Patents by Inventor Thomas Hinton
Thomas Hinton 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: 20240108790Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes providing support material within which the structure is fabricated, depositing, into the support material, structure material to form the fabricated structure, and removing the support material to release the fabricated structure from the support material. The provided support material is stationary at an applied stress level below a threshold stress level and flows at an applied stress level at or above the threshold stress level during fabrication of the structure. The provided support material is configured to mechanically support at least a portion of the structure and to prevent deformation of the structure during the fabrication of the structure. The deposited structure material is suspended in the support material at a location where the structure material is deposited. The structure material comprises a fluid that transitions to a solid or semi-solid state after deposition of the structure material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Adam Feinberg, Thomas Hinton
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Publication number: 20240110017Abstract: This document describes a process of producing gel microparticles, which are consistent in size and morphology. Through the process of coacervation, large volumes of gel microparticle slurry can be produced by scaling up reactor vessel size. Particles can be repeatedly dehydrated and rehydrated in accordance to their environment, allowing for the storage of particles in a non-solvent such as ethanol. Gel slurries exhibit a Bingham plastic behavior in which the slurry behaves as a solid at shear stresses that are below a critical value. Upon reaching the critical shear stress, the slurry undergoes a rapid decrease in viscosity and behaves as a liquid. The rheological behavior of these slurries can be adjusted by changing the compaction processes such as centrifugation force to alter the yield-stress. The narrower distribution and reduced size of these particles allows for an increase in FRESH printing fidelity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Andrew Hudson, Thomas Hinton, Adam Feinberg, Andrew Lee
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Patent number: 11931969Abstract: This document describes systems and method of embedded printing for additive manufacturing. A print material is printed into a support material. The print material and the support material each have a fluid phase and a solid phase. The print material transitions from the fluid phase to the solid phase based on a fluid-fluid interaction with the support material. One or more parameters of the support material can be adjusted to cause a diffusion rate of the print material into the support material during the fluid-fluid interaction to be less than a threshold value. Multiple print materials can be printed into the support material simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2018Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Andrew Hudson, Thomas Hinton, Adam Feinberg, Andrew Lee
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Patent number: 11818639Abstract: Described herein are systems, servers, devices, methods, and media for validating, improving, and predicting emergency locations. In some embodiments, disclosed herein is a method for validating a reported location associated with an emergency request comprises: detecting an emergency request from a first device; identifying a reported location associated with the emergency request; identifying one or more attributes associated with the emergency request; determining a location accuracy metric for the emergency request using the one or more attributes; comparing the location accuracy metric to a first accuracy threshold, wherein the reported location is converted to a validated location when the location accuracy metric meets the first accuracy threshold; and, in response to the location accuracy metric meeting the first accuracy threshold, providing the validated location to one or more recipients comprising a public safety answering point (PSAP).Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: RapidSOS, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Edward Horelik, Henry Katz, Gabriel Charles Mahoney, John Thomas Hinton, Michael John Martin
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Patent number: 11692070Abstract: This document describes a process of producing gel microparticles, which are consistent in size and morphology. Through the process of coacervation, large volumes of gel microparticle slurry can be produced by scaling up reactor vessel size. Particles can be repeatedly dehydrated and rehydrated in accordance to their environment, allowing for the storage of particles in a non-solvent such as ethanol. Gel slurries exhibit a Bingham plastic behavior in which the slurry behaves as a solid at shear stresses that are below a critical value. Upon reaching the critical shear stress, the slurry undergoes a rapid decrease in viscosity and behaves as a liquid. The rheological behavior of these slurries can be adjusted by changing the compaction processes such as centrifugation force to alter the yield-stress. The narrower distribution and reduced size of these particles allows for an increase in FRESH printing fidelity.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Andrew Hudson, Thomas Hinton, Adam Feinberg, Andrew Lee
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Patent number: 11672887Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes providing support material within which the structure is fabricated, depositing, into the support material, structure material to form the fabricated structure, and removing the support material to release the fabricated structure from the support material. The provided support material is stationary at an applied stress level below a threshold stress level and flows at an applied stress level at or above the threshold stress level during fabrication of the structure. The provided support material is configured to mechanically support at least a portion of the structure and to prevent deformation of the structure during the fabrication of the structure. The deposited structure material is suspended in the support material at a location where the structure material is deposited. The structure material comprises a fluid that transitions to a solid or semi-solid state after deposition of the structure material.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2018Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Adam Feinberg, Thomas Hinton
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Publication number: 20230004941Abstract: Techniques are described for automatically generating job descriptions. Training data is used to define job categories, job sections, and selective phrases for each job category and job section. In response to receiving request to generate a job description, a job category or additional information is derived from the request. Such information is used to populate existing templates for a job description based on a skill knowledge graph, which connects skill names based on hypernym trees and enables enhancement of a job description with better or broader coverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Yuri Yerastov, Mohan Reddy, Sean Thomas Hinton, Mykhailo Timonin, Sergey Bukharov, Rupert Cosulich
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Patent number: 11373146Abstract: Techniques are described for automatically generating job descriptions. Job categories are identified for the documents in the job description dataset based on clustering the documents. Sections within each document in the job description dataset are automatically identified, and each identified section is automatically classified. Each type of section is analyzed independently of the other section types using natural language processing, which allows automatic generation of each section of a new job description based on the section-specific data derived from the dataset. Section- and category-specific selective phrases are identified within the job description dataset, and embeddings are generated for the identified selective phrases. A request to generate a new job description for a particular category is received.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: SKYHIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Yuri Yerastov, Mohan Reddy, Sean Thomas Hinton, Mykhailo Timonin, Sergey Bukharov, Rupert Cosulich
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Publication number: 20210204108Abstract: Described herein are systems, servers, devices, methods, and media for validating, improving, and predicting emergency locations. In some embodiments, disclosed herein is a method for validating a reported location associated with an emergency request comprises: detecting an emergency request from a first device; identifying a reported location associated with the emergency request; identifying one or more attributes associated with the emergency request; determining a location accuracy metric for the emergency request using the one or more attributes; comparing the location accuracy metric to a first accuracy threshold, wherein the reported location is converted to a validated location when the location accuracy metric meets the first accuracy threshold; and, in response to the location accuracy metric meeting the first accuracy threshold, providing the validated location to one or more recipients comprising a public safety answering point (PSAP).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2020Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Nicholas Edward Horelik, Henry Katz, Gabriel Charles Mahoney, John Thomas Hinton, Michael John Martin
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Patent number: 10820181Abstract: Described herein are systems, servers, devices, methods, and media for validating, improving, and predicting emergency locations. In some embodiments, disclosed herein is a method for validating a reported location associated with an emergency request comprises: detecting an emergency request from a first device; identifying a reported location associated with the emergency request; identifying one or more attributes associated with the emergency request; determining a location accuracy metric for the emergency request using the one or more attributes; comparing the location accuracy metric to a first accuracy threshold, wherein the reported location is converted to a validated location when the location accuracy metric meets the first accuracy threshold; and, in response to the location accuracy metric meeting the first accuracy threshold, providing the validated location to one or more recipients comprising a public safety answering point (PSAP).Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 27, 2020Assignee: RAPIDSOS, INC.Inventors: Nicholas Edward Horelik, Henry Katz, Gabriel Charles Mahoney, IV, John Thomas Hinton, IV, Michael John Martin
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Publication number: 20200189202Abstract: This document describes systems and method of embedded printing for additive manufacturing. A print material is printed into a support material. The print material and the support material each have a fluid phase and a solid phase. The print material transitions from the fluid phase to the solid phase based on a fluid-fluid interaction with the support material. One or more parameters of the support material can be adjusted to cause a diffusion rate of the print material into the support material during the fluid-fluid interaction to be less than a threshold value. Multiple print materials can be printed into the support material simultaneously.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2018Publication date: June 18, 2020Inventors: Andrew Hudson, Thomas Hinton, Adam Feinberg, Andrew Lee
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Publication number: 20200032004Abstract: This document describes a process of producing gel microparticles, which are consistent in size and morphology. Through the process of coacervation, large volumes of gel microparticle slurry can be produced by scaling up reactor vessel size. Particles can be repeatedly dehydrated and rehydrated in accordance to their environment, allowing for the storage of particles in a non-solvent such as ethanol. Gel slurries exhibit a Bingham plastic behavior in which the slurry behaves as a solid at shear stresses that are below a critical value. Upon reaching the critical shear stress, the slurry undergoes a rapid decrease in viscosity and behaves as a liquid. The rheological behavior of these slurries can be adjusted by changing the compaction processes such as centrifugation force to alter the yield-stress. The narrower distribution and reduced size of these particles allows for an increase in FRESH printing fidelity.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 5, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Andrew Hudson, Thomas Hinton, Adam Feinberg, Andrew Lee
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Publication number: 20190291350Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes providing support material within which the structure is fabricated, depositing, into the support material, structure material to form the fabricated structure, and removing the support material to release the fabricated structure from the support material. The provided support material is stationary at an applied stress level below a threshold stress level and flows at an applied stress level at or above the threshold stress level during fabrication of the structure. The provided support material is configured to mechanically support at least a portion of the structure and to prevent deformation of the structure during the fabrication of the structure. The deposited structure material is suspended in the support material at a location where the structure material is deposited. The structure material comprises a fluid that transitions to a solid or semi-solid state after deposition of the structure material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2018Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Adam Feinberg, Thomas Hinton
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Publication number: 20190253861Abstract: Described herein are systems, servers, devices, methods, and media for validating, improving, and predicting emergency locations. In some embodiments, disclosed herein is a method for validating a reported location associated with an emergency request comprises: detecting an emergency request from a first device; identifying a reported location associated with the emergency request; identifying one or more attributes associated with the emergency request; determining a location accuracy metric for the emergency request using the one or more attributes; comparing the location accuracy metric to a first accuracy threshold, wherein the reported location is converted to a validated location when the location accuracy metric meets the first accuracy threshold; and, in response to the location accuracy metric meeting the first accuracy threshold, providing the validated location to one or more recipients comprising a public safety answering point (PSAP).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2019Publication date: August 15, 2019Inventors: Nicholas Edward Horelik, Henry Katz, Gabriel Charles Mahoney, IV, John Thomas Hinton, IV, Michael John Martin
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Patent number: 10150258Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes providing support material within which the structure is fabricated, depositing, into the support material, structure material to form the fabricated structure, and removing the support material to release the fabricated structure from the support material. The provided support material is stationary at an applied stress level below a threshold stress level and flows at an applied stress level at or above the threshold stress level during fabrication of the structure. The provided support material is configured to mechanically support at least a portion of the structure and to prevent deformation of the structure during the fabrication of the structure. The deposited structure material is suspended in the support material at a location where the structure material is deposited. The structure material comprises a fluid that transitions to a solid or semi-solid state after deposition of the structure material.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Adam Feinberg, Thomas Hinton
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Publication number: 20170169449Abstract: A mobile application for execution upon an electronic device, system, or method for an amusement park or waterpark for tracking guests and collecting feedback. The application provides information, entertainment or other data to the user within the park. The application may determine a position within the park and display notifications (discounts, menus, etc.) at nearby vendors or provide recommendations based upon wait times. The application may allow for reservations at vendors. The application may determine ride sequence(s) based upon various characteristics and navigate according to such sequence(s). Puzzles, games, or other entertainment or educational activities may be displayed to the user for providing rewards based upon their participation. Guests may be tracked using a variety of technologies and information determined (dispatch rates, queues, etc.) by such tracking. Feedback (customer satisfaction) may be collected at guest interfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2016Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Edwin Michael Gyde Heaven, Rick Briggs, Paul David Chutter, Sean Thomas Hinton, Aaron Mendelson, Kelly Margaret Shea, Denise Chapman Weston
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Publication number: 20160167312Abstract: In one aspect, a method includes providing support material within which the structure is fabricated, depositing, into the support material, structure material to form the fabricated structure, and removing the support material to release the fabricated structure from the support material. The provided support material is stationary at an applied stress level below a threshold stress level and flows at an applied stress level at or above the threshold stress level during fabrication of the structure. The provided support material is configured to mechanically support at least a portion of the structure and to prevent deformation of the structure during the fabrication of the structure. The deposited structure material is suspended in the support material at a location where the structure material is deposited. The structure material comprises a fluid that transitions to a solid or semi-solid state after deposition of the structure material.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2014Publication date: June 16, 2016Inventors: Adam Feinberg, Thomas Hinton
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Publication number: 20140278891Abstract: A residual benefit program where recipients of non-consumable goods receive a good with benefits, can recycle that good for benefits, and redeem the benefits at some point in the future. The program accumulates credits for a beneficiary elected by a primary purchaser. Credits may accumulate due to purchase of a product, recycling of a product, or via interest over time. Upon redemption of the accumulated credits, the beneficiary receives the reward chosen by the primary purchaser. The reward or the redeemer who provides the reward is set by the primary purchaser for the beneficiary and may be modified over time.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: Edwin Michael Gyde Heaven, Sean Thomas Hinton, Zoran Kovacevic, Grant Alexander Poje, Spencer Gilles Massie
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Patent number: 6787514Abstract: The invention relates to laundering and dishwashing products which can be incorporated in a single compartment water soluble film sachet, the formulation comprising a granulated percarbonate compound which has been mixed with an encapsulating blend comprising sulfate, carboxy methyl cellulose and nonionic surfactant wherein the detergent product does not include zeolites and perborates.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2002Date of Patent: September 7, 2004Inventor: Gerald Thomas Hinton
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Publication number: 20030040453Abstract: The invention relates to laundering and dishwashing products which can be incorporated in a single compartment water soluble film sachet, the formulation comprising a granulated percarbonate compound which has been mixed with an encapsulating blend comprising sulfate, carboxy methyl cellulose and nonionic surfactant wherein the detergent product does not include zeolites and perborates.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2002Publication date: February 27, 2003Inventor: Gerald Thomas Hinton