Patents by Inventor B. Brown

B. Brown 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).

  • Patent number: 10310821
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for determining that a machine learning model in a first format includes sufficient data to conform to a particular model specification in a second format, the second format corresponding to an object oriented programming language. The subject technology transforms the machine learning model into a transformed machine learning model that is compatible with the particular model specification. The subject technology generates a code interface and code for the transformed machine learning model, the code interface including code statements in the object oriented programming language, the code statements corresponding to an object representing the transformed machine learning model. Further, the subject technology provides the generated code interface and the code for display in an integrated development environment (IDE), the IDE enabling modifying of the generated code interface and the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Alexander B. Brown, Michael R. Siracusa, Gaurav Kapoor, Elizabeth Ottens, Christopher M. Hanson, Zachary A. Nation, Vrushali Mundhe, Srikrishna Sridhar
  • Patent number: 10264775
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for quick-attach sliding fishing weights or sinkers are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Inventor: Bruce B. Brown, Sr.
  • Patent number: 10263376
    Abstract: A connector cleaner having an elongate portion of material extending from a first end portion to a second end portion; a first paddle element extending from the first end portion, and wherein at least a portion of a first side surface of the first paddle element includes an abrasive element or portion; a second paddle element extending from the first end portion, wherein at least a portion of a first side surface of the second paddle element includes an abrasive element or portion, and wherein the first side surface of the first paddle element is positioned adjacent the first side surface of the second paddle element; and a singular paddle element extending from the second end portion of the elongate portion of material, and wherein at least a portion of a first side surface of the singular paddle element includes an abrasive element or portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Inventor: Alton B. Brown
  • Publication number: 20190083980
    Abstract: Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a microfluidic chip and methods of making the same. The microfluidic chip can include a sensor device residing on the microfluidic chip, the sensor-side comprising a chemical sensor and the backside including a backside electrode, the chemical sensor electrically coupled to the backside electrode by a via; a microfluidics channel in the microfluidic chip, the sensor-side of the sensor device facing the microfluidics channel; and a metal contact electrically connected to the backside electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Richard B. Brown, Ondrej Novak
  • Publication number: 20190084883
    Abstract: Embodiments of a dry mix for producing a concrete composition are provided. The dry mix includes aggregate, cement, and bed ash. The bed ash contains the combustion product of a fluidized bed coal combustion reaction. Additionally, embodiments of a method of preparing the dry mix and embodiments of a method of preparing a concrete composition are provided. The dry mix is also suitable for repairing soil slips, and embodiments of a method of repairing a soil slip are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Douglas W. Schane, Arthur B. Brown
  • Patent number: 10209343
    Abstract: An electro-optical imaging sensors system is disclosed for detecting and locating a blast, including muzzle flash, created by the launch of a projectile from a gun barrel, rocket tube or similar device, generally associated with weapons fire. The system is used in conjunction with detection algorithms and provides the azimuth and elevation from the detecting sensor to the location of the blast (the launch location) and also provides the weapon classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF THE ARMY
    Inventors: Jeremy B. Brown, John E. Hutchison, III
  • Publication number: 20190033425
    Abstract: An electro-optical imaging sensors system is disclosed for detecting and locating a blast, including muzzle flash, created by the launch of a projectile from a gun barrel, rocket tube or similar device, generally associated with weapons fire. The system is used in conjunction with detection algorithms and provides the azimuth and elevation from the detecting sensor to the location of the blast (the launch location) and also provides the weapon classification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jeremy B. Brown, John E. Hutchison, III
  • Patent number: 10166770
    Abstract: A heating device along a slot of a print head is selectively actuated to form temperature gradients within fluid along the slot to facilitate convective fluid flow within and along the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Bradley D. Chung, R. William Grobman, Daniel B. Brown
  • Patent number: 10155049
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fluorocarbon vectors for the delivery of influenza antigens to immunoresponsive target cells. It further relates to fluorocarbon vector-influenza antigen constructs and the use of such vectors associated with antigens as vaccines and immunotherapeutics in animals, including humans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: Altimmune UK, LTD
    Inventors: Dominique Bonnet, Carlton B. Brown, Bertrand V. Georges, Philip J. Sizer
  • Publication number: 20180349103
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for determining that a machine learning model in a first format includes sufficient data to conform to a particular model specification in a second format, the second format corresponding to an object oriented programming language. The subject technology transforms the machine learning model into a transformed machine learning model that is compatible with the particular model specification. The subject technology generates a code interface and code for the transformed machine learning model, the code interface including code statements in the object oriented programming language, the code statements corresponding to an object representing the transformed machine learning model. Further, the subject technology provides the generated code interface and the code for display in an integrated development environment (IDE), the IDE enabling modifying of the generated code interface and the code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander B. BROWN, Michael R. SIRACUSA, Gaurav KAPOOR, Elizabeth OTTENS, Christopher M. HANSON, Zachary A. NATION, Vrushali MUNDHE, Srikrishna SRIDHAR
  • Publication number: 20180349114
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for parsing a line of code in a project of an integrated development environment (IDE). The subject technology executes indirectly, using the interpreter, the parsed line of code. The interpreter references a translated source code document generated by a source code translation component from a machine learning (ML) document written in a particular data format. The translated source code document includes code in a chosen programming language specific to the IDE, and the code of the translated source code document is executable by the interpreter. Further the subject technology provides, by the interpreter, an output of the executed parsed line of code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander B. Brown, Michael R. Siracusa, Norman N. Wang
  • Publication number: 20180349109
    Abstract: The subject technology provides for generating machine learning (ML) model code from a ML document file, the ML document file being in a first data format, the ML document file being converted to code in an object oriented programming language different than the first data format. The subject technology further provides for receiving additional code that calls a function provided by the ML model code. The subject technology compiles the ML model code and the additional code, the compiled ML model code including object code corresponding to the compiled ML model code and the compiled additional code including object code corresponding to the additional code. The subject technology generates a package including the compiled ML model code and the compiled additional code. Further, the subject technology sends the package to a runtime environment on a target device for execution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander B. BROWN, Michael R. SIRACUSA, Gaurav KAPOOR, Elizabeth A. OTTENS, Christopher M. HANSON, Zachary A. NATION, Vrushali H. MUNDHE, Srikrishna SRIDHAR
  • Patent number: 10125659
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment device includes a housing having a wall. The wall of the housing defines an interior chamber. A substrate is supported by the housing within the interior chamber of the housing. The substrate extends along a longitudinal axis. The substrate includes a flow through structure that allows the flow of exhaust gas to flow through the substrate. The substrate includes a catalytic composition disposed thereon for reacting with the flow of exhaust gas. The substrate includes a cavity, extending along a cavity axis, which is transverse to the longitudinal axis of the substrate. A sensor is attached to the housing. The sensor includes a probe that at least partially extends into the cavity of the substrate, for sensing a gaseous component in the flow of exhaust gas. The cavity mixes the flow of exhaust gas and directs the exhaust gas toward the probe of the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Luciano Nunziato Di Perna, Jianwen Li, Raffaello Ardanese, Rahul Mital, David B. Brown
  • Publication number: 20180323571
    Abstract: Methods and systems enabling the real-time monitoring of a light-induced procedure in a biological medium, and/or the acquisition of information related to this biological medium are provided. In some implementations, the light beam used for the procedure is modulated at a modulation frequency selected in view of the photoacoustic frequency response associated with the procedure. The photoacoustic feedback signal from the medium during the procedure is then monitored. This monitoring may involve filtering the photoacoustic feedback signal around the selected feedback modulation frequency. Ratiometric comparisons of the contribution of different frequencies to the photoacoustic feedback signal are also considered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: INSTITUT NATIONAL D'OPTIQUE
    Inventors: Robert B. Brown, Suzie Dufour, Pascal Gallant, Ozzy Mermut, Pascal Deladurantaye
  • Publication number: 20180290137
    Abstract: Aspects of the embodiments are directed to a microfluidic chip that includes a plurality of openings to expose a microfluidic channel. The plurality of openings are within a recessed area of the microfluidics chip, the recess defining a surface onto which a sensor die can be clamped. The surface can include a clamping bump that contacts a membrane of a solid-state chemical sensor. The surface can also include a glue stop that, in some embodiments, can act as a spacer to prevent over-compression of the sensor die as it is clamped onto the microfluidic chip. The microfluidic chip can include a rigid structure, such as a printed circuit board, that is affixed to a top surface of the microfluidic chip. The rigid structure can include contact pads that are electrically connected to sensor electrodes on the sensor die by a wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Richard B. Brown, Ondrej Novak
  • Patent number: 10082521
    Abstract: A system that measures six degrees-of-freedom of a remote target, the system including a dimensional measuring device having a camera, the remote target including a retroreflector, at least three light markers, and a pitch-yaw sensor, the six degrees-of-freedom determined based at least in part on measured 3D coordinates of the retroreflector by the dimensional measuring device, on a captured image of the at least three light markers by the camera, and on readings of the pitch-yaw sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Mikhail Atlas, Lawrence B. Brown, William W. Christine, Max K. Kim, Daniel J. O'Neill, James Schloss, Zhiguang Willam Xu, Robert E. Bridges
  • Patent number: 10069333
    Abstract: A highly efficient, utility scale energy storage system employs large masses transported uphill to store energy and downhill to release energy. An electric powered cable winch or chain drive shuttles the masses between two storage yards of different elevations separated by a steep incline on rail vehicles supported by track and operated by an automated control system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: ADVANCED RAIL ENERGY STORAGE, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Peitzke, Matthew B. Brown
  • Publication number: 20180157570
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving, via an interface of a clustered file system, callback registration information from an external service, identifying a plurality of parameters associated with the callback registration information, constructing a service registration within the clustered file system, based on the plurality of parameters, identifying the service registration in response to an occurrence of one or more events, and performing one or more callbacks, according to the service registration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: William B. Brown, Poornima Gupte, Frank Marschollek, Lance W. Russell, Rainer Wolafka, Rong Zeng
  • Patent number: 9989350
    Abstract: A method for measuring a distance includes modulating the light beam at a first frequency, receiving a second beam by the optical detector to produce a first electrical signal having the first frequency and a first phase; modulating the light beam at a second frequency different than the first frequency; receiving the second beam by the optical detector to produce a second electrical signal having the second frequency and a second. After these steps, the retroreflector is moved while modulating the light beam continuously at the second frequency; and a first distance to the retroreflector is determined based at least in part on a the first and second frequencies and phases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: FARO TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert E. Bridges, Lawrence B. Brown, James K. West, D. Scott Ackerson
  • Patent number: 9965425
    Abstract: One embodiment is a method that segments a bus topology to increase addressable devices that can attach to a bus. Switching occurs between different segments on the bus having multiple bus segments linked together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Andrew C. Cartes, Andrew B. Brown