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).

  • ROTOR HUB VIBRATION ATTENUATOR
    Publication number: 20200001987
    Abstract: A vibration attenuation system for attenuating vibrations in a mast of an aircraft includes a weight attached to the mast but free to orbit about the mast. The weight can be comprised of one or more weight assemblies. Embodiments can include a single weight, or plural weight assemblies wherein each weight assembly can include a mechanical interconnecting mechanism so that each weight assembly receives feedback regarding the position and movement of one or more other weight assemblies. Each weight can be associated with a spring that urges the weight towards a neutral position. Rotation of the mast can cause the weight to orbit about the mast and self-excite such that the weight acts against the urging of the spring towards an attenuating position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.
    Inventors: Jouyoung Jason CHOI, David HEVERLY, Michael SEIFERT, Michael SMITH, Frank Brad STAMPS, Thomas PARHAM, JR., Amarjit Olenchery KIZHAKKEPAT
  • BODY MOUNTED CAMERA SYSTEM FOR MONITORING DELIVERIES
    Publication number: 20200005614
    Abstract: A delivery monitoring system comprises a portable camera positioned on a delivery person; a camera activation application executed by a mobile electronic device to control a video-generating operation of the portable camera; and a special-purpose processor that outputs a data instruction to an electronic locking device to unlock an entrance to a location for delivering an item by the delivery person only when the portable camera is recording video.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Walter Lark, Bart Stein, Thomas Nguyen, Brett Provance
  • ENDOSCOPE ATTACHMENT MECHANISM FOR USE WITH SUTURE BASED CLOSURE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20200000456
    Abstract: A suture assembly includes a translation assembly that is axially translatable within a working channel of an endoscope and is adapted to releasably secure and/or release a needle and a distal end cap that is securable to an end of the endoscope and is adapted to releasably secure and/or release the needle in order to pass the needle back and forth between the translation assembly and the distal cap. An attachment mechanism configured to releasably secure the distal endcap to an end of the endoscope.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: KEVIN WINDHEUSER, SHAUN D. COMEE, CHRISTOPHER R. DEUEL, STAN GILBERT, THOMAS JONES, BRIANA J. MORETTI, ASHRITA RAGHURAM
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING SOURCE CODE DEPLOYMENTS
    Publication number: 20200004519
    Abstract: Methods and systems for tracking source code deployments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Matthew Ryall, Matthew Joseph Watson, Jonathan Lowe, Geoff Crain, Sam Tannous, Thomas Bradshaw, Piotr Plewa, Davina Adisusila, Jeroen De Raedt
  • COMBINING LOAD OR STORE INSTRUCTIONS
    Publication number: 20200004550
    Abstract: Various aspects disclosed herein relate to combining instructions to load data from or store data in memory while processing instructions in a computer processor. More particularly, at least one pattern of multiple memory access instructions that reference a common base register and do not fully utilize an available bus width may be identified in a processor pipeline. In response to determining that the multiple memory access instructions target adjacent memory or non-contiguous memory that can fit on a single cache line, the multiple memory access instructions may be replaced within the processor pipeline with one equivalent memory access instruction that utilizes more of the available bus width than either of the replaced memory access instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Harsh THAKKER, Thomas Philip SPEIER, Rodney Wayne SMITH, Kevin JAGET, James Norris DIEFFENDERFER, Michael MORROW, Pritha GHOSHAL, Yusuf Cagatay TEKMEN, Brian STEMPEL, Sang Hoon LEE, Manish GARG
  • ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT WITH ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION
    Publication number: 20200006320
    Abstract: A semiconductor substrate includes a doped region having an upper surface. The doped region may comprise a conduction terminal of a diode (such as cathode) or a transistor (such as a drain). A silicide layer is provided at the doped region. The silicide layer has an area that only partially covers an area of the upper surface of the doped region. The partial area coverage facilitates modulating the threshold voltage and/or leakage current of an integrated circuit device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: STMicroelectronics SA
    Inventors: Thomas BEDECARRATS, Louise DE CONTI, Philippe GALY
  • Optoelectronic Component and Method for Producing an Optoelectronic Component
    Publication number: 20200006913
    Abstract: An optoelectronic component and a method for producing an optoelectronic component are disclosed. In an embodiment an optoelectronic component includes at least one laser source configured to emit at least one laser beam during operation and a self-supporting conversion element arranged in a beam path of the laser beam, wherein the self-supporting conversion element comprises a substrate followed by a first layer, the first layer being directly bonded to the substrate and comprising at least one conversion material embedded in a glass matrix, wherein the glass matrix has a proportion of 50 vol % to 80 vol % inclusive in the first layer, wherein the substrate is free of the glass matrix and of the conversion material and mechanically stabilize the first layer, and wherein the first layer has a layer thickness of less than 200 ?m.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Angela Eberhardt, Florian Peskoller, Jörg Frischeisen, Thomas Huckenbeck, Michael Schmidberger, Jürgen Bauer
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING USER INTERFACE USAGE
    Publication number: 20200004385
    Abstract: For example, in an embodiment, a method of determining user interface usage may comprise collecting, from a user interface including at least one data entry field, data indicating at least one event that occurs as a result of an action performed by a user on a data entry field and data associated with the user interface at the time of the at least one action, extracting, from the data indicating at least one event and the data associated with the user interface, data indicating an entity associated with the at least one event, applying an interval to the data indicating at least one event, the data associated with the user interface, and the data indicating an entity and determining an entity as owner of the event for that interval, and determining a duration of an activity based on a number of intervals that contain a given entity and action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Damon LOCKWOOD, Karin LIM POORTS, Thomas RIECK, Glen SPRAGUE, Jeremy WETHERFORD
  • ACTUATOR FOR A VEHICLE COMPARTMENT
    Publication number: 20200002978
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a compartment mounted to a frame of the vehicle. The compartment includes a box coupled to a vehicle in a fixed position relative to the vehicle and a latch system coupled to the glove to allow a user access to the box. The latch system includes a shape-memory alloy wire guided by a pulley during actuation of the latch system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Cedric KETELS, Tristan J. VANFOSSEN, Julien REA, Louis THOMAS
  • METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING A MAXIMUM SPEED FOR A VEHICLE AND AUTOMATIC DRIVE SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20200001866
    Abstract: A method for determining a maximum speed for a vehicle, including: receiving items of state information concerning a state of at least one vehicle component of the vehicle; and determining a maximum speed of the vehicle on the basis of the state information, such that a stopping path of the vehicle from a recognition of a dangerous state until the vehicle is at a standstill is less than or equal to a specified value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hans-Leo Ross, Thomas Friedrich
  • METHODS AND APPARATUS TO IDENTIFY SPONSORED MEDIA IN A DOCUMENT OBJECT MODEL
    Publication number: 20200007637
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify sponsored media in a Document Object Model. An example method includes in response to initiation of a search for sponsored media in a first branch of a document object model for a webpage, initiating a first timer having a first search time period and a second timer having a second search time period, the first search time period and the second search time period overlap, the search to be terminated upon completion of traversing the first branch when the search reaches a document node that is at a root of the first branch, the first branch including a candidate node. The example method also includes in response to identifying the candidate node as sponsored media, parsing the sponsored media to generate monitoring information, and modifying a user agent setting to include a unique identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Sturm, Nicholas Naveen Rau, Ryan J. O'Hearn, Jeremy Wade Bennett
  • Dentifrice composition and method of use
    Patent number: 10518113
    Abstract: An exfoliating dentifrice composition is described that contains a plurality of granules and an orally acceptable vehicle. The granules include at least one polymeric binding agent. The composition includes at least one abrasive agent having an average particle diameter of 0.01 mm to 4 mm. Also included are methods of exfoliating an oral cavity soft tissue by use of the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive Company
    Inventors: Thomas Boyd, Evangelia Arvanitidou, Joe Vazquez, Ying Yang, Qing Claire He, Mary Horchos
  • Mitigating binocular rivalry in near-eye displays
    Patent number: 10523930
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed herein related to reducing binocular rivalry in a near-eye display. One example provides a head-mounted display device having a near-eye display system configured to output a first-eye image to a first eyebox and a second-eye image to a second eyebox. The head-mounted display device is configured to receive an input of a three-dimensional (3D) location of a pupil of a first eye and a 3D location of a pupil of a second eye relative to the near-eye display system, based upon the 3D location of the pupil of the first eye and of the second eye, determine a location at which the pupil of the first eye begins to exit the first eyebox, and attenuate a luminance of the second-eye image at a location in the second-eye image based upon the location at which the pupil of the first eye begins to exit the first eyebox.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Calbraith Crisler, Robert Thomas Held, Bernard Charles Kress
  • Membrane digital analog switches
    Patent number: 10523233
    Abstract: A membrane digital analog switch includes an input button surface adapted to receive an input pressure from a user, and a digital switch positioned below the input button surface to generate a digital switch activation signal when the received pressure on the input button surface is greater than or equal to a specified digital pressure threshold. The membrane digital analog switch also includes an analog switch adapted to generate an analog switch activation signal when the received pressure on the input button surface is greater than or equal to a specified analog pressure threshold. The specified analog pressure threshold is greater than the specified digital pressure threshold, the digital switch activation signal is a binary digital signal, and the analog switch activation signal is variable and corresponds to an analog sensed value of the received pressure on the input button surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Inventors: David Stagg, Thomas Hornung, Ryan Wooten
  • Autonomous ROVs with offshore power source that can return to recharge
    Patent number: 10523047
    Abstract: A resident remotely operated vehicle may be deployed subsea by deploying a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) (200) configured to be disposed and remain resident subsea for an extended time where the ROV comprises an ROV electrical power connector port (202) to be operatively connected to an electrical power supply (700) dedicated to the ROV. An RTMS configured to be disposed subsea for an extended time is also deployed subsea (210), typically proximate the ROV. A subsea docking hub subsea is also deployed subsea proximate the RTMS and operatively connected to the ROV and the RTMS. In addition, an umbilical is connected from the subsea docking hub to a subsea structure and a signal supplied from the subsea structure to the ROV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Chance, Kevin Francis Kerins, Christopher S. Mancini, Peter Andrew Robert Moles
  • Filovirus therapy
    Patent number: 10519219
    Abstract: The present invention provides antibodies, for use in the treatment, suppression prevention of Filovirus disease, particularly Ebola virus disease. Also provided immunogens for use in eliciting such antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignees: The Secretary of State for Health, MicroPharm Limited, The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford
    Inventors: Miles Carroll, Stuart Dowall, Roger Hewson, Ian Cameron, John Landon, Antra Zeltina, David Stuart, Thomas Bowden
  • Process and additive to improve adhesion of building compositions to substrates
    Patent number: 10519064
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of an additive as well as a process to improve the adhesion of a mortar to a building substrate, wherein the mortar is mixed with said additive and is applied to a building substrate selected from the group of polystyrene-containing substrates, polyolefin-containing substrates or polyvinyl chloride-containing substrates, the additive containing (i) a plasticizer that is liquid at 50° C. or lower, has a boiling point of 100° C. or higher, and that has a solubility parameter ? 25° C. between 22.5 MPa1/2 and MPa1/2; (ii) optionally, a filler that has a BET surface area of at least 40 m2/g; (iii) optionally, a biopolymer, (iv) optionally, a protective colloid; and (v) optionally, a water-insoluble film-forming (co)polymer based on ethylenically unsaturated monomers. The invention also covers an additive and a kit of parts suitable for use in the above process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: NOURYON CHEMICALS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Hongli Willimann, Robert Koelliker, Andrey Petrovich Pustovgar, Hans Wicki, Urs Heini, Thomas Aberle
  • Household device having an input means locking device
    Patent number: 10520248
    Abstract: A household device, in particular a refrigeration device, includes an electronic control device configured to control at least one function of the household device, an input device connected to the control device, having at least one input and being configured to supply an assigned control signal to the control device, based on a manual actuation of the at least one input. An input locking device, in its locked state, is configured to prevent controlling of the function of the household device, despite the at least one input being actuated, and in its unlocked state, is configured to permit controlling of the function of the household device when the at least one input is actuated. The input locking device is configured and/or constructed for shifting the input locking device into the locked state, after the at least one input has not been actuated over a predefined time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Arens, Christoph Hauzeneder
  • Motion sensor
    Patent number: D871240
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Burns, Mark Graziani, Sunny Kim
  • Shin guard plate
    Patent number: D871678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: SIRCHIE ACQUISITION COMPANY, LLC.
    Inventors: John Roby, Jason Emerline, Andrew Mariella, Thomas Africa, Kevin Vititoe, Sherry Jones