Patents by Inventor Brian Hall

Brian Hall 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: 20240125467
    Abstract: A portable steam generator includes a power source in a housing, a water tank in the housing, a heating element in the housing and configured to heat water in the water tank to produce steam using power from the power source, and a track on the housing configured to support the portable steam generator in an installation position and allow manual removal from the installation position. A pre-plumbed integrated bathroom panel includes a plumbing inlet configured to provide water to the panel, a water outlet connected to the plumbing inlet, a steam outlet connected to the plumbing inlet and a heating element, a sanitizing outlet connected to the plumbing inlet and an additive generator, valves for directing water from the plumbing inlet to the at least one water outlet, the at least one steam outlet, and the at least one sanitizing outlet, and a controller configured to operate at least the plurality of valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Huston Adam Sprang, Peter Kajuch, Robert Quasius, Aaron Mitchell, James Scott Giefer, Gary Clarke, Jessica Schroeder, Maria Evraets, Amber LaVerne Hall Nelson, Yutong Wu, Evan See-Leet Lee, Thomas Brian Sindelar, Crystal Marie Riste, Ryan Leichty, Zachary Paul Hillesland
  • Patent number: 11947513
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is stored as discrete events time stamps. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time stamp, a keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Baum, R. David Carasso, Robin Kumar Das, Rory Greene, Bradley Hall, Nicholas Christian Mealy, Brian Philip Murphy, Stephen Phillip Sorkin, Andre David Stechert, Erik M. Swan
  • Patent number: 11915467
    Abstract: Example solutions provide saliency for anchor-based object detection, and include: performing, with an object detector, a first object detection process on an image, wherein the first object detection process employs a plurality of anchor boxes; identifying an object detection result for the image; determining, from among the plurality of anchor boxes, a first anchor box associated with the object detection result; and while limiting the object detector to the first anchor box, generating, with the object detector, a saliency map for the image. In some examples, the saliency map is used for selecting further training data for the object detector. In some examples, the saliency map comprises a gradient-based saliency map, and is used for auditing or debugging the object detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventor: James Brian Hall
  • Publication number: 20240054754
    Abstract: Example solutions provide saliency for anchor-based object detection, and include: performing, with an object detector, a first object detection process on an image, wherein the first object detection process employs a plurality of anchor boxes; identifying an object detection result for the image; determining, from among the plurality of anchor boxes, a first anchor box associated with the object detection result; and while limiting the object detector to the first anchor box, generating, with the object detector, a saliency map for the image. In some examples, the saliency map is used for selecting further training data for the object detector. In some examples, the saliency map comprises a gradient-based saliency map, and is used for auditing or debugging the object detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventor: James Brian HALL
  • Publication number: 20230294609
    Abstract: A modular support frame for a vehicle comprising at least two frame modules, wherein the at least two frame modules are configured to be attachable to one another at more than one location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Studio Vans Ltd
    Inventor: Robert Brian Hall
  • Patent number: 11712516
    Abstract: A substance delivery device is disclosed. The substance delivery device includes a lever that includes a drive arm that is rotatable about a pivot. The substance delivery device also includes a pump that has a deformable chamber. The deformable chamber is configured to rotate the drive arm about the pivot towards a container so as to deform the container to drive a fluid substance from the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: David Frank Bolognia, Brian Hall
  • Patent number: 11587839
    Abstract: A device is disclosed. The device includes a housing that defines a chamber. The chamber is to be at least partially filled with an electrolyte material. The device also includes a plurality of electrodes that are at least partially embedded in the housing and exposed to the chamber. The device further includes an access port that provides fluid communication between an interior of the housing and the outside environs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: David Frank Bolognia, Brian Hall
  • Patent number: 11296005
    Abstract: An integrated device package is disclosed. The integrated device package can include a substrate that has an upper side and a lower side opposite the upper side. The integrated device package can include an integrated device die that is mounted to the lower side of the substrate. The integrated device die has a first side facing the lower side of the substrate and a second side opposite the first side. The package can include a molding material in which the integrated device die is at least partially embedded. The package can include a thermally conductive element coupled to the second side of the integrated device die. At least a portion of the thermally conductive element can be exposed through the molding material. The thermally conductive element can be a heat sink. The package can include an interconnect that is configured to provide an external connection. The interconnect extends at least partially through the molding material from the lower side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Hall, David Frank Bolognia
  • Patent number: 11246530
    Abstract: A respiratory sensor system provides the ability to determine a respiration rate. The respiratory sensor system may include a respiratory sensor and a software solution, where the software solution determines respiration rate from the respiratory sensor (e.g., microphone) located on the bridge of the user's nose. The respiratory sensor may be placed on or near the nose, such as a microphone located in the nosepiece of a pair of glasses. Due to the placement of the microphone and the respiration detection system design, the wearer respiration rate can be determined reliably even with ambient noise and movement. This makes the respiration rate calculation accessible and reliable, both for everyday wear and for extreme situations such as sports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stephanie Moyerman, James Brian Hall, Karolina Karli Cengija, Michael R Rosen, Melissa Ortiz, Naghma Anwar, Donald L Gross
  • Publication number: 20210322681
    Abstract: A substance delivery device is disclosed. The substance delivery device includes a lever that includes a drive arm that is rotatable about a pivot. The substance delivery device also includes a pump that has a deformable chamber. The deformable chamber is configured to rotate the drive arm about the pivot towards a container so as to deform the container to drive a fluid substance from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: David Frank Bolognia, Brian Hall
  • Publication number: 20210090970
    Abstract: An integrated device package is disclosed, The integrated device package can include a substrate that has an upper side and a lower side opposite the upper side. The integrated device package can include an integrated device die that is mounted to the lower side of the substrate. The integrated device die has a first side facing the lower side of the substrate and a second side opposite the first side. The package can include a molding material in which the integrated device die is at least partially embedded. The package can include a thermally conductive element coupled to the second side of the integrated device die. At least a portion of the thermally conductive element can be exposed through the molding material. The thermally conductive element can be a heat sink. The package can include an interconnect that is configured to provide an external connection. The interconnect extends at least partially through the molding material from the lower side of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Hall, David Frank Bolognia
  • Publication number: 20200411398
    Abstract: A device is disclosed. The device includes a housing that defines a chamber. The chamber is to be at least partially filled with an electrolyte material. The device also includes a plurality of electrodes that are at least partially embedded in the housing and exposed to the chamber. The device further includes an access port that provides fluid communication between an interior of the housing and the outside environs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: David Frank Bolognia, Brian Hall
  • Patent number: 10754434
    Abstract: System and techniques for gesture capture are described herein. A first representation of a sensor array may be collected into a first sensor composition. The first sensor composition may be filtered to output a pose status. Here, the pose status corresponds to a pose in a library of poses. A second representation of the sensor array may be collected into a second sensor composition. A fit of the second sensor composition to a model may be measured. The fit may be provided to a gesture consumer based on the fit and the pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James Brian Hall, Tyler Fetters, Stephanie Moyerman
  • Patent number: 10732265
    Abstract: An optical illuminator assembly such as an integrated module can provide an illumination source for use in applications such as optical detection. A peak output power of the module can be enhanced as compared to other approaches, such as by one or more of controlling parasitic effects along an electrical pathway used to drive an optical emitter circuit included as a portion of the module, or by providing thermal management including establishing thermal conduction pathways through opposite surfaces of an optical emitter circuit such as an integrated circuit die comprising a solid-state optical emitter. Control schemes can be used that power various cells or functional blocks of the optical emitter independently. Thermal regulation can be provided by an active heat transfer element such as a thermoelectric cooler (TEC). An optical illuminator assembly can be optically coupled to a beam-steering device or other elements, such as using a self-aligning mechanical configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Krishnan Ramaswamy Parameswaran, Xu Tang, Ying-Ju Wang, Weidong Wang, David Bolognia, Scott Robert Davis, Christophe Antoine, Brian Hall
  • Patent number: 10712197
    Abstract: An optical device package is disclosed. The optical device package includes a substrate that passes light at an optical wavelength. The optical device package also includes an optical device assembly that is mounted to the substrate. The optical device assembly comprises an optical device die. The optical device die has a first surface that is mounted to and facing the substrate and a second surface that is opposite the first surface. The optical device package further includes a molding compound that is disposed at least partially over the second surface of the integrated device die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Analog Devices Global Unlimited Company
    Inventors: David Frank Bolognia, Camille Louis Huin, Brian Hall
  • Publication number: 20200182771
    Abstract: An external fluidic system and methods of operating the same are provided. The fluidic system can be hot-swap connected to a flow-cytometer-based system at runtime to expand sheath or waste fluid storage capability of the flow-cytometer-based system by making only minimal changes to the flow-cytometer-based system. The external fluidic system can include a pump and a controller configured to operate the external fluidic system such that the sheath fluid is supplied from the external fluidic system to the flow-cytometer-based system or the waste fluid is extracted from the flow-cytometer-teased system and provided to the external fluidic system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Fan XIONG, Ed MARQUETTE, Brian HALL, Michelle SCOTT, Matt ALEXANDER
  • Patent number: 10675526
    Abstract: Illustrative examples of a sports apparatus and methods for manufacturing a sports apparatus for sensing a scoring event, including but not limited to hockey pucks. In some examples, the sports apparatus includes a body formed of a substrate material and an additive embedded in the substrate material. The additive may be used by a sensor array to locate the position of the sports apparatus in relation to a sports goal. Example additives include an electronic object or a doping material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Stephanie Moyerman, James Brian Hall, Braxton Lathrop
  • Publication number: 20190212190
    Abstract: An optical device package is disclosed. The optical device package includes a substrate that passes light at an optical wavelength. The optical device package also includes an optical device assembly that is mounted to the substrate. The optical device assembly comprises an optical device die. The optical device die has a first surface that is mounted to and facing the substrate and a second surface that is opposite the first surface. The optical device package further includes a molding compound that is disposed at least partially over the second surface of the integrated device die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: David Frank Bolognia, Camille Louis Huin, Brian Hall
  • Publication number: 20190094979
    Abstract: System and techniques for gesture capture are described herein. A first representation of a sensor array may be collected into a first sensor composition. The first sensor composition may be filtered to output a pose status. Here, the pose status corresponds to a pose in a library of poses. A second representation of the sensor array may be collected into a second sensor composition. A fit of the second sensor composition to a model may be measured. The fit may be provided to a gesture consumer based on the fit and the pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2016
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: James Brian Hall, Tyler Fetters, Stephanie Moyerman
  • Publication number: 20190015019
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to systems, methods, and devices for monitoring inertial data from a player swinging a piece of sports equipment. In embodiments, a monitoring device for monitoring swing metrics. The monitoring device includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) implemented at least partially in hardware to sense inertial data corresponding to a swing of a piece of sports equipment; a processor implemented at least partially in hardware to extrapolate, based on the inertial data, one or more swing parameters associated with the swing of the piece of sports equipment; and a transceiver implemented at least partially in hardware to transmit the one or more swing parameters to a remote device across a wireless connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: James Brian Hall, Tyler Fetters, Stephanie Moyerman, Jeffrey Mitsuo Ota, Narayan Sundararajan