Patents by Inventor James Mullen

James Mullen 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: 20250019425
    Abstract: The disclosure provides antibodies that bind to forms of human transthyretin (TTR), monomer TTR specific antibodies, and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: David James Leibly, Anna Rose Lay, Marcin Izydor Apostol, Margaret Lee Karow, Tracey Elizabeth Mullen, Colby Amsden Souders
  • Patent number: 12145733
    Abstract: An ice protection system for an aircraft component includes a plurality of heaters. The aircraft component has at least two section and a junction area. At least one of the heaters is an H-shape carbon allotrope heater designed to apply heat to the junction area and prevent ice accumulation in the junction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casey Slane, Jin Hu, Nathaniel Ching, Galdemir Cezar Botura, James A. Mullen, Mark James Didyk
  • Patent number: 12141238
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for classification using a clustering autoencoder. A method can include obtaining content to be classified by the DNN classifier, and operating the DNN classifier to determine a classification of the received content, the DNN classifier including a clustering classification layer that clusters based on a latent feature vector representation of the content, the classification corresponding to one or more clusters that are closest to the latent feature vector providing the classification and a corresponding confidence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Philip A. Sallee, James Mullen
  • Publication number: 20240278900
    Abstract: A heated floor panel may comprise a base assembly and a heating element located on a first surface of the base assembly. A panel skin may be located over the heating element and the first surface of the base assembly. The panel skin may extend from the first surface of the base assembly to a second surface of the base assembly opposite the first surface of the base assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Hein, James A. Mullen, George F. Owens, Nathaniel Ching, Jin Hu
  • Patent number: 11981417
    Abstract: A heated floor panel may comprise a base assembly and a heating element located on a first surface of the base assembly. A panel skin may be located over the heating element and the first surface of the base assembly. The panel skin may extend from the first surface of the base assembly to a second surface of the base assembly opposite the first surface of the base assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Hein, James A Mullen, George F. Owens, Nathaniel Ching, Jin Hu
  • Publication number: 20240124146
    Abstract: An ice protection system for an aircraft component includes a plurality of heaters. The aircraft component has at least two section and a junction area. At least one of the heaters is an H-shape carbon allotrope heater designed to apply heat to the junction area and prevent ice accumulation in the junction area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Casey Slane, Jin Hu, Nathaniel Ching, Galdemir Cezar Botura, James A. Mullen, Mark James Didyk
  • Patent number: 11873098
    Abstract: An ice protection system for an aircraft component includes a plurality of heaters. The aircraft component has at least two section and a junction area. At least one of the heaters is an H-shape carbon allotrope heater designed to apply heat to the junction area and prevent ice accumulation in the junction area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Casey Slane, Jin Hu, Nathaniel Ching, Galdemir Cezar Botura, James A. Mullen, Mark James Didyk
  • Patent number: 11726482
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-factor pathfinding are disclosed. A system receives multiple data sets that represent multiple physical properties associated with multiple three-dimensional coordinates of a physical environment. The system generates multiple weighted data layers corresponding to the physical properties, at least by applying weights to the data sets. The system generates a multi-factor costmap for the three-dimensional environment, based at least on the weighted data layers. The system determines a path through the three-dimensional environment, based at least on the multi-factor costmap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: RAYTHEON COMPANY
    Inventors: Rupal Nigam, James Mullen
  • Patent number: 11719586
    Abstract: An additively manufactured strain gauge resides on the surface of a component to monitor component fatigue. The strain gauge is additively manufactured, and applied to the curvature of the component surface through either a flexible substrate or through direct printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventor: James A. Mullen
  • Patent number: 11669724
    Abstract: Subject matter regards improving machine learning techniques using informed pseudolabels. A method can include receiving previously assigned labels indicating an expected classification for data, the labels having a specified uncertainty, generating respective pseudolabels for the data based on the previously assigned labels, the data, a class vector determined by an ML model, and a noise model indicating, based on the specified uncertainty, a likelihood of the previously assigned label given the class, and substituting the pseudolabels for the previously assigned labels in a next epoch of training the ML model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Philip A. Sallee, James Mullen, Franklin Tanner
  • Patent number: 11618575
    Abstract: An ice detector apparatus for an aircraft includes a heater strip and a temperature sensor. The heater strip is configured to be mounted to an external surface of an aircraft and the temperature sensor is coupled to the heater strip. The temperature sensor is configured to detect a temperature profile of the heater strip, wherein the temperature profile is indicative of an extent of icing. The temperature profile may be indicative of whether the aircraft is operating in an appendix C icing-envelope or an appendix O icing-envelope. The temperature sensor may include a plurality of temperature sensors coupled along a length of the heater strip, such that the temperature profile comprises a spatial temperature map of the heater strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Galdemir Cezar Botura, James A Mullen
  • Patent number: 11521780
    Abstract: An apparatus for a wireless power transfer (“WPT”) pad heat management system includes a ferrite structure positioned adjacent to a coil configured to wirelessly transfer power. The apparatus includes a plurality of heat spreaders positioned along a length of a component of the ferrite structure. Each of the plurality of heat spreaders is non-metallic. The apparatus includes a trough shaped to surround at least a portion of each of the plurality of heat spreaders, wherein the trough is non-metallic. The apparatus includes a phase change material (“PCM”) in the trough where at least a portion of the heat spreaders extend into the PCM. The ferrite structure, coil, plurality of heat spreaders, trough and PCM are encased in a solid material, and each of the plurality of heat spreaders comprises a material that transfers heat from the component of the ferrite structure to the PCM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Inventors: Nicholas A. Roberts, James Mullen, Regan A. Zane, Abhilash Kamineni, Benny J. Varghese, Marvin Hailing
  • Publication number: 20220295601
    Abstract: An aircraft heated floor panel includes a first face sheet, a second face sheet opposite the first face sheet, and core with an electrically conductive core portion. The electrically conductive core portion supports the first face sheet and the second face sheet, and is electrically insulated from the external environment to receive electrical power, resistively generate heat, and communicate heat to the first face sheet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: George F. Owens, Kevin Edward Roach, James A. Mullen, Michael John Giamati, Jon Shearer, James Van Twisk, David L. Brittingham, Tommy M. Wilson, JR., Jin Hu, William A. Veronesi, Mark R. Gurvich, Joseph Winesdoerffer, Jason Gesner
  • Publication number: 20220214235
    Abstract: An additively manufactured strain gauge resides on the surface of a component to monitor component fatigue. The strain gauge is additively manufactured, and applied to the curvature of the component surface through either a flexible substrate or through direct printing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventor: James A. Mullen
  • Publication number: 20220129712
    Abstract: Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for classification using a clustering autoencoder. A method can include obtaining content to be classified by the DNN classifier, and operating the DNN classifier to determine a classification of the received content, the DNN classifier including a clustering classification layer that clusters based on a latent feature vector representation of the content, the classification corresponding to one or more clusters that are closest to the latent feature vector providing the classification and a corresponding confidence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Philip A. Sallee, James Mullen
  • Patent number: 11280685
    Abstract: A method of making a resistance temperature detector includes additively manufacturing a conductive ink on a flexible substrate and applying the resistance temperature detector to a geometrically complex surface of a component requiring heating, or directly additive manufacturing the resistance temperature detector onto that surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: James A. Mullen, Reid Philip Beery, Brandon Hein
  • Publication number: 20210291957
    Abstract: A heated floor panel may comprise a base assembly and a heating element located on a first surface of the base assembly. A panel skin may be located over the heating element and the first surface of the base assembly. The panel skin may extend from the first surface of the base assembly to a second surface of the base assembly opposite the first surface of the base assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brandon Hein, James A. Mullen, George F. Owens, Nathaniel Ching, Jin Hu
  • Patent number: 11084593
    Abstract: An additively manufactured heating element is printed on a flexible substrate and attached to an aircraft component having a complex geometric surface. The heating element is made of a plurality of layers of a conductive ink, which is electrically connected to a controller through one or more leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Goodrich Corporation
    Inventors: Adam George, Reid Philip Beery, James A. Mullen
  • Publication number: 20210223777
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-factor pathfinding are disclosed. A system receives multiple data sets that represent multiple physical properties associated with multiple three-dimensional coordinates of a physical environment. The system generates multiple weighted data layers corresponding to the physical properties, at least by applying weights to the data sets. The system generates a multi-factor costmap for the three-dimensional environment, based at least on the weighted data layers. The system determines a path through the three-dimensional environment, based at least on the multi-factor costmap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Rupal Nigam, James Mullen
  • Patent number: 11068747
    Abstract: A neural network apparatus includes processing circuitry and memory. The memory stores a plurality of images of a target. The processing circuitry is configured to: access, from the memory, a first image and an identification of a centroid pixel of the target within the first image; generate, based on a geometry of the target and the centroid pixel, a confidence map indicating, for each pixel in the first image, a confidence value that the pixel includes the target; train, using the plurality of images of the target, including the first image and the confidence map, an artificial neural network to identify the target in visual data; and provide an output representing the trained artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Goldstein, Philip A. Sallee, James Mullen, Franklin Tanner