Patents by Inventor Steven Ward

Steven Ward 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: 11995558
    Abstract: A parallelized chain-synthesizing technique includes capillary tubes, where each tube provides multiple locations or addresses where a specific arbitrary sequence for polymeric chains can be synthesized. An optical addressing system selectively delivers light to the locations to mediate or control reactions in the tubes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.
    Inventors: Kirsty A. McFarland, Andrew P. Magyar, Ian Ward Frank, Kenneth T. Kotz, Stacey Markovic, Haiyao Huang, Steven J. Byrnes, Gregg E. Favalora, Melissa M. Sprachman, Ryan A. Dubay, Emma Vargo, Peter Cavanagh, Erin Rosenberger
  • Publication number: 20240141742
    Abstract: A method for redressing a setting tool for actuating a plug in a subterranean wellbore includes recovering the setting tool from the wellbore, the setting tool including a housing with a throughbore therein, a piston arranged for axial movement within the throughbore, a combustible element, and an exhaust diffuser configured to redirect a flow of combustion products generated in response to ignition of the combustible element, removing the piston from the throughbore of the housing, removing the exhaust diffuser from the housing, cleaning the piston and the housing, and reinstalling the piston into the housing of the setting tool with at least one of the exhaust diffuser and a replacement exhaust diffuser for subsequent use of the setting tool in a wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP
    Inventors: Steven Zakharia, Ryan Ward, Benjamin Vascal Knight, Joe Noel Wells
  • Patent number: 11941617
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing pre-staged transactions via lockers are disclosed. In one embodiment, an exemplary computer-implemented method may comprise receiving a request from a user to perform a pre-staged transaction at a physical location; generating a first token based on the pre-staged transaction; transmitting first token to an app executing on a mobile device associated with the user; assigning a locker from a plurality of lockers positioned within the physical location; receiving the first token from the app executing on the mobile device of the user to initiate access to the locker when the user is within the physical location; authenticating the user based on the first token; transmitting, upon successful authentication of the user, a second token to the app executing on the mobile device; and causing, in response to receiving the second token at the locker, the locker to unlock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Amy Wedmore, Steven Almanzar, Alia Ward, Elliot Brown
  • Patent number: 11936932
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
  • Publication number: 20240068787
    Abstract: A method for producing a tandem sub for a perforating gun system includes positioning an electrically conductive signal bar in a central passage of a tubular housing of the tandem sub, and injecting a mold material into an annulus formed between an outer surface of the signal bar and an inner surface of the tubular housing that sealably adheres to both the signal bar and the tubular housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LP
    Inventors: James Edward Kash, Ryan Ward, Benjamin Vascal Knight, Joe Noel Wells, Brian Auer, Timmothy Lee, Steven Zakharia, Charles Levine
  • Publication number: 20230364337
    Abstract: An infusion pump includes a housing with a door pivotally mounted to the housing, a tube channel on the housing configured to hold a tube in the infusion pump, a pumping mechanism including a shuttle, and a slide clamp ejection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Bhagyesh Kishore Bhandar, Steven Ward Fischer, Aaron M. Hexamer, Jiri Slaby, Jason Andrew Maine, Scott Christian Ofslager, Morris Wilson Wallace, Keerthika Lakshmi Niharika Chinthapalli, Peter M. Bojan
  • Patent number: 11724026
    Abstract: An infusion pump includes a housing with a door pivotally mounted to the housing, a tube channel on the housing configured to hold a tube in the infusion pump, a pumping mechanism including a shuttle, and a slide clamp ejection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: BAXTER INTERNATIONAL INC., BAXTER HEALTHCARE SA
    Inventors: Bhagyesh Kishore Bhandar, Steven Ward Fischer, Aaron M. Hexamer, Jiri Slaby, Jason Andrew Maine, Scott Christian Ofslager, Morris Wilson Wallace, Keerthika Lakshmi Niharika Chinthapalli, Peter M. Bojan
  • Publication number: 20230098092
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a new and innovative method and system for flow rate compensation in devices, such as medical devices and other electronic devices. In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method includes dispensing, by a pump controlled by a controller, a fluid from a fluid supply in a pulse mode over a period by determining a pulse volume for a pulse, determining a pulse cycle time, and for the period: controlling the position of the pump to perform a delay and perform a pulse to dispense an amount of the fluid, the pulse performed for the pulse cycle time, calculating an overshoot or undershoot of the amount of the fluid dispensed relative to the pulse volume, adjusting the pulse cycle time based on the calculated overshoot or undershoot, and repeating the dispensing until the period has elapsed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Ward Fischer, Morris Wallace, Ye Chen
  • Patent number: 11500123
    Abstract: Hybrid 3D geocellular grids are generated to represent a subset of a natural fracture network (“NFN”) directly in the simulation, while the remainder of the NFN is approximated by a multi-continuum formulation. The resulting output is a 3D geocellular grid that possesses a higher level of mesh resolution in those areas surrounding the first fracture subsets, and lower mesh resolution in the areas of the second fracture subset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Michael Loyd Brewer, Dominic Camilleri, Steven Ward
  • Patent number: 11468669
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method for predicting subfield soil properties for an agricultural field comprises: receiving satellite remote sensing data that includes a plurality of images capturing imagery of an agricultural field in a plurality of optical domains; receiving a plurality of environmental characteristics for the agricultural field; generating a plurality of preprocessed images based on the plurality of satellite remote sensing data and the plurality of environmental characteristics; identifying, based on the plurality preprocessed images, a plurality of features of the agricultural field; generating a subfield soil property prediction for the agricultural field by executing one or more machine learning models on the plurality of features; transmitting the subfield soil property prediction to an agricultural computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Climate LLC
    Inventors: Angeles Casas, Xiaoyuan Yang, Steven Ward
  • Patent number: 11391129
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a gas supply to provide gas lift for a production wellbore makes use of Bayesian optimization. A computing device controls a gas supply to inject gas into one or more wellbores. The computing device receives reservoir data associated with a subterranean reservoir to be penetrated by the wellbores and can simulate production using the reservoir data and using a physics-based or machine learning or hybrid physics-based machine learning model for the subterranean reservoir. The production simulation can provide production data. A Bayesian optimization of an objective function of the production data subject to any gas injection constraints can be performed to produce gas lift parameters. The gas lift parameters can be applied to the gas supply to control the injection of gas into the wellbore or wellbores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Srinath Madasu, Terry Wong, Keshava Prasad Rangarajan, Steven Ward, ZhiXiang Jiang
  • Publication number: 20220203028
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for detecting remaining battery voltage or capacity in an infusion device and generating alarms based on the detection. The battery lifetime extension method includes providing an infusion device that derives its power from a rechargeable battery. The infusion device may derive its power from a rechargeable battery. Furthermore, the infusion device receives, at predetermined intervals of time in real-time sensor data comprising: a voltage, a change in the voltage over the predetermined interval of time, an average current, a temperature, and a remaining voltage or capacity reported by a battery gas gauge integrated circuit (“IC”) associated with the rechargeable battery. An improved and customized neural network model utilizes the sensor data to determine an indicia of the actual remaining voltage or capacity of the rechargeable battery in real-time. The indicia may be used to lengthen and/or abate ongoing medical infusion therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Ward Fischer, Matthew Stephen Vogel, Ye Chen
  • Publication number: 20220203026
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting an occlusion in an infusion device are disclosed. One method includes generating, during an infusion session at predetermined intervals, a feature vector comprising an initial measurement of a physical force caused by fluid motion through an infusion device at the start of an infusion session, a current measurement of the physical force, a long term change in the measurement of the physical force, and a short term change in the measurement of the physical force. The feature vector is inputted, during the predetermined intervals, into a support vector machine (“SVM”) to output an indication of a presence or an absence of an occlusion in the infusion device. The SVM may be trained using reference data from reference infusion sessions having known consequences regarding the presence or the absence of an occlusion at various times during the reference infusion sessions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Ward Fischer, Ye Chen
  • Publication number: 20220107926
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a scalable geospatial platform for an integrated data synthesis and artificial intelligence based exploration is disclosed. The platform is configured to implement various techniques for collecting data from different sources and different entities, and processing the data using various approaches, including, for example, the artificial intelligence based approaches.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: STEVEN WARD, JEFFREY MELCHING
  • Publication number: 20210404302
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a gas supply to provide gas lift for a production wellbore makes use of Bayesian optimization. A computing device controls a gas supply to inject gas into one or more wellbores. The computing device receives reservoir data associated with a subterranean reservoir to be penetrated by the wellbores and can simulate production using the reservoir data and using a physics-based or machine learning or hybrid physics-based machine learning model for the subterranean reservoir. The production simulation can provide production data. A Bayesian optimization of an objective function of the production data subject to any gas injection constraints can be performed to produce gas lift parameters. The gas lift parameters can be applied to the gas supply to control the injection of gas into the wellbore or wellbores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Srinath MADASU, Terry WONG, Keshava Prasad RANGARAJAN, Steven WARD, ZhiXiang JIANG
  • Patent number: 11149232
    Abstract: A phosphate-free automatic dishwashing composition including an amine and an enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Patrick Firmin August Delplancke, James Elliot Goodwin, Glenn Steven Ward
  • Publication number: 20210209490
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method for predicting agronomic field property data for one or more agronomic fields using a trained machine learning model is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, at an agricultural intelligence computer system, agronomic training data; training a machine learning model, at the agricultural intelligence computer system, using the agronomic training data; in response to receiving a request from a client computing device for agronomic field property data for one or more agronomic fields, automatically predicting the agronomic field property data for the one or more agronomic fields using the machine learning model configured to predict agronomic field property data; based on the agronomic field property data, automatically generating a first graphical representation; and causing to display the first graphical representation on the client computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Angeles Casas, Xiaoyuan Yang, Ho Jin Kim, Steven Ward
  • Publication number: 20210071113
    Abstract: This invention relates to fabric and home care products comprising one or more cold water proteases and processes for making and using such products. Such compositions provide improved cleaning and freshness. Such cold water proteases may be derived from parent enzymes, including BPN? subtilisin and subtilisin derived from Bacillus lentus, by substitution, insertion and/or deletion of one or more of the parent enzymes' amino acids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Frank SOUTER, Glenn Steven WARD, Viktor Yuryevich ALEKSEYEV, Joshua Roy BASLER, Luis Gustavo CASCAO-PEREIRA, David A ESTELL, Ayrookaran J Poulose, James T KELLIS, Jr., Alexander PISARCHIK, Daniel TORRES-PAZMINO
  • Patent number: 10900000
    Abstract: This invention relates to fabric and home care products comprising one or more cold water proteases and processes for making and using such products. Such compositions provide improved cleaning and freshness. Such cold water proteases may be derived from parent enzymes, including BPN? subtilisin and subtilisin derived from Bacillus lentus, by substitution, insertion and/or deletion of one or more of the parent enzymes' amino acids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Philip Frank Souter, Glenn Steven Ward, Viktor Yuryevich Alekseyev, Joshua Roy Basler, Luis Gustavo Cascao-Pereira, David A Estell, Ayrookaran J Poulose, James T Kellis, Jr., Alexander Pisarchik, Daniel Torres-Pazmino
  • Publication number: 20200309990
    Abstract: Hybrid 3D geocellular grids are generated to represent a subset of a natural fracture network (“NFN”) directly in the simulation, while the remainder of the NFN is approximated by a multi-continuum formulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Landmark Graphics Corporation
    Inventors: Amit Kumar, Michael Loyd Brewer, Dominic Camilleri, Steven Ward