Patents by Inventor Andrew Thomas
Andrew 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).
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Publication number: 20250248895Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medication delivery system including a medication administration device, a medication within the medication administration device, a container defining a cavity receiving the medication administration device, and a cap attached to the container and sealing the medication administration device within the cavity. The medication administration device includes an actuator extending from a body and operable to expel the medication by depressing the actuator into the body. The cap includes hold down members positioned to bear against the body of the medication administration device to prevent movement of the medication administration device toward the cap beyond a predetermined distance. The medication administration device is thereby prevented, inter alia, from prematurely discharging the medication during storage and transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Jaime Ray Arnett, Andrew Thomas Snow, Brian Tifft, Matthew Bentley
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Patent number: 12357450Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for inserting an intraocular lens (IOL) assembly into an eye may be provided. An example optic management system may include a housing having a first end and a second end and a first side extending between the first end and the second end. The housing may include a cavity formed in the first side of the housing and configured to accommodate an intraocular lens, wherein the cavity comprises a first end portion, a second end portion, and a central portion. The housing may further include a bore formed in the housing, wherein a first portion of the bore extends from the first end to the cavity. The haptic optic management system may further include a ceiling disposed on the first side of the housing. The haptic optic management system may further include arms pivotably coupled to the housing in the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2023Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Alcon IncInventors: Jack Robert Auld, Matthew Braden Flowers, Matthew Douglas McCawley, Andrew Thomas Schieber, Sudarshan B. Singh, Marcus Antonio Souza
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Publication number: 20250221889Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a medication delivery system including a medication administration device, a medication within the medication administration device, a container defining a cavity receiving the medication administration device, and a cap attached to the container and sealing the medication administration device within the cavity. The medication administration device includes an actuator extending from a body and operable to expel the medication by depressing the actuator into the body. The cap includes hold down members positioned to bear against the body of the medication administration device to prevent movement of the medication administration device toward the cap beyond a predetermined distance. The medication administration device is thereby prevented, inter alia, from prematurely discharging the medication during storage and transport.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2025Publication date: July 10, 2025Inventors: Jaime Ray Arnett, Andrew Thomas Snow, Brian Tifft, Matthew Bentley
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Patent number: 12355222Abstract: A tank including a fluid reservoir, a communication module, a controller, and at least one sensor. The fluid reservoir is configured to be in fluid communication with a cable segment. The communication module is configured to communicate with an external device. The sensor is configured to detect an injection parameter value, encode the injection parameter value in a sensor signal, and send the sensor signal to the controller. The controller is configured to automatically instruct the communication module to transmit information to the external device based on the injection parameter value.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: NOVINIUM, LLCInventors: Glen John Bertini, Weston Philips Chapin Ford, Helaina Hurwitz, Norman E. Keitges, Kevin Laux, James Steele, Jeffrey Andrew Thomas, Rodrigue Tonfack
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Patent number: 12351498Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for PFAS destruction including adding a sulfite salt to an aqueous solution containing PFAS and then irradiating the aqueous solution with light at 222 nm. The method may include adding a base to the aqueous solution in an amount sufficient to raise a pH of the aqueous solution including PFAS to about 10 or more. It may also include adding a halide salt such as a bromide salt or an iodine salt, and further adding a carbonate. Greater than 90%, or greater than 99%, of the PFAS in the solution may be destroyed by irradiating the aqueous solution in this way.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2024Date of Patent: July 8, 2025Assignee: Claros Technologies Inc.Inventors: Andrew Thomas Healy, Evan Anthony Leslie, Zekun Liu, Terrance P. Smith, Joseph Reuel Levine Tirado
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Patent number: 12337360Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for cleaning surfaces of a workpiece. The system includes a housing defining an enclosure, a holding structure within the enclosure that is configured to support a workpiece, a first powder removal device that is configured to propel a first media toward the holding structure such that the first media contacts the workpiece while the workpiece is supported by the holding structure, a first sensing device that is configured to detect surface characteristics of the workpiece while the workpiece is supported by the holding structure, and a controller configured to, by a processor: detect a powder material on a surface of the workpiece based on the surface characteristics, and selectively operate the first powder removal device to remove the powder material from the surface with the first media while the workpiece is supported by the holding structure.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2022Date of Patent: June 24, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Stanley Tong, Jeffrey B Harris, Brennon L White, Adam John Campbell, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Ali Shabbir
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Patent number: 12325154Abstract: Systems and methods for manufacturing a product include a mixing station for preparing a solution containing a base material and a performance modifier. The base material is configured to deliver performance characteristics of the product that are preselected and the performance modifier is configured to enhance the performance characteristics. An encapsulation station produces particles of the performance modifier in a coating of the base material as an encapsulate powder. An additive manufacturing cell includes an energy source and is used to build the product from the encapsulate powder by an application of energy from the energy source.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Paul J Wolcott, Adam McFarland, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Malini Dusey
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Publication number: 20250161028Abstract: An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure An implantable device. comprising and external wall and a plurality of apertures. The external wall can have an open tubular shape. The plurality of apertures can be located in the external wall. At least a first portion of the plurality of apertures can be configured as suture holes for attaching the implantable device to the user. The implantable device can be configured to be implanted in a passageway of a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2023Publication date: May 22, 2025Inventors: Jeong Hun Park, Scott J. Hollister, Sarah Tucker, Andrew Thomas Tkaczuk, Mark W. El-Deiry
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Publication number: 20250157677Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to stellarators or assemblies including a stellarator including removable and/or replaceable components, such as removable field shaping units and/or removable shaping coils. In some embodiments, the stellarators of the present disclosure include a toroidal sector, which includes one or more removable field shaping units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2024Publication date: May 15, 2025Inventors: David Allen GATES, Charles Pendleton Stuntz SWANSON, Andrew Thomas COTE
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Publication number: 20250156692Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to a generative model for generating inorganic material candidates, such as crystalline structures. One example provides a method, comprising training an unconditional generative model using a dataset of stable periodic material structures, the unconditional generative model comprising a diffusion model. The training comprises learning the diffusion model to iteratively noise the stable periodic material structures of the dataset towards a random periodic structure by noising atom types of atoms in the periodic material structure, noising fractional coordinates of the atoms in the periodic material structure, and noising a lattice of the periodic material structure. The method further comprises using the trained unconditional generative model to generate a material structure by iteratively denoising an initial structure sampled from a random distribution.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2024Publication date: May 15, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Tian XIE, Andrew Thomas FOWLER, Claudio ZENI, Daniel ZUEGNER, Robert PINSLER, Ryota TOMIOKA, Matthew Kristofer HORTON, Xiang FU
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Patent number: 12295796Abstract: An adjustable support arm system (10) comprises an anchoring arrangement (14) for mounting the support arm system (10) to a structure, an arm (18) carried by the anchoring arrangement (14) and comprising a plurality of arm segments (36) articulatable between several arm positions, the arm (14) being configured to support a device (120), and an immobilising mechanism operable between a free configuration permitting movement of the arm (18) and a locked configuration in which the arm (18) is immobilised, wherein the immobilising mechanism comprises a locking means to maintain the plurality of arm segments immobilised in the locked configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Inventor: Andrew Thomas
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Publication number: 20250145503Abstract: Methods and systems of PFAS destruction in water containing nitrate. The methods and systems include filtering water containing PFAS and nitrate through a membrane selective for PFAS to obtain a membrane reject containing PFAS and nitrate and a filtrate containing nitrate, forming a treatment solution using the membrane reject including diluting the membrane reject and combining the membrane reject with a photosensitizer, a sulfite salt, and a sufficient amount of base such that the treatment solution has a pH of about 10 or more, and irradiating the treatment solution with UV light in a photoreactor to destroy a portion of the PFAS. Before dilution, a concentration of PFAS in the membrane reject may be between about 3 times and about 20 times greater than before the filtering step. Dilution of the membrane reject may include between about a 3 and about a 20 times dilution.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: Claros Technologies Inc.Inventors: Zekun Liu, Terrance P. Smith, Adam Michael Hilbrands, Nathan Ernst Kamm, Joseph Reuel Levine Tirado, Sonja Elise Moons, John Wilfrid Brockgreitens, Andrew Thomas Healy
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Patent number: 12292156Abstract: Protective sleeves, kits-of-parts for manufacturing sleeves, and methods for manufacturing sleeves are provided. An exemplary protective sleeve includes an inlet end connector; intermediate linking connectors; and an outlet end connector. The intermediate linking connectors are interconnected in a series from the inlet end connector to the outlet end connector; and the inlet end connector, the intermediate linking connectors, and the outlet end connector comprise fire-resistant material.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Alonso Samuel Chavez, Julio Alberto Moreno, Octavio Addiel Pichardo, Ravi Shankar Pandey, Marcus J Baker, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Kyle Sinko
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Publication number: 20250128199Abstract: Systems and methods for removing organic compounds byproducts from a product stream from a pyrolysis reactor and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the system includes a first condenser that is fluidly couplable to the product stream, a coalescer that is fluidly couplable to the product stream downstream from the first condenser along a first flow path, and a second condenser that is fluidly couplable to the product stream downstream from the first condenser along a second flow path. The system also includes a first valve positioned to regulate the flow of the product stream along the first flow path including a second valve positioned to regulate the flow of the product stream along the second flow path.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Matthew Gianni Equi Ibbotson, Andrew Thomas Koch, John Joel Lorr, Max Nathan Mankin, William Hunter Harrison Nealley, Kathryn Elizabeth Roach, Vikram Seshadri, Sergey Vasilyevich Tsurkan, Kevin J. Hughes
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Patent number: 12281627Abstract: A rocket engine system including a thrust chamber including walls that define an interior surface and a combustion section which is fluidically coupled to an output section. A coolant source containing a coolant. A means of heating the coolant. At least one port configured to apply the coolant to the interior surface to achieve a film cooling of the interior surface and wherein the coolant source is fluidically coupled to the means of heating and the at least one port.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: Venus Aerospace Corp.Inventor: Andrew Thomas Duggleby
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Publication number: 20250108436Abstract: A method for capturing trapped powder from a part during an additive manufacturing process, the method comprising defining parameters for a part, the part defining an interior passageway defined by interior sidewalls, defining parameters for a powder removal cap, the powder removal cap comprising a body portion and a thin radial membrane connected to the interior sidewalls of the part, simultaneously creating the part and the powder removal cap via additive manufacturing, wherein the powder removal cap is created within the interior passageway and, upon completion of the creation of the part and the powder removal cap, the powder removal cap traps excess powder within the interior passageway, removing the powder removal cap from the interior passageway by breaking the radial membrane from the interior sidewalls to permit access to the interior passageway, and capturing the excess powder within the interior passageway.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Ante Tony Lausic, Adam Golembeski, Patrick J. Eding
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Publication number: 20250098912Abstract: A system comprises an intake, a turbine enclosed within an explosion-proof enclosure, an explosion-proof motor enclosed within the explosion-proof enclosure, the explosion-proof motor configured to drive the turbine to create a suction force through the intake to force debris through the intake, a housing configured to contain the intake and the explosion-proof enclosure including the turbine and the explosion-proof motor, a plurality of sensors disposed on the housing and configured to obtain directional data, obtain location data, and debris data, one or more wheels, and a controller configured to control the wheels to move the housing based on at least one of the directional data, the location data, and the debris data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Ante Tony Lausic, Adam Golembeski, Neil Patrick Doll, Dominick Michael Lentine, Ali Shabbir
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Patent number: 12251858Abstract: A method and system for composite molding, and the method includes additively manufacturing a mold shell that includes a part forming cavity. The method includes filling at least a portion of the mold shell with a strengthening agent. The method includes hardening the strengthening agent to form a mold, and laying-up a composite material on the part forming cavity. The method includes curing the mold to form a composite part.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Gary Latham, Jeffrey G. Price, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Thomas Curtis, Adam Golembeski, Patrick J Eding
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Publication number: 20250086730Abstract: Systems, media, and methods for automated response to social queries comprising: monitoring queries from users, each query submitted to a vendor via an interactive chat feature of an external electronic communication platform, monitoring human responses to the queries, monitoring subsequent communications conducted via the electronic communication platform until each query is resolved; applying a first machine learning algorithm to the monitored communications to identify a query susceptible to response automation; applying a second machine learning algorithm to the query susceptible to response automation to identify one or more responses likely to resolve the query; and either i) notifying a human to respond to the query susceptible to response automation with the one or more responses likely to resolve the query, or ii) instantiating an autonomous software agent configured to respond to the query susceptible to response automation with the one or more responses likely to resolve the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Applicant: LIVEPERSON, INC.Inventors: Andrew Thomas BUSEY, Anthony Dan CHEN, Isao Uchida JONAS, Douglas James DANIELS, JR., Benjamin Edward LAMM
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Patent number: D1069324Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Inventor: Andrew Thomas