Patents by Inventor Christopher Jones
Christopher Jones 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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Patent number: 12286828Abstract: An automated window mechanism having an electric motor attached to a sliding panel of a window configured to open and close the window by moving the sliding panel. The electric motor has a locked state in which the electric motor and sliding panel are stationary. The automated window mechanism also includes a monitor configured to detect an external force applied to the sliding panel while the electric motor is in the locked state. In response to the monitor detecting the external force while the electric motor is in the locked state, the positive lead and the negative lead are grounded, rendering the electric motor an electric brake. A method and system for preventing unwanted movement of an automated window are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: D&D-SW, LLCInventors: David R. Hall, Jerome Miles, Mark Madsen, Christopher Jones
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Publication number: 20250129939Abstract: Embodiments of a combustor assembly for a turbine engine are generally provided. The combustor assembly includes a first separable portion defining a dome assembly, and a second separable portion defining a deflector assembly. The first separable portion and the second separable portion are coupled together at a fitted interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Ryan Christopher Jones, Paul Christopher Schilling, Andrew Scott Bilse, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Donald Lee Gardner
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Publication number: 20250119596Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods that provide a novel framework for automatically and dynamically managing a media (or content) library, and effectuating electronic controls and/or notifications related to events of stored files. The framework can i) receive an electronic instruction corresponding to a deletion action for a stored video clip; ii) analyze a datastore comprising an account of a user that includes a collection of video clips corresponding to captured activity at a location associated with the user; iii) locate the video clip within the datastore in association with the user account; iv) delete the video clip from the user account; and v) modify the datastore by automatically inputting a data structure in place of the video clip at a location within the datastore previously held by the video clip, where the data structure includes interactive information associated with the video clip.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Ademco Inc.Inventors: Lindsey Freitag, Brett Vandenbussche, Christopher Jones, Peter Anderholm
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Publication number: 20250111437Abstract: A method and system for migrating a payment instrument portfolio. A payment network computer receives a payment instrument portfolio conversion request message from an issuer computer to convert a payment instrument portfolio from a prior payment instrument scheme to a new payment instrument portfolio based on a new payment instrument scheme. The request message includes information about existing payment instrument references from the prior payment instrument scheme. The payment network computer creates enrollments based on the information about the existing payment instrument references and sends a portfolio migration event notification message to a payment instrument requestor partner computer associated with a payment network payment instrument requestor identifier subscribed to a new event type for the payment instrument portfolio migration.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2023Publication date: April 3, 2025Applicant: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Kerstin Gleie, Christopher Jones, Ranjit Bhaskar, Liping Dai, Geoffrey Brookman, Brandon Haenlein, Mitchell Lee Wright
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Patent number: 12257439Abstract: A leadless pacemaker device configured to provide for an intra-cardiac pacing, including: processing circuitry configured to generate ventricular pacing signals for stimulating ventricular tissue, and a reception device for receiving a sensing signal indicative of an atrial activity, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to detect an atrial event derived from said sensing signal, wherein the atrial event is a valid atrial sense event, where a series of atrial events lie within a range for a normal atrial rate, and/or when the atrial rate variability is within a certain range indicating a regular atrial rhythm, wherein in case a valid atrial sense event is detected, the processing circuitry is further configured to: determine ventricular pacing events according to atrial events, calculate ventricular-atrial time delays, determine a correction value based a measured time delay and the calculated time delay, and adjust the ventricular pacing timing based on the correction value.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: BIOTRONIK SE & Co. KGInventors: Kurt Swenson, Shayan Guhaniyogi, Ravi Kiran Kondama Reddy, Christopher Jones, Madeline Anne Midgett, R. Hollis Whittington
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Patent number: 12259137Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine includes a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) dome including a swirler opening therethrough with a flare interface surface surrounding the swirler opening, a swirler assembly including (a) a secondary swirler having a threaded flare attachment portion, and (b) a flare having (i) a threaded secondary swirler attachment portion, and (ii) a dome interface wall that interfaces with the flare interface surface of the CMC dome, and a swirler-dome attachment member. The flare is connected to the secondary swirler via the threaded flare attachment portion and the threaded secondary swirler attachment portion, and the swirler-dome attachment member applies a force to the CMC dome to engage the dome interface wall and the flare interface surface so as to connect the CMC dome and the swirler assembly.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Gerardo Antonio Salazar Lois, Nicholas John Bloom, Daniel J. Kirtley, Shai Birmaher, Ryan Christopher Jones
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Publication number: 20250090242Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are provided for registering image data with robotic data for image-guided robotic catheters and other elongate bodies. Fluid drive systems can be used to provide robotically coordinated motion. Precise control over catheter-supported tools is enhanced by alignment of fluoroscopic and ultrasound image data, particularly for structural heart and other therapies in which the catheter will interact with soft tissues. A marker plate having a planar array of machine-readable 2D barcode markers may facilitate alignment of image and robotic data. Determining an ultrasound-based pose of a component in the ultrasound image field allows that component to effectively a fiducial for alignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2024Publication date: March 20, 2025Applicant: Project Moray, Inc.Inventors: Erik Stauber, Mark D. Barrish, Keith Phillip Laby, Steven Christopher Jones, Mark Chang-Ming Hsieh, Oliver John Matthews
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Patent number: 12173897Abstract: Embodiments of a combustor assembly for a turbine engine are generally provided. The combustor assembly includes a first separable portion defining a dome assembly, and a second separable portion defining a deflector assembly. The first separable portion and the second separable portion are coupled together at a fitted interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Ryan Christopher Jones, Paul Christopher Schilling, Andrew Scott Bilse, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Donald Lee Gardner
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Patent number: 12170730Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems and methods for validating transactions using a cryptogram. One embodiment of the invention is directed to a method of processing a remote transaction initiated by a communication device provisioned with a token. The method comprises receiving, by a service provider computer, from an application on the communication device, a request for a token authentication cryptogram, wherein the token authentication cryptogram includes encrypted user exclusive data. The service provider computer may generate the token authentication cryptogram to include the user exclusive data. The service provider computer may send the token authentication cryptogram to the application, where the token authentication cryptogram can be used to validate the transaction, and the user exclusive data is extracted from the token authentication cryptogram during validation.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2022Date of Patent: December 17, 2024Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Michael Cassin, Christian Flurscheim, Christopher Jones
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Publication number: 20240370567Abstract: A technique is directed to simulating a ransomware attack in a testing environment. The technique involves obtaining access to a testing environment in which to perform a simulated ransomware attack. The technique further involves, after obtaining access to the testing environment, loading prepared data into the testing environment. The technique further involves performing, as the simulated ransomware attack, a set of input/output (IO) operations based on a set of IO traces corresponding to an actual ransomware attack, the set of IO operations accessing the prepared data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2023Publication date: November 7, 2024Inventors: Rustem Rafikov, Philippe Armangau, Sathya Krishna Murthy, Christopher Jones, Bruce A. Zimmerman
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Publication number: 20240305628Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to enable a user to conduct a transaction using their credentials stored on a secure server computer (e.g., a computer associated with a partner such as another merchant) by merely presenting their authentication data at a physical location via an auxiliary device. An auxiliary device may be provided for interfacing with a partner's backend server (e.g., the secure server computer). In some embodiments, biometric authentication may provide a mechanism for a true seamless and potentially frictionless (in the case of modalities that do not require physical contact) interaction. Payment can occur without any need for a card, phone, wearable, or any other user device as long as the auxiliary device is able to recognize the user and retrieve a credential that can be linked to that user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2024Publication date: September 12, 2024Applicant: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Kyle Joseph Drechsler, Christopher Jones, Gayathri Venkat, Gavin Shenker, Raul Leyva, Janardana Sarma, Phillip Lavender, Leila Movahedian, Pinesh Roy, Eduardo Lopez
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Patent number: 12028337Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to enable a user to conduct a transaction using their credentials stored on a secure server computer (e.g., a computer associated with a partner such as another merchant) by merely presenting their authentication data at a physical location via an auxiliary device. An auxiliary device may be provided for interfacing with a partners backend server (e.g., the secure server computer). In some embodiments, biometric authentication may provide a mechanism for a true seamless and potentially frictionless (in the case of modalities that do not require physical contact) interaction. Payment can occur without any need for a card, phone, wearable, or any other user device as long as the auxiliary device is able to recognize the user and retrieve a credential that can be linked to that user.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventors: Kyle Joseph Drechsler, Christopher Jones, Gayathri Venkat, Gavin Shenker, Raul Leyva, Janardana Sarma, Phillip Lavender, Leila Movahedian, Pinesh Roy, Eduardo Lopez
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Patent number: 12008088Abstract: A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a communication comprising a real credential from a communication device and providing the real credential to a token computer. The token computer generates a token and a cryptogram, and the cryptogram is formed using a resource provider initiated transaction indicator. The method includes receiving, from the token computer, the token and the cryptogram, and transmitting, to a processing computer, an authorization request message comprising the token, the cryptogram, a resource provider identifier, and a transaction amount for a first transaction. The processing computer validates the cryptogram, exchanges the token for the real credential, stores the resource provider identifier, and forwards the authorization request message including the real credential, and the transaction amount to an authorizing entity computer. The method also includes receiving an authorization response message from the authorizing entity computer.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Visa International Service AssociationInventor: Christopher Jones
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Publication number: 20240175364Abstract: A method of forming a gas turbine engine component, the method including forming a plurality of cooling apertures in a preform structure of the component, the plurality of cooling apertures of the preform structure comprising a first cooling aperture and a second cooling aperture, wherein cross-sectional shapes of the first and second cooling apertures of the preform structure are different from one another, as measured in a same relative plane; and applying a coating to at least a portion of the preform structure to form the component, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the first and second cooling apertures of the component are approximately the same as one another, as measured in the same relative plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Daniel Endecott Osgood, Gregory Terrence Garay, Ryan Christopher Jones, Tingfan Pang
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Publication number: 20240158815Abstract: Compositions and methods for genetically modifying at least one nucleic acid sequence of interest in a polyploid organism.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: David Nielsen, Christopher Jones
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Publication number: 20240102392Abstract: An apparatus relating to a component for a turbine engine which generates a hot gas fluid flow, and provides a cooling fluid flow. The component having a wall separating the hot gas fluid flow from the cooling fluid flow and having a heated surface along which the hot gas fluid flow flows and a cooled surface facing the cooling fluid flow. At least one cooling hole including a connecting passage extending from a first inlet located at the cooled surface, to a first outlet located at the heated surface, the connecting passage defining a downstream flow direction from the first inlet to the first outlet, the connecting passage comprising a metering section fluidly coupled to the first inlet and defining a metered centerline and a diffusing section, downstream of the metering section, defining a diffused centerline, and fluidly coupling the metering section to the first outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Anquan Wang, Ryan Christopher Jones, Paul Christopher Schilling, Craig Alan Gonyou
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Patent number: 11907541Abstract: Techniques for providing an adaptive approach to prefetching data for sequential read streams in a storage system. The techniques can include performing prefetch operations for a sequential read stream in accordance with a prefetch distance and a prefetch size, counting or otherwise keeping track of occurrences of failure scenarios in the prefetch operations while servicing the sequential read stream, and modifying or adjusting one of the prefetch distance and the prefetch size based on the occurrences of the respective failure scenarios. In this way, host input/output (IO) latency can be reduced, and IO bandwidth can be increased, in the servicing of sequential read streams by the storage system.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Andrew Feld, Philippe Armangau, Christopher A. Seibel, Christopher Jones
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Patent number: 11899696Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to systems and methods for generating a multi-part place identifier with at least one part. The system includes logic to receive a location address and a place name wherein the location address is a validated address. The system includes logic to calculate a geocode for the location address and use the geocode to identify a geometrical boundary encompassing the location address. The system includes logic to convert the identified geometrical boundary to an alpha-numeric identifier forming a Where part of the multi-part place identifier. The system can use an input location address or a place name to match a previously generated and stored multi-part place identifier. The system can provide the generated or matched multi-part place identifier to a user for use in further analysis.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SafeGraph, Inc.Inventors: Auren Hoffman, Felix Cheung, Lauren Spiegel, Piotr W. Kozikowski Kruczkowska, Russ Thompson, Christopher Jones, Ross Epstein, Roshan George
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Patent number: 11898157Abstract: Compositions and methods for genetically modifying at least one nucleic acid sequence of interest in a polyploid organism.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of Arizona State UniversityInventors: David Nielsen, Christopher Jones
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Publication number: 20240033924Abstract: An apparatus, system and method of for certifying a sensor that at least partially navigates an autonomous mobile robot. The apparatus may include at least a robot body; at least one light source resident on the robot body proximate to the sensing camera such that the at least one light source is capable of at least partially irradiating a field of view (FoV) of the sensing camera, wherein the at least one light source has characteristics substantially mated to the sensing camera; and at least one processing system that provides the at least partial navigation. The at least one processing system may execute the steps of: actuating the at least one light source at a predetermined time and for a predetermined duration; monitoring data from the sensing camera for confirmation of the actuating; calculating at least one of the latency, throughput, and reactivity of the sensing camera based on the monitoring; and at least partially navigating based on the calculating.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Charles Martin, Christopher Jones