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).
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Publication number: 20250084438Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2024Publication date: March 13, 2025Inventors: Gregory T. Bleck, Rachel H. Kravitz, Chad A. Hall
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Patent number: 12228683Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 31, 2023Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Joshua Jones, Gregory Hall, Alexander Zbrozek
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Publication number: 20250032939Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: January 30, 2025Inventors: Gregory Hall, Gregory Rell, Andrew Carbonar
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Patent number: 12070889Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 22, 2020Date of Patent: August 27, 2024Assignee: LiquiForm Group LLCInventors: Gregory Carpenter, Gregory Hall, Richard Steih, Steven Charles Dettling, Theodore Tekip
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Publication number: 20240075394Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Andrew Carbonar, Gregory Hall, Darrin Hughes, Michael Wadsworth, William Rodriguez
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Patent number: 11841465Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: Waymo LLCInventors: Joshua Jones, Gregory Hall, Alexander Zbrozek
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Publication number: 20230234275Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2020Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Gregory Carpenter, Gregory Hall, Richard Steih, Steven Charles Dettling, Theodore Tekip
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Publication number: 20220383133Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Philip Gregory HALL, Jacob BOHLIN
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Publication number: 20220308175Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2021Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Jason Watson, Gregory Hall, Blaise Gassend
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Publication number: 20220227468Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Robert Richardson, Gregory Hall
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Patent number: 11175854Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 19, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Erik Persson, Stefan Johannes Frid, Philip Gregory Hall, Dominic Hugo Symes, Sven Ola Johannes Hugosson, Robert Norberg
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Patent number: 10855684Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: AVAGO TECHNOLOGIES INTERNATIONAL SALES PTE. LIMITEDInventors: Thomas David Nadeau, James Gregory Hall
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Patent number: 10357722Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 23, 2019Assignee: Universal City Studios LLCInventors: Nathanael G. White, Ted W. Van Winkle, Daniel Freedman, Justin Michael Schwartz, Dwain South, Michael Tresaugue, Gregory Hall
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Publication number: 20190196745Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2018Publication date: June 27, 2019Applicant: Arm LimitedInventors: Erik Persson, Stefan Johannes Frid, Philip Gregory Hall, Dominic Hugo Symes, Sven Ola Johannes Hugosson, Robert Norberg
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Publication number: 20180304160Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2017Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Nathanael G. White, Ted W. Van Winkle, Daniel Freedman, Justin Michael Schwartz, Dwain South, Michael Tresaugue, Gregory Hall
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Publication number: 20180240637Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventors: Joshua T. Hewitt, Gregory Hall, Charles R. Schick, JR.
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Patent number: 10056218Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: August 21, 2018Assignee: Savannah River Nuclear Solutions, LLCInventors: Joshua T. Hewitt, Gregory Hall, Charles R. Schick, Jr.
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Publication number: 20180216781Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2017Publication date: August 2, 2018Inventor: Gregory Hall
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Publication number: 20180219868Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2018Publication date: August 2, 2018Applicant: Brocade Communications Systems LLCInventors: Thomas David Nadeau, James Gregory Hall
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Patent number: D1020451Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.Inventors: Ethan Edward Valentine, Jason Gregory Hall