Patents by Inventor Neale Browne

Neale Browne 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: 11786824
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to automatically detect prohibited content. For example, a method can include receiving data associated with a game hosted on a gaming platform, the data indicative of at least one developer, at least one user, and game content, automatically assigning a classification to the game with a machine learning model, the classification based on the data indicative of the at least one developer, at least one user, and game content, determining whether the classification of the game meets a safety threshold, and based on determining that the classification of the game does not meet the safety threshold, identifying the game as having prohibited content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Roblox Corporation
    Inventors: Matt Kaufman, Shyna Khurana, Dean Neal Browne, Arthur Remy Malan
  • Patent number: 10885803
    Abstract: The present disclosure features systems and methods for analyzing student learning and calibrating the difficulty of questions on a test or examination. In one embodiment, a method for analyzing the learning of a student includes administering, by an assessment agent, a task to a student, the task comprising a question having an associated difficulty. The assessment agent receives a response to the question from the student and evaluates the response to generate an observable, the observable comprising information related to the response. A posterior determination of the student's ability is then calculated by incorporating the observable into an ability model associated with the student, and the posterior determination of ability may be compared with the difficulty of the question, a skill acquisition probability, or other measure. The student's response, or a plurality of responses from students within a cohort, may be used to determine the difficulty of each question.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Emery Neal Brown, Demba Ba, Anne Caroline Smith
  • Publication number: 20180039328
    Abstract: Computationally efficient procedure for estimating modulation depth from multivariate data. Neural interface system utilizing such procedure to rank neural signals and select optimal channel subset for inclusion in the neural decoding algorithm. The proposed system offers several orders of magnitude lower complexity and data-processing time but virtually identical decoding performance compared to greedy search and other selection schemes and is applicable to wide variety of problems involving multisensor signal modeling and estimation in biomedical engineering systems. The use of the system to the modulation depth of human motor cortical function shows that single-unit signals are characterized by the generalized Pareto distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Wasim Qamar Malik, Leigh Robert Hochberg, Emery Neal Brown
  • Publication number: 20160217701
    Abstract: The present disclosure features systems and methods for analyzing student learning and calibrating the difficulty of questions on a test or examination. In one embodiment, a method for analyzing the learning of a student includes administering, by an assessment agent, a task to a student, the task comprising a question having an associated difficulty. The assessment agent receives a response to the question from the student and evaluates the response to generate an observable, the observable comprising information related to the response. A posterior determination of the student's ability is then calculated by incorporating the observable into an ability model associated with the student, and the posterior determination of ability may be compared with the difficulty of the question, a skill acquisition probability, or other measure. The student's response, or a plurality of responses from students within a cohort, may be used to determine the difficulty of each question.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 28, 2016
    Inventors: Emery Neal Brown, Demba Ba, Anne Caroline Smith
  • Patent number: 8903192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for reducing noise in image data. Preferred embodiments relate to methods for analyzing two-photon in vivo imaging of biological systems. With neuronal population imaging with subcellular resolution, this modality offers an approach for gaining a fundamental understanding of brain anatomy and physiology. Analysis of calcium imaging data requires denoising, that is separating the signal from complex physiological noise. To analyze two-photon brain imaging data, for example, harmonic regression plus colored noise model and an efficient cyclic descent algorithm for parameter estimation. This approach reliably separates stimulus-evoked fluorescence response from background activity and noise, assesses goodness of fit, and estimates confidence intervals and signal-to-noise ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Wasim Q. Malik, James Matthew Schummers, Mriganka Sur, Emery Neal Brown
  • Patent number: 8882969
    Abstract: A system for treating recovered fluids in-line that includes a thermal reactor for separating contaminated drill cuttings into drill cuttings and contaminants by applying heat to the contaminated drill cuttings so as to vaporize contaminants from the contaminated drill cuttings; a first condenser in fluid connection with the thermal reactor for condensing the vaporized contaminants; a separator in fluid connection with the first condenser for separating the condensed vapors into an oleaginous liquid and an aqueous liquid, wherein at least a portion of one of the aqueous liquid and oleaginous liquid is fed back into the first condenser via a feedback line; and an ozone generator operatively coupled to the feedback line, wherein at least the portion of the fed back liquid is ozonated by the ozone generator and fed into the condenser is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2014
    Assignee: M-I LLC
    Inventors: Mukesh Kapila, Ivan Batinic, Paul Gover, Neale Browne
  • Patent number: 8728281
    Abstract: A system for separating contaminants from wellbore cuttings that includes a processing chamber, a heat source connected to the processing chamber adapted to vaporize hydrocarbons and other contaminants disposed on the material, a condenser operatively connected to an outlet of the process chamber and adapted to condense the vaporized hydrocarbons and other contaminants, and an ozone source operatively connected to the condenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Catalin Ivan
  • Patent number: 8601447
    Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention is a method of converting a user interface. A control based class can be extended to produce a Java Server Face. The Java Server Face can be converted to create an ASP.NET user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Dean Neal Browne, Andrew Todd Lorek, Stephan Dennis Morais
  • Publication number: 20130310422
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to compositions comprising anesthesia-reversing agents which facilitate or increase the time of awakening or reverse the effects of general anesthesia-induced unconsciousness. In some embodiments, the anesthesia reversing agent can be selected from any or a combination of methylphenidate (MPH), amphetamine, modafinil, amantadine, caffeine, or analogues or derivatives thereof. In some embodiments, compositions comprising at least one or more anesthesia-reversing agents can be used to facilitate awakening from anesthesia without or decreasing occurrence of delirium, and can be used in methods to treat or prevent the symptoms associated with emergence delirium, as well as treat a subject oversedated with general an esthesia. The invention also relates to methods for administering these compositions comprising anesthesia-reversing agents to subjects and for use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Emery Neal Brown, Ken Solt, Joseph F. Cotten, Jessica J. Chemali, Frederick M. Debros
  • Publication number: 20120247941
    Abstract: A method of treating a hydrocarbon fluid that includes contacting the hydrocarbon fluid with an effective amount of ozone. A method for separating contaminants from a contaminated material includes supplying the contaminated material to a processing chamber, moving the contaminated material through the processing chamber, heating the contaminated material by externally heating the processing chamber so as to volatilize the contaminants in the contaminated material, removing vapor resulting from the heating, wherein the vapor comprises the volatilized contaminants, collecting, condensing, and recovering the volatilized contaminants, and contacting the volatilized contaminants with an effective amount of ozone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2012
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Catalin Ivan
  • Patent number: 8177959
    Abstract: A method of treating a hydrocarbon fluid that includes contacting the hydrocarbon fluid with an effective amount of ozone. A method for separating contaminants from a contaminated material includes supplying the contaminated material to a processing chamber, moving the contaminated material through the processing chamber, heating the contaminated material by externally heating the processing chamber so as to volatilize the contaminants in the contaminated material, removing vapor resulting from the heating, wherein the vapor comprises the volatilized contaminants, collecting, condensing, and recovering the volatilized contaminants, and contacting the volatilized contaminants with an effective amount of ozone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Catalin Ivan
  • Publication number: 20120093376
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for reducing noise in image data. Preferred embodiments relate to methods for analyzing two-photon in vivo imaging of biological systems. With neuronal population imaging with subcellular resolution, this modality offers an approach for gaining a fundamental understanding of brain anatomy and physiology. Analysis of calcium imaging data requires denoising, that is separating the signal from complex physiological noise. To analyze two-photon brain imaging data, for example, harmonic regression plus colored noise model and an efficient cyclic descent algorithm for parameter estimation. This approach reliably separates stimulus-evoked fluorescence response from background activity and noise, assesses goodness of fit, and estimates confidence intervals and signal-to-noise ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2010
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Inventors: Wasim Q. Malik, James Matthew Schummers, Mriganka Sur, Emery Neal Brown
  • Publication number: 20120037490
    Abstract: A system for treating recovered fluids in-line that includes a thermal reactor for separating contaminated drill cuttings into drill cuttings and contaminants by applying heat to the contaminated drill cuttings so as to vaporize contaminants from the contaminated drill cuttings; a first condenser in fluid connection with the thermal reactor for condensing the vaporized contaminants; a separator in fluid connection with the first condenser for separating the condensed vapors into an oleaginous liquid and an aqueous liquid, wherein at least a portion of one of the aqueous liquid and oleaginous liquid is fed back into the first condenser via a feedback line; and an ozone generator operatively coupled to the feedback line, wherein at least the portion of the fed back liquid is ozonated by the ozone generator and fed into the condenser is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Publication date: February 16, 2012
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mukesh Kapila, Ivan Batinic, Paul Gover, Neale Browne
  • Patent number: 8066851
    Abstract: A system for treating recovered fluids in-line that includes a thermal reactor for separating contaminated drill cuttings into drill cuttings and contaminants by applying heat to the contaminated drill cuttings so as to vaporize contaminants from the contaminated drill cuttings; a first condenser in fluid connection with the thermal reactor for condensing the vaporized contaminants; a separator in fluid connection with the first condenser for separating the condensed vapors into an oleaginous liquid and an aqueous liquid, wherein at least a portion of one of the aqueous liquid and oleaginous liquid is fed back into the first condenser via a feedback line; and an ozone generator operatively coupled to the feedback line, wherein at least the portion of the fed back liquid is ozonated by the ozone generator and fed into the condenser is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2011
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Mukesh Kapila, Ivan Batinic, Paul Gover, Neale Browne
  • Publication number: 20110067993
    Abstract: A method of treating a hydrocarbon fluid that includes contacting the hydrocarbon fluid with an effective amount of ozone. A method for separating contaminants from a contaminated material includes supplying the contaminated material to a processing chamber, moving the contaminated material through the processing chamber, heating the contaminated material by externally heating the processing chamber so as to volatilize the contaminants in the contaminated material, removing vapor resulting from the heating, wherein the vapor comprises the volatilized contaminants, collecting, condensing, and recovering the volatilized contaminants, and contacting the volatilized contaminants with an effective amount of ozone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2010
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Catalin Ivan
  • Publication number: 20110056748
    Abstract: A wellbore fluid that includes a base fluid; and a sized non-hydratable clay is disclosed. The base fluid may be a water-based fluid or an oil-based fluid. Methods of drilling with such wellbore fluids that contain a base fluid and a sized non-hydratable clay are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Applicant: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Mukesh Kapila
  • Patent number: 7867376
    Abstract: A method of treating a hydrocarbon fluid that includes contacting the hydrocarbon fluid with an effective amount of ozone. A method for separating contaminants from a contaminated material includes supplying the contaminated material to a processing chamber, moving the contaminated material through the processing chamber, heating the contaminated material by externally heating the processing chamber so as to volatilize the contaminants in the contaminated material, removing vapor resulting from the heating, wherein the vapor comprises the volatilized contaminants, collecting, condensing, and recovering the volatilized contaminants, and contacting the volatilized contaminants with an effective amount of ozone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Catalin Ivan
  • Patent number: 7703612
    Abstract: An apparatus for separating solids from a drilling fluid that includes a basket having two opposed spaced-apart side walls having first ends and second ends, the first ends spaced apart by an end wall connected to each of the side walls, the basket further including a bottom wall through which a fluid outlet passage is defined, a plurality of screening surfaces having a front edge and a back edge and positioned within the basket between the side walls with each screening surface spaced apart vertically from adjacent screening surfaces and the back edge spaced apart from the end wall of the basket, wherein the back edge of each screening surface is lower than the front edge of the corresponding screening surface, a plurality of weirs, each weir retained along the back edge of a corresponding screening surface and spaced apart from the end wall to define a fluid passage between each weir and the end wall, wherein each weir has a top edge extending to a weir height above the back edge of the corresponding screen
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2010
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Brian Carr
  • Patent number: 7686933
    Abstract: An apparatus for electrophoretically removing contaminants from an oil-based drilling fluid includes a housing, a drum, a means for rotating the drum, and a scraper head. The drum is retained within the housing above the housing floor. The oil-based drilling fluid is directed along the housing floor, contacting both the housing floor and the drum. A negative charge is applied to the drum and a positive charge is applied to the housing, creating an electrical field through the fluid. Drilling fluid contaminants are attracted to and collect upon the drum outer surface. The means for rotating the drum turns the drum through the fluid and collected contaminants remain on the drum outer surface. The scraper removes the collected contaminants from the drum outer surface as it rotates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2010
    Assignee: M-I L.L.C.
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Catalin Ivan, Zoran Markanovic
  • Publication number: 20090110529
    Abstract: A method for transferring a sized clay material for use in drilling fluids that includes providing the sized clay material to a pneumatic transfer vessel; supplying an air flow to the sized clay material in the pneumatic transfer vessel; and transferring the sized clay material from the pneumatic transfer vessel to a storage vessel is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: M-I LLC
    Inventors: Neale Browne, Mukesh Kapila, Wayne Matlock