Patents by Inventor Steven A Thomas
Steven A Thomas 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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Publication number: 20240176725Abstract: The present invention is related to a system and corresponding method and computer implemented software for improving performance of at least one electronic devices, said devices including at least one sensors and a model defining the device reaction in response to data produced by at least one of said sensors. The system includes a model generator configured to analyze the data produced from said sensors and the reactions to the data, and register errors in the reactions as compared with the intended reactions, wherein the model generator is configured to adjust the device model by minimizing errors between the actual output of the model and the desired output of the model, based on a set of samples recorded on said at least one electronic devices, wherein the recorded samples include information related to which of a number of predefined states the device is in at the occurrence of the error, the time of the occurred error, and the number of errors at the specified time and/or state.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicants: Elliptic Laboratories ASA, Elliptic Laboratories ASAInventors: Guenael Thomas STRUTT, Steven Paul LEWIS
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Patent number: 11992242Abstract: A trocar assembly that includes a trocar and a seal cartridge configured to be releasably coupled to the trocar. The seal cartridge includes a top cap that includes a main body and a latch ring. The latch ring is grounded to the main body at a first angular position and has a latch located at a second angular position angularly offset from the first angular position. Applying a radial load on the latch causes the latch ring to flex in torsion at an intermediate portion that angularly interposes the first and second angular positions.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Steven G. Hall, Joseph Thomas Mozloom, Jr., Katherine J. Schmid, Harry Randolph Adams
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Patent number: 11986305Abstract: A blood pressure monitoring device configured to attach and supply air to a blood pressure cuff can include a housing having an interior, a port configured to enable fluid communication between the interior of the housing and an interior of the blood pressure cuff, and an air intake configured to allow ambient air to enter the interior of the housing and further configured to inhibit liquids from entering the interior of the housing. The air intake can define a non-linear passageway for ambient air to enter the interior of the housing. The housing can have a first side and a first inner wall. The air intake can be defined by a first opening in the first side and a second opening in the first inner wall. The first opening can be not aligned with the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Steven Egge, Evan Thomas Fullerton, Valery G. Telfort
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Publication number: 20240159331Abstract: A mountable vent, comprising: a first hollow portion with a seal groove; a second hollow portion in fluid communication with the first hollow portion; an extension of the second hollow portion in fluid communication with the second hollow portion; and a fastening portion with a compression limiter for at least one fastener to attach the mountable vent to a housing, where the fastening portion radially extends from the first hollow portion or the second hollow portion and is positioned between the seal groove and the extension.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Dakota Rene DAWSON, Steven Thomas BYRNE, Zhongli YOU, Kendall Christopher KNIGHT, Karlie MANOR, Channing CECIL
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Publication number: 20240159497Abstract: An insert for a case according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a first layer comprising a liquid dispersed memory foam, and a second layer disposed on the first layer. Portable cases and methods of forming an insert for a case are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Ryder, Steven L. Reff, II
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Patent number: 11984665Abstract: An optical apparatus comprising an optical switch array comprising a plurality of optical switches configured to selectively route light through one or more of a plurality of waveguides, a plurality of emitters, wherein at least one emitter of the plurality of emitters is disposed in communication with the one or more of the plurality of waveguides and configured to receive light and cause at least a portion of the light to exit the waveguide, and a lens disposed to receive light exiting the one or more of a plurality of waveguides via the at least one emitter, wherein the lens is configured to direct the received light as an optical output, and wherein the position of the at least one emitter relative to the lens facilitates beam steering of the optical output.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF THE COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORKInventors: Michal Lipson, Christoper Thomas Phare, You-Chia Chang, Steven A. Miller
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Patent number: 11983695Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein use WiFi signals detected from nearby WiFi networks to confirm the identity of a bank's customer logging in to his or her account at the bank. Specifically, the customer's computing device may detect signals from neighboring WiFi networks. The bank may then verify that the customer's accounts are being accessed from the customer's home or office by comparing the list of neighboring WiFi networks to a previously stored list of the neighboring networks. If the lists match, it is probable that the customer's accounts are being accessed from the customer's home or office, thus reducing the possibility that a fraudulent actor is trying to access the customer's accounts.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Ryan Thomas Russell, Gregory Brian Meyer, Steven Michael Bernstein, David Ira Waters, Jr., Patrick Michael Luberus
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Patent number: 11979502Abstract: A tracking device can use a permanent encryption key pair to encrypt one or more temporary encryption key pairs, which can then be provided to a central tracking system. When a community mobile device subsequently detects the tracking device, the central tracking system provides an encrypted temporary encryption key pair to the community mobile device. The community mobile device uses the encrypted temporary encryption key pair to encrypt location data representative of a location of the community mobile device, and provides the encrypted location data to the central tracking system. When a user subsequently requests a location of the tracking device from the central tracking system, the central tracking system provides the encrypted location data, and a device of the user can decrypt the encrypted temporary encryption key pair using the permanent encryption key pair, and can decrypt the location data using the decrypted temporary encryption key pair.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Tile, Inc.Inventors: Rafael Marques Martins, Steven R. Klinkner, Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer
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Patent number: 11969061Abstract: A slide fastener chain includes first and second rows of coupling elements mounted on first and second longitudinal edges of the first and second fastener tapes. When the first and second rows of coupling elements are interdigitated, the first and second longitudinal edges remain spaced apart, and a first coupling element of the first row is received between two adjacent coupling elements of the second row such that: the groove of the first coupling element receives, in a first contact region, a portion of the second longitudinal edge, one of the grooves of the adjacent coupling elements receives, in a fourth contact region, a first portion of the first longitudinal edge, and another of the grooves of the adjacent coupling elements receives, in a fifth contact region, a second portion of the first longitudinal edge.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: YKK CORPORATIONInventors: Shigeki Annaka, Shigeyoshi Takazawa, Steven Thomas, Matthew Rawstron
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Patent number: 11970417Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Joseph Michael Matusick, Connor Thomas O'Malley, Matthew Daniel Trosa, Steven Robert Wagner
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Patent number: 11963928Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: James Ernest Webb, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, Steven Edward DeMartino, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Patent number: 11966980Abstract: Methods and systems for improving vehicular safety by notifying vehicle operators of location-based risks are provided. According to embodiments, a processing server may receive an initial location of a vehicle. Based on location data associated with the initial location, the processing server can determine the risk of an incident. The processing server can generate a notification to communicate to the vehicle operator, and the vehicle operator can assess the risk and take action to mitigate the risk, for example by relocating the vehicle. The processing server can receive updated location data for the vehicle and can determine, based on the updated location data, that the risk has been mitigated.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Scott Thomas Christensen, Gregory Hayward, Steven Cielocha, Todd Binion
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Patent number: 11963929Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATEDInventors: Connor Thomas O'Malley, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Christy Lynn Chapman, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
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Publication number: 20240129109Abstract: A tracking device can use a permanent encryption key pair to encrypt a temporary private key that corresponds to a set of diversified temporary public keys. When a community mobile device subsequently detects the tracking device, the central tracking system provides a diversified temporary public key to the community mobile device. The community mobile device uses the diversified temporary public key to encrypt location data representative of a location of the community mobile device, and provides the encrypted location data to the central tracking system. When a user subsequently requests a location of the tracking device from the central tracking system, the central tracking system provides the encrypted temporary private key and the encrypted location data to a device of the user, and the device can decrypt the encrypted temporary private key using the permanent encryption key pair, and decrypt the encrypted location data using the decrypted temporary private key.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Steven R. Klinkner, Josselin de la Broise, Ian Thomas Meyer
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Publication number: 20240100313Abstract: A coupling arrangement for use in an air delivery circuit includes a first connector tube defining a first passage therethrough and a second connector tube defining a second passage therethrough. The second connector tube telescopically receives a portion of the first connector tube within the second passage. A release mechanism includes wedges coupled to the first or second connector tube. The first and second connector tubes have a number of corresponding features that latch the first connector tube within the second passage of the second connector tube when the first connector tube is axially inserted along the longitudinal axis a predetermined distance. Actuation of the wedges radially toward the longitudinal axis causes axial movement among the first connector tube and the second connector tube a second predetermined distance that is sufficient to unlatch the corresponding features.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: RICHARD THOMAS HAIBACH, LAUREN PATRICIA CHODKOWSKI, STEVEN WILLIAM PEPIN
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Patent number: 11941533Abstract: Some embodiments provide a compiler for optimizing the implementation of a machine-trained network (e.g., a neural network) on an integrated circuit (IC). The compiler of some embodiments receives a specification of a machine-trained network including multiple layers of computation nodes and generates a graph representing options for implementing the machine-trained network in the IC. The compiler, as part of generating the graph, in some embodiments, determines whether any set of channels contains no non-zero values (i.e., contains only zero values). For sets of channels that include no non-zero values, some embodiments perform a zero channel removal operation to remove all-zero channels wherever possible. In some embodiments, zero channel removal operations include removing input channels, removing output channels, forward propagation, and backward propagation of channels and constants.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PERCEIVE CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Thomas, Steven L. Teig
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Patent number: 11931343Abstract: Compounds, such as compounds having Formula (I): wherein each variable is as described herein, that modulate the conversion of AMP to adenosine by 5?-nucleotidase, ecto, and compositions containing the compounds and methods for synthesizing the compounds, are described herein. The use of such compounds and compositions for the treatment and/or prevention of a diverse array of diseases, disorders and conditions, including cancer- and immune-related disorders, that are mediated by 5?-nucleotidase, ecto is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Arcus Biosciences, Inc.Inventors: Joel Beatty, Laurent Pierre Paul Debien, Samuel Lawrie Drew, Jeremy Fournier, Rebecca Louise Grange, Steven Donald Jacob, Jenna Leigh Jeffrey, Kenneth V. Lawson, Manmohan Reddy Leleti, Erick Allen Lindsey, Debashis Mandal, Jay Patrick Powers, Anh Thu Tran, Rhiannon Thomas-Tran, Xuelei Yan
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Patent number: 11926969Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives, and more particularly to fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives wherein the fibrous structure has three or more regions that exhibit different characteristics and/or properties and methods for making same, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Fei Wang, Arman Ashraf, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alexander P. King
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Publication number: 20240075770Abstract: Systems are provided for an axle housing for a vehicle. In one example, system includes a differential housing comprising a modular Salisbury style center section comprising tube mounts configured to receive tube assemblies via a press fit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Scott L. STEWARD JR., Steven Thomas BYRNE, Ryan W. LASKEY, David G. MOSES, Benjamin J. PASSINO
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Patent number: PP35845Abstract: A new cultivar of Ceanothus plant named ‘UMNCNS01’ that is characterized by its inflorescences that are light pink in color, its coral red fruit capsules, and its crown cold hardiness to U.S.D.A Zone 4a.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2023Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAInventors: Steven Thomas McNamara, Peter Christian Moe