Patents by Inventor Kevin Lee

Kevin Lee 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).

  • MOLECULAR SWITCHES
    Publication number: 20220112506
    Abstract: Genetically modified microorganisms that have the ability to convert carbon substrates into chemical products such as 2,3-BDO; 1,4-BDO; isobutyraldehyde; isobutanol; 1-butanol; n-butanol; ethanol; fatty alcohols; and fatty acid methyl ester are disclosed. For example, genetically modified methanotrophs that are capable of generating 2,3-BDO; 1,4-BDO; isobutyraldehyde; isobutanol; 1-butanol; n-butanol; ethanol; fatty alcohols; and fatty acid methyl ester at high titers from a methane source are disclosed. Methods of making these genetically modified microorganisms and methods of using them are also disclosed. These microorganisms and methods make use of molecular switches to regulate gene expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: PRECIGEN, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Anton HELD, Xinhua ZHAO, Lily Yuin CHAO, Na TRINH, James KEALEY, Kevin Lee DIETZEL
  • SPATIAL AUDIO AND HAPTICS
    Publication number: 20220113801
    Abstract: An example non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprises instructions that, when executed by a processing resource of a computing device, cause the processing resource to generate haptics metadata using audio-haptics classification based at least in part on spatial audio associated with a digital environment. The instructions further cause the processing resource to encode the spatial audio with the haptics metadata to generate a rendering package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Sunil Ganpatrao Bharitkar, Rafael Antonio Ballagas, Kevin Lee Smathers, Sarthak Ghosh, Madhu Sudan Athreya
  • AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE SYSTEM FOR DETECTING PEDESTRIAN PRESENCE
    Publication number: 20220111873
    Abstract: A system may receive point cloud data that includes one or more data points associated with an object that was detected by sensors of an autonomous vehicle. The system may identify a subset of the point cloud data having data points that are associated with a likelihood of a pedestrian entering a scene with the object, determine a current probability value using a logistic function that is associated with the subset of the point cloud data, determine, based at least in part on the current probability value, a probability value representing a likelihood of the pedestrian actually being present for the subset of the point cloud data, determine whether the probability value exceeds a false alarm threshold value, and in response to the probability value exceeding the false alarm threshold value, assign data points of the subset an attribute value indicative of the pedestrian being present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Lee Wyffels, G. Peter K. Carr
  • HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR INTRODUCING ACTIVATION SPARSITY IN NEURAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20220108157
    Abstract: A hardware accelerator that is efficient at performing computations related to a sparse neural network. The sparse neural network may be associated with a plurality of nodes. An artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator stores, at a memory circuit, a weight tenor and an input activation tensor that corresponds to a node of the neural network. The AI accelerator performs a computation such as convolution between the weight tenor and the input activation tensor to generate an output activation tensor. The AI accelerator introduces sparsity to the output activation tensor by reducing the number of active values in the output activation tensor. The sparsity activation may be a K-winner approach, which selects the K-largest values in the output activation tensor and set the remaining values to zero.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Lee Hunter, Subutai Ahmad
  • HARDWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR PROCESSING DATA IN SPARSE NEURAL NETWORK
    Publication number: 20220108156
    Abstract: A hardware accelerator that is efficient at performing computations related to a sparse neural network. The sparse neural network may be associated with a plurality of nodes. One of the nodes includes one or more sparse tensors. The accelerator may compress the sparse tensor to a dense tensor. The sparse tensor may also be structured so that the dense locations in the tensor are blocked or partitioned. The accelerator may transpose the weight tensor and align the partitions of the tensor with the hardware architecture. The structured tensor has a balanced number of active values so that the active values can be processed by an efficient number of operating cycles of the accelerator. The accelerator may also perform bitwise and operation to determine the location of dense pairs in two sparse tensors to reduce the number of computations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Lee Hunter, Subutai Ahmad
  • High density and bandwidth fiber optic apparatuses and related equipment and methods
    Patent number: 11294136
    Abstract: High-connection density and bandwidth fiber optic apparatuses and related equipment and methods are disclosed. In certain embodiments, fiber optic apparatuses are provided and comprise a chassis defining one or more U space fiber optic equipment units. At least one of the one or more U space fiber optic equipment units may be configured to support particular fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths in a given 1-U space. The fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths may be supported by one or more fiber optic components, including but not limited to fiber optic adapters and fiber optic connectors, including but not limited to simplex, duplex, and other multi-fiber fiber optic components. The fiber optic components may also be disposed in fiber optic modules, fiber optic patch panels, or other types of fiber optic equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Terry Lee Cooke, David Lee Dean, Jr., Harley Joseph Staber, Kevin Lee Strause, Alan William Ugolini
  • Cover glass article
    Patent number: 11297726
    Abstract: A cover glass article includes a glass body having a three-dimensional shape, an inside surface, and an outside surface. Each of the inside and outside surfaces has a surface roughness (Ra) less than 1 nm and is free of indentations having diameters larger than 150 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Karl David Ehemann, Keith Raymond Gaylo, William Brashear Mattingly, III, Connor Thomas O'Malley, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Kevin Lee Wasson
  • High density and bandwidth fiber optic apparatuses and related equipment and methods
    Patent number: 11294135
    Abstract: High-connection density and bandwidth fiber optic apparatuses and related equipment and methods are disclosed. In certain embodiments, fiber optic apparatuses are provided and comprise a chassis defining one or more U space fiber optic equipment units. At least one of the one or more U space fiber optic equipment units may be configured to support particular fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths in a given 1-U space. The fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths may be supported by one or more fiber optic components, including but not limited to fiber optic adapters and fiber optic connectors, including but not limited to simplex, duplex, and other multi-fiber fiber optic components. The fiber optic components may also be disposed in fiber optic modules, fiber optic patch panels, or other types of fiber optic equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Corning Optical Communications LLC
    Inventors: Terry Lee Cooke, David Lee Dean, Jr., Harley Joseph Staber, Kevin Lee Strause, Alan William Ugolini
  • SELECTING ADS FOR A VIDEO WITHIN A MESSAGING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220103894
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for selecting ads for a video. The program and method provide for receiving a request for an ad to insert into a video playing on a client device, the request including a first content identifier that identifies a first type of content included in the video; determining a set of content identifiers associated with the first content identifier, the set of content identifiers identifying second types of content to filter with respect to providing the ad in response to the request; selecting an ad from among plural ads, by filtering ads tagged with a second content identifier included in the set of content identifiers; and providing the selected ad as a response to the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: John Cain Blackwood, Chinmay Lonkar, David B. Lue, Kevin Lee Renner
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SIMPLIFYING THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELS
    Publication number: 20220091832
    Abstract: A polygon simplification computer system for performing polygon simplification within a web application pipeline has a memory device including a three-dimensional data model (3D data model), a Node.js environment, and a polygon simplification module for performing one or more polygon simplification operations on the 3D data model. The polygon simplification module has a binding component including a set of bindings that convert JavaScript into C++ source code, and a mesh simplification module comprising a C++ compiled polygon simplification framework. The polygon simplification module receives a request for the 3D data model, converts the request into a set of C++ instructions, transmits the instructions to the mesh simplification module, receives a 3D simplified data model, and transmits the 3D simplified data model to a client computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Rebecca Ann Little, Nathan Carl Summers, Kevin Lee Mitchell
  • HEADSET SIGNALS TO DETERMINE EMOTIONAL STATES
    Publication number: 20220091670
    Abstract: An example non-transitory machine-readable medium includes instructions executable by a processor to capture a biometric signal from a biometric sensor at a headset that includes a stereoscopic display, capture a facial motion signal from a facial motion sensor associated with the headset, determine facial movement of a wearer of the headset based on the facial motion signal, apply a weight to the biometric signal based on the facial movement to obtain a weighted biometric signal, and use the weighted biometric signal to determine an emotional state of the wearer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Mithra Vankipuram, Sarthak Ghosh, Kevin Lee Smathers, Rafael Antonio Ballagas
  • IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE WITH VARIED COMPOSITION AND POROSITY, AND METHOD FOR FORMING SAME
    Publication number: 20220080630
    Abstract: A method for forming a thermoplastic body having regions with varied material composition and/or porosity. Powder blends comprising a thermoplastic polymer, a sacrificial porogen and an inorganic reinforcement or filler are molded to form complementary parts with closely toleranced mating surfaces. The parts are formed discretely, assembled and compression molded to provide a unitary article that is free from discernible boundaries between the assembled parts. Each part in the assembly has differences in composition and/or porosity, and the assembly has accurate physical features throughout the sections of the formed article, without distortion and nonuniformities caused by variable compaction and densification rates in methods that involve compression molding powder blends in a single step.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: HAPPE SPINE LLC
    Inventors: Jeffery A. FARRIS, Kevin Lee BROWN, Douglas B. SNELL, Ryan K. ROEDER, Mark G. MESSMAN
  • USING AUTOMATIC ROAD HAZARD DETECTION TO CATEGORIZE AUTOMOBILE COLLISION
    Publication number: 20220084323
    Abstract: A facility for categorizing a collision of an automobile is described. The facility receives a collision indication from a driver of the automobile, and determines a time and location of the collision based on the collision indication. The facility receives sensor data originated by one or more cars each at a location near the collision location at a time near the collision time, and analyzes the received sensor data to recognize one or more road hazards represented in the sensor data. The facility determines a probability that collision was with a recognized road hazard, and attributes a collision category to the collision based upon the determined probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventor: Kevin Lee Karlin
  • Coating Compositions, Dielectric Coatings Formed Therefrom, and Methods of Preparing Dielectric Coatings
    Publication number: 20220073781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a powder coating composition for preparing a dielectric coating. The powder coating composition includes: (a) an epoxy functional polymer; (b) a poly-carboxylic acid functional polyester polymer reactive with the epoxy functional polymer and which has an acid value of less than 100 mg KOH/g; and (c) a poly-carboxylic acid functional (meth)acrylate polymer reactive with the epoxy functional polymer. Further, if a colorant is present, the powder coating composition comprises 35 weight % or less of the colorant, based on the total solids weight of the coating composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony Michael Chasser, Paul F. Cheetham, Holli Allison Gonder, Stacey Lynn Orzech, Brian Edward Woodworth, Brent Allen Schwartz, Kevin Lee Ford
  • HIGH DENSITY AND BANDWIDTH FIBER OPTIC APPARATUSES AND RELATED EQUIPMENT AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220066115
    Abstract: High-connection density and bandwidth fiber optic apparatuses and related equipment and methods are disclosed. In certain embodiments, fiber optic apparatuses are provided and comprise a chassis defining one or more U space fiber optic equipment units. At least one of the one or more U space fiber optic equipment units may be configured to support particular fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths in a given 1-U space. The fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths may be supported by one or more fiber optic components, including but not limited to fiber optic adapters and fiber optic connectors, including but not limited to simplex, duplex, and other multi-fiber fiber optic components. The fiber optic components may also be disposed in fiber optic modules, fiber optic patch panels, or other types of fiber optic equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Terry Lee Cooke, David Lee Dean, JR., Harley Joseph Staber, Kevin Lee Strause, Alan William Ugolini
  • NOVEL WHITENING AGENTS FOR CELLULOSIC SUBSTRATES
    Publication number: 20220064576
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Eugene Steven SADLOWSKI, Mark Robert SIVIK, Michael David CUMMINGS, Donna D'Angelo MORRALL, Kevin Lee KOTT, Keith Homer BAKER, Brian Joseph LOUGHNANE, Michael A. VALENTI, Laurent D. KIEKEN, Xiayong Michael HONG, Eduardo TORRES, Dominick J. VALENTI, Patrick D. MOORE, Leonard J. STARKS
  • LOW RESISTANCE CROSSPOINT ARCHITECTURE
    Publication number: 20220069216
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for a low resistance crosspoint architecture are described. A manufacturing system may deposit a thermal barrier material, followed by a first layer of a first conductive material, on a layered assembly including a patterned layer of electrode materials and a patterned layer of a memory material. The manufacturing system may etch a first area of the layered assembly to form a gap in the first layer of the first conductive material, the thermal barrier material, the patterned layer of the memory material, and the patterned layer of electrode materials. The manufacturing system may deposit a second conductive material to form a conductive via in the gap, where the conductive via extends to a height within the layered assembly that is above the thermal barrier material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Rajasekhar Venigalla, Patrick M. Flynn, Josiah Jebaraj Johnley Muthuraj, Efe Sinan Ege, Kevin Lee Baker, Tao Nguyen, Davis Weymann
  • HIGH DENSITY AND BANDWIDTH FIBER OPTIC APPARATUSES AND RELATED EQUIPMENT AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220066114
    Abstract: High-connection density and bandwidth fiber optic apparatuses and related equipment and methods are disclosed. In certain embodiments, fiber optic apparatuses are provided and comprise a chassis defining one or more U space fiber optic equipment units. At least one of the one or more U space fiber optic equipment units may be configured to support particular fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths in a given 1-U space. The fiber optic connection densities and bandwidths may be supported by one or more fiber optic components, including but not limited to fiber optic adapters and fiber optic connectors, including but not limited to simplex, duplex, and other multi-fiber fiber optic components. The fiber optic components may also be disposed in fiber optic modules, fiber optic patch panels, or other types of fiber optic equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Terry Lee Cooke, David Lee Dean, JR., Harley Joseph Staber, Kevin Lee Strause, Alan William Ugolini
  • METHOD TO SUPPLY CONTACT CENTER RESOURCES DURING OVERFLOW STATE USING BACK OFFICE PERSONNEL
    Publication number: 20220060583
    Abstract: A method and system matching contact center agents and back office staff with a customer inquiry. Exemplary systems include an expert term extraction engine, a customer term extraction engine, and a matching engine to compare customer request terms to the expert terms from the customer term extraction engine. The comparison determines whether there is a match or potential match between the customer request terms and the stored expert terms. An exemplary system may also include a timer that communicates with one or more communication servers. Back office staff may assist contact center agents when one or more conditions are met, such as when a customer wait time exceeds a predetermined period or when there is no match or potential match between the customer request terms and the stored expert terms for contact center agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: Mitel Networks Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan Braganza, Kevin Lee
  • METHODS AND MICROORGANISMS FOR MAKING 2,3-BUTANEDIOL AND DERIVATIVES THEREOF FROM C1 CARBONS
    Publication number: 20220049259
    Abstract: Genetically modified microorganisms that have the ability to convert carbon substrates into chemical products such as 2,3-BDO are disclosed. For example, genetically modified methanotrophs that are capable of generating 2,3-BDO at high titers from a methane source are disclosed. Methods of making these genetically modified microorganisms and methods of using them are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Applicant: PRECIGEN, INC.
    Inventors: Xinhua ZHAO, Mark Anton HELD, Tina HUYNH, Lily Yuin CHAO, Na TRINH, Matthias Helmut SCHMALISCH, Bryan YEH, James KEALEY, Kevin Lee DIETZEL