Patents by Inventor Ian Smith

Ian 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: 20260111440
    Abstract: A system trains a machine-learned model using historical employee spreadsheets and historical modification operations applied to those spreadsheets. The model determines similarity scores between a received employee spreadsheet and each historical employee spreadsheet, and identifies a set of historical employee spreadsheets having highest similarity scores. Based on data modification operations associated with the identified set, the model generates executable scripts configured to apply the data modification operations to the employee spreadsheet. Upon receiving a target employee spreadsheet, the system applies the machine-learned model to generate a target set of executable scripts and executes the scripts on the target employee spreadsheet to produce a target modified spreadsheet. The target modified spreadsheet is transmitted to an employee spreadsheet processing system for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2025
    Publication date: April 23, 2026
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Amanda Aizuss, Cody Sehl, Luis Serazo, Nieves Morán Silva, Ayush Saraswat, Zac Walberer, Prity Kumari, Andrew Collins Bessey
  • Publication number: 20260103667
    Abstract: An in vitro microfluidic spheroid angiogenic vascularization system includes an optically transparent base; a reservoir adhered to the optically transparent base; a first media reservoir opening disposed along an external perimeter of the reservoir configured for receiving media; a first spheroid inlet configured to receive a cancer spheroid; a first cell inlet configured to receive an endothelial cell; a divider posed between the first spheroid inlet and the first cell inlet; a spheroid channel configured to transport the cancer spheroid from the first spheroid inlet to a central observation cavity; a cell channel configured to transport the endothelial cell from the first cell inlet to the central observation cavity; an outlet disposed along an end of the spheroid channel opposing the first spheroid inlet; and the central observation cavity filled with a volume of collagen into which the spheroid channel and the cell channel open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2025
    Publication date: April 16, 2026
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Kimberly Stroka, Sai Pranav Majeti Venkata, Autumn Hengen
  • Publication number: 20260048817
    Abstract: A device can include two or more stanchions each including a hollow interior portion. A device can include two or more spindles, each of the two or more spindles movably arranged within respective ones of the hollow interior portion, the two or more spindles can each including an end portion. A device can include a bar coupled with and extending between the end portion of two adjacent spindles of the two or more spindles. Each of the two or more spindles can be configured to transition between at least a first position including at least a portion of each of the two or more spindles can be received in a respective one of the hollow interior portion and a second position including at least a portion of each of the two or more spindles that can be configured to extend from a respective two or more stanchions further than in the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2025
    Publication date: February 19, 2026
    Inventors: Victor B. Garcia, David A. Yoder, Ian Smith, Thomas E. Smead, II, Todd Kleckner
  • Publication number: 20260036593
    Abstract: Methods of detecting the level of inositol trisphosphate receptor (IP3R) free calcium (Ca2+) signaling activity in the cultured cells induced by an agonist of IP3R Ca2+ signaling are described herein. The detection of IP3R Ca2+ signaling allows for diagnosing the risk of a patient or subject for developing an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Additionally, methods described herein could be used for identifying potential therapeutic anti-ASD agents. The methods for treatment and monitoring of the disease are also outlined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Inventors: John Jay Gargus, Galina Schmunk, Ian Parker, Ian Smith
  • Publication number: 20260035054
    Abstract: A reconfigurable storage container comprises a socket and one or more accessory modules. The socket is mountable between a stern of a surface vessel and a passenger area of the surface vessel and includes a socket profile surrounding one or more bays. The one or more accessory modules are configured for receipt in the one or more bays and have respective profiles complementary to the socket profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2025
    Publication date: February 5, 2026
    Inventors: Craig E. Blume, Todd Kleckner, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: 12524433
    Abstract: A central database system accesses historical employee spreadsheets along with their modified versions, which have undergone data modification operations. The system creates a training dataset from those spreadsheets to train a machine-learned model. The model is configured to analyze a target employee spreadsheet, identify a historical spreadsheet similar to it, and generate executable scripts based on data modifications performed on the identified historical spreadsheet. The set of scripts is applied to the target spreadsheet to produce a target modified spreadsheet, mimicking historical modification. The modified spreadsheet is sent to an employee spreadsheet processing system for further processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2026
    Assignee: ZenPayroll, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Amanda Aizuss, Cody Sehl, Luis Serazo, Nieves Morán Silva, Ayush Saraswat, Zac Walberer, Prity Kumari, Andrew Collins Bessey
  • Patent number: 12508203
    Abstract: A CPR chest compression device with a cooling exhaust flow path configured to direct cooling air flow through the device. A CPR chest compression device with a battery retainer interoperable with the control system to provide for controlled shut-down when an operator attempts to remove the battery during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2025
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Byron J. Reynolds, David T. Lawrence, Ian Smith, Ari M. Manoukian, Kelsey A. Petersen
  • Publication number: 20250312155
    Abstract: Implantable devices may include a single, first component or a plurality of components such as first and second components, the second component being flexibly coupled to the first component. A socket extends over one or more of the component(s), the socket being configured to enhance the inter-component interaction and/or including one or more exposed surface(s) configured to exhibit one or more tiers of foreign body responses within a range of possible foreign body responses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2025
    Publication date: October 9, 2025
    Inventors: Rachel Radspinner, Ian Smith, Patrick S. Young
  • Publication number: 20250284706
    Abstract: A central database system accesses historical employee spreadsheets along with their modified versions, which have undergone data modification operations. The system creates a training dataset from those spreadsheets to train a machine-learned model. The model is configured to analyze a target employee spreadsheet, identify a historical spreadsheet similar to it, and generate executable scripts based on data modifications performed on the identified historical spreadsheet. The set of scripts is applied to the target spreadsheet to produce a target modified spreadsheet, mimicking historical modification. The modified spreadsheet is sent to an employee spreadsheet processing system for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 11, 2025
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Amanda Aizuss, Cody Sehl, Luis Serazo, Nieves Morán Silva, Ayush Saraswat, Zac Walberer, Prity Kumari, Andrew Collins Bessey
  • Patent number: 12364603
    Abstract: Implantable devices may include a single, first component or a plurality of components such as first and second components, the second component being flexibly coupled to the first component. A socket extends over one or more of the component(s), the socket being configured to enhance the inter-component interaction and/or including one or more exposed surface(s) configured to exhibit one or more tiers of foreign body responses within a range of possible foreign body responses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Rachel Radspinner, Ian Smith, Patrick S. Young
  • Publication number: 20250195993
    Abstract: Methods and systems for remote multiplayer gameplay are disclosed. An example method can include joining a multiplayer interactive physical game including first and second players competing in an activity; capturing a first game video of a first player in a first play of the multiplayer interactive physical game, using a first camera on a first mobile computing device in a first gaming area; determining a first object flow associated with the first player from the first game video, by performing an algorithm on one or more frames of the first game video to detect one or more key points of the first player; generating a first analytic based on the first object flow; receiving a second analytic associated with the second player in a second gaming area; and generating a feedback to the first player based on the first analytic or the second analytic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Keng Fai Lee, Qi Zhang, Wing Hung Chan, Wang Fai Ng, Tin Yin Lam, Alexander Wu, Ian Smith, David Richard Schmierer, Bradford Lewis Farkas, Kin Ming Law
  • Patent number: 12311311
    Abstract: An apparatus (10,110, 210, 310) for the separation and recovery of CO2, from air, by a cyclic adsorption/desorption process using a loose particulate sorbent for gas adsorption. The apparatus has a plurality of adjacent, parallel, spaced-apart layers (24,124, 224, 324), each having a stiff frame supporting a flexible, gas-permeable fabric enclosure for the sorbent. The gas inlet (14,114, 214, 314) and outlet (16,116, 216, 316) of the apparatus are on its axially opposite sides, and each layer (24,124, 224, 324) extending axially within the apparatus. The recovered CO2 can be either supplied to an enclosed space, recycled to an enclosed space, from which the CO2 had been separated, or vented to the exterior of the latter enclosed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: SKYTREE B.V.
    Inventors: Max Beaumont, Piotr Thomasz Kasper, Ian Smith, Alexander Gunkel
  • Patent number: 12280238
    Abstract: The devices and systems can allow for safe and cost-effective administration intravenous medication, for example, in psychiatric settings by mitigating ligature, disassembly, and weaponization risks associated with intravenous administration. The system may include a fluid connection device. The fluid connection device may include an internal conduit configured to deliver a medical fluid and a housing disposed in which the internal conduit is disposed. The housing may include a first rigid segment and a second rigid segment spaced from the first rigid segment. The housing may also include a first joint segment disposed between the first rigid segment and the second rigid segment and configured to bend to the predetermined bending angle with respect to the first rigid segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Emory University
    Inventors: Nathan J. Skoller, Rush Austin Leigh, Tamera Tyra Mason, Rachael Elizabeth Price, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: 12233332
    Abstract: Methods and systems for remote multiplayer gameplay are disclosed. An example method can include joining a multiplayer interactive physical game including first and second players competing in an activity; capturing a first game video of a first player in a first play of the multiplayer interactive physical game, using a first camera on a first mobile computing device in a first gaming area; determining a first object flow associated with the first player from the first game video, by performing an algorithm on one or more frames of the first game video to detect one or more key points of the first player; generating a first analytic based on the first object flow; receiving a second analytic associated with the second player in a second gaming area; and generating a feedback to the first player based on the first analytic or the second analytic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: NEX Team Inc.
    Inventors: Keng Fai Lee, Qi Zhang, Wing Hung Chan, Wang Fai Ng, Tin Yin Lam, Alexander Wu, Ian Smith, David Richard Schmierer, Bradford Lewis Farkas, Kin Ming Law
  • Patent number: 12184591
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for conducting an open conversation user interface and more particularly, to a channel-agnostic user interface experience which can utilize automated background intelligence to simplify the exchange between a software system or member service representative (MSR) and a member, and avoids the need for web-based free form inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: UIPCO, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Jeremy Mark Fisher, Heather Hernandez
  • Patent number: 12144778
    Abstract: A CPR chest compression device with a cooling exhaust flow path configured to direct cooling air flow through the device. A CPR chest compression device with a battery retainer interoperable with the control system to provide for controlled shut-down when an operator attempts to remove the battery during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Byron J. Reynolds, David T. Lawrence, Ian Smith
  • Publication number: 20240349012
    Abstract: The system and methods of the various embodiments enable dynamic geofences to be generated based upon environmental events that have variable times and locations (e.g., extreme weather systems, natural disasters, civil unrest). Further, the system and methods of the various embodiments enable vehicles to respond to entering and exiting dynamic geofences. This may result in improved driver and passenger safety, and well as protecting the vehicle from damage. The system and methods of the various embodiments may enable fleet management systems to respond to vehicles entering and exiting dynamic geofences. This may result in reducing vehicle damage costs to rental or leasing companies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Liam HUGHES, Ian SMITH, Colm BRADY
  • Publication number: 20240273101
    Abstract: A graph database for outbreak tracking and management is disclosed. In an example embodiment, an outbreak management system includes a memory device storing instructions that define a graph database for disease outbreak tracking. The instructions specify for a given host that a host node is created and an episode node is connected to the host node via a ‘case’ link. The episode node is associated with episode parameters that are related to a disease classification of the host. In addition, the instructions specify that an outbreak node is connected to the episode node via a ‘part of’ link to indicate that the host has become part of an outbreak of the disease. The outbreak node is connected to a definition node via a ‘defined as’ link. The definition node specifies disease parameters of the disease for outbreak tracking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Randall, Ian Smith, Jonathan Haynes, Sam Wilkinson
  • Publication number: 20240216850
    Abstract: An apparatus (10,110, 210, 310) for the separation and recovery of CO2, from air, by a cyclic adsorption/desorption process using a loose particulate sorbent for gas adsorption. The apparatus has a plurality of adjacent, parallel, spaced-apart layers (24,124, 224, 324), each having a stiff frame supporting a flexible, gas-permeable fabric enclosure for the sorbent. The gas inlet (14,114, 214, 314) and outlet (16,116, 216, 316) of the apparatus are on its axially opposite sides, and each layer (24,124, 224, 324) extending axially within the apparatus. The recovered CO2 can be either supplied to an enclosed space, recycled to an enclosed space, from which the CO2 had been separated, or vented to the exterior of the latter enclosed space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Max BEAUMONT, Piotr Thomasz KASPER, Ian SMITH, Alexander GUNKEL
  • Patent number: 11992802
    Abstract: An apparatus (10, 110, 210, 310) for the separation and recovery of CO2, from air, by a cyclic adsorption/desorption process using a loose particulate sorbent for gas adsorption. The apparatus has a plurality of adjacent, parallel, spaced-apart layers (24, 124, 224, 324), each having a stiff frame supporting a flexible, gas-permeable fabric enclosure for the sorbent. The gas inlet (14, 114, 214, 314) and outlet (18, 118, 216, 316) of the apparatus are on its axially opposite sides, and each layer (24, 124, 224, 324) extending axially within the apparatus. The recovered CO2 can be either supplied to an enclosed space, recycled to an enclosed space, from which the CO2 had been separated, or vented to the exterior of the latter enclosed space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: SKYTREE B.V.
    Inventors: Max Beaumont, Piotr Thomasz Kasper, Ian Smith, Alexander Gunkel