Patents by Inventor John Adam

John Adam 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: 20250137686
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a water heater is provided comprising an electric heating element circuit; a circuit coupled to the electric heating element circuit and configured to supply current to the electric heating element; a sensor coupled to the circuit and configured to detect a temperature associated with operation of the electric heating element circuit; and a controller coupled to the circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Bradford White Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Hill, John Adams, Fred Robinson
  • Publication number: 20250109860
    Abstract: An oven appliance includes a cabinet forming a cooking chamber; at least one heating element positioned within the cooking chamber; a door rotatably coupled to the cabinet between an open position and a closed position; and a bumper protruding along the transverse direction and positioned between the cabinet and the door, the bumper configured to provide dampening between the cabinet and the door in the closed position, wherein the bumper includes a first heat face and a second heat face to guide heated air along the lateral direction, and wherein each of the first heat face and the second heat face is linear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: John Adam Yantis, Joshua Mayne
  • Publication number: 20250109888
    Abstract: A water heater system includes a first water heater including a first controller configured to transmit and receive a token; and a second water heater including a second controller configured to transmit and receive the token. The first water heater is plumbed to the second water heater in a twinned configuration, and the first controller is in communication with the second controller. The first controller is configured to control the first water heater to perform a first heating cycle while in possession of the token, and then transmit the token to the second controller, and the second controller is configured to control the second water heater to perform a second heating cycle while in possession of the token, and then transmit the token to the first controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: Bradford White Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce Hill, John Adams, Fred Robinson
  • Publication number: 20250093044
    Abstract: An oven appliance includes a cabinet defining a cooking chamber, a cooktop positioned at a top of the cabinet and comprising one or more heating elements, a proximity sensing assembly defining an upper detection zone and a lower detection zone, and a controller in operative communication with the proximity sensing assembly. The controller is configured to obtain an upper proximity reading in the upper detection zone using the proximity sensing assembly, obtain a lower proximity reading in the lower detection zone using the proximity sensing assembly, and implement a responsive action based on a combination of the upper proximity reading and the lower proximity reading.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventor: John Adam Yantis
  • Patent number: 12254717
    Abstract: An interactive portrait system includes a camera configured to capture imagery of an environment and a controller. The controller is configured to analyze the imagery to identify a guest in the environment, instruct an output device to provide an initial output to attempt to interact with the guest, and analyze the imagery to identify a behavior of the guest during the initial output, after the initial output, or both. The controller is also configured to evaluate the behavior of the guest using one or more artificial intelligence algorithms to determine whether the guest responded to the initial output. The controller is further configured to, in response to determining that the guest responded to the initial output, instruct the output device to provide an additional output to continue to attempt to interact with the guest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Universal City Studios LLC
    Inventors: Robert Michael Jordan, Anthony Melo, Angelo Pagliuca, Brandon David Burnette, John Adams, Jacob David Allinson, Eric To Chan, Mark James Traynor
  • Publication number: 20250068292
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes a mixed reality display for presenting a virtual image to a user, an outward-facing imaging system configured to image an environment of the user, and a hardware processor operably coupled to the mixed reality display and to the imaging system. The hardware processor is programmed to generate a virtual remote associated with a parent device, render the virtual remote and the virtual control element on the mixed reality display, determine when the user of the wearable system interacts with the virtual control element of the virtual remote, and perform certain functions in response to user interaction with a virtual control element of the virtual remote. These functions may include generation the virtual control element to move on the mixed reality display; and when movement of the virtual control element surpasses a threshold condition, generate a focus indicator for the virtual control element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, John Adam Croston
  • Patent number: 12234408
    Abstract: Provided are novel naphthalene diimide (NDI) compound of Formula 1. The compounds may exhibit colour change from substantially transparent to substantially black upon electrochemical or photochemical stimulus and may be useful in smart windows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The University Court of the University of Glasgow Glasgow
    Inventors: Emily Rose Adams, David John Adams
  • Patent number: 12226866
    Abstract: A foreign object debris (FOD) collection drill attachment for attaching to a drill includes with a drill guide bushing holder, a chip breaker bushing, an air supply line, a chip evacuation line, a chip collection hopper, and an air manifold. The drill guide bushing holder includes an inlet channel receiving air from the air supply line, an outlet channel, and a holder center channel. The inlet channel and the outlet channel each open into the holder center channel through which an end protrusion of the chip breaker bushing extends to break up FOD on a drill bit of the drill. The cross-sectional area of the inlet channel is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the outlet channel, creating a Venturi effect between the inlet channel and the outlet channel to pull FOD away from the drill bit and through the chip evacuation line to the chip collection hopper.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Spirit AeroSystems, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd B. Jaramillo, Matthew R. Schroeder, Chelsea Sewell, Alexis Winkle, Adrian Schrage, John Adam Price, John Robert Dye, III
  • Patent number: 12175054
    Abstract: A wearable display system includes a mixed reality display for presenting a virtual image to a user, an outward-facing imaging system configured to image an environment of the user, and a hardware processor operably coupled to the mixed reality display and to the imaging system. The hardware processor is programmed to generate a virtual remote associated with a parent device, render the virtual remote and the virtual control element on the mixed reality display, determine when the user of the wearable system interacts with the virtual control element of the virtual remote, and perform certain functions in response to user interaction with a virtual control element of the virtual remote. These functions may include generation the virtual control element to move on the mixed reality display; and when movement of the virtual control element surpasses a threshold condition, generate a focus indicator for the virtual control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: MAGIC LEAP, INC.
    Inventors: Adrian Kaehler, John Adam Croston
  • Patent number: 12174799
    Abstract: A cloud-native global file system is augmented to include a file exporter (or, more generally, a file export tool) that facilitates an enterprise customer's use of a cloud-native tool that would otherwise be unable to operate against the global file system's underlying file system representation. In a typical use case, the file exporter is configured to extract in a native object format and to an unencrypted target all or a portion of a volume's data from the underlying file system representation. In this manner, the exporter creates a copy of the data set that the enterprise user can then leverage against the desired cloud-native tool or other cloud services that are not under the management or control of the global file system service provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Nasuni Corporation
    Inventors: Russell Andrew Neufeld, Max Picard Perry, John Adam Carter
  • Patent number: 12166670
    Abstract: A first router generates session establishment metrics for use in network path selection. For example, a plurality of routers connect a client device to a network service instance hosted by a server. A first router is connected to the network service instance via first and second paths. The first router receives session performance requirements for a session between the client device and the network service instance. The first router forwards, along the first path, network traffic for the session by modifying a first packet of the session to include a session identifier for the session. The first router determines that session establishment metrics for the session do not satisfy the session performance requirements. In response, the first router forwards, along the second path, the network traffic for the session by modifying a second packet of the session to include the session identifier for the session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: JUNIPER NETWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Baj, Patrick J. MeLampy, Ryan Koss, Kaushik Adesh Agrawal, Abilash Menon, Michael John Adams, Sarah V. Jaffer
  • Patent number: 12140720
    Abstract: Embodiments provide for a method that utilizes the azimuthally spaced receivers of a sonic logging tool. Signals from monopole and dipole sources are reflected from the geologic interfaces and recorded by arrays of receivers of the same tool. For the incident P-waves from the monopole source, phase arrival times for the azimuthal receivers are compensated for stacking using properties of wave propagation in the borehole, and for the incident SH-waves from the dipole source, signs of waveforms for the receivers are changed for specified azimuths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Nobuyasu Hirabayashi, Yevgeniy Karpekin, Nicholas Norman Bennett, John Adam Donald, Asbjoern Lund Johansen, Takeshi Endo
  • Publication number: 20240353111
    Abstract: An oven appliance may include a cabinet that defines a top side and a back side. In addition, the oven appliance may include a control assembly that may be positioned at the top side and the back side of the cabinet. Further, the oven appliance may include a rear wire cover connected to the control assembly. In addition, the oven appliance may include a control bracket attached to the control assembly, the control bracket comprising a brace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventor: John Adam Yantis
  • Publication number: 20240353112
    Abstract: A cooktop appliance that may include a cooktop. The cooktop may include a top panel and a recessed inner portion that may extend downward from the top panel along the vertical direction. Furthermore, the recessed inner portion may include one or more burner housings that may be defined within the recessed inner portion. The cooktop appliance may include one or more burner assemblies that may each be housed within a respective burner housing. Each burner assembly may output heat for the cooktop. Further, the cooktop appliance may include a heat apparatus that may include a heat plate, a diverter plate that extends downward from the heat plate approximately along the vertical direction, and a locator arm that extends outward from the heat plate. The locator arm may include a tab and a flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Cassandra Brady, John Adam Yantis
  • Publication number: 20240342364
    Abstract: A drug delivery device includes a reservoir configured to receive a fluid, a cannula in fluid communication with the reservoir, with the cannula configured to be inserted into subcutaneous tissue or muscle tissue of a patient, and a pump configured to deliver a fluid from the reservoir to the cannula. The cannula includes a bioactive agent configured to cause a tissue response to decrease a pressure required to deliver fluid from the reservoir. The tissue response can include vasodilation, vasoconstriction, increased tissue permeability, increased flow of interstitial fluid or enzymatic deterioration of extracellular matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Steve Beguin, Stuart Plascott, Ronald J. Pettis, Natasha G. Bolick, John Adams
  • Publication number: 20240335758
    Abstract: A radio-controlled (RC) motorcycle is disclosed with a chassis, a rear wheel, and a steerable front wheel assembly. The motorcycle includes an attitude estimator that uses rotation and acceleration data from an IMU to estimate an inertial attitude of the motorcycle. A receiver is connected to a control processor and receives a steering input from an RC transmitter. The control processor determines a desired roll angle based at least in part on the steering input from the receiver; determines a reported roll angle from the attitude estimate; and controls a steering angle of the front wheel assembly to reduce the difference (or reduce error) between the desired roll angle and the reported roll angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: John Adams, Matthew W. Olson
  • Patent number: 12111107
    Abstract: A multi-pane door assembly for an oven appliance includes a door having first and second door panes. The first door pane is secured to the second door pane at a hinge point and is rotatable with respect to the second door pane between open and closed positions. As such, the door panes define a space therebetween when the first door pane is in the closed position. The door assembly also includes an engagement device for securing the door panes together, a locking mechanism for locking the engagement device, and a controller communicatively coupled to the actuating device. The locking mechanism includes, at least, a locking member and an actuating device. Thus, the controller is configured to receive one or more safety conditions relating to the oven appliance and select whether to engage or disengage the actuating device based on whether the safety condition(s) correspond to the predetermined safety condition(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Ian Moore, John Adam Yantis
  • Publication number: 20240334185
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for transferring application data. In one aspect, a method includes causing, by a first component on a first device to establish a wireless connection with a second device; receiving, by the first component, first application data from the first application; receiving, by the first component, an indication that a user of the second device has approved a data transfer; and causing, by the first component, the first device to send the first application data to the second component running on the second device using the wireless connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Vincent Wei-Kang Chen, Paul Lee, Gregory M. Hecht, Erdi Chen, Jenny Chun-yi Chen, Maria-Ines Carrera, Estelle Laure Myriam Comment, Eric Chu, Peter Jin Hong, Christopher John Adams, Lucas Gill Dixon
  • Patent number: D1061881
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Elaine Huggard, Daniel Gurovich, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, John Adams, James Leslie Rhodri Jones
  • Patent number: D1073936
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Elaine Huggard, Daniel Gurovich, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, John Adams, James Leslie Rhodri Jones