Patents by Inventor Francis C. Smith

Francis C. Smith 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).

  • Supporting secure memory intent
    Patent number: 11995001
    Abstract: A processor for supporting secure memory intent is disclosed. The processor of the disclosure includes a memory execution unit to access memory and a processor core coupled to the memory execution unit. The processor core is to receive a request to access a convertible page of the memory. In response to the request, the processor core to determine an intent for the convertible page in view of a page table entry (PTE) corresponding to the convertible page. The intent indicates whether the convertible page is to be accessed as at least one of a secure page or a non-secure page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Krystof C. Zmudzinski, Siddhartha Chhabra, Uday R. Savagaonkar, Simon P. Johnson, Rebekah M. Leslie-Hurd, Francis X. McKeen, Gilbert Neiger, Raghunandan Makaram, Carlos V. Rozas, Amy L. Santoni, Vincent R. Scarlata, Vedvyas Shanbhogue, Ilya Alexandrovich, Ittai Anati, Wesley H. Smith, Michael Goldsmith
  • Ostomates appliance
    Patent number: 4344433
    Abstract: An appliance (10) for facilitating replacement of a waste bag by an ostomy patient comprises a base (12), an upright post (14) removeably seated in said base, and a slideable collar (16) supported on an abuttment (18) on said post. One end of the post (14) includes an opening which covers the stoma and collects any seepage during the replacement procedure. The face plate and adhesive sealing ring are preassembled on the post (14) and collar (16), along with any reinforcing tape (32), after which the post is removed from the base (12) and positioned over the stoma so that the preassembly can be guided as a unit into engagement around the stoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 17, 1982
    Assignee: Smith's Ostomy Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Francis C. Smith
  • Hydraulic cylinder for multilevel submersible safety deck or decks for pools
    Patent number: 4283801
    Abstract: Pools of all peripheral shapes of either above or below ground construction with single slope or flat bottoms when not in use may be equipped with a rigid structurally safe traversible completely dry surface deck or decks for domestic functions and to simultaneously insulate the surface of the water with which it is in contact but when pool is in use such a deck or decks are to be readily set at any depth in the pool until it or they become finally a false bottom by means of control by external low pressure hydraulic cylinders operated from the pool circulating system per medium of a single readily operable but safety positioned three-way valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1978
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1981
    Inventor: Francis C. Smith
  • Fixing of ends of wood or reinforced plastic rungs into pultruded fibreglass reinforced plastic extension ladder stiles without the use of metal
    Patent number: 4244760
    Abstract: Extension ladders constructed of pultruded fibreglass reinforced plastic for use in an high voltage electrical environment are improved when they do not have any metal components within the field of the induced electrical currents and to achieve the junction between the fibreglass reinforced plastic rungs requires separate molded fibreglass reinforced plastic external sleeves so adhesively bonded to the stiles and the pultruded hollow rungs to make the junction and also such sleeves are not to have any projections outside the outer boundaries of the stiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1981
    Inventor: Francis C. Smith