Patents by Inventor James Hazen

James Hazen 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: 11900318
    Abstract: An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Ellsworth Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Richardson, Christina Gabrielson, James Hazen, Randall T. Witt
  • Publication number: 20230124122
    Abstract: An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Ellsworth Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Richardson, Christina Gabrielson, James Hazen, Randall T. Witt
  • Patent number: 11531962
    Abstract: An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels, and further includes a current usage state of the attached inventory items. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Ellsworth Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Richardson, Christina Gabrielson, James Hazen, Randall T. Witt
  • Publication number: 20220230089
    Abstract: A classifier may be trained with less than all datasets manually annotated with labels. A small subset of verbatims may be manually labeled with topic labels as seeds. Data augmentations can be used to acquire seed verbatim sets for known topics and to assign temporary pseudo labels to the rest of the verbatims based on their vector space proximity to the labeled seed verbatims. The training may involve classification epochs during which embeddings are updated with the assumption that the pseudo labels are ground-truth labels. The training may also involve labeling epochs during which the updated embeddings are used to update the vectors corresponding to the verbatims, and pseudo labels are updated based on updated vector coordinates in the vector space. As the training process progresses through the epochs, the embeddings will converge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Soyoung PERAUD, Alexandre ROCHETTE, Gabriel Arien DESGARENNES, Niel CHAH, Abhishek KUMAR, Timothy James HAZEN
  • Publication number: 20210241218
    Abstract: An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels, and further includes a current usage state of the attached inventory items. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Ellsworth Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Richardson, Christina Gabrielson, James Hazen, Randy Witt
  • Patent number: 11010710
    Abstract: An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels, and further includes a current usage state of the attached inventory items. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Ellsworth Corporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Richardson, Christina Gabrielson, James Hazen, Randall T. Witt
  • Publication number: 20180300671
    Abstract: An inventory management system includes one or more radio frequency identification (RFID) readers each configured to detect RFID labels attached to inventory items within a certain radius of the RFID reader. The one or more RFID readers are configured to automatically determine a directional movement of RFID labels and attached inventory items. A first computer server is configured to communicate, via a network connection, with one or more client devices, and also configured to receive data gathered by the one or more RFID readers. The first computer server is configured to maintain a real-time inventory status of the inventory items. The real-time inventory status includes a location of the one or more RFID labels, and further includes a current usage state of the attached inventory items. The first computer server is configured to transmit the real-time inventory status to a display of the client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Applicant: Ellsworth Cprporation
    Inventors: Jeremy Richardson, Christina Gabrielson, James Hazen, Randall T. Witt
  • Publication number: 20060094601
    Abstract: The present invention provides an improved herbicidal composition including (a) an effective amount of an herbicidal cyclohexanedione oxime compound or agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; (b) one or more esters of a fatty acid; (c) a salt of dodecylbenzenesulfonic acid; (d) at least one nonionic surfactant selected from the group consisting of polyoxyethylene plant oils and polyoxyethylene sorbitan esters; and (e) optionally an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent. The present invention also provides a method for controlling the growth of vegetation, by applying to the vegetation the composition of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2004
    Publication date: May 4, 2006
    Inventors: James Hazen, Aleksander Karczewski, Yabin Lei, Jane Liu, Evelyn Taylor
  • Patent number: 6148807
    Abstract: A crankcase fluid processing system for a reciprocating automotive internal combustion engine includes a fluid collector pan for closing the lower ends of the cylinder block into separate bays and an evacuation valve for each of the bays, with the valves serving to allow fluid in the collector compartments to be expelled whenever the pistons in the bay move from top dead center to bottom dead center. As a result, the power output and fuel economy of the engine may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2000
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: David James Hazen