Patents by Inventor George Franklin

George Franklin 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: 20240081281
    Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter FRANKLIN, Jeffrey PON, Matthew FIRLIK, Eric LIU, George TURVEY, Charles PUTLAND
  • Publication number: 20240081277
    Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter FRANKLIN, Jeffrey PON, Matthew FIRLIK, Eric LIU, George TURVEY, Charles PUTLAND
  • Publication number: 20240081280
    Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter FRANKLIN, Jeffrey PON, Matthew FIRLIK, Eric LIU, George TURVEY, Charles PUTLAND
  • Publication number: 20240081276
    Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter FRANKLIN, Jeffrey PON, Matthew FIRLIK, Eric LIU, George TURVEY, Charles PUTLAND
  • Publication number: 20240081282
    Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter FRANKLIN, Jeffrey PON, Matthew FIRLIK, Eric LIU, George TURVEY, Charles PUTLAND
  • Publication number: 20240081278
    Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter FRANKLIN, Jeffrey PON, Matthew FIRLIK, Eric LIU, George TURVEY, Charles PUTLAND
  • Publication number: 20240081283
    Abstract: An automatic animal feeding system is provided. Embodiments of the automatic animal feeding system include an automatic food dispenser and a food canister storing food pods. The automatic food dispenser couples to the food canister, receives a food pod form the food canister, removes a cover or lid from the food pod, presents the opened food pod for pet consumption, disposes of the food pod into a disposal compartment that is sealed off from the ambient air, and implements other steps of an automatic feeding process. Aspects of the automatic feeding process can be efficiently implemented, for example, by actuating two motors based on data received from sensors of the automatic animal feeding system. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide a compact, control-efficient, self-cleaning automatic animal feeding system that can continuously personalize feeding patterns or feed a pet with little to no human intervention over a period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Peter FRANKLIN, Jeffrey PON, Matthew FIRLIK, Eric LIU, George TURVEY, Charles PUTLAND
  • Publication number: 20230393546
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for robotics planning. One of the methods comprises obtaining, for each of multiple skills to be performed by one or more robots in an operating environment, a skill footprint and a segmentation subset of the skill footprint that identifies one or more entities in the operating environment for performing the skill and that specifies requested permissions for the one or more entities; initiating execution of the skill; while the skill is executing, receiving a read or write request that references an entity that does not occur in the segmentation subset of the skill footprint; and in response, denying the read or write request that references the entity that does not occur in the segmentation subset of the skill footprint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Stoyan Gaydarov, George Franklin Lu
  • Patent number: 11487561
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system and method are provided for constructing an accurate view of memory and events on a simulation platform. The system memory view can be used with a debug and analysis tool to provide post-processing debug, including searching forward and backward in capture time of the stored memory view to analyze the events of the simulation. The memory is constructed by capturing and storing each memory execution transaction, bus transaction, and register transaction during simulation. Changes in simulation platform hardware state may also be captured and stored in a hardware state database, including switches between process threads detected during the simulation that may update a simulator register. The captured events provide observability into the OS processes, the hardware, and the embedded software of the simulation platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Wilmot, Neeti Khullar Bhatnagar, Qizhang Chao, George Franklin Frazier
  • Patent number: 11246844
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting the conversion of choline to trimethylamine (TMA) and lowering TMAO by providing a composition comprising a compound set forth in Formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Stanley Leon Hazen, Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, George Franklin Gerberick, John August Wos, Xiaodong Gu, Michael Reilly, Mark Robert Sivik, Jodie Michelle Reed, David Blair Cody
  • Patent number: 10849866
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting the conversion of choline to trimethylamine (TMA) and lowering TMAO in an individual by providing a composition comprising a compound set forth in Formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, George Franklin Gerberick, Stanley Leon Hazen, Xiaodong Gu
  • Patent number: 10802852
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system and method are provided for supporting interactive debugging of embedded software (ESW) on a simulation platform. A processor model within the simulated system will support a register and memory tracing sub-module. Simulator and emulator breakpoints will be used with the modeled objects within the tracing sub-module. For example, a simulator breakpoint may be set for the task or function that buffers the trace information so it can be written to a file. A database of register and memory values which represent the complete history of register and memory value changes during a simulation can be created from trace information and can be accessed to non-intrusively obtain any processor register or memory value during simulation. The processor register and memory values of the database can also be accessed to symbolically show the behavior of ESW concurrently with hardware behavior in the simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew R. Wilmot, Neeti Khullar Bhatnagar, Qizhang Chao, George Franklin Frazier, Yevgen Ryazanov
  • Patent number: 10786479
    Abstract: The invention provides a method of inhibiting the conversion of carnitine to trimethylamine (TMA) and lowering TMAO in an individual comprising administering to the individual one or more compositions comprising a compound set forth in Formula (I): Wherein the compound is administered in an amount effective to inhibit conversion of carnitine to TMA in the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Stanley Leon Hazen, Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, George Franklin Gerberick, John August Wos, David Thomas Stanton, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Michael Reilly, Angela Jane Deutsch, Jodie Michele Reed, David Blair Cody
  • Patent number: 10780072
    Abstract: The invention provides one or more methods of inhibiting the conversion of choline to trimethylamine (TMA) and lowering TMAO in an individual comprising administering to the individual one or more compositions comprising a compound set forth in Formula (I): wherein the compound is administered in an amount effective to inhibit formation of trimethylamine (TMA) from choline in the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Stanley Leon Hazen, Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, George Franklin Gerberick, John August Wos, David Thomas Stanton, Thomas Alfred Inglin, Michael Reilly, Angela Jane Deutsch, Jodie Michele Reed, David Blair Cody
  • Patent number: 10783786
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described herein for methods and systems for managing a parking area. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a parking authorization request from a parking lot user, the request specifying a parking stall identifier corresponding to a parking stall occupied by the users vehicle, the request further specifying a parking duration parameter identifying a time duration the user's vehicle can occupy the stall; determining a parking duration rule for the stall based on the parking duration parameter, the rule indicating a parking expiration time; at a first time, receiving a first data associated with the parking stall identifier, the first data comprising an occupancy parameter indicating a presence or absence of a parked vehicle at the identified stall; if the occupancy parameter indicates a presence of a parked vehicle, generate a citation alert for the stall if the first time exceeds the parking expiration time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Tannery Creek Systems Inc.
    Inventors: William George Franklin, Jeffrey D. Bethune, Raphael Leung, Michael Braden Walker
  • Patent number: 10751301
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting the conversion of choline to trimethylamine (TMA) and lowering TMAO in an individual by providing a composition comprising a compound set forth in Formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, George Franklin Gerberick, Michael Reilly, Stanley Leon Hazen, Xiaodong Gu
  • Patent number: 10675256
    Abstract: A method of inhibiting the conversion of choline to trimethylamine (TMA) and lowering TMAO in an individual by providing a composition comprising a compound set forth in Formula (I):
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignees: The Procter & Gamble Company, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, George Franklin Gerberick, John August Wos, Stanley Leon Hazen, Xiaodong Gu
  • Patent number: 10650174
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for use in an electronic design environment. Embodiments may include receiving, using at least one processor, an electronic design and generating a unique name for each hardware state element associated with the electronic design. Embodiments may further include generating a unique name for each software state element associated with the electronic design. Embodiments may also include combining a plurality of unique names into an arbitrary expression, wherein the plurality of unique names includes at least one software state unique name and at least one hardware state unique name. Embodiments may further include evaluating the arbitrary expression at one or more discrete time points. Embodiments may also include recording an evaluated expression in an electronic design database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Robert Wilmot, Rohan Kangralkar, George Franklin Frazier, Neeti Khullar Bhatnagar
  • Publication number: 20200038542
    Abstract: A method is revealed that teaches that a UV or near-UV lighting source inside a lighting fixture can be used to fulfil two functions; (1) First, to disinfect room air of bioaerosols and remove certain air-borne chemicals; and then (2) To excite white or other color phosphor compounds, so that the final output of the lighting fixture is that of visible non-UV light. The method results in a minimal increase in operating energy costs over that of a standard LED light fixture, but with the added benefit of providing air disinfection and purification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Applicant: Skizukesa Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Philip George Franklin, Jeffery Jay Collins
  • Publication number: 20190290036
    Abstract: A method for creating the appearance of a glowing liquid in a drinking container by placing a liquid into the container, placing a light source proximate to the container, placing a plurality of dye molecules into the container, in which the dye molecules have wavelengths which absorb photons emitted from the light source, the light source emitting photons, which are absorbed into the dye molecules which creates the appearance that the liquid itself is glowing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Campos, Philip George Franklin