Patents by Inventor James A. Nicholas

James A. Nicholas 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: 20250137019
    Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Xiang Yi, Oscar Alvizo, Ravi David Garcia, David Entwistle, Charlene Ching, James Nicholas Riggins
  • Publication number: 20250129343
    Abstract: The present application provides engineered glucose dehydrogenase polypeptides having imine reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Xiang Yi, Oscar Alvizo, Ravi David Garcia, David Entwistle, Charlene Ching, James Nicholas Riggins, Nandhitha Subramanian
  • Patent number: 12277825
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to generate an access code specific to a user of an online marketplace to use to enter a first accommodation during a first reservation time frame and a second accommodation during a second reservation time frame and to send the access code specific to the user to a computing device at the first accommodation and a computing device at the second accommodation to use to enter the first accommodation during the first reservation time period and the second accommodation during the second reservation time period. The access code is automatically removed from the computing device at the first accommodation and the computing device at the second accommodation at the end of the first reservation time period and at the end of the second reservation time period, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Airbnb, Inc.
    Inventors: James Nicholas Pazzi, David Harry Garcia, Kyle Wulff, Jason F. Harrison, Amjad Obeidat, Andrey Yazev, William Anthony Burrus, Yat Choi, Guilherme Moreira Talarico, Taha Kowsari, Yipeng Cao, Matt Lee, Tyler Sax, Fuxin Yu, Roshan Umesh Goli, Xi Yang, Matthew Siyu Mang, Karina Sirqueira Silva
  • Patent number: 12260742
    Abstract: A vehicle determines that a vehicle alarm system has been engaged and determines a local context applicable to the vehicle alarm system. The vehicle obtains an alarm system configuration mapping applicable in light of the local context. The vehicle changes sensitivity of one or more sensors associated with the alarm system based on the configuration mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Nicholas Murray, Tarik Safir, Sam Harris, Hasan Akoglu, Julian Aaron Abentheuer, Gabriel Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20250083689
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a first set of sensors, a second set of sensors, a sensor data aggregator that includes a first assembly and a second assembly, and a computing system. The first assembly is configured to obtain and to process a first set of sensor data from the first set of sensors, and the second assembly is configured to obtain and to process a second set of sensor data from the second set of sensors. The computing system is configured to obtain the first and second sets of sensor data processed by the sensor data aggregator, and to implement primary autonomy functionalities based on the first set of sensor data and the second set of sensor data, wherein the sensor data aggregator is configured to implement backup autonomy functionalities concurrently with the primary autonomy functionalities being implemented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Nuro, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Jeffrey Wei, Niels Frommann, James Nicholas Vines, Jonathan Beck, An An (Tom) Chu
  • Patent number: 12233533
    Abstract: The techniques and systems herein enable robot management in populated areas. Specifically, a robot management system receives, from a robot system, a requested route and time for the robot system to travel. A dynamic map that includes dynamic and temporal information about an area of the requested route is then used to determine whether the requested route and time are approved, approved with a modified route or time, or disapproved. An approval message, a modified approval message, or a disapproval message is then generated and sent to the robot system. By using the described techniques, municipalities can monitor, manage, and regulate robots across various operators and locations. Doing so may prevent a high density of robots along various routes, disruptions to the services of such robots, and/or disruptions to surrounding pedestrians and vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: James Nicholas Nickolaou, Steven G. Malson, Yusuf Zohar Dilawar, Neha N. Gupta
  • Patent number: 12215368
    Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang Yi, Oscar Alvizo, Ravi David Garcia, David Entwistle, Charlene Ching, James Nicholas Riggins
  • Patent number: 12215359
    Abstract: The present application provides engineered glucose dehydrogenase polypeptides having imine reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered polypeptides, host cells capable of expressing the engineered polypeptides, and methods of using these engineered polypeptides with a range of ketone and amine substrate compounds to prepare secondary and tertiary amine product compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Xiang Yi, Oscar Alvizo, Ravi David Garcia, David Entwistle, Charlene Ching, James Nicholas Riggins, Nandhitha Subramanian
  • Patent number: 12214785
    Abstract: This document describes techniques for localizing a vehicle to map data, for example, to enable assisted driving and automated driving within a road. A road model builder is described that uses vehicle location data to determine its position relative to map data obtained from a provider, which can be different than the location data's source. Using the vehicle position, the road model builder maintains a current lane segment for the vehicle and its relative position within the current lane segment. Based on its relative position, the road model builder determines whether a transition to another lane segment is appropriate before setting the current lane segment to be the other lane segment. The current lane segment, when provided as an input to an assisted-driving or automated-driving system, can enable safer operation of the vehicle and use fewer computing resources than other systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies AG
    Inventors: Steven G. Malson, James Nicholas Nickolaou
  • Publication number: 20250037105
    Abstract: A method of processing a transaction between a first user associated with a first user device and a second user, associated with a second user device within a transaction system. The method may include establishing a communication channel between the first and second user devices; sending, from the first user device to the second user device over the communication channel, a transaction message to initiate the transaction between the first and second users, the transaction message including transaction data; receiving the transaction message at the second user device; validating the transaction data within the received transaction message; sending, from the second user device to the first user device over the communication channel, a confirmation transaction message, the confirmation transaction message confirming that the transaction has been approved by the first user and second user; sending the confirmation transaction message to the transaction system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Clifford Norman Russell, James Nicholas Mortimer
  • Publication number: 20250027061
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. The present invention further provides engineered T7 RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. These variants have been evolved for selective incorporation of the m7G(5?)ppp(5?)m7G cap analog over GTP at the initiation of in vitro transcription. The present invention also provides methods for selective capping of RNA transcripts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Mathew G. Miller, Chinping Chng, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, James Nicholas Riggins, Xiang Yi, Jonathan S. Penfield, Gjalt W. Huisman, Jared Davis, Yasushi Saotome
  • Patent number: 12197341
    Abstract: Aspects described herein relate to a method comprising: receiving a request to write data to a persistent storage device, the request comprising data; determining an affinity of the data; writing the request to a cache line of a cache; associating the cache line with the affinity of the data; and reporting the data as having been written to the persistent storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Daedalus Cloud LLC
    Inventors: Stuart John Inglis, Cameron Ray Simmonds, Dmitry Lapik, Chia-Chi Hsu, Daniel James Nicholas Stokes, Adam Gworn Kit Fleming
  • Publication number: 20250014098
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for pre-deal and in-deal or live demand and allocation forecasting. For instance, historical data including information about prior completed offers may be accessed and used to generate a plurality of training input features and a plurality of training output features. These may be used to train a pre-deal demand model configured to generate a demand prediction for a new offer based on a plurality of input features for the new offer. In addition, these may be used to train a live demand model configured to generate a demand prediction for an offer while the offer is open based on a plurality of input features for the offer. Still further, a plurality of potential allocation policies to the demand prediction to generate an allocation in real time while the offer is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: PrimaryBid Limited
    Inventors: Salil Shree Pandit, Brendan David Cheshire, Michael Christopher Coombes, Joseph Lyle Carnell, Andrew James Turner, Nafiseh Vahabi, Anand Sambasivan, Kieran Roy D’Silva, James Alexander Deal, Gavin David Sutton, Hanna Karpuk, Nicholas James Osborne, James Nicholas Sanderson Smith
  • Publication number: 20240418113
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system for treating exhaust gas includes: an exhaust conduit configured to receive the exhaust gas; a preheating oxidation catalyst disposed in the exhaust conduit; a primary oxidation catalyst disposed in the exhaust conduit downstream of the preheating oxidation catalyst; a selective catalytic reduction system disposed in the exhaust conduit downstream of the primary oxidation catalyst; and a controller configured to: determine a temperature of the exhaust gas at an inlet of the selective catalytic reduction system, and in response to the temperature of the exhaust gas at the inlet of the selective catalytic reduction system being below a threshold temperature, cause hydrocarbons to be provided to the preheating oxidation catalyst or to the exhaust conduit at a location upstream of the preheating oxidation catalyst. The preheating oxidation catalyst catalyzes combustion of the hydrocarbons so as to increase the temperature of the exhaust gas to above the threshold temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Shirish S. Punde, Rayomand Dabhoiwala, James Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20240409916
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered penicillin G acylase (PGA) enzymes, polynucleotides encoding the enzymes, compositions comprising the enzymes, and methods of using the engineered PGA enzymes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Oscar Alvizo, David Elgart, Robert Kevin Orr, James Nicholas Riggins, Anna Fryszkowska, Katrina W. Lexa, Xiang Yi, Da Duan, Courtney Dianne Moffett, Nikki Dellas, Vesna Mitchell
  • Patent number: 12143353
    Abstract: Techniques are described for learning an unknown virtual network information, such as an virtual Internet Protocol (IP) address, of a pod in a virtual network. In some examples, a virtual router executing at a computing device may receive an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) packet from a virtual execution element in the virtual network, the virtual execution element executing at the computing device. The virtual router may determine, based at least in part on the ARP packet, whether virtual network information for the virtual execution element in a virtual network is known to the virtual router. The virtual router may, in response to determining that the virtual network information of the virtual execution element in the virtual network is not known to the virtual router, perform learning of the virtual network information for the virtual execution element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Sangarshan Pillareddy, Yuvaraja Mariappan, James Nicholas Davey, Prasad Miriyala, Richard Roberts, Margarida Correia, Nagendra E S, Haji Mohamed Ashraf Ali
  • Patent number: 12129494
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. The present invention further provides engineered T7 RNA polymerase variants and compositions comprising these variants. These variants have been evolved for selective incorporation of the m7G(5?)ppp(5?)m7G cap analog over GTP at the initiation of in vitro transcription. The present invention also provides methods for selective capping of RNA transcripts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Mathew G. Miller, Chinping Chng, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, James Nicholas Riggins, Xiang Yi, Jonathan S. Penfield, Gjalt W. Huisman, Jared Davis, Yasushi Saotome
  • Patent number: 12112359
    Abstract: A method for real-time invoice updating and account-to-account payment includes: receiving invoice data based on presentation of an invoice by a distributor to a recipient at a delivery location, modification of the invoice by the recipient, and acceptance of the invoice by the recipient; generating a request for payment (RFP) message based on the invoice data; transmitting the RFP message to a financial institution associated with the recipient via a financial institution of the distributor; receiving, from the financial institution associated with the distributor, a payment confirmation for the invoice based on a real-time payment from the financial institution associated with the recipient; generating reconciliation data based on the payment confirmation and the invoice data; and transmitting the reconciliation data to a computing device of the distributor and a computing device of the recipient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: MASTERCARD INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Viviane Sabat, Andrea Christine Gilman, Jennifer Wang, Abhinav Bhatt, Chhomthyda Chhuan, Daniel Bae, Alonso Araujo, James Nicholas Mortimer, Monica Taylor, Eitan Ahimor, Christopher Murray, Mark N. Savoye, Robert Pacifico, Ashfaq Kamal, Karan Sharma
  • Publication number: 20240331548
    Abstract: This disclosure describes one or more embodiments of methods, non-transitory computer-readable media, and systems that utilize computing models to intelligently match provider devices and requester devices in response to event-trigger transportation requests. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize global positioning information to monitor requester device proximity to pickup locations and generate timely transportation matches for event-trigger transportation requests. For example, the event-trigger transportation matching system matches requester devices and provider devices based on the satisfaction of a location trigger; or, conversely, the event-trigger transportation matching system delays matching processes for provider devices based on a location trigger remaining unsatisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander James Hillis, James Nicholas De Angelis, Ying Jie Ding, Shashwati Shradha
  • Patent number: D1059397
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Joseph Chan, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou