Patents by Inventor A. Thomas

A. Thomas 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: 11924077
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for evaluating connections between nodes in a mesh network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ITRON, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas F. Uhling, Keith Wayne Barnes
  • Patent number: 11918216
    Abstract: An adapter assembly includes a switch actuator, an actuation bar, and a latch. The switch actuator is movable between a proximal position, in which the switch actuator actuates a switch, and a distal position. The latch is movable between a first position, in which the latch permits proximal movement of the switch actuator, and a second position, in which the latch prevents proximal movement of the switch actuator. The latch is configured to move from the first position toward the second position in response to the actuation bar moving toward a proximal position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Elizabeth Contini, Kelly Valentine, Thomas Wingardner, David McCuen, Matthew Chowaniec, John Beardsley, Russell Pribanic, Xingrui Chen, Christopher Switalski
  • Patent number: 11919242
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a 3D printer includes the steps of providing information obtained in a factory calibration indicating a center of an inner diameter of a tip orifice in a metal extrusion nozzle and a center of a tip surface for the nozzle and inductively sensing the nozzle with an eddy current sensor when secured to a print head on a gantry or robotic arm of the 3D printer to identify a sensed location of the center of the tip surface of the nozzle. The method includes determining a location of the center of the inner diameter of the tip orifice on the nozzle on the print head and utilizing the provided information to locate the center of the inner diameter of the tip orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Stratasys, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Bosveld, Thomas Peter Paul
  • Patent number: 11918628
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a controlled-release parathyroid hormone (PTH) compound in which PTH(1-34) is reversibly conjugated to a branched polyethylene glycol. The invention further relates to a pharmaceutical composition of the compound. The compound or pharmaceutical composition is useful for treatment, control, delay or prevention of a condition that can be treated, controlled, delayed or prevented with PTH.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ASCENDIS PHARMA BONE DISEASES A/S
    Inventors: Kennett Sprogøe, Felix Cleemann, Guillaume Maitro, Mathias Krusch, Thomas Wegge, Joachim Zettler
  • Patent number: 11921355
    Abstract: Techniques for providing wearable electronic devices with electrical components are disclosed. The electrical components can provide electrical technology to eyewear to facilitate audio support including enhanced hearing. The electrical components can operate independently or together with other electrical components provided elsewhere. The wearable electronic devices with electronic components can, for example, provide audio output, audio enhancements, or event-related audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: IngenioSpec, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas A. Howell, David Chao, C. Douglass Thomas, Peter P. Tong
  • Patent number: 11922734
    Abstract: An incident management system for managing an incident response may be provided. The incident management system may include an incident management (IM) computing device and a vehicle. The IM computing device may include a processor and memory, the processor may be programmed to receive a notification that an incident has occurred, the notification including sensor data and sub-system data. The processor may analyze the data to determine an incident response, the determination including categorizing the incident based on damage determined from the data. The processor may also identify a responding party based on the incident response and the category of the incident. The processor may further parse the data to generate a set of critical data. The critical data may be based on the responding party. The processor may transmit a message to the responding party including the critical data and the location of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Jennifer Criswell Kellett, An Ho, Jerome Scott Trayer, Jacob Thomas Simonson, Jeremy Myers, Kip Wilson
  • Patent number: 11922810
    Abstract: A vehicle adjustment system includes one or more processors configured to receive data from one or more sensors coupled to a vehicle that is in a stationary position. The one or more processors are also configured to analyze the data to determine whether an object is within a buffer zone surrounding the vehicle while the vehicle is in the stationary position. In response to determining that the object is within the buffer zone while the vehicle is in the stationary position, the one or more processors are configured to provide control signals to one or more driving components of the vehicle to reposition the vehicle to an alternate position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
  • Patent number: 11918314
    Abstract: A catheter procedure system includes a bedside system having a guide wire, a guide wire advance/retract actuator coupled to the guide wire and a guide wire rotate actuator coupled to the guide wire and a workstation coupled to the bedside system. The workstation includes a user interface, at least one display and a controller coupled to the bedside system, the user interface and the at least one display. The controller is programmed to advance the guide wire through a path using the guide wire advance/retract actuator, wherein the guide wire is rotated a predetermined amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Corindus, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven J. Blacker, Christopher Zirps, Thomas Bromander, David Handler, Tal Wenderow
  • Patent number: 11925128
    Abstract: An ionic transistor including a first source, a first drain spaced apart from the first source, and a first storage layer electrically connected to the first source and the first drain. The ionic transistor also includes a second source spaced apart from the first source, a second drain spaced apart from the second source, and a second storage layer electrically connected to the second source and the second drain. The ionic transistor further includes an electrolyte layer situated between and electrically connected to the first and second storage layers. The ionic transistor may be implemented as non-volatile memory in a machine learning (ML) application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Lei Cheng, Thomas Rocznik
  • Patent number: 11918489
    Abstract: This disclosure includes an expansion driver for adjusting expandable implants, the expansion driver including an input shaft operably connected to at least one bevel gear, the at least one bevel gear configured to engage each of a first gear and a second gear; the first gear connected to a first output shaft, the first output shaft terminating in a first driver configured to communicate with a first actuator of an expandable implant; the second gear connected to a second output shaft, the second output shaft annularly disposed around at least a portion of the first output shaft; and at least one pinion configured to transfer a torque from the second output shaft to a second driver extending parallel to the first driver and configured to communicate with a second actuator of the expandable implant. Upon a rotation of the input shaft, a torque is applied to at least one of the first driver and the second driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Nuvasive Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Besaw, Thomas Sweeney, III, Christopher Stein
  • Patent number: 11924246
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting and identifying malicious sites using machine learning. A computing platform may receive a uniform resource locator (URL). The computing platform may parse and/or tokenize the URL to reduce the URL into a plurality of components. The computing platform may identify human-engineered features of the URL. The computing platform may compute a vector representation of the URL to identify deep learned features of the URL. The computing platform may concatenate the human-engineered features of the URL to the deep learned features of the URL, resulting in a concatenated vector representation. By inputting the concatenated vector representation of the URL to a URL classifier, the computing platform may compute a phish classification score. In response to determining that the phish classification score exceeds a first phish classification threshold, the computing platform may cause a cybersecurity server to perform a first action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Proofpoint, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Sanford Jones, Zachary Mitchell Abzug, Jeremy Thomas Jordan, Giorgi Kvernadze, Dallan Quass
  • Patent number: 11922274
    Abstract: Quantum dot devices with three of more accumulation gates provided over a single row of a quantum dot formation region are disclosed. Each accumulation gate is electrically coupled to a respective doped region. In this manner, multiple single electron transistors (SETs) are provided along the row. Side and/or center screening gates may be used to apply microwave pulses for qubit control and to control electrostatics so that source and drain regions of the multiple SETs with quantum dots formed along the single row of a quantum dot formation region are sufficiently isolated from one another. Such quantum dot devices provide strong spatial localization of the quantum dots, good control over quantum dot interactions and manipulation, good scalability in the number of quantum dots included in the device, and/or design flexibility in making electrical connections to the quantum dot devices to integrate the quantum dot devices in larger computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Hubert C. George, James S. Clarke, Ravi Pillarisetty, Brennen Karl Mueller, Stephanie A. Bojarski, Eric M. Henry, Roza Kotlyar, Thomas Francis Watson, Lester Lampert, Samuel Frederick Neyens
  • Patent number: 11918588
    Abstract: A method for treating a subject with symptoms of tinnitus and pharmaceutical compositions for treating tinnitus, the pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more of the following: sazetidine, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of sazetidine, varenicline, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of varenicline, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Southern Illinois University
    Inventors: Donald Caspary, Thomas Brozoski, Brandon Cox
  • Patent number: 11920067
    Abstract: Pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions and articles that include a layer of the pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions are provided. The pressure-sensitive adhesive compositions are particularly well suited for use with substrates that have been considered to have difficult to bond to surfaces such as those routinely encountered in the automotive industry. For example, the pressure-sensitive adhesive can be adhered to clear coat compositions, painted surfaces, and various polymeric materials having low energy surfaces (e.g., surfaces having a surface energy no greater than 35 dynes per centimeter).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Thomas Q. Chastek, Robert D. Waid, Shujun J. Wang, Ross J. DeVolder, Doreen Eckhardt
  • Patent number: 11920411
    Abstract: A drive unit of a top drive system includes a drive stem having a plurality of ports from an exterior thereof to an interior thereof. A plurality of sliding coupling members is disposed in the ports. A coupling collar encircles the drive stem and has actuation surfaces and recessed surfaces on an interior thereof, wherein the recessed surfaces align with the ports when the coupling collar is in a first position, and the actuation surfaces align with the ports when the coupling collar is in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Henke, Michael Kratzert, Thomas Veit, Kevin Wood
  • Patent number: 11920941
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method of selecting a route for a user is disclosed. The method includes a routing computer presenting a map on a display operably coupled to the routing computer. The routing computer receives a start location and distance criteria via user input, and a plurality of routing criteria. The routing computer determines a plurality of routes that start and end at the start location based on the distance criteria and the routing criteria, and displays at least one of the plurality of routes on the map. Further, the routing computer receives route editing instructions via user input, and modifies at least one of the plurality of routes based on the editing instructions to create one or more modified routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sandra Lynn Mcbride, Thomas Charles Mcbride
  • Patent number: 11920154
    Abstract: The present invention provides compositions and methods for the culture and maintenance of pluripotent stem cells. More particularly, the present invention provides for compositions and methods for culturing, maintaining, growing and stabilizing primate pluripotent stem cells in a feeder-free defined media further comprising human serum, or a soluble attachment component of the human serum, for promoting cell attachment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ViaCyte, Inc.
    Inventors: Allan J Robins, Thomas C Schulz
  • Patent number: 11918248
    Abstract: A process and system provides for atraumatic preparation of morselized Tissue Particles (TP)s, such as Full Thickness Skin Graft Particles (FTSGPs), cartilage particles and other organ tissue particles, in a liquid medium. The resultant tissue product may be a suspension of Tissue Particles in an aqueous solution and containing highly viable cells and may be rapidly prepared at bedside or in the operating room and conveniently delivered to a patient through a syringe or similar applicator. The morselized Tissues Particles may be used for surgical applications including wound healing, cosmetic surgery, and orthopedic cartilage repairs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: TissueMill Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Andrew Davenport, Paul Mulhauser, Gregory C. Guinan
  • Patent number: D1016497
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventor: Thomas R. Corrigan
  • Patent number: D1017002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Hestia Concepts Ltd.
    Inventor: Samuel Haydn Andrew Thomas