Patents by Inventor Gordon Smith

Gordon 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: 20260025352
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and displaying subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. An example method includes engaging an interface module to interact with the user via an artificial intelligence engine using content logic. The method includes progressing the user through the content logic using the interface module. In accordance with progressing the user, the method includes determining that the user meets a first plurality of requirements for a first distinct compliance standard corresponding to a portion of the content logic. The method includes providing information regarding a first benefit available to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2025
    Publication date: January 22, 2026
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20250317413
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and displaying subject-specific compliance standard information are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20250161923
    Abstract: Tantalum nitride and specifically a novel Ta3N5 nanoparticles, such as single crystalline Ta3N5 nanoparticles, are disclosed. The nanoparticles used with a co-catalyst is further disclosed. The present invention also relates to Ta3N5 nanoparticles modified with a metal oxide, such as a CoOxcocatalyst, wherein Ox represents an oxide that is part of the cobalt oxide. A catalyst, such as for water oxidation to produce O2, is disclosed. The nanoparticles can further be modified to include a water reducing catalyst. A water splitting catalyst is further disclosed. Methods of making the nanoparticles and catalyst are also disclosed. Methods to split water utilizing the catalyst are further described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicants: Global Advanced Metals USA, Inc., Shinshu University
    Inventors: Kazunari DOMEN, Takashi HISATOMI, Mary KRAUSE, Aijun YIN, Gordon SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250097186
    Abstract: Systems and methods for updating and presenting subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. Each workforce status tool implements a conditional logic for a corresponding workforce status category. A request to configure a first workforce status tool is received that includes a change of an output or an input dependency of a corresponding conditional logic associated with the first workforce status tool. Responsive to the request, a determination is made to update a node graph including a plurality of interconnected nodes when the change of the corresponding conditional logic satisfies one or more compliance requirements associated with a corresponding benefit. At least one node in the plurality of interconnected nodes is associated with the conditional logic for the corresponding workforce status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20240422115
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and displaying subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. An example method includes receiving a request to identify benefit(s) available to a user, and responsive to the request, engaging an interface module to interact with the user via a node-based conversation. The method further includes progressing the user from an initial node in a first subset of interconnected nodes to a second subset of interconnected nodes using the interface module by providing compliance questions to the user and traversing between nodes in accordance with corresponding answers from the user. The method also includes, in accordance with progressing the user to a particular node of the second subset, determining that the user meets a plurality of requirements for a first compliance standard of a plurality of compliance standards, and providing information regarding a benefit available to the user, the benefit corresponding to the first compliance standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20240354709
    Abstract: An example method includes obtaining an evidence of insurability (EOI) request from a first tenant of a plurality of tenants, where the first tenant comprises an employment database, and where the EOI request corresponds to a first employee. The method also includes causing an EOI application to be generated based on the EOI request and transmitted to an EOI engine, and obtaining, from the EOI engine, a response to the EOI application. The method further includes updating the employment database of the first tenant based on the response to the EOI application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Gordon Smith, Kevin McPhillips
  • Publication number: 20240354707
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for managing employee, absentee, and insurability data. In one aspect, a method is performed at a server system that includes one or more processors and memory. The method includes receiving an absence request from a first device corresponding to a first employee of a first entity, the absence request corresponding to a leave of absence for the first employee; and, responsive to receiving the absence request, sending an employee query to a second device. The method further includes, responsive to sending the employee query, obtaining employee information for one or more employees of the first entity from the second device; and generating an absence entry based on the absence request and the employee information. The method also includes sending the absence entry to an absence database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20240354708
    Abstract: An example method includes storing rules for an entity associated with a device, where: each rule is defined, at least in part, by an administrator, each rule includes conditional logic for a respective workforce status for a respective employee at the entity, a corresponding task is performed when the conditional logic being satisfied, and the corresponding task is not performed when the conditional logic not being satisfied. The method also includes receiving a request for information for a first workforce status associated with a second employee. The method further includes, in response to the request for information, receiving a workforce status feed from a device associated with a second entity, the workforce status feed comprising data elements associated with at least a subset of workforce statuses; and, in response to receiving the workforce status feed, generating a notification of the first workforce status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: 12107813
    Abstract: Systems and methods for updating and presenting subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. Each workforce status tool implements a conditional logic for a corresponding workforce status category. A request to configure a first workforce status tool is received that includes a change of an output or an input dependency of a corresponding conditional logic associated with the first workforce status tool. Responsive to the request, a determination is made to update a node graph including a plurality of interconnected nodes when the change of the corresponding conditional logic satisfies one or more compliance requirements associated with a corresponding benefit. At least one node in the plurality of interconnected nodes is associated with the conditional logic for the corresponding workforce status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignees: AC Infotech Inc., Matrix Absence Management, Inc.
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: 12047343
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and displaying subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. A first message is received from a subject. An automated human interface module responsively engages with the subject through a communication channel. The module includes a node graph. Each node in a first subset of nodes is associated with a predetermined compliance question, or in a second subset of nodes is associated with a respective compliance standard. A message received responsive to the automated human interface module progresses the subject in the node graph, and this is process is repeated until the subject progresses to a node in the second subset. The subject, through this progression, satisfies a first requirement to receive a corresponding benefit of a compliance standard associated with the respective node. Responsive to this progression, a report is generated that includes an expected availability of the benefit corresponding to the progressed node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: MATRIX ABSENCE MANAGEMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20240200228
    Abstract: Single crystalline nanoparticles that are tantalum nitride doped with at least one metal are described. The single crystalline nanoparticles can be doped with two metals such as Zr and Mg. The single crystalline nanoparticles can be Ta3N5:Mg+Zr, or Ta3N5:Mg, or Ta3N5:Zr or any combination thereof. Catalyst containing the single crystalline nanoparticles alone or with one or more co-catalyst are further described along with methods of making the nanoparticles and catalyst. Methods to split water utilizing the catalyst are further described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicants: Global Advanced Metals USA, Inc., Shinshu University
    Inventors: Kazunari DOMEN, Takashi HISATOMI, Jiadong XIAO, Mary KRAUSE, Aijun YIN, Gordon SMITH
  • Patent number: 11998367
    Abstract: A facility for coordinating the safety care of a person is described. The facility receives sensor output indicating that the person has departed a place of repose. In response to this receiving, the facility establishes an alarm identifying the person, accesses a set of on-duty caregivers, and applies one or more precedence rules to establish a precedence among at least a portion of the set of on-duty caregivers. Until a caregiver has accepted the alarm, for each caregiver in the established precedence, the facility: causes a mobile device carried by the caregiver to render a message notifying the caregiver of the alarm and soliciting the caregiver's acceptance of the alarm; and allows the caregiver an interval of time of a first predetermined length in which to accept the alarm before proceeding to the next caregiver in the established precedence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: J. BRASCH CO., LLC
    Inventors: John Brasch, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20230379284
    Abstract: Systems and methods for updating and presenting subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. Each workforce status tool implements a conditional logic for a corresponding workforce status category. A request to configure a first workforce status tool is received that includes a change of an output or an input dependency of a corresponding conditional logic associated with the first workforce status tool. Responsive to the request, a determination is made to update a node graph including a plurality of interconnected nodes when the change of the corresponding conditional logic satisfies one or more compliance requirements associated with a corresponding benefit. At least one node in the plurality of interconnected nodes is associated with the conditional logic for the corresponding workforce status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20230379283
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and displaying subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. A first message is received from a subject. An automated human interface module responsively engages with the subject through a communication channel. The module includes a node graph. Each node in a first subset of nodes is associated with a predetermined compliance question, or in a second subset of nodes is associated with a respective compliance standard. A message received responsive to the automated human interface module progresses the subject in the node graph, and this is process is repeated until the subject progresses to a node in the second subset. The subject, through this progression, satisfies a first requirement to receive a corresponding benefit of a compliance standard associated with the respective node. Responsive to this progression, a report is generated that includes an expected availability of the benefit corresponding to the progressed node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: 11730401
    Abstract: Calibration of a sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a sensor configured to sense a condition. In the sensing device, a voltage-dividing resistance and a reference voltage of an analog-to-digital converter are set to configure a quantization range of the analog-to-digital converter given characteristics of the sensor. During calibration, a binary search is performed between lower and upper limits of the voltage-dividing resistance, which is a variable resistance, to find the resistance of the voltage-dividing resistance at which the sensing device is operated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: J. Brasch Co., LLC
    Inventor: Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: 11677706
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating and displaying subject-specific compliance standard information are provided. A first message is received from a subject. An automated human interface module responsively engages with the subject through a communication channel. The module includes a node graph. Each node in a first subset of nodes is associated with a predetermined compliance question, or in a second subset of nodes is associated with a respective compliance standard. A message received responsive to the automated human interface module progresses the subject in the node graph, and this is process is repeated until the subject progresses to a node in the second subset. The subject, through this progression, satisfies a first requirement to receive a corresponding benefit of a compliance standard associated with the respective node. Responsive to this progression, a report is generated that includes an expected availability of the benefit corresponding to the progressed node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignees: MATRIX ABSENCE MANAGEMENT, INC., AC INFOTECH INC.
    Inventors: Anandan Chinnalagu, Gordon Smith
  • Publication number: 20230000393
    Abstract: Calibration of a sensing device is provided. The sensing device includes a sensor configured to sense a condition. In the sensing device, a voltage-dividing resistance and a reference voltage of an analog-to-digital converter are set to configure a quantization range of the analog-to-digital converter given characteristics of the sensor. During calibration, a binary search is performed between lower and upper limits of the voltage-dividing resistance, which is a variable resistance, to find the resistance of the voltage-dividing resistance at which the sensing device is operated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: D1085124
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Matrix Absence Management, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: D1083984
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Matrix Absence Management, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Smith
  • Patent number: D1127846
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2025
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2026
    Assignee: Matrix Absence Management, Inc.
    Inventor: Gordon Smith