Patents by Inventor William A. Rogers

William A. Rogers 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).

  • ULTRALOW EXPANSION TITANIA-SILICA GLASS
    Publication number: 20190248696
    Abstract: Annealing treatments for modified titania-silica glasses and the glasses produced by the annealing treatments. The annealing treatments include an isothermal hold that facilitates equalization of non-uniformities in fictive temperature caused by non-uniformities in modifier concentration in the glasses. The annealing treatments may also include heating the glass to a higher temperature following the isothermal hold and holding the glass at that temperature for several hours. Glasses produced by the annealing treatments exhibit high spatial uniformity of CTE, CTE slope, and fictive temperature, including in the presence of a spatially non-uniform concentration of modifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Sezhian Annamalai, Carlos Alberto Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, William Rogers Rosch
  • Aerosol delivery device including connector comprising extension and receptacle
    Patent number: 10334880
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device. The aerosol delivery device may include a control body with a first connector portion and a cartridge with a second connector portion. The first connector portion and the second connector portion may be configured to releasably engage each other. One of the first connector portion and the second connector portion may include an extension and the other of the first connector portion and the second connector portion may include a receptacle configured to receive the extension. The extension may include contact sections positioned along a longitudinal length thereof. The contact sections may be electrically insulated from one another by at least one spacer and may be configured to form an electrical connection with the receptacle. A related assembly method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: James William Rogers, Steven L. Worm, David G. Christopherson
  • Ultralow expansion titania-silica glass
    Patent number: 10329184
    Abstract: Annealing treatments for modified titania-silica glasses and the glasses produced by the annealing treatments. The annealing treatments include an isothermal hold that facilitates equalization of non-uniformities in fictive temperature caused by non-uniformities in modifier concentration in the glasses. The annealing treatments may also include heating the glass to a higher temperature following the isothermal hold and holding the glass at that temperature for several hours. Glasses produced by the annealing treatments exhibit high spatial uniformity of CTE, CTE slope, and fictive temperature, including in the presence of a spatially non-uniform concentration of modifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Sezhian Annamalai, Carlos Alberto Duran, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, William Rogers Rosch
  • USER INTERFACE FOR AN AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190124995
    Abstract: An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes a user interface including a pushbutton and a display. A control component contained coupled to the user interface controls operation of at least one functional element of the aerosol delivery device. The control component controls the display to present a menu including a plurality of menu items selectable using only the pushbutton. Each menu item of the plurality of menu items is associated with a respective functional element of the aerosol delivery device, and the control component is configured to navigate the plurality of menu items, and select a currently-presented menu item of the plurality of menu items for control of the respective functional element, in response to respective first and second types of presses of the pushbutton, the first and second types of presses being of different durations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Raymond Charles Henry, JR., Glen Joseph Kimsey, Frederic Philippe Ampolini, James William Rogers
  • AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE WITH IMPROVED FLUID TRANSPORT
    Publication number: 20190124991
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices configured for vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition that is stored in and/or transported to a heater by a porous monolith, which can be, for example, a porous glass or a porous ceramic. A heater can be in a heating arrangement with an external portion of the porous monolith or can be substantially internal to the porous monolith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Michael F. Davis, Ercilia Hernandez Garcia, Sawyer Hubbard, Percy D. Phillips, James William Rogers, Stephen Benson Sears, Andries Don Sebastian, Karen V. Taluskie
  • AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE INCLUDING A CONTROL BODY, AN ATOMIZER BODY, AND A CARTRIDGE AND RELATED METHODS
    Publication number: 20190110517
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices may include a control body, an atomizer body including an atomizer, and a cartridge including a reservoir configured to contain an aerosol precursor composition. The control body may be configured to releasably engage the atomizer body and the atomizer body may be configured to releasably engage the cartridge. The atomizer may be configured to receive an electrical current from the control body and the aerosol precursor composition from the cartridge to produce an aerosol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: James William Rogers, Noah Mark Minskoff
  • MICROTEXTURED LIQUID TRANSPORT ELEMENT FOR AEROSOL DELIVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190053539
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices. The aerosol delivery devices may include a reservoir containing a liquid aerosol precursor composition and an atomizer including an electrical resistance heating element and a nonfibrous liquid transport element having a microtextured surface adapted for surface wicking of the liquid aerosol precursor composition across the microtextured surface, the microtextured surface of the liquid transport element being in fluid communication with the reservoir and in fluid communication with the electric resistance heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Michael F. Davis, Frederic Philippe Ampolini, James William Rogers, Andries Don Sebastian, Eric Taylor Hunt, Sawyer Hubbard, David Allan Brammer
  • User interface for an aerosol delivery device
    Patent number: 10201187
    Abstract: An aerosol delivery device is provided that includes a user interface including a pushbutton and a display. A control component contained coupled to the user interface controls operation of at least one functional element of the aerosol delivery device. The control component controls the display to present a menu including a plurality of menu items selectable using only the pushbutton. Each menu item of the plurality of menu items is associated with a respective functional element of the aerosol delivery device, and the control component is configured to navigate the plurality of menu items, and select a currently-presented menu item of the plurality of menu items for control of the respective functional element, in response to respective first and second types of presses of the pushbutton, the first and second types of presses being of different durations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Raymond Charles Henry, Jr., Glen Joseph Kimsey, Frederic Philippe Ampolini, James William Rogers
  • Aerosol delivery device with improved fluid transport
    Patent number: 10194694
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices configured for vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition that is stored in and/or transported to a heater by a porous monolith, which can be, for example, a porous glass or a porous ceramic. A heater can be in a heating arrangement with an external portion of the porous monolith or can be substantially internal to the porous monolith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Davis, Ercilia Hernandez Garcia, Sawyer Hubbard, Percy D. Phillips, James William Rogers, Stephen Benson Sears, Andries Don Sebastian, Karen V. Taluskie
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SUBSTANCE DETECTION USING DOPED MEMBRANES
    Publication number: 20190011421
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and systems for detecting a substance of interest. The methods and systems include contacting the substance of interest with a doped membrane, the doped membrane comprising at least one semi-permeable medium doped with at least one acid. The systems and methods further include desorbing the doped membrane to release the substance of interest, performing an analysis of the substance of interest, and detecting the substance of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: William Rogers, Vladimir Romanov, Stefan Lukow, Hartwig Schmidt
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR RESPONDING TO AN UNAUTHORIZED ACTION ON A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190013947
    Abstract: In a method and system for responding to an unauthorized action on a mobile communications device, a cryptographic key is destroyed. The destruction of the cryptographic key is followed by initiating a boot sequence at the mobile communications device where the device is booted into a kernel that restricts operation of the mobile communications device to communications with a server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Applicant: LOOKOUT, INC.
    Inventors: Marc William Rogers, Brian James Buck
  • Reverse shell network intrusion detection
    Patent number: 10135847
    Abstract: A client system such as a database system may be vulnerable to intrusion by an unauthorized user or system through a reverse secure shell connection that enables the intruder to execute OS-level or shell commands on the client system. A reverse shell connection may be detected by monitoring and inspecting packet data traffic between the client system or internal network, and an exterior or “foreign” network. In one example of such a process, after detecting a normal shell session originating inside the internal network, a reverse shell connection exploiting the initial shell detection is detected by analyzing the transmission directions and payload sizes of a sequence of the monitored packets relative to a predetermined traffic pattern. The specific pattern may be selected for different operating systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: SALESFORCE.COM, INC.
    Inventors: John Brooke Althouse, William Roger Salusky, Jeffrey S. Atkinson
  • Investment evaluator
    Patent number: 10127614
    Abstract: A system, method and software are disclosed for evaluating investments. In one example, managed trust investments are analyzed with respect to one or more indexes. An indication is created of how the managed investment compares to the one or more indexes or their own benchmarks, and suggested changes to the managed investment may be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Inventors: Bert M. Carmody, Ricky Gene Canipe, James Matthew Holland, William Roger Branch
  • METHOD OF PREPARING A BEVERAGE AND A DEVICE FOR PREPARING A BEVERAGE
    Publication number: 20180310754
    Abstract: A method of preparing a beverage, wherein the method comprises the step of heating a beverage in a cup by means of injecting steam into the beverage through a wand and the step of measuring the temperature of the beverage in the cup, wherein the step of measuring the temperature of the beverage comprises during the step of heating the step of continuously recording an audio signal from the beverage and the step of deriving the temperature of the beverage from the recorded audio signal. A device for preparing a beverage, said device being provided with a beverage temperature sensor comprising at least one microphone and a controller which is loaded with a computer program for performing the inventive method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
    Inventors: Gerbrand Kristiaan de Graaff, Trevor Michael Wood, William Roger Mainwaring-Burton
  • Electromechanical devices for controlling vehicle suspension settings
    Patent number: 10112649
    Abstract: Electromechanical apparatuses for controlling vehicle suspension settings. Described herein are electromechanical apparatuses for controlling wheel alignment (e.g., camber, castor and/or toe). In particular, described herein are camber adjusting apparatuses for electromechanically adjusting camber or camber and toe that may be retrofitted onto existing vehicle suspensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: Champagne Donuts Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Geoffrey William Rogers
  • Aerosol delivery device with replaceable wick and heater assembly
    Patent number: 10080387
    Abstract: An aerosol delivery device includes a housing and a reservoir having an open end and an opposing closed end. The reservoir includes an aerosol precursor composition therein. The aerosol delivery device also includes an electrical contact in or on the housing. The device further includes a vaporizing unit. The vaporizing unit includes a liquid transport element, a heating element, and an electrical connector. The vaporizing unit is configured to removably engage the open end of the reservoir such that the liquid transport element is in arrangement with the reservoir to transfer the aerosol precursor composition from the reservoir to the heating element and configured to engage the electrical contact in or on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: RAI Strategic Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Percy D. Phillips, James William Rogers, Lisa E. Brown, James Demopoulos, Michael F. Davis, Noah Mark Minskoff
  • Method and system for rendering a stolen mobile communications device inoperative
    Patent number: 10084603
    Abstract: A method and system for rendering a stolen mobile communications device inoperative is presented. A determination that the mobile communications device is in a first state is made at a security component on the mobile communications device. A removal of a cryptographic key is affected at the security component on the mobile communications device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: LOOKOUT, INC.
    Inventors: Marc William Rogers, Brian James Buck
  • ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES FOR CONTROLLING VEHICLE SUSPENSION SETTINGS
    Publication number: 20180201319
    Abstract: Electromechanical apparatuses for controlling vehicle suspension settings. Described herein are electromechanical apparatuses for controlling wheel alignment (e.g., camber, castor and/or toe). In particular, described herein are camber adjusting apparatuses for electromechanically adjusting camber or camber and toe that may be retrofitted onto existing vehicle suspensions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Geoffrey William Rogers
  • Learning a new peripheral using a security provisioning manifest
    Patent number: 10025957
    Abstract: A secure provisioning manifest used to authenticate and securely communicate with peripherals attached to a computer is provided with techniques to learn about a new peripheral not authorized to be attached to the computer and possibly gain authorization for the peripheral. A secure I/O module, that is separate from an operating system and transaction software executed by a processor of the computer, uses the secure provisioning manifest to authenticate and establish a secure encrypted session for communicating with each peripheral authorized to be attached to the computer. When an unauthorized peripheral is found, identifying information for the peripheral is transmitted to an enterprise provisioning server with a request to authorize the peripheral.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: NCR Corporation
    Inventors: Erick Christian Kobres, Ron William Rogers
  • One-way valve for refilling an aerosol delivery device
    Patent number: 10015989
    Abstract: An aerosol delivery device having a check valve therein for use with refilling the aerosol delivery device is provided. The aerosol delivery device may comprise at least one housing defining a refillable reservoir for storing an aerosol precursor composition, and a heating element contained within the at least one housing and configured to activate and vaporize components of the aerosol precursor composition. A connector may be coupled to the at least one housing and sealably connectable with a container of aerosol precursor composition for refilling the reservoir. The connector may include a check valve configured to enable only a one-way flow of aerosol precursor composition from the container into the reservoir when the connector is sealably connected with the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael F. Davis, Percy D. Phillips, James William Rogers, Noah M. Minskoff