Patents by Inventor Gregory Stephens
Gregory Stephens 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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Patent number: 11966786Abstract: Embodiments relate to a system and method for managing energy consumption of one or more processor cores in a multicore processing device. The method includes establishing a temporal interval that includes a plurality of temporal periods and an interval energy target for one or more processor cores. The method also includes determining for each temporal period a period energy target for the processor cores and determining a processor core throttling state for the processor cores. The method further includes adjusting the respective period energy target and the respective processor core throttling state at the beginning of each successive temporal period. The method also includes converging, subject to the adjusting, as each respective temporal period of the plurality of temporal periods is concluded, a total period energy consumption of the processor cores with the interval energy target.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Brian Thomas Vanderpool, Gregory Scott Still, Juan Medina, Michael Stephen Floyd, Matthew A. Cooke
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Patent number: 11924247Abstract: A method and apparatus for testing and simulating an access control policy are disclosed. Evaluating an access control policy may be performed by utilizing a deny statement that causes the access request to be rejected despite actions indicated in the access request being authorized. Further, an independent simulation environment may be utilized for testing access control policy evaluation.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Branchek Roth, Daniel Stephen Popick, Derek Avery Lyon, John Michael Morkel, Graeme David Baer, Ajith Harshana Ranabahu, Khaled Salah Sedky
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Publication number: 20240020738Abstract: A method for operating a parking facility includes accessing a data structure comprising an array of cells defined by a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows, wherein one of the plurality of columns and the plurality of rows is time of entry and the other of the plurality of columns and the plurality of rows is duration of parking session, and each cell of the array of cells comprises a cost, and determining a parking session cost for an individual vehicle by summing costs in a plurality of cells of the array of cells corresponding to a time of entry and a parking session duration for the individual vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: SpotHero, Inc.Inventors: Tanbing Yan, Gregory Stephen Svitak, Ryan Carlson, Geoffrey A.M. Hunter, Sudhir C. Vissa
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Patent number: 11842591Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed a vehicle authorization system for a parking facility. The system includes a gate assembly and a communication system. The gate assembly includes a gate, a gate actuator configured to move the gate, and a gate controller that receives and transmits wireless long range signals. The gate controller is configured to actuate the gate actuator to move the gate. The communication system includes a remote server computing device that is positioned offsite of the parking facility and a gateway device positioned at the parking facility and communicatively coupled to the gate controller and to the remote server computing device. The remote server computing device provides the wireless long range signals to the gate controller via the gateway device such that a construction material of the parking facility and the housing of the gate assembly minimally interferes with the wireless long range signals.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Spothero, Inc.Inventor: Gregory Stephen Svitak
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Patent number: 11789166Abstract: An approach for counting particles suspended in a flow of gas or liquid in instruments that direct the flow through an illuminated region. Pulses are detected when the signal is below a threshold amplitude and moves above the threshold amplitude. This movement above the threshold creates a dead time during which only one pulse is detected until the signal amplitude moves sufficiently below the threshold such that a subsequent particle creates a distinct pulse. After counting the number of pulses, and determining the measured live time that the signal is below the threshold value, an initial particle concentration is calculated, and the calculation corrected for coincidence by calculating an actual live time as a measured live time minus a constant multiplied by the number of distinctly counted pulses, where the constant has the units of time. From this, particle concentrations in a volume can be determined.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Aerosol Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Susanne Vera Hering, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman, Mark R. Stolzenberg
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Patent number: 11587194Abstract: Embodiments herein are directed to a vehicle floating fleet vehicle system for determining a location of a user and one or more car-sharing vehicles. The system includes a server computing device operated by a floating fleet service provider. The server computing device includes at least one processor; a memory communicatively coupled to the at least one processor; and machine readable instructions stored in the memory. The machine readable instructions cause the vehicle floating fleet system to perform at least the following when executed by the at least one processor receive a request for the one or more car-sharing vehicles, determine the one or more car-sharing vehicles in one or more nearby gated parking facilities, send information about the one or more car-sharing vehicles to the user, and receive a selected car-sharing vehicle in a nearby gated parking facility of the one or more nearby gated parking facilities from the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: SpotHero, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Stephen Svitak, Mateusz Perlak
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Publication number: 20230013994Abstract: A grounding system, structured to ground a number of cables supported by a support assembly, includes a multi-function line assembly and a number of conductive mounting assemblies. Each conductive mounting assembly is structured to be coupled to the multi-function line and to a conductive pile.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Cambria County Association for the Blind and HandicappedInventors: Allen Garrett Smith, Gregory Stephen Platt, Timothy Joseph Wedding
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Publication number: 20220346383Abstract: The present disclosure provides isolated Pseudomonas koreensis strains useful for enhancing crop yield, as well as inoculant compositions comprising one or more of the isolated strains, seeds that have been treated with one or more of the isolated strains, and methods of using the isolated strains to enhance root growth, nutrient uptake, chlorophyll content, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2020Publication date: November 3, 2022Applicant: NOVOZYMES BIOAG A/SInventors: David Michael Barnhart, William Nathan Cude, Kate Brandon Sutton, Timothy Liburn, Jonathan Pham, Gregory Stephen Maloney, Jeffrey Layman
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Patent number: 11479486Abstract: A method for making crown ether functionalized substrates, which includes modifying crown ether-based molecules by reacting with carboxylic acid functionalize chains. The crown ether-based molecules are then attached to substrates, thereby forming crown ether functionalized substrates.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Gregory Stephen Ostrom, Benjamin G. Harvey
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Patent number: 11334310Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving playback statuses from one or more second client computing devices that are in a synchronous presentation session with a first client computing device. Content presented on the first client computing device and the one or more second client computing devices may be determined to be out of synchronization. A plurality of synchronization options for synchronization of the content may be displayed on the first client computing device. The plurality of synchronization options may be based on the playback statuses associated with the first client computing device and the one or more second client computing devices. A particular synchronization option may be selected from the plurality of synchronization options. The content on the first client computing device may be synchronized with the one or more second client computing devices based on the particular synchronization option.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Facebook Technologies, LLC.Inventors: Thai Gia Tran, Aditya Aghi, Olivier Alain Pierre Notteghem, Gregory Stephen Williams
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Publication number: 20220128445Abstract: A method and apparatus to create water vapor supersaturation and particulate counts from an air sample. The method and apparatus include introducing an air sample into a chamber connected to an optical detector and an outlet by pumping at the outlet. The method further includes passing air through the chamber and optical detector in a steady flow, and subsequently closing the inlet while continuing the pumping to expand the air sample and exhaust a portion of the air sample through the optical detector. The walls of the particle chamber are wetted with a fluid such as water, and one portion of the wall is warmer than the other portions such that there is some condensational growth prior to the expansion, and yet more condensational growth during the expansion. The cycles are repeated by continuously repeating the introducing, passing and closing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: April 28, 2022Applicant: Aerosol Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Susanne Vera Hering, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman
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Patent number: 11305138Abstract: A system includes a first and second condensation particle counter, each counter having an inlet port, a growth column, and an optical element for counting particles detected at the respective inlet ports. The counters are configured to include a wick in which the wick is wetted by water. A differential pressure sensor is coupled to the first inlet port and coupled to the second inlet port. The sensor is configured to provide a pressure signal. A processor is coupled to memory and configured to receive the first signal, the second signal, and the pressure signal and generate an output corresponding to a ratio of the first signal and the second signal and correlate the ratio with the pressure signal. A housing is configured to receive the first counter, the second counter, the differential pressure sensor, the processor, and the memory.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignees: TSI Incorporated, Aerosol Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Daniel C. Bjorkquist, Arantzazu Eiguren Fernandez, Kenneth Farmer, Melissa Grose, Susanne Vera Hering, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman, David Workman
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Patent number: 11260739Abstract: A clutch assembly includes a clutch mechanism and an energy harvesting device. The clutch mechanism includes an input member, an output member, and an actuating mechanism to govern selective torque transmission from the input member to the output member. The actuating mechanism is powered by electrical current. The energy harvesting device is electrically connected to the actuating mechanism, and the energy harvesting device is configured to scavenge available energy to generate the electrical current that powers the actuating mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: HORTON, INC.Inventors: David R. Hennessy, Carter Brown, Gavin Dauwalter, Adam Gerenz, Patrick Swords, Gregory Stephen Mowry, Ali Abdullah Alsagoor, Brian Nguyen, Alexander John Zaic, Joseph Peter Zinke
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Patent number: 11237091Abstract: A particle growth apparatus includes a temperature-controlled humidifier coupled to a water-based condensation growth system. The humidifier may include a tube of sulfonated tetrafluoroethylene-based fluoropolymer-copolymer and surrounded by a region containing water or water vapor. The apparatus includes a wetted wick and wick sensor in the condensation growth system, configured such that the gas sample flows through the sulfonated tetrafluoroethylene-based fluoropolymer-copolymer tube into the condensation growth system.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Aerosol Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Susanne Vera Hering, Arantzazu Eiguren Fernandez, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman, Philip Bourgeois
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Publication number: 20220026333Abstract: A method and apparatus to create water vapor supersaturation and particulate counts from an air sample. The method and apparatus include introducing an air sample into a chamber by passing a flow into the chamber through the inlet by pumping at the outlet. The method further includes closing the inlet while continuing the pumping to exhaust the air sample from the chamber through the outlet. The pumping is performed at a rate operable to reduce pressure inside the chamber such that the air sample in the central portion of the chamber cools, and water vapor from walls of the chamber has time to diffuse into the air sample in the chamber from the walls. The cycles are repeated by continuously repeating the introducing and closing. The walls of the chamber may be wet or dry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Aerosol Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Susanne Vera Hering, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman
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Publication number: 20220026332Abstract: A method and apparatus to create water vapor supersaturation and particulate counts from an air sample. The method and apparatus include introducing an air sample into a chamber by passing a flow into the chamber through the inlet by pumping at the outlet. The method further includes closing the inlet while continuing the pumping to exhaust the air sample from the chamber through the outlet. The pumping is performed at a rate operable to reduce pressure inside the chamber such that the air sample in the central portion of the chamber cools, and water vapor from walls of the chamber has time to diffuse into the air sample in the chamber from the walls. The cycles are repeated by continuously repeating the introducing and closing. The walls of the chamber may be wet or dry.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Applicant: Aerosol Dynamics Inc.Inventors: Susanne Vera Hering, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman
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Publication number: 20210316175Abstract: A system includes a first and second condensation particle counter, each counter having an inlet port, a growth column, and an optical element for counting particles detected at the respective inlet ports. The counters are configured to include a wick in which the wick is wetted by water. A differential pressure sensor is coupled to the first inlet port and coupled to the second inlet port. The sensor is configured to provide a pressure signal. A processor is coupled to memory and configured to receive the first signal, the second signal, and the pressure signal and generate an output corresponding to a ratio of the first signal and the second signal and correlate the ratio with the pressure signal. A housing is configured to receive the first counter, the second counter, the differential pressure sensor, the processor, and the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Daniel C. Bjorkquist, Arantzazu Eiguren Fernandez, Kenneth Farmer, Melissa Grose, Susanne Vera Hering, Gregory Stephen Lewis, Steven Russel Spielman, David Workman
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Publication number: 20210251236Abstract: The present disclosure provides isolated Microbacterium trichothecenolyticum strains useful for enhancing crop yield, as well as incoluant compositions comprising one or more of the isolated strains, seeds that have been treated with one or more of the isolated strains, and methods of using the isolated strains to enhance root nodulation, nutrient uptake, chlorophyll content, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2019Publication date: August 19, 2021Inventors: John Jacob Parnell, Garrett Ridge, Laurel Anne Kluber, Ethan Chad Baker, Samuel Edward Kirkeng, Charles Hall, Cassandra Marin, Gregory Stephen Maloney
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Publication number: 20210208836Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving playback statuses from one or more second client computing devices that are in a synchronous presentation session with a first client computing device. Content presented on the first client computing device and the one or more second client computing devices may be determined to be out of synchronization. A plurality of synchronization options for synchronization of the content may be displayed on the first client computing device. The plurality of synchronization options may be based on the playback statuses associated with the first client computing device and the one or more second client computing devices. A particular synchronization option may be selected from the plurality of synchronization options. The content on the first client computing device may be synchronized with the one or more second client computing devices based on the particular synchronization option.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Thai Gia Tran, Aditya Aghi, Olivier Alain Pierre Notteghem, Gregory Stephen Williams
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Patent number: 11027996Abstract: A method for making crown ether functionalized substrates, which includes modifying crown ether-based molecules by reacting with carboxylic acid functionalize chains. The crown ether-based molecules are then attached to substrates, thereby forming crown ether functionalized substrates.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Gregory Stephen Ostrom, Benjamin G Harvey