Patents by Inventor David Adams
David Adams 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: 20240126721Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for sorting one or more files hosted by a collaborative application. In one aspect, one or more activity signals associated with one or more files hosted by the collaborative application may be received from a substrate. An activity-based sort order may be determined using at least a combination of the one or more activity signals. The activity-based sort order may be applied to sort the one or more files hosted by the collaborative application for display in a user interface to an activity object of the collaborative application.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: David Adam STEPHENS, Shane Michael CHISM, Nathan Darrel KILE, JR., Angela Kaye ALLISON, Dan ZARZAR, Douglas Lane MILVANEY, Manoj SHARMA
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Patent number: 11957503Abstract: Electronic stethoscopes may have various accessories, modular components, and various configurations for powering the various components and accessories of the electronic stethoscope. In one embodiment, an electronic stethoscope apparatus includes a microphone configured to generate an electrical signal in response to received sound from a living subject; amplification circuitry; a speaker operably coupled to the amplification circuitry to output the electric signal after amplification; and a power supply configured to power the amplification circuitry. Circuitry for advanced signal processing may also be included, such as noise cancelling circuitry. The electronic stethoscope may also include removable electronic modules for wired or wireless headphones, battery packs, lights, and/or an electronic device for implementing the percussive method.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Star Luminal LLCInventors: David Julian Friedman, Sarah Elizabeth Friedman, Christopher Adam Leedy, Ronald Graczyk
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Publication number: 20240115446Abstract: A remotely deployed, inflatable device designed to reduce or eliminate falls in senior living and assisted care facilities. Upon detecting undesired movement, nurses may deploy one or more inflatable cylinders, thereby inflating the device under one or both sides of the mattress, creating a barrier that prevents the resident from exiting the bed until on-site assistance arrives. It is envisioned that initially the operation of the device will rely on the remote monitoring of residents by one or more operators via live camera feeds. In more advanced versions it is envisioned that software and artificial intelligence will be able to use one or more camera feeds and will be able to supplement or even replace the need for a person to monitor any camera feeds.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: David Adams, Brian Cyphert, Robert Herron, Jarmaine Go, Bruce Rothmann, Robert Stanley
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Patent number: 11950713Abstract: Systems disclosed herein are directed to a display stand unit for a retail environment. The display stand unit includes a base having an interior and a display stand. The display stand includes a stem that connects to and extends upwardly from the base and a receiving surface that is suspended above and spaced away from the base by the stem. The receiving surface is configured to releasably hold an electronic device above and spaced away from the base. The display stand unit further includes a security cable that extends out from the base. The security cable is configured to attach to the electronic device to movably secure the electronic device to the base. The display stand unit further includes a retractor disposed within the interior of the base and connected to the security cable. The retractor automatically retracts the security cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: David Samuel Kumka, Clayton R. Woosley, Daniel S. Foster, Eric Weijia Wang, Gregory R. Ritter, Joshua Adams, Christopher Hu, Priya K. Nambiar
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Patent number: 11944551Abstract: A joint spacer therapeutically maintains separation of bones of a joint. A carriage is slideably retained within the frame and has at least one ramped surface. An actuator screw is threadably engaged with the frame, and rotatably connected to the carriage, to cause the carriage to slideably move within the frame when the actuator screw is rotated. First and second endplates engage the bones of the joint, and each has at least one ramped surface that is mateable with the ramped surface of the carriage, whereby when the carriage is slideably moved by rotation of the actuator screw, the endplates ramped surface slides against the carriage ramped surface to cause the endplates to move along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the frame, to increase the height of the spacer. Piercing elements are connected to the carriage to pierce bone of the joint when the carriage is moved.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Jody L. Seifert, Chad Glerum, Mark Weiman, Mark Adams, David C. Paul, Jason Zappacosta
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Patent number: 11947591Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to processing imagery using one or more machine learning (ML) models. In particular, data describing imagery comprising a plurality of different and distinct frames can be received; and based at least in part on one or more ML models and the data describing the imagery, and for each frame of the plurality of different and distinct frames, one or more scores can be determined for the frame. Each score of the score(s) can indicate a determined measure of suitability of the frame with respect to one or more of various different and distinct uses for which the ML model(s) are configured to determine suitability of imagery.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: David Karam, Li Zhang, Ariel Gilder, Yuzo Watanabe, Eric Penner, Farooq Ahmad, Hartwig Adam
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Publication number: 20240104135Abstract: A system and method of identifying objects is provided. In one aspect, the system and method includes a hand-held device with a display, camera and processor. As the camera captures images and displays them on the display, the processor compares the information retrieved in connection with one image with information retrieved in connection with subsequent images. The processor uses the result of such comparison to determine the object that is likely to be of greatest interest to the user. The display simultaneously displays the images the images as they are captured, the location of the object in an image, and information retrieved for the object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: David Petrou, Matthew Bridges, Shailesh Nalawadi, Hartwig Adam, Matthew R. Casey, Hartmut Neven, Andrew Harp
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Publication number: 20240091864Abstract: A guide for cutting a dowel pin of a rotor assembly is provided. The guide includes a catch basin, including a first catch basin portion and a second catch basin portion, and a shim. The first catch basin portion and the second catch basin portion form a cutting tool receiver. The shim extends from a first edge having a cross-section that is complementary to a surface of the rotor assembly. The first catch basin portion and the second catch basin portion form a receptacle that accommodates and retains portions of a dowel pin during and after removal of the dowel pin from the rotor assembly. The cutting tool receiver is defined by a receiver edge configured to guide a cutting surface of a cutting tool through a cross-section of a dowel pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, ATLANTIC PLANT MAINTENANCE, INC.Inventors: CHRISTOPHER DAVID RUNKEL, THOMAS ALAN MOGLE, II, MARCUS NOLAN ADAMS, MARK ANDREW HALEY, SANDRA BEVERLY KOLVICK
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Publication number: 20240095772Abstract: The referral system described herein can give users the ability to recommend a vendor (such as, e.g., a company or a service provider) to another user via electronic sharing of a dynamically generated code when one or more pre-established conditions have been met, such as when the vendor has submitted a qualifying offer to the referral system and the user is verified to have previously utilized the referral system to redeem a prior offer of the given vendor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Josh Adam Peasley, Shawnee Marie Hayes, David Scott Smith, Devon Dominic Niccole, Tony Stephen Sailer
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Publication number: 20240086479Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that identify and issue search queries expected to be issued in the future. A set of search queries that have been issued by multiple user devices can be obtained. For each query instance, contextual data can be obtained. A first query and its contextual data can be input to a model that outputs the query's likelihood of being issued in the future. The model can be trained using contextual data for training queries and a corresponding labels for the training queries. The learning model outputs the first query's likelihood of being issued in future, and this query is stored as a repeatable query if the likelihood satisfying a repeatability threshold. Subsequently, a stored repeatable query is issued upon a selection of a user selectable interface component and the search engine provides search results for the query.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Yew Jin Lim, David Adam Faden, Mario Tanev, Lauren Ashley Koepnick, Sagar Gandhi, William Ming Zhang
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Publication number: 20240082858Abstract: Polymeric electro spray emitters and related methods are generally described. In some embodiments, an emitter may be made from an ionic electro active polymer. The composition of the electro spray emitters described herein may enable the transport of ions and/or liquid ion sources, such as an ionic liquid or room temperature molten salt, through the bulk of the polymeric emitter. In some embodiments, the described emitters may be fabricated using a mixture of an ionic electroactive polymer, a solvent, and a liquid ion source to at least partially mitigate swelling effects of the polymer emitter that may otherwise occur when the one or more emitters are exposed to the liquid ion source during operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2021Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Paulo C. Lozano, Brian L. Wardle, Michael D. Canonica, David Krejci, Yue Zhou, Andrew Adams
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Publication number: 20240082448Abstract: A scent dispensing device may comprise a scent vial holder configured to hold a scent vial, a top having a plurality of openings, the plurality of openings including a scent opening and an airflow opening, a heater configured to apply heat to the scent vial, and a fan configured to cause a flow of air to pass through the airflow opening creating a difference in air pressure between the airflow opening and the scent opening such that scent from the scent vial is drawn through the scent opening and into the flow of air.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Rachel Beckstead, Celeste Chubak, Hannah Trimble, Juan Carlos Altuna, David Frietag, John Adam Purin, Kenneth Frei
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Patent number: 11928659Abstract: A document handler system and method includes timed operation functionality in which the manufacturer of the document handler may input coded information in the document handler to establish a timed operation of the document handler which may be contingent on continued payments for use of the document handler. Alternatively, or in addition, the timed operation may be used to establish an appropriate warranty period during which the manufacturer is obligated to provide repairs, modification and/or support for the document handler.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: JCM American CorporationInventors: Mark Henderson, Bryan Allen Wilcutt, Mark Adams, David Christopher Kubajak, Steven Johnson
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Patent number: 11927839Abstract: An electro-absorption modulator (EAM) is configured to include an on-chip AC ground plane that is used to terminate the high frequency RF input signal within the chip itself. This on-chip ground termination of the modulation input signal improves the frequency response of the EAM, which is an important feature when the EAM needs to support data rates in excess of 50 Gbd. By virtue of using an on-chip ground for the very high frequency signal content, it is possible to use less expensive off-chip components to address the lower frequency range of the data signal (i.e., for frequencies less than about 1 GHz).Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: II-VI Delaware, Inc.Inventors: Andrei Kaikkonen, David Adams, Robert Lewen, Nicolae Chitica
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Patent number: 11921298Abstract: A spot-size converter includes first and second waveguide structures. The first waveguide structure extends longitudinally along a waveguide axis from a first end to a second end and is configured to support a first optical mode at the first end. The second waveguide structure is formed within the first waveguide structure. The second waveguide structure extends longitudinally between the first end and the second end. The second waveguide structure is configured to support a second optical mode at the second end. The second optical mode has a different diameter than the first optical mode. The second waveguide structure includes a waveguide core that has a first cross-sectional area in a first plane normal to the waveguide axis at the first end and a second cross-sectional area in a second plane normal to the waveguide axis at the second end. The second cross-sectional area is larger than the first cross-sectional area.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: II-VI DELAWARE, INC.Inventors: Yasuhiro Matsui, Shiyun Lin, David Adams
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Patent number: 11920246Abstract: A method for producing one or more hydroxide solids includes providing a catholyte comprising an electrolyte solution; contacting the catholyte with an electroactive mesh cathode to electrolytically generate hydroxide ions, thereby precipitating the one or more hydroxide solid(s); and removing the one or more hydroxide solids from the surface of the mesh where they may deposit.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: The Regents of the University of CaliforniaInventors: Xin Chen, Erika Callagon La Plante, Gaurav Sant, David Jassby, Dante Adam Simonetti, Thomas Traynor
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Patent number: 11903602Abstract: A uterine fibroid tissue removal device includes an inner tube disposed within an outer tube and configured to be translated and rotated relative to the outer tube, and a separately formed unitary distal tip member attached to a distal end of the inner tube, such that the distal tip member translates and rotates relative to the outer tube along with the inner tube, wherein a distal facing open cutting end of the distal tip member in fluid communication with an axial lumen of the distal tip member translates across a tissue resection window in a sidewall of the outer tube so as to sever tissue extending therethrough, the distal tip member axial lumen being in fluid communication with an axial lumen of the inner tube, wherein an outer diameter of the distal tip member is greater than an outer diameter of the inner tube.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Hologic, Inc.Inventors: Roy Hewitt Sullivan, Albert Chun-Chi Chin, Eric Karl Litscher, William Lucas Churchill, Ronald David Adams, William Harwick Gruber, David Jacobs
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Publication number: 20240051966Abstract: Among other things, the present disclosure provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same. In some embodiments, compounds of the present disclosure bind to Fc receptors, e.g., CD16a. In some embodiments, compounds of the present disclosure are useful for treating various conditions, disorders or diseases including cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Anna BUNIN, Lawrence G. IBEN, Douglas MANION, David Adam SPIEGEL, Matthew Ernest WELSCH
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Patent number: 11900967Abstract: Disclosed herein are computer-implemented method, system, and computer-readable storage-medium embodiments for implementing template-based excerpting and rendering of multimedia performances technologies. An embodiment includes at least one computer processor configured to retrieve a first content instance and corresponding first metadata. The first content instance may include a first plurality of structural elements, with at least one structural element corresponding to at least part of the first metadata. The first content instance may be transformed by a rendering engine running on the at least one computer processor and/or transmitted to a content-playback device.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: SMULE, INC.Inventors: Jeffrey Christopher Smith, Perry Raymond Cook, David Adam Steinwedel, Ka Yee Chan
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Patent number: 11900899Abstract: A capo device for stringed instruments, comprising: a substantially J-shaped main body having an elongate arm and a short arm, a pivot arm pivotally coupled with said short arm of said J-shaped main body, an elastomeric component pivotally and compressably coupled between a portion of said elongate arm of said J-shaped main body and a proximal end of said pivot arm and a main arm pivotally coupled with said pivot arm and said main body.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventors: David Adam, James A. Dunlop