Patents by Inventor Eric Allen

Eric Allen 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: 12275691
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for recovering ethanol from a fermentation broth. The fermentation broth comprises microbial biomass, ethanol, methanol, ethyl acetate, at least one thiol, and at least one compound having 3 or more carbon atoms. The method comprises separating at least microbial biomass from the fermentation broth to generate a process stream; removing, in any order, from the process stream: ethyl acetate by reacting ethyl acetate with a base compound followed by distillation; at least one thiol by adsorption or reaction to disulfide; methanol by distillation; compounds having 3 or more carbon atoms by distillation; and recovering ethanol by distillation; wherein the distillations may be conducted in a single column or two or more columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: LanzaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Gillespie, Michelle Kocal, Wyatt Eric Allen, Richard R Rosin, Donovan Tran
  • Publication number: 20240371146
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for training a universal sensor model based on a combined dataset provided by sensor devices of a common device class. Once trained, the universal sensor model may be deployed for providing recommendations based on for performing object detection on datasets received from different types of sensor devices of the common device class. Embodiments include determining whether to generate the combined dataset from different datasets from sensor devices of the common device class and determining when the sensor model will perform better using the combined dataset from sensor device rather than a single dataset from a single sensor device. In some embodiments, the datasets are image datasets comprising image data provided by the sensor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: CAPTURE LLC
    Inventors: Eric Allen DUFF, Amit Verma
  • Patent number: 12073610
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for training a universal sensor model based on a combined dataset provided by sensor devices of a common device class. Once trained, the universal sensor model may be deployed for providing recommendations based on performing object detection on datasets received from different types of sensor devices of the common device class. Embodiments include determining whether to generate the combined dataset from different datasets from sensor devices of the common device class and determining when the sensor model will perform better using the combined dataset from sensor device rather than a single dataset from a single sensor device. In some embodiments, the datasets are image datasets comprising image data provided by the sensor devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: CAPTURE LLC
    Inventors: Eric Allen Duff, Amit Verma
  • Publication number: 20240273882
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for training a universal sensor model based on a combined dataset provided by sensor devices of a common device class. Once trained, the universal sensor model may be deployed for providing recommendations based on performing object detection on datasets received from different types of sensor devices of the common device class. Embodiments include determining whether to generate the combined dataset from different datasets from sensor devices of the common device class and determining when the sensor model will perform better using the combined dataset from sensor device rather than a single dataset from a single sensor device. In some embodiments, the datasets are image datasets comprising image data provided by the sensor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: CAPTURE LLC
    Inventors: Eric Allen DUFF, Amit Verma
  • Patent number: 11988459
    Abstract: A core assembly for a plate-and-fin heat exchanger includes a pair of core plates and a heat-absorbing member disposed within the passageway that secures the pair of core plates together. The heat-absorbing member defines a plurality of fins that each include one or more bending points, and each bending point creates two points of contact between a core plate and the heat-absorbing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Seongchan Pack, Eric Allen Weir, Luca Peschini
  • Publication number: 20240037217
    Abstract: A system for digital rights management including a processor in a platform and a memory device comprising instructions that when executed configure the processor to perform operations. The operations may include determining whether a digital media is locally installed in a platform before initiating an operating system, and launching a first UEFI application configured to generate attestation data and communicate attestation based data to a server through an encrypted medium in response to determining the digital media is not installed. The operations may also include receive a binary file of the digital media and a first decryption key and performing a sealing of the binary file using a sealing enclave of the first UEFI application and generating a local decryption second key based on the first key and local entropy. The operations may also include installing the sealed binary file on local storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Jason Todd KAUL, Scott Edwin HINNNERSHITZ, David Jose LOPEZ, Nhan Huu MAI, Eric Allen MOMPER
  • Publication number: 20230408204
    Abstract: A core assembly for a plate-and-fin heat exchanger includes a pair of core plates and a heat-absorbing member disposed within the passageway that secures the pair of core plates together. The heat-absorbing member defines a plurality of fins that each include one or more bending points, and each bending point creates two points of contact between a core plate and the heat-absorbing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Seongchan Pack, Eric Allen Weir, Luca Peschini
  • Publication number: 20230357112
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for recovering ethanol from a fermentation broth. The fermentation broth comprises microbial biomass, ethanol, methanol, ethyl acetate, at least one thiol, and at least one compound having 3 or more carbon atoms. The method comprises separating at least microbial biomass from the fermentation broth to generate a process stream; removing, in any order, from the process stream: ethyl acetate by reacting ethyl acetate with a base compound followed by distillation; at least one thiol by adsorption or reaction to disulfide; methanol by distillation; compounds having 3 or more carbon atoms by distillation; and recovering ethanol by distillation; wherein the distillations may be conducted in a single column or two or more columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Ralph Gillespie, Michelle Kocal, Wyatt Eric Allen, Richard R. Rosin, Donovan Tran
  • Publication number: 20230338335
    Abstract: Films (ODFs) that include botanical extract are provided, as well as methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Allen, Robert Davidson, Tony LaRosa, David Reid
  • Publication number: 20230326342
    Abstract: Techniques for parking space light are provided. A parking space light can identify, via one or more instruments of the parking space light, a set of parking spaces in a defined region of a parking structure in which the parking space light is installed, monitor, via the one or more instruments, the set of parking spaces, and determine respective occupied statuses of parking spaces of the set of parking spaces, wherein the respective occupied statuses indicate whether the parking spaces are occupied or unoccupied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Rosen, Ronald Cozean, Eric Allen, David Edward Mordetzky, Megan Horvath, Anthony John Pyros, John Elwood, Michael Chang, Elie Attarian
  • Publication number: 20230305216
    Abstract: Techniques for creating, configuring, and employing diffusion light devices are presented. Such light device(s) can comprise or be associated with a light management component (LMC) that can employ sensors to monitor environmental conditions in a defined area of people or vehicles, and a diffusion component that can diffuse or otherwise process light. At a least a portion of the diffusion component and/or a light component can be formed of a fabric that can emit light and/or diffuse light. LMC can enhance function of the light device to manage diffusion of light or perform other tasks to enhance user experience and safety and security of people or vehicles. Based on results of analyzing sensor data relating to the conditions, LMC can determine and facilitate implementing an adjustment(s) to a parameter(s) of the diffusion component or light component to achieve desired emission or diffusion of light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Rosen, Ronald Cozean, Eric Allen, David Edward Mordetzky, Megan Horvath, Anthony John Pyros, John Elwood, Michael Chang, Elie Attarian
  • Patent number: 11755926
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for data pipeline prioritization is provided. Embodiments may include receiving, by a cognitive rules engine, one or more data pipelines. Embodiments may then include analyzing, using a computational method of the cognitive rules engine, the one or more data pipelines. Embodiments may lastly include prioritizing the one or more data pipelines based on a result of the computational method of the cognitive rules engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ritesh Kumar Gupta, Namit Kabra, Likhitha Maddirala, Eric Allen Jacobson, Scott Louis Brokaw, Jo Ramos
  • Patent number: 11731926
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an apparatus and method for recovering ethanol from a fermentation broth. The fermentation broth comprises microbial biomass, ethanol, methanol, ethyl acetate, at least one thiol, and at least one compound having 3 or more carbon atoms. The method comprises separating at least microbial biomass from the fermentation broth to generate a process stream; removing, in any order, from the process stream: ethyl acetate by reacting ethyl acetate with a base compound followed by distillation; at least one thiol by adsorption or reaction to disulfide; methanol by distillation; compounds having 3 or more carbon atoms by distillation; and recovering ethanol by distillation; wherein the distillations may be conducted in a single column or two or more columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: LanzaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Ralph Gillespie, Michelle Kocal, Wyatt Eric Allen, Richard R Rosin, Donovan Tran
  • Patent number: 11723637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a specialized laparoscopic device and method used for attachment of instrument heads to thin shafts in the abdomen of a patient. The device allows quick attachment of oversized instrument heads minimizing the scaring and recovery time of the patient. A specialized instrument head having a tether and a grabbing device are used to perform this process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NEW WAVE ENDO-SURGICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Ricardo Alexander Gomez, Sandy Lawrence Heck, Eric Allen Lopez
  • Patent number: 11701339
    Abstract: Films (ODFs) that include botanical extract are provided, as well as methods of making and using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Allen, Robert Davidson, Tony LaRosa, David Reid
  • Patent number: 11686895
    Abstract: Techniques for creating, configuring, and employing diffusion light devices are presented. Such light device(s) can comprise or be associated with a light management component (LMC) that can employ sensors to monitor environmental conditions in a defined area of people or vehicles, and a diffusion component that can diffuse or otherwise process light. At a least a portion of the diffusion component and/or a light component can be formed of a fabric that can emit light and/or diffuse light. LMC can enhance function of the light device to manage diffusion of light or perform other tasks to enhance user experience and safety and security of people or vehicles. Based on results of analyzing sensor data relating to the conditions, LMC can determine and facilitate implementing an adjustment(s) to a parameter(s) of the diffusion component or light component to achieve desired emission or diffusion of light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: RESILIENCE MAGNUM IP, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Rosen, Ronald Cozean, Eric Allen, David Edward Mordetzky, Megan Horvath, Anthony John Pyros, John Elwood, Michael Chang, Elie Attarian
  • Patent number: 11681929
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for predicting a remaining useful life of a component. One method comprises receiving, by a component prediction system, one or more component data sets associated with one or more components of a moving object. Based on the received one or more component data sets, environmental and operational conditions experienced over a lifetime of each failed component may be identified and summarized. Then, the effects of the environmental and operational conditions on a lifetime of a component of interest may be determined by training an accelerated failure time model using the summarized environmental and operational conditions. Using the trained accelerated failure time model, a remaining useful life of the component of interest may be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Allen Strong
  • Publication number: 20230180685
    Abstract: Techniques for horticulture light are provided. A horticulture light can monitor at least one characteristic of a defined region in which at least one plant is planted in a horticulture environment in which horticulture light bulb is installed, determine at least one action for the horticulture light bulb to perform based on a state of the at least one characteristic and at least one objective of the installation of the horticulture light bulb in the horticulture environment, and execute the at least one action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Rosen, Ronald Cozean, Eric Allen, David Edward Mordetzky, Megan Horvath, Anthony John Pyros, John Elwood, Michael Chang, Elie Attarian
  • Patent number: 11668622
    Abstract: A fluid monitoring system has a plurality of sensors, the sensors being acoustically coupled to a pipe system containing interconnected fluid-transporting pipes. The sensors collect sensor data that is analyzed by an analysis system to provide leak identification on the pipe system. Each sensor in the plurality of sensors is configured to be programmed adaptively by the analysis system to improve system performance parameters. A method for analyzing fluid flow is also described in which data from a plurality of acoustic sensing devices is analyzed using learning algorithms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: AquaSeca Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen J. Horne, Robert L. MacDonald, Marc A. Finot, Eric Allen Moon
  • Patent number: D1052260
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Fast Rescue Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Eric Allen, Samuel Cohen