Patents by Inventor Alan Stewart

Alan Stewart 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).

  • Patent number: 12186863
    Abstract: Disclosed is a drill attachment device comprising a transfer gear configured to rotate about an axis perpendicular to the axis of a drill used to power the transfer gear. The transfer gear may comprise an open-ended slot which provides a passageway through which a threaded rod may pass. The open-ended slot may further be configured to retain a mechanical nut, enabling a user to run a threaded rod through the open-ended slot for driving the nut along the rod. The transfer gear may also support an external driver, and the drill attachment device may comprise guide slots configured to position the rod and/or nut against the external driver for driving a nut up or down rod.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Inventor: Joshua Alan Stewart
  • Publication number: 20220118588
    Abstract: Disclosed is a drill attachment device comprising a transfer gear configured to rotate about an axis perpendicular to the axis of a drill used to power the transfer gear. The transfer gear may comprise an open-ended slot which provides a passageway through which a threaded rod may pass. The open-ended slot may further be configured to retain a mechanical nut, enabling a user to run a threaded rod through the open-ended slot for driving the nut along the rod. The transfer gear may also support an external driver, and the drill attachment device may comprise guide slots configured to position the rod and/or nut against the external driver for driving a nut up or down rod.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Joshua Alan Stewart
  • Patent number: 11110957
    Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an obstacle scanning tool and steering mechanism, materials handling hardware, vehicle drive mechanism, and user interface that facilitate movement of the materials handling vehicle and materials handled along a travel path. The tool establishes a scan field, a filter field, and a performance field, and is configured to indicate the presence of obstacles in the filter field and the performance field. The tool executes logic to establish the performance field in response to an input performance level, scan for obstacles in the filter field and the performance field, execute obstacle avoidance for obstacles detected in the filter field, and execute a performance level reduction inquiry for obstacles detected in the performance field wherein outcomes of the inquiry comprise reduction of the performance level when a performance level reduction is available and execution of obstacle avoidance when a performance level reduction is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Stewart, Yuan Mai
  • Publication number: 20200225966
    Abstract: A trained cross-functional process model and a subject-specific virtual assistant provide service professionals access to a body of knowledge that could understand their specific needs, automate service tasks, and provide them service information when they need it. By embedding artificial intelligence in the service context, the techniques in this disclosure support low cost inputs that allow novice service professionals and artificial intelligence to replace the services of a journeyman, particularly in service contexts where service quality and/or human judgement is irrelevant or only marginally relevant. The systems and methods herein may, in some implementations, benefit stakeholders, owners, and/or equity holders in many service contexts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Applicant: CYTK LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Levenson, Darr Aley, Patrick Weinkam, Jorge Fernando Olmos Assaf, Luke Alan Stewart
  • Publication number: 20200180690
    Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an obstacle scanning tool and steering mechanism, materials handling hardware, vehicle drive mechanism, and user interface that facilitate movement of the materials handling vehicle and materials handled along a travel path. The tool establishes a scan field, a filter field, and a performance field, and is configured to indicate the presence of obstacles in the filter field and the performance field. The tool executes logic to establish the performance field in response to an input performance level, scan for obstacles in the filter field and the performance field, execute obstacle avoidance for obstacles detected in the filter field, and execute a performance level reduction inquiry for obstacles detected in the performance field wherein outcomes of the inquiry comprise reduction of the performance level when a performance level reduction is available and execution of obstacle avoidance when a performance level reduction is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Stewart, Yuan Mai
  • Patent number: 10597074
    Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an obstacle scanning tool and steering mechanism, materials handling hardware, vehicle drive mechanism, and user interface that facilitate movement of the materials handling vehicle and materials handled along a travel path. The tool establishes a scan field, a filter field, and a performance field, and is configured to indicate the presence of obstacles in the filter field and the performance field. The tool executes logic to establish the performance field in response to an input performance level, scan for obstacles in the filter field and the performance field, execute obstacle avoidance for obstacles detected in the filter field, and execute a performance level reduction inquiry for obstacles detected in the performance field wherein outcomes of the inquiry comprise reduction of the performance level when a performance level reduction is available and execution of obstacle avoidance when a performance level reduction is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Stewart, Yuan Mai
  • Publication number: 20200001917
    Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an obstacle scanning tool and steering mechanism, materials handling hardware, vehicle drive mechanism, and user interface that facilitate movement of the materials handling vehicle and materials handled along a travel path. The tool establishes a scan field, a filter field, and a performance field, and is configured to indicate the presence of obstacles in the filter field and the performance field. The tool executes logic to establish the performance field in response to an input performance level, scan for obstacles in the filter field and the performance field, execute obstacle avoidance for obstacles detected in the filter field, and execute a performance level reduction inquiry for obstacles detected in the performance field wherein outcomes of the inquiry comprise reduction of the performance level when a performance level reduction is available and execution of obstacle avoidance when a performance level reduction is not available.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Stewart, Yuan Mai
  • Patent number: 10450001
    Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an obstacle scanning tool and steering mechanism, materials handling hardware, vehicle drive mechanism, and user interface that facilitate movement of the materials handling vehicle and materials handled along a travel path. The tool establishes a scan field, a filter field, and a performance field, and is configured to indicate the presence of obstacles in the filter field and the performance field. The tool executes logic to establish the performance field in response to an input performance level, scan for obstacles in the filter field and the performance field, execute obstacle avoidance for obstacles detected in the filter field, and execute a performance level reduction inquiry for obstacles detected in the performance field wherein outcomes of the inquiry comprise reduction of the performance level when a performance level reduction is available and execution of obstacle avoidance when a performance level reduction is not available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Alan Stewart, Yuan Mai
  • Patent number: 10359803
    Abstract: Pipelined logic latency in a memory system operating at a reduced frequency may be compensated for. Pipelined logic may be controlled using at least first and second clock signals. All registers of the pipelined logic may be controlled using the first clock signal when the memory system is operating at a higher frequency. However, when the memory system is operating at a reduced frequency, one or more registers may be controlled using the first clock signal, and one or more other registers may be controlled using the second clock signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Dexter Tamio Chun, Richard Alan Stewart
  • Patent number: 10338837
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to allocating memory resources of a computing device comprising non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) and dynamic random access memory (DRAM). An exemplary method is performed for every independently executable component of an application and includes determining attributes of the component. The method also includes associating the component with a memory profile of a plurality of memory profiles based on the attributes, wherein each memory profile of the plurality of memory profiles specifies a number of banks of the NVRAM and a number of banks of the DRAM. The method also includes causing the computing device to generate an assignment of the component to banks of the NVRAM and DRAM based on the memory profile associated with the component so the computing device can execute the component using the banks of the NVRAM and DRAM based on the assignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Subrato Kumar De, Dexter Tamio Chun, Yanru Li, Bohuslav Rychlik, Richard Alan Stewart
  • Patent number: 10261875
    Abstract: Aspects include computing devices, systems, and methods for managing a first computing device component of a computing device in order to extend an operating life of the computing device component. In an aspect, a processing device may determine a condition estimator of the first computing device component, determine whether the condition estimator of the first computing device component indicates that a condition of the first computing device component is worse than the condition of a second computing device component, and assign workloads to the first and second computing device components to balance deterioration of the condition of the first and second computing device components in response to determining that the condition estimator of the first computing device component indicates that the condition of the first computing device component is worse than the condition of the second computing device component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jon James Anderson, Richard Alan Stewart, Ali Akbar Merrikh, Christopher Platt, Hans Lee Yeager, Ryan Donovan Wells
  • Publication number: 20190053659
    Abstract: A beverage brewing product for brewing a sweetened beverage is disclosed which produces a sweetened beverage solution that can be mixed with a diluting liquid and which comprises at least one water permeable sieve and/or a dissolvable film packet wherein beverage material and granulated sweetener are contained. The beverage material and sweetener are brewed and dissolved during steeping in hot water to produce a sweetened beverage solution. The beverage solution, if concentrated, is then mixed with a proportioned amount of diluting liquid to make a consistently sweet beverage. This beverage brewing product may be used to produce a variety of consistently sweetened beverages, including tea, coffee, lemonade, and other sweetened beverages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Inventors: Paul Alan Stewart, Adam Paul Stewart
  • Publication number: 20180335798
    Abstract: Pipelined logic latency in a memory system operating at a reduced frequency may be compensated for. Pipelined logic may be controlled using at least first and second clock signals. All registers of the pipelined logic may be controlled using the first clock signal when the memory system is operating at a higher frequency. However, when the memory system is operating at a reduced frequency, one or more registers may be controlled using the first clock signal, and one or more other registers may be controlled using the second clock signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: DEXTER TAMIO CHUN, Richard Alan Stewart
  • Patent number: 10130209
    Abstract: A beverage brewing product for brewing a sweetened beverage is disclosed which produces a sweetened beverage solution that can be mixed with a diluting liquid and which comprises at least one water permeable sieve and/or a dissolvable film packet wherein beverage material and granulated sweetener are contained. The beverage material and sweetener are brewed and dissolved during steeping in hot water to produce a sweetened beverage solution. The beverage solution, if concentrated, is then mixed with a proportioned amount of diluting liquid to make a consistently sweet beverage. This beverage brewing product may be used to produce a variety of consistently sweetened beverages, including tea, coffee, lemonade, and other sweetened beverages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Alan Stewart, Adam Paul Stewart
  • Patent number: 10114585
    Abstract: Various aspects are described herein. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a method of communicating data between an electronic unit of a system-on-chip (SoC) and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The method includes initiating a memory transaction corresponding to first data. The method includes determining a non-unique first signature and a unique second signature associated with the first data based on content of the first data. The method includes determining if the non-unique first signature is stored in at least one of a local buffer on the SoC separate from the DRAM or the DRAM. The method includes determining if the unique second signature is stored in at least one of the local buffer or the DRAM based on determining the non-unique first signature is stored. The method includes eliminating the memory transaction with respect to the DRAM based on determining the unique second signature is stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hao Chu, Subrato Kumar De, Dexter Tamio Chun, Bohuslav Rychlik, Richard Alan Stewart
  • Publication number: 20180303274
    Abstract: A beverage brewing product for brewing a sweetened beverage is disclosed which produces a sweetened beverage solution that can be mixed with a diluting liquid and which comprises at least one water permeable sieve and/or a dissolvable film packet wherein beverage material and granulated sweetener are contained. The beverage material and sweetener are brewed and dissolved during steeping in hot water to produce a sweetened beverage solution. The beverage solution, if concentrated, is then mixed with a proportioned amount of diluting liquid to make a consistently sweet beverage. This beverage brewing product may be used to produce a variety of consistently sweetened beverages, including tea, coffee, lemonade, and other sweetened beverages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Alan Stewart, Adam Paul Stewart
  • Patent number: 10093480
    Abstract: A beverage brewing product for brewing a sweetened beverage is disclosed which produces a sweetened beverage solution that can be mixed with a diluting liquid and which comprises at least one water permeable sieve wherein beverage material and granulated sweetener are contained. The beverage material and sweetener are brewed and dissolved during steeping in hot water to produce a sweetened beverage solution. The beverage solution, if concentrated, is then mixed with a proportioned amount of diluting liquid to make a consistently sweet beverage. This beverage brewing product may be used to produce a variety of consistently sweetened beverages, including tea, coffee, lemonade, and other sweetened beverages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Alan Stewart, Adam Paul Stewart
  • Patent number: 10071852
    Abstract: A beverage brewing product for brewing a sweetened beverage is disclosed which produces a sweetened beverage solution that can be mixed with a diluting liquid and which comprises at least one water permeable sieve wherein beverage material and granulated sweetener are contained. The beverage material and sweetener are brewed and dissolved during steeping in hot water to produce a sweetened beverage solution. The beverage solution, if concentrated, is then mixed with a proportioned amount of diluting liquid to make a consistently sweet beverage. This beverage brewing product may be used to produce a variety of consistently sweetened beverages, including tea, coffee, lemonade, and other sweetened beverages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Alan Stewart, Adam Paul Stewart
  • Publication number: 20180253258
    Abstract: Various aspects are described herein. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a method of communicating data between an electronic unit of a system-on-chip (SoC) and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The method includes initiating a memory transaction corresponding to first data. The method includes determining a non-unique first signature and a unique second signature associated with the first data based on content of the first data. The method includes determining if the non-unique first signature is stored in at least one of a local buffer on the SoC separate from the DRAM or the DRAM. The method includes determining if the unique second signature is stored in at least one of the local buffer or the DRAM based on determining the non-unique first signature is stored. The method includes eliminating the memory transaction with respect to the DRAM based on determining the unique second signature is stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey Hao CHU, Subrato Kumar DE, Dexter Tamio CHUN, Bohuslav RYCHLIK, Richard Alan STEWART
  • Patent number: 10055284
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing error detection or correction with flash cell mapping. One embodiment is a method comprising generating raw page data for a physical page in a main array of a flash memory device. The raw page data comprises less than a capacity of the physical page generated using a non-power-of-two flash cell mapping. One or more parity bits are generated for the raw page data using an error detection or correction scheme. The method stores the raw page data and the one or more parity bits in the physical page in the main array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Richard Alan Stewart, Dexter Tamio Chun