Patents by Inventor Edward A. Pierce

Edward A. Pierce 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).

  • Publication number: 20240081706
    Abstract: Example systems, methods, and apparatus, including cognitive platforms, are provided for applying signal detection metrics in computer-implemented adaptive response-deadline procedures to data collected based at least in part on user interaction(s) with computerized tasks and/or interferences. The apparatus can include a response classifier for generating a quantifier of the cognitive abilities of an individual. The apparatus also can be configured to adapt the tasks and/or interferences to enhance the individual's cognitive abilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Titiimaea Alailima, Jeffrey Bower, Walter Edward Martucci, Ashley Mateus, Paul Rand Pierce, Adam Piper, Matthew Omernick, Scott Kellogg
  • Publication number: 20240066482
    Abstract: A stand mixer appliance includes a casing that includes a base, a column mounted to the base, and a motor housing mounted to the column that extends outwardly above the base. A motor is positioned within the motor housing. The motor includes two pins. The motor housing includes a first portion and a second portion. The second portion includes both a hole and a slot. The slot is elongated along a transverse direction of the motor, and the two pins of the motor extend perpendicularly to the transverse direction. Each of the two pins of the motor are disposed within a respective one of the hole and the slot of the second portion of the motor housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Pierce, Edward Simeon Chupka
  • Publication number: 20160343001
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing service and support solutions to a user device. A system is described that provides user centric solution system by connecting a user device to multiple solution channels. This includes receiving symptom information from the user device and combining that information along with diagnostic information from the product to identify the problem. The system can also provide solution options to the user based on the availability of each support channel and the products' or services entitlements and support policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Inventors: Mary Jane Hawes, James Lee Burdine, Michael Lawder, Edward Pierce
  • Patent number: 8887264
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a system and method for establishing a secure tunnel between a client device and a remote server utilizing multiple user identities, and in some embodiments, a client device identity, to authenticate access to the remote server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: Ram International Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Fendall Johnston, II, Dean Edward Pierce, William Jonathan Strauss
  • Publication number: 20140052645
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for providing service and support solutions to a user device. A system is described that provides user centric solution system by connecting a user device to multiple solution channels. This includes receiving symptom information from the user device and combining that information along with diagnostic information from the product to identify the problem. The system can also provide solution options to the user based on the availability of each support channel and the products' or services entitlements and support policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2012
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mary Jane Hawes, James Lee Burdine, Michael Lawder, Edward Pierce
  • Publication number: 20110072507
    Abstract: In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a system and method for establishing a secure tunnel between a client device and a remote server utilizing multiple user identities, and in some embodiments, a client device identity, to authenticate access to the remote server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: DIS-ENT, LLC
    Inventors: Richard Fendall Johnston, II, Dean Edward Pierce, William Jonathan Strauss
  • Publication number: 20080256128
    Abstract: System and methods for source documents management in clinical trials are described. One described method comprises receiving a clinical trial form on a client device over a network from a server device, the clinical trial form comprising a plurality of form data fields; receiving structured clinical trial data associated with at least one of the plurality of form data fields; receiving unstructured clinical trial data; and transmitting the structured clinical trial data and unstructured clinical trial data to the server over the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: Clinical Ink, LLC
    Inventors: Douglas Edward Pierce, Thomas Willard Littlejohn
  • Publication number: 20080094474
    Abstract: Digital cameras are calibrated so that detailed highlights and shadows in scenes being photographed are reproduced in digital images of those scenes by calibrating holographic data obtained from target images at those scenes. In one embodiment the target image is obtained from an actual target having black and white, and optionally gray, target areas; and in another embodiment, the target image is obtained from the scene being photographed. In both embodiments, histographic data is manipulated so that shadow and highlight data spikes are automatically placed in boundary areas by automatically adjusting lens aperture and/or shutter speed prior to taking the desired photograph of the scene. The resulting photograph is adjusted for highlight and shadow details.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2007
    Publication date: April 24, 2008
    Inventor: Edward PIERCE
  • Patent number: 7218474
    Abstract: An assembly includes a housing with a base. A mounting pad is positioned on the base. The assembly also includes a micromechanical device coupled to the mounting pad. First and second side rails extend from the base to form first and second rail corners. The first and second rail corners are subject to striking a surface. The first and second rail corners have first and second elevations that are uneven to reduce impacts reaching the micromechanical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: Seagate Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Roman Janik, Matthew Wesley Jones, Glen Edward Pierce, Fei (Peter) Wang, Liyang (Leon) Zhao
  • Patent number: 6207312
    Abstract: A self-humidifying polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell assembly has an ion-exchange membrane interposed between hydrogen and oxygen diffusion layers to form a membrane electrode assembly (MEA). The MEA is in turn interposed between a pair of current collector plates having flow field channels for flowing the reactants adjacent the respective diffusion layers to produce corresponding anodic and cathodic electrochemical reactions. Various embodiments of the assembly incorporate one or more of the following features: interdigitated flow field channels, countercurrent reactant flows, opposing channel alignment, and uncatalyzed membrane hydration enhancement zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Energy Partners, L.C.
    Inventors: Robert Kenneth Wynne, Jay Kevin Neutzler, Frano Barbir, Vladimir Gurau, Walter Edward Pierce, III
  • Patent number: 5058078
    Abstract: A well logging system includes a digital threshold crossing data generation system (TCDG System) disposed in a well tool, adapted to be disposed in a borehole, and a digital first motion detection (DFMD) software disposed in a memory of a well truck computer. The TCDG system generates a series of threshold crossings for each analog signal received from a receiver of the well tool, the threshold crossings including a plurality of threshold crossing events for each analog signal and representing compressed versions of digitized analog waveforms. The well logging truck computer receives the threshold crossing data from the TCDG system and executes the DFMD software. When the software is executed, a first set of compressional wave first arrival times are determined from a startup routine in the software using the threshold crossing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin A. Eyl, Andrew L. Kurkjian, David J. Lineman, Edward A. Pierce, Joseph M. Steiner, Jr.
  • Patent number: 4985873
    Abstract: A well logging system includes a digital threshold crossing data generation system (TCDG System) disposed in a well tool, adapted to be disposed in a borehole, and a digital first motion detection (DFMD) software disposed in a memory of a well truck computer. The TCDG system generates a series of threshold crossings for each analog signal received from a receiver of the well tool, the threshold crossings including a plurality of threshold crossing events for each analog signal and representing compressed versions of digitized analog waveforms. The well logging truck computer receives the threshold crossing data from the TCDG system and executes the DFMD software. When the software is executed, a first set of compressional wave first arrival times are determined from a startup routine in the software using the threshold crossing data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 15, 1991
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin A. Eyl, Andrew L. Kurkjian, David J. Lineman, Edward A. Pierce, Joseph M. Steiner, Jr.
  • Patent number: D851855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Theresa Lynn Farmer, Todd David Wickenheisser, Eric Zampedri, Mary Beth Marette, Sutasinee Chanwangsa Seitz, James Edward Pierce, Daniel Alvie Delzer, Rachel Lewis
  • Patent number: D851856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Theresa Lynn Farmer, Todd David Wickenheisser, Eric Zampedri, Mary Beth Marette, Sutasinee Chanwangsa Seitz, James Edward Pierce, Daniel Alvie Delzer
  • Patent number: D851857
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Theresa Lynn Farmer, Todd David Wickenheisser, Eric Zampedri, Mary Beth Marette, Sutasinee Chanwangsa Seitz, James Edward Pierce, Daniel Alvie Delzer
  • Patent number: D934531
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: Sherry S. Elliott, James Edward Pierce, John Russell Stiff
  • Patent number: D945111
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: The Hershey Company
    Inventors: James Edward Pierce, Robert Boutilier