Patents by Inventor A. Blum

A. Blum 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: 12189822
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data clean room allowing secure data analysis across multiple accounts, without the use of third parties. Each account may be associated with a different company or party. The data clean room may provide security functions to safeguard sensitive information. For example, the data clean room may restrict access to data in other accounts. The data clean room may also restrict which data may be used in the analysis and may restrict the output. The overlap data may be anonymized to prevent sensitive information from being revealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Rachel Frances Blum, Joshua James Chacona, Christian Kleinerman, Justin Langseth, William L. Stratton, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12186887
    Abstract: A robot system for servicing a semiconductor tool includes a cart frame. An arm support frame is fixed to the cart frame and is coupled to a robot arm. An arm frame is connected by hinges to the arm support frame at a first end and to a fixture connect interface at a second end. The fixture connect interface connects to a docking fixture of the semiconductor tool. An arm locking mechanism is attached to the arm support frame for locking the arm frame, when rotated, to an extended position or a folded position. The fixture connect interface connects the cart frame to the semiconductor tool, when the arm frame is locked in the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Vitali Brand, Kamesh Venkata Gadepally, Jiawei Zhao, Dan Marohl, Niraj Vaghela, Heng Liu, Alexander James Walker, Zachary Jake Blum, Matthew Christopher Clark, Jessica Jeana Kim
  • Patent number: 12186228
    Abstract: A stoma adapter is described that is especially suited to a recessed stoma or a flush stoma. The stoma adapter effectively extends the discharge passage from the stoma, protects peristomal skin, and forms a bridge at the interface between the stoma and an ostomy appliance. The stoma adapter contains a substantially unobstructed discharge passage, at least for effluent flowing in a discharge direction. The stoma adapter includes a seal for sealing against the bowel wall. The stoma adapter has collapsing, expanding, flexible and reinforced designs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: CONVATEC TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: John Cline, Bret Weig, Christopher Gregory, John Blum
  • Patent number: 12188860
    Abstract: A device for spectral analysis including a seat for holding therein a compound specimen; a light source for illuminating the compound specimen with a spectrum of light; and a detector configured for detecting light transmitted through or reflected from the biological sample, the detector including a pixel array having a plurality of pixels each of which being configured to detect intensity of one wavelength within the spectrum such that the pixel array obtains a spectral signature of the biological sample including intensities of wavelengths within the spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventors: Eli Assoolin, Eyal Yatskan, Lital Cohen-Blum, Erez Lev
  • Publication number: 20250002272
    Abstract: A device (1) for producing solar modules (2) from electrically interconnected solar elements (3), in particular from electrically interconnected solar shingles (3), with a feed device (4) for feeding the solar elements (3) for equipping with solar modules (2), wherein the supply device (4) includes a magnetically guided planar drive (5) with at least two magnetically driven sliders (6), and each slider (6) has a respective workpiece receptacle (8) on which at least one support area (9) for at least one solar element (3) is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: M10 Solar Equipment GmbH
    Inventors: David Blain, Michael FEHRENBACH, Sebastian BLUM, Pascal SEITERICH, Frank BAUMANN, Kilian RINKLIN, Marco SALADIN, Dominique JEHL, Martin SCHULTIS, Christian REICHLING, Philipp Donatus Martin ZAHN
  • Publication number: 20250002600
    Abstract: The present invention provides combination therapy using a binding agent that binds to human CD137 and to human PD-L1 in combination with a PD-1 inhibitor to reduce or prevent progression of a tumor or treating cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander MUIK, Kristina SCHÖDEL, Nora PENCHEVA, Maria N. JURE-KUNKEL, Ugur SAHIN, Sina FELLERMEIER-KOPF, Patricia GARRIDO CASTRO, Jordan BLUM, Friederike GIESEKE, Esther C. W. BREIJ, Lars GUELEN, Joost NEIJSSEN, Karsten BECKMANN, Claudia PAULMANN, Bart-Jan DE KREUK, Richard G. HIBBERT, Janine SCHUURMAN, Aran LABRIJN, Ivan KUZMANOV
  • Patent number: 12178809
    Abstract: The invention relates to new pyridinyl sulfonamide derivatives of the formula wherein R1, A and n are as defined herein, to their use as medicaments, to methods for their therapeutic use and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg P. Hehn, Andreas Blum, Oliver Hucke, Stefan Peters
  • Patent number: 12184634
    Abstract: A method for validating an access request with respect to an application is provided. The method includes: receiving an access request from a user with respect to an application; retrieving, from a memory, group identification information that relates to at least one group to which the user belongs; retrieving, from the memory, scope information that indicates qualifications and/or characteristics of a relationship between the user and the at least one group; and generating a token that notifies the application of the group identification information and the scope information, and is usable by the application for validating the access request. The method may be implemented in an Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Carl Dashfield, Michael D Ackerman, Michael George Norman, Kabron Austin Kline, Isaac Leonardo Blum, Afzaal Syed, Douglas J Symalla
  • Publication number: 20240425500
    Abstract: The current invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, to processes and methods for preparing compounds of formula (I), to agrochemical compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) as defined in claim 1, to preparation of these compositions and to the use of the compounds or compositions in agriculture or horticulture for combating, preventing or controlling infestation of plants, harvested food crops, seeds or non-living materials by phytopathogenic microorganisms, in particular fungi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Applicant: SYNGENTA CROP PROTECTION AG
    Inventors: Stephane André Marie JEANMART, Mathias BLUM, Alexandre Franco Jean Camille LUMBROSO, Nicolas GERMAIN, Martin POULIOT
  • Publication number: 20240428007
    Abstract: Machine learning models are used to generate a plan that responds to a user request. The plan includes one or more skills selected from a list of available skills. The prompt may be written in natural language, enabling the user to express their intent without having to know which skills are available or their intricacies. In some configurations, a skill is included in the plan if an embedding representation of an example prompt associated with the skill is within a defined distance of an embedding representation of the user request. Additionally, or alternatively, the embedding distance computations are used to narrow the list of available skills, which is then used to construct a meta-prompt that selects a skill. Skills listed in the meta-prompt may include data types of parameters and return values. This allows the model that processes the meta-prompt to order skills based on data type compatibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Amir H. ABDI, Nitin Kumar GOEL, Daniel Lee MACE, William BLUM
  • Publication number: 20240415091
    Abstract: The poultry cradle unloading systems and methods described herein provide for the unloading of birds and, in some cases, placement of the birds in a selected location among two or more possible selected locations. The unloading may be accomplished in a manner that promotes safety for the birds by releasing the birds such that they are predisposed to landing in an upright orientation after release from a cradle. The unloading may involve releasing the head before releasing the legs of the bird. The cradle and/or bird retained in the cradle may be oriented such that the bird is held at an angle such that the head of the bird is located forward of the hock joints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Scott C. Johnson, Nathan A. Blum
  • Publication number: 20240419803
    Abstract: A computing system assists in large language model system assisted investigations. The computing system includes network connection hardware configured to connect to a large language model and configured provide to investigation context and investigation goals to the large language model system. The network connection receives from the large language model system, an indication of suggested steps to perform in an investigation, including specific computer executable code to perform a skill in the first step, the skill comprising a supplemental access, analytic or enrichment function. The computing system includes a user interface with a tree interface that causes display of the indication of the suggested steps in a tree format. The computing system is configured to execute the computer executable code to cause the computer system to perform the supplemental access, analytic or enrichment function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: William BLUM, Martin Jean FONTAINE, Sébastien Martin DIOTTE
  • Publication number: 20240415100
    Abstract: Poultry cradles and methods of restraining birds are disclosed. Each poultry cradle may include a torso support, one or more shank clamps, one or more optional shank guides, and a head support. Restraining the shanks of birds using separate shank clamps and optional shank guides can provide additional control over the shanks and, therefore, the toes, of the restrained birds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Dominic Oerter, Matthew H. Erickson, Nathan A. Blum
  • Patent number: 12167707
    Abstract: A seed planter assembly for planting seeds in rows throughout a field includes at least one tank for storing the seeds and a seed hose in communication with the at least one tank for delivering the seeds to the field. The seed planter assembly also includes a support frame for supporting the at least one tank and the seed hose, and a linkage assembly (e.g., including a four-bar linkage) coupled with the support frame and the at least one tank. The linkage assembly is configured for lifting the at least one tank from a first orientation proximate to a support surface to a second orientation spaced farther apart from the support surface. The seed planter assembly can also include an actuator (e.g., a hydraulic actuator) connected between the support frame and the linkage assembly for moving the at least one tank between the first orientation and the second orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: 2BK, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin D. Blum, Kelly Driewer, Bryan Driewer
  • Publication number: 20240411280
    Abstract: A method for operating a process system, in which method one or more actuators in the process system are set by means of one or more manipulated variable values, whereby one or more operating parameters of the process system are influenced. The setting of the one or more manipulated variable values is carried out at least in an operating phase using a self-optimizing control process, wherein the self-optimizing control process comprises the use of model-based reinforcement learning using Gaussian processes, and wherein one or more components of the process system are imaged in a model by means of one or more Gaussian processes, which model is used in the model-based reinforcement learning. The present invention also relates to a corresponding process system and to a method for converting a process system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventor: Nicolas BLUM
  • Publication number: 20240411797
    Abstract: A large language model consumes example query expressions, including a data access function, a data analytics function, or a data enrichment function. The large language model receives a centrally managed ontology. The large language model uses the centrally managed ontology, and identifies skill ontological types from the example query expressions. The skill ontological types are normalized (to the centrally managed ontology) input arguments types or structured output. The large language model receives context for an investigation and identifies a context ontological type. The large language model receives received skills, based on correlation between a skill ontological type, having connections in a graph to the received skills, and the context ontological type. The large language model produces and provides an indication of a suggested skill for the investigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: William BLUM, Sébastien Martin DIOTTE, Martin Jean FONTAINE, Edward Richard SOBEY, Tal Joseph MAOR, Shruti RANJIT, Richard DONAGHY, Michal EZRETS GIL, Cory James CLOWES, Emily Maria MAKEDON, Ross Kingsley WILYMAN
  • Publication number: 20240411763
    Abstract: Methods and systems disclosed herein relate to preventing transmission of invalid or non-compliant transaction data to other entities. A data-furnishing application accesses first transaction data associated with a first account of a first user. The data-furnishing application applies a plurality of data-processing rules to the first transaction data to determine whether the first transaction data is to be suppressed or furnished to another entity. The data-furnishing application determines, based on outputs generated by applying the plurality of data-processing rules, that the first transaction data violates a first condition associated with a first data-processing rule of the third rule category while satisfying a second condition associated with a second data-processing rule of the second rule category. The data-furnishing application generates a first report that excludes the first transaction data in response to determining that the first transaction data violates the first condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Ronald T. Blum, Thanigaivasan Chinnasamy, Prashanth Sravan Kumar Erpula, Ashish Chauhan, Cory Patrick, Parijat Mukherjee, Troy Wise
  • Publication number: 20240412286
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a user interface for preventing data transmission including: applying data processing rules to a set of transaction data to determine a furnishing decision for a subset of the set of transaction data, receiving a selection of one or more data processing rules of the set of data processing rules; determining, based on the selected data processing rules, a list of accounts comprising at least a first account and a second account, wherein the first account is associated with the first data of the subset and the furnishing decision for the first data, and the second account is associated with the second data of the subset and the furnishing decision for the second data; changing the furnishing decision for the first data; and automatically updating the furnishing decision for data associated with each account of the list of accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Ronald T. Blum, Thanigaivasan Chinnasamy, Prashanth Sravan Kumar Erpula, Sathyanarayana Pambi, Ashish Chauhan, Cory Patrick, Hariprasath Pannir Selvam, Rizwan A. Shiek, Troy Wise
  • Patent number: 12157207
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for operating a handheld power tool having an electric motor, the method comprising: S1 providing at least one model signal waveform that is associated with a work progress of the handheld power tool; S2 determining a signal of an operating variable of the electric motor; S3 comparing the signal of the operating variable with the model signal waveform and determining a conformity evaluation on the basis thereof; S4 identifying the work progress at least partially using the conformity evaluation; S5 executing a first routine of the handheld power tool at least partially on the basis of the work progress identified in method step S4. The disclosure also relates to a handheld power tool, in particular an impact driver, comprising an electric motor and a control unit, wherein the control unit is designed to carry out a method according to the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Blum, Stefan Mock, Florian Hoelscher, Dietmar Saur, Simon Erbele, Wolfgang Herberger, Tobias Herr
  • Patent number: 12160229
    Abstract: A switch assembly for a radio frequency signal and corresponding radio frequency module and wireless device is disclosed. An example switch assembly comprises a first node coupled to an input of the switch assembly, a second node coupled to an output of the switch assembly, a first control node, and a common node; a first switch having a first plurality of transistors coupled between the first and second nodes, each transistor of the first plurality of transistors having a gate, a drain, and a source, each gate of the first plurality of transistors being coupled to the common node; a common resistor coupled between the first control node and the common node; and a second switch coupled between the first control node and the common node in parallel to the common resistor, the second switch configured to selectively bypass the common resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory A. Blum, Ajinkya Namdeorao More, Kyle James Miller