Patents by Inventor L. A. Parker

L. A. Parker 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).

  • Patent number: 11995186
    Abstract: A method of detecting the onset of a ransomware attack is presented. In an example embodiment, file backup metadata for each of a plurality of computing devices is accessed and analyzed to detect anomalous file backup activity of individual ones of the computing devices. A determination is made as to whether the detected anomalous file backup activity of at least some of the computing devices is correlated in time. File description metadata for each of the computing devices is also accessed and analyzed to identify files in the computing devices that are anomalous to other files in the computing devices. A determination whether a ransomware attack has begun is based on a determination that the detected anomalous file backup activity of at least some of the computing devices is correlated in time, as well as on the identified anomalous files.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: CrashPlan Group LLC
    Inventors: Ajaykumar Rajasekharan, Matthew Mills Parker, Daniel L. Sullivan
  • Patent number: 11979703
    Abstract: Embodiments describe an eartip including an eartip body having an attachment end and an interfacing end opposite from the attachment end. The eartip body can include an inner eartip body having a sidewall extending between the interfacing end and the attachment end, the sidewall defining a channel and having a first thickness near the attachment end and a second thickness different from the first thickness at the interfacing end. The eartip can also include an attachment structure coupled to the inner eartip body at the attachment end, the attachment structure having an inner surface and an outer surface. The attachment structure can include an upper region interfacing with the sidewall and defining discrete through-holes, a lower region below the upper region where the inner surface defines a plurality of recesses positioned around the lower region, and a mesh extending across the channel and into the upper region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Sean T. McIntosh, Jason C. Della Rosa, Samuel G. Parker, Benjamin A. Cousins, Ethan L. Huwe
  • Patent number: 11961401
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of detecting a potential event via sensors on a transport, sending data related to the potential event to other transports within a predefined distance, storing the data at the transports and a server, and performing a transport operation response on the transports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
  • Publication number: 20240097532
    Abstract: A mechanically commutated motor (200) configured for use with an external magnetic field (240) is disclosed. The motor (200) includes an axle (208) formed of anon-magnetic material. A rotor (206) is coupled to the axle (208), the rotor (206) including three or more actuator units (205) spaced about the axle (208). Each actuator unit (205) comprises a non-magnetic material, a coil winding (214) along each of the three or more actuator units (205), and a commutator (216) coupled to the axle (208) and electrically associated with the coil windings (214). The motor (200) further includes two or more resilient contacts (210) oriented to direct a current through the commutator (216) to one of the coil windings (214) to induce a current in the coil winding (214) to form an electromagnet that rotates the rotor (206) relative to the external magnetic field (240) from a magnet located external to the mechanically commutated motor (200).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: J. Rock Hadley, Dennis L. Parker, Lorne W. Hofstetter, Robb Merrill
  • Publication number: 20240098514
    Abstract: Various approaches for the deployment and coordination of network operation processing, compute processing, and communications for 5G networks, including with the use of fingerprint-based vRAN cell integrity monitoring, are discussed. In an example, analyzing a state of a 5G network includes: obtaining initial fingerprint reference data of a network state between a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) node and at least one fingerprint reference unit (FRU) device wirelessly connected to the vRAN node; comparing the initial fingerprint reference data to subsequent fingerprint data of the network state between the vRAN node (e.g., operating as vRAN gNB, or as an IAB Donor or IAB Node) and the at least one FRU device to detect a changed network condition; and performing an action at the vRAN node to modify or disable a component of the 5G network, in response to detection of the changed network condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen T. Palermo, Valerie J. Parker, Vishal Gupta, Patrick L. Connor, Kevin W. Bross
  • Publication number: 20240069736
    Abstract: Various embodiments include techniques for performing self-synchronizing remote memory operations in a multiprocessor computing system. During a remote memory operation in the multiprocessor computing system, a source processing unit transmits multiple segments of data to a destination processing. For each segment of data, the source processing unit transmits a remote memory operation to the destination processing unit that includes associated metadata that identifies the memory location of a corresponding synchronization object. The remote memory operation along with the metadata is transmitted as a single unit to the destination processing unit. The destination processing unit splits the operation into the remote memory operation and the memory synchronization operation. As a result, the source processing unit avoids the need to perform a separate memory synchronization operation, thereby reducing inter-processor communications and increasing performance of remote memory operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Srinivas Santosh Kumar MADUGULA, Olivier GIROUX, Wishwesh Anil GANDHI, Michael Allen PARKER, Raghuram L, Ivan TANASIC, Manan PATEL, Mark HUMMEL, Alexander L. MINKIN
  • Patent number: 11892482
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a controller, a presence of an available electrical energy quantity generated from an energy generation event; comparing, by the controller, the available electrical energy quantity to an available energy capacity of a battery storage system; and responsive to determining the available electrical energy quantity exceeds the available energy capacity of the battery storage system, causing, by the controller, a transmission of at least a portion of the available energy quantity to a heat management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Books, Craig M. Calmer, Robert Dziuba, Mahesh Madurai-Kumar, Praveen Chitradurga Muralidhar, John P. O'Brien, Joseph E. Paquette, Gary L. Parker, Anthony K. Perfetto, Jeffrey S. Rauch, Zachary Schwab, Jon S. Wardlow
  • Publication number: 20230420977
    Abstract: A system for a non-hybrid vehicle is provided. The system includes at least one electrically-powered accessory of a vehicle. The at least one electrically-powered accessory is configured to: receive electrical power generated by an electromagnetic device coupled to an engine; and receive, from a controller, a command configured to control the at least one electrically-powered accessory independent of another electrically-powered accessory of the at least one electrically-powered accessory, whereby the command is independent of an output of the engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Paquette, Martin T. Books, Mahesh Madurai Kumar, Jaroslaw Leonarski, Gary L. Parker, Erik L. Piper
  • Patent number: 11847919
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a server, a target transport operating in an unsafe manner, locating, the by the server, at least one autonomous transport in front of the target transport, and maneuvering the at least one autonomous transport to affect the target transport.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
  • Publication number: 20230364997
    Abstract: An inverter system is provided such that the system includes a direct-current (DC) voltage supply, an inverter electrically coupled with the DC voltage supply, an electric machine electrically coupled with the inverter, and a controller coupled with the inverter. The inverter has a plurality of legs, each leg including two switches operating complementary to each other, an auxiliary leg having a pair of auxiliary switches, and a resistor coupled parallel to one of the auxiliary switches. A controller is coupled with the inverter and is operative to activate or deactivate the auxiliary leg of the inverter. The controller activates the auxiliary leg to discharge the capacitor or the DC bus through the resistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Santhosh Krishnamoorthi, Gary L. Parker, Bradford K. Palmer, Dakshina S. Murthy-Bellur, Minyu Cai
  • Publication number: 20230349707
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of identifying a target device has entered a transport and has initiated a transport event at a target location, applying permissions, associated with the target device, to the transport event, determining a transport event modification has occurred, when the transport has stopped moving for a predetermined period of time and one or more transport operations have occurred, prior to arriving at a transport event destination, determining whether the permissions permit the transport event modification, and notifying one or more registered devices associated with the target device of the transport event modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Emily S. Lerner, Nutonya L. Parker, Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
  • Patent number: 11784507
    Abstract: A system for a non-hybrid vehicle is provided. The system includes an electromagnetic device structured to couple to an engine and generate AC electrical power from the engine. The system also includes an AC-to-DC inverter structured to receive and change the AC electrical power to regulated DC electrical power. Additionally, the system includes an electrical path coupled to the AC-to-DC inverter and configured to provide the regulated DC electrical power directly to an electrically-powered accessory at or above 28 volts DC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph E. Paquette, Martin T. Books, Mahesh Madurai Kumar, Jaroslaw Leonarski, Gary L. Parker, Erik L. Piper
  • Publication number: 20230243659
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a server, that a transport is inoperable on a route, instructing, by the server, an alternate transport to navigate to the transport, configuring, by the server, the alternate transport based on a configuration of the transport and routing, by the server, the configured alternate transport to an intended destination of the transport.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Applicant: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
  • Patent number: 11615499
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving a request from a requesting device to initiate a transport to perform a transport event at a target location, identifying the transport to perform the transport event, identifying a target device associated with the transport event is located at the target location, receiving location updates of the transport and the target device at a server, determining the transport has initiated the transport event based on the location updates of the transport, determining the target device and the transport are proximate to one another based on the location updates, and monitoring the location updates to identify whether the transport has deviated from a target travel path area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Emily S. Lerner, Nutonya L. Parker, Randall M. Harris, Anil Nagpal
  • Patent number: 11577581
    Abstract: A climate control system for vehicles includes an internal combustion engine that may be coupled to selectively power a first motor generator, and an air conditioning compressor that may be selectively powered by one or both of the first motor generator and a second motor generator, or by the internal combustion engine. The system may include a rechargeable battery, and a vehicle controller having a vehicle state circuit structured to determine a vehicle operating condition value and a state-of-charge value of the rechargeable battery, and a coupling determination circuit structured to provide an internal combustion engine-first motor generator coupling command in response to the vehicle operating condition value and the state-of-charge value. In response to the internal combustion engine-first motor generator coupling command being provided as coupled, the internal combustion engine may power the first motor generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Mahesh Madurai Kumar, Gary L. Parker, Subbarao Varigonda, Joseph E. Paquette, Benjamin David Padgett, William Brent Fields, Praveen Chitradurga Muralidhar, Vivek Anand Sujan, Dean Deter, David E. Smith
  • Publication number: 20230018314
    Abstract: A method includes determining, by a controller, a presence of an available electrical energy quantity generated from an energy generation event; comparing, by the controller, the available electrical energy quantity to an available energy capacity of a battery storage system; and responsive to determining the available electrical energy quantity exceeds the available energy capacity of the battery storage system, causing, by the controller, a transmission of at least a portion of the available energy quantity to a heat management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Books, Craig M. Calmer, Robert Dziuba, Mahesh Madurai-Kumar, Praveen Chitradurga Muralidhar, John P. O'Brien, Joseph E. Paquette, Gary L. Parker, Anthony K. Perfetto, Jeffrey S. Rauch, Zachary Schwab, Jon S. Wardlow
  • Patent number: 11538343
    Abstract: An example operation includes one or more of receiving, via a transport, a transport audio, classifying, via the transport, a subset of the transport audio as an atypical transport audio, determining, via the transport, a possible source location of the atypical transport audio, transmitting, via the transport, the atypical transport audio and the possible source location to a server, determining, via the server, a set of potential causes of the atypical transport audio and receiving, via the transport, the set of potential causes of the atypical transport audio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventors: Felipe G. Salles, Shintaro Iwaasa, Louis Brugman, Devang H. Parekh, Robert D. Slater, Christopher J. Risberg, Nutonya L. Parker
  • Patent number: 11509738
    Abstract: A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for migrating data from a legacy computer system to a new computer system. Certain aspects include instantiating a wireless portal at a new computer system using a passcode and a randomly generated key, wherein the passcode is generated using the randomly generated key and a private key; displaying the randomly generated key at the new computer system; setting up a wireless peer-to-peer connection between a legacy computer system and the wireless portal by entering the randomly generated key in a second application executed at the legacy computer system; and migrating data from the legacy computer system to the new computer system using the peer-to-peer wireless connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Shawn L. Parker, Drew J. Nolfo, Jefferson W. Raley, Wade Parsons
  • Patent number: 11493541
    Abstract: Various systems, methods, and apparatuses disclosed herein provide for receiving pressure data for an accumulator system, the pressure data providing an indication of a pressure in an accumulator tank of the accumulator system; receiving energy data, the energy data indicating an availability of free energy for use to charge the accumulator tank; and activating a charging source of the accumulator tank to charge the accumulator tank based on at least one of the pressure data and the energy data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Cummins, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin T. Books, Craig M. Calmer, Robert Dziuba, Mahesh Madurai-Kumar, Praveen Chitradurga Muralidhar, John P. O'Brien, Joseph E. Paquette, Gary L. Parker, Anthony K. Perfetto, Jeffrey S. Rauch, Zachary Schwab, Jon S. Wardlow
  • Patent number: 11491040
    Abstract: An adjustable length spinal brace includes an elongate belt and an adjustment plate having spaced apart belt passage slits through which the belt is passed and belt engagement members that are pivotally adjustable relative to the plate to engage or disengage the belt. The belt engagement members are engaged with the belt to maintain a desired length of the brace, and are disengaged from the belt to permit adjustment of the length of the brace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: DeRoyal Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael D. Modglin, Kathleen L. Parker, Charles J. French, III, Tyson A. R. White