Patents by Inventor Kevin To
Kevin To 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: 11831522Abstract: An intelligent wireless broadband network and content delivery management within a network includes at least one datacenter, at least one network tower and a plurality of smart nodes may be provided. Each of the plurality of smart nodes may be deployed as a micro point of presence (micro POP) at the at least one datacenter the at least one tower and at each of a plurality of hub-homes within the network. An artificial intelligence (AI) capable compute unit may be configured to provide customization of the plurality of smart nodes based on usage pattern of the plurality of homes at a neighborhood level, and thereby facilitating a dynamic edge network distribution solution for better Internet experience to the end-users.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Element8 Technology Investment Group Inc.Inventor: Kevin Michael Grace
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Patent number: 11830842Abstract: A device assembly includes a functional substrate having one or more electronic components formed there. The functional substrate has a cavity extending from a first surface toward a second surface of the functional substrate at a location that lacks the electronic components. The device assembly further includes a semiconductor die placed within the cavity with a pad surface of the semiconductor die being opposite to a bottom of the cavity. The functional substrate may be formed utilizing a first fabrication technology and the semiconductor die may be formed utilizing a second fabrication technology that differs from the first fabrication technology.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: NXP USA., Inc.Inventors: Li Li, Lakshminarayan Viswanathan, Jeffrey Kevin Jones
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Patent number: 11827310Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a snowmobile including an engine mounted on the chassis, a drive track in contact with the chassis, and a drive train, operatively interconnecting the engine with the drive track for delivering propulsive power to the drive track. The drive train includes a driveshaft, comprising a tubular driveshaft including two or more interior channels, the channels positioned in a substantially longitudinal orientation, two or more sprocket driving features on an exterior surface of the tubular driveshaft, and one or more fitting components, positioned at one or more distal ends of the driveshaft.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Arctic Cat Inc.Inventors: Kevin David Thompson, Gary O. Homme, Devin Joseph Danielson, Andrew Jon Ellsworth
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Patent number: 11827934Abstract: Compositions, methods and systems are provided for isolating nucleic acids. A polymerase-nucleic acid complex can be formed by mixing a polymerase enzyme comprising strand displacement activity and a mixture of double stranded nucleic acids. Nucleic acid synthesis can then be initiated by the polymerase enzyme to produce a nascent strand complementary to the first strand, thereby displacing a portion of the second strand. After halting or reducing the rate of nucleic acid synthesis, a hybridizing a hook oligonucleotide can be used hybridize to the nucleic acid through a capture region on the hook oligonucleotide that is complementary to the displaced portion of the second strand. The nucleic acid can then be isolated from the mixture of nucleic acids using the hook oligonucleotide.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc.Inventors: Thang Pham, Arunashree Bhamidipati, Kevin Travers, Eric Olivares, Tyson A. Clark, Jonas Korlach
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Patent number: 11827386Abstract: Vehicle capture assemblies and related devices, systems, and methods include one or more probe assemblies for engaging with and securing the target vehicle. The one or more probe assemblies may include one or more attenuation features or movable joints to enable and/or dampen movement of the one or more probe assemblies relative to a capture vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Northrop Grumman Systems CorporationInventors: Matthew Alan Michel, Michael Alfred Tosto, Kevin David Tebbe, Daisaku Inoyama, John Francis Papayanopoulos
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Patent number: 11829635Abstract: Managing a memory element of a memory module, including identifying a PPR listing for the memory element that is stored at a SPD of the memory module; identifying an event associated with a memory address location of the memory element during runtime of the memory module and in response accessing the SPD to write data to the PPR listing indicating the memory address location of the memory element associated with the event; determining whether the PPR listing has available space to store the data indicating the memory address location of the memory element associated with the event; determining that the PPR listing has available space to store the data indicating the memory address location of the memory element associated with the event, and in response, storing the data indicating the memory address location of the memory element associated with the event at the PPR listing at the SPD.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Dell Products L.P.Inventors: Kevin M. Cross, Jordan Chin, Isaac Qin Wang
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Patent number: 11831693Abstract: Medium, method and system for ad hoc, ambient, synchronous multimedia collaboration in a group-based communication system. Embodiments of the invention provide a way for users to quickly establish a real-time collaboration among a group of peers without the burden and overhead of a conventional call or video meeting. Users can quickly and easily join and leave these synchronous multimedia collaboration sessions at any time, without disrupting the session for other users. This enables the user to experience the collaboration as a convenient forum rather than a burdensome scheduled event.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Stewart Butterfield, Tamar Yehoshua, Noah Weiss, Johnny Rodgers, Kevin Marshall, Anna Niess, Pedro Carmo, Ethan Eismann, Chris Willmore, David Ly-Gagnon
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Patent number: 11826553Abstract: A fluid injector system for delivering a multi-phase fluid injection to a patient and methods of fluid delivery is disclosed. Methods of creating and using a multi-aspect fluid path impedance model of the injector system are used. Modeling and adjustment of factors that affect impedance and prevent or reduce backflow, reduce the likelihood of fluid flow rate spikes and provide more accurate flow rates and mixing ratios of fluids may be repeated or happen essentially continuously during an injection. The adjustments may be determined before the injection or determined and/or adjusted during the injection. The determination may include sensor feedback commonly used in injectors such as pressure and position feedback as well as other sensors. In all cases, the user can be notified of adjustments through on-screen notices and/or through the recordation of the injection data by a control device of the injector at the conclusion of the injection.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Arthur Uber, III, Chelsea Marsh, William Barone, Michael McDermott, Timothy Newing, Michael Spohn, Vince Delbrugge, Ralph Schriver, Kevin Cowan, David Griffiths
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Patent number: 11826288Abstract: Arrangements described herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for a disposable kit containing medical items configured for a medical device including a head cradle to support a head of a subject, the disposable kit includes a container that encloses a head cradle pad configured to be affixed to the head cradle, at least one fiducial marker configured to be disposed on a location at the head of the subject, and at least one enclosure configured to cover a portion of the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Neurasignal, Inc.Inventors: Henry Hewes, Kevin Lai, Jan Zwierstra, Kiah Lesher, Lane Stith
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Patent number: 11832210Abstract: An illustrative location management system 1) determines base station location data representing locations of first, second, and third first base station facilities, wherein the location of the first base station facility is determined based on user equipment (UE) location data representing at least three different locations of one or more mobile UE devices communicatively coupled to the first based station facility and signal data representing information from signals communicated between the first base station facility and the one or more mobile UE devices by way of the wireless communication network; and 2) determines, based on the base station location data and on signal data representing information from signals communicated between an additional mobile UE device and the first, second, and third base station facilities, a location of the additional mobile UE device.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.Inventor: Kevin Donnellan
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Patent number: 11826513Abstract: A filler device includes a distal housing comprising a distal inner port and a distal outer port; a proximal housing comprising a proximal inner port and a proximal outer port, the proximal housing being sealingly affixed to the distal housing to form an inspiratory pathway between the distal inner port and the proximal inner port and to form an expiratory pathway between the distal outer port and the proximal outer port that is fluidly sealed from the inspiratory pathway, the inspiratory pathway being laterally adjacent the expiratory pathway; and a first filter in the inspiratory pathway or in the expiratory pathway to filter gases flowing through the inspiratory pathway or the expiratory pathway.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: AMBU A/SInventors: Kevin Winkler, Yun Siung Tony Yeh, Patrick Coleman, Charles Rosebrook, Thomas W. McGrail, Natasha Reynolds, Brian Gerster, Kleve Heavin, Jakob Koch
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Patent number: 11830788Abstract: An example relates to an integrated circuit including a semiconductor substrate, and a wiring layer stack located on the semiconductor substrate. The integrated circuit further includes a transistor embedded in the wiring layer stack. The transistor includes an embedded layer. The embedded layer has a thickness of less than 10 nm. The embedded layer includes at least one two-dimensional crystalline layer including more than 10% metal atoms. Further examples relate to methods for forming integrated circuits.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Carl Naylor, Ashish Agrawal, Urusa Alaan, Christopher Jezewski, Mauro Kobrinsky, Kevin Lin, Abhishek Anil Sharma
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Patent number: 11826549Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.Inventors: Gary A. Morris, Scott M. Belliveau, Esteban Cabrera, Jr., Anna Leigh Davis, Rian W. Draeger, Laura J. Dunn, Timothy Joseph Goldsmith, Hari Hampapuram, Christopher Robert Hannemann, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Patrick Wile McBride, Michael Robert Mensinger, Francis William Pascual, Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, Nicholas Polytaridis, Philip Thomas Pupa, Kevin Shoemaker, Brian Christopher Smith, Benjamin Elrod West, Atiim Joseph Wiley
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Patent number: 11829979Abstract: A transaction card is provided for communicating with a computing device. The transaction card may comprise a computer interface device, at least one memory, at least one processor, and a card reader module. The card reader module configured to receive, from the computing device through the computer interface device, a first data packet comprising a request associated with a transaction, the first data packet being compatible with an interface protocol. The card reader module may process the first data packet to generate a second data packet compatible with the payment authentication protocol; provide the second data packet to the processor; receive, from the processor, a third data packet comprising a response to the request; process the third data packet to generate a fourth data packet based on the response, the fourth data packet compatible with the interface protocol; and transmit, to the computer interface device, the fourth data packet.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Timur Sherif, Matthew Kloster, Tao Lin, Kevin Osborn
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Patent number: 11829677Abstract: A method includes transmitting, by a plurality of drive sense circuits of an interactive display device, a plurality of signals on a plurality of electrodes of the interactive display device. A writing passive device is identified based on a first plurality of changes detected in the electrical characteristics of the set of electrodes. Written user notion data is determined based on detecting movement of the writing passive device in relation to the interactive display device, and the written user notation data is displayed. An erasing passive device is identified based on a second plurality of changes detected in the electrical characteristics of the set of electrodes. Erased portions of the written user notation data is determined based on detecting movement of the erasing passive device in relation to the interactive display device, and the updated written user notation data is displayed based on no longer displaying the erased portions.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: SigmaSense, LLC.Inventors: Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Michael Shawn Gray, Patrick Troy Gray, Daniel Keith Van Ostrand, Kevin Joseph Derichs
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Patent number: 11827809Abstract: The present invention is directed towards an electrodepositable coating composition comprising a film-forming binder and electrically conductive particles, wherein the electrically conductive particles are present in an amount of at least 25% by weight, based on the total solids weight of the electrodepositable coating composition. The present invention is also directed towards methods of coating a substrate, coatings, and coated substrates.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: PPG Industries Ohio, Inc.Inventors: Steven R. Zawacky, Egle Puodziukynaite, Stephen L. Milanak, Jr., Michael G. Sandala, John T. Donnelly, Corey J. DeDomenic, Kevin T. Sylvester, Minh An Thi Nguyen, Landon J. Oakes, Brian C. Okerberg, Ross A. Moretti
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Patent number: 11826046Abstract: A powered handle for a surgical stapler can have a drive system including an electric motor. The powered handle can include a manual articulation mechanism to articulate a jaw assembly coupled to a reload shaft connected to the handle. The manual articulation mechanism can include a ball screw mechanism that translates an articulation member responsive to rotation of an articulation knob. The articulation mechanism includes a release function that allows the jaw assembly to return to a longitudinally centered orientation. The powered handle includes a battery pack serving as a power supply for the drive system. A control system can control actuation of the motor based on user inputs and operating parameters of the stapler. The powered handle can include a manual return mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Applied Medical Resources CorporationInventors: Christina N. Reed, Matthew M. Becerra, Andrew J. McCarthy, Scott Zimmerman, Joshua M. Schober, Steven E. Decker, Kevin Hudson, Andy Pham
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Patent number: 11830618Abstract: A telepresence robot may include a drive system, a control system, an imaging system, and a mapping module. The mapping module may access a plan view map of an area and tags associated with the area. In various embodiments, each tag may include tag coordinates and tag information, which may include a tag annotation. A tag identification system may identify tags within a predetermined range of the current position and the control system may execute an action based on an identified tag whose tag information comprises a telepresence robot action modifier. The telepresence robot may rotate an upper portion independent from a lower portion. A remote terminal may allow an operator to control the telepresence robot using any combination of control methods, including by selecting a destination in a live video feed, by selecting a destination on a plan view map, or by using a joystick or other peripheral device.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignees: Teladoc Health, Inc., iRobot CorporationInventors: Yulun Wang, Charles S. Jordan, Tim Wright, Michael Chan, Marco Pinter, Kevin Hanrahan, Daniel Sanchez, James Ballantyne, Cody Herzog, Blair Whitney, Fuji Lai, Kelton Temby, Eben Christopher Rauhut, Justin H. Kearns, Cheuk Wah Wong, Timothy Sturtevant Farlow
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Patent number: 11827918Abstract: Provided herein are methods of culturing a microorganism. The method includes providing a container comprising one or more microorganisms and medium, wherein the microorganisms and medium form a start volume. The microorganisms and medium are cultured until the culture reaches a threshold indicator, wherein culturing comprises feeding one or more carbon sources to the culture and wherein the culture is at a threshold volume when the threshold indicator is reached. The method also includes harvesting a portion of the threshold volume to leave a residual volume that is 40% or less of the start volume and adding fresh medium to the container in an amount to return the volume of the culture to the start volume.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: MARA RENEWABLES CORPORATIONInventors: Kevin Berryman, Zhiyong Sun, Michael Milway, Mercia Valentine, Roberto E. Armenta
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Patent number: 11829800Abstract: The present technology relates to improving computing services in a distributed network of remote computing resources, such as edge nodes in an edge compute network. In an aspect, the technology relates to a method that includes aggregating historical request data for a plurality of requests, wherein the aggregated historical request data a time of the request, a location of a device from which the request originated, and/or a type of service being requested. The method also incudes training a machine learning model based on the aggregated historical request data; generating, from the trained machine learning model, a prediction for a type of service to be request; identifying an edge node, from a plurality of edge nodes, based on a physical location of the edge node; and based on predicted service, allocating computing resources for the computing service on the identified edge node.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLCInventors: Steven M. Casey, Felipe Castro, Stephen Opferman, Kevin M. McBride