Patents by Inventor John A. Starks

John A. Starks 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).

  • Patent number: 11948097
    Abstract: A system (300) and method (900) for viewing an event (80). The system (300) can enhance the experience of the viewer (120) in a variety of different ways. A machine learning module (534) can be used to train the system (300) to correctly identify the participants (110) of an event (80) from an image (728) or video (729) captured at the event (80).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Inventor: Daniel John Stark
  • Publication number: 20240076129
    Abstract: A method for delivering a plurality of packages is described. The method includes obtaining, via a processor, information associated with a delivery plan of the plurality of packages from at least one memory. Based on the information, the method includes determining, via the processor, a current location, and a destination location of a target container. In response to the determination, the method includes determining, via the processor, a movement plan to move the target container to the destination location. Based on the movement plan, the method includes activating, via the processor, a first set of motorized tiles to move the target container to the destination location. The method further includes receiving, via the processor, an updated movement plan from a server plan when a preset condition is met. Based on the updated movement plan, the method includes activating, via the processor, a second set of motorized tiles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Stark, Girish Kumar Yadav, Timothy Mark Feldkamp, Kurt Michael Lundeen, David Melcher, John Randolf Vincent, Yifan Chen, Sarah Garrow
  • Patent number: 11866766
    Abstract: A system and method for target material capture, the method comprising: receiving a set of target cells into an array of wells defined at a surface plane of a substrate; receiving a set of particles into the array of wells, thereby co-capturing the set of target cells and the set of particles; achieving a desired state for the array of wells upon receiving a washing fluid into a cavity in communication with the array of wells; receiving a lysis buffer into the cavity; receiving a partitioning fluid into the cavity, thereby displacing the lysis buffer from the cavity and partitioning each of the array of wells from adjacent wells, at the surface plane; and retaining intercellular material of the set of target cells, individually with the set of particles within the array of wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyan Handique, John Stark, Yadwinder Deol, Vishal Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230407372
    Abstract: A system and method for target material capture, the method comprising: receiving a set of target cells into an array of wells defined at a surface plane of a substrate; receiving a set of particles into the array of wells, thereby co-capturing the set of target cells and the set of particles; achieving a desired state for the array of wells upon receiving a washing fluid into a cavity in communication with the array of wells; receiving a lysis buffer into the cavity; receiving a partitioning fluid into the cavity, thereby displacing the lysis buffer from the cavity and partitioning each of the array of wells from adjacent wells, at the surface plane; and retaining intercellular material of the set of target cells, individually with the set of particles within the array of wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Kalyan Handique, John Stark, Yadwinder Deol, Vishal Sharma
  • Patent number: 11814671
    Abstract: A system and method for target material capture, the method comprising: receiving a set of target cells into an array of wells defined at a surface plane of a substrate; receiving a set of particles into the array of wells, thereby co-capturing the set of target cells and the set of particles; achieving a desired state for the array of wells upon receiving a washing fluid into a cavity in communication with the array of wells; receiving a lysis buffer into the cavity; receiving a partitioning fluid into the cavity, thereby displacing the lysis buffer from the cavity and partitioning each of the array of wells from adjacent wells, at the surface plane; and retaining intercellular material of the set of target cells, individually with the set of particles within the array of wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyan Handique, John Stark, Yadwinder Deol, Vishal Sharma
  • Publication number: 20230244395
    Abstract: This document describes techniques for storing virtual disk payload data. In an exemplary configuration, each virtual disk extent can be associated with state information that indicates whether the virtual disk extent is described by a virtual disk file. Under certain conditions the space used to describe a virtual disk extent can be reclaimed and state information can be used to determine how read and/or write operations directed to the virtual disk extent are handled. In addition to the foregoing, other techniques are described in the claims, figures, and detailed description of this document.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John A. STARKS, Dustin L. GREEN, Todd William HARRIS, Mathew JOHN, Senthil RAJARAM, Karan MEHRA, Neal R. CHRISTIANSEN, Chung Lang DAI
  • Patent number: 11614873
    Abstract: This document describes techniques for storing virtual disk payload data. In an exemplary configuration, each virtual disk extent can be associated with state information that indicates whether the virtual disk extent is described by a virtual disk file. Under certain conditions the space used to describe a virtual disk extent can be reclaimed and state information can be used to determine how read and/or write operations directed to the virtual disk extent are handled. In addition to the foregoing, other techniques are described in the claims, figures, and detailed description of this document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John A. Starks, Dustin L. Green, Todd William Harris, Mathew John, Senthil Rajaram, Karan Mehra, Neal R. Christiansen, Chung Lang Dai
  • Publication number: 20230056356
    Abstract: A system and method for target material capture, the method comprising: receiving a set of target cells into an array of wells defined at a surface plane of a substrate; receiving a set of particles into the array of wells, thereby co-capturing the set of target cells and the set of particles; achieving a desired state for the array of wells upon receiving a washing fluid into a cavity in communication with the array of wells; receiving a lysis buffer into the cavity; receiving a partitioning fluid into the cavity, thereby displacing the lysis buffer from the cavity and partitioning each of the array of wells from adjacent wells, at the surface plane; and retaining intercellular material of the set of target cells, individually with the set of particles within the array of wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Kalyan Handique, John Stark, Yadwinder Deol, Vishal Sharma
  • Publication number: 20220413883
    Abstract: A system comprising a hosting service configured to perform: providing, to a trusted entity on a central processing unit, a command for a launch of a virtual machine (VM); assigning, to the VM, at least a portion of memory for the guest operating system; submitting, to the trusted entity, a request to measure an address space of the VM to provide a measurement digest of the address space of the guest operating system; including, in a configuration object, a policy provided by the user for the service logic, wherein the policy defines one or more rules for the service logic, wherein the one or more rules include at least one rule for which containers may run in the guest operating system; hashing the policy to provide a hash digest of the policy; submitting, to the trusted entity, the hash digest of the policy; and completing the launch of the VM.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Sylvan CLEBSCH, Stavros VOLOS, Sean ALLEN, Antonio Nino DIAZ, John STARKS, Ken GORDON, Manuel COSTA
  • Publication number: 20220291875
    Abstract: Examples described herein generally relate to hosting virtual memory backed kernel isolated containers. A server includes at least one physical processor and at least one physical computer memory addressable via physical memory addresses. The at least one physical computer memory stores executable code configured to provide at least one host including a kernel and at least one kernel isolated container within the at least one host. The host allocates virtual memory having virtual memory addresses to a respective container of the at least one kernel isolated container. The host pins a subset of the virtual memory addresses to a subset of the physical memory addresses. The host performs a direct memory access operation or device memory-mapped input-output operation of the respective container on the subset of the physical memory addresses. At least part of the physical computer memory that is not pinned is oversubscribed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Gerardo DIAZ-CUELLAR, Omar CARDONA, Jacob Kappeler OSHINS, John STARKS, Craig Daniel WILHITE
  • Patent number: 11439143
    Abstract: A temperature sensor for monitoring an organ or tissue is configured to measure a temperature inside of a container configured to contain the organ or tissue. The temperature sensor is disposed exterior to the organ container and the temperature sensor is a non-contact temperature sensor. The temperature sensor may be part of an apparatus for perfusing, transporting, and/or storing an organ or tissue. A coolant container may have an aperture through which the temperature sensor measures a temperature of at least one of the organ or tissue or a perfusate fluid surrounding the organ or tissue. The temperature sensor is preferably an infrared temperature sensor. Multiple temperature sensors may be provided that measure the temperature organ or tissue or perfusate fluid surrounding the organ or tissue, for example in case one of the temperature sensors fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: LIFELINE SCIENTIFIC, INC.
    Inventors: David Kravitz, Christopher P. Steinman, David Pettinato, Richard K. Buck, John Stark, Robert J. Allen
  • Publication number: 20220224726
    Abstract: Distribution and management of services in virtual environments is described herein. In one or more implementations, a service distribution and management model is implemented in which system services and applications are seamlessly distributed across multiple containers which each implement a different runtime environment. In one or more implementations, a system for distributing access to services in a host operating system of a computing device includes a host operating system configured to implement a host runtime environment, and one or more services implemented by the host operating system. The system further includes a service control manager configured to enable communication between a client stub of a service implemented in a client runtime environment and a service provider of the service that is implemented in a service runtime environment that is separate from the first client runtime environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Hari R. Pulapaka, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Jonathan David Wiswall, Frederick Justus Smith, John A. Starks, Richard O. Wolcott, Michael Bishop Ebersol
  • Patent number: 11363067
    Abstract: Distribution and management of services in virtual environments is described herein. In one or more implementations, a service distribution and management model is implemented in which system services and applications are seamlessly distributed across multiple containers which each implement a different runtime environment. In one or more implementations, a system for distributing access to services in a host operating system of a computing device includes a host operating system configured to implement a host runtime environment, and one or more services implemented by the host operating system. The system further includes a service control manager configured to enable communication between a client stub of a service implemented in a client runtime environment and a service provider of the service that is implemented in a service runtime environment that is separate from the first client runtime environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hari R. Pulapaka, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Jonathan David Wiswall, Frederick Justus Smith, John A. Starks, Richard O. Wolcott, Michael Bishop Ebersol
  • Patent number: 11298010
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices having both imaging components and cell collection apparatuses. More specifically, the various embodiments disclosed herein include swallowable capsules having deployable collection structures, expansion structures to deploy the collection structures, and imaging components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignees: University of Kansas, Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Ajay Bansal, Lane Christenson, Nick Baker, Ryan Baskins, John Stark, Nourouddin Sharifi, Hadi Kh A Kh Alzuabi, Parker Gill
  • Patent number: 11290488
    Abstract: Distribution and management of services in virtual environments is described herein. In one or more implementations, a service distribution and management model is implemented in which system services and applications are seamlessly distributed across multiple containers which each implement a different runtime environment. In one or more implementations, a system for distributing access to services in a host operating system of a computing device includes a host operating system configured to implement a host runtime environment, and one or more services implemented by the host operating system. The system further includes a service control manager configured to enable communication between a client stub of a service implemented in a client runtime environment and a service provider of the service that is implemented in a service runtime environment that is separate from the first client runtime environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Hari R. Pulapaka, Margarit Simeonov Chenchev, Benjamin M. Schultz, Jonathan David Wiswall, Frederick Justus Smith, John A. Starks, Richard O. Wolcott, Michael Bishop Ebersol
  • Publication number: 20210382739
    Abstract: A fine-grain selectable partially privileged container virtual computing environment provides a vehicle by which processes that are directed to modifying specific aspects of a host computing environment can be delivered to, and executed upon, the host computing environment while simultaneously maintaining the advantageous and desirable protections and isolations between the remaining aspects of the host computing environment and the partially privileged container computing environment. Such partial privilege is provided based upon directly or indirectly delineated actions that are allowed to be undertaken on the host computing environment by processes executing within the partially privileged container virtual computing environment and actions which are not allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Amber Tianqi GUO, Frederick J. SMITH, IV, John STARKS, Lars REUTHER, Deepu THOMAS, Hari R. PULAPAKA, Benjamin M. SCHULTZ, Judy J. LIU
  • Publication number: 20210164023
    Abstract: A system and method for target material capture, the method comprising: receiving a set of target cells into an array of wells defined at a surface plane of a substrate; receiving a set of particles into the array of wells, thereby co-capturing the set of target cells and the set of particles; achieving a desired state for the array of wells upon receiving a washing fluid into a cavity in communication with the array of wells; receiving a lysis buffer into the cavity; receiving a partitioning fluid into the cavity, thereby displacing the lysis buffer from the cavity and partitioning each of the array of wells from adjacent wells, at the surface plane; and retaining intercellular material of the set of target cells, individually with the set of particles within the array of wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Kalyan Handique, John Stark, Yadwinder Deol, Vishal Sharma
  • Patent number: 10947581
    Abstract: A system and method for target material capture, the method comprising: receiving a set of target cells into an array of wells defined at a surface plane of a substrate; receiving a set of particles into the array of wells, thereby co-capturing the set of target cells and the set of particles; achieving a desired state for the array of wells upon receiving a washing fluid into a cavity in communication with the array of wells; receiving a lysis buffer into the cavity; receiving a partitioning fluid into the cavity, thereby displacing the lysis buffer from the cavity and partitioning each of the array of wells from adjacent wells, at the surface plane; and retaining intercellular material of the set of target cells, individually with the set of particles within the array of wells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Kalyan Handique, John Stark, Yadwinder Deol, Vishal Sharma
  • Publication number: 20200332347
    Abstract: A system and method for target material capture, the method comprising: receiving a set of target cells into an array of wells defined at a surface plane of a substrate; receiving a set of particles into the array of wells, thereby co-capturing the set of target cells and the set of particles; achieving a desired state for the array of wells upon receiving a washing fluid into a cavity in communication with the array of wells; receiving a lysis buffer into the cavity; receiving a partitioning fluid into the cavity, thereby displacing the lysis buffer from the cavity and partitioning each of the array of wells from adjacent wells, at the surface plane; and retaining intercellular material of the set of target cells, individually with the set of particles within the array of wells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Inventors: Kalyan Handique, John Stark, Yadwinder Deol, Vishal Sharma
  • Publication number: 20200128898
    Abstract: An adjustable hat has a first attachment member and a strap connection member that cooperate to allow a strap to be easily connected and removed from the adjustable hat. The two elements may also be reversed with regard to construction and attachment to parts of the hat. The two members can be disengaged from one another without having to access them in the space formed by the hat and the band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2019
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventor: John Stark