Patents by Inventor Michael Banfield

Michael Banfield 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: 11945609
    Abstract: An apparatus for controlling docking with a spacecraft includes at least one camera for generating at least one image pixel stream of the spacecraft. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) receives the at least one image pixel stream from the at least one camera. The FPGA texture processes the at least one pixel stream to generate at least one texture map for the at least one image pixel stream. A processor receives the at least one texture map from the FPGA and calculates texture map statistics responsive to the generated at least one texture map, generates thresholding results for the at least one pixel image stream responsive to the generated at least one texture map, determines a bus centroid of the spacecraft responsive to the generated thresholding results and outputs the determined bus centroid of the spacecraft. A docking controller controls docking of with the spacecraft responsive to the determined bus centroid of the spacecraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FALCON EXODYNAMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Klug, Joseph Vermeersch, Matthew Banfield, Adriel Bustamante, Jonathan Wolff
  • Publication number: 20240104132
    Abstract: One or more three-dimensional models that corresponds to at least one two-dimensional image are determined by receiving image data that corresponds to the at least one two-dimensional image, generating features based on the image data corresponding to the at least one two-dimensional image, generating a representation vector for the at least one two-dimensional image by transforming the features into a predetermined amount of numerical representations corresponding to the features, and outputting the representation vector for the at least one two-dimensional image to facilitate a search query for the one or more three-dimensional models associated with the at least one two-dimensional image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Trimble Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Banfield, Aristodimos Komninos, Jacques Harvent, Michael Tadros, Karoliina Torttila
  • Publication number: 20230306135
    Abstract: Unstructured data items are stored at an object storage service. A filtering requirement to be used to generate a result set for an access request is determined. Using a transformed representation of the filtering requirement, a target set of tokens of the filtering requirement which are to be obfuscated within a log record is identified. A log record that comprises substitute tokens for the target set of tokens is generated and stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Liao, Josef Schiefer, Karishma Chawla, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan, Kaiwen Qu
  • Patent number: 11625501
    Abstract: Unstructured data items are stored at an object storage service. A filtering requirement to be used to generate a result set for an access request is determined. Using a transformed representation of the filtering requirement, a target set of tokens of the filtering requirement which are to be obfuscated within a log record is identified. A log record that comprises substitute tokens for the target set of tokens is generated and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Liao, Josef Schiefer, Karishma Chawla, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan, Kaiwen Qu
  • Publication number: 20210097199
    Abstract: Unstructured data items are stored at an object storage service. A filtering requirement to be used to generate a result set for an access request is determined. Using a transformed representation of the filtering requirement, a target set of tokens of the filtering requirement which are to be obfuscated within a log record is identified. A log record that comprises substitute tokens for the target set of tokens is generated and stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Liao, Josef Schiefer, Karishma Chawla, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan, Kaiwen Qu
  • Patent number: 10803197
    Abstract: Unstructured data items are stored at an object storage service. A filtering requirement to be used to generate a result set for an access request is determined. Using a transformed representation of the filtering requirement, a target set of tokens of the filtering requirement which are to be obfuscated within a log record is identified. A log record that comprises substitute tokens for the target set of tokens is generated and stored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ning Liao, Josef Schiefer, Karishma Chawla, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan, Kaiwen Qu
  • Patent number: 10664508
    Abstract: Unstructured data items are stored in an item collection. An access request comprising an input interpretation rule and a filtering criterion is directed to at least a portion of the item collection. Records are extracted from an unstructured data item using the input interpretation rule. A response to the access request is obtained, based at least partly in a determination that one of the records satisfies the filtering criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Stewart Laurence, Ning Liao, Josef Schiefer, Sameer Choudhary, Ruiwen Zhao, Michael Banfield, Fusheng Yuan, Kaiwen Qu
  • Patent number: 10650032
    Abstract: Unstructured data items are stored at an object storage service. A filtering criterion to be used to generate a result set for an access request is determined. A test that can be used to determine, without completing parsing of a record identified in an unstructured data item, whether the record satisfies the filtering criterion is identified. Parsing of a particular record is abandoned in response to determining, using the test, that the record satisfies the filtering criterion. A response to the access request is determined using a subset of records that satisfy the filtering criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas Stewart Laurence, Karmveer Veer Singh, Ning Liao, Josef Schiefer, Michael Banfield, Kaiwen Qu, Karishma Chawla, Fusheng Yuan, John Pender, Sameer Choudhary, Milos Faro, Ruiwen Zhao
  • Patent number: D692089
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2013
    Assignee: PIC Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Rubel, Michael Banfield