Patents by Inventor David Stone

David Stone 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: 11640447
    Abstract: An online system accesses a model attribute store, which stores configuration information and model performance scores for a plurality of models, each model used to predict performance metrics regarding content from a third party system presented to users of the online system. The online system trains a meta-model classifier using the models in the model attribute store, the meta-model classifier trained to predict, for a candidate model, a predicted model performance score of that candidate model. The online system also generates a plurality of candidate models for input to the meta-model classifier, each of the plurality of candidate models including a distinct set of configuration information. The predicted model performance scores for a selected candidate model in the plurality of candidate models is computed using the meta-model classifier, and the online system transmits a report to the third party system indicating predicted model performance score for the selected candidate model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew David Stone, Andrew Donald Yates
  • Publication number: 20230059457
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an electrodepositable coating composition comprising, consisting essentially of, or consisting of an ionic salt group-containing silicone-based main film-forming polymer comprising functional groups; and a curing agent reactive with the functional groups of the ionic salt group-containing silicone-based main film-forming polymer. Also disclosed are coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stone, Jonathan A. Love, Casey Sample
  • Publication number: 20230035603
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electrodepositable coating composition comprising an ionic salt group-containing film-forming polymer comprising active hydrogen functional groups; a blocked polyisocyanate curing agent comprising blocking groups, wherein at least 30% of the blocking groups comprise a 1,2-polyol as a blocking agent, based upon the total number of blocking groups; and a bismuth catalyst. Also disclosed are coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stone, Egle Puodziukynaite, Joseph R. Swanger, Venkatachalam Eswarakrishnan, Craig A. Wilson, Brian C. Okerberg, Hyun Wook Ro, Ross Anthony Moretti
  • Publication number: 20220363917
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electrodepositable coating composition comprising an acrylic polymer comprising greater than 60% by weight of constitutional units comprising the residue of a hydroxyl-functional (meth)acrylate monomer and/or a hydroxyl-functional (meth)acrylamide monomer, based on the total weight of the acrylic polymer; and an ionic salt group-containing film-forming polymer different from the acrylic polymer. Also disclosed are coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stone, Egle Puodziukynaite, James C. Serene, Craig A. Wilson, Yves Le Disert, Marissa E. McGovern
  • Patent number: 11485864
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an electrodepositable coating composition comprising a polyfarnesene polymer and an ionic salt group-containing film-forming polymer. Also disclosed are methods of coating a substrate using the electrodepositable coating composition, coatings derived from the electrodepositable coating composition, and substrates coated with the coatings derived from the electrodepositable coating composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stone, Egle Puodziukynaite, Marissa E. McGovern, Craig A. Wilson, Alycia Lewand, Jo-Ann E. Bice
  • Publication number: 20220334809
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for visual design and customization of processes for web applications. One method involves obtaining, from a process flow builder graphical user interface (GUI) display at a client device, a sequence of configured components within a region of the process flow builder GUI display, automatically generating process flow code corresponding to the sequence of configured components within the region of the process flow builder GUI display, modifying one or more references within the process flow code from a first namespace associated with a first package corresponding to a virtual application supported by an application platform to a generic namespace, resulting in modified process flow code, and storing the modified process flow code to a location within a second package independent of the application platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: David Stone, Armando I. Ruiz Garcia, Jun Gao
  • Patent number: 11466175
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an electrodepositable coating composition comprising, consisting essentially of, or consisting of an ionic salt group-containing silicone-based main film-forming polymer comprising functional groups; and a curing agent reactive with the functional groups of the ionic salt group-containing silicone-based main film-forming polymer. Also disclosed are coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stone, Jonathan A. Love, Casey Sample
  • Publication number: 20220318795
    Abstract: A transaction system can include a computing device with a communication port, a processor device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage memory. The communication port can communicate data with other computing devices. The non-transitory computer-readable storage memory includes code that is executable by the processor device to perform operations. The operations include receiving parameters of a transfer, verifying the transfer using a multi-factor authentication process, in response to verifying the transfer, using a private key to countersign the transfer and return, via the communications port, a signed transfer package for execution of the transfer, and providing, via the communications port, the parameters of the transfer and countersign data to an immutable ledger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Amy Rose, David Stone, Scott Travis Leith, William Mark Connolly
  • Publication number: 20220300588
    Abstract: Account permissions and data accessibility can be modified based on level of confidence for a login attempt to the account. User activity observations corresponding to one or more login attempts to access a user account can be stored. A confidence score associated with a successful login attempt of the user account can be determined. The confidence score is based on the user activity observations. A level of access to an application with functions and data for the user account can be determined. The level of access is based on the confidence score. The level of access is associated with the functions and the data that are executable and accessible subsequent to the successful login attempt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Amy Rose, Joseph Aguayo, David Stone
  • Publication number: 20220290767
    Abstract: A vacuum system non-return valve has a baffle for extending across a flow path The baffle has an aperture, a perimeter of the aperture having a valve seat. The valve also has a valve member having a protrusion extending from a surface configured to mate with the valve seat, the protrusion extending through the aperture; wherein the protrusion includes a retaining portion extending outwardly from the protrusion and configured such that the retaining portion cannot pass through the aperture. The valve member and aperture are configured such that the valve member obscures the aperture and seals with the valve seat to impede a flow of fluid from an outlet end to an inlet end in a closed position and is displaceable in use to move away from the valve seat and allow a fluid flow from the inlet end to the outlet end in an open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: David Alan Turrell, Phillip North, Neil Turner, Michael Henry North, Clifford George Burt, Sivabalan Kailasam, Cainan Long, Ian David Stones
  • Publication number: 20220292169
    Abstract: Account permissions and data accessibility can be modified based on level of confidence for a login attempt to the account. User activity observations corresponding to one or more login attempts to access a user account can be stored. A confidence score associated with a successful login attempt of the user account can be determined. The confidence score is based on the user activity observations. A level of access to an application with functions and data for the user account can be determined. The level of access is based on the confidence score. The level of access is associated with the functions and the data that are executable and accessible subsequent to the successful login attempt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Amy Rose, Joseph Aguayo, David Stone
  • Patent number: 11443308
    Abstract: A transaction system can include a computing device with a communication port, a processor device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage memory. The communication port can communicate data with other computing devices. The non-transitory computer-readable storage memory includes code that is executable by the processor device to perform operations. The operations include receiving parameters of a transfer, verifying the transfer using a multi-factor authentication process, in response to verifying the transfer, using a private key to countersign the transfer and return, via the communications port, a signed transfer package for execution of the transfer, and providing, via the communications port, the parameters of the transfer and countersign data to an immutable ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: TRUIST BANK
    Inventors: Amy Rose, David Stone, Scott Travis Leith, William Mark Connolly
  • Publication number: 20220269738
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for visual design and customization of processes for web applications. A method involves identifying a plurality of configured actions added to an aggregate action component region on a graphical user interface (GUI) display, automatically generating configured code for each of the configured actions in accordance with a respective user configuration of the respective configured action, identifying a user configuration associated with the aggregate action component, automatically generating aggregate action component code configurable to cause a browser application to initiate the configured code for each of the configured actions in parallel in accordance with the user configuration, and automatically generating process flow code including a reference to the aggregate action component code in accordance with a sequence defined for a web page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: David Stone, Daniel S. Kim, Jun Gao
  • Patent number: 11407905
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electrodepositable coating composition comprising an acrylic polymer comprising a polymerization product of a polymeric dispersant and an aqueous dispersion of a second-stage ethylenically unsaturated monomer composition comprising greater than 40% by weight of a second-stage hydroxyl-functional (meth)acrylate monomer, based on the total weight of the second-stage ethylenically unsaturated monomer composition; an ionic salt group-containing film-forming polymer different from the acrylic polymer; and a curing agent. Also disclosed are coatings, coated substrates, and methods of coating a substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Stone, Ellor J. Van Buskirk, Craig A. Wilson, Jo-Ann E. Bice
  • Publication number: 20220245206
    Abstract: Database systems and methods are provided for visual design and customization of processes for web applications. A method involves obtaining, from a process flow builder graphical user interface (GUI) display having a menu of configurable components for integration in a web page, a selected one of the configurable components added to a sequence of configured components within a region of the process flow builder GUI display by a user, generating configured component code corresponding to a user configuration of the selected configurable component, creating a configured component object in a database to maintain an association between the configured component code and the user configuration of the selected configurable component, and updating code for the web page to include a reference to the configured component object in accordance with the sequence of configured components depicted within the region of the process flow builder GUI display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: salesforce.com, inc.
    Inventors: David Stone, Matthew Edward Goldspink, Jun Gao
  • Publication number: 20220235779
    Abstract: A vacuum pump, vacuum pump arrangement and method are disclosed. The vacuum pump includes at least one rotor; and a stator, an inlet for receiving gas during operation; and an exhaust for exhausting the gas. The vacuum pump includes a shaft extending through a centre of said pump and comprising a plate mounted on an end of the shaft towards the inlet. The vacuum pump includes control circuitry configured to control an axial position of the plate, a change in axial position of the plate providing a change in inlet conductance of gas to the vacuum pump. The plate is mounted such that it extends beyond the inlet in at least some axial positions of the rotor such that the plate is not on the same side of the inlet as the stator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Ian David Stones, Christopher Mark Bailey
  • Publication number: 20220234056
    Abstract: An inlet assembly for an abatement apparatus includes an inlet nozzle defining a non-circular inlet aperture coupleable with an inlet conduit providing an effluent gas stream for treatment by the abatement apparatus, at least one outlet aperture and a nozzle bore extending along a longitudinal axis between the non-circular inlet aperture and the outlet aperture for conveying the effluent gas stream from the non-circular inlet aperture to the outlet aperture for delivery to a treatment chamber of the abatement apparatus, the nozzle bore defining an inlet portion extending from the non-circular inlet aperture, a flow-dividing structure positioned downstream of the inlet portion and configured to separate the effluent gas stream into at least a pair of effluent gas streams and an outlet portion extending to the outlet aperture and configured to convey the pair of effluent gas streams to the treatment chamber of the abatement apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew James Seeley, Ian David Stones, Duncan Michael Price
  • Patent number: 11392677
    Abstract: Account permissions and data accessibility can be modified based on level of confidence for a login attempt to the account. User activity observations corresponding to one or more login attempts to access a user account can be stored. A confidence score associated with a successful login attempt of the user account can be determined. The confidence score is based on the user activity observations. A level of access to an application with functions and data for the user account can be determined. The level of access is based on the confidence score. The level of access is associated with the functions and the data that are executable and accessible subsequent to the successful login attempt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Truist Bank
    Inventors: Amy Rose, Joseph Aguayo, David Stone
  • Publication number: 20220213892
    Abstract: A pump includes a pump housing element and a further element; one of the pump housing and the further element comprising a helical protrusion extending towards the other element, the other element comprising at least one liquid opening. The helical protrusion, pump housing and further element form a path from a gas inlet to a gas outlet. The helical protrusion has an axial cross section that is wider at its attached end than it is at its free end. The pump housing and further element are mounted rotatably with respect to each other; and the at least one liquid opening is configured such that liquid output from the at least one liquid opening forms a liquid blade, the liquid blade being operable to drive gas along the path from the gas inlet to the gas outlet on rotation of one of the elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: Ian David Stones
  • Patent number: 11372156
    Abstract: Luminaires are described herein employing waveguides and associated architectures for dynamic alteration of illuminance distribution patterns. The waveguide includes a light extraction component. The waveguide transmits light from a light source to the light extraction component by total internal reflection (TIR). The light extraction component includes one or more reversibly moveable surfaces for altering illuminance distribution patterns of the luminaire in response to one or more forces applied to the light extraction component by a force application assembly of the luminaire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Inventors: Eric J. Tarsa, Jean-Claude David Ramey DeSugny, David Stone, Benjamin A. Jacobson, Shawn Patrick Keeney