Patents by Inventor Brandon Stephens
Brandon Stephens 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).
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Publication number: 20240139599Abstract: A tracking system includes a host station and a sensor station. The sensor station includes transmitters transmitting an IR synchronous signal and IR laser signal. The system includes a head-mounted display and a tracked object, which has a plurality of object sensors. The tracked object determines its location and orientation relative to the sensor station based on the IR signals. The tracked object transmits the location and orientation to the host station. The host station determines an actual flight path of the tracked object during an object tracking event; generates a predicted flight path of the tracked object; and renders an image of a virtual object on a display of the head-mounted display. The image includes a virtual object corresponding to the tracked object, wherein the image is rendered in a VR environment such that the virtual object moves along the actual flight path and the predicted flight path.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Joel Stephens, Rohit Chaube, Brandon Fuhr, Greg Elliott
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Patent number: 11920886Abstract: A weapon is capable of firing cased telescoped (CT) ammunition rounds. The weapon includes a barrel, a chamber member that defines a chamber configured to hold a CT round for firing from the weapon, a non-rotating carrier body, and linkage. The linkage is constructed and arranged to move the chamber member (i) from a firing position in which the chamber member is aligned with the barrel for firing the CT round to an ejection/loading position in which the chamber member is not aligned with the barrel for ejecting a spent CT round and receiving a next CT round in response to the non-rotating carrier body moving away from the barrel, and (ii) from the ejection/loading position to the firing position in response to the non-rotating carrier body moving toward the barrel.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Textron Systems CorporationInventors: Joshua Stephen Ruck, Brandon Scott Recchia, Bradford Timothy Jones, Benjamin Tyler Cole, Petro Romanovych Khoma, Mark Timothy Fellows, Madeline Claire Spurlock
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Patent number: 11039281Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate proximity detection and location tracking. An example method includes receiving messages collected by a badge in an environment, the messages including signal strength and a timestamp. The example method also includes assigning a location in the environment to the badge based on a first subset of the messages. The example method also includes identifying an asset in a second subset of the messages. The example method also includes updating a current location associated with the asset based on a relative proximity of the asset to the badge, wherein the current location corresponds to a first time and the updated location corresponds to a second time, and wherein a change in location between the current location and the updated location indicates movement of the asset in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brandon Stephen Good, Charles Burton Theurer, Shaopeng Liu, Robert Lee Wallace
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Patent number: 10990104Abstract: A sensor calibration system includes a plurality of sensors and a user interface configured to receive user-provided locations of at least two sensors of the plurality of sensors. The sensor calibration system further includes a motorized apparatus including a drive system, at least one detector, and a localization system. The sensor calibration system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the user interface and the motorized apparatus. The controller is configured to determine a whether each of at least two sensors is a key sensor based on the user-provided locations. The controller is configured to determine a path for the motorized apparatus based on the user-provided locations. The controller is further configured to determine a position of each sensor based on the location of the motorized apparatus when each sensor is detected by the at least one detector.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Huan Tan, Todd William Danko, Brandon Stephen Good, Charles Burton Theurer
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Patent number: 10964426Abstract: Certain examples provide systems and methods to monitor and control hospital operational systems based on occupancy data and medical orders. An example healthcare workflow management and reasoning system includes a workflow engine including a first particularly programmed processor to monitor one or more medical orders from one or more hospital information systems to identify a condition indicating that a first patient in a first room is ready for a clinical activity such as discharge. The example healthcare workflow management and reasoning system includes a sensing component including a second processor to gather occupancy data regarding the first patient in the first room and transmit the occupancy data to the workflow engine. The example workflow engine controls one or more hospital operational systems to trigger cleaning of the first room, lighting settings for the first room, and transportation of a second patient to the first room based on occupancy data from the sensing component.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Christopher Donald Johnson, Brandon Stephen Good, Andrew Phelps Day, David S. Toledano, Yang Zhao, Jeffrey Richardson Terry
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Publication number: 20210025519Abstract: A plug valve having a modular construction. The valve has a solid, single-piece body with two opposed openings interrupted by an internal chamber. The chamber houses a rotatable plug which selectively restricts or allows flow from one of the two openings to the other. Inserts partially surround the plug and have openings that corresponds to openings in the valve body and the plug. A seat with an end surface corresponding to each insert extends partially within each opening. A bolted-on flange extends from each side of the valve and has an internally placed sleeve which defines the flow path through the valve. The sleeve may seal against the seat at one of its ends. A non-planar groove may be formed in the end surface of each seat to seal the opening against each insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Mark S. Nowell, Micheal Cole Thomas, Christopher Todd Barnett, Brandon Stephen Nowell
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Publication number: 20200225674Abstract: A sensor calibration system includes a plurality of sensors and a user interface configured to receive user-provided locations of at least two sensors of the plurality of sensors. The sensor calibration system further includes a motorized apparatus including a drive system, at least one detector, and a localization system. The sensor calibration system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the user interface and the motorized apparatus. The controller is configured to determine a whether each of at least two sensors is a key sensor based on the user-provided locations. The controller is configured to determine a path for the motorized apparatus based on the user-provided locations. The controller is further configured to determine a position of each sensor based on the location of the motorized apparatus when each sensor is detected by the at least one detector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2019Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Huan Tan, Todd William Danko, Brandon Stephen Good, Charles Burton Theurer
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Publication number: 20200228928Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate proximity detection and location tracking. An example method includes receiving messages collected by a badge in an environment, the messages including signal strength and a timestamp. The example method also includes assigning a location in the environment to the badge based on a first subset of the messages. The example method also includes identifying an asset in a second subset of the messages. The example method also includes updating a current location associated with the asset based on a relative proximity of the asset to the badge, wherein the current location corresponds to a first time and the updated location corresponds to a second time, and wherein a change in location between the current location and the updated location indicates movement of the asset in the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2020Publication date: July 16, 2020Inventors: Brandon Stephen Good, Charles Burton Theurer, Shaopeng Liu, Robert Lee Wallace
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Patent number: 10542382Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate proximity detection and location tracking. An example method includes receiving messages collected by a badge in an environment, the messages including signal strength and a timestamp. The example method also includes assigning a location in the environment to the badge based on a first subset of the messages. The example method also includes identifying an asset in a second subset of the messages. The example method also includes updating a current location associated with the asset based on a relative proximity of the asset to the badge, wherein the current location corresponds to a first time and the updated location corresponds to a second time, and wherein a change in location between the current location and the updated location indicates movement of the asset in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brandon Stephen Good, Charles Burton Theurer, Shaopeng Liu, Robert Lee Wallace
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Publication number: 20190386968Abstract: According to some embodiments, an edge device may receive, via a secure, distributed transaction ledger (e.g., associated with blockchain technology), information about a task contract published by a publisher device including an indication of a benefit and encryption information. The task contract might be associated with, for example, a compute transaction task and/or a physical task. The edge device may evaluate the received information in accordance with resources locally available at the edge device, and, responsive to said evaluation, transmit to the secure, distributed transaction ledger an indication of acceptance of the published task contract. According to some embodiments, the edge device may execute the published task contract, and, upon completion, arrange to receive the benefit associated with the published task contract.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2018Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Brandon Stephen GOOD, Willard Monten WISEMAN, Benjamin Edward BECKMANN, Li ZHANG
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Patent number: 10482998Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cell processing techniques. By way of example, a cell processing system may include a plurality of tracking devices coupled to a respective plurality of sample processing containers and storing sample identification information for a patient sample for use with sample processing devices configured to process the patient sample according to workflow steps of a processing protocol. A plurality of readers are configured to receive signals from the plurality of tracking devices. A controller may be coupled to the plurality of readers and configured to determine if the patient sample is processed according to the processing protocol based at least in part on the signals from the plurality of tracking devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Nichole Lea Wood, Lynn Ann DeRose, Brandon Stephen Good, Adam Joseph McCann, Hasan Imamus Saleheen
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Publication number: 20190346064Abstract: A plug valve having a modular construction. The valve has a solid, single-piece body with two opposed openings interrupted by an internal chamber. The chamber houses a rotatable plug which selectively restricts or allows flow from one of the two openings to the other. Inserts partially surround the plug and have openings that corresponds to openings in the valve body and the plug. A seat with an end surface corresponding to each insert extends partially within each opening. A bolted-on flange extends from each side of the valve and has an internally placed sleeve which defines the flow path through the valve. The sleeve may seal against the seat at one of its ends. A non-planar groove may be formed in the end surface of each seat to seal the opening against each insert.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Mark S. Nowell, Micheal Cole Thomas, Christopher Todd Barnett, Brandon Stephen Nowell
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Publication number: 20190082298Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate proximity detection and location tracking. An example method includes receiving messages collected by a badge in an environment, the messages including signal strength and a timestamp. The example method also includes assigning a location in the environment to the badge based on a first subset of the messages. The example method also includes identifying an asset in a second subset of the messages. The example method also includes updating a current location associated with the asset based on a relative proximity of the asset to the badge, wherein the current location corresponds to a first time and the updated location corresponds to a second time, and wherein a change in location between the current location and the updated location indicates movement of the asset in the environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Brandon Stephen Good, Charles Burton Theurer, Shaopeng Liu, Robert Lee Wallace
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Patent number: 10068116Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to facilitate proximity detection and location tracking. An example method includes receiving messages collected by a badge in an environment, the messages including signal strength and a timestamp. The example method also includes assigning a location in the environment to the badge based on a first subset of the messages. The example method also includes identifying an asset in a second subset of the messages. The example method also includes updating a current location associated with the asset based on a relative proximity of the asset to the badge, wherein the current location corresponds to a first time and the updated location corresponds to a second time, and wherein a change in location between the current location and the updated location indicates movement of the asset in the environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Brandon Stephen Good, Charles Burton Theurer, Shaopeng Liu, Robert Lee Wallace
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Patent number: 9788492Abstract: A system for controlling the aeration of a grain bin storage device. The system comprises a grain bin storage device, a ventilation fan, a variable fan drive motor, and a controller configured to receive user input and grain bin storage device parameters. The system controls operation of the ventilation fan at various speeds to maintain a desired volumetric flow rate per bushel of grain. The controller monitors the static pressure within the grain bin storage device and adjusts the speed of the ventilation fan based on an optimal static pressure derived from the user input and grain bin storage device parameters.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2011Date of Patent: October 17, 2017Assignee: CTB, Inc.Inventors: Brent J. Bloemendaal, Ross Alan Mielke, Brandon Stephen Mullen
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Patent number: 9704164Abstract: A system for validating hours of operation may include one or more computing devices and a memory. The one or more computing devices may receive hours of operation of a business for a day of a week and receive data items that are associated with a time of the day of the week, wherein the data items are also associated with the business being open or closed at the associated time of the day of the week. The one or more computing devices may determine, based at least in part on the data items, a likelihood that the hours of operation of the business for the day of the week are inaccurate. The one or more computing devices may provide to an electronic device associated with the business an indication that the hours of operation for the day of the week are likely inaccurate when the likelihood satisfies a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2013Date of Patent: July 11, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventor: Brandon Stephen Wuest
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Publication number: 20170193167Abstract: The present disclosure relates to cell processing techniques. By way of example, a cell processing system may include a plurality of tracking devices coupled to a respective plurality of sample processing containers and storing sample identification information for a patient sample for use with sample processing devices configured to process the patient sample according to workflow steps of a processing protocol. A plurality of readers are configured to receive signals from the plurality of tracking devices. A controller may be coupled to the plurality of readers and configured to determine if the patient sample is processed according to the processing protocol based at least in part on the signals from the plurality of tracking devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2015Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Nichole Lea Wood, Lynn Ann DeRose, Brandon Stephen Good, Adam Joseph McCann, Hasan Imamus Saleheen
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Patent number: D896086Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbHInventors: John Brandon Stephens, Daniel Peter Sterling, Glenn W Kaye
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Patent number: D896089Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbHInventors: John Brandon Stephens, Daniel Peter Sterling, Glenn W Kaye
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Patent number: D896090Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Henkel IP & Holding GmbHInventors: John Brandon Stephens, Daniel Peter Sterling, Glenn W Kaye