Patents by Inventor Kenneth Francis

Kenneth Francis 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: 20240123953
    Abstract: A system for braking a host vehicle. A memory storing instructions executable by a processor includes instructions to actuate friction brakes in the host vehicle when a brake condition occurs. The brake condition includes that the host vehicle is parked on a roadway, a person is located exterior to the host vehicle, and an approaching vehicle will come within a distance threshold of the host vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan Francis Diamond, Stuart C. Salter, Kenneth McHugh, Keith Weston
  • Patent number: 11925872
    Abstract: A video game includes a single player mode where completion of storyline objectives advances the single player storyline. The video game also includes a multiplayer mode where a plurality of players can play on an instance of a multiplayer map. Storyline objectives from the single player mode are selected and made available for completion to players in the multiplayer mode, and the single player storylines can be advanced by players completing respective storyline objectives while playing in the multiplayer mode. Combinations of storyline objectives are selected from pending storyline objectives for players connecting to a multiplayer game for compatibility with multiplayer maps. Constraints can be used to determine compatibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.
    Inventors: Harold Henry Chaput, Jesse Hans Stokes Harder, Daniel Lee Kading, John Christopher Epler, John Kolen, Navid Aghdaie, Kazi Atif-Uz Zaman, Kenneth Alan Moss, Thomas Murray Perlinski, Graham Francis Scott
  • Publication number: 20240053865
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for interpreting a user external data reference value and a user data change input value, accessing an external data source in response to the user external data reference value, receiving source data from the external data source, updating the source data in the external data source in response to the external data source and the user data change input value, and providing an updated display value for a document in response to the user data change input value and the source data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Publication number: 20240038035
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a portable electronic device to provide healthcare to a subject at a remote location. In embodiments, the portable electronic device may include: a housing operable to encase one or more components of the portable electronic device, a power source, a plurality of light emitting diodes, a communication portal electrically coupled to the power source, a distribution module electrically coupled to the power source and operatively connected to the plurality of light emitting diodes and the communication portal, and an input device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Jonathan Daniels, Kenneth Francis Martin
  • Patent number: 11816978
    Abstract: Systems and methods for a portable electronic device to provide healthcare to a subject at a remote location. In embodiments, the portable electronic device may include: a housing operable to encase one or more components of the portable electronic device, a power source, a plurality of light emitting diodes, a communication portal electrically coupled to the power source, a distribution module electrically coupled to the power source and operatively connected to the plurality of light emitting diodes and the communication portal, and an input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: JDTC Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Jonathan Daniels, Kenneth Francis Martin, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230342003
    Abstract: Systems and methods include interpreting a first user input from a first user, the first user input comprising a text flow entry, interpreting a second user input from the first user, the second user input comprising at least one of: an in-line data access entry or a table-based calculation entry, positioning a text entry value on a unified document surface in response to the first user input, creating at least one data structure in response to the second user input, the at least one data structure comprising data from an external data source, the external data source being external to the unified document surface, and positioning the at least one data structure on the unified document surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 11775136
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for a accessing a data element, providing a first view in response to the data element, the first view comprising at least a portion of the data element, determining a visualization element (VE) in response to the data element, and further in response to at least one of a user visualization selection or a user context value, and providing a second view in response to the VE and the data element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Coda Project, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 11726635
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for interpreting a table grouping input value associated with a table, wherein the table comprises a plurality of categories and a plurality of associated data sets corresponding to the plurality of categories, determining an aggregation value in response to the table grouping input value, wherein the aggregation value corresponds to at least one of the plurality of categories, and in response to the aggregation value, providing an aggregated table view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Coda Project, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 11435874
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for a document server communicatively coupled to at least one client computing device, a document comprising an operation log, wherein the operation log comprises at least one first sequential operation defining operations to create data values of the document, a document object model, wherein the document is at least partially positioned on at least one of the document server and a first client computing device of the at least one client computing device, and a formula engine, wherein the formula engine is structured to determine a calculation definition in response to the user formula value and the document object model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Coda Project, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Publication number: 20220126251
    Abstract: A chemical synthesis plant comprising: one or more reactors configured for producing, from one or more reactants, a process stream comprising at least one chemical product; a feed preparation system configured to prepare one or more feed streams comprising one or more of the one or more reactants for introduction into the one or more reactors; and/or a product purification system configured to separate the at least one chemical product from reaction byproducts, unreacted reactants, or a combination thereof within the process stream, wherein the chemical synthesis plant is configured such that a majority of the net energy needed for heating, cooling, compressing, or a combination thereof utilized via the one or more reactors, the feed preparation system, the product purification system, or a combination thereof is provided from a noncarbon based energy source, from a renewable energy source, and/or from electricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Scott STEVENSON, Andrew Mark WARD, Tim ABBOTT, Kenneth Francis LAWSON, Joseph William SCHROER, Michael Edward HUCKMAN, Arno OPRINS, Zhun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20220127209
    Abstract: An olefin synthesis plant comprising: a feed pretreatment section configured to pretreat a feed stream; a pyrolysis section comprising one or more pyrolysis reactors configured to crack hydrocarbons in the feed stream in the presence of a diluent to produce a cracked gas stream; a primary fractionation and compression section configured to provide heat recovery from and quenching of the cracked gas stream; remove a component from the cracked gas stream; and compress the cracked gas stream, thus providing a compressed cracked gas stream; and/or a product separation section configured to separate a product olefin stream from the compressed cracked gas stream, wherein the olefin synthesis plant is configured such that, relative to a conventional olefin synthesis plant, more of the energy and/or the net energy required by the olefin synthesis plant and/or one or more sections thereof, is provided by a non-carbon based and/or renewable energy source and/or electricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Andrew Mark WARD, Scott STEVENSON, Arno OPRINS, Zhun ZHAO, Tim ABBOTT, Kenneth Francis LAWSON, Joseph William SCHROER, Michael Edward HUCKMAN
  • Publication number: 20220119269
    Abstract: An ammonia synthesis plant comprising: a feed pretreating section operable to pretreat a feed stream; a syngas generation section operable to reform the feed stream to produce a reformer product stream; a shift conversion section operable to subject the reformer product stream to the water gas shift reaction, to produce a shifted gas stream comprising more hydrogen than the reformer gas stream; a purification section operable to remove at least one component from the shifted gas stream, and provide an ammonia synthesis feed stream; and/or an ammonia synthesis section operable to produce ammonia from the ammonia synthesis feed stream, wherein the ammonia synthesis plant is configured such that, relative to a conventional ammonia synthesis plant, more of the energy required by the ammonia synthesis plant or one or more sections thereof is provided by a non-carbon based energy source, a renewable energy source, and/or electricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Michael Edward HUCKMAN, Scott STEVENSON, Andrew Mark WARD, Tim ABBOTT, Kenneth Francis LAWSON, Joseph William SCHROER, Zhun ZHAO, Arno OPRINS
  • Publication number: 20220119328
    Abstract: A methanol synthesis plant comprising: a feed pretreating section operable to pretreat a feed stream; a synthesis gas (syngas) generation section comprising one or more reactors operable to produce a syngas synthesis product stream comprising synthesis gas from the feed stream; a methanol synthesis section comprising one or more methanol synthesis reactors operable to produce a synthesis product comprising methanol; and/or a methanol purification section operable to remove at least one component from the synthesis product to provide a purified methanol product; wherein the methanol synthesis plant is configured such that, relative to a conventional methanol synthesis plant, more of the net energy required by the methanol synthesis plant, the feed pretreating section, the syngas generation section, the methanol synthesis section, the methanol purification section, or a combination thereof, is provided by a non-carbon based energy source, a renewable energy source, and/or electricity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Joseph William SCHROER, Scott STEVENSON, Andrew Mark WARD, Tim ABBOTT, Kenneth Francis LAWSON, Michael Edward HUCKMAN, Zhun ZHAO, Arno OPRINS
  • Publication number: 20220119252
    Abstract: A chemical synthesis plant comprising: one or more reactors configured for producing, from one or more reactants, a process stream comprising at least one chemical product; a feed preparation system configured to prepare one or more feed streams comprising one or more of the one or more reactants for introduction into the reactor; and/or a product purification system configured to separate the at least one chemical product from reaction byproducts, unreacted reactants, or a combination thereof within the process stream, wherein the chemical synthesis plant is configured such that a majority (e.g., greater than 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, or 100%) of the net energy needed for heating, cooling, compressing, or a combination thereof utilized via the one or more reactors, the feed preparation system, the product purification system, or a combination thereof is provided from an intermittent energy source (IES).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: SABIC Global Technologies B.V.
    Inventors: Scott STEVENSON, Andrew Mark WARD, Kenneth Francis LAWSON, Joseph William SCHROER, Michael Edward HUCKMAN, Zhun ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20210311595
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for interpreting a table grouping input value associated with a table, wherein the table comprises a plurality of categories and a plurality of associated data sets corresponding to the plurality of categories, determining an aggregation value in response to the table grouping input value, wherein the aggregation value corresponds to at least one of the plurality of categories, and in response to the aggregation value, providing an aggregated table view.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Publication number: 20210286479
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for a document server communicatively coupled to at least one client computing device, a document comprising an operation log, wherein the operation log comprises at least one first sequential operation defining operations to create data values of the document, a document object model, wherein the document is at least partially positioned on at least one of the document server and a first client computing device of the at least one client computing device, and a formula engine, wherein the formula engine is structured to determine a calculation definition in response to the user formula value and the document object model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Publication number: 20210286481
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for interpreting a first user input comprising a text flow entry, interpreting a second user input comprising one of an in-line data access entry and a table-based calculation entry, positioning a text entry value on a unified document surface in response to the first user input, creating at least one data structure in response to the one of the in-line data access entry and the table-based calculation entry, and positioning the data structure on the unified document surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 11106332
    Abstract: The present invention discloses receiving a first operation log from a first computing device, creating a first document view in response to the first operation log, the document view comprising content generated using at least a portion of the first operation log, providing the first document view to a display device, receiving a user document change input value, and creating a local operation log in response to the first operation log and the user document change input value, the local operation log comprising at least one sequential operation defining operations to create a second document, updating the first document view in response to the user document change input value, and communicating a change value for the first operation log to the first computing device in response to the first operation log and the local operation log.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Coda Project, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 10983670
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for interpreting a table grouping input value associated with a table, wherein the table comprises a plurality of categories and a plurality of associated data sets corresponding to the plurality of categories, determining an aggregation value in response to the table grouping input value, wherein the aggregation value corresponds to at least one of the plurality of categories, and in response to the aggregation value, providing an aggregated table view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Coda Project, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: D1002438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Burromax LLC
    Inventor: Kenneth A. Francis