Patents by Inventor Patrick Dean

Patrick Dean 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: 11954433
    Abstract: Techniques for visualizing text expressions in spreadsheet cells by mapping syntactic elements of the text expressions to two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) configurations of elements, and displaying the 2D or 3D configurations in a graphical user interface, wherein the syntactic relationships between syntactic elements in the text expressions are rendered as spatial relationships between the elements in the 2D or 3D configuration. In one embodiment, a method for converting a text expression into a 2D or 3D configuration includes selecting a spreadsheet cell based on input received from a user input device, wherein the spreadsheet cell comprises a text expression, parsing the text expression, using a logic subsystem, into at least a first syntactic element, mapping the first syntactic element, using the logic subsystem, to a first 2D or 3D element, and displaying the first element in a graphical user interface via a display subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTERJECT DATA SYSTEM, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dean Honsowetz, Eugene Lyubar, Patrick DeBuse
  • Publication number: 20240107179
    Abstract: The various embodiments illustrated herein disclose a method for operating an imaging device. the method includes activating a first image sensor at a first duty cycle within a first time period. The method further includes activating a second image sensor at a second duty cycle within the first time period. Additionally, the method includes modifying at least one of the first duty cycle or the second duty cycle based on at least a workflow associated an operator of the imaging device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Anthony GIORDANO, David M. WILZ, Jeffrey Dean HARPER, Ka Man AU, Benjamin HEJL
  • Patent number: 11187303
    Abstract: A planetary gearbox including a first planetary gear assembly, a second planetary gear assembly, and a disconnect assembly. The first planetary gear assembly includes a first sun gear, a first carrier, at least one first planet gear mounted in the first carrier, and a ring gear. The second planetary gear assembly includes a second sun gear, a second carrier, at least one second planet gear mounted in the second carrier, and the ring gear. The disconnect assembly includes a disconnect member and a connecting member. The disconnect member is coupled to the second carrier of the second planetary gear assembly, and the connecting member is coupled to both the disconnect member and the movable second sun gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Fairfield Manufacturing Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Elmore, Darren D. Arnold, Shuo Zhang, Matthew P. Richards
  • Patent number: 11170295
    Abstract: Systems and methods for training a personalized Machine Learning (ML) model used to detect fall events are described herein. The methods may be implemented by one or more computing devices and may include obtaining sensor data associated with one or more activities of a user. A processed or unprocessed version of at least a copy of the sensor data having been fed to a personalized ML model associated with the user and that has been determined not to be associated with a fall event; and using the obtained sensor data training the personalized ML model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Tidyware, LLC
    Inventors: Philip F Carmichael, Brian Hayward, Alvin G Solidum, Travis T Okahara, William L Richman, Raman Chandrasekar, Patrick Dean Kennedy, Ray Sun
  • Patent number: 10920905
    Abstract: A valve system includes a cam that has a shaft portion with an opening configured to receive a motor shaft, where the opening is off-center within the shaft portion. The system also includes a connecting rod assembly mounted to the shaft portion of the cam, where the connecting rod assembly includes a flexible one-piece connecting rod. The system further includes a valve mounted to an end of the flexible one-piece connecting rod such that rotation of cam results in translation of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: TREK BICYCLE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Garner
  • Publication number: 20210005341
    Abstract: Implementations set forth herein relate to a system for manipulating mass. The system can include one or more radiation emitting apparatuses and a material chamber that includes a material. The material can be caused to experience a centrifugal force according to a motion of the material chamber. While the material is experiencing the centrifugal force, the one or more radiation emitting apparatuses can cause the material to increase in temperature and experience an electromagnetic force. The combination of forces can affect properties of the material and/or any other materials that can be in direct and/or indirect contact with the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Patent number: 10856043
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating hardware generated video between two or more devices. The devices can operate to mimic chance interactions, or “stop-and-chats,” that normally occur when two or more persons are living together or otherwise in the same locations. For example, each computer or circuit can determine whether a person is proximate to the computer. If two persons that designate each other as connections are simultaneously proximate to their respective devices, a video hardware connection will be created between their computers. Furthermore, respective circuitry can be connected to a third device associated with a person who is proximate to their respective device and also indicated as a connection by both of the two persons who are already connected. A video hardware connection can disconnect when one person participating in the video is no longer proximate to their respective device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Cummins, Adam Ryan Moller
  • Publication number: 20200300381
    Abstract: A valve system includes a cam that has a shaft portion with an opening configured to receive a motor shaft, where the opening is off-center within the shaft portion. The system also includes a connecting rod assembly mounted to the shaft portion of the cam, where the connecting rod assembly includes a flexible one-piece connecting rod. The system further includes a valve mounted to an end of the flexible one-piece connecting rod such that rotation of cam results in translation of the valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Garner
  • Publication number: 20200053316
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating hardware generated video between two or more devices. The devices can operate to mimic chance interactions, or “stop-and-chats,” that normally occur when two or more persons are living together or otherwise in the same locations. For example, each computer or circuit can determine whether a person is proximate to the computer. If two persons that designate each other as connections are simultaneously proximate to their respective devices, a video hardware connection will be created between their computers. Furthermore, respective circuitry can be connected to a third device associated with a person who is proximate to their respective device and also indicated as a connection by both of the two persons who are already connected. A video hardware connection can disconnect when one person participating in the video is no longer proximate to their respective device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Cummins, Adam Ryan Moller
  • Patent number: 10526015
    Abstract: A push arm is coupled to a vehicle frame proximate an intersection of a first side member and a first cross-member. A rear surface of the push arm is located adjacent to a front suspension structure with a gap defined therebetween. The push arm extends forward and laterally outward such that a front surface of the push arm is located outboard of and spaced apart from a front end of the first side member. An energy absorbing structure is positioned within the gap and is attached to the rear surface of the push arm and is spaced apart from the front suspension structure in a non-impacted state. The energy absorbing structure is configured such that in response to an off-center impact event, impact force to the energy absorbing structure pushes the energy absorbing structure into contact with the front suspension structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Takemi Nishikawa, Kazunori Iimi, Takao Tani, Hideo Aimoto, Naoki Kamizawa, Patrick Dean Grattan, Perry McConnell
  • Patent number: 10464610
    Abstract: A vehicle structure includes a vehicle frame, a beam, an attachment bracket. The vehicle frame has a first side member, a second side member and a cross-member rigidly fixed to each of the first and second side members and extending between the first and second side members. The beam extends rearward from a mid-portion of the cross-member with a gap being defined between the beam and the cross-member. The attachment bracket is rigidly fixed to the mid-portion of the cross-member and retaining the beam. The attachment bracket is configured to maintain the gap with the vehicle frame in a non-impacted state. The attachment bracket is further configured such that in response an impact event impacting a forward area of the vehicle frame, with impacting forces causing relative movement between the cross-member and the attachment bracket, the gap is diminished or closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Grattan, Christopher Robert Hartley, Michael James McGory
  • Patent number: 10405038
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and apparatus for communicating hardware generated video between two or more devices. The devices can operate to mimic chance interactions, or “stop-and-chats,” that normally occur when two or more persons are living together or otherwise in the same locations. For example, each computer or circuit can determine whether a person is proximate to the computer. If two persons that designate each other as connections are simultaneously proximate to their respective devices, a video hardware connection will be created between their computers. Furthermore, respective circuitry can be connected to a third device associated with a person who is proximate to their respective device and also indicated as a connection by both of the two persons who are already connected. A video hardware connection can disconnect when one person participating in the video is no longer proximate to their respective device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Patent number: 10377420
    Abstract: An off-center impact reinforcement structure includes a push arm proximate rearward of a front portion of the vehicle frame. The push arm extends in a forward and laterally outboard direction from a front side member. A rear surface of the push arm is located below the first side member. During an initial stage of an off-center impact event in which a stationary barrier directly impacts a front surface of the push arm, impacting forces from the off-center impact event move the rear surface of the push arm into contact with brackets that extend downward from the front side member and transfer through the push arm to brackets and to the vehicle frame. In a second stage, a rear surface of the push arm contacts the vehicle frame as the push arm pivots with the front surface of the push arm moving in a laterally outboard direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Kazunori Iimi, Takemi Nishikawa, Takao Tani, Hideo Aimoto, Naoki Kamizawa, Christopher Robert Hartley, Patrick Dean Grattan, Joseph Bruno Buratto, Perry McConnell, David James Wozniak, Michael James McGory, Gunnar Mason, Matthew Michael Gapinski
  • Patent number: 10308462
    Abstract: A plate configured to contact a web includes a first region having a first characteristic and a second region having a second characteristic different than the first characteristic. The plate has a substantially arcuate wall with an inner surface and an outer surface. A plurality of vacuum holes extends between the inner and outer surfaces and are configured to be in fluid communication with a vacuum source. A vacuum region is adapted to contact the first region of the web and a reduced-vacuum region is adapted to receive the second region of the web. The plurality of vacuum holes are configured such that, when attached to the vacuum source, a vacuum pressure at the vacuum region is greater than a pressure at the reduced-vacuum region so that the first region of the web is held against the plate with a greater force than the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Abney, Paul Douglas Beuther, Kevin Gerald Dolan, David John Enz
  • Patent number: 10150509
    Abstract: A vehicle structure includes a frame and a diagonal structure. The frame has a first side member, a second side member and a cross-member that extends in a vehicle lateral direction between the first and second side members. The cross-member is perpendicular to the first and second side members. The diagonal structure has a beam with a rear end that extends to an area of the second side member rearward of the cross-member. An angle of between 35 and 60 degrees is defined between the cross-member and the beam of the diagonal structure. The rear end of the beam is supported to the second side member by a rear attachment bracket such that the rear end of the beam is spaced apart from the second side member with a rear gap being defined between the rear end of the beam and the second side member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Perry McConnell, Christopher Robert Hartley, Patrick Dean Grattan, Joseph Bruno Buratto, Michael James McGory
  • Patent number: 10148151
    Abstract: This application relates to an electric piston for a vehicle. The electric piston can include magnetic device configured to repel and attract each other in order to force a crankshaft of a vehicle to rotate and propel the vehicle. The electric piston can receive an oscillating current or voltage signal from a control system of the vehicle in order to realize the motion of the electric piston. The control system can modify the shape of the oscillating signal in order to improve energy consumption of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Inventor: Patrick Dean Cummins
  • Patent number: 10124831
    Abstract: A push arm has a rear surface and a front surface. A rear surface of the push arm is located adjacent to and spaced apart from a first cross-member defining a gap therebetween. The push arm extends forward and laterally outward such that the front surface of the push arm is located laterally outboard of and spaced apart from a front end of a first side member of a vehicle frame. A support bracket has a front section releasably attached to the push arm and a rear section releasably attached to a first cross-member of the vehicle frame adjacent to an intersection of the first side member and the first cross-member. The support bracket is configured such that in response to an off-center impact event against the front surface of the push arm, the support bracket guiding movement of the push arm in a rearward direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Grattan, Christopher Robert Hartley, Gunnar Mason, Matthew Michael Gapinski
  • Patent number: 10086875
    Abstract: A vehicle structure includes a frame and a push arm. The push arm is coupled to a first side member of the frame proximate an intersection of the first side member and a first cross-member. The push arm has a main body, a rear surface, and a front surface. The rear surface faces and is adjacent to the intersection. The main body extends forward and laterally in an outboard direction from the rear surface such that the front surface of the push arm is located laterally outboard of and spaced apart from a front end of the first side member of the frame. The front surface has a first section and a second section both facing forward relative to the frame. The second section is angularly offset from the first section such that the second section and the first section define an obtuse angle therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Takemi Nishikawa, Kazunori Iimi, Takao Tani, Hideo Aimoto, Naoki Kamizawa, Christopher Robert Hartley, Patrick Dean Grattan, Perry Bruno McConnell, David James Wozniak, Michael James McGory
  • Patent number: 10029732
    Abstract: A first structure extends to a forward side of a cross-member of a vehicle frame with a first gap being defined between the first structure and the cross-member. A second structure extends rearward from the cross-member with a second gap defined between the second structure and the cross-member. An attachment bracket fixed to the cross-member retains one of the first and second structures. The attachment bracket is configured to maintain one of the first gap and the second gap in a non-impacted state. In response to an impact event where a stationary barrier impacts forward of the first structure, impacting forces cause movement of the one of the first structure and the second structure relative to the attachment bracket thereby bringing at least the one of the first structure and the second structure into contact with the cross-member closing the corresponding one of the first gap and the second gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Nissan North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Dean Grattan, Christopher Robert Hartley, Michael James McGory
  • Publication number: 20180201324
    Abstract: A push arm is coupled to a vehicle frame proximate an intersection of a first side member and a first cross-member. A rear surface of the push arm is located adjacent to a front suspension structure with a gap defined therebetween. The push arm extends forward and laterally outward such that a front surface of the push arm is located outboard of and spaced apart from a front end of the first side member. An energy absorbing structure is positioned within the gap and is attached to the rear surface of the push arm. The energy absorbing structure is spaced apart from the front suspension structure in a non-impacted state. The energy absorbing structure is configured such that in response to an off-center impact event, impact force to the energy absorbing structure pushes the energy absorbing structure into contact with the front suspension structure, such that the energy absorbing structure deforms and absorbs impact energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Takemi NISHIKAWA, Kazunori IIMI, Takao TANI, Hideo AIMOTO, Naoki KAMIZAWA, Patrick Dean GRATTAN, Perry MCCONNELL