Patents by Inventor Kevin Edwards

Kevin Edwards 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: 20250116981
    Abstract: An appliance includes a cabinet, an interior cavity defined by the cabinet, a storage compartment positioned within the interior cavity that supports a temporarily stored item, a temperature control system, a gas detector, and a scanning apparatus that has at least one camera and is configured to record and store image data associated with a user's preference. The scanning apparatus conducts first and second data capturing phases. A difference between first and second data sets is analyzed to produce a current inventory manifest. The appliance also includes a weight scale and a controller. The controller evaluates a location of the temporarily stored item based on the image data and determines remaining contents of the temporarily stored item based on data from the weight scale. The controller determines a preferred air velocity for the storage compartment based upon data collected from the gas detector and the weight scale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: WHIRLPOOL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joshua George Abdoo, Ariana M. Bruno, Kevin M. Chase, Rahul Dudhe, Neomar Giacomini, Aravind Nagarajan, Maria Paola Pirovano, Joel Matthew Sells, Aaron Edward Showers
  • Patent number: 12273348
    Abstract: Provided are processes to increase security of database systems, in some cases with transparent retrofits. Examples may include the calling of external functions responsive to a data access event, such as detected by a database driver, upon connection attempt to, request attempt to, or retrieval of data from a database arrangement of a storage environment. The database driver, in response to detecting an event, may perform a call to an API, like a RESTful API, of a component or system that effectuates logic for determining instructions provided back to the database driver for responding to the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: ALTR Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: James Douglas Beecham, Christopher Edward Struttmann, Mark Snellman, Judson Benton Locke, Kevin Rose
  • Patent number: 12273408
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for migrating a computer application from an entity's premises to a web services platform. Data from multiple sources on the entity's premises is gathered and normalized into a common format. The normalized data is used to create a topology of the network on the entity's premises. This topology is analyzed to determine whether a computer application executing on the entity's premises may be migrated to the web service platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew John Fitzgerald, Kevin Edward Kelly, Rudolph Vaughn Valdez, Paul Horvath
  • Patent number: 12271576
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device with a display includes: displaying a user interface having a first region and a second region; receiving, and displaying in the first region of the user interface, a live video stream of a physical environment captured by a remote video camera; displaying, in the second region, a timeline corresponding to a timespan for a first portion of a duration during which the live video stream may have been recorded; in response to receiving a user interaction to move the timespan to a second portion of the duration, transitioning the displayed timeline to a new timeline that corresponds to the timespan for the second portion, and while transitioning, displaying, in the first region, a subset of video frames representing the first and/or second portion of the duration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Burns, George Alban Heitz, III, James Edward Stewart, Cameron Hill, Seungho Yang, Joe Delone Venters, William Alex Finlayson, Carsten Hinz, Timothy Samuel Psiaki, Nathan Scott Klee, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Kevin James Avery, Lawrence W. Neal, Martin Davidsson
  • Publication number: 20250097549
    Abstract: A system and method for multimedia scene break detection, including: a computer processor, a scene break detection service executing on the computer processor and comprising functionality to: (i) receive a request for scene break detection on a media item, (ii) identify a set of candidate scene break timestamps selected based on analysis of an audio component of the media item and a video component of the media item, (iii) execute a computer vision scoring model for each candidate scene break timestamp to generate a score representing a visual distance between a first set of proximal frames and a second set of proximal frames of the candidate scene break timestamp, and (iv) select, based at least on the score of each of the set of candidate scene break timestamps, a final set of scene break timestamps for the media item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Tubi, Inc.
    Inventors: Amir Mazaheri, John Trenkle, Jaya Kawale, Kevin Edward Corcoran, Dennis Paul Yost, Anthony Albert Truyoo-Broque, Matthew Adam Elliott
  • Patent number: 12252958
    Abstract: Provided is a clutch assembly, a SSSV, and a method for operating an SSSV. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, includes an output coupler housing, an input shaft, and an electromagnet coupled to the input shaft. In at least one aspect, the electromagnet is configured to magnetize the output coupler housing when the electromagnet is energized. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, further includes one or more grooves located in an inner surface of a central opening in the output coupler housing and one or more engagement members located in the outer surface of the input shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Robert Wood, Kevin Robin Passmore, Bruce Edward Scott, Jon-Howard Elliott Hanson
  • Publication number: 20250084731
    Abstract: Provided is a retrievable safety valve insert. The retrievable safety valve insert, in one aspect, includes an outer housing having a central bore, and a valve closure mechanism coupled to the outer housing proximate a downhole end of the central bore. The retrievable safety valve insert, in accordance with this aspect, further includes a bore flow management actuator disposed in the central bore, the bore flow management actuator configured to slide to move the valve closure mechanism between a closed state and an open state, and one or more safety valve insert magnets coupled to the bore flow management actuator, the one or more safety valve insert magnets configured to magnetically couple with one or more landing nipple magnets of a safety valve landing nipple to slide the bore flow management actuator and move the valve closure mechanism between the closed state and the open state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Robin Passmore, Bruce Edward Scott
  • Publication number: 20250085553
    Abstract: Display devices include waveguides with in-coupling optical elements that mitigate re-bounce of in-coupled light to improve in-coupling efficiency and/or uniformity. A waveguide receives light from a light source and includes an in-coupling optical element that in-couples the received light to propagate by total internal reflection within the waveguide. The in-coupled light may undergo re-bounce, in which the light reflects off a waveguide surface and, after the reflection, strikes the in-coupling optical element. Upon striking the in-coupling optical element, the light may be partially absorbed and/or out-coupled by the optical element, thereby reducing the amount of in-coupled light propagating through the waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffrey Dean SCHMULEN, Neal Paul RICKS, Samarth BHARGAVA, Kevin MESSER, Victor Kai LIU, Matthew Grant DIXON, Xiaopei DENG, Marlon Edward MENEZES, Shuqiang YANG, Vikramjit SINGH, Kang LUO, Frank Y. XU
  • Publication number: 20250082545
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Christy Lynn Chapman, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Christie Leigh McCarthy, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, JR., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, JR., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Steven Edward DeMartino, Robert Anthony Schaut, Adam Robert Sarafian
  • Publication number: 20250085351
    Abstract: A battery monitoring system includes a vehicle processor storing battery data and a user device communicatively coupled with the vehicle processor. The user device includes data processing hardware that stores a weather application, a navigation application, and a battery monitoring application. The battery monitoring application is configured to receive the battery data from the vehicle processor and weather data from the weather application. The battery monitoring application is also configured to present a user with battery efficiency options based on the battery data and the weather data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Tran, Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres, James Doherty, Kevin W. Owens
  • Patent number: 12246106
    Abstract: A portable sanitizing method includes moving a cover of a case assembly between an open position that exposes a storage chamber and a closed position; storing a wand assembly including a sanitizing head having an ultraviolet (UV) lamp in the storage chamber when not in use; and removing the wand assembly from the storage chamber to disinfect one or more components with UV light emitted by the UV lamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Arthur Edward Brockschmidt, Jr., Kevin S. Callahan, Jamie J. Childress, Michael Kipling Klein, Douglas Alan Brown, Christopher Edward Plass, Teresa A. King
  • Publication number: 20250075971
    Abstract: A bottle cooling or heating device (1) for suspension from a support surface. The device (1) comprises a receptacle including a vessel (50), a thermoelectric cooling and/or heating (60) in contact with the vessel (50), and a support structure (20) connected to the vessel (50). The support structure (20) comprises a hanging lip (25) which projects away from the support structure (20) and supports the device (1) in use. Magnets (33) are supported by the support structure and a crown (6) is removably connectable to the support structure (20), held in place by the magnets (33). The crown (6) comprises a plurality of keys configured to engage with a support fixture (20) mounted on the underside of the support surface. One or more wedge devices which are moveable with respect to the support structure (20) may be connected to the support structure (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Jabou, Neil Edwards
  • Publication number: 20250073409
    Abstract: A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a bearing-housing structure provided to the housing and adapted to rotatably support a rotor, a motor provided to the bearing-housing structure and adapted to drive the rotor, and an impeller provided to the rotor. The bearing-housing structure includes a bearing shaft having a bearing surface that rotatably supports the rotor. The bearing shaft provides only a single bearing of the non-ball bearing type for the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Samuel Aziz MEBASSER, Peter Jeffrey THOMAS, Roman VINOKUR, Kevin Gene McCULLOH, William S LANE, Yeu-chuan HSIA, Michael David BEDNAR, John Paul FREESE, Karl Yutaka IWAHASHI, David Brent SEARS, Barton John KENYON, Richard G KRUM, Par Egron DANNAS, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Malcolm Edward LEADER
  • Publication number: 20250079071
    Abstract: A magnetic shielding system is provided for a Differential Current Transformer to provide shielding at multiple locations for a circuit braker. It comprises an outer shield being cylindrically-shaped and closely fitting and an inner shield being closely fitting over four conductor cables that pass through the Differential Current Transformer. An inside diameter of the inner shield is less than 1.5 times the diameter of the smallest circle that can enclose the four conductor cables that pass through the Differential Current Transformer. In an axial direction, the magnetic shielding system comprises multiple layers of flat, washer-shaped parts in which at least one layer on top and one layer on bottom is of magnetic shielding material. Magnetic shielding is provided at the multiple locations using two or more different classes of materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Siemens Industry, Inc.
    Inventors: James Edward Ferree, Scott Turner, Kevin R. Warne
  • Publication number: 20250078582
    Abstract: An incident evaluation system for vehicle incidents includes a first imager configured to capture image data corresponding to a first vehicle and a first vehicle processor that is communicatively coupled to the first imager and configured to receive the captured image data. The first vehicle processor is configured to generate a first vehicle report in response to an incident captured in the image data and includes a first vehicle profile including at least one of first vehicle insurance details, driver details, and pre-incident image data. The incident evaluation system also includes a server communicatively coupled to the first vehicle processor and configured to receive the first vehicle report. The server is configured to evaluate the captured image data to generate an incident report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Edward Gilbert-Eyres, Kevin W. Owens, James Doherty, Benjamin Tran
  • Patent number: 12244914
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include a video camera assembly that includes: (1) a housing; (2) an image sensor positioned within the housing and having a field of view corresponding to a scene in the smart home environment; and (3) a concave-shaped front face positioned in front of the image sensor such that light from the scene passes through the front face prior to entering the image sensor; where the front face includes: (a) an inner section corresponding to the image sensor; and (b) an outer section between the housing and the inner section, the outer section having a concave shape that extends from an outer periphery of the outer section to an inner periphery of the outer section; and where the concave shape extends around an entirety of the outer periphery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Mark Kraz, Kevin Edward Booth, Tyler Scott Wilson, Nicholas Webb, Jason Evans Goulden, William Dong, Jeffrey Law, Rochus Jacob, Adam Duckworth Mittleman, Oliver Mueller
  • Patent number: 12233892
    Abstract: A vehicle control system for a vehicle may include a controller, a single pedal and a torque control module. The controller may be operably coupled to components and/or sensors of the vehicle to receive information indicative of operational intent of an operator of the vehicle and information indicative of vehicle status. The single pedal may be configured to provide the information indicative of operational intent. The torque control module may be configured to generate both a propulsive torque request and a braking torque request based on the information indicative of the operational intent and the information indicative of vehicle status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Brewer, Kevin Sallee
  • Patent number: 12226370
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Christie Leigh McCarthy, Sinue Gomez-Mower, Weirong Jiang, Joseph Michael Matusick, Steven Edward DeMartino, Connor Thomas O'Malley, John Stephen Peanasky, Shivani Rao Polasani, James Ernest Webb, Michael Clement Ruotolo, Jr., Bryan James Musk, Jared Seaman Aaldenberg, Eric Lewis Allington, Douglas Miles Noni, Jr., Amber Leigh Tremper, Kristen Dae Waight, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Patrick Joseph Cimo, Christy Lynn Chapman, Robert Anthony Schaut
  • Publication number: 20250052289
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods including an electromechanical brake used downhole to impart dynamic or static braking capabilities while absorbing or otherwise reducing shock loads. The electromechanical brake may be used for a downhole electromechanical linear actuator to control a valve for the production of subterranean fluid. In some examples, it may be desirable for an electromechanical linear actuator to maintain a retracted position during certain safety and/or maintenance operations. The electromechanical brake includes a brake housing, a first armature rotatably disposed in the brake housing, a second armature rotatably disposed in the brake housing for rotation by a motor, an electrical coil energizable to urge the second armature into axial engagement with the first armature, and a rotational spring for biasing the first armature to a neutral rotational position relative to the brake housing while allowing a limited rotation of the first armature relative to the brake housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Edward Scott, Kevin Robin Passmore
  • Publication number: 20250043511
    Abstract: Sanitary tissue product rolls that exhibit novel combinations of physical properties, such as Moment of Inertia, Roll Density, and optionally Roll Diameter, such that the sanitary tissue product rolls meet consumers' needs, and method for making such novel sanitary tissue product rolls and marketing such novel sanitary tissue product rolls are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Kevin Mitchell, Robert Edward Reinerman, Douglas Jay Barkey, Mark Alan Green, Paul Dennis Trokhan, J. Michael Bills, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Thomas Weisman