Patents by Inventor Gregory Hall

Gregory Hall 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: 20250084438
    Abstract: The present invention relates to vectors and their use to develop host cell lines for production of a protein of interest, and in particular to vectors which utilize a weak promoter to drive a selectable marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Gregory T. Bleck, Rachel H. Kravitz, Chad A. Hall
  • Patent number: 12228683
    Abstract: A method for operating a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device is provided. The method includes driving, by an LLC resonant power converter, a wireless power signal at a primary winding of a transformer disposed on a first platform. The method includes transmitting the wireless power signal across a gap separating the first platform and a second platform. The second platform is configured to rotate relative to the first platform. The method includes receiving the wireless power signal at a secondary winding of the transformer. The secondary winding is disposed on the second platform. The method includes operating, by the LLC resonant power converter at a unity gain operating point and in an open loop mode without feedback control, a device mounted on the second platform based on the secondary winding receiving the wireless power signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Jones, Gregory Hall, Alexander Zbrozek
  • Publication number: 20250032939
    Abstract: A system includes an animated figure. The system also includes a set of tubes disposed in a portion of the animated figure. The system also includes at least one membrane that defines at least one chamber. The at least one chamber is disposed about the set of tubes. The system also includes a first pump fluidly coupled to the set of tubes. The first pump is configured to inflate each tube of the set of tubes, deflate each tube of the set of tubes, or a combination thereof. The system also includes a second pump fluidly coupled to the at least one chamber. The second pump is configured to inflate each chamber of the at least one chamber, deflate each chamber of the at least one chamber, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Gregory Hall, Gregory Rell, Andrew Carbonar
  • Patent number: 12070889
    Abstract: A system for simultaneously forming and filling a polymeric container with a product. The system includes a mold defining a container profile and a mold vacuum vent extending from the container profile to an upper surface of the mold. A striker plate is secured to the upper surface of the mold. The striker plate defines a striker vacuum vent that aligns with the mold vacuum vent to allow some of the product to be pulled by vacuum out of the mold through the mold vacuum vent and the striker vacuum vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: LiquiForm Group LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Carpenter, Gregory Hall, Richard Steih, Steven Charles Dettling, Theodore Tekip
  • Publication number: 20240075394
    Abstract: An image presentation system for an amusement park includes a first display with an opening extending therethrough, wherein at least a portion of the first display is viewable from a viewing area, a movable arm, wherein the movable arm is positioned within the opening, a second display supported by the movable arm and offset from the first display, wherein the second display conceals the opening from the viewing area, and a controller configured to provide a first image via the first display and a second image via the second display such that the second image comprises an image effect that accounts for the offset and coordinates with the first image to present as though the first image and the second image are a single image displayed by the first display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Carbonar, Gregory Hall, Darrin Hughes, Michael Wadsworth, William Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11841465
    Abstract: A method for operating a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device is provided. The method includes driving, by an LLC resonant power converter, a wireless power signal at a primary winding of a transformer disposed on a first platform. The method includes transmitting the wireless power signal across a gap separating the first platform and a second platform. The second platform is configured to rotate relative to the first platform. The method includes receiving the wireless power signal at a secondary winding of the transformer. The secondary winding is disposed on the second platform. The method includes operating, by the LLC resonant power converter at a unity gain operating point and in an open loop mode without feedback control, a device mounted on the second platform based on the secondary winding receiving the wireless power signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Jones, Gregory Hall, Alexander Zbrozek
  • Publication number: 20230234275
    Abstract: A system for simultaneously forming and filling a polymeric container with a product. The system includes a mold defining a container profile and a mold vacuum vent extending from the container profile to an upper surface of the mold. A striker plate is secured to the upper surface of the mold. The striker plate defines a striker vacuum vent that aligns with the mold vacuum vent to allow some of the product to be pulled by vacuum out of the mold through the mold vacuum vent and the striker vacuum vent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Gregory Carpenter, Gregory Hall, Richard Steih, Steven Charles Dettling, Theodore Tekip
  • Publication number: 20220383133
    Abstract: A method reduces storage usage during processing of a neural network performed by an information processing apparatus comprising a storage. The network may be represented by operators that operate on an input feature map and generate an output feature map. A representation of the network is generated as a linear sequence of operators. Operators are identified in the sequence that cannot form part of a cascade and are to be processed with the entire input and output feature map of the respective operator in the storage. The method forms one or more cascades of two or more successive operators in the sequence for which the input feature map of each operator of the cascade is processed in portions, which portions are less than the entire input feature map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Philip Gregory HALL, Jacob BOHLIN
  • Publication number: 20220308175
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that provide an accurate angle measurement of a rotatable mirror. An example method includes receiving, from a detector device, a reflected light signal. The reflected light signal is indicative of primary reflection light and secondary reflection light. The primary reflection light corresponds to a first portion of emission light that reflects directly from the reflective surface of the rotatable mirror toward the detector device. The secondary reflection light corresponds to a second portion of emission light that: 1) reflects from the reflective surface of the rotatable mirror toward a secondary mirror surface; 2) reflects from the secondary mirror surface toward the reflective surface of the rotatable mirror; and 3) reflects from the reflective surface of the rotatable mirror toward the detector device. The method also includes determining, based on the reflected light signal, the rotational angle of the rotatable mirror.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Jason Watson, Gregory Hall, Blaise Gassend
  • Publication number: 20220227468
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and devices for enabling a Vessel propelled by a Kite or similar devices, e.g., a balloon, to adjust its direction of travel to either side of the true wind direction without the aid of rudder(s), tiller(s), or similar devices. The subject invention applies to wind-powered Vessels as well as hybrid vessels and vessels utilizing propeller-driven propulsion, jot propulsion and others in addition to wind power.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Richardson, Gregory Hall
  • Patent number: 11175854
    Abstract: A producer processing unit of a data processing system that is producing a stream of data for use by one or more consumer processing units of the data processing system maintains a record that is accessible to the consumer processing units of a position in the data stream for which it has written data to memory. The consumer processing units then control their reading of the data stream from the memory in accordance with the write position record maintained by the producer processing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Erik Persson, Stefan Johannes Frid, Philip Gregory Hall, Dominic Hugo Symes, Sven Ola Johannes Hugosson, Robert Norberg
  • Patent number: 10855684
    Abstract: A communication framework is provided that can be configured to control or limit a network controller's ability to communicate, export, or share the network controller's data with others, such as with other network controllers in the network environment. As part of this framework, techniques are provided that enable constraints to be specified for a particular network controller, where the constraints control and limit the data that is permitted to be communicated from the particular network controller to other network controllers or intended data recipients in the network environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITED
    Inventors: Thomas David Nadeau, James Gregory Hall
  • Patent number: 10357722
    Abstract: A motion simulator ride assembly including a motion base and a rider support assembly positioned beneath and coupled to the motion base. The rider support assembly includes a plurality of rider support units each including a saddle having a leading end, a tail end, and a superior surface that may support a rider in a facedown position and a restraint system that may secure the rider onto the rider support. The restraint system includes a rotating restraint having an attachment point on the saddle, and the rotating restraint may move relative to the superior surface to move the rotating restraint from an unrestrained configuration to a restrained configuration, and the rotating restraint may abut against a posterior surface of a torso of the rider when the rotating restraint is in the restrained configuration. The motion simulator ride assembly also includes a display screen that may project a simulated environment. The display screen is positioned below the motion base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Nathanael G. White, Ted W. Van Winkle, Daniel Freedman, Justin Michael Schwartz, Dwain South, Michael Tresaugue, Gregory Hall
  • Publication number: 20190196745
    Abstract: A producer processing unit of a data processing system that is producing a stream of data for use by one or more consumer processing units of the data processing system maintains a record that is accessible to the consumer processing units of a position in the data stream for which it has written data to memory. The consumer processing units then control their reading of the data stream from the memory in accordance with the write position record maintained by the producer processing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Erik Persson, Stefan Johannes Frid, Philip Gregory Hall, Dominic Hugo Symes, Sven Ola Johannes Hugosson, Robert Norberg
  • Publication number: 20180304160
    Abstract: A motion simulator ride assembly including a motion base and a rider support assembly positioned beneath and coupled to the motion base. The rider support assembly includes a plurality of rider support units each including a saddle having a leading end, a tail end, and a superior surface that may support a rider in a facedown position and a restraint system that may secure the rider onto the rider support. The restraint system includes a rotating restraint having an attachment point on the saddle, and the rotating restraint may move relative to the superior surface to move the rotating restraint from an unrestrained configuration to a restrained configuration, and the rotating restraint may abut against a posterior surface of a torso of the rider when the rotating restraint is in the restrained configuration. The motion simulator ride assembly also includes a display screen that may project a simulated environment. The display screen is positioned below the motion base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Nathanael G. White, Ted W. Van Winkle, Daniel Freedman, Justin Michael Schwartz, Dwain South, Michael Tresaugue, Gregory Hall
  • Publication number: 20180240637
    Abstract: Methods and systems for thermal ionization of a sample and formation of an ion beam are described. The systems incorporate a thermal ionization filament that is formed of a graphene-based material such as graphite, graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide or combinations thereof. The filament material can be doped or chemically modified to control and tune the work function of the filament and improve ionization efficiency of a system incorporating the filament. The systems can be utilized in forming an ion beam for target bombardment or analysis via, e.g., mass spectrometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Joshua T. Hewitt, Gregory Hall, Charles R. Schick, JR.
  • Patent number: 10056218
    Abstract: Methods and systems for thermal ionization of a sample and formation of an ion beam are described. The systems incorporate a thermal ionization filament that is formed of a graphene-based material such as graphite, graphene, graphene oxide, reduced graphene oxide or combinations thereof. The filament material can be doped or chemically modified to control and tune the work function of the filament and improve ionization efficiency of a system incorporating the filament. The systems can be utilized in forming an ion beam for target bombardment or analysis via, e.g., mass spectrometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua T. Hewitt, Gregory Hall, Charles R. Schick, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20180216781
    Abstract: Disclosed is a strapless bracket system. The strapless bracket system for securely holding at least one panel on a hood stand comprises of a strapless bracket adapted for pulling the at least one panel securely to a neoprene padded foot coupled with the strapless bracket, a bolt down bracket adapted for mounting and adjusting the at least one panel on the hood stand, an universal clamp adapted for enabling the strapless bracket and the bolt down bracket to be mounted on the hood stand, and a cap bracket mount adapted for enabling the strapless bracket and the bolt down bracket to be mounted on top of the hood stand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventor: Gregory Hall
  • Publication number: 20180219868
    Abstract: A communication framework is provided that can be configured to control or limit a network controller's ability to communicate, export, or share the network controller's data with others, such as with other network controllers in the network environment. As part of this framework, techniques are provided that enable constraints to be specified for a particular network controller, where the constraints control and limit the data that is permitted to be communicated from the particular network controller to other network controllers or intended data recipients in the network environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems LLC
    Inventors: Thomas David Nadeau, James Gregory Hall
  • Patent number: D1020451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Ethan Edward Valentine, Jason Gregory Hall