Patents Assigned to Vale Group LLC
  • Patent number: 12147997
    Abstract: A technique for collecting environmental data from a remote region comprises use of a collector device with a sensor to collect environmental data and a memory to store the collected data. Collector devices are distributed to locations within the region, and the collector devices collect and store environmental data. Locations within the region are prioritized. Incentives are generated to transport environmental data based, at least in part, on the priorities. When a collector device is transported from the remote region to a location with connectivity to a host system, the stored environmental data is uploaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Vale Group LLC
    Inventors: Omer Rosenbaum, Richard Earl Simpkinson, Rusty Allen Gerard, Shamyl Emrich Zakariya
  • Patent number: 12003585
    Abstract: Information sharing is initiated between devices based on identification, by one or more of the devices, of a context in which the information is to be shared. Services to provide the shared information are identified based on a mutually agreed level of sensitivity for the information sharing. Information is shared between the devices via the services. Use of the services to share information is stopped in response to a change in context identified by one or more of the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Vale Group LLC
    Inventors: Richard Earl Simpkinson, Richard Ignacio Zaragoza, Jeffrey Alex Kramer, Keith Rosema, Alan Caplan, Paul G. Allen
  • Patent number: 11950577
    Abstract: A system for preserving or establishing an ecosystem comprises an assembly coupled to a guidance component. An assembly comprises an enclosure and a substrate, and is configured to contain one or more organisms within the enclosure. The guidance component causes the assembly to be transported to a destination environment. The assembly is decoupled from the guidance component. The assembly detaches from the substrate, to integrate the one or more organisms into an ecosystem of the destination environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Vale Group LLC
    Inventors: Richard Earl Simpkinson, Omer Rosenbaum, Richard Ignacio Zaragoza, Rusty Allen Gerard, Shamyl Emrich Zakariya