Patents by Inventor Alan Harding

Alan Harding 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).

  • Image-based item identification
    Patent number: 11928150
    Abstract: Systems and methods for image-based item identification are disclosed. Image data corresponding to one or more images depicting an item may be sent to one or more remote systems for image-based item identification. The identification indications and/or identification confidence scores received from the remote systems may be aggregated and weighted based at least in part on one or more factors related to the remote systems, the results, domains, image capture timing, image capture angles, and/or events to more accurately identify an item depicted in the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin-Josef Angel, Milena Sadee, Cressida Magdalen Harding, Eric Alan Breitbard, Animesh Mishra, Vlastimil Pis, Robert Steven Murdock
  • Vehicle storage compartment having a dampener and vehicle incorporating the vehicle storage compartment
    Patent number: 11124125
    Abstract: A vehicle storage compartment includes a first vehicle component including a pin, a second vehicle component pivotally hinged to the first vehicle component. The first vehicle component and the second vehicle component define a storage cavity in which a vehicle occupant in a passenger compartment may store objects. The compartment includes a dampener arm that is pivotally rotatable about one of the first pin and the second pin and defining a slot enclosing the other one of the first pin and second pin. The dampener arm slot defines an interference fit with the other one of the first pin and the second pin such that pivoting of the second vehicle component is dampened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: John H. Faarup, Alan Harding, Charles P. Byers, Nicholas P. Thomas
  • VEHICLE STORAGE COMPARTMENT HAVING A DAMPENER AND VEHICLE INCORPORATING THE VEHICLE STORAGE COMPARTMENT
    Publication number: 20200248492
    Abstract: A vehicle storage compartment includes a first vehicle component including a pin, a second vehicle component pivotally hinged to the first vehicle component. The first vehicle component and the second vehicle component define a storage cavity in which a vehicle occupant in a passenger compartment may store objects. The compartment includes a dampener arm that is pivotally rotatable about one of the first pin and the second pin and defining a slot enclosing the other one of the first pin and second pin. The dampener arm slot defines an interference fit with the other one of the first pin and the second pin such that pivoting of the second vehicle component is dampened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: John H. Faarup, Alan Harding, Charles P. Byers, Nicholas P. Thomas
  • Electronic fuel control system
    Patent number: 8960154
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with an electronic fuel control system including a carburettor having a throttle bore, a fuel chamber, and at least one fuel circuit extending between the fuel chamber and the throttle bore and controlled by an adjustment member such as a needle, the control system further including an actuator operable to automatically adjust the adjustment member in response to one or more engine operating parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Barcarole Limited
    Inventors: John Mason, Alan Harding
  • ELECTRONIC FUEL CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20120272936
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with an electronic fuel control system including a carburettor having a throttle bore, a fuel chamber, and at least one fuel circuit extending between the fuel chamber and the throttle bore and controlled by an adjustment member such as a needle, the control system further including an actuator operable to automatically adjust the adjustment member in response to one or more engine operating parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: BARCAROLE LIMITED
    Inventors: John Mason, Alan Harding
  • Polymer composite pulley
    Patent number: D770265
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Bryan S Forrest, Benjamin J Jordan, Jeffrey Alan Harding, David Mark Lange