Patents by Inventor Jason Thomas

Jason Thomas 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: 20210267884
    Abstract: The present invention provides a formulation of Coenzyme Q10 that can be re-dispersed from a stable dry powder to formulation to yield a nanodispersion that can be readily aerosolized for inhalation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jason Thomas McConville, Thiago Cardoso Carvalho, Kristina Schonhoff
  • Patent number: 11107020
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein improve existing systems by automatically identifying tasks from a number of different types of user activity and providing suggestions for the tasks to one or more selected delivery mechanisms. A system compiles the tasks and pushes each task to a personalized task list of a user. The delivery of each task may be based on any suitable user activity, which may include communication between one or more users or a user's interaction with a particular file or a system. The system can identify timelines, performance parameters, and other related contextual data associated with the task. The system can identify a delivery schedule for the task to optimize the effectiveness of the delivery of the task. The system can also provide smart notifications. When a task conflicts with a person's calendar, the system can resolve scheduling conflicts based on priorities of a calendar event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Faulkner, Eric Randall Sexauer, Shalendra Chhabra
  • Publication number: 20210266501
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques improve user engagement and promote efficient use of computing resources by providing dynamically controlled aspect ratios for communication session renderings based on a physical orientation of a device. In some configurations, a system can select a first aspect ratio for individual video streams of a communication session when a device is in a first orientation, e.g., a portrait orientation. In addition, the system can select a second aspect ratio for the individual video streams when the device is in a second orientation, e.g., a landscape orientation. In some configurations, the first aspect ratio can be greater than the second aspect ratio, or the aspect ratios can be selected based on a target aspect ratio, which can be adjusted over time. By dynamically selecting an aspect ratio for individual stream renderings, screen space of a device can be optimized while the device is held in various physical orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Jason Thomas FAULKNER, Ruchir ASTAVANS, Kevin Daniel MORRISON, Timur ASLESHIN, Chad A. VOSS, Arney PARANDEKAR
  • Publication number: 20210253534
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I, a stereoisomer, enantiomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an amino acid conjugate thereof; wherein variables are as defined herein; and their pharmaceutical compositions, which are useful as modulators of the activity of Farnesoid X receptors (FXR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Donatella CHIANELLI, Runyan LI, Valentina MOLTENI, John NELSON, Jason Thomas ROLAND, Paul Vincent RUCKER, David Charles TULLY, Xiaoyang WANG, Liladhar Murlidhar WAYKOLE, Yubo ZHANG, Bo ZHOU
  • Publication number: 20210251139
    Abstract: A handle assembly for an autonomous vehicle such as a lawn mower is provided and may include a cradle adapted to receive a mobile computer. The mobile computer may communicate with a controller carried by the mower. The handle assembly may be configured in both an autonomous mode position and a manual mode position. The vehicle may operate autonomously when the handle assembly is in the autonomous mode position, and be adapted to move under manual operator control, e.g., for perimeter training, when the handle assembly is in the manual mode position. Methods for training the mower and apparatus for storing the mower are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Alexander Steven Frick, Jason Thomas Kraft, Aaron Yarrow Curtis, Kevin Dale Docken, Khari Sekou Clarke
  • Patent number: 11096047
    Abstract: The application describes a method for mapping nodes of a network using Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) probing. Packets are sent to open ports of the nodes. Response packets are received from the nodes. Signatures are generated using headers of the response packets. The nodes are classified using the signatures. The node are mapped to elements of the network using the signatures. Rogue devices may be detected based on the mapped nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Tavaris Jason Thomas, Larsen David Fisch, Christian Benitez, Nicholas Noga, Steven Michael Kropac
  • Publication number: 20210247372
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for microbial sampling of foods. For example, a method may include providing at least one aggregating sampler at one or more sampling locations, and sampling a production lot of produce or other food items such as meat using the at least one aggregating sampler to create one or more samples that makes up a microbial sampling. Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for microbial sampling of foods. For example, an apparatus, such as a microbial aggregating sampler, may include a covering having a microbial sampling material with a pocket formed in the covering to receive an appendage or a tool for handling of the covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Child Wilhelmsen, Florence Q. Wu, Yongqing Huang, Jason Thomas Hastings
  • Patent number: 11080941
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein improve the efficiency of a system by providing intelligent management of content that is associated with objects displayed within communication sessions. The participants can generate a content object associated with a 3D object. The content object may be in the form of 3D virtual object such as an arrow pointing to the table, a text box of an annotation, etc. The content object may also include functional features that collect and display information voting agent. The system can generate a data structure that associates the object with the content object. The data structure enables a system to maintain an association between the object and the content object when various operations are applied to either object. Thus, if a remote computer sends a request for the content object, the associated object is delivered with the content object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Faulkner, Sandhya Rao
  • Publication number: 20210218927
    Abstract: The provided techniques improve user engagement and more efficient use of computing resources by dynamically configuring video stream arrangements based on an aspect ratio of an available display area and a target aspect ratio. Such techniques provide dynamically optimized user interface arrangements that accommodate any given shape of an available display area. The techniques can also help viewers maintain focus on the salient content of a multi-stream display when users resize a display window, move a window to a random shape, rotate a device, join a communication session, leave a communication session, present content streams, remove content streams, etc. A target aspect ratio can be utilized in a process to recursively divide a display area horizontally or vertically to accommodate any number of stream renderings. An adjustment of the target aspect can allow for an optimal display any number of video stream renderings for any shape of a display screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Chad A. VOSS, Jason Thomas FAULKNER
  • Patent number: 11064256
    Abstract: The provided techniques improve user engagement and more efficient use of computing resources by dynamically configuring video stream arrangements based on an aspect ratio of an available display area and a target aspect ratio. Such techniques provide dynamically optimized user interface arrangements that accommodate any given shape of an available display area. The techniques can also help viewers maintain focus on the salient content of a multi-stream display when users resize a display window, move a window to a random shape, rotate a device, join a communication session, leave a communication session, present content streams, remove content streams, etc. A target aspect ratio can be utilized in a process to recursively divide a display area horizontally or vertically to accommodate any number of stream renderings. An adjustment of the target aspect can allow for an optimal display any number of video stream renderings for any shape of a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Chad A. Voss, Jason Thomas Faulkner
  • Publication number: 20210203879
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques improve user engagement and promote efficient use of computing resources by providing dynamically controlled aspect ratios for communication session renderings based on a physical orientation of a device. In some configurations, a system can select a first aspect ratio for individual video streams of a communication session when a device is in a first orientation, e.g., a portrait orientation. In addition, the system can select a second aspect ratio for the individual video streams when the device is in a second orientation, e.g., a landscape orientation. In some configurations, the first aspect ratio can be greater than the second aspect ratio, or the aspect ratios can be selected based on a target aspect ratio, which can be adjusted over time. By dynamically selecting an aspect ratio for individual stream renderings, screen space of a device can be optimized while the device is held in various physical orientations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Jason Thomas FAULKNER, Ruchir ASTAVANS, Kevin Daniel MORRISON, Timur ALESHIN, Chad A. VOSS, Amey PARANDEKAR
  • Publication number: 20210201035
    Abstract: The techniques disclosed herein improve the efficiency of a system by providing intelligent agents for managing data associated with objects that are displayed within mixed-reality and virtual-reality collaboration environments. Individual agents are configured to collect, analyze, and store data associated with individual objects in a shared view. The agents can identify real-world objects and virtual objects discussed in a meeting, collect information about each object and store the collected information in an associated database for access across multiple collaboration environments or communication sessions. The data can be shared between different communication sessions without requiring users to manually store and present a collection of content for each object. The intelligent agents and their associated databases can also persist through different communication sessions to enhance user engagement and improve productivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Thomas FAULKNER
  • Patent number: 11050973
    Abstract: The disclosed techniques improve user engagement and promote efficient use of computing resources by providing dynamically controlled aspect ratios for communication session renderings based on a physical orientation of a device. In some configurations, a system can select a first aspect ratio for individual video streams of a communication session when a device is in a first orientation, e.g., a portrait orientation. In addition, the system can select a second aspect ratio for the individual video streams when the device is in a second orientation, e.g., a landscape orientation. In some configurations, the first aspect ratio can be greater than the second aspect ratio, or the aspect ratios can be selected based on a target aspect ratio, which can be adjusted over time. By dynamically selecting an aspect ratio for individual stream renderings, screen space of a device can be optimized while the device is held in various physical orientations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Faulkner, Ruchir Astavans, Kevin Daniel Morrison, Timur Aleshin, Chad A. Voss, Amey Parandekar
  • Patent number: 11034134
    Abstract: A laminated glass article includes a glass core layer having a core modulus Ecore and a glass cladding layer adjacent to the core layer and having a cladding modulus Eclad. Eclad can be at least 5 GPa less than Ecore. A modulus ratio Ecore/Eclad can be at least 1.08. The cladding layer can have a compressive stress resulting from a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) contrast between the core layer and the cladding layer and/or subjecting the laminated glass article to an ion exchange treatment to form an ion exchanged region at an outer surface of the cladding layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Harris, Guangli Hu, Po-Jen Shih, Bin Zhang, Chunfeng Zhou
  • Patent number: 11032628
    Abstract: Device, methods and systems for the electronic demodulation of optically phase demodulated signals are described. An example optical local oscillator generator configured to generate a radio frequency (RF) tone at a desired RF frequency includes a first input configured to receive a broadband optical pulse train, a second input coupled to a delay line interferometer to receive a first control voltage for controlling a delay value of the interferometer and to produce an output optical pulse train, a dispersive element, coupled to the delay line interferometer, to map the output optical pulse train to a time-domain modulated optical pulse train, an optical-to-electrical converter, coupled to the dispersive element, to convert the time-domain modulated optical pulse train to an analog electrical signal, and an RF filter, coupled to the optical-to-electrical converter, to filter the analog electrical signal to generate the RF tone at the desired RF frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC
    Inventors: David Simon Perlmutter, Peter Thomas Setsuda DeVore, Apurva Shantharaj Gowda, Jason Thomas Chou
  • Patent number: 11028014
    Abstract: A glass-based substrate having a Young's modulus, a first surface, and a second surface. A coating, on at least one of the first and second surfaces, having a Young's modulus equal to or greater than the substrate Young's modulus. A compressive region having a compressive stress CS of from 750 MPa to 1200 MPa at a surface and extending to a depth of compression (DOC). The compressive region having a first portion and a second portion, the first portion extending from the first surface up to a first depth, the second portion extending from the first depth to the DOC, points in the first portion comprise a tangent having a slope that is less than ?15 MPa/micrometers and greater than ?60 MPa/micrometers, and points in the second portion comprise a tangent having a slope that is less than or equal to ?1 MPa/micrometers and greater than ?12 MPa/micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Harris, Guangli Hu
  • Publication number: 20210161066
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for directing an autonomous robotic vehicle such as a lawn mower relative to a work region. In some embodiments, the vehicle travels in a random pattern within a travelling containment zone of a lesser size than the work region. The travelling containment zone may move or travel across the work region such that, over time, the travelling containment zone travels over most all of a working surface of the work region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Ryan Douglas Ingvalson, Jason Thomas Kraft, Alexander Steven Frick
  • Patent number: 11023093
    Abstract: An improved human-computer interface for placing and sizing virtual objects in a three-dimensional (ā€œ3Dā€) representation of a real-world environment is disclosed herein. The disclosed HCI can determine a location, size, and orientation of virtual objects in a 3D representation of a real-world environment based on simplified user gestures. In some embodiments, based on the timing and direction of an input gesture, a computing device can utilize (1) an automated mode that determines a position and orientation of a virtual object or utilize (2) a manual mode that determines position, orientation, and size of the virtual object. A computing device capable of 3D spatial mapping generates mesh data defining a 3D representation of a real-world environment and images of the real-world environment. The size of the virtual object can be based on a computed depth of real-world objects related to the virtual object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jason Thomas Faulkner, Sandhya Rajendra Rao, Kathleen Patricia Mulcahy, Timothy David Kviz, Bogdan Berg
  • Patent number: 11021446
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I, a stereoisomer, enantiomer, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an amino acid conjugate thereof; wherein variables are as defined herein; and their pharmaceutical compositions, which are useful as modulators of the activity of Farnesoid X receptors (FXR).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Novartis AG
    Inventors: Donatella Chianelli, Runyan Li, Valentina Molteni, John Nelson, Jason Thomas Roland, Paul Vincent Rucker, David Charles Tully, Xiaoyang Wang, Liladhar Murlidhar Waykole, Yubo Zhang, Bo Zhou
  • Publication number: 20210158365
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a sale authorization include detecting vehicle information. A secondary authorization parameter is received and the sale is authorized in response to the secondary authorization parameter being associated with the vehicle information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventor: Jason Thomas Pastor