Patents by Inventor James A. Stephens

James A. Stephens 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: 12239648
    Abstract: Novel RET fusion molecules and uses are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Foundation Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean R. Downing, Matthew J. Hawryluk, Doron Lipson, Alexander N. Parker, Philip James Stephens
  • Publication number: 20250058712
    Abstract: A system of object detection for a trailer. In one example, the system includes a camera configured to capture images of the trailer, where the images include an object other than the trailer. The system also includes a sensor configured to capture sensor data, a display configured to display images from the perspective of the camera, and a controller on the vehicle. The controller includes an electronic processor configured to receive the image data from the camera, receive the sensor data from the sensor, determine a blind spot, analyze the sensor data for radar data associated with the object, calculate the position of the object relative to the blind spot and the trailer, determine that the object is within the blind spot using an object detection algorithm, and in response to the determining that the object is within the blind spot, generate an augmented image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Michael R. Meier, James Stephen Miller, Frank Peter Riggi, Elizabeth E. Kao
  • Publication number: 20250058894
    Abstract: A method of aligning an aircraft with a landing platform in motion comprises measuring a GPS heading with at least one GPS sensor positioned at a known location relative to the landing platform while the landing platform is in motion, measuring an orientation of the aircraft with an orientation sensor fixed relative to the aircraft, calculating an orientation of the landing platform from the GPS heading, calculating an orientation offset between the measured orientation of the aircraft and the calculated orientation of the landing platform, and changing an orientation of the aircraft or the landing platform to reduce the orientation offset. A system for landing and securing an aircraft in an enclosure, a system for disconnecting a tether from an aircraft, and a system for landing an aircraft in an enclosure are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Joseph Pawelczyk, Kris Auker, Trevor Stephens, Jeffrey Field, James Megariotis
  • Patent number: 12226370
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Christie Leigh McCarthy, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Steven Edward DeMartino, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut
  • Patent number: 12227713
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to polysiloxanes, processes for preparing polysiloxanes, and hydraulic fluids comprising polysiloxanes. This disclosure also relates to hydraulic fluids comprising one or more polysiloxane compounds and diphosphonate compounds, and to the use of diphosphonate compounds in hydraulic fluids or as additives or components in various compositions, for example to provide fire retardant properties to a fluid or composition. This disclosure also relates to use of the compositions as hydraulic fluids, which may be used in various machines, vehicles and craft, including aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: THE BOEING COMPANY, COMMONWEALTH SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH ORGANISATION
    Inventors: Mathew John Ballard, Philip Stephen Casey, Susan Wan-Yi Holmes, Cameron David Way, Kevin Norman Winzenberg, James Hull
  • Patent number: 12229311
    Abstract: An improved computing tool performs an improved computing tool function to identify sensitive data risks in cloud-based deployments. A knowledge graph is built based on data schema information for a cloud-based computing environment, a set of parsed infrastructure logs, and a set of captured application queries. A set of sensitive flows in the knowledge graph are identified representing paths from a sensitive data element to an endpoint in the knowledge graph. The set of sensitive flows are scored based on a scoring algorithm and an alert is issued to an administrator in response to a score of a sensitive flow within the set of sensitive flows exceeding a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Julian James Stephen, Ted Augustus Habeck, Arjun Natarajan
  • Patent number: 12219691
    Abstract: A printed circuit board assembly comprises: a printed circuit board (PCB); an integrated circuit (IC) package that is mounted on the PCB and includes a first surface and a bare IC die disposed on the first surface; and a vapor chamber coupled to the first surface of the IC package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Haley, James Stephen Fields, Jr., Seungkug Park
  • Patent number: 12218120
    Abstract: A structure is provided that includes a first active circuit in which at least one of areas surrounding the first active circuit includes an active circuit-containing region. A second active circuit is spaced apart from the first active circuit. The second active circuit includes a circuit mimic fill area present in at least one of the areas surrounding the second active circuit. The circuit mimic fill area substantially matches the active circuit-containing region that is adjacent to the first active circuit. The circuit mimic fill area is located on an equivalent side of the second active circuit as the active circuit-containing region that is present adjacent the first active circuit. The use of the circuit mimic fill mitigates the effects over medium range and beyond distances that cause device failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dureseti Chidambarrao, Matthew Stephen Angyal, Noah Zamdmer, Varadarajan Vidya, James Strom, Grant P. Kesselring, Erik Unterborn
  • Publication number: 20250033424
    Abstract: An apparatus for removably attaching manual equipment, which includes one wheel, to a power tow vehicle. The apparatus includes a cradle clamp head assembly; a vertical body assembly having a first end and an opposing second end, the cradle clamp head assembly configured to be attached to the vertical body assembly closer to the first end than the second end of the vertical body assembly; and a hitch receiver adapter configured to be attached to the vertical body assembly, while the cradle clamp head assembly is attached to the vertical body assembly, such that the hitch receiver adapter is further from the first end of the vertical body assembly than the cradle clamp head assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventor: JAMES STEPHEN ADAMS
  • Patent number: 12193806
    Abstract: A method for detecting a marker in a body, comprising receiving an input signal from a probe, where the input signal is generated by a probe in response to detecting a marker signal from the marker; determining a marker proximity value based on the input signal, the marker proximity value corresponds to a distance between the probe and the marker; generating a feedback signal for output by a user interface device based on the marker proximity value, and outputting feedback signal, wherein range of the marker proximity value is divided into predetermined distance bands; and wherein at least one parameter of the feedback signal, or a rate of change of the at least one parameter of the feedback signal in relation to marker proximity value, is varied discontinuously at a boundary between at least two adjacent bands. The feedback signal may be an audio signal and/or a haptic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: ENDOMAGNETICS LTD
    Inventors: Quentin John Harmer, Kevin Lorimer, Matthew James Stephens
  • Publication number: 20250012742
    Abstract: A method of analyzing a sample imaged by electron backscatter diffraction. The method comprises identifying a plurality of Kikuchi bands in an electron backscatter diffraction image of a position on the sample. The method further comprises forming, for each identified Kikuchi band, a respective vector representation of said Kikuchi band based at least in part on an estimate of the position on the sample. A configuration of the sample is determined by identifying a particular set of expected vector representations from a plurality of sets of expected vector representations as matching the vector representations of the plurality of identified Kikuchi bands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Austin Penrose Day, Christopher James Stephens, Pavel Stejskal, Martin Petrek
  • Publication number: 20250000473
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to techniques for segmenting tumors with positron emission tomography (PET) using deep convolutional neural networks for image and lesion metabolism analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: GENENTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Nils Gustav Thomas BENGTSSON, Richard Alan Duray CARANO, Alexander James Stephen CHAMPION DE CRESPIGNY, Jill Osborn FREDRICKSON, Mohamed Skander JEMAA
  • Patent number: 12180540
    Abstract: A method of analyzing a tumor sample comprising: (a) acquiring a library comprising a plurality of tumor members from a tumor sample; (b) contacting the library with a bait set to provide selected members; (c) acquiring a read for a subgenomic interval from a tumor member from said library; (d) aligning said read; and (e) assigning a nucleotide value (e.g., calling a mutation) from said read for the preselected nucleotide position, thereby analyzing said tumor sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Foundation Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Doron Lipson, Geoffrey Alan Otto, Alexander Nevin Parker, Philip James Stephens, Sean R. Downing, Mirna Jarosz, Mikhail G. Shapiro, Roman Yelensky
  • Patent number: 12165817
    Abstract: A system and method for operating a rotatable knob module with adjustable tactile feedback. The rotatable knob module includes a knob configured to continuously rotate about a center axis and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to determine a current trailer angle, define a virtual center position of the knob based on the current trailer angle, and adjust a rotational torque of the knob when the knob is rotated from a first rotational position to a second rotational position based on a relative virtual rotational distance of the second rotational position from the virtual center position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: James Stephen Miller, Paul Wickett
  • Publication number: 20240406928
    Abstract: A positioning method includes: receiving, at an apparatus from a first signal source, a first positioning signal; determining, at the apparatus, a first receiver clock value with respect to the first positioning signal; determining, at the apparatus in response to loss of reception of the first positioning signal, a drift of the first receiver clock value using delta carrier phase updating based on one or more available positioning signals; and determining, at the apparatus, a second receiver clock value based on the first receiver clock value and the drift of the first receiver clock value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Min WANG, James STEPHEN, Yinghua YANG, Ning LUO
  • Publication number: 20240392378
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating cancer such as melanomas are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicants: Foundation Medicine, Inc., Vanderbilt University
    Inventors: Garrett Michael FRAMPTON, Roman YELENSKY, James Xin SUN, Douglas Buckner JOHNSON, Christine Marie LOVLY, Jeffrey Alan SOSMAN, David FABRIZIO, Philip James STEPHENS, Vincent A. MILLER
  • Publication number: 20240378304
    Abstract: Data access requests are grouped into a plurality of clusters according to an activity count within each of a plurality of time periods. Based on a time separating two clusters in the plurality of clusters, a time window in which a data access policy applies is defined. Using the plurality of data access requests, a forecasting model is trained to predict a volume of future data access requests, the training resulting in a trained forecasting model. A data access policy effective during the time window and conditioned on a threshold related to the volume of future data access requests is generated. Responsive to determining that a new data request meets a criterion of the data access policy, processing of the new data request is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Sai Sree Laya Chukkapalli, Shriti Priya, Julian James Stephen, Arjun Natarajan
  • Patent number: 12134286
    Abstract: An apparatus including first and second apparatuses for removably attaching a wheelbarrow to a power tow vehicle. The first apparatus includes a cradle clamp head assembly; a vertical body assembly having a first end and an opposing second end, the cradle clamp head assembly configured to be attached to the vertical body assembly closer to the first end than the second end of the vertical body assembly; and a hitch receiver adapter configured to be attached to the vertical body assembly, while the cradle clamp head assembly is attached to the vertical body assembly, such that the hitch receiver adapter is further from the first end of the vertical body assembly than the cradle clamp head assembly. The second apparatus includes a first bar having a first and second ends; and a first attachment device which attaches the first bar to a wheelbarrow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Inventor: James Stephen Adams
  • Patent number: D1058576
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ENDOMAGNETICS LTD
    Inventors: Quentin John Harmer, Kevin Lorimer, Matthew James Stephens, David Ian Gammie, Rebecca Ann Wilkins
  • Patent number: D1059375
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: ENDOMAGNETICS LTD
    Inventors: Quentin John Harmer, Kevin Lorimer, Matthew James Stephens, David Ian Gammie, Rebecca Ann Wilkins