Patents by Inventor Harris Smith

Harris 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).

  • Patent number: 12000620
    Abstract: A packaged air turnover unit is described herein. The packaged air turnover comprises a compressor and condenser within a housing of the packaged air turnover unit. The packaged air turnover unit further includes one or more heat exchangers to cool air and one or more heaters to heat air, providing either cooling or heating to a space depending on the configuration of the unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: MJC, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Metzger, William Harris, George Czyz, Sean Mocarski, Russell E. Smith, Hue Nguyen, Damon Rundell
  • Publication number: 20240112115
    Abstract: In a threat management platform, a number of endpoints log events in an event data recorder. A local agent filters this data and feeds a filtered data stream to a central threat management facility. The central threat management facility can locally or globally tune filtering by local agents based on the current data stream, and can query local event data recorders for additional information where necessary or helpful in threat detection or forensic analysis. The central threat management facility also stores and deploys a number of security tools such as a web-based user interface supported by machine learning models to identify potential threats requiring human intervention and other models to provide human-readable context for evaluating potential threats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Beata Ladnai, Mark D. Harris, Andrew G. P. Smith, Kenneth D. Ray, Andrew J. Thomas, Russell Humphries
  • Patent number: 11927786
    Abstract: A device carrier for an information handling system includes a latch, an interface, lights located on a front of the latch, and first and second light pipes. The latch holds the device carrier within the information handling system. The first light pipes are located within the latch, and provide light to the lights located on the front of the latch. The second light pipes are located within the interface and the latch, and provide the light to the first light pipes. The location of the second light pipes enables the same brightness of the light provided to the lights when a long device is inserted within the device carrier as compared to when a short device is inserted within the device carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Qingqiang Guo, Harris Di Dihuweii, William A. Smith
  • Publication number: 20220292372
    Abstract: Methods and systems are described herein for processing approval requests using application-independent processing system. The processing system provides a configuration file that may be used to define a process. Each application, or each process in an application, may define its own process parameters in the configuration file. The use of this architecture allows for the processing system to be used with multiple applications. When an approval request is received, the processing system obtains the configuration file of the process to which the approval request corresponds and executes the process accordingly. The processing system also facilitates automatic approval of an approval request using pre-authorized approval information that is provided by an approver independent of the approval request. If an approval request satisfies conditions defined in the pre-authorized approval information, the approval request is automatically approved without user intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Capital One Services, LLC
    Inventors: Rendheer JOSHY, William DONEGAN, Shashi PARUPATI, Joseph LUPINO, Craig HOFFERBERT, Melanie WEYER, Stephen MORT, Tamika HARRIS-SMITH, Yelena SHERMAN
  • Patent number: 11309880
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provides a low-complexity solution and current protection for a current driver that provide current pulses to pyrotechnic initiators. The current drivers include current limiters that prevent high current transients during a current pulse. Further, a duration of the current pulse is controlled based on a thermal limit of the current driver to prevent thermal damage to the current driver. One embodiment comprises an apparatus that includes a control circuit and a current driver. The current driver is electrically couplable to a pyrotechnic initiator. The current driver includes a power switch circuit electrically coupled to a supply rail that supplies a current to a high side of the pyrotechnic initiator in response to receiving a drive signal from the control circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Gregory Harris Smith, Kenneth A. Seidner
  • Publication number: 20190190510
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provides a low-complexity solution and current protection for a current driver that provide current pulses to pyrotechnic initiators. The current drivers include current limiters that prevent high current transients during a current pulse. Further, a duration of the current pulse is controlled based on a thermal limit of the current driver to prevent thermal damage to the current driver. One embodiment comprises an apparatus that includes a control circuit and a current driver. The current driver is electrically couplable to a pyrotechnic initiator. The current driver includes a power switch circuit electrically coupled to a supply rail that supplies a current to a high side of the pyrotechnic initiator in response to receiving a drive signal from the control circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory Harris Smith, Kenneth A. Seidner
  • Patent number: 10245295
    Abstract: This is a neurological essential oil composition employing oils containing sesquiterpene compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier, such as Vetiver, Black Pepper, Ginger, Ylang Ylang, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Cedarwood, Myrrh, Frankincense, or Lavender, offering calming relief from seizures, migraine, anxiety, tremor, PTSD, and other neurological ailments, minus side-effects often experienced with conventional neurotherapeutics. A case study using FDA guidelines was conducted on the composition by the inventor/nutritionist treating these disorders and more with success, including her own seizure disorder. For neurological stimulation to improve cognitive function, the composition recruits oils such as Coffee, Vanilla, Cinnamon Bark, Clove, Dalmatian Sage, Rosemary, Blood Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit, Peppermint, Lime, Clementine, Spearmint or Coconut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Inventor: Laura Harris Smith
  • Publication number: 20190083564
    Abstract: This is a neurological essential oil composition employing oils containing sesquiterpene compounds that cross the blood-brain barrier, such as Vetiver, Black Pepper, Ginger, Ylang Ylang, Sandalwood, Patchouli, Cedarwood, Myrrh, Frankincense, or Lavender, offering calming relief from seizures, migraine, anxiety, tremor, PTSD, and other neurological ailments, minus side-effects often experienced with conventional neurotherapeutics. A case study using FDA guidelines was conducted on the composition by the inventor/nutritionist treating these disorders and more with success, including her own seizure disorder. For neurological stimulation to improve cognitive function, the composition recruits oils such as Coffee, Vanilla, Cinnamon Bark, Clove, Dalmatian Sage, Rosemary, Blood Orange, Lemon, Grapefruit, Peppermint, Lime, Clementine, Spearmint or Coconut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventor: Laura Harris Smith
  • Publication number: 20160070864
    Abstract: A patient safety system receives remote inputs wirelessly transmitted by a mobile device over a wireless network referred to herein as a patient safety network. The remote inputs indicate information, obtained by the patient safety application, pertaining to a patient safety event. Responsive to receiving remote input indicating a patient safety event category, the patient safety system creates a patient safety data record, comprising a set of predefined fields, corresponding to the patient safety event. In one non-limiting application applicable to patient safety events defined in the AHRQ Common Formats, the mobile device user may initiate the generation of a patient safety database record simply by selecting from a mobile device user interface one of nine patient safety event types defined by the Common Formats and one of three patient safety event levels of severity defined by the Common Formats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Inventors: Douglas Bernard Dotan, Noah Harris Smith
  • Patent number: 9250051
    Abstract: Technologies for sequentially initiating squibs in one or more release mechanisms in order to reduce delay between successive squibs are provided. A squib initiation sequencer is configured to initiate squibs of one or more release mechanisms in a pre-programmed sequence. The squib initiation sequencer is further configured to detect when the initiation of each squib in the sequence is complete, and immediately move to the next sequential step without waiting the entire maximum initiation time per the squib manufacturer's specifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Gregory Harris Smith, Son T. Vo, Randall Wayne Watkins, William L. Moon
  • Patent number: 8559895
    Abstract: At least one feature provides a way to perform point-to-multipoint transmissions using adaptive or directional antennas while reducing antenna pattern distortion. Generally, rather than transmitting the same waveform to two or more receivers, an information-bearing signal is transformed into different decorrelated waveforms and each decorrelated waveform is transmitted to a different receiver. In one implementation, an information-bearing signal is transformed into two decorrelated signals such that their crosscorrelation, or autocorrelation of the information-bearing signal, is zero or very small. Such decorrelation may be achieved by sending a first signal to a first receiver while sending a second signal, having a radio frequency spectrum that is the spectrally inverted version of the first signal, to a second receiver. In another implementation, a first signal is transmitted to a first receiver and is also transmitted to a second receiver with a time delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton, Ahmad Jalali, Ernest T. Ozaki, Harris Smith Simon, Sherman A. Gregory
  • Patent number: 8229366
    Abstract: A mobile station with a tunable duplexer is disclosed. The mobile station includes a processor and memory in electronic communication with the processor. The mobile station includes a receive path that has a receive band reject filter in electronic communication with an antenna at a common node. The receive path also includes a receive band pass filter in electronic communication with the receive band reject filter. The mobile station includes a transmit path that has a transmit band reject filter in electronic communication with the antenna at the common node. The transmit path also includes a transmit band pass filter in electronic communication with the transmit band reject filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Harris Smith Simon, Stanley S. Toncich
  • Patent number: 8145141
    Abstract: A multi-band handheld communications device includes a transceiver including a transmitter having a transmit filter and a receiver having a receive filter, each of the transmit and receive filters having a bandpass region tunable across multiple bands, and a processor configured to select one of the multiple bands to operate the handheld communications device, and tune each of the transmit and receive filters based on the selected one of the multiple bands.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: QUALCOMM, Incorporated
    Inventors: Stanley Slavko Toncich, Harris Smith Simon, Aracely Williams
  • Publication number: 20100008453
    Abstract: At least one feature provides a way to perform point-to-multipoint transmissions using adaptive or directional antennas while reducing antenna pattern distortion. Generally, rather than transmitting the same waveform to two or more receivers, an information-bearing signal is transformed into different decorrelated waveforms and each decorrelated waveform is transmitted to a different receiver. In one implementation, an information-bearing signal is transformed into two decorrelated signals such that their crosscorrelation, or autocorrelation of the information-bearing signal, is zero or very small. Such decorrelation may be achieved by sending a first signal to a first receiver while sending a second signal, having a radio frequency spectrum that is the spectrally inverted version of the first signal, to a second receiver. In another implementation, a first signal is transmitted to a first receiver and is also transmitted to a second receiver with a time delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton, Ahmad Jalali, Ernest T. Ozaki, Harris Smith Simon, Sherman A. Gregory
  • Patent number: 7610025
    Abstract: At least one feature provides a way to perform point-to-multipoint transmissions using adaptive or directional antennas while reducing antenna pattern distortion. Generally, rather than transmitting the same waveform to two or more receivers, an information-bearing signal is transformed into different decorrelated waveforms and each decorrelated waveform is transmitted to a different receiver. In one implementation, an information-bearing signal is transformed into two decorrelated signals such that their crosscorrelation, or autocorrelation of the information-bearing signal, is zero or very small. Such decorrelation may be achieved by sending a first signal to a first receiver while sending a second signal, having a radio frequency spectrum that is the spectrally inverted version of the first signal, to a second receiver. In another implementation, a first signal is transmitted to a first receiver and is also transmitted to a second receiver with a time delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2009
    Assignee: Qualcomm Incorporated
    Inventors: Ivan Jesus Fernandez-Corbaton, Ahmad Jalali, Ernest T. Ozaki, Harris Smith Simon, Sherman A. Gregory
  • Publication number: 20070001465
    Abstract: An apparatus for improving the generation of wind-powered energy is configured to be placed in front of a windmill. The apparatus has an entry aperture spaced from the windmill blades and having an entry aperture dimension that is greater than the tip-to-tip span of the rotatable windmill blades. The apparatus further includes an exit aperture that is located adjacent the windmill blades and dimensioned substantially equal to the tip-to-tip span of the rotatable blades. Further, a funnel material is spanned between the entry and exit apertures and is adapted to guide wind received within the entry aperture toward the exit aperture and thence to the rotatable blades of the windmill so that a speed of the wind is increased as the wind passes from the entry aperture to the windmill blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2006
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Inventor: Harris Smith
  • Patent number: 3932275
    Abstract: A method of dewatering mineral slimes by adding fly ash and then a polyelectrolyte and blending slowly and thoroughly. The clear water supernatant may be drawn off from the sedimented coagulated solids. The coagulated solids may be further dewatered or treated in ecologically beneficial ways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: January 13, 1976
    Assignee: AMAX Resource Recovery Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Arthur Raymond Mewes, Robert W. Styron, Mark Harris Smith