Patents by Inventor Thomas Wells

Thomas Wells 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: 20180114472
    Abstract: A current-generated photo-luminescent hybrid sign is provided that includes one or more light emitting elements within a channel in the frame to evenly distribute light, while at the same time energizing a photo-luminescent glow material in case of power outage. A method of use of the sign is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: April 26, 2018
    Inventors: O. Michael ROBERTS, Thomas Wells Brignall, JR.
  • Publication number: 20180041983
    Abstract: A mobile transceiver for asset tracking having route monitoring and method of operation are provided. In one aspect, the method comprises: determining a location of the mobile transceiver using the satellite receiver; determining whether the determined location deviates from a planned route; and sending an alert to an asset tracking service when the determined location deviates from the planned route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jasmin MULAOSMANOVIC, Robert Joseph LOMBARDI, Sergio Javier BERRIZ, Brian Thomas WELLS
  • Patent number: 9852667
    Abstract: A current-generated photo-luminescent hybrid sign is provided that includes one or more light emitting elements within a channel in the frame to evenly distribute light, while at the same time energizing a photo-luminescent glow material in case of power outage. A method of use of the sign is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: GLOW LIGHT EMERGENCY EXIT PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: O. Michael Roberts, Thomas Wells Brignall, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20170359705
    Abstract: Systems and methods for short message service message management are provided herein. A method includes initiating a short message service (SMS) message session on a short message service (SMS) center for a first user equipment (UE) using a telephone number of the first UE, and facilitating exchange of SMS message session messages between the first UE and a second UE using the SMS center. The first UE uses a browser client or an application executing on the first UE to receive and send the SMS message session messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventor: Andrew Thomas Wells
  • Patent number: 9763068
    Abstract: Systems and methods for short message service message management are provided herein. A method includes initiating a short message service (SMS) message session on a short message service (SMS) center for a first user equipment (UE) using a telephone number of the first UE, and facilitating exchange of SMS message session messages between the first UE and a second UE using the SMS center. The first UE uses a browser client or an application executing on the first UE to receive and send the SMS message session messages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Kool Telecom Ltd.
    Inventor: Andrew Thomas Wells
  • Patent number: 9485362
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a mobile office phone are provided herein. In one embodiment a system includes a private branch exchange (PBX), a server configured to integrate user equipment (UE) onto the PBX by attaching a mobile telephone number of the UE as an extension on the PBX, and a session initiation protocol (SIP) server coupled with the server and PBX that allows the UE to place and receive calls and messages over data channels of a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Kool Telecom Ltd.
    Inventor: Andrew Thomas Wells
  • Publication number: 20160105781
    Abstract: Systems and methods for short message service message management are provided herein. A method includes initiating a short message service (SMS) message session on a short message service (SMS) center for a first user equipment (UE) using a telephone number of the first UE, and facilitating exchange of SMS message session messages between the first UE and a second UE using the SMS center. The first UE uses a browser client or an application executing on the first UE to receive and send the SMS message session messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventor: Andrew Thomas Wells
  • Publication number: 20150365533
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a mobile office phone are provided herein. In one embodiment a system includes a private branch exchange (PBX), a server configured to integrate user equipment (UE) onto the PBX by attaching a mobile telephone number of the UE as an extension on the PBX, and a session initiation protocol (SIP) server coupled with the server and PBX that allows the UE to place and receive calls and messages over data channels of a network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventor: Andrew Thomas Wells
  • Publication number: 20150261832
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are described herein to support view-based storage. A service application that provides a user interface to a service receives data communicated by the service and identifies at least a service item to present in at least one of various views rendered in the user interface. The service application then identifies with which of the views to associate the service item and stores the service item in association with an identified view or views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Amit K. Sinha, Kavitha Balasubramanian, Dawid Kozlowski, Michael I. Borysenko, Stephen Thomas Wells
  • Publication number: 20150205464
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are described herein to facilitate the enhanced updating of user interfaces to a service. In an implementation, an application renders a user interface to a service and an initial visualization is surfaced in response to the occurrence of an event. After surfacing the initial visualization, the application receives an update from the service that includes a proposed visualization and determines whether or not the proposed visualization accounts for the event. If the proposed visualization accounts for the event, the proposed visualization is surfaced in place of the initial visualization. But if the proposed visualization does not account for the event, the initial visualization may be persisted until another visualization is identified that accounts for the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Dawid Kozlowski, Michael I. Borysenko, Umut Alev, Matt Wood, Andrew Michael Himberger, Ethan Joseph Bernstein, Stephen Thomas Wells, Benjamin Franklin Carter
  • Publication number: 20150109602
    Abstract: A photoluminescent capsule illuminator for a sighting device. The photoluminescent illuminator includes an elongated phosphor housing having sidewalls and a base. The photoluminescent illuminator includes phosphors in a granular form disposed inside the phosphor housing. The photoluminescent illuminator includes a cap sealing the phosphors in the phosphor housing. The phosphor housing is disposed in relation to a body of the sighting device such that photoluminescent light emitted from the phosphors exits the phosphor housing and identifies a location of a sight on the sighting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: Defense Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard James MARTIN, Gregory Louis Bender, Thomas Wells Brignall, JR., Henry John Richert
  • Publication number: 20150007468
    Abstract: A current-generated photo-luminescent hybrid sign is provided that includes one or more light emitting elements within a channel in the frame to evenly distribute light, while at the same time energizing a photo-luminescent glow material in case of power outage. A method of use of the sign is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: O. Michael ROBERTS, Thomas Wells BRIGNALL, Jr.
  • Patent number: 8479423
    Abstract: A photoluminescent device and a photoluminescent exit sign. The photoluminescent device includes a polymer matrix having a light-emitting exterior surface for emission of photoluminescent light therefrom. The photoluminescent device has a plurality of UV or visible-light excited phosphor particles included in the polymer matrix. The phosphor particles have a concentration greater in an exterior region of the polymer matrix proximate the light-emitting exterior surface than in an interior region of the polymer matrix. The exit sign includes at least two plates interlocked together with at least one typographical character disposed on the plates. The typographical character is formed from the polymer matrix containing the phosphor particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2013
    Assignee: Afterglow, LLC.
    Inventors: Richard James Martin, Gregory Louis Bender, Thomas Wells Brignall, Jr., Herbert George Jones
  • Publication number: 20120304512
    Abstract: A photoluminescent device and a photoluminescent exit sign. The photoluminescent device includes a polymer matrix having a light-emitting exterior surface for emission of photoluminescent light therefrom. The photoluminescent device has a plurality of UV or visible-light excited phosphor particles included in the polymer matrix. The phosphor particles have a concentration greater in an exterior region of the polymer matrix proximate the light-emitting exterior surface than in an interior region of the polymer matrix. The exit sign includes at least two plates interlocked together with at least one typographical character disposed on the plates. The typographical character is formed from the polymer matrix containing the phosphor particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2012
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: Afterglow, LLC.
    Inventors: Richard James MARTIN, Gregory Louis Bender, Thomas Wells Brignall, JR., Herbert George Jones
  • Patent number: 8286378
    Abstract: A photoluminescent device and a photoluminescent exit sign. The photoluminescent device includes a polymer matrix having a light-emitting exterior surface for emission of photoluminescent light therefrom. The photoluminescent device has a plurality of UV or visible-light excited phosphor particles included in the polymer matrix. The phosphor particles have a concentration greater in an exterior region of the polymer matrix proximate the light-emitting exterior surface than in an interior region of the polymer matrix. The exit sign includes at least two plates interlocked together with at least one typographical character disposed on the plates. The typographical character is formed from the polymer matrix containing the phosphor particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Afterglow, LLC.
    Inventors: Richard James Martin, Gregory Louis Bender, Thomas Wells Brignall, Jr., Herbert George Jones
  • Publication number: 20120233895
    Abstract: A photoluminescent device and a photoluminescent exit sign. The photoluminescent device includes a polymer matrix having a light-emitting exterior surface for emission of photoluminescent light therefrom. The photoluminescent device has a plurality of UV or visible-light excited phosphor particles included in the polymer matrix. The phosphor particles have a concentration greater in an exterior region of the polymer matrix proximate the light-emitting exterior surface than in an interior region of the polymer matrix. The exit sign includes at least two plates interlocked together with at least one typographical character disposed on the plates. The typographical character is formed from the polymer matrix containing the phosphor particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: AFTERGLOW, LLC.
    Inventors: Richard James Martin, Gregory Louis Bender, Thomas Wells Brignall, JR., Herbert George Jones
  • Publication number: 20120227296
    Abstract: A current-generated photo-luminescent hybrid sign is provided that includes one or more light emitting elements within a channel in the frame to evenly distribute light, while at the same time energizing a photo-luminescent glow material in case of power outage. A method of use of the sign is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: O. Michael ROBERTS, Thomas Wells Brignall, JR.
  • Publication number: 20120102799
    Abstract: A current-generated photo-luminescent hybrid sign is provided that includes one or more light emitting elements within a channel in the frame to evenly distribute light, while at the same time energizing a photo-luminescent glow material in case of power outage. A method of use of the sign is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 3, 2012
    Inventors: O. Michael Roberts, Thomas Wells Brignall
  • Publication number: 20070157388
    Abstract: A modular bedding system comprises a universal knock down bed base having removable mattress supporting panels, a headrest adjustable module and a footrest adjustable module. The universal bed base may be used with the removable panels in place to support a conventional non-adjustable mattress or the removable panels may be removed and the adjustable modules substituted to enable the base to support either a headrest adjustable mattress or a headrest and footrest adjustable mattress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2006
    Publication date: July 12, 2007
    Applicant: L&P PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY
    Inventors: Niels Mossbeck, Jacob Neuenswander, Thomas Wells
  • Patent number: D654358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: Kraft Foods Global Brands LLC
    Inventors: Kofi N Ampadu, Gary N Langer, Thomas Tedeschi, Simon Gainey, Rita Dombroski, Thomas Wells