Patents by Inventor John A. Smith

John A. 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: 20250116154
    Abstract: An electronic door system includes a door frame, a door hingedly coupled to the door frame, an electrically-controllable component coupled to or disposed within the door, a door wiring harness, and a cover. The door defines a channel extending along at least a portion of a peripheral edge thereof. The door wiring harness includes a wire extending along and within the channel. The wire is coupled to the electrically-controllable component. The cover extends along the peripheral edge and covers the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Therma-Tru Corporation
    Inventors: Nicholas Fink, May Russell, Brett Finley, Jacob Weil, Daniel Schneider, Keith Butcher, Logan Harvey, Brandon Knoll, Andrew Waite, Ben Kowalski, Ryan Starling, Frances Wang, Joseph Gonzalez, David Hezlep, Steven Orchosky, Hidekazu Saegusa, Videl Smith, Bill Klein, Adam Allmandinger, Tim Quirin, Jon Klein, John Burleson, Kevin Anderson, Brian Frackelton, Todd Whitaker, George Polly, Arlber Chang, Derek Fielding
  • Publication number: 20250116484
    Abstract: A firearm accessory and associated components and methods. In one embodiment, a firearm accessory is configured to mount to a shotgun. The firearm accessory is configured to emit light to illuminate a target. The firearm accessory includes an accessory body that is removable from the shotgun and permits convenient battery replacement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Crimson Trace Corporation
    Inventors: Shane Ball, William Garland, William A. Planck, Tim Meissen, Michael Cottrell, James Tayon, Ryan Donahue, John Oller, Curtis Smith
  • Publication number: 20250114882
    Abstract: An adjustable part-manufacturing tool and associated systems and methods are disclosed. The adjustable part-manufacturing tool includes a part-receiving receptacle defined by at least a first side and a second side. A first locating detail, including a first locating surface, is movably coupled to the tool body along the first side so that the first locating surface is selectively movable within the part-receiving receptacle in first opposing directions. A second locating detail, including a second locating surface, is movably coupled to the tool body along the second side so that the second locating surface is selectively movable within the part-receiving receptacle in second opposing directions. The second opposing directions are angled relative to the first opposing directions. Selective movement of the first locating surface and the second locating surface accommodates locating parts of different sizes on the first locating surface and the second locating surface within a specified tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventor: John Smith
  • Patent number: 12269564
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The bearing has an inner race and an outer race. The inner race is rotationally fixed relative to the flywheel shaft, and the outer race is held rotationally fixed relative to the enclosure. The motor is operative to rotate the flywheel assembly. The bearing cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the bearing by recirculating coolant along a closed fluid pathway. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the inner and/or outer race of the bearing to the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: WAVETAMER LLC
    Inventors: Brian John Sohacki, Aaron P. Powers, Grady F. Smith
  • 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: 12269618
    Abstract: For model predictive control for a spacecraft formation, a method calculates a virtual point that represents a plurality of spacecraft orbiting in a spacecraft formation. The method calculates an outer polytope boundary and an inner polytope boundary relative to the virtual point for a given spacecraft of the plurality of spacecraft. The method maneuvers the given spacecraft to within the inner polytope boundary using model predictive control (MPC) to minimize fuel consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Utah State University Space Dynamics Laboratory
    Inventors: Tyson Smith, John Akagi, Greg Droge
  • Patent number: 12273273
    Abstract: Mobile management method, system and client. The method includes receiving a DNS query for a host name from an application on a client; retrieving reputation data associated with the host name from a local cache on the client; determining a policy for the host name, which is associated with the host name and the reputation data associated with the host name; based on the determined policy for the host name, blocking attempted network flows to a host corresponding to the host name; sending at least attempted network flow metadata related to the blocked attempted network flows to a collector on the client; and transmitting the attempted network flow metadata in the collector to a VPN server pool via a VPN tunnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: MOBILE SONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph T. Savarese, Steven Heckt, Michael E. Bryant, Eric C. McNeill, Carter Smith, Elizabeth Kihslinger, Thomas Gunther Helms, Camilla Keenan-Koch, Joseph G. Souza, Paul Hoover, S. Aaron Stavens, Christian E. Hofstaedter, Jonathan Scott, Erik Olson, James Scott Simpkins, Stephen Gregory Fallin, John Harvey Hillock, Eivind Naess, Michael Lee Snyder, David Michael Mirly, Marius Lee, Glenn Patrick Aranas, Norman C. Hamer, Tridib Dutta, Andrew James Hoover, Thomas A. Sweet, Mark Anacker, An Phan
  • Publication number: 20250110950
    Abstract: A method of rendering a service graph illustrating dependencies between a frontend and a backend of an application comprises generating a plurality of frontend traces from a plurality of frontend spans and generating a plurality of backend traces from a plurality of backend spans ingested from the application. The method also comprises aggregating frontend metrics data using the plurality of frontend traces and backend metrics data using the plurality of backend traces. The method further comprises determining connection information between one or more frontend traces of the plurality of frontend traces and corresponding backend traces of the plurality of backend traces. The method also comprises rendering the service graph using the connection information and the aggregated frontend and backend metrics data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Mayank Agarwal, John Bley, Angel Colberg, Jonathan Dillman, Shashwat Sehgal, Justin Smith
  • Patent number: 12265853
    Abstract: Arranging computational sub-tasks in a hybrid-computing environment is provided. The method comprises receiving input of a number of nodes, wherein each node represents a computational sub-task, and wherein the nodes are grouped into different sets according to differing computing resources used by the nodes. A computational objective is also received as well as initial data inputs and desired final outputs. A directed graph network is generated comprising the nodes and directed edges connecting the nodes. An optimization problem is then solved to determine a best path through the directed graph network for deriving the desired final outputs from the initial data inputs according to the computational objective. The best path comprises a subset of nodes and directed edges within the directed graph network. The best path to achieve the computational objective and estimated computational resources required for the best path are output to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Richard Joel Thompson, Nam Hoang Nguyen, Kristen Smith Williams, Marna Kagele, John R. Lowell
  • Patent number: 12258223
    Abstract: A storage, retrieval and processing system for processing objects is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Kevin Ahearn, John Richard Amend, Jr., Benjamin Cohen, Michael Dawson-Haggerty, William Hartman Fort, Christopher Geyer, Victoria Hinchey, Jennifer Eileen King, Thomas Koletschka, Michael Cap Koval, Kyle Maroney, Matthew T. Mason, William Chu-Hyon McMahan, Gene Temple Price, Joseph Romano, Daniel Smith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Prasanna Velagapudi, Thomas Allen
  • Patent number: 12257098
    Abstract: A wireless signal transmitter is provided for a radiotherapy device, said radiotherapy device being configured to provide radiation to a subject via a source of radiation, and further being configured to output a non-continuous beam of radiation, wherein said non-continuous beam of radiation has a first, time-related property associated therewith. The wireless signal transmitter is configured to wirelessly transmit a signal comprising data regarding the first, time-related property that is associated with the non-continuous beam of radiation, to a wireless signal receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Elekta Limited
    Inventors: John Allen, Adrian Smith
  • Publication number: 20250098519
    Abstract: Photoactive compounds are disclosed. The disclosed photoactive compounds include metal complexes with dipyrromethene-based ligands, which can be substituted with a variety of different side chains or groups or can include various fused ring configurations, such as including aromatic or heteroaromatic groups. The metal complexes may include two dipyrromethene-based ligands, which can be the same or different. The photoactive compounds can be used as photoactive materials in organic photovoltaic devices, such as visibly transparent or opaque photovoltaic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Ubiquitous Energy, Inc.
    Inventors: John A. Love, Vineet Kumar, Austin Smith, Matthew E. Sykes, Richa Pandey, Miles C. Barr, Ajara A. Safko
  • Publication number: 20250091717
    Abstract: A repositionable pocket for an aircraft having a rigid pocket wall pivotally attached to the aircraft sidewall and at least one strap assembly connecting the pocket to the sidewall. The strap assembly has a first end fixable to the sidewall and a second end repositionably fastened to the pocket. The strap is preferably made to be elastic and urges the attached pocket into a closed orientation thereby securing any stowed items between the pocket and the aircraft sidewall. Strap adjustability accommodates different sized objects for stowage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Michael John Seibel, Chad Lee Smith, Craig Louis Bothell, Emily O'Kelley Pearson
  • Patent number: 12255593
    Abstract: A transimpedance amplifier (TIA) for converting an input current at an input node into an output voltage at an output node, the TIA comprising: a first amplifier stage having a first input coupled to the input node and a first output; a feedback path between the first output and the first input; a second amplifier stage in the feedback path having a second input, the second input coupled to the first output of the first amplifier stage; a feedback resistor in the feedback path coupled between an output of the second amplifier stage and first input of the first amplifier stage; and an output stage, comprising: a load resistor coupled between a reference voltage node and a T-coil, the T-coil comprising first and second inductors coupled in series at an inductor node, the T-coil coupled between the first output and the load resistor, the inductor node coupled to the output node of the TIA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Semtech Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher John Born, Matthew George Hagman, Darrell Iaian Smith
  • Patent number: 12252340
    Abstract: An object processing system is disclosed that includes a plurality of track sections, and a plurality of remotely actuatable carriers for controlled movement along at least portions of the plurality of track sections, each of the actuatable carriers being instructed at any time to move a limited number of track section only.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Kevin Ahearn, John Richard Amend, Jr., Benjamin Cohen, Michael Dawson-Haggerty, William Hartman Fort, Christopher Geyer, Jennifer Eileen King, Thomas Koletschka, Michael Cap Koval, Kyle Maroney, Matthew T. Mason, William Chu-Hyon McMahan, Gene Temple Price, Joseph Romano, Daniel Smith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Prasanna Velagapudi, Thomas Allen
  • Patent number: 12254597
    Abstract: An item recommendation system receives a set of recommendable items and a request to select, from the set of recommendable items, a contrast group. The item recommendation system selects a contrast group from the set of recommendable items by applying a image modification model to the set of recommendable items. The image modification model includes an item selection model configured to determine an unbiased conversion rate for each item of the set of recommendable items and select a recommended item from the set of recommendable items having a greatest unbiased conversion rate. The image modification model includes a contrast group selection model configured to select, for the recommended item, a contrast group comprising the recommended item and one or more contrast items. The item recommendation system transmits the contrast group responsive to the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Adobe Inc.
    Inventors: Cameron Smith, Wei-An Lin, Timothy M. Converse, Shabnam Ghadar, Ratheesh Kalarot, John Nack, Jingwan Lu, Hui Qu, Elya Shechtman, Baldo Faieta
  • Publication number: 20250084156
    Abstract: The present invention relates to stable and low viscosity liquid pharmaceutical compositions comprising antibodies binding to human alpha synuclein and to methods for use of antibodies binding to human alpha synuclein for treating synucleinopathies or prodromal synucleinopathy, incl. suitable doses and/or dosing regimens. These antibodies for use in treatment of synucleinopathies or prodromal synucleinopathy may be formulated in the stable and low viscosity liquid pharmaceutical compositions of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Henrik Rajesh Kumar PARSHAD, Anne Sofie MARKUSSEN, Mark Cornell MANNING, Derrick Spencer KATAYAMA, Magdalena GAUDEN, John SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250088687
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to automate the recording of media for signature creation. Reference signature requests are received from an employee or user. The reference signature request is distributed to automated capture tool circuitry, which plays the relevant media for a meter and provides a status update. When a signature is created, a status update indicates whether it is considered to be a reference signature. Prioritization circuitry assigns and updates a priority for each of the requests according to the priority of other requests, the status updates, and a priority rule set. Reference signature requests with the highest priority are assigned to automated capture tool circuitry for completion before lower priority requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Albert T. Borawski, Shailendra Paranjape, Nigel Smith, Eric M. Rosell, John Ferrell, Jessica Salazar, Morgan Nibert, David Christie
  • Publication number: 20250076918
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes an oscillator circuit, a first divider circuit, a synchronization control circuit, and a peripheral circuit. The oscillator circuit is configured to generate a base frequency clock. The first divider circuit is configured to divide the base frequency clock by a first selectable divisor to generate a divided clock. The synchronization control circuit is configured to generate a synchronization pulse that controls a change of the first selectable divisor in the first divider circuit from a first value to a second value. A pulse width of the synchronization pulse is based on the first value of the first selectable divisor. The peripheral circuit is coupled to the first divider circuit and the synchronization control circuit. The peripheral circuit includes a second divider circuit. The second divider circuit divides the divided clock by a second selectable divisor, and change the second selectable divisor responsive to the synchronization pulse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Atul Ramakant LELE, Paul John PATCHEN, Ryan Alexander SMITH, Bernd Hannes SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: D1065578
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Timothy Barta, John Staton, Robert Setterquist, Sandro Klein, Carolyn Johnson, Justin Inslee, Jason Jones, Christopher Crowley, Ethan Gentert, Wade Lukianow, Sara Thiele, Jay Greco, Syrus Jaffe, Eric Liu, Alexandre Vlassov, Marie Gonzalez, Christopher Martin, Robert Smith