Patents by Inventor Steven Thomas

Steven 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).

  • FUEL ADDITIVES FOR STORAGE AND RAPID GENERATION OF HYDROGEN
    Publication number: 20220298011
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods for the chemical storage and release of hydrogen gas. The described compositions may be useful as fuel additives for hydrogen consuming applications, including aviation. The provided compositions are flexible and can be tailored to be lightweight, have high energy capacity, have various methods of activation and rapidly release the stored hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Thomas CHRISTENSEN, Nicholas Allan STRANGE, Kurt Michael VAN ALLSBURG
  • System and method for workflow management
    Patent number: 11449816
    Abstract: A workflow management system for managing the storage, retrieval, and transport of items in a warehouse includes a voice-directed mobile terminal. The system also includes a server computer in communication with the voice-directed mobile terminal. The server computer includes a tasking module for transmitting task data to the voice-directed mobile terminal. The server computer also includes a workflow-analysis module for generating, based at least in part upon an analysis of workflow dialog between the voice-directed mobile terminal and the user, performance data relating to the performance of tasks associated with the storage, retrieval, and/or transport of the items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HAND HELD PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: James Geisler, Steven Thomas, John Pecorari, Adam Jack Hertzman, Duff Halart Gold, Jared John Schmidt, Brian Matthew Connelly, Christopher Lofty, Surya K. Tanneru, Navaneetha Myaka, Kurt Charles Miller, Duane Littleton, Brent Alan Nichols, Michael Naughton, Keith Braho, Tonya L. Custis, Kwong Wing Au, Ronald Shane Fazzio, Arup Suprakash Mukherjee, Justin Allan Volz, Kartik Suchindra Babu
  • Two-phase cooling apparatus
    Patent number: 11432431
    Abstract: A two-phase cooling apparatus for an information handling system, including a container holding dielectric fluid, the dielectric fluid having a vapor-fluid boundary within the container, the container further containing a printed circuit board (PCB) including computing components, with the dielectric fluid surrounding the PCB and the computing components, the dielectric fluid decreasing a temperature of the PCB by removing heat from the PCB in the form of vaporization; a pump positioned within the container, the pump capturing a portion of vapor of the dielectric fluid, at the vapor-fluid boundary, that results from the vaporization of the dielectric fluid; and a diffuser positioned within the container and coupled to the pump to introduce the captured vapor into the dielectric fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Embleton, Jon Taylor Fitch, Jimmy Doyle Pike
  • LUER LOCK INTRAVENOUS CONNECTOR
    Publication number: 20220265985
    Abstract: Luer lock connectors are provided that include an inner core of a hard material, the inner core sized and shaped to mate with an inner portion of an opposing luer lock connector, an outer layer of a soft material disposed on an outer surface of the inner core, and a plurality of grip features disposed on an outer surface of the outer layer, wherein the plurality of grip features are configured to provide a slip resistant grip surface. Infusion sets and infusion set luer lock connectors are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Mark Steven THOMAS
  • System and method for assessing worker performance
    Patent number: 11423348
    Abstract: Logistical operations (e.g., warehouses) may use a voice-enabled workflow to facilitate the work tasks of a staff (i.e., population) of workers. Typically, it is necessary for a worker to travel from location-to-location to complete assigned work tasks. As such, a worker's time spent travelling often correlates with the worker's overall work performance. Understanding the worker's travel performance is highly desirable, but computing a fair and accurate travel-performance metric is difficult. One reason for this is that the distance a worker travels is often unknown. The present invention embraces a system and method for accurately and fairly assessing a worker's travel performance by analyzing the worker's voice dialog.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Kwong Wing Au, Christopher L. Lofty, Steven Thomas, John Pecorari, James Geisler
  • Methods and systems for combination electrodes for wearable devices
    Patent number: 11419504
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a wellness tracking device with a base plate that may be utilized as a combination electrode by a variety of sensors. The base plate may be a multi-material electrode that includes a conductor and a transparent or semi-transparent material to enable optical sensing. In certain embodiments, the base plate supports a plurality of different sensors, which may selectively utilize the base plate as an electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Jens Mitchell Nielsen, Jaclyn Leverett Wasson, Kyung Nim Noh, Man-Chi Liu, Alan Luu, Peter Colin Dess, Lindsey Michelle Sunden, Lukas Bielskis, Thomas Consolazio, Steven Thomas Woodward, Dennis Jacob McCray
  • Techniques for additive fabrication process optimization and related systems and methods
    Patent number: 11351770
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a method of additive fabrication is provided wherein a plurality of layers are formed on a build platform, each layer contacting a container in addition to the build platform and/or a previously formed layer, the method comprising calculating, using at least one processor, one or more forces to be applied to a first layer of the plurality of layers subsequent to the first layer being formed, said calculating being based at least in part on a determined area of at least one portion of the first layer that overhangs a second layer of the plurality of layers, forming the first layer, the first layer being in contact with the container and in contact with a previously formed layer of the plurality of layers, and separating the first layer from the container by applying the calculated one or more forces to the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Formlabs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ben FrantzDale, Steven Thomas, Nicholas M. Sohn
  • Techniques for surface preparation during additive fabrication and related systems and methods
    Patent number: 11351721
    Abstract: According to some aspects, an additive fabrication device is provided configured to form layers of material on a build platform, each layer of material being formed so as to contact a container in addition to the build platform and/or a previously formed layer of material. The additive fabrication device may comprise a container and a wiper, wherein the wiper comprises a wiper arm and a wiper blade coupled to said wiper arm using a pivoting coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Formlabs, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Ferguson, Konstantinos Oikonomopoulos, Steven Thomas, Benjamin FrantzDale, Nicholas M. Sohn, Maxim Lobovsky
  • Golf swing training device
    Patent number: 11338186
    Abstract: A golf swing training device for regulating the distance of the elbow of the dominant arm from the side of the body of a user during a golf swing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventor: Steven Thomas Welsh
  • ANTIBACTERIAL PEPTIDES AND METHODS OF USE
    Publication number: 20220135622
    Abstract: The invention provides antibacterial compositions comprising peptides that bind to a lipopolysaccharide and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas CLAIRFEUILLE, Emily J. HANAN, Jian Mehr-Dean PAYANDEH, Steven Thomas RUTHERFORD, Benjamin Douglas SELLERS, Nicholas John SKELTON
  • Retracting step system
    Patent number: 11292392
    Abstract: An automatically extending and retracting step system according to the solution may reside in a retracted state when the deck of a car-carrying vehicle is substantially horizontal to the ground, i.e. when the deck is in a payload state. Advantageously, when the deck is tilted and extended to a ramp state for receiving cargo, the step system according to the solution extends laterally outward from beneath the deck, thereby providing a convenient and visible step for a user to use in getting down from the deck. When the deck is returned from the ramp state to its payload state, the step automatically retracts to a travel state beneath the deck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Cottrell Incorporated
    Inventors: Matt Rahm, Steven Thomas Sexton, Gerard Biagi
  • Electric scooter docking stations
    Patent number: 11279250
    Abstract: Various electric scooter docking stations are described herein. In some embodiments, the electric scooter docking stations facilitate collection, movement, and/or storage of the electric scooters in a compact, elegant, and efficient configuration. For example, the electric scooter docking stations can be configured to take advantage of a unique shape of an electric scooter, providing the storage and positioning of many electric scooters in a compact area. Also, the electric scooter docking stations can be simple structures that facilitate self-powered movement of electric scooters within the electric scooter docking stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: NEPTUNE SCOOTERS
    Inventors: Forrest Jean North, Javier Gonzalez Carracelas, Ricardo Abdiel Mora Gonzalez, Steven Thomas Snyder, Michelle Valerie Carlomusto, Justin David Almeleh, Matthew Coleman Tindall, Ana Gabriela Costilla Gonzalez, Federico Vorrath Sepúlveda, Ernesto Alejandro Cantu Zamarrón, David Osman Doluca, Erik Daryl Aylen, Kyle Allen Hartelt
  • MATERIALS FOR REDUCING ACIDS FROM LIQUID PHASES
    Publication number: 20220056181
    Abstract: Imidazole-containing polymer membranes and resins are described herein. Methods of their preparation and use are also described herein. The methods of using the membranes and resins include reducing acids from liquid phases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jason Edward Bara, Steven Thomas Weinman
  • Device identification through dialog
    Patent number: 11257490
    Abstract: Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to receive a verbal command to active a device with an unknown label, derive a probable device and a label for the probable device, activate the probable device, determine that the activated probable device is the same device to be activated by the verbal command, and store the label and a description for the device. In some examples, the label is associated with the description.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert James Firby, Jesus Gonzalez Marti, Jose Gabriel De Amores Carredano, Martin Henk Van Den Berg, Maria Pilar Manchon Portillo, Guillermo Perez, Steven Thomas Holmes
  • Method and apparatus for saving and restoring state information
    Patent number: 11237910
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for saving and restoring state information of a wireless device with varying amounts of available power, such as wireless devices that may harvest power from radio-frequency signals. The wireless device may save and restore varying amounts of state information based at least in part on the amount of power available. In some embodiments, some of the stored state information may be lost as the available power decreases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Atmosic Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Thomas Stoiber, David Kuochieh Su
  • Systems and methods for determining a thickness of a nonaqueous phase liquid layer
    Patent number: 11231339
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to systems and methods for determining a thickness of a nonaqueous phase liquid layer (NAPL) that is disposed adjacent a second layer of aqueous phase liquid (APL). The system can include a pressure transducer assembly having a total density value between a first density value of the NAPL and a second density value of the APL. The pressure transducer assembly can be configured to measure a first pressure associated with the pressure exerted by the first layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: AECOM
    Inventors: Daniel Avery Buckley, Brad William Koons, Steven Thomas Gaito, Monal Gajjar
  • Glucagon-receptor selective polypeptides and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 11214607
    Abstract: This invention relates to isolated polypeptides that are glucagon-receptor selective analogs and peptide derivatives thereof. These analogs are selective for human glucagon receptor with improved solubility, thermal stability, and physicochemical properties as compared to native endogenous glucagon. This invention also relates to methods of using such polypeptides in a variety of therapeutic and diagnostic indications, as well as methods of producing such polypeptides. These analogs are useful, alone or in combination with other therapeutic peptides, in methods of treating obesity, diabetes, metabolic disorders, and other disorders or disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: Intarcia Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: William Blackwell, Ved P. Srivastava, Mark A. Paulik, Andrew Young, Robert Neil Hunter, III, Steven Thomas Dock
  • TECHNIQUES FOR INTEGRATED PREHEATING AND COATING OF POWDER MATERIAL IN ADDITIVE FABRICATION AND RELATED SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20210370601
    Abstract: Techniques for improved efficiency of sintering in additive fabrication are described. According to some aspects, mechanisms for depositing and leveling source material are combined with a mechanism for heating the material. In some embodiments, one or more heating elements may be arranged to lead and/or follow a material deposition mechanism such that heat may be applied to the build region in concert with deposition of material. As a result of this technique, the heating and depositing steps may be performed closer together in time and/or heat may be applied more directly to the material than in conventional systems. As a result, greater control over material temperature may be achieved, thereby avoiding excess temperature exposure and subsequent undesirable changes to the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Formlabs, Inc.
    Inventors: Eduardo Torrealba, Steven Thomas, Christopher Auld
  • MOTION SYNCHRONIZED ARC RADIOTHERAPY
    Publication number: 20210370097
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for planning and/or delivering radiation treatment and controlling a radiation delivery system are described. Apparatus for delivering radiation treatment includes a radiation source, a drive connected to move the radiation source along a trajectory, a stored radiation treatment plan specifying a plurality of beam ON segments and beam OFF portions of the trajectory interleaved with the plurality of beam ON segments, and a monitor connected to detect progress of a physiological cycle of the patient, the physiological cycle has cycles that include quiescent periods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Steven THOMAS, Kirpal KOHLI, Justin Jeremy Jeun-Ming POON
  • plant named ‘UMNAZ633’
    Patent number: PP33787
    Abstract: A new cultivar of hybrid Rhododendron plant named ‘UMNAZ633’ that is characterized by its rounded plant form with compactly branched plant habit; reaching 1 m in height and width after 15 years of growth, its abundance of flowers that are red in color in mid to late May in Excelsior, Minn. with the red color retained throughout the bloom period without substantial fading prior to abscission, its good cold hardiness with flower buds that are resistant to cold damage and consistently bloom even when exposed to temperatures as low as ?25°, and its foliage with relatively good tolerance to powdery mildew.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    Inventors: Stanley Hokanson, Steven Thomas McNamara