than about 1,000 g/3?, and improved durability and cross-machine direction (CD) properties, such as a CD Stretch greater than about 10 percent. Additionally, at the foregoing tensile strengths the products are not overly stiff. For example the tissue products may have a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Kayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, David John Paulson, Felicia Marie Sauer, Thomas Gerard Shannon
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Patent number: 10596042Abstract: A liquid absorbent structure is made by dry laying a fibrous web having incorporated therein a superabsorbent material, and applying an aqueous composite stabilizer to at least one surface of the web. The aqueous composite stabilizer imparts integrity to the resulting structure without substantially impairing the effectiveness of the superabsorbent material to absorb liquid while forming the absorbent structure without removing the water from aqueous composite stabilizer or drying out the absorbent structure. The absorbent composite absorbs the water from the aqueous composite stabilizer. The absorbent composite comprises about 70% by weight of a superabsorbent material.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: David Arthur Fell, Steven Michael Hurley, Donald LeRoy Smith, Kendell Jean Williams, Nicholas Alan Kraft, Johanna Marie Buss, David John Paulson, Thomas Gerard Vercauteren, Sara Lynn Rosack, James George Van Himbergen
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Patent number: 10568409Abstract: Embodiments of a collar, which may be adapted for removably securing a portable device to a user, are disclosed. In embodiments, the collar may be secured to the portable device, wherein a retaining clip may be inserted into a receiving volume which restricts movement of a claw in contact with a surface of the portable communications device.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Inventor: Thomas Gerard Carpenter
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Publication number: 20200040529Abstract: The disclosure provides fibrous structures and tissue products comprising a volatile agave compound selected from the group consisting of limonene, hexanaldehyde and 6-Methyl-5-hepten-2-one. The volatile agave compounds may be provided by forming the structures at least in-part from agave fiber, such as Agave tequilana fiber. In other embodiments the volatile agave compounds may be incorporated in the fibrous structures by adding the compounds during formation of the fibrous structure, such as by adding the compounds to the furnish, or by topically applying the compounds to the fibrous structure after formation, in order to provide a lemon-like scent to the fibrous structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2016Publication date: February 6, 2020Inventors: Kayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, John Matthew Reiser, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Priyadarshini Gadgil
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Patent number: 10550522Abstract: The present invention provides soft, durable and bulky tissue products comprising non-wood fibers and more particularly hesperaloe fiber. The inventors have discovered that high yield hesperaloe pulp fiber, when incorporated in amounts of at least about 5 percent by weight of the tissue product, produces products having a GMT less than about 1000 g/3? and a GM Slope less than about 7.0 kg. At the foregoing tensile strengths and modulus the tissue products of the present invention are also generally soft, such as having a Stiffness Index less than about 10.0, and more preferably less than about 9.0, such as from about 7.0 to about 9.0.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Richard Louis Underhill, Kevin Leon LaBerge, John Matthew Reiser, Gilbert Darrell Gafford
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Patent number: 10548782Abstract: A liquid absorbent structure is made by dry laying a fibrous web having incorporated therein a superabsorbent material, and applying an aqueous composite stabilizer to at least one surface of the web. The aqueous composite stabilizer imparts integrity to the resulting structure without substantially impairing the effectiveness of the superabsorbent material to absorb liquid while forming the absorbent structure without removing the water from aqueous composite stabilizer or drying out the absorbent structure. The absorbent composite absorbs the water from the aqueous composite stabilizer. The absorbent composite comprises about 70% by weight of a superabsorbent material.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: David Arthur Fell, Steven Michael Hurley, Donald LeRoy Smith, Kendell Jean Williams, Nicholas Alan Kraft, Johanna Marie Buss, David John Paulson, Thomas Gerard Vercauteren, Sara Lynn Rosack, James George Van Himbergen