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).

  • Patent number: 10132036
    Abstract: The invention relates to tissue products comprising hesperaloe fibers and methods of producing the same. Preferably the hesperaloe fibers are high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, which have demonstrated the ability to replace substantially all of the long fiber fraction of the papermaking furnish without negatively effecting important tissue product properties such as CD Stretch, CD Durability and bulk. Thus, the tissue product may comprise greater than about 90 weight percent hesperaloe fiber and more preferably greater than about 95 weight percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Lynda Ellen Collins, Mark Alan Burazin, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Jeffrey James Timm
  • Publication number: 20180328884
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to injectable electronics. In some aspects, the present invention is generally directed to systems and methods for interfacing an electrical cable with electrical elements, such as nanoscale wires, that are injected or otherwise introduced into a subject. The subject may be living or non-living. In one set of embodiments, electrical elements introduced within a subject may be placed in electrical communication to a circuit board using a plurality of electrically isolated contacts that the circuit board can clamp or otherwise connect to. The electrical contacts may be in electrical communication with the electrical elements using a joining portion. The circuit board can also be connected to an electrical cable that can be attached, for example, to a computer. In some cases, the electrical cable can be attached or detached to or from the circuit board, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Charles M. Lieber, Thomas Gerard Schuhmann, Jun Yao, Guosong Hong, Tian-Ming Fu, Jungmin Lee, Hong-Gyu Park
  • Publication number: 20180281980
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for suspending two modules of a propulsion unit, such as two fan modules, said system comprising a pylon (28) and a rudder bar (30). One part (30?) of the rudder bar is hinged to the pylon, while the opposing ends thereof are hinged to connecting rods (34, 36). The system also comprises a torque bar (40) which has an elongate shape and is mounted on the pylon such that it can pivot about an axis substantially parallel to an axis (13) of elongation of the torque bar, the opposing ends (42) of said bar being secured on each side of the above-mentioned part of the rudder bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Gerard Daniel RIVIERE, Antoine Elie HELLGOUARCH
  • Patent number: 10087775
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprises a compressor, a combustion chamber, an outer casing, an inner casing and a cooling arrangement. The outer casing surrounds the compressor and the combustion chamber and the combustion chamber has turbine nozzle guide vanes. The compressor has load carrying outlet guide vanes connected to the outer casing and the inner casing. The turbine nozzle guide vanes connect the outer casing and the inner casing. The cooling arrangement comprises a cooling air duct located between the compressor and the combustion chamber. The compressor outlet guide vanes carry at least one aerodynamic fairing. A support structure supports the cooling air duct from the inner casing at two spaced positions and the support structure forms a chamber with the inner casing. The support structure comprises at least one hollow duct and each hollow duct locates behind a respective one of the aerodynamic fairings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventor: Thomas Gerard Mulcaire
  • Patent number: 10055758
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards selective disclosure of user or computing environment attributes to facilitate generation and/or provision of targeted content. In various embodiments, a likelihood that disclosure of an attribute of a user or of a computing environment associated with the user will enable identification of the user may be determined based on an associated population count of users or computing environments sharing the same attribute. In various embodiments, the attribute may be selectively disclosed to a content provider configured to provide targeted content, or a recommendation may be selectively provided to the user as to whether the user should disclose the attribute to the content provider, based on the determination and a risk tolerance associated with the user. In various embodiments, a dimension authority may track and make available population counts of users or computing environments having various attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Ned M. Smith, Thomas Gerard Willis
  • Publication number: 20180185200
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    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
  • Patent number: 10004308
    Abstract: Briefly, embodiments of a collar, which may be suitable for removably securing a portable communications device to a user, are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Gerard Carpenter
  • Publication number: 20180172131
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Paul John Bojanowski, Andreas Evangelos Perakes, Thomas Gerard Neumann, Mark E. Briscoe
  • Patent number: 9994918
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multiplex in vitro nucleic acid amplification method for identifying a species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex present in a sample. The method includes detecting the presence or absence of a plurality of nucleic acid molecule targets in the sample in one reaction, wherein at least one of the nucleic acid molecule targets is present in the genome of one or more, but not all, of the species of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex. The invention also includes kits containing primers or probes for conducting this method, nucleic acids useful for performing this method and diagnostic techniques using these nucleic acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: National University of Ireland, Galway
    Inventors: Kate Mary Reddington, Thomas Gerard Barry, Justin Joseph O'Grady, Terence James Smith
  • Publication number: 20180155766
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Kate Mary Reddington, Nina Tuite, Elizabeth Minogue, Thomas Gerard Barry
  • Publication number: 20180142420
    Abstract: 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) less 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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Kayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, David John Paulson, Felicia Marie Sauer, Thomas Gerard Shannon
  • Publication number: 20180142421
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 24, 2018
    Inventors: Kayla Elizabeth Rouse, Richard Louis Underhill, David John Paulson, Felicia Marie Sauer, Thomas Gerard Shannon
  • Publication number: 20180135253
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Richard Louis Underhill, Kevin Leon LaBerge, John Matthew Reiser, Gilbert Darrell Gafford
  • Publication number: 20180135248
    Abstract: The invention relates to tissue products comprising hesperaloe fibers and methods of producing the same. Preferably the hesperaloe fibers are high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers, which have demonstrated the ability to replace substantially all of the long fiber fraction of the papermaking furnish without negatively effecting important tissue product properties such as CD Stretch, CD Durability and bulk. Thus, the tissue product may comprise greater than about 90 weight percent hesperaloe fiber and more preferably greater than about 95 weight percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Lynda Ellen Collins, Mark Alan Burazin, Thomas Gerard Shannon, Jeffrey James Timm
  • Publication number: 20180134402
    Abstract: A cradle for supporting an aircraft turbine engine, said cradle comprising an attachment interface for attaching a gas generator of the turbine engine. The cradle is produced in at least two portions comprising: an upper half-cradle, which is designed to be attached to a wing of the aircraft, a lower half-cradle, which is movable between a position in which it is connected to the upper half-cradle and a position in which it is disconnected from the upper half-cradle, and which comprises at least a portion of the attachment interface for attaching the gas generator, a guide configured for slidably guiding the lower half-cradle between the connected and disconnected positions thereof, and at least one lock for locking the lower half-cradle in the connected position thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Antoine Elie Hellegouarch, Frédéric Paul Eichstadt, Thomas Gérard Daniel Riviere
  • Publication number: 20180135249
    Abstract: The present invention relates to tissue products comprising high yield hesperaloe fiber having improved wet performance, such as improved absorbency, CD Wet/Dry Ratio and CD Wet Durability. The addition of high yield hesperaloe pulp fibers surprisingly improves the CD Wet/Dry ratio without negatively affecting the absorbency of the tissue product. For example, tissue products of the present invention generally have an Absorbent Capacity greater than about 6.0 g/g, such as from about 8.0 to 8.0 g/g. As such the tissue products are durable when wet, but are still sufficiently absorbent. This balance of absorbency and wet strength is not found in the prior art without resorting to adding latex binders or the like to the tissue product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2015
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Richard Louis Underhill, Kevin Leon LaBerge, John Matthew Reiser, Gilbert Darrell Gafford
  • Publication number: 20180105278
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventors: Nora EL GHANNAM, Matthieu Etienne ATTALI, Romain Jean-Claude FERRIER, Caroline Marie FRANTZ, Thomas Gerard Daniel RIVIERE, Nicolas Xavier TRAPPIER
  • Patent number: 9944996
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a diagnostic kit for a yeast or fungal species comprising at least one oligonucleotide probe capable of binding to at least a portion of the eIF2y gene or its corresponding mRNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: National University of Ireland, Galway
    Inventors: Thomas Gerard Barry, Majella Maher, Terry James Smith, Marcin Jankiewicz, Louise O'Connor, Nina Tuite, Sinead Lahiff
  • Patent number: 9890502
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to tissue webs and products, which generally have a basis weight less than about 80 grams per square meter (gsm) and a sheet bulk greater than about 5 cubic centimeters per gram (cc/g) comprising a blend of conventional papermaking fibers and high carbohydrate fillers. Surprisingly, the fillers may displace a relatively large amount of conventional papermaking fibers, such as hardwood kraft pulp, without negatively affecting important tissue properties such as caliper, bulk, slough, absorbent capacity and softness. In fact, in certain instances the use of fillers actually improves tissue properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Gerard Shannon, Bo Shi
  • Patent number: D829546
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Thomas Gerard Gagliardo, Amy Marie Kletz, Danielle Lee Abel