Patents by Inventor Chris Smith

Chris Smith 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: 11974819
    Abstract: A method comprising segmenting at least one vertebral body from at least one image of a first three-dimensional image data set. The method comprises receiving at least one image of a second three-dimensional image data set. The method comprises registering the segmented at least one vertebral body from the at least one image of the first three-dimensional image data set with the at least one image of the second three-dimensional image data set. The method comprises determining a position of the at least one surgical implant based on the at least one image of the second three-dimensional image data set and a three-dimensional geometric model of the at least one surgical implant. The method comprises overlaying a virtual representation of the at least one surgical implant on the registered and segmented at least one vertebral body from the at least one image of the first three-dimensional image data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Nuvasive Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Finley, Kara Robinson, DJ Geiger, Justin Smith, Chris Ryan
  • Patent number: 11960889
    Abstract: A method and system for moving data from a source memory to a destination memory by a processor is disclosed herein. The destination memory stores a sequence of instructions and the sequence of instructions comprises one or more load instructions and one or more store instructions. The processor initially moves the one or more store instructions from the destination memory to the source memory. The processor then executes the one or more load instructions from the destination memory. On executing the one or more load instructions, the data is loaded from the source memory to at least one register in the processor. The processor further initiates execution of the one or more store instructions stored in the source memory. On executing the one or more store instructions from the source memory, the processor stores the data from the at least one register to the destination memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Chris Smith
  • Patent number: 11954497
    Abstract: A method and system for moving data from a source memory to a destination memory by a processor are disclosed. The processor has a plurality of registers and the source memory stores a sequence of instructions that include one or more load instructions and one or more store instructions. The processor moves the load instructions from the source memory to the destination memory. Then, the processor initiates execution of the load instructions from the destination memory in order to load the data from the source memory to one or more registers in the processor. Execution then returns to the sequence of instructions stored in the source memory, and the processor stores the data from the registers to the destination memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Chris Smith
  • Patent number: 11949714
    Abstract: Digital data processing systems of the type in which a server digital data device (“server”) is coupled to a client digital data device (“client”) over a network, e.g., the Internet, include web server software executing within an application layer on the server that responds to a request from the client by (i) validating a key received from the client with that request, (ii) generating a result code indicative of a success of that validation, (iii) initiating processing of the request, including invoking server resource software executing outside the application layer. The server resource software, which checks the result code upon invocation and before performing a protected operation required for processing the request, responds to a result code indicating that the result did not validate by exiting before executing the protected operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Spremulli, Chris Smith, Radha Shelat, Myles Taggart Frothingham
  • Publication number: 20240082629
    Abstract: Among other things, a rowing technology includes a first rowing machine having an electromagnetic brake providing a resistance to a rower of the machine in each rowing stroke of a series of rowing strokes of the rower An electronic controller causes the resistance of the electromagnetic brake to vary over each rowing stroke in a profile that emulates resistance to which another rower in a shell on water or on a second rowing machine is subjected in each rowing stroke of a corresponding series of rowing strokes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Bruce Smith, Chris Paul, Christopher Evans, Gerhard Pawelka, William Burke, Harald Quintus-Bosz, Klaus Renner
  • Publication number: 20240075042
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing cancer (e.g., advanced solid cancer) using Compound No. 1 or Compound No. 2: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present disclosure also relates to pharmaceutical compositions and pharmaceutical kits suitable for the treatment or prevention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Elizabeth BUCK, Matthew O'CONNOR, Darlene ROMASHKO, Tai-An LIN, Alexander FLOHR, Luca ARISTA, Iwona WRONA, Matthew LUCAS, Chris ROBERTS, Giorgio OTTAVIANI, Sherri SMITH, Nigel WATERS
  • Patent number: 11905814
    Abstract: A method for preparing a geothermal system involves preparing a wellbore that extends into an underground magma reservoir. Characteristics of the drilling process and the borehole are monitored to detect when the magma reservoir is reached, such that specially configured drilling operations can be performed to drill to a target depth within the magma reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EnhancedGEO Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Chris Smith, James Michael Browning, Randall Howard Hornbaker, Kevin Martin Stone, Georgios Evangelatos, Shamsul Abedin Al-Tomal, Andrew Nguyen
  • Publication number: 20230419367
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for communicating with users includes an automated communication platform connected to a network. Automated communication platform includes an originator and target users. Automated communication platform allows an originator to customize a message and send the message to a set of users, determined by the originator. The users may respond to a custom message using a communication ending. A filter may be used to filter out qualified users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: One Call to All Limited
    Inventor: Chris Smith
  • Publication number: 20230320639
    Abstract: Devices and methods for withdrawing bodily fluid from a subject are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a handheld device can include a housing having an opening, a skin-piercing assembly, and an actuator coupled to the skin-piercing assembly. The skin-piercing assembly can include a casing, a drive member pivotably mounted within the casing and carrying a blade, and a biasing member coupling the drive member to the casing. The actuator can be movable relative to the housing from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the drive member can engage the casing to maintain the biasing member in a biased configuration. Movement of the actuator from the first position to the second position can disengage the drive member from the casing to permit the biasing member to drive the blade at least partially through and/or across the opening in the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Emily Welch, Ellen Hayes, Erwin Berthier, Jake Myre, Ben Casavant, Chris Smith, Jared Andrew Salstrom, Steven Henry Bietzer, William Peter Stiles
  • Publication number: 20230244536
    Abstract: Systems and methods may use models to generate predictions of specific access rights for users. Further, systems and methods may generate the predictions in an environment in which the availability of the specific access rights change frequently. The access rights, predicted using embodiments described herein, may be both available and associated with user affinities. An interface associated with the primary load management system may be configured to display the predicted access rights for a user operating a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Ish Rishabh, Mark Roden, Chris Smith, Spencer Brown, Scott Kline, Krisha Zagura
  • Patent number: 11633136
    Abstract: Devices and methods for withdrawing bodily fluid from a subject are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a handheld device can include a housing having an opening, a skin-piercing assembly, and an actuator coupled to the skin-piercing assembly. The skin-piercing assembly can include a casing, a drive member pivotably mounted within the casing and carrying a blade, and a biasing member coupling the drive member to the casing. The actuator can be movable relative to the housing from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the drive member can engage the casing to maintain the biasing member in a biased configuration. Movement of the actuator from the first position to the second position can disengage the drive member from the casing to permit the biasing member to drive the blade at least partially through and/or across the opening in the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Tasso, Inc.
    Inventors: Emily Welch, Ellen Hayes, Erwin Berthier, Jake Myre, Ben Casavant, Chris Smith, Jared Andrew Salstrom, Steven Henry Bietzer, William Peter Stiles
  • Publication number: 20230120354
    Abstract: A method and system for moving data from a source memory to a destination memory by a processor are disclosed. The processor has a plurality of registers and the source memory stores a sequence of instructions that include one or more load instructions and one or more store instructions. The processor moves the load instructions from the source memory to the destination memory. Then, the processor initiates execution of the load instructions from the destination memory in order to load the data from the source memory to one or more registers in the processor. Execution then returns to the sequence of instructions stored in the source memory, and the processor stores the data from the registers to the destination memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Chris SMITH
  • Publication number: 20230111058
    Abstract: A method and system for moving data from a source memory to a destination memory by a processor is disclosed herein. The destination memory stores a sequence of instructions and the sequence of instructions comprises one or more load instructions and one or more store instructions. The processor initially moves the one or more store instructions from the destination memory to the source memory. The processor then executes the one or more load instructions from the destination memory. On executing the one or more load instructions, the data is loaded from the source memory to at least one register in the processor. The processor further initiates execution of the one or more store instructions stored in the source memory. On executing the one or more store instructions from the source memory, the processor stores the data from the at least one register to the destination memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Nordic Semiconductor ASA
    Inventor: Chris SMITH
  • Patent number: 11605103
    Abstract: A system may include a remote device and a server. The server may be configured to store a grocery items purchase history for a given user, and determine a medication to be dispensed to the given user. The server may also be configured to compare the medication to the grocery items purchase history and determine a grocery item having an interaction with the medication, and determine a substitute grocery item for the grocery item having the interaction with the medication. The server may generate a digital promotion for the substitute grocery item, and communicate the digital promotion to the remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventors: Courtney M. Lewis, Jeff Clouse, Diana Medina, Teva Moore, Alise Raak, Rob Small, Chris Smith
  • Patent number: 11593173
    Abstract: Systems and methods may use models to generate predictions of specific access rights for users. Further, systems and methods may generate the predictions in an environment in which the availability of the specific access rights change frequently. The access rights, predicted using embodiments described herein, may be both available and associated with user affinities. An interface associated with the primary load management system may be configured to display the predicted access rights for a user operating a user device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.
    Inventors: Ish Rishabh, Mark Roden, Chris Smith, Spencer Brown, Scott Kline, Krisha Zagura
  • Publication number: 20220273208
    Abstract: Devices and methods for withdrawing bodily fluid from a subject are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a handheld device can include a housing having an opening, a skin-piercing assembly, and an actuator coupled to the skin-piercing assembly. The skin-piercing assembly can include a casing, a drive member pivotably mounted within the casing and carrying a blade, and a biasing member coupling the drive member to the casing. The actuator can be movable relative to the housing from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the drive member can engage the casing to maintain the biasing member in a biased configuration. Movement of the actuator from the first position to the second position can disengage the drive member from the casing to permit the biasing member to drive the blade at least partially through and/or across the opening in the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Emily Welch, Ellen Hayes, Erwin Berthier, Jake Myre, Ben Casavant, Chris Smith, Jared Andrew Salstrom, Steven Henry Bietzer
  • Patent number: 11144944
    Abstract: A system may include a remote device and a server. The server may be configured to store a grocery items purchase history for a given user, and determine a medication to be dispensed to the given user. The server may also be configured to compare the medication to the grocery items purchase history and determine a grocery item having an interaction with the medication, and determine a substitute grocery item for the grocery item having the interaction with the medication. The server may generate a digital promotion for the substitute grocery item, and communicate the digital promotion to the remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: INMAR CLEARING, INC.
    Inventors: Courtney M. Lewis, Jeff Clouse, Diana Medina, Teva Moore, Alise Raak, Rob Small, Chris Smith
  • Publication number: 20210303360
    Abstract: Systems and methods may use models to generate predictions of specific access rights for users. Further, systems and methods may generate the predictions in an environment in which the availability of the specific access rights change frequently. The access rights, predicted using embodiments described herein, may be both available and associated with user affinities. An interface associated with the primary load management system may be configured to display the predicted access rights for a user operating a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ish Rishabh, Mark Roden, Chris Smith, Spencer Brown, Scott Kline, Krisha Zagura
  • Publication number: 20210152599
    Abstract: Digital data processing systems of the type in which a server digital data device (“server”) is coupled to a client digital data device (“client”) over a network, e.g., the Internet, include web server software executing within an application layer on the server that responds to a request from the client by (i) validating a key received from the client with that request, (ii) generating a result code indicative of a success of that validation, (iii) initiating processing of the request, including invoking server resource software executing outside the application layer. The server resource software, which checks the result code upon invocation and before performing a protected operation required for processing the request, responds to a result code indicating that the result did not validate by exiting before executing the protected operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Spremulli, Chris Smith, Radha Shelat, Myles Taggart Frothingham
  • Patent number: D1016675
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventors: Mitchell E. Auerbach, Chris Ito, Glen Durmisevich, Tak Lee, David Olsen, Rudy Gonzalez, Jaimi Smith