Patents by Inventor Adam J. Smith

Adam J. Smith 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: 20250124643
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to processor communications fabrics. In some embodiments, a processor includes multiple client circuitry and fabric circuitry that includes at least first and second instances of a tile. The tile may include: client inputs configured to interface with client circuits, tile inputs configured to interface with one or more other tile instances, and communication resources that include internal links and outputs. The communication resources may be assignable to the client inputs and output and may include resources to satisfy all requests, in a given cycle, from one or more non-stallable channels supported by the apparatus. The communication resources may also include additional resources allocable, in a given cycle, to one or more stallable channels supported by the apparatus. Control circuitry may, in a given cycle, assign communication resources of a given tile instance to at least a portion of the client inputs and tile inputs for a next cycle, based on priority information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Adam J. Smith, Sergio V. Tota, Christopher G. Martin, Yoong Chert Foo, Terence M. Potter, Max J. Batley
  • Publication number: 20240417841
    Abstract: An optimized metallic thermal spray coating able to achieve a suitable surface finish such that it slides against a hydraulic seal without damaging the surface of the hydraulic seal or causing hydraulic fluid to leak between the two sliding surfaces. The optimized metallic thermal spray coating can achieve a surface finish which has a combination of roughness characteristics consisting of an arithmetical mean roughness, a maximum profile peak height, a mean roughness depth designated, skewness, and a roughness relative material ratio, each of which is within well-defined upper limits and/or ranges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Ardy S. Kleyman, Adam J. Smith, Daming Wang, Levi J. Von Bokel
  • Patent number: 11941742
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to processor communications fabrics. In some embodiments, a processor includes multiple client circuitry and fabric circuitry that includes at least first and second instances of a tile. The tile may include: client inputs configured to interface with client circuits, tile inputs configured to interface with one or more other tile instances, and communication resources assignable to the client inputs and tile inputs. The communications resources may include: multiple internal links, client outputs configured to interface with client circuits, and tile outputs configured to interface with one or more other tile instances. Control circuitry may, in a given cycle, assign communication resources of a given tile instance to at least a portion of the client inputs and tile inputs for a next cycle, based on priority information. The control circuitry may update priority information based on assignment results over multiple cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam J. Smith, Sergio V. Tota, Christopher G. Martin, Yoong Chert Foo, Terence M. Potter, Max J. Batley
  • Publication number: 20230419585
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to processor communications fabrics. In some embodiments, a processor includes multiple client circuitry and fabric circuitry that includes at least first and second instances of a tile. The tile may include: client inputs configured to interface with client circuits, tile inputs configured to interface with one or more other tile instances, and communication resources assignable to the client inputs and tile inputs. The communications resources may include: multiple internal links, client outputs configured to interface with client circuits, and tile outputs configured to interface with one or more other tile instances. Control circuitry may, in a given cycle, assign communication resources of a given tile instance to at least a portion of the client inputs and tile inputs for a next cycle, based on priority information. The control circuitry may update priority information based on assignment results over multiple cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Adam J. Smith, Sergio V. Tota, Christopher G. Martin, Yoong Chert Foo, Terence M. Potter, Max J. Batley
  • Publication number: 20230407100
    Abstract: Improved wear resistant coatings are provided based upon a novel abrasion resistance factor (R) for a given average size of abrasive fine particles. The improved wear resistant coatings exhibit minimal oxide content and minimal porosity, while exhibiting improved wear resistance and hardness. The improved wear resistant coatings are made from a composite material consisting of a hard phase and a metallic binder derived from powder particle sizes ranging from about 0.5 ?m-30 ?m as part of a modified thermal spray process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Adam J. Smith, Ardy S. Kleyman, Daming Wang, Michael S. Brennan
  • Publication number: 20230304124
    Abstract: A molten metal filter box. The filter box includes a filter housing provided in a flow path for molten metal. A horizontal partition is disposed within the filter housing and has at least one filter receiving passage. A filter medium in the shape of a substantially flat plate is positioned within the filter receiving passage and below an inflow path of the molten metal. The filter medium includes a hole. A filter handling tool is disposed within the hole. The filter handling tool can optionally include a handle secured to the molten metal filter box to suspend the filter medium. Advantageously, the filter medium can be removed by grasping the filter handling tool and removing the filter medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Adam J. SMITH, Paul BOSWORTH, Robert FRITZSCH, Mark VINCENT
  • Patent number: 11674198
    Abstract: A molten metal filter box. The filter box includes a filter housing provided in a flow path for molten metal. A horizontal partition is disposed within the filter housing and has at least one filter receiving passage. A filter medium in the shape of a substantially flat plate is positioned within the filter receiving passage and below an inflow path of the molten metal. The filter medium includes a hole. A filter handling tool is disposed within the hole. The filter handling tool can optionally include a handle secured to the molten metal filter box to suspend the filter medium. Advantageously, the filter medium can be removed by grasping the filter handling tool and removing the filter medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PYROTEK, INC.
    Inventors: Adam J Smith, Paul Bosworth, Robert Fritzsch, Mark Vincent
  • Publication number: 20200157654
    Abstract: A molten metal filter box. The filter box includes a filter housing provided in a flow path for molten metal. A horizontal partition is disposed within the filter housing and has at least one filter receiving passage. A filter medium in the shape of a substantially flat plate is positioned within the filter receiving passage and below an inflow path of the molten metal. The filter medium includes a hole. A filter handling tool is disposed within the hole. The filter handling tool can optionally include a handle secured to the molten metal filter box to suspend the filter medium. Advantageously, the filter medium can be removed by grasping the filter handling tool and removing the filter medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Adam J. SMITH, Paul BOSWORTH, Robert FRITZSCH, Mark VINCENT
  • Patent number: 9744189
    Abstract: Lithium is regarded as the gold standard comparator and benchmark treatment for mania. One of the problems associated with Lithium is its narrow therapeutic window. Recent attempts to find new drugs with similar therapeutic activities have yielded new chemical entities. However, these potential new drugs have yet to match the many bioactivities attributable to lithium's efficacy for the treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases. Consequently, an intense effort for re-engineering lithium therapeutics using cocrystallization is currently underway. The evaluation of pharmacokinetics of previously unexplored lithium salts with organic anions (lithium salicylate and lithium lactate) has found that these lithium salts exhibit profoundly different pharmacokinetics compared to the more common FDA approved salt, lithium carbonate, in rats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: University of South Florida
    Inventors: Adam J. Smith, R. Douglas Shytle
  • Patent number: 4861220
    Abstract: A load positioning assembly and method for locating and maintaining a load supporting device on a material handling vehicle, includes a load carrying device mounted on a frame and a load carrying portion elevationally movable along an elevationally oriented axis. A pilot member which is freely movably supported on a carrier connected to the load carrying portion is elevationally movable with the load carrying portion between first and second preselected elevationally spaced apart positions relative to the frame. A first engaging device moves the pilot member in directions transverse to the axis in response to movement of the pilot member toward the first elevational position and maintains the pilot member at a first preselected transverse location relative to the axis and the load supporting device at a preselected transverse location at the first elevational position of the load carrying portion. The load positioning assembly is particularly suited for use on an SGV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 29, 1989
    Assignee: Caterpillar Industrial Inc.
    Inventor: Adam J. Smith