Patents by Inventor J. Mitchell

J. Mitchell 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: 20230108266
    Abstract: A cut warning system can include a valve sleeve defining a cavity, the valve sleeve defining a bottom sealing surface within the cavity; a pipeline extending through the cavity; a drilling machine including a shell cutter, the shell cutter defining a bottom edge, the drilling machine configured to axially advance the shell cutter from a pre-engagement position towards the bottom sealing surface, the pipeline positioned between the shell cutter and the bottom sealing surface in the pre-engagement position; and a signaling element positioned within the cavity, the signaling element configured to produce a signal when the shell cutter reaches a post-engagement position, the bottom edge being axially positioned between the pipeline and the bottom sealing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy J. Mitchell, Samantha Ellen Covington, David Latimore Hughes, JR.
  • Patent number: 11621919
    Abstract: A computer system hosting (micro)services that uses a service mesh to govern communication between the services. The services include consumer services and an event stream service, the latter directing an event stream from a producer service to the individual consumer services. The control plane of the service mesh has the role of creating and removing service instances. Based on a specified event capacity that is to be provided by the consumer services collectively, the control plane manages service provisioning by estimating the current event capacity of the system. This is done by measuring the event capacities of each consumer service instance and summing them, from which any shortfall or excess of the current event capacity in relation to the specified event capacity can be determined. Consumer service instances are then added in case of a shortfall or removed in case of an excess as needed to avoid over or under-provisioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Gordon Douglas Hutchison, Adam John Pilkington, Graham C. Charters, Timothy J. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11610702
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for temporarily holding one end of a wire on a harness form board during automated transfer from one robot to another robot. The apparatus includes a wire holding device which is designed to facilitate the transfer of a wire end from a first end effector of a first robot to a second end effector of a second robot. The wire holding devices have different structures, but share the common feature that opening of the wire holding device (to enable wire insertion) involves applying a contact force which overcomes a spring force that urges the wire holding device to be closed. The end effectors are designed and their movements are controlled in a manner such that the moving end effector applies the contact force necessary to overcome the closure-inducing spring force being exerted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Bradley J. Mitchell, Damien O. Martin, Lars E. Blacken, Jeffrey A. McCaskey
  • Publication number: 20230069598
    Abstract: A computer system hosting (micro)services that uses a service mesh to govern communication between the services. The services include consumer services and an event stream service, the latter directing an event stream from a producer service to the individual consumer services. The control plane of the service mesh has the role of creating and removing service instances. Based on a specified event capacity that is to be provided by the consumer services collectively, the control plane manages service provisioning by estimating the current event capacity of the system. This is done by measuring the event capacities of each consumer service instance and summing them, from which any shortfall or excess of the current event capacity in relation to the specified event capacity can be determined. Consumer service instances are then added in case of a shortfall or removed in case of an excess as needed to avoid over or under-provisioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Gordon Douglas Hutchison, Adam John Pilkington, Graham C. Charters, Timothy J. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11595630
    Abstract: Techniques to facilitate compression of depth data and real-time reconstruction of high-quality light fields. A parameter space of values for a line, pairs of endpoints on different sides of the line, and a palette index for each pixel of a pixel tile of a depth image is sampled. Values for the line, the pairs of endpoints, and the palette index that minimize an error are determined and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth J. Mitchell, Charalampos Koniaris, Malgorzata E. Kosek, David A. Sinclair
  • Publication number: 20230058885
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to indicate when errors occur in a data pipeline. In some examples, data monitoring circuitry monitors the operations of a data pipeline. The data monitoring circuitry ingests an output data set generated by the pipeline, compares the output data set to an expected output, identifies differences between the output data set and the expected output, and determines when the magnitude of the difference exceeds an error threshold. When the error threshold is exceeded, the data monitoring circuitry generates a graphical representation of the output data set, a graphical representation of the expected pipeline output, and an animated transition from the graphical representation of the expected pipeline output to the graphical representation of the output data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230040648
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to determine entropy in strings generated by a data pipeline. In some examples, data monitoring circuitry monitors a data pipeline that ingests input data, processes the input data, and responsively generates and transfers a data string that comprises character groups. The data monitoring circuitry receives the data string, identifies character groups in the data string, identifies group types for the character groups, and assigns numbers to the character groups based on the group types. The data monitoring circuitry determines a probability distribution for the numbers, calculates entropy for the data string based on probability distribution, and generates an entropy histogram based on the entropy. The data monitoring circuitry compares the entropy histogram of the data string to another entropy histogram for another data string, determines a change in entropy, and reports the change in entropy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230041906
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to monitor operations of a data pipeline. In some examples, a data pipeline receives data inputs, processes the data inputs, and responsively generates and transfers data outputs. Data monitoring circuitry monitors the operations of the data pipeline circuitry, identifies an input change between an initial one of the data inputs and a subsequent one of the data inputs, and identifies an output change between an initial one of the data outputs and a subsequent one of the data outputs. The data monitoring circuitry correlates the input change to the output change, determines a quality threshold for the output change based on the correlation, and determines when the output change falls below the quality threshold. When the output change falls below the quality threshold, the data monitoring circuitry generates and transfers an alert that indicates the input change and the output change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230044986
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to maintain data consistency in a data pipeline. In some examples, a computing system comprises data monitoring circuitry that monitors the operations of the data pipeline. The data pipeline receives input data, processes the input data, and generates output data. The data monitoring circuitry receives and processes the output data sets to identify changes between the output data sets. The data monitoring circuitry generates a consistency score based on the changes that indicates a similarity level between the output data sets. The data monitoring circuitry determines when the consistency score exceeds a threshold value. When the consistency score exceeds the threshold value, the data monitoring circuitry generates and transfers an alert that indicates ones of the output data sets that exceeded the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230040834
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to sample data outputs of a data pipeline. In some examples, data monitoring circuitry monitors the data pipeline wherein the data pipeline receives an input data set, processes the input data set, and responsively generates and transfers an output data set. The data monitoring circuitry ingests the output data set, determines an amount of available computing resources, and selects an amount of the values from the output data set based on the amount of available computing resources. The data monitoring circuitry generates a quality score for the selected values based on a data quality, generates a confidence score based on the amount of the selected values, and reports the quality score and the confidence score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230016444
    Abstract: A pipe coupon extraction tool includes a rod defining a first end, a second end, and a central axis; and a spring bar defining a first end and a second end, the spring bar rotatably secured to the rod, a surface of the spring bar configured to be angled with respect to the central axis when the pipe coupon extraction tool is engaged with a pipe coupon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Timothy J. Mitchell, David Latimore Hughes, JR.
  • Patent number: 11549628
    Abstract: A cut warning system can include a valve sleeve defining a cavity, the valve sleeve defining a bottom sealing surface within the cavity; a pipeline extending through the cavity; a drilling machine including a shell cutter, the shell cutter defining a bottom edge, the drilling machine configured to axially advance the shell cutter from a pre-engagement position towards the bottom sealing surface, the pipeline positioned between the shell cutter and the bottom sealing surface in the pre-engagement position; and a signaling element positioned within the cavity, the signaling element configured to produce a signal when the shell cutter reaches a post-engagement position, the bottom edge being axially positioned between the pipeline and the bottom sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Mitchell, Samantha Ellen Covington, David Latimore Hughes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11489309
    Abstract: Systems and methods for designing and assembling form boards with attached wire routing devices for use in wire bundle assembly. The assembly method comprises: (a) establishing a coordinate system of a form board having a multiplicity of holes; (b) using a computer system to determine locations of form board devices of different types with reference to the coordinate system of the form board based on engineering data specifying a wire bundle configuration; and (c) fastening the form board devices of different types to respective holes of the form board having centers closest to respective locations determined in step (b). The form board devices may be inserted robotically or manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Damien O. Martin, Lars E. Blacken, Bradley J. Mitchell, Grace L. Duncan, Eerik J. Helmick, Keith M. Cutler, Randall V. Fraker, Alexey S. Meerov, John R. Porter
  • Publication number: 20220343109
    Abstract: A data pipeline monitoring system configured to monitor operations of a data pipeline. In the data pipeline monitoring system, data processing circuitry receives a training data set, processes the training data set, and responsively generates a data standard that indicates a preferred data format. The data pipeline receives an input data set, processes the input data set, responsively generates the output data set, and transfers the output data set to the data processing circuitry. The data processing circuitry receives an output data set from the data pipeline. The data processing circuitry determines similarities between the output data set and the data standard. The data processing circuitry scores the output data set based on the similarity between the output data set and the data standard and reports the score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Patent number: 11478910
    Abstract: A pipe coupon extraction tool includes: a rod defining a first end, a second end, and a central axis; and a spring bar defining a first end and a second end, the spring bar rotatably secured to the rod, a surface of the spring bar configured to be angled with respect to the central axis when the pipe coupon extraction tool is engaged with a pipe coupon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Mitchell, David Latimore Hughes, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11475647
    Abstract: Systems and methods are presented for immersive and simultaneous animation in a mixed reality environment. Techniques disclosed represent a physical object, present at a scene, in a 3D space of a virtual environment associated with the scene. A virtual element is posed relative to the representation of the physical object in the virtual environment. The virtual element is displayed to users from a perspective of each user in the virtual environment. Responsive to an interaction of one user with the virtual element, an edit command is generated and the pose of the virtual element is adjusted in the virtual environment according to the edit command. The display of the virtual element to the users is then updated according to the adjusted pose. When simultaneous and conflicting edit commands are generated by collaborating users, policies to reconcile the conflicting edit commands are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Disney Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Corey D. Drake, Kenneth J. Mitchell, Rachel E. Rodgers, Joseph G. Hager, IV, Kyna P. McIntosh, Ye Pan
  • Patent number: 11464537
    Abstract: A medical device for removing a material from a hollow anatomical structure is provided. The device may include a shaft member. The device may include an expandable centering element near the distal end of the device. The device may include a macerator element either attached to the shaft or independent and freely moveable from the shaft. Alternatively, the device may include a rotating wire attached to the macerator element. The device may include an aspiration lumen in for removal of material. The device may include a drive shaft attached to a motor and used to rotate the macerator element. The device may be used in combination with a distal occlusion element, which may be either a radially expandable filter or balloon member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: William A Cartier, William C Hamilton, Jr., James J Mitchell, Daniel T Lagoe
  • Patent number: 11446768
    Abstract: A wire guide and a laser wire-processing device that includes a wire guide are provided. The laser wire-processing device includes a housing and an aperture in a side of the housing, wherein the aperture defines a longitudinal axis that is substantially perpendicular to the aperture. The laser wire-processing device also includes a backstop arranged in the housing and aligned with the longitudinal axis, the backstop defining a wire-contact surface in a facing relationship with the aperture. The laser wire-processing device also includes a wire guide arranged in the housing to manipulate a wire inserted through the aperture into a desired position relative to the longitudinal axis between the aperture and the backstop. The laser wire-processing device also includes a laser operable to direct a laser beam toward an insulation layer of the wire. The wire guide could be a tube arranged in the device or a backstop guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Nick S. Evans, Bradley J. Mitchell, Mark Blumenkrantz
  • Patent number: 11429614
    Abstract: Systems and methods for data quality monitoring are provided. Various embodiments include a data monitoring system that integrates into a data pipeline. The data monitoring system may receive a call from the data pipeline to analyze data inputs entering the data pipeline. The monitoring system can generate metadata describing the data inputs and compare the generated metadata with previously generated metadata to determine if the data inputs are historically consistent. The data monitoring system may return a consistency measure to the data pipeline. In further embodiments, the data monitoring system can generate metadata describing data outputs from the data pipeline and compare the output metadata to previously generated output metadata. In further embodiments, the data monitoring system may operate as a read only entity in a database. The monitoring system may monitor for changes in the database and determine when adverse changes occur in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Data Culpa Inc.
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Patent number: D981929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: CUSTOM WHEEL HOUSE, LLC
    Inventors: Sean J. Kleinschuster, Max J. Mitchell