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).

  • COMPACT FITTING FOR COUPLING BLADE TO ROTOR HUB
    Publication number: 20220348309
    Abstract: A fitting for securing a rotor blade in pivotable engagement with a yoke that is coupled to a mast of an aircraft for rotation therewith about a mast axis has a body that extends from an inboard end to an outboard end. The body of the fitting has an opening that extends into the body from the outboard end and that is adapted to receive a root end of the blade. The body further has a first bearing race that is defined along an outer surface of the body and is located between the inboard and outboard ends. The body further has an array of apertures that is located between the inboard end and the first bearing race, each aperture adapted to receive a respective fastener for retaining the blade within the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.
    Inventors: George Matthew Thompson, Jonathan Andrew Knoll, Nicholas Ralph Carlson, Joseph Richard Carpenter, JR.
  • NESTED-LOOP MODEL-FOLLOWING CONTROL LAW
    Publication number: 20220350347
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for utilizing a two-degree-of-freedom model-following control law within an architecture of nested loop functions. This allows for the separation of command and feedback path requirements and enables the restrictions of the inner loops to be applied to the outer loop feedbacks. This method of restriction allows a better allocation of coordinated authority between the loops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Applicant: Bell Textron Inc.
    Inventors: Steven G. Hagerott, Jonathan Andrew Toth
  • MANAGING GROUP AUTHORITY AND ACCESS TO A SECURED FILE SYSTEM IN A DECENTRALIZED ENVIRONMENT
    Publication number: 20220350914
    Abstract: Presented here is a system that manages secured file system, and an authority to the secured file system, by granting access only to a user who is authorized to access the file system. The user within the system is identified using a unique key unique to each user. The user's authority is recorded in a linear sequence distributed among multiple devices each of which independently verifies the validity of each block in the linear sequence. The validity of the linear sequence is guaranteed by preventing certain operations from being performed on the linear sequence, such as branching of the linear sequence, deletion, and modification of the blocks within the linear sequence. Prior to adding a new block to the linear sequence, the validity of the block is independently computed by each of the devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Crockett Moore
  • VIDEO ANALYSIS OF FOOD SERVICE COUNTER OPERATIONS
    Publication number: 20220343307
    Abstract: In a restaurant having a customer-facing food service counter, a video camera is positioned to produce video of an area that includes the food service counter. The video is analyzed to determine the ingredients that are used to prepare each of multiple customer meals. This information may be used to recommend a modified ingredient layout of the food service counter, where the modified ingredient layout is formulated so as to improve serving efficiency or customer convenience.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Wolter
  • Tip gap monitoring systems for ducted aircraft
    Patent number: 11479350
    Abstract: A tip gap monitoring system for a ducted aircraft having a proprotor system including a duct and a plurality of proprotor blades includes sensors coupled to the proprotor system. The sensors are configured to detect one or more parameters of the proprotor system to form a plurality of sensor measurements. The tip gap monitoring system also includes a flight control computer in data communication with the sensors. The flight control computer includes a tip gap measurement module configured to determine a tip gap distance between the duct and the proprotor blades based on the sensor measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Knoll, George Matthew Thompson, Nicholas Ralph Carlson
  • Estimation of true audience size for digital content
    Patent number: 11475476
    Abstract: A content server system provides a client device with content, such as an audio stream. Using various techniques, an estimate is made of the actual size of an audience associated with the provided content, rather than assuming that the audience is limited to a single user of the client device. The estimate may be made by the content server system, the client device, or the content server system and the client device collectively. Using the estimate of actual size of the audience, the content server system can take actions appropriate for the audience, such as providing advertisements appropriate for the size of the audience and for the collective characteristics of the audience members. The estimate of the actual audience size additionally allows the content server system to be compensated more precisely for any advertisements provided to that audience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Pandora Media, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Eccles, Jacek Adam Krawczyk, Matthew Nikolaus Boetger
  • Multi-chambered package
    Patent number: 11472620
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides packages that are configured for containing a prophylactic device and a plurality of lubricant compositions. The package can include a primary storage compartment in which the prophylactic device can be contained and a plurality of secondary storage compartments arranged relative to the primary storage compartment, the plurality of secondary storage compartments containing lubricant composition(s). The present disclosure further provides methods for providing a lubricated prophylactic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    Inventors: William D. Platt, Caryn Culleton Oryniak, Richard James Elliott Gilbert, Jonathan Andrew Wharton, Gerhart P. Huy, Michael T. Pinchiaroli, Rajesh Ranjan, Velissa Van Scoyoc, Luis C. Muniz, David Schweitzer, Jacob Daniel Taylor
  • CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS
    Publication number: 20220324875
    Abstract: The invention is directed to compounds of formula (I), and salts thereof. The compounds are inhibitors of kinase activity, in particular PI3-kinase activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew BAXTER, Sophie Marie BERTRAND, Matthew CAMPBELL, Kenneth David DOWN, Curt Dale HAFFNER, Julie Nicole HAMBLIN, Zoe Alicia HENLEY, William Henry MILLER, Eric Philippe Andre TALBOT, Jonathan Andrew TAYLOR
  • IMPLEMENTATION OF A FILE SYSTEM ON A BLOCK CHAIN
    Publication number: 20220318407
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method to create an encrypted file system on a block chain. The system creates the block chain controlling an access to the encrypted file system. The block chain defines a user permission to access at least a portion of the encrypted file system. The system creates the encrypted file system by recording a unique file ID in the block chain, where the unique file ID stores a chunk index including memory locations of multiple chunks storing portions of a file in the encrypted file system. The system encrypts the file using a channel session key and a file encryption key. The channel session key includes a cryptographic key computed based on information known to users granted at least a temporary access to the file, and the file encryption key includes a cryptographic key used to encrypt each file in the encrypted file system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Crockett Moore
  • Rotor retention fitting with integral bearing and pitch control
    Patent number: 11454280
    Abstract: A bearing system includes an inboard bearing assembly and an outboard bearing assembly. The inboard bearing assembly includes an inboard fitting and an inboard race. The inboard fitting includes a plate with a convex mating surface and a first aperture formed through the plate for receiving a blade root of a rotor blade. The inboard race comprising a concave mating surface configured to receive the convex mating surface a second aperture formed the inboard race. The outboard bearing assembly includes an outboard bearing assembly comprising an outboard fitting having an aperture formed therethrough for receiving the blade root of the rotor blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: George Matthew Thompson, Joseph Richard Carpenter, Jr., Paul Sherrill, Jonathan Andrew Knoll
  • Robotic capture interface
    Patent number: 11440685
    Abstract: A capture interface is provided. The capture interface is configured to be rigidly affixed to an external surface of a recovery object and captured by a capture device. The capture interface includes a matte ferromagnetic surface of flat disposition and geometric outline, configured to facilitate capture by the capture device. The ferromagnetic surface includes a capture interface identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Altius Space Machines Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Goff, Joshua Charles Nelson, Shreya Udupa
  • BARCODE TAG, AND METHOD AND SYSTEM EMPLOYING SAME, FOR TRACKING ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT
    Publication number: 20220269916
    Abstract: A barcode tag includes a base layer having a front side and a back side, an attachment surface disposed on at least a portion of the front side or the back side, and a barcode symbol comprising plural perforations formed entirely through the base layer. Methods and systems for tracking equipment items in an equipment rack using barcode tags are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Guy
  • SECURE ORBIT COMMUNICATION
    Publication number: 20220263656
    Abstract: Presented here is a system to enable secure communication between a first and a second communicator on a communication channel. The system can use multiple rotating cryptographic keys that are rotating according to a predetermined schedule to encrypt the communication between the first and the second communicator. The system can record the authority associated with the communication channel on a block chain. To determine whether the first and the second communicator have the authority to access the communication channel, the system can compute the authority of the first and the second communicator by checking the block chain from an initial block to a last block. The system can encrypt multiple communications sent via the communication channel using the multiple rotating cryptographic keys and can send the communications via the communication channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Crockett Moore
  • Enabling access across private networks for a managed blockchain service
    Patent number: 11411921
    Abstract: Access across private networks may be enabled for blockchain networks in a managed blockchain service. Requests to enable access for a node hosted in a private network to one or more nodes hosted in a different private network that hosts the blockchain network as part of a managed blockchain service may be received. Routes to enable the access may be determined and added to networking devices so that communications between the node in the private network to specified nodes in the private network of the managed blockchain service may be correctly routed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Fritz, Gitesh Tyagi, Anthony A. Virtuoso, Turkay Mert Hocanin, Nachimuthu Govindasamy, Ramkumar Kamalapuram Sugavanam
  • Tip gap control systems with inner duct control surfaces
    Patent number: 11407504
    Abstract: A tip gap control system for a ducted aircraft includes a flight control computer including an inner duct surface control module configured to generate an inner duct surface actuator command and a proprotor system in data communication with the flight control computer. The proprotor system includes a duct having active inner duct surfaces movable into various positions including a retracted position and an extended position. The proprotor system also includes proprotor blades surrounded by the duct and one or more actuators coupled to the active inner duct surfaces. The one or more actuators move the active inner duct surfaces between the various positions based on the inner duct surface actuator command, thereby controlling a tip gap between the proprotor blades and the duct.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Textron Innovations Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Knoll, George Matthew Thompson, Nicholas Ralph Carlson
  • ELECTRIC TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT WITH FIXED MOTORS
    Publication number: 20220242557
    Abstract: A rotor system for an aircraft includes an open rotor assembly comprising an open rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor blades connected to a rotor mast, wherein the rotor assembly is tiltable relative to a wing of the aircraft between a first position corresponding to an airplane mode of the aircraft and a second position corresponding to a helicopter mode of the aircraft; and a drive system for providing rotational energy to the open rotor assembly via the rotor mast. The drive system includes at least one electric motor for generating rotational energy to a motor shaft; and a gearbox connected to receive rotational energy from the at least one electric motor via the motor shaft and to provide rotational energy to the rotor mast via a rotor shaft, wherein the at least one electric motor is fixed relative to the wing of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Knoll, George Matthew Thompson, Charles Hubert Speller, Grant Michael Beall
  • Managing group authority and access to a secured file system in a decentralized environment
    Patent number: 11403417
    Abstract: Presented here is a system that manages secured file system, and an authority to the secured file system, by granting access only to a user who is authorized to access the file system. The user within the system is identified using a unique key unique to each user. The user's authority is recorded in a linear sequence distributed among multiple devices each of which independently verifies the validity of each block in the linear sequence. The validity of the linear sequence is guaranteed by preventing certain operations from being performed on the linear sequence, such as branching of the linear sequence, deletion, and modification of the blocks within the linear sequence. Prior to adding a new block to the linear sequence, the validity of the block is independently computed by each of the devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: SpiderOak, Inc.
    Inventor: Jonathan Andrew Crockett Moore
  • ELECTRIC TILTROTOR AIRCRAFT WITH TILTING COAXIAL MOTORS AND GEARBOX
    Publication number: 20220219817
    Abstract: A rotor system for an aircraft includes an open rotor assembly comprising a plurality of rotor blades connected to a rotor mast via a yoke, wherein the rotor assembly is tiltable between a first position corresponding to an airplane mode and a second position corresponding to a helicopter mode; and a drive system for providing rotational energy to the open rotor assembly via the rotor mast, the drive system comprising at least one electric motor for providing rotational energy to a drive shaft and a gearbox connected to the drive shaft for receiving rotational energy from the at least one electric motor via the drive shaft and providing rotational energy to the rotor mast via a rotor shaft; wherein the drive system is rotatable relative to the wing about a tilt axis and the rotor shaft is coaxial with the drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Andrew Knoll, George Matthew Thompson, Charles Hubert Speller, Grant Michael Beall
  • INTELLIGENT AIRCRAFT AND ROTORCRAFT LOAD FACTOR AND STALL PROTECTION
    Publication number: 20220221878
    Abstract: There is disclosed in one example an inner loop controller for an aircraft flight computer, including: a stall protection circuit to compute, for an attitude angle ?, an attitude limit ?max as a function of a flight path angle (?) and an angle of attack limit (?max); a transfer function circuit to convert ? to an attitude rate {dot over (?)}, wherein {dot over (?)} is a time derivative of ?; and a load protector circuit to compute a limit on {dot over (?)} ({dot over (?)}max) as a function of a load factor limit (Nz,max) and a true airspeed (v).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Steven G. Hagerott, Jonathan Andrew Toth
  • Applicator
    Patent number: D960713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Sujata Sundara Rajan, Ming Zeng, Jonathan Andrew Wharton, Timothy Snowden, Pamela Dozier, Brian Orme, Meredith Ingrassia