Patents by Inventor Benjamin Hall

Benjamin Hall 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: 20240111442
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for prefetching data by a display controller. From time to time, a performance-state change of a memory are performed. During such changes, a memory clock frequency is changed for a memory subsystem storing frame buffer(s) used to drive pixels to a display device. During the performance-state change, memory accesses may be temporarily blocked. To sustain a desired quality of service for the display, a display controller is configured to prefetch data in advance of the performance-state change. In order to ensure the display controller has sufficient memory bandwidth to accomplish the prefetch, bandwidth reduction circuitry in clients of the system are configured to temporarily reduce memory bandwidth of corresponding clients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ashish Jain, Shang Yang, Jun Lei, Gia Tung Phan, Oswin Hall, Benjamin Tsien, Narendra Kamat
  • Publication number: 20240103754
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for prefetching data by a display controller. From time to time, a performance-state change of a memory are performed. During such changes, a memory clock frequency is changed for a memory subsystem storing frame buffer(s) used to drive pixels to a display device. During the performance-state change, memory accesses may be temporarily blocked. In order to reduce visual artifacts that may occur while the memory accesses are blocked, a memory subsystem includes a control circuit configured to enable a caching mode which caches display data provided to the display controller. Subsequent requests for display data from the display controller are then serviced using the cached data instead of accessing memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Gia Tung Phan, Ashish Jain, Chintan S. Patel, Benjamin Tsien, Jun Lei, Shang Yang, Oswin Hall
  • Patent number: 11933072
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a safety device for attachment at an edge of a door leaf. The safety device comprises a pressure monitor and an electromagnetic lock element. The pressure monitor is configured, in response to a force being applied to the safety device, to issue a signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Publication number: 20240071593
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide smart alerts to users, e.g., alerts to users about diabetic states that are only provided when it makes sense to do so, e.g., when the system can predict or estimate that the user is not already cognitively aware of their current condition, e.g., particularly where the current condition is a diabetic state warranting attention. In this way, the alert or alarm is personalized and made particularly effective for that user. Such systems and methods still alert the user when action is necessary, e.g., a bolus or temporary basal rate change, or provide a response to a missed bolus or a need for correction, but do not alert when action is unnecessary, e.g., if the user is already estimated or predicted to be cognitively aware of the diabetic state warranting attention, or if corrective action was already taken.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Anna Leigh DAVIS, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Naresh C. BHAVARAJU, Leif N. BOWMAN, Rita M. CASTILLO, Alexandra Elena CONSTANTIN, Rian W. DRAEGER, Laura J. DUNN, Gary Brian GABLE, Arturo GARCIA, Thomas HALL, Hari HAMPAPURAM, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN, Anna Claire HARLEY-TROCHIMCZYK, Nathaniel David HEINTZMAN, Andrea Jean JACKSON, Lauren Hruby JEPSON, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Aditya Sagar MANDAPAKA, Samuel Jere MARSH, Gary A. MORRIS, Subrai Girish PAI, Andrew Attila PAL, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Philip Thomas PUPA, Eli REIHMAN, Ashley Anne RINDFLEISCH, Sofie Wells SCHUNK, Peter C. SIMPSON, Daniel S. SMITH, Stephen J. VANSLYKE, Matthew T. VOGEL, Tomas C. WALKER, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Atiim Joseph WILEY
  • Patent number: 11903593
    Abstract: An anchor delivery system includes both a straight and curved drill guide along with a flexible drill, a flexible obturator and a flexible anchor inserter. The curved drill guide has a distal tip with approximately a 15° bend from the primary axis of the drill guide. Both the drill and the obturator have a reduced diameter section to improve flexibility during passage through the curved drill guide. Additionally, a surface of the inserter shaft has a laser cut pattern which permits flexing of the inserter around the inner diameter of the curved drill guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Karasic, Nehal Navinbhai Patel, Marc Joseph Balboa, Matthew Edwin Koski, Benjamin Hall
  • Patent number: 11866974
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a continuous hinge. The continuous hinge comprises a first hinge portion comprising a first plurality of knuckles; and a second hinge portion opposing the first hinge portion and comprising a second plurality of knuckles. The second plurality of knuckles is interdigitated with the first plurality of knuckles and pivotally coupled to the first plurality of knuckles. Each knuckle is a separate piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Publication number: 20240005387
    Abstract: A system includes a computing device including a processor communicatively coupled to a camera. The computing device is configured to, in response to receiving a request, capture an image via the camera and detect, within the image, a first plurality of locations of a first object. The computing device is further configured to segment the first plurality of locations of the first object by determining, for each location of the first plurality of locations, a likelihood the corresponding location includes a part of the first object. The computing device is configured to inpaint a second plurality of locations with an associated likelihood the corresponding location includes the part of the first object above a threshold value. The computing device is additionally configured to generate an augmented image by superimposing a selected second object over the image and display the augmented image on a user interface of the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: WARBY PARKER INC.
    Inventors: DAVID H. GOLDBERG, BENJAMIN HALL, DAVID J. DESHAZER, SASHA LAUNDY, PATRICK STOCK, IGNAT BALTSYUKEVICH, STANISLAV BYCHKOVSKY, VIKTORIA PASHKOVSKAYA, VLADIMIR KURS, ANDREY SNETKOV
  • Patent number: 11861275
    Abstract: A novel implementation of particle swarm optimization termed Recursive Hierarchical Particle Swarm Optimization (RHPSO) is presented. An improved method for optimizing a complex solution space for any given mathematical function, where the mathematical function may be 1) finding optimal parameters such as topology, security, and routing in distributed/networked systems; 2) finding optimal frequency and channel assignments for telecommunication networks; and 3) code-breaking, searching a large solution space of ciphers for the one correct decryption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Kofi Nyarko, Benjamin Hall
  • Publication number: 20230358086
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a door leaf formed of a flexible material, wherein the flexible material is resistant to puncture and resistant to tearing; and to a door system comprising the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventor: Benjamin HALL
  • Publication number: 20230080352
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a continuous hinge. The continuous hinge comprises a first hinge portion comprising a first plurality of knuckles; and a second hinge portion opposing the first hinge portion and comprising a second plurality of knuckles. The second plurality of knuckles is interdigitated with the first plurality of knuckles and pivotally coupled to the first plurality of knuckles. Each knuckle is a separate piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventor: Benjamin HALL
  • Patent number: 11566457
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a continuous hinge. The continuous hinge comprises a first hinge portion comprising a first plurality of knuckles; and a second hinge portion opposing the first hinge portion and comprising a second plurality of knuckles. The second plurality of knuckles is interdigitated with the first plurality of knuckles and pivotally coupled to the first plurality of knuckles. Each knuckle is a separate piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Patent number: 11479991
    Abstract: The present application provides a lock (100) for a door. The lock comprises a housing (102), a lock mechanism (108), and a bolt (104). An end portion (112) of the bolt comprises a trigger (106). The lock mechanism is operable to move the bolt between a locked position in which the end portion extends through an opening in the housing and projects from the housing, and an unlocked position in which the end portion is within the housing. The lock further comprises a retraction mechanism (110), wherein actuation of trigger causes the retraction mechanism to automatically move the bolt from the locked position into the unlocked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Patent number: 11462091
    Abstract: An anti-ligature device for attachment to an edge of a door leaf, the anti-ligature device having a proximity sensor arranged to detect a ligature secured around the anti-ligature device. The proximity sensor may be arranged to detect a weight being suspended from a ligature secured around the anti-ligature device. The sensitivity of the proximity sensor may be user-controllable, such that the anti-ligature device can be calibrated once affixed to the door leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Patent number: 11434686
    Abstract: Provided herein is a pressure monitor for attachment at an edge of a door leaf, the pressure monitor configured, in response to a force applied to the pressure monitor in a first direction perpendicular to the plane of the door leaf, and in response to a force applied to the pressure monitor in a second direction that is parallel to the plane of the door leaf or opposite to the first direction, to issue a signal indicating that a force has been applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Publication number: 20220198899
    Abstract: An anti-ligature device for attachment to an edge of a door leaf, the anti-ligature device having a proximity sensor arranged to detect a ligature secured around the anti-ligature device. The proximity sensor may be arranged to detect a weight being suspended from a ligature secured around the anti-ligature device. The sensitivity of the proximity sensor may be user-controllable, such that the anti-ligature device can be calibrated once affixed to the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin HALL
  • Publication number: 20220165142
    Abstract: An anti-ligature device for attachment to an edge of a door leaf, the anti-ligature device having a proximity sensor arranged to detect a ligature secured around the anti-ligature device. The proximity sensor may be arranged to detect a weight being suspended from a ligature secured around the anti-ligature device. The sensitivity of the proximity sensor may be user-controllable, such that the anti-ligature device can be calibrated once affixed to the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Benjamin HALL
  • Patent number: 11293215
    Abstract: Disclosed in the present application are a door leaf, and a door set comprising the door leaf. The door leaf having a first leaf portion and a second leaf portion. The first and second leaf portions pivotally connected to one another about a pivot axis that extends through one of the first leaf portion and the second leaf portion. The door leaf further comprising a lock configured, when in a locked position, to project across an interface between the two portions to thereby lock the first and second leaf portions so as to be substantially coplanar. The pivot axis is substantially parallel to and spaced from the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Publication number: 20220071640
    Abstract: An anchor delivery system includes both a straight and curved drill guide along with a flexible drill, a flexible obturator and a flexible anchor inserter. The curved drill guide has a distal tip with approximately a 15° bend from the primary axis of the drill guide. Both the drill and the obturator have a reduced diameter section to improve flexibility during passage through the curved drill guide. Additionally, a surface of the inserter shaft has a laser cut pattern which permits flexing of the inserter around the inner diameter of the curved drill guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Karasic, Nehal Navinbhai Patel, Marc Joseph Balboa, Matthew Edwin Koski, Benjamin Hall
  • Patent number: D955201
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall
  • Patent number: D974797
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Kingsway Enterprises (UK) Limited
    Inventor: Benjamin Hall