Patents by Inventor Allen Smith

Allen 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: 20230125658
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for distributing syndicated content or content with one or more distribution restrictions. In one aspect, a method may include assigning a unique ID to a plurality of content items, where the unique ID of at least one of the content items is associated with one or more property distribution restrictions. The method may further include streaming in a video stream the content items to at least two properties and monitoring the unique IDs of the plurality of content items streamed in the video stream to detect least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions. The distribution of the least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions may be blocked from the one or more properties concurrently with streaming the video stream, based on the one or more property distribution restrictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Aaron Miller, Jason D. Justman, Lora Clark Bouchard, Michael Ellery Bouchard, Kevin James Cotlove, Mathew Keith Gitchell, Stacia Lynn Haisch, Jonathan David Kersten, Matthew Karl Marchio, Peter Arthur Pulliam, George Allen Smith, Todd Christopher Tibbetts
  • Patent number: 11625373
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for determining changes to database tables. In an embodiment, the method comprises loading a first group of records in a first time period in a database; loading a second group of records in a second time period in the database; selecting one or more of the records in the database; and for each of the selected records, determining whether it was loaded into the database during the first time period or the second time period, and providing the each record with a specified designation based on the time period during which the each record was loaded into the database. In an embodiment, identified times when the records were loaded in the database are used to determine the time period during which the each record was loaded in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Donnie Allen Smith, Jr., Kenneth L. Greenlee, Venkatapathi Rao Kaka, Sahil Arora, Mukesh Kumar
  • Publication number: 20230101409
    Abstract: Large numbers of polynucleotides with random sequences are used collectively as a molecular anti-counterfeiting tag. The polynucleotides are sequenced, placed on an item, and the sequences stored in an electronic record. Authenticity is determined by collecting the polynucleotides from a labeled item, sequencing those polynucleotides, and comparing the sequence to that stored in the electronic record. The number of polynucleotides used as the tag may be adjusted by aliquoting the original batch of randomly synthesized polynucleotides. Complexity of the polynucleotide tags may be increased by assembling individual polynucleotides from multiple dilutions to create longer assembled polynucleotides. Even if the sequences of the polynucleotides are known, the complexity of the tag can make the forgery of the tag itself technically difficult and prohibitively expensive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Yuan-Jyue CHEN, Bichlien Hoang NGUYEN, Jake Allen SMITH, Karin STRAUSS
  • Patent number: 11604724
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for performing testing on a portion of an application. The method includes one or more processors identifying a test configuration for testing an application. The application comprises a plurality of components. The test configuration includes an indication to test at least one component of the application. The method further includes one or more processors testing the indicated at least one component of the application. The method further includes one or more processors determining a validation result of testing the indicated at least one component of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Willie Robert Patten, Jr., Donnie Allen Smith, Jr., Jeffrey N. Eisen, Chintan Rajyaguru
  • Publication number: 20230052480
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system, platform, computer program product, and/or method for reducing data processing that includes identifying data properties used to generate features used as input to data analytic models; associating the data properties used to generate the features to corresponding features; determining whether an incoming data record is a previously processed data record; determining, in response to an incoming data record being a previously processed data record, whether the incoming data record matches the previously processed data record; identifying data properties in the incoming data record that have changed; determining features associated with the data properties in the incoming data record that have changed; and generating the features associated with the data properties in the incoming data record that have changed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Donnie Allen Smith, JR., Willie Robert Patten, JR., Chintan Rajyaguru, Jeffrey N. Eisen
  • Publication number: 20230017947
    Abstract: A fountain apparatus may include a wall insert that can be threadably attached to a water inlet port in the wall of a pool. The wall insert may split water flow into two streams, one that passes through a jet nozzle ball and into the pool, and the other that flows into a reservoir that supplies water to a stream nozzle tip to form a water fountain. A water insert reservoir cap may be releasably engageable with the wall insert and include two fluid passageways, one corresponding to the flow path to the jet nozzle ball and the other corresponding to the reservoir and the flow path to the stream nozzle tip. A reservoir locking cap may be used to secure the wall insert reservoir cap to the wall insert. A jet nozzle cap may be used to secure the jet nozzle ball to the reservoir locking cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: COOL TECH USA LLC
    Inventor: Brent Allen Smith
  • Publication number: 20220414535
    Abstract: A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include receiving data, mapping a plurality of features to a plurality of attributes of the data, and generating a feature-to-attribute map based on said mapping. The operations may further include submitting new data to a feature calculation loop and implementing the feature calculation loop. The operations may also include tracking the features in the feature calculation loop, identifying a changed feature in the features, and recalculating for the changed feature using the feature calculation loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Chintan Rajyaguru, Donnie Allen Smith, JR., Jeffrey N. Eisen, Willie Robert Patten, JR.
  • Patent number: 11527239
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for distributing syndicated content or content with one or more distribution restrictions. In one aspect, a method may include assigning a unique ID to a plurality of content items, where the unique ID of at least one of the content items is associated with one or more property distribution restrictions. The method may further include streaming in a video stream the content items to at least two properties and monitoring the unique IDs of the plurality of content items streamed in the video stream to detect least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions. The distribution of the least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions may be blocked from the one or more properties concurrently with streaming the video stream, based on the one or more property distribution restrictions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Aaron Miller, Jason D. Justman, Lora Clark Bouchard, Michael Ellery Bouchard, Kevin James Cotlove, Mathew Keith Gitchell, Stacia Lynn Haisch, Jonathan David Kersten, Matthew Karl Marchio, Peter Arthur Pulliam, George Allen Smith, Todd Christopher Tibbetts
  • Publication number: 20220386774
    Abstract: A drawer release is described. The drawer release includes a handle portion pivotally or rotatably engaged to a fixed portion, and the fixed portion is attached to or connected to a drawer. The handle portion includes at least one engaging member that engages a lever or actuator of a drawer-slide of the drawer to open or release the drawer. The drawer release provides for the one-handed opening of the drawer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Steven Jeffries, Norman Allen Smith
  • Publication number: 20220389483
    Abstract: Electrode controlled hybridization is used to change local pH and selectively assemble oligonucleotide complexes on the surface of a microelectrode array. The oligonucleotide complexes have sticky ends that provide locations for subsequent oligonucleotide complexes to hybridize. The order in which specific oligonucleotide complexes are joined together encodes information. Controlled activation of individual electrodes in the microelectrode array creates negative voltages that reduces a buffer solution and raises the pH in proximity to the electrodes. At higher pH levels double-stranded oligonucleotides de-hybridize. Nicks between oligonucleotide complexes and oligonucleotides anchored to the microelectrode array are closed creating covalent attachments. De-hybridized single-stranded oligonucleotides are removed leaving only the oligonucleotides connected to microelectrode array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Yuan-Jyue CHEN, Bichlien Hoang NGUYEN, Karin STRAUSS, Jake Allen SMITH
  • Publication number: 20220380403
    Abstract: Photon generating substrates for light-directed oligonucleotide synthesis are disclosed. Light is generated within a solid-state stack that supports growing oligonucleotides. The light may be generated by microLEDs, a pass-through liquid crystal panel, or an LCoS system. Light passes through a transmissive layer on which growing oligonucleotides are attached. Patterning of the light is controlled by selective activation of the microLEDs or by selective control of the transparency of a liquid crystal layer. Photolabile blocking groups are selectively removed by exposure to patterned light emitted from the photon generating substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Bichlien Hoang Nguyen, Karin Strauss, Jake Allen Smith, Richard Prescott Rouse, Douglas Mitchell Carmean, Matthew David Turner, Gagan Gupta
  • Publication number: 20220351817
    Abstract: A system for managing prescriptions via a blockchain is provided. Prescription information relating to a the prescription is displayed. Submission information for the pharmacy relating to dispensing the prescription is displayed for each of a plurality of pharmacies. Selection of a pharmacy to dispense the prescription is received, where a prescription transaction relating to the prescription is recorded in a blockchain. An indication that a dose was taken is received from the patient after the prescription is dispensed by the selected pharmacy selected. A dose token transaction is recorded in the blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Scott Blackley, David Allen Smith, John Marley Gray, Rhetick Sengupta, Kevin C. Young
  • Publication number: 20220315138
    Abstract: A track system for hobby robotics is provided. The track system includes a first track component having a pair of lateral edges and a connection portion disposed at each lateral edge. The track system also includes a second track component having a pair of lateral edges and a connection portion disposed at each lateral edge. The first track component is hingedly coupled to the second track component at a respective connection portion of each of the first and second track components. An individual track component is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Brian T. Pettey, Lucas Allen Smith
  • Patent number: 11419415
    Abstract: A drawer release is described. The drawer release includes a handle portion pivotally or rotatably engaged to a fixed portion, and the fixed portion is attached to or connected to a drawer. The handle portion includes at least one engaging member that engages a lever or actuator of a drawer-slide of the drawer to open or release the drawer. The drawer release provides for the one-handed opening of the drawer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Austin Hardware and Supply, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Steven Jeffries, Norman Allen Smith
  • Patent number: 11393568
    Abstract: A system for managing prescriptions via a blockchain is provided. The system records in the blockchain a prescription transaction that identifies a prescription that has been written for a patient. The system then records in the blockchain a submission selection transaction with code for controlling selection of a pharmacy to dispense the prescription. For pharmacies that provide a submission for dispensing the prescription, the system records in the blockchain a submission transaction with submission information relating to dispensing of the prescription by the pharmacy. When a pharmacy is selected to dispense the prescription, the system records in the blockchain a selected submission transaction indicating the pharmacy selected to dispense the prescription. When the prescription is dispensed, the system records in the blockchain a dispense transaction indicating that the selected pharmacy has dispensed the prescription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: PRESCRYPTIVE HEALTH, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Scott Blackley, David Allen Smith, John Marley Gray, Rhetick Sengupta, Kevin C. Young
  • Publication number: 20220197783
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for performing testing on a portion of an application. The method includes one or more processors identifying a test configuration for testing an application. The application comprises a plurality of components. The test configuration includes an indication to test at least one component of the application. The method further includes one or more processors testing the indicated at least one component of the application. The method further includes one or more processors determining a validation result of testing the indicated at least one component of the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Willie Robert Patten, JR., Donnie Allen Smith, JR., Jeffrey N. Eisen, Chintan Rajyaguru
  • Publication number: 20220062033
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling a patient's body temperature by endovascular heat exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Jessica Megan Clayton, John Thomas Buckley, Christo P. Pamichev, Craig Wendell Pendry, Paul Eric Peterson, Richard Allen Smith, Sean W. Yip, John William Jacobsen
  • Publication number: 20220059087
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for distributing syndicated content or content with one or more distribution restrictions. In one aspect, a method may include assigning a unique ID to a plurality of content items, where the unique ID of at least one of the content items is associated with one or more property distribution restrictions. The method may further include streaming in a video stream the content items to at least two properties and monitoring the unique IDs of the plurality of content items streamed in the video stream to detect least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions. The distribution of the least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions may be blocked from the one or more properties concurrently with streaming the video stream, based on the one or more property distribution restrictions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Aaron Miller, Jason D. Justman, Lora Clark Bouchard, Michael Ellery Bouchard, Kevin James Cotlove, Mathew Keith Gitchell, Stacia Lynn Haisch, Jonathan David Kersten, Matthew Karl Marchio, Peter Arthur Pulliam, George Allen Smith, Todd Christopher Tibbetts
  • Publication number: 20220031500
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling a patient's body temperature by endovascular heat exchange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Jessica Megan Clayton, John Thomas Buckley, Christo P. Pamichev, Craig Wendell Pendry, Paul Eric Peterson, Richard Allen Smith, Sean W. Yip
  • Patent number: D950365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Dovetel Communications, LLC
    Inventor: Allen Smith