Patents by Inventor Adam Zimmerman

Adam Zimmerman 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: 20240133469
    Abstract: This disclosure includes safety valves, vehicles and fueling stations having the same, and related methods. Some safety valves have a valve body defining a fluidic network including an inlet and an outlet, a piston disposed within and movable relative to the valve body between a first position in which the inlet is in fluid communication with the outlet and a second position in which fluid communication between the inlet and the outlet is prevented, and a heat-defeatable barrier that prevents movement of the piston to the second position. In some safety valves, the piston is biased toward the second position. In some safety valves, the piston includes a channel disposed between first and second ends of the piston, and when the piston is in the first position, the inlet is in fluid communication with the outlet via the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: NATURAL GAS FUEL SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Zimmerman, Chris Culberson, Adam Strouhal
  • Patent number: 11961121
    Abstract: A dynamic digital advertising content system having a front end system and a back end system, and used to present product content to a user's computing device in the form of a digital circular. The back end system provides retailers and third party access to upload, and update, product content information for the digital circular, including videos and animations. The dynamic digital advertising content system can include integrations for third-parties such as digital coupon providers and loyalty program providers. The system permits users the ability to share with other users merchandise displayed in the digital circular and/or selected for a shopping list. Such shared content can be dynamically arranged for subsequent presentation on a computing device of the recipient. The digital circular is further customizable for individual retailers or retailer locations, as well as customizable based on detected histories and/or characteristics of the user receiving the digital circular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Design House, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Zimmerman
  • Patent number: 11941662
    Abstract: A dynamic digital advertising content system having a front end system and a back end system, and used to present product content to a user's computing device in the form of a digital circular. The back end system provides retailers and third party access to upload, and update, product content information for the digital circular, including videos and animations. The dynamic digital advertising content system can include integrations for third-parties such as digital coupon providers and loyalty program providers. The system permits users the ability to share with other users merchandise displayed in the digital circular and/or selected for a shopping list. Such shared content can be dynamically arranged for subsequent presentation on a computing device of the recipient. The digital circular is further customizable for individual retailers or retailer locations, as well as customizable based on detected histories and/or characteristics of the user receiving the digital circular.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Design House, Inc.
    Inventor: Adam Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20240089413
    Abstract: A method includes: via a user interface of a hub device, receiving a first set of user credentials associated with a first operator, the hub device connected to a set of mobile devices; accessing a first operator schedule defining a first manufacturing operation and a first observer of the first manufacturing operation, the first observer characterized by a first set of observer credentials; detecting disconnection of a first mobile device in the set of mobile devices from the hub device, the first mobile device associated with a first device ID; in response to detecting disconnection of the first mobile device from the hub device, associating the first device ID with the first operator; and serving a first video feed from the first mobile device to the first observer based on the first device ID and the first set of observer credentials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Frank Maggiore, Angelo Stracquatanio, Gary Pignata, Dani Dufee, Adam Cormack, John Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20230342352
    Abstract: A system and method for efficiently matching into an extremely large data set uses two data stores. A search data store contains identifiers that correspond to localized portions of the main data store, along with matching values for that portion of the main data store. To perform a matching operation, the search data store is first searched for a matching value. Then the identifier for the localized portion of the main data store is retrieved from the search data store. Using this identifier, a search may be performed against only the corresponding localized portion of the main data store rather than the entire main data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Zimmerman, Pavan Roy Marupally, Joseph Shannon Duncan
  • Publication number: 20230305918
    Abstract: A method for improving fault tolerance of MapReduce computing systems processing extremely large data sets employs a custom mapper script that outputs the results to the shuffle and reduce processes. The Reducer writes its results into multiple files that are then compressed. The resulting files are processed by a map-only Reducer job that aggregates and reduces the results of a single file into a single output. The non-block compression prevents the file from being split across multiple mappers. The job can recover if a single mapper fails without requiring that each Map node be rerun, thus improving fault tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Zimmerman, Pavan Marupally, Joseph Shannon Duncan
  • Publication number: 20230222545
    Abstract: A dynamic digital advertising content system having a front end system and a back end system, and used to present product content to a user's computing device in the form of a digital circular. The back end system provides retailers and third party access to upload, and update, product content information for the digital circular, including videos and animations. The dynamic digital advertising content system can include integrations for third-parties such as digital coupon providers and loyalty program providers. The system permits users the ability to share with other users merchandise displayed in the digital circular and/or selected for a shopping list. Such shared content can be dynamically arranged for subsequent presentation on a computing device of the recipient. The digital circular is further customizable for individual retailers or retailer locations, as well as customizable based on detected histories and/or characteristics of the user receiving the digital circular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Adam Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20230222546
    Abstract: A dynamic digital advertising content system having a front end system and a back end system, and used to present product content to a user's computing device in the form of a digital circular. The back end system provides retailers and third party access to upload, and update, product content information for the digital circular, including videos and animations. The dynamic digital advertising content system can include integrations for third-parties such as digital coupon providers and loyalty program providers. The system permits users the ability to share with other users merchandise displayed in the digital circular and/or selected for a shopping list. Such shared content can be dynamically arranged for subsequent presentation on a computing device of the recipient. The digital circular is further customizable for individual retailers or retailer locations, as well as customizable based on detected histories and/or characteristics of the user receiving the digital circular.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Adam Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20230185852
    Abstract: An entity resolution data structure system compares two data graphs by creating a confusion matrix in a distributed processing environment. A benchmark file is created from one data graph for comparison to a reference data graph. Identifiers and metadata are appended to the benchmark file to allow the comparison to take place and the construction of a confusion matrix. The confusion matrix provides a high-level indication of the results of the comparison. When the data graphs contain personally identifiable information (Pll), the process does not require any Pll to be transmitted in either direction between the parties who maintain the data graphs to be compared.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Adam Zimmerman, Terry Michael Talley, Dwayne Collins
  • Patent number: 11442990
    Abstract: A system and method for transforming input data in a data graph is structured in such a way that it does not destroy embedded contextual data yet also keeps the number of edges in the data graph sufficiently small in number that computation with respect to the data in the data graph is feasible with existing computational resources on extremely large graph sets. Incoming data is represented as a collection of “cliques” rather than placing each data object into its own node in the graph database. Maintaining the clique structure though the graph build pipeline dramatically reduces the exponential increase in the number of edges in the graph, while also maintaining all of the contextual data presented on the input record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: LiveRamp, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Zimmerman, Dwayne Collins, Pavan Marupally
  • Publication number: 20210319063
    Abstract: A system and method for transforming input data in a data graph is structured in such a way that it does not destroy embedded contextual data yet also keeps the number of edges in the data graph sufficiently small in number that computation with respect to the data in the data graph is feasible with existing computational resources on extremely large graph sets. Incoming data is represented as a collection of “cliques” rather than placing each data object into its own node in the graph database. Maintaining the clique structure though the graph build pipeline dramatically reduces the exponential increase in the number of edges in the graph, while also maintaining all of the contextual data presented on the input record.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Zimmerman, Dwayne Collins, Pavan Marupally
  • Patent number: 10912976
    Abstract: Systems, media and methods for an interactive speed ladder are provided. A system includes a speed ladder that has parallel side members and parallel cross members each connecting each of the side members. The system may further include a receiving module configured to receive light path sequence data and foot movement data of a user relative to the speed ladder, wherein the light path sequence data and the foot movement data are received from different sources. The system may also further include lights, located within the cross members, configured to display a light path sequence based upon sequence data received prior to a start of the sequence and an output module configured to output user foot movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Inventor: Adam Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20200222777
    Abstract: Systems, media and methods for an interactive speed ladder are provided. A system includes a speed ladder that has parallel side members and parallel cross members each connecting each of the side members. The system may further include a receiving module configured to receive light path sequence data and foot movement data of a user relative to the speed ladder, wherein the light path sequence data and the foot movement data are received from different sources. The system may also further include lights, located within the cross members, configured to display a light path sequence based upon sequence data received prior to a start of the sequence and an output module configured to output user foot movement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventor: ADAM ZIMMERMAN
  • Patent number: 9672469
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to increase accuracy in individual attributes derived from anonymous aggregate data uses aggregation keys in order to retrieve distribution sets and generate best-effort results for individual attributes. Multiple aggregation keys may be utilized to which individual attributes may be cross-mapped. The aggregation keys may be divided into location-based aggregation keys and name-based aggregation keys. The resulting data may be of varying granularity depending upon the granularity of the aggregation key used for the distribution and to generate the attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: Acxiom Corporation
    Inventors: Terry Talley, Derek Leonard, Adam Zimmerman
  • Publication number: 20150081602
    Abstract: An apparatus and method to increase accuracy in individual attributes derived from anonymous aggregate data uses aggregation keys in order to retrieve distribution sets and generate best-effort results for individual attributes. Multiple aggregation keys may be utilized to which individual attributes may be cross-mapped. The aggregation keys may be divided into location-based aggregation keys and name-based aggregation keys. The resulting data may be of varying granularity depending upon the granularity of the aggregation key used for the distribution and to generate the attributes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Terry Talley, Derek Leonard, Adam Zimmerman