Patents by Inventor Jacob A. Lucas

Jacob A. Lucas 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: 20240119383
    Abstract: An orchestration system of or otherwise available to a web platform centralizes the execution of workflow components of a workflow associated with a job posting hosted by the web platform using various software services internal and/or external to the web platform. The workflow components and attributes thereof are determined based on the job posting. Domain-specific language (DSL) instructions for the various workflow components are generated. First DSL instructions are invoked by the orchestration system to cause an execution of a first workflow component of the workflow by a first software service. The orchestration system obtains an output of the first workflow component, such as values of relevant attributes, and, based on the output and in some cases information derived other than from the first workflow component, invokes next DSL instructions to cause an execution of a next workflow component of the workflow by another software service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: John Bowers, Xiqian Han, Quanzheng Long, Jacob Lucas, Russel Mommaerts, Jeremy Spencer, Hemant Tanwar, David Thrift, Adam Ullrich, Christopher Valencia
  • Patent number: 11918010
    Abstract: A system for dispensing a frozen beverage. The system includes a barrel having an inner wall and being configured to retain the frozen beverage therein. A mixing system causes mixing of the frozen beverage within the barrel. A cooling system cools the frozen beverage from radially outwardly of the inner wall. A melting system heats the frozen beverage from radially inwardly of the inner wall. The mixing system causes relatively larger ice crystals to move inwardly from the inner wall, and the melting system reduces a size of the relatively larger ice crystals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilie Luca, Jacob C. Greenberg, Tomasz K. Kasprzycki
  • Publication number: 20230026394
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide solutions for determining a position of an object in a video frame. Examples include: receiving a segmentation mask of an identified object in a video frame; adjusting a 3D representation of a moveable part of the object based on constraints for the moveable part; comparing the 3D model of the object to the segmentation mask of the object; determining a match between the 3D model of the object to the segmentation mask of the object is above a threshold; and based on the match being above the threshold, determining a position of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Jason J. Rock, Jacob A. Lucas, Trent M. Kyono, Justin C. Hatcher
  • Patent number: 11459116
    Abstract: An example system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause the system to perform various functions. The functions include: (i) acquiring an image of a first aerial vehicle, the image depicting an object of a second aerial vehicle prior to contact between the object and a surface of the first aerial vehicle; (ii) providing the image as input to a data-driven analyzer that is trained in a supervised setting with example images for determining a predetermined point of contact between the object and the surface of the first aerial vehicle; (iii) determining, based on an output of the data-driven analyzer corresponding to the input, an estimated point of contact between the object and the surface of the first aerial vehicle; and (iv) providing the estimated point of contact to a display system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Trent M. Kyono, Steven F. Griffin, Jacob A. Lucas, James L. Clayton, Justin C. Hatcher
  • Publication number: 20210403175
    Abstract: An example system includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein instructions that are executable to cause the system to perform various functions. The functions include: (i) acquiring an image of a first aerial vehicle, the image depicting an object of a second aerial vehicle prior to contact between the object and a surface of the first aerial vehicle; (ii) providing the image as input to a data-driven analyzer that is trained in a supervised setting with example images for determining a predetermined point of contact between the object and the surface of the first aerial vehicle; (iii) determining, based on an output of the data-driven analyzer corresponding to the input, an estimated point of contact between the object and the surface of the first aerial vehicle; and (iv) providing the estimated point of contact to a display system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Trent M. Kyono, Steven F. Griffin, Jacob A. Lucas, James L. Clayton, Justin C. Hatcher
  • Patent number: 11118857
    Abstract: A spin-stabilizing assembly is usable with a cylindrical barrel having a longitudinal center axis, a vertical center axis, and a distal end. The assembly includes a gimbal piece, a spinner cage, and a spinner body. A first end of the gimbal piece engages an outer diameter surface of the barrel proximate the distal end. The spinner cage is configured to engage a second end of the gimbal piece, and to pivot with respect thereto about the vertical center axis. The spinner body is disposed radially within the spinner cage and defines multiple axial vanes. The vanes, in response to impingement on the axial vanes of exhaust gases discharged from the distal end of the barrel, rotate the spinner body about the longitudinal center axis. Rotation results in impedance along the vertical center axis which minimizes vertical displacement or motion of the distal end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Steven F. Griffin, Jacob A. Lucas, Alexander Klein
  • Publication number: 20210222984
    Abstract: A spin-stabilizing assembly is usable with a cylindrical barrel having a longitudinal center axis, a vertical center axis, and a distal end. The assembly includes a gimbal piece, a spinner cage, and a spinner body. A first end of the gimbal piece engages an outer diameter surface of the barrel proximate the distal end. The spinner cage is configured to engage a second end of the gimbal piece, and to pivot with respect thereto about the vertical center axis. The spinner body is disposed radially within the spinner cage and defines multiple axial vanes. The vanes, in response to impingement on the axial vanes of exhaust gases discharged from the distal end of the barrel, rotate the spinner body about the longitudinal center axis. Rotation results in impedance along the vertical center axis which minimizes vertical displacement or motion of the distal end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Steven F. Griffin, Jacob A. Lucas, Alexander Klein
  • Publication number: 20180165688
    Abstract: A system and method that correlates a user identifier, associated with a computing device being used by a consumer, with a telephone number belonging to the consumer. The system maintains advertising impression data, describing online advertising impressions associated with user identifiers, and call data, describing telephone calls to a businesses and the telephone numbers from which the calls were received. Based on the maintained advertising impression and call data, the system generates correlations between telephone numbers and user identifiers for a consumer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Ziad Ismail, Clay Colburn, Adarsh Nair, Sundi Raman, Jacob Lucas, Chris Zazzi, Preston Hillman
  • Patent number: 9202246
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a system and method for providing substitute item recommendations in order status messages are described. In various embodiments, a customer may submit an order for one or more items to a merchant. In various cases, the merchant may fulfill the order by preparing a shipment that includes the one or more ordered items and shipping that shipment to the customer. In some cases, at least one item of the order may be delayed or canceled for a variety of reasons. In various embodiments, the merchant may utilize an exception management component to generate an orders status message (for the customer) that specifies the item has been delayed or canceled. The merchant may also utilize the exception management component to generate the order status message such that the order status message also includes a recommendation of one or more substitute items that the customer may be interested in.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael E. Bundy, Cary Rotman, Jacob Lucas, Mukul Karnik, Tony Kanawati