Patents by Inventor Benjamin Ward

Benjamin Ward 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: 20240251944
    Abstract: A countertop system includes a first slab having a first lateral slot that is laterally obscured by a first cover, and a second slab having a second lateral slot that is laterally obscured by a second cover. The first and second covers are configured to be removed with an application of pressure, and the first slot aligns with the second slot to receive a connector to couple the first slab to the second slab.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Michele Zucca, Benjamin Ward, Michael Chung, Emily Knight
  • Publication number: 20220289526
    Abstract: Described is a method for lifting an object from a vessel deck. A hoisting means present on the vessel deck is provided with a hoisting cable to which an attaching means for the object is coupled. The object is connected to the attaching means and then taken up and displaced relative to the vessel deck using the attaching means. The swinging movements of the attaching means and of the object connected thereto, occurring under the influence of wave and wind forces, are damped during displacement by a gyroscope which is connected to the hoisting cable, attaching means and/or object and which includes a rotation-symmetrical body rotating around a primary rotation axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Uwe Stempinski, Benjamin Ward Baert, Kenneth Gerard Vannieuwenhuyse
  • Patent number: 11095943
    Abstract: The disclosure herein pertains to a system and method for management of personalization content. The system and method divide the personalization information into offline personalization information and situational personalization information. Offline personalization information is independent of context and predetermined before a content request. A personalization model can dynamically allocate the selection between offline personalization information and situational personalization information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Kissig, Conor Malachy McDonald, Daniel Peters, Matthew William van Buuren, Benjamin Ward
  • Publication number: 20170363648
    Abstract: Disclosed is a biosensor engineered to conditionally respond to the presence of specific small molecules, the biosensors including conditionally stable ligand-binding domains (LBDs) which respond to the presence of specific small molecules, wherein readout of binding is provided by reporter genes or transcription factors (TFs) fused to the LBDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: George M. Church, Justin Feng, Daniel J. Mandell, David Baker, Stanley Fields, Benjamin Ward Jester, Christine Elaine Tinberg
  • Patent number: 9766255
    Abstract: Disclosed is a biosensor engineered to conditionally respond to the presence of specific small molecules, the biosensors including conditionally stable ligand-binding domains (LBDs) which respond to the presence of specific small molecules, wherein readout of binding is provided by reporter genes or transcription factors (TFs) fused to the LBDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignees: President and Fellows of Harvard College, University of Washington
    Inventors: George M. Church, Justin Feng, Daniel J. Mandell, David Baker, Stanley Fields, Benjamin Ward Jester, Christine Elaine Tinberg
  • Patent number: 9557358
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention include a test and measurement instrument and associated methods for acquiring and stitching wide overlapped non-uniform frequency bands so that a user specified band can be efficiently displayed and analyzed. The test and measurement instrument includes a user interface to receive the user specified frequency span. Acquisition circuitry acquires one or more predefined frequency bands having non-uniform overlapping frequency ranges. A frequency band processing section can decimate the acquired frequency bands, mask the acquired frequency bands, and stitch the masked frequency bands together. A display section displays the user specified frequency span using the stitched frequency bands. Due to the overlap configuration of the wide non-uniform bands, any user specified span between 50 kHz and 6 GHz, or thereabout, can be covered by two bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: TEKTRONIX, INC.
    Inventor: Benjamin A. Ward
  • Patent number: 9526881
    Abstract: An insect-bite itch stopper is disclosed which has a pressure surface adapted for pressing directly onto an insect bite and an applicator for simultaneously or contemporaneously applying an anti-itch medication to the bite.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: X Tech, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Gavigan Hinden, Benjamin Ward Huser, Garret Kane Daffemer
  • Patent number: 9443490
    Abstract: Disclosed is a test and measurement instrument that includes a signal input structured to receive a modulated radio frequency (RF) signal under test and a demodulator structured to extract a digital signal from the received modulated RF signal. The extracted digital signal has a measurable parameter. The instrument also includes a display controller structured to display the extracted demodulated signal at one of at least two different intensities based on the measured parameter of the digital signal. In other embodiments the signal need not be an RF signal. Methods of operation are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: TEKTRONIX, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Ward, Kenneth P. Dobyns, Gary J. Waldo
  • Publication number: 20160202256
    Abstract: Disclosed is a biosensor engineered to conditionally respond to the presence of specific small molecules, the biosensors including conditionally stable ligand-binding domains (LBDs) which respond to the presence of specific small molecules, wherein readout of binding is provided by reporter genes or transcription factors (TFs) fused to the LBDs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: George M. Church, Justin Feng, Daniel J. Mandell, David Baker, Stanley Fields, Benjamin Ward Jester, Christine Elaine Tinberg
  • Publication number: 20160103126
    Abstract: A method of immobilising a target molecule on a substrate, which comprises exposing the target molecule to the substrate in the presence of a metal complex, wherein the target molecule is an unmodified target molecule, and wherein the metal complex is selected to provide a stable binding interaction between the target molecule and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Applicant: ANTEO TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Benjamin Ward MUIR, Michael C. BARDEN, Dennis Brian RYLATT, N. Joe MAEJI, Carmel Judith HILLYARD, Alain-Dominique Jean-Pierre GORSE, Raisa Leonidovna MONTERIO
  • Patent number: 9234891
    Abstract: A method of immobilizing a target molecule on a substrate, which comprises exposing the target molecule to the substrate in the presence of a metal complex, wherein the target molecule is an unmodified target molecule, and wherein the metal complex is selected to provide a stable binding interaction between the target molecule and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: ANTEO TECHNOLOGIES PTY LTD
    Inventors: Benjamin Ward Muir, Michael C. Barden, Dennis Brian Rylatt, N. Joe Maeji, Carmel Judith Hillyard, Alain-Dominique Jean-Pierre Gorse, Raisa Leonidovna Monterio
  • Publication number: 20140002508
    Abstract: Disclosed is a test and measurement instrument that includes a signal input structured to receive a modulated radio frequency (RF) signal under test and a demodulator structured to extract a digital signal from the received modulated RF signal. The extracted digital signal has a measurable parameter. The instrument also includes a display controller structured to display the extracted demodulated signal at one of at least two different intensities based on the measured parameter of the digital signal. In other embodiments the signal need not be an RF signal. Methods of operation are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: TEKTRONIX, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Ward, Kenneth P. Dobyns, Gary J. Waldo
  • Publication number: 20130345648
    Abstract: An insect-bite itch stopper is disclosed which has a pressure surface adapted for pressing directly onto an insect bite and an applicator for simultaneously or contemporaneously applying an anti-itch medication to the bite.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Joseph Gavigan Hinden, Benjamin Ward Huster, Garret Kane Daffemer
  • Patent number: 8345956
    Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) video is converted into multi-view video. The 2D video is segmented to generate a temporally consistent segmented 2D video which is made up of a sequence of segmented frames. The multi-view video is generated by employing user-guided operations to generate depth assignments for the segments associated with user-assigned regions of the segmented frames, where a user-assigned region is formed from a group of contiguous segments selected by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Ward, Sing Bing Kang, Eric Bennett
  • Publication number: 20120269252
    Abstract: Embodiments of this invention include a test and measurement instrument and associated methods for acquiring and stitching wide overlapped non-uniform frequency bands so that a user specified band can be efficiently displayed and analyzed. The test and measurement instrument includes a user interface to receive the user specified frequency span. Acquisition circuitry acquires one or more predefined frequency bands having non-uniform overlapping frequency ranges. A frequency band processing section can decimate the acquired frequency bands, mask the acquired frequency bands, and stitch the masked frequency bands together. A display section displays the user specified frequency span using the stitched frequency bands. Due to the overlap configuration of the wide non-uniform bands, any user specified span between 50 kHz and 6 GHz, or thereabout, can be covered by two bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: TEKTRONIX, INC.
    Inventor: Benjamin A. WARD
  • Publication number: 20120214973
    Abstract: A method of immobilising a target molecule on a substrate, which comprises exposing the target molecule to the substrate in the presence of a metal complex, wherein the target molecule is an unmodified target molecule, and wherein the metal complex is selected to provide a stable binding interaction between the target molecule and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: BIO-LAYER PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Benjamin Ward MUIR, Michaael C. BARDEN, Dennis Brian RYLATT, N. Joe MAEJI, Carmel Judith HILLYARD, Alain-Dominique Jean-Pierre GORSE, Raisa Leonidovna MONTEIRO
  • Patent number: 8168445
    Abstract: A method of immobilizing a target molecule on a substrate, which comprises exposing the target molecule to the substrate in the presence of a metal complex, wherein the target molecule is an unmodified target molecule, and wherein the metal complex is selected to provide a stable binding interaction between the target molecule and the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Bio-Layer Pty Limited
    Inventors: Benjamin Ward Muir, Michael C. Barden, Dennis Brian Rylatt, N. Joe Maeji, Carmel Judith Hillyard, Alain-Dominique Jean-Pierre Gorse, Raisa Leonidovna Monteiro
  • Publication number: 20100111417
    Abstract: Two-dimensional (2D) video is converted into multi-view video. The 2D video is segmented to generate a temporally consistent segmented 2D video which is made up of a sequence of segmented frames. The multi-view video is generated by employing user-guided operations to generate depth assignments for the segments associated with user-assigned regions of the segmented frames, where a user-assigned region is formed from a group of contiguous segments selected by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Benjamin Ward, Sing Bing Kang, Eric Bennett
  • Publication number: 20090209049
    Abstract: A method of immobilising a target molecule on a substrate, which comprises exposing the target molecule to the substrate in the presence of a metal complex, wherein the target molecule is an unmodified target molecule, and wherein the metal complex is selected to provide a stable binding interaction between the target molecule and the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2005
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: BIO-LAYER PTY LTD
    Inventors: Benjamin Ward Muir, Michael C. Barden, Dennis Brian Rylatt, N. Joe Maeji, Carmel Judith Hillyard, Alain-Dominique Jean-Pierre Gorse, Raisa Leonidona Monteiro
  • Publication number: 20080318223
    Abstract: Large deletions have been identified in the BRCA1 gene in patients. The large deletions predispose the patients to breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Thus, methods for detecting the genetic variants are provided which can be used in detecting a predisposition to cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: Myriad Genetics, Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Scholl, Brant C. Hendrickson, Benjamin Ward, Dmitry Pruss