Patents by Inventor Gavin Thomas
Gavin 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).
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Publication number: 20230374899Abstract: A method (60) of determining core orientation of a core sample (12) cut from the ground by a drill rig (10) having a drill string and a drill bit (20) coupled to a downhole end of the drill string. Drilling data (Cn, Rn) is continuously acquired while the drill rig (10) is operating to cut and retrieve the core sample (12). The drilling data is a combination of core orientation data Cn and rig operational data Rn, where the rig operational data is constituted by either one or both of: (a) near bit rig data Nn; and, (b) at surface rig data Sn. The drilling data is analyzed for a specific pattern of rig operational data Rn indicative of the core sample being broken from ground by operation of the drill rig (10). On detection of the specific pattern, the orientation of the core sample prior to being broken from the ground is the acquired core orientation data Cn coinciding with that specific pattern of rig operational data Rn.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Jonathan Craig TAPSON, Kelvin BROWN, Gurtej Singh JABBAL, Gavin Thomas MCLEOD
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Patent number: 11578550Abstract: A downhole device delivery and drive transfer system includes a sub which is arranged to attach to a drill string and a tool which is configured to enable it to travel through the drill string and releasably couple to the sub. The sub and the tool are arranged so that when they are releasably coupled to each other torque imparted to the drill string is transferred by the sub to the tool. The tool is arranged to carry one or more devices for performing one or more downhole functions such as core drilling, hole reaming or wedge placement for directional drilling. The system also has a guide mechanism that operates between the sub and the tool to guide the tool to a known rotational orientation relative to the sub as the tool travels into the sub. A fluid control system controls the flow of fluid through the tool through a downhole outlet and a plurality of ports intermediate opposite ends of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Reflex Instruments Asia Pacific Pty LtdInventors: Andrew Phillip Beach, Gavin Thomas McLeod
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Publication number: 20230020680Abstract: A tool includes a first output from a gear system, the first output along a first axis and a second output from the gear system, the second output along a second axis. A first torque limiter is attached to the first output along the first axis and a second torque limiter is attached to the second output along the second axis. A first tool bit is attached to the first torque limiter along the first axis and a second tool bit attached to the second torque limiter along the second axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2021Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Noah Benjamin Goldberg, Gavin Thomas Adams, Michael P. Martinez
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Patent number: 11500906Abstract: A subgraph storage memory stores subgraphs populated with data classified into features based on data title; each of the subgraphs has a plurality of elements; each of the elements has a features with different values. For each subfeature of a plurality of subfeatures, the different values assigned to a combination of one of the elements and one or more features are used to create a method to evaluate the subgraphs on the one or more features, as a subfeature which provides scoring information on a subgraph. For each metafeature, plural subfeatures among the plurality of subfeatures are selected to be composited into the metafeature; and for each subgraph, the plural subfeatures of each metafeature are composited to provide metafeature scores. Selected subgraphs in a universe of subgraphs with metafeature scores are presented as context for comparing the selected subgraphs; each of the selected subgraphs has different selections of elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Decision Lens Inc.Inventors: William James Louis Adams, Kevin John Connor, Gavin Thomas Byrnes
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Patent number: 11357211Abstract: A system for maintaining inter-object separation between different objects such as animals, machinery, or people, that uses distance signaling to provide and maintain separation via correction activities that may also be used to keep the first two objects at a prescribed distance from a third object.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Universtiy of South CarolinaInventors: Hossein Haj-Hariri, Gavin Thomas Garner, Mitra Minter Haj-Hariri, Dara Davisson Haj-Hariri
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Publication number: 20220177853Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions, and kits for directed differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells, neuromesodermal progenitors, and neural stem cells into bioengineered elliptical neuroepithelial tissues and bioengineered neuroepithelial tubes that contain a single rosette of polarized neuroepithelial cells and have microscale cellular organization similar to that of an in vivo developing human neural tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Randolph Scott Ashton, Gavin Thomas Knight, Benjamin John Knudsen, Nisha Ramdas Iyer, Carlos Marti-Figueroa
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Publication number: 20220050815Abstract: A database may contain representations of: (i) software packages managed by a software management tool, including publishers, titles, and categories associated with each, and (ii) a plurality of software activities, including descriptions and amounts associated with each. A server device may be configured to obtain classifications of the software activities that predict the publishers, titles, and categories of the software activities from the descriptions. The server device may further compare the software packages to the classifications in order to identify: (i) unmanaged software packages, and (ii) amounts associated with the software packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Gavin Thomas Peterkin, Brian Eric Geihsler, Patrick Richard Lowndes, Peter John Bell
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Publication number: 20210396084Abstract: A downhole device delivery and drive transfer system includes a sub which is arranged to attach to a drill string and a tool which is configured to enable it to travel through the drill string and releasably couple to the sub. The sub and the tool are arranged so that when they are releasably coupled to each other torque imparted to the drill string is transferred by the sub to the tool. The tool is arranged to carry one or more devices for performing one or more downhole functions such as core drilling, hole reaming or wedge placement for directional drilling. The system also has a guide mechanism that operates between the sub and the tool to guide the tool to a known rotational orientation relative to the sub as the tool travels into the sub. A fluid control system controls the flow of fluid through the tool through a downhole outlet and and a plurality of ports intermediate opposite ends of the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Applicant: REFLEX INSTRUMENTS ASIA PACIFIC PTY LTDInventors: Andrew Phillip BEACH, Gavin Thomas MCLEOD
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Patent number: 11204903Abstract: A database may contain representations of: (i) software packages managed by a software management tool, including publishers, titles, and categories associated with each, and (ii) a plurality of software activities, including descriptions and amounts associated with each. A server device may be configured to obtain classifications of the software activities that predict the publishers, titles, and categories of the software activities from the descriptions. The server device may further compare the software packages to the classifications in order to identify: (i) unmanaged software packages, and (ii) amounts associated with the software packages.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 21, 2021Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventors: Gavin Thomas Peterkin, Brian Eric Geihsler, Patrick Richard Lowndes, Peter John Bell
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Patent number: 11136842Abstract: A downhole device delivery and drive transfer system includes a sub which is arranged to attach to a drill string and a tool which is configured to enable it to travel through the drill string and releasably couple to the sub. The sub and the tool are arranged so that when they are releasably coupled to each other torque imparted to the drill string is transferred by the sub to the tool. The tool is arranged to carry one or more devices for performing one or more downhole functions such as core drilling, hole reaming or wedge placement for directional drilling. The system also has a guide mechanism that operates between the sub and the tool to guide the tool to a known rotational orientation relative to the sub as the tool travels into the sub. A fluid control system controls the flow of fluid through the tool through a downhole outlet and a plurality of ports intermediate opposite ends of the tool.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Reflex Instruments Asia Pacific Pty LtdInventors: Andrew Phillip Beach, Gavin Thomas McLeod
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Publication number: 20210222541Abstract: A method (60) of determining core orientation of a core sample (12) cut from the ground by a drill rig (10) having a drill string and a drill bit (20) coupled to a downhole end of the drill string. Drilling data (Cn, Rn) is continuously acquired while the drill rig (10) is operating to cut and retrieve the core sample (12). The drilling data is a combination of core orientation data Cn and rig operational data Rn, where the rig operational data is constituted by either one or both of: (a) near bit rig data Nn; and, (b) at surface rig data Sn. The drilling data is analysed for a specific pattern of rig operational data Rn indicative of the core sample being broken from ground by operation of the drill rig (10). On detection of the specific pattern, the orientation of the core sample prior to being broken from the ground is the acquired core orientation data Cn coinciding with that specific pattern of rig operational data Rn.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Jonathan Craig TAPSON, Kelvin BROWN, Gurtej Singh JABBAL, Gavin Thomas MCLEOD
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Publication number: 20210176959Abstract: A system for maintaining inter-object separation between different objects such as animals, machinery, or people, that uses distance signaling to provide and maintain separation via correction activities that may also be used to keep the first two objects at a prescribed distance from a third object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: University of South CarolinaInventors: Hossein Haj-Hariri, Gavin Thomas Garner, Mitra Minter Haj-Hariri, Dara Davisson Haj-Hariri
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Patent number: 10958532Abstract: An example embodiment involves receiving an activity record including activity data, provider data, and description data; applying a first layer of a multi-layer machine learning (ML) model to predict that the activity record relates to software, applying a second layer of the multi-layer ML model to predict a provider name of a software application referenced in the activity record, applying a third layer of the multi-layer ML model to predict an application title of the software application referenced in the activity record, and storing, in a database, a configuration item indicating that the activity record relates to software, where the configuration item contains attributes including the provider name and the application title.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.Inventor: Gavin Thomas Peterkin
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Publication number: 20200349134Abstract: A database may contain representations of: (i) software packages managed by a software management tool, including publishers, titles, and categories associated with each, and (ii) a plurality of software activities, including descriptions and amounts associated with each. A server device may be configured to obtain classifications of the software activities that predict the publishers, titles, and categories of the software activities from the descriptions. The server device may further compare the software packages to the classifications in order to identify: (i) unmanaged software packages, and (ii) amounts associated with the software packages.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2019Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Gavin Thomas Peterkin, Brian Eric Geihsler, Patrick Richard Lowndes, Peter John Bell
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Publication number: 20200232291Abstract: A downhole device delivery and drive transfer system includes a sub which is arranged to attach to a drill string and a tool which is configured to enable it to travel through the drill string and releasably couple to the sub. The sub and the tool are arranged so that when they are releasably coupled to each other torque imparted to the drill string is transferred by the sub to the tool. The tool is arranged to carry one or more devices for performing one or more downhole functions such as core drilling, hole reaming or wedge placement for directional drilling. The system also has a guide mechanism that operates between the sub and the tool to guide the tool to a known rotational orientation relative to the sub as the tool travels into the sub. A fluid control system controls the flow of fluid through the tool through a downhole outlet and a plurality of ports intermediate opposite ends of the tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2018Publication date: July 23, 2020Applicant: REFLEX INSTRUMENTS ASIA PACIFIC PTY LTDInventors: Andrew Phillip BEACH, Gavin Thomas MCLEOD
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Publication number: 20200153703Abstract: An example embodiment involves receiving an activity record including activity data, provider data, and description data; applying a first layer of a multi-layer machine learning (ML) model to predict that the activity record relates to software, applying a second layer of the multi-layer ML model to predict a provider name of a software application referenced in the activity record, applying a third layer of the multi-layer ML model to predict an application title of the software application referenced in the activity record, and storing, in a database, a configuration item indicating that the activity record relates to software, where the configuration item contains attributes including the provider name and the application title.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2018Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventor: Gavin Thomas Peterkin
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Publication number: 20170122050Abstract: A core release system 10 has a housing 28 provided with an impact member 30 arranged to impact a core sample 16 gripped in a core tube 12. The housing 10 can be fitted over an end of the core tube 12 in which a core sample is gripped. The impact member is arranged to deform in preference to the core sample 16. By applying a force to the housing 28 or the tube 12 which causes impact of the core sample 16 on the impact member 28 the core sample is displaced relative to, and released from the grip of, the tube 12.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2016Publication date: May 4, 2017Inventors: Gavin Thomas McLeod, Kelvin Brown
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Publication number: 20130346094Abstract: Methods and systems for predictive analytics for site initiation and patient enrollment are disclosed. One method may include: receiving a user's selection of one or more parameters associated with a clinical trial; accessing a database of data associated with a plurality of previous clinical trials; comparing the one or more parameters to the previous clinical trials; determining one or more factors associated with the clinical trial based on the comparison; and displaying the parameters and the factors on a display.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2013Publication date: December 26, 2013Applicant: Quintiles Transnational Corp.Inventors: Joseph William Charles Goodgame, Gavin Thomas Nichols, Wade Kenneth Brant
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Publication number: 20120191104Abstract: A method for treating fractures comprises positioning a bone fixation device along a bone and creating a first hole from an outer surface of the bone through a lateral cortex to a central portion thereof, the first hole corresponding to a position at which a first bone fixation element receiving opening is to be located when the bone fixation device is coupled to the bone in a desired orientation in combination with inserting and pushing a probe through the central portion of the bone until a tip of the probe contacts an interior structure of the bone providing resistance to penetration by the probe increased relative to the central portion of the bone and determining a first length of the portion of the probe extending into the bone via the first hole to select a desired length of a first bone fixation element to be inserted therethrough.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2011Publication date: July 26, 2012Inventors: Reto JOST, Gavin Thomas
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Patent number: D760591Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: CONOPCO, INC.Inventors: Pablo Ignacio Groglopo Favetto, Marije Karen Luijendijk, Gavin Thomas Schertzing