Patents by Inventor Gregory A. Dean

Gregory A. Dean 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).

  • Patent number: 12094256
    Abstract: A system includes a vehicle event recorder and a modem. The vehicle event recorder is configured to receive a sensor data signal from a sensor that is mounted on a vehicle trailer. The modem is configured to demodulate the sensor data signal to create a modulated sensor data signal. The demodulated sensor data signal is received using a first line. The first line is coupled via a harness to sensor on a vehicle trailer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Lytx, Inc.
    Inventors: Lanh Trinh, Gregory Dean Sutton
  • Publication number: 20240284815
    Abstract: Land cultivating systems and methods utilizing high-pressure fluid jet cutting techniques are disclosed. An example system includes a mobile unit, a traveler arrangement operably coupled to the mobile unit to ride on the surface of stubble residues as the mobile unit moves across land to be cultivated, and a fluid jet cutting head supported by the traveler arrangement. The cutting head is configured to selectively discharge a high-pressure fluid jet to make a cut through the stubble residues and underlying soil as the mobile unit moves across the land. A soil opening device is provided to form a furrow in the ground in line with the cut made by the high-pressure fluid jet, and a liquid injector nozzle is provided to discharge fertilizer or other chemical(s) into the soil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Gregory Dean Butler, Jeffrey Evan Martel, Mohamed A. Hashish, Jean-Christophe Vidil
  • Publication number: 20240278350
    Abstract: A disposable container for exothermic welding can include an internal compartment configured to hold weld material. The disposable container can include an integrated ignitor or an integrated filter. An ignitor can be formed as an agglomeration of weld material on a conductive filament. and can be secured to the disposable container within a mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Turner, Erika Buehman, Greg Martinjak, Thomas Edward Bendlak, Mike Spychola, Zachary Wilcox, Dale Boling, Gregory Dean Holder, Melissa Botti, Christian Barcey
  • Patent number: 11991941
    Abstract: An example land cultivating system includes a mobile unit, a traveler arrangement operably coupled to the mobile unit to ride on the surface of stubble residues as the mobile unit moves across land to be cultivated, and a fluid jet cutting head supported by the traveler arrangement. The cutting head is configured to selectively discharge a high-pressure fluid jet to make a cut through the stubble residues and underlying soil as the mobile unit moves across the land. A soil opening device is provided to form a furrow in the ground in line with the cut made by the high-pressure fluid jet, and a liquid injector nozzle is provided to discharge fertilizer or other chemical(s) into the soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Flow International Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory Dean Butler, Jeffrey Evan Martel, Mohamed A. Hashish, Jean-Christophe Vidil
  • Publication number: 20240005039
    Abstract: In some aspects, an entity-resolution computing system for entity resolution is provided. The entity-resolution computing system includes an entity-resolution server configured for correlating data objects from an identity data repository that contains account or transaction data for entities based on the data objects including a common portion of the account or transaction data. The entity-resolution server updates the identity data repository to include an entity identifier that links the data objects and indicates that the data objects refer to a common entity. The entity-resolution server creates an entity-resolution data structure having the data objects with the entity identifier and a new variant data object containing a modified version of account or transaction data that match the common entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Gregory Dean JONES, Marek Ludomir CYZIO, Amy Michelle WORRELL
  • Publication number: 20230419134
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes obtaining a plurality of values each corresponding to one of a plurality of variables. The plurality of variables include variables of interest. The method includes obtaining a prediction for the values from a model, determining metric(s) for each of the variables of interest, and determining one or more of the variables of interest to be one or more influential variables based on the metric(s) determined for each of the variables of interest. The variables include one or more non-influential variables that is/are different from the influential variable(s). The influential variable(s) has/have a greater influence on the prediction than the non-influential variable(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory Dean Jorstad, Thomas Patrick Prendergast
  • Publication number: 20230393232
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for tag localization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventor: Gregory Dean Gibbons
  • Publication number: 20230387612
    Abstract: A grounding connector can include a connector body and a shear bolt. The connector body can have a recess sized to receive one or more conductors and a threaded portion. The shear bolt can be sized to engage the threaded portion of the connector body to secure the one or more conductors within the recess. When the shear bolt is tightened into the threaded portion of the connector body, the shear bolt can retain the one or more conductors within the recess. When the shear bolt is subject to a shear torque, a head of the shear bolt can shear from a body of the shear bolt. The shear torque can correspond to a target compression force applied between the shear bolt and the one or more conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Dale Boling, Christian Barcey, Thomas Bendlak, Brent Wilmoth, Gregory Dean Holder
  • Patent number: 11828133
    Abstract: A system for cementing a borehole with foamed cement includes a gas delivery assembly mounted on a movable support structure, the gas delivery assembly configured to supply a gas to a cement slurry to generate a foamed cement slurry. The gas delivery assembly includes a heating element in thermal communication with a gas supply, a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, a flow meter, and an automated control valve in fluid communication with the gas supply. The gas delivery assembly also includes a control module including a processing device configured to control a temperature and a flow rate of the gas supplied to the cement slurry based on a desired flow rate and measurements from the temperature sensor, the pressure sensor and the flow meter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Odd Egil Raugstad, Ryan Leroux, Gianluca Ruggieri, Bennie J. Lindsey, Gregory Dean
  • Publication number: 20230374885
    Abstract: A system for cementing a borehole with foamed cement includes a gas delivery assembly mounted on a movable support structure, the gas delivery assembly configured to supply a gas to a cement slurry to generate a foamed cement slurry. The gas delivery assembly includes a heating element in thermal communication with a gas supply, a temperature sensor, a pressure sensor, a flow meter, and an automated control valve in fluid communication with the gas supply. The gas delivery assembly also includes a control module including a processing device configured to control a temperature and a flow rate of the gas supplied to the cement slurry based on a desired flow rate and measurements from the temperature sensor, the pressure sensor and the flow meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Odd Egil Raugstad, Ryan Leroux, Gianluca Ruggieri, Bennie J. Lindsey, Gregory Dean
  • Patent number: 11810009
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes obtaining a plurality of values each corresponding to one of a plurality of variables. The plurality of variables include variables of interest. The method includes obtaining a prediction for the values from a model, determining metric(s) for each of the variables of interest, and determining one or more of the variables of interest to be one or more influential variables based on the metric(s) determined for each of the variables of interest. The variables include one or more non-influential variables that is/are different from the influential variable(s). The influential variable(s) has/have a greater influence on the prediction than the non-influential variable(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Synchrony Bank
    Inventors: Gregory Dean Jorstad, Thomas Patrick Prendergast, Jr
  • Patent number: 11775679
    Abstract: In some aspects, an entity-resolution computing system for entity resolution is provided. The entity-resolution computing system includes an entity-resolution server configured for correlating data objects from an identity data repository that contains account or transaction data for entities based on the data objects including a common portion of the account or transaction data. The entity-resolution server updates the identity data repository to include an entity identifier that links the data objects and indicates that the data objects refer to a common entity. The entity-resolution server creates an entity-resolution data structure having the data objects with the entity identifier and a new variant data object containing a modified version of account or transaction data that match the common entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: EQUIFAX INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Dean Jones, Marek Ludomir Cyzio, Amy Michelle Worrell
  • Publication number: 20230298721
    Abstract: A wearable heads-up display (“HUD”) for a pharmacy workflow management system is disclosed herein. An example HUD includes smart-glasses that are communicatively coupled to a client device. The smart-glasses include at least one camera and/or barcode scanner to record information needed for the verification of a medication dose during medication formulation preparation. The smart-glasses include at least one microphone to record voice commands. Further, the smart-glasses include at least one embedded display screen that shows sequential steps of a preparation protocol for guiding a pharmacy technician to prepare a medication dose. An application on the client device and/or the smart-glasses is configured to recognize and use voice commands to provide navigation for the embedded display screen. The voice commands may also be used to provide data entry for medication dose preparation verification. Gestures may be detected by the camera and translated by the application into navigation or data entry commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Amanda Gloria Jacobs, Gregory Dean Kramer, Jeffrey Robert Brittain, John Olson, Christina Kappil
  • Publication number: 20230165728
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an intelligent internet of things (IoT) monitoring system, and in particular to techniques (e.g., systems, methods, computer program products storing code or instructions executable by one or more processors) for the implementation of an IoT solution to manage urinary incontinence. Some aspects are directed to the concept of a management platform that allows for end users such as health care providers, caretakers, or medical personnel to manage and monitor one or more subjects through one or more client devices using a network of sensors and IoT devices. Other aspects are directed the concept of a data analysis system configured to train and deploy one or more prediction models for analysis and tracking metrics of health or wellbeing for the one or more subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: DRIQ HEALTH, INC.
    Inventor: Gregory Dean
  • Publication number: 20230109251
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes obtaining a plurality of values each corresponding to one of a plurality of variables. The plurality of variables include variables of interest. The method includes obtaining a prediction for the values from a model, determining metric(s) for each of the variables of interest, and determining one or more of the variables of interest to be one or more influential variables based on the metric(s) determined for each of the variables of interest. The variables include one or more non-influential variables that is/are different from the influential variable(s). The influential variable(s) has/have a greater influence on the prediction than the non-influential variable(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory Dean Jorstad, Thomas Patrick Prendergast, JR.
  • Patent number: 11590959
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a hybrid vehicle having an engine, a traction motor, and an automatic step-ratio transmission having a plurality of selectable discrete gear ratios, a torque converter, and sharing a common cooling fluid or oil with the traction motor, include a controller configured to shift the automatic step-ratio transmission to neutral in response to vehicle speed being below a threshold with the engine idling while temperatures of at least two of: the traction battery, the electric machine, and the transmission are above associated thresholds to reduce heat generation by the torque converter due to oil shear with the torque converter stalled. The controller may shift the transmission to drive in response to release of a brake pedal. A neutral shift may also be performed in response to high-voltage accessory loads or on-board generator loads exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly Johnson, Rian Edman, Gregory Dean Ognjanovski, Garrett Carlson
  • Patent number: 11584357
    Abstract: A vehicle may include an engine, a traction battery, an electric motor, an electric cooling system, and a controller. The electric motor selectively converts torque from the engine to electric power and converts electric power from the traction battery to drive torque for the vehicle. The electric cooling system, responsive to a temperature of the traction battery exceeding a first threshold, cools the traction battery using the electric power. The controller, responsive to the temperature exceeding a second threshold less than the first threshold and accessory loads exceeding a third threshold, operates one or both of the engine and traction battery to maintain the temperature below the first threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Rian Edman, Kelly Johnson, Gregory Dean Ognjanovski
  • Patent number: 11474185
    Abstract: A directional receiver system may include a receiver, a plurality of receive antenna elements, and a circuit. The receiver may include an input port and an output. The plurality of receive antenna elements may be fixedly configured into a known geometric relationship to each other, and each of the receive antenna elements may be connected to the input port of the receiver. The circuit may be coupled to the output of the receiver, configured to determine time differences at which signals from a source are incident upon the antenna elements, and configured to determine an angular orientation of the source to the receive antenna elements based on the time differences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Gregory Dean Gibbons
  • Patent number: 11475322
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method that includes obtaining a plurality of values each corresponding to one of a plurality of variables. The plurality of variables include variables of interest. The method includes obtaining a prediction for the values from a model, determining metric(s) for each of the variables of interest, and determining one or more of the variables of interest to be one or more influential variables based on the metric(s) determined for each of the variables of interest. The variables include one or more non-influential variables that is/are different from the influential variable(s). The influential variable(s) has/have a greater influence on the prediction than the non-influential variable(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: SYNCHRONY BANK
    Inventors: Gregory Dean Jorstad, Thomas Patrick Prendergast, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20220212655
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling a hybrid vehicle having an engine, a traction motor, and an automatic step-ratio transmission having a plurality of selectable discrete gear ratios, a torque converter, and sharing a common cooling fluid or oil with the traction motor, include a controller configured to shift the automatic step-ratio transmission to neutral in response to vehicle speed being below a threshold with the engine idling while temperatures of at least two of: the traction battery, the electric machine, and the transmission are above associated thresholds to reduce heat generation by the torque converter due to oil shear with the torque converter stalled. The controller may shift the transmission to drive in response to release of a brake pedal. A neutral shift may also be performed in response to high-voltage accessory loads or on-board generator loads exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Kelly JOHNSON, Rian EDMAN, Gregory Dean OGNJANOVSKI, Garrett CARLSON