Patents by Inventor Alexander Thomas

Alexander Thomas 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: 20240133586
    Abstract: A fluid heating system for heating a production fluid using a thermal transfer fluid, the production fluid being contained in a vessel includes an electric blower configured to receive ambient air and electrical input power and to provide output source air, a combustion system configured to receive the source air from the electric blower and to receive fuel and to provide the thermal transfer fluid, a heat exchanger configured to receive the thermal transfer fluid from the combustion system and configured to provide heat exchange from the thermal transfer fluid to the production fluid, and to provide output exhaust gas, and wherein the electric fan provides a predetermined volume flow rate of the output source air at a predetermined blower efficiency such that the fluid heating system has a Bulk Heat Flux of at least about 14.7 kBTU/Hr/ft2 and a Pressure Drop of at least about 0.7 psi.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander Thomas Frechette, Carl Nicholas Nett, Thomas William Tighe, Keith Richard Waltz
  • Publication number: 20240127603
    Abstract: Provided are a system and methods for a unified framework and tooling for lane boundary annotation, which include obtaining sensor data along a trajectory corresponding to locations of a base map. Features are extracted from the sensor data. The features are input into a trained neural network that outputs overlapping rich feature maps comprising polylines. The overlapping rich feature maps are aggregated according to an aggregation function to obtain raster image. Vectorization is applied to the raster images to extract roadway geometry represented by globally consistent polylines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sergi Adipraja Widjaja, Venice Erin Baylon Liong, Sucipta Alexander, Nikki Erwin Ramirez, Ivana Irene Thomas, Chi Yuan Goh
  • Patent number: 11962938
    Abstract: Method for generating haptic feedback responses starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects first touch input on first user interface and second touch input on second user interface. Processor monitors location of the first touch input on the first user interface and location of the second touch input on the second user interface. Processor determines distance between location of first touch input on first user interface and location on first user interface corresponding to location of second touch input on second user interface. Processor causes the first user interface and the second user interface to generate a haptic feedback response based on the distance. The haptic feedback response increases in intensity or speed as the distance decreases and decreases in intensity or speed as the distance increases. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas, Alexander P. Powell
  • Publication number: 20240120022
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for performing protein design. In one aspect, a method comprises: processing an input characterizing a target protein structure of a target protein using an embedding neural network having a plurality of embedding neural network parameters to generate an embedding of the target protein structure of the target protein; determining a predicted amino acid sequence of the target protein based on the embedding of the target protein structure, comprising: conditioning a generative neural network having a plurality of generative neural network parameters on the embedding of the target protein structure; and generating, by the generative neural network conditioned on the embedding of the target protein structure, a representation of the predicted amino acid sequence of the target protein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew W. Senior, Simon Kohl, Jason Yim, Russell James Bates, Catalin-Dumitru Ionescu, Charlie Thomas Curtis Nash, Ali Razavi-Nematollahi, Alexander Pritzel, John Jumper
  • Publication number: 20240117030
    Abstract: The present invention relates to antibodies that specifically bind to one or more of IL-4, IL-13, IL-33, TSLP, and p40. The present invention further relates to antibodies that bind to one of IL-4, IL-13, IL-33, or TSLP. The invention further relates to multispecific antibodies that specifically bind to IL-4 and IL-13, and at least one other target. The present invention relates to multispecific antibodies that bind IL-4, IL-13, and one of IL-33, TSLP, or p40. The present invention also pertains to related molecules, e.g. nucleic acids which encode such antibodies or multispecific antibodies, compositions, and related methods, e.g., methods for producing and purifying such antibodies and multispecific antibodies, and their use in diagnostics and therapeutics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Rita Diane AGOSTINELLI, James Reasoner APGAR, Eric Matthew BENNETT, Laird BLOOM, Ting CHEN, Aaron Michael D'ANTONA, Arnab DE, Fang JIN, Marion Teresa KASAIAN, Matthew Allister LAMBERT, Kimberly Ann MARQUETTE, Virginie MCMANUS, Jessica Haewon MIN DEBARTOLO, Nicole Melissa PICHE-NICHOLAS, Richard Thomas SHELDON, Lioudmila TCHISTIAKOVA, Alexander Michael Shuford BARRON, Richard Lee GIESECK, III, Xiaotian ZHONG
  • Publication number: 20240110657
    Abstract: Techniques for implementing and/or operating a pipe handling system that includes an inboard bore plug assembly and an outboard bore plug assembly, which facilitate plugging a pipe bore in a flexible pipe. The inboard bore plug assembly includes a first inflatable plug having a first inflatable bladder that defines a first fluid cavity and a first inflation port opening and a first inflation fluid port secured within the first inflation port opening. The outboard bore plug assembly includes a second inflatable plug having a second inflatable bladder that defines a second fluid cavity, a second inflation port opening, and a bore port opening, a second inflation fluid port secured within the second inflation port opening, and a bore fluid port secured in the bore port opening to enable the pipe bore in the flexible pipe to be pressurized to an elevated fluid pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher David Barnstable, Shawn Thomas Berry, Alejandro Estrella, John Paul Leger, Matthew Douglas Lusk, Alexander Lee Winn
  • Publication number: 20240112758
    Abstract: Displaying a comparison of genetic data is disclosed, including receiving an indication of a first individual, receiving an indication of a second individual, retrieving the genotypic information for the first individual and the second individual, comparing the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual, displaying an indication of the comparison of the genotypic information of the first individual and the second individual graphically. A first graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are identical. A second graphical symbol is used to display an indication of the genome regions for which the first individual and the second individual are half identical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Linda Avey, Oleksiy Khomenko, Brian Thomas Naughton, Serge Saxonov, Anne Wojcicki, Alexander Wong
  • Publication number: 20240110167
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides for endonuclease enzymes having distinguishing domain features, as well as methods of using such enzymes or variants thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Brian C. THOMAS, Christopher BROWN, Daniela S.A. GOLTSMAN, Cristina BUTTERFIELD, Lisa ALEXANDER, Cindy CASTELLE
  • Patent number: 11947662
    Abstract: A uniform enclave interface is provided for creating and operating enclaves across multiple different types of backends and system configurations. For instance, an enclave manager may be created in an untrusted environment of a host computing device. The enclave manager may include instructions for creating one or more enclaves. An enclave may be generated in memory of the host computing device using the enclave manager. One or more enclave clients of the enclave may be generated by the enclave manager such that the enclave clients configured to provide one or more entry points into the enclave. One or more trusted application instances may be created in the enclave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Gingell, Peter Gonda, Alexander Thomas Cope, Sergey Karamov, Keith Moyer, Uday Savagaonkar, Chong Cai
  • Publication number: 20240103997
    Abstract: An input regarding security characteristics of a project is received. For example, a security characteristic of a project may be insecure storage of data related to confidentiality. The project is scanned for one or more security requirements based on the received security characteristics. A list of security requirements is built for the project based on the received first input. A machine learning process is used to identify addition of one or more security requirements and/or removal of one or more security requirements from the list of security requirements. A first security vulnerability scan is run using the list of security requirements with the one or more additional security requirements and/or the removed one or more security requirements. Results for the first security vulnerability scan are generated and displayed to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: ALEXANDER HOOLE, PETER THOMAS BLAY
  • Patent number: 11940989
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method may include display of a data summary view of a set of events that correspond to query results of a query. Each event of the set of events may include data items of a plurality of event attributes. In embodiments, the data summary view can include various summary reports. Each summary report can include summary entries and a summary graph that each present a summary of data items of a selected event attribute, of the plurality of event attributes. At least one summary report can include summary entries that are selectable by a user. The method may further include filtering the set of event, in response to, and based on, selection of one or more of the selectable summary entries by the user and updating of at least the first and second summary graphs to correspond to the filtered set of events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Miller, Marc V. Robichaud, Cory Burke, Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd, Alexander James, Andrew Robbins
  • Patent number: 11931140
    Abstract: Navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the navigation system imports a planning method using patient specific preoperative images. The navigation system uses intraoperative imaging during the medical procedure to update the preoperative images and provides images of tracked surgical tools along the surgical path prepared from the preoperative images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau
  • Patent number: 11932445
    Abstract: A glass container including a body having a delamination factor less than or equal to 10 and at least one marking is described. The body has an inner surface, an outer surface, and a wall thickness extending between the outer surface and the inner surface. The marking is located within the wall thickness. In particular, the marking is a portion of the body having a refractive index that differs from a refractive index of an unmarked portion of the body. Methods of forming the marking within the body are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Stephan Lvovich Logunov, Leonard Thomas Masters, William James Miller, Alexander Mikhailovich Streltsov, Christopher Lee Timmons
  • Patent number: 11926969
    Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives, and more particularly to fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives wherein the fibrous structure has three or more regions that exhibit different characteristics and/or properties and methods for making same, are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Fei Wang, Arman Ashraf, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alexander P. King
  • Patent number: 11930298
    Abstract: Method for generating haptic feedback responses starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects first touch input on first user interface and second touch input on second user interface. Processor monitors location of the first touch input on the first user interface and location of the second touch input on the second user interface. Processor determines distance between location of first touch input on first user interface and location on first user interface corresponding to location of second touch input on second user interface. Processor causes the first user interface and the second user interface to generate a haptic feedback response based on the distance. The haptic feedback response increases in intensity or speed as the distance decreases and decreases in intensity or speed as the distance increases. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Thomas, Alexander P. Powell
  • Patent number: 11920565
    Abstract: A method for determining improved control parameters of a number of wind turbines of a wind park is provided. The method considers the impact of individual turbine manufacturing tolerances on the turbine performance, thereby avoiding under-utilization of those wind turbines. The method includes the steps of: receiving, by an interface, one or more actual manufacturing tolerances of characteristic values for each of the number of wind turbines; determining, by a processing unit, for each of the number of wind turbines a power versus wind speed map which is calculated from a given turbine model with the one or more actual manufacturing tolerances of the respective wind turbines as input parameters; and deriving, by the processing unit, the control parameters for each of the number of wind turbines from their associated power versus wind speed map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy A/S
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Richard Clark, Alexander Duke, Stuart Logan, Arwyn Thomas, Zhan-Yuan Wu
  • Patent number: 11922683
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for generating a region of interest on a digital image of a sidewall of a tyre, the sidewall having one or more embossed and/or engraved markings, is provided. The method comprises generating a histogram of oriented gradients feature map of the digital image, inputting the histogram of oriented gradients feature map into a trained convolutional neural network, wherein said trained convolutional neural network is configured to output a first probability based on the input histogram of oriented gradients feature map that a region of pixels of the digital image contains the embossed and/or engraved markings, and if the first probability is at or above a first predetermined threshold, accepting said region of pixels as said region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: WheelRight Limited
    Inventors: Syed Wajahat Ali Shah Kazmi, Ian Thomas Nabney, George Vogiatzis, Alexander Paul Codd
  • Patent number: D1021272
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Albert Bischofberger, Luiz Felipe de Melo Dias, Alexander Hart Jerome, David Tyler Debus, Christopher Thomas Pietrzak
  • Patent number: D1021273
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Specialized Bicycle Components, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Albert Bischofberger, Luiz Felipe de Melo Dias, Alexander Hart Jerome, David Tyler Debus, Christopher Thomas Pietrzak
  • Patent number: D1023280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Ben Thomas Edmonds, Philip Tennison Reilly, Alexander James Morrison, Dale Marc Comley