Patents by Inventor Eric Wayne
Eric Wayne 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: 20250131248Abstract: A processor-implemented method for multiplication approximation includes receiving inputs to be processed using an artificial intelligence (AI) compute engine. The inputs have a first precision. The AI compute engine is configured for processing in a second precision different from the first precision. A first parameter for the inputs and a second parameter for the AI compute engine are defined. The first parameter and the second parameter respectively indicate a first portion of the first precision and a second portion of the second precision to use for computation by the AI compute engine. The inputs and the second set of compute engine parameters are respectively adapted according to the first parameter and the second parameter to generate a first representation and a second representation. An approximation of an AI workload for the inputs is generated based on the first representation and the second representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Jihad MASRI, Gregory SMITH, Venkata Ravi Kiran DAYANA, Eric Wayne MAHURIN
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Patent number: 12228331Abstract: An egg storage and dispensing device and system provides a dispenser basket for holding eggs in a conveniently accessible position. The dispenser basket is further configured to suspend from a refrigerator shelf via suction cup pressure, for space saving.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2024Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Inventor: Eric Wayne Emmert
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Patent number: 12231751Abstract: A modular omni-directional sensor array (MOSA) enclosure is provided for visual surveillance. The MOSA enclosure is disposable on an elevated position and includes a lower equipment module and an upper optical module. The equipment module contains electrical power and control electronics and is disposed on the elevated position from underneath. The optical module contains a plurality of cameras viewing radially outward. The optical module is disposed onto the equipment module from above.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the NavyInventors: Timothy Li-Ming Peng, Eric Wayne Stacy, David Bone Clark, III
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Patent number: 12205835Abstract: An apparatus configured to join electronic components to an electronic substrate includes a chamber housing including a tunnel extending through multiple processing zones, a conveyor configured to transport electronic substrates in the tunnel through the multiple processing zones, and a heat detection system including at least one temperature sensor coupled to the chamber housing. The at least one temperature sensor is configured to detect temperatures of the electronic substrates passing proximate to the at least one temperature sensor. The apparatus further includes a controller coupled to the multiple processing zones, the conveyor and the heat detection system. The controller is configured to receive temperature data from the heat detection system.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventor: Eric Wayne Becker
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Publication number: 20250021498Abstract: A clock domain crossing interface is described. The clock domain crossing interface includes a transmit clock domain and a receive clock domain using a different clock from the transmit clock domain. The clock domain crossing interface also includes a first-in-first-out (FIFO) buffer coupled between the transmit clock domain and the receive clock domain. The FIFO buffer to store ordered transactions sent from the transmit clock domain to the receive clock domain. The clock domain crossing interface further includes a transmit clock domain event transfer block to notify the receive clock domain of a new transaction pushed onto the FIFO buffer in the transmit clock domain. The clock domain crossing interface also includes a receive clock domain event transfer block to notify the transmit clock domain of a new transaction pulled from the FIFO buffer in the receive clock domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: January 16, 2025Inventors: Eric Wayne MAHURIN, Hitesh Kumar GUPTA, Francisco PEREZ
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Publication number: 20240416391Abstract: A cleaning apparatus is configured to clean electronic substrates including printed circuit boards and semiconductor product assemblies. The cleaning apparatus includes at least one cleaning module configured to treat electronic substrates and a conveyor system configured to transport the electronic substrates through the at least one cleaning module. The at least one cleaning module includes a spray system having a manifold connected to a source of fluid and a plurality of spray bars fluidly coupled to the manifold, and an adjustable height spray system configured to move the manifold and the plurality of spray bars up and down with respect to the conveyor system.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: December 19, 2024Inventors: Eric Wayne Becker, Michael Brainard
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Patent number: 12093800Abstract: A device includes one or more processors configured to retrieve a first block of data, the data corresponding to array of values arranged along at least a first dimension and a second dimension, to retrieve at least a portion of a second block of the data, and to perform a first hybrid convolution operation that applies a filter across the first block and at least the portion of the second block to generate output data. The output data includes a first accumulated block and at least a portion of a second accumulated block. The one or more processors are also configured to store the first accumulated block as first output data. The portion of the second block is adjacent to the first block along the first dimension and the portion of the second accumulated block is adjacent to the first accumulated block along the second dimension.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 17, 2024Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventor: Eric Wayne Mahurin
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Patent number: 11975343Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes at least one cleaning module configured to treat electronic substrates and a conveyor system configured to transport the electronic substrates through the at least one cleaning module. The at least one cleaning module includes a fluid management system having a manifold coupled to a source of fluid. The manifold includes at least one outlet. The at least one cleaning module further includes an automatic valve coupled to the at least one outlet and to a conduit leading to one or more first spray nozzles and a pressure sensor coupled to the automatic valve. The pressure sensor is configured to measure pressure of fluid flowing through the conduit. The automatic valve is configured to adjust the flow of fluid through the conduit based on the pressure measured by the pressure sensor.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: Eric Wayne Becker, Michael Brainard
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Patent number: 11975922Abstract: A conveyor system is configured to transport the electronic substrates through the cleaning modules of a cleaning apparatus. The conveyor system includes a first outer frame member, a second outer frame member spaced from the first outer frame member, a bottom belt disposed between the first outer frame member and the second outer frame member, and a top belt spaced from the bottom belt. The bottom belt and the top belt are configured to receive a product carrier therebetween to transport electronic substrates along the conveyor system and through the cleaning modules. The conveyor system further includes a plurality of roller assemblies, with at least one roller assembly being coupled to the first outer frame member and at least one roller assembly being coupled to the second outer frame member. Each roller assembly is configured to apply a force on the top belt or the bottom belt.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: John Neiderman, Scotty Slavens, Eric Wayne Becker
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Publication number: 20240139764Abstract: A cleaning apparatus includes at least one cleaning module configured to treat electronic substrates and a conveyor system configured to transport the electronic substrates through the at least one cleaning module. The at least one cleaning module includes a fluid management system having a manifold coupled to a source of fluid. The manifold includes at least one outlet. The at least one cleaning module further includes an automatic valve coupled to the at least one outlet and to a conduit leading to one or more first spray nozzles and a pressure sensor coupled to the automatic valve. The pressure sensor is configured to measure pressure of fluid flowing through the conduit. The automatic valve is configured to adjust the flow of fluid through the conduit based on the pressure measured by the pressure sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Eric Wayne Becker, Michael Brainard
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Publication number: 20240118902Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure relates to a data processing system, including: an input medium configured to include a first set of blocks of data including a first set of block of compressed data and a first set of metadata, respectively; an output medium configured to include a first set of blocks of decompressed data each having a predetermined number of decompressed elements; and a set of single instruction multiple data (SIMD) processors configured to: access the first set of blocks of data from the input medium, respectively; decompress the first set of blocks of compressed data to generate the first set of blocks of decompressed data based on the first set of metadata, respectively; and provide the first set of blocks of decompressed data to the output medium, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Eric Wayne MAHURIN, Erich PLONDKE, Hitesh Kumar GUPTA, Colin Beaton VERRILLI, Rexford Alan HILL
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Patent number: 11922620Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media that allow a user to easily generate survey mission plans for one or more UAVs and to capture high quality survey images, including those in the near infra-red, and stitch them into an orthomosaic having reduced geometric distortion. The generation of such orthomosaics allows the systems and methods disclosed herein to be particularly useful in applications where separation from the background of high reflective near infrared surfaces is important, such as identifying plants on soil and generating vegetation indices for precision agriculture applications.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Hermilo Hernandez, Eric Wayne Jackson, Richard Linchangco
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Apparatus and method for assisting in decoupling a wheels-on-ground daughter cart from a mother cart
Patent number: 11904919Abstract: A method and apparatus for assisting in removing a wheels-on-ground type daughter cart from a mother cart, and a mother cart incorporating such a method and apparatus, utilize a daughter cart ejector apparatus mounted on a mother cart and having a selectively actuatable ejector element for urging the daughter cart to move out of engagement with the mother cart in an unloading direction. The ejector element is configured and operatively connected to bear against the daughter cart and apply force in a manner that assists in initiating movement of the daughter cart in the unloading direction and reorienting casters supporting the daughter cart on an underlying surface from a rolling orientation that is generally parallel to a transport direction of the mother cart, to a rolling orientation that is generally transverse to the transport direction and parallel to the unloading direction.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventors: Edmund W. Brown, Eric Wayne Brown, Ryan Edmund Brown -
Patent number: 11902317Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein describe a server, for example a security awareness server or an artificial intelligence machine learning system that establishes a job score for a user based on the user's job title. In embodiments, the vulnerability of a user to malicious cybersecurity attacks, the propensity for the user to engage with a malicious attack, and the severity of a malicious attack likely to be sent to the user and the severity of the harm to the user's organization is the user engages with the malicious attack is represented in a user risk score. The risk score for a user of a security awareness system, or for a group of users of a security awareness system, may be calculated based on one or more of a frequency score for the user, a propensity score for the user, a severity score for the user, and a job score for the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: KnowBe4, Inc.Inventors: Eric Wayne Sites, Ryan Scott Davis, Daniel James DeCola
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Patent number: 11872600Abstract: A conveyor system is configured to transport the electronic substrates through cleaning modules of a cleaning apparatus. The conveyor system includes a first outer frame member, a second outer frame member, a bottom belt assembly disposed between the first outer frame member and the second outer frame member, and a top belt assembly spaced from the bottom belt assembly. The bottom belt assembly and the top belt assembly are configured to an electronic substrate therebetween to transport the electronic substrate along the conveyor system and through the at least one cleaning module. The bottom belt assembly or the top belt assembly includes a mesh material belt fabricated from heat resistant synthetic fibers. The conveyor system further includes a plurality of pins secured to the bottom belt assembly or the top belt assembly to create at least one lane along a length of the conveyor system.Type: GrantFiled: October 1, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.Inventors: John Neiderman, Eric Wayne Becker, Scotty Slavens
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Patent number: 11772560Abstract: A boat trailer and a method of backing up a boat on a trailer. The boat trailer includes a trailer back-up system having a first image capture device, a second image capture device, and a transmitter. The first image capture device is mounted on a left guide pole of the trailer in a rear-facing direction, and the second image capture device is mounted on a right guide pole of the trailer in a rear-facing direction. The transmitter is in communication with each of the first image capture device and the second image capture device and configured to transmit live video images from the first image capture device and from the second image capture device to a display device. The method includes moving the trailer with a boat loaded on the trailer in a rearward direction and capturing, in real-time, a first view and a second view.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: MasterCraft Boat Company, LLCInventors: Chad A. Lynema, Ryan D. Lake, Eric Wayne Stoner
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Publication number: 20230306233Abstract: A processor-implemented method includes bit shifting a binary representation of a neural network parameter. The neural network parameter has fewer bits, b, than a number of hardware bits, B, supported by hardware that processes the neural network parameter. The bit shifting effectively multiplies the neural network parameter by 2B-b. The method also includes dividing a quantization scale by 2B-b to obtain an updated quantization scale. The method further includes quantizing the bit shifted binary representation with the updated quantization scale to obtain a value for the neural network parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Marinus Willem VAN BAALEN, Brian KAHNE, Eric Wayne MAHURIN, Tijmen Pieter Frederik BLANKEVOORT, Andrey KUZMIN, Andrii SKLIAR, Markus NAGEL
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Patent number: 11732613Abstract: An apparatus for removing or installing a turbine blade from a turbine of a turbomachine is disclosed. The apparatus can include: an operative head configured to engage an axial sidewall of a turbine blade base. An actuator is configured to move the operative head to selectively engage the axial sidewall of the turbine blade base and impart an axial force against the turbine blade base to remove or install the turbine blade. A support gantry is configured to position the actuator substantially vertically above the turbine blade in position in the turbomachine. Among other advantages, the support gantry allows adjustment of the apparatus for different turbines, and use of the head on more than one stage of any given turbine.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignees: General Electric Company, Atlantic Plant Maintenance, Inc.Inventors: Joanna Sylwia Pilichowska, Piotr Krzysztof Dzieciol, Szymon Perkowski, Daniel John Moroney, Eric Wayne Hendricks
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Patent number: 11676205Abstract: In order to protect a trading party from predatory trading strategies employed by some market participants, especially during certain periods when quotes for a particular security are experiencing rapid changes or transitions, embodiments of the present invention facilitate and support various new type of trading orders whose booking and execution behaviors are dynamically varied in response to environmental market conditions and/or predefined rules. For example, the orders may be allowed to trade at more aggressive price levels if the market is relatively stable, and the orders can only trade at less aggressive price levels or be automatically suspended or even cancelled when the market is unstable.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: IEX Group, Inc.Inventors: John Herbert Schwall, Eric Wayne Stockland, Bradley Toshio Katsuyama, Ronan Gerard Ryan, Boris Ilyevsky, Lucas Tanner Kowalczyk, Benjamin Jerome Pierre Connault
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Patent number: D1013077Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Indian Industries, Inc.Inventor: Eric Wayne Turner