Patents by Inventor Carl A. Adams

Carl A. Adams 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).

  • Patent number: 11206778
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco inbred plants TND950 (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, CMS TND950 SRC, CMS Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, and CMS KY171 SRC, and hybrids PD7305 SRC, PD7309 SRC, PD7312 SRC, PD7318 SRC, and PD7319 SRC. The present disclosure also provides parts of such plants and products made from those parts. The present disclosure also includes progeny of the provided plants including hybrids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Andrew Carl Adams
  • Patent number: 11194808
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for multidimensional and multi-relation sampling for implementing multidimensional two-sided interval joins. In an embodiment, a data platform receives query instructions for a two-sided N dimensional interval join, where N is an integer greater than 1. The two-sided N dimensional interval join has an interval-join predicate that compares intervals determined from the input relations in each of N dimensions. The data platform samples interval sizes in one or more input relations, and demarcates an N dimensional input domain based on the sampling. The data platform implements the two-sided N dimensional interval join using an N dimensional band join followed by a filter that applies the interval-join predicate. The N dimensional band join includes a hash join keyed to N dimensional domain cells overlapped at least in part by intervals in the input relations in each of the N dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Carl Adams, Spyridon Triantafyllis, Lars Volker, Kevin Wang
  • Publication number: 20210374139
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for performing a geospatial-function join using an implied interval join. In an embodiment, a database platform receives a query that includes a geospatial-function join, which applies a geospatial-function predicate to a first geography data object of a first relation and a second geography data object of a second relation. The database platform processes the first and second relations through an interval join that applies an interval-join predicate that is implied by the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform obtains query results at least in part by implementing a filter that applies the geospatial-function predicate to an output of the interval join, and outputs the query results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Matthias Carl Adams, Simon Holm Jensen, Spyridon Triantafyllis
  • Publication number: 20210374137
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for point-based relation splitting in geospatial-function-implied interval joins. In an embodiment, a data platform receives a query that applies a geospatial-function predicate to first and second geography data objects from first and second relations. The second relation is divided into point and non-point subsets based on the second data geography object. The data platform routes the point subset along a first path that includes a one-sided interval join that applies, to the first relation and the point subset, an interval-join predicate implied by the geospatial-function predicate. The data platform routes the non-point subset along a second path that does not include the one-sided interval join. The data platform obtains query results at least in part with a filter that applies the geospatial-function predicate to outputs of the one-sided interval join and the second path, and outputs the query results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Matthias Carl Adams, Simon Holm Jensen, Spyridon Triantafyllis
  • Publication number: 20210374140
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a database platform receives query instructions for a query on a database, where the query instructions include instructions for a geospatial-function join that includes a geospatial-function predicate. The database platform generates a query-execution plan based on the query instructions, including replacing the geospatial-function join with one or more interval joins that each include one or more predicates implied by the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform inserts, into the query-execution plan above the one or more interval joins, a filter operator that applies the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform obtains results of the query at least in part by executing the query-execution plan, and returns the query results in response to the query.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Matthias Carl Adams, Simon Holm Jensen, Spyridon Triantafyllis
  • Publication number: 20210230627
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides products, compositions, and methods for improving nitrogen use efficiency in tobacco plants, including e.g., Burley tobacco. This disclosure further provides genetic markers for tracking enhanced nitrogen use efficiency phenotypes in tobacco plants and for introgressing enhanced nitrogen use efficiency phenotypes into tobacco plants. The disclosure also provides tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen use efficiency and methods to the creation of tobacco plants comprising enhanced nitrogen use efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Jesse FREDERICK, Andrew Carl ADAMS, Dongmei XU
  • Patent number: 11036739
    Abstract: A database platform receives query instructions for a query on a database, where the query instructions include a geospatial-function join that includes a geospatial-function predicate. The database platform generates a query-execution plan by replacing the geospatial-function join with a single interval join that has an interval-join predicate that is implied by the geospatial-function predicate, and by also inserting a filter above the single interval join to apply the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform executes the query-execution plan, and returns query results in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Carl Adams, Simon Holm Jensen, Spyridon Triantafyllis
  • Patent number: 11036738
    Abstract: A database platform receives query instructions for a query on a database, where the query instructions include a geospatial-function join that applies a geospatial-function predicate to a first relation that includes a first join key and a second relation that includes at least one row in which a second join key is a point. The database platform generates a query-execution plan by replacing the geospatial-function join with a one-sided interval join of at least a first portion of the first relation and the at least one row of the second relation in which the second join key is a point, and by also inserting a filter above the one-sided interval join to apply the geospatial-function predicate. The database platform executes the query-execution plan, and returns query results in response to the query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: Snowflake Inc.
    Inventors: Matthias Carl Adams, Simon Holm Jensen, Spyridon Triantafyllis
  • Patent number: 10938933
    Abstract: Systems for managing dynamic configuration-based database connections using a proxy datasource are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer program product is provided including a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to: send, by a software application of the computing device, a request for a connection to a first database to a proxy datasource of the computing device, wherein the request includes a database identifier and configuration data; pass, by a first concrete datasource of the computing device, a connection to the first database to the proxy datasource; return, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, the connection to the software application; and access, by the software application of the computing device, the first database via the connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phillip Carl Adams, John Thomas Edward Timm, Nathan Jon Rauh
  • Patent number: 10938934
    Abstract: Methods for managing dynamic configuration-based database connections using a proxy datasource are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes: receiving, by a proxy datasource of a computing device, a connection request for a connection to a database from a software application of the computing device, wherein the software application is in an application container environment; obtaining, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, configuration data associated with the connection request; creating, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, a concrete datasource according to the configuration data; and returning, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, the connection to the database to the software application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Phillip Carl Adams, John Thomas Edward Timm, Nathan Jon Rauh
  • Publication number: 20200366753
    Abstract: Methods for managing dynamic configuration-based database connections using a proxy datasource are disclosed. In embodiments, a method includes: receiving, by a proxy datasource of a computing device, a connection request for a connection to a database from a software application of the computing device, wherein the software application is in an application container environment; obtaining, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, configuration data associated with the connection request; creating, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, a concrete datasource according to the configuration data; and returning, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, the connection to the database to the software application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Phillip Carl ADAMS, John Thomas Edward TIMM, Nathan Jon RAUH
  • Publication number: 20200366751
    Abstract: Systems for managing dynamic configuration-based database connections using a proxy datasource are disclosed. In embodiments, a computer program product is provided including a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to: send, by a software application of the computing device, a request for a connection to a first database to a proxy datasource of the computing device, wherein the request includes a database identifier and configuration data; pass, by a first concrete datasource of the computing device, a connection to the first database to the proxy datasource; return, by the proxy datasource of the computing device, the connection to the software application; and access, by the software application of the computing device, the first database via the connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Phillip Carl ADAMS, John Thomas Edward TIMM, Nathan Jon RAUH
  • Publication number: 20200333045
    Abstract: An electric water heater tank adapted for connection to a controller, the tank including one or more electrical heating elements temperature sensing means mounted on the exterior of the tank wall and adapted to obtain a measurement of the temperature of the water in the tank, the temperature sensing means and each heating element being connected to an externally accessible connection means. The tank can include one or more heating element control means each connected to a corresponding one of the heating elements. The element control means can be connected to the externally accessible connection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Lee KERNICH, Brendan BOURKE, Peter KERR, Quentin Arthur Carl ADAM, Grant STEPA
  • Publication number: 20200154663
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco inbred plants TND950 (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, CMS TND950 SRC, CMS Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, and CMS KY171 SRC, and hybrids PD7305 SRC, PD7309 SRC, PD7312 SRC, PD7318 SRC, and PD7319 SRC. The present disclosure also provides parts of such plants and products made from those parts. The present disclosure also includes progeny of the provided plants including hybrids.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Andrew Carl Adams
  • Patent number: 10582680
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco inbred plants TND950 (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole (phph) SRC, Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, CMS TND950 SRC, CMS Narrow Leaf Madole SRC, and CMS KY171 SRC, and hybrids PD7305 SRC, PD7309 SRC, PD7312 SRC, PD7318 SRC, and PD7319 SRC. The present disclosure also provides parts of such plants and products made from those parts. The present disclosure also includes progeny of the provided plants including hybrids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Andrew Carl Adams
  • Publication number: 20190343166
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides the identification of tobacco Nic1 locus. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Also provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel Nic1 mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or nicotine free while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Carl Adams, Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Sreepriya Pramod, Dongmei Xu
  • Publication number: 20190309317
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides the identification of tobacco Nic1 locus. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Also provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel Nic1 mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or nicotine free while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Carl Adams, Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Sreepriya Pramod, Dongmei Xu
  • Patent number: 10405571
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides the identification of tobacco Nic1 locus. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Also provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel Nic1 mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or nicotine free while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Carl Adams, Marcos Fernando de Godoy Lusso, Sreepriya Pramod, Dongmei Xu
  • Publication number: 20190246596
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco Nic1b locus and associated genes. Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Further provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or alkaloids while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Sreepriya PRAMOD, Marcos Fernando de GODOY LUSSO, Jesse FREDERICK, Andrew Carl ADAMS, Dongmei XU
  • Publication number: 20190216037
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides tobacco Nic1b locus and associated genes (e.g., a group of ERF genes). Also provided are tobacco plants with altered total alkaloid and nicotine levels and commercially acceptable leaf grade, their development via breeding or transgenic approaches, and production of tobacco products from these tobacco plants. Further provided are compositions and methods for producing tobacco plants having novel mutations or alleles to reduce nicotine levels. Further provided are sequence polymorphisms and molecular markers for breeding tobacco with reduced nicotine or alkaloids while maintaining tobacco leaf grade and tobacco product quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicant: ALTRIA CLIENT SERVICES LLC
    Inventors: Sreepriya PRAMOD, Marcos Fernando de GODOY LUSSO, Jesse FREDERICK, Andrew Carl ADAMS, Dongmei XU