Patents by Inventor Keith Adams

Keith Adams 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: 20190383539
    Abstract: A heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system is disclosed. The HVACR system includes a refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant circuit includes a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device, and an evaporator fluidly connected. A controller is electronically connected to the compressor. The controller is configured to prevent the compressor from operating at a speed that is less than a minimum speed limit. A lubricant separator has an inlet fluidly connected between the compressor and the condenser and a plurality of outlets. A first of the plurality of outlets is fluidly connected to the condenser. A second of the plurality of outlets is fluidly connected to one or more components of the compressor to provide a lubricant to the one or more components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Kevin P. HUGHES, Robert S. BAKKESTUEN, Timothy S. HAGEN, Keith Adam NOVAK, Daniel R. DREHER, Alberto SCALA
  • Publication number: 20190340538
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes retrieving a first vector representation of a first entity, with which a user has interacted, and a second vector representation of a second entity, with which the user has not interacted. The first and second vector representations are determined using an initial deep-learning model. A first similarity score is computed between a vector representation of the user and the first vector representation, and a second similarity score is computed between the vector representation of the user and the second vector representation. The second vector representation is updated if the second similarity score is greater than the first similarity score using the initial deep-learning model. An updated deep-learning model is generated based on the initial deep-learning model and on the updated second vector representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: Jason E. Weston, Keith Adams, Sumit Chopra
  • Publication number: 20190332617
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system, a text input comprising one or more n-grams, determining, using a deep-learning model, a vector representation of the text input based on the one or more n-grams, determining an embedding of the vector representation of the text input in a d-dimensional embedding space, identifying one or more labels based on, for each of the one or more labels, a respective similarity of an embedding of a vector representation of the label in the embedding space to the embedding of the vector representation of the text input, and sending, to the client system in response to the received text input, instructions for presenting a user interface comprising one or more of the identified labels as suggested labels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Jason E. Weston, Keith Adams, Sumit Chopra
  • Publication number: 20190323318
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system for determining a valve member position. The system includes a valve having a flow passage extending therethrough. The system also includes a valve member positioned in a cavity that intersects the flow passage, the valve member coupled to a valve stem that axially translates the valve member between an open position and a closed position. The system includes an actuator coupled to the valve stem, the actuator providing a motive force to drive the axial movement of the valve member via the valve stem. The system includes a closure cap coupled to the actuator, the closure cap comprising a sensor feature arranged within an interior portion of the closure cap, the sensor feature arranged to react to an input from an actuator piston indicative of an actuator piston position within the interior portion of the closure cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP
    Inventors: Lauren Michelle Valera, Travis McEvoy, Keith Adams
  • Patent number: 10433593
    Abstract: A flame resistant fabric is formed from synthetic fibers, such as polyester fibers or non-aramid polyamide fibers. A first flame retardant is incorporated into the fibers by being intimately mixed with the polymer used to form the fibers. A second flame retardant is then surface applied to the fabric or to the yarns used to form the fabric. The fabric has a total flame retardant compound concentration of at least 5000 ppm. In one embodiment, the fabric can be combined with other fabric layers to produce a composite fabric product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Elevate Textiles, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. DiIanni, Weidong Wu, E. Keith Adams
  • Publication number: 20190301275
    Abstract: An apparatus (10) for downhole data acquisition and/or monitoring is configured to be disposed within a completion (12) and comprises a hanger (36) configured to latch into a control line spool (38), a retrofit valve (40) for location within the subsurface safety valve (16) of the completion (12), and a sensing arrangement (42) including an optical fiber line (44). In use, the apparatus (10) is configured to be run into the completion (12) and is operable to provide data acquisition and/or monitoring capability in the well, including up or near total depth and in particular but not exclusively in the region of the well subjected to an intervention operation, such as a chemical injection operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Martin OLIPHANT, Keith ADAMS
  • Patent number: 10401054
    Abstract: An air handling unit has an interior wall configured to selectively retain a removable component of the air handling unit. An air handling unit has an interior wall configured as a drain pan. An air handling unit has an outer skin joined to the interior wall, an insulator disposed between the interior wall and the outer skin, and the interior wall has a mounting channel configured to selectively retain a removable component of the air handling unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Stewart, Mark Hudgins, Richard Lee Jameson, Keith Adam Novak, Leslie Zinger
  • Patent number: 10402750
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first set of entities, with which a user has interacted, and a second set of entities in a social-networking system. A first set of vector representations of the first set of entities are determined using a deep-learning model. A target entity is selected from the first set of entities, and the vector representation of the target entity is removed from the first set. The remaining vector representations in the first set are combined to determine a vector representation of the user. A second set of vector representations of the second set of entities are determined using the deep-learning model. Similarity scores are computed between the user and each of the target entity and the entities in the second set of entities. Vector representations of entities in the second set of entities are updated based on the similarity scores using the deep-learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason E. Weston, Keith Adams, Sumit Chopra
  • Patent number: 10387464
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving text query that includes n-grams. A vector representation of each n-gram is determined using a deep-learning model. A nonlinear combination of the vector representations of the n-grams is determined, and an embedding of the text query is determined based on the nonlinear combination. The embedding of the text query corresponds to a point in an embedding space, and the embedding space includes a plurality of points corresponding to a plurality of label embeddings. Each label embedding is based on a vector representation of a respective label determined using the deep-learning model. Label embeddings are identified as being relevant to the text query by applying a search algorithm to the embedding space. Points corresponding to the identified label embeddings are within a threshold distance of the point corresponding to the embedding of the text query in the embedding space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Jason E. Weston, Keith Adams, Sumit Chopra
  • Patent number: 10371281
    Abstract: An apparatus for overriding a valve actuator to move a valve stem to a second position includes an override body with a central axis. A piston is located within the override body. A bushing is non-rotatably carried within the override body. An override shaft is in threaded engagement with the bushing and extends through a sealed orifice in the override body. Fluid pressure applied to the piston causes the bushing to engage the valve actuator and push the valve stem, and alternatively, rotation applied to the override shaft causes the bushing to move linearly to engage the valve actuator and push the valve stem.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP
    Inventors: Christopher Taylor Herman, Mark Anthony Viator, Keith Adams, Fauad Saleem, Travis Kyle McEvoy
  • Patent number: 10346378
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to group-based data storage systems configured for maintaining data exchanged between client devices within channel-specific shards each corresponding with one or more group-identifiers to provide group-based access to those channel-specific shards and for applying group-specific policies for data stored within those channel-specific shards. Membership of particular users within particular groups and within particular channels may be monitored such that access to particular channel shards may be controlled based on group-memberships of the users, and access to data stored within particular channel shards may be controlled based on channel-memberships of the users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: SLACK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Leah Jones, Keith Adams, Samantha Stoller, Maude Lemaire, Eric Vierhaus, Ilan Frank
  • Publication number: 20190178412
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system for coupling objects in a wellbore includes a unidirectional valve having a body. The body includes two or more body lugs extending radially outward, each body lug of the two or more body lugs extending at least a portion of a circumferential distance of the body. The system also includes a tubing hanger having a bore that receives the unidirectional valve. The bore includes an axial restraint system that receives the two or more body lugs and blocks axial movement of the unidirectional valve in a first position and enables axial movement of the unidirectional valve in a section position, the unidirectional valve being non-threadingly coupled to the tubing hanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP
    Inventors: Claudia Leon, Gajanan Hegde, Keith Adams, Travis McEvoy
  • Publication number: 20190099094
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure pertains to a blood pressure measurement device and methods of obtaining pulse information from a blood pressure measurement. An inflatable bladder defines, at least in part, a pressurizable volume. The inflatable bladder may be inflated to pressurize a user's appendage and temporarily occlude blood flow in the user's appendage, where the inflatable bladder is inflated to a pressure greater than a maximum amplitude pressure from oscillometric data in a pressure profile. The inflatable bladder may be deflated and then re-inflated to a target pressure and held at the target pressure to generate pulse information, or the inflatable bladder may be deflated to the target pressure and held at the target pressure to generate the pulse information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Keith Adam Wong, Andrew Larsen Axley, Dan Stefan Tudose, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Radu Dobroiu, Alexandru-Mihai Solot
  • Publication number: 20190099093
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure pertains to a blood pressure measurement device and methods of controlling an inflation rate in a blood pressure measurement. An inflatable bladder of the blood pressure measurement device defines, at least in part, a pressurizable volume. The inflatable bladder may be inflated to pressurize a user's appendage and temporarily occlude blood flow in the user's appendage. A pressure sensor of the blood pressure measurement device is configured to obtain blood pressure measurements, and a pump of the blood pressure measurement device is configured to inflate the inflatable bladder and control an inflation rate by controlling at least one of a duty cycle, a voltage, or a drive frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Dan Stefan Tudose, Xi Zhang, Keith Adam Wong, Andrew Larsen Axley, Peter W. Richards, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Radu Dobroiu, Alexandru-Mihai Solot
  • Publication number: 20190099092
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure pertains to finger blood pressure cuff. The finger blood pressure cuff may include a housing having an opening sized to receive a human finger and an inflatable elastic bladder disposed about an inward-facing surface of the opening. The inflatable elastic bladder may be inflated to pressurize a user's finger and temporarily occlude blood flow in the user's finger. The finger blood pressure cuff may include a pressure sensor for obtaining blood pressure measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Keith Adam Wong, Andrew Larsen Axley, Dan Stefan Tudose, Conor Joseph Heneghan
  • Publication number: 20190099095
    Abstract: An aspect of the disclosure pertains to detecting a position of a blood pressure measurement device. An inflatable bladder of the blood pressure measurement device defines, at least in part, a pressurizable volume. The inflatable bladder may be inflated to pressurize a user's appendage and temporarily occlude blood flow in the user's appendage. A pump may initiate inflation of the inflatable bladder when one or more accelerometers and/or one or more proximity sensors determine that the blood pressure measurement device is within sufficient proximity or elevation to a user's heart and stationary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Xi Zhang, Keith Adam Wong, Andrew Larsen Axley, Dan Stefan Tudose, Conor Joseph Heneghan
  • Patent number: 10196874
    Abstract: A bonnet assembly for assisting to move a valve stem to a retracted position includes a bonnet body. The bonnet body has a bonnet valve end selectively connected to a valve, a bonnet actuator end opposite the bonnet valve end selectively connected to a valve actuator. A valve stem extends through the central bore of the bonnet body. A booster piston seal circumscribes the valve stem and engages an inner diameter of the central bore. The booster piston seal selectively defines an extent of a pressure cavity containing pressure media. An effective stem pressure surface faces in a direction towards the valve and is in fluid communication with the valve when the bonnet body is connected to the valve. A booster pressure surface faces in a direction towards the valve when the bonnet body is connected to the valve and is selectively acted on by the pressure media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: GE OIL & GAS PRESSURE CONTROL LP
    Inventors: Samuel Heung Yeung Cheng, Keith Adams, Lloyd Ray Cheatham, Travis Kyle McEvoy
  • Patent number: 10197059
    Abstract: A scroll compressor orbiting scroll bearing lubrication system includes a scroll compressor crankshaft having a lubricating fluid gallery extending therethrough between a first stage orbiting scroll and a second stage orbiting scroll. The first stage employs an orbiting scroll radial bearing and an orbiting scroll hydrodynamic thrust bearing, while the second stage employs an orbiting scroll radial bearing and an orbiting scroll hydrostatic thrust bearing. Lubricating fluid is supplied to the second stage orbiting scroll radial bearing via the lubricating fluid gallery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jerry Allen Rood, Scott Joseph Smerud, Keith Adam Novak, Joseph M. Heger, Derrick Lepak, Michael Gerard Benco
  • Publication number: 20180320798
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a valve assembly including a supply housing with a first bore and an injectable housing coupled to the supply housing with a second bore. The valve assembly further includes a piston extending through at least a portion of the first and second bores, the piston being reciprocable axially along a longitudinal axis. The valve assembly also includes a first inlet at a first end of the supply housing for directing a working fluid toward a first end of the piston. The valve assembly includes a second inlet extending through the injectable housing toward a cavity that receives an injectable material. The valve assembly also includes a second outlet at a second end of the injectable housing that directs the injectable material out of the injectable housing as the piston moves axially along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP
    Inventors: Travis Kyle McEvoy, Lloyd Cheatham, Keith Adams
  • Publication number: 20180320476
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method of replacing valve operation methods during fracturing operations including installing a first operator on a first valve of a first fracturing tree. The method also includes installing a second operator on a second valve of a second fracturing tree, the second fracturing tree being adjacent the first fracturing tree. The method also includes removing the first operator from the first valve, the first valve maintaining a position on the first fracturing tree after the first operator is removed. The method further includes removing the second operator from the second valve, the second valve maintaining a position on the second fracturing tree after the second operator is removed. The method also includes installing the first operator on the second valve after the first operator is removed from the first valve and after the second operator is removed from the second valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP
    Inventors: Travis Kyle McEvoy, Lloyd Cheatham, Keith Adams, Jonathan Powell, Timothy Fuller