Patents by Inventor Adam SAMUELS
Adam SAMUELS 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).
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Publication number: 20190361970Abstract: Described herein is a system and method for modifying electronic documents. While a user is editing an electronic document on a canvas of an application, a trigger event related to an electronic pen is received (e.g., explicitly or inferred). The electronic pen has one or more associated attributes (e.g., type of pen, color of pen, thickness of line, transparency value). In response to the trigger event, which of a plurality of advanced productivity actions related to editing to apply to the electronic document is determined based upon at least one of the associated attributes. The advanced production actions can include, for example, styles, formatting, and/or themes. The electronic document is modified in accordance with the determined advanced productivity action.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2018Publication date: November 28, 2019Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Elise Leigh LIVINGSTON, Daniel Yancy PARISH, Adam Samuel RIDDLE
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Publication number: 20190317988Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for presenting an overlay canvas in response to receiving an editing gesture to existing text on a canvas. In an implementation, user input is received comprising an inking gesture associated with existing text displayed on a canvas in a user interface. The inking gesture is then determined to comprise any of a plurality of editing gestures. In response to the inking gesture comprising an editing gesture, an overlay canvas is presented above the canvas in the user interface. Additional user input is received comprising inking on the overlay canvas. The inking is then incorporated into the existing text on the canvas.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Elise Livingston, Adam Samuel Riddle, L. Tucker Hatfield (deceased), Charles Cummins, Allison Smedley
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Publication number: 20190318652Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology relate to digital inking technology. More specifically, some embodiments relate to use of intelligent scaffolding to teach gesture-based ink interactions. For example, in some embodiments telemetry data on user interactions with a user interface to an application can be collected at a client device. The telemetry data can be analyzed to identify user proficiency with a digital inking gesture. Upon determining a low user proficiency with the digital inking gesture, user interactions resembling a digital inking gesture within the application can be identified. A training interface can be automatically surfaced, on a display of the client device, with specifically scoped training information on the digital inking gesture to improve the user proficiency with the digital inking gesture.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Elise LIVINGSTON, Adam Samuel RIDDLE, Allison SMEDLEY, Robin TROY
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Publication number: 20190144945Abstract: The present invention provides the use of lipocalin 2 (LCN2) as a biomarker for IL-17 mediated diseases and for monitoring the response of a patient to anti-IL-17 therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2019Publication date: May 16, 2019Inventors: Adam Samuel Platt, Stephen Edward Rapecki, Mara Fortunato, David Robert Rainey, John Leigh Rundle, Paul Alfred Smith, Gillian Fairfull Watt
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Publication number: 20190111373Abstract: A filter assembly for a vacuum cleaner has a housing, a filter medium disposed in the housing, a recess formed in a surface of the housing, a tab movable between a first position and a second position, and a fixing member movable between a fixing position and a release position. The fixing member is engageable with the vacuum cleaner when in the fixing position to fix the filter assembly to the vacuum cleaner. The fixing member is disengageable from the vacuum cleaner when in the release position such that the filter assembly may be removed from the vacuum cleaner. The tab is movable between the first and second positions to move the fixing member between the fixing and release positions. The tab is disposed within the recess such that the tab is located below the surface of the housing in the first position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventor: Adam Samuel HILLIARD
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Patent number: 10208349Abstract: The present invention provides the use of lipocalin 2 (LCN2) as a biomarker for IL-17 mediated diseases and for monitoring the response of a patient to anti-IL-17 therapy.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2013Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: UCB BIOPHARMA SPRLInventors: Adam Samuel Platt, Stephen Edward Rapecki, Mara Fortunato, David Robert Rainey, Jon Leigh Rundle, Paul Alfred Smith, Gillian Sairfull Watt
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Patent number: 10181220Abstract: A contact center augmented reality system may include a supervisor device, a location tracker, a state monitor, and an augmenter. The supervisor device may include a display to augment a supervisor view of the contact center. The location tracker may monitor agent locations in the contact center and may monitor the supervisor device location in the contact center. The state monitor may monitor a state of agents of the contact center. The augmenter may instruct the display of the supervisor device to display an agent-state augmentation artifact such that a state of a first agent of the contact center is displayed at a location associated with the first agent.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2017Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: NICE LTD.Inventors: Matthew Lawrence Page, Christopher Garn Seaman, Adam Samuel Horrocks, Owen Edwin Graupman, Kacie Mayberry, Sean Arlington Kirkby, Brian Douglas Minert
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Publication number: 20180225874Abstract: A contact center augmented reality system may include a supervisor device, a location tracker, a state monitor, and an augmenter. The supervisor device may include a display to augment a supervisor view of the contact center. The location tracker may monitor agent locations in the contact center and may monitor the supervisor device location in the contact center. The state monitor may monitor a state of agents of the contact center. The augmenter may instruct the display of the supervisor device to display an agent-state augmentation artifact such that a state of a first agent of the contact center is displayed at a location associated with the first agent.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Matthew Lawrence PAGE, Christopher Garn SEAMAN, Adam Samuel HORROCKS, Owen Edwin GRAUPMAN, Kacie MAYBERRY, Sean Arlington KIRKBY, Brian Douglas MINERT
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Publication number: 20160252095Abstract: An axial compressor (30) is disposed upstream from a compressor wheel (16), and may be mounted in the inlet pipe (32) of a compressor housing (26) of a turbocharger (10). The axial compressor (30) can increase the pressure ratio approximately 1.3. The axial compressor (30) can be driven by a motor (40), such as a magnetic stepper, servo and squirrel cage motor. The axial compressor may have a fan (34) where boost can be controlled by speed of the fan (34), which can be accelerated or decelerated depending on use conditions. A magnetic stepper motor (40) can drive the fan (34) with a fan wheel (36) having magnets (44) associated with energizeable coils (42) that make a rotating magnetic field that the magnets (44) can follow.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2014Publication date: September 1, 2016Inventors: Sanjit CHAGGAR, Malcolm CARR, Steve BIRNIE, Adam SAMUELS, Hussam ZAMEL
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Patent number: 9377302Abstract: The present invention is a distance finder apparatus and system operable to project a laser beam spread in a line across a plane, and to determine the distance between a lens and objects that points of the spread laser beam contacts. The present invention comprises: a rangefinder incorporating an optical plate operable to cause an invisible laser beam to be spread, and a visible laser beam to be scattered, in a line along a plane, and the rangefinder is operable to measure distances at points where beams contact one or more objects; a visible pointer laser; and one or more display units. Locations where the spread beam contacts the one or more objects may be at variant distances, and measurements may be determined at any point along the scattered beam.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Multiwave Sensors Inc.Inventors: Mark Frischman, Bruce Kenneth Clifford, Adam Samuel Ward
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Publication number: 20160024998Abstract: A turbocharger includes a turbine section and a compressor section. The turbine section includes a turbine housing (1) that surrounds a turbine wheel (15). The turbine housing (1) defines an exhaust gas inlet (2), a duct (6) that extends between the inlet (2) and the turbine wheel (15), and a wastegate opening (5) in the duct (6). A, butterfly-type wastegate valve (3) including a valve plate (10) and a rotatable shaft (11) is disposed in the opening (5) and rotates between an open position and a closed position. A spring (4) is attached to the shaft (11) to bias (4) the shaft (11) toward rotation about a longitudinal axis in a first direction; wherein pressure of a gas flowing in the exhaust duct (6) against the valve plate (10) causes a rotary motion of the valve plate (10) and rotatable shaft (11) against the spring bias in a second direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2014Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: BorgWarner Inc.Inventors: Andrew DAY, Mark BURGESS, Adam SAMUELS
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Publication number: 20150161898Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to an Audio-Story Engine that includes a repository of prerecorded audio files that, when played in a certain sequence, with user provided recordings placed throughout, tell a story. To obtain the user provided recordings, the Audio-Story Engine asks the user to make audio recordings of various words or phrases. For example, the Audio-Story Engine may ask the user a series of questions in order to record and store the user's audible responses. Upon completion, the Audio-Story Engine plays back a completed story that incorporates the user's audio recordings by playing an appropriate user recording after playing a prerecorded audio file. This is repeated several times in sequence to form a seamless, customized, audio story. In addition, the Audio-Story Engine may alter the pitch or sound of the user's recorded words to match the pitch of the prerecorded story.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: June 11, 2015Inventors: ANNE CATHERINE BATES, JASON PAUL GAHR, ADAM SAMUEL SCHEFF, JASON BLAKE PENROD, STEPHANIE FARRIS YOUNG, TIMOTHY JAY LIEN, MICHAEL ANTHONY MONACO, JR.
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Patent number: 8961183Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to an Audio-Story Engine that includes a repository of prerecorded audio files that, when played in a certain sequence, with user provided recordings placed throughout, tell a story. To obtain the user provided recordings, the Audio-Story Engine asks the user to make audio recordings of various words or phrases. For example, the Audio-Story Engine may ask the user a series of questions in order to record and store the user's audible responses. Upon completion, the Audio-Story Engine plays back a completed story that incorporates the user's audio recordings by playing an appropriate user recording after playing a prerecorded audio file. This is repeated several times in sequence to form a seamless, customized, audio story. In addition, the Audio-Story Engine may alter the pitch or sound of the user's recorded words to match the pitch of the prerecorded story.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2012Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Hallmark Cards, IncorporatedInventors: Anne Catherine Bates, Jason Paul Gahr, Adam Samuel Scheff, Jason Blake Penrod, Stephanie Farris Young, Timothy Jay Lien, Michael Anthony Monaco, Jr.
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Publication number: 20140125292Abstract: The present invention generally relates to lithium based energy storage devices. According to the present invention there is provided a lithium energy storage device comprising: at least one positive electrode; at least one negative electrode; and an ionic liquid electrolyte comprising an anion, a cation counterion and lithium mobile ions, wherein the anion comprises a nitrogen, boron, phosphorous, arsenic or carbon anionic group having at least one nitrile group coordinated to the nitrogen, boron, phosphorous, arsenic or carbon atom of the anionic group.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicants: MONASH UNIVERSITY, COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: Adam Samuel Best, George Hamilton Lane
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Publication number: 20140104591Abstract: The present invention is a distance finder apparatus and system operable to project a laser beam spread in a line across a plane, and to determine the distance between a lens and objects that points of the spread laser beam contacts. The present invention comprises: a rangefinder incorporating an optical plate operable to cause an invisible laser beam to be spread, and a visible laser beam to be scattered, in a line along a plane, and the rangefinder is operable to measure distances at points where beams contact one or more objects; a visible pointer laser; and one or more display units. Locations where the spread beam contacts the one or more objects may be at variant distances, and measurements may be determined at any point along the scattered beam.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2013Publication date: April 17, 2014Inventors: Mark Frischman, Bruce Kenneth Clifford, Adam Samuel Ward
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Publication number: 20140080134Abstract: The present invention provides the use of lipocalin 2 (LCN2) as a biomarker for IL-17 mediated diseases and for monitoring the response of a patient to anti-IL-17 therapy.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Applicant: UCB PHARMA S.A.Inventors: ADAM SAMUEL PLATT, STEPHEN EDWARD RAPECKI, MARA FORTUNATO, DAVID ROBERT RAINEY, JON LEIGH RUNDLE, PAUL ALFRED SMITH, GILLIAN SAIRFULL WATT
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Patent number: 8617736Abstract: Flexible electrodes comprising: a fabric substrate; a conductive polymer, copolymer or mixture of conductive polymers comprising a first component which has high specific electrochemical capacitance, and a second component which has a lower electrochemical capacitance, lower molecular density, and greater electrical conductivity compared to the first component; and a counterion stable to lithium are described. The first component may be a polymer such as polyaniline or polypyrrole, and second component may be a polymer such as polythiophene or polyEDOT. Copolymers, and polymers formed from co-monomer of these monomer units are also described. The electrodes are used in flexible devices such as flexible energy storage devices.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2009Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research OrganisationInventors: Anand Indravadan Bhatt, Graeme Andrew Snook, Adam Samuel Best, Richard James Neil Helmer, Pamela Margaret Petersen
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Publication number: 20130323689Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to an Audio-Story Engine that includes a repository of prerecorded audio files that, when played in a certain sequence, with user provided recordings placed throughout, tell a story. To obtain the user provided recordings, the Audio-Story Engine asks the user to make audio recordings of various words or phrases. For example, the Audio-Story Engine may ask the user a series of questions in order to record and store the user's audible responses. Upon completion, the Audio-Story Engine plays back a completed story that incorporates the user's audio recordings by playing an appropriate user recording after playing a prerecorded audio file. This is repeated several times in sequence to form a seamless, customized, audio story. In addition, the Audio-Story Engine may alter the pitch or sound of the user's recorded words to match the pitch of the prerecorded story.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: HALLMARK CARDS, INCORPORATEDInventors: ANNE CATHERINE BATES, JASON PAUL GAHR, ADAM SAMUEL SCHEFF, JASON BLAKE PENROD, STEPHANIE FARRIS YOUNG, TIMOTHY JAY LIEN, MICHAEL ANTHONY MONACO, JR.
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Publication number: 20130202973Abstract: An organic cation for a battery, including a heteroatom-containing cyclic compound having at least (2) ring structures formed from rings that share at least one common atom, the cyclic compound having both a formal positive charge of at least +1 and a partial negative charge.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2011Publication date: August 8, 2013Applicants: MONASH UNIVERSITY, COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATIONInventors: George Hamilton Lane, Adam Samuel Best, Anand I. Bhatt, Youssof Shekibi, Bronya R. Clare
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Patent number: 8168331Abstract: An electrochemical element for use at a high temperature has an anode, a cathode comprising an intercalation material having an upper reversible potential-limit of at most 4 V versus Li/Li+ as active material, and an electrolyte arranged between the cathode and anode, which electrolyte comprises an ionic liquid with an anion and a cation a pyrrolidinium ring structure having four Carbon atoms and one Nitrogen atom. Experiments revealed that rechargeable batteries comprising such an intercalation material and N—R1—N—R2-pyrrolidinium, wherein R1 and R2 are alkyl groups and R1 may be methyl and R2 may be butyl or hexyl, are particularly suitable for use at a temperature of up to about 150 degrees Celsius and may be used in oil and/or gas production wells.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 1, 2012Assignee: Shell Oil CompanyInventors: Adam Samuel Best, Hiske Landheer, Franciscus Güntherus Bernardus Ooms