Patents by Inventor Eric Peters
Eric Peters 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: 20240131595Abstract: A processing machine (10) for building an object (11) from powder (12) includes a build platform (26A); a powder supply assembly (18) that deposits the powder (12) onto the build platform (26A) to form a powder layer (13); and an energy system (22) that directs an energy beam (22D) at a portion of the powder (12) on the build platform (26A) to form a portion of the object (11). The powder supply assembly (18) can include (i) a powder container (640A) that retains the powder (12); (ii) a supply outlet (639) positioned over the build platform (26A); and (ii) a flow control assembly (642) that selectively controls the flow of the powder (12) from the supply outlet (639).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Alton Hugh Phillips, Joseph P. Rossi, Johnathan Agustin Marquez, Yoon Jung Jeong, Lexian Guo, Patrick Shih Chang, Eric Peter Goodwin, Michael Birk Binnard, Brett William Herr, Matthew Parker-McCormick Bjork, Paul Derek Coon, Motofusa Ishikawa
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Publication number: 20240129402Abstract: A native user interface (UI) application of a mobile device includes a library of different components such as text, forms, tables, lists, maps, views and buttons. The components can also have associated actions in some cases. When a view of the UI is launched, the mobile device contacts a server or other data source to obtain metadata associated with the view. The metadata can be tailored to a user or organization of the mobile device. The metadata selects specific components and defines a layout for the components. The mobile device uses the metadata to retrieve the components and render them in the view. The views can be changed by changing the metadata without changing the native application.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Eric Romero, Stephen Goldberg, Adam Liechty, Bharath Marulasiddappa, Scotland Peters, Irfan Syed, Chuxiong Wu, Saket Agarwal
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Publication number: 20240108361Abstract: A tool arrangement for forming a tunnel in a vertebra to perform nerve ablation includes a tamp having a distal end portion that includes a tip for creating the tunnel in the vertebra and a curvable portion to direct the tip along a curved path within the vertebra; a first cannula including a cannula body that is straight along an entire length of the cannula body and configured to receive the curvable portion of the tamp and straighten the curvable portion; and a tool hub including a stationary cannula attachment coupled to the first cannula and a movable head coupled to the tamp and configured to move toward or away from the stationary cannula attachment to extend or retract, respectively, the curvable portion of the tamp from or into, respectively, the first cannula.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Courtney Johnson, Eric Koji Nagaoka, Jens Peter Timms, Scott Anthony Silveus, Kevin Peng Wang
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Patent number: 11934055Abstract: A privacy glazing structure may include an electrically controllable optically active material that provides controlled transition between a privacy or scattering state and a visible or transmittance state. To make electrical connections with electrode layers that control the optically active material, the privacy glazing structure may include electrode engagement regions. In some examples, the electrode engagement regions are formed as notches in peripheral edges of opposed panes bounding the optically active material. The notches may or may not overlap to provide a through conduit in the region of overlap for wiring. In either case, the notches may allow the remainder of the structure to have a flush edge surface for ease of downstream processing.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Cardinal IG CompanyInventors: Eric Berner, Eric Bjergaard, Timothy Braun, Andrew DeMiglio, Chad Peters
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Patent number: 11919196Abstract: A manufacturing system includes a tape advancing through the manufacturing system and a station of the manufacturing system. The tape includes a first portion having grains of an inorganic material bound by an organic binder. The station of the manufacturing system receives the first portion of the tape and prepares the tape for sintering by chemically changing the organic binder and/or removing the organic binder from the first portion of the tape, leaving the grains of the inorganic material, to form a second portion of the tape and, at least in part, prepare the tape for sintering.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Corning IncorporatedInventors: Michael Edward Badding, William Joseph Bouton, Lanrik Wayne Kester, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Andrew Peter Kittleson, Dale Charles Marshall, Gary Edward Merz, Eric Lee Miller, Emmanuel Chima Okpara, Conor James Walsh
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Patent number: 11897525Abstract: A system for enhancing personnel safety on a railroad track is presented. The system can receive data from sensors and/or a PTC system to determine positions of clients/worker and/or vehicles, and further utilize such data to determine if a vehicle is within a certain proximity of the client/worker location. The system can further generate geofences around clients/vehicles to and determine when such geofences intersect one another. Additionally, the present disclosure can assign severity levels and generate alerts with the assigned severity levels, and such severity levels can indicate how close a vehicle is to a particular location. It is an object of the invention to provide a system for generating alerts to notify personnel when they much retreat to a place of safety.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: BNSF Railway CompanyInventors: Eric Peter Olsen, Shanmugasundaram Rajasubramanian, Nithin Paul Mathew, Marutha Pandian Jagadesan, Michael Howard, David Himmelstein, Aamir Ahmad Halim, Wayne Morgan, Amit Kumar Dash, Jacob Bunkley, Dickson Waudo, William Stewart, Raven Wylie
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Patent number: 11902707Abstract: This disclosure is directed to facilitating voice and video communication between users independent of a location or a device. A communication request can specify users, who may be identified and located in their respective environments. For example, users can be identified and located using facial recognition imaging techniques and/or by monitoring a radio frequency (RF) signal associated with a device that is carried or worn by a user. After determining a location of a user, individual devices can be configured as a functionally grouped device to allow the users to communicate. For example, capabilities of a television, microphone, speaker, and imaging device can be combined to allow a video communication between users. Further, as a user moves around his or her environment, the location of the user can be tracked and additional functionally grouped devices can be provided for seamless communication.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Adam Barry Fineberg, Miroslav Ristic, Robert Franklin Ebert, Eric Peter Raeber, Tarun Yohann Morton
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Patent number: 11895932Abstract: Techniques regarding selectively tuning the operating frequency of superconducting Josephson junction resonators are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a method that can include chemically altering a Josephson junction of a Josephson junction resonator via a plasma treatment. The method can also comprise selectively tuning an operating frequency of the Josephson junction resonator based on a property of the plasma treatment.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Peter Lewandowski, Jeng-Bang Yau, Eric Zhang, Bucknell C Webb
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Patent number: 11861340Abstract: Systems and methods for file system management are provided. According to one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises instructions that when executed by the processing resource cause the processing resource to implement, in a storage node, a multi-tiered file system comprising a read-only layer that contains a base configuration for the storage node and a read-write layer that contains modifications to the base configuration; and combine the read-only layer and the read-write layer into an overlay file system to be presented to an operating system.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: NetApp, Inc.Inventors: Keith Kauffman, Marshall McMullen, Eric Peters
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Publication number: 20230408111Abstract: A method/system monitors and controls operational aspects of devices in a space, for example a living, office or other human-occupied space or storage space, in a building, such as turning lights on/off, raising/lowering blinds, maintaining or changing temperature, and other operational aspects. Sensors monitor energy usage of the devices in the space, and a controller/engine compares the monitored energy usage with reference energy usage to validate whether the devices are performing as expected. A temperate set-versus-anomaly detection technique may use temperature set point adjustments by a user (during a timeframe) to determine whether an anomaly exists that requires changes in the central plant of the building.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Innovative Building Technologies, LLCInventors: Arlan E. COLLINS, Mark L. WOERMAN, Eric Peter HINCKLEY, Stephen David CORCORAN, Francis Leo BUSHELL, III, Bernard Robert FRANZA, Jr., Shawn Kahlil CULLINGFORD, Jonathon Michael BEST, Brett Andrew BARRETT
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Publication number: 20230392922Abstract: Detectors are situated along a tilted optical axis to receive optical radiation from a work surface. Variations in the received optical power are used to estimate a work surface positional along a work surface axis. The received optical power can be emitted from the work surface and an estimated temperature of the work surface used to adjust the received optical power. One or two single element detectors or a linear detector can be used. A position of a focused spot produced from the received optical power at the linear detector can be used to assess work surface axial position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Eric Peter GOODWIN, Zhi-Wei LIN
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Publication number: 20230388146Abstract: A method/system monitors and controls operational aspects of devices in a space, for example a living, office or other human-occupied space or storage space, in a building, such as turning lights on/off, raising/lowering blinds, maintaining or changing temperature, and other operational aspects. Sensors monitor energy usage of the devices in the space, and a controller/engine compares the monitored energy usage with reference energy usage to validate whether the devices are performing as expected. A temperate set-versus-anomaly detection technique may use temperature set point adjustments by a user (during a timeframe) to determine whether an anomaly exists that requires changes in the central plant of the building.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Innovative Building Technologies, LLCInventors: Arlan E. COLLINS, Mark L. WOERMAN, Eric Peter HINCKLEY, Stephen David CORCORAN, Francis Leo BUSHELL, III, Bernard Robert FRANZA, Jr., Shawn Kahlil CULLINGFORD, Jonathon Michael BEST, Brett Andrew BARRETT
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Patent number: 11809150Abstract: Traditional home-automation systems utilize a single hub for controlling secondary devices within a home. The techniques described herein, meanwhile, utilize multiple hubs within the environment and/or located remotely from the environment. For instance, an environment may include multiple electronic devices, each configured to control one or more secondary devices within the environment. In addition, a remote service may be configured to control one or more secondary devices within the environment. As such, each controlling device stores and executes an instance of a control engine, rather than relying on a single instance of a control engine located at a single controlling hub.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric Peter Raeber, Robert Franklin Ebert, Adam Barry Fineberg, Mark Sander Urbanus, Miroslav Ristic, Maxim Spivak
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Publication number: 20230296368Abstract: Shearography systems provide independent setting of fringe frequency and shear magnitude by situating an interferometer with a tiltable reflector proximate a pupil plane of an imaging optical system. Fringe frequency can be selected based on a modified Savart plate. In other examples, a Wollaston prism or a polarization grating is translated with respect to an image sensor to vary shear magnitude while maintaining a substantially fixed fringe frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Eric Peter Goodwin, Daniel Gene Smith
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Patent number: 11749605Abstract: Devices and methods that can facilitate hybrid under-bump metallization components are provided. According to an embodiment, a device can comprise an under-bump metallization component that can comprise a superconducting interconnect component and a solder wetting component. The device can further comprise a solder bump that can be coupled to the superconducting interconnect component and the solder wetting component. In some embodiments, the superconducting interconnect component can comprise a hermetically sealed superconducting interconnect component.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 5, 2023Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Jae-Woong Nah, Eric Peter Lewandowski, Adinath Shantinath Narasgond
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Publication number: 20230219755Abstract: A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: John LERT, Stephen Toebes, Robert Sullivan, Foster D. Hinshaw, Nathan Ulrich, Eric Peters
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Publication number: 20230212580Abstract: The invention relates to antisense molecules and methods for modulating splicing of polyomavirus T antigen pre-mRNA. In one aspect the invention relates to an antisense oligonucleotide 12 to 30, preferably 17, 18, 19 or 20 to 30 nucleobases in length which comprises a sequence that is the reverse complement of a contiguous stretch of at least 12 nucleobases of a polyomavirus T-antigen pre-mRNA and which antisense oligonucleotide can modulate splicing of said T-antigen pre-mRNA in a cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Eric Peter VAN DER VEER, Anton Jan VAN ZONNEVELD, Jurriën PRINS
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Patent number: 11661602Abstract: The invention relates to antisense molecules and methods for modulating splicing of polyomavirus T antigen pre-mRNA. In one aspect the invention relates to an antisense oligonucleotide 12 to 30, preferably 17, 18, 19 or 20 to 30 nucleobases in length which comprises a sequence that is the reverse complement of a contiguous stretch of at least 12 nucleobases of a polyomavirus T-antigen pre-mRNA and which antisense oligonucleotide can modulate splicing of said T-antigen pre-mRNA in a cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2019Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: ACADEMISCH ZIEKENHUIS LEIDEN H.O.D.N. LUMCInventors: Eric Peter Van Der Veer, Anton Jan Van Zonneveld, Jurriën Prins
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Publication number: 20230106321Abstract: The problem of limited throughput in three-dimensional (3D) printing processes is addressed by systems and methods that employ mirrors to receive energy reflected by the melt pool and to redirect such light back to the melt pool, where it may further heat the melt pool. Multiple such passes of reflection from the melt pool and redirection back to the melt pool may substantially increase the efficiency at which the melt pool absorbs the energy, thereby substantially increasing the throughput of the 3D printing process.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicant: Nikon CorporationInventors: Alton Hugh Phillips, Eric Peter Goodwin
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Patent number: 11608228Abstract: A warehouse storage and retrieval system including an array of multilevel storage racks having at least one transfer deck, picking isles and storage areas disposed along picking isles, the storage areas being configured to hold differing loads, and a controller including a management module configured to variably size the storage areas of the array of multilevel storage rack modules and assign each of the variably sized storage areas to a corresponding one of the differing loads, wherein the storage and retrieval system is arranged to transport the differing loads for placement in the variably sized storage areas assigned by the controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: Symbotic LLCInventors: John Lert, Stephen Toebes, Robert Sullivan, Foster D. Hinshaw, Nathan Ulrich, Eric Peters