Patents by Inventor Matthew A. Thompson
Matthew A. Thompson 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: 11966457Abstract: A method for online authentication includes receiving membership authenticating information specific to members of a particular affiliation from the members and from one or more remote databases. The information is aggregated and stored in an aggregate database. An individual is authenticated, via a widget at least one of integrated into, and accessible by, at least one of a mobile application and a website of a provider of at least one of a particular program and a particular service, as a member of the particular affiliation based on a comparison of authenticating indicia provided online by the individual and the information stored in at least one of the aggregate database and the remote databases. Digital credentials are provided to the individual for access to the at least one of the particular program and the particular service when the individual is authenticated. The credentials include a unique identifier, a login and password.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: ID.me, Inc.Inventors: Blake Hall, Matthew Thompson, Tony Huynh, William Kern
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Patent number: 11962547Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for performing operations including: retrieving a plurality of content items; determining a first category of a first content item in the plurality of content items; selecting a first presentation arrangement from a plurality of presentation arrangements based on the first category determined for the first content item; and presenting the first content item to a user according to the selected first presentation arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: SNAP INC.Inventors: Newar Husam Al Majid, Nathan Kenneth Boyd, Laurent Desserrey, Matthew Thompson, Jeremy Voss
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Patent number: 11950774Abstract: Disclosed are devices, methods and/or systems for securing tissue to bone, including a suture anchor implant having a body through which a suture eyelet extends transversely, and one or more suture pinch slits extending proximally from the suture eyelet, the suture pinch slit(s) angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the anchor.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Tigon MedicalInventors: Jeremy Clark, Umasuthan Srikumaran, Matthew Thompson
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Patent number: 11952833Abstract: Building systems including a frame with a horizontal member from which first and second vertical bars downwardly extend and a panel attached to the frame. The building systems include at least one of an integrated fastener cover that is moveable to a closed position that covers a portion of a fastener, a gusset assembly with a junction cover positioned at a corner junction between two adjacent portions of a panel, and hinge assemblies that reduce the sagging of a panel, such as a door.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Larson Manufacturing Company of South Dakota, LLCInventors: Sara Wermers, Alan M. Dixon, Matthew Gingery, Kelly D. Nordgaard, Luke A. Thompson, Bryan P. Zacher, Jammey A. Rawden, Todd N. Stratmoen, Michael W. Kondratuk
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Publication number: 20240108501Abstract: Provided for herein is a method of cell transplantation using an injection attachment having a hub containing a plurality of cells and a cannula extending from a distal end of the hub. The method includes orienting the injection attachment such that the cannula points downwardly until the plurality of cells settle together proximate the distal end, inserting the cannula into a tissue of a subject, and injecting the volume of cells into the tissue of the subject using the injection attachment.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc.Inventors: Tianran LIU, Randy LEARISH, Cayla THOMPSON, Matthew STERNFELD, Michael PHILLIPS, Virginia MATTIS, Lucas CHASE, Erik BROWN
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Publication number: 20240109703Abstract: A carrier for holding a plurality of containers, the carrier includes a front portion, the front portion including a portion of at least one attachment panel for at least partially receiving a respective container of the plurality of containers, a back portion, the back portion including a portion of the at least one attachment panel for at least partially receiving a respective container of the plurality of containers, and a reinforcement portion extending from the front portion to the back portion for reinforcing the carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Jon Thompson, Ana Maria Gonzalez Manzano, Raymond R. Spivey, SR., Jean-Manuel Gomes, John Murdick Holley, JR., Matthew R. Kearns
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Publication number: 20240101486Abstract: Disclosed herein is a multilayer sintered ceramic body comprising at least one first layer comprising poly crystalline YAG, wherein the at least one first layer comprising poly crystalline YAG comprises pores wherein the pores have a maximum size of from 0.1 to 5 ?m, at least one second layer comprising alumina and zirconia wherein the zirconia comprises at least one of stabilized and partially stabilized zirconia, and at least one third layer comprising at least one of YAG, alumina, and zirconia, wherein an absolute value of the difference in coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) between the at least one first, second and third layers is from 0 to 0.75×10-6/° C. as measured in accordance with ASTM E228-17, wherein the at least one first, second and third layers form a unitary, multilayer sintered ceramic body. Methods of making are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Luke WALKER, Matthew Joseph DONELON, Saurabh WAGHMARE, Lillan THOMPSON
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Patent number: 11940918Abstract: In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core generating memory transactions, a lower level cache memory with a lower memory controller, and a higher level cache memory with a higher memory controller having a memory pipeline. The higher memory controller is connected to the lower memory controller by a bypass path that skips the memory pipeline. The higher memory controller: determines whether a memory transaction is a bypass write, which is a memory write request indicated not to result in a corresponding write being directed to the higher level cache memory; if the memory transaction is determined a bypass write, determines whether a memory transaction that prevents passing is in the memory pipeline; and if no transaction that prevents passing is determined to be in the memory pipeline, sends the memory transaction to the lower memory controller using the bypass path.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Abhijeet Ashok Chachad, Timothy David Anderson, Kai Chirca, David Matthew Thompson
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Publication number: 20240095169Abstract: A method includes determining, by a level one (L1) controller, to change a size of a L1 main cache; servicing, by the L1 controller, pending read requests and pending write requests from a central processing unit (CPU) core; stalling, by the L1 controller, new read requests and new write requests from the CPU core; writing back and invalidating, by the L1 controller, the L1 main cache. The method also includes receiving, by a level two (L2) controller, an indication that the L1 main cache has been invalidated and, in response, flushing a pipeline of the L2 controller; in response to the pipeline being flushed, stalling, by the L2 controller, requests received from any master; reinitializing, by the L2 controller, a shadow L1 main cache. Reinitializing includes clearing previous contents of the shadow L1 main cache and changing the size of the shadow L1 main cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Abhijeet Ashok CHACHAD, Naveen BHORIA, David Matthew THOMPSON, Neelima MURALIDHARAN
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Publication number: 20240095754Abstract: A computer-implemented method for matching material names from one or more material sources with safety data sheet material names from one or more safety data sheets. The method includes: extracting the material names from the one or more material sources; preprocessing the material names and removing extraneous data from one or more of the material names; selecting one of the material names; comparing the selected material name with the safety data sheet material names; identifying the safety data sheet material names that match the material name; and transmitting an output to a user device to display the material name and the matching safety data sheet material names.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Li Yang, Carolyn Lanier Kupper, Siji Thomas, George Matthew Hagler, William Alan Thompson, Robin Lynn Zollner
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Publication number: 20240081940Abstract: Systems, methods and computer-program products are provided for aiding in positioning between a surgical object and a machine vision camera in a surgical environment. The machine vision camera senses a position and orientation of a surgical object in its field of view. Controller(s) virtually define a zone within the field of view that indicates a range of acceptable positions for the surgical object relative to a position of the machine vision camera. The controller(s) obtain an acceptable orientation range for the surgical object relative to an orientation of the machine vision camera. The controller(s) execute a GUI to simultaneously present, on the display device, representations of: the field of view; the zone within the field of view; the position of the surgical object relative to the zone; and a current angle difference between the surgical object and the machine vision camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.Inventors: Jason Karl Otto, Matthew Thompson, Mark Ellsworth Nadzadi, Roberto Montane, Jonathan Mark Morgan, Bojan Gospavic
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Publication number: 20240074868Abstract: An example method is provided for maintaining stability to an injury defined by a separation of two bones (e.g., the tibia and fibula), the separation being an injured distance greater than a pre-injury distance between the two bones in a first human patient. The method may include delivering a first apparatus for approximation of the two bones in the first human patient comprising the injury, the first apparatus including a flexible segment disposed between a first anchor and a second anchor. The method may further include maintaining, by the first apparatus, a restored distance between the two bones in the first human patient after a repetitive dynamic loading, the restored distance approximately equal to the pre-injury distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2022Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: DePuy Synthes Products, Inc.Inventors: Firas SOULEIMAN, Ivan ZDERIC, Torsten PASTOR, Dominic GEHWEILER, Boyko GUEORGUIEV-RÜEGG, Michael SWORDS, Tim SCHEPERS, Matthew TOMLINSON, Charles HORRELL, Nicholas MOURLAS, Jon THOMPSON, Todd KENT, Jessica GALIE
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Patent number: 11921637Abstract: In described examples, a processor system includes a processor core that generates memory write requests, a cache memory, and a memory controller. The memory controller has a memory pipeline. The memory controller is coupled to control the cache memory and communicatively coupled to the processor core. The memory controller is configured to receive the memory write requests from the processor core; schedule the memory write requests on the memory pipeline; and contemporaneously with scheduling respective ones of the memory write requests on the memory pipeline, send to the processor core a write acknowledgment confirming that writing of a data payload of the respective memory write request to the cache memory has completed.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Abhijeet Ashok Chachad, Timothy David Anderson, David Matthew Thompson
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Patent number: 11915803Abstract: A system and method for extracting data from an electronic health record to provide provider and patient data similarity scoring includes: encoding a problem list for a plurality of patients with concepts from a common electronic health record ontology. In one aspect, the patients have electronic health records maintained by a plurality of providers. The system and method then may parse the concepts into a plurality of clusters or categories and determining, for each of the providers, a total number of patients that have at least one problem in a cluster or category or determining, for each patient, which of the plurality of clusters or categories correspond to at least one concept encoded in the patient's problem list. The system and method then may calculate for each pair of providers or patients, a distance between the providers or patients.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Intelligent Medical Objects, Inc.Inventors: Frank Naeymi-Rad, Matthew Cardwell, Michael DeCaro, Erina Paul, Yiqing Wang, James Thompson, Andrew Kanter
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Patent number: 11915440Abstract: Motion and video data from vehicle sensors and camera arrays attached to a vehicle collect video and sensor data along a path driven by the vehicle. A system processes such data to produce high-accuracy structured map data, as might be used to precisely locate a moving vehicle in its environment. Positions are calculated from the sensor data. The positions are updated based on the video data. Positions of features in the video are used to create or update structured map data.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Velodyne Lidar USA, Inc.Inventors: Nikhil Naikal, Alonso Patron-Perez, Alexander Marques, John Kua, Aaron Matthew Bestick, Christopher D. Thompson, Andrei Claudiu Cosma
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Patent number: 11907753Abstract: An apparatus includes a CPU core, a first cache subsystem coupled to the CPU core, and a second memory coupled to the cache subsystem. The first cache subsystem includes a configuration register, a first memory, and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a request directed to an address in the second memory and, in response to the configuration register having a first value, operate in a non-caching mode. In the non-caching mode, the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory without caching data returned by the request in the first memory. In response to the configuration register having a second value, the controller is configured to operate in a caching mode. In the caching mode the controller is configured to provide the request to the second memory and cache data returned by the request in the first memory.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Texas Instruments IncorporatedInventors: Abhijeet Ashok Chachad, Timothy David Anderson, David Matthew Thompson
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Patent number: 11903662Abstract: Surgical systems, methods and surgical planning programs to facilitate preparation of an anatomical cavity to receive a cup implant. The system includes a control system, a localizer and a robotic manipulator configured to move an energy applicator that is adapted to remove tissue. The control system obtains or generates a surgical plan that defines characteristics of cement holes to be formed within a wall of the anatomical cavity for receiving bone cement. The control system registers the surgical plan to the anatomical cavity with the localizer and controls the robotic manipulator to utilize the energy applicator to form the cement holes within the wall of the anatomical cavity according to the surgical plan.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.Inventors: John Timperley, Ross Crawford, Jonathan Howell, Matthew Hubble, Matthew Wilson, Matthew Thompson, Graham Gie
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Publication number: 20240041613Abstract: A system for surgical registration. The system may include at least one computing device in communication with a surgical navigation system and the surgical device. The at least one computing device: a) receiving external bone registration data corresponding to locations on the exterior surface of the femur; b) calculating a first registration transform based on the external bone registration data; c) transforming a first bone removal plan of a surgical plan to the operative coordinate system based on the first registration transform; d) receiving internal bone canal registration data corresponding to at least one of location or orientation data from the inner canal of the femur; e) calculating a second registration transform based on both of the external and internal bone canal bone registration data; and f) transforming a second bone removal plan of the surgical plan to the operative coordinate system based on the second registration transform.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: MAKO Surgical Corp.Inventors: Zhu Wu, Matthew Thompson, Brent Mittelstadt, Jamil Elbanna
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Publication number: 20240041350Abstract: A system for intra-operatively registering a pelvis comprising an acetabulum with a computer model of the pelvis in a coordinate system. The system may include: a) a surgical navigation system including a tracking device; and b) at least one computing device in communication with the surgical navigation system. The at least one computing device: i) receiving first data points from first intra-operatively collected points on an articular surface of the acetabulum, the first data points collected with the tracking device; ii) receiving a second data point from a second intra-operatively collected point on the pelvis, the second data point collected with the tracking device, the second data point corresponding in location to a second virtual data point on the computer model; and iii) determining an intra-operative center of rotation of the femur relative to the pelvis from the first data points.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: MAKO SURGICAL CORP.Inventors: Sunil Gupta, Ta-Cheng Chang, Zenan Zhang, Kevin Bechtold, Matthew Thompson, Eric Branch, Varun Chandra, Zhu Wu
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Publication number: 20240045803Abstract: An apparatus includes a CPU core and a L1 cache subsystem including a L1 main cache, a L1 victim cache, and a L1 controller. The apparatus includes a L2 cache subsystem including a L2 main cache, a shadow L1 main cache, a shadow L1 victim cache, and a L2 controller configured to receive a read request from the L1 controller as a single transaction. Read request includes a read address, a first indication of an address and a coherence state of a cache line A to be moved from the L1 main cache to the L1 victim cache to allocate space for data returned in response to the read request, and a second indication of an address and a coherence state of a cache line B to be removed from the L1 victim cache in response to the cache line A being moved to the L1 victim cache.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Abhijeet Ashok CHACHAD, David Matthew THOMPSON, Naveen BHORIA, Pete Michael HIPPLEHEUSER