Patents by Inventor Edward Thomas

Edward Thomas 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: 11320153
    Abstract: A system for selectively enclosing an appliance is provided. The system includes a first device and a second device. The first device detects whether a first door is in a fully open configuration. When the first door is in the fully open configuration, the first device sets the appliance into an operational mode. When the first door is not in the fully open configuration, the first device sets the appliance into a limited mode. The second device includes a locking device and detects whether the appliance is in a working mode. When the appliance is in the working mode, the second device engages the locking device to prevent a motion of the first door away from the fully open configuration. When the appliance is not in the working mode, the second device disengages the locking device to allow the motion of the first door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: VIKING RANGE, LLC
    Inventors: Samuel Kirk Clements, Martin D. Makowsky, Roger Noles, Wing Tun Chow, Edward Thomas Lucic
  • Publication number: 20220129274
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert C. VALENTINE, Jesus Corbal SAN ADRIAN, Roger Espasa SANS, Robert D. CAVIN, Bret L. TOLL, Santiago Galan DURAN, Jeffrey G. WIEDEMEIER, Sridhar SAMUDRALA, Milind Baburao GIRKAR, Edward Thomas GROCHOWSKI, Jonathan Cannon HALL, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, James C ABEL, Mark CHARNEY, Seth ABRAHAM, Suleyman SAIR, Andrew Thomas FORSYTH, Lisa WU, Charles YOUNT
  • Patent number: 11268932
    Abstract: A method to effectively utilize an oil debris monitor to provide advanced warning to mechanical system failures in a high noise system by adapting detection and annunciation algorithms to the background noise in a system that includes collecting I and Q channel data from a sensor; processing the I and Q channel data to both calculate a noise based (RMS adjusted) detection threshold and to identify a ferrous and nonferrous signal; processing the ferrous and nonferrous signals to determine signal peaks above the RMS adjusted detection threshold; adjusting a detection threshold if more signal peaks observed than allowable particles in a given time window; transmitting the detection threshold previously determined to particle detection, rate limit adjustment, detectability algorithms, and estimated mass loss accumulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Rocco, Danbing Seto
  • Patent number: 11260749
    Abstract: Cooling control systems described herein detect decreased operation of a cooling system of a vehicle, restrict movement of the vehicle without stopping movement responsive to decreased operation of the cooling system, and restrict movement of the vehicle by preventing the vehicle from traveling at a speed and/or power output for a non-zero designated period of time. This can allow for the vehicle to continue moving for a temporary period of time to avoid blocking traffic. Other control systems determine predicted distances and/or times that the vehicle can continue moving before coolant in the cooling system decreases below a designated threshold. Movement of the vehicle can be changed responsive to an upcoming distance and/or time that the vehicle is to travel exceeding the predicted distance and/or time. Other control systems modify a coolant flow rate based on differences between designated and ambient conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Petrak, Jason Strode, Henry Todd Young, Timothy Warren Brown, Jason Daniel Kuttenkuler, Robert John Zill, Jr., Kenneth Paul Nedley, Jeffrey John Wolff, Pritamkumar Gangwal, Janaki Gadiyaram, Maryam Abdollahi, Joseph Audu Ishaku, Christian Roland Tollefson, Lindsey Dodis, Shivakumar Katukam
  • Publication number: 20220018558
    Abstract: A panel assembly for air treatment comprising a rigid body including an inner surface and an outer surface that is opposite the inner surface, the inner surface defining an inner space within the rigid body, the rigid body having a rectangular shape with a ratio of a width to a depth such that the rigid body is flat and hollow, the rigid body including a first longitudinal end containing a first opening in communication with the inner space and a second longitudinal end containing a second opening in communication with the inner space, the first opening positioned opposite the second opening along a longitudinal length, and an ultra-violet light assembly mounted within the inner space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Louis J. Blaiotta, Edward Thomas Bosco
  • Patent number: 11210096
    Abstract: A vector friendly instruction format and execution thereof. According to one embodiment of the invention, a processor is configured to execute an instruction set. The instruction set includes a vector friendly instruction format. The vector friendly instruction format has a plurality of fields including a base operation field, a modifier field, an augmentation operation field, and a data element width field, wherein the first instruction format supports different versions of base operations and different augmentation operations through placement of different values in the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field, and wherein only one of the different values may be placed in each of the base operation field, the modifier field, the alpha field, the beta field, and the data element width field on each occurrence of an instruction in the first instruction format in instruction streams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert C. Valentine, Jesus Corbal San Adrian, Roger Espasa Sans, Robert D. Cavin, Bret L. Toll, Santiago Galan Duran, Jeffrey G. Wiedemeier, Sridhar Samudrala, Milind Baburao Girkar, Edward Thomas Grochowski, Jonathan Cannon Hall, Dennis R. Bradford, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, James C Abel, Mark Charney, Seth Abraham, Suleyman Sair, Andrew Thomas Forsyth, Lisa Wu, Charles Yount
  • Patent number: 11169903
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to performing risk-based software validation and to applying change control when upgrading a software application. In one scenario, a computer system calculates a risk score for features in a software application. This risk score indicates a relative level of risk for installing and using the software application. The computer system performs internal usage testing to determine how the software application is recommended for use, and conducts use tests to determine how a specified client uses the features of the software application as compared to the determined recommended use. Then, based on the calculated risk and the determined use of the features, the computer system provides a recommendation for the specified client indicating which portions of the software application are to undergo client-specific validation. In another scenario, a computer system applies change control when upgrading a software application from a first version to a second version.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: MASTERCONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Erin Marie Wright, Derek Edward Cramer, Robert Edward Thomas, Chad Milito, Terrance Holbrook, Alexander James Butler
  • Patent number: 11151443
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the systems includes a sparse memory access subsystem that is configured to perform operations comprising generating a sparse set of reading weights that includes a respective reading weight for each of the plurality of locations in the external memory using the read key, reading data from the plurality of locations in the external memory in accordance with the sparse set of reading weights, generating a set of writing weights that includes a respective writing weight for each of the plurality of locations in the external memory, and writing the write vector to the plurality of locations in the external memory in accordance with the writing weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Ivo Danihelka, Gregory Duncan Wayne, Fu-min Wang, Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Jack William Rae, Alexander Benjamin Graves, Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Timothy James Alexander Harley, Jonathan James Hunt
  • Patent number: 11144367
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling writing to register files in a processing system having at least two execution pipelines are provided. Aspects include obtaining a micro operation for execution by an execution unit of a first pipeline in the processing system, wherein the micro operation includes writing data to a register file. Aspects also include determining whether the data will be accessed by an execution unit of a second pipeline in the processing system. Based on a determination that the data will only be accessed by the execution unit of the first pipeline, aspects include blocking writing of the data to a register file of the second pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Joseph Branciforte, Gregory William Alexander, Avraham Ayzenfeld, Edward Thomas Malley, Jonathan Ting Hsieh, Gregory Miaskovsky
  • Patent number: 11137383
    Abstract: A method for determining the presence of a particle while actively calculating and monitoring oil debris monitor phase angle in an oil system including collecting I and Q channel data from an oil debris monitor sensor, performing a fast Fourier transform on the I and Q channel data, extracting a shape from the fast Fourier transform, and determining whether a particle is present from the shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Rocco, Sheridon Everette Haye
  • Publication number: 20210281405
    Abstract: An encrypted rolling code, a plurality of differing data bit order patterns, and a plurality of differing data inversion patterns are provided. One then selects a particular one of each of these patterns and uses those selected patterns as transmission characteristics when transmitting at least part of the encrypted rolling code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: James J. Fitzgibbon, Eric Gregori, Edward Thomas Laird
  • Patent number: 11084383
    Abstract: A control system includes a current sensor and one or more processors. The current sensor is configured to be disposed onboard a vehicle and to monitor a measured current conducted into a resistor leg of the vehicle. The resistor leg has a braking chopper and one or more resistive elements, and is connected with a traction bus of the vehicle. The one or more processors are configured to receive the measured current from the current sensor and, in response to the measured current differing from an expected current through the resistor leg, the one or more processors are configured to generate a control signal configured to one or more of increase an engine speed of an engine of the vehicle, increase cooling to the one or more resistive elements of the resistor leg, restrict movement of the vehicle, or schedule maintenance for the resistor leg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Petrak, Henry Todd Young, Jeffrey Wolff
  • Patent number: 11046350
    Abstract: An installation device is used to install a steering wheel onto a steering column having a plurality of column splines, wherein the steering wheel includes a plate with a central opening and a plurality of wheel splines configured to engage the plurality of column splines. The installation device includes a frame including a base and a cover removably coupled to the base. The installation device also includes a first magnification lens coupled to the frame, and a first pair of posts coupled to the base. The first pair of posts are configured for insertion into a pair of corresponding openings on the steering wheel such that the first pair of posts position the first magnification lens a first predetermined distance from the steering wheel to focus the first magnification lens on the plurality of wheel splines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michael J. Maure, Benjamin B. MacArthur, Thien Phung, Matthew Gowthorpe, Tyler John Edward Thomas Zettler, Matthew Peter Gleeson
  • Patent number: 11051189
    Abstract: According to aspects of the invention there is provided a remote unit comprising a processor and one or more terminal interfaces, the processor being connected to the one or more terminal interfaces, the terminal interfaces configured for coupling with a set of terminals, wherein the processor is configured to perform quality of service network testing using one or more of the set of terminals over one or more communication networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: James Peter Tagg, Alistair James Campbell, Igor Borisoglebski, Miguel Deus, Edward Thomas Guy, III
  • Publication number: 20210183619
    Abstract: An RF antenna is configured, when powered, to inductively generate plasma in a process region of a chamber, including: an array of parallel conductive lines that are oriented along a plane, the array including a first conductive line, a second conductive line, a third conductive line, and a fourth conductive line; wherein the first and second conductive lines are adjacent, wherein the second and third conductive lines are adjacent, and wherein the third and fourth conductive lines are adjacent; wherein when the RF antenna is powered, current flow in the adjacent first and second conductive lines occurs in an opposite direction, current flow in the adjacent second and third conductive lines occurs in a same direction, current flow in the adjacent third and fourth conductive lines occurs in an opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Roger Patrick, Neil M.P. Benjamin, Lee Chen, Alan Schoepp, Clint Edward Thomas, Thomas W. Anderson, Sang Heon Song
  • Publication number: 20210184290
    Abstract: A battery pack includes a cassette stack comprising a plurality of battery cell cassettes, each of the cassettes including a plurality of support structures. Each support structure comprises an electrically and thermally conductive frame for receiving at least one battery cell having a first terminal and a second terminal, and a heat pipe. The first terminal is electrically coupled to the frame when the at least one battery cell is mounted in the frame. The heat pipe provides thermal conductivity between the frame and a cooling surface. A method of cooling an electric vehicle including a battery pack comprises aligning the battery pack and a cooling structure, moving the cooling structure into contact with the electric vehicle, and circulating coolant through the cooling structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Sweet, Luke Asher Wilhelm, Thomas Bloxham, Mischa Alec Pollack, Alexander Andrew Bonderanko
  • Patent number: 10977264
    Abstract: Disclosed are various embodiments that involve selecting supplemental content. A compatibility rule is determined to require supplemental content from a first content provider to be a predetermined minimum distance from supplemental content from a second content provider. A layout is generated to include a first slot and a second slot. A first content item from the first content provider is assigned to the first slot, and a second content item from the second content provider is assigned to the second slot. A network page is generated using the layout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Banti, Thomas Jay Hoover, Alexander Michael Spinelli
  • Patent number: 10977149
    Abstract: A testing environment in which offline simulations can be run to identify policies and/or prediction models that result in more valuable content being included in content pages is described herein. For example, the offline simulations can be run in an application executed by an experiment device using data gathered by a production content delivery system. The simulation application can test any number of different policies and/or prediction models without impacting users that use a production content delivery system to request content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Giovanni Zappella, Cédric Philippe Charles Jean Ghislain Archambeau, Edward Thomas Banti, Michael Brueckner, Borys Marchenko, Martin Milicic, Jurgen Ommen, Dmitrij Scsadej
  • Publication number: 20210064192
    Abstract: Stacks that associate different electronic content are created using tags that are associated with electronic content. Stacks may be personal, organizational and/or shared. A tag may be associated with different types of electronic content (e.g. documents, people, contacts, meetings, emails, . . . ) that may be stored in different locations. The tag acts as an identifier that travels with the content as the electronic content is used. Content may be automatically/manually tagged. As the tagged content is used, the different applications that interact with the content (e.g. a messaging application, a content application) can use the tag to perform different actions. Changes to content with a tag may be aggregated such that users looking at the “consolidated” view can see all changes made to content or activity related to that content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Edward Thomas Banti, Kartik S. Murthy, Elroy J. Dyksen, Jeffrey Sherman, Kristian Andaker, Selvaraj Nalliah, Bethany Kessen Doan
  • Patent number: D913027
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Viking Range, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Thomas Lucic, III