Patents by Inventor Todd Vincent

Todd Vincent 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: 12037839
    Abstract: A sliding door assembly includes a door frame with a top trim member, a bottom sill, and side jambs connected between the top trim member and the bottom sill, and a primary sliding panel secured in the door frame. The top trim member includes a track configured to support a weight of the primary sliding panel and prevent the primary sliding panel from coming off the track. Other features include an interlock mechanism to limit relative movement using multiple sliding doors and a brake mechanism to secure the doors in position when the door handle is released. A drop window includes features to accommodate for manufacturing tolerances and box frame assemblies that are out of square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GROUP, LLC
    Inventors: Philip A. Oakes, Edward J. Erskine, Todd Vincent
  • Publication number: 20230088843
    Abstract: A sliding door assembly includes a door frame with a top trim member, a bottom sill, and side jambs connected between the top trim member and the bottom sill, and a primary sliding panel secured in the door frame. The top trim member includes a track configured to support a weight of the primary sliding panel and prevent the primary sliding panel from coming off the track. Other features include an interlock mechanism to limit relative movement using multiple sliding doors and a brake mechanism to secure the doors in position when the door handle is released. A drop window includes features to accommodate for manufacturing tolerances and box frame assemblies that are out of square.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Philip A. Oakes, Edward J. Erskine, Todd Vincent
  • Patent number: 9315241
    Abstract: A disconnectable buoyant turret mooring system for an FPSO is vulnerable to damage from collisions between the buoy and the buoy turret cage during mating and de-mating operations. It is therefore desirable that the buoy separate quickly from the turret of the FPSO vessel during a disconnect operation. A buoy turret cage is provided with a certain degree of porosity that allows a flow of seawater from the outside of the receptor to the inner surface of the receptor. Introducing water in this way relieves the suction forces and allows for a quicker separation of the buoy from the turret of the FPSO vessel, minimizing the time during which an uncontrolled collision between the buoy and the FPSO vessel is most likely. Filling a portion of the turret above the mooring buoy with water prior to releasing the buoy also decreases the separation time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: Seahorse Equipment Corp
    Inventors: Todd Vincent Carrico, Steven John Leverette
  • Patent number: 9256698
    Abstract: A system for creating and editing mark up language forms and documents in a manner that is user friendly. The system dynamically generates a user interface that is customized to the particular form or document selected by the user. The user then enters information into the plurality of fields in the user interface for the form or document. Once the form or document is completed, the user can save the form or document in a document repository. The user can also transmit the form or document as an electronic filing document. Additionally, the data entry fields of the form or document can automatically expand or contract to accommodate data of varying length. Moreover, the user can create templates that include frequently used data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: WTVIII, INC.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Publication number: 20150314835
    Abstract: A disconnectable buoyant turret mooring system for an FPSO is vulnerable to damage from collisions between the buoy and the buoy turret cage during mating and de-mating operations. It is therefore desirable that the buoy separate quickly from the turret of the FPSO vessel during a disconnect operation. A buoy turret cage is provided with a certain degree of porosity that allows a flow of seawater from the outside of the receptor to the inner surface of the receptor. Introducing water in this way relieves the suction forces and allows for a quicker separation of the buoy from the turret of the FPSO vessel, minimizing the time during which an uncontrolled collision between the buoy and the FPSO vessel is most likely. Filling a portion of the turret above the mooring buoy with water prior to releasing the buoy also decreases the separation time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Seahorse Equipment Corp
    Inventors: Todd Vincent Carrico, Steven John Leverette
  • Patent number: 8688747
    Abstract: The schema framework of the present invention is a set of rules and best practices that a user follows when creating schema in accordance with the present invention. By following these rules, schema are produced that can be used, reused, and managed in a distributed computing environment, thus reducing the time and effort associated with creating instance documents. Certain rules govern the content and format of the schema namespaces. Each schema namespace includes a category identifier that identifies a category to which the schema associated with the namespace relates. Once an instance document has been published by storing it in a schema repository, the schema and the namespace associated with that schema are “frozen” and cannot be changed. By freezing the schema and namespace, the schema and namespace become standardized, which facilitates instance document generation, validation, and use across a distributed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: WTVIII, Inc.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Publication number: 20120159300
    Abstract: A system for creating and editing mark up language forms and documents in a manner that is user friendly. The system dynamically generates a user interface that is customized to the particular form or document selected by the user. The user then enters information into the plurality of fields in the user interface for the form or document. Once the form or document is completed, the user can save the form or document in a document repository. The user can also transmit the form or document as an electronic filing document. Additionally, the data entry fields of the form or document can automatically expand or contract to accommodate data of varying length. Moreover, the user can create templates that include frequently used data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: WTVIII, INC.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Patent number: 8127224
    Abstract: A system for creating and editing mark up language forms and documents in a manner that is user friendly. The system dynamically generates a user interface that is customized to the particular form or document selected by the user. The user then enters information into the plurality of fields in the user interface for the form or document. Once the form or document is completed, the user can save the form or document in a document repository. The user can also transmit the form or document as an electronic filing document. Additionally, the data entry fields of the form or document can automatically expand or contract to accommodate data of varying length. Moreover, the user can create templates that include frequently used data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: WTVII, Inc.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Patent number: 7991805
    Abstract: A system for viewing and indexing mark up language messages, forms, and documents that have been stored in a document repository. The viewer and indexer can search the document repository based on any of a variety of search parameters, including any field of each message, form or document in the document repository. The viewer and indexer can automatically configure itself based on an input schema to create a user interface having search term options that can be selected to cause a search to be performed in the document repository (and/or mirrored and local repositories) containing messages, documents and forms created based on the same input schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: WTVIII, Inc.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Publication number: 20100251097
    Abstract: The schema framework of the present invention is a set of rules and best practices that a user follows when creating schema in accordance with the present invention. By following these rules, schema are produced that can be used, reused, and managed in a distributed computing environment, thus reducing the time and effort associated with creating instance documents. Certain rules govern the content and format of the schema namespaces. Each schema namespace includes a category identifier that identifies a category to which the schema associated with the namespace relates. Once an instance document has been published by storing it in a schema repository, the schema and the namespace associated with that schema are “frozen” and cannot be changed. By freezing the schema and namespace, the schema and namespace become standardized, which facilitates instance document generation, validation, and use across a distributed system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: WTVIII, INC.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd VINCENT, III
  • Patent number: 7651663
    Abstract: An appliance using water including an incoming water valve is provided. The appliance includes a sensor disposed in-line to an incoming flow of water received from the incoming water valve and is configured to sense a degree of hardness in the incoming flow of water. The sensor includes a sensing element disposed on a substrate. The sensing element includes a sensing matrix, an indicator for one or more chemical species in flow of water, and a selectivity component that reacts reversibly with one or more chemical species in the water. The sensor also includes a light source configured to direct light through the substrate and the sensing matrix. The sensor further includes a light detector configured to receive transmitted light from the substrate and the sensing matrix and to generate a signal representative of selective wavelengths of the light indicative of one or more chemical species in flow of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2010
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Raul Eduardo Ayala, James Rulon Young Rawson, Todd Vincent Graves, Andrew Michael Leach
  • Publication number: 20090044101
    Abstract: A system for creating and realizing efficiencies in markup language (e.g., XML) schema, markup language instances, and code-generated code. A schema generator receives a markup language schema as input and automatically generates a minimal markup language schema. The minimal markup language schema, and instances conforming to it, are forwards and backwards compatible with the original markup language schema and instances. A code generator receives a markup language schema as input and generates code that can both generate and consume instances conforming to the original markup language schema or the minimal markup language schema. Accordingly, smaller markup language schemas and instances result in increased processing speed, faster transmission time, and reduced archival storage space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: WTVIII, INC.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd VINCENT, III
  • Publication number: 20080275856
    Abstract: A system for viewing and indexing mark up language messages, forms, and documents that have been stored in a document repository. The viewer and indexer can search the document repository based on any of a variety of search parameters, including any field of each message, form or document in the document repository. The viewer and indexer can automatically configure itself based on an input schema to create a user interface having search term options that can be selected to cause a search to be performed in the document repository (and/or mirrored and local repositories) containing messages, documents and forms created based on the same input schema.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: November 6, 2008
    Applicant: WTVIII,Inc.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd VINCENT
  • Patent number: 7405299
    Abstract: The current invention relates to compounds of the formula: (Ia) and the pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof and their use as TGF-beta signal transduction inhibitors for treating cancer and other diseases in a patient in need thereof by administration of said compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Douglas Wade Beight, Timothy Paul Burkholder, Todd Vincent Decollo, Alexander Glenn Godfrey, Charles Raymond Heap, Chi-Hsin Richard King, Hong-Yu Li, William Thomas McMillen, Jason Scott Sawyer, Yan Wang, Clive Gideon Diefenbacher, Thomas Albert Engler, Sushant Malhotra, Sreenivasa Reedy Mundla
  • Patent number: 7401075
    Abstract: A system for viewing and indexing mark up language messages, forms, and documents that have been stored in a document repository. The viewer and indexer can search the document repository based on any of a variety of search parameters, including any field of each message, form or document in the document repository. The viewer and indexer can automatically configure itself based on an input schema to create a user interface having search term options that can be selected to cause a search to be performed in the document repository (and/or mirrored and local repositories) containing messages, documents and forms created based on the same input schema.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: WTVIII, Inc.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Patent number: 7366729
    Abstract: The schema framework of the present invention is a set of rules and best practices that a user follows when creating schema in accordance with the present invention. By following these rules, schema are produced that can be used, reused, and managed in a distributed computing environment, thus reducing the time and effort associated with creating instance documents. Certain rules govern the content and format of the schema namespaces. Each schema namespace includes a category identifier that identifies a category to which the schema associated with the namespace relates. Once an instance document has been published by storing it in a schema repository, the schema and the namespace associated with that schema are “frozen” and cannot be changed. By freezing the schema and namespace, the schema and namespace become standardized, which facilitates instance document generation, validation, and use across a distributed system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: WTVIII, Inc.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Publication number: 20070295665
    Abstract: An appliance using water including an incoming water valve is provided. The appliance also includes a sensor disposed in-line to an incoming flow of water received from the incoming water valve and is configured to sense a degree of hardness in the incoming flow of water. The sensor includes a substrate and a sensing element disposed on the substrate. The sensing element includes a sensing matrix, an indicator for one or more chemical species in a flow of water, and a selectivity component that reacts reversibly with the one or more chemical species in the water. The sensor also includes a light source configured to direct light through the substrate and the sensing matrix. The sensor further includes a light detector configured to receive transmitted light from the substrate and the sensing matrix and to generate a signal representative of selective wavelengths of the light indicative of the one or more chemical species in the flow of water.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2006
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Inventors: Raul Eduardo Ayala, James Rulon Young Rawson, Todd Vincent Graves, Andrew Michael Leach
  • Patent number: 7308458
    Abstract: A system for normalizing schemas and for archiving normalized schemas in a schema repository. A schema generator receives user input and creates normalized schemas based on the user input. The normalized schemas are archived in a schema repository that has a directory tree structure that can be searched to retrieve a schema using the schema namespace. Once a schema has been archived in the schema repository, the schema and its namespace preferably are frozen and cannot be altered. Schemas can be reused by searching the schema repository for a schema having a particular namespace, retrieving the archived schema and importing the retrieved schema into a document being created. The system may include multiple schema repositories with identical directory tree structures having identical schemas archived at identical locations in the directory tree structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: WTVIII, Inc.
    Inventor: Winchel Todd Vincent, III
  • Patent number: 7087626
    Abstract: Novel pyrrazole derivative compounds and their use as pharmaceutical agents, in particular their use as TGF-beta signal transduction inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: Douglas Wade Beight, Todd Vincent DeCollo, Alexander Glenn Godfrey, Theodore Goodson, Jr., Hong-Yu Li, William Thomas McMillen, Shawn Christopher Miller, Jason Scott Sawyer, Edward C. R. Smith, Jonathan Michael Yingling
  • Patent number: 7030349
    Abstract: A combination oven includes radiant cooking lamps and a magnetron for delivering cooking energy to a cooking cavity. The oven is operable in a speed cooking mode utilizing both radiant and microwave energy, a microwave only cooking mode utilizing only microwave energy, and a radiant only cooking mode utilizing only radiant energy. A radiant cooking element is briefly energized upon user command during microwave only cooking modes and lower power radiant cooking modes to illuminate the cooking cavity for visualization of cooking in progress. A duration of cavity illumination is limited to prevent cooking of food during cavity illumination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2006
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Todd Vincent Graves, Dennis Patrick Kill, Jesse Spalding Head, Charles Ray Smith