Patents by Inventor Brian Lees
Brian Lees 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: 20240159210Abstract: A flow regulation system for regulating a flow of a fluid from a fluid reservoir is disclosed having a fluid reservoir container, an effluent conduit adapted to discharge fluid from the fluid reservoir container, and a fluid turbine disposed in the effluent conduit. A generator is operatively connected to the fluid turbine for converting mechanical energy of the fluid turbine to electrical energy, and a power conditioning module is energized by the generator to alter voltage and current characteristics of electricity generated by the generator. A load manager is provided to monitor operational characteristic of the flow regulation systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd.Inventors: Ivar Lee Thorson, Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Brian Lee Moffat, Daniel William Place
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Publication number: 20240150218Abstract: A method of manufacturing a preform, the method including positioning at least one glass tube in a glass outer cladding to form a preform precursor, the glass tube comprising a first open end and a second open end, forming a preform from the preform precursor, and thermally treating at least one of the preform precursor and the preform. The thermally treating including sealing the first open end and the second open end of the glass tube to form a closed tube and heating and/or cooling the glass tube to manipulate gas pressure within the closed glass tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Paulo Clovis Dainese, JR., Matthew Ryan Drake, Richard Michael Fiacco, Brian Lee Harper, Ming-Jun Li, Silver Nyambo, Matthew John Rice, Jeffery Scott Stone, Matthew Artus Tuggle
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Publication number: 20240151204Abstract: An apparatus that floats at the surface of a body of water over which waves pass, causing a nominally vertical axis of the apparatus to tilt away from an axis normal to the resting surface of the body of water. Tilting allows a fluid to flow through a channel that in an un-tilted apparatus would require the gravitational potential energy of the fluid to increase (i.e., to flow uphill), but, because of the tilt allows the fluid to flow through the channel in a downhill direction. Successive wave-driven tilts of the apparatus incrementally raise water to a head from which a portion of its gravitational potential energy can be converted to electrical power by causing the water to return to a lower level by flowing through a water turbine, or through some other apparatus that performs a useful function when supplied with a flow of high-pressure water.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: Brian Lee Moffat, Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson
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Publication number: 20240149382Abstract: The present invention relates to several systems and methods for clamping, machining, inspecting, and/or correcting workpieces in an integrated machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Martin NOBS, Michael EGETER, Brian Lee KINNEY, Benjamin BERRY
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Patent number: 11976622Abstract: A buoyant wave energy device is disclosed that incorporates an open-bottomed tube of substantial length in which is partially enclosed a first body of water that oscillates in response to wave action. The device incorporates a buoy to which an upper end of the tube is connected and inside of which is trapped a second body of water of substantial mass. A differential phase in the oscillations of the water trapped in the tube, and the oscillations of the buoy of augmented mass, result in the periodic compression of a pocket of air trapped at the top of the tube, and in the subsequent expulsion of pressurized air through a turbine, thereby generating electrical power.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Lone Gull Holdings, Ltd.Inventors: Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Brian Lee Moffat, Daniel William Place
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Patent number: 11976692Abstract: A disconnect clutch actuator mechanism includes a shift fork, an actuator, and a position sensor. The shift fork includes a rack gear, a pair of pins, and a sensor target. The shift fork is arranged to be pivotable on the pair of pins. The actuator includes a pinion gear engaged with the rack gear. The actuator is arranged to pivot the shift fork. The position sensor is arranged proximate the sensor target for sensing a pivot position of the shift fork. In some example embodiments, the rack gear includes a pair of arched portions and a toothed portion disposed on at least one of the pair of arched portions. The pinion gear is engaged with the toothed portion. In an example embodiment, the rack gear has a gap disposed between the pair of arched portions and the pinion gear is disposed in the gap.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Brian Lee, Michael Hodge
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Patent number: 11977863Abstract: A system may determine one or more data sources which the system is configured to access. The system may provide a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) for interacting with data stored in one or more data sources. The APIs may be accessible to one or more web applications which the system is configured to serve. The system may determine that a web application has requested an operation for interacting with the data through one or more APIs in the set of APIs. The system may determine one or more responses based at least in part on the operation requested by the web application. The system may provide the response(s) to the web application.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.Inventors: Alexander Ryan, Allen Chang, William Bindi, Brian Lee, John Carrino, Julie Tibshirani, Timothy Wilson
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Publication number: 20240141864Abstract: A pressure-regulating buoyant hydrodynamic pump is disclosed that floats adjacent to a surface of a body of water over which waves tend to pass. In response to wave-induced movements of the device, water is drawn into a mouth at a lower end of an injection tube, and water is ejected from a mouth at an upper end of the injection tube. The ejected water is deposited into an interior of the hollow buoy thereby augmenting a water reservoir therein. And water flows from the water reservoir to and through a water turbine, thereby energizing a generator, power electronics, and an electrical load. A novel water-turbine effluent buffering tube, or chamber, smooths pressure variations felt across the water turbine.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: LONE GULL HOLDINGS, LTD.Inventors: Brian Lee Moffat, Garth Alexander Sheldon-Coulson, Ivar Lee Thorson, Daniel William Place, Alexander David Chally
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Publication number: 20240144054Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein for performing sentiment analysis on electronic communications relating to one or more image-based communications methods, such as emoji. Message data may be received. The message data may correspond to a message that is intended to be sent but has not yet been sent to an application. Using a first machine learning model, one or more subsets of the plurality of emoji may be determined. The one or more subsets of the plurality of emoji may comprise one or more different types and quantities of emoji, and may each correspond to the same or a different sentiment. Using a second machine learning model, one or more emojis may be selected from the one or more subsets. The one or more emojis selected may correspond to responses to the message.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Kevin Osborn, Eric Loucks, Joshua Edwards, George Bergeron, Kyle Johnson, Brian Lee
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Publication number: 20240141275Abstract: Systems and methods for complete medium exchange using two bioreactors and at least one external separation and retention device designed for therapeutic cells grown as aggregates, on the surface of microcarriers, or as single cells, for scalable expansion and/or directed differentiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventor: Chanyong Brian LEE
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Publication number: 20240134446Abstract: A system which, with data provided by one or more sensors, detects a user's alteration of the geometries of parts of his face, head, neck, and/or shoulders. It determines the extent of each alteration and normalizes it with respect to the maximum possible range of each alteration so as to assign to each part-specific alteration a numeric score indicative of its extent. The normalized part-specific scores are combined so as to produce a composite numeric code representative of the complete set of simultaneously-executed geometric alterations. Each composite code is translated, or interpreted, relative to an appropriate context defined by an embodiment, an application executing on an embodiment, or by the user. For example, each composite code might be interpreted as, or assigned to, a specific alphanumeric letter, a color, a musical note, etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Brian Lee Moffat, Rin In Chen
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Publication number: 20240130822Abstract: Systems and methods for managing surgical sponges. A dispenser assembly coupled to a main support includes an internal or first storage location to removably receive a carton of sponge sorters, and an external or second storage location to removably support a carton of surgical draping. At least one arm may be supported on the housing and movable between an undeployed position and a deployed position. The arm may include weighing means to measure a weight of the surgical sponge being disposed in a sponge sorter supported by the arm. The arm may be a cantilever and abeam load cell may be disposed within a channel of a beam. A processor may determine fluid weight based on measured weight and dry weight correlated with the surgical sponge being counted out as detected with a data reader. The processor may estimate blood loss to be displayed on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Stryker CorporationInventors: Brian James VanDerWoude, Caroline Weinberg, Fazel Yavari, Kristopher Kendall Biegler, Jonathon Emanuel Koenig, Alex Surasky-Ysasi, Tyler Toy, Rachel Wallace, Colin Vincent Beney, Kenneth Lee Soliva
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Publication number: 20240136000Abstract: A digital thermometer includes a first oscillator to generate a first clock signal, wherein a period of the first clock signal remains constant in view of changes in a temperature of the apparatus and a first counter coupled to the first oscillator, the first counter to count a fixed number of cycles of the first clock signal associated with a measurement period. The digital thermometer further includes a second oscillator to generate a second clock signal, wherein a period of the second clock signal varies with changes in the temperature and a second counter coupled to the second oscillator, the second counter to generate an output representing a count of a number of cycles of the second clock signal that occur during the measurement period. In addition, the digital thermometer includes calibration circuitry coupled to the second counter, the calibration circuitry to calibrate the output of the second counter to generate a value representing the temperature of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Chiara Cerafogli, Kenneth William Marr, Marco Domenico Tiburzi, Matthew Joseph Iriondo, Warren Lee Boyer, Brian James Soderling, James Eric Davis, Fulvio Rori
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Patent number: 11964673Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling autonomous vehicle are provided. A method can include obtaining, by a computing system, data indicative of a plurality of objects in a surrounding environment of the autonomous vehicle. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, one or more clusters of the objects based at least in part on the data indicative of the plurality of objects. The method can further include determining, by the computing system, whether to enter an operation mode having one or more limited operational capabilities based at least in part on one or more properties of the one or more clusters. In response to determining that the operation mode is to be entered by the autonomous vehicle, the method can include controlling, by the computing system, the operation of the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the one or more limited operational capabilities.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: UATC, LLCInventors: Brian C. Becker, Michael Lee Phillips, Yang Xu, Eric Michael Perko, Narek Melik-Barkhudarov
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Patent number: 11966753Abstract: A storage device for booting a host computing device includes a first storage memory region having a first storage memory controller, a second storage memory region having a second storage memory controller, and a resilient boot controller. The resilient boot controller is configured to store boot code in the first storage memory region, prevent write access by the host computing device through the first storage memory controller to the first storage memory region, detect a reset of the host computing device through the input/output interface, copy at least a portion of the boot code from the first storage memory region to the second storage memory region, responsive to detection of the reset of the host computing device, and enable read access of the copied boot code by the host computing device through the second storage memory controller of the second storage memory region, responsive to the copy operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Stefan Thom, Paul England, Robert Karl Spiger, Brian Telfer, Sangho Lee, Marcus Peinado
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Publication number: 20240125377Abstract: A differential for a vehicle includes a final drive gear with a final drive gear spline, a differential carrier with a differential carrier spline, and an axially slidable clutch. The axially slidable clutch includes a first clutch spline drivingly engaged with a one of the final drive gear spline or the differential carrier spline and a second clutch spline for selectively drivingly engaging with the other one of the final drive gear spline or the differential carrier spline. In an example embodiment, the differential also includes a pair of side gears, each including an inner spline for drivingly engaging a respective axle shaft, a pair of radially offset spider gears, each drivingly engaged with both of the side gears, and a shaft extending through the pair of radially offset spider gears into the differential carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KGInventors: Brian Lee, Michael Hodge
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Publication number: 20240127811Abstract: A method for processing multiple intents from an audio stream in an extended reality application may include multiple steps, including: receiving a stream of words as a first utterance; processing the first utterance before the stream of words is fully received; based on the processing, determining a first intent from the first utterance before the stream of words is fully received; determining occurrence of a pause after the first utterance; and receiving a second stream of words as a second utterance, the second stream being received after the determined pause.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Brian Philip Gillett, Akmal Hisyam Idris, James Oliver Lussier, Dustin Richard Parham, Kit Lee Burgess
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Publication number: 20240127200Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided herein for hyperspectral imaging based electronic authentication resource transfers. An example method includes receiving a resource transfer request associated with at least a first user and receiving hyperspectral image data associated with the first user. The method further includes extracting, via a hyperspectral imaging module, one or more account credentials of the first user from the hyperspectral image data. The method also includes effectuating the resource transfer associated with an account of the first user as defined by the one or more account credentials. The hyperspectral image data may be generated in response to an image capturing operation performed by the hyperspectral imaging module and may be indicative of a hyperspectral image supported by a resource transfer object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Elvis Nyamwange, Brian Neal Jacobson, Vismay Mandloi, Donna Lee Phillips, Madhukiran Bangalore Ramachandra
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Publication number: 20240129292Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for resource transfers with authentication based on hyperspectral imaging. An example method includes receiving a request for hyperspectral image generation associated with a first user and receiving one or more account credentials of the first user. The method further includes generating, via a hyperspectral imaging module, hyperspectral image data based on the one or more account credentials of a first user and generating, via the hyperspectral imaging module, a hyperspectral image based on the hyperspectral image data. The method may further cause application of the hyperspectral on a body of a resource transfer object.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATIONInventors: Elvis Nyamwange, Brian Neal Jacobson, Vismay Mandloi, Donna Lee Phillips, Madhukiran Bangalore Ramachandra
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Publication number: 20240115102Abstract: A cleaning wipe including a first nonwoven having a plurality of first nonwoven strips, a second nonwoven having a plurality of second nonwoven strips, a third nonwoven having a plurality of third nonwoven strips, and a fourth nonwoven having a plurality of fourth nonwoven strips. The cleaning wipe includes a central bonded portion and the fourth nonwoven is further joined to the third nonwoven by a pair of outboard bonds. More than about 10% of the second nonwoven strips are bent so that the free ends of the second nonwoven strips are bent out of plane relative to the fixed ends of the second nonwoven strips.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Agnes Elaine WELLS, Nayda Liz RAMOS MEDINA, Nicola John POLICICCHIO, Brian Lee KEITH, Terra Louise DENT