Patents by Inventor Lee A. Smith

Lee A. Smith 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: 11986656
    Abstract: A cochlear implant including a cochlear lead, an antenna, a stimulation processor, and a magnet apparatus, associated with the antenna, including a case defining a central axis, a magnet frame within the case and rotatable about the central axis of the case, and a plurality of elongate diametrically magnetized magnets that are located in the magnet frame, the magnets defining a longitudinal axis and a N-S direction and being freely rotatable about the longitudinal axis relative to the magnet frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Advanced Bionics AG
    Inventors: Sung Jin Lee, Jeryle L. Walter, James George Elcoate Smith, Uli Gommel, Stephanie M. Reed
  • Publication number: 20240159046
    Abstract: A reflective particulate material includes a particulate substrate having high total solar reflectance, bulk and apparent densities and toughness, and a low dust index. The reflective particulate can have a total solar reflectance of 80% to 87%, a toughness of 1% or fewer fines, an apparent density of 2.75 g/cm3 or greater, and a dust index of 1 or lower. A method of manufacturing the reflective particulate material includes preparing a slurry of the particulate substrate, spray drying the slurry to form a spray dried particulate, crushing the spray dried particulate to form a crushed particulate, and heating/calcining the crushed particulate. The heated, crushed particulate may further be coated to form a coated roofing granule.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventor: Rocky Lee Smith
  • Publication number: 20240156145
    Abstract: This present disclosure provides reliable methods and apparatus for delivering a pharmaceutical active ingredient to an edible substrate. In some examples, the pharmaceutical active ingredient is delivered to voids that are formed in the edible substrate. The voids can then be closed as desired. The edible substrate can be configured as a food product or a dosage form as desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: William Warren, Walter Lee Smith
  • Publication number: 20240150491
    Abstract: The invention provides anti-KLK7 antibodies, anti-KLK5 antibodies, anti-KLK5/KLK7 multispecific antibodies, and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: James Thomas KOERBER, Wyne Pun LEE, Tangsheng YI, Juan ZHANG, Cary Dean AUSTIN, Cecilia P.C. CHIU, Joseph Edward CHAVARRIA-SMITH, Jawahar SUDHAMSU
  • Patent number: 11974146
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example generating, by a first Core Intelligent Controller (CIC) comprising a first processing system including a first processor, first data indicative of one or more first control functions that have been carried out by the first CIC, the first CIC being part of a wireless communication system; communicating, by the first CIC to a Service Intelligent Controller (SIC) comprising a second processing system including a second processor, the first data, the SIC being part of the wireless communication system; generating, by a first RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) comprising a third processing system including a third processor, second data indicative of one or more first radio access functions that have been carried out by the first RIC, the first RIC being part of the wireless communication system; communicating, by the first RIC to the SIC, the second data; generating, by the SIC, third data, the generating of the third data being based at least in part upon
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Zhi Cui, Bo Lee, Paul Edward Smith, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20240116972
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with 6-aza-nucleoside prodrugs that are capable of inhibiting a viral infection and methods of treating viral infections such as, for example, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), human papillomavirus (HPV), chicken pox, infectious mononucleosis, mumps, measles, rubella, shingles, ebola, viral gastroenteritis, viral hepatitis, viral meningitis, human metapneumovirus, human parainfluenza virus type 1, parainfluenza virus type 2, parainfluenza virus type 3, respiratory syncytial virus, viral pneumonia, yellow fever virus, tick-borne encephalitis virus, Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Venezuelan equine encephalitis (VEEV), Eastern equine encephalitis (EEEV), Western equine encephalitis (WEEV), dengue (DENV), influenza, West Nile virus (WNV), zika (ZIKV), Middle East Respiratory Syndromes (MERS), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), using these compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Omar Moukha-Chafiq, Ashish Kumar Pathak, Shuklendu D. Karyakarte, Larry D. Bratton, Corinne E. Augelli-Szafran, Michael Diamond, Pei Yong Shi, Alec Jay Hirsch, Jessica Lee Smith, Daniel Streblow, Nicole Haese, Baoling Ying
  • Patent number: 11948185
    Abstract: A method being implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors. The method can include determining a primary store and one or more secondary stores for pickup of an order of a user, based at least in part on a pickup type of the order. The method also can include determining real-time availabilities of first time slots at the primary store and real-time availabilities of second time slots at the one or more secondary stores. The method additionally can include generating a list of available time slots comprising at least a portion of the first time slots at the primary store and at least a portion of the second time slots at the one or more secondary stores, based at least in part on the real-time availabilities of the first time slots at the primary store and the real-time availabilities of the second time slots at the one or more secondary stores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vineet Wason, Mihir Vijay Bendale, Vidyanand Krishnan, Navkaran Singh Chadha, Puneet Srivastava, Yiren Ye, Nitish Sarin, Avaneesh Tiwari, Zekariyas Kassa Gebru, Rohit Jain, Surnaik Srivastava
  • Publication number: 20240105346
    Abstract: A message processing facility is described. The facility receives user input defining a textual message intended for an addressee service principal. Before sending the defined textual message, the facility analyzes the defined textual message to determine a textual message category to which the defined textual message belongs among a plurality of textual message categories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Wayne T. Foley, Adam Benjamin Smith-Kipnis, Lisa Dione Mason, Billy Lee Jackson, Syneva Runyan, Ryan Alexander Untalan, Yoomi Robin Kang
  • Patent number: 11941577
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving, from one or more electronic devices of one or more users, one or more orders for pickup at a location during a first window of time; at a first time during the first window of time, determining when a designated pickup area at the location exceeds a predetermined level of congestion using: (1) continuously received mobile check-ins at the location; and (2) congestion data of the designated pickup area at the location; and when the designated pickup area at the location does not exceed the predetermined level of congestion during the first window of time, as determined at the first time, causing a pickup electronic device of a pickup to display a pickup request at the location to fulfill at least one order of the one or more orders during the first window of time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener
  • Patent number: 11938738
    Abstract: In some examples, an apparatus can include a syringe body including an electrical interface at a side surface of the syringe body, an interface at an end of the syringe body including an output at a distal surface of the syringe body, a print material particles reservoir located in the syringe body, and a structure to adapt a volume of the print material particles reservoir to move print material particles out of the print material particles reservoir through the output, where in response to the volume adapting structure moving from a first position to a second position, a signal is transmitted by the electrical interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Andrew P. Chick, Kenneth K. Smith, Jiwon Moon, Minul Lee, Matthew James Storey, An Tran, Bennett Alexander Nadeau, Zackary Thomas Hickman
  • Publication number: 20240095641
    Abstract: A dashboard capable of extracting skills in jobs and analyzing those skills for other jobs is disclosed. It utilizes multiple API and datasets from across the world that continue to update over time, showing the current description regardless of location or region. This gives the user the best information possible to identify what jobs within the company have the easiest chance to transition into another job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Aaron Lee Smith
  • Publication number: 20240092423
    Abstract: A lightweight vehicle includes a pair of rear wheel assemblies, one or more front wheel assemblies, a universal assembly platform, and forward facing seating. The universal assembly platform includes a planar main vehicle chassis, a front suspension system connected to the planar main vehicle chassis and to which the one or more front wheel assemblies is mounted, and a rear suspension system connected to the planar main vehicle chassis and to which the pair of rear wheel assemblies is mounted. A front distal end of the one or more front wheel assemblies is longitudinally forward of a front end of the planar main vehicle chassis. The forward facing seating is mounted to the planar main vehicle chassis such that a portion of a seat bottom of the forward facing seating is located longitudinally rearward of an axis extending through a center of the pair of rear wheel assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, JR., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
  • Publication number: 20240093587
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for trapping particles disposed in a fluid. The apparatus may comprise one or more cavities disposed axially along a length of a tubular housing, one or more connecting components disposed at opposing ends of the housing, and may optionally comprise a check valve system. Alternate embodiments are provided for forming each of the one or more cavities, which may comprise a combination of a cavity frame and cavity surface. The method may comprise flowing a fluid into a first end of a particle trap apparatus at a rate of fluid flow, directing the fluid flow at least partially through one or more cavity sub-assemblies disposed in the particle trap apparatus, collecting the particulate matter in one or more of the cavity sub-assemblies when the rate of fluid flow may slow or become suspended, and clearing collected particles from the one or more cavity sub-assemblies upon restoration of fluid flow in a primary direction of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: PetroQuip Energy Services, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Joe Coon, Roddie R. Smith, John Lee Emerson, Josh Hornsby
  • Patent number: D1022129
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: R.W. Beckett Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher Allen Fildes, Jeffrey Robert Traczek, Duane Lee Wilson, Wilbert Edward Meibuhr, Brian Paul Smith
  • Patent number: D1026536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
    Inventors: Eric Schultz, Mark Cammarota, Kelly T. Gamble, Edward Gilchrest, Frank von Holzhausen, Scott Smith, Lee Marchetti, Craig Bures, Andrew Krystinik
  • Patent number: D1026537
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
    Inventors: Eric Schultz, Mark Cammarota, Kelly T. Gamble, Edward Gilchrest, Frank von Holzhausen, Scott Smith, Lee Marchetti, Craig Bures, Andrew Krystinik
  • Patent number: D1026538
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
    Inventors: Eric Schultz, Mark Cammarota, Kelly T. Gamble, Edward Gilchrest, Frank von Holzhausen, Scott Smith, Lee Marchetti, Craig Bures, Andrew Krystinik
  • Patent number: D1026539
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
    Inventors: Eric Schultz, Mark Cammarota, Kelly T. Gamble, Edward Gilchrest, Frank von Holzhausen, Scott Smith, Lee Marchetti, Craig Bures, Andrew Krystinik
  • Patent number: D1026540
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: INSINKERATOR LLC
    Inventors: Eric Schultz, Mark Cammarota, Kelly T. Gamble, Edward Gilchrest, Frank Von Holzhausen, Scott Smith, Lee Marchetti, Craig Bures, Andrew Krystinik
  • Patent number: D1028245
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Avive Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Joseph Smith, Chloe Rekow Georgiades, Gordon Moseley P. Andrews, Rory M. Beyer, Sameer Jafri, Eliza Tehan, Stephanie Lee, Alexis De Stasio, Yoshikazu Hoshino, Gad Amit, Priscilla M. Agosto Mercado, Randal J. Bertuccelli