Patents by Inventor Benjamin Brown

Benjamin 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).

  • Publication number: 20250109820
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a portable electronic device including a frame body supporting electronic components and a stand mechanism. The stand mechanism includes a foot, and an activator. The foot includes a foot support and a foot shaft including a foot guide path. The activator includes an engaging element, and the engaging element is received by the foot guide path. A portion of the foot guide path extends at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the foot shaft. When the activator engages a surface, the engaging element of the activator moves along the portion of the foot guide path at the angle relative to the longitudinal axis of the foot shaft causing the foot support to rotate from a stored position to a deployed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin Carroll, John William Pennington, Jr., Marcus Hoggarth, Stephen Philip de Saulles, Michael Brown
  • Patent number: 12263563
    Abstract: A power tool includes a first housing portion and a second housing portion, a motor directly mounted between the housing portions with an output shaft defining an axis, and a gear assembly supported within the housing and including a ring gear directly supported by the housing portions, a pinion gear coupled for co-rotation with the output shaft, and planet gears meshed with the pinion gear and the ring gear. The power tool also includes a drive assembly operably coupled to the gear assembly with a camshaft, an anvil, a hammer configured to reciprocate along the camshaft to impart rotational impacts to the anvil, and a spring biasing the hammer towards the anvil. The ring gear includes lugs engaged with the first housing portion and the second housing portion to rotationally constrain the ring gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: MILWAUKEE ELECTRIC TOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joseph T. Lottes-Paukner, Jacob P. Schneider, Mackenzie J. Nick, Kentez L. Craig, Evan Brown, Joseph J. Drees, Benjamin J. Skelton
  • Publication number: 20250106452
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
  • Patent number: 12253623
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to corrugated radomes for protecting and concealing components of radar units. An example radar system may include a radar unit that includes at least one antenna having a radiation pattern. The radar unit is configured to transmit a radar signal based on the radiation pattern and receive radar signals. In addition, the radar system further includes a radome located in a direction of transmission of the radiation pattern. Particularly, the radome includes a stepped surface having at least one step that includes a height equal to one-quarter of a wavelength at a frequency of operation of the radar unit. The least one step is positioned on the radome such that the at least one step causes deconstructive interference of reflections of the transmitted radar signal caused by the radome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Tegan Argo, Benjamin Chen
  • Patent number: 12255513
    Abstract: The present application provides a collector terminal dust mitigation assembly for use with collector terminals of generators to prevent dust entry into a collector terminal bore in a collector ring, wherein the collector terminals may have varying positions with respect to the collector rings. The collector terminal dust mitigation assembly may include one of a number of inner elements configured for a specific position of a collector terminal with respect to a collector ring and a standard outer element sized to accommodate the inner element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Rachel Christine Stagnitti, Andrew Brown, Benjamin A. Mancuso, Daniel Papa, Alexander G. Beckford, Gary E. Gottung, Kevin C. Sheridan
  • Publication number: 20250072676
    Abstract: A nozzle assembly for a cleaning apparatus can include a brushroll, a motor disposed within the brushroll and configured to rotate the brushroll, a debris receptacle comprising a debris inlet. A scraper may be disposed above the debris inlet such that the scraper projects into the brushroll. A ramp can be formed on the scraper. The ramp may extend between an outer edge of the scraper above the debris inlet and into an interior region of the debris receptacle. The ramp can include a runoff surface configured to direct debris and liquid removed from the brushroll by the scraper as the brushroll rotates into the debris receptacle at a negative angle relative to a surface being cleaned. A squeegee assembly may be disposed across a full width of the nozzle assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Oliver Holmes, Jordan Ridgley, Daniel Innes, Hugh J. Croggon, Jemima L.C. Meil, Joseph Mills, Sophie Hall, Joe Baxter, Benjamin Brown
  • Patent number: 12220974
    Abstract: A system for a vehicle includes a first closure panel of the vehicle operable between open and closed positions, a second closure panel of the vehicle operable between open and closed positions, at least one sensor that is coupled to the first closure panel and that detects precipitation, and a controller that prompts movement of the first closure panel from a first open position to a second open position based on the detected precipitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Annette Lynn Huebner, Kristopher Karl Brown, David Michael Diamond, Clayton Benjamin Ford
  • Patent number: 12216821
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Preston Douglas Brown, Sean Thomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
  • Publication number: 20250030432
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems related to analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and in particular, to settling the reference voltage in an ADC and to settling the reference voltage in a time-interleaved arrangement of ADCs. A method of settling of a reference voltage in an ADC may include generating, on a reference voltage line, an analog reference voltage, and connecting, at the time of generating the analog reference voltage, a pre-charged capacitor of the ADC to the reference voltage line to reduce a voltage error during the generation of the analog reference voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas BROWN, Hariprasad CHANDRAKUMAR, Georgios DOGIAMIS, Benjamin HERSHBERG
  • Patent number: 12206922
    Abstract: A video monitoring system can include multiple collectors to receive video beacon data from multiple video monitoring interface modules. At least one beacon stream is connected to receive data from multiple collectors. A processing module receives the beacon stream and provides a real-time event stream used for real-time data analysis and a video view stream used for long-term data analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Mux, Inc.
    Inventors: Adam Brown, Jonathan Dahl, Steven Heffernan, Justin Sanford, Matthew Ward, Scott Kidder, Benjamin Dodson, Alex Diehl
  • Patent number: 12060258
    Abstract: An apparatus for minimizing dead leg spaces in a container or tubing includes a first member having a flange for attaching the first member to a wall of the container or tubing, the flange having at least one aperture, and a second member rotatably coupled to the first member, the second member having an upper end having at least one aperture, and an open distal end. The second member is rotatable relative to the first member between a closed position where the at least one aperture of the second member is misaligned with the at least one aperture in the flange to prevent the passage of fluid, and an open position where the at least one aperture of the second member is aligned with the at least one aperture in the flange to allow for the passage of fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLC
    Inventors: Hanna-Leena Saukkonen, Benjamin Brown, Matthew Ouellette, Shanice Jones, Eric Fäldt, Lauren Lisle, Ralph Stankowski
  • Publication number: 20240187276
    Abstract: Various arrangements for integrating control of multiple cloud-based smart-home devices are presented. Registration information may be received for a first and second smart-home device that are controlled using different cloud-based server systems. A determination may be made that that the first smart-home device and the second smart-home device share a common function. The first smart-home device and the second smart-home device may be assigned to a common operating characteristic group based on the common function being shared by the first smart-home device and the second smart-home device. A control element may be provided that allows for control of smart-home devices with the common operating characteristic group. The control element may be used to control the common function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Brown, Da Huang, Christopher Conover, Lisa Williams, Henry Chung
  • Patent number: 11940834
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of entangled qubits, with high fault tolerance, represented by a lattice structure. The lattice structure includes a plurality of contiguous lattice cells. A first subset of the plurality of entangled qubits defines a first plane, and a second subset of the plurality of entangled qubits defines a second plane that is parallel to and offset from the first plane. The plurality of entangled qubits includes a defect qubit that is entangled with at least one face qubit on the first plane and at least one edge qubit on the second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Psiquantum, Corp.
    Inventors: Naomi Nickerson, Hector Bombin Palomo, Benjamin Brown
  • Patent number: 11933681
    Abstract: A force sensor comprising a force sensitive resistor having a common electrode and an electrode array separated by a force sensitive resistor material. The sensor includes a preload structure, where the preload structure imparts a force on the force sensitive resistor material. The sensor may also include a signal conditioning board to read a signal from the electrode array and convert it to a digital output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Lu Li, H. Benjamin Brown, Michael Schwerin, Howie Choset
  • Patent number: 11929844
    Abstract: Various arrangements for using captured voice to generate a custom interface controller are presented. A vocal recording from a user may be captured in which a spoken command and multiple smart-home devices are indicated. One or more common functions that map to the multiple smart-home devices may be determined. A custom interface controller may be generated that controls the one or more common functions of each smart-home device of the multiple smart-home devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Brown, Da Huang, Christopher Conover, Lisa Williams, Henry Chung
  • Patent number: 11877088
    Abstract: A method for enhancing digital imagery. The method comprises receiving a linear, intensity-based image of an environment. A histogram of intensity values is generated for a plurality of pixels within the linear, intensity-based image. Based on the histogram of intensity values, local contrast enhancement is applied to the linear, intensity-based image to generate a contrast enhanced version of the linear, intensity-based image, and artificial colorization is applied to the linear, intensity-based image to generate an artificially colorized version of the linear, intensity-based image. A composite image of the environment is then generated based on at least a portion of the contrast enhanced version of the linear, intensity-based image and at least a portion of the artificially colorized version of the linear, intensity-based image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk Price, Michael Bleyer, Christopher Douglas Edmonds, Benjamin Brown, Casey Lee Miller
  • Patent number: 11460876
    Abstract: A method includes obtaining a plurality of entangled qubits, with high fault tolerance, represented by a lattice structure. The lattice structure includes a plurality of contiguous lattice cells. A first subset of the plurality of entangled qubits defines a first plane, and a second subset of the plurality of entangled qubits defines a second plane that is parallel to and offset from the first plane. The plurality of entangled qubits includes a defect qubit that is entangled with at least one face qubit on the first plane and at least one edge qubit on the second plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: PSIQUANTUM, CORP.
    Inventors: Naomi Nickerson, Hector Bombin Palomo, Benjamin Brown
  • Publication number: 20220282027
    Abstract: Pest-resistant polyurethane spray foam formulations and products, including building insulation, are described. The “B” side of the formulation comprises water; a polyol composition comprising one or more polyols selected from glycerin-sucrose polyols, Mannich polyols, and aromatic polyester polyols, catalyst(s); surfactant(s); a blowing agent; and 0.5 to 5 wt.%, based on the amount of spray foam formulation, of a composition comprising a capsaicin compound. Capsaicin compounds can be successfully incorporated into spray foam formulations that process well to give high- quality foams. The foams inhibit termite infestation and can help to minimize or avoid structural damage that might otherwise go undetected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin BROWN
  • Publication number: 20220224557
    Abstract: Various arrangements for using captured voice to generate a custom interface controller are presented. A vocal recording from a user may be captured in which a spoken command and multiple smart-home devices are indicated. One or more common functions that map to the multiple smart-home devices may be determined. A custom interface controller may be generated that controls the one or more common functions of each smart-home device of the multiple smart-home devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Brown, Da Huang, Christopher Conover, Lisa Williams, Henry Chung
  • Publication number: 20220201239
    Abstract: A method for enhancing digital imagery. The method comprises receiving a linear, intensity-based image of an environment. A histogram of intensity values is generated for a plurality of pixels within the linear, intensity-based image. Based on the histogram of intensity values, local contrast enhancement is applied to the linear, intensity-based image to generate a contrast enhanced version of the linear, intensity-based image, and artificial colorization is applied to the linear, intensity-based image to generate an artificially colorized version of the linear, intensity-based image. A composite image of the environment is then generated based on at least a portion of the contrast enhanced version of the linear, intensity-based image and at least a portion of the artificially colorized version of the linear, intensity-based image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Raymond Kirk PRICE, Michael BLEYER, Christopher Douglas EDMONDS, Benjamin BROWN, Casey Lee MILLER