Patents by Inventor Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe 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: 20240208404
    Abstract: A warning indicator system for an autonomous vehicle includes a sensor pod, a connecting assembly, and a warning indicator. The sensor pod has a sensor and a sensor pod housing. The connecting assembly is configured to couple the sensor pod to the autonomous vehicle. The warning indicator is associated with the sensor pod and the connecting assembly. The warning indicator is configured to alert other vehicles and persons to a stopped condition of the autonomous vehicle. An autonomous vehicle includes the warning indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11958404
    Abstract: A warning indicator system for an autonomous vehicle includes a sensor pod, a connecting assembly, and a warning indicator. The sensor pod has a sensor and a sensor pod housing. The connecting assembly is configured to couple the sensor pod to the autonomous vehicle. The warning indicator is associated with the sensor pod and the connecting assembly. The warning indicator is configured to alert other vehicles and persons to a stopped condition of the autonomous vehicle. An autonomous vehicle includes the warning indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: KODIAK ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11951902
    Abstract: A method for warning approaching vehicles of an autonomous vehicle includes sensing a stopped condition of the autonomous vehicle, activating a warning indicator of the autonomous vehicle based on the stopped condition, sensing a start condition of the autonomous vehicle, and deactivating the warning indicator of the autonomous vehicle based on the start condition. The warning indicator includes a plurality of LEDs or an LED panel coupled to or formed within a sensor pod coupled to the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: KODIAK ROBOTICS, INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Wolfe
  • Publication number: 20240093336
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of that densifies spherodized granules having tungsten carbide and a metallic binder phase in a plasma, thereby producing densified spherodized granules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Ravi Enneti, Thomas Wolfe, Juan R. L. Trasorras
  • Publication number: 20240025338
    Abstract: A method for warning approaching vehicles of an autonomous vehicle includes sensing a stopped condition of the autonomous vehicle, activating a warning indicator of the autonomous vehicle based on the stopped condition, sensing a start condition of the autonomous vehicle, and deactivating the warning indicator of the autonomous vehicle based on the start condition. The warning indicator includes a plurality of LEDs or an LED panel coupled to or formed within a sensor pod coupled to the autonomous vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Wolfe
  • Publication number: 20240025337
    Abstract: A warning indicator system for an autonomous vehicle includes a sensor pod, a connecting assembly, and a warning indicator. The sensor pod has a sensor and a sensor pod housing. The connecting assembly is configured to couple the sensor pod to the autonomous vehicle. The warning indicator is associated with the sensor pod and the connecting assembly. The warning indicator is configured to alert other vehicles and persons to a stopped condition of the autonomous vehicle. An autonomous vehicle includes the warning indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Wolfe
  • Patent number: 11834683
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an in vitro method of producing a recombinant AAV virion in a mammalian host cell that comprises a functional adenoviral E1A gene (e.g., a HEK 293T cell) and rAAV virions made by the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Huiren Zhao, Grace Ki Jeong Lee, Thomas Wolfe, Cherylene Plewa, Jackie Z. Sheng
  • Publication number: 20210363498
    Abstract: Disclosed are an in vitro method of producing a recombinant AAV virion in a mammalian host cell that comprises a functional adenoviral E1A gene (e.g., a HEK 293 cell) and rAAV virions made by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Huiren ZHAO, Grace Ki Jeong LEE, Thomas WOLFE, Cherylene PLEWA, Jackie Z. SHENG
  • Patent number: 11078464
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an in vitro method of producing a recombinant AAV virion in a mammalian host cell that comprises a functional adenoviral E1A gene and rAAV virions made by the method. Host cells are transfected with varying ratios of plasmids comprising the E1A gene and virions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Amgen Inc.
    Inventors: Huiren Zhao, Grace Ki Jeong Lee, Thomas Wolfe, Cherylene Plewa, Jackie Z. Sheng
  • Patent number: 10598715
    Abstract: A system for locating a ground fault in an HRG power distribution system includes an HRG pulsing system having a ground fault sensor to detect a ground fault, a pulsing contactor to introduce a pulsing current into the power distribution system, and a controller to control the pulsing contactor to introduce the pulsing current into the power distribution system in response to a ground fault detection by the ground fault sensor. Current sensors in the power distribution system monitor three-phase current signals on conductors of the power distribution system, with the current sensors positioned on distribution networks in the power distribution system and at a protection device included on each respective distribution network. A processor associated with each protection device and operably connected to the current sensors thereat receives signals from the current sensors for identifying a location of a ground fault in the power distribution system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: David Glenn Loucks, Robert Thomas Wolfe, Steven Andrew Dimino, Daniel Edward Hrncir, Deborah Kaltwasser Mort, Alec Dane Burkle
  • Publication number: 20170059641
    Abstract: A system for locating a ground fault in an HRG power distribution system includes an HRG pulsing system having a ground fault sensor to detect a ground fault, a pulsing contactor to introduce a pulsing current into the power distribution system, and a controller to control the pulsing contactor to introduce the pulsing current into the power distribution system in response to a ground fault detection by the ground fault sensor. Current sensors in the power distribution system monitor three-phase current signals on conductors of the power distribution system, with the current sensors positioned on distribution networks in the power distribution system and at a protection device included on each respective distribution network. A processor associated with each protection device and operably connected to the current sensors thereat receives signals from the current sensors for identifying a location of a ground fault in the power distribution system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: David Glenn Loucks, Robert Thomas Wolfe, Steven Andrew Dimino, Daniel Edward Hrncir, Deborah Kaltwasser Mort, Alec Dane Burkle
  • Publication number: 20160222356
    Abstract: Disclosed are an in vitro method of producing a recombinant AAV virion in a mammalian host cell that comprises a functional adenoviral E1A gene (e.g., a HEK 293 cell) and rAAV virions made by the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: AMGEN INC.
    Inventors: Huiren ZHAO, Ki Jeong LEE, Thomas WOLFE, Cherylene PLEWA, Jackie Z. SHENG
  • Publication number: 20160086171
    Abstract: A credit card has either a display screen capable of showing either a fully generated transactional credit card number or a partially generated number. In use, a user generates a dynamic “transactional” credit card number associated with his underlying account credit card number. To complete a secure transaction that cannot be copied and used at a later date, the credit card does not display the base credit card number, but instead uses on-card encryption to generate and/or display a transactional cc number that may be may include a portion of the base number or only digits that are generated into the transactional credit card number. The transactional cc number and not the base credit card number are provided to a vendor to complete a transaction. The credit card processing server uses decryption or a reverse lookup table to convert the transactional cc number back to the base cc number.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Inventors: Eric Gregory Rehe, Joseph Ryan Goss, John Thomas Wolfe
  • Publication number: 20150346266
    Abstract: A system for locating a ground fault in a high resistance grounded (HRG) power distribution system includes a pulsing circuit configured to introduce a pulse current into the distribution system and current sensors adapted to monitor three-phase current signals present on conductors of the distribution system, with the current sensors positioned on a number of distribution networks included in the HRG power distribution system and at a protective device included on each respective distribution network. A processor associated with each protective device receives signals from the current sensors for identifying a location of the ground fault in the HRG power distribution system, with the processor associated with each protective device receiving measurements of the three-phase current signals from the current sensors over a plurality of cycles and identifying a pattern of interest in the three-phase current signals across the plurality of cycles in order to detect a ground fault.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2014
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Steven Andrew Dimino, David Glenn Loucks, Robert Thomas Wolfe
  • Patent number: 8587240
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing current filtering in a motor soft starter is disclosed. A motor soft starter includes a circuit having an input connectable to an AC source and an output connectable to an input terminal of an AC motor, with the circuit being operable in a ramping mode and a bypass mode so as to control current flow and terminal voltages in the AC motor. The soft starter includes a controller connected to the circuit to control operation thereof, with the controller including a configurable current filter. The controller determines a current of an AC power provided to the input terminal of the AC motor from the soft starter, identifies a present operational mode of the soft starter as being one of the ramping mode and the bypass mode, and performs filtering on the determined current based on the present operational mode of the soft starter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Thomas Wolfe, Steven A. Dimino
  • Publication number: 20130020975
    Abstract: A system and method for optimizing current filtering in a motor soft starter is disclosed. A motor soft starter includes a circuit having an input connectable to an AC source and an output connectable to an input terminal of an AC motor, with the circuit being operable in a ramping mode and a bypass mode so as to control current flow and terminal voltages in the AC motor. The soft starter includes a controller connected to the circuit to control operation thereof, with the controller including a configurable current filter. The controller determines a current of an AC power provided to the input terminal of the AC motor from the soft starter, identifies a present operational mode of the soft starter as being one of the ramping mode and the bypass mode, and performs filtering on the determined current based on the present operational mode of the soft starter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Robert Thomas Wolfe, Steven A. Dimino
  • Patent number: 7898819
    Abstract: A 1/16 DIN power controller configuration is provided that includes a housing, a circuit board carrier disposed within the housing and capable of engaging at least three circuit boards within the housing, a power supply circuit board disposed within the housing and engaged by the circuit board carrier, and a communications circuit board disposed adjacent the power supply circuit board within the housing and engaged by the circuit board carrier. The communications circuit board includes Ethernet/IP and/or Modbus TCP protocols, and in alternate forms includes RS-232 and RS-485 with Modbus RTU protocol, DeviceNet, Profibus DP, CanOpen, and/or EtherCat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Thomas Robert Pfingsten, Stanton Hopkins Breitlow, John Frederic Lemke, Keith Douglas Ness, Robert Allen Pape, Larry Emil Tiedemann, Theodore Thomas Von Arx, Dale Thomas Wolfe, Matthew Francis Yender
  • Patent number: 7552216
    Abstract: A method of sharing a printer between a plurality of users on a computer network includes attaching host-based networking hardware to the printer. A network communication protocol defines a command channel and a data channel. Only one of the users is allowed to own the data channel at any single point in time. The host-based networking hardware is instructed to accept information on the data channel only from the user that owns the data channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2009
    Assignee: Lexmark International, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Francis Russell, Lawrence Russell Steward, Michael Ray Timperman, Jason Eric Waldeck, Charles Thomas Wolfe
  • Patent number: 7452483
    Abstract: A phosphor blend for an electroluminescent lamp is described that comprises a green-emitting electroluminescent phosphor and a red-emitting photoluminescent phosphor, the blend exhibiting an x color coordinate from 0.220 to 0.350 and a y color coordinate from 0.450 to 0.475 when stimulated by an electric field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2008
    Assignee: Global Tungsten & Powders Corp.
    Inventors: Judy A. Belinski-Wolfe, Chung Nin Chau, Thomas A. Wolfe
  • Patent number: 7300492
    Abstract: A novel molybdenum compound, ammonium dodecamolybdomolybdate (AMM), is described which may be used in the manufacture of molybdenum metal and molybdenum carbide powders. The molybdenum compound is a dodecaheteropoly acid salt having a Keggin-type structure wherein molybdenum resides in both the hetero as well as peripheral atomic positions. The novel compound has the general formula (NH4)2Mo12MoO40·6H2O. Because of its low solubility, the compound can be crystallized efficiently and at a high purity from ammonium molybdate solutions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2007
    Assignee: Osram Sylvania Inc.
    Inventors: Raj P. Singh, Thomas A. Wolfe, David L. Houck