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).

  • Publication number: 20240308575
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Bastian Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Ashok Anumula, Michael Marcum, Charles Thomas Quinlan, III, Gabriel Michael Riggs
  • Publication number: 20150025849
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, Thomas P. Blackadar, Norbert Ohlenbusch
  • Publication number: 20150009043
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: FitLinxx, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Quinlan, Thomas P. Blackadar
  • Patent number: 8728553
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Nattopharma ASA
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Quinlan, Cees Vermeer
  • Patent number: 8354129
    Abstract: A food product comprising menaquinone at a level of 50 to 5,000 ?g per 100 g of product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Nattopharm ASA
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Quinlan, Cees Vermeer
  • Publication number: 20120232846
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: FitSense Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, Thomas P. Blackadar, Norbert Ohlenbusch
  • Publication number: 20100068146
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: March 18, 2010
    Applicant: CONOPCO, INC., D/B/A UNILEVER
    Inventors: Stephanie Luther-Forsstrom, Paul Thomas Quinlan
  • Publication number: 20090014199
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2008
    Publication date: January 15, 2009
    Inventors: Raman V. Chiruvella, Leonard Allan Weiner, Eugene W. Yeager, Daniel Thomas Quinlan, Paul J. Pawlikowski, Edward Lee Monroe, Bruce D. Lawrence
  • Publication number: 20020015762
    Abstract: A food product comprising menaquinone at a level of 50 to 5,000 &mgr;g per 100 g of product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Publication date: February 7, 2002
    Applicant: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Thomas Quinlan
  • Patent number: 6143348
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
  • Patent number: 6123979
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Unilever Patent Holdings BV
    Inventors: Paul Hepburn, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Kevin Warren Smith, James Vincent Watts, Reginaldus Petrus J van der Wielen
  • Patent number: 6040161
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2000
    Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
  • Patent number: 6036991
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Lipton, Division of Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Philip Graham Humphrey, Paul Thomas Quinlan
  • Patent number: 5912042
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: June 15, 1999
    Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Adrianus Jozef Kuin, Anne Cynthia Peilow, Paul Thomas Quinlan
  • Patent number: 5891495
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Helga Gerda A. Manson nee van der Struik, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
  • Patent number: 5879735
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1999
    Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Stephen Raymond Moore, Anne Cynthia Peilow, Paul Thomas Quinlan
  • Patent number: 5731027
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Kevin Warren Smith, Nico Zwikstra
  • Patent number: 5681608
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan
  • Patent number: 5670348
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 23, 1997
    Assignee: Loders-Croklaan B.V.
    Inventors: Frederick William Cain, Paul Thomas Quinlan, Stephen Raymond Moore
  • Patent number: 5658768
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1997
    Assignee: Loders Croklaan B.V.
    Inventor: Paul Thomas Quinlan