Patents by Inventor Christopher Graham
Christopher Graham 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: 20190346331Abstract: A tub drain overflow test system employs a kit with a connecting pipe with a front cylindrical portion having an inner threading and an intermediate annular flange coaxial with the front cylindrical portion. The front cylindrical portion extends through an overflow hole of a tub so that the annular flange, optionally with a seal ring, abuts the rear surface of the tub wall. A test cap has outer threading that mates with inner threading of the front cylindrical portion. The test cap also has an annular flange and a breakaway test seal with a projecting grip tab. The test cap has an inner lip that provides a catch for inwardly extending tabs on a finishing fixture to robustly attach. The test cap allows the overflow drain to be tested and then a seal portion is removed to provide access to the opening and the finishing fixture is mounted in place.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Christopher Graham, Matthew J. Siena, Vincent Charest, Andrew Holden, Brian W. Suriner
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Patent number: 10439848Abstract: Systems, methods, and processor readable media for distributing digital data and electrical power to a plurality of devices over high-impedance cables are disclosed. Certain embodiments include a gateway device connected to a power source, a first device connected to the gateway device by a cable, the cable being a high-impedance cable having at least two conductive paths, and wherein the first device receives electrical power and digital data from the gateway device via the cable over the same conductive path of the cable, a second device connected to the gateway device by the cable wherein the second device receives power and digital data from the gateway device via the cable over the same conductive path, and wherein the power source provides power to the first and second devices via the cable, and wherein the second device is connected to the gateway device through the first device via a daisy-chain topology.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Audinate Pty LimitedInventors: Aidan Williams, Christopher Graham Ware
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Publication number: 20190285112Abstract: A manikin (1) comprising jointed body parts that are configurable to (1) closely mimic natural movement of corresponding body parts of a real baby and/or (2) closely mimic a range of poses or postures of a real baby. The baby manikin (1) includes a neck joint (11) (articulated ball and socket joint), a waist joint (12) (articulated ball and socket joint), a hip joint (13) (double ball and socket joint), two knee joints (14) (pin joints), two ankle joints (15) (articulated ball and socket joints), two shoulder joints (16) (double ball and socket joints), two elbow joints (17) (pin joints), and two wrist joints (18) (articulated ball and socket joints).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Brendon Jay MOFFAT, Sandra Jaye MOFFATT, Daniel Peter FREUND, Christopher Graham CONWAY LAMB
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Publication number: 20190276962Abstract: A method is described for forming reconstituted leather sheet material from a mixture of base fibres, such as leather fibres, and bi-component synthetic fibres which have outer layers which melt at a lower temperature than their inner cores. The fibres are mixed, formed into a web and then heated so that the synthetic fibres fuse together to form a network within the web. The base fibres are then tangled, whilst constrained by the network, preferably using hydroentanglement. A high quality reconstituted leather sheet material is thus produced.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2018Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventor: Christopher Graham Bevan
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Patent number: 10383871Abstract: Compounds of formula (I) are inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase, (FAAH), and which are useful in the treatment of diseases or medical conditions which benefit from inhibition of FAAH activity, such as anxiety, depression pain, inflammation, and eating, sleep, neurodegenerative and movement disorders: Ar1 is optionally substituted phenyl or optionally substituted monocyclic heteroaryl having 5 or 6 ring atoms; Ar2 is optionally substituted phenyl, optionally substituted monocyclic heteroaryl having 5 or 6 ring atoms or optionally substituted fused bicyclic heteroaryl having 5 or 6 ring atoms in each fused ring; and Ar3 is a divalent radical selected from optionally substituted phenylene and optionally substituted monocyclic heteroarylene radicals having 5 or 6 ring atoms.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: Vernalis (R&D) Ltd.Inventors: Stephen Roughley, Steven Walls, Terance Hart, Rachel Parsons, Paul Brough, Christopher Graham, Alba Macias
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Patent number: 10366559Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention relate to reducing a number of jams that can occur in an automated teller machine with the employment of a moveable platen that increases a width of a channel for documents. A document analysis area can receive a document via a first transport path, wherein the document analysis area can include a channel in which the document travels to enable at least one scan component to capture an image of the document. The channel is created by one or more platen. The one or more platen can be movable to increase the width of the channel so as to allow documents to pass-through the document analysis area without causing a jam or error for the automated teller machine.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 30, 2019Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf IncorporatedInventors: Sathish M. Irudayam, Timothy Allison, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael James Gardner, Aaron Christopher Graham, John E. McCloskey
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Publication number: 20190197925Abstract: An interactive kiosk configured to display items, attract consumers and maintain a consistent display appearance. The kiosk includes a vertically-oriented interactive display having an array of LED modules which are programmed to show images or other data related to intended purpose of the kiosk display. A combination of LED modules and non-visible filler panels behind a header panel can be included. One or more shelves, including optionally a top shelf having an interactive display is provided for displaying objects with which a user can securely interact, or otherwise select for purchase. The kiosk is adapted to mount to different retailer structures as needed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Christopher Graham Tewksbury, Li Xu, Nicholas Joseph Scalzi, Victoria A. Spielmann
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Publication number: 20190197602Abstract: An interactive display for a kiosk for mounting on an existing retail structure in order to display one or more objects comprises an LED module frame, a plurality of LED module mountings, and one or more LED modules comprising an array of LEDs, the modules being removably supported on the LED module mountings, wherein each of the LED modules are coupled to an electrical power source when mounted and individually detectable and programmable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Nicholas Joseph Scalzi, Victoria A. Spielmann, Christopher Graham Tewksbury, Li Xu
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Publication number: 20190191894Abstract: An interactive display for a kiosk for mounting on an existing retail structure in order to display one or more objects comprises an LED module frame having an edge having a coating and a grid, the grid including a plurality of mountings adapted to support LED modules, and one or more LED modules comprising an array of LEDs, the modules being removably supported on the mountings, and one or more removable filler panels adapted to occupy any of the plurality of mountings that do support an LED module, wherein the one or more filler panels are coated in a similar manner to the edge of the frame. Also, an assembly for inclusion in a kiosk comprises a frame, LED modules and filler panels supported on a continuous plane, and a translucent panel supported in front of the continuous plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2017Publication date: June 27, 2019Inventors: Li Xu, Nicholas Joseph Scalzi, Victoria A. Spielmann, Christopher Graham Tewksbury
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Patent number: 10324983Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can be visualized. For example, a processor can receive vectors indicating values of nodes in a gate of a RNN. The values can result from processing data at the gate during a sequence of time steps. The processor can group the nodes into clusters by applying a clustering method to the values of the nodes. The processor can generate a first graphical element visually indicating how the respective values of the nodes in a cluster changed during the sequence of time steps. The processor can also determine a reference value based on multiple values for multiple nodes in the cluster, and generate a second graphical element visually representing how the respective values of the nodes in the cluster each relate to the reference value. The processor can cause a display to output a graphical user interface having the first graphical element and the second graphical element.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: June 18, 2019Assignees: SAS INSTITUTE INC., NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Samuel Paul Leeman-Munk, Saratendu Sethi, Christopher Graham Healey, Shaoliang Nie, Kalpesh Padia, Ravinder Devarajan, David James Caira, Jordan Riley Benson, James Allen Cox, Lawrence E. Lewis
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Publication number: 20190034558Abstract: Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) can be visualized. For example, a processor can receive vectors indicating values of nodes in a gate of a RNN. The values can result from processing data at the gate during a sequence of time steps. The processor can group the nodes into clusters by applying a clustering method to the values of the nodes. The processor can generate a first graphical element visually indicating how the respective values of the nodes in a cluster changed during the sequence of time steps. The processor can also determine a reference value based on multiple values for multiple nodes in the cluster, and generate a second graphical element visually representing how the respective values of the nodes in the cluster each relate to the reference value. The processor can cause a display to output a graphical user interface having the first graphical element and the second graphical element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2018Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicants: SAS Institute Inc., North Carolina State UniversityInventors: SAMUEL PAUL LEEMAN-MUNK, SARATENDU SETHI, CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM HEALEY, SHAOLIANG NIE, KALPESH PADIA, RAVINDER DEVARAJAN, DAVID JAMES CAIRA, JORDAN RILEY BENSON, JAMES ALLEN COX, LAWRENCE E. LEWIS
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Patent number: 10192001Abstract: Convolutional neural networks can be visualized. For example, a graphical user interface (GUI) can include a matrix of symbols indicating feature-map values that represent a likelihood of a particular feature being present or absent in an input to a convolutional neural network. The GUI can also include a node-link diagram representing a feed forward neural network that forms part of the convolutional neural network. The node-link diagram can include a first row of symbols representing an input layer to the feed forward neural network, a second row of symbols representing a hidden layer of the feed forward neural network, and a third row of symbols representing an output layer of the feed forward neural network. Lines between the rows of symbols can represent connections between nodes in the input layer, the hidden layer, and the output layer of the feed forward neural network.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignees: SAS INSTITUTE INC., NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Samuel Paul Leeman-Munk, Saratendu Sethi, Christopher Graham Healey, Shaoliang Nie, Kalpesh Padia, Ravinder Devarajan, David James Caira, Jordan Riley Benson, James Allen Cox, Lawrence E. Lewis, Mustafa Onur Kabul
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Patent number: 10182652Abstract: A shelf unit for a kiosk which is configured to display items includes a plurality of dividers which maintain the items in respective positions on an insert disposed within a recessed top surface of the shelf. The insert includes a magnetically permeable material. A magnetic attraction exists between the dividers and the insert to secure the dividers in position. The dividers are movably positionable on the insert, with each of the dividers including a magnet and shielding material. The shielding material redirects magnetic flux emanating from the magnet toward the insert. The items are seated between the dividers on the insert.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Victoria A. Spielmann, Christopher Graham Tewksbury, Li Xu, Nicholas Joseph Scalzi
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Patent number: 10109139Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention relate to reducing a number of jams that can occur in an automated teller machine with the employment of a moveable platen that increases a width of a channel for documents. A document analysis area can receive a document via a first transport path, wherein the document analysis area can include a channel in which the document travels to enable at least one scan component to capture an image of the document. The channel is created by one or more platen. The one or more platen can be movable to increase the width of the channel so as to allow documents to pass through the document analysis area without causing a jam or error for the automated teller machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: Diebold Nixdorf IncorporatedInventors: Sathish Irudayam, Timothy Allison, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael James Gardner, Aaron Christopher Graham, John E. McCloskey
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Patent number: 10048826Abstract: Interactive visualizations of a convolutional neural network are provided. For example, a graphical user interface (GUI) can include a matrix having symbols indicating feature-map values that represent likelihoods of particular features being present or absent at various locations in an input to a convolutional neural network. Each column in the matrix can have feature-map values generated by convolving the input to the convolutional neural network with a respective filter for identifying a particular feature in the input. The GUI can detect, via an input device, an interaction indicating that that the columns in the matrix are to be combined into a particular number of groups. Based on the interaction, the columns can be clustered into the particular number of groups using a clustering method. The matrix in the GUI can then be updated to visually represent each respective group of columns as a single column of symbols within the matrix.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignees: SAS INSTITUTE INC., NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Samuel Paul Leeman-Munk, Saratendu Sethi, Christopher Graham Healey, Shaoliang Nie, Kalpesh Padia, Ravinder Devarajan, David James Caira, Jordan Riley Benson, James Allen Cox, Lawrence E. Lewis, Mustafa Onur Kabul
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Publication number: 20180158271Abstract: Systems and methods of the invention relate to reducing a number of jams that can occur in an automated teller machine with the employment of a moveable platen that increases a width of a channel for documents. A document analysis area can receive a document via a first transport path, wherein the document analysis area can include a channel in which the document travels to enable at least one scan component to capture an image of the document. The channel is created by one or more platen. The one or more platen can be movable to increase the width of the channel so as to allow documents to pass-through the document analysis area without causing a jam or error for the automated teller machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Sathish M. Irudayam, Timothy Allison, Jeffrey M. Eastman, Michael James Gardner, Aaron Christopher Graham, John E. McCloskey
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Publication number: 20180125624Abstract: A dental cleaning appliance includes a handle and a fluid delivery system. The fluid delivery system includes a nozzle for delivering a burst of working fluid to the teeth of a user. A contact member for engaging the teeth of the user is moveable relative to the nozzle as the appliance is moved along the teeth of the user. A sensor provides an output which varies with movement of contact member relative to the nozzle. A control circuit actuates the delivery of working fluid to the teeth of the user depending on the output from the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Robert Lawrence TWEEDIE, Timothy Nicholas STICKNEY, Christopher Graham VINCENT, Alan Harold Henry MOLE, Stephen Benjamin COURTNEY
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Publication number: 20180116390Abstract: A fluid delivery system for a dental cleaning appliance includes a nozzle for delivering a burst of working fluid to the teeth of a user, and a fluid conduit for conveying working fluid to the nozzle. A body of the nozzle defines a fluid chamber and a channel for conveying working fluid from the fluid chamber to a fluid outlet from the nozzle. The fluid chamber has a tangential inlet for receiving working fluid from the fluid conduit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2017Publication date: May 3, 2018Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Robert Lawrence TWEEDIE, Christopher Graham VINCENT, Thomas James Dunning FOLLOWS, James David COLEMAN, Andrew Nicholas WALTON
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Publication number: 20180110601Abstract: A dental cleaning appliance includes a fluid reservoir for storing working fluid, a nozzle for delivering working fluid to the teeth of a user, a light source for illuminating the fluid reservoir and a control circuit for activating the light source to generate an alert which is conveyed to the user through the illumination of the fluid reservoir.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2017Publication date: April 26, 2018Applicant: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Scott James MIGHALL, Christopher Graham VINCENT, Jonathan George MARSH, Sammantha Stephanie HARRIS, Boris ZUKINA, Michael Graham PROBERT, Christopher Daniel Currer WILKINSON
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Patent number: D839188Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Christopher Graham, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Paul Thompson, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer