Patents by Inventor Christopher Patrick
Christopher Patrick 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).
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Publication number: 20240134904Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and devices for generating personalized playlists. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining information about recent media items presented to a user, the information including data about a respective time of day and day of week each media item was presented to the user. The method further includes grouping the recent media items into clusters based on time of day and day of week; and generating a recommendation vector using a weighted average of the clusters. The method also includes generating a playlist for the user by identifying a plurality of media items using the recommendation vector; and presenting the playlist to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Colin Patrick Fahy, Leila Catherine Siddique, Christopher Ciollaro, Matthew Budelman, Mark VanMiddlesworth, Stanislav Chekalin
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Publication number: 20240128762Abstract: In various embodiments, a process for configuring or commissioning a solar power system includes receiving, at a controller, hardware identifiers of a plurality of power electronics modules to be configured. Each of the plurality of power electronics modules of at least a portion of the plurality of power electronics modules is associated with a corresponding photovoltaic panel. A hub is configured to wirelessly communicate with the plurality of power electronics modules. The controller is physically connected to the hub and communicates with the hub via wiring that also carries power from photovoltaic panels to an inverter. The process includes configuring, by the controller, the plurality of power electronics modules using the received hardware identifiers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Kyle Breuning Evans, Sebastian Wolf, Mark Holveck, Hai-Yue Han, Craig Patrick Timms, Paul Chapman, Christopher Wright, Ryan Pflaum
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Patent number: 11960126Abstract: A connector assembly that includes a connector that has a ferrule and a latch. The latch is movable about a connection point. The connector assembly also includes a boot that is removably mounted to the connector. The boot is axially slidable to move the latch. The connector assembly also includes a locking assembly to selectively lock the boot from sliding axially relative to the connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Jacob Arie Elenbaas, Christopher Charles Taylor, David Patrick Murray, Jan Willem Rietveld
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Publication number: 20240118046Abstract: In one aspect, a liquid collector having a forward lower edge, a connecting wall portion extending downwardly from the forward edge, a first layback wall portion connected to the connecting wall portion and extending upwardly and rearwardly from the connecting wall portion, an intermediate upper edge of the layback wall portion rearward of and above the forward lower edge. The liquid collector further includes an air diverter wall portion extending rearwardly from the first layback wall portion below the intermediate upper edge, a second layback wall portion extending upwardly and rearwardly of the air diverter wall portion, and a rearward upper edge of the second layback wall portion rearward of the intermediate upper edge and above the forward lower edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Gregory Adam Russell, Christopher Patrick Auth, Ryan John Most, Richard David Wall, III
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Patent number: 11953623Abstract: A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may have an effective field of view created by individual sensors with overlapping fields of view. The sensor pod system may include sensors of different types and modalities. Sensor pods of the sensor pod system may be modularly installed on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle and collect and provide data of the environment during operation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Derek Adams, Daniel Glenn Johnson, Christopher William Labadie, Ryan McMichael, Daniel Miller, Peter Thomas Mitros, Anubhav Thakur, Joseph Patrick Warga, Austin In-Jei Yi
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Patent number: 11952305Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Ravindra Kumar Akarapu, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Alan Deneka, Steven Akin Dunwoody, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, John Michael Jewell, Yuanjie Jiang, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Ming-Jun Li, Barada Kanta Nayak, Dale Robert Powers, Chunfeng Zhou, Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti, Christopher Scott Thomas
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Patent number: 11955100Abstract: An electronic device having a touch-screen display detects a first input on the display while displaying a first user interface on the display. In response to detecting the first input on the display, the device enters a flashlight mode. Entering the flashlight mode includes replacing the first user interface with a first flashlight user interface. The first flashlight user interface has a first total lumen output and a first luminance that is substantially uniform over the display. The device determines whether brightness change criteria are met, and in accordance with a determination that the brightness change criteria are met, displays a second flashlight user interface having a second total lumen output greater than the first total lumen output and a second luminance that is substantially uniform over the display.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marco Triverio, Gary Ian Butcher, Kevin Will Chen, Matthew J. Sundstrom, Christopher Patrick Foss
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Patent number: 11953519Abstract: An example test system includes packs. The packs include test sockets for testing devices under test (DUTs) and at least some test electronics for performing tests on the DUTs in the test sockets. Different packs are configured to have different configurations. The different configurations include at least different numbers of test sockets arranged at different pitches.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: TERADYNE, INC.Inventors: Christopher James Bruno, Philip Luke Campbell, Adnan Khalid, Evgeny Polyakov, John Patrick Toscano
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Publication number: 20240109204Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for singulating, orienting, and delivering oriented objects (e.g., embryos) to a desired location (e.g., a plate containing a selected medium).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicants: CORTEVA AGRISCIENCE LLC, PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: ROSS MEGARGEL, CHRISTOPHER REPPE, JACOB PATRICK SUTHER, JEFFREY DALE WILLE
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Patent number: 11944347Abstract: A trocar assembly can include a cannula, a seal cartridge, and an obturator. The seal cartridge is configured to be releasably coupled to the cannula and to be disposed at least partially within the cannula in a coupled configuration of the seal cartridge. The obturator is configured to directly latch to the cannula and to extends through the cannula and the seal cartridge in a coupled configuration of the obturator.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Joseph Mozloom, Jr., Christopher Brock Stone, Andrew S. Berkowitz, Steven G. Hall, Jeffrey P. Wiley, Richard Patrick Chesnes, Jeffery T. Kirk, Aren Calder Hill
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Publication number: 20240102807Abstract: Raw sensor data from a device of a user is collected. Trips from the sensor data are identified as raw trip data. Metadata for the trips is identified, linked to the trips, and maintained separately from the trip data. The trips are staged, and the corresponding trip data normalized when obtained from a storage or memory location. Normalized trip data is piped or made accessible to feature enhancing applications (apps), each app associating one or more features and events with a given trip. The features and events are maintained for the trips in event and feature level of detail tables. The tables are processed by consuming apps for purposes of updating user-level attributes associated with the user. In an embodiment, custom apps process the raw trip data to add additional features and events, which are directly integrated and updated in the tables for access by the consuming apps.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kyle Patrick Schmitt, Joseph Allan Plattenburg, Christopher Mark Leight
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Patent number: 11941191Abstract: Button functionalities for user interfaces, e.g., for use with a portable multifunction device, are disclosed. Exemplary button functionalities are described for an electronic device with a display, a rotatable and depressible input mechanism, and/or a button. Different device features may be accessed, depending on whether the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button is activated, and further depending on whether the activation represents a single press, a double press, or an extended press on the rotatable and depressible input mechanism or the button.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Patrick Foss, Anton M. Davydov, Dylan Ross Edwards, Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Stephen O. Lemay, Kevin M. Lynch, Lawrence Y. Yang, Dennis S. Park
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Patent number: 11943886Abstract: An electronic assembly includes an electronic package having an integrated circuit component and interposer assemblies with compressible interposer contacts electrically connected thereto. Cable connector modules are coupled to the interposer assemblies. A cover assembly is coupled to the upper surface of the electronic package over the cable connector modules. The cover assembly includes bridge assemblies having plates in a plate stack that are independently movable. A load plate engages upper edges of the plates of the bridge assemblies and press against the plates to drive the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules using compression hardware. The cable connector modules compress the interposer contacts of the interposer assemblies when the load plate presses the plates of the bridge assemblies into the cable connector modules.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbHInventors: Christopher William Blackburn, Brian Patrick Costello, Alex Michael Sharf
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Publication number: 20240090491Abstract: An insert for an arthropod trapping device. The insert comprising a substrate and a frame for supporting the substrate, where a surface of the substrate has an adhesive disposed thereon, an optional mounting bracket spaced apart from the adhesive surface of the insert and located at a first end of the insert, and an optional graspable tab extending from the frame at a second end of the insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Christopher Lawrence SMITH, Benjamin Patrick HALE, Adam James BURT, Erik John HASENOEHRL, Danilo ROSSI, Andrea PEDROTTI, Walter SORDO, Alessio GIOVANELLI, Brian Lee FLOYD, Hirotaka UCHIYAMA, Thomas Bernard WALKER, III, Anthony Xavier Jean-Yves CLERC
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Publication number: 20240090604Abstract: Various aspects disclosed relate to structure such as a textile, a garment, a garment component, footwear, or a footwear component. The present disclosure includes the structure having a first region having one of more first fibers. An individual first fiber includes co-extruded first and second filaments, the first filament formed of a first thermoplastic polymeric material. Due to expansion or contraction of the one or more first fibers, the first region contracts or expands on a change in relative humidity, relative to an equilibrium state of the first region prior to the change in relative humidity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Eduardo Alberto Gonzalez de los Santo, David M. Litton, Romesh Patel, Christopher J. Ranalli, Joshua Patrick Williams
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Publication number: 20240082942Abstract: An additive manufacturing system includes an additive manufacturing tool configured to receive a plurality of metallic anchoring materials and to supply a plurality of droplets to a part, and a controller configured to independently control the composition, formation, and application of each droplet to the plurality of droplets to the part. The plurality of droplets is configured to build up the part. Each droplet of the plurality of droplets includes at least one metallic anchoring material of the plurality of metallic anchoring materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Bruce Patrick Albrecht, Christopher Hsu
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Patent number: 11929617Abstract: A load control unit includes a first input terminal configured to receive power, a second input terminal configured to receive load information, a first output terminal configured to provide a first portion of the power to a first load, a second output terminal configured to provide a second portion of the power to a second load, a memory, and an electronic processor communicatively connected to the memory, first input terminal, the second input terminal, the first output terminal, and the second output terminal. The electronic processor is configured to measure the power received via the first input terminal, receive load parameters via the second input terminal, and dynamically control, in response to measuring the power and receiving the load parameters, at least one of the first load or the second load based on the power that is measured and the load parameters that are received.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Christopher Patrick Sullivan, Melissa A. Baran, Matthew James Fogarty, Frederick L. Bourne
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Publication number: 20240074869Abstract: Methods and systems for treating a spinal joint with a facet joint replacement. The prosthesis can include a first component having a first articulating surface and a second component having a second articulating surface. The first component is attached to a superior articulating facet and the second component is attached to an inferior articulating facet. The first articulating surface and the second articulating surface articulate with each other and allow for multiple degrees of movement of the facet joint without fusing the joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: J. Patrick Johnson, Christopher Zarembinski, Terrence T. Kim
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Publication number: 20240076875Abstract: A shingle coating asphalt composition is provided that is produced from a paving grade asphalt. The asphalt composition comprises a paving-grade asphalt that has been modified with one or more polymer additives; and a secondary additive comprising one or more of a viscosity reducing agent, a wax, a salt of a fatty acid ester, and an amide of a fatty acid. The shingle coating asphalt coating composition is used to make a shingle. The shingle includes a substrate, the asphalt, and roofing granules.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Carmen Anthony LaTorre, Jacob Paul Honsvick, Christopher Patrick Kasprzak, Daniel James Buckwalter, Edward R. Harrington, Jonathan Ross Davis, Laurand Henry Lewandowski, David Michael Ploense, William Edwin Smith, Scott W. Schweiger, Ganesh Latta
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Patent number: D1023269Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: PURACLENZ LLCInventors: Christopher Patrick Dooley, Wing Kau Spencer Fok, Tin Yu Wong