Patents by Inventor Brian A. CLARK
Brian A. CLARK 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: 20210194116Abstract: Antennas, systems and methods may be implemented using a feed network with optional balanced to unbalanced conductor (balun) structure printed on one or more varying surfaces (e.g., sides, faces, etc.) of antenna substrates of various shapes including, but not limited to, flat, cylindrical, hemispherical and conical-shaped antenna substrates. Both antenna element/s and feed network/s may be printed onto one or more varying surfaces of a single common antenna substrate, such as printed onto both interior and exterior surfaces of the same hollow antenna substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2019Publication date: June 24, 2021Inventors: Joel B. Gorman, Brian Clark
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Publication number: 20210107845Abstract: The disclosure relates to a composting device including a housing defining an interior with an access opening providing access to the interior, a composter bin located within the interior and in communication with the access opening, and a cover slidably mounted to the housing and slidable along a sliding path between opened and closed conditions to selectively open and close the access opening. A seal assembly comprising a seal depending from one of the cover or the housing and a sealing surface provided on the other of the cover or housing about the access opening. The seal arranged such that a space between the seal and the sealing surface decreases as the cover is slid from the opened to the closed condition, and the seal abuts and compresses against the sealing surface in the closed condition to seal the cover relative to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Abhishek Buzruk, Christopher C. Wilcox, Brian Clark
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Patent number: 10906847Abstract: The disclosure relates to a composting device including a housing defining an interior with an access opening providing access to the interior, a composter bin located within the interior and in communication with the access opening, and a cover slidably mounted to the housing and slidable along a sliding path between opened and closed conditions to selectively open and close the access opening. An angled seal assembly is provided on the cover and housing. Both a sealing surface and a seal are angled relative to a sliding path such that the space between the seal and the sealing surface decreases as the cover is slid from the opened to the closed condition.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2018Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Abhishek Buzruk, Christopher C. Wilcox, Brian Clark
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Publication number: 20200278824Abstract: A multi-core audio processor includes a data protocol interface configured to receive a stream of audio data, a plurality of data processing cores including a single sample processing core and a block data processing core, an audio fabric block configured to route samples of the stream between the data protocol interface and the plurality of data processing cores. The single sample processing core includes an execution unit configured to execute one or more low latency instructions for performing computations for the samples.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2018Publication date: September 3, 2020Applicant: KNOWLES ELECTRONICS, LLCInventors: Leonardo RUB, Brian CLARK
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Patent number: 10423943Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for generating a set of recommended media works based on an identified seed media work. The seed media work is used to identify a set of co-occurring media works, which are defined as media works that have been intentionally interacted with within a predetermined time window as the seed media work by a single user. After the co-occurrence set is created, it is ranked and filtered. Media works identified in the co-occurrence set may then be selected based on their ranking.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2016Date of Patent: September 24, 2019Assignee: RHAPSODY INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Darryl William Wood, Kenneth Wendell Murphy, Brian Clark Ringer, Eric David Knutson, Heng Cao, Nicholas Robert Soman, Peter Ira Aeschliman
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Publication number: 20190223839Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to imaging a body part using sounds. In embodiments, a system comprises a motion sensor and a processing device communicatively coupled to the motion sensor. The motion sensor is configured to sense an acceleration wave produced by a sound emitted by a source and generate acceleration measurements in response to sensing the acceleration wave, wherein the source is associated with the body part of a subject. The processing device is configured to receive the acceleration measurements and determine a location of the source using a location of the motion sensor and the acceleration measurements. In addition, the processing device is configured to image the body part of the subject using the determined location of the source and the acceleration measurements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Jonathan B. Shute, Pramodsingh H. Thakur, Bin Mi, Brian A. Clark, Qi An, Ramesh Wariar, Krzysztof Z. Siejko
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Patent number: 10311395Abstract: An inventory data management system manages information related to items, such as implants, used during a medical procedure. The inventory data management system includes multiple sensing devices for reading set identification information from a container in which the set of items is disposed. The sensing devices are connected to a communication network and are placed in multiple locations, where each location is associated with a particular status of the set of items. The system also includes an inventory management computer that executes an inventory management application for receiving the set identification information from the communication network, and associating the set identification information with set status information based on the location of the sensing device that read the set identification information. An item inventory database stores the set identification information in association with the set status information.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.Inventors: Brian Clark DeBusk, Angela Michelle Sewell, John Garner Jacobs, Rex Alan Hurd, Elizabeth Ann White, Jeffrey Dennis Griffith, Samuel Joseph Elijah Fox
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Publication number: 20180334412Abstract: The disclosure relates to a composting device including a housing defining an interior with an access opening providing access to the interior, a composter bin located within the interior and in communication with the access opening, and a cover slidably mounted to the housing and slidable along a sliding path between opened and closed conditions to selectively open and close the access opening. An angled seal assembly is provided on the cover and housing. Both a sealing surface and a seal are angled relative to a sliding path such that the space between the seal and the sealing surface decreases as the cover is slid from the opened to the closed condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2018Publication date: November 22, 2018Inventors: Abhishek Buzruk, Christopher C. Wilcox, Brian Clark
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Patent number: 10113414Abstract: Methods for drilling a second well in a spatial relationship to a first well include positioning a magnetic field source in a first well or borehole and deploying at least two magnetometers in a second well or borehole. The magnetometers are separated by a known distance and each measure the magnetic field created by the magnetic field source that is located in the first borehole. The magnetic field measurements are used to calculate the locations of the two magnetometers with respect to the magnetic field source. The two locations define the axis of the second borehole with respect to the magnetic field source in the first borehole.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2009Date of Patent: October 30, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventors: Brian Clark, Jan Stefan Morley
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Patent number: 10047018Abstract: The disclosure relates to a composting device including a housing defining an interior with an access opening providing access to the interior, a composter bin located within the interior and in communication with the access opening, and a cover slidably mounted to the housing and slidable along a sliding path between opened and closed conditions to selectively open and close the access opening. An angled seal assembly is provided on the cover and housing. Both a sealing surface and a seal are angled relative to a sliding path such that the space between the seal and the sealing surface decreases as the cover is slid from the opened to the closed condition.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Whirlpool CorporationInventors: Abhishek Buzruk, Christopher C. Wilcox, Brian Clark
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Patent number: 9953634Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for passive training for automatic speech recognition. An example method includes utilizing a first, speaker-independent model to detect a spoken keyword or a key phrase in spoken utterances. While utilizing the first model, a second model is passively trained to detect the spoken keyword or the key phrase in the spoken utterances using at least partially the spoken utterances. The second, speaker dependent model may utilize deep neural network (DNN) or convolutional neural network (CNN) techniques. In response to completion of the training, a switch is made from utilizing the first model to utilizing the second model to detect the spoken keyword or the key phrase in spoken utterances. While utilizing the second model, parameters associated therewith are updated using the spoken utterances in response to detecting the keyword or the key phrase in the spoken utterances. User authentication functionality may be provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2014Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLCInventors: David Pearce, Brian Clark
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Patent number: 9890629Abstract: A method of locating a conductive target from a wellbore includes generating a current flowing across an insulated gap in a downhole tool positioned in the wellbore, measuring an azimuthal magnetic field with at least one external magnetometer located proximate the exterior of the downhole tool, measuring a secondary magnetic field using a magnetometer disposed inside the downhole tool, computing at least one of a direction and a distance to the conductive target.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2009Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATIONInventor: Brian Clark
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Patent number: 9894810Abstract: In one example, a data center may be built in modular components that may be pre-manufactured and separately deployable. Each modular component may provide functionality such as server capacity, cooling capacity, fire protection, resistance to electrical failure. Some components may be added to the data center by connecting them to the center's utility spine, and others may be added by connecting them to other components. The spine itself may be a modular component, so that spine capacity can be expanded or contracted by adding or removing spine modules. The various components may implement functions that are part of standards for various levels of reliability for data centers. Thus, the reliability level that a data center meets may be increased or decreased to fit the circumstances by adding or removing components.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: David Thomas Gauthier, Scott Thomas Seaton, Allan Joseph Wenzel, Cheerei Cheng, Brian Clark Andersen, Daniel Gerard Costello, Christian L. Belady, Jens Conrad Housley, Brian Jon Mattson, Stephan W. Gilges, Kenneth Allen Lundgren
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Publication number: 20170260110Abstract: The disclosure relates to a composting device including a housing defining an interior with an access opening providing access to the interior, a composter bin located within the interior and in communication with the access opening, and a cover slidably mounted to the housing and slidable along a sliding path between opened and closed conditions to selectively open and close the access opening. An angled seal assembly is provided on the cover and housing. Both a sealing surface and a seal are angled relative to a sliding path such that the space between the seal and the sealing surface decreases as the cover is slid from the opened to the closed condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2016Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Abhishek Buzruk, Christopher C. Wilcox, Brian Clark
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Publication number: 20170161702Abstract: Provided herein are systems and methods for generating a set of recommended media works based on an identified seed media work. The seed media work is used to identify a set of co-occurring media works, which are defined as media works that have been intentionally interacted with within a predetermined time window as the seed media work by a single user. After the co-occurrence set is created, it is ranked and filtered. Media works identified in the co-occurrence set may then be selected based on their ranking.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2016Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Darryl William WOOD, Kenneth Wendell MURPHY, Brian Clark RINGER, Eric David KNUTSON, Heng CAO, Nicholas Robert SOMAN, Peter Ira AESCHLIMAN
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Patent number: 9569535Abstract: Interaction of a user with external data sources related to the research and analysis of terms and content for improved indexing by search engines may be provided. One or more elements of the content may be used to return an analysis of those elements to the user within the experience of a word processing application environment. Systems and methods also may be provided for determining the relative competition of a term or terms to quantitatively derive the number of pages within a corpus that may be actively engaged to improve the indexing of the pages by information retrieval systems, such as search engines. Systems and methods may be further provided for determining the relative ranking of a term or terms based on the frequency and placement of the term or terms within a structured page.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2013Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Rainmaker Digital LLCInventors: Sean Jackson, Brian Clark, Chris Thompson
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Publication number: 20160338229Abstract: In one example, a data center may be built in modular components that may be pre-manufactured and separately deployable. Each modular component may provide functionality such as server capacity, cooling capacity, fire protection, resistance to electrical failure. Some components may be added to the data center by connecting them to the center's utility spine, and others may be added by connecting them to other components. The spine itself may be a modular component, so that spine capacity can be expanded or contracted by adding or removing spine modules. The various components may implement functions that are part of standards for various levels of reliability for data centers. Thus, the reliability level that a data center meets may be increased or decreased to fit the circumstances by adding or removing components.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2016Publication date: November 17, 2016Inventors: David Thomas Gauthier, Scott Thomas Seaton, Allan Joseph Wenzel, Cheerei Cheng, Brian Clark Andersen, Daniel Gerard Costello, Christian L. Belady, Jens Conrad Housley, Brian Jon Mattson, Stephan W. Gilges, Kenneth Allen Lundgren
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Patent number: 9360581Abstract: A method for drilling a well includes applying a current across a drill collar that surrounds an internal magnetometer. The current travels across the drill collar and along one or more other current paths to return to the drill collar. The method also includes using the magnetometer to measure magnetic fields due to the current being applied across the drill collar and the current across one or more other current paths while the drill collar is disposed at a first angle of rotation and rotating the drill collar to a second angle of rotation. The method further includes measuring the magnetic fields using the internal magnetometer while the drill collar is disposed at the second angle of rotation and determining a relationship between the current across the drill collar and a portion of the magnetic fields due to the current across the drill collar measurable by the internal magnetometer.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Brian Clark, Mark E. Flaum, Jan Morley, Jaideva Goswami, Miguel F. Pabon
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Patent number: 9360580Abstract: A method and apparatus are provided for making directional measurements toward a formation of different resistivity that is proximate to the borehole, but which is not penetrated by the borehole. The methods and apparatus include the use of at least one insulated gap and at least one magnetometer positioned within a non-magnetic housing that is disposed within a non-magnetic tubular. An electric current is applied across the insulated gap, which results in current leaking into the surrounding formations. When a formation of contrasting resistivity is proximate to the logging apparatus, the magnetometer detects a secondary magnetic field due to the contrasting formation. The direction of the secondary magnetic field can be used to determine the direction to the contrasting formation. The magnitude of the secondary magnetic field can be used to determine the distance position to the contrasting formation.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Jaideva Goswami, Brian Clark, Betty Rong, Miguel F. Pabon, Jan S. Morley
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Patent number: D834992Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: B CLARK COMPANY INCInventor: Brian Clark