Patents by Inventor Christopher Edwards

Christopher Edwards 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: 20240184908
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: obtaining criteria to select plain-text values in a lower-trust database; selecting, based on the criteria, a first plain-text value; in response, determining a first reference value; storing the first plain-text value in a higher-trust database in a second entry identified by the first reference value; storing the first reference value in the first entry of the lower-trust database; selecting another instance of the first plain-text value stored requested to be stored in a third entry in the lower-trust database; and in response, storing the first reference value in the third entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: James Douglas Beecham, Christopher Edward Struttmann, Scott Nathaniel Goldfarb
  • Patent number: 11992981
    Abstract: The invention refers to a method for producing expanded polymer pellets, which comprises the following steps: melting a polymer comprising a polyamide; adding at least one blowing agent; expanding the melt through at least one die for producing an expanded polymer; and pelletizing the expanded polymer. The invention further concerns polymer pellets produced with the method as well as their use, e.g. for the production of cushioning elements for sports apparel, such as for producing soles or parts of soles of sports shoes. A further aspect of the invention concerns a method for the manufacture of molded components, comprising loading pellets of an expanded to polymer material into a mold, and connecting the pellets by providing heat energy, wherein the expanded polymer material of the pellets or beads comprises a chain extender. The molded components may be used in broad ranges of application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Holmes, Tru Huu Minh Le, Sabrina Kerling, Dharan Kirupanantham, Volker Altstädt, Amir Fathi, Daniel Raps, Clemens Keilholz, Thomas Koeppl, Paul Smith, Jan Hill, Angus Wardlaw, Daniel Stephen Price, James Tarrier, Christopher Robertson
  • Patent number: 11997074
    Abstract: A request is received by a videoconference instantiation server to initiate a videoconference among a plurality of participants. Thereafter, the videoconference instantiation server requests provision of an on-demand computing network. The videoconference server is then instantiated in the on-demand computing network. A plurality of inbound proxies are generated which are configured to communicate with the videoconference server. The inbound proxies obfuscate administrative data passing therethrough. In addition, a plurality of portal proxies are generated that each are configured to communicate with a different one of the inbound proxies. The videoconference instantiation server then generates a unique access path to a different one of the portal proxies for each of the participants. The portal proxies, when accessed, allow the corresponding participant to access a videoconference being executed by the videoconference server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Cyber IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Delaney, Carl Bailey Jacobs, Chava Louis Jurado, Michael Vincent Chest
  • Patent number: 11996983
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a network appliance comprising a plurality of virtual private network nodes operating on the network appliance, each virtual private network node being configurable to connect to selectable virtual private network end points in an on-demand computing network. A web interface is configured to connect a client device to the network appliance and to identify a selected virtual private network end point, where the client device is connected to a particular one of the virtual private network nodes and the particular virtual private network node is connected to the selected virtual private network end point based on interactions with the web interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Cyber IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Delaney, Chava Louis Jurado, Carl Bailey Jacobs, William Theodore Schoon
  • Publication number: 20240156922
    Abstract: Fungal protease compositions, and more particularly, proteolytic enzyme mixtures comprising a plurality of Aspergillus proteases are provided. The disclosure also relates to protein hydrolysates, food and beverage products and dietary supplements produced using these proteolytic enzyme mixtures, and methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Sean Michael GARVEY, Kelly Marie TINKER, Justin Lamont GUICE, Robert Daniel LITTLE, Christopher Edward SCHULER
  • Publication number: 20240133297
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an erosion-shielded turbine blade includes providing a turbine blade for use with a rotary machine. The turbine blade includes an airfoil extending between a root and a tip. The airfoil includes a pressure side and an opposite suction side, and each of the pressure and suction sides extends between a leading edge and a trailing edge. The method also includes printing a green body part by an additive manufacturing process by selectively depositing a binder solution across a particulate erosion-resistant material, and sintering the green body part to produce a post-sintering erosion shield that includes densified erosion-resistant material. The method also includes coupling the erosion shield to the leading edge of the turbine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ananda Barua, Changjie Sun, Christopher Edward Wolfe, John Matthew Sassatelli
  • Publication number: 20240132218
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods comprising acoustically absorptive air ducts comprising an internally positioned structure component as an endoskeleton and an air impervious inner layer, and an acoustically absorptive foam outer layer, environmental control systems comprising such air ducts, and vehicles incorporating such environmental control systems are disclosed with methods for manufacture and installations are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Rachel Ann Bires, Douglas Dean Maben, Christopher Edward Plass, Mark Michael Gmerek, David William Olson, Sonny Keever Nguyen, James Julius Koch, Greta Grace Hadford, Bryce Avery Van Dyke, Xin Han
  • Patent number: 11964445
    Abstract: Described are a method for the manufacture of a shoe sole, the sole manufactured by the method, and a shoe including the sole. The method includes loading a pre-manufactured article comprising thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) material into a mold; loading pellets of an expanded thermoplastic polyurethane (eTPU) material into said mold; and connecting the pellets with each other and to the pre-manufactured TPU article by providing an interconnecting medium, wherein the material of the pre-manufactured TPU article either comprises an additive to increase the viscosity of the material of the pre-manufactured TPU article, or has been annealed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Holmes, Sabrina Kerling, Tru Huu Minh Le
  • Publication number: 20240126902
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to information security. A computing platform may configure a connector framework to: preconfigure identities of data production systems without involvement of a third party system, and ingest information, received from the data production systems, directly into a storage layer at each of a plurality of data recipient systems, where the information may be received in a plurality of different programming languages, and the plurality of data production systems may be located in different geographic regions. The computing platform may receive, at the connector framework and from a first data production system of the data production systems, first information. The computing platform may ingest the first information by: replicating, using the connector framework, the first information, and making available, to the plurality of data recipient systems, the first information, which may cause storage of the replicated first information in real time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Pradeep Jahagirdar, Christopher Edwards, Sanjay Dua
  • Publication number: 20240126909
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: receiving one or more write requests; selecting a first subset of the values as corresponding to higher-security fields; segmenting a first value in the first subset; instructing a first computing device to store a first subset of segments among the plurality of segments in memory; and instructing a second computing device to store a second subset of segments among the plurality of segments in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Scott Nathaniel Goldfarb, James Douglas Beecham, Christopher Edward Struttmann
  • Patent number: 11953380
    Abstract: Described herein is a sensor in chip scale package form factor. For example, a non-vacuum packaged sensor chip described herein includes a substrate, and a sensing element arranged on the substrate. The sensing element is configured to change resistance with temperature. Additionally, the non-vacuum packaged sensor chip includes an absorbing layer configured to absorb middle infrared (“MIR”) radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: NextInput, Inc.
    Inventors: Ali Foughi, Julius Minglin Tsai, Christopher Edwards
  • Patent number: 11956277
    Abstract: Systems and methods for protecting access to network ports on a server are provided herein. A system comprises a server configured to receive a data packet comprising a cryptoken corresponding to a network port address. The server is further configured to generate a plurality of cryptokens based on a plurality of timecodes, a network port configuration, and the destination address. The server generates a plurality of hashes based on the plurality of cryptokens. The server generates, based on a comparison of each of the plurality of cryptokens to the cryptoken, a rule to allow inbound connections to a first network port corresponding to the network port address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Cyber IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Delaney, Chava Louis Jurado, Carl Bailey Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11947698
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: receiving one or more write requests to write a plurality of values to a plurality of fields in one or more tuples of a relational database, different ones of the values corresponding to different ones of the fields, detecting duplicates of the values with steps for expediting detection of duplicates, and selecting a first subset of the values based on the first subset of values corresponding to fields in a first subset of the fields, the first subset of fields being designated as higher-security fields than a second subset of fields among the plurality of fields.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: ALTR SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Edward Struttmann
  • Patent number: 11938697
    Abstract: A method for automated manufacturing of shoe soles comprises the steps of: loading a transfer device with at least one outsole element and at least one supporting element, positioning the loaded transfer device adjacent a first part and a second part of a sole mold, transferring the at least one outsole element from the transfer device to the first part and transferring the at least one supporting element from the transfer device to the second part of the sole mold, filling the sole mold with a plurality of individual particles, and applying a medium to bond and/or fuse the particles with each other and with the at least one outsole element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Tru Huu Minh Le, Carsten Landeck, Christopher Edward Holmes, Angus Wardlaw, Constantin Kemmer, Victor Romanov, Christoph Dyckmans, Amir Fathi
  • Patent number: 11934550
    Abstract: Provided is a process including: obtaining criteria to select plain-text values in a lower-trust database; selecting, based on the criteria, a first plain-text value; in response, determining a first reference value; storing the first plain-text value in a higher-trust database in a second entry identified by the first reference value; storing the first reference value in the first entry of the lower-trust database; selecting another instance of the first plain-text value stored requested to be stored in a third entry in the lower-trust database; and in response, storing the first reference value in the third entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ALTR SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: James Douglas Beecham, Christopher Edward Struttmann, Scott Nathaniel Goldfarb
  • Patent number: 11914777
    Abstract: Integrated systems for force or strain sensing and haptic feedback are described herein. An example force-haptic system can include a sensor chip configured to receive an applied force, where the sensor chip includes at least one sensing element and an integrated circuit. The force-haptic system can also include a haptic actuator configured to convert an electrical excitation signal into mechanical vibration. Further, the force-haptic system can include a circuit board, where the sensor chip and the haptic actuator are electrically and mechanically coupled to the circuit board. The integrated circuit can be configured to process an electrical signal received from the at least one sensing element and to output the electrical excitation signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: NextInput, Inc.
    Inventors: Julius Minglin Tsai, Albert Bergemont, Christopher Edwards, Ali Foughi
  • Patent number: 11899432
    Abstract: An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) provides a development framework for designing, programming, and configuring multiple aspects of an industrial automation system using a common design environment and data model. Projects creating using embodiments of the IDE system can be built on an object-based model rather than, or in addition to, a tag-based architecture. To this end, the IDE system can support the use of automation objects that serve as building blocks for this object-based development structure. These automation objects represent corresponding physical industrial assets and have associated programmatic attributes relating to those assets. Automation objects can be maintained in shared libraries that can be referenced by system projects. The IDE system can notify projects that reference these automation objects of updates to the object libraries, including edits to existing objects or addition of new objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Stump, Anthony Carrara, Adam Gregory, Lorenzo Majewski, Eashwer Srinivasan, Srdjan Josipovic, Michael J Coan, Christopher Edward Stanek
  • Patent number: 11888822
    Abstract: Secure communications can be established in which a request is received from a client computing device to instantiate a virtual key store (VKS) node. In response to the request, a cryptographically calculated uniform resource locator (URL) is generated. In addition, a crytopgraphic identity certificate is received from a certification authority server. Subsequently, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) instance is instantiated and configured with the cryptographic identity certificate. Communications are then established between the client computing device and the VDI instance using the generated cryptographically calculated URL such that the VDI instance acts as a cryptographic proxy with at least one remote computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Cyber IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Delaney, Chava Louis Jurado, Carl Bailey Jacobs, Jeremiah MacDonald, Michael Vincent Chest, Walter Adeyinka Ademiluyi
  • Publication number: 20240021077
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for a signal head processing system. A signal head detector can be mounted by or attached to an existing control light signal head and provide data indicating the state, i.e., on, off, blinking, of each light of the control light signal head. The signal head detector can communicate with a nearby gateway device. The gateway device, in turn, communicates with a back end server, and the back end server performs near real-time control light pattern analysis and provides near real-time light status. Alternatively, the signal head detector can communication directly with the based end server. The server analysis can include frequency of light change per canister, intersection geometry and lane flows, per-intersection control lighting patterns, seasonal, e.g., time of day, lighting patterns, anomaly detection and failure detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: David Hahn Clifford, Christopher Edward Hoover
  • Patent number: D1016501
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Kioma, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Gay, Christopher William Wischkowsky