Patents by Inventor Alan Ward

Alan Ward 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: 20240109169
    Abstract: A system and method and fastening tool that utilizes ultrasonic or acoustic energy and a horn that focuses the energy into the fastener at a predetermined location in order to facilitate tightening or loosening the fastener.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: NEXTGEN AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Gary Lee Ward, David Scott Diwinsky, David Joseph Stone, Marc Alan Metz, Tom Lawrence Clutter
  • Patent number: 11538281
    Abstract: Examples provide analyzing motion data. Worker specific sensor data is received and both a task and at least one worker movement based on the received worker specific sensor data are identified. At least one task threshold parameter associated with the identified task and ergometric data for a worker related to the identified task is retrieved and at least one worker specific task parameter based on the received worker specific sensor data is generated. The at least one task threshold parameter is compared with the at least one worker specific task parameter and the at least one worker movement is compared with the ergometric data for the worker related to the identified task. Worker specific task data is generated based on the comparison and a change for future worker movement is identified based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Ward, Andrew B. Millhouse
  • Publication number: 20220007081
    Abstract: A content rental system includes one data store for storing rental content. The content rental system also includes a content server for transferring content to one viewing device based upon a received request. The content server is further configured to authorize the transfer of the content from the viewing device to another viewing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Hiro Mitsuji, Alan Ward, Mihailo Despotovic, Sam Gharabally
  • Patent number: 11178121
    Abstract: Improved techniques to update software in electronic devices that are already in use are disclosed. In one embodiment, software can be updated in a secure and controlled manner using cryptography. The authenticity of the updated software as well as its appropriateness for the particular electronic device can be confirmed prior to update. The software can also be updated on a per module basis. In one embodiment, a server hosts software updates for various electronic devices, and supplies the appropriate software update to the electronic devices via a data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Wysocki, Alan Ward
  • Patent number: 11039219
    Abstract: A content rental system includes one data store for storing rental content. The content rental system also includes a content server for transferring content to one viewing device based upon a received request. The content server is further configured to authorize the transfer of the content from the viewing device to another viewing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hiro Mitsuji, Alan Ward, Mihailo Despotovic, Sam Gharabally
  • Publication number: 20210116076
    Abstract: Method and systems for detecting an anomaly in a pipeline or a flowline. The method includes monitoring real-time data in the pipeline or the flowline, wherein the pipeline or flowline includes a plurality of nodes, the nodes including at least one or more inlets and one or more outlets. The method includes generating a probability metric using a prediction service, wherein the prediction service uses a convolutional neural network. The method includes determining whether to add an alarm, based, at least in part on the probability metric and if there are one or more active alarms, performing an action based on the active alarm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Justin Alan Ward, Alexey Lukyanov, Ashley Sean Kessel, Alexander P. Jones, Bradley Bennett Burt, Nathan Rice
  • Patent number: 10628786
    Abstract: An unloading gate at the destination is assigned and a first resources schedule for unloading personnel or automated vehicles to remove the products from the vehicle at the gate is determined by a control circuit based at least in part upon the anticipated future conditions of the product and resources information. A second resources schedule for quality control personnel or automated vehicles to inspect the products and to determine a quality control result based at least in part upon the anticipated future conditions of the product and the resources information. Based upon quality control results and the priority parameters, a product disposition schedule is determined by the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew B. Millhouse, Jeffrey Alan Ward
  • Publication number: 20200084188
    Abstract: Improved techniques to update software in electronic devices that are already in use are disclosed. In one embodiment, software can be updated in a secure and controlled manner using cryptography. The authenticity of the updated software as well as its appropriateness for the particular electronic device can be confirmed prior to update. The software can also be updated on a per module basis. In one embodiment, a server hosts software updates for various electronic devices, and supplies the appropriate software update to the electronic devices via a data network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher R. WYSOCKI, Alan WARD
  • Patent number: 10521812
    Abstract: Systems, graphical user interfaces and methods for upgrading from one or more digital media assets to a set of digital media assets over a network are described. A potential purchaser can be notified of available upgrade opportunities that are available for purchase. The potential purchaser can elect to pursue an upgrade opportunity so as to purchase a set of digital media assets. Upon upgrading to the set of digital media assets, the digital media assets within the set of digital media assets are made available to the purchaser. According to one aspect, a graphical user interface facilitates presenting and requesting upgrade opportunities. According to another aspect, equivalency rules and/or eligibility rules can be used to control which sets of digital media assets are available for upgrade by respective potential purchasers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tracy Pirnack, Patrice Gautier, Debra Ameerally, Hiro Mitsuji, Alan Ward, George Campbell, Darren Ming Lew, Sam Gharabally, Ricardo D. Cortes
  • Patent number: 10508807
    Abstract: A remote burner monitoring system including one or more burners each including integrated sensors, a data collector corresponding to each of the burners for receiving and aggregating data from the sensors of the corresponding burner, and a local transmitter corresponding to each of the data collectors for transmitting the data, a data center configured and programmed to receive the data from the local transmitters corresponding to the one or more burners, and a server configured and programmed to store at least a portion of the data, to convert the data into a display format, and to provide connectivity to enable receipt and transmission of data and the display format via a network including at least one of a wired network, a cellular network, and a Wi-Fi network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Glen Immer, Yan Zhao, Christopher Alan Ward, Reed Jacob Hendershot, Aleksandar Georgi Slavejkov, Thomas David Matthew Lee, Michael J. Gallagher
  • Patent number: 10432593
    Abstract: Improved techniques to update software in electronic devices that are already in use are disclosed. In one embodiment, software can be updated in a secure and controlled manner using cryptography. The authenticity of the updated software as well as its appropriateness for the particular electronic device can be confirmed prior to update. The software can also be updated on a per module basis. In one embodiment, a server hosts software updates for various electronic devices, and supplies the appropriate software update to the electronic devices via a data network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2019
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Wysocki, Alan Ward
  • Patent number: 10337954
    Abstract: A vehicle headlamp includes a housing, at least one lamp located in the housing, at least one beam alignment light source positioned in the housing and configured to project an image to aid in alignment of the at least one lamp, and at least one beam alignment mechanism operably coupled to the housing and configured to adjust the direction of light from the at least one lamp based on an image projected by the beam alignment light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stephen Kenneth Helwig, David A. Brown, Simon Howard Curwood, Diane Marie LaHaie, Matt W. Roosen, Brian Carroll, Ken Alan Ward
  • Publication number: 20190164128
    Abstract: An unloading gate at the destination is assigned and a first resources schedule for unloading personnel or automated vehicles to remove the products from the vehicle at the gate is determined by a control circuit based at least in part upon the anticipated future conditions of the product and resources information. A second resources schedule for quality control personnel or automated vehicles to inspect the products and to determine a quality control result based at least in part upon the anticipated future conditions of the product and the resources information. Based upon quality control results and the priority parameters, a product disposition schedule is determined by the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew B. Millhouse, Jeffrey Alan Ward
  • Publication number: 20190139174
    Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to automating delivery prioritization at a distribution center. In some embodiments a system comprises a trailer seal, wherein the trailer seal includes an RFID tag, an RFID reader, wherein the RFID reader is located at the distribution center, a display device, and a control circuit configured to receive, from a vendor, shipment information for a delivery, associate, with the trailer seal, the delivery, receive, an identifier of the RFID tag, generate, the unique code, cause the display device to present the unique code to a mobile device, receive, from the mobile device, an identifier of the mobile device, associate, based on the identifier and the unique code, the delivery with the mobile device, determine, based on the shipment information, instructions for the delivery, and transmit, to the mobile device, the instructions for the delivery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Ward, Jacob R. Schrader, Andrew B. Millhouse
  • Publication number: 20190127148
    Abstract: Described in detail herein are systems and methods for automated storage receptacle processing. Sensors, disposed with respect to storage receptacles scan the storage volume of a storage container and detect physical objects disposed in the storage volume of the storage receptacle. The sensors can determine an amount of unoccupied space in the storage volume of the storage receptacle and transmit an indication of the determined unoccupied amount of space to a computing system. The computing system can calculate a percentage of occupied storage volume in the storage receptacle and transmit a command to control the operation of a motor of the door at which the at least one storage receptacle is disposed based on the calculated percentage. The computing system may also be configured to transmit a message to a vehicle tasked with moving the storage container based on the determined amount of unoccupied space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Timothy J. Burleson, Andrew B. Millhouse, Jacob R. Schrader, Jeffery Alan Ward
  • Publication number: 20190122036
    Abstract: Examples provide analyzing motion data. Worker specific sensor data is received and both a task and at least one worker movement based on the received worker specific sensor data are identified. At least one task threshold parameter associated with the identified task and ergometric data for a worker related to the identified task is retrieved and at least one worker specific task parameter based on the received worker specific sensor data is generated. The at least one task threshold parameter is compared with the at least one worker specific task parameter and the at least one worker movement is compared with the ergometric data for the worker related to the identified task. Worker specific task data is generated based on the comparison and a change for future worker movement is identified based on the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey Alan Ward, Andrew B. Millhouse
  • Publication number: 20190124404
    Abstract: A content rental system includes one data store for storing rental content. The content rental system also includes a content server for transferring content to one viewing device based upon a received request. The content server is further configured to authorize the transfer of the content from the viewing device to another viewing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Hiro Mitsuji, Alan Ward, Mihailo Despotovic, Sam Gharabally
  • Publication number: 20190107225
    Abstract: A pump chuck includes a main body, a pivot clip connected pivotally to an end cap of the main body, and a whistle assembly mounted in the main body. The end cap is rotatable relative to the main body for selecting one of valve holes in the end cap to connect with a valve stem of a tire and fixed thereat by the pivot clip. The whistle assembly does not generate a sound in a state that the whistle assembly receives a normal air pressure, but generates a whistling sound when the air pressure in the tire exceeds a preset pressure so as to prevent the tire being inflated from puncture or damage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory Alan Ward, Wen C. Hsieh
  • Publication number: 20190050120
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic population of user interface elements on one or more client interfaces are disclosed A user's previous configuration can be retrieved from a local or remote server configuration data store including a plurality of configuration definitions. Configuration definitions can include one or more user interface elements that have one or more requirements for data. A data aggregator can be configured to retrieve the data required by each of the one or more user interface elements of the selected configuration definition from one or more databases. A display generator can store a plurality of renderable structures defining a display, incorporating the received data of the one or more user interface elements of the selected configuration definition of the client interface. In embodiments, each of the one or more client interfaces can be further configured to receive data inputs from the identified user of the client interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew B. Millhouse, Jacob R. Schrader, Jeffrey Alan Ward
  • Publication number: 20190050121
    Abstract: Systems and methods for m executing one or more actions based on user input received via a client interface. An action definition data store can be configured to store one or more action definitions comprising instructions, including one or more tasks, and one or more user input items. A client interface can be configured to generate an action request based on a selected action definition. The action request can include one or more responses provided by an identified user and associated with the user input items. A processing server can store the action request in an action execution queue. An application server can be configured to execute the one or more tasks of each action request in the action execution queue and provide an execution result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Andrew B. Millhouse, Jacob R. Schrader, Jeffrey Alan Ward