Patents by Inventor Jeffrey A. Warren
Jeffrey A. Warren 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).
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Patent number: 11959229Abstract: Sanitary tissue products employing fibrous structures that exhibit novel combination of slip stick coefficient of friction and compressibility properties and methods for making same.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ward William Ostendorf, Guillermo Matias Vidal, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, David Warren Loebker, Ryan Dominic Maladen, John Allen Manifold, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
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Publication number: 20240109424Abstract: A method for operating a collector assembly of a vehicle that receives electric current from a conductive pathway extending along a route being traversed by the vehicle to power loads of the vehicle. The method includes moving the collector assembly relative to the conductive pathway to examine one or more mechanical components of the collector assembly and sensing one or more electrical characteristics of the electric current conducted to the vehicle from the conductive pathway and through the collector assembly to test electrical components of the collector assembly or the vehicle. The method may implement responsive actions to control operation of the vehicle based on outcomes of one or more of an examination of the mechanical components or the test of the electrical components.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Jennifer Sobierajski, Timothy Warren Brown, James Ghofulpo, Jeffrey John Wolff, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar
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Publication number: 20240092179Abstract: A method including detecting that a vehicle that may be propelled by an electric drive system having one or more motors disconnects or begins disconnecting from an off-board source of power while the one or more motors are being powered by the off-board source of power. The method may include supplanting a decreasing amount of a first electric energy supplied by the off-board source of power to the electric drive system with an amount of a second electric energy supplied by an onboard source of power to the electric drive system responsive to the detection of the disconnect from the off-board source of power.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jennifer Sobierajski, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Haris Memic, Henry Todd Young, Ibrahim Kacar, James Ghofulpo, Jeffrey John Wolff, Timothy Warren Brown, Daniel Robert Wallace
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Publication number: 20240092178Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling operation of a vehicle system are provided. This vehicle system can be at least partially powered by electric current conducted to a collector device of the vehicle system from a conductive pathway extending along a route traveled by the vehicle system. A voltage level of the conductive pathway may be monitored, and a conduction impaired location of the conductive pathway may be identified based at least in part on the voltage level of the conductive pathway that is monitored. The collector device or a removal device may be controlled to remove a contaminant from the conductive pathway at the conduction impaired location, the vehicle system may be controlled to compensate for the conduction impaired location, and/or an off-board facility and/or another vehicle system may be notified of the conduction impaired location responsive to identifying the conduction impaired location.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jennifer Sobierajski, Jeffrey John Wolff, Timothy Warren Brown, Henry Todd Young, Ibrahim Kacar
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Publication number: 20240033100Abstract: Interbody implants may be formed by a product by process in which a first metallic frame component having an interconnected superior endplate and an interconnected inferior endplate are formed. In some embodiments, the endplates are interconnected by flexible struts and in others they are interconnected by translating struts. In various embodiments, a polymeric body may be infilled between the superior endplate and inferior endplate by a molding process, e.g., an injection molding process or an overmolding process. In various embodiments, the metallic frame may have a first compressive stiffness, the polymeric body may have a second compressive stiffness, and the first compressive stiffness of the metallic frame may be about 20% to about 80% of the second stiffness of the body. In various embodiments, a sum of the first compressive stiffness of the metallic frame and the second stiffness of the body is about 33,500 N/mm to about 11,500 N/mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.Inventors: Keith E. Miller, Thomas S. Wolfe, Newton H. Metcalf, Rodney R. Ballard, Julien J. Prevost, Jeffrey Warren Beale
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Patent number: 11651333Abstract: Techniques for enhancing usability and electronic resource efficiency using job relevance are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a list of a predetermined number of top job openings for a member of the social networking system is generated. The list is communicated to a device of the user for presentation in a user interface on the device. The user interface allows the member to browse through and provide an indication of a lack of relevancy of each of the list of the predetermined number of top job openings to the member and an indication of a reason for the lack of relevancy. Based on the user providing the indication of the lack of relevancy and the reason, a modified relevancy assessment of each of the plurality of job openings is generated. The list of the predetermined number of top job openings for the member is regenerated and communicated to the device.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Kevin Chuang, Dezhen Li, Kevin Kao, Parul Jain, Caleb Timothy Johnson, Anthony Duane Duerr, Mohammad Aleagha, Jeffrey Warren Lee, Minhtu Nguyen
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Patent number: 10552465Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method for selecting text snippets to display on a computer display is provided. A universal concept graph for phrases relevant to a search domain is created, the universal concept graph representing each phrase as a node and relationships between the phrases as edges between the nodes. A result in the search domain is represented as a subgraph of the universal concept graph by extracting a portion of the universal concept graph containing phrases contained in the result. Then, a score is produced for each node of the subgraph, the score based on a graph analysis algorithm applied to the subgraph. Then text snippets to display for the result are selected to be displayed based on the scores produced in the subgraph for phrases contained in the text snippets.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Kevin Kao, Jeffrey Warren Lee
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Publication number: 20180322463Abstract: Techniques for enhancing usability and electronic resource efficiency using job relevance are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a list of a predetermined number of top job openings for a member of the social networking system is generated. The list is communicated to a device of the user for presentation in a user interface on the device. The user interface allows the member to browse through and provide an indication of a lack of relevancy of each of the list of the predetermined number of top job openings to the member and an indication of a reason for the lack of relevancy. Based on the user providing the indication of the lack of relevancy and the reason, a modified relevancy assessment of each of the plurality of job openings is generated. The list of the predetermined number of top job openings for the member is regenerated and communicated to the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2017Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Kumaresh Pattabiraman, Kevin Chuang, Dezhen Li, Kevin Kao, Parul Jain, Caleb Timothy Johnson, Anthony Duane Duerr, Mohammad Aleagha, Jeffrey Warren Lee, Minhtu Nguyen
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Publication number: 20170300563Abstract: In an example embodiment, a plurality of labeled training documents is obtained, each labeled training document containing a plurality of text snippets. Then, a first set of features is extracted from each text snippet in each of the plurality of labeled training documents. The extracted first set of features and the plurality of labeled training documents are passed to a supervised machine learning algorithm to train a potential snippet relevance score model. A second set of features is extracted from each of a plurality of candidate text snippets in a candidate document. Then, a relevancy score is calculated for each of the plurality of candidate text snippets using the potential snippet relevance score model. Then, one of the plurality of candidate text snippets is selected to display based on the calculated relevancy scores.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2016Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Kevin Kao, Jeffrey Warren Lee, Krishnaram Kenthapadi
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Publication number: 20170242917Abstract: In an example embodiment, a method for selecting text snippets to display on a computer display is provided. A universal concept graph for phrases relevant to a search domain is created, the universal concept graph representing each phrase as a node and relationships between the phrases as edges between the nodes. A result in the search domain is represented as a subgraph of the universal concept graph by extracting a portion of the universal concept graph containing phrases contained in the result. Then, a score is produced for each node of the subgraph, the score based on a graph analysis algorithm applied to the subgraph. Then text snippets to display for the result are selected to be displayed based on the scores produced in the subgraph for phrases contained in the text snippets.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2016Publication date: August 24, 2017Inventors: Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Kevin Kao, Jeffrey Warren Lee
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Patent number: 8971487Abstract: A mobile scanning system and methods for inspecting contents of a container. Multiple detector plates are arrayed along an arcuate member coupled to a conveyance with wheels, capable of road travel. A source generates high-energy penetrating radiation that irradiates each of the detector plates from a single position. The arcuate member is disposed, during the course of operation of the system, in a vertical plane. The system has one actuator for rotating the arcuate member about a horizontal pivot into a horizontal plane, and a second actuator for further rotating the arcuate member, once rotated into the horizontal plane, about a vertical pivot, so that the arcuate member is contained, for purposes of transport, entirely within a volume defined by a rectangular prism that does not extend horizontally outward from the conveyance beyond any of its wheels.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 3, 2015Assignee: American Science and Engineering, Inc.Inventors: Richard Mastronardi, David Blake, Seth Van Liew, Jeffrey Warren
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Patent number: 8672328Abstract: A method of playing a word forming game comprises distributing a predetermined number of tiles to a set of players so as to form a hand of play associated with each player. Each tile has a character value associated with the tile, and at least one tile has a special feature value. The players form words on a playing surface, and the words comprise one or more tiles from a player's hand of play and one or more tiles already on the playing surface. Exemplary special feature values instruct players to skip a turn, to reverse the order of play, or to redistribute tiles. Each tile has a nesting portion and a nested portion. The nesting portion is characterized a concavity into which another playing tile may be nested and the nested portion is characterized by a convex edge.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2012Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventor: Jeffrey Warren Bazarko
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Publication number: 20130028376Abstract: A mobile scanning system and methods for inspecting contents of a container. Multiple detector plates are arrayed along an arcuate member coupled to a conveyance with wheels, capable of road travel. A source generates high-energy penetrating radiation that irradiates each of the detector plates from a single position. The arcuate member is disposed, during the course of operation of the system, in a vertical plane. The system has one actuator for rotating the arcuate member about a horizontal pivot into a horizontal plane, and a second actuator for further rotating the arcuate member, once rotated into the horizontal plane, about a vertical pivot, so that the arcuate member is contained, for purposes of transport, entirely within a volume defined by a rectangular prism that does not extend horizontally outward from the conveyance beyond any of its wheels.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2012Publication date: January 31, 2013Applicant: AMERICAN SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING, INC.Inventors: Richard Mastronardi, David Blake, Seth Van Liew, Jeffrey Warren
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Publication number: 20120313321Abstract: A game and method of play is provided. It includes a plurality of multifaceted dice having a plurality of characters on the faces of said dice. A rule set is also provided. It includes a plurality of rules, one of the rules of being that a player identify a selected word that corresponds to said at least one character appearing on said uppermost face of one of said plurality of dice, said selected word corresponding to a pre-selected adjective.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Inventors: Brian M. Yu, Jeffrey Warren Bazarko
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Publication number: 20120274027Abstract: A method of playing a word forming game comprises distributing a predetermined number of tiles to a set of players so as to form a hand of play associated with each player. Each tile has a character value associated with the tile, and at least one tile has a special feature value. The players form words on a playing surface, and the words comprise one or more tiles from a player's hand of play and one or more tiles already on the playing surface. Exemplary special feature values instruct players to skip a turn, to reverse the order of play, or to redistribute tiles. Each tile has a nesting portion and a nested portion. The nesting portion is characterized a concavity into which another playing tile may be nested and the nested portion is characterized by a convex edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2012Publication date: November 1, 2012Inventor: Jeffrey Warren Bazarko
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Publication number: 20120232533Abstract: An elongate member having a fixed end is passed through a plurality of grippers that impart tension in the elongate member and prevent the tension from being released. At least one gripper is movable while at least one other can be fixed. The movable gripper travels along the elongate member toward the fixed end then reverses direction, grips the elongate member, and carries the elongate member away from the fixed end, thereby creating tension in the elongate member. At least one gripper prevents the tension from being released. In some embodiments, the elongate member passes through a rotatable shaft with a lumen. The shaft can be in communication with a crank, whereby operation of the crank rotates the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2010Publication date: September 13, 2012Applicant: SONOMA ORTHOPEDIC PRODUCTS, INC.Inventors: Michael Scott Veldman, Jeffrey Warren Beale, Robert H. Humphries, Jr., Hanspeter Robert Bayer
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Publication number: 20120114608Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions for treating a respiratory condition, preferably by enhancing immune response in a mammal, the compositions including a therapeutic amount of a probiotic strain of bacteria and a therapeutic amount of an additional component. Also included are methods of treating a respiratory condition, preferably by enhancing immune response, in a mammal. Kits containing the compositions, and instructions for applying the methods are also included. The method includes orally administering to the mammal a therapeutic amount of a probiotic strain of bacteria and a therapeutic amount of an additional component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2011Publication date: May 10, 2012Inventors: James Patrick Ebel, Lucy Anne Gildea, David Alexander Lawson, Jeffrey Warren Clymer
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Patent number: D664787Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: August 7, 2012Inventor: Jeffrey Warren Allsbrook
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Patent number: D688443Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2012Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Inventor: Jeffrey Warren Vallier
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Patent number: D836652Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: William Dean Fowler, Jeffrey Warren Shrode, Robert H. Brockelsby, Shawn P. McCarty, Jeffrey W. Massey, Jacob Barrett Colyer, Jason W. Walton, Michele Ann Ottavio