Patents by Inventor Whitfield Fowler

Whitfield Fowler 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).

  • Device and method for dosing cryogenic liquid
    Patent number: 11213045
    Abstract: Systems and methods of producing a frozen food product include dosing ingredients with a liquefied gas while mixing the ingredients using self-cleaning interlocking beaters. The beaters are optionally also disposed to clean a container in which the ingredients are frozen. The rate and amount of cooling is controlled by measuring the quantity of liquid nitrogen, measuring viscosity of the frozen food product, measuring temperature, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SMITTEN VENTURES, INC.
    Inventors: Robyn Sue Fisher, David M Fischer, Jonathan Fischer, Whitfield Fowler
  • METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESHARPENING A KNIFE
    Publication number: 20200070297
    Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically re-sharpening a knife includes: receiving a knife at a vice; during a scan cycle, scanning the grind head along a blade of the knife from an initial longitudinal position proximal the vice toward a longitudinal end position and recording a sequence of vertical positions of segments of an edge of the blade at various longitudinal positions of the grind head based on outputs of a sensor arranged in the grind head; calculating a blade profile for the knife based on the sequence of vertical positions; and, during a grind cycle, actuating a grind wheel in the grind head and pitching the grind head while driving the grind head longitudinally along the blade to maintain an axis of the grind wheel substantially parallel to segments the blade profile corresponding to longitudinal positions of the grind head, relative to the vice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: David Frederick Lyons, Ari Bennett, Dimitriy Kolchin, Alejandro Jamarillo Gomez, Jeffrey Kastenbaum, Scott DeWinter, Whitfield Fowler
  • METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY RESHARPENING A KNIFE
    Publication number: 20190126423
    Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically re-sharpening a knife includes: receiving a knife at a vice; during a scan cycle, scanning the grind head along a blade of the knife from an initial longitudinal position proximal the vice toward a longitudinal end position and recording a sequence of vertical positions of segments of an edge of the blade at various longitudinal positions of the grind head based on outputs of a sensor arranged in the grind head; calculating a blade profile for the knife based on the sequence of vertical positions; and, during a grind cycle, actuating a grind wheel in the grind head and pitching the grind head while driving the grind head longitudinally along the blade to maintain an axis of the grind wheel substantially parallel to segments the blade profile corresponding to longitudinal positions of the grind head, relative to the vice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: David Frederick Lyons, Ari Bennett, Dimitriy Kolchin, Alejandro Jamarillo Gomez, Jeffrey Kastenbaum, Scott DeWinter, Whitfield Fowler
  • Method for automatically resharpening a knife
    Patent number: 10272535
    Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically re-sharpening a knife includes: receiving a knife at a vice; during a scan cycle, scanning the grind head along a blade of the knife from an initial longitudinal position proximal the vice toward a longitudinal end position and recording a sequence of vertical positions of segments of an edge of the blade at various longitudinal positions of the grind head based on outputs of a sensor arranged in the grind head; calculating a blade profile for the knife based on the sequence of vertical positions; and, during a grind cycle, actuating a grind wheel in the grind head and pitching the grind head while driving the grind head longitudinally along the blade to maintain an axis of the grind wheel substantially parallel to segments the blade profile corresponding to longitudinal positions of the grind head, relative to the vice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Sharp Systems LLC
    Inventors: David Frederick Lyons, Ari Bennett, Dimitriy Kolchin, Alejandro Jamarillo Gomez, Jeffrey Kastenbaum, Scott DeWinter, Whitfield Fowler
  • Device and method for dosing cryogenic liquid
    Patent number: 10244775
    Abstract: Systems and methods of producing a frozen food product include dosing ingredients with a liquefied gas while mixing the ingredients using self-cleaning interlocking beaters. The beaters are optionally also disposed to clean a container in which the ingredients are frozen. The rate and amount of cooling is controlled by measuring the quantity of liquid nitrogen, measuring viscosity of the frozen food product, measuring temperature, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: Smitten Ventures, Inc.
    Inventors: Robyn Sue Fisher, David M Fischer, Jonathan Fischer, Whitfield Fowler
  • Device and method for dosing cryogenic liquid
    Patent number: 9433230
    Abstract: Systems and methods of producing a frozen food product include dosing ingredients with a liquefied gas while mixing the ingredients using self-cleaning interlocking beaters. The beaters are optionally also disposed to clean a container in which the ingredients are frozen. The rate and amount of cooling is controlled by measuring the quantity of liquid nitrogen, measuring viscosity of the frozen food product, measuring temperature, and/or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Smitten Ventures, Inc.
    Inventors: Robyn Sue Fisher, David M Fischer, Jonathan Fischer, Whitfield Fowler