Patents by Inventor Brian Chase

Brian Chase 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: 20240068356
    Abstract: A computing system, method, and computer-readable medium includes a fatigue tracking service that assists with monitoring fatigue damage in a subsea wellhead system. The fatigue tracking service uses historical environmental data to determine a fatigue damage rate. The fatigue tracking service determines a fatigue allowance based upon the fatigue damage rate, a number of days assigned to a well operation, and a total allowable fatigue damage. The fatigue tracking service compares the fatigue allowance to measurements providing an accumulated fatigue damage to facilitate the monitoring of fatigue damage in the subsea wellhead system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Wangming Lu, William Penaloza, Brian Koons, Thomas Chase
  • Publication number: 20240007234
    Abstract: Disclosed is die-to-die (D2D) interconnect of a component die. In an aspect, the D2D interconnect includes a transmit selection circuit, a plurality of transmit gearboxes (Tx GBXs), and a plurality of transmit D2D physical layer interfaces. The transmit selection circuit may be configured to receive at least two traffic channels and to output a data stream of at least one traffic channel to the plurality of Tx GBXs. Each of a subset of Tx GBXs may be configured to receive at least a portion of the data stream from the transmit selection circuit and to output at least the portion of the data stream to a transmit D2D physical layer interface to which the Tx GBX is communicatively coupled. Each transmit D2D physical layer interface coupled to the subset of Tx GBXs may be configured to output at least the portion of the data stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ezra HARRINGTON, Stephan JOURDAN, Brian CHASE
  • Patent number: 11832607
    Abstract: Some embodiments may be of spearfishing apparatus fitted with at least one magnet configured to repel sharks away from the spearfishing apparatus. The spearfishing apparatus may be one or more of: a spearfishing shaft, a spearfishing tip, and/or a spearfishing gun. Such magnets may be electromagnets powered by batteries in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Brian Chase Watson
  • Patent number: 11593004
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for optimized compute resource addition and removal in a distributed storage platform. In a case of a newly added compute resource being connected to a storage subsystem shared by compute resources in the distributed storage platform, the distributed storage platform formulates a redistribution plan to redistribute a subset of a global address space of the storage subsystem to a newly added logical volume in the storage subsystem. In a case of a removed compute resource being disconnected from the storage subsystem, the distributed storage platform formulates a redistribution plan to redistribute respective logical blocks in a logical volume for the removed compute resource to respective remaining logical volumes for respective remaining compute resources in the distributed storage platform. The distributed storage platform executes the redistribution plan to reassign data block ownerships on one or more physical memory devices in the storage subsystem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sergio Reyes, Brian Chase Twichell
  • Publication number: 20230051684
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods for optimized compute resource addition and removal in a distributed storage platform. In a case of a newly added compute resource being connected to a storage subsystem shared by compute resources in the distributed storage platform, the distributed storage platform formulates a redistribution plan to redistribute a subset of a global address space of the storage subsystem to a newly added logical volume in the storage subsystem. In a case of a removed compute resource being disconnected from the storage subsystem, the distributed storage platform formulates a redistribution plan to redistribute respective logical blocks in a logical volume for the removed compute resource to respective remaining logical volumes for respective remaining compute resources in the distributed storage platform. The distributed storage platform executes the redistribution plan to reassign data block ownerships on one or more physical memory devices in the storage subsystem.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Sergio Reyes, Brian Chase Twichell
  • Publication number: 20220318337
    Abstract: An approach for classifying ordered data. The approach can calculate a cumulative sum (CUSUM) chart for an ordered dataset and determine a peak and valley for the CUSUM chart. The approach can plot three rays, a first ray between the beginning of the CUSUM chart and the peak/valley, a second ray between select the peak/valley and the peak/valley and a third ray between the peak/valley and the end of the CUSUM chart. The approach can calculate three angles formed by the three rays and an x-axis associated with the CUSUM chart. It should be noted that the sign of the angle matches the sign of the slope of the ray. The approach can translate the three angles to three symbols based on a translation table associated with an ordered character set and generate a classification based on concatenating the three symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Sergio Reyes, Samuel Kipling Ingram, Brian Chase Twichell, Yijie Zhang
  • Publication number: 20220030848
    Abstract: Some embodiments may be of spearfishing apparatus fitted with at least one magnet configured to repel sharks away from the spearfishing apparatus. The spearfishing apparatus may be one or more of: a spearfishing shaft, a spearfishing tip, and/or a spearfishing gun. Such magnets may be electromagnets powered by batteries in some embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventor: Brian Chase Watson
  • Patent number: 11076590
    Abstract: Some embodiments may be of spearfishing apparatus fitted with at least one magnet configured to repel sharks away from the spearfishing apparatus. The spearfishing apparatus may be one or more of: a spearfishing shaft, a spearfishing tip, and/or a spearfishing gun. Some embodiments may be of personal floatation devices (PFDs) fitted with at least one magnet configured to repel sharks away from the PFDs. Some PFDs may be fitted with a tethered drop-down magnetic apparatus to protect lower extremities of a wearer of such PFDs. Such magnets may be electromagnets powered by batteries in some embodiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Inventor: Brian Chase Watson
  • Publication number: 20210029985
    Abstract: Some embodiments may be of spearfishing apparatus fitted with at least one magnet configured to repel sharks away from the spearfishing apparatus. The spearfishing apparatus may be one or more of: a spearfishing shaft, a spearfishing tip, and/or a spearfishing gun. Some embodiments may be of personal floatation devices (PFDs) fitted with at least one magnet configured to repel sharks away from the PFDs. Some PFDs may be fitted with a tethered drop-down magnetic apparatus to protect lower extremities of a wearer of such PFDs. Such magnets may be electromagnets powered by batteries in some embodiments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventor: Brian Chase Watson
  • Patent number: 6442664
    Abstract: A memory translation system which includes an “address cache” (addrcache). This address cache contains translation information of recently referenced addresses, and is accessed before the conventional two-level address translation process. If a hit is made in the address cache, which does not require protection checking, the conventional address translation process is bypassed. The address cache stores its memory addresses according to the protection status of each address, so that protection checking is not performed as a separate step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ann Marie Maynard, Brian Chase Twichell
  • Patent number: 5238131
    Abstract: A plastic molded cap made in two parts to have a cap body, and a closing disc. Making a cap in two parts conserves material and permits fine molding detail substantially without defects to be placed at the proximal end of the cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1993
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventor: Brian Chase
  • Patent number: 5234132
    Abstract: Apparatus for dispensing a cosmetic or the like from a container having a pump with an operating stem with a free end extending above the container, through which material is dispensed from the container by movement of the stem, is formed of a shroud member and an actuator. The shroud member is mounted on the container with the operating stem extending into its tubular outer wall and the actuator is mounted in the shroud with a cylindrical outer surface in slidable engagement with the inner surface of the shroud tubular outer wall and engageable with the operating stem to pump material from the container through a conduit in the actuator to an outlet disposed above an inwardly extending recess in the shroud member tubular outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1993
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: George Bachand, Brian Chase, Cleve A. Graham, Allan B. Johnson