Patents by Inventor David Griffin
David Griffin 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: 20240130776Abstract: A method and system for automated and semi-automated predictable, consistent, safe, effective, and lumen-specific and patient-specific cryospray treatment of airway tissue in which treatment duration is automatically set by the system following entry of patient information and treatment location information into the system by the user, and treatment spray is automatically stopped by the system when the automatically selected treatment duration has been achieved as determined by the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2019Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Wendelin Maners, Ellen Sheets, Rafael Cordero, Marc Davidson, Wei Li Fan, David Sherrill, Brian M. Hanley, Amy Sarli, Stephen Griffin, Heather V. Hawkes
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Patent number: 11963709Abstract: A method and system for automated and semi-automated predictable, consistent, safe, effective, and lumen-specific and patient-specific cryospray treatment of airway tissue in which treatment duration is automatically set by the system following entry of patient information and treatment location information into the system by the user, and treatment spray is automatically stopped by the system when the automatically selected treatment duration has been achieved as determined by the system.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: CSA Medical, Inc.Inventors: Wendelin Maners, Ellen Sheets, Rafael Cordero, Marc Davidson, Wei Li Fan, David Sherrill, Brian M. Hanley, Amy Sarli, Stephen Griffin, Heather V. Hawkes
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Patent number: 11917510Abstract: One or more Bluetooth® low energy (BLE) beacons in communication with a remote server that provides check in capabilities and payment capabilities may be installed at a location. The BLE beacons may connect with a user's mobile device when the user enters the location and allow the user to check in to the location and authorize payments to be made at the location. Once the user is checked in to the location, the user may be provided with additional functionality, benefits, offers, and applications related to the location and facilitated by the check in. Further, the user may be pre-checked in into a next location when the user is at a current location.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Kent Griffin, John Hastings Granbery, Hill Ferguson, David Marcus, Michael Charles Todasco
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Patent number: 11915716Abstract: A computer-implemented method for modifying audio-based communications produced during a conference call is disclosed. The computer-implemented method can include monitoring a plurality of utterances transmitted via an audio feed of a device connected to the conference call. The computer-implemented method can identify a first unwanted audio component transmitted via the audio feed. The computer-implemented method can actively modify the audio feed by removing the first unwanted audio component from the audio feed.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Craig M. Trim, Adam Lee Griffin, Shikhar Kwatra, Hyman David Chantz
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Patent number: 11886329Abstract: A computing device selects new test configurations for testing software. (A) First test configurations are generated using a random seed value. (B) Software under test is executed with the first test configurations to generate a test result for each. (C) Second test configurations are generated from the first test configurations and the test results generated for each. (D) The software under test is executed with the second test configurations to generate the test result for each. (E) When a restart is triggered based on a distance metric value computed between the second test configurations, a next random seed value is selected as the random seed value and (A) through (E) are repeated. (F) When the restart is not triggered, (C) through (F) are repeated until a stop criterion is satisfied. (G) When the stop criterion is satisfied, the test result is output for each test configuration.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.Inventors: Steven Joseph Gardner, Connie Stout Dunbar, David Bruce Elsheimer, Gregory Scott Dunbar, Joshua David Griffin, Yan Gao
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Publication number: 20240003200Abstract: A self-orienting perforating gun includes an outer housing having a throughbore, a charge carrier positioned in the throughbore of the outer housing, a hub secured directly or indirectly to the outer housing, a bearing secured to each carrier end of the charge carrier wherein the bearing overlies the hub to provide a rotatable relationship between the hub and the charge carrier about a rotational axis within the outer housing, and an eccentric weight coupled to the charge carrier applying an off-axis orienting force to the charge carrier for urging the charge carrier to rotate about the rotational axis toward a predefined orientation relative to the direction of gravity.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Applicant: G&H Diversified Manufacturing LPInventors: Benjamin Vascal Knight, James Edward Kash, Ryan Ward, Brian Auer, Timmothy Lee, Steven Zakharia, Joe Noel Wells, Adam Green, David Griffin, Christina Matthews
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Publication number: 20230409837Abstract: Present embodiments are directed to a virtual agent with improved natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities. The disclosed virtual agent enables topic selection and topic changes during natural language exchanges with a user. The virtual agent is designed to select suitable topic flows to execute based on intents identified in received user utterances, including selection of an initial topic flow in response to a topic identified in a first user utterance, as well as switching between topic flows mid-conversation based on identified topic changes. The virtual agent is also capable of considering all intents and entities conveyed during the conversation, which enables the virtual agent to avoid prompting the user to provide redundant information. Furthermore, the virtual agent is capable of executing topic flows as part of a global topic flow, which enables the virtual agent to perform a number of predefined activities as part of each interaction with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Nabil Abu Asba, Mark David Griffin, Anuj Jain
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Patent number: 11790176Abstract: Present embodiments are directed to a virtual agent with improved natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities. The disclosed virtual agent enables topic selection and topic changes during natural language exchanges with a user. The virtual agent is designed to select suitable topic flows to execute based on intents identified in received user utterances, including selection of an initial topic flow in response to a topic identified in a first user utterance, as well as switching between topic flows mid-conversation based on identified topic changes. The virtual agent is also capable of considering all intents and entities conveyed during the conversation, which enables the virtual agent to avoid prompting the user to provide redundant information. Furthermore, the virtual agent is capable of executing topic flows as part of a global topic flow, which enables the virtual agent to perform a number of predefined activities as part of each interaction with the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Nabil Abu Asba, Mark David Griffin, Anuj Jain
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Patent number: 11775878Abstract: A computing device selects new test configurations for testing software. Software under test is executed with first test configurations to generate a test result for each test configuration. Each test configuration includes a value for each test parameter where each test parameter is an input to the software under test. A predictive model is trained using each test configuration of the first test configurations in association with the test result generated for each test configuration based on an objective function value. The predictive model is executed with second test configurations to predict the test result for each test configuration of the second test configurations. Test configurations are selected from the second test configurations based on the predicted test results to define third test configurations. The software under test is executed with the defined third test configurations to generate the test result for each test configuration of the third test configurations.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.Inventors: Yan Gao, Joshua David Griffin, Yu-Min Lin, Bengt Wisen Pederson, Ricky Dee Tharrington, Jr., Pei-Yi Tan, Raymond Eugene Wright
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Patent number: 11752123Abstract: An anxiolytic composition includes a synergistic combination of one or more of an L-theanine, an s-adenosylmethionine (SAMe), and optionally an extract of Magnolia, an extract of Phellodendron, and a whey protein.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: NUTRAMAX LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Todd Henderson, David Griffin, David Bledsoe
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Patent number: 11727274Abstract: A computer trains a neural network. A neural network is executed with a weight vector to compute a gradient vector using a batch of observation vectors. Eigenvalues are computed from a Hessian approximation matrix, a regularization parameter value is computed using the gradient vector, the eigenvalues, and a step-size value, a search direction vector is computed using the eigenvalues, the gradient vector, the Hessian approximation matrix, and the regularization parameter value, a reduction ratio value is computed, an updated weight vector is computed from the weight vector, a learning rate value, and the search direction vector or the gradient vector based on the computed reduction ratio value, and an updated Hessian approximation matrix is computed from the Hessian approximation matrix, the predefined learning rate value, and the search direction vector or the gradient vector based on the reduction ratio value. The step-size value is updated using the search direction vector.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.Inventors: Jarad Forristal, Joshua David Griffin, Seyedalireza Yektamaram, Wenwen Zhou
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Publication number: 20230225426Abstract: The present invention provides pants, such as pants that are worn as work uniform pants, which are configured to provide significant improvements in a wearer's comfort, performance, and mobility over a predefined range of motions. Embodiments of the pants comprise one or more stretch panels that are configured to provide for stretching of the pant at an identified micro site in order to provide a wearer with enhanced mobility. Additionally, the manner in which the various portions of the pant are connected together may be adjusted in order to provide a wearer with enhanced mobility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2022Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventors: Shannon North, David Griffin, Ben Rose, Ismail Akram, Paul Gibson
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Publication number: 20230157984Abstract: An anxiolytic composition formulated for oral administration to a mammal includes a synergistic combination of L-theanine, at least one of magnolia and an extract of magnolia, and at least one of phellodendron and an extract of phellodendron. The composition may include a combination of an extract of Magnolia officinalis and a extract of Phellodendron amurense. The synergistic combination may provide an anxiolytic change in a release pattern of one or more brain neurotransmitters, such as glutamate and/or ?-aminobutyric acid (GABA).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Todd Henderson, David Griffin, David Bledsoe
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Patent number: 11656841Abstract: A person can use a portable electronic device to electronically purchase or otherwise request a product, service or other deliverable related to audio programming to which the person is listening at the time they initiate the request. The request is fulfilled by a service that analyzes the audio content to identify the deliverable the person desires.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: NCR CorporationInventors: Michael Cain Finley, Michael Dudgeon, Lehman Zellosis Smith, IV, John Wade, David Griffin, David Edward McCaw, Jr., James Lee Fortuna
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Patent number: 11635988Abstract: A computing device determines an optimal number of threads for a computer task. Execution of a computing task is controlled in a computing environment based on each task configuration included in a plurality of task configurations to determine an execution runtime value for each task configuration. An optimal number of threads value is determined for each set of task configurations having common values for a task parameter value, a dataset indicator, and a hardware indicator. The optimal number of threads value is an extremum value of an execution parameter value as a function of a number of threads value. A dataset parameter value is determined for a dataset. A hardware parameter value is determined as a characteristic of each distinct executing computing device in the computing environment. The optimal number of threads value for each set of task configurations is stored in a performance dataset in association with the common values.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.Inventors: Yan Gao, Joshua David Griffin, Yu-Min Lin, Yan Xu, Seyedalireza Yektamaram, Amod Anil Ankulkar, Aishwarya Sharma, Girish Vinayak Kolapkar, Kiran Devidas Bhole, Kushawah Yogender Singh, Jorge Manuel Gomes da Silva
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Publication number: 20230050379Abstract: The present disclosure application relates to cannabis-containing compositions comprising at least one cannabinoid, provided in a gel formulation. The compositions may include cannabidiol. The source of the cannabidioid may be cannabis, a cannabis extract, or an industrial hemp oil extract. Methods of treating and/or reducing symptoms of an inflammatory response and/or inflammation are described, comprising administering to a subject in need thereof the disclosed compositions.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventor: David Griffin
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Publication number: 20220409975Abstract: A putting alignment training device that is securable to an upper torso of a user, having an elongated shoulder board, an adjustable harness that is secured to the shoulder board and configured to secure the training device to a front side of the upper torso, a frontal board, an adjustable connector that secures the frontal board to the shoulder board, a grid board including a grid formed by a plurality of horizontal lines and a plurality of vertical lines wherein one of the plurality of horizontal lines and the plurality of vertical lines are parallel to the shoulder board.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventor: James David Griffin
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Patent number: 11510441Abstract: The present invention provides pants, such as pants that are worn as work uniform pants, which are configured to provide significant improvements in a wearer's comfort, performance, and mobility over a predefined range of motions. Embodiments of the pants comprise one or more stretch panels that are configured to provide for stretching of the pant at an identified micro site in order to provide a wearer with enhanced mobility. Additionally, the manner in which the various portions of the pant are connected together may be adjusted in order to provide a wearer with enhanced mobility.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Workwear Outfitters, LLCInventors: Shannon North, David Griffin, Ben Rose, Ismail Akram, Paul Gibson
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Publication number: 20220366913Abstract: A virtual agent that utilizes an in-house natural language understanding (NLU) service and integrates a third party NLU service. The third-party NLU service is integrated with the virtual agent via a transformation script that establishes a transformation boundary through which communications are directed for adjustment and conditioning. The third party NLU service communicates with the virtual agent via an application programming interface (API). The virtual agent receives an utterance from a user via a chat session and provides the utterance to the third party NLU service. The third party NLU service may return intents, entities, and confidence, generate and return a response, and/or take actions within the cloud-based platform via the API, dependent upon the degree of integration. The virtual agent then provides a response to the user via the chat session.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Nabil Abu Asba, Mark David Griffin
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Publication number: 20220362172Abstract: The present application relates to compositions comprising avocado/soybean unsaponifiables (“ASU”) and cannabis, and related methods of use. In one embodiment, the cannabis is a cannabis oil extract that is combined with ASU to reduce inflammatory responses and inflammation in humans and animals.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: NUTRAMAX LABORATORIES, INC.Inventors: Todd R. Henderson, David Griffin