Patents by Inventor David A. Thomas
David A. 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).
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Publication number: 20240085126Abstract: A heat exchanger assembly including an elongated tubular heat exchanger enclosure defining an interior chamber. A tube sheet is positioned within the interior chamber of the heat exchanger enclosure separating the interior chamber into a shell side and a channel side. The interior portion is configured to removably receive a tube bundle positioned within the shell side of the interior chamber. An annular sleeve member is positioned within the channel side of the interior chamber of the heat exchanger enclosure. An annular elastic torsion member is positioned within the channel side of the interior chamber of the heat exchanger such that the sleeve member is positioned between the tube sheet and the elastic torsion member. The elastic torsion member has an inner circumference deflectable relative to its outer circumference for torsioning the elastic torsion member.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Richard JIBB, David Thomas CREECH, Randy Lee EBERLY, Elizabeth MacLean MEACHAM, Henk BOEKHOUDER, Roberto GROPPI, Vincenzo Marco BRIGNONE, Trevor JAYE
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Publication number: 20240084452Abstract: A tray for a vaporization vessel that includes a tray having a side wall, a bottom plate, one or more apertures that extend through the bottom plate, and a duct that extends through and from the bottom plate. The tray configured to support a solid reagent to be vaporized. A method of assembling the tray that includes forming a first tray that has the side wall and the bottom plate. A vaporization vessel that includes one or more of the trays.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Bryan C. HENDRIX, Scott L. Battle, David J. Eldridge, John N. Gregg, Jacob Thomas, Manuel F. Gonzales, Kenney R. Jordan, Benjamin H. Olson
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Patent number: 11925491Abstract: A sterile holder for sterile surgical implants. The implant holder is an ergonomically shaped body of deformable material having an implant-receiving cavity similar in size and shape to the implant. To remove the implant from the holder, the surgeon mates a sterile tool to the implant and gently pries the implant out of the holder by deforming the body. Preferably the tool used to pry the implant out of the body is an insertion tool mated to the implant which is also used to insert the implant in a patient. In this way the surgeon retrieves the implant from its container without touching the container and directly inserts the implant in the patient without risking contamination: sterility is maintained for both the surgeon and the implant. In a preferred embodiment, the implant holder is configured to hold two pedicle screws and their set-screws.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Ingeniumspine, LLCInventors: David Brumfield, B. Thomas Barker, Murali Kadaba, Dennis Crandall
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Patent number: 11925306Abstract: A docking station for charging an autonomous floor cleaner includes a transmitter that can transmit a signal for detection by the robot. The docking station can include an opaque shroud for the transmitter and/or spring-loaded charging contacts. The autonomous floor cleaner can comprise a passive receiver that detects signals emitted from the docking station and a time-of-flight sensor for position/proximity sensing. The robot can selectively turn off the time-of-flight sensor when docking with or avoiding the docking station. Methods for docking, re-docking, low power charging, docking station avoidance, obstacle response during docking, and close-proximity docking are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: BISSELL Inc.Inventors: Andrew James Brouwers, David VanKampen, Jeffery Swan, Patryk D. Akhurst, Jared Thomas
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Patent number: 11926969Abstract: Fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives, and more particularly to fibrous structures containing filaments and solid additives wherein the fibrous structure has three or more regions that exhibit different characteristics and/or properties and methods for making same, are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Fei Wang, Arman Ashraf, Michael Donald Suer, John Daniel Algers, Cunming Song, Hailing Bao, Antonius Lambertus De Beer, David John Pung, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alexander P. King
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Publication number: 20240076520Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electrodepositable coating composition comprising an electrodepositable binder comprising an ionic salt group-containing film-forming polymer comprising active hydrogen functional groups, and a blocked polyisocyanate curing agent; a solubilized bismuth catalyst; and a guanidine; wherein the electrodepositable coating composition has a weight ratio of bismuth metal from the solubilized bismuth catalyst to guanidine of from 1.00:0.071 to 1.0:2.1 and/or a molar ratio of bismuth metal to guanidine of from 1.0:0.25 to 1.0:3.0. Also disclosed are methods of treating electrodepositable coating compositions, methods for making electrodepositable coating compositions, systems for coating a metal substrate, coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Elizabeth Stephenie Brown-Tseng, Lee Brent Steely, Richard F. Syput, Corey James Dedomenic, Christopher Andrew Dacko, Egle Puodziukynaite, Kevin Thomas Sylvester, Benjamin Kabagambe, Katie Marie Cumpston, David Alfred Stone
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Publication number: 20240075770Abstract: Systems are provided for an axle housing for a vehicle. In one example, system includes a differential housing comprising a modular Salisbury style center section comprising tube mounts configured to receive tube assemblies via a press fit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Scott L. STEWARD JR., Steven Thomas BYRNE, Ryan W. LASKEY, David G. MOSES, Benjamin J. PASSINO
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Patent number: 11922001Abstract: A method of operating a device, which includes providing a user interface with a display artifact; in response to an indication a user selected to copy the display artifact, storing multiple levels of detail of the display artifact; allowing the user to paste a selected level of detail by steps of: in response to an indication a user selected an input field and a paste command, displaying a plurality of paste options for pasting the display artifact into the input field, wherein the plurality of paste options each have a unique level of detail for representing the display artifact; allowing the user to select from the plurality of paste options; and in response to an indication a user selected a paste option from the plurality of paste options, pasting the display artifact with a level of detail associated with the selected paste option into the input filed.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Jared Brown, John Thomas Kimbell, Patrick Evan Little, Marianna Levant, Rory Akira Malcolm Fairweather, Lisa Marie Wright, Gurpreet Virdi, Grigoriy V Lyukshin, David Chege Gitau
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Patent number: 11922810Abstract: A vehicle adjustment system includes one or more processors configured to receive data from one or more sensors coupled to a vehicle that is in a stationary position. The one or more processors are also configured to analyze the data to determine whether an object is within a buffer zone surrounding the vehicle while the vehicle is in the stationary position. In response to determining that the object is within the buffer zone while the vehicle is in the stationary position, the one or more processors are configured to provide control signals to one or more driving components of the vehicle to reposition the vehicle to an alternate position.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)Inventors: Yevgeniy Viatcheslavovich Khmelev, Oscar Guerra, Jeffrey Neal Pollack, Janelle Denice Dziuk, Ashley Raine Philbrick, Ryan Thomas Russell, David Patrick Dixon
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Patent number: 11921911Abstract: A peripheral device, for use with a host, comprises one or more compute elements a security module and at least one encryption unit. The security module is configured to form a trusted execution environment on the peripheral device for processing sensitive data using sensitive code. The sensitive data and sensitive code are provided by a trusted computing entity which is in communication with the host computing device. The at least one encryption unit is configured to encrypt and decrypt data transferred between the trusted execution environment and the trusted computing entity via the host computing device. The security module is configured to compute and send an attestation to the trusted computing entity to attest that the sensitive code is in the trusted execution environment.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Stavros Volos, David Thomas Chisnall, Saurabh Mohan Kulkarni, Kapil Vaswani, Manuel Costa, Samuel Alexander Webster, Cédric Alain Marie Fournet, Richard Osborne, Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson, Graham Bernard Cunningham
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Patent number: 11922381Abstract: A distributed transaction system for enabling users to conduct transactions using services from third party service providers includes a central processing center with one or more communications interfaces to facilitate transactions initiated by users at a plurality of kiosks wherein each of the kiosks includes a user interface enabling a user to access a user selected service and a data store for storing configurations associated with services provided by the third party service providers, whereby a user interfaces with one or more of physical system resources of the kiosk to open a user identity session such that the kiosk is operative to facilitate at least one first user action with the physical resources to initiate a financial transaction and the central processing center is operative to execute at least a second action to facilitate the transaction and to communicate with a financial institution.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ganart Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Anthony M. Cacheria, III, David Hooker, Wayne Thomas McHugh, Kristopher Glover, Webb Edwards, Arthur Martin Holbrook, Barrett Jenkins, Purnendu Mishra, Mohamed Safir Salihu
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Patent number: 11923907Abstract: Devices, methods for analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) that perform high-dynamic range measurements based on optical techniques are disclosed. In one example aspect, an optical encoder includes a polarization rotator configured to receive a train of optical pulses, and an electro-optic (EO) modulator coupled to an output of the polarization rotator. The EO modulator is configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal and to produce a phase modulated signal in accordance with the RF signal. The optical encoder also includes a polarizing beam splitter coupled to the output of the EO modulator; and an optical hybrid configured to receive two optical signals from the polarizing beam splitter and to produce four optical outputs that are each phase shifted with respect to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLCInventors: Peter Thomas Setsuda DeVore, Apurva Shantharaj Gowda, David Simon Perlmutter, Alexander Thomas Wargo, Jason Thomas Chou
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Publication number: 20240069026Abstract: A method assessing tissue morphology using machine learning includes a step of training a machine learnable device to predict the status of a diagnostic feature in stained tissue samples. The machine learnable device is trained with a characterized set of digital images of stained tissue samples. Each digital image of the characterized set has a known status for the diagnostic feature and an extracted feature map provides values for a extracted feature over an associated 2-dimensional grid of spatial locations. A step of inputting the set of extracted feature maps is inputted into the machine learnable device to form associations therein between the set of extracted feature maps to and the known status for the diagnostic feature to form a trained machine learnable device. The status for the diagnostic feature of a stained tissue sample of unknown status for the diagnostic feature is predicted from the trained machine learnable device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: University of Southern CaliforniaInventors: David B. AGUS, Paul Thomas MACKLIN, Rishi Raghav RAWAT, Daniel Lee RUDERMAN
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Publication number: 20240073649Abstract: Network devices and a method for providing a session management function (SMF)-centric multicast and broadcast services (MBS) activation using group paging may include a SMF network device which is caused to receive a MBS activate message, the MBS activate message including a MBS session ID, determine a plurality of deactivated UE devices associated with the MBS session ID, the plurality of deactivated UE devices including idle UE devices, determine at least one AMF network device associated with each of the determined plurality of deactivated UE devices, and transmit an AMF MBS activate message to the AMF network device, the AMF MBS activate message including information related to at least one UE device associated with each of the determined at least one AMF network, the AMF MB S activate message causing the at least one AMF network device to trigger a group paging of the UE device.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Philippe GODIN, Horst Thomas BELLING, David NAVRATIL
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Publication number: 20240072130Abstract: A transistor and method of fabricating the same comprising a channel layer; an epitaxial barrier layer on the channel layer; an epitaxial cap layer on the epitaxial barrier layer; a dielectric layer on the epitaxial cap layer having an opening through to the epitaxial barrier layer; a gate having angled sidewalls in the opening of the dielectric layer; a mini field plate having angled sidewalls on the gate; and a gate top on the mini field plate, wherein the gate, the mini field plate, and the gate top form a “T” shape.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 29, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Matthew Thomas Dejarld, Eduardo M. Chumbes, Maher Bishara Tahhan, David Patrick Hunley
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Patent number: 11917384Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing speech signals in mixed reality applications. A method may include receiving an audio signal; determining, via first processors, whether the audio signal comprises a voice onset event; in accordance with a determination that the audio signal comprises the voice onset event: waking a second one or more processors; determining, via the second processors, that the audio signal comprises a predetermined trigger signal; in accordance with a determination that the audio signal comprises the predetermined trigger signal: waking third processors; performing, via the third processors, automatic speech recognition based on the audio signal; and in accordance with a determination that the audio signal does not comprise the predetermined trigger signal: forgoing waking the third processors; and in accordance with a determination that the audio signal does not comprise the voice onset event: forgoing waking the second processors.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: David Thomas Roach, Jean-Marc Jot, Jung-Suk Lee
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Patent number: 11905286Abstract: The invention relates to a compound which is a diazabicyclooctanone of Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: wherein R is as defined herein. The compounds are useful in the treatment of bacterial infection, in particular they are useful in reducing bacterial resistance to antibiotics. They are also useful in the treatment of bacteria which express serine-?-lactamase enzymes, in combination with antibiotics.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2019Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Antabio SASInventors: Simon Leiris, David Thomas Davies
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Patent number: 11900941Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for improving the integration of voice-interaction experiences to mobile devices, and improving user experience when interacting with mobile devices that provide voice-interaction experiences. A remote system may detect an event that indicates that a mobile device is to perform an action. The remote system may determine the mobile device is not connected to the remote system, and send a push-notification message to prompt the mobile device to establish a network connection with the remote system. The mobile device may send device-context data to the remote system that indicates a role of a periphery device connected to the mobile device. Depending on the role of the periphery device and the action to be performed by the mobile device, the remote system may send a command to the mobile device using the open network connection to cause the mobile device to perform the action.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: David Thomas Harper
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Publication number: 20240048829Abstract: A mount (coupler) is disclosed that is configured to connect an image capture device to an accessory. The mount includes a female component that is configured for connection to the accessory and which defines stops, and a male component that is configured for removable insertion into the female component. The male component includes: a body; arms that are supported by the body and which are configured for engagement with the stops to thereby connect the male component to the female component; and a power hub that is supported by the body and which is configured to receive a power cord along a longitudinal axis to thereby deliver power and/or data to the mount. The male component is configured for disconnection from the female component upon deflection of the arms beyond a threshold release distance that is less than a maximum transverse (e.g., horizontal) cross-sectional dimension defined by the power cord.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Matthew David Thomas, Matthew Craig Feddersen, Bessy Wen-Han Liang, John George Muhlenkamp, IV, Joseph Tucker, Huy Phuong Nguyen
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Patent number: D1013762Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Jordan Todd, Matthew David Thomas, Daniel J. Coster, Bessy Liang, Huy Phuong Nguyen