Patents by Inventor Zachary Scott

Zachary Scott 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).

  • Publication number: 20200230791
    Abstract: A method of operating a fastener driver comprises initiating a fastener driving operation by moving a driver blade from a retracted position toward a driven position, and detecting that the driver blade has become jammed in an intermediate position between the retracted position and the driven position. The method further includes moving a latch from a locked position, in which a lifter assembly is maintained in an engaged position by the latch for moving the driver blade from the driven position toward the retracted position, to a released position, in which the lifter assembly is movable away from the driver blade. The method further includes driving a motor to rotate a lifter of the lifting assembly, thereby moving the lifter assembly away from the driver blade, then, returning the lifter assembly to the engaged position, and moving the latch from the released position to the locked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Patent number: 10710227
    Abstract: A fastener driver comprises a driver blade movable from a retracted position to an extended, driven position for driving a fastener into a workpiece, a gas spring mechanism for driving the driver blade from the retracted position to the driven position, the gas spring mechanism including a storage chamber cylinder containing a pressurized gas, means for determining a pressure in the storage cylinder chamber, and an indicator activated in response to the determined pressure in the storage cylinder chamber being less than a predetermined pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Publication number: 20200215672
    Abstract: A gas spring-powered fastener driver includes a cylinder, a moveable piston positioned within the cylinder, and a driver blade attached to the piston and moveable therewith from a retracted position to a driven position to drive a fastener into a workpiece. A fill valve is coupled to the cylinder and operable to selectively fill the cylinder with gas to a pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Patent number: 10702980
    Abstract: A fastener driver includes a housing, a cylinder disposed within the housing, a piston positioned and movable within the cylinder, a driver blade attached to the piston and movable with the piston, a motor for driving movement of the piston, a battery removably coupled to the housing for supplying power tot the motor, a nosepiece at least partially defining a fastener driving track through which fasteners are driven by the driver blade, and a magazine operable to supply the fasteners to the nosepiece. The magazine is removable from the nosepiece only in response to prior removal of the battery from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Patent number: 10695899
    Abstract: A fastener driver includes a main housing, a drive blade movable from a retracted position to a driven position for driving a fastener into a workpiece, and a gas spring mechanism for driving the drive blade from the retracted position to the driven position. The gas spring mechanism includes a piston movable between a retracted position and a driven position. The fastener driver also includes an extensible cylinder for moving the drive blade from the driven position toward the retracted position. The extensible cylinder includes a cylinder housing coupled one of the main housing or the drive blade, and a rod coupled to the other of the main housing or the drive blade. A vacuum is created in the cylinder housing for biasing the drive blade toward the retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventor: Zachary Scott
  • Patent number: 10632600
    Abstract: A gas spring-powered fastener driver includes a cylinder, a moveable piston positioned within the cylinder, and a driver blade attached to the piston and moveable therewith from a retracted position to a driven position to drive a fastener into a workpiece. A fill valve is coupled to the cylinder and operable to selectively fill the cylinder with gas to a pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Patent number: 10632601
    Abstract: A fastener driver comprises a driver blade movable from a retracted position to a driven position and a lifter assembly for moving the driver blade from the driven position toward the retracted position. The fastener driver also includes a first sensor to detect the driver blade in the driven position, a latch which, in a locked position, maintains the lifter assembly in an engaged position, an actuator coupled to the latch for moving the latch between the locked position and a released position, in which the lifter assembly may move away from the driver blade, and a controller electrically connected with the first sensor and the actuator. In response to an absence of a signal from the first sensor after a predetermined time following initiation of a fastener driving operation, the controller triggers the actuator to move the latch from the locked position to the released position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: TTI (MACAO COMMERCIAL OFFSHORE) LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Publication number: 20200116894
    Abstract: A subsurface monitoring system and method is provided that includes a sensor array and a monitoring system in communication with the array. The sensor array may include several sensors, such as subsurface temperature sensors, water-level sensors, and oxidation reduction potential sensors may be disposed in a vertical and/or horizontal fence through the subsurface of the monitored site. The sensor array may measure, collect, and analyze the subsurface conditions and provide the measurements to a monitoring system. The monitoring system may provide access the measurements via a user interface for analysis of the measurements. In addition, the monitoring system may process the measurements to generate one or more graphs of information for better understanding of the conditions of the subsurface of the monitored site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: Colorado State University Research Foundation
    Inventors: Thomas C. Sale, Jay M. Ham, William Samuel Gallo, Kayvan Karimi Askarani, Zachary Scott Ferrie, Joseph Scalia, IV
  • Publication number: 20200101706
    Abstract: A prismatic mold having a molding surface having a floor and opposing sidewalls and at least one indentation in a three-dimensional shape of a distinguishing device, is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Stuart Scheller, Zachary Scott Rohlfing
  • Publication number: 20200078312
    Abstract: Provided herein are nanoparticles comprising a polyplex core comprising one or more pH-responsive polymers and one or more anionic immune adjuvants, wherein each pH-responsive polymer comprises ionizable amine groups; and a shell of bacterial cell membrane components at least partially coating the polyplex core, wherein the bacterial cell membrane components comprise TLR 2 and/or TLR 4 agonists. Also provided are methods of stimulating an immune response in a mammal using the nanoparticle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Shaoqin Gong, Zachary Scott Morris, Mingzhou Ye, Ravi Bhasker Patel, Paul M. Sondel
  • Patent number: 10501184
    Abstract: An aft pivot assembly can include a mount device securable to an aft portion of a payload of an aircraft for facilitating release of the payload. The aft pivot assembly can include a shaft operable with the mount device and a release component, the shaft being rotatable about multiple shaft axes relative to the mount device so as to either minimize or eliminate carriage loads about the aft portion, while reacting jettison loads during a jettison event or phase. The rotation of the shaft about its shaft axes can further be limited via a limit device. As the payload transitions from a carriage phase to a jettison phase, the shaft moves in multiple degrees of freedom and in multiple axes relative to the mount device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Joseph P. Nipper, Zachary Scott Zutavern, Arthur J. Mathews
  • Publication number: 20190217459
    Abstract: A system for managing a power tool includes a tool implement and a tool base releasably attachable to the tool implement. The tool implement includes a working end, a memory storing an information parameter, and an electronic processor configures to transmit the information parameter. The tool base includes a base housing, an electric motor, a rotatable output shaft coupled to the electric motor, an electrical interface coupled to the electronic processor, and a controller including a first and second electronic processor. Through the electrical interface, the controller is configured to receive the information parameter, by the first and second processors, as first and second data, determine whether the first data and the second data agree, and enable a function of the motor of the tool base in response to determining that the first data and the second data agree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Brent N. Gregorich, Julia H. Moylan, Isiah D. Smith, Zachary Scott, Brandon Causey, Henry Johnson, Shilkumar Patel, Michael Bester, Justin Clack, Tyler Rowe
  • Publication number: 20190091505
    Abstract: An exercising assisting and support assembly includes a body having a bottom surface, a top surface, a first lateral side, a second lateral side, a first end and a second end. The body is elongated from the first end to the second end and a cross-section of the body has a trapezoidal shape. The body has a length from the first end to the second end is between 24.0 inches and 48.0 inches and a height from the bottom surface to the top surface being at least 12.0 inches and less than 16.0 inches. The bottom surface has a width from the first lateral side to the second lateral side between 16.0 inches and 20.0 inches and the top surface has a width from the first lateral side to the second lateral side at least equal to 4.0 inches and no greater than 10.0 inches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory Scott Olson, Zachary Scott Olson
  • Patent number: 10239776
    Abstract: Sludge from an anaerobic digester is treated to recover one or more of fibers, or solids or liquids with a high nutrient content. The solids or liquids can be used as a fertilizer. The fibers can be used in a plant growing medium. Solids are separated from liquids in the sludge and dried. The solids may be dried to produce a flake or pellet. Ammonia in the liquids is recovered and used to produce a concentrated acidic ammonium salt solution. This solution may be mixed with the solids to produce a nitrogen enhanced solid. The fibers and solids or liquids can also be used in combination to produce an enhanced plant growing medium. A device and process for removing ammonia from a liquid can be used in the system or separately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: ANAERGIA INC.
    Inventors: Juan Carlos Josse, Andrew Benedek, Michael David Thedoulou, Zachary Scott
  • Publication number: 20190015963
    Abstract: A power tool includes a power tool base having a base housing and a motor supported by the base housing. The power tool also includes a power tool implement selectively coupled to the power tool base. The power tool implement includes an implement housing and a working end coupled to the implement housing. One of the power tool base and the power tool implement includes a first interface portion having a protrusion. The other one of the power tool base and the power tool implement includes a second interface portion having an opening configured to receive the first interface portion. The power tool implement is coupled to the power tool base in response to axially moving the first interface portion into the second interface portion and rotating the implement housing relative to the base housing such that the protrusion of the first interface portion engages the second interface portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Julia H. Moylan, Isiah D. Smith, Brent N. Gregorich, Zachary Scott, Brandon Causey
  • Publication number: 20180254097
    Abstract: A Dynamic Multi-Sensory Simulation System for effecting behavior change includes a user interface and a sensor array for presenting information to a user and collecting biometrics from the user. The information and biometrics may be stored on a local computer or may be transmitted to and from a remote computer via a network. The remote computer may include a remote biometrics service and a dynamic experience engine. The remote biometrics service is operable to interpret biometic data signals representative of a users biological or physiological state. The dynamic experience engine is operable to present content to a user based on a user reaching a desired biological or physiological state as determined by the remote biometics services. The remote computer may also comprise a first database and a second database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Aaron Henry Gani, Zachary Scott Barno, Himanshu Chaturvedi
  • Patent number: 10062979
    Abstract: A terminal block marker designed to identify a terminal block. The terminal block marker includes a rigid base and a flexible film insert. The rigid base includes a top with a first arm having a first inwardly extending projection and a second arm having a second inwardly extending projection. The rigid base also includes a bottom with legs extending in a direction opposite the arms to hold the terminal block marker in the terminal block. A flexible film insert with identification markings is installed on the rigid base. The flexible film insert is positioned under a first projection of the first arm and rotated downward until the flexible film insert snaps under the second projection of the second arm. The first and second projections retain the flexible film insert on the rigid base to form the terminal block marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Scott Adams, Zachary Scott Ganster, Jennifer Lynn Schwert
  • Publication number: 20180126529
    Abstract: A fastener driver includes a housing, a cylinder disposed within the housing, a piston positioned and movable within the cylinder, a driver blade attached to the piston and movable with the piston, a motor for driving movement of the piston, a battery removably coupled to the housing for supplying power tot the motor, a nosepiece at least partially defining a fastener driving track through which fasteners are driven by the driver blade, and a magazine operable to supply the fasteners to the nosepiece. The magazine is removable from the nosepiece only in response to prior removal of the battery from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Publication number: 20180126530
    Abstract: A fastener driver comprises a driver blade movable from a retracted position to an extended, driven position for driving a fastener into a workpiece, a gas spring mechanism for driving the driver blade from the retracted position to the driven position, the gas spring mechanism including a storage chamber cylinder containing a pressurized gas, means for determining a pressure in the storage cylinder chamber, and an indicator activated in response to the determined pressure in the storage cylinder chamber being less than a predetermined pressure value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Essam Namouz
  • Publication number: 20180126531
    Abstract: A fastener driver includes a first nosepiece and a second nosepiece coupled to the first nosepiece with a fastener driving channel formed between the first nosepiece and the second nosepiece. A workpiece contact element is movable with respect to the first nosepiece and the second nosepiece between an extended position and a retracted position. A quick-release latch secures the first nosepiece and the second nosepiece together. The workpiece contact element is positioned between the quick-release latch and the first nosepiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Edward Pomeroy, Zachary Scott, John Schnell, Adam Gathers, Essam Namouz