Patents by Inventor John R. Palmer
John R. Palmer 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).
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Patent number: 11962217Abstract: An electric motor includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly. The rotor assembly includes a rotor shaft that is rotatable relative to the stator assembly about a rotation axis. The motor also includes an endshield, a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the rotor shaft on the endshield, a shaft ground assembly electrically coupled to the rotor shaft, and a bearing lockplate. The bearing lockplate is fixedly coupled to the endshield. The shaft ground assembly is supported by the bearing lockplate on the endshield.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Nidec Motor CorporationInventors: Steven R. Palmer, Chetan O. Modi, Chuck Roessler, John H. Hussey
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Patent number: 11900321Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving process information that specifies one or more process requirements and one or more potential causes of failures associated with processes for manufacturing a design, ii) control information that specifies one or more parameters and one or more values associated with the one or more parameters that facilitate determining whether the one or more process requirements specified in the process information that are associated with the processes are being met, and iii) sensor data associated with the one or more parameters from one or more sensors of a product development environment. Responsive to determining that sensor data associated with a particular parameter of the control information is outside of an associated range of values, a process requirement and a process associated with the parameter is determined based on the process information and the control information.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Brittany A. Friedland, John R. Palmer, Lucas Aviles, Anthony T. O'Hare, Leanne Jensen, Raluca M. Dumitrache
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Patent number: 11675599Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor, one or more accelerators communicatively coupled to the processor, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the one or more accelerators and configured for out-of-band management of the information handling system, the management controller further configured to receive information regarding the one or more accelerators, determine a criticality factor for each of the one or more accelerators based on the information, determine an accelerator health status for each of the one or more accelerators, and determine an overall system health of the information handling system based on the criticality factors and the accelerator health statuses.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Chitrak Gupta, Rama Rao Bisa, John R. Palmer
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Patent number: 11429085Abstract: A system may include an air mover configured to drive a flow of air, a heat-generating component in a path of the flow of air, an assembly comprising heat-rejecting media and a thermoelectric cooling apparatus thermally coupled to the heat-rejecting media and arranged such that the heat-rejecting media is in the path of the flow of air between the air mover and the heat-generating component, and a thermal control system communicatively coupled to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus and configured to control an electrical parameter applied to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus in order to create a temperature gradient across the thermoelectric cooling apparatus, such that when the electrical parameter is applied to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus, heat is transferred from the flow of air to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus via the heat-rejecting media.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Aubreye Reddell, John R. Palmer, Troy A. Tiritilli, Jeremiah Bartlett
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Publication number: 20220043658Abstract: An information handling system may include a processor, one or more accelerators communicatively coupled to the processor, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the one or more accelerators and configured for out-of-band management of the information handling system, the management controller further configured to receive information regarding the one or more accelerators, determine a criticality factor for each of the one or more accelerators based on the information, determine an accelerator health status for each of the one or more accelerators, and determine an overall system health of the information handling system based on the criticality factors and the accelerator health statuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2020Publication date: February 10, 2022Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Chitrak GUPTA, Rama Rao BISA, John R. PALMER
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Patent number: 11228484Abstract: A data center including a data center management controller and a plurality of floor tiles. Each floor tile includes a tile management controller coupled to the data center management controller. The data center management controller aggregates floor tile information from each floor tile and provides floor tile configuration information to each floor tile.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: January 18, 2022Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: John R. Palmer, Syed S. Ahmed, Jinsaku Masuyama
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Publication number: 20210373531Abstract: A system may include an air mover configured to drive a flow of air, a heat-generating component in a path of the flow of air, an assembly comprising heat-rejecting media and a thermoelectric cooling apparatus thermally coupled to the heat-rejecting media and arranged such that the heat-rejecting media is in the path of the flow of air between the air mover and the heat-generating component, and a thermal control system communicatively coupled to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus and configured to control an electrical parameter applied to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus in order to create a temperature gradient across the thermoelectric cooling apparatus, such that when the electrical parameter is applied to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus, heat is transferred from the flow of air to the thermoelectric cooling apparatus via the heat-rejecting media.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Aubreye REDDELL, John R. PALMER, Troy A. TIRITILLI, Jeremiah BARTLETT
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Publication number: 20210312394Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving process information that specifies one or more process requirements and one or more potential causes of failures associated with processes for manufacturing a design, ii) control information that specifies one or more parameters and one or more values associated with the one or more parameters that facilitate determining whether the one or more process requirements specified in the process information that are associated with the processes are being met, and iii) sensor data associated with the one or more parameters from one or more sensors of a product development environment. Responsive to determining that sensor data associated with a particular parameter of the control information is outside of an associated range of values, a process requirement and a process associated with the parameter is determined based on the process information and the control information.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Brittany A. Friedland, John R. Palmer, Lucas Aviles, Anthony T. O'Hare, Leanne Jensen, Raluca M. Dumitrache
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Publication number: 20210216480Abstract: An information handling system includes a first graphics processing unit (GPU) with a first high-speed interface, a second GPU with a second high-speed interface coupled to the first high-speed interface, and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The first GPU is configured to receive a command to provide management data to the BMC, and to provide first management data associated with the first GPU to the first GPU via the first high-speed interface in response to receiving the command. The second GPU is configured to receive the command, to receive the first management data via the second high-speed interface in response to receiving the command, and to provide the first management data and second management data associated with the second GPU to the BMC in further response to the command.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 9, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Chitrak Gupta, Rama Bisa, Rajeshkumar Patel, Chandrasekhar Puthilathe, John R. Palmer, Akkiah Maddukuri, Pavan Gavvala
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Patent number: 11061838Abstract: An information handling system includes a first graphics processing unit (GPU) with a first high-speed interface, a second GPU with a second high-speed interface coupled to the first high-speed interface, and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The first GPU is configured to receive a command to provide management data to the BMC, and to provide first management data associated with the first GPU to the first GPU via the first high-speed interface in response to receiving the command. The second GPU is configured to receive the command, to receive the first management data via the second high-speed interface in response to receiving the command, and to provide the first management data and second management data associated with the second GPU to the BMC in further response to the command.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Chitrak Gupta, Rama Bisa, Rajeshkumar Patel, Chandrasekhar Puthilathe, John R. Palmer, Akkiah Maddukuri, Pavan Gavvala
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Patent number: 10990496Abstract: An information handling system includes a host processing system and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The host processing system includes a main processor that instantiates a management controller agent, and a general-purpose processing unit (GPU). The BMC is coupled to the host processing system and to the GPU. The BMC is configured to direct the management controller agent to retrieve first management information from the GPU, receive the first management information from the management controller agent, retrieve second management information from the GPU, and provide a health indication for the GPU based upon the first management information and the second management information.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Chitrak Gupta, Sreenivasula Reddy G, John R. Palmer, Richard Lynn Hall
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Patent number: 10928866Abstract: A method comprising may include mechanically coupling a first main body to a second main body mechanically via a first mechanical feature such that distance between the first main body and the second main body is variable in a first direction, mechanically coupling a chassis engagement feature to the first main body via a second mechanical feature such that distance between the chassis engagement feature and the first main body is variable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the chassis engagement feature is configured to mechanically engage with a chassis when the information handling resource is engaged within the chassis, and mechanically coupling a card engagement feature to the first main body via a third mechanical feature such that distance between the card engagement feature and the first main body is variable in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, wherein the card management feature is configured to mechanically engage withType: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Troy A. Tiritilli, John R. Palmer, Phil R. Geiger
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Publication number: 20200409813Abstract: An information handling system includes a host processing system and a baseboard management controller (BMC). The host processing system includes a main processor that instantiates a management controller agent, and a general-purpose processing unit (GPU). The BMC is coupled to the host processing system and to the GPU. The BMC is configured to direct the management controller agent to retrieve first management information from the GPU, receive the first management information from the management controller agent, retrieve second management information from the GPU, and provide a health indication for the GPU based upon the first management information and the second management information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2019Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Chitrak Gupta, Sreenivasula Reddy G, John R. Palmer, Richard Lynn Hall
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Publication number: 20200393878Abstract: A method comprising may include mechanically coupling a first main body to a second main body mechanically via a first mechanical feature such that distance between the first main body and the second main body is variable in a first direction, mechanically coupling a chassis engagement feature to the first main body via a second mechanical feature such that distance between the chassis engagement feature and the first main body is variable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the chassis engagement feature is configured to mechanically engage with a chassis when the information handling resource is engaged within the chassis, and mechanically coupling a card engagement feature to the first main body via a third mechanical feature such that distance between the card engagement feature and the first main body is variable in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, wherein the card management feature is configured to mechanically engage withType: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Troy A. TIRITILLI, John R. PALMER, Phil R. GEIGER
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Patent number: 10716400Abstract: A server rack includes supports connected to a bottom base, and at least one shelf connected between at least two of the supports. Adjustable feet engaging the bottom base are disposed proximate a corresponding generally corner region of the bottom base. Jack bodies protruding upwardly from the bottom base are disposed proximate the corresponding generally corner region of the bottom base.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Timothy D. Jones, John R. Palmer, Alan J. Brumley
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Patent number: 10712792Abstract: An information handling system includes a battery, a managed device, a host processing complex to instantiate a hosted processing environment, a wireless management module, and a management controller coupled to the wireless management module. The wireless management module includes a wireless transceiver. When the host processing complex is unpowered, the wireless management module receives power from the battery and receives configuration information for the managed device via the wireless transceiver. The management manages the managed device out of band from the hosted processing environment based upon the configuration information.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Dell Products, L.P.Inventors: Sajjad Ahmed, Travis E. Taylor, III, Arulnambi Raju, Sudhir Shetty, Jeffrey M. Lairsey, David M. Warden, Pritesh F. Prabhu, Jinsaku Masuyama, John R. Palmer
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Publication number: 20200097623Abstract: A computing device is configured to form a data structure modeling a production system. The data structure includes a plurality of process node data elements corresponding to production tasks of a manufacturing process described by the production system. Responsive to input, the computing device stores linking data to link process node data elements to objects that describe characteristics associated with process specifications, manufacturing devices, and other process characteristics. The computing device is also configured to update a set of production system estimates associated with the manufacturing process based on objects, and to compare the set of production system estimates to an acceptance criterion for the production system. The computer device also generates a notification indicating whether the manufacturing process described by the production system is expected to satisfy requirements indicated by the acceptance criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2018Publication date: March 26, 2020Inventors: John R. Palmer, William M. Harper, Hung L. Nguyen, Navin B. Johnson, Joseph R. Twardoski, Thomas P. Harper, Joseph R. Cabotaje, Anna Fe J. Garcia
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Patent number: 10499534Abstract: An information handling system, includes a server rack including a first communication device. The server rack has a mounting flange with a plurality of mounting holes. The information handling system also includes a server installed in the server rack and secured to the mounting flange via a first mounting hole of the plurality of mounting holes. The server includes a second communication device, that is coupled to the first communication device via a second mounting hole of the plurality of mounting holes.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Jinsaku Masuyama, Sajjad S. Ahmed, John R. Palmer
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Patent number: 10373283Abstract: An information handling system includes a host processing system and a management controller. The host processing system includes a main processor that instantiates a management controller agent, a graphics processing unit (GPU), and a GPU throttle module. The management controller accesses the management controller via a first interface to obtain a performance status from the GPU, determine that the performance status is outside of a status threshold, and direct, via a second interface of the information handling system, the GPU throttle module to throttle the GPU to bring the performance status to within the status threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Dell Products, LPInventors: Dinesh Kunnathur Ragupathi, John R. Palmer
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Publication number: 20190110597Abstract: A server rack includes supports connected to a bottom base, and at least one shelf connected between at least two of the supports. Adjustable feet engaging the bottom base are disposed proximate a corresponding generally corner region of the bottom base. Jack bodies protruding upwardly from the bottom base are disposed proximate the corresponding generally corner region of the bottom base.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2017Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventors: Timothy D. Jones, John R. Palmer, Alan J. Brumley