Patents by Inventor Andrew Davies

Andrew Davies 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).

  • PROCESS FOR PRODUCING LPG AND BTX FROM MIXED HYDROCARBONS FEED
    Publication number: 20210179951
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for producing LPG and BTX from a mixed feedstream comprising C5-C12 hydrocarbons by contacting said feedstream in the presence of hydrogen with a first hydrocracking catalyst and contacting the thus obtained first hydrocracked product in the presence of hydrogen with a second hydrocracking catalyst to produce a second hydrocracked product stream comprising LPG and BTX.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Maikel van Iersel, Luis Aramburo, Andrew Davies, Emiel van Kimmenade
  • QUASI-ANALOG DIGITAL PULSE-WIDTH MODULATION CONTROL
    Publication number: 20210175799
    Abstract: A power supply for a smooth power output level transitioning includes an energy storage circuit for temporarily storing electric energy for driving a load, a semiconductor switch for pulse-width modulation (PWM) switching, and a digital PWM controller. The digital PWM controller generates a driving waveform to regulate on and off status of the semiconductor switch. The driving waveform toggles between PWM periods of a first type and PWM periods of a second type, and gradually adjusts a ratio of numbers of the PWM periods of the two types over time. The toggling driving waveform achieves one or more intermediate finer power output level that cannot be realized by a single type of PWM period with an intermediate duty cycle, due to the minimum item unit of the driving waveform limited by a clock rate of the digital PWM controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: William Reed, Andrew Davis, Matthew Whitlock, Brent Dae Hermsmeier
  • SYSTEM, APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT, FOR USAGE BY CONSUMERS OF ENERGY FROM ELECTRIC UTILITY SERVICE PROVIDERS, AND MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT OF SAME
    Publication number: 20210141353
    Abstract: The disclosure includes methods, systems and apparatus for predictive management of efficient selecting and receiving of retail electric utility service to a facility for a period, by automated selecting of a retail utility service provider corresponding to a selected least cost path of predicted rate plan choices across the period, wherein costs of all possible, viable time-bounded predicted rate plan choices are determined for predicted consumer usage where a predicted market of retail rate formulas for the period are predicted in relation to at least one variable, such as weather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Andrew Davis, II
  • Process for preparing tapinarof
    Patent number: 10961175
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for the preparation of 3, 5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene or a salt or solvate thereof and novel intermediates used therein. In some embodiments the 3, 5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene is prepared from (E)-2-chloro-2-isopropyl-5-styrylcyclohexane-1,3-dione. Also disclosed are crystal forms of 3, 5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene or a salt or solvate thereof and pharmaceutical compositions comprising same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: DERMAVANT SCIENCES GMBH
    Inventors: Ian Paul Andrews, Nicholas Calandra, Tyler Andrew Davis, Ravinder Reddy Sudini
  • Training a machine learning model for analysis of instruction sequences
    Patent number: 10922604
    Abstract: In one respect, there is provided a system for training a neural network adapted for classifying one or more instruction sequences. The system may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory may include program code which when executed by the at least one processor provides operations including: training, based at least on training data, a machine learning model to detect one or more predetermined interdependencies amongst a plurality of tokens in the training data; and providing the trained machine learning model to enable classification of one or more instruction sequences. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Cylance Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Zhao, Matthew Wolff, John Brock, Brian Wallace, Andy Wortman, Jian Luan, Mahdi Azarafrooz, Andrew Davis, Michael Wojnowicz, Derek Soeder, David Beveridge, Eric Petersen, Ming Jin, Ryan Permeh
  • Detecting and grouping users in electronic communications
    Patent number: 10831849
    Abstract: A method and system for detecting and grouping users in electronic communications includes detecting electronic communications by a user using a device having a computer to communicate with other users. A number of message recipients are identified in the electronic communications. The message recipients are placed in a social graph based on a criteria such as the frequency of the electronic communications between the user and the message recipients. A group is created of the message recipients based on the social graph, and the group is presented to the user. The group can be accessed by the user for routing future electronic communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Brenton Chasse, Andrew Davis, Cory Gorman, Zachary Stair
  • Quasi-analog digital pulse-width modulation control
    Patent number: 10826391
    Abstract: A power supply for a smooth power output level transitioning includes an energy storage circuit for temporarily storing electric energy for driving a load, a semiconductor switch for pulse-width modulation (PWM) switching, and a digital PWM controller. The digital PWM controller generates a driving waveform to regulate on and off status of the semiconductor switch. The driving waveform toggles between PWM periods of a first type and PWM periods of a second type, and gradually adjusts a ratio of numbers of the PWM periods of the two types over time. The toggling driving waveform achieves one or more intermediate finer power output level that cannot be realized by a single type of PWM period with an intermediate duty cycle, due to the minimum item unit of the driving waveform limited by a clock rate of the digital PWM controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: LICON TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: William Reed, Andrew Davis, Matthew Whitlock, Brent Dae Hermsmeier
  • System, apparatus and method for energy management, for usage by consumers of energy from electric utility service providers, and monitoring and management of same
    Patent number: 10816948
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods, systems and apparatus for predictive management of efficient selecting and receiving of retail electric utility service to a facility for a period, by automated selecting of a retail utility service provider corresponding to a selected least cost path of predicted rate plan choices across the period, wherein costs of all possible, viable time-bounded predicted rate plan choices are determined for predicted consumer usage where a predicted market of retail rate formulas for the period are predicted in relation to at least one variable, such as weather.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Andrew Davis, II
  • Filter materials and filters made therefrom
    Patent number: 10798966
    Abstract: The present invention relates to filter material for inclusion in a smoking article, said filter material comprising a base material comprising or made from fibers having a first diameter or mean diameter, and fine fibers having a diameter or mean diameter which is smaller than the first diameter, wherein the filter material comprises more than 10% by weight and/or by volume fine fibers or wherein the diameter or mean diameter of the fine fibers is between about 1.0 ?m and about 1.5 ?m. The invention also relates to filters or filter elements comprising the filter material, smoking articles comprising the same, and use of the filter material in smoke filtration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO (INVESTMENTS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Yahia Lemmouchi, Andrew Davis, Barry Dimmick, Martin Dauner, Christoph Rieger, Andreas Ullrich
  • Method and device for measuring surface properties
    Patent number: 10801966
    Abstract: A method and testing apparatus determine receding contact angles of liquids on surfaces by depositing a liquid in a manner whereby the volume of the drop is increased through stepwise addition of smaller drops. Each increment of volume growth causes the perimeter of the drop to advance across the surface. The incremental volume elements impart sufficient energy to the growing drop such that the drop perimeter expands beyond its equilibrium diameter for that volume. The drop perimeter tends to contract between volume additions as the excess energy is dissipated. The method and testing apparatus determine the receding contact angle between the incremental volume additions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: BRIGHTON TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Giles Dillingham, Brietta Rose Oakley, Lucas Hale Dillingham, Andrew Davis Gilpin, Francis Charles Ganance, Timothy James Barry, Harun Mohammed
  • Machine Learning Model for Malware Dynamic Analysis
    Publication number: 20200265139
    Abstract: In some implementations there may be provided a system. The system may include a processor and a memory. The memory may include program code which causes operations when executed by the processor. The operations may include analyzing a series of events contained in received data. The series of events may include events that occur during the execution of a data object. The series of events may be analyzed to at least extract, from the series of events, subsequences of events. A machine learning model may determine a classification for the received data. The machine learning model may classify the received data based at least on whether the subsequences of events are malicious. The classification indicative of whether the received data is malicious may be provided. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Xuan Zhao, Aditya Kapoor, Matthew Wolff, Andrew Davis, Derek A. Soeder, Ryan Permeh
  • CONTAINER FILE ANALYSIS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODEL
    Publication number: 20200259850
    Abstract: A system is provided for training a machine learning model to detect malicious container files. The system may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory may include program code which when executed by the at least one processor provides operations including: processing a container file with a trained machine learning model, wherein the trained machine learning is trained to determine a classification for the container file indicative of whether the container file includes at least one file rendering the container file malicious; and providing, as an output by the trained machine learning model, an indication of whether the container file includes the at least one file rendering the container file malicious. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Xuan Zhao, Matthew Wolff, John Brock, Brian Michael Wallace, Andy Wortman, Jian Luan, Mahdi Azarafrooz, Andrew Davis, Michael Thomas Wojnowicz, Derek A. Soeder, David N. Beveridge, Yaroslav Oliinyk, Ryan Permeh
  • Monitoring and control display system and method using multiple displays in a work environment
    Patent number: 10719289
    Abstract: A method and system is provided for controlling a display in a machine operating in a work area whereby a plurality of views are displayed on a screen with each of the plurality of views corresponding to a plurality of functions and having one or more of the views independently available on another display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Ivan Giovanni Di Federico, Dimitre Markov, Kash Munir, Andrew Davis, Lyndon Whaite, John Boal, Stefan Stefanov
  • Method and System for Multisample Antialiasing
    Publication number: 20200226828
    Abstract: A method and system for generating two or three dimensional computer graphics images using multisample antialiasing (MSAA) is provided, which enables memory bandwidth to be conserved. For each of one or more pixels it is determined whether all of a plurality of sample areas of that pixel are located within a particular primitive. For those pixels where it is determined that all the sample areas of that pixel are located within that primitive, a value is stored in a multisample memory for a smaller number of the sample areas of that pixel than the total number of the sample areas of that pixel and data is stored indicating that all the sample areas of that pixel are located within that primitive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Yoong Chert Foo, Salil Sahasrabudhe, Andrew Davy
  • Malware Detection
    Publication number: 20200218807
    Abstract: In one respect, there is provided a system for training a neural network adapted for classifying one or more scripts. The system may include at least one processor and at least one memory. The memory may include program code which when executed by the at least one memory provides operations including: receiving a disassembled binary file that includes a plurality of instructions; processing the disassembled binary file with a convolutional neural network configured to detect a presence of one or more sequences of instructions amongst the plurality of instructions and determine a classification for the disassembled binary file based at least in part on the presence of the one or more sequences of instructions; and providing, as an output, the classification of the disassembled binary file. Related computer-implemented methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Davis, Matthew Wolff, Derek A. Soeder, Glenn Chisholm, Ryan Permeh
  • Recurrent neural networks for malware analysis
    Patent number: 10691799
    Abstract: Using a recurrent neural network (RNN) that has been trained to a satisfactory level of performance, highly discriminative features can be extracted by running a sample through the RNN, and then extracting a final hidden state hh where i is the number of instructions of the sample. This resulting feature vector may then be concatenated with the other hand-engineered features, and a larger classifier may then be trained on hand-engineered as well as automatically determined features. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Cylance Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Davis, Matthew Wolff, Derek A. Soeder, Glenn Chisholm
  • Detection Of Malware Using Feature Hashing
    Publication number: 20200193024
    Abstract: Data to is analyzed using feature hashing to detect malware. A plurality of features in a feature set is hashed. The feature set is generated from a sample. The sample includes at least a portion of a file. Based on the hashing, one or more hashed features are indexed to generate an index vector. Each hashed feature corresponds to an index in the index vector. Using the index vector, a training dataset is generated. Using the training dataset, a machine learning model for identifying at least one file having a malicious code is trained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Andrew Davis
  • Machine learning model for malware dynamic analysis
    Patent number: 10685112
    Abstract: In some implementations there may be provided a system. The system may include a processor and a memory. The memory may include program code which causes operations when executed by the processor. The operations may include analyzing a series of events contained in received data. The series of events may include events that occur during the execution of a data object. The series of events may be analyzed to at least extract, from the series of events, subsequences of events. A machine learning model may determine a classification for the received data. The machine learning model may classify the received data based at least on whether the subsequences of events are malicious. The classification indicative of whether the received data is malicious may be provided. Related methods and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Cylance Inc.
    Inventors: Xuan Zhao, Aditya Kapoor, Matthew Wolff, Andrew Davis, Derek Soeder, Ryan Permeh
  • Process for preparing tapinarof
    Patent number: 10647649
    Abstract: The present invention provides processes for the preparation of 3, 5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene or a salt or solvate thereof and novel intermediates used therein. In some embodiments the 3, 5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene is prepared from (E)-2-chloro-2-isopropyl-5-styrylcyclohexane-1,3-dione. Also disclosed are crystal forms of 3, 5-Dihydroxy-4-isopropyl-trans-stilbene or a salt or solvate thereof and pharmaceutical compositions comprising same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: DERMAVANT SCIENCES GMBH
    Inventors: Ian Paul Andrews, Nicholas Calandra, Tyler Andrew Davis, Ravinder Reddy Sudini
  • Mailing wrapper
    Patent number: D894753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Inventor: Andrew Davis