Patents by Inventor Alan Smith

Alan 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: 20240361844
    Abstract: A vehicle system is provided for a modular human-machine interface (HMI). The system includes a configurable display of a vehicle; and an HMI display system of the vehicle, in communication with the configurable display. The HMI display system is configured to, responsive to detection of presence of a modular programmable widget having one or more physical controls, present a user interface to the configurable display for the configuration of the one or more physical controls of the modular programmable widget, receive, via the user interface, input assigning functions to the one or more physical controls, save the function assignment to display settings of the HMI display system, and in a runtime mode, perform an assigned function responsive to user input to the one or more physical controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Michael John HARMON, Douglas FIELD, Alan CLARKE, Daniel SMITH, Henry D. BERNARDO, Raul CENAN, Minsung KIM
  • Patent number: 12128542
    Abstract: A tray used to support maintenance tools and service materials along an open bay in the side of a vehicle. The tray prevents these items from being damaged, or becoming foreign objects or debris that enter the open bay. The tray includes hanger assemblies that releasably attach the tray to bay door latches. Adjustable length standoffs connect the tray to the side of the vehicle to support and prevent swaying of the tray.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Peter Ray Smith, Karl James Ettling, Kenneth Alan Szarek
  • Patent number: 12121376
    Abstract: A method of compressing a breast of a patient with a breast imaging system includes obtaining an x-ray area of the breast of the patient. The x-ray area of the breast is compared to a data set, and a target force is based at least in part on the comparison is identified. A compressive force is applied to the breast, and is based at least in part on the target force. The breast is imaged with the breast imaging system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Rego, Andrew Smith, David Wolff, Kenneth F. Defreitas
  • Publication number: 20240346316
    Abstract: A user device can send, to a server, a request for a set of documents likely to be opened by a user, determine a client-suggested document to present to the user and a potential motive for the user to open the client-suggested document, receive a suggestion message from the server, the suggestion message including a set of documents likely to be opened by the user and potential motives for the user to open documents in the set of documents, and present, on a display of the user device, visual representations of the client-suggested document, the potential motive for the user to open the client-suggested document, multiple documents included in the set of documents, and the potential motives for the user to open the multiple documents in the set of documents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Sandeep Tata, Julian Gibbons, Divanshu Garg, Alexandre Mah, Alan Green, Cayden Meyer, Michael Smith, Reuben Kan, Alexandrin Popescul
  • Publication number: 20240344061
    Abstract: The present invention provides agents and compositions for modulating expression (e.g., enhanced or reduced expression) of a hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 alpha (HNF4?) gene by targeting an HNF4? expression control region and methods of use thereof for treating an HNF4? associated disorder, e.g., cirrhosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Applicant: Omega Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Jerome Smith, Jodi Michelle Kennedy, Jeremiah D. Farelli, Kendrick Alan Goss, Adam Walter Scheidegger, Yoseph Kassa, Christian Wessel Cobaugh, Timsi Rao
  • Publication number: 20240336202
    Abstract: Retractable stairs for mounting in an exterior doorway of a recreational vehicle are provided with a spaced apart stringers and a tread extending between the stringers. Spaced apart straps are connected to upper ends of the stringers and are pivotally mounted to a floor in an interior space of the recreational vehicle to allow movement of the stringers and the tread through the exterior doorway between a retracted position stowed within the recreational vehicle and a deployed position outside of the recreational vehicle. A threshold plate is positioned between the straps and is fixed against movement during the pivoting movement of the straps. Locking latches extend outwardly from the stringers and are positionable for engaging a jamb of the exterior doorway for releasably securing the stringers and the tread in the retracted position. Extensible support legs are mounted on the stringers and extendable downwardly below the stringers to engage a ground surface for supporting the retractable stairs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: Airxcel, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael John Longest, William Edward Mooneyham, Robert Neil Lankford, Michael James Shaver, Stacey L. Smith, Norman Troy McGuffey, Steven Andrew Reffner, John Alan Eaton, JR.
  • Patent number: 12097268
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for the design of synthetic regulatory sequences and for subsequent modulation of neural pathways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: EOS Neuroscience, Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Horsager, Andrew Smith, Benjamin C. Matteo
  • Publication number: 20240287390
    Abstract: A process where a liquid or supercritical CO2 co-solvent is used in a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process. The process improves yield of the HTL process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Alan H. Zacher, Lisa A. Smith-Middleton, Todd R. Hart, Andrew J. Schmidt, Michael R. Thorson, Samuel P. Fox, Dylan J. Cronin
  • Publication number: 20240287658
    Abstract: A hydrogen storage system includes a hydrogen storage alloy containment vessel comprising an external pressure containment vessel and a thermally conductive compartmentalization network disposed within the pressure containment vessel. The compartmentalization network creates compartments within the pressure vessel within which a hydrogen storage alloy is disposed. One or both of the compartmentalization network and the pressure vessel may be formed by a 3D printing process, such as by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and/or Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS). The hydrogen storage alloy is a non-pyrophoric AB2 Laves phase hydrogen storage alloy having: an A-site to B-site elemental ratio of not more than 0.5; and an alloy composition including (in at %): Zr: 2.0-5.5, Ti: 27-31.3, V: 8.3-9.9, Cr: 20.6-30.5, Mn: 25.4-33.0, Fe: 1.0-5.9, Al: 0.1-0.4, and/or Ni: 0.0-4.0.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Henry U. Lee, Baoquan Huang, Benjamin S. Chao, Kirby Alan Smith
  • Publication number: 20240278417
    Abstract: A tray used to support maintenance tools and service materials along an open bay in the side of a vehicle. The tray prevents these items from being damaged, or becoming foreign objects or debris that enter the open bay. The tray includes hanger assemblies that releasably attach the tray to bay door latches. Adjustable length standoffs connect the tray to the side of the vehicle to support and prevent swaying of the tray.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Ray Smith, Karl James Ettling, Kenneth Alan Szarek
  • Publication number: 20240273840
    Abstract: A wrist-pose isolation system can infer a wrist pose (e.g., the user's hand position relative to her forearm) and can reduce wrist-induced jitter for projection casting in an XR environment. A user's projection cast can be determined as a combination of a “low-wrist contribution” component (e.g., a body-and-arm component) and a “high-wrist contribution” component (e.g., the pose of the wrist with respect to the arm). Using input from a gesture-tracking system, the contribution of the user's wrist pose to the user's current projection cast is calculated as a “wrist-contribution vector.” A projection cast direction can be determined as the interpolation of the current low-wrist contribution component and the high-wrist contribution component. This interpolation can be performed by weighting each by a specified amount and combining them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Norah Riley SMITH, Matthew Alan INSLEY
  • Patent number: 12061750
    Abstract: A vehicle system is provided for a modular human-machine interface (HMI). The system includes a configurable display of a vehicle; and an HMI display system of the vehicle, in communication with the configurable display. The HMI display system is configured to, responsive to detection of presence of a modular programmable widget having one or more physical controls, present a user interface to the configurable display for the configuration of the one or more physical controls of the modular programmable widget, receive, via the user interface, input assigning functions to the one or more physical controls, save the function assignment to display settings of the HMI display system, and in a runtime mode, perform an assigned function responsive to user input to the one or more physical controls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael John Harmon, Douglas Field, Alan Clarke, Daniel Smith, Henry D. Bernardo, Raul Cenan, Minsung Kim
  • Publication number: 20240264679
    Abstract: A vehicle system is provided for a modular human-machine interface (HMI). The system includes a configurable display of a vehicle; and an HMI display system of the vehicle, in communication with the configurable display. The HMI display system is configured to, responsive to detection of presence of a modular programmable widget having one or more physical controls, present a user interface to the configurable display for the configuration of the one or more physical controls of the modular programmable widget, receive, via the user interface, input assigning functions to the one or more physical controls, save the function assignment to display settings of the HMI display system, and in a runtime mode, perform an assigned function responsive to user input to the one or more physical controls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Michael John HARMON, Douglas FIELD, Alan CLARKE, Daniel SMITH, Henry D. BERNARDO, Raul CENAN, Minsung KIM
  • Publication number: 20240265656
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for facilitating system user interface (UI) interactions in an artificial reality (XR) environment is provided. The method includes rendering the system UI in the XR environment as a 3D virtual element. The method further includes tracking a position of a hand of a user and a pre-defined stable point on the user. The method further includes identifying, based on the tracking, that the hand has grasped a portion of the system UI and, in response, rotating the position of the system UI around the grasped portion of the system UI such that a line, between the stable point and the surface of the system UI, is moved, to be perpendicular or at a predefined angle from perpendicular to the surface of the system UI, as the user moves the system UI via the grasped portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Anastasia VICTOR-FAICHNEY, Matthew Alan INSLEY, Samuel Matthew LEVATICH, Ahad Habib BASRAVI, Matthew LUTHER, Andrew C. JOHNSON, Matthaeus KRENN, Difei WANG, Irvi STEFO, Norah Riley SMITH
  • Patent number: 12054814
    Abstract: A hydrogen storage system includes a hydrogen storage alloy containment vessel comprising an external pressure containment vessel and a thermally conductive compartmentalization network disposed within the pressure containment vessel. The compartmentalization network creates compartments within the pressure vessel within which a hydrogen storage alloy is disposed. One or both of the compartmentalization network and the pressure vessel may be formed by a 3D printing process, such as by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and/or Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS). The hydrogen storage alloy is a non-pyrophoric AB2-type Laves phase hydrogen storage alloy having: an A-site to B-site elemental ratio of not more than 0.5; and an alloy composition including (in at %): Zr: 2.0-5.5, Ti: 27-31.3, V: 8.3-9.9, Cr: 20.6-30.5, Mn: 25.4-33.0, Fe: 1.0-5.9, Al: 0.1-0.4, and/or Ni: 0.0-4.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: HARNYSS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Henry U. Lee, Baoquan Huang, Benjamin S. Chao, Kirby Alan Smith
  • Patent number: 12054815
    Abstract: A hydrogen storage system includes a hydrogen storage alloy containment vessel comprising an external pressure containment vessel and a thermally conductive compartmentalization network disposed within the pressure containment vessel. The compartmentalization network creates compartments within the pressure vessel within which a hydrogen storage alloy is disposed. The compartmentalization network includes a plurality of thermally conductive elongate tubes positioned within the pressure vessel forming a coherent, tightly packed tube bundle providing a thermally conductive network between the hydrogen storage alloy and the pressure vessel. The hydrogen storage alloy is a non-pyrophoric AB2-type Laves phase hydrogen storage alloy having: an A-site to B-site elemental ratio of not more than 0.5; and an alloy composition including (in at %): Zr: 2.0-5.5, Ti: 27-31.3, V: 8.3-9.9, Cr: 20.6-30.5, Mn: 25.4-33.0, Fe: 1.0-5.9, Al: 0.1-0.4, and/or Ni: 0.0-4.0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: HARNYSS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin S. Chao, Baoquan Huang, Henry U. Lee, Kirby Alan Smith
  • Publication number: 20240238367
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of treating hypercholesterolemia and other conditions related to PCSK9 activity, e.g. atherosclerosis, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, metabolic syndrome, acute coronary syndrome, or related cardiovascular disease and cardiometabolic conditions, by orally administering to the subject an amount of a compound of formula (I) wherein A? is selected from a pharmaceutically acceptable anion, and wherein the amount administered is from about 5 mg to about 300 mg of the compound of formula (I). The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of formula (I), including particular salts of a compound of formula (I), and a permeation enhancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Douglas G. JOHNS, Puja BANKA, Zexun ZHOU, Artis KLAPARA, Fuh-rong TSAY, Jongrock KONG, Richard J. VARSOLONA, Richard DESMOND, Peter E. MALIGRES, Melanie MAROTA, Candice ALLEYNE, Grace A. OKOH, James C. DINUNZIO, Rebecca NOFSINGER, Li LI, Daniel J. SMITH, Majid MAHJOUR, Kenneth Alan KOEPLINGER, Yusheng XIONG, Peter W. WUEFLING, John D. HIGGINS
  • Publication number: 20240238307
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to methods of treating schizophrenia or bipolar disorder by subcutaneously administering a sustained-release dosage form of olanzapine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Methods of subcutaneously administering olanzapine, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Alan Smith, Carine Claassen-Punt
  • Publication number: 20240120568
    Abstract: Among other things, the present disclosure relates to re-purposing used lithium-ion batteries. The present disclosure includes treating an electrode using a solvent prior to electrochemically relithiating the electrode. In some embodiments, the relithiation may be done using a roll-to-roll device, wherein the electrode may be secured on a first pin and a second pin, then it may be unwound and submerged in an electrolyte solution. Lithium ions may be inserted into the electrode using a voltage. The layer of lithium may provide lithium ions to the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Kandler Alan SMITH, Shriram SANTHANAGOPALAN, Nathaniel Alexander SUNDERLIN, Andrew Michael COLCLASURE, Chunmei BAN, Xuemin LI, Judy C. NETTER, Donal Patrick FINEGAN, Kaitlin Elizabeth FINK, Jaclyn Elizabeth COYLE
  • Publication number: 20240116455
    Abstract: A mount device for receiving a flag pole is described. The mount device is attachable to a trailer hitch such as a gooseneck hitch or a fifth wheel hitch, which is installed on a vehicle. The mount device includes a connecting tube for inserting into a hitch ball receiving aperture of the trailer hitch. The connecting tube has a top end defining a top aperture. The mount device also includes a receiving tube for inserting into the connecting tube. The receiving tube has a top end defining a top aperture for receiving a flag pole by inserting the flag pole into the aperture of the receiving tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Bryan Alan Smith, Jeremy Wayne Clifton