Patents by Inventor Adam Thomas

Adam 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).

  • Publication number: 20220247805
    Abstract: A server operates between a patron (user), a subscriber (e.g., owner of a venue of exhibits and its website; museum, stadium, zoo, theme park, etc.), and possibly third parties such as a content distribution network (CDN). Access and content delivery are based on 1) control information provided to a patron device by physical objects at the venue and sent by the patron device to the server as part of a mutual authentication to one another, 2) user-specific information corresponding to the patron device, and 3) a pre-authorization exchange granting user-device access to physical objects and the server with the server receiving access to the user-specific information in order to locate requested information and select a subset thereof adapted in accordance with the user information. Moving physically between exhibits, a patron device rapidly disengages and re-engages the server, based thereon, without repeated logins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Andrea J. Hansen Sorensen, Ben Whitaker, John Waite, Adam Thomas, Nora Kitchen, Dallas James
  • Publication number: 20220237344
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes. A method includes obtaining a design space for a modeled object, one or more design criteria, one or more in-use load cases, and one or more specifications of material, wherein the design criteria comprise a required number of loading cycles for the modeled object; iteratively modifying a generatively designed three dimensional shape of the modeled object, comprising: performing numerical simulation of the modeled object, finding a maximized stress or strain element for each of the one or more in-use load cases, determining an expected number of loading cycles for each of the one or more in-use load cases, redefining a fatigue safety factor inequality constraint for the modeled object, computing shape change velocities in accordance with at least the fatigue safety factor inequality constraint, and updating the level-set representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew John Harris, Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara, Dagmara Lilianna Szkurlat, Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Anthony Christopher Kipkirui Yegon Ruto
  • Patent number: 11399129
    Abstract: An image capture device having a first integrated sensor lens assembly (ISLA), a second ISLA, and an image processor is disclosed. The first and second ISLAs may each include a respective optical element that have different depths of field. The first and second ISLAs may each include a respective image sensor configured to capture respective images. The image processor may be electrically coupled to the first ISLA and the second ISLA. The image processor may be configured to obtain a focused image based on a first image and a second image. The focused image may have an extended depth of field. The extended depth of field may be based on the depth of field of each respective optical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: GoPro, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Stern, Adam Thomas Blumer
  • Patent number: 11380732
    Abstract: A memory system may include separate amounts or types of resistive material that may be deposited over memory cells and conductive vias using separate resistive layers in the access lines. A first resistive material layer may be deposited over the memory cells prior to performing an array termination etch used to deposit the conductive via. The array termination etch may remove the first resistive material over the portion of the array used to deposit the conductive via. A second resistive material layer may be deposited after the etch has occurred and the conductive via has been formed. The second resistive material layer may be deposited over the conductive via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Lei Wei, Pengyuan Zheng, Kevin Lee Baker, Efe Sinan Ege, Adam Thomas Barton, Rajasekhar Venigalla
  • Publication number: 20220187011
    Abstract: A support assembly includes a support surface configured to selectively transition between a stowed position, a deployed position, and an intermediate position defined between the stowed position and the deployed position. A retention feature is operably coupled to the support surface and is configured to transition the support surface between the stowed position and the deployed position. The retention feature includes a projection about which the support surface pivots to define a pivot axis. A bracket is coupled to the support surface and is configured to distribute a load along the support assembly in the intermediate position and the deployed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kapil Ayyawar, Vincent F. Bertolino, Umakant Suresh Katu, Ian M. Pavnick, Ryan Michael Post, Adam Thomas Needham
  • Patent number: 11341006
    Abstract: An embodiment includes monitoring a distributed computing application at runtime for occurrence of a condition, where the condition includes occurrence of a degradation condition on a processing element (PE). The embodiment also includes starting a provisional PE on a second node at runtime while maintaining runtime operation of the PE. The embodiment compares operation of the PE to operation of the provisional PE based on a performance metric associated with the computing resource. The embodiment connects the provisional PE to replace the stream of tuples from the PE to a downstream PE with a stream of tuples from the provisional PE to the downstream PE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Daniel Beuch, Michael J. Branson, Adam Thomas Stallman, Ryan K. Cradick
  • Publication number: 20220137940
    Abstract: An embodiment includes analyzing data associated with an original flow graph comprising a plurality of operators of a stream computing application, including identifying a secure network connection between a first operator and a second operator that uses encryption. The embodiment fuses the first operator with the second operator such that a first logical function of the first operator is combined with a second logical function of the second operator. The embodiment then generates a modified flow graph as a modification of the original flow graph that combines the first operator and the second operator and lacks encryption between the first operator and the second operator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Beuch, Adam Thomas Stallman, Michael K. Branson, Ryan K. Cradick
  • Publication number: 20220138061
    Abstract: An embodiment includes monitoring a distributed computing application at runtime for occurrence of a condition, where the condition includes occurrence of a degradation condition on a processing element (PE). The embodiment also includes starting a provisional PE on a second node at runtime while maintaining runtime operation of the PE. The embodiment compares operation of the PE to operation of the provisional PE based on a performance metric associated with the computing resource. The embodiment connects the provisional PE to replace the stream of tuples from the PE to a downstream PE with a stream of tuples from the provisional PE to the downstream PE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Beuch, Michael J. Branson, Adam Thomas Stallman, Ryan K. Cradick
  • Patent number: 11321508
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes. A method includes obtaining a design space for a modeled object, one or more design criteria, one or more in-use load cases, and one or more specifications of material, wherein the design criteria comprise a required number of loading cycles for the modeled object; iteratively modifying a generatively designed three dimensional shape of the modeled object, comprising: performing numerical simulation of the modeled object, finding a maximized stress or strain element for each of the one or more in-use load cases, determining an expected number of loading cycles for each of the one or more in-use load cases, redefining a fatigue safety factor inequality constraint for the modeled object, computing shape change velocities in accordance with at least the fatigue safety factor inequality constraint, and updating the level-set representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Autodesk, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew John Harris, Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara, Dagmara Lilianna Szkurlat, Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Anthony Christopher Kipkirui Yegon Ruto
  • Publication number: 20220109899
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method reviews information from a set of clients. The information is based on interaction with an application associated with a video delivery system. The method selects ascription events from the information based on a model that defines ascription events that could lead to an outcome for the video delivery system and stores the ascription events into a set of data structures. The ascription events are stored based on respective timing information associated with the respective ascription event and one or more of the ascription events that could lead to the outcome are retrievable based on respective time information for the ascription events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: James Wann, Milan Mehta, Cara Postilion, Adam Thomas Ahringer, Gary Ames
  • Patent number: 11265354
    Abstract: A server operates between a patron (user), a subscriber (e.g., owner of a venue of exhibits and its website; museum, stadium, zoo, theme park, etc.), and possibly third parties such as a content distribution network (CDN). Access and content delivery are based on 1) control information provided to a patron device by physical objects at the venue and sent by the patron device to the server as part of a mutual authentication to one another, 2) user-specific information corresponding to the patron device, and 3) a pre-authorization exchange granting user-device access to physical objects and the server with the server receiving access to the user-specific information in order to locate requested information and select a subset thereof adapted in accordance with the user information. Moving physically between exhibits, a patron device rapidly disengages and re-engages the server, based thereon, without repeated logins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: INCLUSIVE TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Andrea J. Hansen Sorensen, Ben Whitaker, John Waite, Adam Thomas, Nora Kitchen, Dallas James
  • Publication number: 20220051984
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for reduced resistivity for access lines in a memory array are described. A first metal layer may be formed above a via that is configured to couple an access line of a memory array with a corresponding driver. The first metal layer may be oxidized, and then a second metal layer may be formed above the oxidized first metal layer. One or more access lines of the memory device may be formed from the second metal layer, the oxidized first metal layer, or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Lei Wei, Adam Thomas Barton
  • Patent number: 11250096
    Abstract: Provided is a method, computer program product, and system for navigating a webpage with a screen reader using a prioritization model. A processor may collect analytics information for a webpage. The processor may generate, based on the analytics information, a prioritization model for sorting a plurality of elements of the webpage. In response to a user accessing the webpage with a screen reader, the processor may navigate the plurality of elements of the webpage using the prioritization model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Raden Tonev, Adam Thomas Lankford, Ty Tyner, Randall Horwitz
  • Publication number: 20220032434
    Abstract: A hydraulic tensioning apparatus for tensioning a threaded member (2) having a thread, comprising: a hydraulic tensioner (1), having a body (4) and a pressure space (13) for hydraulic fluid and having a thread engaging member (7) arranged to engage the thread of the threaded member (2) and to be urged away from the body (4) on introduction of hydraulic fluid into the pressure space (13) so as to tension the threaded member (2); a displacement sensor (11, 12) arranged to measure a linear displacement of the thread engaging member (7) relative to the base (4) and to provide an output indicative of the linear displacement; a rotation sensor (65, 66) arranged to determine a rotation of a nut (3) rotating on the threaded member (2) and arranged to produce output indicative of a rotation angle of the nut (3); and a control unit (80) arranged to take as inputs the outputs of the displacement sensor (11, 12) and the rotation sensor (65, 66), and to determine from the output of the displacement sensor (11, 12) a requi
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Applicant: Tentec Limited
    Inventors: Adam Thomas LEE, Anthony SCRIVENS
  • Publication number: 20220037403
    Abstract: A memory system may include separate amounts or types of resistive material that may be deposited over memory cells and conductive vias using separate resistive layers in the access lines. A first resistive material layer may be deposited over the memory cells prior to performing an array termination etch used to deposit the conductive via. The array termination etch may remove the first resistive material over the portion of the array used to deposit the conductive via. A second resistive material layer may be deposited after the etch has occurred and the conductive via has been formed. The second resistive material layer may be deposited over the conductive via.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Lei Wei, Pengyuan Zheng, Kevin Lee Baker, Efe Sinan Ege, Adam Thomas Barton, Rajasekhar Venigalla
  • Publication number: 20220004678
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes. A method includes obtaining a design space for a modeled object, one or more design criteria, one or more in-use load cases, and one or more specifications of material, wherein the design criteria comprise a required number of loading cycles for the modeled object; iteratively modifying a generatively designed three dimensional shape of the modeled object, comprising: performing numerical simulation of the modeled object, finding a maximized stress or strain element for each of the one or more in-use load cases, determining an expected number of loading cycles for each of the one or more in-use load cases, redefining a fatigue safety factor inequality constraint for the modeled object, computing shape change velocities in accordance with at least the fatigue safety factor inequality constraint, and updating the level-set representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew John Harris, Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara, Dagmara Lilianna Szkurlat, Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Anthony Christopher Kipkirui Yegon Ruto
  • Publication number: 20220004679
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes. A method includes performing numerical simulation of a modeled object in accordance with a current version of the three dimensional shape and the one or more in-use load cases; finding a maximized stress or strain element, for each in-use load cases; determining an expected number of loading cycles for each of the one or more in-use load cases for the physical structure using the maximized stress or strain element and data relating fatigue strength to loading cycles; redefining a fatigue safety factor inequality constraint for the modeled object; computing shape change velocities for an implicit surface in a level-set representation of the three dimensional shape in accordance with at least the fatigue safety factor inequality constraint; and updating the level-set representation using the shape change velocities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew John Harris, Allin Irving Groom, Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara, Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Dagmara Lilianna Szkurlat
  • Publication number: 20210296218
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a cascode HEMT semiconductor device including a lead frame, a die pad attached to the lead frame, and a HEMT die attached to the die pad. The HEMT die includes a HEMT source and a HEMT drain on a first side, and a HEMT gate on a second side. The device further includes a MOSFET die attached to the source of the HEMT die, and the MOSFET die includes a MOSFET source, a MOSFET gate and a MOSFET drain. The MOSFET drain is connected to the HEMT source, and the MOSFET source includes a MOSFET source clip. The MOSFET source clip includes a pillar so to connect the MOSFET source to the HEMT gate, and the connection between the MOSFET source to the HEMT gate is established by a conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: NEXPERIA B.V.
    Inventors: Ricardo YANDOC, Robert MONTGOMERY, Adam Thomas ROSILLO
  • Publication number: 20210263498
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes, where three dimensional (3D) models of the physical structures can be produced to include lattices, hollows, holes, and combinations thereof, include: obtaining design criteria for an object; iteratively modifying 3D topology and shape(s) for the object using generative design process(es) that employ a macrostructure representation, e.g., using level-set method(s), in combination with physical simulation(s) that place void(s) in solid region(s) or solid(s) in void region(s) of the generative model of the object; and providing a 3D model of the generative design for the object for use in manufacturing a physical structure corresponding to the object using one or more computer-controlled manufacturing systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Konara Mudiyanselage Kosala Bandara, Karl Darcy Daniel Willis, Andrew John Harris, Andriy Banadyha, Daniele Grandi, Adrian Adam Thomas Butscher, Andreas Linas Bastian, Hooman Shayani
  • Patent number: D943544
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Polycom, Inc.
    Inventors: Hector Rodriguez, Anthony Martin Duys, Yanlin Zhu, Nathan Yang, Samuel Alexander Moon, Nathan Evan Careless, Adam Thomas Prather