Patents by Inventor Allen Thompson
Allen Thompson 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).
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Patent number: 11970287Abstract: An introduced autonomous aerial vehicle can include multiple cameras for capturing images of a surrounding physical environment that are utilized for motion planning by an autonomous navigation system. In some embodiments, the cameras can be integrated into one or more rotor assemblies that house powered rotors to free up space within the body of the aerial vehicle. In an example embodiment, an aerial vehicle includes multiple upward-facing cameras and multiple downward-facing cameras with overlapping fields of view to enable stereoscopic computer vision in a plurality of directions around the aerial vehicle. Similar camera arrangements can also be implemented in fixed-wing aerial vehicles.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Skydio, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Scott Thompson, Adam Parker Bry, Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman, Abraham Galton Bachrach, Yevgeniy Kozlenko, Kevin Patrick Smith O'Leary, Patrick Allen Lowe, Daniel Thomas Adams, Justin Michael Sadowski, Zachary Albert West, Josiah Timothy VanderMey
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Patent number: 11971190Abstract: A damper assembly includes a frame having an inner surface and a protrusion extending inwardly relative to the inner surface, a damper blade coupled to the frame and configured to transition between an open position and a closed position, and a latch coupled to the inner surface of the frame. The latch is configured to deform to facilitate transition of the damper blade between the open position and the closed position and to expand to capture and retain the damper blade in the closed position, the latch includes a tab segment configured to move toward the protrusion during deformation of the latch and to move away from the protrusion during expansion of the latch, and a distal end of the tab segment overlaps with a thickness of the protrusion.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Air Distribution Technologies IP, LLCInventors: Cody Christopher Thompson, Brian Gerard Bellerive, Jeffrey Scott Beneke, Kent Steven Maune, Park Allen Wood
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Patent number: 11947348Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) controller may have control elements configured to receive inputs from a user. A cover may be coupled to the controller. The cover may be movable between a closed position in which the control elements are covered and an open position in which the control elements are exposed. An antenna may be integrated in the cover. The antenna may be electrically connected to circuitry in the controller for communicating with a UAV. In some implementations, a conductive plane and/or an insulating plane may be integrated in the cover. In some implementations, a heatsink, a fan, and/or a support mechanism may be arranged on an under portion of the controller. In some implementations, a circuit board including a cutout may be arranged inside the controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Skydio, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Scott Thompson, Christopher Brian Grasberger, Patrick Allen Lowe, Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman, Yevgeniy Kozlenko, Logan Sweet, Blair Williams, Joseph Anthony Enke
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Publication number: 20240092990Abstract: This provides an improved process for making a flexible, porous, dissolvable solid sheet article with improved pore structures.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Hongsing TAN, Robert Wayne GLENN, JR., Carl David MAC NAMARA, Todd Ryan THOMPSON, Jason Allen STAMPER, John Philip HECHT, Xu HUANG, Ruizhi PEI, Paolo Efrain PALACIO MANCHENO, Toshiyuki OKADA
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Patent number: 11638909Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to processes for the selective separation of carbon dioxide (CO2) from multi-component feedstreams containing CO2. The processes use a potassium-form MER framework type zeolite having a stick-like morphology. The potassium is present in the zeolite as K+ in extra-framework locations, and the zeolite is essentially free of an extra-framework cation other than potassium.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Joshua Allen Thompson, Dan Xie
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Publication number: 20220387965Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to processes for the selective separation of carbon dioxide (CO2) from multi-component feedstreams containing CO2. The processes use a potassium-form MER framework type zeolite having a stick-like morphology. The potassium is present in the zeolite as K+ in extra-framework locations, and the zeolite is essentially free of an extra-framework cation other than potassium.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: Chevron U.S.A. Inc.Inventors: Joshua Allen Thompson, Dan Xie
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Patent number: 11238760Abstract: Vehicle operation safety related indicia (VSRI) displaying apparatus(es) disclosed display, adjacent or proximate a vehicle surface at least generally vehicle operator facing, VSRI on a vehicle operator facing surface of a VSRI display member, slidably positionable between a VSRI non-revealed and a VSRI revealed state displaying VSRI extended outwardly from a side of the apparatus. VSRI subject-matter, optionally-illuminated and/or electro-mechanically positioned, depicts one or more objects extending outwardly from at least one side of a vehicle having an in-use VSRI display apparatus, or from a vehicle rack or towed device. VSRI display apparatus variants include a housing or body appearing and/or shaped like the vehicle, or side(s) thereof, having an in-use apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Inventor: Trampas Allen Thompson
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Patent number: 11188040Abstract: An integrated solution strategy that integrates multiple domains together in a seamless and standardized way for increasing a user's control over facilities and equipment. This integrated approach can lead to a reduction of energy usage, more efficient energy usage, increased safety, health, and security of a facility and its occupants, optimized production in industrial settings, and associated and other economic advantages. Accurate, reliable information about a facility or equipment is essential to making timely, informed decisions. Enhanced automation provides a reliable means of collecting and assembling a variety of operating data and archiving that data into a central database for evaluation, reporting, forecasting, and negotiation with resource marketers.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.Inventors: Philippe Delorme, Vincent Petit, James Simonelli, Barry Coflan, Scott Henneberry, Ronald Schoop, Jean-Louis Bergerand, Gregory Allen Thompson, Cyril Perducat, Philip E. London, John Connor
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Publication number: 20210298369Abstract: In an embodiment, an athletic garment is provided including a front panel and a rear panel, a waistband portion disposed at an upper portion of the garment, a first opening for receiving a torso of a user, a second opening for receiving a first leg of a user and a third opening for receiving a second leg of a user; and a crotch panel disposed between the front and rear panel, extending from the second opening to the third opening. The crotch panel comprises a tri-layered substrate to conceal and prevent visible staining of a fluid received therein. The tri-layered substrate may include a first layer of a first material, a second layer of a second material, and a third layer of a third material.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Clearview Systems, LLCInventors: Jason Polstein, Matthew Polstein, Colleen Cotter, Allen Thompson
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Patent number: 11063950Abstract: A system discloses providing secure remote desktop session host experience to a user for a selected application while controlling the user's access to non-core functionalities of the selected application. An implementation of the system disclosed herein identifies a non-core functionality of an application running on a server, flags the executable files, shared object library files, and the registration keys necessary for the non-core functionality of the application, and disables the application's access to the identified executable files, the identified shared object library files, and the identified registration keys.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2016Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: George Ringer, Jeromy Scott Statia, Dayne Allen Thompson
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Publication number: 20210060477Abstract: Disclosed are methods for removing acid gas from a feed stream of natural gas including acid gas, methane and ethane. The methods include alternating input of the feed stream between at least two beds of adsorbent particles comprising zeolite SSZ-13 such that the feed stream contacts one of the at least two beds at a given time in an adsorption step and a tail gas stream is simultaneously vented from another of the at least two beds in a desorption step. The contact occurs at a feed pressure of from about 50 to about 1000 psia for a sufficient period of time to preferentially adsorb acid gas from the feed stream. A product gas stream is produced containing no greater than about 2 mol % carbon dioxide and at least about 65 mol % of methane recovered from the feed stream and at least about 25 mol % of ethane recovered from the feed stream. The feed stream is input at a feed end of each bed. The product gas stream is removed from a product end of each bed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventor: Joshua Allen Thompson
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Publication number: 20210039065Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a method for making a MER framework type zeolite, a MER framework type zeolite having a stick-like morphology, and processes for the selective separation of carbon dioxide (CO2) from multi-component feedstreams containing CO2 using the zeolite.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2020Publication date: February 11, 2021Inventors: Joshua Allen Thompson, Dan Xie
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Publication number: 20200394940Abstract: Vehicle operation safety related indicia (VSRI) displaying apparatus(es) disclosed display, adjacent or proximate a vehicle surface at least generally vehicle operator facing, VSRI on a vehicle operator facing surface of a VSRI display member, slidably positionable between a VSRI non-revealed and a VSRI revealed state displaying VSRI extended outwardly from a side of the apparatus. VSRI subject-matter, optionally-illuminated and/or electro-mechanically positioned, depicts one or more objects extending outwardly from at least one side of a vehicle having an in-use VSRI display apparatus, or from a vehicle rack or towed device. VSRI display apparatus variants include a housing or body appearing and/or shaped like the vehicle, or side(s) thereof, having an in-use apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Inventor: Trampas Allen Thompson
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Patent number: 10609522Abstract: Audio output of a radio frequency (RF) portable communication device is controlled. A first portable communication device (PCD) uses an audio transducer to generate one or more audio tones in response to a voice transmit operation initiated by a user of the first PCD. One or more characteristics of the tone or tones can be selectively controlled in accordance with a first talk group which is in use by the first PCD to facilitate the voice transmit operation. The one or more audio tones are received at one or more second PCDs different from the first PCD, where they are used to selectively control an audio output volume of the second PCD.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: EAGLE TECHNOLOGY, LLCInventors: Allen Thompson, Stephen Welsch
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Publication number: 20200073345Abstract: An integrated solution strategy that integrates multiple domains together in a seamless and standardized way for increasing a user's control over facilities and equipment. This integrated approach can lead to a reduction of energy usage, more efficient energy usage, increased safety, health, and security of a facility and its occupants, optimized production in industrial settings, and associated and other economic advantages. Accurate, reliable information about a facility or equipment is essential to making timely, informed decisions. Enhanced automation provides a reliable means of collecting and assembling a variety of operating data and archiving that data into a central database for evaluation, reporting, forecasting, and negotiation with resource marketers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2019Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Philippe Delorme, Vincent Petit, James Simonelli, Barry Coflan, Scott Henneberry, Ronald Schoop, Jean-Louis Bergerand, Gregory Allen Thompson, Cyril Perducat, Philip E. London, John Connor
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Patent number: 10569213Abstract: A method for removing acid gas from feed gas, comprising: alternating input of feed gas between beds of adsorbent particles that comprise zeolite SSZ-98 or SSZ-105; wherein gas contacts one of the beds during an adsorption and tail gas is vented from another bed by desorption; wherein a product gas containing no greater than about 2 Mol % carbon dioxide is produced, and methane and ethane are recovered. A method for removing acid gas, wherein the product gas contains 1 wppm H2S or less. A process for removing acid gas from feed gas, comprising adjusting selectivity of an adsorbent by changing a substitution of ERI phase with LEV phase in an intergrown molecular sieve. A process for removing acid gas from a feed gas, comprising: contacting a feed gas with adsorbent comprising a molecular sieve having a defined intergrowth of an ERI phase and a LEV phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.Inventors: Joshua Allen Thompson, Dan Xie
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Patent number: 10429804Abstract: An integrated solution strategy that integrates multiple domains together in a seamless and standardized way for increasing a users control over facilities and equipment. This integrated approach can lead to a reduction of energy usage, more efficient energy usage, increased safety, health, and security of a facility and its occupants, optimized production in industrial settings, and associated and other economic advantages. Accurate, reliable information about a facility or equipment is essential to making timely, informed decisions. Enhanced automation provides a reliable means of collecting and assembling a variety of operating data and archiving that data into a central database for evaluation, reporting, forecasting, and negotiation with resource marketers.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2015Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC USA, INC.Inventors: Philippe Delorme, Vincent Petit, James Simonelli, Barry Coflan, Scott Henneberry, Ronald Schoop, Jean-Louis Bergerand, Gregory Allen Thompson, Cyril Perducat, Philip E. London, John Connor
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Publication number: 20190033532Abstract: A preconnectorized outdoor cable streamlines the deployment of optical waveguides into the last mile of an optical network. The preconnectorized outdoor cable includes a cable and at least one plug connector. The plug connector is attached to a first end of the cable, thereby connectorizing at least one optical waveguide. The cable has at least one optical waveguide, at least one tensile element, and a cable jacket. Various cable designs such as figure-eight or flat cables may be used with the plug connector. In preferred embodiments, the plug connector includes a crimp assembly having a crimp housing and a crimp band. The crimp housing has two half-shells being held together by the crimp band for securing the at least one tensile element. When fully assembled, the crimp housing fits into a shroud of the preconnectorized cable. The shroud aides in mating the preconnectorized cable with a complimentary receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Inventors: Michael John Gimblet, Xin Liu, Stuart Reams Melton, David Allen Thompson, Hieu Vinh Tran, Richard Steven Wagman
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Patent number: 10172687Abstract: A cannula for a surgical system may include a magnet located in a position to be sensed by the surgical system in a mounted position of the cannula to the surgical system. At least one of a presence of the magnet and a polarity of the magnet is sensed in the mounted position of the cannula to provide identification information relating to the cannula. Exemplary embodiments further encompass a patient side cart for a teleoperated surgical system, the patient side cart including a base, a main column, and an arm connected to the main column. The arm may include a mount to receive a cannula and a reader to sense a magnet of an identification device in the cannula so as to receive identification information relating to a mounted cannula.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.Inventors: Brandon R. Garbus, Allen Thompson, Justin Krom
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Patent number: 10114176Abstract: A preconnectorized outdoor cable streamlines the deployment of optical waveguides into the last mile of an optical network. The preconnectorized outdoor cable includes a cable and at least one plug connector. The plug connector is attached to a first end of the cable, thereby connectorizing at least one optical waveguide. The cable has at least one optical waveguide, at least one tensile element, and a cable jacket. Various cable designs such as figure-eight or flat cables may be used with the plug connector. In preferred embodiments, the plug connector includes a crimp assembly having a crimp housing and a crimp band. The crimp housing has two half-shells being held together by the crimp band for securing the at least one tensile element. When fully assembled, the crimp housing fits into a shroud of the preconnectorized cable. The shroud aides in mating the preconnectorized cable with a complimentary receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLCInventors: Michael John Gimblet, Xin Liu, Stuart Reams Melton, David Allen Thompson, Hieu Vinh Tran, Richard Steven Wagman