Patents by Inventor Jeffrey BERNARD
Jeffrey BERNARD 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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Publication number: 20240128131Abstract: A camera may capture reflected light from the surface of the wafer during a semiconductor process that adds or removes material from the wafer, such as an etch process. To accurately determine an endpoint for the process, a camera sampling rate and light source intensity may be optimized in the process recipe. Optimizing the light source intensity may include characterizing light intensities that will be reflected from the waiver using an image of the wafer. Pixel intensities may be used to adjust the light source intensity to compensate for more complex wafer patterns. Optimizing the camera sampling rates may include nondestructively rotating a view of the wafer and converting the sampled intensities to the frequency domain. The camera sampling rate may be increased or decreased to remove spatial noise from the image without oversampling unnecessarily. These optimized parameters may then generate a clean, repeatable trace for endpoint determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Avishay Vaxman, Qintao Zhang, Jeffrey P. Koch, David P. Surdock, Wayne R. Swart, David J. Lee, Samphy Hong, Aldrin Bernard Vincent Eddy, Daniel G. Deyo
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Patent number: 11947617Abstract: A variation testing system environment for performing variation testing of web pages and applications is disclosed. The variation testing system applies a weighted consistent hash function to user attributes of users to assign the users to a variant of a web page that is undergoing experimentation. The usage of the weighted consistent hash function allows for a stable experimental population.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Maplebear Inc.Inventors: Ogden Kent, Benjamin David Bader, Jeffrey Bernard Arnold
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Publication number: 20240060370Abstract: A system includes a container unit and a processor. The container unit includes a first fluid pathway having an inlet configured to couple to a first component of a drilling fluid circulation system, and having an outlet configured to couple to a second component of the drilling fluid circulation system. The container unit also includes a second fluid pathway having an inlet configured to couple to a third component of the drilling fluid circulation system, and having an outlet configured to couple to the third component. The container unit includes a first sensor coupled to the first fluid pathway and a second sensor coupled to the second fluid pathway. The processor is configured to determine a drilling fluid profile based on data from the sensors, and compare the determined drilling fluid profile to a target drilling fluid profile to determine an adjustment for an actual drilling fluid profile.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Aerion Rental Services LLCInventors: Benjamin Bernard, Matthew Bernard, Jeffrey Bernard
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Publication number: 20230350970Abstract: A variation testing system environment for performing variation testing of web pages and applications is disclosed. The variation testing system applies a weighted consistent hash function to user attributes of users to assign the users to a variant of a web page that is undergoing experimentation. The usage of the weighted consistent hash function allows for a stable experimental population.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2023Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Ogden Kent, Benjamin David Bader, Jeffrey Bernard Arnold
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Patent number: 11704382Abstract: A variation testing system environment for performing variation testing of web pages and applications is disclosed. The variation testing system applies a weighted consistent hash function to user attributes of users to assign the users to a variant of a web page that is undergoing experimentation. The usage of the weighted consistent hash function allows for a stable experimental population.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: Maplebear Inc.Inventors: Ogden Kent, Benjamin David Bader, Jeffrey Bernard Arnold
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Publication number: 20230109298Abstract: An online concierge system includes sponsored content items in an interface including different slots for displaying content items. A sponsored content item may be displayed in a single slot or in multiple adjacent slots. The online concierge system determines a content score for various sponsored content items indicating a likelihood of a user interacting with a sponsored content item and a position bias for slots in the interface indicating a likelihood of the user interacting with a slot independent of content in the slot. Position biases are different dependent on a number of slots in which a content item is displayed. The online concierge system generates a graph identifying potential placements of sponsored content items in slots by selecting content items in an order according to their content scores. Sponsored content items are positioned in slots according to a path through the graph that has the highest overall expected value.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: April 6, 2023Inventors: Jeffrey Bernard Arnold, Rob Donnelly, Sumit Garg, Jonathan Gu, Bill Lundberg, David Pal, Sharath Rao Karikurve, Peng Qi
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Patent number: 11542819Abstract: A gas turbine engine rotor assembly, comprising: a shaft about an axis having an outer surface radially outward and a groove radially into the outer surface; a disc surrounding the shaft rotatable with the shaft about the axis, the disc having an inner surface extending axially defining an inner diameter, having a disc profile around the groove and axially away from and radially inwardly of the inner diameter, the shaft and the disc defining a gap circumscribed outwardly by the inner diameter and inwardly by the outer surface; and a seal including a split ring fitted into the groove and rotatable with the shaft about the axis, the ring having a ring profile complementary to the disc profile, the ring resiliently expandable radially in the gap to the inner diameter, the disc profile cooperable with the ring profile to axially load the shaft via the ring expanded across the gap.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventor: Jeffrey Bernard Heyerman
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Publication number: 20220269748Abstract: A variation testing system environment for performing variation testing of web pages and applications is disclosed. The variation testing system applies a weighted consistent hash function to user attributes of users to assign the users to a variant of a web page that is undergoing experimentation. The usage of the weighted consistent hash function allows for a stable experimental population.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Ogden Kent, Benjamin David Bader, Jeffrey Bernard Arnold
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Publication number: 20220259975Abstract: A gas turbine engine rotor assembly, comprising: a shaft about an axis having an outer surface radially outward and a groove radially into the outer surface; a disc surrounding the shaft rotatable with the shaft about the axis, the disc having an inner surface extending axially defining an inner diameter, having a disc profile around the groove and axially away from and radially inwardly of the inner diameter, the shaft and the disc defining a gap circumscribed outwardly by the inner diameter and inwardly by the outer surface; and a seal including a split ring fitted into the groove and rotatable with the shaft about the axis, the ring having a ring profile complementary to the disc profile, the ring resiliently expandable radially in the gap to the inner diameter, the disc profile cooperable with the ring profile to axially load the shaft via the ring expanded across the gap.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventor: Jeffrey Bernard HEYERMAN
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Patent number: 11314836Abstract: A variation testing system environment for performing variation testing of web pages and applications is disclosed. The variation testing system applies a weighted consistent hash function to user attributes of users to assign the users to a variant of a web page that is undergoing experimentation. The usage of the weighted consistent hash function allows for a stable experimental population.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Maplebear Inc.Inventors: Ogden Kent, Benjamin David Bader, Jeffrey Bernard Arnold
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Patent number: 11074262Abstract: Computer based methods, systems, and computer readable media for classifying documents within a content repository or documents within the document subsets are provided. Documents may be pre-processed to render document sections visible to machine readers. Document subsets may be generated based on user-defined terms. The machine readable documents may be classified within the content repository into one of a group of categories, based-upon the number of times classification terms appear in a specific document section of the document. Documents may be ranked based upon the frequency of classification terms in the specific section. Documents may be associated with specific diseases such as cancer, genes, gene variants, and drugs or synonyms thereof by comparing relevant search terms to specific sections of the documents.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Cheryl Eifert, Joel C. Dubbels, Jeffrey Bernard Nowicki, Claudia S. Huettner, Jia Xu, Fang Wang, Kirk A. Beaty, Vanessa Michelini, Marta Sanchez-Martin
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Patent number: 11067479Abstract: There is described a shaft shear event detection method. The method comprises storing in memory a shaft oscillation signature determined as a function of known characteristics of the shaft and associated with a shaft shear event; monitoring a rotational speed of the shaft; detecting from the rotational speed an oscillation wave superimposed on the rotational speed by detecting a first period below a lower threshold and a second period above an upper threshold, and detecting a rate of occurrence of the first period and the second period, the oscillation wave having a wave modulation frequency corresponding to the rate of occurrence and a wave modulation amplitude; comparing the oscillation signature to the oscillation wave; and detecting the shaft shear event when the oscillation wave corresponds to the oscillation signature.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 20, 2021Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Jeffrey Bernard Heyerman, Antwan Shenouda, Michael Krynski, Poi Loon Tang
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Publication number: 20210118147Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for image processing are described. A device may determine a split-screen condition associated with a video image and perform an additional analysis to confirm the split-screen condition. In some examples, the device may generate a truncated image composed of one or more pixels located at each corner of a first image (e.g., a displayed image), and the device may process the truncated image to determine whether a split-screen condition is present for the displayed image. The device may use a continuality analysis, in which the device determines pixel values associated with multiple rows (or columns, or both) of a video image and compares differences between the pixel values at opposite ends of a video image to a threshold, to determine whether a split-screen condition is present. The device may then confirm a split-screen condition by processing the video image using an edge detection filter.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2019Publication date: April 22, 2021Inventors: Ting Kin CHAN, Terence HO, Alexander BARKAN, Rodrigo LOPEZ, Syed Saaem Raza RIZVI, Jeffrey BERNARD, Abderahmane ALLALOU, Peter KOSTER
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Patent number: 10747209Abstract: A manufacturing execution system (MES) that provides tools for modeling and determining information about physical production lines made up of arrangements of entities. The MES includes configuration tools for modeling the entities in a physical production line. The MES also includes configuration tools for modeling the physical production line. Entity data models and line data models conform to the data structure of respective model templates. Line data models include line definition models and line layout models. Line layout models include an entity link model for each of the entities in the physical production line. The MES includes tools for dynamically determining the bottleneck for the physical production line. Other production metrics are also calculated using the MES.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2017Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: AVEVA Software, LLCInventors: Thomas Andrew Troy, Jeffrey Bernard Nuse, Keith Richard Frantz, Nicolas Pouyez, Diana Ivanov, James Eric O'Hearn, Adam R. Haskell, Raghavendran Gobalakrishnan, Melvin Philip Norbeck, Richard William Boyle, Daniel van Klaveren
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Publication number: 20200175020Abstract: Computer based methods, systems, and computer readable media for classifying documents within a content repository or documents within the document subsets are provided. Documents may be pre-processed to render document sections visible to machine readers. Document subsets may be generated based on user-defined terms. The machine readable documents may be classified within the content repository into one of a group of categories, based-upon the number of times classification terms appear in a specific document section of the document. Documents may be ranked based upon the frequency of classification terms in the specific section. Documents may be associated with specific diseases such as cancer, genes, gene variants, and drugs or synonyms thereof by comparing relevant search terms to specific sections of the documents.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Cheryl Lynne Eifert, Joel C. Dubbels, Jeffrey Bernard Nowicki, Claudia S. Huettner, Jia Xu, Fang Wang, Kirk Alan Beaty, Vanessa Michelini
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Publication number: 20190244148Abstract: A system, method and program product for optimizing a risk transfer strategy for a resource provider. A system is disclosed having: an interface for accessing event data from a resource provider; a machine learning system that analyzes the event data at different risk levels and detects and quantifies negative correlations among the different risk levels; and a risk transfer optimization system that generates an optimized risk transfer strategy for the resource provider based on detected negative correlations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2019Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Bernard Scott, Subhashish Dutta, Peter Laurence Forester, Jennifer Lee Gravelle, Douglas Bruce Collins, Travis Cole Rosecrans
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Publication number: 20190154543Abstract: There is described a shaft shear event detection method. The method comprises storing in memory a shaft oscillation signature determined as a function of known characteristics of the shaft and associated with a shaft shear event; monitoring a rotational speed of the shaft; detecting from the rotational speed an oscillation wave superimposed on the rotational speed by detecting a first period below a lower threshold and a second period above an upper threshold, and detecting a rate of occurrence of the first period and the second period, the oscillation wave having a wave modulation frequency corresponding to the rate of occurrence and a wave modulation amplitude; comparing the oscillation signature to the oscillation wave; and detecting the shaft shear event when the oscillation wave corresponds to the oscillation signature.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Jeffrey Bernard HEYERMAN, Antwan SHENOUDA, Michael KRYNSKI, Poi Loon TANG
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Patent number: 10228304Abstract: There is described a shaft shear event detection method. The method comprises storing in memory a shaft oscillation signature determined as a function of known characteristics of the shaft and associated with a shaft shear event; monitoring a rotational speed of the shaft; detecting from the rotational speed an oscillation wave superimposed on the rotational speed, the oscillation wave having a wave modulation frequency and a wave modulation amplitude; comparing the oscillation signature to the oscillation wave; and detecting the shaft shear event when the oscillation wave corresponds to the oscillation signature.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 12, 2019Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Jeffrey Bernard Heyerman, Antwan Shenouda, Michael Krynski, Poi Loon Tang
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Patent number: 9932832Abstract: A method of balancing a spool of a gas turbine engine, the spool including a forward rotor assembly and an aft rotor assembly separated by a spacer, the method comprising: balancing the forward rotor assembly and the aft rotor assembly independently from one another using conventional balancing techniques; and mathematically modeling the spool; applying a modeled axial load to the modeled spool to determine a trim weight which would balance the spool when subjected to the modeled axial load; and physically placing the trim weight to one of the forward rotor assembly and the aft rotor assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Jiemin Wang, Cameron Walters, Ron Robinson, Jeffrey Bernard Heyerman, David Beamish
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Publication number: 20170255187Abstract: A manufacturing execution system (MES) that provides tools for modeling and determining information about physical production lines made up of arrangements of entities. The MES includes configuration tools for modeling the entities in a physical production line. The MES also includes configuration tools for modeling the physical production line. Entity data models and line data models conform to the data structure of respective model templates. Line data models include line definition models and line layout models. Line layout models include an entity link model for each of the entities in the physical production line. The MES includes tools for dynamically determining the bottleneck for the physical production line. Other production metrics are also calculated using the MES.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2017Publication date: September 7, 2017Applicant: Schneider Electric Software, LLCInventors: Thomas Andrew Troy, Jeffrey Bernard Nuse, Keith Richard Frantz, Nicolas Pouyez, Diana Ivanov, James Eric O'Hearn, Adam R. Haskell, Raghavendran Gobalakrishnan, Melvin Philip Norbeck, Richard William Boyle, Daniel van Klaveren