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: 11586741
    Abstract: A computer security system includes a test management system and associated communication architecture that enables creation of customized tests of computer security application features. A server stores a test script in a custom scripting language. The test script includes a set of control statements that may be organized in a decision tree to control facilitation of the test. Clients poll the server to independently obtain and execute the control statements. Execution of the control statements control which clients participate in a test, which feature will be tested in the test, and what telemetry data will be collected from the clients to evaluate the test. The server evaluates the telemetry data to determine an outcome of the test and determines whether to further distribute or roll back the tested feature based on the test outcome. The testing can be utilized to rapidly and robustly deploy features that will enhance computer security.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Malwarebytes Inc.
    Inventors: Sunil Mathew Thomas, Jonathan Chan, Jonathan Eagan Rackley
  • Patent number: 11587249
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) system for geospatial height estimation may include a memory and a processor cooperating therewith to store a plurality of labeled predicted electro-optic (EO) image classified objects having respective elevation values associated therewith in a semantic label database, and train a model using trained EO imagery and the semantic label database. The processor may further estimate height values within new EO imagery for a geographic area based upon the trained model, and generate an estimated height map for the geographic area from the estimated height values and output the estimated height map on a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Glenn Boudreaux, Mark D. Rahmes, William W. Watkins, Thomas J. Billhartz, Tomoka Yamada, John L. Delay
  • Patent number: 11586939
    Abstract: A method performed by a computing device includes generating a comparative query entigen group set based on a comparative query in accordance with identigen rules, where the comparative query entigen group set represents a most likely interpretation of the comparative query. The method further includes obtaining a first response entigen group from a knowledge database based on a first comparative query entigen group of the comparative query entigen group set, where the first response entigen group substantially includes the first comparative query entigen group. The method further includes obtaining a second response entigen group from the knowledge database based on a second comparative query entigen group of the comparative query entigen group set, where the second response entigen group substantially includes the second comparative query entigen group. The method further includes generating a comparative response based on the first response entigen group and the second response entigen group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: entigenlogic LLC
    Inventors: Frank John Williams, David Ralph Lazzara, Stephen Emerson Sundberg, Ameeta Vasant Reed, Dennis Arlen Roberson, Thomas James MacTavish, Karl Olaf Knutson, Jessy Thomas, Niklas Josiah MacTavish, David Michael Corns, II, Andrew Chu, Theodore Mazurkiewicz, Gary W. Grube
  • Patent number: 11585037
    Abstract: A dosing device or system for dispensing tablets, which can include at least one active ingredient for an automatic washing process, into an automatic washing machine, wherein the dosing device or system is for dispensing one or more, but not all, of the tablets at once into the automatic washing machine, and wherein the dosing device or system can be for dispensing only one tablet at once.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser Finish B.V.
    Inventors: Henry Matthew Lawrence Fletcher, Max William Middleton, Colin Pryor, Simon Burge, Charles Kevin Dillon, Iain Christopher Smith, Mike Andrew Vilhauer, Thomas Murray Fry, Rosanna Elizabeth Parrish, Jörg Peter Pflug, Kai Werner Heppert
  • Patent number: 11586373
    Abstract: Content is captured and archived at an archive center (AC) and, depending upon records management (RM) policy, is managed by the AC or under RM control by a content server (CS). Both the AC and CS may be part of an enterprise content management system. The AC provides a user-friendly interface through which retention zones may be defined, and functionality for applying RM policy. The functionality can be triggered via a specific content property or through a retention zone under RM control. The RM control can be turned on or off from within the AC using the user-friendly interface. Archived content is not moved or duplicated. Rather, metadata and a link to the storage location are sent to the CS which, in turn, creates a content server document that is linked to the archived content. Only a portion of archived content is exposed to the CS through the AC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Thomas Bruckner, Matthias Specht, Nicholas Carter
  • Patent number: 11588274
    Abstract: A connecting device includes a plug connector receivable into a receiving space of a mating connector. In a connection position, a latching arm of the plug connector is engaged with a latch receiver of the mating connector. The plug connector has a securing unit for locking and releasing the latching arm. The mating connector has a counterstop element which, when the plug connector is introduced into the receiving space, strikes a deflection chamfer of the securing unit and deflects a securing arm of the securing unit perpendicularly to the direction of insertion and in parallel to a base side of the plug connector so that, in the connection position, a stop surface of the securing unit is arranged at an offset from a stopper element of the securing unit, and the securing unit is movable into a locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: MD ELEKTRONIK GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Kirschner, Johannes Eben
  • Patent number: 11585103
    Abstract: A ceiling formwork system having a formwork panel which may be placed on at least one vertical support via a mounting head. The mounting head has an anchoring cross-member which in the mounted state on the vertical support is oriented transverse thereto, the length of the anchoring cross-member corresponding to at least one side length of the ceiling formwork panel to be supported, whereby the anchoring cross-member is respectively affixable at its ends to lateral edges of the ceiling formwork panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: PERI SE
    Inventors: Thomas Raudies, Wilfried Haeberle, Stefanie Dietrich, Gisbert Eppelt
  • Patent number: 11584242
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a hybrid vehicle drive system for a vehicle including a first prime mover, a first prime mover driven transmission, a rechargeable power source, and a PTO. The hybrid vehicle drive system can include a control system for reducing or eliminating regenerative braking during a traction control or anti-lock braking event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Power Technology Holdings LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Thomas Dalum
  • Patent number: 11585264
    Abstract: Methods and systems are proposed for controlling a temperature of exhaust gases generated by the engine by operating an E-Turbo of the vehicle. In one embodiment, a method is provided, comprising increasing a power generated by an electric machine mechanically coupled with an exhaust turbine of an E-Turbo of a vehicle or adjusting an engine power based on a speed of the exhaust turbine and an air-fuel ratio (AFR) of an engine of the vehicle of the engine responsive to the speed of the exhaust turbine increasing above a threshold turbine speed. By increasing or decreasing the power generated by the electric machine and/or adjusting the engine power, the temperature of the exhaust gas may be maintained within a threshold temperature range where an efficiency of an aftertreatment system may be maximized, thereby reducing an emissions of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Edgar Klingbeil, Thomas Michael Lavertu
  • Patent number: 11587363
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system for checking a vein pattern. The sensor system comprises a first light source that is configured to emit during operation across the entire surface electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the near infrared range, which are absorbed by hemoglobin. Furthermore, the sensor system comprises a second light source that is configured to emit during operation across the entire surface electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the range of visible light. Furthermore, the sensor system comprises a camera with a first camera chip that is configured to record reflected electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the near infrared range and to convert them into a corresponding infrared image, and with a second camera chip that is configured to record reflected electromagnetic waves with wavelengths in the range of visible light and to convert them into a corresponding photographic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: IRIS-GMBH INFRARED & INTELLIGENT SENSORS
    Inventors: Christian Kressing, Tong Tang, Narges Baharestani, Thomas Trull
  • Patent number: 11587298
    Abstract: A method to efficiently update and manage outputs of real time or offline 3D reconstruction and scanning in a mobile device having limited resource and connection to the Internet is provided. The method makes available to a wide variety of mobile XR applications fresh, accurate and comprehensive 3D reconstruction data, in either single user applications or multi-user applications sharing and updating the same 3D reconstruction data. The method includes a block-based 3D data representation that allows local update and maintains neighbor consistency at the same time, and a multi-layer caching mechanism that retrieves, prefetches, and stores 3D data efficiently for XR applications. Between sessions of an XR device, blocks may be persisted on the device or in remote storage in one or more cache layers. The device may, upon starting a new session, selectively use the blocks from one or more layers of the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: David Geoffrey Molyneaux, Frank Thomas Steinbruecker, Mohan Babu Kandra
  • Patent number: 11588790
    Abstract: A UE communicates with a network gateway to access a provisioning device via a provisioning network. The provisioning device uses identification data of the UE to authenticate the UE for a primary network, and provides primary network configuration data to the UE. Using the primary network configuration data, the UE communicates with the network gateway to access the primary network. The primary network configuration data can include data to enable the UE to establish communications with one or more private networks accessible via the primary network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Oceus Networks, LLC
    Inventor: James Thomas Row, II
  • Patent number: 11585274
    Abstract: A turbofan engine includes an outer bypass duct and a gas turbine engine having an outer casing. The gas turbine engine is disposed in the outer bypass duct such that a bypass airflow passage is formed between the outer casing of the gas turbine engine and the outer bypass duct. The turbofan engine includes a turbine rear frame link assembly including a set of links coupled between the outer bypass duct and the outer casing to support the gas turbine engine relative to the outer bypass duct. The links are arranged around the gas turbine engine on a plane that is perpendicular to a centerline axis of the turbofan engine. None of the links extends through the bypass airflow passage at a position that intersects a radius extending in a vertically downward direction from the centerline axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: William C. Anderson, Thomas E. Agin, Michael William Murrish, Timothy McCann, Caitlin Ford
  • Patent number: 11584421
    Abstract: Foldable strollers with removable seats and related methods are disclosed herein. An example stroller disclosed herein a wheeled frame, a receiver coupled to the frame, and a seat. The seat includes a mount, a lock disposed in the mount; and a handle having an extended positon and a retracted position relative to the seat. The lock is to move from a first position to a second position when the mount is disposed in the receiver to removably couple the seat to the frame, and the lock to move from the second position to the first position to release the seat from the receiver when the handle moves from the retracted position to the extended position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KOLCRAFT ENTERPRISES, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Rolicki, Mark Eyman, Wes Thomas, Kenneth J. Bargo
  • Patent number: 11586761
    Abstract: A method for encrypting database files includes generating a mapping for a plurality of encrypted files. A first encrypted file of the plurality of encrypted files is encrypted with a first encryption key. The method includes generating a second encrypted file by re-encrypting, for a period of time, data in the first encrypted file using a second encryption key. The first encrypted file remains accessible to one or more queries during the period of time. The method includes updating the mapping to associate the second encrypted file with the first encrypted file. The mapping is updated after the second encrypted file has been generated. The method includes preventing a query from accessing the first encrypted file after the second encrypted file has been generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Benoit Dageville, Peter Povinec, Philipp Thomas Unterbrunner, Martin Hentschel
  • Patent number: 11586907
    Abstract: Embodiments of a device include an integrated circuit, a reconfigurable stream switch formed in the integrated circuit, and an arithmetic unit coupled to the reconfigurable stream switch. The arithmetic unit has a plurality of inputs and at least one output, and the arithmetic unit is solely dedicated to performance of a plurality of parallel operations. Each one of the plurality of parallel operations carries out a portion of the formula: output=AX+BY+C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignees: STMICROELECTRONICS S.r.l., STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V.
    Inventors: Surinder Pal Singh, Giuseppe Desoli, Thomas Boesch
  • Patent number: 11584531
    Abstract: An aircraft is disclosed with a fuselage including a cabin delimited by a cabin floor and having crew quarters. The crew quarters include an upper portion above a floor plane defined by the cabin floor and a lower portion beneath the floor plane. The crew quarters include a seat adjustable between a sitting configuration and a berthing configuration. A method of transitioning a crew member of an aircraft to a berthing configuration in a crew quarters is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Alexandre Galin, John Ferneley, Thomas Ahn, Siddhartho Konstantin Banerjee
  • Patent number: 11583454
    Abstract: Powered patient support apparatuses—such as beds, cots, stretchers, or the like—include a plurality of user controls that allow a caregiver to control the steering and/or driving of one or more powered wheels from multiple different locations around the patient support apparatus (e.g. head end, foot end, and/or the sides). The control is carried out by force sensors that detect both an orientation of the applied forces and a magnitude of the applied forces. Translational and/or rotational movement is effectuated, depending upon the magnitude and direction of the forces, as well as the physical location of the applied force relative to a reference point on the support apparatus, such as the center. One or more object sensors may also be included in the support apparatus to assist in steering and/or navigating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Thomas DeLuca, Richard A. Derenne
  • Patent number: 11583781
    Abstract: A ride vehicle system includes a ride track and a ride vehicle. The ride track includes a vehicle rail and an accessory rail. The ride vehicle includes a ride vehicle base, a show element coupled to the ride vehicle base, and a mechanical linkage. The ride vehicle base is configured to interface with the vehicle rail of the ride track and to move along the vehicle rail of the ride track. The show element coupled to the ride vehicle base is configured to actuate with respect to the ride vehicle base. The mechanical linkage includes a first end coupled to the show element and a second end coupled to the accessory rail of the ride track. The mechanical linkage is configured to move along the accessory rail and to actuate the show element based at least in part on a position of the accessory rail with respect to the vehicle rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Scott David Sabens, Christine Marie Sorrentino, Justin Michael Schwartz, Eric Shawn Thomas, Eric Alan Vance
  • Patent number: 11586267
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to managing power provided to a semiconductor circuit to prevent undervoltage conditions. A measured voltage value describing a measured supply voltage at a first subcircuit of a semiconductor circuit can be received, the measured voltage value having a first resolution. A selected metric indicative of a supply voltage present at the first subcircuit can be received, the selected metric having a second resolution higher than the first resolution. The selected metric is calibrated to obtain a calibrated metric when a transition of the measured voltage value occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Strach, Preetham M. Lobo, Tobias Webel