Patents by Inventor Andrew Edwards

Andrew Edwards 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: 20250115890
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for increasing the activity and/or the yield of a recombinant vitamin K-dependent protein expressed in cell culture. The present invention further relates to uses and compositions of matter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Yih Yean LEE, Chee Kin Andrew LOW, Campbell Douglas AITKEN, Steven Patrick BYRNE, Mark John Ferres EDWARDS
  • Patent number: 12273382
    Abstract: Security is improved by adding a security heartbeat for and endpoint as a factor in a multi-factor authentication system. The security heartbeat may be used directly as an authentication factor, e.g., where the heartbeat provides a reliable and verifiable indication of identity, or the security heartbeat may be used as a gating input for some other verification method, e.g., where a text message with a temporary security code can only be transmitted to a user when the user's endpoint is providing a secure heartbeat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Karl Ackerman, John Edward Tyrone Shaw, Craig Paradis, Andrew J. Thomas, Kenneth D. Ray
  • Patent number: 12270173
    Abstract: Aspects of a geogrid system and method for improving substrate interactions within a geotechnical environment is disclosed. In one aspect a geotechnical environment is configured with a horizontal multilayer mechanically stabilizing geogrid. In said aspect the geogrid is extruded with a polymeric material and a compressible cellular layer, wherein the geogrid comprises a heightened aspect ratio with a patterned structure of engineered discontinuities and a plurality of strong axes. The combination of elements provides for a system and method of stabilizing soils and aggregate, by resisting lateral movement from the strong axes, and trapping particles in the patterned structure of engineered discontinuities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Tensar International Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Curson, Tom Ross Jenkins, Andrew Edward Waller, Daniel John Gallagher, Daniel Mark Baker, Manoj Kumar Tyagi, Joseph Cavanaugh
  • Patent number: 12272350
    Abstract: During text-to-speech processing, a speech model creates output audio data, including speech, that corresponds to input text data that includes a representation of the speech. A spectrogram estimator estimates a frequency spectrogram of the speech; the corresponding frequency-spectrogram data is used to condition the speech model. A plurality of acoustic features corresponding to different segments of the input text data, such as phonemes, syllable-level features, and/or word-level features, may be separately encoded into context vectors; the spectrogram estimator uses these separate context vectors to create the frequency spectrogram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jaime Lorenzo Trueba, Thomas Renaud Drugman, Viacheslav Klimkov, Srikanth Ronanki, Thomas Edward Merritt, Andrew Paul Breen, Roberto Barra-Chicote
  • Publication number: 20250109565
    Abstract: A multilayer integral geogrid, including one or more cellular layers, has a plurality of oriented multilayer strands interconnected by partially oriented multilayer junctions with an array of openings therein. The multilayer integral geogrid having one or more cellular layers is produced from a coextruded or laminated multilayer polymer starting sheet. The integral geogrid has a multilayer construction, with at least one outer layer thereof having the cellular structure. By virtue of the cellular layer structure, the multilayer integral geogrid provides for increased layer vertical compressibility under load, resulting in enhanced material properties that provide performance benefits to use of the multilayer integral geogrid to stabilize and strengthen soil, aggregates, or other particulate materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Tensar International Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph CAVANAUGH, Manoj Kumar TYAGI, Daniel Mark BAKER, Andrew CURSON, Tom-Ross JENKINS, Andrew Edward WALLER, Daniel John GALLAGHER
  • Patent number: 12264591
    Abstract: A method of repairing a component of a gas turbine engine in situ, wherein the component includes a deposit, includes directing a flow of gas, which may be an oxygen-containing gas, to the deposit of the component; and heating the component including the deposit while the component is installed in the gas turbine engine and for a duration sufficient to substantially remove the deposit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: General Electric Company, Oliver Crispin Robotics Limited
    Inventors: Michael Robert Millheam, Andrew Crispin Graham, Byron Andrew Pritchard, Jr., David Scott Diwinsky, Jeremy Clyde Bailey, Michael Edward Eriksen, Ambarish Jayant Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 12265666
    Abstract: Techniques and apparatuses are described that facilitate ambient computing using a radar system. Compared to other smart devices that rely on a physical user interface, a smart device with a radar system can support ambient computing by providing an eye-free interaction and less cognitively demanding gesture-based user interface. The radar system can be designed to address a variety of challenges associated with ambient computing, including power consumption, environmental variations, background noise, size, and user privacy. The radar system uses an ambient-computing machine-learned module to quickly recognize gestures performed by a user up to at least two meters away. The ambient-computing machine-learned module is trained to filter background noise and have a sufficiently low false positive rate to enhance the user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Eiji Hayashi, Jaime Lien, Nicholas Edward Gillian, Andrew C. Felch, Jin Yamanaka, Blake Charles Jacquot
  • Patent number: 12263091
    Abstract: A spinal interbody device (IBD) includes a solid wall that at least partially defines a boundary of the IBD and a porous body connected to the solid wall. The porous body includes a plurality of sections that form at least a portion of both a superior and inferior bone interface side of the IBD. Each section of the porous body has a different porosity than an adjacent section such that the porosities increase toward a center of the IBD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Collin Newman, Christian Karl Schultz, Steven Willis, Amir Ali Sharifi-Mehr, Oliver Buchert, Christopher P. Bell, Andrew Edward Ehlers, Anna Reza, Marc Gilles Long, Joseph Henry Robinson
  • Patent number: 12262818
    Abstract: An adjustable chair may include a frame, a seat pan, a backrest, a pair of arm rests, at least two legs each comprising an inner leg configured to telescope out of an outer leg, and a leg locking system for locking the outer leg to the inner leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew J. Winterhalter, Michael Cieszko, Evan Goldberg, Derek Sullivan, Donald Edward Desroches
  • Patent number: 12264551
    Abstract: A downhole tool comprises a heater including a container enclosing a volume of compacted thermite. A volume of flowable alloy is provided above the heater. A fusible bulkhead may be provided between the heater and the alloy and provides for direct conduction of heat from the heater to the alloy. A housing containing the alloy may be separated from the heater by heating a fusible socket that anchors an end of a tensioned support member. The thermite may define an internal volume adapted to receive alloy. The heater may be activated to melt the alloy and the alloy may then solidify to form a bore-sealing plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: ISOL8 (HOLDINGS) LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Louden, William Edward Lowry
  • Publication number: 20250101878
    Abstract: A system may include a sensor comprising a sensor configured to capture data from a part of an engine. The system being configured to form a three-dimensional (3D) surface model of the part of the engine based on signals received from the sensor system, determine a nonplanar reference surface based on the 3D surface model of the part, and measure a characteristic of a damaged portion of the part of the engine based on the 3D surface model and the nonplanar reference surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Walter V. Dixon, James Vradenburg Miller, Andrew Crispin Graham, Michael Edward Eriksen
  • Publication number: 20250105932
    Abstract: Techniques for determining calibration data associated with a radio frequency (RF) testing environment are discussed herein. For example, an RF signal can be input to the RF enclosure and selectively applied to discrete attenuators. The attenuators can attenuate a strength of the signal and a signal strength can be measured by various user equipment (UEs) that are located within an RF enclosure. In some examples, a plurality of measured reference signal received power (RSRP) values can be determined by a plurality of UEs associated with a particular attenuation level. Different attenuation levels can be measured, and an average attenuation can be determined for attenuation steps. Measured attenuation steps can be extrapolated to other attenuation levels to expedite the calibration process. Then, a testing plan can be applied to the RF enclosure and the calibration data can be used to ensure accurate signals for testing UEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Johnson Chau, Andrew Nelson, Ryan Christopher Lindstrom, Grant Edward Taylor
  • Publication number: 20250102317
    Abstract: An indoor location is mapped into a grid comprising grid cells, each cell associated with items or objects detected as being present in the corresponding cell. The grid, grid cells, and linked items and/or objects are generated and updated using an Augmented Reality (AR) algorithm that maps a physical environment into cells and measures distances and directions within the environment relative to each cell. Walking paths (routes) to the items within the indoor location are generated using the grid information. As a user walks a path, the user's position within the indoor location is mapped and tracked to the cells and the path revised based on the user's actual position. A user device provides video via an AR application to track the user's position; a rendering of the position and path are superimposed within the video being viewed by the user on the user-operated device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Elliott, John Edward Haney, Kip Oliver Morgan, Andrew Michael Reusche
  • Publication number: 20250095519
    Abstract: A device suppresses a flag from wrapping around a flagpole flying such flag. The device has an upstanding leg carrying rings adapted to surmount a flagpole and is adapted to grasp an edge of a flag. The device also has a laterally extending leg that extends to around the middle of the flag and is adapted to grasp an edge of a flag. A stop plate is affixed to the upstanding leg. A flag fixed to the device is suppressed from wrapping around a flagpole carrying the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Smoothly Ventures, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Bensen Leavitt, William Edward Staber, Tyler Allen Bensen Leavitt
  • Publication number: 20250097376
    Abstract: Systems, devices, media and methods are presented for presentation of modified objects within a video stream. The systems and methods select an object of interest depicted within a user interface based on an associated image modifier, determine a modifier context based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the selected object, identify a set of image modifiers based on the modifier context, rank a first portion of the identified set of image modifiers based on a primary ordering characteristic, rank a second portion of the identified set of image modifiers based on a secondary ordering characteristic and cause presentation of the modifier icons for the ranked set of image modifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Ebony James Charlton, Michael John Evans, Samuel Edward Hare, Andrew James McPhee, Robert Cornelius Murphy, Eitan Pilipski
  • Patent number: 12250904
    Abstract: A control system can be used for a walk-behind self-propelled machine that includes a handle, a power source, a drive assembly, and an implement selectively driven by the power source. The control system can include a touch sensor located on the handle configured to transmit a contact signal indicative of an operator of the walk-behind self-propelled machine physically contacting the handle at a predetermined location. The system can further include a controller that is in electrical communication with the touch sensor and configured to enable the power source to drive the implement, such as a lawnmower blade, when the controller receives the contact signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Andrew Edwin Bejcek, Steven J. Busjahn, Aaron J. Parks-Ksor, Dean Edward Hartley
  • Publication number: 20250086909
    Abstract: The subject technology generates a segmentation mask based on first image data. The subject technology applies the segmentation mask on first depth data to reduce a set of artifacts in a depth map based on the first depth data. The subject technology generates a packed depth map based at least in part on the depth map. The subject technology converts a single channel floating point texture to a raw depth map. The subject technology generates multiple channels. The subject technology applies, to the first image data and the first depth data, a first augmented reality content generator corresponding to a selected first selectable graphical item, the first image data and the first depth data being captured with a camera. The subject technology generates a message including the applied first augmented reality content generator to the first image data and the first depth data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Kyle Goodrich, Samuel Edward Hare, Maxim Maximov Lazarov, Tony Mathew, Andrew James McPhee, Daniel Moreno, Wentao Shang
  • Patent number: D1067323
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Derek G. Sullivan, Andrew J. Winterhalter, John W. Dow, Donald Edward Desroches
  • Patent number: D1068303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Derek G. Sullivan, Andrew J. Winterhalter, John W. Dow, Donald Edward Desroches
  • Patent number: D1068363
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Derek G. Sullivan, Andrew J. Winterhalter, John W. Dow, Donald Edward Desroches