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).

  • Publication number: 20250049002
    Abstract: A system for tracing a Group of Members (GoM) of an animal population throughout a process including moving the GoM between a plurality of Physically Separate Locations (PSLs), the system comprising a processing circuitry configured to: obtain a plurality of sets of identifiers of the GoM, each obtained by readings of Identification Devices (IDs), wherein (a) each ID of the IDs is attached to, and uniquely identifies, a respective member of the GoM, (b) the identifiers in each of the sets are read (i) at a respective given PSL of the PSLs, (ii) by a respective given ID reader of a plurality of ID readers; (c) one or more partial sets of the sets do not include one or more respective missing identifiers of at least one member of the GoM; and add the missing identifiers to the respective partial sets along with a confidence score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY. LTD
    Inventor: Benjamin Thomas John WILKINSON
  • Patent number: 12225030
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: ExtraHop Networks, Inc.
    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: 20250045695
    Abstract: A modular inventory management system or device is included. A method of using a monitoring and managing inventory using a modular inventory management system or device is also included.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Kochan, II, Stanley Scott Copeland, Thaddeus E. Mac Krell, Simon Luc Leclerc, Brandon Michael Lee Scheyer, David Andrew Parrott, Benjamin Thomas Krupp
  • Publication number: 20250031667
    Abstract: Approaches for synchronising electronic animal identification tag readers for reading clectronic animal identification tags attached to animals. Embodiments include using a pulse from a GNSS receiver, adjusting for an error between a reference cadence signal and a local cadence signal, and using a synchronisation signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Leigh Andrew BATEMAN, Benjamin Thomas John WILKINSON, Brian Antony CLAYTON
  • Patent number: 12210864
    Abstract: There are provided systems and methods for a distributed autonomous patching system. During patching of a cloud computing architecture, an autonomous patching system may operator autonomously with no to minimal operator input to patch the host machines and corresponding computes of the cloud computing architecture's available applications. This may work by receiving a patch and determining corresponding patching factors for an availability zone of computes in the cloud. The system may then determine a patching topology map having an order of patching nodes for the selected computes of the application in the availability zone. Thereafter, while monitoring those computes, the system may select certain computes into an active processing funnel, where the patch is applied to those computes. Fingerprinting of before and after-patch states may be used to ensure proper patching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas, Suresh Mathew, Arvind Sugumar, Krishnakanth Batta, Vaibhav Desai, Ramakrishnan Sumesh Vadassery, Shankar Jothi
  • Publication number: 20250026116
    Abstract: A system and method for building and assembling parts of or entire modular structures such as dwelling units, marine structures or watercraft from recycled PET material panels. Each assembly is made from panels of recycled PET material having a core and a rigid skin on both faces of the panel. The panels are joined together with splines of the same type of panel material. The splines may be glued and or fastened in place. The panels provide the necessary rigidity and insulative qualities for construction and watercraft manufacture and may be painted. The panels are impervious to environmental elements as well as to insects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Davis, Gerald Fortier, John Rossi, Michael Sullivan
  • Patent number: 12193413
    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: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas John Wilkinson, Aaron John Woodland, Brian Antony Clayton
  • Patent number: 12190156
    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: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SEDAI INC.
    Inventors: Suresh Mathew, Nikhil Gopinath Kurup, Hari Chandrasekhar, Benjamin Thomas, Rajat Usha Krishna, Adharsh Sabukumar, S Meenakshi, Aby Jacob
  • Publication number: 20250001858
    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: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Jordan Michael HOUSER, Benjamin Thomas GROVER, Charles Wayne Reinhardt SWART
  • Patent number: 12182059
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a secondary device comprising a first port receiving a clock signal from a first port of a primary device and a second port connected to a second port of the primary device. The clock signal determines, for each bit transmission, first, second, third and fourth successive phases. The secondary device puts its second port in a high impedance state during the first, second and fourth phases of each bit transmission. During the third phase of each transmission of a bit of data from the secondary device to the primary device, the secondary device discharges its second port when the transmitted bit has a first value and leaves its second port in a high impedance state when the transmitted bit has a second value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics (Research & Development) Limited
    Inventors: Jeffrey M. Raynor, Sergio Miguez Aparicio, Benjamin Thomas Sarachi
  • Publication number: 20240414492
    Abstract: This disclosure relates in general to augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR), or extended reality (XR) environmental mapping. Specifically, this disclosure relates to AR, MR, or XR audio mapping in an AR, MR, or XR environment. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods allow the environment to be mapped based on a recording. In some embodiments, the audio mapping information is associated to voxels located in the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Brandon HERTENSTEINER, Justin Dan MATHEW, Remi Samuel AUDFRAY, Jean-Marc JOT, Benjamin Thomas VONDERSAAR, Michael Z. LAND
  • Publication number: 20240409408
    Abstract: Methods and systems for producing sulfuric acid and/or sulfur trioxide, which may include contacting a first stream that includes oxygen and a second stream that includes sulfur to produce a third stream that includes sulfur dioxide, and subjecting the third stream to an oxidation reaction to produce a fourth stream that includes sulfur trioxide. The contacting of the first and second streams may include contacting a molar amount of oxygen that exceeds a molar amount of sulfur.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Joseph Porter, Benjamin Thomas Egelske, Hunter Orion Brown, Robert J. Gulotty, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240409950
    Abstract: The present inventions relate to a breeding system for the production of polyploid seeds, plants, or plant parts where cycles of meiosis, syngamy, and selection are used for interpopulation improvement of progenitor lines, and sexual polyploidization occurs during hybrid production by inducing clonal gamete formation in the parents that are to be crossed. Reciprocal recurrent selection can be used to inform selection of candidate lines that are either advanced to a gene editing or genetic modification system or crossed and selected to induce clonal gamete formation by arresting meiotic recombination and chromosome reduction. Crosses of parent plants bearing clonal gametes are planned and executed based upon predicted heterotic performance at the polyploid level. The final product is a homogeneous population of hybrid polyploid seed, or derivative thereof, bearing both parents' complete nuclear genomes. In some instances, the method is used to generate plants that produce seedless fruit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Ohalo Genetics Inc.
    Inventors: Judson Arthur WARD, Jason A. Peiffer, Lien Diana Bertier, Morgan Edward MCCAW, Xingang Wang, Zachary Campbell Bower, Benjamin Thomas Berube
  • Patent number: 12154069
    Abstract: A modular inventory management system is included. The modular inventory monitoring system may include a receiver, a carrier, buses coupled to the carrier, and load cells coupled to the carrier. One or more of the load cells is configured to support a bin, and wherein the load cells are configured to continuously measure a weight of the bin and communicate the weight or a change in the weight to the receiver. A method of using a modular inventory management system is also included.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: PAR Excellence Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Kochan, II, Stanley Scott Copeland, Thaddeus E. MacKrell, Simon Luc Leclerc, Brandon Michael Lee Scheyer, David Andrew Parrott, Benjamin Thomas Krupp
  • Publication number: 20240384657
    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: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    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: 12144320
    Abstract: Approaches for synchronising electronic animal identification tag readers for reading electronic animal identification tags attached to animals Embodiments include using a pulse from a GNSS receiver, adjusting for an error between a reference cadence signal and a local cadence signal, and using a synchronisation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ALLFLEX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
    Inventors: Leigh Andrew Bateman, Benjamin Thomas John Wilkinson, Brian Antony Clayton
  • Publication number: 20240358381
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a drill guide for an implantable medical device includes a template comprising a turntable having a drill guide opening; and a drill clip connected to the turntable. In one embodiment, a drill guide for an implantable medical device includes a template comprising a template opening and a turntable having a drill guide opening coaxially aligned with the template opening, a drill interface connected to the turntable, and a support element connected to the drill interface extending from the turntable and offset from the drill guide opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Anna An Guo, Ethan Clark Hunt, Samuel David Kellner, Abdulrahman Basim AlKhalifa, Anna Louise Hazelwood, Anne E. Luebke, Benjamin Thomas Crane
  • Patent number: 12130938
    Abstract: A computer implemented data product release method or system. The data product release is derived from a sensitive dataset using a privacy protection system such as a differentially private system. The privacy protection parameters, such as noise addition magnitude, are configurable as part of the data product release method or system to alter the balance between maintaining privacy of the sensitive dataset and making the data product release useful.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PRIVITAR LIMITED
    Inventors: Charles Codman Cabot, Kieron Francois Pascal Guinamard, Jason Derek McFall, Pierre-Andre Maugis, Hector Page, Benjamin Thomas Pickering, Theresa Stadler, Jo-anne Tay, Suzanne Weller
  • Patent number: D1042513
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ian V. Bambao, Benjamin Thomas Christie, Caroline J. Crandall, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Ricky-Lee Richards, Marissa Mei Lee Vergel De Dios
  • Patent number: D1061579
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Christie, Alden Maxwell Haley, Per Lindgren, Alexander Charles MacLean, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Diego Monzon Del Pino, Allison Styer