Patents by Inventor Aaron Thomas

Aaron 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: 11592563
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for a rotating optical reflector. Optical systems may have a limited field of view, and so in order to expand the area that the optical system collects data from, the field of view of the optical system may be scanned across a target area. The present disclosure is directed to a rotating optical reflector, which includes a transmissive layer which refracts light onto a reflective layer, which has a normal which is not parallel to the axis about which the optical reflector is rotated. The optical reflector may be both statically and dynamically balanced, which may allow an increased size of the optical reflector, which in turn may increase the aperture of an optical system (e.g., a lidar system) using the rotating optical reflector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Aaron Roos, Michael James Thorpe, Aaron Thomas Kreitinger, Christopher Ray Wilson
  • Publication number: 20230045762
    Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: Kodak Alaris Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Charles GALLAGHER, Aaron Thomas DEEVER
  • Patent number: 11487285
    Abstract: An autopilot recoupling system for a rotorcraft having an automatic flight control system with multiple layers of flight augmentation. The autopilot recoupling system includes an autopilot recoupling input operable to generate an autopilot recoupling signal. An autopilot recoupling signal processor is communicably coupled to the autopilot recoupling input. The autopilot recoupling signal processor is configured to receive the autopilot recoupling signal from the autopilot recoupling input and responsive thereto, determine a state of the automatic flight control system, activate a trim systems layer of the automatic flight control system if the trim systems layer is not active, engage an attitude retention systems layer of the automatic flight control system if the attitude retention systems layer is disengage and recouple an autopilot systems layer of the automatic flight control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Erik John Oltheten, Aaron Thomas Halverson, Eric Gordon Emblin
  • Patent number: 11477268
    Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: KODAK ALARIS INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Charles Gallagher, Aaron Thomas Deever
  • Publication number: 20220292999
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving employee performance data for a group of employees including a particular employee, the employee performance data including particular performance data for the particular employee, the employee performance data associated with key performance indicator (KPIs) for the group of employees including a particular KPI associated with the a task performed by the particular employee; determining, for a plurality of training courses, a probability of each training course being associated with improved performance by the group of employees for each KPI of the KPIs; producing a probability distribution and a confidence score, recommending, based on the probability distribution, one or more recommended training courses for the employee; exploring, based on the confidence score, training courses of the plurality of training courses having a relatively low confidence score; receiving subsequent performance data for a time period following completion of t
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicants: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Kratzer, Gary Gadson, Justin Hone, Sean Griffith, Christopher Rebacz, Jonathan Remington, Antoine Diffloth, Arvind Shankar Prabhakar, Qiuying Jiang, Michael Lemen, Michael Maher, Aaron Thomas, David E. Patterson
  • Publication number: 20220281623
    Abstract: Modular armor for a hard upper torso (HUT) of an atmospheric suit that maintains a specific atmosphere within the suit includes a first outer layer including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface and a second outer layer including a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A core is sandwiched between the first surface of the first outer layer and the first surface of the second outer layer. The armor is fabricated such that the second surface of the first outer layer is conformally affixed to the HUT.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Julie Strickland, Jay Francisco, Pablo T. Sanz Martinez, Bryce Tyler Kelford, Aaron Thomas Noel, Alan Cheung, Patrick J. Nolan, Thomas R. Stankiewicz
  • Publication number: 20220267135
    Abstract: A beverage production system, comprising a cup dispensing station configured to dispense cups, a beverage dispensing station configured to dispense a beverage, and a turntable assembly. The turntable assembly comprising a central axis, an inner turntable including a first row of cup receptacles, and an outer turntable including a second row of cup receptacles. The outer turntable is disposed circumferentially about the inner turntable, and the outer turntable is configured to rotate about the central axis to align the cup receptacles of the second row with the cup dispensing station and the beverage dispensing station. The turntable assembly is configured to align an opening in a cup receptacle in the second row with an opening in a cup receptacle in the first row. A slide assembly includes an arm configured to slide a cup positioned in the cup receptacle in the second row into the aligned opening of the cup receptacle in the first row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas Michael Degnan, Arthur Francois David Levy, Robert William Lyle, Joseph Park, Aaron Thomas, Karl Thomas Szatrowski, Won Suk You, Elvis Junior Palma, Sze Wun Wong
  • Patent number: 11422258
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described for frequency-modulated continuous-wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR). Examples are provided where high-closed-loop bandwidth, active feedback applied to laser frequency chirps may provide increases in the free-running laser coherence length for long-range FMCW distance measurements. Examples are provided that use an asymmetric sideband generator within an active feedback loop for higher closed-loop bandwidth. Examples of using a single shared reference interferometer within multiple active feedback loops that may be used for increasing the coherence length of multiple chirped lasers are described. Example calibrators are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Bridger Photonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Thorpe, Jason Kenneth Brasseur, Peter Aaron Roos, Nathan Joseph Greenfield, Aaron Thomas Kreitinger
  • Publication number: 20220181507
    Abstract: The present invention(s) is directed to novel conductive Mn+1Xn(Ts) compositions exhibiting high volumetric capacitances, and methods of making the same. The present invention(s) is also directed to novel conductive Mn+1Xn(Ts) compositions, methods of preparing transparent conductors using these materials, and products derived from these methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Michael J Ghidiu, Michel W Barsoum, Yury Gogotsi, Aaron Thomas Fafarman, Andrew DeVries Dillon
  • Patent number: 11296243
    Abstract: The present invention(s) is directed to novel conductive Mn+1Xn(Ts) compositions exhibiting high volumetric capacitances, and methods of making the same. The present invention(s) is also directed to novel conductive Mn+1Xn(Ts) compositions, methods of preparing transparent conductors using these materials, and products derived from these methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Drexel University
    Inventors: Michael J Ghidiu, Michel W Barsoum, Yury Gogotsi, Aaron Thomas Fafarman, Andrew DeVries Dillon
  • Publication number: 20220082495
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for open path laser spectroscopy with mobile platforms. An example system may include a first mobile platform and a second mobile platform, each of which supports a payload. A light beam directed from one payload to another may define a measurement path, which may be at a particular height above the ground. The payloads may determine a gas concentration along the measurement path. Wind information at the measurement height may be used to determine a gas flux. One or both of the mobile platforms may then move to a new location, and take a measurement along a new measurement path. By combining the measurement paths, gas flux through a flux surface may be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas Kreitinger, Michael James Thorpe, Peter Aaron Roos
  • Publication number: 20220057202
    Abstract: Measurement apparatuses and methods are disclosed for generating high-precision and—accuracy gas concentration maps that can be overlaid with 3D topographic images by rapidly scanning one or several modulated laser beams with a spatially-encoded transmitter over a scene to build-up imagery. Independent measurements of the topographic target distance and path-integrated gas concentration are combined to yield a map of the path-averaged concentration between the sensor and each point in the image. This type of image is particularly useful for finding localized regions of elevated (or anomalous) gas concentration making it ideal for large-area leak detection and quantification applications including: oil and gas pipeline monitoring, chemical processing facility monitoring, and environmental monitoring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Bridger Photonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas Kreitinger, Michael James Thorpe
  • Publication number: 20220034718
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for anomalous gas concentration detection. A spectroscopic system, such as a wavelength modulated spectroscopy (WMS) system may measure gas concentrations in a target area. However, noise, such as speckle noise, may interfere with measuring relatively low concentrations of gas, and may lead to false positives. A noise model, which includes a contribution from a speckle noise model, may be used to process data from the spectroscopic system. An adaptive threshold may be applied based on an expected amount of noise. A speckle filter may remove measurements which are outliers based on a measurement of their noise. Plume detection may be used to determine a presence of gas plumes. Each of these processing steps may be associated with a confidence, which may be used to determine an overall confidence in the processed measurements/gas plumes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Bridger Photonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas Kreitinger, Michael James Thorpe
  • Patent number: 11136656
    Abstract: A high strength steel comprises up to about 0.25 wt % C, up to about 2.0 wt % Si, up to about 2.0 wt % Cr, up to 14% Mn, and less than 0.5% Ni. It preferably has an Ms temperature less than 50° C. The high strength steel may have a tensile strength of at least 1000 MPa and total elongations of at least about 25% after hot rolling. It may have a tensile strength of at least 1200 MPa and total elongations of at least about 20% after hot rolling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Properties Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Gonzalo Garza-Martinez, Grant Aaron Thomas, Amrinder Singh Gill
  • Publication number: 20210291881
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes capturing, by a machine vision device, an image of an object in a railway environment. The machine vision device is attached to a first train car that is moving in a first direction along a first railroad track of the railway environment. The method also includes analyzing, by the machine vision device, the image of the object using one or more machine vision algorithms to determine a value associated with the object. The method further includes determining, by the machine vision device, that the value associated with the object indicates a potential deficiency of the object and communicating, by the machine vision device, an alert to a component external to the first train car. The alert comprises an indication of the potential deficiency of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Dennis William Morgart, Joshua John McBain, Corey Tremain Pasta, Aaron Thomas Ratledge
  • Patent number: 11112308
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for anomalous gas concentration detection. A spectroscopic system, such as a wavelength modulated spectroscopy (WMS) system may measure gas concentrations in a target area. However, noise, such as speckle noise, may interfere with measuring relatively low concentrations of gas, and may lead to false positives. A noise model, which includes a contribution from a speckle noise model, may be used to process data from the spectroscopic system. An adaptive threshold may be applied based on an expected amount of noise. A speckle filter may remove measurements which are outliers based on a measurement of their noise. Plume detection may be used to determine a presence of gas plumes. Each of these processing steps may be associated with a confidence, which may be used to determine an overall confidence in the processed measurements/gas plumes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Bridger Photonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas Kreitinger, Michael James Thorpe
  • Publication number: 20210273991
    Abstract: A method for reducing the number of images or the length of a video from a digital image collection using a social network, includes receiving a digital image collection captured by a user to be viewed by a viewer; wherein the viewer and the user are members of the same social network and using a processor to access the social network to determine a relationship between a viewer and the user. The method further includes using the processor to determine a set of summarization parameters based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and using the processor to reduce the number of images or the length of the video from the digital image collection using the determined set of summarization parameters to be viewed by the viewer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Kodak Alaris Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Charles GALLAGHER, Aaron Thomas DEEVER
  • Patent number: 11105621
    Abstract: Measurement apparatuses and methods are disclosed for generating high-precision and -accuracy gas concentration maps that can be overlaid with 3D topographic images by rapidly scanning one or several modulated laser beams with a spatially-encoded transmitter over a scene to build-up imagery. Independent measurements of the topographic target distance and path-integrated gas concentration are combined to yield a map of the path-averaged concentration between the sensor and each point in the image. This type of image is particularly useful for finding localized regions of elevated (or anomalous) gas concentration making it ideal for large-area leak detection and quantification applications including: oil and gas pipeline monitoring, chemical processing facility monitoring, and environmental monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Bridger Photonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas Kreitinger, Michael James Thorpe
  • Publication number: 20210225342
    Abstract: A protective cover for electronic music equipment, wherein the protective cover provides protection from liquid spills and from the elements (for example, dust, smoke, and rain) while still allowing for full functionality of the electronic music equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventor: Aaron Thomas
  • Patent number: 11045947
    Abstract: A tool and system for inspecting, handling, sorting, and packing a sealable bag, the tool including: a housing which includes a mount for mechanically mounting the tool to a tip end of a robot arm; at least four displaceable fingers fixed to the housing in a configuration corresponding to dimensions of the sealable bag, each displaceable finger being displaceable in an axial direction of the displaceable finger and having a sensor for sensing displacement of the displaceable finger by more than a predetermined amount; a suction mechanism fixed to the housing and actuatable to lift the sealable bag; and a controller in communication with the sensor and with the suction mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas Bacon, Aerick William Bacon, Thomas Dell Bacon