Patents by Inventor George A. Smith

George A. 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).

  • Publication number: 20250005245
    Abstract: Automated circuit design is provided. The method comprises mapping a number of inputs to a number of desired outputs and receiving a number of specified constraints. A number of component specifications are determined for circuit components necessary to achieve the desired outputs from the inputs within the specified constraints. A number of circuit components are chosen based on the component specifications to optimize achievement of the desired outputs from the inputs within the specified constraints, the chosen circuit components are arranged in a number of circuits based the component specifications to optimize achievement of the desired outputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Suma George Cardwell, John Darby Smith, Douglas Cale Crowder, Frances S. Chance
  • Publication number: 20250002092
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a vehicle, an under-shield structure and a method for manufacturing the under-shield structure. The under-shield structure comprises at least one support beam and a panel over-molded on the at least one support beam. The panel further comprises a base plate and at least one reinforcement structure protruding vertically from the base plate. Thereby reducing the fluttering, noise, vibration, and harshness at high vehicle speed and increasing the overall stiffness of the under-shield structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Matt SYKES, Kristian Edward SMITH, Daniel CHARTERS, Theodor George PANAINTE, Martin BLOUNT, Richard Alan BENNEY
  • Patent number: 12183507
    Abstract: A High Temperature Superconductor, HTS, magnet comprising a coil formed of nested concentric windings. Each winding comprises HTS material. The HTS magnet further comprises a conductor element comprising an electrical contact surface through which to supply electric current to a portion of at least one of the windings. The surface provides electrical contact between the conductor element and an axial edge of the coil substantially around the path of the at least one of the windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Tokamak Energy Ltd
    Inventors: Greg Brittles, Marcel Kruip, Tony Langtry, George Smith
  • Publication number: 20240426288
    Abstract: A pulsatile fluid pump system includes a pump-valving assembly including a chamber and a diaphragm assembly coupled to the chamber and including a flexible diaphragm. The diaphragm assembly and the pump-valving assembly are configured as an integral pump assembly. The system further includes a linear motor having a magnet and a coil, the magnet moving in relation to the coil, the coil having an electrical input. The system also includes a control housing rigidly coupled to the linear motor and a controller system having an electrical output coupled to the electrical input of the coil, the controller system defining an electrical waveform at the electrical output to cause desired operation of the diaphragm. The integral pump assembly is configured to be removably coupled to the control housing, and the diaphragm assembly of the integral pump assembly is configured to be removably coupled to the linear motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Douglas Edward Vincent, Brian Bailey, Conrad Bzura, David Butz, David Olney, Eric Smith, George Koenig, James W. Poitras, Jeffrey P. Naber, Judy Labonté, Kathleen Vincent, Lawrence Kuba, Matthew J. Murphy, Patrick Shields, Roger Greeley
  • Patent number: 12177271
    Abstract: Temporary access to a digital whiteboard is enabled for conference participants during a conference (e.g., a video conference). Based on a request to share a digital whiteboard with conference participants during a conference, ones of the conference participants to which to grant temporary access permissions for the digital whiteboard are determined. The temporary access permissions are granted to enable the ones of the conference participants to access the digital whiteboard during the conference. Based on an event occurrence, which may, for example, correspond to a termination of the conference or a disconnection of an owner of the digital whiteboard from the conference, the temporary access permissions are revoked to restrict further access to the digital whiteboard by the ones of the conference participants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Palmer Harold Batt, Alicia Anne-Kepner Brekke, Jianzhong Ding, Seokbin Kang, Stephen George Newton, Jeffrey William Smith, Jiabin Xiang
  • Patent number: 12169846
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a website of a known merchant and creating an active shopping cart on the website of the known merchant. The method further includes applying a discount code at a UI element of the website for inputting discount codes, collecting a network trace of the applied discount code, and translating the network trace of the applied discount code to an ECMA class format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Checkmate Savings Inc.
    Inventors: Cody George, Rory Garton-Smith, Elliot Rampono
  • Patent number: 12167812
    Abstract: A beverage preparation machine having an inlet arrangement and a gasket arrangement is provided, where the inlet arrangement is configured with a plurality of inlet ports to deliver liquid to a beverage cartridge. The gasket arrangement may include a plurality of openings, wherein each of the plurality of inlet ports is received within one of the plurality of openings. The gasket arrangement may be integrally formed and may include one or more ribs disposed about each of the plurality of openings. A perimeter rib may extend along a perimeter of the gasket arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Y. Smith, Blair Mikkelsen, Steven Mackey, Joseph George Fucci, Roger Johnson
  • Patent number: 12156607
    Abstract: An inlet arrangement of a beverage forming apparatus is provided, where the inlet arrangement is configured to deliver liquid to a beverage cartridge. The inlet arrangement includes a central inlet port and a plurality of inlet ports arranged around the central inlet port. The beverage forming apparatus has the ability to implement different dispensing operations in which dispensing occurs through selectable subsets of the inlet ports. A gasket arrangement may be used with the inlet arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.
    Inventors: Geoffrey Y. Smith, Blair Mikkelsen, Steven Mackey, Joseph George Fucci, Roger Johnson
  • Patent number: 12130531
    Abstract: An electro-optic media includes either a plurality of microcapsules in a binder, a polymeric sheet containing sealed microcells, or droplets in a continuous polymeric phase. Each of the microcapsules, microcells, or droplets contain a dispersion that includes a plurality of charged composite particles and a suspending fluid, and the charged particles move through the suspending fluid under the influence of an electric field. The composite particles include one or more types of pigment particles that are at least partially coated with a polymeric material. Each of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, the charged composite particles, and the suspending fluid have an index of refraction, and a difference between the index of refraction of the composite particles and at least one of the binder, polymeric sheet, continuous polymeric phase, and solvent is less than or equal to 0.05 at 550 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: E Ink Corporation
    Inventors: Jin-Gyu Park, Richard J. Paolini, Jr., Peter Carsten Bailey Widger, Jillian Smith, Jay William Anseth, Craig A. Herb, George G. Harris, Mark Benjamin Romanowsky
  • Publication number: 20240350272
    Abstract: Hard-tissue implants are provided that include a bulk implant, a face, pillars, slots, and at least one support member. The pillars are for contacting a hard tissue. The slots are to be occupied by the hard tissue. The at least one support member is for contacting the hard tissue. The hard-tissue implant has a Young's modulus of elasticity of at least 3 GPa, and has a ratio of the sum of (i) the volumes of the slots to (ii) the sum of the volumes of the pillars and the volumes of the slots of 0.40:1 to 0.90:1. Methods of making and using hard-tissue implants are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: George J. PICHA, Grant Wesley PHILLIPS, Rachel SMITH, James PRICE, Gregory CAUSEY
  • Patent number: 12113663
    Abstract: A method for unjoining and rejoining clusters of computing nodes in edge site computing networks to reduce the impact of interruption to connectivity between computing nodes is presented. The method includes accessing a cluster of computing nodes executing on an edge site computing network. The cluster of computing nodes includes a plurality of follower computing nodes and a leader computing node. The method further includes detecting an interruption to connectivity established between the leader computing node and one or more of the plurality of follower computing nodes. In response to detecting the interruption to connectivity, the method includes bifurcating the cluster of computing nodes into a first subcluster of computing nodes and a second subcluster of computing nodes. In response to detecting a restoration of connectivity, the method includes recombining the first subcluster of computing nodes and the second subcluster of computing nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Frank Brockners, Trevor George Smith, Sándor Szilárd Magyari, Marco Trinelli, Tal Maoz
  • Publication number: 20240309037
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are diaryl trehalose compounds and methods of use thereof, for example as vaccine adjuvants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: David Burkhart, George Ettenger, Jay Evans, Kendal T. Ryter, Alyson Smith
  • Patent number: 12085066
    Abstract: A pulsatile fluid pump system includes a pump-valving assembly including a chamber and a diaphragm assembly coupled to the chamber and including a flexible diaphragm. The diaphragm assembly and the pump-valving assembly are configured as an integral pump assembly. The system further includes a linear motor having a magnet and a coil, the magnet moving in relation to the coil, the coil having an electrical input. The system also includes a control housing rigidly coupled to the linear motor and a controller system having an electrical output coupled to the electrical input of the coil, the controller system defining an electrical waveform at the electrical output to cause desired operation of the diaphragm. The integral pump assembly is configured to be removably coupled to the control housing, and the diaphragm assembly of the integral pump assembly is configured to be removably coupled to the linear motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VentriFlo, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas E. Vincent, Brian Bailey, Conrad Bzura, David Butz, David Olney, Eric Smith, George Koenig, James W. Poitras, Jeffrey P. Naber, Judy Labonté, Kathleen Vincent, Lawrence Kuba, Matthew J. Murphy, Patrick Shields, Roger Greeley
  • Patent number: 12085685
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for seismic well tie domain conversion. In one embodiment, a process is provided to integrate well and seismic data for reservoir characterization. System configurations and processes described herein use neural networks to predict sonic well logs in the two way time (TWT) domain from measured well logs in depth, rather than predicting drift function. Embodiments are also directed to systems for reservoir characterization. Domain conversion of data includes receiving input data, preprocessing the data, and training a model to determine a length of an output sequence. The method also includes training the model for conversion of data based on at least one neural network. A sequence length prediction may be output as part of training and to perform modeling/prediction operations. The method also includes outputting the sequence of converted data in a TWT domain and a length of the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Saudi Arabian Oil Company
    Inventors: Philippe Georges Christophe Nivlet, Robert James Smith, Nasher Muqbel AlBinHassan
  • Patent number: 12064352
    Abstract: Hard-tissue implants are provided that include a bulk implant, a face, pillars, slots, and at least one support member. The pillars are for contacting a hard tissue. The slots are to be occupied by the hard tissue. The at least one support member is for contacting the hard tissue. The hard-tissue implant has a Young's modulus of elasticity of at least 3 GPa, and has a ratio of the sum of (i) the volumes of the slots to (ii) the sum of the volumes of the pillars and the volumes of the slots of 0.40:1 to 0.90:1. Methods of making and using hard-tissue implants are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ALPS HOLDING LLC
    Inventors: George J. Picha, Grant Wesley Phillips, Rachel Smith, James Price, Gregory Causey
  • Publication number: 20240259442
    Abstract: Temporary access to a digital whiteboard is enabled for conference participants during a conference (e.g., a video conference). Based on a request to share a digital whiteboard with conference participants during a conference, ones of the conference participants to which to grant temporary access permissions for the digital whiteboard are determined. The temporary access permissions are granted to enable the ones of the conference participants to access the digital whiteboard during the conference. Based on an event occurrence, which may, for example, correspond to a termination of the conference or a disconnection of an owner of the digital whiteboard from the conference, the temporary access permissions are revoked to restrict further access to the digital whiteboard by the ones of the conference participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Palmer Harold Batt, Alicia Anne-Kepner Brekke, Jianzhong Ding, Seokbin Kang, Stephen George Newton, Jeffrey William Smith, Jiabin Xiang
  • Patent number: 12052225
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a data sharing platform performs a series of data operations to provide different types of data via different sharing services of the data sharing platform that are derived from data shared by a particular data owner. The data sharing platform generates tag data associated with the particular data owner for one or more of the series of data operations. The data sharing platform determines, based on the tag data, an attribution chain that links the data shared by the particular data owner to the different types of data provided via the different sharing services. The data sharing platform sends an indication of the attribution chain for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver James Bull, Trevor George Smith, Gaétan Feige, Arvind Tiwari
  • Patent number: D1054399
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Grant David Petty, Simon Milne Kidd, Shannon Howard Smith, Chia-hen Chiang, Mark Anthony Mazzone, John Anthony Vanzella, David Campbell, David George Dellios, Joel Raymond Noble
  • Patent number: D1055276
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.
    Inventors: John K. Lokhnauth, Peter A. Smith, George J. Donato, Jeffrey Alan Nau
  • Patent number: D1055277
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Oyster Point Pharma, Inc.
    Inventors: John K. Lokhnauth, George J. Donato, Jeffrey Alan Nau, Peter A. Smith