Patents by Inventor Frederick M. Smith

Frederick M. Smith 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: 20240158097
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assembling a structure. The systems and method including micro pulsing a structure along a track in a process direction by less than a length of the structure. The structure is indexed to one or more work stations by mating indexing features in a manufacturing excess of the structure to complementary features at the work stations. The work stations would the perform work on the structure at the work stations while the structure is indexed to the work stations. Iteratively repeating the micro pulsing and indexing and working upon the structure until it is ready to advance to the next assembly process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel R. Smith, Darrell D. Jones, Frederick M. Swanstrom
  • Patent number: 11966771
    Abstract: Computing systems, devices, and methods of dynamic image composition for container deployment are disclosed herein. One example technique includes receiving a request for accessing a file from a container process. In response to receiving the request, the technique includes querying a mapping table corresponding to the container process to locate an entry corresponding to a file identifier of the requested file. The entry also includes data identifying a file location on the storage device from which the requested file is accessible. The technique further includes retrieving a copy of the requested file according to the file location identified by the data in the located entry in the mapping table and providing the retrieved copy of the requested file to the container process, thereby allowing the container process to access the requested file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan De Marco, Benjamin M. Schultz, Frederick Justus Smith, IV, Hari R. Pulapaka, Mehmet Iyigun, Amber Tianqi Guo
  • Patent number: 11926435
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assembling a structure. The systems and method including micro pulsing a structure along a track in a process direction by less than a length of the structure. The structure is indexed to one or more work stations by mating indexing features in a manufacturing excess of the structure to complementary features at the work stations. The work stations would the perform work on the structure at the work stations while the structure is indexed to the work stations. Iteratively repeating the micro pulsing and indexing and working upon the structure until it is ready to advance to the next assembly process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. Smith, Darrell D. Jones, Frederick M. Swanstrom
  • Publication number: 20230073890
    Abstract: A direct high voltage flow-through water heater system transmits high voltage power to a remote ice penetrating robot, converts the power to heat in a very small space, and then uses the heat to melt the ice, providing a path ahead of the robot allowing penetration deeper into a remote ice-covered location, such ice of substantial (e.g., kilometers) thickness, such as, for example, glacial ice caps. High voltage, low current, AC power is passed through a moving conducting fluid, inducing resistive heating in the fluid with 100% efficiency. The exiting fluid is stripped of common mode voltage before exiting. Energy transfer from the electrical source to the fluid is instantaneous and occurs at 100% efficiency. In an alternative embodiment, the fluid heater system operates at standard residential/industrial mains voltages and runs from 220 VAC as other applications of the present invention include the traditional water heater industry as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: John Harman, Frederick M. Smith, William C. Stone
  • Patent number: 11493233
    Abstract: A direct high voltage flow-through water heater system transmits high voltage power to a remote ice penetrating robot, converts the power to heat in a very small space, and then uses the heat to melt the ice, providing a path ahead of the robot allowing penetration deeper into a remote ice-covered location, such ice of substantial (e.g., kilometers) thickness, such as, for example, glacial ice caps. High voltage, low current, AC power is passed through a moving conducting fluid, inducing resistive heating in the fluid with 100% efficiency. The exiting fluid is stripped of common mode voltage before exiting. Energy transfer from the electrical source to the fluid is instantaneous and occurs at 100% efficiency. In an alternative embodiment, the fluid heater system operates at standard residential/industrial mains voltages and runs from 220 VAC as other applications of the present invention include the traditional water heater industry as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Stone Aerospace, Inc.
    Inventors: John Harman, Frederick M. Smith, William C. Stone
  • Patent number: 10216501
    Abstract: Described are methods, systems and computer-readable media storing instructions that when executed on one or more processors execute a process for generating second program code in a statically typed programming language from first program code in a dynamically typed programming language. The first program code contains or, when executed, generates or operates on a dynamically typed array. The second program code may be generated by classifying the dynamically typed array into one of multiple categories, such as homogeneous, heterogeneous, or another, based on the array contents, array usage, and/or user input, and generating the second program code in the statically typed programming language based on the classification(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnab De, Frederick M. Smith, Denis Gurchenkov
  • Publication number: 20180087804
    Abstract: A direct high voltage flow-through water heater system transmits high voltage power to a remote ice penetrating robot, converts the power to heat in a very small space, and then uses the heat to melt the ice, providing a path ahead of the robot allowing penetration deeper into a remote ice-covered location, such ice of substantial (e.g., kilometers) thickness, such as, for example, glacial ice caps. High voltage, low current, AC power is passed through a moving conducting fluid, inducing resistive heating in the fluid with 100% efficiency. The exiting fluid is stripped of common mode voltage before exiting. Energy transfer from the electrical source to the fluid is instantaneous and occurs at 100% efficiency. In an alternative embodiment, the fluid heater system operates at standard residential/industrial mains voltages and runs from 220 VAC as other applications of the present invention include the traditional water heater industry as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: John Harman, Frederick M. Smith, William C. Stone
  • Publication number: 20160357533
    Abstract: Described are methods, systems and computer-readable media storing instructions that when executed on one or more processors execute a process for generating second program code in a statically typed programming language from first program code in a dynamically typed programming language. The first program code contains or, when executed, generates or operates on a dynamically typed array. The second program code may be generated by classifying the dynamically typed array into one of multiple categories, such as homogeneous, heterogeneous, or another, based on the array contents, array usage, and/or user input, and generating the second program code in the statically typed programming language based on the classification(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Applicant: The MathWorks, Inc.
    Inventors: Arnab De, Frederick M. Smith, Denis Gurchenkov
  • Patent number: 4338985
    Abstract: A machine for clearing and cleanly chipping trees and brushwood in the path of the machine as it moves forward. A pair of counterrotating disk cutters cut a kerf in the standing material and propel the cut material upwardly and rearwardly to the throat between a pair of feed rollers. The feed rollers deliver the cut material to a chipper, which reduces the material to chips and delivers them to a chip storage bin. The bin can be tilted to dump chips alongside the machine. The entire mechanism is carried by a self-propelled, articulated, track-supported vehicle which is especially well-suited for operation over soft, boggy ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: July 13, 1982
    Assignee: Georgia-Pacific Corporation
    Inventors: Frederick M. Smith, James R. O'Dair
  • Patent number: D349209
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 2, 1994
    Inventor: Frederick M. Smith