Patents by Inventor Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett 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: 20250200144
    Abstract: Artificial Intelligence systems, methods, and products identify significant patterns in data and persist those patterns and/or their constituents as data entries in databases or as transitory patterns of activation. The constituents associated with significant patterns include data constructs representing concepts or filter/exemplars. Those concepts or filters/exemplars themselves represent significant patterns. Recursive identification of significant patterns of significant patterns, and significant patterns of those patterns, and so on to any degree of recursiveness desired, facilitates the leveraging of combinatorial expansion to categorize, recognize, associate, and predict complex combinations of information while maintaining practical control over resources. In preferred implementations, the elements of the systems, methods, and products described herein are transparently encapsulated, and their behaviors are monitored and enforced, to provide alignment with human-determined objectives and rules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Alan Bennett Sherr
  • Patent number: 12243605
    Abstract: In some situations, a leak on a wordline may be a localized problem that causes data loss in a block that contains the wordline. In other situations, such as when the leak occurs near a peripheral wordline routing area, the leak can affect the entire memory die. The storage system provided herein has a fatal wordline leak detector that determines the type of leak and, accordingly, whether just the block should be retired or whether related blocks should be retired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Tian, Liang Li, Dandan Yi, Jojo Xing, Vincent Yin, Yongke Sun, Alan Bennett
  • Patent number: 12210592
    Abstract: Artificial Intelligence systems, methods, and products identify significant patterns in data and persist those patterns and/or their constituents as data entries in databases or as transitory patterns of activation. The constituents associated with significant patterns include data constructs representing concepts or filter/exemplars. Those concepts or filters/exemplars themselves represent significant patterns. Recursive identification of significant patterns of significant patterns, and significant patterns of those patterns, and so on to any degree of recursiveness desired, facilitates the leveraging of combinatorial expansion to categorize, recognize, associate, and predict complex combinations of information while maintaining practical control over resources. In preferred implementations, the elements of the systems, methods, and products described herein are transparently encapsulated, and their behaviors are monitored and enforced, to provide alignment with human-determined objectives and rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Alan Bennett Sherr
  • Patent number: 12136462
    Abstract: A storage system receives a request to read data that is located in a wordline undergoing a program operation. Instead of waiting for the program operation to complete, which would increase read latency, the storage system aborts the program operation and reconstructs the data from successfully-programmed memory cells in the wordline and from data latches associated with unsuccessfully-programmed memory cells in the wordline. The reconstructed data is then sent to the host. The program abort command can be similar to one used to provide a graceful shutdown in a power-loss situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sandisk Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan Bennett
  • Patent number: 12136353
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett, Matthew Wayne Wallace, Jeremiah Hennessey, Yvette Christine Dudac, Zachary Steven Lenker, Andrew Paul Lundell, Paul Dana, Eric A. Preisz
  • Patent number: 12099576
    Abstract: Artificial Intelligence systems, methods, and products identify significant patterns in data and persist those patterns and/or their constituents as data entries in databases or as transitory patterns of activation. The constituents associated with significant patterns include data constructs representing concepts or filter/exemplars. Those concepts or filters/exemplars themselves represent significant patterns. Recursive identification of significant patterns of significant patterns, and significant patterns of those patterns, and so on to any degree of recursiveness desired, facilitates the leveraging of combinatorial expansion to categorize, recognize, associate, and predict complex combinations of information while maintaining practical control over resources. In preferred implementations, the elements of the systems, methods, and products described herein are transparently encapsulated, and their behaviors are monitored and enforced, to provide alignment with human-determined objectives and rules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Inventor: Alan Bennett Sherr
  • Publication number: 20240006010
    Abstract: In some situations, a leak on a wordline may be a localized problem that causes data loss in a block that contains the wordline. In other situations, such as when the leak occurs near a peripheral wordline routing area, the leak can affect the entire memory die. The storage system provided herein has a fatal wordline leak detector that determines the type of leak and, accordingly, whether just the block should be retired or whether related blocks should be retired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Tian, Liang Li, Dandan Yi, Jojo Xing, Vincent Yin, Yongke Sun, Alan Bennett
  • Publication number: 20230306872
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett, Matthew Wayne Wallace, Jeremiah Hennessey, Yvette Christine Dudac, Zachary Steven Lenker, Andrew Paul Lundell, Paul Dana, Eric A. Preisz
  • Publication number: 20230282294
    Abstract: A storage system receives a request to read data that is located in a wordline undergoing a program operation. Instead of waiting for the program operation to complete, which would increase read latency, the storage system aborts the program operation and reconstructs the data from successfully-programmed memory cells in the wordline and from data latches associated with unsuccessfully-programmed memory cells in the wordline. The reconstructed data is then sent to the host. The program abort command can be similar to one used to provide a graceful shutdown in a power-loss situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan Bennett
  • Patent number: 11715388
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett, Matthew Wayne Wallace, Jeremiah Hennessey, Yvette Christine Dudac, Zachary Steven Lenker, Andrew Paul Lundell, Paul Dana, Eric A. Preisz
  • Publication number: 20230059841
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett, Matthew Wayne Wallace, Jeremiah Hennessey, Yvette Christine Dudac, Zachary Steven Lenker, Andrew Paul Lundell, Paul Dana, Eric A. Preisz
  • Patent number: 10803770
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett, Matthew Wayne Wallace, Jeremiah Hennessey, Yvette Christine Dudac, Zachary Steven Lenker, Andrew Paul Lundell, Paul Dana, Eric A. Preisz
  • Patent number: 10762802
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to a computer program product and processor based computing system that provides processing means for executing coded instructions and input means for interacting with said processing means to create a virtual welding environment. The system establishes an objective to change a functional or operational state of a virtual article, and directs the end user to perform at least one virtual welding operation for changing its functional state. The system trains new users and inexperienced welders on the fundamental aspects of welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Wayne Wallace, Andrew Paul Lundell, David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett
  • Patent number: 10649661
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for dynamically resizing logical storage blocks. A controller for a non-volatile storage device includes a block component that determines a total number of available erase blocks of the non-volatile storage device. A controller for a non-volatile storage device includes a size module that determines numbers of erase blocks from available erase blocks to include in each of a plurality of logical blocks as a function of a total number of available erase blocks such that the numbers of erase blocks for each of the logical blocks deviates from each other by less than a predetermined deviation limit. A controller for a non-volatile storage device includes a map module that generates logical blocks for the non-volatile storage device by assigning determined numbers of erase blocks to each of the logical blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Alan Bennett, Sergei Gorobets, Liam Parker
  • Publication number: 20190020162
    Abstract: An aircraft rotational joint comprises a slip-ring device arranged for electrical energy transmission through the rotational joint. The slip-ring device comprises a first member attached to a first part of the rotational joint. The first member has a plurality of arcuate metallic ring segments and all these ring segments are isolated from each other and are spaced apart from each other. Further, the slip-ring device comprises a second member which is rotatable relative to the first member about a common rotational axis. The second member is attached to a second part of the joint and has a plurality of contact elements, each of which are arranged for electrically connecting one, preferably only one, of the ring segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Russell OLDER, Daren HEALY, Alan Bennett, Dennis Lubczyk
  • Publication number: 20180373438
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for dynamically resizing logical storage blocks. A controller for a non-volatile storage device includes a block component that determines a total number of available erase blocks of the non-volatile storage device. A controller for a non-volatile storage device includes a size module that determines numbers of erase blocks from available erase blocks to include in each of a plurality of logical blocks as a function of a total number of available erase blocks such that the numbers of erase blocks for each of the logical blocks deviates from each other by less than a predetermined deviation limit. A controller for a non-volatile storage device includes a map module that generates logical blocks for the non-volatile storage device by assigning determined numbers of erase blocks to each of the logical blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: ALAN BENNETT, SERGEY GOROBETS, LIAM PARKER
  • Patent number: 10114562
    Abstract: In a multi-plane non-volatile memory, good blocks of different planes are linked for parallel operation for storing long host writes. Where bad blocks in one or more planes result in unlinked blocks, the unlinked blocks are configured for individual operation to store short host writes and/or memory system management data. Unlinked blocks may be configured as Single Level Cell (SLC) blocks while linked blocks may be configured as SLC blocks or Multi Level Cell (MLC) blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: SanDisk Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Narendhiran Chinnaanangur Ravimohan, Muralitharan Jayaraman, Abhijeet Manohar, Alan Bennett
  • Patent number: 10056011
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett, Matthew Wayne Wallace, Jeremiah Hennessey, Yvette Christine Dudac, Zachary Steven Lenker, Andrew Paul Lundell, Paul Dana, Eric A. Preisz
  • Publication number: 20180096630
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: David Anthony ZBORAY, Matthew Alan BENNETT, Matthew Wayne WALLACE, Jeremiah HENNESSEY, Yvette Christine DUDAC, Zachary Steven LENKER, Andrew Paul LUNDELL, Paul DANA, Eric A. PREISZ
  • Patent number: 9858833
    Abstract: A real-time virtual reality welding system including a programmable processor-based subsystem, a spatial tracker operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem, at least one mock welding tool capable of being spatially tracked by the spatial tracker, and at least one display device operatively connected to the programmable processor-based subsystem. The system is capable of simulating, in virtual reality space, a weld puddle having real-time molten metal fluidity and heat dissipation characteristics. The system is further capable of importing data into the virtual reality welding system and analyzing the data to characterize a student welder's progress and to provide training.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Lincoln Global, Inc.
    Inventors: David Anthony Zboray, Matthew Alan Bennett, Matthew Wayne Wallace, Jeremiah Hennessey, Yvette Christine Dudac, Zachary Steven Lenker, Andrew Paul Lundell, Paul Dana, Eric A. Preisz