Patents by Inventor David A. Herman

David A. Herman 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: 11945170
    Abstract: Described herein are electrochemical-additive manufacturing methods and systems using such methods. A method comprises depositing a material onto a deposition electrode by flowing a current between that deposition electrode and each of multiple individually-addressable electrodes, forming an electrode array. These currents are independently controlled based on a target map and using deposition control circuits, each coupled to one individually-addressable electrode. The target map is generated by a system controller based on various characteristics of the system (e.g., the performance of each deposition control circuit and/or individually-addressable electrode, electrolyte composition) and the desired characteristics of the deposited material (e.g., deposition location, uniformity, morphology). Furthermore, when the deposition electrode and the electrode array move relative to each other, the system controller dynamically updates the target map based on their relative positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Fabric8Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: David Pain, Kareemullah Shaik, Joshua Gillespie, Jeffrey Herman
  • Patent number: 11920251
    Abstract: An electrochemical additive manufacturing method includes positioning a build plate into an electrolyte solution. The conductive layer comprises at least one conductive-layer segment forming a pattern corresponding with a component. The method further comprises connecting the at least one conductive-layer segment and one or more deposition anodes to a power source. The one or more deposition anodes correspond with at least a portion of the pattern formed by the at least one conductive-layer segment. The method additionally comprises transmitting electrical energy from the power source through the one or more deposition anodes of the plurality of deposition anodes corresponding with the at least the portion of the pattern formed by the at least one conductive-layer segment, through the electrolyte solution, and to the at least one conductive-layer segment, such that material is deposited onto the at least one conductive-layer segment and forms at least a portion of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: FABRIC8LABS, INC.
    Inventors: David Pain, Ian Winfield, Andrew Edmonds, Kareem Shaik, Jeffrey Herman, Michael Matthews, Charles Pateros
  • Patent number: 11885147
    Abstract: Theater designs including social media, and theater entrances configured to draw patrons into a main area of the theater including an entrance having a curved wall and curved walkway having a horizon drop-off for display of content related to a motion picture or other feature to be shown in the theater. The content may be interactive or otherwise linked to patrons passing a hallway including the curved wall. Spatialized sound corresponding to the video “moves” with objects in the video and with patrons as they traverse walkway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Douglas J. Gorny, Wilhelm Oehl, Vincent Voron, David Herman, Donald Burlock, Pascal Sijen, Christopher Roy Kukshtel, C. Matthew Cuson, Charles Q. Robinson
  • Publication number: 20230274386
    Abstract: The disclosure is generally directed to a vehicle, systems and methods for display stabilization including receiving a plurality of image data from sensors in a vehicle, receiving a plurality of measurements of road excitations from sensors in the vehicle, estimating a three-dimensional position of a driver or a passengers eyes based on the received plurality of image data, receiving apriori data from high definition maps, recorded accelerations of the vehicle, and stored data via a controller area network (CAN) bus, determining a prediction of motion of a display in the vehicle based on a fusion of the received image data, the plurality of measurements of road excitations and the apriori data, modeling the prediction of motion of the display in a convolutional neural network to form an initial estimate of a display stabilization position, and display computationally corrected images on the display based on the display stabilization position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Herman, Yashanshu Jain
  • Patent number: 11720601
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for accessing master data comprising a plurality of representative data records, where each representative data record represents a cluster of similar data records, and each similar data record has a confidence score indicating a confidence level that the similar data record corresponds to the cluster, and comparing a new data record to each representative data record of the plurality of representative data records using a machine learning model to generate a distance score. The systems and methods further provide for analyzing the cluster of similar data records corresponding to each representative data record in a selected set of representative data records to generate candidate values for the requested data field of the new data record, and generating a candidate score for each of the candidate values using the distance score and the confidence score to use in providing a recommended candidate value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Mengyuan Tao, Vishal Narender Punjabi, David Herman
  • Publication number: 20230103556
    Abstract: A system and method for bonding together a facesheet and an acoustic screen of an acoustic liner using a solid adhesive film having a first adhesive side opposite a second adhesive side are provided. The system includes a solid adhesive film having a first adhesive side opposite a second adhesive side; an acoustic screen bonded to the first adhesive side of the solid adhesive film; and a facesheet bonded to the second adhesive side of the solid adhesive film. The method includes bonding the facesheet to the first adhesive side of the solid adhesive film and bonding the acoustic screen to the second adhesive side of the solid adhesive film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Wendy Wenling Lin, David Herman
  • Patent number: 11565636
    Abstract: A current location and a destination location of a vehicle are identified. A stowage parameter is predicted based on the current and destination locations. A vehicle component is actuated based on the stowage parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Scheufler, David Joseph Orris, Stephen Jay Orris, Jr., Nunzio Decia, David A. Herman
  • Publication number: 20220389882
    Abstract: An acoustic core may include an array of resonant cells configured as a plurality of resonant cell groups. The resonant cell groups may include a plurality of resonant cells configured as a partitioned resonant cell that include a converging resonant cell and a diverging resonant cell. The converging resonant cell and the diverging resonant cell may be defined by a plurality of cell walls integrally formed with one another and a partition integrally formed with the plurality of cell walls. The partition may at least partially delimit the converging resonant cell from the diverging resonant cell. The converging resonant cell may define an upper resonant space delimited by the partition and a top face of the array of resonant cells. The diverging resonant cell may define a lower resonant space delimited by the partition and a bottom face of the array of resonant cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Wendy Wenling Lin, David Herman, Trevor Howard Wood, Nikolai N. Pastouchenko, Kishore Ramakrishnan, Timothy Richard DePuy, Robert William Davidoff
  • Patent number: 11490029
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) flicker mitigation system disposed on a vehicle captures multiple images of an exterior scene to determine whether a light that appears to be off is actually off, or whether the state of the light is actually on but erroneously shown in the system image captures as off due to temporal aliasing. The LED flicker mitigation system may obtain information from external infrastructure and contact other vehicles proximate to the captured scene to determine the true state of the LED light source by identifying homography using the vehicle image captures, infrastructure information, and vehicle sensors. The images may be shared amongst the vehicles to correctly determine the LED status and correct any erroneous LED state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Herman
  • Patent number: 11490023
    Abstract: This disclosure is generally directed to mitigating light-emitting diode (LED) imaging artifacts in an imaging system of a vehicle. In an example embodiment, the imaging system includes a first camera that operates under control of a first pulse trigger sequence, and a second camera that operates under control of a second pulse trigger sequence. The second pulse trigger sequence has a temporal offset with respect to the first pulse trigger sequence. The first camera captures an image of a light source, such as a traffic light containing LEDs. This image may contain an LED imaging artifact indicating that the traffic light is off. The second camera also captures an image of the light source. The temporal offset of the second pulse trigger sequence may eliminate the LED imaging artifact in the second image. A controller may compare the two images and determine that the traffic light is actually on.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Herman
  • Patent number: 11366135
    Abstract: Method and apparatus are disclosed for GNSS statistical speed calibration An example vehicle includes a wheel, a speed sensor for determining a first vehicle speed, an inertial sensor, and a processor. The processor may be configured for determining a second vehicle speed based on information from the inertial sensor and information from a satellite based system, determining that a difference between the first and second vehicle speeds is statistically significant, and responsively adjusting a value of the radius of the wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Anthon Mueller, Gregory William Farrey, David A. Herman, Christopher Henderson, Boris Gorovets
  • Publication number: 20220141368
    Abstract: This disclosure is generally directed to mitigating light-emitting diode (LED) imaging artifacts in an imaging system of a vehicle. In an example embodiment, the imaging system includes a first camera that operates under control of a first pulse trigger sequence, and a second camera that operates under control of a second pulse trigger sequence. The second pulse trigger sequence has a temporal offset with respect to the first pulse trigger sequence. The first camera captures an image of a light source, such as a traffic light containing LEDs. This image may contain an LED imaging artifact indicating that the traffic light is off. The second camera also captures an image of the light source. The temporal offset of the second pulse trigger sequence may eliminate the LED imaging artifact in the second image. A controller may compare the two images and determine that the traffic light is actually on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Herman
  • Publication number: 20220141375
    Abstract: A light emitting diode (LED) flicker mitigation system disposed on a vehicle captures multiple images of an exterior scene to determine whether a light that appears to be off is actually off, or whether the state of the light is actually on but erroneously shown in the system image captures as off due to temporal aliasing. The LED flicker mitigation system may obtain information from external infrastructure and contact other vehicles proximate to the captured scene to determine the true state of the LED light source by identifying homography using the vehicle image captures, infrastructure information, and vehicle sensors. The images may be shared amongst the vehicles to correctly determine the LED status and correct any erroneous LED state information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: David Herman
  • Patent number: 11321518
    Abstract: A method for machine learning based document editing is provided. The method may include receiving, from a client, one or more inputs associated with a document. A recommendation to include and/or exclude a clause, a term, and/or a line item from the document may be generated by at least processing the one or more inputs with a machine learning model. The recommendation to include and/or exclude the clause, the term, and/or the line item from the document may be provided to the client. Related systems and articles of manufacture, including computer program products, are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Debashis Banerjee, Prasanna Kumar Govindappa, David Herman, Krishna Hindhupur Vijay Sudheendra, Shruthi Jinadatta, Anilkumar Tambali, Pravinth Ganesan, Amit Saxena, Gaurav Rathi, Balaji Raghunathan, Hari Babu Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11262204
    Abstract: Data to initiate movement of a vehicle is received from a first user. The first user is identified. A determination is made whether to initiate the movement of the vehicle based at least in part on the data and the one or more characteristics of the first user. The movement of the vehicle is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Scheufler, David A. Herman, Nunzio Decia, Stephen Jay Orris, Jr., David Joseph Orris
  • Publication number: 20220004567
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for accessing master data comprising a plurality of representative data records, where each representative data record represents a cluster of similar data records, and each similar data record has a confidence score indicating a confidence level that the similar data record corresponds to the cluster, and comparing a new data record to each representative data record of the plurality of representative data records using a machine learning model to generate a distance score. The systems and methods further provide for analyzing the cluster of similar data records corresponding to each representative data record in a selected set of representative data records to generate candidate values for the requested data field of the new data record, and generating a candidate score for each of the candidate values using the distance score and the confidence score to use in providing a recommended candidate value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Inventors: Mengyuan Tao, Vishal Narender Punjabi, David Herman
  • Patent number: D935642
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Wilhelm Oehl, Mark Little, David Herman, Vince Voron
  • Patent number: D1000638
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Wilhelm Oehl, Mark Little, David Herman, Vincent Voron
  • Patent number: D1018517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: POPSOCKETS LLC
    Inventors: Karla-Sofia Zapata-Garcia, David Czarnecki, Michael Kory, Lawrence Herman Fong, Randy Yang Chiang
  • Patent number: D1022980
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: POPSOCKETS LLC
    Inventors: Vanessa Cantoli-Alves, Ivan Chen, Michael Kory, David Czarnecki, Lawrence Herman Fong, Randy Yang Chiang, David Barnett, David Willson