Patents by Inventor Christopher Stephens

Christopher Stephens 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: 11621924
    Abstract: A proxy server automatically includes web applications in web pages at the network level. The proxy server receives, from a client device, a request for a network resource at a domain and is hosted at an origin server. The proxy server retrieves the requested network resource. The retrieved network resource does not include the web applications. The proxy server determines that the web applications are to be installed within the network resource. The proxy server automatically modifies the retrieved network resource to include the web applications. The proxy server transmits a response to the client device that includes the modified network resource. The network resource may remain unchanged at the origin server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Browning Prince, Matthieu Philippe François Tourne, Christopher Stephen Joel, John Brinton Roberts, Michael Jonas Sofaer, Jason Thomas Walter Benterou
  • Patent number: 11617623
    Abstract: A system for providing a perspective for a virtual image includes an intraoperative imaging system (110) having a transducer (146) configured to generate an image data set for a region. A shape sensing enabled device (102) is configured to have at least a portion of the shape sensing enabled device positioned relative to the region. The shape sensing enabled device has a coordinate system registered with a coordinate system of the intraoperative imaging system. An image generation module (148) is configured to render a virtual image (152) of at least a portion of the region using the image data set wherein the virtual image includes a vantage point relative to a position on the shape sensing enabled device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen Hall, Bharat Ramachandran, Molly Lara Flexman, Aleksandra Popovic
  • Publication number: 20230096182
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for identifying a potential malicious event. The method includes receiving a plurality of program actions comprising at least a first program action and a second program action. The first program action is initiated before the second program action. The method also includes comparing the plurality of program actions with at least one known malicious event pattern of actions. The at least one malicious event pattern of actions includes a sequence of program actions in a known malicious event. The method further includes determining a potential malicious event is occurring based on the comparison of the plurality of program actions with at least one known malicious event pattern of actions. The method still further includes determining a preventative response based on the potential malicious event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tomas M. Castrejon, III, Christopher Daniel Birch, Christopher Stephen Littrell
  • Publication number: 20230086948
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid hand dishwashing cleaning composition including a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes an anionic surfactant and a co-surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant includes a mixture of a linear anionic surfactant and a branched anionic surfactant with a defined degree of branching and with the branching predominantly on an unalkoxylated alkyl sulfate surfactant. Such compositions exhibit surprising and unexpected improved sudsing profile, preferably stable suds, especially when the manual dishwashing is performed in a sink full of water with the cleaning composition diluted in it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Jan Julien Marie-Louise BILLIAUW, Roel KROLS, Christopher Stephen JONES
  • Publication number: 20230061347
    Abstract: Disclosed are system architectures and techniques for multiple access points for a data container. Control plane and data plane APIs are disclosed for generating access points and associating the access points with data containers, as well as for generating access point policies that specify permissions for the access points. More than one access point may be associated with a single data container. A storage service receives requests directed to the access points, and grants or denies the requests based on the permissions specified in the corresponding policies. Various types of use cases for using access policies are contemplated such as default, regional, or network-based (e.g., VPC-based) use-cases or the like. A system may implement layers of policies such as identity and access management policies, access point policies and data container policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Malik Bouchet, Chandan Talukdar, Christopher A. Stephens, Anna Viktorivna Druzkina, Richard M. Sears
  • Patent number: 11583697
    Abstract: A system with integrated tracking includes a procedure-specific hardware component (112 or 116) disposed at or near a region of interest. A field generator (114) is configured to generate a field with a field of view covering the region of interest. A mounting device (115) is connected to the field generator and is coupled to the procedure-specific hardware. The field generator is fixedly positioned by the mounting device to permit workflow access to the region of interest without interfering with the field generator and to provide a known position of the field generator relative to the region of interest. A tracking device (110) is configured to be inserted in or near the region of interest to be tracked within the field of view of the field generator to generate tracking data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Jochen Kruecker, Shyam Bharat, Cynthia Ming-Fu Kung, Christopher Stephen Hall, Falk Uhlemann
  • Publication number: 20230009147
    Abstract: A surgical suction device (10) comprising: a connector (12), a surgical cavity insertion tube (14), and a suction tip (16), wherein the surgical cavity insertion tube (14) is connected at a proximal end thereof to the connector (12) and at a distal end thereof to the suction tip (16). The suction tip (16) comprises an inner hollow shaft (18) and an outer hollow shaft (20) coaxial to each other, the inner hollow shaft (18) having a first central opening (22) at a distal end thereof, and the outer hollow shaft (20) having an end wall (24) at a distal end thereof, wherein the end wall (24) has a second central opening (26) in axial alignment with the first central opening (22) of the inner hollow shaft (18). The outer hollow shaft (20) has one or more openings (28) on a lateral wall (30) thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Stephen BLACKLOCK
  • Publication number: 20230002779
    Abstract: This technology relates in part to methods of identifying plant cultivars based on the terpene synthase genes that are identified and/or quantified (e.g., copy number, ploidy) in the cultivars. The methods provided herein permit plant cultivars with desired characteristics/phenotypes, e.g., a desired terpene production profile, to be selected for use in various applications, such as agriculture (e.g., selecting cultivars for breeding desired characteristics and/or lineages) and medicine (e.g., therapeutic activity).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen PAULI, Anthony TORRES, Reginald GAUDINO, Keith ALLEN, Thomas BLANK, Kymron DE CESARE
  • Patent number: 11537516
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for using a distributed cache architecture with different methods to load balance requests depending upon whether a requested data item is a freely-requested item (e.g., a “hot key”). The cache may be implemented as a consistent hash ring, and most keys may be assigned to particular node based on a consistent hash. For hot key requests, the requests may be distributed among a subset of nodes rather than being assigned to a specific node using consistent hashing. When a witness service is used to ensure that cached data is fresh, verification requests for data regarding hot keys may be batched to avoid overloading the witness service with hot key requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Michael Jung, Slavcho Georgiev Slavchev, Nishant Jain, Vishwas Narendra, Nikhil Shah, James Zuber, Sameer Choudhary, Christopher A. Stephens, Suchindra Yogendra Agarwal, Phillip H. Pruett
  • Patent number: 11530370
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a liquid hand dishwashing cleaning composition including a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes an anionic surfactant and a co-surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant includes a mixture of a linear anionic surfactant and a branched anionic surfactant with a defined degree of branching and with the branching predominantly on an unalkoxylated alkyl sulfate surfactant. Such compositions exhibit surprising and unexpected improved sudsing profile, preferably stable suds, especially when the manual dishwashing is performed in a sink full of water with the cleaning composition diluted in it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jan Julien Marie-Louise Billiauw, Roel Krols, Christopher Stephen Jones
  • Patent number: 11524927
    Abstract: Monoethylene glycol (MEG) may be reclaimed by a process that includes contacting a MEG-water-salt stream with a heat transfer fluid and then flash separating the MEG and water in the flash separator vessel where the pressure is higher than 0.3 barA (0.03 MPa), the temperature is in the range of above 120° C. to about 250° C., and the residence time of the MEG and water ranges from about 1 second to about 10 minutes, and then removing the MEG and water in an overhead of the flash separator vessel and removing the salt from the flash separator vessel. In some embodiments it is expected that the temperature of the process may range from above 165° C. to about 250° C. and/or that the pressure may be atmospheric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: CAMERON INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen King, Brian Edward Messenger, Harihara V. Nemmara, Z. Frank Zheng, Shihui Zhou
  • Patent number: 11501451
    Abstract: Presented are concepts for detecting subject motion in medical imaging of a subject. One such concept obtains a motion classification model representing relationships between motion of image features and subject motion values. For each of a plurality of medical slice images of an imaged volume of the subject, an image feature of the medical slice image is extracted. Based on the extracted image feature for each of the plurality of medical slice images, motion information for the image feature is determined. Based on the motion information for the image feature and the obtained motion classification model, a subject motion value is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Dinesh Mysore Siddu, Krishnamoorthy Palanisamy, Christopher Stephen Hall, Nagaraju Bussa
  • Patent number: 11477725
    Abstract: Disclosed are system architectures and techniques for multiple access points for a data container. Control plane and data plane APIs are disclosed for generating access points and associating the access points with data containers, as well as for generating access point policies that specify permissions for the access points. More than one access point may be associated with a single data container. A storage service receives requests directed to the access points, and grants or denies the requests based on the permissions specified in the corresponding policies. Various types of use cases for using access policies are contemplated such as default, regional, or network-based (e.g., VPC-based) use-cases or the like. A system may implement layers of policies such as identity and access management policies, access point policies and data container policies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Malik Bouchet, Chandan Talukdar, Christopher A. Stephens, Anna Viktorivna Druzkina, Richard M. Sears
  • Patent number: 11447721
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hand dishwashing cleaning composition including a surfactant system, wherein the surfactant system includes an anionic surfactant and a co-surfactant, wherein the anionic surfactant includes a mixture of a linear anionic surfactant and a branched anionic surfactant with a defined degree of branching on an alkyl ethoxy sulfate surfactant. Such compositions exhibit surprising and unexpected improved sudsing profile, preferably stable suds, especially when the manual dishwashing is performed in a sink full of water with the cleaning composition diluted in it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jan Julien Marie-Louise Billiauw, Roel Krols, Christopher Stephen Jones
  • Patent number: 11440816
    Abstract: A method of sanitising seawater at a subsea location comprises: exposing flow of seawater in a treatment reactor to UV radiation that sanitises the seawater without the addition of sanitising chemicals; and outputting the sanitised seawater from the reactor into a subsea structure such as a pipeline or a wellhead. The flow of seawater may be exposed to successive emitters of UV radiation such as pressure-compensated LEDs. The efficacy of sanitisation may be determined by: injecting a tracer fluid into the flow of seawater upstream of the reactor; and, downstream of the reactor, sensing transformation of the tracer fluid due to exposure of the tracer fluid to the UV radiation in the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Subsea 7 Norway AS
    Inventors: Olivier Benjamin Labulle, Hans Anton Kros, Christopher Stephen Mancini
  • Patent number: 11348229
    Abstract: There is provided a computer-implemented method and system (100) for determining regions of hyperdense lung parenchyma in an image of a lung. The system (100) comprises a memory (106) comprising instruction data representing a set of instructions and a processor (102) configured to communicate with the memory and to execute the set of instructions. The set of instructions, when executed by the processor (102), cause the processor (102) to locate a vessel in the image, determine a density of lung parenchyma in a region of the image that neighbours the located vessel, and determine whether the region of the image comprises hyperdense lung parenchyma based on the determined density, hyperdense lung parenchyma having a density greater than ?800 HU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Rafael Wiemker, Axel Saalbach, Jens Von Berg, Tom Brosch, Tim Philipp Harder, Fabian Wenzel, Christopher Stephen Hall
  • Publication number: 20220162170
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides polymorphs and formulations of 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile (compound I). The present disclosure further provides methods for treating ocular surface pain by administering 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile (compound I). The present invention also provides methods for treating dry eye disease and ocular hyperemia by administering 4-(7-hydroxy-2-isopropyl-4-oxo-4H-quinazolin-3-yl)-benzonitrile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Paul BULLOCK, Chinmay MAHESHWARI, Quintus MEDLEY, Muneto MOGI, Michela MONTECCHI-PALMER, Gregory MORANDI, Michael MUTZ, Kalliopi STASI, Christopher Stephen TOWLER
  • Patent number: 11333105
    Abstract: A thrust chamber liner includes a metallic combustion chamber having an annular protrusion extending radially away from an exterior surface of the combustion chamber adjacent to its injector opening. A metallic nozzle is coupled to the combustion chamber at its throat opening. A composite material encases the exterior surface of the combustion chamber, but is only bonded to the annular protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASA
    Inventors: Paul R. Gradl, William C. C. Brandsmeier, Sandra Elam Greene, Justin R. Jackson, Cory R. Medina, Omar R. Mireles, Christopher Stephen Protz
  • Patent number: 11257595
    Abstract: A low-power platform senses an environment around the platform. The platform includes sensor interfaces, a multiplexer, a dual port memory, a processor, and a radio. The similar sensor interfaces are for attaching environmental sensors. The multiplexer combines the environmental data from the attached environmental sensors into a single stream. The dual port memory temporarily stores the stream. The processor intermittently retrieves the stream from the dual port memory. The radio forwards the stream toward a central system. Each interface includes a mechanical interlock for attaching a respective environmental sensor and an electrical interlock for detecting whether the mechanical interlock engages the environmental sensor. Each interface transfers peripheral power and environmental data for the respective environmental sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Laura Catherine Tolliver, Kevin Paul Votapka, Scott Christopher Batson, Bruce James Billian, Tony Donald Stafford, Kaitlyn Rebecca Bub, Hunter Joseph Smith, Lucas Duane Powell, Wesley Jamel Jones, Brandon Scott Lood, Joshua James Murphy, Kevin Joseph Pinzhoffer, Christopher Stephen Williams, Peyton Cavaroc, Alicia Hilton
  • Publication number: 20220042088
    Abstract: The technology relates in part to methods and compositions for detecting one or more pathogens in plants. In some aspects, the technology relates to methods and compositions for detecting hops latent viroid in plants. In some aspects, the technology relates to methods and compositions for detecting hops latent viroid in cannabis plants. In some aspects, the technology relates to methods and compositions for classifying a hops latent viroid genotype. In certain aspects, the technology relates to methods and compositions for determining the presence, absence and/or amount of one or more pathogens in plants, either independently or simultaneously. In aspects, the pathogen is a virus. In some aspects, the virus is selected from among one or more of hops latent viroid, beet curly top virus and alfalfa mosaic virus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen PAULI, Reginald GAUDINO, Anthony TORRES, Christopher Stephen ZALEWSKI