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: 20210245819
    Abstract: A partition separates a cabin space from a bed space on a vehicle having a first side body and a second side body. The partition includes a forward-opening receptacle fixable to the first side body and to the second side body to span between the first side body and the second side body and includes a rear panel. The partition includes a modular assembly securable as a unit to a forward side of the receptacle. The modular assembly includes a front panel and a window glass configured to be translatably supported by the modular assembly between the front panel and the rear panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Simonin, John D. Taylor, Michael T. Chaney, James Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11087877
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining anomalous brain data. One of the methods includes obtaining brain data characterizing brain activity of a patient; for each of a plurality of pairs of parcellations comprising a first parcellation and a second parcellation, processing the brain data to generate a correlation between the brain activity of the first and second parcellations; obtaining second connectivity data that characterizes, for each of the plurality of pairs of parcellations, a normal range of correlations between the brain activity of the first and second parcellations; identifying one or more of the plurality of pairs of parcellations for which the correlation between brain activity of the first and second parcellations is outside of the corresponding normal range of correlations; and providing data characterizing the one or more identified pairs of parcellations for display to a user on a graphical interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11089188
    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. The phased metalens is further configured to adjust a property of light that reaches the imaging substrate based on a change in a flatness of the imaging substrate. The property of the light that reaches the imaging substrate includes a phase of all the light that reaches the imaging substrate at a same time. The phased metalens accomplishes this by achieving near-diffraction-limited focusing over the incoming light wavelengths using precisely defined nanoscale subwavelength resolution structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Aptiv Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Ronald M. Taylor, James Nicholas Nickolaou
  • Patent number: 11080484
    Abstract: Electronic records are accessed from computer storage for a given subject, wherein the electronic records include natural language notes about the subject. Tokens are identified in the natural language notes. For each token, a corresponding intensity score is generated representing an intensity of match between the token and a particular dimension, wherein the intensity scores are each values on a first scale, wherein each dimension is one of a plurality of dimensions of a category out of a plurality of categories; generating rescaled-intensity scores from the intensity scores by rescaling the intensity scores from the first scale to a second scale different from the first scale. For each dimension of each category, a dimension-score is compiled based on the intensity scores; and categorizing the subject into at least one category based on the dimension scores. The subject is categorized into at least one category based on the dimension scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11079925
    Abstract: A controller of a material handling system performs a method of creating a multidrop pattern of articles for robotic placement in layers on a pallet. A pattern is presented on a user interface of any currently positioned representations of articles on a pallet. A control affordance for inputting drag'n'drop and numeric inputs is presented on the user interface for robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the more than one article in an end effector of a robotic arm for placement of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a first subset of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a second subset, which is mutually exclusive of the first subset, of the more than one article. The user inputs are converted into a place sequence of robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the articles by the robotic arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Intelligrated Headquarters, LLC
    Inventors: Harold Roper, Wesley Hicks, James Nicholas Newton
  • Patent number: 11060072
    Abstract: The present application provides engineered polypeptides having imine reductase activity, polynucleotides encoding the engineered imine reductases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered imine reductases, 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: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Agard, Oscar Alvizo, Melissa Ann Mayo, Stefanie Ng Minor, James Nicholas Riggins, Jeffrey C. Moore
  • Patent number: 11042971
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for medical imaging with distortion correction. One example includes obtaining distorted image data of a subject brain, the distorted image data comprising a time series of three-dimensional image tensors generated at least in part from an echo planar imaging session of the subject brain. A derived three-dimensional tensor is derived from the distorted image data. A non-rigid alignment function to non-rigidly align the derived three-dimensional tensor to a reference tensor is determined, producing a non-rigidly aligned derived 3D tensor. A rigid alignment function to rigidly align the non-rigidly aligned derived 3D tensor to the reference tensor is determined. Distortion-corrected image data is created by applying the rigid alignment function and the non-rigid alignment function to the time series of three-dimensional image tensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Patent number: 11038347
    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: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    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
  • Patent number: 11004462
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing aphasia assessment. One of the methods includes receiving a recording, generating a text transcript of the recording, and generating speech quantifying and comprehension scores which can be used to determine an aphasia classification. Another method includes performing an aphasia assessment on a brain image to obtain an aphasia classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Omniscient Neurotechnology Pty Limited
    Inventors: Michael Edward Sughrue, Stephane Philippe Doyen, Peter James Nicholas
  • Publication number: 20210129793
    Abstract: A controller for a first vehicle is configured to, when a security system of the first vehicle is activated, transmit a vehicle-to-vehicle signal to a second vehicle, the signal comprising instructions that, when executed by a controller of the second vehicle, cause the controller of the second vehicle to activate a security system of the second vehicle. A method includes determining whether a security system of a first vehicle is activated and, if it is determined that the security system is activated, transmitting a vehicle-to-vehicle signal to a second vehicle, the signal comprising instructions that, when executed by a controller of the second vehicle, cause the controller of the second vehicle to activate a security system of the second vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: James Nicholas Murray, Benjamin Moffatt, William Barker, Gemma Lord
  • Publication number: 20210053556
    Abstract: Parking a plurality of autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles can comprise obtaining information regarding a first vehicle of the plurality of vehicles; obtaining information regarding an environment surrounding the first vehicle; and selecting a parking arrangement for the first vehicle, wherein the parking arrangement is selected such that at least one of access to; and opening of at least one door of the first vehicle is prevented by proximity of the first vehicle to at least one of a second vehicle of the plurality of vehicles; and a structure in the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: James Nicholas Murray, Ben Moffatt, Will Barker
  • Publication number: 20210054357
    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: November 6, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    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
  • Publication number: 20210053957
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as pesticides, especially as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Applicant: SYNGENTA PARTICIPATIONS AG
    Inventors: James Nicholas SCUTT, Nigel James WILLETTS, Ravindra SONAWANE, Mangala PHADTE, Sandeep Reddy KANDUKURI, Swarnendu SASMAL, Sarah ARMSTRONG, Andrea MCGRANAGHAN
  • Publication number: 20210009561
    Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, especially as herbicides.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: 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: 10865402
    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: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    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
  • Publication number: 20200384984
    Abstract: One or more parking sensors are configured to determine a distance between a vehicle and an obstacle. A controller is configured to determine a threshold parking distance based on an operating mode of the vehicle; compare the determined distance with the threshold parking distance; and provide an indication to a user of the vehicle based on the determined distance being less than or equal to the threshold parking distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: James Nicholas Murray, Ben Moffatt
  • Publication number: 20200364760
    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: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Applicant: 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: 20200354699
    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: July 29, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    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
  • Publication number: 20200354698
    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: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    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
  • Publication number: 20200347017
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, N-oxides of the compounds and salts of the compounds and N-oxides: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, Q1, Q2, J, Y1, and Y2 are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds, N-oxides and salts, and methods for controlling undesired vegetation comprising contacting the undesired vegetation or its environment with an effective amount of such a compound, N-oxide, salt or composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Duncan SATTERFIELD, Matthew James CAMPBELL, James Francis BEREZNAK, William Guy WHITTINGHAM, Glynn MITCHELL, Christopher John MATHEWS, James Nicholas SCUTT, James Alan MORRIS, Jonathan Wesley Paul DALLIMORE, Katharine Mary INGRAM, Timothy Robert DESSON, Kenneth LING