Patents by Inventor Jeffrey Smith

Jeffrey Smith 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: 20250137982
    Abstract: An electrochemical sensor is disclosed, including an electrode disposed on a first ceramic insulation layer, a porous electrolyte stabilization layer disposed around and on top of the electrode, a conductive ceramic substrate in contact with the first ceramic insulation layer on a first side, a second ceramic insulation layer in contact with the conductive ceramic substrate on a second side, and an integrated heater in contact with the second ceramic insulation layer. A telemetric electrochemical sensor system and a method of sensing gaseous analytes is disclosed, which includes exposing a gaseous mixture sample to a hydrogen separation membrane disposed on top of a porous electrolyte which may include an iron (Fe) doped barium niobate perovskite, establishing a first mixed potential at a first electrode, establishing a second mixed potential at a second electrode, and determining a voltage difference as a sensing parameter to be measured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Kannan RAMAIYAN, Kamil AGI, C. Jeffrey BRINKER, Lok-kun TSUI, Fernando GARZON, James Albert SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250120174
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first three dimensional (3D) transistor and a second 3D transistor oriented parallel to the first 3D transistor disposed in a substrate, the first 3D transistor and the second 3D transistor being a subset of a plurality of transistors. The device includes a diffusion-break trench disposed in a region laterally separating the second 3D transistor from the first 3D transistor, the diffusion-break trench having a length extending along a lateral direction. The device includes a diffusion-break wire filling the diffusion-break trench, the diffusion-break wire having a height along a vertical direction, gates of the plurality of transistors being made of a different conductive material than the diffusion-break wire.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Lars Liebmann, Jeffrey Smith, Daniel Chanemougame, Paul Gutwin
  • Patent number: 12268305
    Abstract: Articulating bedding systems include an adjustable foundation configured to provide an end user with clean air and maximize breathing airways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: DREAMWELL, LTD.
    Inventors: Rahul Kirtikar, Shadi Renno, Delicia Cooney, John-David Velilla, Matthew Whitmer, Benjamin Jackson, Ken Ueda, John Newsome, Joseph Smith, Jeffrey Mastropaolo, Tiffany Amon
  • Patent number: 12272012
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes capturing images of a first user wearing a VR display device in a real-world environment. The method includes receiving a VR rendering of a VR environment. The VR rendering is from the perspective of the mobile computing device with respect to the VR display device. The method includes generating a first MR rendering of the first user in the VR environment. The first MR rendering of the first user is based on a compositing of the images of the first user and the VR rendering. The method includes receiving an indication of a user interaction with one or more elements of the VR environment in the first MR rendering. The method includes generating, in real-time responsive to the indication of the user interaction with the one or more elements, a second MR rendering of the first user in the VR environment. The one or more elements are modified according to the interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Sarah Tanner Simpson, Gregory Smith, Jeffrey Witthuhn, Ying-Chieh Huang, Shuang Li, Wenliang Zhao, Peter Koch, Meghana Reddy Guduru, Ioannis Pavlidis, Xiang Wei, Kevin Xiao, Kevin Joseph Sheridan, Bodhi Keanu Donselaar, Federico Adrian Camposeco Paulsen
  • Publication number: 20250091300
    Abstract: A mandrel for the manufacture of a tube is provided. The mandrel includes one or more discs spaced apart from each other; one or more guide wires coupled to one or more of the discs; and one or more control wires coupled to one or more of the discs. Articulation of one or more of the control wires induces a shape change in the tube. Methods for manufacturing a tube are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventor: Jeffrey Smith
  • Publication number: 20250084477
    Abstract: An example primer set includes first and second nuclease resistant primers. The first nuclease resistant primer includes a first sequence; a first cleavage site attached at a 3? end of the first sequence; and a first nuclease resistant modification incorporated between the first sequence and the first cleavage site. The second nuclease resistant primer includes a second sequence that is different from the first sequence; a second nuclease resistant modification incorporated at a 3? end of the second sequence; and a second cleavage site attached between the second sequence and the second nuclease resistant modification. The second cleavage site is different from the first cleavage site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Esteban Armijo, Jonathan Mark Boutell, Jeffrey Brodin, Eli M. Carrami, Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo, Randall Smith, Mathieu Lessard-Viger, Ludovic Vincent
  • Publication number: 20250081881
    Abstract: A windrower that receives, from a header sensor, header data indicative of a rotation rate of a rotatable cutting element. The windrower determines the crop yield at a location of the windrower based on the header data indicative of the rotation rate of the rotatable cutting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Fay, II, Kevin Smith
  • Patent number: 12249220
    Abstract: Electronic gaming machines and systems are disclosed that provide for a symbol-based main game that features an array of symbol positions that may if an array growth condition is met, increase in size. Determining whether the array growth condition is met may involve determining how many array growth symbols are shown in association with a game play. A further determination may be made as to whether a feature game trigger condition is met and, if so, a feature game may be presented that utilizes the same array of symbol positions that were present in the main game when the feature game was triggered. Additional array growth may occur in the feature game if the array growth condition is met again.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Hanna Sanborn, Jennifer Mizzi, Jeffrey Uss, Rogelio Decasa, Jr., Nathan Warms, Zachary Smith, Erick T. Ching
  • Patent number: 12247381
    Abstract: A urinal assembly having a frame and a plurality of posts or posts extending from the frame. The frame can include a plurality of openings. The openings can be defined by a plurality of sides and corners. The posts can extend from the corners and/or from the sides of the openings. In some embodiments, posts extend from a first face and a second face of the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Fresh Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas S. Brown, Jeffrey A. Smith
  • Patent number: 12247234
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides engineered proline hydroxylase polypeptides for the production of hydroxylated compounds, polynucleotides encoding the engineered proline hydroxylases, host cells capable of expressing the engineered proline hydroxylases, and methods of using the engineered proline hydroxylases to prepare compounds useful in the production of active pharmaceutical agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Codexis, Inc.
    Inventors: Haibin Chen, Yong Koy Bong, Fabien L. Cabirol, Anupam Gohel Prafulchandra, Tao Li, Jeffrey C. Moore, Martina Quintanar-Audelo, Yang Hong, Steven J. Collier, Derek Smith
  • Publication number: 20250077237
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosed technologies include, responsive to a first use of a first application by a first user, configuring, in a first prompt, at least one instruction based on first application context data and first user context data. The first prompt is stored in a memory that is accessible to the first application and a second application. Via the second application, first output of a generative artificial intelligence (GAI) model is presented to the first user. Based on the first output of the GAI model, at least one second use of the first application by the first user, or at least one first use of a third application by the first user, is configured.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Santhosh Sachindran, Barkha A. Bhojak, Nicholas Smith, Eric Bollman, Jeffrey Wang, Tamara Llosa-Sandor, Carlos H. Lopez
  • Patent number: 12237333
    Abstract: A first transistor tier is formed over a substrate, positioned in a first tier of the semiconductor device and includes bottom transistors extending along a horizontal direction parallel to the substrate. A first segment of a first conductive plane is formed in the first tier and adjacent to a first side of the first transistor tier, spans a height of the first transistor tier, and is connected to the first transistor tier. A second transistor tier is formed over the first transistor tier, positioned in a second tier of the semiconductor device and includes top transistors extending along the horizontal direction. A second segment of the first conductive plane is formed in the second tier and adjacent to a first side of the second transistor tier, positioned over and connected to the first segment of the first conductive plane, and spans a height of the second transistor tier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Chanemougame, Lars Liebmann, Jeffrey Smith
  • Patent number: 12230380
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive data analysis. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis by using at least one of prospective coverage score determination machine learning models and prospective event-based classification machine learning models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: UnitedHealth Group Incorporated
    Inventors: Jeffrey Smith, Marissa N. Dent, Louis A. Wedge, Cary R. Shelley, Aliya Mansoor
  • Publication number: 20250054060
    Abstract: A method for processing a plurality of orders of shares of exchange traded funds for retirement plans includes providing a pool of at least one share of each of the exchange traded funds to be traded by the retirement plans, receiving an order from a retirement plan that specifies a first amount other than a whole number of shares of an exchange traded fund, identifying a second amount that is a whole number of shares nearest to the first amount, adding, from the pool, a number of shares to the first amount such that a sum of the number of shares and the first amount equals the second amount, directing an exchange to execute a trade for the second amount, and allocating the first amount to the retirement plan and a difference between the first amount and the second amount to the pool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey CASS, Lisa DALLAS, Clint SMITH
  • Patent number: 12224281
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first pair of transistors over a substrate. The first pair of transistors includes a first transistor having a first gate structure over the substrate and a second transistor having a second gate structure stacked over the first transistor. A second pair of transistors is stacked over the first pair of transistors, resulting in a vertical stack perpendicular to a working surface of the substrate. The second pair of transistors includes a third transistor having a third gate structure stacked over the second transistor and a fourth transistor having a fourth gate structure stacked over the third transistor. The third gate structure extends from a central region of the vertical stack to a first side of the vertical stack. The second gate structure and the fourth gate structure extend from the central region to a second side of the vertical stack opposite the first side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: TOKYO ELECTRON LIMITED
    Inventors: Lars Liebmann, Jeffrey Smith, Daniel Chanemougame, Paul Gutwin, Brian Cline, Xiaoqing Xu, David Pietromonaco
  • Patent number: 12218135
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a first three dimensional (3D) transistor and a second 3D transistor oriented parallel to the first 3D transistor disposed in a substrate, the first 3D transistor and the second 3D transistor being a subset of a plurality of transistors. The device includes a diffusion-break trench disposed in a region laterally separating the second 3D transistor from the first 3D transistor, the diffusion-break trench having a length extending along a lateral direction. The device includes a diffusion-break wire filling the diffusion-break trench, the diffusion-break wire having a height along a vertical direction, gates of the plurality of transistors being made of a different conductive material than the diffusion-break wire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Lars Liebmann, Jeffrey Smith, Daniel Chanemougame, Paul Gutwin
  • Patent number: 12218066
    Abstract: An additional set of interconnects is created in bulk material, allowing connections to active devices to be made from both above and below. The interconnects below the active devices can form a power distribution network, and the interconnects above the active devices can form a signaling network. Various accommodations can be made to suit different applications, such as encapsulating buried elements, using sacrificial material, and replacing the bulk material with a dielectric. Epitaxial material can be used throughout the formation process, allowing for the creation of a monolithic substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Tokyo Electron Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Chanemougame, Lars Liebmann, Jeffrey Smith
  • Publication number: 20250029443
    Abstract: Techniques and systems for providing games of chance with multiple levels of persistent features are disclosed. Some example systems include scatter prize indicators that are each associated with different symbol positions of a game of chance. When a scatter symbol is selected for a given symbol position, the scatter prize indicator associated therewith may be upgraded; selection of a sufficient number of symbol positions may result in a feature game mode being activated. During feature game mode play, scatter symbols are retained after each play of the game until either sufficient consecutive plays occur without any scatter symbols being obtained or until all symbol positions have scatter symbols. In the latter case, the scatter prize indicators are upgraded and play continues. In the former case, the feature game mode concludes. Various enhancements may be triggered based on the number of times that the feature game mode has been activated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Nathan Warms, Jennifer Mizzi, Rogelio Decasa, Jr., Zachary Smith, Erick Ching, Jeffrey Uss, Hanna Sanborn
  • Publication number: 20250025143
    Abstract: A medical assembly may comprise an end effector; a sheath; and a device coupler. The device coupler may include a proximal support, a distal support, and a coupler arm extending between the proximal support and the distal support. The coupler arm may include a surface configured to accommodate a shape of a medical device resting upon the coupler arm. The end effector may be attached to the distal support, and the proximal support may be attached to the sheath.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul SMITH, Jeffrey Bean, John GOLDEN, Kenneth Keene, Douglas Melanson
  • Patent number: 12201391
    Abstract: A medical device includes a clevis, a first blade, a second blade, and a tension member. The first and second blades are rotatably coupled to the clevis. The first blade includes a first coupling portion. The tension member is coupled to the first blade and applies a torque to the first blade to rotate the first blade about the clevis between a first, second, and third orientation. The second blade includes a second coupling portion. The second coupling portion is coupled to the first coupling portion such that A) the second blade remains in a fixed position relative to the clevis when the first blade is between the first and second orientation, and B) rotation of the first retractor blade between the second and third orientation transfers at least a portion of the torque to the second retractor blade causing rotation of the second blade about the clevis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Christina J. Shuh, Ralph Wadensweiler, Kyle R. Miller, Jeffrey A. Smith, Glenn C. Stante, Markus Rheinwald, Hubert Stein