Patents by Inventor Benjamin Thomas

Benjamin 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: 12362352
    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: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    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: 12354499
    Abstract: An automated tutoring platform, system and method configured to permit students to find and contact, in real time, other students or persons with subject matter expertise in a particular area and to directly connect with such persons to purchase and obtain tutoring services online through the automated tutoring system and method. The automated tutoring system and method is configured to provide an on-line or virtual marketplace or exchange where students can interact, discuss topics of interest, send and receive messages, find qualified and pre-vetted subject matter experts, students or other persons with relevant experience for a tutoring session or sessions and to receive such tutoring sessions virtually through the automated tutoring platform, system and method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Inventors: Sean Richard Hood, Sean Samuel Hood, Benjamin Thomas Hood
  • Patent number: 12342034
    Abstract: In one embodiment, video content displayed across a plurality of display devices is synchronized by first obtaining a first set of VSYNC timestamps for a display controller of a first video display device and a second set of VSYNC timestamps for a display controller of a second video display device. An adjustment factor is determined based on a comparison of the first and second VSYNC timestamps, and an adjusted VSYNC period for the display controller of the second video display device is programmed based on the determined adjustment factor. After a predetermined number of VSYNC cycles, the display controller of the second video display device reverts back to an original VSYNC period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Karthik Tyamgondlu, Benjamin Thomas Cope, Satyeshwar Singh, Sangeeta Ghangam Manepalli, Aswin Padmanabhan
  • Publication number: 20250187434
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of automatically distributing powertrain demand between tandem drive axles in a tandem drive axle system for balanced tire wear between the tandem drive axles. Examples described herein analyze input signals collected from various vehicle sensors about operating conditions of the front and back tandem drive axles, and automatically bias a distribution of torque demand between the front and back tandem drive axles to correct for asymmetric wear based on known normal wear of the tires under like operating conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Jordan Michael HOUSER, Benjamin Thomas GROVER, Charles Wayne Reinhardt SWART
  • Publication number: 20250193044
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically managing tunnels in a network. The methods comprise: detecting, by a router of the network, that a tunnel is needed for communicating a packet to at least one member of a multicast group of another network; selecting, by the router, a base address from a set of unused base addresses; communicating, from the router, an auto-tunnel create message including the base address which was previously selected; receiving, by the router, a tunnel create ACK message sent from another router of the network upon the another router's verification that base address is unused; creating the tunnel using the base address for the router and another base address for the another router; encapsulating the packet; and communicating the encapsulated packet from the router to the another router using the tunnel which was created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Inventors: Nelson Henry Powell, III, Benjamin Thomas LaGreca
  • Publication number: 20250169469
    Abstract: Approaches for determining a location of an animal based on RSSI. An embodiment includes a method, comprising: receiving a first reading of an electronic animal identification tag attached to an animal from a first electronic tag reader; calculating a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) for the first reading; and determining a location of the animal based on the RSSI. Another embodiment includes a method, comprising: receiving a first reading of a first electronic animal identification tag attached to a first animal; calculating a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) for the first reading; receiving a second reading of a second 10 electronic animal identification tag attached to a second animal; calculating an RSSI for the second reading; and determining the location of the first animal based on the RSSI of the first reading and the RSSI of the second reading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2025
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Applicant: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas John WILKINSON, Brian Antony CLAYTON
  • Patent number: 12312977
    Abstract: A turbine engine with an engine core defining an engine centerline and comprising a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The turbine engine including a primary stage of airfoils circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline and defining at least a portion of the rotor assembly. A subsidiary stage of airfoils located upstream of the primary stage of airfoils and circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Arthur William Sibbach, Nicholas Joseph Kray, Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen
  • Patent number: 12291974
    Abstract: A turbine engine including a fan section, a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an airfoil assembly. The airfoil assembly comprising a spar, a trunnion and a stress relief. The trunnion having an upper edge with an open top, and a socket extending from the open top. The spar extending through the open top and into the socket. A junction being formed between the spar and a portion of the upper edge defining the open top.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignees: General Electric Company, GE Marmara Technology Center Muhendislik Hizmetleri Ltd
    Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Kray, Nicholas Mark Daggett, Elzbieta Kryj-Kos, Necip Adali, Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen, Gary Willard Bryant, Jr., Douglas Lorrimer Armstrong
  • Patent number: 12294086
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the various embodiments may provide metal electrodes for electrochemical cells. In various embodiments, the electrodes may comprise iron. Various methods may enable achieving high surface area with low cost for production of metal electrodes, such as iron electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: FORM ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jocelyn Marie Newhouse, Jarrod David Milshtein, Rupak Chakraborty, Amelie Nina Kharey, William Henry Woodford, Yet-Ming Chiang, Michael Gibson, Annelise Christine Thompson, Weston Smith, Joseph Anthony Pantano, Isabella Caruso, Benjamin Thomas Hultman, Max Rae Chu, Liang Su, Nicholas Perkins, Florian Wehner, Rebecca Eisenach, Mitchell Terrance Westwood, Tristan Gilbert, Andrew Liotta, Thomas Conry, Rachel Elizabeth Mumma, Brandon Uber, Eric Weber, Danielle Cassidy Smith, Brooke Wojeski
  • Patent number: 12286903
    Abstract: A turbine engine having a disk and a composite airfoil assembly. The disk having a slot. The composite airfoil assembly having an airfoil portion, a dovetail portion, and a roll snubber. The dovetail portion having a radially inner surface. The roll snubber being provided on the radially inner surface. The radially inner surface spaced from the slot to define a gap therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen, Gary Willard Bryant, Jr., Michael John Franks, Elzbieta Kryj-Kos, Nicholas Joseph Kray, Arthur William Sibbach
  • Publication number: 20250129723
    Abstract: A turbine engine with an engine core defining an engine centerline and comprising a rotor assembly and a stator assembly. The turbine engine including a primary stage of airfoils circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline and defining at least a portion of the rotor assembly. A subsidiary stage of airfoils located upstream of the primary stage of airfoils and circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Arthur William Sibbach, Nicholas Joseph Kray, Benjamin Thomas Van Oflen
  • Publication number: 20250107545
    Abstract: One variation of a non-dairy milk product includes: a first portion of a starch; a second portion of plant-extracted proteins; a first amount of a first enzyme configured to catalyze hydrolysis of a first proportion of the first portion of the starch into sugar units; a second amount of a second enzyme configured to catalyze hydrolysis of a second proportion of the second portion of plant-extracted proteins into amino acids; and a third amount of a third enzyme configured to catalyze synthesis of protein bonds between plant-extracted proteins in a third proportion of the second portion of the plant-extracted proteins to form a protein matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Elliot Bowman, Benjamin Thomas Roche
  • Patent number: 12265908
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for achieving higher cache hit rates for machine learning models are disclosed. When a processor executes a given layer of a machine learning model, the processor generates and stores activation data in a cache subsystem a forward or reverse manner. Typically, the entirety of the activation data does not fit in the cache subsystem. The processor records the order in which activation data is generated for the given layer. Next, when the processor initiates execution of a subsequent layer of the machine learning model, the processor processes the previous layer's activation data in a reverse order from how the activation data was generated. In this way, the processor alternates how the layers of the machine learning model process data by either starting from the front end or starting from the back end of the array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignees: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., ATI Technologies ULC
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Sander, Swapnil Sakharshete, Ashish Panday
  • Patent number: 12257895
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods of automatically distributing powertrain demand between tandem drive axles in a tandem drive axle system for balanced tire wear between the tandem drive axles. Examples described herein analyze input signals collected from various vehicle sensors about operating conditions of the front and back tandem drive axles, and automatically bias a distribution of torque demand between the front and back tandem drive axles to correct for asymmetric wear based on known normal wear of the tires under like operating conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Jordan Michael Houser, Benjamin Thomas Grover, Charles Wayne Reinhardt Swart
  • Publication number: 20250096261
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the various embodiments may provide metal electrodes for electrochemical cells. In various embodiments, the electrodes may comprise iron. Various methods may enable achieving high surface area with low cost for production of metal electrodes, such as iron electrodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Jocelyn Marie NEWHOUSE, Jarrod David MILSHTEIN, Rupak CHAKRABORTY, Amelie Nina KHAREY, William Henry WOODFORD, Yet-Ming CHIANG, Michael GIBSON, Annelise Christine THOMPSON, Weston SMITH, Joseph Anthony PANTANO, Isabella CARUSO, Benjamin Thomas HULTMAN, Max Rae CHU, Liang SU, Nicholas Reed PERKINS, Florian WEHNER, Rebecca EISENACH, Mitchell Terrance WESTWOOD, Tristan GILBERT, Andrew Haynes LIOTTA, Thomas CONRY, Rachel Elizabeth MUMMA, Brandon UBER, Eric WEBER, Danielle Cassidy SMITH, Brooke WOJESKI
  • Publication number: 20250089685
    Abstract: A reader comprising: a panel; two antennae each associated with a respective race to transmit and/or receive information to/from an electronic animal tag in that respective race; and an electromagnetic shield to impede an antenna from transmitting and/or receiving information to/from an electronic animal tag not located in the respective race of that antenna; a system for reading electronic animal tags comprising: a plurality of readers each located at or near a wall of a respective plurality of races, wherein each reader is at least partially shielded by an electromagnetic shield; each reader being longitudinally offset with respect to at least one other reader in the plurality of readers; and methods of constructing and using a reader.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas John WILKINSON, Aaron John WOODLAND, Brian Antony CLAYTON
  • Patent number: 12253968
    Abstract: In accordance with an embodiment, a system includes: a primary device configured to be connected to at least one secondary device via serial bus having a data wire and a clock wire. The primary device is configured to: provide a clock signal on the clock wire; and transmit a frame comprising control bits on the serial bus, wherein a number of control bits transmitted on the serial bus at at least one location of the frame indicates a format of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
    Inventors: Sergio Miguez Aparicio, Benjamin Thomas Sarachi
  • Publication number: 20250087299
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method for identifying residues in a particular conformation of a protein molecule capable of forming a stable binding between a compound and the protein molecule is provided. The method can include identifying, for inclusion in a perturbation set, one or more residues from the conformation of the protein molecule that exhibit a protection factor satisfying one or more thresholds. One or more residues may be excluded from the perturbation set based at least on a spatial arrangement and/or an orientation of the one or more residues. One or more rounds of molecular dynamics simulations whose result is indicative of an interaction between the compound and the residues in the perturbation set may be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventor: Benjamin Thomas WALTERS
  • Patent number: D1067544
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, Allflex Europe SAS
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas John Wilkinson, Antonin Maurice Patrick Filippelli, Quentin Serge Le May, Bruno Philippe Jean Teychene
  • Patent number: D1067554
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED, Allflex Europe SAS
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas John Wilkinson, Antonin Maurice Patrick Filippelli, Quentin Serge Le May, Bruno Philippe Jean Teychene