Patents by Inventor L. Smith

L. Smith 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: 20250243690
    Abstract: A lock structure includes an interior body having first and second openings and a cable wire. The interior body is configured to retain first and second ends of the cable wire when in a locked state. The lock structure further includes an electrical sensing device disposed within the cable wire, the electrical sensing device including a first end and a second end, and a signal sensing module electrically coupled to the electrical sensing device only at the first end of the electrical sensing device. The signal sensing module is configured to monitor, via the first end of the electrical sensing device, at least one of electrical and temperature characteristics of the electrical sensing device and selectively generate a notification indicating whether the cable wire is in a tampered-with state or untampered-with state based on the at least one of the electrical and temperature characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Vincent L. Smith, Kelvin A. Cannady, Benjamin T. Rogers
  • Patent number: 12374537
    Abstract: Examples are directed toward collecting, by a LC-MS device, a full scan of ion chromatograms of a sample. The LC-MS device determines observed ions contained in the full scan, based on mass-to-charge ratios (m/z), and determines, for a formation curve of an observed ion, a formation point at which fifty percent of the observed ion has formed. The LC-MS device determines a fragmentation curve of a precursor ion, based on a fragmentation point of the fragmentation curve equivalent to the formation point at which fifty percent of the precursor ion has fragmented, and identifies the precursor ion by referencing the LC-MS library to confirm that the observed ion is a product of the fragmentation of the precursor ion. The LC-MS device indicates a goodness of fit between the fragmentation curve, as observed, and a model fragmentation curve, as stored in the LC-MS library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: The Government of the United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of Homeland Security
    Inventors: Jimmie Oxley, James L. Smith, Alexander Yevdokimov, Kevin Colizza
  • Patent number: 12368746
    Abstract: An illustrative method includes a scanning driver providing an interface between data included in a data structure located within a compute environment and one or more scan modules included in an unprivileged agentless workload scanning configuration executing within the compute environment, the one or more scan modules configured to concurrently analyze the data in accordance with one or more respective scan use cases; receiving a request to add a new scan module to the unprivileged agentless workload scanning configuration, the new scan module associated with a new scan use case different than the one or more respective scan use cases, and dynamically loading, based on the request and while the one or more scan modules are concurrently analyzing the data, the new scan module into the unprivileged agentless workload scanning configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Fortinet, Inc.
    Inventors: Theodore M. Reed, Whitney L. Smith, Jacob A. Kilby, Ammar G. Ekbote, Sowmya A. Karmali, Yijou Chen
  • Publication number: 20250223930
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with a flowpath. This turbine engine assembly includes a fuel injection system. The fuel injection system includes a first fuel injector and a second fuel injector. The fuel injection system is configured to provide the first fuel injector with first fuel and provide the second fuel injector with second fuel. The first fuel may be or include ammonia. The second fuel is different than the first fuel. The second fuel may be or include hydrogen gas. The first fuel injector is configured to direct the first fuel into the flowpath for combustion. The second fuel injector is configured to direct the second fuel into the flowpath for combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2024
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Lance L. Smith, Timothy S. Snyder, Jeffrey M. Cohen, Peter Cocks, Sean C. Emerson
  • Publication number: 20250223923
    Abstract: An assembly is provided for a turbine engine with a flowpath. This assembly includes a fuel source and an engine component. The engine component forms a peripheral boundary of the flowpath. The engine component includes a component internal passage. The engine component is configured to receive fuel from the fuel source. The engine component is configured to crack at least some of the fuel within the component internal passage thereby cooling the engine component and providing at least partially cracked fuel. The assembly is configured to direct the at least partially cracked fuel into the flowpath for combustion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Dustin W. Davis, Lance L. Smith, Won-Wook Kim
  • Patent number: 12350943
    Abstract: In one example of the disclosure, a system for print fluid recirculation includes a supply manifold, a recirculation manifold, a printbar, and a recirculation pathway. The printbar includes a plurality of printheads that are in fluid communication with the supply manifold, and the recirculation manifold. The recirculation pathway is in fluid connection with the supply manifold and the recirculation manifold, and is to enable recirculation of print fluid at a controlled flow through the plurality of printheads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: David L. Smith, Eric Beyer
  • Patent number: 12351627
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to antibodies and fragments thereof having binding specificity for ACTH. Another embodiment of this invention relates to the antibodies binding fragments thereof described herein, comprising the sequences of the VH, VL and/or CDR polypeptides described herein, and the polynucleotides encoding them. The invention also contemplates conjugates of anti-ACTH antibodies and binding fragments thereof conjugated to one or more functional or detectable moieties. The invention further contemplates methods of making said anti-ACTH antibodies and binding fragments thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: H. LUNDBECK A/S
    Inventors: Andrew Lawrence Feldhaus, Leon Garcia-Martinez, Benjamin H. Dutzar, Daniel S. Allison, Katie Olson Anderson, Ethan Wayne Ojala, Pei Fan, Charlie Karasek, Jenny Mulligan, Michelle Scalley-Kim, Erica Stewart, Jeffrey T. L. Smith, John Latham
  • Patent number: 12345575
    Abstract: Sensor interconnects and supports and methods of making them utilize phonon disruptors for increased thermal resistance while maintaining acceptable electrical signal quality in materials. Phonon disruptors include, but are not limited to, structural features such as interfaces, grain boundaries, and point scattering sites, for example, that are designed to scatter heat carriers while allowing electrons to pass through the material. Some embodiments herein involve designing selected stacks of alternating or sequential material pairs within sensor interconnects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Adam A. Wilson, Darin J. Sharar, Gabriel L. Smith, Cory R. Knick
  • Patent number: 12345035
    Abstract: A toilet assembly includes a flush engine having a bowl defining a sump and a trapway extending from the sump. A bowl insert is configured to be located in the bowl and a shroud is configured to be positioned over the flush engine to conceal at least a portion of the flush engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Kohler Co.
    Inventors: Billy Jack Ahola, Andrew L. Smith, Mark E. Baumgartner, Donald G. Bogenschuetz, Tobin J. Vetting, Lawrence E. Duwell, Peter W. Swart
  • Patent number: 12345520
    Abstract: Laser and synthetic profilometry of positive displacement motors (PDM) and ML methods, systems, and computer medium storing instructions for predicting PDM attribute(s). Laser profilometric scans (LPS) and mechanical stator minor ID (SMID) measurements from a plurality of locations in the stator are used for training a stator profilometric ML (SPML) model to learn stator profiles. The SPML model is deployed on input SMID measurements to generate synthetic stator dimension data (SSDD). LPS are preprocessed for feature alignment and statistical profilometric data are extracted for use in training the SPML model, and/or for training a PDM motor performance ML (MPML) model to learn PDM performance. The MPML training dataset may also include the learned stator profiles from the SPML model. The MPML model is deployed, on either input LPS or SSDD generated by the SPML model from input SMID measurements, to generate PDM performance data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2025
    Assignee: Turnco LLC
    Inventors: Lonnie L. Smith, II, Orson M. Terrill, William D. Murray
  • Patent number: 12337995
    Abstract: There is provided a support pin assembly for full size determinant assembly of an aircraft structure. The support pin assembly includes a block having a vertical bore and a horizontal bore; a bushing within the horizontal bore; a barrel nut having a cylindrical body within the vertical bore and a barrel nut hole; and a pin. The pin includes an insertion portion within the bushing, an interface element, and an extending portion having at least one protruding circumferential portion having two or more flat surface portions on opposing sides to enable rotation of the pin. The at least one protruding circumferential portion is positioned within a hole in a frame section of the aircraft structure, and provides nominal adjustment of the pin, so that with any binding condition of the pin, the pin is released by rotating the pin via the two or more flat surface portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Brent A. Beach, Colleen A. Oberlee, Timothy L. Smith, Michael A. Ward
  • Publication number: 20250197365
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods to produce 5-(halomethyl)furfural, including 5-(chloromethyl)furfural, by acid-catalyzed conversion of C6 saccharides, including isomers thereof, polymers thereof, and certain derivatives thereof. The methods make use of acids with lower concentrations, and allows for conversion of sugars into 5-(halomethyl)furfural at higher temperatures and faster reaction or residence times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Alex B. Wood, Makoto N. Masuno, Ryan L. Smith, John Bissell, Dimitri A. Hirsch-Weil, Robert Joseph Araiza, Daniel R. Henton, James H. PLONKA
  • Patent number: 12334199
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media useful in a healthcare cloud computing platform to transform, deduplicate and store medical data from third-party databases to a patient's primary medical record in the healthcare cloud computing platform. Exemplary implementations may: load and read data from third-party databases, and determine if it is duplicative of what is in the patient's primary record. Other embodiments, provide a method for ranking medical data from two different third-party databases to determine which medical data should be written to the patient's primary medical record in the healthcare computing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Margaret M. Jackson, Peter Teunissen, Andres Hernandez, Steven Ger, Daniel Holder, Mark L. Smith
  • Patent number: 12330006
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a unique, two-part, water-soluble polymer matrix material and a method of application that immobilizes a wide variety of loose powder or crystalline hazardous materials and renders them “safe” or at least “safer” for handling and transport. The polymer matrix material is a two-part polymer material comprising a liquid cross-linking polymer and a cross-linking agent, initiator, or biocide contained in a solution. The cross-linking agent functions to cross-link the polymer and cause it to harden in place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees
    Inventors: Jimmie Oxley, James L. Smith, Robert Ichiyama, Gerald Kagan
  • Patent number: 12319897
    Abstract: The invention relates to compositions and methods of treatment employing compositions comprising polyelectrolyte complexes. The compositions include a water-soluble first polyelectrolyte bearing a net cationic charge or capable of developing a net cationic charge and a water-soluble second polyelectrolyte bearing a net anionic charge or capable of developing a net anionic charge. The total polyelectrolyte concentration of the first solution is at least 110 millimolar. The composition is free of coacervates, precipitates, latex particles, synthetic block copolymers, silicone copolymers, cross-linked poly(acrylic) and cross-linked water-soluble polyelectrolyte. The composition may be a concentrate, to be diluted prior to use to treat a surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2025
    Assignee: THE CLOROX COMPANY
    Inventors: David R. Scheuing, Thomas F. Fahlen, Jared Heymann, Mike Kinsinger, William Ouellette, William L. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250175508
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides an exemplary method that may include steps of receiving input data from at least two external data sources; utilizing a trained machine learning algorithm to identify a digital signal within the input data; automatically verifying the identity of the digital signal based on a repository of telecommunication data associated with the particular interaction parameter; utilizing an initiation protocol-specific backbone engine to determine that the digital signal fails to match the repository of telecommunication data associated with the particular interaction parameter; updating the repository of telecommunication data; utilizing the trained machine learning algorithm to calculate a confidence score associated with a risk factor; aggregating each confidence score to calculate an overall confidence score associated with the digital signal; dynamically generating an authentication step to be performed by the particular user; and automatically blocking an initiati
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 29, 2025
    Inventors: James Ashfield, Donald L. Smith, Daniel Alan Jarvis
  • Publication number: 20250164675
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to reflective microstructures where at least part of the reflective surface of the microstructure is radially symmetric around a given axis. The disclosure is also directed to articles comprising the reflective microstructures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Inventors: Susannah C. Clear, Travis L. Potts, Jincy Jose, Kenneth L. Smith, John M. DeSutter
  • Publication number: 20250154900
    Abstract: An aircraft propulsion system includes a compressor section where an inlet airflow is compressed, a combustor section where the compressed inlet airflow is mixed with fuel and ignited to generate an exhaust gas flow that is communicated through a core flow path, a turbine section through which the exhaust gas flow expands to generate a mechanical power output, the exhaust gas flow is split into at least a first exhaust gas flow and a second exhaust gas flow, and a condenser where water is extracted from the second exhaust gas flow, and a bottoming cycle where extracted water is transformed into a steam flow and injected into the core flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Neil J. Terwilliger, Lance L. Smith
  • Patent number: 12281846
    Abstract: A centrifugal dryer that has improved throughput capacity resulting from the combination of a high angle agglomerate catcher with optional overflow, increased dewatering capacity, a cylindrical dewatering feed chute, a modified rotor design with positionally and structurally modified lifters in the feed and dewatering section, the drying and propagating section, as well as the pellet discharge section, and an efficient circumferential foraminous membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MAAG GALA, INC.
    Inventors: Charles E. Aaron, Duane A. Boothe, John M. Linkenhoker, Kerry P. Morris, Samuel F. Hannah, Wayne L. Smith, Thomas C. Wenrich
  • Patent number: 12281089
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods to produce 5-(halomethyl)furfural, including 5-(chloromethyl)furfural, by acid-catalyzed conversion of C6 saccharides, including isomers thereof, polymers thereof, and certain derivatives thereof. The methods make use of acids with lower concentrations, and allows for conversion of sugars into 5-(halomethyl)furfural at higher temperatures and faster reaction or residence times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Origin Materials Operating, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex B. Wood, Makoto N. Masuno, Ryan L. Smith, John Bissell, Dimitri A. Hirsch-Weil, Robert Joseph Araiza, Daniel R. Henton, James H. Plonka