Patents by Inventor Thomas Quinlan
Thomas Quinlan 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: 20240308575Abstract: A forklift system includes a steering system. The steering system includes a steer arm. A controller is operatively coupled to the steering system, and a homing system is configured to determine a home position of the steering system. The homing system is configured to determine the home position by rotating the steer arm in a single direction, such as in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. In one variation, the homing system includes at least two sensors and at least two encoders. The sensors are configured to detect a target coupled to the steering system, and the encoders are configured to measure the angular rotation of the steering system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2024Publication date: September 19, 2024Applicant: Bastian Solutions, LLCInventors: Ashok Anumula, Michael Marcum, Charles Thomas Quinlan, III, Gabriel Michael Riggs
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Publication number: 20150025849Abstract: A network for electronic communications in which disparate anonymous devices may transmit and receive information, such as in a secure manner. A method for collecting health-related data may, for example, comprise detecting, at a first time, that a sensor has moved within a detection range of a link component, the sensor having not been identified to the link component prior to the first time; receiving data collected by the sensor relating to activity by and/or health of a human subject associated with the sensor; and processing the data to determine at least one indicator of the human subject's health.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Thomas Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, Thomas P. Blackadar, Norbert Ohlenbusch
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Publication number: 20150009043Abstract: Low-data-rate device-to-device communications may be established via at least one intermediate audio link Non-audio data may be encoded onto an audio data stream. The audio data stream may be converted to a non-audio data stream, e.g., an RF data stream, for wireless transmission to a second device. The second device may receive the wireless data stream. The second device may further decode a replica of the original non-audio data from the audio stream. Device-to-device communications employing an intermediate audio link may be used for communications between low-processing power devices, e.g., sensors and monitors, and more sophisticated processors, e.g., cell phones, computers, PDA's, tablets. Intermediate audio links may be useful for health and industrial applications. Low-power network protocols may also be used to establish a network of devices that use at least one intermediate audio link.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Applicant: FitLinxx, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Quinlan, Thomas P. Blackadar
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Patent number: 8728553Abstract: A method for maintaining, optimizing, strengthening or promoting cardiovascular health of an individual, wherein an amount of menaquinone has been added to a food product such that the level of menaquinone is 5 to 5000 ?g per 100 g of food product.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2012Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Nattopharma ASAInventors: Paul Thomas Quinlan, Cees Vermeer
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Patent number: 8354129Abstract: A food product comprising menaquinone at a level of 50 to 5,000 ?g per 100 g of product.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2001Date of Patent: January 15, 2013Assignee: Nattopharm ASAInventors: Paul Thomas Quinlan, Cees Vermeer
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Publication number: 20120232846Abstract: A network for electronic communications in which disparate anonymous devices may transmit and receive information, such as in a secure manner. A method for collecting health-related data may, for example, comprise detecting, at a first time, that a sensor has moved within a detection range of a link component, the sensor having not been identified to the link component prior to the first time; receiving data collected by the sensor relating to activity by and/or health of a human subject associated with the sensor; and processing the data to determine at least one indicator of the human subject's health.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2012Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: FitSense Technology, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, Thomas P. Blackadar, Norbert Ohlenbusch
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Publication number: 20100068146Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method for improving brain fitness. The method includes the step of providing non-protein amino acid to a consumer prior to playing a brain game.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2008Publication date: March 18, 2010Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVERInventors: Stephanie Luther-Forsstrom, Paul Thomas Quinlan
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Publication number: 20090014199Abstract: Described is an insulated non-halogenated, heavy metal free vehicular cable comprising an inner core of a copper based metal wire having a cross sectional area of between about 0.05 mm2 and about 0.13 mm2, and an outer insulation, covering the length of the inner core, comprised of a thermoplastic polyphenylene ether composition that has no halogen or heavy metal added thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2008Publication date: January 15, 2009Inventors: Raman V. Chiruvella, Leonard Allan Weiner, Eugene W. Yeager, Daniel Thomas Quinlan, Paul J. Pawlikowski, Edward Lee Monroe, Bruce D. Lawrence
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Publication number: 20020015762Abstract: A food product comprising menaquinone at a level of 50 to 5,000 &mgr;g per 100 g of product.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2001Publication date: February 7, 2002Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventor: Paul Thomas Quinlan
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Patent number: 6143348Abstract: Liquid oils with a SAFA-content of less than 5 wt % can be obtained by conversion of a fatty compound (A), preferably having a SAFA-level of more then 5 wt %, with a reactant (B), capable of forming different reaction products of the non-triglyceride type (C.sub.1, C.sub.2 etc.) having a different melting point and/or different solubility in compound (A); the SAFA-level of the end product can be controlled by separating the precipitate of the higher melting more saturated reaction-products (C.sub.1, C.sub.2 etc.) from the rest of the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2000Date of Patent: November 7, 2000Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
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Patent number: 6123979Abstract: Blends of wax-esters with beneficial health properties comprise: .gtoreq. two different wax-esters in amounts of 5-95% and each having m.pt -10.degree. C. to 80.degree. C. blend displaying m.pt: 15 to 45% while >80 wt % of wax-esters in blend have m.pt 20 to 60.degree. C.; wax-esters derived from linear alcohols and linear carboxyl acids either of them having .gtoreq.8 C-atoms.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 1998Date of Patent: September 26, 2000Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings BVInventors: Paul Hepburn, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Kevin Warren Smith, James Vincent Watts, Reginaldus Petrus J van der Wielen
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Patent number: 6040161Abstract: Liquid oils with a SAFA-content of less than 5 wt % can be obtained by conversion of a fatty compound (A), preferably having a SAFA-level of more then 5 wt %, with a reactant (B), capable of forming different reaction products of the non-triglyceride type (C.sub.1, C.sub.2 etc.) having a different melting point and/or different solubility in compound (A); the SAFA-level of the end product can be controlled by separating the precipitate of the higher melting more saturated reaction-products (C.sub.1, C.sub.2 etc.) from the rest of the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 1996Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
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Patent number: 6036991Abstract: A leaf tea especially blended from a black tea and a green tea so that it contains catechins and phenols in a ratio between 0.15 to 0.4, but preferably between 0.2 and 0.3. Such a product resembles black tea but typically possesses an antioxidant activity that is 10% or more higher than that the same mass of the black tea alone. The black tea is preferably low grown while the green tea is preferably from an Assam jat.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 1997Date of Patent: March 14, 2000Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.Inventors: Philip Graham Humphrey, Paul Thomas Quinlan
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Patent number: 5912042Abstract: Fat-blends suitable for food applications are disclosed. These blends contain 10-60% diglycerides (A), 90-40% triglycerides (B) wherein (A) contains .gtoreq.70% SU-diglycerides, including high melting diglycerides (>40.degree. C.)(C) and simultaneously a fatty compound (D) so that the melting point of (C+D) is >5.degree. C., lower than the melting point of (C) wherein (B) has an N.sub.5 .ltoreq.40 while the total blend has a SAFA-content <40%.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1996Date of Patent: June 15, 1999Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Adrianus Jozef Kuin, Anne Cynthia Peilow, Paul Thomas Quinlan
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Patent number: 5891495Abstract: Novel ice-cream coating fats based on diglycerides comprise at least 30 wt. %, preferably 50-90 wt. %, of diglycerides, which diglycerides have an SU content of 10-25 wt. %, while the total fat composition has a SAFA content of 5-35 wt. % and an N line (unstab.) of N.sub.20 <35 and N.sub.25 <10.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 1996Date of Patent: April 6, 1999Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Helga Gerda A. Manson nee van der Struik, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
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Patent number: 5879735Abstract: Fat blends, suitable for food application, in particular for wrapper- or tubspreads, comprise: 30-70 of diglycerides, 70-30 of triglycerides wherein the diglycerides comprise: 25-70% SU, 10-70% UU, less than 30% of SS (S=saturated fatty acid C.sub.12 -C.sub.24 ; U=unsaturated fatty acid.gtoreq.C.sub.16) and wherein the triglycerides contain 1-70 wt. % of S.sub.2 U-triglycerides, while the SAFA-content of the blend is less than 50 wt. %.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 1996Date of Patent: March 9, 1999Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Stephen Raymond Moore, Anne Cynthia Peilow, Paul Thomas Quinlan
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Patent number: 5731027Abstract: Blends of sugar and a triglyceride component, wherein the triglyceride component comprises.gtoreq.40% SU.sub.2and 3-50% S.sub.2 U while its N.sub.20 >35 and its N.sub.30 <10(S=saturated fatty acid 18-24 C atoms, U=unsaturated fatty acid.gtoreq.18 C atoms)are suitable for the preparation of low-SAFA filling fat compositions or low-SAFA ice-cream coatings.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 1996Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Kevin Warren Smith, Nico Zwikstra
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Patent number: 5681608Abstract: The invention concerns triglyceride compositions useful as nutrient fats having improved digestibility. The compositions comprise:1-95 wt. % of M.sub.2 L;5-65 wt. % of ML.sub.2,M=saturated fatty acid C.sub.2 -C.sub.14 ;L=unsaturated fatty acid C.sub.18 +,35-99.5% of the total L being bonded at the 2-position.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 1995Date of Patent: October 28, 1997Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan
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Patent number: 5670348Abstract: Liquid oils with a SAFA-content of less than 5 wt % can be obtained by conversion of a fatty compound (A), preferably having a SAFA-level of more then 5 wt %, with a reactant (B), capable of forming different reaction products of the non-triglyceride type (C.sub.1, C.sub.2 etc.) having a different melting point and/or different solubility in compound (A); the SAFA-level of the end product can be controlled by separating the precipitate of the higher melting more saturated reaction-products (C.sub.1, C.sub.2 etc.) from the rest of the reaction mixture.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 1995Date of Patent: September 23, 1997Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
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Patent number: 5658768Abstract: Triglycerides with more than 40 wt % saturated fatty acids in the 2-position contain considerable amounts of trisaturated triglycerides; these trisaturated triglycerides are removed (reduced) by performing an enzymic conversion with a source providing unsaturated C.sub.18 to C.sub.22 residues, using a 1,3-specific enzyme.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 1995Date of Patent: August 19, 1997Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.Inventor: Paul Thomas Quinlan