Patents by Inventor James A. Hunt
James A. Hunt 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).
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Publication number: 20240139050Abstract: A patient support apparatus for use in treating patients with behavioral health indicia, including a base supporting wheels for movement along a floor surface, a litter for supporting a patient, and a lift mechanism to move the litter relative to the base between a lowered position and a raised position. A skirt barrier having a bottom edge defining a periphery is operatively attached to the litter for concurrent movement with the litter between an exposed configuration and a shield configuration. The exposed configuration corresponds to the raised position and is defined with the bottom edge spaced vertically above the base. The shield configuration corresponds to the lowered position and is defined with the bottom edge arranged adjacent to the floor surface and with the periphery extending around the base to at least partially limit external access to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Matthew A. Cutler, Steven L. Birman, Travis Jay Bradstreet, James Hunt
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Patent number: 11960387Abstract: A sample ratio mismatch (SRM) analyzer receives data from an online controlled experiment (OCE) and provides information to help determine a root cause of an SRM. The SRM analyzer may identify one or more segments in the data that include an SRM and may determine whether a triggered scorecard of the OCE includes an SRM. The data may include one or more scorecards. The SRM analyzer may determine whether each scorecard has an SRM. The SRM analyzer may test a difference in proportion of users assigned to treatment between a last scorecard without an SRM and a first scorecard with an SRM. If the difference in proportion is statistically meaningful, the SRM analyzer may determine that the SRM arose after the last scorecard. If the difference in proportions is not statistically meaningful, the SRM analyzer may determine that the SRM existed from a beginning of the OCE.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Aleksander Fabijan, Trevor Craig Blanarik, Kewei Chen, Ruhan Zhang, Adam Marc Gustafson, Venkata Kavitha Budumuri, Stephen James Hunt, Maxwell Campbell Caughron, Vaibhav Kumar Bajpai
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Patent number: 11803750Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: DeepMind Technologies LimitedInventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Publication number: 20230313254Abstract: Provided herein are methods for identifying and isolating polynucleotides coding for polypeptides having D-allulose 3-epimerase activity from a wide variety of microorganisms. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs, vectors and recombinant host cells comprising the polynucleotides coding for D-allulose 3-epimerase activity as well as methods for producing allulose from fructose using said recombinant host cells having D-allulose 3-epimerase activity or the D-allulose 3-epimerase enzyme of said recombinant host cells having D-allulose 3-epimerase activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: Conagen Inc.Inventors: Guohong Mao, Michael Batten, Oliver Yu, Timothy Joseph Hanly, Phillip James Hunt, Hongfang Liu, Yang Luo
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Patent number: 11726649Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting a sequence of medical images are provided herein. A use provides an input which indicates that additional frames are to be displayed. Frames from the sequence are displayed in succession, without skipping the display of any frames, based on a frame rate determined by an input provided by a user.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: MACH7 TECHNOLOGIES CANADA INC.Inventors: Bruno Monteiro Finelli, Scott Alexander Bohdanow, Neil Edmund James Hunt, Steven Andrew Rankin
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Publication number: 20230194475Abstract: A system for detecting deposit formation on electrically-conductive materials in vapor and liquid phases includes a test cell for receiving a test liquid (e.g., a lubricant). A heater heats the test liquid to generate a vapor phase of the test liquid in the test cell. A support frame supports at least a first set of electrical conductors in the test liquid and at least a second set of electrical conductors in the vapor phase, each of the first and second sets of conductors including a live electrical conductor and a neutral electrical conductor. A power source supplies an electric current to each of the live electrical conductors. A sensor component detects an electrical property each of the sets of conductors, the electrical property changing in response to formation of an electrically-conductive deposit which connects the first and second conductors in a respective set of conductors. Preferably, the electrical properties are detected by magnetic sensors, such as Hall effect sensors or eddy current sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Mitchell Andrew Peplow, Gregory James Hunt, Christopher Paul Prengaman, Rahmeen Fatima Javaid
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Publication number: 20230071753Abstract: A testing device includes a scaffold for supporting conductive wires. The scaffold is placed in housing in which liquid and vapor phases of a fluid are provided, such that a first of the conductive wires extends into the liquid and a second of the conductive wires remains in the vapor throughout a test. The scaffold may include a plurality of lower support members and a plurality of upper wire support members, each of the support members including a plurality of routing supports to wrap a respective one of the test wires around. The device allows measurements to be made contemporaneously for the test wires.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: The Lubrizol CorporationInventors: Gregory James Hunt, Michael Peter GAHAGAN, Mitchell Andrew PEPLOW, Christopher Paul PRENGAMAN, Ronny RIMAN
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Publication number: 20220409192Abstract: A harvesting assembly for harvesting a tissue graft from surrounding tissue is disclosed including a guide. The guide includes a means for fixedly engaging with an anterior surface of the tendon. The guide also includes a means of guiding a cutting blade along a preferred trajectory into and along a length of the tendon. The guide also includes a means of guiding a truncating blade along a preferred trajectory across a width of tendon. The cutting blade may include two parallel blades for forming lateral sides of the tendon graft simultaneously. Each of the two parallel blades may define a leading edge that extends along at least a 90 degree arc that is equidistant from a stop on the cutting blade. The stop in combination with the guide may limit a cut depth into the tendon for a range of cutting blade handle elevation angles.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: December 29, 2022Inventors: Geoffrey Ian Karasic, Ali Hosseini, Christopher David MACCREADY, Chun LIU, James Hunt, Matthew Edwin KOSKI, Paul McGovern, Jacob PEABODY
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Publication number: 20220318128Abstract: A sample ratio mismatch (SRM) analyzer receives data from an online controlled experiment (OCE) and provides information to help determine a root cause of an SRM. The SRM analyzer may identify one or more segments in the data that include an SRM and may determine whether a triggered scorecard of the OCE includes an SRM. The data may include one or more scorecards. The SRM analyzer may determine whether each scorecard has an SRM. The SRM analyzer may test a difference in proportion of users assigned to treatment between a last scorecard without an SRM and a first scorecard with an SRM. If the difference in proportion is statistically meaningful, the SRM analyzer may determine that the SRM arose after the last scorecard. If the difference in proportions is not statistically meaningful, the SRM analyzer may determine that the SRM existed from a beginning of the OCE.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Aleksander FABIJAN, Trevor Craig BLANARIK, Kewei CHEN, Ruhan ZHANG, Adam Marc GUSTAFSON, Venkata Kavitha BUDUMURI, Stephen James HUNT, Maxwell Campbell CAUGHRON, Vaibhav Kumar BAJPAI
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Publication number: 20220233302Abstract: Methods and devices for tissue graft fixation include fixation devices attached to an adjustable fixation loop of suture without compromising the graft or requiring additional material to complete the repair. Other fixation devices are attachable to an independent adjustable suture system. Adjustable fixation loops minimize slip/creep of the suture within the loop.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Miles Malone, Christopher D. MACCREADY, Ali Hosseini, Mark Edwin Housman, Chun Liu, James Hunt, Jacob Peabody, Paul McGovern, Han Teik Yeoh, Paul Alexander Torrie, Mason James Bettenga, Anil S. Ranawat, Lawrence Ferraiuolo, Geoffrey Ian Karasic
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Publication number: 20220090158Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the biosynthesis of UDP-Rhamnose and recombinant polypeptides having enzymatic activity useful in the relevant biosynthetic pathways for producing UDP-Rhamnose. The present invention also provides a method for preparing a steviol glycoside composition comprising at least one rhamnose-containing steviol glycoside.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Conagen Inc.Inventors: Guohong Mao, Phillip James Hunt, Michael James Batten, Timothy Joseph Hanley, Oliver Yu
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Publication number: 20220043550Abstract: Systems and methods for presenting a sequence of medical images are provided herein. A use provides an input which indicates that additional frames are to be displayed. Frames from the sequence are displayed in succession, without skipping the display of any frames, based on a frame rate determined by an input provided by a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Inventors: Bruno Monteiro FINELLI, Scott Alexander BOHDANOW, Neil Edmund James HUNT, Steven Andrew RANKIN
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Patent number: 11171795Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to receive a first data stream from a first conferencing service operated by a first conferencing service provider and to receive second data stream from a second conferencing service operated by a second conferencing service provider. The instructions are then executable to merge the first and second data streams.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Axel Ramirez Flores, Rodrigo Felix de Almeida, Jonathan Co Lee, James A. Hunt
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Patent number: 11151443Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for augmenting neural networks with an external memory. One of the systems includes a sparse memory access subsystem that is configured to perform operations comprising generating a sparse set of reading weights that includes a respective reading weight for each of the plurality of locations in the external memory using the read key, reading data from the plurality of locations in the external memory in accordance with the sparse set of reading weights, generating a set of writing weights that includes a respective writing weight for each of the plurality of locations in the external memory, and writing the write vector to the plurality of locations in the external memory in accordance with the writing weights.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: DeepMind Technologies LimitedInventors: Ivo Danihelka, Gregory Duncan Wayne, Fu-min Wang, Edward Thomas Grefenstette, Jack William Rae, Alexander Benjamin Graves, Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Timothy James Alexander Harley, Jonathan James Hunt
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Patent number: 11138862Abstract: In one aspect, a first device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to determine, based on input from at least one sensor, whether a conference room is in use. The instructions are also executable to, based on the determination, provide an electronic notification to a second device regarding whether the conference room is in use.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: October 5, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Axel Ramirez Flores, Rodrigo Felix de Almeida, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Jonathan Co Lee, James A. Hunt
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Patent number: 10958518Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to switch a hub device from a hub mode to a slave or pass-through mode responsive to one or more contextual triggers.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Russell Speight VanBlon, Axel Ramirez Flores, Aaron M. Stewart, Mark Krynock, Rodrigo Felix de Almeida, Jonathan Co Lee, James A. Hunt
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Publication number: 20200410351Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training an actor neural network used to select actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One of the methods includes obtaining a minibatch of experience tuples; and updating current values of the parameters of the actor neural network, comprising: for each experience tuple in the minibatch: processing the training observation and the training action in the experience tuple using a critic neural network to determine a neural network output for the experience tuple, and determining a target neural network output for the experience tuple; updating current values of the parameters of the critic neural network using errors between the target neural network outputs and the neural network outputs; and updating the current values of the parameters of the actor neural network using the critic neural network.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Jonathan James Hunt, Alexander Pritzel, Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Tom Erez, Yuval Tassa, David Silver, Daniel Pieter Wierstra
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Patent number: 10845842Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes at least one processor, at least one touch-sensitive display accessible to the at least one processor, and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage includes instructions executable by the at least one processor to present at least a first input element in a first orientation on the at least one touch-sensitive display and to receive a signal from at least one sensor indicating a direction to a user in proximity to the at least one touch-sensitive display. The instructions are also executable to, responsive to the signal, present the first input element in a second orientation on the at least one touch-sensitive display.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Russell Speight VanBlon, Axel Ramirez Flores, Rodrigo Felix de Almeida, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Ratan Ray, James A. Hunt
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Patent number: D980699Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: Eagles Nest Outfitters, Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Pinholster, Jr., Ryan Marc Klinger, Emily Anne Danielson, Nicholas James Hunt, Kyle Nathan McNamee
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Patent number: D1001224Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Eagles Nest Outfitters, Inc.Inventors: Peter G. Pinholster, Jr., Ryan Marc Klinger, Emily Anne Danielson, Nicholas James Hunt