Patents by Inventor Thomas Francis

Thomas 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).

  • Patent number: 11328093
    Abstract: Various examples described herein are directed to systems and methods for securing data. A security system may receive a first record comprising a plurality of record fields, where the plurality of record fields includes a first record field and the first record field includes a first record field data. The security system may access a source setup record corresponding to the first record from a source setup table and determine that the source setup record comprises data referencing the first record field. The security system may access first token data corresponding to the first record field data and replace the first record field data at the first record field with the first token data. The security system may store the first token data at a token table and writing the first token data to the first record field to replace the first record field data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Francis Galvin, Jr., James Moffat McGill Hinkle, Victor Manuel Ortiz Del Valle, Udayakumar Ramakrishnan, Christina M. Hamilton, Stuart Edward Lockhart, Gregory Scott Woods
  • Patent number: 11281683
    Abstract: In general, the invention relates to a method for servicing query requests. The method includes determining, by a first query node and in response to a first query request, a user data sub-region and a target sub-region associated with the first query request. The further includes identifying a first input sub-region of the target sub-region using a data flow graph, identifying a second query node associated with the first input sub-region, and issuing a second query request to the second query node to obtain data associated with the first input sub-region. The method further includes receiving, in response to the second query request, a second query result from the second query node, generating a first query result for the target sub-region using at least the second query result, and providing the first query result to an entity associated with the issuance of the first query request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Anaplan, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Francis Shackell
  • Patent number: 11267101
    Abstract: An improved media blasting system that separates the fluid velocity development, the introduction of media and the acceleration of media from each other. The preferred arrangement has a supersonic nozzle that produces supersonic velocity air discharged into a coupled acceleration chamber. No shot travels within the supersonic nozzle, so no wear of the supersonic nozzle interior occurs, thus making the nozzle shorter, of plain metal alloys, less expensive to manufacture and lasting indefinitely. The shot is separately introduced into the acceleration chamber thus avoiding it's otherwise limitation to the air mass flow rate in the air supply hose or pipe. Thus the average velocity used to transfer momentum to the shot is much higher than the lower average velocity currently available within other blasting nozzles, which occurs from throat to exit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: ARBORJET INC.
    Inventor: Thomas Francis Hursen
  • Patent number: 11264117
    Abstract: A method for identifying neoantigens that are likely to be presented on a surface of tumor cells of a subject. Peptide sequences of tumor neoantigens are obtained by sequencing the tumor cells of the subject. The peptide sequence of each of the neoantigens is associated with one or more k-mer blocks of a plurality of k-mer blocks of the nucleotide sequencing data of the subject; The peptide sequences and the associated k-mer blocks are input into a machine-learned presentation model to generate presentation likelihoods for the tumor neoantigens, each presentation likelihood representing the likelihood that a neoantigen is presented by an MHC allele on the surfaces of the tumor cells of the subject. A subset of the neoantigens is selected based on the presentation likelihoods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GRITSTONE BIO, INC.
    Inventors: Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Thomas Francis Boucher, Roman Yelensky
  • Publication number: 20220030095
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficient data transfer within a user space network stack. Unlike prior art monolithic networking stacks, the exemplary networking stack architecture described hereinafter includes various components that span multiple domains (both in-kernel, and non-kernel). For example, unlike traditional “socket” based communication, disclosed embodiments can transfer data directly between the kernel and user space domains. Direct transfer reduces the per-byte and per-packet costs relative to socket based communication. A user space networking stack is disclosed that enables extensible, cross-platform-capable, user space control of the networking protocol stack functionality. The user space networking stack facilitates tighter integration between the protocol layers (including TLS) and the application or daemon. Exemplary systems can support multiple networking protocol stack instances (including an in-kernel traditional network stack).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cahya Adiansyah MASPURTA, Sandeep NAIR, Darrin JEWELL, Prabhakar LAKHERA, Thomas Francis PAULY, Joshua Verweyst GRAESSLEY, Wei SHEN, Olivier MARDINIAN
  • Publication number: 20210400977
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein Q, X, Y, A1, A2, L, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6a, R6b, R7 and R8 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising contacting the invertebrate pest or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound or a composition of the disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Francis PAHUTSKI Jr., Rachel SLACK, Andrew Jon DEANGELIS
  • Publication number: 20210369472
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for planning placement of an acetabular implant for a patient based on pelvic tilt. The system includes one or more sensors to be placed on the patient to provide measurements of a pelvic tilt angle of the patient taken with the patient in various functional positions to produce patient-specific data based on pelvic tilt from which to plan an inclination angle and a version angle of the acetabular implant for the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Francis McCarthy, Vincent Libranda Alipit
  • Patent number: 11157837
    Abstract: A system can obtain observations from a dataset. The system can generate a set of training partitions based on the observations and generate an ensemble of machine-learning models based on the set of training partitions. The system can then receive new data and detect whether the new data is indicative of the event using the ensemble. In some cases, the system can update the ensemble by providing the new data as input to an unsupervised machine-learning model that is separate from the ensemble of machine-learning models; receiving an output from the unsupervised machine-learning model indicating whether or not the new data is indicative of the event; incorporating a new observation into the dataset indicating whether or not the new data is indicative of the event based on the output from the unsupervised machine-learning model; and updating the ensemble based on the dataset with the new observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: SAS INSTITUTE INC.
    Inventors: Yue Qi, Jeffrey Todd Miller, Jr., Thomas Francis Mutdosch, Rory David Ness MacKenzie, Iain Douglas Jackson, Peter Rowland Eastwood, Ryan Gillespie, Adam Michael Ames, Andrew John Knotts, Robert Wayne Thompson
  • Publication number: 20210315517
    Abstract: A multi-modal approach is used to detect and track inflammation, and identify location of inflammation, which is revealed in changes in tissue and physiological properties that underlie sub-systems, including respiratory, sinus, laryngeal, articulatory, facial and gastrointestinal components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Francis Quatieri, Jeffrey Palmer, Tanya Talkar
  • Patent number: 11146665
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for efficient data transfer within a user space network stack. Unlike prior art monolithic networking stacks, the exemplary networking stack architecture described hereinafter includes various components that span multiple domains (both in-kernel, and non-kernel). For example, unlike traditional “socket” based communication, disclosed embodiments can transfer data directly between the kernel and user space domains. Direct transfer reduces the per-byte and per-packet costs relative to socket based communication. A user space networking stack is disclosed that enables extensible, cross-platform-capable, user space control of the networking protocol stack functionality. The user space networking stack facilitates tighter integration between the protocol layers (including TLS) and the application or daemon. Exemplary systems can support multiple networking protocol stack instances (including an in-kernel traditional network stack).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Cahya Adiansyah Masputra, Sandeep Nair, Darrin Jewell, Prabhakar Lakhera, Thomas Francis Pauly, Joshua Verweyst Graessley, Wei Shen, Olivier Mardinian
  • Publication number: 20210228182
    Abstract: Systems and methods for stroke detection in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: BURL Concepts, Inc
    Inventors: Thomas Francis Doyle, Thilo Hoelscher, James Brailean, Maximillian Dirnbacher, Ame Voie, Mark Banham, Balaji Simma, Jeffry Tola
  • Publication number: 20210192649
    Abstract: Systems and methods for distributed, automated management of brownfield real estate asset remediation and/or redevelopment, including at least one server computer for analyzing and providing recommendations for a potential brownfield investment, wherein the at least one server computer is paired with a web-based graphical interface for accessing and editing stored documents, pictures, tasks, and budget information related to at least one brownfield asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Francis DARDEN
  • Patent number: 11025663
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprises an analytic server, which automatically manage network policy. The analytic server determines the electronic communication protocol restrictions including access rules and the connectivity restrictions of electronic devices within a local area network, and segments the local area network into multiple subnetworks that are isolated from each other. The analytic server assigns an electronic device joining the local area network into one of the subnetworks according to the communication protocol determined by the device identifier. The analytic server monitors data traffic of the electronic devices of the local area network. The analytic server transmits an alert notification to a user device when the data traffic does not satisfy the electronic communication protocol restrictions, and updates the electronic communication protocol restrictions in a restriction database with new rules learned from the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ryan Russell, Thomas Francis Powers
  • Patent number: 11006924
    Abstract: Systems and methods for stroke detection in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: BURL Concepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Francis Doyle, Thilo Hoelscher, James Brailean, Maximillian Dirnbacher, Arne Voie, Mark Banham, Balaji Simma, Jeffry Tola
  • Patent number: 11011693
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe integrated quantum circuit assemblies that include quantum circuit components pre-packaged, or integrated, with some other electronic components and mechanical attachment means for easy inclusion within a cooling apparatus. An example integrated quantum circuit assembly includes a package and mechanical attachment means for securing the package within a cryogenic chamber of a cooling apparatus. The package includes a plurality of components, such as a quantum circuit component, an attenuator, and a directional coupler, which are integral to the package. Such an integrated assembly may significantly speed up installation and may help develop systems for rapidly bringing up quantum computers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Lester Lampert, Ravi Pillarisetty, Nicole K. Thomas, Hubert C. George, Jeanette M. Roberts, David J. Michalak, Roman Caudillo, Thomas Francis Watson, Stephanie A. Bojarski, James S. Clarke
  • Publication number: 20210142393
    Abstract: A system includes N location indicators and a mobile scanning device. The N location indicators are configured to be arranged throughout a store that includes a plurality of stocked items for picking according to one or more electronic customer orders. Each of the N location indicators is configured to transmit a different location signal. The mobile scanning device includes a display. The mobile scanning device is configured to wirelessly receive an electronic customer order comprising a plurality of ordered items indicating which of the stocked items are to be picked, detect at least one of the N location signals, and arrange at least some of the plurality of ordered items on the display based on which of the at least one of the N location signals is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Francis
  • Patent number: 11001262
    Abstract: A method includes controlling an electrified vehicle by automatically commanding an output torque from an electric machine if the electrified vehicle is in park and an engine start or stop request has been received. A road grade may be used to determine whether or not to command the output torque.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Justin Reuel Badger, Shunsuke Okubo, Kent Hancock, Thomas Francis Rolewicz, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10988263
    Abstract: An aircraft including an engine compartment and an engine provided in the engine compartment. The aircraft further includes a ductwork housing positioned above the engine. The ductwork housing includes at least one duct. The at least one duct has an outlet port that faces downwardly. Operation of the engine causes air to flow through the duct and exit the outlet port. The outlet port is configured to direct the air flow downwardly to provide lift for the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Francis Daily, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210109184
    Abstract: A system for detecting angle-of-arrival (AoA) includes a first device and at least one second device. The first device transmits a Bluetooth (BT) packet, and the second device receives the BT packet and determines an AoA of the BT packet. The second device includes a first radio-frequency (RF) antenna to receive a first RF signal and a second RF antenna to receive a second RF signal. The second device also includes a first BT core and a second BT-core and a processing circuit. The first BT core is coupled to the first RF antenna and is used to generate a first signal based on the first RF signal. The second BT core is coupled to the second RF antenna and generates a second signal based on the second RF signal. The processing circuit measures a phase difference between the first signal and the second signal and determines the AoA based on the phase difference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Francis BAKER
  • Publication number: 20210069999
    Abstract: Transparent, electrically conductive vanadium oxide-based perovskite films and methods of making the vanadium oxide-based perovskite films are provided. Transparent conducting vanadate perovskites are made by forming a layer of amorphous vanadate perovskite precursor around a plurality of nanoscale, crystalline, perovskite oxide seeds and heating the layer of amorphous vanadate perovskite precursor at a temperature that favors lateral vanadate perovskite crystal growth from the perovskite oxide seeds over homogeneous crystal nucleation within the layer of amorphous vanadate perovskite precursor material. The crystallization processes can form the desired vanadate perovskite phase directly or via a transformation in a controlled gas environment from an initial crystallized vanadate perovskite phase that has a higher oxidation state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Paul Gregory Evans, Thomas Francis Kuech, Donald E. Savage, Yajin Chen, Samuel Marks