Patents by Inventor KEVIN JOSEPH
KEVIN JOSEPH 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).
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Patent number: 12357855Abstract: A system and method for protecting an area from fire having one or more area fire prevention units capable of discharging fire suppressant via a directable nozzle, each fire prevention unit being communicatively coupled to a computing device which detects airborne firebrands, predicts their trajectories and final landing positions, and directs one or of the fire prevention units to discharge fire suppressant toward the firebrand at its final landing position. Depending on configuration, the system may further use wind data, GPS, and terrain models to calculate the trajectory and final position of the firebrand. Also depending on configuration, the system may calculate a spread and distance of suppressant discharge, a nozzle aperture, and an amount of suppressant to discharge. Some embodiments may use trained machine learning algorithms to make one or more of the system's calculations.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2024Date of Patent: July 15, 2025Assignee: Vigillent IncInventors: Kevin Joseph Chandler, Christopher Corgan Troye
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Publication number: 20250220435Abstract: A method includes receiving information representative of one or more actions taken by a user equipment device connected to a cloud-native wireless network. The method also includes selecting, based on the information, the user equipment device for monitoring network traffic originating from the user equipment device. The method also includes, in response to selecting the user equipment device, assigning the user equipment device to a network slice of the cloud-native wireless network, wherein the user equipment device is assigned to the network slice upon connecting to a radio tower of the cloud-native wireless network. The method also includes routing network traffic associated with the network slice through a module of the cloud-native wireless network that monitors the network traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: July 3, 2025Inventors: Daniel Brian Steeves, James M. Adkins, III, Ravi Madhavan, Mohammad Dawood Shahdad, Dale Drew, Kevin Joseph Plunkett
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Publication number: 20250193013Abstract: A computer implemented method for verifying a policy proof includes receiving request from a user for a policy, issuing a random challenge nonce, receiving a triple comprising a first genesis state of the user, a zero-knowledge proof of the policy based at least in part on the first random challenge nonce, an account address corresponding to the user, and user data, and a signature of the zero-knowledge proof of the policy, verifying the zero-knowledge proof of the policy based at least in part on the account address of the user, the first random challenge nonce, and one or more states of the user, storing the zero-knowledge proof and the policy identifier in a decentralized storage, publishing the account address corresponding to the user, the policy identifier, and a content identifier to one or more blockchain ledgers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2024Publication date: June 12, 2025Inventors: Liangnan Wu, Kevin Joseph Silk, Suleyman Kardas, Mehmet Sabir Kiraz
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Publication number: 20250143404Abstract: A foot force detection system includes first and second shoe force detection units. The first shoe force detection unit includes a first plurality of pressure sensors operably coupled to produce first force data, a first processing module operably coupled to produce a first digital representation of the first force data and a first communication unit operably coupled to the first processing module. The second shoe force detection unit includes a second plurality of pressure sensors operably coupled to produce second force data, a second processing module operably coupled to produce a second digital representation of the second force data, and a second communication unit operably coupled to the second processing module. The first and second shoe force detection units communicate with each other via the communication units.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2025Publication date: May 8, 2025Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Michael Shawn Gray, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison, Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 12290332Abstract: A heating system for providing heat to a draped basin containing liquid above the drape. In addition to having at least one temperature sensor that controls a flow of electricity to the heating element, the system has at least one air gap detector in thermal contact with the heating element. Each air gap detector responding to a temperature above a high setpoint temperature for that air gap detector by interrupting the flow of electricity until detecting that the temperature has fallen below a reset setpoint temperature for that air gap detector so that an air gap in proximity to the one of the air gap detectors is prevented from causing a severe temperature excursion in a portion of the draped basin. Thus, the drape is protected from a local temperature excursion.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 6, 2025Assignee: WEG Surgical Solutions, LLCInventors: Kevin Joseph Rackers, Thomas J. Wanbaugh, Paul Grozier
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Patent number: 12287406Abstract: A method includes receiving a trajectory dataset including a plurality of geospatial points forming a point cloud and acquired along a trajectory wherein for each of the plurality of geospatial points there is a defined an x-coordinate, a y-coordinate and a z-coordinate and at least one mapping device orientation attribute, segmenting the trajectory dataset into a plurality of segments, determining at least one relative constraint for each of the plurality of segments and utilizing, for each of the plurality of segments, at least one of the determined relative constraints to determine a relative position of at least two of the plurality of segments.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Ji Zhang, Calvin Wade Sheen, Kevin Joseph Dowling
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Publication number: 20250123713Abstract: A method includes a processing module obtaining touch data at a touch data rate. The method further includes the processing module obtaining video data at a refresh rate, wherein the touch data rate is greater than the refresh rate. For a frame of the video data, the method further includes the processing module determining a touch movement trend based on the touch data. The method further includes the processing module determining a position offset for a graphical representation of the touch data based on the touch movement trend. When the position offset exceeds an offset threshold, the method further includes the processing module adjusting position of the graphical representation of the touch data within the frame of video data based on the position offset to produce an adjusted frame of video data.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Kevin Joseph Derichs, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Richard Stuart Seger, JR.
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Patent number: 12271550Abstract: A touch sensor device (TSD) includes a panel that includes electrodes and drive-sense circuits (DSCs). Different electrodes may be implemented in different directions. A first DSC is operably coupled via a first single line to a first electrode, and a second DSC is operably coupled via a second single line to the panel. The DSCs operate by providing respective signals via the respective single lines and simultaneously sensing the signals. For example, sensing of a first signal of a first DSC includes detection of a first electrical characteristic of the first electrode and/or a first change of the first signal. Sensing of a second signal of the second DSC includes detection of coupling of another signal into the panel in accordance with digital data communication from another device to the TSD. The DSCs also generate respective digital signals based upon what they sense.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventor: Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 12272012Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes capturing images of a first user wearing a VR display device in a real-world environment. The method includes receiving a VR rendering of a VR environment. The VR rendering is from the perspective of the mobile computing device with respect to the VR display device. The method includes generating a first MR rendering of the first user in the VR environment. The first MR rendering of the first user is based on a compositing of the images of the first user and the VR rendering. The method includes receiving an indication of a user interaction with one or more elements of the VR environment in the first MR rendering. The method includes generating, in real-time responsive to the indication of the user interaction with the one or more elements, a second MR rendering of the first user in the VR environment. The one or more elements are modified according to the interaction.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLCInventors: Sarah Tanner Simpson, Gregory Smith, Jeffrey Witthuhn, Ying-Chieh Huang, Shuang Li, Wenliang Zhao, Peter Koch, Meghana Reddy Guduru, Ioannis Pavlidis, Xiang Wei, Kevin Xiao, Kevin Joseph Sheridan, Bodhi Keanu Donselaar, Federico Adrian Camposeco Paulsen
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Publication number: 20250102376Abstract: A low power force detection system includes variable capacitors, a drive sense module, and a processing module. A drive sense circuit of the drive sense module is operable to provide an analog and frequency domain signal to a variable capacitor. The drive sense circuit is further operable to detect a characteristic of the variable capacitor based on the analog and frequency domain signal and to generate a representative signal of the characteristic. The processing module is operable to generate a digital value based on the representative and to write the digital value to memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2024Publication date: March 27, 2025Applicant: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Michael Shawn Gray, Kevin Joseph Derichs, Richard Stuart Seger, JR., Timothy W. Markison
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Patent number: 12258716Abstract: The present invention provides an embossed multi-ply tissue product that is visually pleasing and has improved physical attributes. For example, the inventive multi-ply tissue products have reduced stiffness, such as a GM Flexural Rigidity less than about 600 mg*cm, improved absorbency, such as a Residual Water (WResidual) value less than about 0.15 g, and improved wet resiliency, such as a wet elastic strain ratio greater than about 32 percent.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2023Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Steven LeCount, Kevin Joseph Vogt, Sarah Ann Funk, Jeffrey Dean Holz, Jason Daniel Hanke, Mike Thomas Goulet
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Patent number: 12260157Abstract: Systems and methods for calibrating and initializing a system comprising a first qubit, a second qubit, and a coupler are provided. A method of initializing the system can include calibrating the system; providing a first idle resonance frequency of the first qubit and a second idle resonance frequency of the second qubit; providing the first bias for the first idle resonance frequency and the second bias for the second idle resonance frequency; determining a value of the third resonance frequency at which a difference between the first degree of coupling and the second degree of coupling is minimized, when the first resonance frequency is the first idle resonance frequency and the second resonance frequency is the second idle resonance frequency; and providing the third bias according to the determined value of the third resonance frequency.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 25, 2025Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Kevin Joseph Satzinger, Andrew Lorne Dunsworth, Kostyantyn Yevgenovych Kechedzhi, Julian Shaw Kelly, Charles James Neill, Pedram Roushan
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Publication number: 20250094237Abstract: A system provides capacity-based load balancing across model endpoints of a cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) model. The system includes a consumption determination engine executable to determine a net resource consumption for processing tasks in a workload generated by a client application for input to the trained machine learning model. The system also includes a load balancer that determines a distribution of available resource capacity in a shared resource pool comprising compute resources at each of the multiple model endpoints. The load balancer allocates parallelizable tasks of the workload among the compute resources at the multiple model endpoints based on the net resource consumption of the tasks and on the distribution of available resource capacity in the shared resource pool.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Wenbin MENG, Hemant KUMAR, Rakesh KELKAR, Karthik RAMAN, Sanjay RAMANUJAN, Kevin Joseph RIEHM, Theodore Dragov TODOROV
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Publication number: 20250094240Abstract: A disclosed method facilitates an increase in utilization with respect to a resource quota allocated to a tenant from a shared resource pool. The method includes transmitting a lease request to a quota service on behalf of the tenant, where the lease request identifies a processing task and specifies quantity of cloud-based resources requested from the shared resource pool for execution of the processing task. The method further provides for determining, based on a feedback signal received from the quota service, whether grant of the lease request would cause the tenant to exceed a resource quota allocated to the tenant and dynamically decreasing parallelism of active tasks being processed by the cloud-based resources on behalf of the tenant in response to determining that grant of the lease request would cause the tenant to exceed the resource quota limit.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Wenbin MENG, Hemant KUMAR, Rakesh KELKAR, Karthik RAMAN, Sanjay RAMANUJAN, Kevin Joseph RIEHM, Theodore Dragov TODOROV
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Publication number: 20250094233Abstract: A disclosed method reduces memory consumption of a trained sequential model. The method includes receiving, from a client application, an initial processing request identifying an input sequence to be processed by the trained sequential model and an initial value for an output size parameter specifying a requested size of output from the trained sequential model. The method further includes sequentially transmitting, to the trained sequential model, multiple partial processing requests based on the initial processing request that each specify a fraction of the initial value as the output size parameter and receiving a sequence of output responses from the trained sequential model generated in response to processing the multiple partial processing requests. The method further provides for returning, to the client application, a final merged response that includes the sequence of output responses.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 20, 2025Inventors: Wenbin MENG, Hemant KUMAR, Rakesh KELKAR, Karthik RAMAN, Sanjay RAMANUJAN, Kevin Joseph RIEHM, Theodore Dragov TODOROV
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Publication number: 20250080453Abstract: A system to distinguish internal network routing issues within a user plane function (UPF) from external routing issues via multi-domain system (DNS) servers probing is disclosed. The system determines latency in communication between a given UPF and each of a plurality of DNS servers. The system compares each latency with a threshold latency value. If it is determined that each of the latencies in communication between the UPF and each DNS server is more than the threshold latency values, the system may determine that there is an internal network routing issue at the UPF that caused the high latencies. If it is determined that a latency in communication between the UPF and a particular DNS server is more than the threshold latency value, the system may determine that the latency is caused by a network routing issue at the particular DNS server—which is external to the UPF.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Ankesh Arora, Mohammad Dawood Shahdad, Kevin Joseph Plunkett
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Patent number: 12233014Abstract: A modular patient lift system includes a ceiling grid, a plurality of rails, a gantry configured to traverse the ceiling grid via the plurality of rails, and a patient lift coupled to the gantry and configured to traverse the ceiling grid with the gantry. The modular patient lift system further includes one or more sensors provided on at least one of the plurality of rails, the gantry, and the patient lift, the one or more sensors configured to collect at least one of environmental data and position data.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: SLD Technology, Inc.Inventor: Kevin Joseph Schreiber
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Patent number: 12235012Abstract: Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to improved HVAC devices and kits for HVAC devices that improve the sound attenuation associated with the device, particularly low-frequency noise. An example embodiment includes an improved furnace including a housing with a combustion air chamber, a heat exchanger chamber, and a circulation blower chamber, wherein the combustion air chamber comprises a burner assembly and a combustion air fan, the furnace also includes a sound attenuation layer including a first acoustic metamaterial layer coupled to the combustion air chamber and tuned to attenuate sound for a first frequency band, one or more housing openings fluidly connecting the combustion air chamber to an environment outside the housing, wherein the sound attenuation layer includes a discontinuous section that aligns with one or more of the housing openings.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Trane International Inc.Inventors: Yogesh Pandit, Richard L. Jameson, Zubin Varghese, John Bailey, Lance Lindenburg, Thomas Gort, Shiva Prasad Keralapura Basavaraju, Kevin Joseph Ligi, Chris Fuller, Curtis Mitchell
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Patent number: 12225979Abstract: A method includes determining, by a processing module of a foot force detection system, an athletic mode. The method further includes, when the athletic mode is active, determining, by the processing module, an athletic burst mode. The method further includes determining, by the processing module, a sampling rate for the foot force detection system based on the athletic burst mode for sampling foot force data.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventors: Michael Shawn Gray, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison, Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 12226674Abstract: A foot force detection system includes variable capacitors, drive sense circuits, a processing module, and a power unit. A drive sense circuit supplies a reference signal to the variable capacitor. It then generates a sensed signal regarding a characteristic of the variable capacitor based on the reference signal. It then converts the sensed signal into a digital signal. The processing module generates a digital impedance value for the variable capacitor based on the digital signal and writes the digital impedance value in memory. The power unit include a battery and a power harvesting circuit, where the battery and/or the power harvesting circuit provide power for the foot force detection system.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 18, 2025Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.Inventors: Michael Shawn Gray, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison, Kevin Joseph Derichs