Patents by Inventor Brad Kell

Brad Kell 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: 20230325720
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Joshua DOBROWITSKY, Leon FORTIN, JR., Brent BLIVEN, Brad KELL
  • Publication number: 20230325811
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Brad KELL, Teymour S. EL-TAHRY, Mehul DESAI
  • Publication number: 20230316305
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Joshua DOBROWITSKY, Leon FORTIN, JR., Brent BLIVEN, Brad KELL
  • Publication number: 20230316357
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Andrew CARDNO, Jenna PARENTI, Teymour S. EL-TAHRY, Mehul DESAI, Brent BLIVEN, Brad KELL, Taylor CHARON
  • Publication number: 20230316075
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Andrew CARDNO, Jenna PARENTI, Teymour S. EL-TAHRY, Mehul DESAI, Brent BLIVEN, Brad KELL, Taylor CHARON
  • Publication number: 20230281618
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating a gaming engine and a smart contract system in a platform are provided. The gaming engine is programmed with a software development environment and an architecture that provides a set of gaming engine services with predefined tools for digital content developers to create a set of game engine generated environments. The smart contract system programmed with smart contract services associated with transactions that are based on electronically verifiable conditions. The integration platform is programmed with an execution framework that is common to the gaming engine and to the smart contract system to integrate the smart contract services with at least one of the gaming engine and the set of game engine generated environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles H. CELLA, Jenna PARENTI, Andrew CARDNO, Taylor CHARON, Teymour S. EL-TAHRY, Brent BLIVEN, Brad KELL
  • Publication number: 20230252776
    Abstract: A dynamic vision system for a robotic system includes an optical assembly including a lens containing a liquid. The lens is deformable to generate variable focus for the lens. The optical assembly is configured to capture optical data. A robotic system is configured to simulate human or animal species capabilities having a control system configured to adjust one or more optical parameters. The one or more optical parameters modify the variable focus of the lens while the optical assembly captures current optical data relating to the robotic system. A processing system is configured to train a machine learning model to recognize an object relating to the robotic system from training data generated from the optical data captured by the optical assembly. The optical data includes the current optical data relating to the robotic system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Andrew Cardno, Brent Bliven, Brad Kell, Sava Marinkovich, Kunal Sharma, Joshua Dobrowitsky
  • Publication number: 20230244981
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for executing a quantum computing task includes providing a quantum computing system. The computer-implemented method includes receiving a request, from a quantum computing client, to execute a quantum computing task via the quantum computing system. The computer-implemented method includes executing the requested quantum computing task via the quantum computing system. The executing the requested quantum computing task includes trapping a set of ions. The computer-implemented method includes returning a response related to the executed quantum computing task to the quantum computing client.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Andrew Cardno, Brad Kell
  • Publication number: 20230219229
    Abstract: A method of configuring robot fleets with additive manufacturing capabilities includes receiving a request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and determining a job definition data structure based on the request. The job definition data structure defines a set of tasks to be performed in furtherance of the job. The method includes determining a provisioning configuration for each additive manufacturing system based on the task to which the additive manufacturing system is assigned, the set of 3D printing requirements, the printing instructions, and the status of the additive manufacturing system. The method includes provisioning the additive manufacturing system based on the provisioning configuration and a set of additive manufacturing system provisioning rules that are accessible to an intelligence layer to ensure that provisioned systems comply with the provisioning rules. The method includes deploying the robotic fleet based on the robotic fleet configuration data structure to perform the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Brad Kell, Teymour S. El-Tahry, Andrew Cardno, Leon Fortin, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230219228
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and defining a set of tasks that are to be performed in performance of the job. The method includes assigning robots selected from a robot inventory to the set of tasks based on a robot inventory data structure that indicates, for each robot, a status and set of baseline features. The robots include one or more assigned multi-purpose robots that can be configured for different tasks and different environments. The method includes determining a configuration for each assigned robot based on the respective task that is assigned and a components inventory. The components inventory indicates multiple components and, for each component, a status and a set of extended capabilities. The method includes configuring the one or more assigned multi-purpose robots based on the respective configurations. The method includes deploying the robotic fleet to perform the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Howard Cella, Brad Kell, Teymour S. El-Tahry, Andrew Cardno, Leon Fortin, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230214925
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Joshua DOBROWITSKY, Leon FORTIN, JR., Brent BLIVEN, Brad KELL
  • Publication number: 20230206329
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Brad KELL, Mehul DESAI, Teymour EL-TAHRY
  • Publication number: 20230206261
    Abstract: Systems and methods for transaction platforms include various systems interacting with each other and transacting in various ways. A method for configuring and launching a marketplace includes: identifying, by a processing system having one or more processors, an opportunity to facilitate configuration of a new marketplace; receiving marketplace opportunity data, wherein the marketplace opportunity data includes information related to a set of assets of one or more types; determining configuration parameters to be implemented in the new marketplace; determining the feasibility of implementing the configuration parameters in the new marketplace; determining data resources to support the new marketplace; determining an architecture of the new marketplace; determining the configuration of the data resources in a data model for the marketplace; configuring a marketplace object; connecting selected data resources to populate the marketplace object; and launching the new marketplace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles Howard CELLA, Brad KELL, Mehul DESAI, Teymour EL-TAHRY
  • Publication number: 20230176557
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for fault diagnosis in an industrial environment generally includes processing the plurality of sensor data values to determine a recognized pattern therefrom; retrieving at least one industrial-environment digital twin corresponding to the industrial environment, the at least one industrial-environment digital twin comprising a plurality of component digital twins, with each of the plurality of component digital twins corresponding to one of the plurality of components in the industrial environment, and wherein the at least one industrial-environment digital twin and the plurality of component digital twins are visual digital twins that are configured to be rendered in a visual manner; and rendering the at least one industrial-environment digital twin and the at least one respective component digital twin corresponding to the particular component in the client application in response to the received request and based on the operational condition of the particular component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE IOT PORTFOLIO 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles H. CELLA, Gerald William DUFFY, Jr., Jeffrey P. MCGUCKIN, Andrew CARDNO, Sava MARINKOVICH, Brent BLIVEN, Joshua DOBROWITSKY, Kunal SHARMA, Brad KELL
  • Publication number: 20230176550
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for fault diagnosis in an industrial environment generally includes processing the plurality of sensor data values to determine a recognized pattern therefrom; retrieving at least one industrial-environment digital twin corresponding to the industrial environment, the at least one industrial-environment digital twin comprising a plurality of component digital twins, with each of the plurality of component digital twins corresponding to one of the plurality of components in the industrial environment, and wherein the at least one industrial-environment digital twin and the plurality of component digital twins are visual digital twins that are configured to be rendered in a visual manner; and rendering the at least one industrial-environment digital twin and the at least one respective component digital twin corresponding to the particular component in the client application in response to the received request and based on the operational condition of the particular component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE IOT PORTFOLIO 2016, LLC
    Inventors: Charles H. CELLA, Gerald William DUFFY, JR., Jeffrey P. MCGUCKIN, Andrew CARDNO, Sava MARINKOVICH, Brent BLIVEN, Joshua DOBROWITSKY, Kunal SHARMA, Brad KELL
  • Publication number: 20230173395
    Abstract: Systems and methods for integrating a gaming engine and a smart contract system in a platform are provided. The gaming engine is programmed with a software development environment and an architecture that provides a set of gaming engine services with predefined tools for digital content developers to create a set of game engine generated environments. The smart contract system programmed with smart contract services associated with transactions that are based on electronically verifiable conditions. The integration platform is programmed with an execution framework that is common to the gaming engine and to the smart contract system to integrate the smart contract services with at least one of the gaming engine and the set of game engine generated environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: STRONG FORCE TX PORTFOLIO 2018, LLC
    Inventors: Charles H. CELLA, Teymour S. EL-TAHRY, Jenna PARENTI, Andrew CARDNO, Taylor CHARON, Brent BLIVEN, Brad KELL
  • Publication number: 20230132449
    Abstract: A method includes receiving a request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and defining a set of tasks that are to be performed in performance of the job. The method includes assigning robots selected from a robot inventory to the set of tasks based on a robot inventory data structure that indicates, for each robot, a status and set of baseline features. The robots include one or more assigned multi-purpose robots that can be configured for different tasks and different environments. The method includes determining a configuration for each assigned robot based on the respective task that is assigned and a components inventory. The components inventory indicates multiple components and, for each component, a status and a set of extended capabilities. The method includes configuring the one or more assigned multi-purpose robots based on the respective configurations. The method includes deploying the robotic fleet to perform the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Charles H. Cella, Brad Kell, Teymour S. El-Tahry, Andrew Cardno, Leon Fortin, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230120318
    Abstract: A dynamic vision system for robot fleet management includes an optical assembly including a lens containing a liquid. The lens is deformable to generate variable focus for the lens. The optical assembly is configured to capture optical data. The dynamic vision system includes a robot fleet management platform having a control system configured to adjust one or more optical parameters. The one or more optical parameters modify the variable focus of the lens while the optical assembly captures current optical data relating to a robotic fleet. The dynamic vision system includes a processing system configured to train a machine learning model to recognize an object relating to the robotic fleet using training data generated from the optical data captured by the optical assembly. The optical data includes the current optical data relating to the robotic fleet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Sava Marinkovich, Charles H. Cella, Brent Bliven, Joshua Dobrowitsky, Andrew Cardno, Kunal Sharma, Brad Kell
  • Publication number: 20230111429
    Abstract: A robotic fleet platform for configuring robot fleets with additive manufacturing capabilities includes a fleet resources data store that maintains a fleet resource inventory indicating additive manufacturing systems that can be provisioned with fleet resources and, for each additive manufacturing system, a set of 3D printing requirements, printing instructions that define configuring an on-demand production system for 3D printing, and a status of the additive manufacturing system. The platform includes additive manufacturing system provisioning rules that are accessible to an intelligence layer to ensure that provisioned additive manufacturing systems comply with the provisioning rules. The platform receives a request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and determine a job definition data structure based on the request. The job definition data structure defines a set of tasks for the job. The platform deploys the robotic fleet based on the robotic fleet configuration data structure to perform the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Charles H. Cella, Brad Kell, Teymour S. El-Tahry, Andrew Cardno, Leon Fortin, JR.
  • Publication number: 20230114997
    Abstract: A method of provisioning robotic fleet resources includes receiving a request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and determining a job definition data structure based on the request. The job definition data structure defines a set of tasks that are to be performed in performance of the job. The method includes determining a robotic fleet configuration data structure corresponding to the job based on the set of tasks and a fleet resource inventory that indicates fleet resources. The method includes determining a respective provisioning configuration for each respective fleet resource. The method includes provisioning the respective fleet resource based on the respective provisioning configuration and a set of resource provisioning rules that are accessible to an intelligence layer to ensure that provisioned resources comply with the provisioning rules. The method includes deploying the robotic fleet to perform the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Charles H. Cella, Brad Kell, Teymour S. El-Tahry, Andrew Cardno, Leon Fortin, JR.