Yes, but the patent application lists his name as "Halen Edward L Van".

So apparently this was misfiled (under the last name "Halen") or filed correctly, just displayed weirdly on patents.google.com (since it appears correctly on the linked uspto.gov [0]).

[0] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H....