Patents by Inventor Alexander Smith

Alexander 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).

  • Patent number: 11389908
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are for determining a weld quality by an imaging device configured to generate one or more signals indicative of a weld bead positioned on at least one part. Machine-readable instruction set causes a computing device to perform at least the following when executed by the processor: capture an initial scan to determine a plurality of offset information based on predetermined part features, activate the imaging device to capture a scan of the weld bead, establish a line scan profile of the weld bead, determine that the scan of the weld bead matches a predetermined weld model, and analyze the weld bead profile to determine a volume of the weld bead, a rising edge of the weld bead, and a falling edge of the weld bead and comparing the weld bead profile to a plurality of predetermined parameters for the weld bead to determine a satisfactory weld quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Dexter Stamping Company, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Lyman Trapp, Dexter Alexander Smith
  • Publication number: 20220177156
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide for lightning protection in aircrafts constructed with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP). In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a first Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) panel, a second CFRP panel that overlaps with the first CFRP panel in a vertical direction, and a fastener to join the first CFRP panel with the second CFRP panel, the fastener extending in the vertical direction in an area where the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel overlap. The apparatus further includes a plurality of electrically conductive pins in each of the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel, wherein the pins extend in the vertical direction proximate to the fastener to electrically connect the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel in the area where the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel overlap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Derek R. Tuck, Philipp A. Boettcher, Carson Alexander Smith, David Thomas Misciagna
  • Publication number: 20220172055
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for predicting biological functions of proteins. In one aspect, a method comprises: obtaining data defining a sequence of amino acids in a protein; processing the data defining the sequence of amino acids in the protein using a neural network, wherein: the neural network is a convolutional neural network comprising one or more dilated convolutional layers; and the neural network is configured to process the data defining the sequence of amino acids in the protein in accordance with trained parameter values of the neural network to generate a neural network output characterizing at least one predicted biological function of the sequence of amino acids in the protein; and identifying the predicted biological function of the sequence of amino acids in the protein using the neural network output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Maxwell Bileschi, Lucy Colwell, Theodore Sanderson, David Benjamin Belanger, Jamie Alexander Smith, Drew Bryant, Mark Andrew DePristo, Brandon Carter
  • Publication number: 20220173688
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses for controlling the effects generated by a motor. In one or more examples, a circuit system is configured to be coupled to a motor such that the circuit system reduces a variation in an impedance of the motor within a range of frequencies that includes a resonant frequency of the motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventor: Carson Alexander SMITH
  • Publication number: 20220166417
    Abstract: One example includes a glitch filter system. The system includes an input stage to receive an input signal, a first output to provide a first digital signal, and a second output to provide a second digital signal. A C-element receives the first digital signal and the second digital signal and provides a third digital signal at a first logic state in response to each of the first and second digital signals having a second logic state opposite the first logic state. An output latch provides an output signal at the second logic state in response to the first logic state of the third digital. The output latch also receives the first and second digital signals to maintain the first logic state of the third digital signal in response to one of the first and second digital signals changing from the second logic state to the first logic state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: ABHIJIT KUMAR DAS, RYAN ALEXANDER SMITH
  • Patent number: 11324734
    Abstract: Provided herein are specific doses of, and dosing regimens for, using a HIF prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor in treating or preventing anemia, such as anemia secondary to or associated with chronic kidney disease, anemia secondary to or associated with non-dialysis dependent chronic kidney disease anemia associated with or resulting from chemotherapy, or anemia associated with AIDS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Akebia Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Smith, Gurudatt Ajay Chandorkar, Ene Ikpong Ette, Bradley John Maroni, Charlotte Suzanne Hartman, Ramin Farzaneh-Far, Jula Kern Inrig
  • Patent number: 11323106
    Abstract: One example includes a glitch filter system. The system includes an input stage to receive an input signal, a first output to provide a first digital signal, and a second output to provide a second digital signal. A C-element receives the first digital signal and the second digital signal and provides a third digital signal at a first logic state in response to each of the first and second digital signals having a second logic state opposite the first logic state. An output latch provides an output signal at the second logic state in response to the first logic state of the third digital. The output latch also receives the first and second digital signals to maintain the first logic state of the third digital signal in response to one of the first and second digital signals changing from the second logic state to the first logic state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Abhijit Kumar Das, Ryan Alexander Smith
  • Patent number: 11306593
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine comprising: a shaft about an axis; a first turbine assembly mounted to the shaft, a first flow path and a second flow path extending through first turbine assembly along the axis. The second flow path is located radially inward of the first flow path relative to the axis. A second turbine assembly is about the axis downstream of the first turbine assembly, with a gap defined between the first turbine assembly and the second turbine assembly, the gap in fluid communication with the first flow path and the second flow path. A washer is downstream of the first turbine assembly. The washer has an annular body including a deflector between the first turbine assembly and the second turbine assembly, the deflector obstructing the first flow path and extending toward the second flow path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Acher-Igal Abenhaim, Vincent Paradis, Marc-Antoine Mailloux-Labrousse, Alexander Smith
  • Patent number: 11292611
    Abstract: The embodiments described herein provide for lightning protection in aircrafts constructed with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP). In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a first Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) panel, a second CFRP panel that overlaps with the first CFRP panel in a vertical direction, and a fastener to join the first CFRP panel with the second CFRP panel, the fastener extending in the vertical direction in an area where the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel overlap. The apparatus further includes a plurality of electrically conductive pins in each of the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel, wherein the pins extend in the vertical direction proximate to the fastener to electrically connect the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel in the area where the first CFRP panel and the second CFRP panel overlap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Derek R. Tuck, Philipp A. Boettcher, Carson Alexander Smith, David Thomas Misciagna
  • Patent number: 11293295
    Abstract: An aircraft engine having a shaft, an engine casing, at least one bearing located between the shaft and the engine casing, the engine casing defining a bearing cavity containing the at least one bearing, an air distribution system configured to inject compressed air to the bearing cavity to in use provide a sealing air flow entering the bearing cavity, and a labyrinth seal having a seal rotor and a seal stator, fins extending from one of the seal rotor and the seal stator toward the other of the seal rotor and the seal stator, at least one of the fins extending in an angled upstream direction relative to a direction of the sealing air flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Alexander Smith, Pierre-Yves Legare
  • Patent number: 11261193
    Abstract: This invention provides an unexpectedly stable, highly crystalline form of the di-HCl salt of for advantageous therapeutic pharmaceutical efficacy and dosage form stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: GI Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Smith, Hannah S. White, Patricia Andres, Xufeng Sun, Lei Zhu, Petinka I. Vlahova
  • Publication number: 20220012060
    Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods for thread-based scheduling within a multicore processor. Neural networking uses a network of connected nodes (aka neurons) to loosely model the neuro-biological functionality found in the human brain. Various embodiments of the present disclosure use thread dependency graphs analysis to decouple scheduling across many distributed cores. Rather than using thread dependency graphs to generate a sequential ordering for a centralized scheduler, the individual thread dependencies define a count value for each thread at compile-time. Threads and their thread dependency count are distributed to each core at run-time. Thereafter, each core can dynamically determine which threads to execute based on fulfilled thread dependencies without requiring a centralized scheduler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Femtosense, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam Brian Fok, Alexander Smith Neckar
  • Publication number: 20220012575
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for localized processing within multicore neural networks. Unlike existing solutions that rely on commodity software and hardware to perform “brute force” large scale neural network processing the various techniques described herein map and partition a neural network into the hardware limitations of a target platform. Specifically, the various implementations described herein synergistically leverage localization, sparsity, and distributed scheduling, to enable neural network processing within embedded hardware applications. As described herein, hardware-aware mapping/partitioning enhances neural network performance by e.g., avoiding pin-limited memory accesses, processing data in compressed formats/skipping unnecessary operations, and decoupling scheduling between cores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Femtosense, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam Brian Fok, Alexander Smith Neckar, Scott Henry Reid
  • Publication number: 20220012598
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for matrix and vector storage and operations are disclosed. Vectors and matrices may be represented differently to further enhance performance of operations. Exemplary embodiments compress sparse neural network data structures based on actual, non-null, connectivity (rather than all possible connections). This greatly reduces storage requirements as well as computational complexity. In some variants, the compression and reduction in complexity is sized to fit within the memory footprint and processing capabilities of a core. The exemplary compression schemes represent sparse matrices with links to compressed column data structures, where each compressed column data structure only stores non-null entries to optimize column-based lookups of non-null entries. Similarly, sparse vector addressing skips nulled entries to optimize for vector-specific non-null multiply-accumulate operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2021
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Femtosense, Inc.
    Inventors: Sam Brian Fok, Alexander Smith Neckar, Manish Shrivastava
  • Publication number: 20210402659
    Abstract: Thermoplastic forming tools and assemblages are provided for forming thermoplastic components. In particular, thermoplastic forming tools and assemblages are provided for forming thermoplastic components having precision micro-scale features and reproducible macro-scale dimensions. The thermoplastic forming assemblages can include at least a bottom tool and a top tool having a rigid tool body and an elastomer layer conformally coating at least a portion of both rigid tool bodies. The bottom and top tool can be so dimensioned that, when in the closed position, they define a cavity forming the thermoplastic component. The rigid tool bodies provide the reproducible macro-scale dimensions in the thermoplastic component, while the elastomer layers form and release the precision micro-scale features in the thermoplastic component when formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Alexander SMITH, Andrew Evan KAMHOLZ, Cameron John HARRIS, Hootan FARHAT
  • Publication number: 20210387993
    Abstract: An advantageous isolated morphic form of trilaciclib which is 2?-((5-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)pyridin-2-yl)amino)-7?,8?-dihydro-6?H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,9?-pyrazino[1?,2?:1, 5]pyrrolo[2,3 -d]pyrimidin]-6?-one, for example in the form of a di-hydrochloride salt or a dihydrochloride, dihydrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: G1 Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Schneider, Alexander Smith, Hannah S. White, Jay Copeland Strum, Jaroslaw Mazurek
  • Publication number: 20210392318
    Abstract: A gaze tracking system comprising a first camera operable to capture images of a user within an environment, a second camera, having a smaller field of view than the first camera, operable to capture images of at least one of the user's eyes, an eye identification unit operable to identify a location of at least one of the user's eyes from images captured by the first camera, a camera control unit operable to modify the position and/or orientation of the second camera in dependence upon the detected location of the at least one of the user's eyes, so as to cause the second camera to be able to capture images of at least one of the user's eyes, and a gaze direction identification unit operable to identify a gaze direction of the user from images captured by the second camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.
    Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Maria Chiara Monti, Alexander Smith
  • Publication number: 20210341406
    Abstract: A gas sensor includes a biomaterial comprising electrically-conductive protein nanowires and at least two electrodes. The at least two electrodes are in operative arrangement with the protein nanowires and configured to provide a signal indicative of a change in conductivity of the protein nanowires. The conductivity of the protein nanowires is responsive to a change in concentration of a gas exposed to the biomaterial, such as ammonia, or to a change in relative humidity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Jun Yao, Derek R. Lovley, Alexander Smith, Xiaomeng Liu
  • Publication number: 20210316404
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are for determining a weld quality by an imaging device configured to generate one or more signals indicative of a weld bead positioned on at least one part. Machine-readable instruction set causes a computing device to perform at least the following when executed by the processor: capture an initial scan to determine a plurality of offset information based on predetermined part features, activate the imaging device to capture a scan of the weld bead, establish a line scan profile of the weld bead, determine that the scan of the weld bead matches a predetermined weld model, and analyze the weld bead profile to determine a volume of the weld bead, a rising edge of the weld bead, and a falling edge of the weld bead and comparing the weld bead profile to a plurality of predetermined parameters for the weld bead to determine a satisfactory weld quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Lyman Trapp, Dexter Alexander Smith
  • Patent number: 11146073
    Abstract: A system and method for synchronizing a frequency of plurality of variable frequency generators with a variable frequency load over a variable frequency bus independent of a frequency conversion stage. A synchronization controller is configured to determine an optimal bus frequency of the variable frequency bus based on at least one power demand requirement of the variable frequency load operatively connected to the variable frequency bus. With the optimal frequency, an available power range supplied by the plurality of variable frequency gensets at the optimal bus frequency can be determined. The synchronization controller then asymmetrically loads the variable frequency load to the plurality variable frequency gensets at the optimal bus frequency based on the operating range of each variable frequency genset and recursively updates the optimal bus frequency based on operational statistics of the asymmetrically loaded variable frequency gensets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Snopko, Perry Converse, David Miller, Alexander Smith