Patents by Inventor John C. Blackwood

John C. Blackwood 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: 11966853
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for receiving a request for lookalike data, the request for lookalike data comprising seed data and generating sample data from the seed data and from user data for a plurality of users, to use in a lookalike model training. The systems and methods further provide for capturing a snapshot of social graph data for a plurality of users and computing social graph features based on the seed data and the user data for the plurality of users, training a lookalike model based on the sample data and the computed social graph features to generate a trained lookalike model, generating a lookalike score for each user of the plurality of users in the user data using the trained lookalike model, and generating a list comprising a unique identifier for each user of the plurality of users and an associated lookalike score for each unique identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: John Cain Blackwood, Jason Brewer, Nima Khajehnouri, Hadi Minooei, Benjamin C. Steele, Qian You
  • Patent number: 4018333
    Abstract: Metal fastener sticks wherein the individual fastening elements, such as staples, on the stick are secured together by a radiation cross-linked polymer, and which metal fastener stick is prepared by: coating the metal fastener stick with a solventless, radiation -curable, polymeric composition, such as an ultraviolet-curable formulation of an unsaturated resin, a monomer and a photo initiator; and curing the composition by exposing the composition to radiation, such as ultraviolet radiation, to provide a metal fastener stick wherein the individual fastener elements are secured together in the stick through the radiation cross-linked polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1977
    Assignee: Stepan Chemical Company
    Inventor: John C. Blackwood