Patents by Inventor Adam EDWARDS

Adam EDWARDS 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).

  • Publication number: 20180067539
    Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a memory power reduction scheme that can flexibly transition memory blocks among different power states to reduce power consumption (especially with respect to leakage power) in a manner that balances tradeoffs between reduced power consumption and performance impacts. For example, according to various aspects, individual memory blocks may be associated with an access-dependent age, whereby memory blocks that are not accessed may be periodically aged. As such, in response to the age associated with a memory block crossing an appropriate threshold, the memory block may be transitioned to a power state that generally consumes less leakage power and has a larger performance penalty. Furthermore, one or more performance-related criteria may be defined with certain memory blocks to prevent and/or automatically trigger a transition to another power state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Giby SAMSON, Parixit Laljibhai AGHERA, Adam Edward NEWHAM
  • Patent number: 9878167
    Abstract: Techniques provided herein are directed toward providing a selection protocol that can be used in such biological measurement and stimulation systems to select only a portion of the medical implants for reporting during a particular system cycle. In particular, the interrogator device can send the first message that defines a group to the medical implants, then send a second message with the identifier of the group to trigger communications with the medical implants of that group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Linhai He, Osvaldo Alcala, Stephen Jay Shellhammer, Adam Edward Newham
  • Patent number: 9864487
    Abstract: According to various embodiments, a viewing event may be detected, the viewing event corresponding to a user viewing a content item. A view reason associated with the viewing event may be determined, the view reason indicating how the user was notified of the content item or how the user accessed the content item. A privacy value associated with the viewing event may be determined, the privacy value indicating an inferred sensitivity of the user to publication of the viewing event. Further, metadata describing the viewing event may be generated. Moreover, the metadata may be associated with the content item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Quora, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Edward D'Angelo, Rebekah Marie Cox, Sandra Liu Huang, Joel Oren Lewenstein, Tudor Stefan Achim
  • Publication number: 20180001544
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles made of polymers using 3D printing. A layer of prepolymer is deposited on a build plate to form a powder bed. The deposited powder bed is heated to about 50° C. to about 170° C. Then, a solution of activating agent is printed on the powder bed in a predetermined pattern, and a stimulus is applied converting the prepolymer to the final polymer. After a predetermined period of time, sequential layers are printed to provide the three-dimensional article. The three-dimensional object can be cured to produce the three-dimensional article composed of the final polymers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., University of Washington
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boydston, Mark Ganter, Duane Storti, Adam Edward Goetz, Mete Yurtoglu, Michael Byrnes Larsen, Gregory Isaac Peterson
  • Patent number: 9852211
    Abstract: A question-and-answer application having questions with which topics are associated is described. In some embodiments, user-generated topics are assigned to questions to indicate the subject matter covered by the questions. The application logic includes topic merge logic for quickly and efficiently merging two topics, while enabling the topic merge operation to be easily undone if necessary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: Quora, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Edward D'Angelo, Charles Duplain Cheever, Kevin G Der
  • Publication number: 20170326790
    Abstract: The present invention provides high performance polymer (HPP) compositions, methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles made of polymers using molding or 3D printing. The HPP compositions comprise a first HPP dissolved in a solvent and a second HPP present as a solid having particular particle size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., University of Washington
    Inventors: Chang-Uk Lee, Adam Edward Goetz, Yosuke Ashikari, Andrew Jackson Boydston, Mark A. Ganter, Duane William Storti
  • Patent number: 9818145
    Abstract: Recommendations of items may be provided to a customer who purchases items from an online marketplace on behalf of a user account based on the interactions of the customer with the marketplace or with one or more external resources, such as a social network account affiliated with the customer. For example, systems and methods may utilize such interactions to determine which of the purchases of items on behalf of the user account are affiliated with the customer, and which may be affiliated with one or more other individuals. Similarly, the systems and methods may also identify recommendations for customers who have purchased items for delivery to a destination based on other items that have been delivered to the destination, and may further determine when a customer has purchased an item for a recipient who has already received the item from another customer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam James Finkelstein, Adam Edward Shirey, Phivos Costas Avistides
  • Publication number: 20170325088
    Abstract: Techniques for securing transactions on a mobile device are provided. An example method according to these techniques includes receiving an input of a code to authorize a transaction in a security sensitive application, authenticating the transaction responsive to the input of the code, monitoring sensor information indicative of a context change, and authorizing subsequent transactions responsive to the sensor information indicating that the context change has not occurred since receiving the input of the code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Adam Edward NEWHAM, Osman KOYUNCU, Chandrasekhar GHANTA, Ivan McLean, Stuart MOSKOVICS, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Justin McGloin
  • Patent number: 9808993
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles made of polymers using 3D printing. A layer of prepolymer is deposited on a build plate to form a powder bed. The deposited powder bed is heated to about 50° C. to about 170° C. Then, a solution of activating agent is printed on the powder bed in a predetermined pattern, and a stimulus is applied converting the prepolymer to the final polymer. After a predetermined period of time, sequential layers are printed to provide the three-dimensional article. The three-dimensional object can be cured to produce the three-dimensional article composed of the final polymers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignees: Ricoh Co., Ltd., University of Washington
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boydston, Mark Ganter, Duane Storti, Adam Edward Goetz, Mete Yurtoglu, Michael Byrnes Larsen, Gregory Isaac Peterson
  • Publication number: 20170286503
    Abstract: A server device configured to execute an electronic data analysis platform program to store a plurality of modular data processing tools, each modular data processing tool configured to perform data processing with predetermined data types and to combine with other modular data processing tools in a data analysis pipeline, receive a user input of one or more user data sources, map the data of the one or more user data sources to one or more of the predetermined data types, determine a data analytic goal for the mapped one or more user data sources, select one or more modular data processing tools configured to process the one or more predetermined data types mapped to data of the mapped one or more user data sources to generate the data analytic goal, and generate a data analysis pipeline configured to generate the data analytic goal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2016
    Publication date: October 5, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Cezar Augusto Alevatto Guimaraes Neto, Adam Edward Shirey, Anthony Turner, Brian J. Alseth, Daniel Lee Massey, Michael Andrews, Richard P. Lozada
  • Publication number: 20170259072
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be implemented in an implant device capable of being configured by an external hospital interrogator device when the external hospital interrogator device is authenticated, and capable of communicating data regarding a patient when paired with an external home interrogator device. The implant device includes RF communications circuitry, one or more sensors configured to measure and/or collect data regarding the patient, and a control system. The control system is configured to receive instructions from the external hospital interrogator device for configuring the implant device when the external hospital interrogator device is authenticated, and receive identification data from the external hospital interrogator device for pairing the implant device with the external home interrogator device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Adam Edward Newham, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Anand Palanigounder
  • Publication number: 20170260328
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles of polymer materials using 3D printing. A syringe or an inkjet print head prints a solution of prepolymer onto a build plate. The printed prepolymer is exposed to a stimulus whereby the prepolymer is converted to the polymer. After a predetermined time, sequential layers are printed to provide the three-dimensional article. The three-dimensional article can be cured to produce the 3D article made from the final polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicants: Ricoh Co., Ltd., University of Washington
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boydston, Mark A. Ganter, Duane Storti, Adam Edward Goetz, Mete Yurtoglu, Michael Byrnes Larsen, Gregory Isaac Peterson, Di Zhang
  • Patent number: 9753874
    Abstract: Multi-step programming of heat-sensitive non-volatile memory (NVM) in processor-based systems, and related methods and systems are disclosed. To avoid relying on programmed instructions stored in heat-sensitive NVM during fabrication, wherein the programmed instructions can become corrupted during thermal packaging processes, the NVM is programmed in a multi-step programming process. In a first programming step, a boot loader comprising programming instructions is loaded into the NVM. The boot loader may be loaded into the NVM after the thermal processes during packaging are completed to avoid risking data corruption in the boot loader. Thereafter, the programmed image can be loaded quickly into a NV program memory over the peripheral interface using the boot loader to save programming time and associated costs, as opposed to loading the programmed image using lower transfer rate programming techniques. The processor can execute the program instructions to carry out tasks in the processor-based system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam Edward Newham, Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, Seung Hyuk Kang, Jung Pill Kim, Sungryul Kim, Taehyun Kim
  • Publication number: 20170246805
    Abstract: The present invention provides high performance polymer (HPP) compositions, methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles made of polymers using molding or 3D printing. The HPP compositions comprise a first HPP dissolved in a solvent and a second HPP present as a solid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicants: Ricoh Company, Ltd., University of Washington
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boydston, Adam Edward Goetz, Chang-Uk Lee, Gregory Isaac Peterson, Mark A. Ganter, Duane W. Storti, Mete Yurtoglu
  • Publication number: 20170246046
    Abstract: Pant-like absorbent articles having handles on side panels of the article for ease of removal and donning of the absorbent garment and a method for forming is disclosed herein. The article includes a front waist region, a back waist region, and a chassis extending longitudinally between and interconnecting the front and back waist regions attached by at least one side panel. Formed within the side panel is at least one handle. The handle includes a slit formed through the side panel, the slit extending in both the longitudinal and lateral direction to provide a flap material. The flap material is folded towards the waist edge of the side panel to provide an aperture in the side panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Julie Ann Paveletzke, Andrew Mark Long, Joseph Daniel Coenen, Bradley Adam Colvin, Joseph Charles Herb, Adam Edward Suttner, Christopher Peter Olson
  • Publication number: 20170214127
    Abstract: A biomedical system includes: a medical implant capsule including an outer body, an electric device retained by the outer body, and a power input coupled to the electric device, the medical implant capsule having a length, along an axis, and a width transverse to the axis; and an antenna coupled to the power input and configured to: receive power wirelessly and to deliver the power to the power input; wrap around the medical implant capsule, in a transit state, transverse to the length of the medical implant capsule for a distance greater than the width of the medical implant capsule; and expand to a deployed state, at least part of the antenna being further from the axis in the deployed state than in the transit state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Adam Edward NEWHAM, William Henry VON NOVAK, III, Ravindra SHENOY, Rashid Ahmed Akbar ATTAR, Kenneth David EASTON
  • Publication number: 20170201196
    Abstract: A hardware based motor controller may be used to generate chopped signals. The hardware based motor controller may decrease CPU bandwidth needed to perform functions related to motor control. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a motor controller for controlling a brushless motor. The motor controller may include a first carrier generator component for providing a first carrier. The motor controller may also include a first pulse generator component for providing a first pulse at a duty cycle. The first pulse generator component may be coupled to the first carrier generator component. Additionally, the first pulse generator may be configured to combine the first pulse with the first carrier to generate a first output pulse. Additionally, the first pulse generator may also be configured to output the first output pulse to drive a first leg of the brushless motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Moses DERKALOUSDIAN, Adam Edward NEWHAM
  • Patent number: 9695280
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles of polymer materials using 3D printing. A syringe or an inkjet print head prints a solution of prepolymer onto a build plate. The printed prepolymer is exposed to a stimulus whereby the prepolymer is converted to the polymer. After a predetermined time, sequential layers are printed to provide the three-dimensional article. The three-dimensional article can be cured to produce the 3D article made from the final polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignees: Ricoh Co., Ltd., University of Washington
    Inventors: Andrew J. Boydston, Mark A. Ganter, Duane Storti, Adam Edward Goetz, Mete Yurtoglu, Michael Byrnes Larsen, Gregory Isaac Peterson, Di Zhang
  • Patent number: 9697404
    Abstract: A system and method is provided wherein a device can be reprogrammed utilizing one or more programming symbols. A device subject to reprogramming can be a portable device. In one embodiment a device subject to reprogramming can be a portable symbol reading device capable of reading programming symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Hand Held Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Soule, III, Guy H. Berthiaume, Aldo Mario Caballero, Brian V. Conti, Jeffrey Dean Harper, Larry K. Hooks, Adam Edward Meggitt, James T. Sauerwein, Daniel D. Yeakley
  • Patent number: 9504077
    Abstract: The various aspects provide for wirelessly connecting mobile devices and wearable devices, which may enhance battery life and user experience. The embodiments may include a wearable device that may receive from a mobile device a request to wirelessly connect to the wearable device. The wearable device may establish with the mobile device a first wireless connection. The wearable device may recognize termination of the first wireless connection by the mobile device and send to the mobile device a second request to establish a second wireless connection. The wearable device may establish the second wireless connection between the mobile device and the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Adam Edward Newham, Nikhil Jain, Rohit Sauhta, Praveen Kumar Yaramada, Karthik Chitireddy