Patents by Inventor John Adams

John Adams 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).

  • Patent number: 11724345
    Abstract: A system and method for drilling a hole in a vehicle structure and installing a fastener in the hole. A drill plate having openings and associated machine-readable elements is positioned on the structure. A drill gun is positioned in a particular opening and reads hole information from the associated element, and a computer determines whether the drill gun is properly set-up to drill the hole. A fastener insertion gun is positioned in the particular opening and reads fastener information from the element, and the computer determines whether the hole has been drilled and, if so, whether the fastener insertion gun is properly set-up to insert the fastener. A fastener delivery subsystem stores, tracks, and delivers fasteners to the fastener insertion gun. A system computer monitors the drilling of every hole, the insertion of every fastener, and the overall operation of the fastener delivery subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Schroeder, Todd B. Jaramillo, John Adam Price, John Robert Dye, III, Kaleb Aaron Kimball
  • Patent number: 11720223
    Abstract: A wearable display system can automatically recognize a physical remote or a device that the remote serves using computer vision techniques. The wearable system can generate a virtual remote with a virtual control panel viewable and interactable by user of the wearable system. The virtual remote can emulate the functionality of the physical remote. The user can select a virtual remote for interaction, for example, by looking or pointing at the parent device or its remote control, or by selecting from a menu of known devices. The virtual remote may include a virtual button, which is associated with a volume in the physical space. The wearable system can detect that a virtual button is actuated by determining whether a portion of the user's body (e.g., the user's finger) has penetrated the volume associated with the virtual button.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, John Adam Croston
  • Publication number: 20230221453
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for a method that utilizes the azimuthally spaced receivers of a sonic logging tool. Signals from monopole and dipole sources are reflected from the geologic interfaces and recorded by arrays of receivers of the same tool. For the incident P-waves from the monopole source, phase arrival times for the azimuthal receivers are compensated for stacking using properties of wave propagation in the borehole, and for the incident SH-waves from the dipole source, signs of waveforms for the receivers are changed for specified azimuths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Hirabayashi, Yevgeniy Karpekin, Nicholas Norman Bennett, John Adam Donald, Asbjoern Lund Johansen, Takeshi Endo
  • Patent number: 11684156
    Abstract: A drawer assembly for an appliance includes a front drawer guide fixed to a frame of the appliance including a front slide, the front slide defining a first sliding surface and a first receiving channel, a drawer body in slidable contact with the front drawer guide, and a rear drawer guide coupled to the drawer body, the rear drawer guide including a hook and a rear slide provided over the hook along the vertical direction, the rear slide defining a second sliding surface and a second receiving channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lydia Stempky, John Adam Yantis
  • Patent number: 11658902
    Abstract: A first router generates session establishment metrics for use in network path selection. For example, a plurality of routers connect a client device to a network service instance hosted by a server. A first router is connected to the network service instance via first and second paths. The first router receives session performance requirements for a session between the client device and the network service instance. The first router forwards, along the first path, network traffic for the session by modifying a first packet of the session to include a session identifier for the session. The first router determines that session establishment metrics for the session do not satisfy the session performance requirements. In response, the first router forwards, along the second path, the network traffic for the session by modifying a second packet of the session to include the session identifier for the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Juniper Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Baj, Patrick J. MeLampy, Ryan Koss, Kaushik Adesh Agrawal, Abilash Menon, Michael John Adams, Sarah V. Jaffer
  • Patent number: 11591139
    Abstract: A lid for an insulated container comprises a flexible gasket configured to facilitate a seal between the lid and an inner wall of the insulated container, and further configured to expand into an interior compartment of the insulated container responsive to a vacuum developing in the interior compartment. A diaphragm chamber is situated opposite the flexible gasket from the interior compartment when the lid is fully engaged with the insulated container. One or more air channels couple the diaphragm chamber to an exterior of the lid. The development of a vacuum in the interior compartment of the insulated container draws a force on the flexible gasket, thereby reducing pressure in the diaphragm chamber. The negative pressure in diaphragm chamber is back-filled with external air, which enters the lid via the air channels. The lid may then be removed without excessive vacuum forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: KLEAN KANTEEN, INC.
    Inventors: Richard John Adams, Jr., Joshua James Birkle, James M. Osgood
  • Publication number: 20230021635
    Abstract: A dynamic active control system (DACS) configured for: (1) total vessel pitch axis control by fast symmetric deployment of water engagement devices (WEDs) or controllers, coupled with engine trim adjustments; (2) total roll and heading control by differentially deploying WEDs to counter rolling motions while simultaneously adjusting engine steering position to counter the steering moment associated with WED delta position; and (3) adjustment of the engine steering angle to counter yaw moments produced by gyroscopic stabilization systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Gallagher, Andrew Semprevivo, John Adams
  • Patent number: 11528602
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for transferring application data. In one aspect, a method includes causing, by a first component on a first device to establish a wireless connection with a second device; receiving, from a second component on the second device, data specifying one or more applications that are installed on the second device and supported by the second component, each of the applications being separate from the second component; determining, by the first component, that a first application installed on the first device matches one of the applications installed on the second device, the first application being separate from the first component; receiving, by the first component, first application data from the first application; and causing, by the first component, the first device to send the first application data to the second component running on the second device using the wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Vincent Wei-Kang Chen, Paul Lee, Gregory M. Hecht, Erdi Chen, Jenny Chun-yi Chen, Marina-Ines Carrera, Estelle Laure Myriam Comment, Eric Chu, Peter Jin Hong, Christopher John Adams, Lucas Gill Dixon
  • Patent number: 11527064
    Abstract: 2D and 3D data of a scene are linked by associating points in the 3D data with corresponding points in multiple different 2D images within the 2D data. Labels assigned to points in either data can be propagated to the other data. Labels propagated to a point in the 3D data are aggregated, and the labels ranked highest are kept and propagated back to the 2D images. 3D data including labels produced in this manner allow partially obscured objects in certain views to be more accurately identified. Thus, an object can be manipulated in all 2D views of the 2D data in which the object is at least partially visible, in order to digitally remove, alter, or replace it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: REscan, Inc.
    Inventors: John Adam Croston, Teja Yerramsetty, Botond Bognar, Donald L Alvarez
  • Publication number: 20220378246
    Abstract: Apparatus for making treats having wafer shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: John Joseph Zarro, Michael John Adams
  • Publication number: 20220357047
    Abstract: A method for allowing opening of a first door pane with respect to a second door pane of a multi-pane door assembly of an oven appliance includes receiving, via a controller, one or more safety conditions relating to the oven appliance. The method also includes determining, via the controller, whether the one or more safety conditions correspond to one or more predetermined safety conditions. Further, the method includes allowing, via the controller, opening of the first door pane with respect to the second door pane of the multi-pane door assembly to provide access to a space between the first and second door panes only upon satisfaction of the one or more safety conditions corresponding to the one or more predetermined safety conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: John Adam Yantis, Daniel Ian Moore
  • Publication number: 20220357046
    Abstract: A door assembly includes an inner door panel and an outer door panel pivotable with respect to the inner door panel, the inner door panel including a latch base. The outer door panel includes a handle assembly including a handle endcap, a handle body rotatable with respect to the handle endcap, and a latch bar connected with the handle body, the latch bar being detachably coupled to the latch base. The outer door panel is rotatable with respect to the inner door panel, such that the outer door panel can be rotated away from the inner door panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Ian Moore, John Adam Yantis
  • Publication number: 20220357106
    Abstract: A multi-pane door assembly for an oven appliance includes a door having first and second door panes. The first door pane is secured to the second door pane at a hinge point and is rotatable with respect to the second door pane between open and closed positions. As such, the door panes define a space therebetween when the first door pane is in the closed position. The door assembly also includes an engagement device for securing the door panes together, a locking mechanism for locking the engagement device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the actuating device. The locking mechanism includes, at least, a locking member and an actuating device. Thus, the controller is configured to receive one or more safety conditions relating to the oven appliance and select whether to engage or disengage the actuating device based on whether the safety condition(s) correspond to the predetermined safety condition(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Ian Moore, John Adam Yantis
  • Publication number: 20220361329
    Abstract: A method includes providing a layer of non-conductive material having a conductive electroplating seed layer formed on a surface thereof; applying a photoresist layer over the surface of the conductive electroplating seed layer; and defining wiring channels in the photoresist resist layer. The method includes electroplating a conductive material in the defined wiring channels; adhering a non-conductive layer over the photoresist layer and the plated conductive material in the wiring channels; and removing the layer of non-conductive material and the conductive electroplating seed layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: Microchip Technology Caldicot Limited
    Inventors: John Adam Tracy deMercleden Smithells, Nina Biddle
  • Patent number: 11468018
    Abstract: A cloud-native global file system is augmented to include a file exporter (or, more generally, a file export tool) that facilitates an enterprise customer's use of a cloud-native tool that would otherwise be unable to operate against the global file system's underlying file system representation. In a typical use case, the file exporter is configured to extract in a native object format and to an unencrypted target (e.g., an S3 bucket, an Azure storage account, and the like) all or a portion of a volume's data from the underlying file system representation. In this manner, the exporter creates a copy of the data set that the enterprise user can then leverage against the desired cloud-native tool or other cloud services that are not under the management or control of the global file system service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Nasuni Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Andrew Neufeld, Max Picard Perry, John Adam Carter
  • Patent number: 11457737
    Abstract: A drawer glide includes a main body, the main body including a base which defines an X-axis and a Y-axis perpendicular to the X-axis, and a front face extending from the base along a Z-axis perpendicular to the X-axis and the Y-axis; and a slide extension extending from the base along the Z-axis, the slide extension located at a rear of the base distal the front face. The slide extension extends in an opposite direction along the Z-axis from the front face, and the slide extension defines a hook including a first tab extending along the X-axis and a second tab extending along the Z-axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Haler US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Lydia Stempky, John Adam Yantis
  • Publication number: 20220288730
    Abstract: A system and method for drilling a hole in a vehicle structure and installing a fastener in the hole. A drill plate having openings and associated machine-readable elements is positioned on the structure. A drill gun is positioned in a particular opening and reads hole information from the associated element, and a computer determines whether the drill gun is properly set-up to drill the hole. A fastener insertion gun is positioned in the particular opening and reads fastener information from the element, and the computer determines whether the hole has been drilled and, if so, whether the fastener insertion gun is properly set-up to insert the fastener. A fastener delivery subsystem stores, tracks, and delivers fasteners to the fastener insertion gun. A system computer monitors the drilling of every hole, the insertion of every fastener, and the overall operation of the fastener delivery subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew R. Schroeder, Todd B. Jaramillo, John Adam Price, John Robert Dye, III, Kaleb Aaron Kimball
  • Publication number: 20220287459
    Abstract: A drawer glide includes a main body, the main body including a base which defines an X-axis and a Y-axis perpendicular to the X-axis, and a front face extending from the base along a Z-axis perpendicular to the X-axis and the Y-axis; and a slide extension extending from the base along the Z-axis, the slide extension located at a rear of the base distal the front face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Lydia Stempky, John Adam Yantis
  • Patent number: 11432563
    Abstract: A method of making sugar cone spheres is disclosed having an interior of an edible filling such as ice cream or frozen yoghurt encapsulated by a wafer. The method includes: baking a wafer dough mix on a heated waffle iron to produce a wafer, shaping the wafer into a shape by placing the wafer between an outer mold and an inner half mold and pressing the outer mold against the inner mold, cutting the wafer at a perimeter of the shape to produce a half-molded wafer shell, adding an edible filling to a cavity of the half-molded wafer shell, adding another edible filling to a cavity of another half-molded wafer shell, joining a perimeter of the half-molded wafer shell and a perimeter of the other half-molded wafer shell, and freezing the half-molded wafer shell and the other half-molded wafer shell together to produce a bite-size edible treat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventors: John Joseph Zarro, Michael John Adams
  • Patent number: 11432402
    Abstract: A lamination circuit board structure lamination circuit board structure includes a printed circuit board substrate including conductive wiring traces on at least a first wiring face, a prepreg layer formed over the first wiring face, and a patch having an area smaller than 1,000 mm2. The patch includes conductive wiring traces formed on a wiring face and is laminated to the printed circuit board substrate over the prepreg layer, oriented with the wiring face in contact with and pressed into the prepreg layer. Portions of the prepreg layer fill interstices between the conductive wiring traces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Microchip Technology Caldicot Limited
    Inventors: John Adam Tracy deMercleden Smithells, Nina Biddle