Patents by Inventor Duncan

Duncan 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).

  • Selecting reinforcement learning actions using a low-level controller
    Patent number: 11210585
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One system includes a high-level controller neural network, low-level controller network, and subsystem. The high-level controller neural network receives an input observation and processes the input observation to generate a high-level output defining a control signal for the low-level controller. The low-level controller neural network receives a designated component of an input observation and processes the designated component and an input control signal to generate a low-level output that defines an action to be performed by the agent in response to the input observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Gregory Duncan Wayne, Yuval Tassa
  • Sailing vessel
    Patent number: 11208187
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed generally toward sailing vessels. One example is a catamaran with one or more pivoting masts per hull member, which may pivot from a generally perpendicular upright position, to a generally flat stowed position toward the bow of the hulls. The masts are capable of sustaining a plurality of sails, which may travel 180 degrees with respect to the hulls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Cross Wing Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventor: Duncan Halliburton
  • Apparatus for aligning an acetabular cup
    Patent number: 11207195
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for aligning an acetabular cup. The apparatus may include an acetabular cup (150, 10) and/or a protractor (30) and/or a depth gauge tool (90) and may be provided in the form of a surgical kit. Components of the apparatus may allow an angle of rotation of an acetabular cup about an axis (111) of the cup relative to an anatomical feature of a patient to be determined when the acetabular cup implant is placed in the acetabulum of the patient. Components of the apparatus may allow an amount of overhang between a rim (12, 162) of an acetabular cup and an edge of the acetabulum to be determined. The acetabular cup may be an acetabular trial cup (10) or and acetabular cup implant (150). Embodiments of the invention may allow both the angle of rotation about the cup axis and the amount of overhang between the rim and the acetabulum edge to be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventors: Sarah Bushell, Stephanie Prince, Duncan Young
  • Augmenting neural networks with external memory
    Patent number: 11210579
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the methods includes providing an output derived from a first portion of a neural network output as a system output; determining one or more sets of writing weights for each of a plurality of locations in an external memory; writing data defined by a third portion of the neural network output to the external memory in accordance with the sets of writing weights; determining one or more sets of reading weights for each of the plurality of locations in the external memory from a fourth portion of the neural network output; reading data from the external memory in accordance with the sets of reading weights; and combining the data read from the external memory with a next system input to generate the next neural network input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Alexander Benjamin Graves, Ivo Danihelka, Gregory Duncan Wayne
  • Vehicle control system and method
    Patent number: 11208129
    Abstract: System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Wolfgang Daum, Martin Paget, Daniel Rush, Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Bellesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico, Suresh Govindappa, Manibabu Pippalla, Sethu Madhavan, Arunachala Karthik Sridharan, Prabhu Marimuthu, Jared Klineman Cooper, Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Paul Kenneth Houpt, David Lowell McKay
  • Vehicle display apparatus
    Patent number: 11209683
    Abstract: A vehicle display apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise a housing configured to support a display cover and a backlight assembly configured to provide light to at least a portion of the display cover. The apparatus may also comprise a masking layer disposed between the backlight assembly and the display cover. Further, the apparatus may also include a first interface module having a connector body and a port extending from the connector body. The apparatus may also comprise a first support member disposed between the connector body of the first interface module and the backlight assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Joongmin Yoon, Scott Duncan
  • PROVIDING INFORMATION TO USERS OF A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM USING AUGMENTED REALITY ELEMENTS
    Publication number: 20210396539
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for an augmented reality transportation system. For example, the systems and methods described herein present an augmented reality environment for a driver or a passenger including augmented reality elements to mark specific locations within a display of real-world surroundings. Additionally, the systems and methods described herein analyze historical information to determine placements for augmented reality elements. The systems and methods also enable a user to share an augmented reality or virtual reality environment with another user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Ethan Duncan Eyler, Martin Conte Mac Donell, Taggart Matthiesen, Jesse Jones McMillin, Robert Earl Rasmusson, JR., Mark David Teater
  • Motorized Automatic Door Opener
    Publication number: 20210396041
    Abstract: A door opener and a method of using the door opener is disclosed. The door opener comprises a housing, a door handle grabber extending from the housing and adapted to engage a door handle, and a motor coupled to the door handle grabber and adapted to rotate the door handle grabber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Karen O'Neil, Paul Marganian, Max O'Ganian, William P'Ganian, Duncan Sizemore, Tristan Sizemore, Florian Baudler
  • Electronic Devices with Touch Input Components and Haptic Output Components
    Publication number: 20210397263
    Abstract: An electronic device may include touch input components and associated haptic output components. The control circuitry may provide haptic output in response to touch input on the touch input components and may send wireless signals to the external electronic device based on the touch input. The haptic output components may provide local and global haptic output. Local haptic output may be used to guide a user to the location of the electronic device or to provide a button click sensation to the user in response to touch input. Global haptic output may be used to notify the user that the electronic device is aligned towards the external electronic device and is ready to receive user input to control or communicate with the external electronic device. Control circuitry may switch a haptic output component into an inactive mode to inform the user that a touch input component is inactive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Camille Moussette, James H. Foster, Duncan Kerr, Adam S. Meyer, Per Haakan Linus Persson, Peter C. Tsoi, Stuart J. Wood
  • Implantable Embolic Scaffolds That Promote Healing
    Publication number: 20210393849
    Abstract: Implant devices and structures that reduce inflammation and promote healing of the area of implant. Specifically, the use of shape memory open cell biocompatible polymer foams for implants that assist in and promote healing and especially in filling and sealing aneurisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Duncan J. Maitland, Thomas S. Wilson
  • Tolerance independent crescent internal gear pump
    Patent number: 11204031
    Abstract: A crescent internal gear pump includes a front cover, an end cover, a ring gear and a pinion gear disposed within a gear housing in an eccentric, intermeshing relationship. The housing is disposed intermediate the front cover and the end cover. A crescent is disposed radially intermediate the ring gear and the pinion gear. The crescent partially extends into a correspondingly shaped slot in the end cover. The gear housing, the ring gear, and the pinion gear can have substantially the same thickness. A shim can be disposed intermediate the end cover and the gear housing for establishing a desired clearance therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: CIRCOR PUMPS NORTH AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: Patrick Wilson Duncan, Colette Doll Greene, Philip Taylor Alexander
  • Band
    Patent number: D938849
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Door release
    Patent number: D939314
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Stephen Schell, David Leetz, Brad Powell, Jonathan Scott Duncan, Ken Johnson
  • Wearable device
    Patent number: D939372
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Vehicle bumper
    Patent number: D939395
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Jonathan Scott Duncan, Austin Hiep Phan, Amanda Allison Koh
  • Vehicle bumper
    Patent number: D939397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: PACCAR Inc
    Inventors: Jonathan Scott Duncan, Austin Hiep Phan, Amanda Allison Koh
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D939496
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Electronic device
    Patent number: D939498
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Backplate for an electronic device
    Patent number: D939512
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Adam T. Clavelle, Erik Geddes Pieter De Jong, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Martin Melcher, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Coupling
    Patent number: D939672
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Aalberts integrated piping systems APAC Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick W. Duncan, Daniel Foster, Jorden Hardzinski, Julie Howell, Matthew Williams, Phillip Yontz