Patents by Inventor Jonathan Andrews

Jonathan Andrews 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: 10581630
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include HA operation devices within a structure and HA user interface devices. Each HA user interface device may wirelessly communicate with the HA operation devices to perform at least one HA operation. A wireless access point may be within the structure. HA hub devices within the structure may provide communications for the HA user interface and operation devices. Each HA hub device may include client and back-up access point wireless communications circuitry, and an HA hub device controller cooperating to establish a first wireless communications link between the client wireless communications circuitry and the wireless access point. Each HA hub controller may autonomously determine when the first wireless communications link fails, and, responsive thereto, establish a second wireless communications link between the client wireless communications circuitry of the HA hub device and the back-up access point wireless communications circuitry of another HA hub device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: F. Scott Moody, Jonathan Andrew Gould
  • Publication number: 20200061848
    Abstract: A separable robotic interface is provided. The separable robotic interface includes a carrier portion, configured to attach to a free end of a robotic arm, and a probe portion, configured to be attached to a toolhead. The carrier portion includes a spring-loaded plug, coaxial with and arranged to slide lengthwise within the carrier portion, one or more ball bearings, arranged within holes of the carrier portion, and an axial lock feature. The probe portion may include a probe, which includes one or more recesses on lateral exterior surfaces of the probe and configured to receive ball bearings in order to axially lock the carrier portion to the probe portion in response to the probe portion inserted a predetermined distance into the carrier portion and the axial lock feature is activated. The probe portion is further configured to radially align with the carrier portion in response to an alignment feature engages the carrier portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: William George Bolton, Jonathan Andrew Goff
  • Patent number: 10561004
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include HA operation devices within a structure. At least one of the HA operation devices may include a light dimmer for a given area. The HA system may also include HA user interface devices for respective users within the structure. Each HA user interface device may be configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one of the HA operation devices. A HA hub device within the structure may provide communications for the HA user interface and operation devices. The HA hub device may receive a light-off command from an HA user interface device for the light dimmer and send a sequence of partial dimming commands to the light dimmer to turn the light off, and determine whether the given area is occupied based upon at least one HA operation device, and when occupied, then send a light-on override command to the light dimmer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Michael Scott Althoff
  • Publication number: 20200043317
    Abstract: A light fixture can include a housing and a sensor device having a sensor that measures at least one parameter associated with a position of the housing. The light fixture can also include a controller coupled to the sensor device. The controller can receive multiple measurements of the at least one parameter taken by the sensor device. The controller can also evaluate each measurement against at least one range of acceptable values. The controller can further send a notification when a measurement falls outside the at least one range of acceptable values. The notification can state that the housing is moved out of position and requires attention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Whitten, Satinderjeet Kaur, Stephen Paul Kotz, Christopher J. Harris
  • Patent number: 10549748
    Abstract: A vehicle includes an electric motor and an engine selectively coupled to the electric motor. The vehicle has an electric motor controller configured to, in response to (i) an absence of receiving a motor command signal within a predetermined time, (ii) a battery voltage being below a first threshold and (iii) a motor speed exceeding a second threshold, restrict operation of the electric motor to a limited operating mode and control the electric motor to generate a charging torque for a battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Butcher, Francis Thomas Connolly
  • Publication number: 20200030660
    Abstract: An exercise apparatus and method for working the hip muscles, in particular the glute muscle groups. Said exercise apparatus includes a low-profile chassis having a front portion and a rear portion, an elongated cross member having a pair of hip/lap cushions, a foot platform slidably mounted on the chassis, a shoulder/back support mounted on a support frame, a resistance member for loading the muscles of a user and a variable transmission adapted to act as a variable diameter pulley configured to reduce the input force required for a user to overcome the resistance member force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Herring
  • Publication number: 20200023165
    Abstract: A device for protecting an umbilical stump-catheter interface, includes: a shield having a wall that defines a cavity for accommodating an umbilical stump, wherein the shield further includes a base for attachment to a patient; and an opening at the shield for allowing an umbilical catheter to extend therethrough. A method for protecting an umbilical stump-catheter interface, includes: providing a device having a shield with a wall that defines a cavity for accommodating an umbilical stump, wherein the shield further includes a base for attachment to a patient, and wherein the device further includes an opening at the shield; shielding the umbilical stump from an environment using the shield; and accommodating an umbilical catheter using the opening at the shield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Carl Linden Dambkowski, Eric Fayez Chehab, Siddhartha Joshi, Julie Papanek, Jonathan Andrew Fritz, James Wall, Ross Daniel Venook, Shivani Alexandra Torres, Joseph De-Chung Shih, Lauren So Young Wood
  • Patent number: 10534965
    Abstract: Techniques for analyzing stored video upon a request are described. For example, a method of receiving a first application programming interface (API) request to analyze a stored video, the API request to include a location of the stored video and at least one analysis action to perform on the stored video; accessing the location of the stored video to retrieve the stored video; segmenting the accessed video into chunks; processing each chunk with a chunk processor to perform the at least one analysis action, each chunk processor to utilize at least one machine learning model in performing the at least one analysis action; joining the results of the processing of each chunk to generate a final result; storing the final result; and providing the final result to a requestor in response to a second API request is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Nitin Singhal, Vivek Bhadauria, Ranju Das, Gaurav D. Ghare, Roman Goldenberg, Stephen Gould, Kuang Han, Jonathan Andrew Hedley, Gowtham Jeyabalan, Vasant Manohar, Andrea Olgiati, Stefano Stefani, Joseph Patrick Tighe, Praveen Kumar Udayakumar, Renjun Zheng
  • Patent number: 10536291
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include HA operation devices within a structure and HA user interface devices within the structure for respective users. Each HA user interface device may wirelessly communicate with at least one of the HA operation devices to perform at least one HA operation. The HA system may also include HA hub devices to provide communications within the structure for the HA user interface devices and HA operation devices. The HA hub devices may each have an HA hub device identifier associated therewith and determine a wireless communications time slot for wirelessly communicating with corresponding ones of the HA operation devices. Each wireless communications time slot may be determined relative to a reference time with a corresponding time offset based upon the associated HA hub device identifier so that the wireless communications time slot is non-overlapping in time with other wireless communications time slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Chris Tunstall
  • Publication number: 20200009760
    Abstract: A process of producing a manufactured wood product comprises providing a plurality of wood pieces having substantially an equilibrium moisture content; contacting the plurality of wood pieces with one or more additives under conditions for the additive(s) to soak into the wood pieces; applying a thermoplastic adhesive comprising a thermoplastic resin and a crosslinking agent to the wood pieces to form adhesive coated wood pieces; optionally heating the adhesive coated wood pieces to form heated adhesive coated wood pieces; assembling the adhesive coated wood pieces in a desirable configuration to form assembled adhesive coated wood pieces; compressing the assembled adhesive coated wood pieces in a press at a pressure and for a time sufficient to compact and compress the assembled wood pieces to force trapped air out of and mechanically deform the assembled adhesive coated wood pieces so that adjacent wood pieces conform to the shape of one another; crosslinking the thermoplastic adhesive to at least a critica
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: 3RT Holding Pty Ltd
    Inventors: David A. Lewis, Jonathan Andrew Campbell, Rebecca Esther Norman
  • Patent number: 10523690
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices each having a respective HA device signature associated therewith, and an HA security controller. The HA security controller may be configured to communicate with the addressable HA devices via respective ones of a plurality of communications ports, with a given communications port not currently being used. When a given one of the plurality of addressable HA devices communicates via the given communications port not currently being used, the HA security controller may be configured to determine whether the given addressable HA device is operating abnormally based upon the respective HA device signature, communicate to the cloud for verification of whether the given addressable HA device is operating abnormally, and terminate communications with the given addressable HA device and generate a notification when the given addressable HA device is verified to be operating abnormally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Daniel Mark Floyd
  • Patent number: 10506503
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include addressable HA devices each having a respective HA device signature associated therewith and each wirelessly communicating using respective different wireless communications protocols from among different wireless communications protocols. The HA system may also include a controller and a memory coupled thereto. The memory may store HA device signatures for paired and unpaired ones of the addressable HA devices. The controller may poll the addressable HA devices, determine an unpaired addressable HA device based upon the polling, and compare the associated HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device with the stored HA device signatures. The controller also, when there is a match between the HA device signature of the unpaired addressable HA device and one of the stored HA device signatures, may permit pairing of the unpaired addressable HA device to communicate therewith using the respective wireless communications protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: K4CONNECT INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Daniel Mark Floyd
  • Publication number: 20190372796
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include HA operation devices within a structure and HA user interface devices. Each HA user interface device may wirelessly communicate with the HA operation devices to perform at least one HA operation. A wireless access point may be within the structure. HA hub devices within the structure may provide communications for the HA user interface and operation devices. Each HA hub device may include client and back-up access point wireless communications circuitry, and an HA hub device controller cooperating to establish a first wireless communications link between the client wireless communications circuitry and the wireless access point. Each HA hub controller may autonomously determine when the first wireless communications link fails, and, responsive thereto, establish a second wireless communications link between the client wireless communications circuitry of the HA hub device and the back-up access point wireless communications circuitry of another HA hub device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: F. Scott MOODY, Jonathan Andrew Gould
  • Publication number: 20190372801
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include first and second HA operation devices within a structure. The second HA operation device may be switchable among sleep, awake, and operational modes. The second HA device may have a longer latency when switched between the sleep and awake modes than when switched between the awake and operational modes. An HA user interface device for a respective user may be within the structure and be configured to wirelessly communicate with the first and second HA operation devices to perform an HA operation. An HA hub device may be within the structure to provide communications for the HA user interface device and the first and second HA operation devices. The HA hub device may be configured to, when the first HA operation device is operated, switch the second HA operation device between the sleep and awake modes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: F. Scott MOODY, Jonathan Andrew Gould
  • Patent number: 10496973
    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for allowing modification of transaction flows, user interfaces (UIs), receipt configuration and control of buyer-facing displays associated with transactions between a payment service, a merchant and a buyer are provided. Payment service payment functionality is exposed by the payment service via one or more application programming interfaces (API)s, software development kits (SDKs), or some other web-based communication technique (e.g., a uniform resource locator). The payment service payment functionality exposed by the payment service allows a merchant to customize one or more steps of a transaction between a user and a merchant. A merchant can use the exposed payment service payment functionality to configure and modify the look and feel and/or the steps within a transaction flow. The merchant can also modify a receipt to include other information from the information that is included in a default receipt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Wolter, Pierre-Yves Ricau, Rob Dickerson
  • Publication number: 20190363902
    Abstract: A home automation (HA) system may include HA operation devices within a structure and HA user interface devices within the structure for respective users. Each HA user interface device may wirelessly communicate with at least one of the HA operation devices to perform at least one HA operation. The HA system may also include HA hub devices to provide communications within the structure for the HA user interface devices and HA operation devices. The HA hub devices may each have an HA hub device identifier associated therewith and determine a wireless communications time slot for wirelessly communicating with corresponding ones of the HA operation devices. Each wireless communications time slot may be determined relative to a reference time with a corresponding time offset based upon the associated HA hub device identifier so that the wireless communications time slot is non-overlapping in time with other wireless communications time slots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Gould, Chris Tunstall
  • Patent number: 10486812
    Abstract: An automated commissioning and floorplan configuration (CAFC) device can include a CAFC system having a transceiver and a CAFC engine, where the transceiver communicates with at least one device disposed in a volume of space, where the CAFC engine, based on communication between the transceiver and the at least one device, commissions the at least one device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Whitten, Michael Alan Lunn
  • Publication number: 20190348623
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application relate to illumination devices using luminescent nanostructures. An illumination device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer and a material layer that includes a plurality of luminescent nanostructures. The hole transport layer and the electron transport layer are each disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The material layer is disposed between the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer and includes one or more discontinuities in its thickness such that the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer contact each other at the one or more discontinuities. Resonant energy transfer occurs between the luminescent nanostructures and excitons at the discontinuities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Applicant: Nanosys, Inc.
    Inventors: Emma Rose DOHNER, Yeewah Annie Chow, Wenzhuo Guo, Christian Justus Ippen, Jason Travis Tillman, Jonathan Andrew Truskier
  • Patent number: 10471235
    Abstract: A device for protecting an umbilical stump-catheter interface, includes: a shield having a wall that defines a cavity for accommodating an umbilical stump, wherein the shield further includes a base for attachment to a patient; and an opening at the shield for allowing an umbilical catheter to extend therethrough. A method for protecting an umbilical stump-catheter interface, includes: providing a device having a shield with a wall that defines a cavity for accommodating an umbilical stump, wherein the shield further includes a base for attachment to a patient, and wherein the device further includes an opening at the shield; shielding the umbilical stump from an environment using the shield; and accommodating an umbilical catheter using the opening at the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Carl Linden Dambkowski, Eric Fayez Chehab, Siddhartha Joshi, Julie Papanek, Jonathan Andrew Fritz, James Wall, Ross Daniel Venook, Shivani Alexandra Torres, Joseph De-Chung Shih, Lauren So Young Wood
  • Patent number: 10471920
    Abstract: A seat includes a seat bottom and a seatback coupled to the seat bottom. The seatback includes a headrest and a front face facing the seat bottom. The seat includes an airbag inflatable from an undeployed position to a deployed position. The airbag in the undeployed position is supported by the front face above the headrest. The seat includes a tether extending from the seatback to the airbag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Alan George Dry, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Jonathan Andrew Line, Kevin Wayne Preuss, Brian Robert Spahn