Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Thomas

Jeffrey A. 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).

  • System and method to provide safety partition for automotive system-on-a-chip
    Patent number: 11379297
    Abstract: An automotive control system includes a safety processor and a system-on-a-chip. The SoC includes a primary processor, a safety monitor, first and second GPIO banks, and a debug interface. The safety monitor is configured to detect a fault condition of the primary processor and to provide an indication of the fault condition to the safety processor. The first GPIO bank is coupled to the primary processor to provide input/output operations to a non-critical function of an automobile, while the second GPIO bank is coupled for a critical function of the automobile. The debug interface is coupled to the second GPIO bank to form a scan chain with input and output registers of the second GPIO bank, and is coupled to the safety processor to receive control information for the scan chain to provide input/output operations to the critical function of the automobile when the safety monitor provides the indication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas Loeliger, Derek Beattie, Gordon Campbell
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING A BUSBAR
    Publication number: 20220193818
    Abstract: An assembly that may include a press that may form an indentation within a tab, a roller assembly including a rolling element that may compress a first tab portion of the tab that extends from the indentation against a busbar, and a welding device that may weld the first tab portion of the tab to the busbar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas, James Pfendler, Gregory Badders
  • BLOWING AGENT COMPOSITIONS FOR INSULATING FOAMS
    Publication number: 20220177665
    Abstract: Disclosed is a blowing agent composition comprising a hydrofluoroolefins (HFO) and a branched hydrocarbon, and a foamable polymer composition comprising the blowing agent composition. Also disclosed is a method of making a polymer foam utilizing a blowing agent composition comprising an HFO and a branched hydrocarbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Chase Boudreaux, Yadollah Delaviz, Xiangmin Han, S. Thomas Brammer, Barbara Ann Fabian, Mitchell Zane Weekley, Jeffrey Thomas
  • Piperidinone Derivatives as MDM2 Inhibitors for the Treatment of Cancer
    Publication number: 20220169611
    Abstract: The present invention provides MDM2 inhibitor compounds of Formula I, wherein the variables are defined above, which compounds are useful as therapeutic agents, particularly for the treatment of cancers. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions that contain an MDM2 inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Michael D. Bartberger, Ana Gonzalez Buenrostro, Hilary Plake Beck, Xiaoqi Chen, Richard Victor Connors, Jeffrey Deignan, Jason A. Dequette, I, John Eksterowicz, Benjamin Fisher, Brian M. Fox, Jiasheng Fu, Zice Fu, Felix Gonzalez Lopez De Turiso, Michael W. Gribble, Darin J. Gustin, Julie A. Heath, Xin Huang, XianYun Jiao, Michael G. Johnson, Frank Kayser, David John Kopecky, SuJen Lai, Yihong Li, Zhihong Li, Jiwen Liu, Jonathan D. Low, Brian S. Lucas, Zhihua Ma, Lawrence R. McGee, Josel McIntosh, Dustin L. McMinn, Julio C. Medina, Jeffrey Thomas Mihalic, Steven H. Olson, Yossup Rew, Philip M. Roveto, Daqing Sun, Xiaodong Wang, Yingcai Wang, Xuelei Yan, Ming Yu, Jiang Zhu
  • Carpets having an improved delamination strength and fluid barrier properties and methods of making same
    Patent number: 11346047
    Abstract: A moisture resistant carpet composition exhibiting exceptional delamination strength and methods of making same are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: COLUMBIA INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventor: Jeffrey Thomas Coon
  • Summary report overlay
    Patent number: 11341129
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer-readable media, and systems directed at providing a data summary view. In some embodiments, a method may include receiving a request to display a data summary view of search results of a search query. The request may be received while the search results are displayed in a table format. The method may further include causing display of the data summary view. The data summary view can include a summary report for a selected event attribute of a plurality of event attributes that are represented in the table format. The summary report can include summary entries that present a summary of data items of the selected event attribute and a summary graph of the data items. The summary graph may depict a distribution of at least a subset of the data items of the selected event attribute over a period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Jesse Miller, Marc V. Robichaud, Cory Burke, Jeffrey Thomas Lloyd
  • HEAT PACK WITH SUPERCOOLED AQUEOUS SALT SOLUTION AND GLYCERIN
    Publication number: 20220146211
    Abstract: A heat pack using supercooled aqueous salt solution that resists premature activation at low temperatures is disclosed. The heat pack comprises two sheets that are bonded together to form a laminated sheet. The heat pack has a first and second compartment. A frangible seal separates the two compartments. One of the compartments contains a supercooled aqueous salt solution. The salt solution contains 15 to 25 percent glycerin by mass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventor: Jeffrey Thomas WHITELY
  • Privacy disclosure
    Patent number: 11328086
    Abstract: User privacy information related to an application or service handling of user privacy is received by a computer device. A formatted declaration based on the user privacy information is populated by the computer device. Privacy disclosure to the user based on the populated formatted declaration is provided by the computer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Ball, Benjamin R. Vincent, Jeffrey Thomas Sakowicz
  • Conversation space artifact generation using natural language processing, machine learning, and ontology-based techniques
    Patent number: 11321534
    Abstract: A method is provided to implement a conversational system with artifact generation. A middleware component receives a user input and determines whether there is sufficient information in the user input and a conversation space in a context storage of the conversational system to identify user intent associated with the user input. Responsive to the middleware component determining there is not sufficient information to identify user intent, a communications handler component sends a natural language query to an external data source via a natural language query (NLQ) interface and receives a natural language response from the external data source. The middleware component updates the conversation space based on the natural language response and returns a user response based on the natural language response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Abdul Quamar, Fatma Ozcan, Dorian Boris Miller, Jeffrey Thomas Kreulen, Christina Runkel
  • MOISTURE MANAGEMENT IN VERTICAL ROLLER MILLS
    Publication number: 20220127193
    Abstract: Disclosed are exemplary method and system for manufacturing cement in a vertical roller mill (VRM) using humidity sensor readings. This enables adjustment of operational variables such as material feed, water, grinding additives, air flow, temperature, and their combinations. Exemplary embodiments allow manufacturers to predict and to improve cement properties, such as strength and setting time, by monitoring and managing humidity of air in the VRM and/or its air flow system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Joshua Detellis, Keith Marsay, Jeffrey Thomas, Thais Araujo, Josephine H. Cheung, Denise A. Silva
  • Cement Production
    Publication number: 20220127192
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for manufacturing cement wherein ground particles of cement and calcium sulfate are subjected to infrared sensors, laser sensors, or both, so that emanated, irradiated, transmitted, and/or absorbed energy having wavelengths principally within the range of 700 nanometers to 1 millimeter can be monitored and compared to stored data previously obtained from ground cement and sulfate particles and preferably correlated with stored strength, calorimetric, or other data values, such that adjustments can be made to the mill processing conditions, such as the form or amounts of calcium sulfate (e.g., gypsum, plaster, anhydride), or cement additive levels. The strength and other properties of cement can be thus adjusted, and its quality can be more uniform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Elise Berodier, Nathan A. Tregger, Josephine H. Cheung, David F. Myers, LI Zhang, Dorota Kazmierczak, Lawrence R. Roberts, Denise A. Silva, Richard Sibbick, Jeffrey Thomas, Mark F. Roberts, Riccardo Stoppa, Elizabeth Burns
  • Collecting and representing home attributes
    Patent number: 11315202
    Abstract: A facility for representing home attribute values for a plurality of homes and a plurality of home attributes is described. The facility incorporates a data structure comprising, for each of the plurality of homes, for each of the plurality of attribute value sources, the capacity to store values for any of the plurality of home attributes obtained from the attribute value source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Zillow, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy VanderMey, Fred Farhad Sadaghiani, Stephen Martin McNamee, Marcin Szuster, Chloe Linden Harford, Jeffrey Thomas Brinker, Randy Winston Puttick
  • PROCESSING DIGITIZED HANDWRITING
    Publication number: 20220122367
    Abstract: A handwritten text processing system processes a digitized document including handwritten text input to generate an output version of the digitized document that allows users to execute text processing functions on the textual content of the digitized document. Each word of the digitized data is extracted by converting the digitized document into images, binarizing the images, and segmenting the images into binary image patches. Each binary image patch is further processed to identify if the word is machine-generated or if the word is handwritten. The output version is generated by combining underlying images of the pages of the digitized document with words from the pages superimposed in a transparent font at positions that coincide with the positions of the words in the underlying images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS LIMITED
    Inventors: Tara Lynn O'GARA, Sarat Chandra GURRAM, Jeffrey Thomas TURNER, Piper TUCKER, James Robert PRIESTAS
  • Particle Guard System and Apparatus
    Publication number: 20220104561
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides generally for a particle guard system and apparatus. The system may comprise temples, shield, and nose bridge. A particle guard may prevent or limit aspiration from entering the user's external environment via shield that covers the nose and mouth. The particle guard may comprise interchangeable components for personalization and various utility. The temples and the nose bridge may be available in various colors and styles for customization of the particle guard. The particle guard may possess attachments for various utility. Temples may comprise integrated attachments. For example, temples may contain a wireless signal device for external communication. The particle guard may comprise a sanitation system. Where the system includes external covering, shield may interface with the external covering via opening in the external covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Jeffrey Thomas Meyer
  • PNEUMOCOCCAL CONJUGATE VACCINE FORMULATIONS
    Publication number: 20220105169
    Abstract: The present invention provides polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine formulations comprising a buffer, surfactant, sugar, alkali or alkaline salt, aluminum adjuvant, optionally a bulking agent, and optionally a polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
    Inventors: Ramesh V. Chintala, Akhilesh Bhambhani, Christopher David Mensch, Denise K. Nawrocki, Jeffrey Thomas Blue
  • ASYNCHRONOUS AUTHORIZATION OF APPLICATION ACCESS TO RESOURCES
    Publication number: 20220092197
    Abstract: According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor that may access a request for access by an application to a resource and may record the request in a data store. The processor may also identify an authorized entity to evaluate the request and output a notification to the authorized entity to evaluate the request, in which the authorized entity is to evaluate the request asynchronously with submission of the request by the application. In addition, the processor may determine whether a response is received from the authorized entity and, based on a determination that the response is received, may reject or grant the request based on the response and clear the record of the request from the data store.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Thomas SAKOWICZ, Adam James STEENWYK, Zawad CHOWDHURY, Philippe SIGNORET, Luis Carlos LEON PLATA
  • System and method for bodily support
    Patent number: 11278756
    Abstract: An exercise support system configured to support at least a portion of a user's weight is disclosed. The exercise support system may include a base assembly including a plurality of frame members defining an interior region of the system. The system may also include a lift assembly comprising a drive assembly and an arm assembly. A body support (e.g., a seat) may be configured with the arm assembly. In general, the base assembly provides support to the lift assembly, and the lift assembly provides the mechanism(s) and forces to raise and lower the arm assembly (and the body support) thereby supporting at least a portion of the user's weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: LEFKO-TEK LLC
    Inventor: Jeffrey Thomas Lefkovitz
  • Cement production
    Patent number: 11254611
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for manufacturing cement wherein ground particles of cement and calcium sulfate are subjected to infrared sensors, laser sensors, or both, so that emanated, irradiated, transmitted, and/or absorbed energy having wavelengths principally within the range of 700 nanometers to 1 millimeter can be monitored and compared to stored data previously obtained from ground cement and sulfate particles and preferably correlated with stored strength, calorimetric, or other data values, such that adjustments can be made to the mill processing conditions, such as the form or amounts of calcium sulfate (e.g., gypsum, plaster, anhydride), or cement additive levels. The strength and other properties of cement can be thus adjusted, and its quality can be more uniform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Inventors: Elise Berodier, Nathan A. Tregger, Josephine H. Cheung, David F. Myers, Li Zhang, Dorota Kazmierczak, Lawrence R. Roberts, Denise A. Silva, Richard Sibbick, Jeffrey Thomas, Mark F. Roberts, Riccardo Stoppa, Elizabeth Burns
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A WIRELESS UNLOCKING SYSTEM FOR A BATTERY-POWERED STORAGE DEVICE
    Publication number: 20220051499
    Abstract: An example system can include a battery-powered trash compactor or storage device that performs operations including receiving identification information via an external entity from a reader component. The reader component is connected to a control module that manages sensor components or other functions of the battery-powered storage device. The control module also controls a locking mechanism and reader component. Based on the identification information, via the control module, the battery-powered storage device unlocks the locking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ethan Matthew Schwartz, Thomas Richard Olsen, Nisha Khand, Jeffrey Thomas Satwicz, David John Skocypec
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD OF PROVIDING A WIRELESS UNLOCKING SYSTEM FOR A GROUP OF BATTERY-POWERED STORAGE DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220051502
    Abstract: A pair of devices includes a first device and a second device that communicate lock control signals. The first device can have both a reader component and a control module that controls both (1) a first operation of the first device (such as a sensor control) and (2) a first locking component of the first device for accessing a first door of the first device. A second device can be in communication with the first device. The second device can have a second locking component for the second device for accessing a second door of the second device. The second device in one aspect does not having a reader component or a control module that independently controls the second locking component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ethan Matthew Schwartz, Thomas Richard Olsen, Nisha Khand, Jeffrey Thomas Satwicz, David John Skocypec