Patents Issued in December 29, 2020
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Patent number: 10874924Abstract: There is provided herein an apparatus and method for teaching a baseball participant how best to swing a bat in order to urge a struck ball to fly in a particular direction. More particularly, various embodiments provide immediate feedback to the batter make proper corrections for a properly hit baseball by forcing the batter to swing the bat at a predetermined angle appropriate for a desired ball trajectory.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITYInventor: Robert James Walton
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Patent number: 10874925Abstract: A golf swing training kit includes a training system having a ball and an anchor connected together by a tether and one or more tees. The golf swing training kit also includes a rack including a ball receptacle configured to removably receive the ball of the training system, an anchor socket configured to removably receive the anchor of the training system, one or more tee sockets configured to removably receive the one or more tees, and a spool configured to removably receive the tether of the training system.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Kasey Putman
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Patent number: 10874926Abstract: A golf club that is used to practice a golf swing. Specifically, the golf club includes a handle and a head coupled to the handle. The head is formed from a first portion and a second portion that are coupled together. The first portion may be formed of a rigid material and the second portion may be formed of a resilient material. The second portion may comprise bristles or some other soft, pliable, compressible material that will not damage a surface upon contact during swinging the golf club. The golf club head preferably has the same shape as a traditional golf club head of the same type. However, the second portion forms the sole of the head, thereby eliminating the potential for damage to a floor surface during swinging of the golf club.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: James Hurley
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Patent number: 10874927Abstract: A golf putting aide locatable between a golf ball and a golf hole for use by a golfer putting the ball toward the hole to train the golfer to putt. The aide includes a frame supported by a support, the frame having a gap located at a lower portion of the frame and oriented so that during use of the aide when the ball is putted through the frame toward the hole the ball will pass through or below the slot on its path to the hole.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: V-Flex Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Timothy J. Nicely
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Patent number: 10874928Abstract: A golf club head is provided having a club body having a front portion, a rear portion, a toe portion, and a heel portion. The club head also having a central portion connected with the front portion. A frame is connected with the central portion configured to provide a lightweight crown portion being located above an offset plane.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Taylor Made Golf Company, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. Demkowski, Bret H. Wahl, Sean Toulon, Marni D. Ines, Robert Nunez, Bill Price, Jose Miraflor
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Patent number: 10874929Abstract: A quick hook-up and release anchor belt assembly for adjustably interconnecting two detachably coupled belts that are especially suited in combination for constraining the abdominal portion of a weight lifter's torso, and the like, the belt being of substantial thickness. Each belt includes a flexible elongate length and optionally a rigid end portion. The belts are positionable and detachably attachable along their elongate length by means of hook and loop fasteners. A releasable toggle or connector is operable to instantly draw up or alternatively allow interconnected separation and attachment of the two end portions of the coupled belts.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Matthew Lamarque
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Patent number: 10874930Abstract: A protective barrier system is provided, the protective barrier system comprising: at least one support member configured for coupling to a surface; a frame comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion being coupled to the at least one support member; a barrier material coupled to and suspended between the upper portion and the lower portion of the frame, the barrier material forming an enclosure having an interior and an exterior; and a door positioned relative to the enclosure and configured to provide access to the interior of the enclosure, wherein the barrier material is spaced from the at least one support member; and wherein the frame provides shape and structure to the barrier material.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: UCS, INC.Inventor: Jeffrey Schwartz
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Patent number: 10874931Abstract: Devices are disclosed which are configurable to be worn by each of the players or persons on one or more teams playing a team sport or during activities requiring distance monitoring and notification of a breach in proximity. The devices are configurable to operate in a network environment to detect a device signal from one or more similarly configured devices worn by other players. The devices administer a proximity signal or alert to the users wearing the devices. The signal or alert can be audible, haptic, or both. The nature or quality of the proximity signal may change to reflect a distance to one or more other users. The devices can use RF or Bluetooth to measure the existence of a received signal, received signal strength of a like configured device. Devices can use an isotropic or omnidirectional antenna.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Timothy Paul Harris
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Patent number: 10874932Abstract: A batting practice tee has a tee portion and a targeting apparatus in association with the tee portion. The tee portion has a support structure and a ball holder. The support structure has a base end and a distal end. The ball holder is connected to distal end of the support structure and has a ball receiving opening. The targeting apparatus has a light transmitter and an angle indicator in association with the light transmitter. The light transmitter is positioned adjacent the ball holder and produces a light stream to project a target onto a surface. The angle indicator provides a human-perceivable indication of an angle of the light relative to a horizontal plane.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Balance Bike, LLCInventor: Michael S. Kane
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Patent number: 10874933Abstract: A support assembly for use with snow sports boards includes a base configured to be attached to the snow sports board. A frame has a first portion extending downward and a second portion extending rearward from the first portion. A seat is mounted on the second portion of the frame. A shock absorber extends between the base and the first portion of the frame. During use, the support assembly is configured to support a rider sitting on the seat in a face-forward position with the rider's knees vertically below and forward of the rider's hips.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: YAK BOARD, LLCInventor: Robert W. Thompson
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Patent number: 10874934Abstract: The present invention provides a system having: packages of shuffled playing cards in which playing cards included are shuffled in random order and are individually packed in one package, and in which a unique ID code is attached to each unique package; a game table; a storage box that is installed beside the game table, stores the plurality of packages, includes a reader that reads the ID codes of all the packages, and includes an openable lid so that the packages can be taken out one by one; and a control device for monitoring whether or not the packages are present in the storage box by monitoring the ID codes of the packages read by the readers, and for outputting monitoring results.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: ANGEL PLAYING CARDS CO., LTD.Inventor: Yasushi Shigeta
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Patent number: 10874935Abstract: A chess game method includes providing a standard chess board having squares of alternating colors; providing a first set of chess pieces of a first color and a second set of chess pieces of a second color; arranging the first set of chess pieces in a first corner of the standard chess board such that a king of the first set of chess pieces is in the corner; and arranging the second set of chess pieces in the second corner of the standard chess board such that a king of the second set of chess pieces is in the second corner; the first corner is directly opposite the second corner.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Jesse R. Shaw
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Patent number: 10874936Abstract: A method is performed at a virtual-reality system that includes a head-mounted display (HMD) and a hand-held controller. The hand-held controller includes a grip, a user-input surface, and a tracking ring. the user-input surface includes a user-input key that is mounted on the grip, and the user input key includes an analog pressure sensor. The tracking ring is coupled to the user-input surface and the tracking ring includes a plurality of illumination sources on an outer surface of the tracking ring. The method displays an image of a hand on the HMD, and senses pressure applied to the analog pressure sensor by a user holding the hand-held controller and wearing the HMD. The method displays, on the HMD, the degree of closing the image of the hand in proportion to the pressure applied to the analog pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: FACEBOOK TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Jason Andrew Higgins, Benjamin E. Tunberg Rogoza
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Patent number: 10874937Abstract: An intelligent hardware interaction method includes: in the process of running a game application, performing, by a first client, data interaction with first intelligent hardware in wireless communication with the first client, wherein the first client logs into the game application with a first user account, and the game application displays information about the first intelligent hardware; and sending, by the first client, to a second client information generated by the data interaction between the first client and the first intelligent hardware, wherein the second client logs into the game application with a second user account having an association relationship with the first user account, wherein the information generated by the data interaction is sent to the second client based on the association relationship, such that the second client shares the information of the first client based on the data interaction with the first intelligent hardware.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Sijin Guo, Zhihui Ju, Jianing Lv, Tao Deng, Qiuli Huang
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Patent number: 10874938Abstract: A video game controller can include a body with a top surface and a bottom surface, multiple control inputs (e.g., thumbsticks, directional pads, buttons), and a face plate removably coupleable to the body over the top surface so that the plurality of control inputs extend through the face plate. One or more of the multiple control inputs are removable and replaceable without the use of tools by decoupling the face plate from the body and decoupling the control input from the body without disassembling the body.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Performance Designed Products LLCInventors: Bradley M. Strahle, Yannik Wiggemans
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Patent number: 10874939Abstract: A controller includes a body having a handle, and an array of proximity sensors spatially distributed on, in, beneath, or near the outer surface of the handle, responsive to a proximity of a user's fingers to that outer surface. A finger tracker converts the output of the array of proximity sensors to a set of joint angles corresponding to a plurality of the user's fingers. The controller may include a renderer for processing the joint angles to deform a hand mesh that is rendered for display. Values may be calculated to facilitate normalization of the output of the proximity sensor array and thereby generate a set of normalized finger detection data. This data may be processed through curl logic to produce a linear estimate of gross finger curl with respect to the user and thereby generate a set of estimates for a plurality of finger joint angles for the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Scott Nietfeld, Jeffrey George Leinbaugh, Eric James Hope, Philip Bryan, Scott Richard Britt, Jeffrey Walter Mucha, Claire Michelle Gottschalk, Jeremy Slocum
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Patent number: 10874940Abstract: A system and method for providing offers to facilitate users to complete active game actions in a game space are disclosed. Offers to forego a group of pending wait periods of active game actions may be generated and presented to the users at the same time or near the same time along with offers to forego these pending wait periods individually and separately. In some examples, for incentivizing the users to accept the offer to forego the group of pending wait periods, a discount may be determined for these offers with respect to the offers to forego the group of pending wait periods individually and separately. In some examples, selection of the group of pending wait periods may be made based on likelihoods as to whether the users will spend stored consideration to forego the group of pending wait periods individually and separately.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventors: Henry Rull, Luc Pieron, Kevin Simmons, Jay Jodway
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Patent number: 10874941Abstract: Virtualized gaming as a network service is provided where instead of using a cloud based virtualized gaming console, a virtual machine can be instantiated at an edge network device in a radio access network to decrease the latency of communications between the user equipment device and the virtualized gaming console. Another virtue of placing the gaming console in the network is that the processing, memory storage and other hardware requirements can be offloaded to the network, allowing the user equipment device to be able to handle a broad range of games, without being limited by processing power and battery usage. The user equipment device can be treated as a thin-client device, receiving control data, video data, and audio data that can be played back at the user equipment device.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Haywood S. Peitzer, David Peitzer
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Patent number: 10874942Abstract: A method of and system for handling latency issues encountered in producing real-time entertainment such as games of skill synchronized with live or taped televised events is described herein. There are multiple situations that are dealt with regarding latencies in receiving a television signal with respect to real-time entertainment based on the unfolding games played along with the telecasts. Systemic delays, arbitrarily imposed delays of a broadcast signal and variances in the precise broadcast times of taped television programs have to be equalized so as to provide fair entertainment.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Winview, Inc.Inventors: David B. Lockton, Mark K. Berner, Mark J. Micheli, David Lowe
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Patent number: 10874943Abstract: In some embodiments of the present disclosure, endpoint systems participating in a shared virtual environment simulate objects locally that a user of the endpoint system is likely to interact with. In some embodiments, object authority is thus managed by the endpoint systems, and is not managed by a central server. In some embodiments, a subsequent endpoint system likely to interact with an object may be predicted, and object authority may be transferred to the subsequent endpoint system before the interaction in order to provide an immersive experience for a user of the subsequent endpoint system. In some embodiments, efficient techniques for transmitting notifications between endpoint systems are provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Rec Room Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Fajt, Cameron Brown, Dan Kroymann, Omer Bilal Orhan, Johnathan Bevis, Joshua Wehrly
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Patent number: 10874944Abstract: A system, computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a computer-implemented method for generating game configurations are presented. For example, a system may receive a game configuration request message from a client device being operated by a player playing a virtual game. The game configuration request message may be sent, for example, in response to the player initiating a new game of the virtual game. The system may then select a game configuration based at least in part on historical performance data associated with the selected game configuration. The historical performance data may accumulate performance data from a group of players that previously played the virtual game using the selected game configuration. The system then communicates the selected game configuration to the client device. The player may play the virtual game using the selected game configuration as the initial game configuration for the virtual game.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Zynga Inc.Inventors: M. Ian Graham, Ya-Bing Chu
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Patent number: 10874945Abstract: An example method of multi-character animation comprises: identifying a single scene origin in an animation scene of an interactive video game; aligning, to the single scene origin, each game character of a plurality of game characters associated with the animation scene; generating, with respect to the single scene origin, a respective animation for each game character of the plurality of game characters; and causing each game character of the plurality of game characters to be displayed, using the respective animation, in the interactive video game.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.Inventors: Henry Allen, Simon Sherr
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Patent number: 10874946Abstract: One aspect of the disclosure relates to altering a probability of fulfilling a game objective in a game space. The game objective may be associated with a set of potential reward items, the set of potential reward items including a first item. Probabilities of the first item from the set of potential reward items being provided to individual users as a reward for completing the game objective may be determined based on the rates of usage of the game space by the user. The probability of the first user being provided with the first item as a reward for completing the game objective may be determined based on the rate of usage of the game space by the first user.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Curtis, James Koh, Kellen Christopher Smalley, Michael C. Caldarone
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Patent number: 10874947Abstract: A method for gaming assistance. Information relating to game plays of player for a gaming application is received at a back-end server. A current game context of a first game play of a first player is determined from the information. Historical expert game contexts of expert game plays of experts that have played the gaming application are determined from the information. An assistance query related to the first game play is received. The current game context of the first player is compared to the historical expert game contexts to determine at least one expert having a corresponding historical expert game context that matches the first game context. A first expert is assigned to the first player for obtaining assistance. A communication session is generated between a device of the first expert and a device of the first player to enable the first expert to render assistance to the first player.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventors: Warren Benedetto, Landon Noss, Andrew Herman, Tom Srisook, Chad Rolinski, Parsa Shirazi
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Patent number: 10874948Abstract: A method of mapping a virtual environment includes: obtaining a first sequence of video images output by a videogame title; obtaining a corresponding sequence of in-game virtual camera positions at which the video images were created; obtaining a corresponding sequence of depth buffer values for a depth buffer used by the videogame whilst creating the video images; and, for each of a plurality of video images and corresponding depth buffer values of the obtained sequences, obtain mapping points corresponding to a selected predetermined set of depth values corresponding to a predetermined set of positions within a respective video image; where for each pair of depth values and video image positions, a mapping point has a distance from the virtual camera position based upon the depth value, and a position based upon the relative positions of the virtual camera and the respective video image position, thereby obtaining a map dataset of mapping points corresponding to the first sequence of video images.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Europe LimitedInventors: Nicholas Anthony Edward Ryan, Hugh Alexander Dinsdale Spencer, Andrew Swann, Simon Andrew St John Brislin, Pritpal Singh Panesar
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Patent number: 10874949Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request for a games tab on a messaging application running on a client system of a first user; identifying one or more games played by the first user; identifying, for each identified game, one or more message threads associated with the first user and the respective game; ranking the identified games based on one or more first criteria; ranking the one or more message threads associated with each identified game based on one or more second criteria; and sending instructions for presenting the games tab on the messaging application. The games tab may comprise a list of one or more of the identified games presented in ranked order, and, for each game, one or more message threads associated with the respective game presented in ranked order.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Andrea Vaccari, Pooya Karimian, Lei Guang
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Patent number: 10874950Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request, from a first client system of a first user, a request to play a game with a second user, the request being initiated from within a message thread in a first instance of a messaging application running on the first client system; sending, to a second client system of the second user, the request to play the game in the message thread in a second instance of the messaging application running on the second client system; receiving an indication the second user has accepted the request to play the game; and initiating a game session of the game between the first user and the second user in the message thread, the message thread being operable to allow the first user or the second user to perform one or more in-game actions in the game via the message thread.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Facebook, Inc.Inventors: Andrea Vaccari, Pooya Karimian, Lei Guang
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Patent number: 10874951Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an indication a first user is accessing a game, wherein the first user has a first user identifier (ID); generating, based on the first user ID, a first hashed ID for the first user; providing the first hashed ID to a game bot associated with the game, the game bot being a software agent configured to act automatically on behalf of the game; receiving, from the game bot, a request to initiate a message thread between the game bot and the first user on a messaging application running on a first client system of the first user; and sending instructions for presenting the message thread on the messaging application, the message thread comprising one or more messages referencing in-game actions in the game.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Facebook, IncInventors: Andrea Vaccari, Pooya Karimian, Lei Guang
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Patent number: 10874952Abstract: A robotic system is integrated with one or more mobile computing devices. Physical configurations of individual components of the system in physical space, or agents, under control of a user or users, are duplicated in a representation in virtual space. Some degree of real-time parity is maintained between the physical and virtual spaces, so as to implement a virtual environment that mirrors the physical one. Events occurring within one environment can directly influence and bear consequence on the course of events occurring within the other environment. Elements of virtual space thereby become truly interdependent and unified on a peer footing with elements in physical space. In at least one embodiment, the system is implemented as an application in entertainment, such as the manifestation of a video game in physical space.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Digital Dream Labs, LLCInventors: Boris Sofman, Hanns Tappeiner, Mark Matthew Palatucci, Patrick Lee DeNeale
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Patent number: 10874953Abstract: A snowball forming apparatus, and method of use, disclosed herein comprises: an elongated shaft and handle; a funnel shaped cover encircling and covering the shaft up to the handle, and the shaft is slide-able within the cover; and a plurality of grapples connected to the distal end of the shaft, and moveable between an open position to collect snow and release a snowball, and a closed position to form a spherical snowball. The apparatus further comprises a plurality of hinge mechanisms connecting the shaft to the grapples to open and close the grapples by pushing the shaft out of the cover (open grapples) and pulling on the shaft (close grapples). In an embodiment, the apparatus comprises a shaft with a triangular cross-section, three concave grapples, and one spring-actuated hinge per grapple. The user is not required to significantly bend over or touch the snow in order to make snowballs.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Daniel Fabrizi
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Patent number: 10874954Abstract: A toy brick system is provided having a plurality of bricks each of which has a post positioned extending from a first end of a body of the brick and having a socket at a second end. The post in each brick in the plurality is engageable with a socket of an adjacently place brick in a removable rotational engagement enabling curved and angled configuration of assembled structures. Engagement and disengagement from the rotational engagement can only occur at a specific engagement angle between adjacent bricks thereby maintaining the rotational engagement of adjacent bricks once engaged and rotated out of the engagement angle.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Paul Anderson
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Patent number: 10874955Abstract: A distillation apparatus has a cooling jacket, in the shape of a halo, surrounding at least a part of a vertical extent of a fraction collector in the disclosed technology. Connecting to and/or extending into an interior space of the fraction collector is an end of a vertically-extending passageway. This passageway is functionally connected at an other end to a lower-end entry portal. An outer cover substantially covers the cooling jacket, fraction collector, and a portion of the vertically-extending passageway, excepting for a top portal, a side exit portal, at least one cooling jacket intake, and at least one cooling jacket outtake.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Elliot Kremerman
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Patent number: 10874956Abstract: The present disclosure provides processes and systems for ethanol production. In one embodiment, a first beer column receives a first portion of a feed mixture including ethanol and water to form a first beer column bottom stream and a first beer column vaporous overhead stream. A beer column receives a second portion of the feed mixture. A first portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a first beer column reboiler. A second portion of the first beer column bottom stream is forwarded to a plurality of evaporators. A condensed portion of the first beer column vaporous overhead stream is forwarded to a stripper column. The stripper column forms a feed stream, which is contacted with a separation system, thereby forming a permeate and a retentate. The permeate is forwarded directly to at least one selected from the first beer column and the stripper column.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: WHITEFOX TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Virginia Andrade, Jin Ming Zhou, Stephan Rudiger Blum
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Patent number: 10874957Abstract: A method of desalinating an aqueous composition includes forming a hetero-azeotrope mixture by combining the aqueous composition with an entrainer, the aqueous composition including at least one salt, and subjecting the hetero-azeotrope mixture to distillation at a distillation temperature of less than the boiling temperature of the aqueous composition for an operating distillation pressure, resulting in separating the hetero-azeotrope mixture into a distillation bottoms liquid and a multi-phase condensate. The method includes recovering the multi-phase condensate having an entrainer-rich phase and an aqueous phase, the aqueous phase comprising desalinated water, and removing a portion of the aqueous phase from the multi-phase condensate to recover the desalinated water. Systems for conducting the method of desalinating an aqueous stream are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil CompanyInventors: Guillaume Jean-Francois Robert Raynel, Regis Didier Alain Vilagines, Duaa J. Al Saeed
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Patent number: 10874958Abstract: A method for phytochemical extraction includes providing a distillation vessel, providing a mixture of solvent and plant extract to the distillation vessel, placing the distillation vessel on a heat source, coupling the distillation vessel with a collector configured to collect condensed solvent, selecting an initial distillation temperature and outputting heat from the heat source at a heat source initial target temperature to heat the distillation vessel to a distillation vessel initial target temperature and boil the mixture in the distillation vessel at the initial distillation temperature and at an initial heat flux. With a vacuum pump, a distillation vessel initial target pressure is set within the distillation vessel.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: ExtractCraft, LLCInventor: Lee Sutherland
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Patent number: 10874959Abstract: A filter insert for being removably arranged in a filter housing defines a first end and a second end opposite the first end, including a closing arrangement at the first end of the filter insert for controlling opening and closing, respectively, of an aperture, and an actuation arrangement operatively connected to the closing arrangement for actuating the closing arrangement, wherein the actuation arrangement is positioned at the second end of the filter insert and wherein the actuation arrangement is accessible for external contact at the second end of the filter insert.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventors: Roger Bodén, Claes Frennfelt, David Norén
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Patent number: 10874960Abstract: A drainage pipe un-dissolved waste catch assembly includes a panel that has a rear edge, a front edge, a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, a top side and a bottom side. The panel has a plurality of apertures therein extending into the top side and through the bottom side. A plate is attached to and extends along the front edge and forms a angle with the top side is between 120° and 150. A coupler is attached to the top side of the panel adjacent to the rear edge and releasably engages a discharge tube such that the panel is positioned below and extends forward of the discharge tube. As waste water flows outwardly of the discharge tube, any un-dissolved materials therein will be retained on the panel.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: Dallas Michael Wagener
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Patent number: 10874961Abstract: A filter element includes: a filter medium having an axis and forming an axial channel; a first and a second end plates, each end plate covering one axial end of the filter medium and being sealingly mounted on the axial end, the first end plate having an central opening coaxial and in fluid communication with the channel; the filter element being designed to be placed in a filter housing for forming a liquid filtering device, whereby a liquid to be filtered can flow along a liquid path through the filter medium towards the channel and out of the filter element through the central opening. The filter element further includes further includes a detachable plug whose position can change from an attached position to a detached position.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Grange, Baptiste Boutin
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Patent number: 10874962Abstract: Fine fiber products including fiber webs, as well as related assemblies, systems and methods, are described. In some embodiments, fiber webs described herein may include fine fibers and relatively low amounts of degraded polymer formed during a fiber extrusion process. The fiber webs may be used for filter media applications.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Hollingsworth & Vose CompanyInventors: Stephen T. Cox, William S. Freeman, Abdoulaye Doucouré, John A. Wertz
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Patent number: 10874963Abstract: A filter structure (100) for separating water from a fluid, the filter (100) comprising an absorbent filter membrane (2) constituted by a non-woven textile (20), wherein the non-woven textile (20) is constituted by a bearing lattice (21) and by a super-absorbent material (22), which expands when it absorbs water, fixed to the bearing lattice (21), wherein the super-absorbent material (22) is present in a smaller quantity than 70% in dry weight with respect to a dry weight of the non-woven textile (20).Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: UFI INNOVATION CENTER S.R.L.Inventor: Giorgio Girondi
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Patent number: 10874964Abstract: The invention addresses the problem of providing a filter medium for a liquid filter, which has a low weight per unit and yet has high strength, high collectability, and a long life, and also a liquid filter. As a means for resolution, using a main fiber having a fiber diameter of 4.0 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 100 to 2,500 and a binder fiber having a fiber diameter of 3.0 ?m or less and an aspect ratio of 100 to 2,500, a filter medium for a liquid filter in which the weight proportion of the binder fiber relative to the weight of the filter medium is 10 to 50 wt %, and the weight per unit is within a range of 5 to 80 g/m2, and also a liquid filter are obtained.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: TEIJIN FRONTIER CO.. LTD.Inventors: Kazuyoshi Sakita, Mie Kamiyama
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Patent number: 10874965Abstract: An off-gas conditioning system includes a source of off-gas, at least one testing port, in communication with the source of off-gas wherein the testing port is connected to a meter capable of testing at least one metric selected from the group consisting of temperature, pressure, flow rate, and humidity. A first vapor-liquid separator in communication with and downstream of the source of off-gas, a second vapor liquid separator in communication with and downstream of the first vapor liquid separator, wherein at least one of the first or second vapor-liquid separators includes a heat-exchanger for cooling the off-gas, and wherein at least one of said first or second vapor liquid separators includes a particulate filter for removing particulates from the off-gas. at least one testing port, downstream of the second vapor-liquid separator in communication with at least one analyzer for analyzing said off-gas for specific chemical compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Geo-Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Gordon Kirkland, Elgin Kirkland, Phil Lamori, Don Clift, Victor San Agustin
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Patent number: 10874966Abstract: The cyclone separation device has a case (1), a space partition plate (7), and a cylindrical member (11). The case (1) is formed into a cylindrical shape and has a first intake port (4), an outflow port (6), and a second intake port (5). The first intake port (4) has a circumferential opening (2) circumferentially formed in a side surface on a side of the one end of the case (1), and a fixed blade (3) arranged along the circumferential opening (2). The outflow port (6) is disposed on a surface on the side of the one end and discharges the swirling airflow fed through the first intake port (4). The second intake port (5) is disposed on a side surface on a side of the other end opposite to the one end.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CO., LTD.Inventor: Kengo Nakahara
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Patent number: 10874967Abstract: A separator assembly includes a chamber having an inlet and an outlet where a flow path is defined through the chamber from the inlet to the outlet. In some examples, the separator assembly includes a screen configured to filter solid material from a fluid flowing along the flow path. The separator assembly may include a pulse jet assembly configured to selectively clean the solid material from the screen. In various examples, the separator assembly may include a bleed-in assembly having a bleed-in port and configured to selectively direct a fluid through the bleed-in port and into the chamber.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Air Systems Design, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Zacary, Jr., Christopher A. Donley
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Patent number: 10874968Abstract: A multilayer filter screen and the manufacturing method thereof are provided. The multilayer filter screen includes a conductive powder layer and a plastic powder layer. The conductive powder layer and the plastic powder layer are stacked up through a solidifying process. Therefore, the mechanical structural strength and the anti-static electricity function of the multilayer filter screen are improved.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: FANNO TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Yu-Hsun Fang, Pi-Min Lin, Chi-Han Chen
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Patent number: 10874969Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cleaning a filter of a vacuum cleaning apparatus, wherein in operation of the vacuum cleaning apparatus the filter has suction air flowing therethrough, said suction air being generated by a fan, the method including measuring a first pressure at an inflow section of the filter, measuring a second pressure at an outflow section of the filter, determining a pressure drop at the filter as a pressure difference between the first pressure and the second pressure, determining a quantity characterizing a volume flow of the suction air in the outflow section of the filter, determining, from the pressure difference and the quantity that characterizes the volume flow, a quantity characterizing a flow resistance of the filter, and initiating a filter cleaning operation in dependence upon the determined quantity that characterizes the flow resistance of the filter.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KGInventors: Maic Hensel, Markus Oesterle
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Patent number: 10874970Abstract: A filter element comprising a filter media having a first end and a first endcap coupled to the first end of the filter media. The first endcap includes a flexible first endcap body having a first endcap rigid reinforcing member internally embedded therein. The first endcap rigid reinforcing member may comprise a wire mesh screen and the filter media may comprise a pleated filter media. The filter element may further comprise a second endcap coupled to a second end of the filter media. The second endcap may include a flexible second endcap body having a second endcap rigid reinforcing member internally embedded therein.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: CUMMINS FILTRATION SARLInventors: Gérard Malgorn, Joel Coutant, Pierrick Bonzi, Didier Jarno, Benjamin L. Scheckel
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Patent number: 10874971Abstract: An operating and changing apparatus for a filter body located at a filter position that displays a filter body axis of symmetry located at a filter position and in which a particle filter is integrated in order to remove particles from a particle-laden fluid. The filter body has a fluid-permeable filter body opening and a fluid-impermeable filter body wall section. The apparatus has a housing that the fluid can flow through with a flow channel in which the filter body is so positioned that the fluid can flow through the particle filter. The flow channel has a flow inlet and a flow outlet such that the fluid flow between flow inlet and outlet runs through the particle filter of the filter body. The flow channel has a channel axis which runs parallel/collinear with the filter body's axis. The flow inlet and outlet are offset to each other, relative to the channel symmetric axis.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventors: Joachim Maas, Christopher Tegelkamp
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Patent number: 10874972Abstract: This application describes a unique air filter engagement apparatus and related methods. The invention allows a user to easily replace an air filter using a unique engagement apparatus in addition to an apparatus on the filter itself. This apparatus along with the specific methods of use allow a user to replace air filters quickly and efficiently in often inaccessible or hard to reach areas.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventor: David M. Taylor
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Patent number: 10874973Abstract: A vehicle provided with an engine, at least one air intake opening through which the engine takes in the external air needed to operate, and an air filter, which is arranged in the area of the air intake opening; the air filter has: at least one wave-shaped filtering material element; an outer reinforcement mesh; an inner reinforcement mesh; and a heating device, which is electrically connected to a group of electrified wires of the outer reinforcement mesh and is designed to cause an electric current to flow through the electrified wires, so as to generate heat, due to Joule effect, on the inside of the outer reinforcement mesh.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: BMC S.R.L.Inventor: Gaetano Bergami