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).

  • Patent number: 10067783
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a method of interposing operations in a computational system that includes a virtualization system executable on an underlying hardware processor that natively supports one or more instructions that transition between host and guest execution modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventor: Keith Adams
  • Patent number: 10036485
    Abstract: A valve with a packing assembly can include a first stem packing circumscribing a first portion of a valve stem, forming a seal between the valve stem and a valve body assembly, and being located in the second bore portion. A first packing retainer can have a collar that limits axial movement of the first stem packing and a first retainer body defining an inner cavity. A second stem packing can circumscribe a second portion of the valve stem and be located in the inner cavity of the first packing retainer. A second packing retainer can limit axial movement of the second stem packing. A piston member can be located axially between the first stem packing and the second stem packing, the piston member being moveable to apply axial force to one of the first stem packing and the second stem packing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP
    Inventors: Keith Adams, Travis McEvoy, Andrew Browne Helvenston, Lloyd Cheatham, Robert Kevin Law
  • Patent number: 9980910
    Abstract: A livestock feed supplement in which a core particle containing sodium metabisulfite and at least one binder is enrobed with an enteric coating, wherein the thickness and composition of the coating protects the sodium metabisulfite from decomposition to sulfur dioxide in an aqueous acid stomach environment. Also disclosed are a method of delivering sodium metabisulfite to the lower gastrointestinal tract of an animal, and a method of delivering an antidote to relieve the toxic effect of vomitoxin in an animal, by administering to the animal the livestock feed supplement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: PROVIMI NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas R. Cook, Keith Adams
  • Patent number: 9982515
    Abstract: A locking apparatus for attaching to an end of a valve actuator includes an assembly body, the assembly body releasably securable to a valve actuator. The assembly body has a stem bore for receiving an actuator stem, and a plunger orifice through a sidewall of the assembly body. An immobilizer assembly has a plunger extending through the plunger orifice, and biased radially outward and moveable between a radially inner position where the immobilizer assembly extends over the stem bore, and a radially outer position where an inner end of the immobilizer assembly is radially outward of the stem bore. A segmented housing circumscribes the assembly body and is moveable between a first position where the plunger is in the radially outer position and a second position where the plunger is in the radially inner position. A fusible band selectively retains the segmented housing in engagement with the immobilizer assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: GE OIL & GAS PRESSURE CONTROL LP
    Inventors: Carl Raymond Taylor, Keith Adams, Travis Kyle McEvoy
  • Publication number: 20180100767
    Abstract: A radiation detection technique employs field enhancing structures and electroluminescent materials to converts incident Terahertz (THz) radiation into visible light and/or infrared light. In this technique, the field-enhancing structures, such as split ring resonators or micro-slits, enhances the electric field of incoming THz light within a local area, where the electroluminescent material is applied. The enhanced electric field then induces the electroluminescent material to emit visible and/or infrared light via electroluminescent process. A detector such as avalanche photodiode can detect and measure the emitted light. This technique allows cost-effective detection of THz radiation at room temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Brandt Christopher Pein, Harold Young Hwang, Wendi Chang, Keith Adam Nelson, Vladimir Bulovic, Nathaniel C. Brandt
  • Patent number: 9880943
    Abstract: Disclosed here are methods, systems, paradigms and structures for deleting shared resources from a cache in a multi-threaded system. The shared resources can be used by a plurality of requests belonging to multiple threads executing in the system. When requests, such as requests for executing script code, and work items, such as work items for deleting a shared resource, are created, a global sequence number is assigned to each of them. The sequence number indicates the order in which the requests and work items are created. A particular work item can be executed to delete the shared resource if there are no requests having a sequence number lesser than that of the particular work item executing in the system. However, if there is at least one request with a sequence number lesser than that of the particular work item executing, the work item is ignored until the request completes executing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Adams, Jason Owen Evans
  • Publication number: 20180017283
    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: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Stewart, Mark Hudgins, Richard Lee Jameson, Keith Adam Novak, Leslie Zinger
  • Patent number: 9860229
    Abstract: A first computing device connected to an internal network de-anonymizes data. A record including a surrogate key is received from a second computing device connected to an external network to the internal network. Each identity data record includes a second surrogate key, an entity identifier field value, a record type field value, and a de-identified field value. The second surrogate key uniquely identifies the respective record. The surrogate key is compared to the second surrogate key to identify a matching record. The matching entity identifier field value is selected and compared to the entity identifier field value of the plurality of records to identify a master record for the surrogate key. The record type field value includes an indicator indicating whether the record is the master record. The de-identified field value included in the identified master record is selected. The received record is supplemented with the selected de-identified field value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SAS Institute Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Oneal Miles, Keith Adams
  • Patent number: 9829379
    Abstract: A two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopy system and a 2D spectroscopic analysis method are disclosed. The 2D spectroscopy system includes: a light transmission delayer configured for forming a plurality of first light pulses from first light pulse and causing a relative time delay therebetween; a response pulse wave generator configured for generating a plurality of response pulse waves responds and having a relative time delay, and for irradiating the plurality of response pulse waves on the sample; an optical readout pulse array generator configured for forming an optical readout pulse array by splitting the second light pulse into a plurality of regions having different time delays and spatially discriminated from one another; and a reader configured for reading out by overlapping the optical readout pulse array with a signal generated from the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignees: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Chan-Wook Baik, Ogan Gurel, Benjamin Kwasi Ofori-Okai, Christopher Alan Werley, Keith Adam Nelson, Stephanie Meng-Yan Teo
  • Patent number: 9759446
    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: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Stewart, Mark Hudgins, Richard Lee Jameson, Keith Adam Novak, Leslie Zinger
  • Patent number: 9732755
    Abstract: A compressor crankshaft assembly includes a crankshaft and an eccentric drive pin extending from one end of the crankshaft. The shape of the drive pin viewed into the exposed end of the drive pin is defined by the intersection of a first cylinder that is coaxial with the axis of a substantially cylindrical orbital bearing journaled and installed to receive the eccentric drive pin and a second cylinder that is coaxial with the axis of a substantially cylindrical main bearing journaled and installed to rotatably receive the crankshaft, such that the area defined by the intersecting portion is less than the area defined by either cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jerry Allen Rood, Michael Gerard Benco, Scott Joseph Smerud, Wayne Gerard Gorski, Keith Adam Novak
  • Publication number: 20170223003
    Abstract: A first computing device connected to an internal network de-anonymizes data. A record including a surrogate key is received from a second computing device connected to an external network to the internal network. Each identity data record includes a second surrogate key, an entity identifier field value, a record type field value, and a de-identified field value. The second surrogate key uniquely identifies the respective record. The surrogate key is compared to the second surrogate key to identify a matching record. The matching entity identifier field value is selected and compared to the entity identifier field value of the plurality of records to identify a master record for the surrogate key. The record type field value includes an indicator indicating whether the record is the master record. The de-identified field value included in the identified master record is selected. The received record is supplemented with the selected de-identified field value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Brian Oneal Miles, Keith Adams
  • Publication number: 20170191479
    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: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Jerry Allen Rood, Scott Joseph Smerud, Keith Adam Novak, Joseph M. Heger, Derrick Lepak, Michael Gerard Benco
  • Publication number: 20170193390
    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: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Jason E. Weston, Keith Adams, Sumit Chopra
  • Patent number: 9696046
    Abstract: An air handling unit has a first modular cabinet comprising a first profile, a second modular cabinet comprising a second profile that is complementary to the first profile, and the first profile comprises an alignment feature. An air handling unit has a heat exchanger cabinet comprising a first profile, a blower cabinet comprising a second profile complementary to the first profile, a first connector system disposed at least partially on each of the heat exchanger cabinet and the blower cabinet, and the first connector system is operable to releasably secure the first profile to the second profile. An air handling unit has a first modular cabinet comprising a first portion of a first connection system and a second modular cabinet comprising a second portion of the first connection system. A component of the first portion may be least partially received within the second portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Trane International Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey L. Stewart, Mark Hudgins, Richard Lee Jameson, Keith Adam Novak, Leslie Zinger
  • Patent number: 9697022
    Abstract: Scripts are incrementally compiled at runtime to generate executable code. The incremental compilation generates executable code corresponding to a basic block of the script. The executable code for a basic block of script is generated for a set of types of variables of the basic block resulting from execution of the script in response to a request. The generated executable code is stored and executed for subsequent requests if these requests result in the same types of variables for the basic block. The incremental compilation of the script is performed in a lazy fashion, such that executable code is not generated for combinations of types of variables of the script code that are not obtained from requests received at runtime. The script may dynamically generate portions of a web page that is returned in response to a request for execution of the script.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Adams, Andrew John Paroski, Jason Owen Evans
  • Patent number: 9655796
    Abstract: A hospital bed obstacle detection device and related method for detecting an obstacle between first and second components of a hospital bed is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl William Riley, Keith Adam Huster, Gregory J. Figel, Irvin J. Vanderpohl, III
  • Patent number: 9657737
    Abstract: A scroll compressor includes an orbiting scroll member disposed within a compressor housing. The orbiting scroll member has a substantially circular baseplate and a generally spiral wrap extending from its base. A first seal is disposed proximal to the outer periphery of the orbiting scroll baseplate to provide an external seal between the baseplate and the housing. A second seal is disposed radially inward from the first seal to provide an internal seal between the baseplate and the housing. A space between the internal seal and the external seal defines a balance piston chamber. The balance piston chamber is pressurized via a high or intermediate pressure oil source to reduce thrust loading on the baseplate caused by an axial pressure differential across the baseplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: TRANE INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Scott Joseph Smerud, John Robert Sauls, Michael Gerard Benco, Jerry Allen Rood, Keith Adam Novak, Derrick Lepak, Joseph M. Heger
  • Publication number: 20170130577
    Abstract: A system for directly sensing a position of a movable part of a hydrocarbon drilling and production includes a housing having a body with an inner cavity and a body wall with a wall thickness defined between an inner surface of the inner cavity and an outer surface of the body. The inner cavity has a fluid flow path for hydrocarbon development fluids. A moveable member is located within the inner cavity. A sensor assembly is located within one of the body wall and the moveable member, the sensor assembly being positioned within a port. An indicator feature is on the other of the body wall and the moveable member, the indicator feature sensable by the sensor assembly when the moveable member is in a set position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: GE Oil & Gas Pressure Control LP
    Inventors: Samuel Heung Yeung Cheng, Keith Adams, Ben Calvin Holgate, Travis Kyle McEvoy, Fauad Saleem
  • Publication number: 20170109279
    Abstract: Technology is provided for partitioning a shared unified cache in a multi-processor computer system. The technology can receive a request to allocate a portion of a shared unified cache memory for storing only executable instructions, partition the cache memory into multiple partitions, and allocate one of the partitions for storing only executable instructions. The technology can further determine the size of the portion of the cache memory to be allocated for storing only executable instructions as a function of the size of the multi-processor's L1 instruction cache and the number of cores in the multi-processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Narsing Vijayrao, Keith Adams