Patents by Inventor A. Steven Wayne
A. Steven Wayne 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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Patent number: 11964692Abstract: A vehicle hitching assistance system includes a controller executing an initial alignment process including searching for a trailer within a specified area of image data that is less than a total field of the image data in directions corresponding with both a longitudinal distance between the vehicle and the trailer and a lateral direction perpendicular to the longitudinal distance, presenting an indication to a driver of the vehicle to reposition the vehicle when the trailer is not identified within the specified area, and removing the indication when the trailer is identified within the specified area. The controller further executes an automated backing process upon identifying the trailer within the specified area, including identifying a coupler of the trailer and outputting a steering signal to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to steer to align a hitch ball of the vehicle with the coupler of the trailer during reversing.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Luke Niewiadomski, Douglas Rogan, Shannon Brooks-Lehnert, Chen Zhang, Roger Arnold Trombley, Peter Ling, Kenneth Michael Mayer, Seyed Armin Raeis Hosseiny, Bo Bao, Steven Wayne Friedlander
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Publication number: 20240127785Abstract: Earpieces and methods for acute sound detection and reproduction are provided. A method can include measuring an external ambient sound level (xASL), monitoring a change in the xASL for detecting an acute sound, estimating a proximity of the acute sound, and upon detecting the acute sound and its proximity, reproducing the acute sound within an ear canal, where the ear canal is at least partially occluded by an earpiece. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: Steven Wayne Goldstein, John Usher, Marc Andre Boillot
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Patent number: 11957250Abstract: In one example, this disclosure describes a method including receiving, at a central controller of an air mattress system, a plurality of air pressure value, determining a plurality of average values using the plurality of the received air pressure values, calculating a difference value between a first one of the plurality of average values and a second one of the plurality of average values, comparing the difference value to a threshold value, determining, based on the comparison, whether a user of the air mattress system moved.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Sleep Number CorporationInventors: Wade Daniel Palashewski, Rob Nunn, Matthew Wayne Tilstra, Steven Jay Young, Carl Hewitt, Yuri Zhovnirovsky
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Patent number: 11954987Abstract: The present disclosure describes a system and method designed to protect the contents of a region or space within a facility (e.g., building, home, vehicle, outdoor space, etc.). The system is configured to identify an area to be protected (e.g., nightstand, medicine cabinet, safe), monitor surroundings, and manage and deploy response(s) to threats to the region or space under protection. The system may also be configured to provide incremental warnings, interventions, or countermeasures to deter people or animals from accessing the Protected Space.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Intellishot Holdings Inc.Inventor: Steven Wayne Goldstein
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Publication number: 20240110515Abstract: A gas turbine engine including: a fan assembly comprising a fan; and a turbomachine drivingly coupled to the fan and including a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order and defining in part a working gas flowpath, the gas turbine engine defining a bypass passage over the turbomachine; the turbomachine further including a heat exchanger and defining an annular cooling passage extending between an inlet and an outlet, the inlet in airflow communication with the working gas flowpath at a location upstream of the compressor section and the outlet in airflow communication with the bypass passage, the heat exchanger in thermal communication with an airflow through the cooling passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Andrew Hudecki, Steven Douglas Johnson, Eric Barre, John Carl Glessner, Efren Souza Chavez
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Patent number: 11949696Abstract: A system determines baseline deployment properties of operating system deployments stored by a deployment repository and endpoint deployment properties of a deployed operating system executed by an endpoint device. An artificial intelligence model is configured to determine a security response based at least in part on the endpoint deployment properties of the endpoint device. By providing the endpoint deployment properties to the artificial intelligence model, a mismatch value is determined that corresponds to an amount that the endpoint deployment properties are different than the baseline deployment properties. Based on the mismatch value, an action is determined to improve security of the deployed operating system executed by the endpoint device. The determined action is executed to improve security of the deployed operating system.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Bank of America CorporationInventors: Jeffrey Wayne Texada, Steven E. Sinks
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Patent number: 11945127Abstract: A hair trimmer is provided, including a trimmer housing having a drive end, a drive shaft projecting from the drive end, a support bracket associated with the drive end, and a cutting workhead connectable to the drive shaft and being supported on the trimmer by the support bracket. The cutting workhead is removable from operational engagement with the trimmer housing without the use of tools.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: WAHL CLIPPER CORPORATIONInventors: Steven Wayne Arndt, Edward D. Brill, Ronaldo J. Santiago, Scott W. Beu, Rick Hering
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Patent number: 11927883Abstract: A performance monitor determines a performance characteristic of a plurality of dispensers receiving fluid from a reservoir. Each of the plurality of dispensers has an actuator that, when actuated, causes the each of the dispensers to generate a droplet of the fluid. A driver generates a drive command to the actuator to adjust a physical attribute of the droplet based on the performance characteristic to satisfy a performance criteria.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Steven Wayne Burns, Logan L. Simpson, Matthew C. Traub, Adam Shackleton, Whitney Longsine, Brent Andrew Snyder
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Publication number: 20240078074Abstract: An analysis system has at least one monitoring assembly that includes at least one microphone to monitor an acoustic field proximate the monitoring assembly. The at least one microphone produces at least one microphone signal responsive to the acoustic field. The analysis system further includes a data storage device configured to buffer the at least one microphone signal and an audio analysis system configured to analyze a content of the data storage device where the audio analysis system is configured to analyze the content of the buffer to process at least a sound into a response or action.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: Steven Wayne Goldstein, John Usher
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Patent number: 11918185Abstract: A method of preparing a robotic surgery apparatus for a medical procedure can include covering a manipulator unit of the robotic surgery apparatus with a first sterile barrier by coupling a drape coupler of the first sterile barrier to a bottom surface of the manipulator unit and wrapping a drape of the first sterile barrier around side and top surfaces of the manipulator unit. The drape can be coupled to the drape coupler. The drape can be made of material that is more flexible than material of the drape coupler. The method can include covering an arm of the robotic surgery apparatus supporting the manipulator unit with a second sterile barrier that is distinct from the first sterile barrier by coupling the second sterile barrier to the arm and wrapping the second sterile barrier around the arm.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Titan Medical Inc.Inventors: Perry A. Genova, Sachin A. Sankholkar, Chad Clayton Walters, Michael Edward Laut, Steven Wayne Bockmann
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Publication number: 20240070013Abstract: Systems and methods for are provided for predicting impending failure of a database and preemptively initiating mitigating failover actions, for example by shedding connections or redirecting connection requests to an alternate database that can fulfill resources being requested. In an example embodiment, to detect a slow or unstable database, connection wait times are monitored over a rolling window of time intervals, a quantity of intervals in which at least one excessive wait time event occurred are counted during the time window, and if the quantity exceeds a threshold, the database is deemed unavailable, thereby triggering connection adjustments.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: eBay Inc.Inventors: Timothy David ROBISON, Steven Bruce WEST, Sarang Mukund KULKARNI, Douglas Wayne HATHAWAY
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Patent number: 11917367Abstract: A wearable multifunction device or earpiece or a pair of earpieces includes one or more processors, at least one microphone coupled to the one or more processors, a biometric sensor coupled to the one or more processors, and a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory having computer instructions causing the one or more processors to perform the operations of sensing a remaining battery life and based on the sensing, prioritizing one or more of the functions of always on recording, biometric measuring, biometric recording, sound pressure level measuring, voice activity detection, key word detection, key word analysis, personal audio assistant functions, transmission of data to a tethered phone, transmission of data to a server, transmission of data to a cloud device.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Staton Techiya LLCInventor: Steven Wayne Goldstein
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Patent number: 11917100Abstract: A communication device and method can include one or more processors operatively coupled to memory and an audible output device, where the one or more processors initiates a call from a calling party that includes an audio clip associated with the call.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Staton Techiya LLCInventor: Steven Wayne Goldstein
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Publication number: 20240058974Abstract: A hair clipper attachment comb is provided for use with a powered hair clipper having a clipper bladeset including a stationary blade and a moving blade reciprocating laterally relative to the stationary blade. Included on the attachment comb is a comb base having a rear edge in operational relationship with the stationary blade and an opposite front edge, the base defining a centerline extending between the rear edge and the front edge. A plurality of comb teeth are provided, each having a tooth base associated with the front edge and a tip opposite the tooth base. The teeth are arranged on the comb to have a nonuniform spacing between adjacent teeth relative to the centerline, such that the spacings of the teeth are bilaterally symmetrical about the centerline.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventors: George William GASSMAN, Steven Wayne ARNDT, Marcus Willi Karl Gerhard BOSCH
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Publication number: 20240037202Abstract: Devices and methods to retrieve acoustic data and identify voices within the acoustic data.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: Steven Wayne Goldstein, John P. Keady
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Publication number: 20240025062Abstract: A hair trimmer is provided, including a trimmer housing having a drive end, a drive shaft projecting from the drive end, a support bracket associated with the drive end, and a cutting workhead connectable to the drive shaft and being supported on the trimmer by the support bracket. The cutting workhead is removable from operational engagement with the trimmer housing without the use of tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Steven Wayne ARNDT, James Harry CHAMBERS
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Patent number: 11856375Abstract: An earpiece (100) and acoustic management module (300) for in-ear canal echo suppression control suitable is provided. The earpiece can include an Ambient Sound Microphone (111) to capture ambient sound, an Ear Canal Receiver (125) to deliver audio content to an ear canal, an Ear Canal Microphone (123) configured to capture internal sound, and a processor (121) to generate a voice activity level (622) and suppress an echo of spoken voice in the electronic internal signal, and mix an electronic ambient signal with an electronic internal signal in a ratio dependent on the voice activity level and a background noise level to produce a mixed signal (323) that is delivered to the ear canal (131).Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: Steven Wayne Goldstein, Marc Andre Boillot, John Usher, Jason McIntosh
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Publication number: 20230409276Abstract: An analysis system has at least one monitoring assembly that includes at least one microphone to monitor an acoustic field proximate the monitoring assembly. The at least one microphone produces at least one microphone signal responsive to the acoustic field. The analysis system further includes a data storage device configured to buffer the at least one microphone signal and an audio analysis system configured to analyze a content of the data storage device where the audio analysis system is configured to analyze the content of the buffer to process at least a sound into a response or action.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Staton Techiya LLCInventors: Steven Wayne Goldstein, John Usher
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Patent number: 11848022Abstract: A system includes a first microphone that captures audio, a communication module communicatively coupled to the first microphone, a logic circuit communicatively coupled to the first microphone and communication module, a speaker operatively coupled to the logic circuit, and an interaction element. The interaction element and logic circuit are configured to initiate control of audio content for output from the speaker in response to at least one voice command detected in captured audio. Other embodiments are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: Staton Techiya LLCInventor: Steven Wayne Goldstein
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Patent number: D1022442Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Virtue Concepts Pty LtdInventors: Peter Wayne Virtue, Steven Martinuzzo, Andrew Fanning, Nathan Scanlon, Craig Burton