Patents by Inventor Benjamin Lewis

Benjamin Lewis 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: 20240152863
    Abstract: Systems and methods of verifying pairings of price tag labels and products at a product storage facility include an image capture device that moves about and captures images of product storage structures at the product storage facility, and a database that stores inventory data associated with the products stocked at the product storage facility. A computing device processes the images to extract one or more characters from the price tag labels and products detected in the images, correlates the extracted characters to the inventory data to identify a product code and a product name that matches the characters extracted from the price tag labels and the products. If the characters extracted from the price tag and from the on-shelf product to which the price tag label is allocated match, the database is updated to reflect that the price tag label is properly allocated to the appropriate on-shelf product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Lingfeng Zhang, Wei Wang, Avinash Madhusudanrao Jade, Raghava Balusu, Mingquan Yuan, Jing Wang, Han Zhang, Zhaoliang Duan, William Craig Robinson, Jr., Benjamin R. Ellison, Paul Lewis Lobo
  • Publication number: 20240150321
    Abstract: The invention provides pyrazolylsulfonamide compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, their use for inhibiting mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma translocation protein 1 (MALT1), and their use in the treatment of a disease or condition, such as a proliferative disorder, inflammatory disorder, or autoimmune disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Yingzhi Bi, Kenneth G. Carson, Geraldine Cirillo Harriman, Sundarapandian Thangapandian, Christian Josef Kuper, Sebastien Louis Degorce, Benjamin Paul Whittaker, Arwel Lewis, Maria Angel Palomero-Vazquez
  • Publication number: 20240121169
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for performing generating AR experiences on a messaging platform. The methods and systems receive, from a client device, a request to access an augmented reality (AR) experience and access a list of event types associated with the AR experience used to generate one or more metrics. The methods and systems determine that an interaction associated with the AR experience corresponds to a first event type of the list of event types and generates interaction data for the first event type representing the interaction. In response to receiving a request to terminate the AR experience, the systems and methods transmit the interaction data to a remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Todd Grover, Taras Lazarenko, Elliot Lewis, Michael Aubrey Powell, Jialu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20240118792
    Abstract: A method for configuring a system having a wearable optical unit is disclosed. The method includes powering on the system, and in response to the system being powered on, using one or more processors to control the system to: determine whether to cause the system to run a configuration workflow, and in response to determining to cause the system to run the configuration workflow, (a) control the system in connection with configuring an interpupillary distance (IPD) for a user of the system, (b) determine whether the IPD is configured for the user, and (c) in response to determining that the IPD is configured for the user, control the system in connection with configuring a focus of the optical unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Trae Benjamin Stephens, Benjamin Eli Nelson Chelf, Nicholas Cory Johnson, John Aaron Boiles, Nicholas Grant Lewis, Kevin Robert McKinney, Steven David Oliver, Tun Yuen Yeung, Meghan Easley, Robin Porter, Jeremiah O'Leary, Keith Alsberg, Robert Samuel Clay
  • Publication number: 20230355767
    Abstract: Described herein are methods useful for the treatment of cancers in a canine subject with a pharmaceutical compositions comprising HDAC inhibitors, Rapamycin, Dasatinib, Lapatinib, Trametinib, Vorinostat, Imatinib, Crizotinib, Sorafenib, and combinations thereof. Also described herein are methods for identification of subjects with cancers that will benefit from administration of the pharmaceutical compositions comprising HDAC inhibitors, Rapamycin, Dasatinib, Lapatinib, Trametinib, Vorinostat, Imatinib, Crizotinib, Sorafenib, and combinations thereof. In certain aspects, the methods described herein further comprise administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one additional anti-cancer agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Lewis, Christina Kelly Lopes, Lindsay Lambert, Garrett Harvey, Thaddeus A. Allen, Aubrey Miller, Lucas Rodrigues, Madison Luker, Gerald Post
  • Publication number: 20230148230
    Abstract: A meter collar adapter including a housing, a plurality of contacts to electrically connect the meter collar adapter to a meter socket and to a utility meter, a load management device within the housing to manage electrical load to an interface circuit with external, co-located electric equipment, and an overcurrent protection device electrically connected in series with an interface circuit. The load management device includes the interface circuit to electrically connect to either the line side or load side of an electrical service via the utility meter an external, co-located electric equipment. An interface contact to electrically connect the co-located electric equipment to the interface circuit, an adjustable electrical switch electrically configured to control electric load, and an energy management unit to control, monitor, and/or report a position of the adjustable electrical switch to manage the electrical loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: John Schroeder, Benjamin Lewis, Jon Knauer, Khanti Munro, Akash Dani, Whitman Fulton
  • Publication number: 20230107831
    Abstract: A meter collar adapter may include an upper assembly having a housing to protect inner electrical components from adverse environmental conditions and a lower assembly to house electrical components, one or more conductors that pass through at least the lower assembly. Each conductor includes a first end to electrically interface with a meter socket and a second end to electrically interface with an electrical meter. The meter collar adapter further includes thermally conductive heat sinks to transfer heat from the lower assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Katie BENTLEY, John SCHROEDER, Jonathan KNAUER, Benjamin LEWIS, Whitman FULTON
  • Publication number: 20230028679
    Abstract: A meter collar adapter including a housing, a plurality of contacts to electrically connect the meter collar adapter to a meter socket and to a utility meter, and a load management device within the housing to manage electrical load to an interface circuit with external, co-located electric equipment. The load management device includes an interface circuit to electrically connect to either the line side or load side of an electrical service via the utility meter an external, co-located electric equipment. An interface contact to electrically connect the co-located electric equipment to the interface circuit, an overcurrent protection device electrically connected in series with the interface circuit, an adjustable electrical switch electrically configured to control electric load, and an energy management unit to control, monitor, and/or report a position of the adjustable electrical switch to manage the electrical loads.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Whitman Fulton, John Schroeder, Benjamin Lewis, Jon Knauer, Khanti Munro, Akash Dani
  • Publication number: 20220354951
    Abstract: Described herein are methods useful for the treatment of cancers in a canine subject with a pharmaceutical compositions comprising HD AC inhibitors, Rapamycin, Dasatinib, Lapatinib, Trametinib, Vorinostat, Imatinib, Crizotinib, Sorafenib, and combinations thereof. Also described herein are methods for identification of subjects with cancers that will benefit from administration of the pharmaceutical compositions comprising HD AC inhibitors, Rapamycin, Dasatinib, Lapatinib, Trametinib, Vorinostat, Imatinib, Crizotinib, Sorafenib, and combinations thereof. In certain aspects, the methods described herein further comprise administering a therapeutically effective amount of at least one additional anti-cancer agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2020
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Lewis, Christina Kelly Lopes, Lindsay Lambert, Garrett Harvey, Thaddeus A. Allen, Aubrey Miller, Lucas Rodrigues, Madison Luker, Gerald Post
  • Publication number: 20220042600
    Abstract: A non-metallic gasket for flanged connections that is capable of achieving the necessary gasket stress to maintain a leak-free seal between the two flanges especially in applications when metallic gaskets cannot be used. The gasket may utilize glass reinforced epoxy, or rigid non-metallic material, as the gasket core. The core receives a kammprofile set of serrations machined into both faces. On top of the serrations a sealing element of varying material is adhered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin Daniel Kramer, Benjamin Lewis, Donald White, Simonas Lukosius
  • Patent number: 11154915
    Abstract: A machine for removing debris from pine straw is described. The machine comprises a conveyor system, a doffer, a debris-pine straw separation zone, and a clean pine straw zone. The conveyor system and doffer thin, spread and fluff the pine straw, as well as control the flow of pine straw to the separation zone. A system of air is directed through the separation zone and engages pine straw and debris discharged into the separation zone and effectively separates the debris from the pine straw, after which the pine straw is directed from the separation zone to the clean pine straw zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Innovative Agricultural Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Keith Cauthen, William Keith Marsh, Alex Todd Greeson, Matthew Grayson Parker, Benjamin Lewis Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20210326965
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to marketing products through a social networking system. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present invention relate to allowing social networking users to purchase products through the social networking system and to add products to shopping carts associated with third-party merchants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Deborah Liu, Mary Ku, Stephanie Shum, Neville S. Bowers
  • Publication number: 20210313928
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using MLPE data for characterizing real-world operation a PV module. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a plurality of temperature measurements, wherein each temperature measurement is a measure, by an MLPE proximate to a PV module, of temperature; obtaining a plurality of DC voltage measurements, wherein each DC voltage measurement of the plurality of DC voltage measurements is a measure by the MLPE of a DC voltage of the PV module; obtaining a plurality of DC current measurements, wherein each DC current measurement of the plurality of DC voltage measurements is a measure by the MLPE of a DC current of the PV module; obtaining racking design information with respect to the PV module; and determining a plurality of PV module temperatures for the PV module based on the plurality of temperature measurements and the racking design information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Nathan Charles, Benjamin Lewis Smith
  • Patent number: 11100520
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate generally to the generation and presentation of merchant insights to a brick-and-mortar merchant. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to detecting and identifying users visiting a merchant's retail location, determining product preferences of the identified users that relate to the merchant, and providing merchant insights to the merchant based on the determined product preferences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan
  • Patent number: 11023954
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to marketing products through a social networking system. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present invention relate to allowing social networking users to purchase products through the social networking system and to add products to shopping carts associated with third-party merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Deborah Liu, Mary Ku, Stephanie Shum, Neville S. Bowers
  • Patent number: 10985694
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for using MLPE data for characterizing real-world operation a PV module. In one embodiment, the method comprises obtaining a plurality of temperature measurements, wherein each temperature measurement is a measure, by an MLPE proximate to a PV module, of temperature; obtaining a plurality of DC voltage measurements, wherein each DC voltage measurement of the plurality of DC voltage measurements is a measure by the MLPE of a DC voltage of the PV module; obtaining a plurality of DC current measurements, wherein each DC current measurement of the plurality of DC voltage measurements is a measure by the MLPE of a DC current of the PV module; obtaining racking design information with respect to the PV module; and determining a plurality of PV module temperatures for the PV module based on the plurality of temperature measurements and the racking design information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Enphase Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Charles, Benjamin Lewis Smith
  • Publication number: 20200298289
    Abstract: A machine for removing debris from pine straw is described. The machine comprises a conveyor system, a doffer, a debris-pine straw separation zone, and a clean pine straw zone. The conveyor system and doffer thin, spread and fluff the pine straw, as well as control the flow of pine straw to the separation zone. A system of air is directed through the separation zone and engages pine straw and debris discharged into the separation zone and effectively separates the debris from the pine straw, after which the pine straw is directed from the separation zone to the clean pine straw zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Innovative Agricultural Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Keith Cauthen, William Keith Marsh, Alex Todd Greeson, Matthew Grayson Parker, Benjamin Lewis Cranfill
  • Publication number: 20200065884
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to marketing products through a social networking system. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present invention relate to allowing social networking users to purchase products through the social networking system and to add products to shopping carts associated with third-party merchants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Deborah Liu, Mary Ku, Stephanie Shum, Neville S. Bowers
  • Patent number: 10510106
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate generally to marketing products through a social networking system. More specifically, one or more embodiments of the present invention relate to allowing social networking users to purchase products through the social networking system and to add products to shopping carts associated with third-party merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis
  • Patent number: 10505997
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for improving a user experience related to interacting with content using multiple client devices and/or mediums. For example, a persistent activity system can receive activity data for a user from a client device. The persistent activity system can generate state information based on the received activity data. Further, the persistent activity system can provide the state information to another client device and/or medium to enable the user to seamlessly resume the user's activity on the other client device and/or medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Charles Linden, Benjamin Lewis, Dwight Ewing Crow, Jonathan Shottan, Peng Fan