Patents by Inventor Gary Jones
Gary Jones 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: 20240093960Abstract: A thin, flexible protective firearm cover is disclosed. The firearm cover can comprise a narrow barrel portion to receive and enclose a muzzle end of a firearm, a butt portion to receive and enclose a butt end of the firearm, and an intermediate portion between the barrel portion and the butt portion. The intermediate portion can have a size-adjustable opening that flexibly expands to allow the firearm to pass through. Reducing the size of the opening draws the butt portion and the barrel portion toward one another to secure the firearm cover about the firearm when the firearm is disposed in the cover. The firearm cover is thin and flexible to provide for compact storage of the firearm cover when the cover is not in use.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Gary Kummer, Darren Jones
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Publication number: 20240071633Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for configuring, managing, and/or using a health utility network. A system includes a health utility platform configured to execute collaboration services and distributed ledger services. The system also includes a health network including a private network interconnect configured to provide access, routing and service discovery. The health network is communicatively coupled to the health utility platform. The system also includes landing zones communicatively coupled to the health utility platform via the health network. Each landing zone is configured to run applications for a participant. The applications are configured to consume data and/or provide services on the health network. The collaboration services and the distributed ledger services are configured to provide context or facilitate data exchanges between different landing zones.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Gerald Bortis, Aaron Jones, Calin Alexandru Morar, Gabriela Pelin, Daniel Sanders, Gary Brian Word
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Publication number: 20230412990Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Oticon A/SInventors: Thomas LUNNER, Tanveer BHUIYAN, José Antonio ESPARZA ISASA, Sergi Rotger GRIFUL, Antonello SALVATUCCI, Gary JONES, Kim Tilgaard PETERSEN, Peter SOMMER
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Publication number: 20230409954Abstract: A method, apparatus, system, and computer program code for dynamically modeling multi-tenant data in a machine learning platform. A recommendation engine receives a first data set from a user. The recommendation engine characterizes the first data set to determine data attributes and data characteristics of the first data set. The recommendation engine aligns the data attributes of the first data set with a second data set according to an ontology. Based on the data characteristics of the first data set, the recommendation engine identifies a set of pre-trained models that was trained from training parameters selected from data attributes and data characteristics of a second data set. The recommendation engine recommends the set of pre-trained models to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Stanley Guzik, Prashant Desai, Anthony Sweet, Anubhav Agarwal, Gary Jones, Sunny Francis, Debaprasad Satapathy
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Patent number: 11785397Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Oticon A/SInventors: Thomas Lunner, Tanveer Bhuiyan, José Antonio Esparza Isasa, Sergi Rotger Griful, Antonello Salvatucci, Gary Jones, Kim Tilgaard Petersen, Peter Sommer
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Publication number: 20230186934Abstract: A hearing device includes a) a multitude of input transducers providing a corresponding multitude of electric input signals; and b) a processor for providing a processed signal in dependence of the electric input signals. The processor includes b1) a beamformer for providing a spatially filtered signal in dependence of electric input signals and beamformer filter coefficients determined in dependence of a fixed steering vector including as elements respective acoustic transfer functions from a target signal source, to each of said multitude of input transducers; and b2) a target adaptation module connected to the input transducers and to at least one beamformer, the target adaptation module being configured to provide compensation signals to compensate the electric input signals so that they match the fixed steering vector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Applicant: Oticon A/SInventors: Jan M. DE HAAN, Robert REHR, Sebastien CURDY-NEVES, Svend FELDT, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Michael Noes GÄTKE, Mohammad EL-SAYED, Stig PETRI, Karsten BONKE, Gary Jones, Poul Hoang
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Patent number: 11671769Abstract: A method of personalizing one or more parameters of a processing algorithm for use in a hearing aid of a specific user comprises Performing a predictive test for estimating a hearing ability of the user when listening to signals having different characteristics; Analyzing results of said predictive test for said user and providing a hearing ability measure for said user; Selecting a specific processing algorithm of said hearing aid, Selecting a cost-benefit function related to said user's hearing ability in dependence of said different characteristics for said algorithm; and Determining, for said user, one or more personalized parameters of said processing algorithm in dependence of said hearing ability measure and said cost-benefit function.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2020Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Oticon A/SInventors: Thomas Lunner, Gary Jones, Lars Bramsløw, Michael Syskind Pedersen, Pauli Minnaar, Jesper Jensen, Michael Kai Petersen, Peter Sommer, Hongyan Sun, Jacob Schack Larsen
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Publication number: 20220149800Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid a cochlear implant comprising a) at least one input transducer for capturing incoming sound and for generating electric audio signals which represent frequency bands of the incoming sound, b) a sound processor which is configured to analyze and to process the electric audio signals, c) a transmitter that sends the processed electric audio signals, d) a receiver/stimulator, which receives the processed electric audio signals from the transmitter and converts the processed electric audio signals into electric pulses, e) an electrode array embedded in the cochlear comprising a number of electrodes for stimulating the cochlear nerve with said electric pulses, and f) a control unit configured to control the distribution of said electric pulses to the number of said electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2022Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Oticon A/SInventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Gary JONES, Søren Kamaric RIIS, Karsten Bo RASMUSSEN, Julian SKOVGAARD
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Patent number: 11264964Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid a cochlear implant comprising a) at least one input transducer for capturing incoming sound and for generating electric audio signals which represent frequency bands of the incoming sound, b) a sound processor which is configured to analyze and to process the electric audio signals, c) a transmitter that sends the processed electric audio signals, d) a receiver/stimulator, which receives the processed electric audio signals from the transmitter and converts the processed electric audio signals into electric pulses, e) an electrode array embedded in the cochlear comprising a number of electrodes for stimulating the cochlear nerve with said electric pulses, and f) a control unit configured to control the distribution of said electric pulses to the number of said electrodes.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Oticon A/SInventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Gary Jones, Søren Kamaric Riis, Karsten Bo Rasmussen, Julian Skovgaard
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Publication number: 20220046505Abstract: An access network can allocate a bearer for a network service associated with a quality-of-service (QoS) value (QV) and a retention-priority value (RPV), and determine a bearer ID for the service based on the QV, the RPV, and a supplemental priority value (SPV) different from the QV and from the RPV. Upon handover of a terminal, session(s) carried by a bearer allocated by the terminal can be terminated. That bearer can be selected using IDs of the bearers and a comparison function that, given two bearer IDs, determines which respective bearer should be terminated before the other. Upon handover of a terminal to an access network supporting fewer bearers per terminal than the terminal has allocated, a network node can select a bearer based on respective QVs and RPVs of a set of allocated bearers. The network node can deallocate the selected bearer.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Kun Lu, Boris Antsev, Terri L. Brooks, Egil Gronstad, John Humbert, Alan Denis MacDonald, Salvador Mendoza, Scott Francis Migaldi, Gary Jones, Christopher H. Joul, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok, Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Neng-Tsann Ueng
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Publication number: 20220007116Abstract: A method of personalizing one or more parameters of a processing algorithm for use in a hearing aid of a specific user comprises Performing a predictive test for estimating a hearing ability of the user when listening to signals having different characteristics; Analyzing results of said predictive test for said user and providing a hearing ability measure for said user; Selecting a specific processing algorithm of said hearing aid, Selecting a cost-benefit function related to said user's hearing ability in dependence of said different characteristics for said algorithm; and Determining, for said user, one or more personalized parameters of said processing algorithm in dependence of said hearing ability measure and said cost-benefit function.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2020Publication date: January 6, 2022Applicant: Oticon A/SInventors: Thomas LUNNER, Gary JONES, Lars BRAMSLØW, Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Pauli MINNAAR, Jesper JENSEN, Michael Kai PETERSEN, Peter SOMMER, Hongyan SUN, Jacob Schack LARSEN
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Publication number: 20210392446Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2021Publication date: December 16, 2021Applicant: Oticon A/SInventors: Thomas LUNNER, Tanveer BHUIYAN, José Antonio ESPARZA ISASA, Sergi Rotger GRIFUL, Antonello SALVATUCCI, Gary JONES, Kim Tilgaard PETERSEN, Peter SOMMER
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Patent number: 11134351Abstract: The present application relates to a system comprising a hearing aid, the hearing aid configured to be operated based on an estimation of a current listening effort of a hearing aid user.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2020Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: OTICON A/SInventors: Thomas Lunner, Tanveer Bhuiyan, José Antonio Esparza Isasa, Sergi Rotger Griful, Antonello Salvatucci, Gary Jones, Kim Tilgaard Petersen, Peter Sommer
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Patent number: 11089527Abstract: An access network can allocate a bearer for a network service associated with a quality-of-service (QoS) value (QV) and a retention-priority value (RPV), and determine a bearer ID for the service based on the QV, the RPV, and a supplemental priority value (SPV) different from the QV and from the RPV. Upon handover of a terminal, session(s) carried by a bearer allocated by the terminal can be terminated. That bearer can be selected using IDs of the bearers and a comparison function that, given two bearer IDs, determines which respective bearer should be terminated before the other. Upon handover of a terminal to an access network supporting fewer bearers per terminal than the terminal has allocated, a network node can select a bearer based on respective QVs and RPVs of a set of allocated bearers. The network node can deallocate the selected bearer.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Kun Lu, Boris Antsev, Terri Brooks, Egil Gronstad, John Humbert, Alan Denis MacDonald, Salvador Mendoza, Scott Francis Migaldi, Gary Jones, Christopher H. Joul, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok, Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Neng-Tsann Ueng
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Publication number: 20200204136Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid a cochlear implant comprising a) at least one input transducer for capturing incoming sound and for generating electric audio signals which represent frequency bands of the incoming sound, b) a sound processor which is configured to analyze and to process the electric audio signals, c) a transmitter that sends the processed electric audio signals, d) a receiver/stimulator, which receives the processed electric audio signals from the transmitter and converts the processed electric audio signals into electric pulses, e) an electrode array embedded in the cochlear comprising a number of electrodes for stimulating the cochlear nerve with said electric pulses, and f) a control unit configured to control the distribution of said electric pulses to the number of said electrodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: June 25, 2020Applicant: Oticon A/SInventors: Michael Syskind PEDERSEN, Gary JONES, Søren Kamaric RIIS, Karsten Bo RASMUSSEN, Julian SKOVGAARD
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Patent number: 10674292Abstract: A hearing instrument and a method for operating a hearing instrument is provided. The hearing instrument and/or the method includes receiving and manipulating an audio signal at a signal processor to create a manipulated audio signal, providing a tinnitus relief sound having an operational level based on a present volume level from an audio signal, and generating an output signal based on the manipulated audio signal and the tinnitus relief sound.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: OTICON A/SInventors: Björn Ohl, Dorthe Hofman-Bang, Marianne Philipsson, Jacob Anders Roug, Jesper Nøhr Hansen, Gary Jones
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Patent number: 10615766Abstract: The invention relates to a hearing aid comprising a first microphone configured to receive a first acoustic signal and to convert the first acoustic signal to a first electrical audio signal, a speaker configured to emit an acoustic output signal into an ear of a user of the hearing aid device, a first analog-to-digital converter for converting the first electrical audio signal into a first time-domain input signal, a first input unit comprising a first analysis filter bank which is configured to convert the first time-domain input signal to a number NI,1 of first input frequency bands wherein the number NI,1 of first input frequency bands is determined by said first analysis filter bank, a first frequency band bundling and allocation unit which is configured to bundle adjacent first input frequency bands and to allocate first frequency bands to be processed to a number NP,1 of first processing channels, a memory unit which is configured to store data indicating which of the first NI,1 input frequency bands aType: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 7, 2020Assignee: OTICON A/SInventors: Michael Syskind Pedersen, Gary Jones, Søren Kamaric Riis, Karsten Bo Rasmussen, Julian Skovgaard
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Patent number: 10560790Abstract: A hearing device, a hearing system and a method for improving a hearing impaired person's ability to perceptually separate a target sound from competing sounds, the target sound and the competing sounds forming a composite sound signal having a given frequency range, where the method comprises the steps of: (i) subdividing the frequency range of the composite sound signal into a plurality of frequency sub-bands; (ii) grouping frequency sub-bands based on comparable characteristics of the plurality of frequency sub-bands; (iii) for each of the groups calculating a group envelope; and (iv) multiplying the signal in the frequency sub-bands of each individual group by a function or functions that enhance(s) peaks of the group envelope and/or attenuates energy in troughs in the group envelope. The comparable characteristics may be the correlation between the envelope of each of the bands in the specific group of frequency sub-bands and the corresponding group envelope.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: OTICON A/SInventor: Gary Jones
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Patent number: 10464270Abstract: A method and apparatus for curing a composite workpiece to form a part. In one illustrative embodiment, an apparatus may comprise an object, a portable structure, and a heating system. The object may have a shape selected for a part. The portable structure may comprise a retaining structure configured to hold the object. The retaining structure may have a first side and a second side. The heating system may be configured to cover the object at the first side of the retaining structure and the second side of the retaining structure. The heating system may be further configured to generate heat for use in curing a workpiece placed over the object to form the part.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2018Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Mark A. Schmier, II, Gary Jones
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Patent number: D934705Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Heatcraft Refrigeration Products LLCInventors: Surendran Ramasamy, Stephen J. Vendt, Shashwat Nath, Mohan Renganathan, Aravind Sridharan, Gary Jones