Patents by Inventor Daniel Thomas

Daniel Thomas 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: 20230270941
    Abstract: A computerized electro-mechanical drug delivery device configured to deliver at least one dose of two or more medicaments. The device comprises a control unit. An electro-mechanical drive unit is operably coupled to the control unit and a primary reservoir for a first medicament and a secondary reservoir for a fluid agent, e.g. a second medicament. An operator interface is in communication with the control unit. A single dispense assembly is configured for fluid communication with the primary and the secondary reservoir. Activation of the operator panel sets a first dose from the primary reservoir and based on the first dose and a therapeutic dose profile, the control unit is configured to determine a dose or range of the fluid agent. Alternatively, the control unit determines or calculates a dose or range of a third medicament. Further, a dispense interface for use with a drug delivery device is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Shane Alistair Day, Daniel Thomas De Sausmarez Lintell, Steven Wimpenny, Christopher Jones, Aidan Michael O'Hare, Barry Yates, Rober Frederick Veasey, Christopher James Smith, Malcolm Boyd, David Martin Leak, Carmen Patricia Keating, David Sanders, Elizabeth Anne Marshall
  • Patent number: 11742698
    Abstract: A method of adapting the charging of an accessory device includes transmitting a first transmission signal at a first transmission amplitude, measuring a receiving load of the first transmission signal, and if the charging device does not receive a response signal to the first transmission signal, transmitting a second transmission signal at a second transmission amplitude that is different from the first transmission amplitude.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Henri Antero Autio, Ibrahim Iskender Kushan, Carl Edward Picciotto, Daniel Thomas Nevistic, Oscar Hochun To
  • Patent number: 11728687
    Abstract: A device for inductively charging an electronic accessory includes a first portion, a second portion, and a spacer. The first portion includes a first transmission coil in a first plane where the first transmission coil is configured to generate a first magnetic field, and the second portion includes a first transmission coil in a second plane where the second transmission coil is configured to generate a second magnetic field. The spacer is positioned between the first transmission coil and the second transmission coil and between the first plane and the second plane. The spacer material magnetically insulates the second transmission coil from the first magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Casey Sean Callan, Stefan Jon Kristjansson, Daniel Thomas Nevistic, George Karavaev, Michael Francis Deily, David William Voth, Srinivas Reddy Nagampet
  • Patent number: 11724819
    Abstract: A method for detecting and reporting anomalies in operation of an aircraft. The method including the steps of: receiving real time data indicative of the operation of the aircraft, the real time data including at least one of the following parameters: ground speed, rate of deceleration of the aircraft, touchdown location, aircraft route, timing of aircraft route, ground movement activities and a maximum landing distance; based on the collected real time data, calculating a predicted performance of the aircraft, and alerting an operator when the predicted performance is outside of an acceptable performance for the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: EAGLE AEROSPACE LTD.
    Inventors: Stephen Lyle McKeown, Zindine Souiki, Ty Shattuck, Richard Thibodeau, Paul Edward Cudmore, Daniel Thomas Savery
  • Patent number: 11727697
    Abstract: A system performs optical character recognition (OCR) on an image displaying a portion of an object. An image classification system identifies the object in the image, based on which one or more object detection models identify labels associated with the object within the image. The system determines text of the identified labels using OCR, and analyzes the OCR resultant text for discrepancies and/or inaccuracies. In response to identifying a discrepancy, the system provides a recommendation for improving the accuracy of the OCR resultant text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Schultz, Daniel Thomas Harrison, Christopher Anthony Kemp, Michael A. Salem
  • Patent number: 11718816
    Abstract: A microplastic-free, in-vitro opacified detergent composition includes a surfactant component present in an amount of about 8 to about 65 weight percent actives and including (1) an alcohol ethoxy sulfate having a C8-C20 backbone that is ethoxylated with from about 1 to about 10 moles of ethylene oxide, (2) at least one non-ionic surfactant having an alkoxylated alcohol, and (3) at least one anionic surfactant having a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate. The detergent composition also includes water present in a total amount of from about 5 to about 90 weight percent, free fatty acids in a total amount from about 1 to 15 weight percent and a magnesium cation in a total amount of from 0.005 to 0.3 weight percent. The composition has a turbidity value of at least 250 NTU at 75° F.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Janet Coope-Epstein
  • Publication number: 20230243209
    Abstract: A pedestrian door system includes a door frame comprising a frame strike side, a frame hinge side, and a frame sealing surface that extends up each of the frame strike and frame hinge sides. A threshold extends between the frame strike and frame hinge sides and includes a base secured to a floor surface and a threshold sealing surface. A door panel includes a panel bottom side, a panel strike side, a panel hinge side, and a continuous gasket extending continuously along the panel bottom side and up each of the panel strike and panel hinge sides. A door hinge couples the panel hinge side to the frame hinge side and facilitates hinged movement of the door panel between an open position and a closed position in which the gasket seals against the frame sealing surface and the threshold sealing surface in a liquid-tight manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: James Satrom, Chad Joseph Rose, Nathan Joel Ueland, Daniel Thomas Satrom
  • Publication number: 20230241333
    Abstract: There is provided a non-combustible aerosol delivery system for filtering exhaled breath, the aerosol delivery system including: a power source; a mouthpiece; a removable filter unit; wherein in a first configuration, the filter unit is present and is in engagement with the non-combustible aerosol delivery system to provide an inhalate airflow path, adapted to convey vapor generated by the non-combustible aerosol delivery system to the user during an inhalation, and an exhalate airflow path, adapted to convey breath from the user during an exhalation into the non-combustible aerosol delivery system to the filter unit; wherein in a second configuration, the filter unit is not in engagement with the non-combustible aerosol delivery system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Hripsime GASPARYAN, Simon James COPLEY, Daniel Thomas AHEARN, Francesca Alys STEPHENS
  • Patent number: 11715121
    Abstract: A computer system for performing automated market research using an electronic survey is provided herein. The computer system includes a communications subsystem for receiving survey content data. The communications subsystem also receives survey response data from at least one respondent device. The computer system includes a memory for storing the survey content data and the survey response data. The computer system includes a processor configured to execute a survey programming application. The survey programming application includes a survey design application for creating a survey program from the survey content data. The survey program provisions the electronic survey to respondents via the at least one respondent device and collects the survey response data from the respondents. The survey programming application also includes at least one survey program quality assurance tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Schlesinger Group Limited
    Inventors: Sheng Yan Ni, Daniel Thomas, Shayne Quinton, Leo Hok Lai Pang
  • Publication number: 20230235951
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for time shifting when a cold storage facility is cooled that includes determining a thermal model of a cold storage facility, obtaining an energy cost model that describes a schedule of variable energy costs over a predetermined period of time in the future, determining an operational schedule for at least a portion of a refrigeration system based on the thermal model, the energy cost model, and a maximum allowed temperature, and powering on the portion the refrigeration system based on the operational schedule, cooling, by the powered portion of the refrigeration system to a temperature below the maximum allowed temperature, reducing power usage of the powered portion of the refrigeration system based on the operational schedule, and permitting the facility to be warmed by ambient temperatures toward the maximum allowed temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander James Woolf, Elliott Gerard Wolf, Daniel Thomas Wintz, Jesse Scott Tootell, Bryan Thomas Kaye, Jesse Dylan Crossno, Alexander Ming Zhang, Gabriel Len West, John Richardson Crawford, Tiara Lee Flewelling
  • Publication number: 20230217992
    Abstract: There is provided a non-combustible aerosol delivery system for filtering exhaled breath, the aerosol delivery system including a power source; a filter unit; an inhalate airflow path adapted to convey vapor generated by the aerosol delivery system to the user during an inhalation, and an exhalate airflow path adapted to convey breath from the user to the filter unit during an exhalation into the aerosol delivery system; wherein the filter unit contains at least one filter, and wherein the at least one filter comprises glass fiber, polypropylene, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Hripsime Gasparyan, Simon James Copley, Daniel Thomas Ahearn, Matthew Maurice Homburg
  • Publication number: 20230222439
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for determining a pick area arrangement for a storage facility. A method can include retrieving, by a computer system, historic pallet information for pallet SKUs and pick area information, determining, based on the information, a number of bays to allocate for each pallet SKU, determining, based on the information, a number of dynamic bays to allocate in the pick area, which receive pallet SKUs in high demand during a particular time, determining, based on the information, quantities of aisles to allocate as pick aisles in the pick area by simulating aisle arrangements with pallet SKUs from the historic pallet information and determining average travel times to complete pick orders having the pallet SKUs in the aisle arrangements, selecting the quantity of aisles providing a lowest average travel time, and assigning each pallet SKU from the historic pallet information to bays in the quantity of aisles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Wintz, Daniël Walet, Natalie Novitzky
  • Patent number: 11696747
    Abstract: Provided herein are devices and methods for analysis of male fertility. The invention provides self-contained, hand-held receptacles and systems for collection and analysis of semen samples and methods of using such devices to analyze semen samples. Also provided are processor-implemented and machine learning methods of analyzing semen sample data obtained using devices of the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Nanovare SAS
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas, Mohamed Hamza, Fanny Chesa
  • Patent number: 11692158
    Abstract: A washing agent portion unit including a) at least one first receiving chamber, b) at least one water-soluble film surrounding this first receiving chamber, and c) at least one first flowable washing agent preparation located in the first receiving chamber, which preparation contains, based on the total weight thereof, i) 40 to 80 wt. % surfactant; ii) 2 to 15 wt. % fatty acid; iii) 0.3 to 8 wt. % of salt of a divalent cation; iv) 8 to 35 wt. % solvent; d) at least one second receiving chamber which is surrounded by a water-soluble film and is filled with a second washing agent preparation which differs from the first flowable washing agent preparation, wherein the first receiving chamber and the second receiving chamber are directly adjacent to one another and separated from one another by a water-soluble film, and washing methods using these washing agent portion units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Frank Meier, Peter Schmiedel, Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Kathrin Schnepp-Hentrich, Berthold Schreck
  • Patent number: 11688982
    Abstract: A plug comprising: a plurality of pins or a plurality of sockets; a body portion housing the plurality of pins or the plurality of sockets and the body portion extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the plurality of pins or the plurality of sockets; a connection section connected to the body portion and extending from the body portion at an obtuse angle; and a cord connected to an end of the connection section; wherein the body portion and the connection section are connected at a joint and the joint includes a sub-flush radius on an underside of the joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignees: Gyrus ACMI, Inc., Gyrus Medical Limited, OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH
    Inventors: Friedemann Schreiber, Mario Arnold, Daniel Thomas, Kester Julian Batchelor
  • Patent number: 11681048
    Abstract: A LIDAR unit includes a housing defining a cavity. The LIDAR unit further include a plurality of emitters disposed on a circuit board within the cavity. Each of the emitters emits a laser beam along a transmit path. The LIDAR system further includes a first telecentric lens assembly positioned within the cavity and along the transmit path such that the laser beam emitted from each of the plurality of emitters passes through the first telecentric lens assembly. The LIDAR further includes a second telecentric lens assembly positioned within the cavity and along a receive path such that a plurality of reflected laser beams entering the cavity pass through the second telecentric lens assembly. The first telecentric lens assembly and the second telecentric lens assembly each include a field flattening lens and at least one other lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: UATC, LLC
    Inventors: James Allen Haslim, Michael Bryan Borden, Daniel Thomas Sing
  • Patent number: 11680225
    Abstract: A method for producing a liquid, surfactant-containing washing agent containing: i) 20 to 80 wt. % surfactant; ii) 2 to 15 wt. % fatty acid; iii) 0.3 to 8 wt. % of salt of a divalent cation; iv) 8 to 35 wt. % solvent; the method including the steps of: a) providing a first flowable washing agent preparation containing a surfactant, fatty acid and solvent; b) introducing the salt of a divalent cation into the liquid composition so as to form a salt-containing composition; c) mixing the salt-containing composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Frank Meier, Peter Schmiedel, Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Thorsten Ott, Piotr Tkacz, Stefan Hammelstein, Volker Blank
  • Patent number: 11674114
    Abstract: A method of making an opacified liquid detergent composition is disclosed. The method includes the steps of combining at least one anionic surfactant, a fatty acid, and water to form a mixture having a transparent optical appearance, then adding divalent cations to the mixture, and opacifying the mixture as the divalent cations interact with the fatty acid to form the opacified liquid detergent composition in the absence of a microplastic opacifier. The opacified liquid detergent composition having a turbidity value of greater than about 250 turbidity units (NTUs) measured utilizing a turbidity meter at about 24° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Daniel Thomas Piorkowski
  • Patent number: 11675098
    Abstract: A radiation spectrometer includes a scintillator, a photomultiplier, and one or more light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The scintillator receives radiation from the environment and emits light that is indicative of an energy of the radiation. The photomultiplier receives the light and outputs an electrical signal that is in turn indicative of the energy of the radiation. Spectral data can be generated based upon the electrical signal, wherein the spectral data indicates a number of radiation events in each of several energy bins. The one or more LEDs can emit LED light through the scintillator and toward the photomultiplier, wherein the LED light causes an LED peak in the spectral data that can be used to identify an absolute energy of radiation events in the spectral data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Kent B. Pfeifer, Loren E. Riblett, Jr., Ben Maestas, Daniel Thomas Holslin
  • Publication number: 20230166862
    Abstract: An introduced autonomous aerial vehicle can include multiple cameras for capturing images of a surrounding physical environment that are utilized for motion planning by an autonomous navigation system. In some embodiments, the cameras can be integrated into one or more rotor assemblies that house powered rotors to free up space within the body of the aerial vehicle. In an example embodiment, an aerial vehicle includes multiple upward-facing cameras and multiple downward-facing cameras with overlapping fields of view to enable stereoscopic computer vision in a plurality of directions around the aerial vehicle. Similar camera arrangements can also be implemented in fixed-wing aerial vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: Skydio, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Scott Thompson, Adam Parker Bry, Asher Mendel Robbins-Rothman, Abraham Galton Bachrach, Yevgeniy Kozlenko, Kevin Patrick Smith O'Leary, Patrick Allen Lowe, Daniel Thomas Adams, Justin Michael Sadowski, Zachary Albert West, Josiah Timothy VanderMey