Patents by Inventor Laurence Smith

Laurence 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: 20240127586
    Abstract: There is disclosed a computer-implemented method for training a neural network. The method comprises determining a gradient associated with a parameter of the neural network. The method further comprises determining a ratio of a gradient norm to parameter norm and comparing the ratio to a threshold. In response to determining that the ratio exceeds the threshold, the value of the gradient is reduced such that the ratio is equal to or below the threshold. The value of the parameter is updated based upon the reduced gradient value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Brock, Soham De, Samuel Laurence Smith, Karen Simonyan
  • Patent number: 11905454
    Abstract: Disclosed are refrigerants comprising at least about 97% by weight of a blend of three compounds, said blend consisting of: from about 38% by weight to about 48% by weight difluoromethane (HFC-32), from about 6% by weight to about 12% by weight pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), from about 33% by weight to about 41% by weight trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I) and from about 2% by weight to about 16% by weight 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) wherein the percentages are based on the total weight of the three compounds in the blend, and methods and systems which use same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Michael Petersen, Elizabet del Carmen Vera Becerra, Samuel F. Yana Motta, Ankit Sethi, Gustavo Pottker, Gregory Laurence Smith
  • Publication number: 20230351042
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for privacy-sensitive training of a neural network. In one aspect, a method includes training a set of neural network parameters of the neural network on a set of training data over multiple training iterations to optimize an objective function. Each training iteration includes: sampling a batch of network inputs from the set of training data; determining a clipped gradient for each network input in the batch of network inputs; and updating the neural network parameters using the clipped gradients for the network inputs in the batch of network inputs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Soham De, Borja De Balle Pigem, Jamie Hayes, Samuel Laurence Smith, Leonard Alix Jean Eric Berrada Lancrey Javal
  • Patent number: 11780239
    Abstract: A method of controlling a system including an arrangement of at least two nozzles, wherein the arrangement and the shape move relative to each other, each nozzle traces a respective path on the shape, and each nozzle is configured to jet drops at actual jetting locations along the respective path of the nozzle. The method results in sequence of actuation events received from a control signal to be more frequent than would be needed for an arrangement printing on a flat surface to produce the required dot resolution. It is then possible to select which of the individual nozzles are to jet for a given actuation event from the sequence so that the actual jetting locations deviate from the target jetting locations by no ore than a define maximum error distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Global Inkjet Systems Limited
    Inventors: Philip Collins, Nicholas Campbell Geddes, Damian Howard Laurence Smith
  • Patent number: 11732170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heat transfer compositions comprising refrigerant, lubricant and stabilizer, wherein the refrigerant comprises 39 to 45% by weight difluoromethane (HFC-32), 1 to 4% by weight pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), and 51 to 57% by weight trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I), and wherein said lubricant comprises polyol ester (POE) lubricant and/or polyvinyl ether (PVE) lubricant, and wherein said stabilizer comprises an alkylated naphthalene and optionally but preferably an acid depleting moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNTIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Gregory Laurence Smith
  • Publication number: 20230220259
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heat transfer compositions comprising refrigerant, lubricant and stabilizer, wherein the refrigerant comprises from about 5% by weight to 100% by weight of trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I), and wherein said lubricant comprises polyol ester (POE) lubricant and/or polyvinyl ether (PVE) lubricant, and wherein said stabilizer comprises an alkylated naphthalene and optionally but preferably an acid depleting moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Laurence Smith, Ankit Sethi, Yang Zou, Samuel F. Yana Motta
  • Patent number: 11529804
    Abstract: A printing system for printing images formed of pixels on a substrate, the system comprising a print system arranged where printheads traverse a substrate, the print system arranged to receive a sequence of print actuation requests in order to print each pixel of an image upon the substrate, the print system having an acceptable rate for the sequence of print actuation requests, the system configured whereby if presented with an actuation period of less than the minimum actuation period then the presented rate of print actuation requests is adjusted by altering the actuation event and/or the discarding of stripe data, to minimise print defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Global Inkjet Systems Limited
    Inventors: Alberto Donado Rodriguez, Damian Howard Laurence Smith, Nicholas Campbell Geddes
  • Publication number: 20220186101
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heat transfer compositions comprising refrigerant, lubricant and stabilizer, wherein the refrigerant comprises 39 to 45% by weight difluoromethane (HFC-32), 1 to 4% by weight pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), and 51 to 57% by weight trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I), and wherein said lubricant comprises polyol ester (POE) lubricant and/or polyvinyl ether (PVE) lubricant, and wherein said stabilizer comprises an alkylated naphthalene and optionally but preferably an acid depleting moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: GREGORY LAURENCE SMITH
  • Publication number: 20220177759
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and ?-terpinene particularly useful in automotive air conditioning systems and devices, commercial refrigeration systems and devices, chillers, residential refrigerator and freezers, general air conditioning systems, heat pumps, and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: David Nalewajek, Rajiv Ratna Singh, Rajiv Banavali, Gregory Laurence Smith
  • Patent number: 11352534
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heat transfer compositions comprising refrigerant, lubricant and stabilizer, wherein the refrigerant comprises 39 to 45% by weight difluoromethane (HFC-32), 1 to 4% by weight pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), and 51 to 57% by weight trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I), and wherein said lubricant comprises polyol ester (POE) lubricant and/or polyvinyl ether (PVE) lubricant, and wherein said stabilizer comprises an alkylated naphthalene and optionally but preferably an acid depleting moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventor: Gregory Laurence Smith
  • Publication number: 20220119693
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a refrigerant composition, including difluoromethane (HFC-32), pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), and trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I) for use in a heat exchange system, including air conditioning and refrigeration applications and in particular aspects to the use of such compositions as a replacement of the refrigerant R-410A for heating and cooling applications and to retrofitting heat exchange systems, including systems designed for use with R-410A.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Ankit SETHI, Samuel F. Yana Motta, Ryan Hulse, Robert Gerard Richard, Gregory Laurence Smith, Henna Tangri, Elizabet del Carmen Vera Becerra, Yang Zou
  • Publication number: 20220112415
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heat transfer compositions comprising refrigerant, lubricant and stabilizer, wherein the refrigerant comprises from about 10% by weight to 100% by weight of trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I), and wherein said lubricant comprises polyol ester (POE) lubricant and/or polyvinyl ether (PVE) lubricant, and wherein said stabilizer comprises an alkylated naphthalene and optionally but preferably an acid depleting moiety.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: GREGORY LAURENCE SMITH
  • Patent number: 11261360
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heat transfer compositions comprising refrigerant, lubricant and stabilizer, wherein the refrigerant comprises about 49% by weight difluoromethane (HFC-32), about 11.5% by weight pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), and about 39.5% by weight trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I), and wherein said lubricant comprises polyol ester (POE) lubricant and/or polyvinyl ether (PVE) lubricant, and wherein said stabilizer comprises an alkylated naphthalene and optionally but preferably an acid depleting moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Laurence Smith, Ankit Sethi, Yang Zou, Samuel F Yana Motta
  • Publication number: 20220048287
    Abstract: A drive system for individually switched nozzles with common drive signals of an inkjet print head, including a nozzle controller associated with each nozzle whereby meniscus activation is determined by a meniscus activation pulse, MAP, signal to that nozzle. A MAP controller defines a parameter for each nozzle such that the parameter is monitored by the MAP controller whereby a MAP signal is provided to the nozzle controller as required dependent upon the parameter, each nozzle configured whereby once the MAP signal is provided to provide meniscus activation at the nozzle any further nozzle fire signals, in the form of the common drive signals after the MAP signal, are delayed at least until the meniscus activation at the nozzle is complete while the nozzle controller ensures all the nozzle fire signals as common drive signals remain in sequence with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Damian Howard Laurence Smith, Nicholas Campbell Geddes, Alberto Donado Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 11230655
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and ?-terpinene particularly useful in automotive air conditioning systems and devices, commercial refrigeration systems and devices, chillers, residential refrigerator and freezers, general air conditioning systems, heat pumps, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC
    Inventors: David Nalewajek, Rajiv Ratna Singh, Rajiv Banavali, Gregory Laurence Smith
  • Publication number: 20210347168
    Abstract: A method of controlling a system including an arrangement of at least two nozzles, wherein the arrangement and the shape move relative to each other, each nozzle traces a respective path on the shape, and each nozzle is configured to jet drops at actual jetting locations along the respective path of the nozzle. The method results in sequence of actuation events received from a control signal to be more frequent than would be needed for an arrangement printing on a flat surface to produce the required dot resolution. It is then possible to select which of the individual nozzles are to jet for a given actuation event from the sequence so that the actual jetting locations deviate from the target jetting locations by no ore than a define maximum error distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Philip Collins, Nicholas Campbell Geddes, Damian Howard Laurence Smith
  • Patent number: 11124684
    Abstract: The present invention relates to heat transfer compositions comprising refrigerant, lubricant and stabilizer, wherein the refrigerant comprises about 49% by weight difluoromethane (HFC-32), about 11.5% by weight pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), and about 39.5% by weight trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I), and wherein said lubricant comprises polyol ester (POE) lubricant and/or polyvinyl ether (PVE) lubricant, and wherein said stabilizer comprises an alkylated naphthalene and optionally but preferably an acid depleting moiety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventor: Gregory Laurence Smith
  • Publication number: 20210237431
    Abstract: A printing system for printing images formed of pixels on a substrate, the system comprising a print system arranged where print-heads traverse a substrate, the print system arranged to receive a sequence of print actuation requests in order to print each pixel of an image upon the substrate, the print system having an acceptable rate for the sequence of print actuation requests, the system configured whereby if presented with an actuation period of less than the minimum actuation period then the presented rate of print actuation requests is adjusted by altering the actuation event and/or the discarding of stripe data, to minimise print defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: Global Inkjet Systems Limited
    Inventors: Alberto Donado Rodriguez, Damian Howard Laurence Smith, Nicholas Campbell Geddes
  • Publication number: 20210179907
    Abstract: Disclosed are refrigerants comprising at least about 97% by weight of a blend of three compounds, said blend consisting of: from about 38% by weight to about 48% by weight difluoromethane (HFC-32), from about 6% by weight to about 12% by weight pentafluoroethane (HFC-125), from about 33% by weight to about 41% by weight trifluoroiodomethane (CF3I) and from about 2% by weight to about 16% by weight 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (HFO-1234yf) wherein the percentages are based on the total weight of the three compounds in the blend, and methods and systems which use same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Michael PETERSEN, Elizabet del Carmen VERA BECERRA, Samuel F. YANA MOTTA, Ankit SETHI, Gustavo POTTKER, Gregory Laurence SMITH
  • Patent number: 11021639
    Abstract: The present invention provides a composition comprising 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene and ?-terpinene useful in automotive air conditioning systems and devices, commercial refrigeration systems and devices, chillers, residential refrigerator and freezers, general air conditioning systems, heat pumps, and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: David Nalewajek, Rajiv Ratna Singh, Rajiv Banavali, Gregory Laurence Smith