Patents by Inventor Scott A. Francis
Scott A. Francis 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: 12002122Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for assisting with legal research and for aiding in the discovery of information and documents relevant to a user's research focus or input text. The inventive systems receive identifications of relevant documents explicitly or implicitly from a user's research session or input text and, based on issues relevant to those documents, texts and other connections to those documents and texts, recommends similar or helpful documents to the user for their consideration. Recommendations may be ranked and filtered.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBHInventors: Xiaomo Liu, Xin Shuai, Quanzhi Li, Eric Milles, Eric Holten, Matt Makosky, Tom Vacek, Steven Sidwell, Ryan Kelly, Matthew A. Surprenant, Scott Francis, Mike Dahn, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Sameena Shah, Merine Thomas
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Patent number: 11997554Abstract: System and methods for smart cell selection and reselection are described. A mobile device may attempt to camp on a cell in a tracking area that has advertised a particular frequency band. If the mobile device is unable to recognize an information element identifying a different subset of the advertised frequency band than that supported by the mobile device, the mobile device will store a record of the tracking area and the advertised frequency band and compare future cell information broadcasts to the entry, avoiding attempts to operate within cells in the same tracking area advertising the same frequency. In this way the mobile device conserves resources by avoiding actions in incompatible cells and avoids storing information about many cells by only storing the tracking area information.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Kun Lu, Egil Gronstad, Alan Denis MacDonald, Scott Francis Migaldi, John Humbert, Brett L. Christian, Hsin Fu Henry Chiang, William M. Shvodian
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Patent number: 11991318Abstract: A system may include one or more of a called device, a calling device, configured to call the called device, and a network module. The network module is configured to process incoming call information of a call placed to the called device and configured to route the call to a destination based on preferences of the called device.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Scott D. Hambuchen, Mark Himelfarb, Joshua Harrison Lange
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Publication number: 20240155556Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can be a mobile terminating (MT) device that may receive data from another UE or other network element via a telecommunication network. When a small data payload is available for an MT UE, a base station of the telecommunication network can send a paging message to the UE that includes a Mobile Terminating Small Data Transmission (MT-SDT) paging cause. Based on the MT-SDT paging cause in the paging message, the UE can use Small Data Transmission (SDT) procedures to respond to the paging message. The SDT procedures can allow the UE to obtain the small data payload while the UE remains in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) Inactive state.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Kun Lu, John Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Christopher H. Joul, Jun Liu
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Publication number: 20240144309Abstract: An apparatus for providing normalized hydrogen correction factor comprises: a set of sensors configured to measure telemetry data of a hydrogen production plant; a memory; a database; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory, the database, and the set of sensors. The processor is configured to: receive the telemetry data from the set of sensors; receive supplier data from the database; receive customer data from a customer; determine, using a machine learning model stored in the memory, and based on the telemetry data, the supplier data, and the customer data, a normalized hydrogen correction factor; and provide the normalized hydrogen correction factor to the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Scott Gerald BORGERSON, Matthew Robert LETARTE, Nicholas McAvoy PARKER, William David LEHNER, Owen Francis BARWELL
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Publication number: 20240129056Abstract: A base station can select orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) numerologies that define subcarrier spacing values based on attributes associated with one or more services that a user equipment (UE) is using. The base station can use the selected OFDM numerologies for transmission associated with the services. When the UE is using multiple services simultaneously, the base station can select the same or different OFDM numerologies for the multiple services.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Shuqing Xing, Scott Francis Migaldi, John J. Humbert, Brian Allan Olsen
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Publication number: 20240108466Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member having an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the fixation frame and extending radially outward therefrom. The extension member includes a plurality of discrete fabric segments having a first end at the anchoring member and a second end spaced apart from the anchoring member, wherein each discrete fabric segment includes lateral edges extending from the first end to the second end of the discrete fabric segment. The discrete fabric segments are configured to move circumferentially relative to each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Alexander Hill, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby, James R. Keogh
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Patent number: 11924669Abstract: A slice manager associated with a network access point of a telecommunication network can manage combinations of network slices and bandwidth parts for user equipment (UE). The bandwidth parts can have independently set numerologies, such as subcarrier spacing values. The UE can be configured to use one or more active bandwidth parts at a time, such that the slice manager can instruct the UE to use multiple active bandwidth parts simultaneously with respect to the same network slice or multiple network slices.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Shuqing Xing, Mark L. Younge, Scott Francis Migaldi
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Patent number: 11924382Abstract: A system may include one or more of a called device, a calling device, configured to call the called device, and a network module. The network module is configured to process incoming call information of a call placed to the called device and configured to route the call to a destination based on preferences of the called device.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Scott D. Hambuchen, Mark Himelfarb, Joshua Harrison Lange
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Publication number: 20240064525Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein provide for adjustment of a spectrum sharing allocation between devices operating on 5G and/or 6G technologies. An inter-operator scheduler receives common signals associated with 5G and/or 6G devices and determines time and/or frequency divisions and configurations to a shared technology spectrum to allocate spectrum resources. In response to determining an allocation of the shared spectrum, the shared spectrum can be efficiently shared among 5G and 6G devices in a dynamic and flexible manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: Dinesh Arcot Kumar, Anokhi Shah, Scott Francis Migaldi, George Frantz Cummings, III, John Joseph Humbert, IV, William Martin Shvodian, David Charles Jones, Pascale Dumit
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Patent number: 11902961Abstract: Various systems, methods, and devices relate to determining a delay associated with a device; calculating a guard time based at least in part on the delay; and scheduling a wireless resource to include a downlink interval, an uplink interval, and the guard time between the downlink interval and the uplink interval. By calculating the guard time based at least in part on the delay associated with the device, spectrum efficiency can be enhanced, and latency can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Shuqing Xing, John Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Neng-Tsann Ueng, Brian Allan Olsen
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Patent number: 11902862Abstract: A service type symbol may be presented on a display of a communication device to indicate a type of service supported or unsupported on the communication device over a network to which the communication device is presently connected. The communication device may determine a value of a parameter, may determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter, a service type symbol from a set of multiple different service type symbols to present on a display of the communication device, and may present the symbol on the display. Service type symbols might include, among others, a video symbol corresponding to a video streaming service, a voice symbol corresponding to a voice calling service, a basic data symbol corresponding to a basic data service.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: John Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Hsin Fu Henry Chiang
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Patent number: 11893613Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling access to resources. Receiving, at a server from user devices, requests associated with a resource. Transmitting, by the server to the user devices, tickets associated with the requests, each ticket associated with a respective one of a plurality of groups, the groups identifying requests received in successive windows of time. Receiving, at the server from one of the user devices, a subsequent request, the subsequent request identifying one of the tickets previously transmitted to that user device. Determining that the identified one of the tickets should be accepted and the subsequent request should be serviced.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Shopify Inc.Inventors: Scott Francis, Bassam Mansoob, Logan Francis Fontes Martel
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Patent number: 11876618Abstract: A base station can select orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) numerologies that define subcarrier spacing values based on attributes associated with one or more services that a user equipment (UE) is using. The base station can use the selected OFDM numerologies for transmission associated with the services. When the UE is using multiple services simultaneously, the base station can select the same or different OFDM numerologies for the multiple services.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Shuqing Xing, Scott Francis Migaldi, John Humbert, Brian Allan Olsen
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Patent number: 11868936Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for workflow and practice management that are particularly useful to professional service industries. The inventive systems and methods provide tools for planning a matter or project, executing a matter or project and analyzing the success or failure of a matter or project. Templates are developed to provide organizational and task execution assistance while at the same time providing detailed information for performance analytics tools.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBHInventors: Mike Dahn, Shelly Albaum, Brian C. Quinn, David Rawson, Chris Hendry, Damien Riehl, Emily Colbert, Scott Francis, Colleen Scimeca
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Publication number: 20230407762Abstract: This disclosure is directed to seal assemblies for a turbomachine. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. In some examples, seal assembly includes a runner coupled to a rotating shaft and a sealing element coupled to a stationary engine housing. The seal assembly can also include a spring element located between the sealing element and the stationary engine housing, which allows the relative position between the runner and the sealing element to be adjusted while the turbomachine engine is in operation. Some seal assemblies include damping elements positioned between the sealing element and the fixed engine housing to slow the motion of the sealing element relative to the runner to reduce the risk of inadvertent contact between the runner and the sealing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Mark L. Hopper, Scott Francis Wolfer, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger
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Publication number: 20230382698Abstract: A lift assembly includes a base, a platform coupled to the base and moveable between a lowered state and an elevated state, a first pair of scissor arms including a first arm and a second arm pivotably connected to one another, and a second pair of scissor arms including a third arm and a fourth arm pivotably connected to one another. The lift assembly also includes a carriage coupled to the first pair of scissor arms and to the second pair of scissor arms. The carriage includes a shaft extending transverse to the first arm, the second arm, the third arm, and the fourth arm, and a centering wheel rotatably coupled to the shaft. The first arm includes a cam surface engageable with the centering wheel to guide travel of the platform between the lowered state and the elevated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Todd John Bacon, Eliana V. Podolski Bacon, Scott Francis Wilhelm, Leigh Nelson Gaither
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Publication number: 20230381955Abstract: A mobile robot includes a lift assembly, a low-profile drive mechanism, and a plurality of wheels such that the mobile robot is moveable. The lift assembly includes a base and a platform moveable between a lowered state where the platform is proximal to the base and an elevated state where the platform is distal to the base. The low-profile drive mechanism includes a plurality of electric motors arranged in series along an axis to define an initial electric motor, one or more intermediate electric motors, and a final electric motor. The low-profile drive mechanism also includes a gear mounted to each of the electric motors and an output member driven by the gear mounted to the final electric motor to receive the combined rotational torque from the gears. The output member is coupled to the platform to move the platform between the lowered state and the elevated state.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Todd John Bacon, Eliana V. Podolski Bacon, Scott Francis Wilhelm, Leigh Nelson Gaither
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Publication number: 20230383669Abstract: This disclosure is directed to seal assemblies for a turbomachine. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. In some examples, seal assembly includes an oleophilic coating disposed between the stationary and rotating components. The seal assembly may include a surface texture to enhance the oleophilicity of the surface coating disposed between the stationary and rotating components. In other examples, the seal assembly includes an oleophobic coating disposed between the stationary and rotating components. The seal assembly may include a surface texture to enhance the oleophobicity of the surface coating. During operation, the oleophilic seal assembly features retain lubricant between the stationary and rotating components and the oleophobic seal assembly features inhibit the escape of lubricant from the contact regions between the stationary and rotating components.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: General Electric CompanyInventors: Arundhati Sengupta, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Anand Madihalli Srinivasan, Scott Francis Wolfer
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Patent number: D1030801Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: ADP, Inc.Inventors: Sriranjani Chimakurthy, Amin Venjara, Udayakiran Garikipati, Arindam Das, Toni Lyons, Scott Francis