Patents by Inventor James Stephens

James 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: 12004579
    Abstract: A camouflage system and methods of making camouflage systems. The camouflage comprises a series of image layers that are sequenced and superimposed to create a repeatable composite image that reduces visibility to first set of sensors (e.g., an animal's eyes) while enhancing visibility to a second set of sensors (e.g., a human's eyes). The camouflage includes a base set of layers that may be used to mimic a macro-environment, a pattern layer, and a detail set of layers that may be used to mimic a microenvironment. The camouflage may be presented in various color schemes, with one suitable scheme being a range of colors centered around safety orange (Pantone 152) and a range of colors from grey to black.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Invisible Orange, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey David Sarcone Martin, James Stephen Schilling
  • Patent number: 12000778
    Abstract: A system and method for encapsulating commercially significant attributes of a hydrocarbon product into a single digital signature are presented. The digital signature may be generated from a physical product sample using optical techniques such as NIR spectroscopy. Digital signatures may be expressed in the form of composition, principle components derived from the spectra, or other properties derived from the original spectra which characterize, and help visualize, the variation present within the signals. Other physical property measurements and contaminant measurements may also be included in the digital signature and may be derived from the same measurement device or separate measurement devices whose output is integrated into a single digital signature. Embodiments of the invention may be used to confirm the identity of a hydrocarbon product, or to verify the composition of a hydrocarbon product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: JP3 Measurement, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Paul Little, III, Matthew Thomas, Gregg Williams, James Stephen Dixson, III
  • Publication number: 20240123991
    Abstract: A trailer tow assist system including a camera that captures a rearward image of the trailer and its surroundings, a human machine interface that displays the rearward image, an input device that receives user input, and an electronic processor. The electronic processor receives the rearward image, identifies a target-space within the surroundings, determines a vehicle orientation relative to the target-space, determines a trailer angle relative to the vehicle, determines a trailer trajectory within the surroundings, and displays the trailer trajectory and rearward image on the human machine interface. The electronic processor also controls, in response to the user input, the vehicle to follow the trailer trajectory along a centerline of the trailer trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: James Stephen Miller, Paul Wickett, Christopher Allensworth, Rohit Kumar Kesireddy
  • Publication number: 20240118808
    Abstract: A computer implemented method manages connections in a connection pool. A computer system creates a modified call stack for a connection request in response to receiving the connection request. The modified call stack comprises elements that call prepared statements that are part of an application logic for the connection request. The computer system identifies a group of potential connections from the connections in the connection pool matching the connection request. The group of potential connections is associated with a group of associated modified call stacks that call the prepared statements. The computer system determines a group of weighted match scores for the group of associated modified call stacks from a comparison of the modified call stack with the group of associated modified call stacks. The computer system selects a connection from the group of potential connections based on a highest weighted match score in the group of weighted match scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Jon Rauh, Alex Seitzinger Motley, Mark Swatosh, James Stephens
  • Publication number: 20240059149
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be correlated with certain distracting application features. For example, an application of a computing device can determine that a user is occupying a vehicle and is driving toward a destination. While driving, data available to the application can indicate that an unsafe driving event, such as a hard braking event, has occurred while the user was interacting with another application. Thereafter, and based on this data, the application can render an output characterizing the correlation between the hard braking event and the other application, and/or provide the user with an option to interact with the other application via driving optimized feature(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Effie Goenawan, Austin Chang, James Stephen Higgins, David Black
  • Publication number: 20240061388
    Abstract: A virtual representation of a physical environment can be generated through simulation, which can include one or more virtual agents to represent robots, or at least semi-automated devices, that can operate and perform various tasks in the physical environment. Various component failures, or other potential problems, can be simulated that can be analyzed by one or more deep learning models associated with the virtual agents. These deep learning models can attempt to diagnose the simulated problem, as well as determine one or more potential solutions. The virtual agents can help to gather information for these determinations, as well as to perform tasks for these potential solutions. Once these deep learning models are trained in this simulated environment, these models can be used by one or more robots to perform tasks that may relate to maintenance or operation of a physical environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Siddha Ganju, Elad Mentovich, James Stephen Fields, JR., Nathan D. Ratliff, Ryan Kelsey Albright
  • Publication number: 20240036868
    Abstract: Processing methods is provided. A method is designated as schedulable. A completion stage is generated for the method. A return of the completion stage corresponding to the method is received. It is determined whether a state of the completion stage indicates continued execution of the method. In response to determining that the state of the completion stage does indicate continued execution of the method, a set of executions of the method is continued based on an execution return of the method being a null return.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Jon Rauh, Alex Seitzinger Motley, James Stephens, Mark Swatosh
  • Publication number: 20230415336
    Abstract: A robot device determines an error associated with equipment included in a data center environment. The robot device may compare the error to candidate errors for which the robot device is already trained to resolve. Based on a result of the comparison, the robot device may perform, in a control environment, candidate maintenance operations in association with resolving the error. The robot device may learn a set of actions associated with successfully resolving the error, based on performing the candidate maintenance operations. The robot device may perform maintenance operations associated with the error. Performing the maintenance operations may include applying the learned set of actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Siddha Ganju, Elad Mentovich, James Stephen Fields, JR., Ryan Kelsey Albright, Jonathan Tremblay, Stanley Thomas Birchfield
  • Publication number: 20230406410
    Abstract: A method for displaying an environment of a vehicle having a coupled trailer. The method includes: recording a sequence of vehicle camera images using at least three vehicle cameras; recording a sequence of trailer camera images using the trailer camera; acquiring odometry data of the vehicle; ascertaining the trailer angle; storing items of image information about the close range of the vehicle; adjusting the position of the stored items of image information as a function of the detected odometry data; and displaying an environment model from a virtual observational perspective, preprocessed current vehicle and trailer camera images being projected onto a projection area of the environment model and being joined. For partial areas of the environment of the vehicle that are not represented, the stored items of information are projected onto the projection area according to their position and are joined to the vehicle and trailer camera images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Christian Sperrle, Elizabeth Kao, James Stephen Miller, Matthias Mayerle, Raphael Cano
  • Patent number: 11801750
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for detecting hazardous vehicle events and encouraging usage of driving optimized application features to mitigate occurrence of the hazardous vehicle events. The driving optimized application features can address unsafe driving events that are determined to be correlated with certain distracting application features. For example, an application of a computing device can determine that a user is occupying a vehicle and is driving toward a destination. While driving, data available to the application can indicate that an unsafe driving event, such as a hard braking event, has occurred while the user was interacting with another application. Thereafter, and based on this data, the application can render an output characterizing the correlation between the hard braking event and the other application, and/or provide the user with an option to interact with the other application via driving optimized feature(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Effie Goenawan, Austin Chang, James Stephen Higgins, David Black
  • Publication number: 20230345613
    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: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: David HALEY, James Stephen FIELDS, JR., Seungkug PARK
  • Patent number: 11794730
    Abstract: Detecting a damage angle between a vehicle and a trailer. One example system includes an electronic controller and a rear-view camera configured to obtain video of the trailer. The electronic controller is configured to receive the video of the trailer from the rear-view camera and determine a damage point based upon the video of the trailer. The electronic controller is further configured to determine a change in a rotation angle of the trailer and determine a changed location of the damage point of the trailer based upon the change in the rotation angle of the trailer. The electronic controller is also configured to determine a damage angle based upon the changed location of the damage point relative to the vehicle and determine at least one maneuver to avoid collision between the damage point and the vehicle based upon the damage angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Greg Sypitkowski, Steffen Abraham, James Stephen Miller
  • Publication number: 20230329578
    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: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: ENDOMAGNETICS LTD
    Inventors: Quentin John Harmer, Kevin Lorimer, Matthew James Stephens
  • Patent number: 11771698
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating cholangiocarcinoma.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Foundation Medicine, Inc.
    Inventors: Siraj Mahamed Ali, Matthew J. Hawryluk, Jie He, Doron Lipson, Vincent A. Miller, Jeffrey S. Ross, Philip James Stephens
  • Patent number: 11766439
    Abstract: Methods of treating a head and neck cancer are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: FOUNDATION MEDICINE, INC., UCL BUSINESS LTD
    Inventors: Chris Hendrik Boshoff, Timothy Robert Fenton, Matthias Alexander Lechner, Philip James Stephens, Matthew J. Hawryluk, Garrett Michael Frampton, Roman Yelensky
  • Patent number: 11770863
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for wireless communication of analyte data. In this regard, in embodiments, a mobile includes a transceiver configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The mobile device includes circuitry operatively coupled to the transceiver. The mobile device also includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium operatively coupled to the circuitry and storing instructions that, when executed, cause the mobile device to perform a number of operations. One such operation is to obtain a derivative of a first signal received via a first link. Another such operation is to obtain a derivative of a second signal received via a second link; and. Yet another such operation is to generate a selection for connection to an analyte sensor system, based on a comparison of the derivative of the first signal and the derivative of the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc
    Inventors: Aditya Mandapaka, Douglas William Burnette, Hari Hampapuram, Francis William Pascual, James Stephen Amidei, Darin Edward Chum Dew, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Nathanael Paul, William A. Pender, Michael A. Ploof
  • Publication number: 20230281809
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally relate to connected machine learning models with joint training for lesion detection. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to accessing a three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) image, wherein the three-dimensional MRI image depicts a region of a brain of a subject, wherein the region of the brain includes at least a first type of lesions and a second type of lesions; inputting the three-dimensional MRI image into a machine-learning model comprising a first convolutional neural network and a second convolutional neural network; generating a first segmentation mask for the first type of lesions using the first convolutional neural network that takes as input the three-dimensional MRI image; generating a second segmentation mask for the second type of lesions using the second convolutional neural network that takes as input the three-dimensional MRI image; and outputting the first segmentation mask and the second segmentation mask.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicants: GENENTECH, INC., HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Zhuang Song, Nils Gustav Thomas Bengtsson, Richard Alan Duray Carano, David B. Clayton, Alexander James Stephen Champion De Crespigny, Laura Gaetano, Anitha Priya Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11725247
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for treating cancer such as melanomas are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: 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
  • Patent number: 11727142
    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 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Julian James Stephen, Ted Augustus Habeck, Arjun Natarajan
  • Patent number: D996955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: ARMR Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew James Stephens, Chibueze Joseph Ihenacho