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).

  • Patent number: 11699232
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for users, such as medical professionals, to glean insight about connectivity data associated with a particular brain. A method can include overlaying nodes representing locations of parcels of a patient's brain on a representation of a brain and displaying the representation of the brain with the overlaid nodes in a GUI. Nodes having connectivity above a first threshold can be represented in a first indicia and nodes having connectivity below a second threshold can be represented in a second indicia. The method can include receiving user input and taking an action based on the user input. The user input can include selecting an area of the representation of the brain for excision. Taking an action based on the input can include calculating an impact of excising the area of the brain on the particular patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas, Xinling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11687986
    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 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    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: 20230178978
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a surge protection device, a current sensor configured to sense a current through the surge protection device, and a surge discriminator circuit coupled to the current sensor and configured to discriminate among a plurality of surge levels for the surge protective device responsive to the sensed current. The current sensor may include a current transformer configured to generate a secondary current responsive to the sensed current and the surge discriminator circuit may be configured to discriminate among a plurality of surge levels responsive to the generated secondary current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: James William Thompson, James Nicholas Skoczlas
  • Patent number: 11666266
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing EEG source localization. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data comprising: EEG data comprising respective channel data corresponding to each of a plurality of electrodes of an EEG sensor, and fMRI data comprising respective voxel data corresponding to each of a plurality of voxels; identifying, in a three-dimensional coordinate system, a respective location for each electrode; generating, using the respective identified locations of each electrode, data representing a location in the three-dimensional coordinate system of each voxel; determining, for each electrode, a region of interest in the three-dimensional coordinate system; and identifying, for each electrode, one or more corresponding parcellations in the brain of the subject, wherein each parcellation that corresponds to an electrode at least partially overlaps with the region of interest of the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11661876
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system for treating an exhaust gas comprises an exhaust conduit, a preheating oxidation catalyst, a primary oxidation catalyst disposed downstream of the preheating oxidation catalyst, and a selective catalytic reduction system disposed in the exhaust conduit downstream of the primary oxidation catalyst. A controller is configured to determine a temperature of an exhaust gas at an inlet of the selective catalytic reduction system. In response to the temperature being below a threshold temperature, the controller generates a hydrocarbon insertion signal configured to cause hydrocarbons to be inserted into or upstream of the preheating oxidation catalyst so as to increase a temperature of the exhaust gas to above the threshold temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Shirish S. Punde, Rayomand Dabhoiwala, James Nicholas Reynolds
  • Publication number: 20230159904
    Abstract: The present invention provides engineered carboxyesterase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type carboxyesterase enzymes, as well as polynucleotides encoding the engineered carboxyesterase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered carboxyesterase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered carboxyesterase enzymes in hydrolysis reactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Rama Voladri, Jessica Anna Hurtak, Auric Anthony Sowell-Kantz, Nandhitha Subramanian, Ericka Bermudez, David Entwistle, Melissa Ann Mayo, James Nicholas Riggins
  • Patent number: 11658933
    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: December 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    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: 11658472
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of surge protection devices (e.g., multiple metal oxide varistors connected in parallel) configured to be coupled to a power system, a plurality of mechanical actuators associated with respective ones of the surge protection devices and configured to indicate status of the associated surge protection devices, and a detector circuit configured to sense actuation of the actuators and responsively determine a protection status of the plurality of surge protection devices. The detector circuit may include a plurality of switches configured to be actuated by respective ones of the actuators. The detector circuit may further include a processor coupled to the plurality of switches and configured to determine states of switches and to determine the protection status based on the determined status of the switches. The processor may be configured to interpret the status of the switches based on a stored identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Douglas Garrelts, James Nicholas Skoczlas
  • Patent number: 11653480
    Abstract: According to one aspect, an apparatus includes a first system that generates heat, and a cooling arrangement. The cooling arrangement cools the first system, and includes a coolant source and a distribution arrangement. The coolant source provides a coolant in a first state that is distributed by the distribution arrangement to absorb the heat. The cooling arrangement includes a control arrangement and a heating arrangement. The control arrangement maintains the coolant in the first state at least a set point, the set point being a temperature that is above a dew point, by determining when to activate the heating arrangement to warm the coolant in the first state and, when it is determined by the control arrangement that the heating arrangement is to be activated, activating the heating arrangement to warm the coolant in the first state to maintain the temperature of the coolant at the set point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Nuro. Inc.
    Inventors: James Nicholas Vines, Jonathan David Beck, Grant Yuan Emmendorfer, Andrew Bryce Braum
  • Publication number: 20230140162
    Abstract: This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for standard-definition (SD) to high-definition (HD) navigation route determination. An example route builder receives a navigation route generated for a host vehicle. The navigation route includes a list of waypoints generated by an SD map database. The route builder matches the list of waypoints to lane geometry data maintained in an HD map database and outputs HD navigation route to a vehicle controller. The HD navigation route includes the list of waypoints, additional waypoints, and lane geometry data. The vehicle controller can then operate the host vehicle in a roadway environment along the HD navigation route. In this way, the described techniques and systems can provide HD navigation routes required by some assisted-driving and autonomous-driving systems based on SD navigation routes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Steven G. Malson, James Nicholas Nickolaou
  • Patent number: 11638067
    Abstract: The techniques of this disclosure relate to a system for adjusting a focus of an image. A system includes a phased metalens configured to adjust a focus of an image detected by an imaging substrate of an image sensor to compensate for warpage of the imaging substrate. The phased metalens can achieve a near-diffraction-limited focusing over incoming light wavelengths using precisely defined nanoscale subwavelength resolution structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Ronald M. Taylor, James Nicholas Nickolaou
  • Publication number: 20230108272
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for harmonizing diffusion tensor images. One of the methods includes obtaining a diffusion tensor image; determining a set of RISH features for the diffusion tensor image; processing a model input generated from the set of RISH features using a machine learning model to generate a model output identifying an image transformation from a set of image transformations, wherein each image transformation in the set of image transformations corresponds to a respective different first MRI scanner and represents a transformation that, when applied to first diffusion tensor images captured by the first MRI scanner, harmonizes the first diffusion tensor images with second diffusion tensor images captured by a reference MRI scanner; and processing the diffusion tensor image using the identified image transformation to generate a harmonized diffusion tensor image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas, Hugh Monro Taylor
  • Publication number: 20230108267
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing EEG source localization. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data comprising: EEG data comprising respective channel data corresponding to each of a plurality of electrodes of an EEG sensor, and fMRI data comprising respective voxel data corresponding to each of a plurality of voxels; identifying, in a three-dimensional coordinate system, a respective location for each electrode; generating, using the respective identified locations of each electrode, data representing a location in the three-dimensional coordinate system of each voxel; determining, for each electrode, a region of interest in the three-dimensional coordinate system; and identifying, for each electrode, one or more corresponding parcellations in the brain of the subject, wherein each parcellation that corresponds to an electrode at least partially overlaps with the region of interest of the electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11618743
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as herbicides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: James Nicholas Scutt, Nigel James Willetts, Ravindra Sonawane, Mangala Phadte, Sandeep Reddy Kandukuri, Swarnendu Sasmal, Sarah Armstrong, Andrea McGranaghan, Sean Ng
  • Patent number: 11621557
    Abstract: Electrical protection devices, such as for use with power systems for overvoltage protection, are disclosed. One electrical protection device includes a first electrical connection, a second electrical connection, a first electrical discharge device, and a second electrical discharge device. The first electrical discharge device includes a first conductive bus connected to the first electrical connection and a second conductive bus connected to the second electrical connection. The first electrical discharge device has a first breakdown voltage. The second electrical discharge device includes a third conductive bus connected to the first electrical connection and a fourth conductive bus connected to the second electrical connection. The second electrical discharge device has a second breakdown voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: TechHold, LLC
    Inventors: Greg Fuchs, George Anderson, William M. Volna, Gale K. Nordling, Wallace Jensen, David Blake Jackson, Frederick R. Faxvog, James Nicholas Ruehl
  • Publication number: 20230082106
    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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Steven G. Malson, James Nicholas Nickolaou
  • Publication number: 20230068214
    Abstract: A system, comprising: a plurality of clusters, each cluster comprising two or more nodes and data storage; data storage comprising two or more storage arrays; each storage array comprising two or more storage devices; each storage device being configured to store data; each node being configured to receive requests to interact with data stored on a storage device; wherein the system is configured to provide at least two communication paths between any pair of components, the components comprising the nodes, storage arrays, and the storage devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Stuart John Inglis, Sheridan John Lambert, Adam Gworn Kit Fleming, Dmitry Lapik, Daniel James Nicholas Stokes, Cameron Ray Simmonds, Pradeep Balakrishnan, John Anthony Scaramuzzo, Matthew Sylvain Lazaro, Jack Spencer Turpitt, Rafael John Patrick Shuker, Leon Wiremu Macrae Oud, Kevan Pennington, Bernard Willis Setz, Harrison Ian Connell, Herbert Dennis Hunt
  • Publication number: 20230065967
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing interactive graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for users, such as medical professionals, to glean insight about connectivity data associated with a particular brain. A method can include overlaying nodes representing locations of parcels of a patient's brain on a representation of a brain and displaying the representation of the brain with the overlaid nodes in a GUI. Nodes having connectivity above a first threshold can be represented in a first indicia and nodes having connectivity below a second threshold can be represented in a second indicia. The method can include receiving user input and taking an action based on the user input. The user input can include selecting an area of the representation of the brain for excision. Taking an action based on the input can include calculating an impact of excising the area of the brain on the particular patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas, Xinling Jiang
  • Patent number: 11591588
    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: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    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: D978900
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gorm Halfdan Amand, Daniel Joseph Billett, Elizabeth Caroline Cranfill, James Nicholas Jones, Ieyuki Kawashima, Vincent M. Lane, Chia Yang Lin, Cecilia S. Zhou