Patents by Inventor Zachary Lee

Zachary Lee 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: 11981002
    Abstract: A tool system for installing a parking pawl includes a tool that includes a base, a plate, and an actuator. The base includes a base surface configured to support a parking pawl in a predetermined position. The plate includes a protrusion that extends upward from a front portion of the plate. A rear portion of the plate is coupled to a front portion of the base. The plate is movable relative to the base between a retention position in which the protrusion is positioned to retain a pawl spring loaded on the parking pawl in a pretensioned state, and a release position in which the protrusion is configured to release the pawl spring. The actuator is operably coupled to the plate such that activation of the actuator moves the plate between the retention position and the release position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Brandon Paul Wilson, Zachary Alan Westhoff, Edward Lee Hollingsworth, Sr., David Eastman, Thomas Edward Krol
  • Publication number: 20240116159
    Abstract: A tool system for installing a parking pawl includes a tool that includes a base, a plate, and an actuator. The base includes a base surface configured to support a parking pawl in a predetermined position. The plate includes a protrusion that extends upward from a front portion of the plate. A rear portion of the plate is coupled to a front portion of the base. The plate is movable relative to the base between a retention position in which the protrusion is positioned to retain a pawl spring loaded on the parking pawl in a pretensioned state, and a release position in which the protrusion is configured to release the pawl spring. The actuator is operably coupled to the plate such that activation of the actuator moves the plate between the retention position and the release position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Brandon Paul Wilson, Zachary Alan Westhoff, Edward Lee Hollingsworth, Sr., David Eastman, Thomas Edward Krol
  • Publication number: 20240115099
    Abstract: A cleaning implement including a foot, a motor, and an eccentric mass. The foot has a foot plate and an oscillation plate movably coupled to the foot plate. The motor is coupled to at least one of the foot plate and the oscillation plate. The motor rotates about a motor axis extending at a non-perpendicular transverse angle relative to the surface. The eccentric mass is coupled to the motor to generate an oscillating force between the foot plate and the oscillation plate upon operation of the motor. The oscillating force has a planar component parallel to the oscillation plate and a perpendicular component perpendicular to the oscillation plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Zachary P. Scott, Elton Lee Watson
  • Patent number: 11942195
    Abstract: A system for maintaining accurate health data and for providing rewards to data market participants. A marketplace platform based on Blockchain technology leverages smart contracts to provide rewards to sellers of data assets that provide corrections or updates to medical data, such as provider demographics. A URL API is provided to a buyer of the data with an encrypted password that is used to access the data from the URL API.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Humana Inc.
    Inventors: Kyle Culver, Rohit Wason, Nicholas Hill, Zachary A. Stout, Matthew A. Plappert, Chulmin Lee, Benjamin Singer, Norman Leach, Emily Braun
  • Patent number: 11936253
    Abstract: A system can include an axial field rotary energy device with an axis of rotation and a rotor coaxial with the axis and having a shaft, bearings, rotor disks that are coaxial and permanent magnets on each rotor disk. A printed circuit board (PCB) stator is located between the rotor disks to define an air gap on each side of the PCB stator. An enclosure has two enclosure sections with an inspection port. Bearing caps and bearings are mounted to the rotor. A variable frequency drive (VFD) assembly is coupled to the axial field rotary energy device. The VFD has a flexible conduit that extends between the VFD housing and the axial field rotary energy device. The flexible conduit can adapt to different sizes of axial field rotary energy devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INFINITUM ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Paulo Guedes-Pinto, Shriram Pushparaj Patil, John Mitchell Wilson, Randal A. Lee, Zachary Thomas Radkey-Pechacek, Luke Robert Wilkin
  • Patent number: 11929657
    Abstract: A system has an axial field rotary energy device with a housing, an axis and a rotor with a shaft, bearings, rotor disks and permanent magnets. A printed circuit board (PCB) stator is between the rotor disks to define an air gap on each side thereof. A variable frequency drive (VFD) assembly has a VFD housing and first pads coupled to inductors to facilitate heat removal from the inductors. A concave cradle is coupled to a ferromagnetic core and has a same contour as an outer surface of the ferromagnetic core. A second pad is coupled to a rectifier module. A third pad is coupled to switching devices and has pins to align the switching devices with the third pad. Standoffs are coupled to the VFD housing to support a first printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). A second PCBA is mounted to a shield plate above the first PCBA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: INFINITUM ELECTRIC INC.
    Inventors: Zachary Thomas Radkey-Pechacek, John Mitchell Wilson, George William Vogel, Jr., Shriram Pushparaj Patil, Randal A. Lee, Paulo Guedes-Pinto
  • Publication number: 20240065836
    Abstract: Components for valve treatment systems are disclosed. Valve treatment systems can include a delivery system for an implantable device. The delivery system can include one or more of clasp control components slidably disposed on a catheter handle, a control element for opening and closing the implantable device, a catheter assembly with features to reduce friction with another catheter assembly, grips for attaching catheter assemblies to clamps, catheter assemblies with features that stiffen or provide variable stiffness, and catheter assemblies with one or more steering control lumens incorporated into a reinforcement layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Michael J. Popp, Nicolas Schleiger, Kevin Gantz, George Lee Matlock, Aric Daniel Stone, Eric Robert Dixon, Charles Henry Bloodworth, IV, Gregory Scott Tyler, II, Asher L. Metchik, Robert Bowes, Waina Michelle Chu, Zachary James Zira, Steven Park
  • Publication number: 20240066588
    Abstract: A casting core used in the manufacture of a cast engine component for a turbine engine, the cast engine component having a first area, a second area, a fluid passage wall separating the first area and the second area, and a connecting fluid passage extending through the fluid passage wall and interconnecting the first area and the second area. The connecting fluid passage having a turn with a radius (R). The casting core having a first core and a second core. The first core and the second core being defined by a set of geometric characteristics having a first minimum equivalent diameter (D1eqmin) of the first core and a second minimum equivalent diameter (D2eqmin) of the second core. A first flexible geometry factor (FGF1) being equal to: ( D ? 1 eq ? min D ? 2 eq ? min ) ? ( R D ? 2 eq ? min ) .
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Zachary Daniel Webster, Craig Alan Gonyou, Daniel Lee Durstock, Kevin R. Feldmann, Kirk Douglas Gallier, William C. Herman, Nicholas Charles Gentilli
  • Publication number: 20230228446
    Abstract: An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device. The processing device comprises a processor coupled to a memory, and is configured to obtain information characterizing operation of a heat pump at a particular energy usage location, and to process the obtained information in a reinforcement learning agent to generate at least one control signal for controlling the heat pump, wherein the reinforcement learning agent is implemented at least in part utilizing behavioral cloning of a model predictive control process. In some embodiments, the behavioral cloning of the model predictive control process comprises a constraint-informed parameter grouping (CIPG) phase, a training data generation phase and a model training phase. The apparatus can be implemented, for example, at least in part in a cloud-based processing platform, and/or at least in part in one or more of a smart meter, a smart thermostat, a smart-home controller or other smart-home device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary Lee, Ke Zhang
  • Patent number: 11584591
    Abstract: A multi-belt conveyor is described. The multi-belt conveyor comprises a base assembly comprising a base frame that extends along a length of the multi-belt conveyor. Further, the multi-belt conveyor comprises a conveyor bed having a plurality of cartridges positioned adjacently to each other and mounted to the base frame. In this regard, each cartridge of the plurality of cartridges comprises a set of conveyor belts configured to move in a direction along the conveyor bed at a defined speed. Further, in accordance with example embodiments, a cartridge of the plurality of cartridges is configured to be removed from the conveyor bed without removing an adjacent cartridge from the plurality of cartridges. Further, each cartridge of the multi-belt conveyor comprises an actuation assembly comprising: a drive pulley, a roller-slider bed comprising a plurality of rollers, and the set of conveyor belts mounted around the roller-slider bed and the drive pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
    Inventors: John Joseph Wilkins, Zachary Lee Robbe
  • Patent number: 11577609
    Abstract: A vehicle dashboard assembly includes a dashboard panel, a display support, a display and a display cover. The dashboard panel has a display receiving space. The display support is coupled to the dashboard panel. The display is removably and reinstallably attached to the display support. The display cover is movably coupled relative to the dashboard panel between a closed position and an open position. The display cover includes a first cover portion for covering a front side of the display and a second cover portion for covering one edge of the display. The first cover portion surrounds a screen of the display while in the closed position to define a display opening for viewing the screen. The first and second cover portions are movable as a unit between the closed and open positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: YAMAHA HATSUDOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Kyle Aurelio Marietta, Zachary Lee Williams
  • Publication number: 20210188563
    Abstract: A multi-belt conveyor is described. The multi-belt conveyor comprises a base assembly comprising a base frame that extends along a length of the multi-belt conveyor. Further, the multi-belt conveyor comprises a conveyor bed having a plurality of cartridges positioned adjacently to each other and mounted to the base frame. In this regard, each cartridge of the plurality of cartridges comprises a set of conveyor belts configured to move in a direction along the conveyor bed at a defined speed. Further, in accordance with example embodiments, a cartridge of the plurality of cartridges is configured to be removed from the conveyor bed without removing an adjacent cartridge from the plurality of cartridges. Further, each cartridge of the multi-belt conveyor comprises an actuation assembly comprising: a drive pulley, a roller-slider bed comprising a plurality of rollers, and the set of conveyor belts mounted around the roller-slider bed and the drive pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: John Joseph Wilkins, Zachary Lee Robbe
  • Patent number: 10988319
    Abstract: A multi-belt conveyor is described. The multi-belt conveyor comprises a base assembly comprising a base frame that extends along a length of the multi-belt conveyor. Further, the multi-belt conveyor comprises a conveyor bed having a plurality of cartridges positioned adjacently to each other and mounted to the base frame. In this regard, each cartridge of the plurality of cartridges comprises a set of conveyor belts configured to move in a direction along the conveyor bed at a defined speed. Further, in accordance with some example embodiments, a cartridge of the plurality of cartridges is configured to be removed from the conveyor bed without removing an adjacent cartridge from the plurality of cartridges. Further, each cartridge of the multi-belt conveyor comprises an actuation assembly comprising: a drive pulley, a roller-slider bed comprising a plurality of rollers, and the set of conveyor belts mounted around the roller-slider bed and the drive pulley.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS, LLC
    Inventors: John Joseph Wilkins, Zachary Lee Robbe
  • Publication number: 20210032042
    Abstract: A multi-belt conveyor is described. The multi-belt conveyor comprises a base assembly comprising a base frame that extends along a length of the multi-belt conveyor. Further, the multi-belt conveyor comprises a conveyor bed having a plurality of cartridges positioned adjacently to each other and mounted to the base frame. In this regard, each cartridge of the plurality of cartridges comprises a set of conveyor belts configured to move in a direction along the conveyor bed at a defined speed. Further, in accordance with some example embodiments, a cartridge of the plurality of cartridges is configured to be removed from the conveyor bed without removing an adjacent cartridge from the plurality of cartridges. Further, each cartridge of the multi-belt conveyor comprises an actuation assembly comprising: a drive pulley, a roller-slider bed comprising a plurality of rollers, and the set of conveyor belts mounted around the roller-slider bed and the drive pulley.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: John Joseph Wilkins, Zachary Lee Robbe
  • Publication number: 20210023949
    Abstract: A vehicle dashboard assembly includes a dashboard panel, a display support, a display and a display cover. The dashboard panel has a display receiving space. The display support is coupled to the dashboard panel. The display is removably and reinstallably attached to the display support. The display cover is movably coupled relative to the dashboard panel between a closed position and an open position. The display cover includes a first cover portion for covering a front side of the display and a second cover portion for covering one edge of the display. The first cover portion surrounds a screen of the display while in the closed position to define a display opening for viewing the screen. The first and second cover portions are movable as a unit between the closed and open positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Kyle Aurelio MARIETTA, Zachary Lee WILLIAMS
  • Patent number: 10178600
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments for a call routing application. Routes are evaluated according to selection scores of call routes. The selection scores are calculated based on weighted call quality data corresponding to past calls on the call routes. A call route is selected according to an evaluation including call costs or other criteria. A call is then routed via the selected call route to the call endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Lee Yeager, Ajit Kumar, Jon Russell Jay, Joseph Daniel Sullivan
  • Patent number: 9855980
    Abstract: A method of constructing a wall assembly of an operator cab involves: fastening a generally planar inner surface of a sheet-metal exterior wall body of the wall assembly to a generally planar outer surface of a sheet-metal structural wall body of the wall assembly; and fastening a generally planar inner surface of the sheet-metal structural wall body to a generally planar outer surface of a sheet-metal interior wall body of the wall assembly. Also, a method of constructing an operator cab involves: fastening a floor body to first and second spaced-apart sheet-metal wall assemblies; fastening a rear wall body to the first and second sheet-metal wall assemblies and to the floor body; fastening a front wall body to the first and second sheet-metal wall assemblies and to the floor body; and fastening a ceiling body to the first and second sheet-metal wall assemblies. Operator cabs and kits are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: ONE FIFTY LABS INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Kazakoff, Zachary Lee Atkinson, Ronald Gordon Van Der Linden
  • Patent number: D957458
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventor: Zachary Lee McNulty
  • Patent number: D960196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Denise Nicole Francis, Zachary Lee McNulty, Xiuchai Xu
  • Patent number: D1021248
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Michael Tejpaul Verasamy, Ashok Bakul Patel, Michael Hal Bruno, Jack Anthony Washington, Matthew Michael Long, Zachary Oliver Veugen, Robert Harold Johnson, Jessy Lee Cusack