Patents by Inventor John R. Smith

John R. 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).

  • Patent number: 12210696
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for enabling a power efficient stylus for an electronic device are provided. Various components may be provided for providing electrostatic discharge protection of such a stylus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Shapirten Laboratories LLC
    Inventors: Daniel J. Bechstein, Blake R. Marshall, John S. Smith, Vipin Ayanoor-Vitikkate, MohammadAli Khorrami
  • Patent number: 12206939
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a media module and a modification module included in an embedded appliance. The media module is configured to receive a first media signal associated with a first input port of the embedded appliance and a second media signal associated with a second input port of the embedded appliance. The media module is configured to identify a first set of media signal parameters based on the first media signal. The modification module is configured to receive a modification instruction associated with a session format having a second set of media signal parameters different from the first set of media signal parameters. The modification module is configured to modify the first media signal based on the first set of media signal parameters and the modification instruction to produce a first modified media signal in the session format and having the second set of media signal parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Echo360, Inc
    Inventors: John J. Smith, Stephen R. Titus, Douglas E. Rogers, David Henry Boyle, Keira Kaitlyn Johnson, Jonathan D. Bell
  • Publication number: 20240279095
    Abstract: A septic tank system includes a multiple compartmented (or chambered) supplemental tank. The supplemental tank has a cover/lid with a plurality of strategically situated access holes (both small and large ports) for servicing the various chambers from above ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: John R. Smith, Ron Keffer, Robert Horger, Andrew C. Middleton, Robin L. Weightman, Peter Goodale, Richard Donahue
  • Patent number: 11981590
    Abstract: A septic tank system includes a multiple compartmented (or chambered) supplemental tank. The supplemental tank has a cover/lid with a plurality of strategically situated access holes (both small and large ports) for servicing the various chambers from above ground.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: KLEANTU LLC
    Inventors: John R. Smith, Ron Keffer, Robert Horger, Andrew C. Middleton, Robin L. Weightman, Peter Goodale, Richard Donahue
  • Publication number: 20240018026
    Abstract: An enhanced multiple compartmented (segmented or chambered) supplemental tank system that (i) adds another media to enhance wood chip denitrification, and (ii) includes a component for recycling treated wastewater back to the front end of the system with mainly nitrate-N recycled back and combined with organic carbon (present in wastewater) under anoxic to form nitrogen gas and CO2. The latter uses an aeration pump and tubing to reduce soluble organics and assist with the conversion of ammonia-N to nitrite-N and nitrate-N.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: John R. Smith, Andrew C. Middleton, Robin L. Weightman, Robert Horger, Richard Donahue, Jaw Fu
  • Patent number: 11865962
    Abstract: A flatbed, step-deck, double-drop deck, or lowboy trailer assembly comprises a plurality of metal crossmembers extending in a transverse direction of the trailer assembly; a metal deck supported by the plurality of crossmembers, the metal deck having an upper deck surface and a lower deck surface; and a pair of parallel wooden boards extending in a longitudinal direction of the trailer assembly proximate respective laterally opposite sides of the trailer assembly. Each wooden board in the pair of wooden boards is located in a respective recessed portion of the metal deck. The lower deck surface is situated between and separates a lower surface of each wooden board from the plurality of metal cross members. The lower deck surface is welded to the plurality of crossmembers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Fontaine Commercial Trailer, Inc.
    Inventor: John R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20230416124
    Abstract: A septic tank system includes a multiple compartmented (or chambered) supplemental tank. The supplemental tank has a cover/lid with a plurality of strategically situated access holes (both small and large ports) for servicing the various chambers from above ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: John R. Smith, Ron Keffer, Robert Horger, Andrew C. Middleton, Robin L. Weightman, Peter Goodale, Richard Donahue
  • Patent number: 11830241
    Abstract: A method and system for auto-curating a media are provided. Media content is received over the network interface. A set of markers is identified for the media content, each marker corresponding to one of a plurality of visible and audible cues in the media content. Segments in the media content are identified based on the identified set of markers. An excitement score is computed for each segment based on the identified markers that fall within the segment. A highlight clip is generated by identifying segments having excitement scores greater than a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michele Merler, Dhiraj Joshi, Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Stephen C. Hammer, John Joseph Kent, John R. Smith, Rogerio Feris
  • Publication number: 20220144159
    Abstract: A flatbed, step-deck, double-drop deck, or lowboy trailer assembly comprises a plurality of metal crossmembers extending in a transverse direction of the trailer assembly; a metal deck supported by the plurality of crossmembers, the metal deck having an upper deck surface and a lower deck surface; and a pair of parallel wooden boards extending in a longitudinal direction of the trailer assembly proximate respective laterally opposite sides of the trailer assembly. Each wooden board in the pair of wooden boards is located in a respective recessed portion of the metal deck. The lower deck surface is situated between and separates a lower surface of each wooden board from the plurality of metal cross members. The lower deck surface is welded to the plurality of crossmembers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Applicant: Fontaine Commercial Trailer, Inc. d/b/a Fontaine Heavy-Haul
    Inventor: John R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11282249
    Abstract: A method and system of stitching a plurality of image views of a scene, including grouping matched points of interest in a plurality of groups, and determining a similarity transformation with smallest rotation angle for each grouping of the matched points. The method further includes generating virtual matching points on non-overlapping area of the plurality of image views and generating virtual matching points on overlapping area for each of the plurality of image views.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, John R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11170270
    Abstract: Techniques for content generation are provided. A plurality of discriminative terms is determined based at least in part on a first plurality of documents that are related to a first concept, and a plurality of positive exemplars and a plurality of negative exemplars are identified using the plurality of discriminative terms. A first machine learning (ML) model is trained to classify images into concepts, based on the plurality of positive exemplars and the plurality of negative exemplars. A second concept related to the first concept is then determined, based on the first ML model. A second ML model is trained to generate images based on the second concept, and a first image is generated using the second ML model. The first image is then refined using a style transfer ML model that was trained using a plurality of style images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michele Merler, Mauro Martino, Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, John R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11172225
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for finding objects in a collection of images or video, the method comprising: assessing a similarity between two subgraphs; detecting the objects in the collection; assessing a relationship between the objects; finding attributes of the objects; constructing a collection graph for the collection where each of the objects is the vertices and nodes of the collection graph and their relationships with other objects and attributes are edges of the collection graphs; recursively identifying coherent subgraphs and turning the coherent subgraphs into new meta-nodes of the collection graph; identification of the stable graph reducing the collection graph into zero or more distinct stories; assigning a similarity score for each pair of the stories based on a similarity between the corresponding stories; linking the stories into inlier stories based on the similarity score being greater than a first pre-determined threshold level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chung-Ching Lin, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, John R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20210117736
    Abstract: Techniques for content generation are provided. A plurality of discriminative terms is determined based at least in part on a first plurality of documents that are related to a first concept, and a plurality of positive exemplars and a plurality of negative exemplars are identified using the plurality of discriminative terms. A first machine learning (ML) model is trained to classify images into concepts, based on the plurality of positive exemplars and the plurality of negative exemplars. A second concept related to the first concept is then determined, based on the first ML model. A second ML model is trained to generate images based on the second concept, and a first image is generated using the second ML model. The first image is then refined using a style transfer ML model that was trained using a plurality of style images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: April 22, 2021
    Inventors: Michele Merler, Mauro Martino, Cicero NOGUEIRA DOS SANTOS, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, John R. Smith
  • Patent number: 10943697
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for identifying symptoms based on digital media. The method includes one or more processors receiving digital media and information associated with a first animal from a user. The method further includes one or more processors identifying data records, stored in a knowledge database, that are respectively associated with an animal that is similar to the first animal. The method further includes one or more processors determining symptom information corresponding to the first animal based on a comparison of the received digital media and information associated with the first animal and the identified data records. The method further includes presenting the determined symptom information to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Lilla Boroczky, Francisco Phelan Curbera, Maria Eleftheriou, John R. Smith
  • Patent number: 10780924
    Abstract: A bogie for a lowboy trailer includes a rear suspension support assembly configured to carry a suspension system of the lowboy trailer thereunder and a front transition assembly coupled to a front end of the rear suspension support assembly and configured to couple the rear suspension support assembly to a lower deck of the lowboy trailer. At least a portion of the rear suspension support assembly has a closed cross section when viewed along a longitudinal axis of the rear suspension support assembly. At least a portion of the front transition assembly has a closed cross section when viewed along a longitudinal axis of the front transition assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Fontaine Commercial Trailer, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Smith, Gregory C. Benson
  • Publication number: 20200257980
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a method includes training a neural network model with a first set of training data. In an embodiment, the method includes calculating divergence for a set of layers of the neural network model, the set of layers comprising at least one batch norm layer. In an embodiment, the method includes analyzing, based on the calculated divergence, a stability of each of the set of layers. In an embodiment, the method includes removing, based on the analysis determining a subset of the set of layers fails to meet a threshold stability, the subset of the set of layers of the neural network model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Parag Chandakkar, John R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20200202599
    Abstract: A method and system of stitching a plurality of image views of a scene, including grouping matched points of interest in a plurality of groups, and determining a similarity transformation with smallest rotation angle for each grouping of the matched points. The method further includes generating virtual matching points on non-overlapping area of the plurality of image views and generating virtual matching points on overlapping area for each of the plurality of image views.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Chung-Ching LIN, Sharathchandra U. Pankanti, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, Aleksandr Y. Aravkin, John R. Smith
  • Patent number: 10685172
    Abstract: Generating a textual description of an image includes classifying an image represented by image data into a domain-specific category, and segmenting one or more elements in the image data based on the domain-specific category. Each element of the one or more elements is compared to a domain-independent model to detect one or more statistical anomalies in the one or more elements. The one or more detected statistical anomalies are characterized using one or more domain-independent text phrases. The one or more domain-independent text phrases are converted to one or more domain-specific descriptions based upon the domain-specific category.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jonathan H. Connell, II, Sharathchandra Pankanti, John R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20200162799
    Abstract: A method and system for auto-curating a media are provided. Media content is received over the network interface. A set of markers is identified for the media content, each marker corresponding to one of a plurality of visible and audible cues in the media content. Segments in the media content are identified based on the identified set of markers. An excitement score is computed for each segment based on the identified markers that fall within the segment. A highlight clip is generated by identifying segments having excitement scores greater than a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Michele Merler, Dhiraj Joshi, Quoc-Bao Nguyen, Stephen C. Hammer, John Joseph Kent, John R. Smith, Rogerio Feris
  • Publication number: 20200160084
    Abstract: One or more embodiments described herein include a computer-implemented method of determining a bounding box for an object in an image. The method includes determining a label for an object in a first image using a first algorithm, and generating a set of images based on the first image, by cropping the first image from a selected direction. The method further includes determining labels for each image in the set using the first algorithm, and removing images from the set such that the remaining images have a label matching the initial label. The method further includes determining a key image for the set, which is the smallest image from the set that has a confidence score exceeding a threshold. Further, the method includes determining a bounding box for the object in the first image based on a perimeter of a portion of the first image that overlaps the key image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, John R. Smith, Matthew Greenberg