Patents by Inventor Benjamin A. Thomas

Benjamin A. 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).

  • Patent number: 11662391
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamic adjustments to battery parameters using battery metrics. The device may be configured to determine a first value indicative of a battery voltage output during a first time interval, determine a second value indicative of a temperature during the first time interval, and determine a first acceleration factor for the battery during the first time interval based at least in part on the first value and the second value. The device may determine an adjusted number of charge cycles completed during the first time interval using the first acceleration factor, determine a total adjusted number of charge cycles of the battery, determine that the total adjusted number of charge cycles is equal to or greater than a first threshold, and cause the first maximum output voltage value to be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, inc.
    Inventors: Ramez Nachman, Don Brunnett, Bryan Holmdahl, Benjamin Thomas Gaide
  • Patent number: 11651492
    Abstract: In one embodiment, an X-ray inspection system may nondestructively inspect a printed circuit board to measure a number of dimensions at a number of pre-determined locations of the printed circuit board. The X-ray inspection system may generate a data set for the printed circuit board based on the measured dimensions. The X-ray inspection system may calculate one or more drilling values based on the data set of the printed circuit board. The X-ray inspection system may provide, to a drilling machine, instructions for drilling a number of plated-through vias based on the calculated drilling values for the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Bruker Nano, Inc.
    Inventors: David Lewis Adler, Scott Joseph Jewler, Freddie Erich Babian, Andrew George Reid, Benjamin Thomas Adler
  • Publication number: 20230133130
    Abstract: A routing assembly for routing an electrical connection between two or more sub-systems in a work machine includes a hose, a coupling member, a wiring harness, and a grommet. The hose defines a conduit. The coupling member defines a through-bore fluidly coupled with the conduit. The wiring harness facilitates passage of one or more electrical wirings through each of the conduit and the through-bore to enable electrical communication between the two or more sub-systems. The grommet is retentively engaged with the coupling member and the wiring harness respectively with a first force and a second force. The first force is greater than the second force facilitating a movement of the wiring harness with respect to the grommet without disengaging the grommet from the coupling member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Codey Ryan Seaman, Benjamin Thomas Nelson, Jacob Andrew Scheirer
  • Publication number: 20230116011
    Abstract: A work machine includes a frame, a traction system, an engine, an implement system, an operator cab with a roof; a machine control system, and a secondary control system. The secondary control system is configured to interface with the machine control system and includes a secondary control device, a control module, a communication module, a base plate, and two rails. The base plate is configured to support the control module and the communication module, and protect the plurality of harness connections. The two rails are configured to support the base plate in an operation orientation and a service orientation and each include a plurality of channels configured to support the base plate in the service orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah J. Borgman, Benjamin Thomas Nelson, Michael William Bridenbaugh
  • Publication number: 20230087451
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers. Metrics may be determined based on monitoring network traffic associated with entities in the network such that the metrics may be included in profiles associated each entity. The profiles may be compared with other profiles in a context database based on the metrics included in each profile and each other profile. In response to the profiles being unmatched by other profiles one or more active probes may be performed to collect other metrics that may be used to update profiles. In response to the one or more profiles being matched by the other profiles in the context database, a timestamp associated with the other profiles may be updated to a current time value. Reports that include information associated with the entities and the profiles or the updated profiles may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jesse Abraham Rothstein, Benjamin Thomas Higgins, Michael Kerber Krause Montague, Kevin Michael Seguin
  • Patent number: 11593100
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to provide an alert based on a release of a software application implemented in a distributed computing system. In some implementations, the method includes receiving, at a processor, an indication of the release of the software application, obtaining a first set of metric values for each metric of a list of metrics for a first time period preceding a time of release of the release, obtaining a second set of metric values for each metric of the list of metrics for a second time period following the time of release, comparing the first set of metric values to the second set of metric values to determine a deviation score, generating an alert based on the deviation score, and transmitting the alert via one of a user interface and a communication channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sedai, Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Mathew, Nikhil Gopinath Kurup, Hari Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Thomas, Rajat Usha Krishna, Adharsh Sabukumar, S Meenakshi, Aby Jacob
  • Patent number: 11582958
    Abstract: An underwater lighting system includes a light housing. The light housing includes a weighted base having a bottom surface with a bottom edge and a cover. The cover and the weighted base cooperate to define a cover interior. The cover interior is waterproof. The light housing also includes a light source positioned within the cover interior. The underwater lighting system is configured to prevent a fishing lure or cast net from snagging on the underwater lighting system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dome Cast Systems LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas Schuchter, Benjamin Thomas Krupp
  • Patent number: 11558413
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Networks may be configured to protect servers using centralized security protocols. Centralized security protocols may depend on centralized control provided by authentication control servers. If a client intends to access protected servers it may communicate with the authentication control server to obtain keys that enable it to access the requested servers. NMCs may monitor network traffic the centralized security protocol to collect metrics associated with the control servers, clients, or resource servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Higgins, Jeff James Costlow, John Gemignani, Jr., Michael Kerber Krause Montague, Eric James Rongo, Xue Jun Wu
  • Patent number: 11552290
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a battery, a bulk energy storage system including the battery, and/or a method of operating the bulk energy storage system including the battery. In various embodiment, the battery may include a first electrode, an electrolyte, and a second electrode, wherein one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises direct reduced iron (“DRI”). In various embodiments, the DRI may be in the form of pellets. In various embodiments, the pellets may comprise at least about 60 wt % iron by elemental mass, based on the total mass of the pellets. In various embodiments, one or both of the first electrode and the second electrode comprises from about 60% to about 90% iron and from about 1% to about 40% of a component comprising one or more of the materials selected from the group of SiO2, Al2O3, MgO, CaO, and TiO2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: FORM ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Rupak Chakraborty, Jarrod David Milshtein, Eric Weber, William Henry Woodford, Yet-Ming Chiang, Ian Salmon McKay, Liang Su, Jay Whitacre, Theodore Alan Wiley, Kristen Carlisle, Mitchell Terrance Westwood, Rachel Elizabeth Mumma, Max Rae Chu, Amelie Nina Kharey, Benjamin Thomas Hultman, Marco Ferrara, Mateo Cristian Jaramillo, Isabella Caruso, Jocelyn Newhouse
  • Patent number: 11547337
    Abstract: A magnetometer system for medical use comprises one or more induction coils for detecting a time varying magnetic field. Each coil has a maximum outer diameter of 10 cm or less, and a configuration such that the ratio of the coil's length to its outer diameter is 0.9 or more, and the ratio of the coil's inner diameter to its outer diameter is 0.6 or more. Each induction coil comprises a magnetic core. The magnetometer system further comprises a detection circuit coupled to each coil and configured to convert a current or voltage generated in the coil by a time varying magnetic field to an output signal for use to analyse the time varying magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Richard Theodore Grant, Benjamin Thomas Hornsby Varcoe, Shima Ghasemi Roudsari, David Ian Watson, Michal Smalera
  • Patent number: 11546153
    Abstract: Embodiments are direct to monitoring communication between computers may be using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Network packets that are communicated between the computers may be captured and stored in a data store. If the NMCs identify a secure communication session established between two computers, the NMCs may obtain key information that corresponds to the secure communication session that includes a session key that may be provided by a key provider. Correlation information associated with the secure communication session may be captured by the NMCs. The correlation information may include tuple information associated with the secure communication session. And, the key information and the correlation information may be stored in a key escrow. The key information may be indexed in the key escrow using the correlation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Higgins, Charlotte Ching-Hsing Tan, Jesse Abraham Rothstein
  • Patent number: 11544550
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of content objects, generating a plurality of voxelized representations for the plurality of content objects, respectively, generating one or more building blocks based on one or more sparse convolutions, which includes determining one or more active sites for each of the plurality of content objects based on the voxelized representation of each of the plurality of content objects and applying the one or more sparse convolutions to the one or more active sites, and training a machine-learning model based on a convolutional network including the one or more building blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Graham, Laurentius Johannes Paulus van der Maaten, Martin Helmut Engelcke
  • Publication number: 20220413845
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to provide an alert based on a release of a software application implemented in a distributed computing system. In some implementations, the method includes receiving, at a processor, an indication of the release of the software application, obtaining a first set of metric values for each metric of a list of metrics for a first time period preceding a time of release of the release, obtaining a second set of metric values for each metric of the list of metrics for a second time period following the time of release, comparing the first set of metric values to the second set of metric values to determine a deviation score, generating an alert based on the deviation score, and transmitting the alert via one of a user interface and a communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sedai Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Mathew, Nikhil Gopinath Kurup, Hari Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Thomas, Rajat Usha Krishna, Adharsh Sabukumar, S Meenakshi, Aby Jacob
  • Publication number: 20220413983
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to monitor a distributed computing system. In some implementations, a method may include obtaining a first plurality of monitoring metrics of a respective application of one or more applications executing over the distributed computing system, obtaining time-series data of the first plurality of monitoring metrics, programmatically analyzing the time-series data of the first plurality of monitoring metrics to determine a second plurality of monitoring metrics, wherein the second plurality of monitoring metrics is determined to be a predictive set of the first plurality of monitoring metrics, and monitoring the distributed computing system by monitoring the second plurality of monitoring metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sedai Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Mathew, Nikhil Gopinath Kurup, Hari Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220413917
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to manage a computing resource allocation for a software application. In some implementations, a method may include executing a first test function using the distributed computing system at a first plurality of allocation setpoints for the computing resource, based on the execution, obtaining one or more performance metrics for the first test function for each setpoint of the first plurality of allocation setpoints, training a machine learning model based on the obtained one or more performance metrics; and utilizing the trained machine learning model to manage the computing resource for a second function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sedai Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Mathew, Nikhil Gopinath Kurup, Hari Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220413956
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to identify anomalous applications. In some implementations, the methods may include obtaining application metric data that includes application level metrics and instance level metrics for each instance of a plurality of instances associated with a respective application of a plurality of applications operating over a distributed computing system, generating a first anomaly detection score based on the instance level metrics; generating a second anomaly detection score based on one or more input metrics associated with the respective application, generating a third anomaly detection score based on seasonal metric data associated with the respective application and identifying at least one application of the plurality of applications as an anomalous application based on the first anomaly detection score, the second anomaly detection score, and the third anomaly detection score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: Sedai Inc.
    Inventors: Suresh Mathew, Nikhil Gopinath Kurup, Hari Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Thomas, Vaibhav Desai
  • Publication number: 20220407881
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic using network monitoring computers (NMCs). Metrics may be determined based on monitoring network traffic associated with a plurality of entities each associated with a profile that includes the metrics for each entity. Beaconing metrics associated with beaconing activity may be determined based on the metrics. The profile of each entity may be compared with the beaconing metrics to determine the entities that may be engaged in beaconing activity. The entities may be characterized based on beaconing activity such that the beaconing activity includes communication with endpoints associated with the third parties, employing communication protocols associated with the third-parties, or exchanging payloads consistent with the beaconing activity. Reports that include information associated with the entities and its beaconing activity may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jeff James Costlow, Michael Ryan Corder, Edmund Hope Driggs, Benjamin Thomas Higgins, Michael Kerber Krause Montague, Kenneth Perrault, Jesse Abraham Rothstein, Jonathan Jacob Scott, Marc Adam Winners, Xue Jun Wu
  • Publication number: 20220384067
    Abstract: An adapter probe configured for injecting fluid (e.g., liquid, gas) into at least one electrical cable. Particularly for injecting an electrical cable with a fluid when the electrical cable is affixed to a separable connector (e.g., elbow separable connector). Separable connector may be configured to connect sources of energy (e.g., transformer, circuit breaker) with distribution systems via electrical cable (or cable section).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: Instrument Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Lanz, Wayne J. Chatterton, Matthew Helm Spalding, Charles William Shannon
  • Publication number: 20220363658
    Abstract: A method of selectively recovering a hydrophobic target substance. The method is applied to a solution of the target substance in a hydrophobic solvent. An insoluble polysaccharide is combined with the solution, the solution is passed over the insoluble polysaccharide or otherwise exposed to the insoluble polysaccharide. A hydrophilic solvent, which is less hydrophobic than the hydrophobic solvent, is combined with the solution or combined with the hydrophobic target substance and the insoluble polysaccharide after evaporation of the hydrophobic solvent to facilitate binding of the insoluble polysaccharide with the target substance rather than remaining in solution in the hydrophobic solvent. The cyclic polysaccharide is isolated from the solution. A dissociation solvent is combined with the cyclic polysaccharide for solubilizing the target substance from the cyclic polysaccharide and recovering the target substance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: Grow Biotech PLC
    Inventors: Christopher James Cordier, Sadaf Saad Anjum, Henry Alexander Fisher, Benjamin Thomas Langley, Ian Joseph Atkinson, Laurence Busch Hansen
  • Patent number: D976274
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Colin Bennett, Benjamin Thomas Christie, Michael Charles Evashevski, David Andrew Kennedy, Joseph Stanley Phillips