Patents by Inventor Mark Bell
Mark Bell 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: 11939945Abstract: A wave energy capture system deployed in water converts mechanical motion induced by waves in the water to electrical energy. A controller of the wave energy capture system receives input regarding real-time wave conditions in a vicinity of the wave energy capture system. The controller applies a control model to the received input to select a value of a control parameter for the wave energy capture system, where the control model includes a model that has been trained using machine learning to take wave condition data as input and to output control parameter values selected based on the wave condition data in order to increase an amount of energy captured by the wave energy capture system. The controller implements the selected value of the control parameter on the wave energy capture system.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: OCEAN MOTION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Alexander J. Orona, Boyang Pan, Leverett Bezanson, Paul Glick, Justin Walraven, Mark Huang, Nathaniel Bell
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Publication number: 20240046280Abstract: A carbon accounting system including a data receiving arrangement configured to receive energy data from an energy data collection apparatus; a data aggregation processor configured to aggregate the energy data with other energy data to form aggregated energy data; and a data communicator configured to transfer the aggregated energy data to a blockchain platform. The blockchain platform is configured to share the aggregated energy data and perform carbon accounting on a blockchain. Carbon emissions may be calculated and the energy data may be collected in real-time. The energy data collection apparatus may include a smart meter. The blockchain platform may be configured to automatically convert Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) into Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs). An exemplary method of accounting for carbon emissions is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Mark Bell, Thatcher Young, John Scarborough
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Publication number: 20240028045Abstract: Vehicles, systems, and methods for navigating or tracking the navigation of a materials handling vehicle along a surface that may include a camera and vehicle functions to match two-dimensional image information from camera data associated with the input image of overhead features with a plurality of global target locations of a warehouse map to generate a plurality of candidate optical targets, an optical target associated with each global target location and a code; filter the targets to determine a candidate optical target; decode the target to identify the associated code; identify an optical target associated with the identified code; determine a camera metric relative to the identified optical target and the position and orientation of the identified optical target in the warehouse map; calculate a vehicle pose based on the camera metric; and navigate the materials handling vehicle utilizing the vehicle pose.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Ralf Haeusler, Stuart Park, Mark Bell
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Patent number: 11815905Abstract: Vehicles, systems, and methods for navigating or tracking the navigation of a materials handling vehicle along a surface that may include a camera and vehicle functions to match two-dimensional image information from camera data associated with the input image of overhead features with a plurality of global target locations of a warehouse map to generate a plurality of candidate optical targets, an optical target associated with each global target location and a code; filter the targets to determine a candidate optical target; decode the target to identify the associated code; identify an optical target associated with the identified code; determine a camera metric relative to the identified optical target and the position and orientation of the identified optical target in the warehouse map; calculate a vehicle pose based on the camera metric; and navigate the materials handling vehicle utilizing the vehicle pose.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Ralf Haeusler, Stuart Park, Mark Bell
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Patent number: 11748380Abstract: Data processing techniques are described to obtain user data previously collected when a user is requested to complete application forms associated with multiple servers. The application forms may include some fields that may be in common and that may request the same user data. For each application form requested by the user, the data processing techniques can identify and obtain the relevant previously collected data about the user for the application form. The application form for a product can have certain fields that may be pre-filled based on the relevant and/or non-confidential previously collected user data. The data processing techniques can also provide an estimate of the time that may be needed by the user to complete at least one application form so that the user can obtain a requested product.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Christopher James Waful, Brennen Michael Ricks, Kathryn Babb, Curtis Mark Bell
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Patent number: 11741447Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises a server for enabling automatic shopping. The server may associate a shopping cart with a customer's electronic user device. The server may monitor the locations of the electronic user device. Based on the customer's location, the server may identify the shelves and items the customer has visited. When an item is lifted from the shelf, at least one weight sensor on the shelf may detect the weight change. The server may receive a notification comprising an amount of weight change from the weight sensor on the shelf. When the customer places the item into his/her shopping cart, the weight sensor on the shopping cart may detect the weight addition. If the weight change and weight addition match, the analytic server may determine that the item picked up from the shelf is placed within the customer's shopping cart.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Cory A. Matheson, Curtis Mark Bell, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Nathan Lee Post, Noe Alberto Martinez, David M. Jones, Jr., Oscar Guerra, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Zachery C. Lake, Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev
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Patent number: 11644845Abstract: An industrial vehicle is provided comprising a drive mechanism, a steering mechanism, a vehicle controller, a camera, and a navigation module. The camera is communicatively coupled to the navigation module, the vehicle controller is responsive to commands from the navigation module, and the drive mechanism and the steering mechanism are responsive to commands from the vehicle controller. The camera is configured to capture an input image of a warehouse ceiling comprising elongated skylights, isolated ceiling lights, and/or active optical targets. The navigation module is configured to distinguish between the ceiling lights and the skylights and send commands to the vehicle controller for localization, or to navigate the industrial vehicle through the warehouse based upon valid ceiling light identification, valid skylight identification, valid active target identification, or combinations thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Junli Tao, Mark Bell
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Patent number: 11531952Abstract: Described herein are methods and systems for anonymizing and securing digital transactions. These methods and systems describe a server that monitors web applications executing on a user device. Responsive to the web application displaying an input element requesting personally identifiable information of a user, the server inputs encoded user data corresponding to the input element, whereby a web application server hosting the web application does not receive the personally identifiable information of the user. The server then generate an optical code representing the personally identifiable information. Responsive to receiving a request for the personally identifiable information from a shipping entity computing device that scanned the optical code, the server first verifies the shipping entity computing device and then presents the personally identifiable information for display on the shipping entity computing device.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 20, 2022Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Bryan J. Osterkamp, Cory A. Matheson, Curtis Mark Bell, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Nathan Lee Post, Noe Albert Martinez, David M. Jones, Jr., Oscar Guerra, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Zachery C. Lake, Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev
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Publication number: 20220204500Abstract: The present invention concerns compounds comprising N-methyl-2-pyridone, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts and compositions of such compounds. Such compounds are useful in anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer therapies. Therefore, the present invention also concerns such compounds for use as medicaments, particularly for the treatment of inflammatory diseases and oncology.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Andrew WOODLAND, Mark BELL
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Publication number: 20220043457Abstract: Vehicles, systems, and methods for navigating or tracking the navigation of a materials handling vehicle along a surface that may include a camera and vehicle functions to match two-dimensional image information from camera data associated with the input image of overhead features with a plurality of global target locations of a warehouse map to generate a plurality of candidate optical targets, an optical target associated with each global target location and a code; filter the targets to determine a candidate optical target; decode the target to identify the associated code; identify an optical target associated with the identified code; determine a camera metric relative to the identified optical target and the position and orientation of the identified optical target in the warehouse map; calculate a vehicle pose based on the camera metric; and navigate the materials handling vehicle utilizing the vehicle pose.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Ralf Haeusler, Stuart Park, Mark Bell
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Patent number: 11181925Abstract: Vehicles, systems, and methods for navigating or tracking the navigation of a materials handling vehicle along a surface that may include a camera and vehicle functions to match two-dimensional image information from camera data associated with the input image of overhead features with a plurality of global target locations of a warehouse map to generate a plurality of candidate optical targets, an optical target associated with each global target location and a code; filter the targets to determine a candidate optical target; decode the target to identify the associated code; identify an optical target associated with the identified code; determine a camera metric relative to the identified optical target and the position and orientation of the identified optical target in the warehouse map; calculate a vehicle pose based on the camera metric; and navigate the materials handling vehicle utilizing the vehicle pose.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Ralf Haeusler, Stuart Park, Mark Bell
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Patent number: 10928204Abstract: An industrial vehicle is provided comprising a drive mechanism, a steering mechanism, a vehicle controller, a camera, and a navigation module. The camera is communicatively coupled to the navigation module, the vehicle controller is responsive to commands from the navigation module, and the drive mechanism and the steering mechanism are responsive to commands from the vehicle controller. The camera is configured to capture an input image of a warehouse ceiling comprising elongated skylights characterized by different rates of image intensity change along longitudinal and transverse axial directions, and ceiling lights characterized by a circularly symmetric rate of image intensity change. The navigation module is configured to distinguish between the ceiling lights and the skylights and send commands to the vehicle controller for localization, or to navigate the industrial vehicle through the warehouse based upon valid ceiling light identification, valid skylight identification, or both.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventor: Mark Bell
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Publication number: 20200348673Abstract: An industrial vehicle is provided comprising a drive mechanism, a steering mechanism, a vehicle controller, a camera, and a navigation module. The camera is communicatively coupled to the navigation module, the vehicle controller is responsive to commands from the navigation module, and the drive mechanism and the steering mechanism are responsive to commands from the vehicle controller. The camera is configured to capture an input image of a warehouse ceiling comprising elongated skylights, isolated ceiling lights, and/or active optical targets. The navigation module is configured to distinguish between the ceiling lights and the skylights and send commands to the vehicle controller for localization, or to navigate the industrial vehicle through the warehouse based upon valid ceiling light identification, valid skylight identification, valid active target identification, or combinations thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Junli Tao, Mark Bell
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Publication number: 20200033134Abstract: An industrial vehicle is provided comprising a drive mechanism, a steering mechanism, a vehicle controller, a camera, and a navigation module. The camera is communicatively coupled to the navigation module, the vehicle controller is responsive to commands from the navigation module, and the drive mechanism and the steering mechanism are responsive to commands from the vehicle controller. The camera is configured to capture an input image of a warehouse ceiling comprising elongated skylights characterized by different rates of image intensity change along longitudinal and transverse axial directions, and ceiling lights characterized by a circularly symmetric rate of image intensity change. The navigation module is configured to distinguish between the ceiling lights and the skylights and send commands to the vehicle controller for localization, or to navigate the industrial vehicle through the warehouse based upon valid ceiling light identification, valid skylight identification, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Crown Equipment CorporationInventor: Mark Bell
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Patent number: 10473469Abstract: An industrial vehicle is provided comprising a drive mechanism, a steering mechanism, a vehicle controller, a camera, and a navigation module. The camera is communicatively coupled to the navigation module, the vehicle controller is responsive to commands from the navigation module, and the drive mechanism and the steering mechanism are responsive to commands from the vehicle controller. The camera is configured to capture an input image of a warehouse ceiling comprising elongated skylights characterized by different rates of image intensity change along longitudinal and transverse axial directions, and ceiling lights characterized by a circularly symmetric rate of image intensity change. The navigation module is configured to distinguish between the ceiling lights and the skylights and send commands to the vehicle controller for localization, or to navigate the industrial vehicle through the warehouse based upon valid ceiling light identification, valid skylight identification, or both.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2018Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventor: Mark Bell
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Patent number: 10467241Abstract: Provided is a process, including: assigning different instances of a single-tenant application among a plurality of instances of the single-tenant application to different computing sessions with different client computing devices associated with different tenant user accounts; while the plurality of instances of the single-tenant application are executing, determining that a workload of the plurality of instances of the single-tenant application satisfies a first threshold condition; in response to the determination, automatically provisioning an added instance of the single-tenant application; and assigning the added instance of the single-tenant application to a session with a given client computing device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: CA, INC.Inventors: Nicholas D. Thayer, Julio Garcia, James Perkins, Mark Bell
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Patent number: 10430852Abstract: In an approach for aggregating interests across a social network to influence search results by a user, a processor retrieves a set of product documents given a rating by social network connections of a user within a social network. A processor categorizes each product document of the set of product documents such that there is at least a first product category. A processor receives a search request for a product from the user. A processor determines that the product of the search request corresponds to the first product category. A processor presents a search result product based on ratings of product documents of the first product category.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Swaminathan Balasubramanian, Mark Bell, Gregory J. Boss, Rick A. Hamilton, II
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Publication number: 20190265722Abstract: Vehicles, systems, and methods for navigating or tracking the navigation of a materials handling vehicle along a surface that may include a camera and vehicle functions to match two-dimensional image information from camera data associated with the input image of overhead features with a plurality of global target locations of a warehouse map to generate a plurality of candidate optical targets, an optical target associated with each global target location and a code; filter the targets to determine a candidate optical target; decode the target to identify the associated code; identify an optical target associated with the identified code; determine a camera metric relative to the identified optical target and the position and orientation of the identified optical target in the warehouse map; calculate a vehicle pose based on the camera metric; and navigate the materials handling vehicle utilizing the vehicle pose.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Applicant: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Ralf Haeusler, Stuart Park, Mark Bell
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Patent number: 10336229Abstract: A seat assembly includes a back portion that is mounted for rotational movement about a seat back axis between a first seat position and a second seat position. The seat assembly also includes an armrest mounted for rotational movement about an armrest axis relative to the back portion between a stowed position and a use position. The seat back axis is coaxial with the armrest axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Adam Young Johnson, Mark Bell, Christophe Barrillet
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Publication number: 20190072396Abstract: An industrial vehicle is provided comprising a drive mechanism, a steering mechanism, a vehicle controller, a camera, and a navigation module. The camera is communicatively coupled to the navigation module, the vehicle controller is responsive to commands from the navigation module, and the drive mechanism and the steering mechanism are responsive to commands from the vehicle controller. The camera is configured to capture an input image of a warehouse ceiling comprising elongated skylights characterized by different rates of image intensity change along longitudinal and transverse axial directions, and ceiling lights characterized by a circularly symmetric rate of image intensity change. The navigation module is configured to distinguish between the ceiling lights and the skylights and send commands to the vehicle controller for localization, or to navigate the industrial vehicle through the warehouse based upon valid ceiling light identification, valid skylight identification, or both.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2018Publication date: March 7, 2019Applicant: Crown Equipment CorporationInventor: Mark Bell