Patents by Inventor Michael Peter LYONS

Michael Peter LYONS 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: 12350883
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a printing material source, a printing head and a temperature control system. The printing material source is configured to contain a supply of printing material. The printing head is receptive of the printing material from the printing material source and is configured to print an object with the printing material. The temperature control system is coupled to the printing head and is configured to adjust a temperature of the printing material during printing to cause state changes of the printing material resulting in the printing material being one of soluble and insoluble in a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 11947465
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at an operating system executing on a processor, a write request from a program to write data to a memory. The write request includes a virtual memory address and the data. It is determined that the virtual memory address is not assigned to a physical memory address. Based on the determining, the unassigned virtual memory address is assigned to a physical memory address in an overflow memory. The data is written to the physical memory address in the overflow memory and an indication that the write data was successfully written is returned to the program. Future requests by the program to access the virtual memory address are directed to the physical memory address in the overflow memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Peter Lyons, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Tynan J. Garrett, Miles C. Pedrone
  • Publication number: 20230412637
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for cryptojacking prevention is provided. The embodiment may include capturing a plurality of processor usage information. The embodiment may also include identifying a process or a program using processing power above a preconfigured threshold based on the plurality of captured processor usage information. The embodiment may further include, in response to determining the identified process or the identified program is not approved by a system administrator, performing an action using operating system workload managers based on preconfigured preferences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: MICHAEL Peter LYONS, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone
  • Patent number: 11604713
    Abstract: A test apparatus is provided for use with a mainframe and an adapter. The test apparatus includes a logical adapter interface unit and a control system. The logical adapter interface unit is interposable between the adapter and the mainframe whereby an I/O signal transmittable from the adapter and to the mainframe is transmitted through the logical adapter interface unit. The logical adapter interface unit is configured to manipulate the I/O signal. The control system is coupled to the logical adapter interface unit and the mainframe and is configured to control manipulations of the I/O signal by the logical adapter interface unit to mimic a condition of I/O traffic being run through the adapter and to log a response of the mainframe to the manipulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Michael Peter Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett
  • Patent number: 11554546
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a printing material source, a printing head and a temperature control system. The printing material source is configured to contain a supply of printing material. The printing head is receptive of the printing material from the printing material source and is configured to print an object with the printing material. The temperature control system is coupled to the printing head and is configured to adjust a temperature of the printing material during printing to cause state changes of the printing material resulting in the printing material being one of soluble and insoluble in a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Publication number: 20220388243
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a printing material source, a printing head and a temperature control system. The printing material source is configured to contain a supply of printing material. The printing head is receptive of the printing material from the printing material source and is configured to print an object with the printing material. The temperature control system is coupled to the printing head and is configured to adjust a temperature of the printing material during printing to cause state changes of the printing material resulting in the printing material being one of soluble and insoluble in a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, MICHAEL Peter LYONS
  • Patent number: 11347849
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for detecting ransomware attacks. Aspects include receiving a memory access request for a memory location. Aspects also include allowing the memory access request based on a determination that the memory location is not present in a decoy address table. Aspects further include terminating a process that made the memory access request based on a determination that the memory location is present in the decoy address table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Michael Peter Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett
  • Publication number: 20220114106
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at an operating system executing on a processor, a write request from a program to write data to a memory. The write request includes a virtual memory address and the data. It is determined that the virtual memory address is not assigned to a physical memory address. Based on the determining, the unassigned virtual memory address is assigned to a physical memory address in an overflow memory. The data is written to the physical memory address in the overflow memory and an indication that the write data was successfully written is returned to the program. Future requests by the program to access the virtual memory address are directed to the physical memory address in the overflow memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Peter Lyons, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Tynan J. Garrett, Miles C. Pedrone
  • Patent number: 11301277
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method of organizing communications channels associated with virtual functions of a single root input and output virtualization (SR-IOV) adaptor. The method includes organizing a first coupling channel according to a first channel path identifier bound to designated communications over a first virtual function of the SR-IOV adaptor allocated according to first virtual function resources that support the first coupling channel. The method also includes enabling access to the first coupling channel to a first guest operating system. The method also includes receiving a teardown command associated with the first coupling channel. The method further includes initiating a reset of the first virtual function that deallocates the first virtual function resources associated the first virtual function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Kenneth Szwed, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Publication number: 20210312046
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for detecting ransomware attacks. Aspects include receiving a memory access request for a memory location. Aspects also include allowing the memory access request based on a determination that the memory location is not present in a decoy address table. Aspects further include terminating a process that made the memory access request based on a determination that the memory location is present in the decoy address table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: ANDREW C. M. HICKS, MICHAEL PETER LYONS, MILES C. PEDRONE, TYNAN J. GARRETT
  • Publication number: 20210248051
    Abstract: A test apparatus is provided for use with a mainframe and an adapter. The test apparatus includes a logical adapter interface unit and a control system. The logical adapter interface unit is interposable between the adapter and the mainframe whereby an I/O signal transmittable from the adapter and to the mainframe is transmitted through the logical adapter interface unit. The logical adapter interface unit is configured to manipulate the I/O signal. The control system is coupled to the logical adapter interface unit and the mainframe and is configured to control manipulations of the I/O signal by the logical adapter interface unit to mimic a condition of I/O traffic being run through the adapter and to log a response of the mainframe to the manipulations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, MICHAEL Peter LYONS, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett
  • Patent number: 11027495
    Abstract: A texturizer is provided and includes an extension arm and fine and gross motor controllers. The fine motor controller includes a heating element, one or more texturizing tools and a fine motor which is operable to control respective positions and orientations of the heating element and the one or more texturizing tools. The gross motor controller is interposed between the extension arm and the fine motor controller and is operable to control a position and an orientation of the fine motor controller relative to the extension arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Publication number: 20210132971
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method of organizing communications channels associated with virtual functions of a single root input and output virtualization (SR-IOV) adaptor. The method includes organizing a first coupling channel according to a first channel path identifier bound to designated communications over a first virtual function of the SR-IOV adaptor allocated according to first virtual function resources that support the first coupling channel. The method also includes enabling access to the first coupling channel to a first guest operating system. The method also includes receiving a teardown command associated with the first coupling channel. The method further includes initiating a reset of the first virtual function that deallocates the first virtual function resources associated the first virtual function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Peter Kenneth Szwed, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 10901877
    Abstract: Aspects include receiving a request in a system for code that uses a code package to be tested. Sources are scraped to find a matching code package that uses the code package to be tested. The matching code package is retrieved and stored in a database. The matching code package is assembled into a test bucket and the test bucket is provided for the code package to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 10882252
    Abstract: A method for forming an object includes rotating a first object forming device about a rotational axis at a first speed to apply a first force to the first object forming device. The first object forming device includes an additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tynan J. Garrett, Andrew Hicks, Michael Peter Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Yunli Tang
  • Publication number: 20200406541
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a printing material source, a printing head and a temperature control system. The printing material source is configured to contain a supply of printing material. The printing head is receptive of the printing material from the printing material source and is configured to print an object with the printing material. The temperature control system is coupled to the printing head and is configured to adjust a temperature of the printing material during printing to cause state changes of the printing material resulting in the printing material being one of soluble and insoluble in a solvent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, MICHAEL Peter LYONS
  • Publication number: 20200406555
    Abstract: A texturizer is provided and includes an extension arm and fine and gross motor controllers. The fine motor controller includes a heating element, one or more texturizing tools and a fine motor which is operable to control respective positions and orientations of the heating element and the one or more texturizing tools. The gross motor controller is interposed between the extension arm and the fine motor controller and is operable to control a position and an orientation of the fine motor controller relative to the extension arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, MICHAEL Peter LYONS
  • Publication number: 20200406530
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a housing, a printing bed, a printing head and a controller. The printing bed is rotatably disposed in the housing and includes a surface and a body. The body defines an air conduit terminating at an open end at the surface and is fluidly communicative with an exterior of the housing. The printing head is movably disposed in the housing and configured to print molten glass material onto the printing bed at a location corresponding to the open end of the air conduit. The controller is configured to control movements and printing operations of the printing head, rotations of the printing bed and airflow to the molten glass material through the air conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Publication number: 20200379881
    Abstract: Aspects include receiving a request in a system for code that uses a code package to be tested. Sources are scraped to find a matching code package that uses the code package to be tested. The matching code package is retrieved and stored in a database. The matching code package is assembled into a test bucket and the test bucket is provided for the code package to be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 10831475
    Abstract: Assessing portability of source code based on predictions from a learning model trained with historical outputs from a portability analyzer. A request is received as input to assess portability of source code from a source environment to at least one target environment. The learning model is applied to the source code to predict a level of portability of the source code to the at least one target environment. Results from a portability analyzer that are based on the level of portability predicted by the learning model include a confidence measure associated with one or more portions of the source code indicating the ease of portability of the one or more portions of the source code to each of the at least one target environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons