Patents by Inventor Patrick A. Thompson

Patrick A. Thompson 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: 9850663
    Abstract: An awning assembly having an awning connection system for coupling an awning canopy to a support structure and providing a cover to the awning canopy when the awning assembly is in a closed position. The awning connection system comprises a unitary film segment having a distal end connected to the awning canopy and a proximal end for securing to the support structure. The unitary film segment further comprises an attached region for coupling the unitary film segment to the awning canopy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Carefree/Scott Fetzer Company
    Inventors: Scott Patrick Thompson, Eugene Pennington Smith
  • Publication number: 20170321427
    Abstract: An awning assembly and method is provided that includes an awning connection system coupling an awning canopy to a support structure. The awning connection system comprises a rolling assembly operably connected to the awning canopy, a lock bearing coupled to the rolling assembly, and an end cap, comprising a lock, coupled to the rolling assembly. Wherein, the rolling assembly comprises an unlocked mode, wherein the lock bearing is free from contact with the lock, and a locked mode, wherein the lock bearing is in contact with the lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Scott Patrick Thompson, Travis S. Titus
  • Publication number: 20170275884
    Abstract: An awning is disclosed. The awning comprises a case assembly comprising a housing, configured to be mounted to a dwelling, and a lead rail, a roller assembly mounted in the case assembly and including a roll tube rotatable relative to the case assembly, a lead rail assembly coupled to the lead rail, the lead rail assembly movable relative to the housing between an extended position and a retracted position, a canopy having a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge being connected to the lead rail assembly and the trailing edge being connected to the roll tube, and a spring arm assembly connecting the housing of the case assembly to the lead rail, the spring arms including a first arm and a second arm pivotable relative to one another, the spring arm assembly allowing the lead rail assembly to move between the extended position and the retracted position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Scott Patrick Thompson, Mark Goth, Erwin Gaudyn
  • Publication number: 20170275885
    Abstract: An awning assembly and method of construction that includes a first main member rotatably coupled to a vertical track at a first end of the first main member; a second main member pivotally coupled to and at a second end of the first main member; a first supplemental member rotatably and slidably connected to the vertical track at a first end of the first supplemental member; a second supplemental member having a first end pivotally coupled to and at a second end of the first supplemental member. The second supplemental member has a second end pivotally coupled to the second main member. The first main member includes first, second, and third cross-sections spaced the second cross-section comprising slot that allows for the passage of the first supplemental member through the first main member, wherein the first cross-section differs from the second cross-section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: SCOTT PATRICK THOMPSON, Vincent Frerich, Eugene Pennington Smith
  • Patent number: 9736288
    Abstract: Systems and techniques to display app content are disclosed. In various embodiments, an indication is received to save an application page. An image of the application page and associated application state information are stored. The image and state information may be used to provide a user-navigable interface that enables a user to navigate back to the saved page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Varun Parmar, Hironmay Basu, Eric Lee, Anand Taralika, Alok Irde, Patrick Thompson
  • Publication number: 20170095172
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating an electrophysiological map of a geometric structure. The system includes a computer-based model construction system configured to acquire electrical information at a plurality of diagnostic landmark points, assign a color value, based on the acquired electrical information, to each of the diagnostic landmark points, create a first 3D texture region storing floats for a weighted physiological metric, create a second 3D texture region storing floats for a total weight, for each diagnostic landmark point, additively blend the color value of the diagnostic landmark point into voxels of the first 3D texture region that are within a predetermined distance, normalize the colored voxels using the second 3D texture region to generate a normalized 3D texture map, generate the electrophysiological map from the normalized 3D texture map and a surface of the geometric structure, and display the generated electrophysiological map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Inventors: Eric J. Voth, Cable Patrick Thompson
  • Publication number: 20150269775
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating a multi-dimensional surface model of a geometric structure. The system includes a device including at least one sensor configured to collect a set of location data points corresponding to respective locations on or enclosed by a surface of the geometric structure, and a computer-based model construction system coupled to the device. The computer-based model construction system is configured to generate a working volume based on the set of location data points, calculate a dilated field for the working volume, define a dilated surface based on the dilated field, calculate an eroded field for the working volume based on the dilated surface, and define an eroded surface based on the eroded field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Cable Patrick Thompson, Daniel Richard Starks
  • Patent number: 8991623
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications equipment rack with a termination panel with such a pivoting tray mounted to the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton M. Knudsen, Patrick Thompson
  • Patent number: 8933947
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, apparatuses, and methods for enabling efficient reads to a local memory of a processing unit. In an embodiment, a processing unit includes an interface and a buffer. The interface is configured to (i) send a request for a portion of data in a region of a local memory of an other processing unit and (ii) receive, responsive to the request, all the data from the region. The buffer is configured to store the data from the region of the local memory of the other processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignees: ATI Technologies ULC, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: David I. J. Glen, Philip J. Rogers, Gordon F. Caruk, Gongxian Jeffrey Cheng, Mark Hummel, Stephen Patrick Thompson, Anthony Asaro
  • Patent number: 8819242
    Abstract: A method and system to exchange information between computer applications are provided. The system may include a source operating system, a destination operating system and an offload stack, all residing on the device. The source operating system and the destination operating system appear to users as distinct network entities. The offload stack may be configured to function as an intermediate network device for the source operating system. The offload stack, in one embodiment, comprises a back end to receive a message from the source operating system to the destination operating system, an analyzer to determine that the destination operating system resides on the device and a cut though socket module to process the message such that a network layer of the offload stack is bypassed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Bakke, David Patrick Thompson, Timothy J. Kuik, Paul Harry Gleichauf
  • Publication number: 20140048579
    Abstract: A location marking device is disclosed. An example location marking device includes a drive tube to receive a wire of a marker flag to be installed. The location marking device also includes a plunger rod slidably held within the lumen of the drive tube and operable between a passive state and an active state. The location marking device also includes a handle provided to a proximal end of the plunger rod and movable toward and away from a proximal end of the drive tube. The location marking device also includes a return rod extending from the handle towards a distal end of the drive tube. The location marking device also includes a resilient member configured to bias the plunger rod in the passive state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Patrick Thompson, Robert Moore
  • Patent number: 8531030
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes an electromigration resistant feed line. The IC device includes a substrate including active circuitry. A back end of the line (BEOL) metallization stack includes an interconnect metal layer that is coupled to a bond pad by the EM resistant feed line. A bonding feature is on the bond pad. The feed line includes a uniform portion and patterned trace portion that extends to the bond pad which includes at least three sub-traces that are electrically in parallel. The sub-traces are sized so that a number of squares associated with each of the sub-traces are within a range of a mean number of squares for the sub-traces plus or minus twenty percent or a current density provided to the bonding feature through each sub-trace is within a range of a mean current density provided to the bonding feature plus or minus twenty percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Gregory Eric Howard, Patrick Thompson
  • Publication number: 20120240308
    Abstract: A coated glove and method of making the same is provided. The invention proposes a knitted liner glove which is dyed after the knitted portion is dipped into a rubber polymer. Further, the method for making the glove includes knitting a liner of the glove, dipping the knitted liner into a rubber polymer to cover a portion thereof, and then dyeing the knitted polymer coated liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2012
    Publication date: September 27, 2012
    Applicant: ANSELL LIMITED
    Inventor: JAMES PATRICK THOMPSON
  • Publication number: 20120153458
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device includes an electromigration resistant feed line. The IC device includes a substrate including active circuitry. A back end of the line (BEOL) metallization stack includes an interconnect metal layer that is coupled to a bond pad by the EM resistant feed line. A bonding feature is on the bond pad. The feed line includes a uniform portion and patterned trace portion that extends to the bond pad which includes at least three sub-traces that are electrically in parallel. The sub-traces are sized so that a number of squares associated with each of the sub-traces are within a range of a mean number of squares for the sub-traces plus or minus twenty percent or a current density provided to the bonding feature through each sub-trace is within a range of a mean current density provided to the bonding feature plus or minus twenty percent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2010
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Gregory Eric Howard, Patrick Thompson
  • Publication number: 20110297629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications equipment rack with a termination panel with such a pivoting tray mounted to the rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2011
    Publication date: December 8, 2011
    Applicant: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton M. Knudsen, Patrick Thompson
  • Patent number: 8055907
    Abstract: A programming interface for a computer platform can include various functionality. In certain embodiments, the programming interface includes one or more of the following groups of types or functions: those related to core file system concepts, those related to entities that a human being can contact, those related to documents, those common to multiple kinds of media, those specific to audio media, those specific to video media, those specific to image media, those specific to electronic mail messages, and those related to identifying particular locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Michael E. Deem, Michael J. Pizzo, John Patrick Thompson, Denise L. Chen, Alexander Vaschillo, Bekim Demiroski, Srinivasmurthy P. Acharya, Robert T. Whitney
  • Patent number: 8002123
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a telecommunications termination panel with a tray pivotably mounted within the front opening of a housing. The tray pivots about a hinge located adjacent one of the sides of the housing and includes a raised floor. The raised floor of the tray cooperates with the side adjacent the hinge and a bottom of the housing to define a cable path from a rear cable access port to an opening on the tray adjacent the hinge. The tray includes a plurality of connection locations and cable management structures to direct a telecommunications cable from the cable access port to a rear of the connection locations without violating bend radius rules. The tray may also include a temporary cable holder to assist in pulling cables through the rear opening into the housing. The present invention further relates to a telecommunications equipment rack with a termination panel with such a pivoting tray mounted to the rack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: ADC Telecommunications, Inc.
    Inventors: Clinton M. Knudsen, Patrick Thompson
  • Patent number: D781884
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Varun Parmar, Hironmay Basu, Patrick Thompson, Ondrej Hrebicek, Anand Taralika
  • Patent number: D786899
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Varun Parmar, Hironmay Basu, Patrick Thompson, Ondrej Hrebicek, Anand Taralika
  • Patent number: D786900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: EMC IP Holding Company LLC
    Inventors: Varun Parmar, Hironmay Basu, Patrick Thompson, Ondrej Hrebicek, Anand Taralika, Eric Lee