Patents by Inventor Keen

Keen 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: 20240415195
    Abstract: A device assembly includes a controller, which is configured to control the nicotine electronic vaping device to output an indication of a current level of the nicotine pre-vapor formulation in the nicotine reservoir of a nicotine pod assembly in response to determining that an aggregate amount of nicotine pre-vapor formulation drawn from the nicotine reservoir or an aggregate amount of vaporized nicotine pre-vapor formulation is greater than or equal to the at least one nicotine pre-vapor formulation level threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Niall GALLAGHER, Terrance Theodore BACHE, Rangaraj S. SUNDAR, Jarrett KEEN, Raymond W. LAU, Eric HAWES
  • Publication number: 20240407420
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a film comprising greater than or equal to 50 wt % of a combination of a plant protein and starch based upon the total weight of the film at 55% relative humidity and 22° C., wherein the weight ratio of starch to plant protein is in the range 0.5:1 to 30:1, and wherein the plant protein has been pre-treated with an organic acid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Polly Helena Ruth Keen, Hugo Thomas Barroux, Georgios Gkotsis, Marc Rodriguez Garcia, Nigel Patrick Sommerville-Roberts
  • Patent number: 12166911
    Abstract: A mobile phone may include a housing, a battery at least partially within the housing, and a circuit board assembly at least partially within the housing and positioned along a side of the battery. The circuit board assembly may include a first circuit board defining a first hole, a second circuit board defining a second hole, a wall structure between the first circuit board and the second circuit board and attached to an inner surface of the first circuit board and an inner surface of the second circuit board, and a fastener assembly configured to retain the first circuit board to the second circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Owen D. Hale, Dale T. Morgan, Andrew U. Leopold, Yifan Zhao, Nicholas Merz, Daniel Jarvis, James B. Smith, Macey E. Dade, Samuel J. Pliska, Ethan R. Stobbe, Cameron Bauer, Ian A. Spraggs, Marwan Rammah, Bryan D. Keen, David A. Pakula
  • Publication number: 20240399666
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a computer system having a memory coupled to a processor system, wherein the processor system is operable to perform processor system operations that include accessing a model of a physical object; and accessing instructions associated with the model of the physical object. The instructions are used to control a printhead coupled to a unique-identifier-element-infused (UIE-infused) filament source to print the physical object from UIE-infused filament.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Martin G. Keen, Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari
  • Publication number: 20240399208
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for providing and accessing workout content and methods and user interfaces for providing and modifying workout metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Louis R. MIKOLAY, Craig D. BOLTON, Edward CHAO, Michael D. FORD, Daniel S. KEEN, Jonathan J. NACHUM
  • Publication number: 20240398774
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods for treating a chronic inflammatory disease or disorder in a subject having type 2 diabetes mellitus or being predisposed to type 2 diabetes mellitus. This disclosure also relates to methods for preventing development of diabetes mellitus due to glucocorticoid-induced hyperglycemia or inhibiting progression of preexisting type 2 diabetes mellitus in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Mary N BROWN, Philip AMBERY, Christina KEEN
  • Publication number: 20240399209
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for providing and accessing workout content and methods and user interfaces for providing and modifying workout metrics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Louis R. MIKOLAY, Craig D. BOLTON, Edward CHAO, Michael D. FORD, Daniel S. KEEN, Jonathan J. NACHUM
  • Publication number: 20240403232
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method dynamically updates an input channel on a peripheral device. The method includes identifying two or more computing devices including a first computing device and a second computing device, where each of the two or more computing devices is capable of interacting with a first peripheral device. The method further includes connecting the first peripheral device to each of the two or more devices, where the first peripheral device is active with a first computing device of the two or more computing devices. The method also includes determining a status change of the first peripheral device. The method includes toggling, in response to the status change, a data exchange such that the first peripheral device is active with the second device and not active with the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Logan Bailey, Zachary A. Silverstein, Su Liu, Martin G. Keen
  • Publication number: 20240402006
    Abstract: A flexible ultraviolet sensor circuit is provided comprising a number of solar cells, a reflective display device electrically connected to the solar cells, and a floating gate transistor electrically connected to the solar cells and reflective display device. A floating gate in the floating gate transistor discharges in response to ultraviolet light such that the floating gate transistor turns on when a threshold voltage of the floating gate transistor drops below a combined open circuit voltage of the solar cells minus a switching threshold of the reflective display device, thereby causing electrical current flow through the ultraviolet sensor circuit. The reflective display device changes as the electrical current flow increases, indicating total ultraviolet light exposure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Martin G. Keen, Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari
  • Publication number: 20240394943
    Abstract: In an approach to improve adaptive content and responsive web content, embodiments of create a profile associated with a user based on monitoring online activity of the user and analyze and classify content displayed to the user based on collected data associated with a reaction from the user. Further, embodiments derive a preliminary set of topics of interests based on the reaction of the user and the analyzed and classified content and associate the preliminary set of topics of interest with the reaction of the user and the analyzed and classified content. Additionally, embodiments, analyze a location of interest to the user on associated with the content based on the preliminary set of topics of interests to personalize a display of the location for interaction by the user, and present, by a user interface, a personalized display of the location to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hernan A. Cunico, Martin G. Keen, Harry Hoots
  • Publication number: 20240390157
    Abstract: A system including an implant and a tool for inserting and expanding the medical implant and locking the implant in place is disclosed. The medical implant may include an expandable body defined by a superior endplate and an inferior endplate that are hingedly coupled and may be expanded and lordosed. The implant may include a wedge disposed between the superior and inferior endplates that is configured to slide across a channel on inferior endplate and along an inclined groove on superior endplate. In at least some embodiments, an expansion screw is operative coupled to the threaded portion of the wedge that when expansion screw is rotated, the wedge is translated thereby expanding the implant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: Stanley Kyle Hayes, Darren L. Davis, Patrick Ryan Keene, Cristian A. Capote, John A. Hall, Robert M. Loke
  • Patent number: 12153188
    Abstract: Embodiments for capturing a micro-weather report by a UAS deployment by one or more processors are described. Micro-weather conditions at a selected location and altitude may be determined utilizing one or more sensor devices associated with the UAS. The collected micro-weather conditions data may be stored in a repository. A micro-weather report may be generated for the selected location and altitude according to the collected micro-weather conditions data stored in the repository.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Victor Povar, Martin G. Keen, John Handy Bosma, Paul P. Giangarra
  • Patent number: 12155967
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and a computer program product are disclosed. The first method includes obtaining virtual session data in real time, identifying a positional utterance in the virtual session data, and generating a positional insight for the positional utterance. The first method also includes rendering a user avatar in a position recommended based on the positional insight. The second method includes obtaining virtual session data in real time, identifying a positional utterance in the virtual session data, and generating positional insights for the positional utterance. The second method also includes generating at least one position recommendation based on the positional insights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Martin G. Keen, Jeremy R. Fox, Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari
  • Publication number: 20240382293
    Abstract: A 3D printed dental implant. The 3D printed dental implant includes a 3D printed dental implant body, and a plurality of sensors embedded within the 3D printed dental implant body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Martin G. Keen, Alexander Reznicek, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari
  • Publication number: 20240386622
    Abstract: A method for rendering clear visibility through the windscreen of a vehicle. The method includes monitoring, by one or more sensors, visibility of a windscreen, wherein monitoring includes analyzing a level of visibility of the windscreen, generating a visibility score, and responsive to the visibility score falling below a predetermined threshold, converting, dynamically, the windscreen into a display surface. The method further includes analyzing an external sensor feed of a vehicle to identify the visibility of a surrounding area. The method further includes initiating, dynamically, a generative adversarial network (GAN) enabled adaptation of the surrounding area of the vehicle, in real-time, to reconstruct a visual based on the external sensor feed, and rendering, in real-time, the GAN enabled adaptation of the surrounding area of the vehicle on a transparent display layer of the windscreen of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Tushar Agrawal, Martin G. Keen, Jeremy R. Fox, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
  • Publication number: 20240382783
    Abstract: An approach for providing real-time information and guidance for oxygen management to a user operating a self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) is disclosed. The approach receives data from IoT devices associated with a user, analyzes the data using machine learning algorithms trained on a dataset of historical data and simulated scenarios. The approach generates an oxygen-use prediction based on the analyzing. Furthermore, the approach generates one or more recommendations based on the prediction and displaying the prediction and the recommendation on a HUD (head up display) of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Jeremy R. Fox, Alexander Reznicek, Martin G. Keen, Bahman Hekmatshoartabari
  • Patent number: 12147400
    Abstract: A relational database migration process is provided which includes migrating a relational database of a source relational database management system to a target relational database of a target relational database management system. The migrating includes identifying user-defined data objects of the relational database in the source relational database management system and generating statements to recreate the identified user-defined data objects of the source relational database in the target relational database management system. In addition, the migrating includes initiating execution of the statements to recreate the user-defined data objects of the relational database in the target relational database management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Roger Everette Sanders, Martin G. Keen, Khwaja Jawahar Jahangir Shaik
  • Patent number: 12137855
    Abstract: There is provided a mobile robot including a light source, an image sensor and a processor. The image sensor respectively captures bright image frames and dark image frames corresponding to the light source being turned on and turned off. The processor identifies that the mobile robot faces a cliff when a gray level variation between the bright image frames and the dark image frames is very small, and controls the mobile robot to stop moving forward continuously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: PIXART IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Keen-Hun Leong, Sai-Mun Lee, Ching-Geak Chan
  • Patent number: 12140641
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for key predictors and machine learning for configuring cell performance. One or more parameters relating to the cell may be measured, via a measurement apparatus, with the cell including a cathode, a separator, and a silicon-dominant anode, and the cell may be managed, based on the one or more parameters, with the managing including predetermining cycle life of the cell based on the one or more parameters using a machine learning model. The cell may be within a battery pack that includes a plurality of cells. The battery pack may be in an electric vehicle. At least one parameter may be measured before a formation process of the cell. At least one parameter may be measured during the formation process. At least one parameter may be measured during cycling of the cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ENEVATE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sam Keene, Giulia Canton, Ian Browne, Xianyang Li, Hong Zhao, Benjamin Park
  • Patent number: 12142739
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for key predictors and machine learning for configuring cell performance. One or more parameters relating to operation of a cell may be measured, via a measurement apparatus, with the cell including a cathode, a separator, and a silicon-dominant anode, and cell performance may be managed, based on the one or more parameters, with the managing including assessing the cell performance using a machine learning model. The cell may be within a battery pack that includes a plurality of cells, each of which including a cathode, a separator, and a silicon-dominant anode. One or more of the plurality of cells from the battery pack in response to a determination, based on the assessing, of a different performance of the one or more of the plurality of cells. The battery pack may be in an electric vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ENEVATE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sam Keene, Giulia Canton, Ian Browne, Xianyang Li, Hong Zhao, Benjamin Park