Patents by Inventor Dean Smith
Dean Smith 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: 20240364695Abstract: A method includes: accessing objects, generated by a set of sources, representing attributes of assets, affiliated with a computer network, including a set of endpoint devices and a first application; partitioning the objects into object groups including a first object group representing the first application; aggregating objects in the first object group into a first user container representing the first application during the first time interval; and, in response to selection of the first application at an operator portal: generating a visualization representing a subset of endpoint devices, in the set of endpoint devices, on which the first application is installed during the first time interval based on a set of attributes, exhibited by the first application during the first time interval, contained in the first application container; and rendering the visualization at the operator interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2024Publication date: October 31, 2024Inventors: Jeffrey J. Guy, Dean Mekkawy, Nevins Bartolomeo, Luis Diego Cabezas, Aaron Griffin, Jacob Hackett, Michael Alfonse, Craig Cason, Mark Shipley, Jason McFarland, Nicholas Murdock, Steve Taylor, Aaron Smith
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Patent number: 12122452Abstract: A universal assembly platform for lightweight vehicles, wherein the platform comprises a main vehicle chassis structure, a front suspension system connected to the main vehicle chassis structure and to which one or more front wheel assembly is mountable, and a rear suspension system connected to the main vehicle chassis structure and to which one or more rear wheel assembly is mountable. The rear suspension system is connected to the main vehicle chassis structure such that when the one or more rear wheel assembly is mounted to the rear suspension system a rear wheel of the one or more rear wheel assembly defines the distal end of an overall length of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, Jr., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Publication number: 20240346428Abstract: A computer-implemented method for analyzing refuse includes operations of receiving sensor data indicating an operational state of a vehicle body component of a refuse collection vehicle (RCV); analyzing the sensor data to detect a presence of a triggering condition based at least partly on a particular operational state of the vehicle body component, as indicated by the sensor data; in response to detecting the triggering condition, accessing image data indicating a physical state of refuse collected by the RCV; providing the image data as input to at least one contaminant detection model trained, using at least one machine learning (ML) algorithm, to output a classification of the image data, the classification indicating a degree of contamination of the refuse; and storing, in a machine-readable medium, the classification of the image data.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: October 17, 2024Inventors: Anthony Romano, Michael Dean Geary, John Forrest Smith, Garrett Eckerl
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Patent number: 12116038Abstract: A universal assembly platform for lightweight vehicles, wherein the platform comprises a main vehicle chassis structure, a front suspension system connected to the main vehicle chassis structure and to which one or more front wheel assembly is mountable, and a rear suspension system connected to the main vehicle chassis structure and to which one or more rear wheel assembly is mountable. The rear suspension system is connected to the main vehicle chassis structure such that when the one or more rear wheel assembly is mounted to the rear suspension system a rear wheel of the one or more rear wheel assembly defines the distal end of an overall length of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, Jr., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Publication number: 20240325936Abstract: A portable gaining monitor is configured for use with a portable video game unit that includes a base with a first screen, a processor, and a first controller detachably coupled to the base. The portable gaming monitor includes a housing and a gaming unit dock configured to receive the portable video game unit. The portable gaming monitor further includes a second screen positioned on the housing and being operably connected to the portable video game unit when the portable video game unit is received by the gaming unit dock. The portable gaming monitor also includes a first interface configured to detachably coupled the first controller to the housing. The first controller is in communication with the portable video game unit when the first controller is coupled to the first interface, and the portable video game unit when the portable video game unit is received by the gaming unit dock.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: October 3, 2024Applicant: UPSWITCH, LLCInventors: Dean Thomas Mercier, John Smith
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Patent number: 12089874Abstract: In some embodiments an apparatus for providing access for a medical procedure in a patient's body cavity includes a stem configured for insertion through an opening in a body cavity wall. The stem has a bore and a cap is disposed at a proximal end thereof and includes an entry port in communication with the bore which receives an instrument to be inserted into the body cavity. An inflatable annular seal is disposed on the stem proximate the cap and a conduit extends through the cap providing pressurized gas at a first outlet in fluid communication with the body cavity providing insufflation pressure. A second outlet of the conduit is in fluid communication the seal, which when disposed inside the body cavity proximate the wall and inflated by pressurized gas, bears on an inner surface of the wall urging the cap into contact with an outer surface of the wall while sealing the opening.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: Titan Medical Inc.Inventors: Evan Rittenhouse Jones, Maxime Blain, Christopher Dean Smith
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Patent number: 12086188Abstract: A method is provided for generating regular expressions. In some embodiments, the method includes partitioning a first plurality of text strings into a plurality of substrings, each text string of the first plurality being malignant or benign. The method also includes generating a population list including a second plurality of text strings, each text string of the second plurality including at least one token. The method further includes creating subsequent iterations of the population list. Each iteration may include calculating a score for one or more text strings in the population list and removing one or more text strings from the population list. The method further includes in response to a determination to not update the population list, selecting, based on the one or more calculated scores, a third text string as a regular expression from a final iteration of the population list.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: September 10, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventor: Jonathan Dean Smith
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Patent number: 12077213Abstract: A lightweight vehicle includes a first wheel assembly including a first wheel rotatable about an axis, a second wheel assembly including a second wheel rotatable about the axis, a platform including a chassis and a rear suspension assembly coupling the first wheel assembly and the second wheel assembly to the chassis, a first seat coupled to the chassis, and a second seat coupled to the chassis rearward of the first seat. At least a portion of the chassis has a planar shape. The second seat includes a bottom and a back. The back is positioned rearward of at least a portion of the bottom such that the second seat defines a forward-facing seating. At least a portion of the bottom of the second seat is positioned longitudinally rearward of a plane extending vertically upward from the axis about which the first wheel and the second wheel are rotatable.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, Jr., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Patent number: 12077211Abstract: A lightweight vehicle includes a pair of rear wheel assemblies, one or more front wheel assemblies, a universal assembly platform, and forward facing seating. The universal assembly platform includes a main vehicle chassis, a front suspension system coupled to the main vehicle chassis and to which the one or more front wheel assemblies is mounted, and a rear suspension system coupled to the main vehicle chassis and to which the pair of rear wheel assemblies is mounted. A front distal end of the one or more front wheel assemblies is longitudinally forward of a front end of the main vehicle chassis. The forward facing seating is mounted to the main vehicle chassis such that a portion of a seat bottom of the forward facing seating is located longitudinally rearward of an axis extending through a center of the pair of rear wheel assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, Jr., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Patent number: 12077212Abstract: A lightweight vehicle includes a pair of rear wheel assemblies, one or more front wheel assemblies, a universal assembly platform, and forward facing seating. The universal assembly platform includes a planar main vehicle chassis, a front suspension system connected to the planar main vehicle chassis and to which the one or more front wheel assemblies is mounted, and a rear suspension system connected to the planar main vehicle chassis and to which the pair of rear wheel assemblies is mounted. A front distal end of the one or more front wheel assemblies is longitudinally forward of a front end of the planar main vehicle chassis. The forward facing seating is mounted to the planar main vehicle chassis such that a portion of a seat bottom of the forward facing seating is located longitudinally rearward of an axis extending through a center of the pair of rear wheel assemblies.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, Jr., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Publication number: 20240256480Abstract: Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. The data processing systems may include a limited number of hardware components. To increase the usable number or types of hardware components, an add-in card or other device may be attached to the data processing system. To facilitate connection of a variety of types of devices having varying form factors, an interposer may be used. The data processing system may modify a communication topology based on whether a device or the interposer is connected to it to establish communication channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 26, 2023Publication date: August 1, 2024Inventors: TIMOTHY M. LAMBERT, COREY DEAN HARTMAN, JEFFREY LEIGHTON KENNEDY, WILLIAM ANDREW SMITH
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Publication number: 20240125447Abstract: A headlight for a motor vehicle includes a housing which is provided with a translucent cover pane to allow light to exit from the headlight and in which a first lighting device and a second lighting device are located. The first lighting device is provided for generating at least one portion of a dipped beam and/or a full beam of the headlight, and the second lighting device is provided for generating at least one portion of a limiting light and/or a daytime running light of the headlight. The headlight also includes a diaphragm which is opaque in a predefined diaphragm section except for a plurality of light exit points provided therein. Light is emitted via the predefined diaphragm section toward the cover pane by the second lighting device in order to generate the at least one portion of the limiting light and/or the daytime running light.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Benedikt BUERGERS, Felix KILBERTUS, Martin SIMMET, Dean SMITH
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Patent number: 11960100Abstract: Methods and systems for imaging a target. In some examples, a system includes an optical modulator configured for applying, at each time of an exposure window, a respective optical modulation pattern to a received image of the target to output a modulated image. The system includes a camera configured for capturing a single image frame for the exposure window by receiving, at each of time, the modulated image of the target. The system includes a demodulator implemented on a computer system and configured for demodulating the single image frame based on the optical modulation patterns to recover a number of recovered image frames each depicting the target at a respective recovered time within the exposure window.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: University of Tennessee Research FoundationInventors: Zhili Zhang, Mark Terrell Gragston, Cary Dean Smith
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Publication number: 20240092423Abstract: A lightweight vehicle includes a pair of rear wheel assemblies, one or more front wheel assemblies, a universal assembly platform, and forward facing seating. The universal assembly platform includes a planar main vehicle chassis, a front suspension system connected to the planar main vehicle chassis and to which the one or more front wheel assemblies is mounted, and a rear suspension system connected to the planar main vehicle chassis and to which the pair of rear wheel assemblies is mounted. A front distal end of the one or more front wheel assemblies is longitudinally forward of a front end of the planar main vehicle chassis. The forward facing seating is mounted to the planar main vehicle chassis such that a portion of a seat bottom of the forward facing seating is located longitudinally rearward of an axis extending through a center of the pair of rear wheel assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Textron Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, JR., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Publication number: 20240083502Abstract: A lightweight vehicle includes a first wheel assembly including a first wheel rotatable about an axis, a second wheel assembly including a second wheel rotatable about the axis, a platform including a chassis and a rear suspension assembly coupling the first wheel assembly and the second wheel assembly to the chassis, a first seat coupled to the chassis, and a second seat coupled to the chassis rearward of the first seat. At least a portion of the chassis has a planar shape. The second seat includes a bottom and a back. The back is positioned rearward of at least a portion of the bottom such that the second seat defines a forward-facing seating. At least a portion of the bottom of the second seat is positioned longitudinally rearward of a plane extending vertically upward from the axis about which the first wheel and the second wheel are rotatable.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Textron Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, Jr., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Publication number: 20240083501Abstract: A lightweight vehicle includes a pair of rear wheel assemblies, one or more front wheel assemblies, a universal assembly platform, and forward facing seating. The universal assembly platform includes a main vehicle chassis, a front suspension system coupled to the main vehicle chassis and to which the one or more front wheel assemblies is mounted, and a rear suspension system coupled to the main vehicle chassis and to which the pair of rear wheel assemblies is mounted. A front distal end of the one or more front wheel assemblies is longitudinally forward of a front end of the main vehicle chassis. The forward facing seating is mounted to the main vehicle chassis such that a portion of a seat bottom of the forward facing seating is located longitudinally rearward of an axis extending through a center of the pair of rear wheel assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Textron Inc.Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, JR., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball
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Publication number: 20240070750Abstract: Communications server system, method, and apparatus for managing complex orders of industrial supplies, comprising a processor and a memory, the communications server apparatus being configured, under control of the processor, to execute instructions in the memory to generate, for a plurality of orders of respective different order quantities associated with an order entity, each of the plurality of orders associated with a unique order rule set, determine, for each unique order, a first order element of a first order category, a value of a first attribute parameter indicative of a first order rule requirement determine, for each unique order for a second order element of a second order category, a value of a second attribute parameter indicative of a second order rule requirement compare the values for the first and second order attribute parameters with a minimum order rules set associated with the order entity, use a comparison result to recommend an order change to at least one of the first or second ordeType: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Bobby Dean Smith, JR., William Oncay, Owen Richardson, Jeff Bercume, John Piette
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Publication number: 20240011964Abstract: An apparatus and method for separating hydrocarbons from a matrix sample that includes one or more nonpolar hydrocarbons. The apparatus includes a first container, a second container and a connector connecting the first container and the second container together. The connector is arranged to enable the passage of the matrix sample back and forth between the first container and the second container and includes an analyte retainer that captures polar hydrocarbons while allowing nonpolar hydrocarbons to pass through. The portion of the sample including the hydrocarbons is dried and reconstituted. It can then be transferred to a device configured to enable analysis of the matrix sample for detection of the at least one or more nonpolar hydrocarbons.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Applicant: ORONO SPECTRAL SOLUTIONS, INC.Inventors: Dean Smith, Muhammad Hossen, Justin Smith
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Patent number: 11846606Abstract: A dual element time-of-flight diffraction (TOFD) transducer assembly (10) for use in detecting an anomaly (78) in a test piece (70), the transducer assembly (10) comprising: a first transducer element (35) a configured to transmit ultrasonic signals (85a) to the test piece (70), and a second transducer element (35b) configured to receive diffracted ultrasonic signals (85b) from the test piece, wherein the first and second transducer elements (35a, 35b) are housed within a common housing (15), the housing (15) also forming part of the transducer assembly (10).Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: GB INSPECTION SYSTEMS LTDInventors: Timothy James Armitt, Neil Dean Smith, Kam Tong Choong
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Publication number: 20230331305Abstract: A universal assembly platform for lightweight vehicles, wherein the platform comprises a main vehicle chassis structure, a front suspension system connected to the main vehicle chassis structure and to which one or more front wheel assembly is mountable, and a rear suspension system connected to the main vehicle chassis structure and to which one or more rear wheel assembly is mountable. The rear suspension system is connected to the main vehicle chassis structure such that when the one or more rear wheel assembly is mounted to the rear suspension system a rear wheel of the one or more rear wheel assembly defines the distal end of an overall length of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 20, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Donny Lee Hammond, JR., Sam Dean Smith, Trevor Douglas Roebuck, Landon Niles Ball