Patents by Inventor Nathaniel Smith

Nathaniel 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).

  • Patent number: 11888403
    Abstract: A galvanic isolator circuit and method provide for galvanically isolating and current limiting a power source from a load. A direct current (DC) input voltage (“vin”) and an input current (“iin”) are received. A full- or half-bridge rectifier is switched to synthesize a first alternating voltage waveform that magnetically couples through a transformer to induce a second alternating voltage waveform with galvanic isolation from the first alternating voltage waveform, preventing potentially-faulted load from a source. The second alternating voltage waveform is rectified to produce a direct current (DC) output voltage (“vo”) having output current (“io”) through more than one drive transistor or diode. The more than one primary-side drive transistor is current limited to reduce or prevent brown-out, black-out, or protective race conditions in the non-faulted portions of DC power generation systems and DC distribution electrical power systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventor: Nathaniel Smith
  • Publication number: 20230403977
    Abstract: A cutter bar assembly for an agricultural vehicle header includes a cutter bar supported by movable arms extending from a header frame and capable of operation in flex and rigid modes. The support arms are joined to the header frame such that they may be displaced from a raised position in the rigid mode when subjected to a lifting force due to striking an obstacle without damage to the header structure. Also, an agricultural vehicle header and an agricultural combine harvester includes the cutter bar assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Blaine Noll, Joel Cook, Nathaniel Smith, Herb Farley, Jethro Martin, Scott Deichmann
  • Publication number: 20230392362
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a tank system including a gravity tank configured to contain water at atmospheric pressure, a rigid pressurized tank positioned within the gravity tank and configured to contain water at a pressure greater than atmospheric pressure, and a piston assembly positioned below the rigid pressurized tank and configured to open and close the rigid pressurized tank. The gravity tank is configured to channel water at atmospheric pressure into a toilet bowl at a first velocity and the rigid pressurized tank is configured to channel water at the pressure greater than atmospheric pressure into the toilet bowl at a second velocity. The second velocity is greater than the first velocity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Strategic Water Solutions Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: PAUL MICHAEL GOUDREAU, ANDREW NATHANIEL SMITH, TYLER LORNE HEBIG, MICHAEL WADE STRAWN, JUSTIN MAGOLINE, DAVID ARGUELLES
  • Publication number: 20230181344
    Abstract: Stent delivery systems and methods for making and using stent delivery systems are disclosed. An example stent delivery system may include an inner member having a stent receiving region. A stent may be disposed along the stent receiving region. The system may also include a deployment sheath axially slidable relative to the inner member. The deployment sheath may have a proximal end region. A rack may be coupled to the proximal end region of the deployment sheath. An outer shaft may be disposed along at least a portion of the deployment sheath. The deployment sheath may be rotatable relative to the inner member, the outer shaft or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: BRADY SCOTT LOGAN, JASON T. ANDERSON, PAUL MICHAEL GOUDREAU, ANDREW NATHANIEL SMITH, IAN THOMAS FORTE, TYLER LORNE HEBIG, ROWAN OLUND HETTEL, RYAN DALE HENDRICKSON
  • Publication number: 20230172683
    Abstract: A method includes accessing a three-dimensional representation of a surgical space and based on the three-dimensional representation, for each object in a first constellation of objects: extracting a first location of the object; detecting a first object type of the object; deriving a first surgical status of the object; calculating a first ranking score of the object based on the first object type and the first surgical status; and storing the first location, the first object type, the first surgical status, and the first ranking score in an object container in a set of object containers. The method also includes selecting a first target object at a first time based on a first target ranking score; articulating a mobile camera to locate a first target location of the first target object; and deriving a trajectory of the first target object based on the set of object containers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Nathaniel Smith, Derek Amanatullah, Mark Nicholson, John Mauriello, Noah Davis, Colin Willson, Alison Rivas
  • Patent number: 11602447
    Abstract: Stent delivery systems and methods for making and using stent delivery systems are disclosed. An example stent delivery system may include an inner member having a stent receiving region. A stent may be disposed along the stent receiving region. The system may also include a deployment sheath axially slidable relative to the inner member. The deployment sheath may have a proximal end region. A rack may be coupled to the proximal end region of the deployment sheath. An outer shaft may be disposed along at least a portion of the deployment sheath. The deployment sheath may be rotatable relative to the inner member, the outer shaft or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.
    Inventors: Brady Scott Logan, Jason T. Anderson, Paul Michael Goudreau, Andrew Nathaniel Smith, Ian Thomas Forte, Tyler Lorne Hebig, Rowan Olund Hettel, Ryan Dale Hendrickson
  • Publication number: 20230030953
    Abstract: An agricultural harvester including a header assembly, includes: a multicoupler storage assembly including: a multicoupler assembly including a plurality of at least one of hydraulic connectors and electrical connectors; and a cradle mechanism configured for storing the multicoupler assembly and for selectively pivoting between a receiving position associated with the cradle mechanism receiving the multicoupler assembly and a storage position associated with the cradle mechanism storing the multicoupler assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Oberlander, Joel T. Cook, Nathaniel Smith
  • Publication number: 20220115957
    Abstract: A galvanic isolator circuit and method provide for galvanically isolating and current limiting a power source from a load. A direct current (DC) input voltage (“vin”) and an input current (“iin”) are received. A full- or half-bridge rectifier is switched to synthesize a first alternating voltage waveform that magnetically couples through a transformer to induce a second alternating voltage waveform with galvanic isolation from the first alternating voltage waveform, preventing potentially-faulted load from a source. The second alternating voltage waveform is rectified to produce a direct current (DC) output voltage (“vo”) having output current (“io”) through more than one drive transistor or diode. The more than one primary-side drive transistor is current limited to reduce or prevent brown-out, black-out, or protective race conditions in the non-faulted portions of DC power generation systems and DC distribution electrical power systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventor: Nathaniel Smith
  • Patent number: 10829033
    Abstract: A header for an agricultural vehicle including a frame having lateral ends and an automatic lighting system having at least one light connected to the frame and at least one sensor connected to the frame and configured for sensing a level of light and providing a signal indicative of the level of light. The header also includes an electronic control unit operably connected to the at least one light and the at least one sensor. The electronic control unit being configured for automatically operating the at least one light upon receiving the signal of the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Preston L. McKinney, Nathaniel Smith, Cory D. Hunt
  • Patent number: 10830335
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle including a frame, a prime mover supported by the frame, and a header connected to the frame. The header includes at least one drive line, at least one transmission, at least one rotating cross shaft, and at least one gearbox operably connected to the at least one rotating cross shaft. The at least one gearbox includes a housing connected to the header and configured for housing a working fluid. The housing has an inlet, an outlet, and an end. The at least one gearbox also includes a gear train housed within the housing and an auxiliary sump connected to the end of the housing and fluidly coupled to the inlet and the outlet of the housing such that the working fluid circulates through the housing and the auxiliary sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Dan L. Garland, Matthew Flannery, Nathaniel Smith, Nicholas J. Laufenberg, Herbert M. Farley, Thamilselvan Karuppannan
  • Publication number: 20200253765
    Abstract: Stent delivery systems and methods for making and using stent delivery systems are disclosed. An example stent delivery system may include an inner member having a stent receiving region. A stent may be disposed along the stent receiving region. The system may also include a deployment sheath axially slidable relative to the inner member. The deployment sheath may have a proximal end region. A rack may be coupled to the proximal end region of the deployment sheath. An outer shaft may be disposed along at least a portion of the deployment sheath. The deployment sheath may be rotatable relative to the inner member, the outer shaft or both.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: BRADY SCOTT LOGAN, JASON T. ANDERSON, PAUL MICHAEL GOUDREAU, ANDREW NATHANIEL SMITH, IAN THOMAS FORTE, TYLER LORNE HEBIG, ROWAN OLUND HETTEL, RYAN DALE HENDRICKSON
  • Publication number: 20200244157
    Abstract: A galvanic isolator circuit and method provide for galvanically isolating and current limiting a power source from a load. A direct current (DC) input voltage (“vin”) and an input current (“iin”) are received. A full-bridge rectifier is soft switched to synthesize a first alternating voltage waveform that magnetically couples through a transformer to induce a second alternating voltage waveform with galvanic isolation from the first alternating voltage waveform, preventing potentially-faulted load from a source. The second alternating voltage waveform is rectified to produce a direct current (DC) output voltage (“vo”) having output current (“io”) through more than one drive transistor. The more than one drive transistor is current limited to reduce or prevent brown-out, black-out, or protective race conditions in the non-faulted portions of DC power generation systems and DC distribution electrical power systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Nathaniel Smith
  • Patent number: 10540355
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for minimizing latency of a query load on a database system by accessing data using an adaptive B-tree index structure comprising a plurality of nodes includes determining one or more characteristics of the query load that are associated with one or more queries received by the database system, determining, for each of the plurality of nodes of the adaptive B-tree index structure, whether to convert the node to a read-optimized node or a write-optimized node based on the one or more characteristics of the query load, and converting at least one of the plurality of nodes to a read-optimized node or a write-optimized node based on the one or more characteristics of the query load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Terrain Data, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael McCord Agnich, Charles Edison Tripp, Nathaniel Smith, Benjamin Smith
  • Patent number: 10337180
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes low flush toilet systems and methods of using low flush toilet systems. In one implementation, a low flush toilet system includes a first (or passive) tank, the first tank configured to preload a toilet rim, and a second (or pressurized) tank, the second tank including an internal air bladder, the internal air bladder configured to compress when exposed to water pressure from a supply line and configured to expand when a flush valve releases pushing water out of the second tank at a high flow rate and into a toilet for flushing. In some implementations, water flows from the pressurized tank at approximately 0.7-1.0 gallons per flush.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: OT LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nathaniel Smith, Tyler Lorne Hebig, Paul Michael Goudreau, Michael Wade Strawn
  • Publication number: 20190186619
    Abstract: An agricultural vehicle including a frame, a prime mover supported by the frame, and a header connected to the frame. The header includes at least one drive line, at least one transmission, at least one rotating cross shaft, and at least one gearbox operably connected to the at least one rotating cross shaft. The at least one gearbox includes a housing connected to the header and configured for housing a working fluid. The housing has an inlet, an outlet, and an end. The at least one gearbox also includes a gear train housed within the housing and an auxiliary sump connected to the end of the housing and fluidly coupled to the inlet and the outlet of the housing such that the working fluid circulates through the housing and the auxiliary sump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Applicant: CNH Industrial America LLC
    Inventors: Dan L. Garland, Matthew Flannery, Nathaniel Smith, Nicholas J. Laufenberg, Herbert M. Farley, Thamilselvan Karuppannan
  • Publication number: 20180073231
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes low flush toilet systems and methods of using low flush toilet systems. In one implementation, a low flush toilet system includes a first (or passive) tank, the first tank configured to preload a toilet rim, and a second (or pressurized) tank, the second tank including an internal air bladder, the internal air bladder configured to compress when exposed to water pressure from a supply line and configured to expand when a flush valve releases pushing water out of the second tank at a high flow rate and into a toilet for flushing. In some implementations, water flows from the pressurized tank at approximately 0.7-1.0 gallons per flush.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Publication date: March 15, 2018
    Inventors: Andrew Nathaniel Smith, Tyler Lorne Hebig, Paul Michael Goudreau, Michael Wade Strawn
  • Patent number: 9858845
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for generating images on a display. A multi-primary display can include control logic that converts input image data into the multi-primary color space employed by the display by mapping the input pixel values into the XYZ color space according to a gamut mapping function and then decomposing the XYZ tristimulus values into color subfields associated with the display's primary colors. For example, such a process can be used to covert image frames encoded in an RGB color space into a RGBW color space. In some implementations, the control logic can adapt the gamut mapping and/or the decomposition processes based on a saturation level of the image being processed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SnapTrack, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Buckley, Nathaniel Smith, Brian Finkel, Mark Douglas Halfman
  • Patent number: 9583035
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for generating images on a multi-primary display. A multi-primary display can include control logic that converts input image data into the multi-primary color space employed by the display by mapping the input pixel values into an intermediate color space according to a gamut mapping function and then decomposing the mapped pixel values into color subfields associated with the display's primary colors. The control logic can be configured to identify a lossy gamut mapping saturation parameter value to use in the gamut mapping process which results in a power-saving desaturated image that is perceived by the Human Visual System (HVS) as substantially maintaining its color fidelity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: SnapTrack, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Buckley, Nathaniel Smith
  • Publication number: 20160241080
    Abstract: A all electric in-house 5 .k.w. series portable generator having a self-reliance battery pack, assembly to a power integrator attached to a frame member, which make a conversion of direct (dc) current into alternate (ac) current providing electricity to home, and apartment doing a power outage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventor: nathaniel smith
  • Publication number: 20160117968
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for generating images on a display. A multi-primary display can include control logic that converts input image data into the multi-primary color space employed by the display by mapping the input pixel values into the XYZ color space according to a gamut mapping function and then decomposing the XYZ tristimulus values into color subfields associated with the display's primary colors. For example, such a process can be used to covert image frames encoded in an RGB color space into a RGBW color space. In some implementations, the control logic can adapt the gamut mapping and/or the decomposition processes based on a saturation level of the image being processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Applicant: Pixtronix, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward Buckley, Nathaniel Smith, Brian Finkel, Mark Douglas Halfman