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).

  • Patent number: 10934787
    Abstract: A mill for use in a wellbore includes a tubular housing having a bore therethrough and a plurality of eccentrically arranged pockets formed in a wall thereof and an arm disposed in each pocket. Each arm has a body portion and a blade portion extending from an outer surface of the body portion and is movable between an extended position and a retracted position. The mill further includes cutters disposed along each blade portion and a block disposed in each pocket and connected to the housing. Each block has a guide engaged with a mating guide of the respective body portion and an inner passage for providing fluid communication between the housing bore and the respective pocket. The mill further includes an actuator for extending the arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Weatherford Technology Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ram K. Bansal, Mohammed Aleemul Haq, Thomas F. Bailey, Richard J. Segura, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: 10938753
    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: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: UIPCO, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Jeremy Mark Fisher, Heather Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20210033625
    Abstract: The present invention features 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. 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 12, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: John Jay Gargus, Galina Schmunk, Ian Parker, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: 10905629
    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 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventors: Byron J. Reynolds, David T. Lawrence, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: 10874583
    Abstract: A chest compression device with a chest compression belt assembly including guards and sensors operable with a control system to control operation of the system depending on detection of proper installation of the guards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Nikhil S. Joshi, Melanie L. Harris, Byron J. Reynolds, David T. Lawrence, Ian Smith, Dean W. Severns
  • Patent number: 10802029
    Abstract: The present invention features methods that allow for diagnosing a risk for a patient or subject developing an Autism Spectrum Disorder, for identifying potentially therapeutic anti-ASD agents, and methods for treatment monitoring as specified in the independent claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: John Jay Gargus, Galina Schmunk, Ian Parker, Ian Smith
  • Publication number: 20200258419
    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: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    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
  • Publication number: 20200188114
    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: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Rachel Radspinner, Ian Smith, Patrick S. Young
  • Patent number: 10678416
    Abstract: A thermostat for controlling an HVAC system in an enclosure may include a passive infrared sensor, an active infrared sensor, and an electronic display having a first mode and a second mode. The thermostat may also include one or more processors programmed to change a setpoint temperature of the thermostat to an energy-saving temperature upon detection of a non-occupancy condition for the enclosure. The processor(s) may detect the non-occupancy condition based at least in part on readings received from the passive infrared sensor. The processor(s) may also be programmed to change the electronic display from the first mode to the second mode upon detection of a person approaching the thermostat. The processor(s) may detect a person approaching the thermostat based at least in part on readings received from the active infrared sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Fadell, Matthew Rogers, Edwin Satterthwaite, Ian Smith, Daniel Warren, Joseph Palmer, Shigefumi Honjo, Grant Erickson, Jonathan Dutra, Hugo Fiennes
  • Publication number: 20200172783
    Abstract: A fusible, phase-change powder composition includes a plurality of powder particles comprising a polymer composition, an unencapsulated phase-change material, and optionally, an additive composition; wherein the powder composition is fusible at a temperature of 25 to 105° C., or 28 to 60° C., or 45 to 85° C., or 60 to 80° C., or 80 to 100° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Ming Wei, Sharon Soong, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: 10643492
    Abstract: Methods and systems for remote real-time or asynchronous multiplayer gameplay using mobile devices are disclosed. The methods and systems include steps of mounting mobile computing devices in gaming areas associated with users; initiating a game between the users; analyzing movements of the users, ball(s), and/or other game equipment of the game by performing a computer vision algorithm on one or more frames of an input video of the game; and providing feedback to the users, where feedback may include instructions to be performed by the users and player analytics. Embodiments of the present invention use computer vision techniques to enable a resource-limited mobile device such as a smartphone to conduct the aforementioned steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    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: 10630613
    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: December 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: UIPCO, LLC
    Inventors: Ian Smith, Jeremy M. Fisher, Heather Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20200030738
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for separating and removing CO2 generated by one or more passengers in the air in the interior of a cabin of a vehicle. Provided are:—a first stream of the air from the interior of the cabin to an interior of a container holding a loose particulate sorbent for CO2;—a second stream of air depleted in CO2 from the interior of the container holding the sorbent to an interior of the cabin;—a third stream of the air from exterior of the cabin to the inferior of the container holding the sorbent; and—a fourth stream of air enriched in CO2 from the interior of the container holding the sorbent to an exterior of the cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Ian SMITH, Piotr Thomasz KASPER, Maximus Llewelyn BEAUMONT
  • Publication number: 20200004746
    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 that is related to the outbreak node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Paul Randall, Ian Smith, Jonathan Haynes, Sam Wilkinson
  • Publication number: 20190392729
    Abstract: Methods and systems for remote real-time or asynchronous multiplayer gameplay using mobile devices are disclosed. The methods and systems include steps of mounting mobile computing devices in gaming areas associated with users; initiating a game between the users; analyzing movements of the users, ball(s), and/or other game equipment of the game by performing a computer vision algorithm on one or more frames of an input video of the game; and providing feedback to the users, where feedback may include instructions to be performed by the users and player analytics. Embodiments of the present invention use computer vision techniques to enable a resource-limited mobile device such as a smartphone to conduct the aforementioned steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    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
  • Publication number: 20190374900
    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 (18,1 18, 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: November 23, 2017
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Max BEAUMONT, Piotr Thomasz KASPER, Ian SMITH, Alexander GUNKEL
  • Publication number: 20190375939
    Abstract: A phase-change composition comprises a homogeneous mixture of a thermoplastic polymer composition; and a phase-change material; wherein the phase-change composition has a viscosity of less than 100,000 centipoise, or less than 55,000 centipoise, or less than 30,000 centipoise, or less than 20,000 centipoise, or less than 10,000 centipoise, or less than 3000 centipoise at a temperature greater than or equal to 120° C. and is a gel at a temperature less than or equal to 100° C., or less than or equal to 80° C., or less than or equal to 50° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Ming Wei, Ian Smith, Sharon Soong
  • Publication number: 20190298606
    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: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: Zoll Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Byron J. Reynolds, David T. Lawrence, Ian Smith
  • Patent number: D874751
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: I and L Investments Pty Ltd.
    Inventor: Ian Smith
  • Patent number: D901303
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: WM. WRIGLEY JR. COMPANY
    Inventors: Nicolas Jaouen, Rory Johnston, Peter Booth, Alex Roper, Ian Smith, Mark Watson