Patents by Inventor Zach Hinds

Zach Hinds 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: 11579137
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for extraction of information of within sample distribution of fiber quality from high-volume instrument (HVI) fibrogram to better predict yarn quality than the standard HVI output. The present invention allows for information on fiber quality to be obtained while avoiding testing samples with more expensive techniques. The disclosed system and method extracts HVI data for collecting a respective set of initial fibrograms from a set of fiber samples and representing them as a distance matrix to form a matrix of transformed fibrogram data, said matrix of transformed fibrogram data comprising a vector of scores to represent each sample and thereafter explaining variation in yarn quality by extracting all of the information available from the fibrogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Texas Tech University System
    Inventors: Brendan Kelly, Eric Hequet, Md Abu Sayeed, Zach Hinds
  • Publication number: 20200363391
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for extraction of information of within sample distribution of fiber quality from high-volume instrument (HVI) fibrogram to better predict yarn quality than the standard HVI output. The present invention allows for information on fiber quality to be obtained while avoiding testing samples with more expensive techniques. The disclosed system and method extracts HVI data for collecting a respective set of initial fibrograms from a set of fiber samples and representing them as a distance matrix to form a matrix of transformed fibrogram data, said matrix of transformed fibrogram data comprising a vector of scores to represent each sample and thereafter explaining variation in yarn quality by extracting all of the information available from the fibrogram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY SYSTEM
    Inventors: Brendan Kelly, Eric Hequet, Md Abu Sayeed, Zach Hinds