Patents by Inventor John Edwards

John Edwards 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: 11949395
    Abstract: Embodiments herein describe a hardened fractional resampler that includes a fixed filter that supports simultaneous processing of N input samples with minimal additional combinational logic and no additional multipliers. In one embodiment, the fractional resampler is implemented in an integrated circuit using hardened circuit. The embodiments below exploit a pattern in the order filter phases in fractional resampling systems (such as a SSR resampling system) to use filter phases in a single fixed filter to process multiple input samples in parallel, where these filter phases would have been unused in previous resampling systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventors: Rhona Wade, John Edward McGrath
  • Patent number: 11946571
    Abstract: A temporary pipeline protection apparatus. The apparatus includes a cylindrical sleeve having a pair of halves, each of the halves having a pair of opposed edges parallel to an axis of the cylindrical sleeve. A first edge of each pair of edges of the halves are connected together by at least one hinge assembly configured to move among a closed position, an installation and removal position, and a shipping and transportation position. A latch is configured to close the cylindrical sleeve at a second edge of each of the edges when in the closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Allan John Edwards, IV
  • Patent number: 11945021
    Abstract: A needle bending assembly configured to at least temporarily contain a needle can include a first housing section, a second housing section, and a coupling element coupled between the first housing section and the second housing section. The first housing section defines a first cavity configured to at least temporarily contain a first section of the needle. The second housing section defines a second cavity configured to at least temporarily contain a second section of the needle forming a distal tip. The coupling element is configured such that when the needle is contained within the housing sections, movement of the second housing section relative to the first housing section results in a bending of the needle at a location corresponding to the coupling element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BendRx, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Edward Parazynski, John Spiegel Michels, Jr., Jeffrey William Bull, Roy Melling
  • Patent number: 11944242
    Abstract: A scrubbing tool for cleaning a surface that has a handle for holding by a user in a cleaning operation. The handle has a first connector. The scrubbing tool also has a cleaning head having a second connector configured to mate with the first connector in order to attach the cleaning head to the handle in an engaged position. The cleaning head is comprised entirely of a material configured to dissolve in water and has a cleaning agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SCRUB DADDY, INC.
    Inventors: John Edward Lee O'Brien, Aaron C Krause, Aleksandrs Titovs, Joe M Vaccaro
  • Patent number: 11949654
    Abstract: Techniques for distributed offload leveraging different offload devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for distributed offload leveraging different offload devices includes receiving a flow at a firewall of a security service (e.g., a cloud-based security service); inspecting the flow at the firewall to determine meta information associated with the flow; and offloading the flow to an offload entity (e.g., a SmartNIC, software executed on a Network Interface Card (NIC), and/or a network device, such as a network router and/or network switch) based on the meta information associated with the flow (e.g., an application identification associated with the flow determined using deep packet inspection) and based on a policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: John Edward McDowall, James Sugg, Charles Bransi
  • Patent number: 11949189
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald
  • Patent number: 11950241
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure provide a self-contained subframe structure for time division duplex (TDD) carriers. Information transmitted on a TDD carrier may be grouped into subframes, and each subframe can provide communications in both directions (e.g., uplink and downlink) to enable such communications without needing further information in another subframe. In one aspect of the disclosure, a single subframe may include scheduling information, data transmission corresponding to the scheduling information, and acknowledgment packets corresponding to the data transmission. Furthermore, the subframe may additionally include a header and/or a trailer to provide certain bi-directional communications functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Tingfang Ji, Naga Bhushan, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Peter Gaal, John Edward Smee, Jing Jiang
  • Patent number: 11948215
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system may include an additive manufacturing platform that provides additive manufacturing capability data. A customer platform, associated with a customer, may transmit an industrial asset item request for an industrial asset item. A digital transaction engine may receive the additive manufacturing capability data and the industrial asset item request. The digital transaction engine may then associate the industrial asset item request with an industrial asset definition file, and, based on the additive manufacturing capability data and the industrial asset definition file, assign the industrial asset item request to the additive manufacturing platform. The assignment of the industrial asset item request may be recorded via a secure, distributed transaction ledger. Responsive to the assignment, the additive manufacturing platform may create the industrial asset item (e.g., via an additive manufacturing printer) and provide the item to the customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Joseph Salvo, Benjamin Edward Beckmann, John William Carbone
  • Publication number: 20240099703
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system, method, and non-transitory computer readable media for an ultrasound probe configured to capture ultrasound images of an examination region. The system includes a first set of one or more sensors coupled to the ultrasound probe and configured to estimate a first positional information associated with the ultrasound probe. The system includes a second set of one or more sensors coupled to the ultrasound probe and configured to capture electromagnetic force (EMF) measurements in the examination region to estimate a second positional information associated with the ultrasound probe. The second positional information is used to calibrate the first set of one or more sensors. The system includes a controller configured to use at least one of (i) the first positional information, or (ii) the second positional information to generate a reconstruction of the examination region based on ultrasound images captured by the ultrasound probe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander Martin Zoellner, Daniel Edward Rosenfeld, Ashley Quinn Swartz, John Paul Issa, Joseph Hollis Sargent, Ningrui Li, Phillip Yee, Ulrich Niemann, Qianyu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11939259
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to coated glass articles which reduce glass particle formation caused by glass to glass contact in pharmaceutical glass filling lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: John Frederick Bayne, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Theresa Chang, Steven Edward DeMartino, Andrei Gennadyevich Fadeev, Kyle Christopher Hoff, Jamie Lynne Morley, Santona Pal, John Stephen Peanasky, Chandan Kumar Saha, Christopher Lee Timmons
  • Patent number: 11939086
    Abstract: A fuel tank comprises an interior wall, a sump, and a baffle that comprises a center fitting, a full-length containment petal, a partial-length containment petal, a dump tube. The full-length containment petal comprises a full-length side edge, extending radially outward from the center fitting. The partial-length containment petal comprises a partial-length side edge, extending radially outward from the center fitting. The dump tube is connected to the sump. The full-length side edge of the full-length containment petal is longer than the partial-length side edge of the partial-length containment petal. All of the partial-length side edge of the partial-length containment petal is attached to a linear portion of the full-length side edge of the full-length containment petal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Jonathan David Embler, Tin Anh Luu, Morgan Ashley Lewis, John Matthew Nichols, Keith Charles Kreutztrager, Chinh Manh Cao, Jonathan Edward Toomey, Martin Edward Lozano, Alfredo Lopez
  • Patent number: 11939321
    Abstract: The invention provides a compound of formula (0): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, N-oxide or tautomer thereof; wherein: n is 1 or 2; X is CH or N; Y is selected from CH and C—F; Z is selected from C—Rz and N; R1 is selected from: -(Alk1)t-Cyc1; wherein t is 0 or 1; Optionally substituted C1-6 acyclic hydrocarbon groups R2 is selected from hydrogen; halogen; and C1-3 hydrocarbon groups optionally substituted with one or more fluorine atoms; R3 is hydrogen or a group L1-R7; R4 is selected from hydrogen; methoxy; and optionally substituted C1-3 alkyl; and R4a is selected from hydrogen and a C1-3 alkyl group; wherein Rz, Alk1, Cyc1, L1 and R7 are defined herein; provided that the compound is other than 6-benzyl-3-{2-[(2-methylpyrimidin-4-yl)amino]pyridin-4-yl}-7,8-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-5(6H)-one and 3-{2-[(2-methylpyrimidin-4-yl)amino]pyridin-4-yl}-7,8-dihydro-1,6-naphthyridin-5(6H)-one and salts and tautomers thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Valerio Berdini, Ildiko Maria Buck, James Edward Harvey Day, Charlotte Mary Griffiths-Jones, Thomas Daniel Heightman, Steven Howard, Christopher William Murray, David Norton, Marc O'Reilly, Alison Jo-Anne Woolford, Michael Liam Cooke, David Cousin, Stuart Thomas Onions, Jonathan Martin Shannon, John Paul Watts
  • Patent number: 11941650
    Abstract: Systems and methods for model evaluation. A protected class model that satisfies an accuracy threshold is built by using: data sets for use by a modeling system being evaluated, and protected class membership information for each data set. A target for the protected class model is a protected class membership variable indicating membership in a protected class. Each predictor of the protected class model is a predictor of an evaluated model used by the modeling system. A target of the evaluated model is different from the target of the protected class model. Each predictor is a set of one or more variables of the data sets. For each predictor of the protected class model, a protected class model impact ranking value and a modeling system impact ranking value are determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZestFinance, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Merrill, Michael Edward Ruberry, Ozan Sayin, Bojan Tunguz, Lin Song, Esfandiar Alizadeh, Melanie Eunique DeBruin, Yachen Yan, Derek Wilcox, John Candido, Benjamin Anthony Solecki, Jiahuan He, Jerome Louis Budzik, Sean Javad Kamkar
  • Patent number: 11940276
    Abstract: An inertial point-source matter-wave atom interferometer gyroscope includes an analyzer that receives fringe images of gyroscope atoms and includes: a first fringe image that includes a first fringe phase, a second fringe image that includes a second fringe phase; and a third fringe image that includes a third fringe phase, wherein the first fringe phase, the second fringe phase, and the third fringe phase are different; a phase mapper of the analyzer that produces a interferometric phase map for the gyroscope atoms from the fringe images of the gyroscope atoms; and a fitter of the analyzer in communication with the phase mapper and that receives the interferometric phase map from the analyzer and determines inertial parameters of the gyroscope atoms from the interferometric phase map, the inertial parameters including an acceleration and a rotation rate of the inertial point-source matter-wave atom interferometer gyroscope relative to the gyroscope atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
    Inventors: John Edward Kitching, Elizabeth Ann Donley, Azure Lynn Hansen, Yun-Jhih Chen
  • Patent number: 11941151
    Abstract: Selectively masking data in messages is provided. A masking expression is retrieved from a schema. The masking expression corresponds to a particular attribute within related messages generated by a producer application and sent to an immutable datastore for consumption by a consumer application of the computer that is registered to receive the messages related to a particular topic from the immutable datastore. A particular attribute value is masked only in those messages received from the immutable datastore that contain the particular attribute value during a time period when the particular attribute value is associated with the masking expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alfredo V. Mendoza, John Edward Martin, Pradeep P. Mansey, Ana Maria Giordano
  • Patent number: 11941066
    Abstract: A central database system provides predictive web navigation using machine learning and clustering to guide a user to a web page. After tracking a number of web pages viewed by various users on one or more web domains and the orders in which these web pages are viewed, the central database system can train a model to predict which web page a user is likely to view next. If the user is lost while navigating, the central database system may guide the user to the predicted web page. In one example of guidance, the central database system presents a web element with a hyperlink to the predicted web page. For example, the central database system can modify a web page that the lost user is presently viewing to include an iframe with a recommendation to travel to a different web page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZENPAYROLL, INC.
    Inventors: John Edward Schlerf, Nicholas Lee Gaylord, Melanie Manguin
  • Publication number: 20240094232
    Abstract: A method and device for handling supports which support biological cell cultures or auxiliary agents for treatment of biological cell cultures, using one or more modules, at least one of which is a handling device. Each one of a plurality of supports rests with its edges on support elements, and, depending on the type of supports or the type of auxiliary means supported thereby, the supports require different storage heights, some of which are greater than one or more times a standardized vertical spacing of the support elements. The supports have an information carrier, the information of which can be read by a reading device and can be evaluated by a computing device. For optimal use of the compartments of the storage device, the information contains details about the storage height of the support in question and the handling of the supports is performed using these details.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Clemente GILLIGAN, Kenneth B. K. TEO, John Edward CONNAH, David Anthony BULLINARIA
  • Publication number: 20240094007
    Abstract: An Augmented Reality (AR) wayfinder tracks the current location of a user within an indoor location relative to a path defined through the indoor location for the user. The path is broken into segments, each segment is a straight line between two nodes, and each node represents either a starting point in the path, a turn along the path, or an ending point in the path. As the user traverses the path, a remaining distance between the user device and the next node in the path is calculated. An AR object with attributes that correlate to the remaining distance to the next node is blended into and superimposed into a video that the user is viewing through the user device of the physical environment as the user travels along the path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: John Edward Haney, Ryan Scott Elliott, Kip Oliver Morgan, Kelli Lee
  • Publication number: 20240091103
    Abstract: According to embodiments, a coated pharmaceutical container may include a pharmaceutical container comprising an interior surface and an exterior surface, wherein the pharmaceutical container may include a glass composition that has Class HGA1 hydrolytic resistance when tested according to the ISO 720 testing standard. The coated pharmaceutical container may further include a coating bonded to at least a portion of the exterior surface but not on any portion of the interior surface. The coating may have a coefficient of friction less than or equal to 0.7, and the coated pharmaceutical container may be thermally stable after heating at a temperature of at least 260° C. for a time period of 30 minutes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Andrei Gennadyevich Fadeev, Theresa Chang, Dana Craig Bookbinder, Santona Pal, Chandan Kumar Saha, Steven Edward DeMartino, Christopher Lee Timmons, John Stephen Peanasky
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    Patent number: D1020395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Kyle Edward Rogers, John Fritz, Jeffrey Charles Munie