Patents by Inventor Martin Thomas

Martin Thomas 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: 20230072082
    Abstract: A system includes a first memory, a compiler, and a DNN accelerator. The DNN accelerator includes a DMA engine, an acceleration module, and a compute block. The compute block includes a second memory. The compiler may generate a task for transferring activations from the second memory to the first memory. The DMA engine may receive the task and read the activations from the second memory. The acceleration module may compress the activations to generate compressed activation data and write the compressed activation data into the external memory. The acceleration module may also store a size of the compressed activation data in the local memory, which may be used by the DMA engine to read the activation from the first memory to the second memory later. The compressed activation data may include non-zero activations and sparsity bitmaps. The compressed activation data may also include a header or zeropoint marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Sudheendra Kadri, Andrea Deidda, Hassan Kamal, Martin-Thomas Grymel, Alfonso Tarazona Martinez, David Thomas Bernard
  • Patent number: 11597630
    Abstract: The disclosure defined by this invention relates to an electronic control facility for a stairlift. The control facility includes an installation mode in which a number of steps to be undertaken at the time of installation of the stairlift are defined. The control facility also includes a user mode in which the operation of the stairlift is controlled by a user. According to the invention, the control facility is configured so that the user mode cannot be entered until all steps in the installation mode have been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Stannah Stairlifts Limited
    Inventors: Martin Thomas Piper, Paul Alexander Cook, Nigel Titchener
  • Patent number: 11578080
    Abstract: This invention relates to thienopyrimidinones and their use as inhibitors of TRPA1 activity, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same as agents for treatment and/or prevention of fibrotic diseases, inflammatory and auto-immune diseases and CNS-related diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Thomas Fleck, Florian Paul Christian Binder, Georg Dahmann, Joerg P. Hehn, Annekatrin Charlotte Heimann, Uta Friederike Lessel, Jens Willwacher
  • Patent number: 11580495
    Abstract: Systems and methods that employ an autonomous robotic vehicle (ARV) alone or in combination with a remote computing device during the installation of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) in a facility are discussed. The ARV may detect pre-existing product information from paper labels located on modular units prior to their removal and then detect the location of electronic shelf labels (ESLs) after installation. Pre-existing product information gleaned from the paper labels is associated with the corresponding ESLs. The ARV may also determine compliance or non-compliance of modular units to which an ESL is affixed with a planogram of the facility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Ray High, Martin Thomas Faitak, IV
  • Patent number: 11579194
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) test engine can generate a plurality of single cycle test patterns that target a plurality of static single cycle defects of a fabricated IC chip based on an IC design. The IC test engine can also fault simulate the plurality of single cycle test patterns against a plurality of multicycle defects in the IC design, wherein a given single cycle test pattern of the plurality of single cycle test patterns is sim-shifted to enable detection of a given multicycle fault and/or defect of the plurality of multicycle faults and/or defects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Arvind Chokhani, Joseph Michael Swenton, Martin Thomas Amodeo
  • Publication number: 20230020929
    Abstract: A compute tile includes a WCB that receives a workload of writing an output tensor of a convolution into a local memory of the compute tile. The local memory may be a SRAM. The WCB receives write transactions. A write transaction includes a data block, which is a part of the output tensor, and metadata describing one or more attributes of the data block. The WCB may store write transactions in its internal buffers. The WCB may determine whether to combine two write transactions, e.g., based on an operation mode or metadata in the write transactions. In embodiments where the WCB determines to combine the two write transactions, the WCB may combine the two write transactions into a new write transaction and write the new write transaction into the local memory or an internal memory of the WCB. The total number of write transactions for the workload can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Martin-Thomas Grymel, David Thomas Bernard, Martin Power, Niall Hanrahan, Kevin Brady
  • Publication number: 20230018857
    Abstract: Sparsity processing within a compute block can be done on unpacked data. The compute block includes a sparsity decoder that generates a combined sparsity vector from an activation sparsity vector and a weight sparsity vector. The activation sparsity vector indicates positions of non-zero valued activations in an activation context. The weight sparsity vector indicates positions of non-zero valued weights in a weight context. The combined sparsity vector comprises one or more zero valued bits and one or more non-zero valued bits. The sparsity decoder may determine the position of a non-zero valued bit in the combined sparsity vector and determine an address for the non-zero valued activation and the non-zero valued weight based on the position of the non-zero valued bit. The non-zero valued activation and the non-zero valued weight may be provided to a PE for performing MAC operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Power, Conor Byrne, Niall Hanrahan, Deepak Abraham Mathaikutty, Arnab Raha, Raymond Jit-Hung Sung, David Thomas Bernard, Kevin Brady, Martin-Thomas Grymel
  • Patent number: 11553062
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for transferring data, in which a peripheral device and a central device are wirelessly connected in accordance with the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) standard and a data packet is transferred within a transfer window of a Bluetooth Low Energy data channel between the peripheral device and the central device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Martin Thomas
  • Patent number: 11542752
    Abstract: A rotary steerable system (RSS) including an upper stabilizer connected to a collar of a drill string, an articulated section connected by a flexible joint to the collar, a drill bit connected to the articulated section opposite from the flexible joint, a lower stabilizer located proximate to the flexible joint and an actuator located with the articulated section and selectively operable to tilt an axis of the drill bit and the articulated section relative to the collar. A method includes drilling with the RSS a bias phase of a drilling cycle on a demand tool face and drilling a neutral phase of the drilling cycle on a 180 degree offset tool face from the demand tool face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: SCHLUMBERGER TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Martin Thomas Bayliss
  • Patent number: 11531531
    Abstract: An execution of an instance of a program that does not include checkpoint-based live update functionality is paused. A set of objects containing state information of the program is identified from a portion of memory used by the instance, and stored in a checkpoint of the program. The execution of the instance is resumed using at least the checkpoint and code that has been dynamically introduced into the instance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bjoern Doebel, Martin Thomas Pohlack
  • Patent number: 11494821
    Abstract: An electronic shelf label system comprising an electronic display device and a plurality of electronic shelf labels is provided. A computing system transmits data transmissions to the plurality of electronic shelf labels. Each of the electronic shelf labels are configured to receive, from the computing system, data to render on an electronic display of each of the electronic shelf labels. The electronic display device is configured to determine, based on at least one of a set of specified conditions or the data rendered on each of the electronic shelf labels, content to be rendered on the electronic display of the electronic display device, and adjust the display of the electronic display device to render the content based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Donald Ray High, Martin Thomas Faitak, IV, Michael Dean Atchley
  • Publication number: 20220340593
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides certain 3H,4H,5H,6H,7H-pyrimido[4,5-b][1,4]oxazine-4,6-dione derivatives that are inhibitors of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), and are therefore useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of TRPA1. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and processes for preparing said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Thomas FLECK, Florian Paul Christian BINDER
  • Publication number: 20220340580
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides certain imidazo[4,5-d]pyridazinonyl derivatives that are inhibitors of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), and are therefore useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of TRPA1. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and processes for preparing said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Paul Christian BINDER, Georg DAHMANN, Martin Thomas FLECK, Annekatrin Charlotte HEIMANN, Thorsten OOST
  • Publication number: 20220340552
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides certain uracil derivatives that are inhibitors of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), and are therefore useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of TRPA1. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and processes for preparing said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Paul Christian BINDER, Martin Thomas FLECK, Jens WILLWACHER
  • Publication number: 20220340590
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides certain 3H,4H-thieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-one derivatives that are inhibitors of transient receptor potential ankyrin 1 (TRPA1), and are therefore useful for the treatment of diseases treatable by inhibition of TRPA1. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and processes for preparing said compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Paul Christian BINDER, Jens WILLWACHER, Martin Thomas FLECK
  • Patent number: 11461881
    Abstract: A method for processing images comprising: capturing a plurality of degraded images of a first real-world environment with a first sensor; processing each degraded image with a first, untrained convolutional neural network, via a Deep Image Prior approach, to obtain a plurality of clean images, wherein each clean image corresponds to a degraded image; pairing each clean image with its corresponding degraded image to create a plurality of degraded/clean image pairs; training, via a supervised learning approach, a machine learning model to learn a function for converting degraded images into restored images based on the plurality of degraded/clean image pairs; capturing a second plurality of degraded images of a second real-world environment; and using the trained machine learning model to convert the second plurality of degraded images into restored images based on the learned function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Shibin Parameswaran, Martin Thomas Jaszewski
  • Publication number: 20220304952
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composition comprising a) metformin HCl, b) vitamin B12 and c) at least one flow additive. The flow additive comprises a calcium salt. The preferred calcium salt is calcium phosphate. The composition has good flowability and can be used to manufacture a solid pharmaceutical dosage form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Thomas KUENTZ, Zdravka MISIC
  • Publication number: 20220304953
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical dosage form comprising a) metformin or a pharmaceutical acceptable salt thereof, and b) calcium citrate. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the dosage form further comprises vitamin B12. The invention also relates to its use in the prevention or alleviation of metformin induced vitamin B12 malabsorption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Thomas KUENTZ, Zdravka MISIC, Ralph SCHNEITER, Araksya TOPCHYAN
  • Patent number: 11454132
    Abstract: A turbocharger contains a turbine housing having an accommodating region for a turbine rotor disk of the turbocharger, which accommodating region is arranged centrally with respect to a turbine housing axis, and a turbine spiral channel, which tapers helically toward the accommodating region. A wastegate valve, having a spindle arm and a valve plate arranged on the spindle arm, or a variable exhaust-gas guiding device, having bearing disks and guide vanes, is arranged in the turbine housing. At least one of the: turbine housing, spindle arm and valve plate, or bearing disks and guide vanes, has a steel material for high-temperature applications. The material composition of which contains, in addition to iron, Fe, at least the following alloying constituents in amounts within the specified limits in weight percent: carbon: 0.4-0.5%; silicon: 1.25-1.75%; manganese: 3.0-12.0%; chromium: 19.5-20.5%; nickel: 5.0-6.0%; niobium: 1.00-1.5%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Hiller, Martin Thomas, Achim Koch
  • Patent number: D969839
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Robert Dunnette, Judyta Podraza, Barine Tee, Martin Thomas Moore