Patents by Inventor Valerie Smith

Valerie Smith 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).

  • Publication number: 20220114540
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to automated tool tracking for service technicians. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a tool tracking system can collect tool data from a vehicle system of a vehicle. The tool data can be associated with a tool that is to be utilized by a service technician to provide, at least in part, a service at a customer location. The tool tracking system can store the tool data in a data store. The tool tracking system can map the tool data to the vehicle and can determine when the tool is no longer mapped to the vehicle. This can be indicative of the tool having been left, for example, at the customer location. The tool tracking system can create an alert to inform the service technician and/or another entity that the tool is no longer mapped to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Interwise Ltd.
    Inventors: Sreenivas Nukala, Adam Hersh, Nir Ganani, Satish Janardan, Bryan Goettsch, Donald Willis, Quang Cao, Saurav Patel, Jesse Taylor, Mirage Hamdy, Valerie Smith, Meni Sasson, Amir Benyamin, Stephen Alexander Roberts, JR.
  • Patent number: 11222308
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to automated tool tracking for service technicians. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a tool tracking system can collect tool data from a vehicle system of a vehicle. The tool data can be associated with a tool that is to be utilized by a service technician to provide, at least in part, a service at a customer location. The tool tracking system can store the tool data in a data store. The tool tracking system can map the tool data to the vehicle and can determine when the tool is no longer mapped to the vehicle. This can be indicative of the tool having been left, for example, at the customer location. The tool tracking system can create an alert to inform the service technician and/or another entity that the tool is no longer mapped to the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Interwise Ltd.
    Inventors: Sreenivas Nukala, Adam Hersh, Nir Ganani, Satish Janardan, Bryan Goettsch, Donald Willis, Quang Cao, Saurav Patel, Jesse Taylor, Mirage Hamdy, Valerie Smith, Meni Sasson, Amir Benyamin, Stephen Alexander Roberts, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210182771
    Abstract: The concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to automated tool tracking for service technicians. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a tool tracking system can collect tool data from a vehicle system of a vehicle. The tool data can be associated with a tool that is to be utilized by a service technician to provide, at least in part, a service at a customer location. The tool tracking system can store the tool data in a data store. The tool tracking system can map the tool data to the vehicle and can determine when the tool is no longer mapped to the vehicle. This can be indicative of the tool having been left, for example, at the customer location. The tool tracking system can create an alert to inform the service technician and/or another entity that the tool is no longer mapped to the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Interwise Ltd.
    Inventors: Sreenivas Nukala, Adam Hersh, Nir Ganani, Satish Janardan, Bryan Goettsch, Donald Willis, Quang Cao, Saurav Patel, Jesse Taylor, Mirage Hamdy, Valerie Smith, Meni Sasson, Amir Benyamin, Stephen Alexander Roberts, JR.
  • Patent number: 7228176
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, systems, devices, and methods for detecting or classifying tachyarrhythmias or making a therapy decision. In one example, a rate-dependent threshold is used for comparing atrial and ventricular rates for classifying a tachyarrhythmia as a ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VT) or a supraventricular tachyarrhythmia (SVT). In another example, the classification uses an atrial rate cutoff value, a ventricular rate cutoff value, or both. In another example, a tachyarrhythmia detection is tested over a time window with a duration that is automatically adjusted as a substantially continuously monotonically decreasing function of duration vs. rate. These techniques improve the specificity of arrhythmia detection or classification, allow anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy to be better tailored to the particular tachyarrhythmia, or provide more automatic operation making it easier for a physician to use an implantable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Valerie Smith, Richard Milon Dujmovic, Jr., Julie Thompson
  • Publication number: 20060074330
    Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, systems, devices, and methods for detecting or classifying tachyarrhythmias or making a therapy decision. In one example, a rate-dependent threshold is used for comparing atrial and ventricular rates for classifying a tachyarrhythmia as a ventricular tachyarrhythmia (VT) or a supraventricular tachyarrhythmia (SVT). In another example, the classification uses an atrial rate cutoff value, a ventricular rate cutoff value, or both. In another example, a tachyarrhythmia detection is tested over a time window with a duration that is automatically adjusted as a substantially continuously monotonically decreasing function of duration vs. rate. These techniques improve the specificity of arrhythmia detection or classification, allow anti-tachyarrhythmia therapy to be better tailored to the particular tachyarrhythmia, or provide more automatic operation making it easier for a physician to use an implantable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2004
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Inventors: Valerie Smith, Richard Dujmovic, Julie Thompson
  • Patent number: 5215773
    Abstract: A method is provided for selecting starch-containing vegetables which are subject to low temperature sweetening based on the quality of product to be derived from said vegetables when processed in a manner which can result in undesirable product coloration due to chemical changes of surface sugars on the prepared product, a predetermined minimum level of starch granule crystallinity being established for the vegetable to be processed, above which minimal level an acceptable quality of processed product having an acceptable level of coloration is assured. The method comprises measuring starch granule crystallinity of the vegetable to be processed and selecting for later processing vegetables having a measured starch granule crystallinity above a predetermined minimum level which indicates that the vegetable will resist low temperature sweetening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1993
    Assignee: The University of Guelph
    Inventors: Rickey Y. Yada, Valerie Smith, David Stanley, Robert H. Coffin, Michael J. Leszkowiat
  • Patent number: D284805
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: July 29, 1986
    Inventor: Valerie Smith