Patents by Inventor Christopher Pierce

Christopher Pierce 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: 20250056704
    Abstract: A light source system, preferably including one or more electron inputs, splitters, recombiners, and/or electron outputs, and optionally including one or more accelerator modules, input transports, radiator modules, and/or output transports. The system can optionally include one or more ancillary elements (e.g., electron optics elements). A method of operation, preferably including operating in a normal mode and/or operating in a backup mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: xLight Inc.
    Inventors: David Douglas, Robert Legg, Christopher Mayes, Bruce Dunham, Joseph Conway, George Randall Neil, Christopher Pierce, Colwyn Gulliford
  • Publication number: 20250055246
    Abstract: A light source system, preferably including one or more electron inputs, splitters, recombiners, and/or electron outputs, and optionally including one or more accelerator modules, input transports, radiator modules, and/or output transports. The system can optionally include one or more ancillary elements (e.g., electron optics elements). A method of operation, preferably including operating in a normal mode and/or operating in a backup mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: xLight Inc.
    Inventors: David Douglas, Robert Legg, Christopher Mayes, Bruce Dunham, Joseph Conway, George Randal Neil, Christopher Pierce, Colwyn Gulliford
  • Publication number: 20240360944
    Abstract: A Robotized manifold system including a pipe matrix including a first series of pipes extending according to a first direction and being comprised in a first layer of the pipe matrix and a second series of pipes extending according to a second direction transverse to the first direction and extending in a second layer of the pipe matrix, the pipe matrix being organized according to at least two walls extending transversally to each other or at least one curved wall, each wall including a portion of the first layer and the second layer; a plurality of bistable valves being distributed on the at least two walls or at least one curved wall, each bistable valve including a shutter body configured to constitute a portion of a pipe of the first series and a portion of a pipe of the second series in a line position and to link the pipes of the first series and second series in a transverse position; a robot with an arm configured to individually actuate each shutter body of the bistable valves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Alexandre CAILLOT, Christopher PIERCE
  • Publication number: 20240001789
    Abstract: An assembly for an electric vehicle charger. The assembly comprising an electric vehicle charger housing having a first side wall, a second side wall and a porous membrane providing gas communication between an interior and exterior of the housing. Arranged within the housing are one or more electronics modules, an output circuit, and a heat exchanger. The assembly also includes a first air channel located between the one or more electronics modules and the first side wall of the housing, the first air channel being in fluid communication with the output circuit and the heat exchanger, and a second air channel located between the one or more electronics modules and the second side wall of the housing, the second air channel being in fluid communication with the output circuit and the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Bernard Brian WALSH, David Andrew FINN, James McFarlane KENNEDY, Michael John WALTON, Jordan Christopher PIERCE, Calem Timothy WALSH, Aaron Jarvis PALM
  • Patent number: 11188852
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a recommendation engine of a process modeling server and automatically comparing tickets by the recommendation engine are disclosed. The recommendation engine may be generated by digitizing a seat map of a venue that characterizes one or more interrelationships between the seats. After creation, the process modeling server receives a notification that a ticket holder's ticket to an event taking place at a venue has been cancelled or become otherwise unavailable. The process modeling server compares one or more attributes of the now-unavailable ticket to one or more rules maintained by a recommendation engine of the process modeling server. The recommendation engine generates one or more substitute ticket alternatives based on the comparison for selection. The recommendation engine may refine the one or more rules over time based on actual customer selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: StubHub, Inc.
    Inventors: Sandy Ngo, Adriane McFetridge, Randolph Minde, Christopher Pierce, James Suller, Wagner Gomez
  • Publication number: 20200226500
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a recommendation engine of a process modeling server and automatically comparing tickets by the recommendation engine are disclosed. The recommendation engine may be generated by digitizing a seat map of a venue that characterizes one or more interrelationships between the seats. After creation, the process modeling server receives a notification that a ticket holder's ticket to an event taking place at a venue has been cancelled or become otherwise unavailable. The process modeling server compares one or more attributes of the now-unavailable ticket to one or more rules maintained by a recommendation engine of the process modeling server. The recommendation engine generates one or more substitute ticket alternatives based on the comparison for selection. The recommendation engine may refine the one or more rules over time based on actual customer selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Sandy Ngo, Adriane McFetridge, Randolph Minde, Christopher Pierce, James Suller, Wagner Gomez
  • Patent number: 10614384
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a recommendation engine of a process modeling server and automatically comparing tickets by the recommendation engine are disclosed. The recommendation engine may be generated by digitizing a seat map of a venue that characterizes one or more interrelationships between the seats. After creation, the process modeling server receives a notification that a ticket holder's ticket to an event taking place at a venue has been cancelled or become otherwise unavailable. The process modeling server compares one or more attributes of the now-unavailable ticket to one or more rules maintained by a recommendation engine of the process modeling server. The recommendation engine generates one or more substitute ticket alternatives based on the comparison for selection. The recommendation engine may refine the one or more rules over time based on actual customer selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: STUBHUB, INC.
    Inventors: Sandy Ngo, Adriane McFetridge, Randolph Minde, Christopher Pierce, James Suller, Wagner Gomez
  • Patent number: 10215338
    Abstract: A system for discharging hydrogen from two or more hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C) containing solid hydrogen storage material. The system includes at least one hydrogen supply line for connecting the hydrogen storage vessels to a hydrogen demand (3), and energy delivery system (6A, 6B, 6C) to provide heat to the hydrogen storage material in each hydrogen storage vessel to desorb hydrogen from the solid hydrogen storage material, and one or more supply connection conduits (4A, 4B, 4C) for connecting the supply line of lines to the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Each supply connection conduit has a backflow prevention device (5A, 5B, 5C) to prevent hydrogen in the supply line from flowing back into the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Also disclosed is a system for delivering a supply of hydrogen to a hydrogen supply line including a control system (7) to determine the timing of activation of an energy delivery system based (6A, 6B, 6C) on the hydrogen demand in the hydrogen supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: HYDREXIA PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Jordan Christopher Pierce, Matthew Campbell Greaves, Stephanie Maya Moroz, Andrew Charles Duguid, Alexander Warner Knight
  • Patent number: 10131184
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a resonator device includes a first chamber including a first leg portion extending in a longitudinal direction and a first shoulder extending in a transverse direction, and a second chamber positioned next to the first chamber at least partially along the longitudinal direction. The second chamber may include a second shoulder portion positioned next to the first leg portion and a second leg portion positioned next to the first shoulder portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies,LLC
    Inventors: James Mohan, Christopher Pierce, David Scott Rohweder
  • Publication number: 20170030526
    Abstract: A system for discharging hydrogen from two or more hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C) containing solid hydrogen storage material. The system includes at least one hydrogen supply line for connecting the hydrogen storage vessels to a hydrogen demand (3), and energy delivery system (6A, 6B, 6C) to provide heat to the hydrogen storage material in each hydrogen storage vessel to desorb hydrogen from the solid hydrogen storage material, and one or more supply connection conduits (4A, 4B, 4C) for connecting the supply line of lines to the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Each supply connection conduit has a backflow prevention device (5A, 5B, 5C) to prevent hydrogen in the supply line from flowing back into the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Also disclosed is a system for delivering a supply of hydrogen to a hydrogen supply line including a control system (7) to determine the timing of activation of an energy delivery system based (6A, 6B, 6C) on the hydrogen demand in the hydrogen supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Jordan Christopher Pierce, Matthew Campbell Greaves, Stephanie Maya Moroz, Andrew Charles Duguid, Alexander Warner Knight
  • Patent number: 9435489
    Abstract: A system for discharging hydrogen from two or more hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C) containing solid hydrogen storage material. The system includes at least one hydrogen supply line for connecting the hydrogen storage vessels to a hydrogen demand (3), an energy delivery system (6A, 6B, 6C) to provide heat to the hydrogen storage material in each hydrogen storage vessel to desorb hydrogen from the solid hydrogen storage material, and one or more supply connection conduits (4A, 4B, 4C) for connecting the supply line or lines to the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Each supply connection conduit has a backflow prevention device (5A, 5B, 5C) to prevent hydrogen in the supply line from flowing back into the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Also disclosed is a system for delivering a supply of hydrogen to a hydrogen supply line including a control system (7) to determine the timing of activation of an energy delivery system based (6A, 6B, 6C) on the hydrogen demand in the hydrogen supply line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Hydrexia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Jordan Christopher Pierce, Matthew Campbell Greaves, Stephanie Maya Moroz, Andrew Charles Duguid, Alexander Warner Knight
  • Publication number: 20160189060
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating a recommendation engine of a process modeling server and automatically comparing tickets by the recommendation engine are disclosed. The recommendation engine may be generated by digitizing a seat map of a venue that characterizes one or more interrelationships between the seats. After creation, the process modeling server receives a notification that a ticket holder's ticket to an event taking place at a venue has been cancelled or become otherwise unavailable. The process modeling server compares one or more attributes of the now-unavailable ticket to one or more rules maintained by a recommendation engine of the process modeling server. The recommendation engine generates one or more substitute ticket alternatives based on the comparison for selection. The recommendation engine may refine the one or more rules over time based on actual customer selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Sandy Ngo, Adriane McFetridge, Randolph Minde, Christopher Pierce, James Suller, Wagner Gomez
  • Publication number: 20160059624
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, a resonator device includes a first chamber including a first leg portion extending in a longitudinal direction and a first shoulder extending in a transverse direction, and a second chamber positioned next to the first chamber at least partially along the longitudinal direction. The second chamber may include a second shoulder portion positioned next to the first leg portion and a second leg portion positioned next to the first shoulder portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: JAMES MOHAN, CHRISTOPHER PIERCE, DAVID SCOTT ROHWEDER
  • Patent number: 8560657
    Abstract: The present invention teaches methods and systems for monitoring and controlling bandwidth usage between an internal local area network and an external network. By providing controls from inside the external network connectivity point, greater detail in bandwidth control is possible. This in turn leads to less restrictive bandwidth restricting algorithms. Bandwidth restricting algorithms include various bandwidth limiting techniques. One such technique uses prioritized data transfer limits applied on an application, process or network interface basis. Another technique uses a configurable weighting factor for real-time prioritization of data traffic. Other techniques incorporate quality of service or model predictive control based bandwidth limiting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable Enterprises LLC
    Inventor: Christopher Pierce Williams
  • Publication number: 20120312701
    Abstract: A hydrogen vessel comprising a fluid communication port, an outer vessel and an inner compartment. The inner vessel contains a hydrogen storage material, such as a metal hydride. In one embodiment the inner vessel is mechanically isolated from the outer vessel. The separation between the outer and inner vessel provides a peripheral volume between each vessel. The peripheral volume about the inner compartment may be fluidly isolated from the inner compartment. The hydrogen storage unit further includes a fluid pressure device in communication with the peripheral volume; and a controller for controlling the fluid pressure device during desorption and absorption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: Hydrexia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Matthew Campbell Greaves, Benjamin David Guymer, Jordan Christopher Pierce
  • Publication number: 20120298206
    Abstract: A system for discharging hydrogen from two or more hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C) containing solid hydrogen storage material. The system includes at least one hydrogen supply line for connecting the hydrogen storage vessels to a hydrogen demand (3), an energy delivery system (6A, 6B, 6C) to provide heat to the hydrogen storage material in each hydrogen storage vessel to desorb hydrogen from the solid hydrogen storage material, and one or more supply connection conduits (4A, 4B, 4C) for connecting the supply line or lines to the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Each supply connection conduit has a backflow prevention device (5A, 5B, 5C) to prevent hydrogen in the supply line from flowing back into the hydrogen storage vessels (1A, 1B, 1C). Also disclosed is a system for delivering a supply of hydrogen to a hydrogen supply line including a control system (7) to determine the timing of activation of an energy delivery system based (6A, 6B, 6C) on the hydrogen demand in the hydrogen supply line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: Hydrexia Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Jordan Christopher Pierce, Matthew Campbell Greaves, Stephanie Maya Moroz, Andrew Charles Duguid, Alexander Warner Knight
  • Patent number: 8130651
    Abstract: A system and method for providing a hybrid fiber network (HFN) means to identify a fiber node by a unique address. An addressing module is installed in proximity to, or collocated with, a fiber node. The addressing module comprises an addressing module identifier that associates the addressing module with a particular fiber node. Network parameter values are received from the fiber node by the addressing module and reported to a reporting station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Pierce Williams, Kenneth Gould
  • Publication number: 20120050853
    Abstract: A portable microscope is provided comprising a body; a light source comprising a flash light for generating illumination, an objective lens having an optical axis, a stage for holding an object to be observed, and a mirror positioned along the objective optical axis on the other side of the objective lens, wherein the mirror reflects the illumination from the light source along the objective optical axis to an eyepiece. In some embodiments, the light source may be a fluorescent light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Andrew Ross Miller, Z. Maria Oden, Robert H. J. Miros, Margaret Birmingham Mittan, Mark Christopher Pierce, Rebecca Richards-Kortum
  • Patent number: 7895665
    Abstract: The detection of devices with duplicate media access controller (MAC) addresses in a cable network. A cable network device (CND) having a MAC address is connected by the cable network to a cable modem termination system (CMTS) having a gateway interface address. A centralized storage of historical cable modem MAC address/giaddr tuple data is used to identify CNDs that report duplicate MAC addresses. The cable network tracks the CND MAC address/giaddr tuple data of all CND requests that it receives and stores the MAC address/giaddr tuple data into a datastore (such as a database). When a CND seeks to access the network, the cable network looks into the datastore to determine whether the CND MAC address of the CND has previously been stored with a different associated giaddr, which would imply that there are multiple CNDs attached to different CMTSs where the CNDs share the same MAC address. If such duplication is detected, an appropriate remedial response is taken.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: Time Warner Cable, a division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Kenneth Gould, Christopher Pierce Williams
  • Patent number: 7836097
    Abstract: A system includes a metadata model arranged to express concepts in a domain as a domain model. The domain model includes domain elements and at least one hierarchical relationship between domain elements. The system also includes at least one given instance representation of the domain model, which includes instance data stored in a repository. A user interface is associated with the domain model and configured to at least create, view and modify at least one given instance representation of the domain model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Eugene H. Blackstone, William H. Stellhorn, Chimezie Thomas-Ogbuji, Christopher Pierce, Peter Kisuule