Patents by Inventor John A. Weston

John A. Weston 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: 20240157871
    Abstract: A vehicle lighting system is disclosed. The vehicle lighting system may include a display unit configured to operate in a plurality of display modes. The display unit may be mounted on a vehicle rear top portion. The vehicle lighting system may further include a processor that may be configured to obtain trigger event information associated with the display unit. Based on the trigger event information, the processor may select a display mode from the plurality of display modes, and may activate the display unit responsive to the selection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Keith Weston, Brendan Diamond, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Stuart C. Salter, Aaron Bradley Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240151092
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a cabin interior, a powered door having an actuator for moving the door between closed and open positions, interior sensors sensing position or movement of an occupant in the cabin interior, and exterior sensors sensing a passerby proximate to the vehicle. The vehicle includes a controller determining an occupant intending to exit the vehicle via the door based on the interior sensors and determining a passerby passing by the door in an open position using the at least one exterior sensors. The controller controls the actuator to open the door when the occupant is intended to exit the vehicle and at least partially closes the door when a passerby is detected passing by the vehicle door and an occupant is determined not to be exiting the vehicle. The controller controls the actuator to open the door further when the passerby is determined to pass by the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Diamond, Keith Weston, Stuart C. Salter, John Robert Van Wiemeersch, Kristopher Karl Brown
  • Patent number: 11921766
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies related to constructing supplemental content items that summarize electronic landing pages. A sequence to sequence model that is configured to construct supplemental content items is trained based upon a corpus of electronic landing pages and supplemental content items that have been constructed by domain experts, wherein each landing page has a respective supplemental content item assigned thereto. The sequence to sequence model is additionally trained using self critical sequence training, where estimated click through rates of supplemental content items generated by the sequence to sequence model are employed to train the sequence to sequence model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MICRSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Keng-hao Chang, Ruofei Zhang, John Weston Hughes
  • Publication number: 20240012143
    Abstract: An optical distance measurement or ranging apparatus, the apparatus including at least one optical pulse generator for generating a train of gating pulses and a train of probe pulses, the train of gating pulses having a different repetition rate than the train of probe pulses. The gating and probe pulses may be ultrashort laser pulses generated by different free-running, mode-locked lasers. An optical probing arrangement for directing the train of probe pulses to one or more objects and for collecting returned probe pulses returned from the one or more objects. The objects may include a target object and a reference object. The apparatus includes a multi-photon effect detector and is configured to direct both the train of gating pulses and the returned probe pulses to the multi-photon effect detector. The apparatus may be used for industrial inspection, machine calibration, position measurement or the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: RENISHAW PLC
    Inventors: Nicholas John WESTON, Derryck Telford REID, Hollie WRIGHT
  • Publication number: 20230348422
    Abstract: It is provided an albidicin derivatives, in particular to amid bond isosteres compound according to general formula (1) and (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN
    Inventors: Roderich SÜSSMUTH, John WESTON, Iraj BEHROZ, Leonardo KLEEBAUER, Lieby ZBOROVSKY, Kay HOMMERNICK
  • Publication number: 20230346288
    Abstract: Systems and methods for predicting a future cardiovascular event are provided. Electrocardiogram waveform data can be acquired and utilized in a trained computational model to predict a future cardiovascular event. Clinical interventions, clinical surveillance, and clinical treatments can be performed based on a future cardiovascular event prediction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: John Weston Hughes, James Zou, Euan A. Ashley, Marco V. Perez
  • Patent number: 11555791
    Abstract: Measurement cavities described herein include a cylindrical chamber having a first open end and a second open end; a first cap covering the first open end of the cylindrical chamber and a second cap covering the second open end of the cylindrical chamber, wherein the first and second caps hermetically seal the cylindrical chamber and wherein the first cap is rigidly coupled to the second cap; and a wafer holder positioned within and coupled to the cylindrical chamber. The measurement cavity has a mass m, a stiffness k, and a damping constant c configured such that the transmissibility ? x F ? of an input force at 60 Hz in the measurement cavity is reduced by a factor of at least 10 and the measurement cavity has a natural frequency of greater than 300 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: John Weston Frankovich, Christopher Alan Lee, Matthew Ronald Millecchia
  • Publication number: 20220414134
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies related to constructing supplemental content items that summarize electronic landing pages. A sequence to sequence model that is configured to construct supplemental content items is trained based upon a corpus of electronic landing pages and supplemental content items that have been constructed by domain experts, wherein each landing page has a respective supplemental content item assigned thereto. The sequence to sequence model is additionally trained using self critical sequence training, where estimated click through rates of supplemental content items generated by the sequence to sequence model are employed to train the sequence to sequence model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Keng-hao CHANG, Ruofei ZHANG, John Weston HUGHES
  • Patent number: 11449536
    Abstract: Described herein are technologies related to constructing supplemental content items that summarize electronic landing pages. A sequence to sequence model that is configured to construct supplemental content items is trained based upon a corpus of electronic landing pages and supplemental content items that have been constructed by domain experts, wherein each landing page has a respective supplemental content item assigned thereto. The sequence to sequence model is additionally trained using self critical sequence training, where estimated click through rates of supplemental content items generated by the sequence to sequence model are employed to train the sequence to sequence model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Keng-hao Chang, Ruofei Zhang, John Weston Hughes
  • Patent number: D960178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D977495
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D978159
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D978872
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D978873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D987654
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D987655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D999782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D999785
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D1000471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce
  • Patent number: D1015369
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Motor North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Tuhin Diptiman, Daniel Hall, Louie Solomon, Ben Cline, John Weston Pierce