Patents by Inventor NICHOLAS A. BE

NICHOLAS A. BE 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: 12105525
    Abstract: A caravanning vehicle system includes a lead vehicle having an engine and at least one trailing vehicle having an electric motor. The at least one trailing vehicle is non-mechanically connected to the lead vehicle. The lead vehicle includes a power transfer system that is configured to transfer electric power, wirelessly, to the at least one trailing vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: THE TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Yaobin Chen, Euzeli C. Dos Santos, Clayton Lowell Nicholas
  • Patent number: 12102117
    Abstract: A vaporizer device may include a pressure sensor and an ambient pressure sensor. The pressure sensor may be configured to measure a first pressure in an air flow path in the vaporizer device. The ambient pressure sensor may be configured to measure a second pressure corresponding to an atmospheric pressure. The vaporizer device may further include a controller. The controller may be configured to transition the vaporizer device to a first standby mode when the first pressure is equal to or greater than the second pressure for a first threshold quantity of time. While the vaporizer device is in the first standby mode, the controller may be further configured to transition the vaporizer device to a second standby mode when the second pressure is a threshold quantity greater than the first pressure and no motion event is detected for a second threshold quantity of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Pax Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Joshua Fu, Christopher Loental, Marko Markovic, Alexander Weiss, Alexander Ringrose, David Carlberg, Robyn Nariyoshi, Devin Spratt, Nicholas J. Hatton, Yen Jen Chang, Chen Yu Li, Barry Tseng, Prince Wang, Thomas Germann, Andreas Schaefer
  • Patent number: 12105896
    Abstract: A computer mouse module comprising a power supply component; a movement sensor, an encoder operable to encode data collected by the movement sensor, a transmitter for transmitting the encoded data to a computer and a physical connector for detachably attaching a handle portion to the computer mouse module. The computer mouse module may be attached to the handle portion to form a functioning mouse where a user grips the mouse handle portion to control the mouse.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: John Franciscus Marie Helmes, Paul Kos, Nicholas Yen-Cherng Chen, Michael Hall, Stephen Edward Hodges, James Alexander Devine, Qing Feng, Masaaki Fukumoto
  • Patent number: 12103713
    Abstract: An attitude determination and control system (ADCS) may include relatively large momentum wheels (i.e., reaction wheels) for improved momentum storage and magnetic torque rods that enable low power sun pointing and dissipate angular momentum imparted during deployment or by differential drag on the space vehicle. The momentum wheels, magnetic torque rods, or both may be algorithmically selected and driven to perform various maneuvers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Triad National Security, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Dallmann, James Wren, Michael Proicou, Hannah Mohr, Jerry Delapp, John Martinez, Daniel Seitz, Paul Stein, Adam Warniment
  • Patent number: 12107468
    Abstract: A brushless direct-current (BLDC) motor for a power tool includes a rotor assembly and a stator assembly including stator windings. A ratio of a motor size (Km) constant of the motor to an electrical envelope of the motor including electrical parts of the motor is greater than approximately 850 (N·m/?W)/m{circumflex over (?)}3. A ratio of a motor size (Km) constant of the motor to a magnetic envelope of the motor including stator core and windings is greater than approximately 980 (N·m/?W)/m{circumflex over (?)}3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Barak N. Gohn, Colin M. Crosby, Nicholas J. Lowe, James R. Clarke, Daniel F. Heck, Michael P. Sikora, Christian B. Rogerson, Ryan F. Schroeder, Connor T. Mohan, Michael D. Grove
  • Patent number: 12106670
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing an accident reporter are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving data that reflects characteristics of a vehicle. The actions further include, based on the data, determining that the vehicle has been in an accident. The actions further include, based on determining that the vehicle has been in an accident and based on the data that reflects the characteristics of the vehicle, determining a classification of the accident. The actions further include determining additional data to collect and a recipient of a description of the accident. The actions further include receiving the additional data. The actions further include generating the description of the accident based on the data that reflects the characteristics of a vehicle and the additional data. The actions further include providing, for output, the description of the accident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: T-MOBILE USA, INC.
    Inventors: Parag Garg, Mehdi Piraee, Joseph Baird, Nicholas LaVassar, Dhruv Chadha
  • Patent number: 12106411
    Abstract: Systems and methods for utilizing a device as a marker for virtual content viewed in an augmented reality environment are discussed herein. The device (or sign post) may comprise a wirelessly connectable device linked to a power source and associated with multiple linkage points. The device may provide information to a user (or a device of a user) defining virtual content and a correlation between the linkage points and a reference frame of the virtual content. When rendered by a display device, the virtual content may be presented based on the reference frame of the virtual content correlated to the real world by virtue of the position of the linkage points in the real world.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Nicholas T. Hariton
  • Patent number: 12102579
    Abstract: A patient bed has a siderail that is movable to a raised position elevated over a central region of a mattress of the patient bed for use as part of a patient lift of the patient bed. In a lowered position, the siderail blocks egress of a patient from the mattress. In the raised position of the siderail, a sling arm is coupleable to the siderail and a sling is coupleable to hooks of the sling arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert M. Zerhusen, Richard H. Heimbrock, Mark Chiacchira, Nicholas A. Mann, David C. Newkirk
  • Patent number: 12106021
    Abstract: A computer may display on a graphical user interface (GUI) a component library including a set of components relating to a compressed air system. The GUI may have a modeling interface for configuring a virtual model using the set of components. The computer may simulate the virtual model to determine one or more optimizations to the compressed air system. The computer may also determine the cost of implementing the compressor system optimization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: John J. Linehan, Kelly Glenn Campbell, Ryan D. Hartman, Nicholas Able, Eric W. Seidel, Chun Jian Tang
  • Patent number: 12105231
    Abstract: A radiation detector includes a photodetector and a scintillator coupled thereto. The scintillator is formed of a scintillator material comprising an organic glass scintillator (OGS) material and at least one of a polymer additive or a plasticizer additive. The scintillator emits light when radiation is received at the scintillator, and the light is received by the photodetector. The radiation detector can further include a frame that has an interior cavity that holds the scintillator in position with respect to the photodetector, such that the light emitted by the scintillator is transmitted to the photodetector. The scintillator can be formed by casting amorphous scintillator material in the interior cavity of the frame. The frame can then be coupled to the photodetector to form the radiation detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Joseph Carlson, Patrick L. Feng, Nicholas Myllenbeck, Huu Tran, Lucas Nguyen, Melinda Sweany, Peter Marleau
  • Patent number: 12102848
    Abstract: Provided is an electrically active breathing mask. The mask contains conductive layers separated by insulating layers, the conductive layers being alternatingly positively or negatively charged. Air passing through one insulating layer is directed across the surface of a next charged layer, before flowing through a next insulating layer, and so on. Particles including virus in water vapor or sputum are evaporated as they contact alternately charged layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: GridKicker, LLC
    Inventors: Kahrl Retti, Nicholas Richard Retti
  • Patent number: 12103291
    Abstract: The present disclosure can provide an aerogel composite. The aerogel composite comprises at least one base layer having a top surface and a bottom surface, the base layer comprising a reinforced aerogel composition which comprises a reinforcement material and a monolithic aerogel framework, a first facing layer comprising a first facing material attached to the top surface of the base layer, and a second facing layer comprising a second facing material attached to the bottom surface of the base layer. At least a portion of the monolithic aerogel framework of the base layer extends into at least a portion of both the first facing layer and the second facing layer. The first facing material and the second facing material can each comprise or consist essentially of a non-fluoropolymeric material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Aspen Aerogels, Inc.
    Inventors: David Mihalcik, Owen Evans, Nicholas Zafiropoulos, George Gould, Leslie Rikleen
  • Patent number: 12104501
    Abstract: Cantilevered airfoils and methods of forming the same are disclosed herein. An example airfoil disclosed herein includes an airfoil including an airfoil body including a first face and a second face, a first recessed portion formed in the first face and internal temperature-regulating features and a first insert disposed within the first recessed portion, the first insert causing the airfoil body to assume a first predefined curvature profile at a first temperature, the first insert causing the airfoil body to assume a second predefined curvature profile at a second temperature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Nicholas J. Kray, Vidyashankar Buravalla
  • Patent number: 12107827
    Abstract: A unified network service that connects multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices operating on separate networks is described. The multiple disparate private networks and end user client devices connect to a distributed cloud computing network that provides routing services, security services, and performance services, and that can be controlled consistently regardless of the connection type. The unified network service provides uniform access control at the L3 layer (e.g., at the IP layer) or at a higher layer using user identity information (e.g., a zero-trust model). The disparate private networks are run on top of the distributed cloud computing network. The virtual routing layer of the distributed cloud computing network allows customers of the service to have private resources visible only to client devices (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Wondra, Igor Postelnik, Michael John Vanderwater, Adam Simon Chalmers, Nuno Miguel Lourenço Diegues, Arég Harutyunyan, Erich Alfred Heine
  • Patent number: 12105632
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for performing cache aware searching. In response to a search query, a first bucket and a second bucket in remote storage for processing the search query. A determination is made that a first file in the first bucket is present in a cache when the search query is received. In response to the search query, a search is performed using the first file based on the determination that the first file is present in the cache when the search query is received, and the search is performed using a second file from the second bucket once the second file is stored in the cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Splunk Inc.
    Inventors: Ledion Bitincka, Alexandros Batsakis, Paul J. Lucas, Nicholas Robert Romito
  • Patent number: 12102043
    Abstract: Examples provide a system for watering plants on a rack. Sensor data is analyzed to generate a status of a plant on a rack and updated water instructions are generated. A robotic device moves the selected plant rack to a watering zone. A release of water onto the selected plant rack within the watering zone is detected and a set of rotational maneuvers is initiated to enable equal water distribution across the selected plant rack. The selected plant rack is then return to the original, assigned location based on a cessation of water emissions being detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Ryan DeJarnette, Kevin Reed, Nicholas Hoyne
  • Patent number: 12106016
    Abstract: A robotic assembly cell is configured to generate a physical mesh of physical polygons based on a simulated mesh of simulated triangles. A control application configured to operate the assembly cell selects a simulated polygon in the simulated mesh and then causes a positioning robot in the cell to obtain a physical polygon that is similar to the simulated polygon. The positioning robot positions the polygon on the physical mesh, and a welding robot in the cell then welds the polygon to the mesh. The control application captures data that reflects how the physical polygon is actually positioned on the physical mesh, and then updates the simulated mesh to be geometrically consistent with the physical mesh. In doing so, the control application may execute a multi-objective solver to generate an updated simulated mesh that meets specific design criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: AUTODESK, INC.
    Inventors: Evan Patrick Atherton, David Thomasson, Maurice Ugo Conti, Heather Kerrick, Nicholas Cote
  • Patent number: 12103099
    Abstract: A method of generating a spatial map of sensor data collected during additive manufacturing, in which a plurality of layers of powder are selectively melted with an energy beam to form an object. The method includes receiving sensor data collected during additive manufacturing of an object, the sensor data including sensor values, the sensor values captured for different coordinate locations of the energy beam during the additive manufacturing of the object, and generating cell values for a corresponding cell-based spatial mapping of the sensor data. Each of the cell values is determined from a respective plurality of the sensor values extending over an area/volume comparable to an extent of the melt pool or the energy beam spot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: RENISHAW PLC
    Inventors: John Dardis, Kiera Megan Jones, Ceri Brown, Nicholas Henry Hannaford Jones
  • Patent number: 12107768
    Abstract: A method of path MTU determination in Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunnel is presented. A source network device (ND) transmits, to a destination ND that is a second endpoint of the GRE tunnel, a first outer packet including a first inner packet, where the first inner packet includes a first inner header that is used to deliver the first inner packet to the source network device, a first inner GRE header, and a first payload. The source ND receives the first inner packet. The source ND transmits a second outer packet including a second inner packet that includes a second payload that has a size greater than a size of the first payload. The source ND determines that the second inner packet is not received and determines a path MTU between the source ND and the destination ND based on a size of the first and the second outer packets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Alexander Wondra, Erich Alfred Heine, Yan Zhai
  • Patent number: 12106609
    Abstract: A system receives vehicle state data reported over a connection established with a vehicle and determines a loss of connection with the vehicle. Responsive to the loss of connection, the system performs an analysis of a plurality of predefined causes of incidental connection loss, based on vehicle state data previously reported compared to predefined values indicative of causing a lost connection. Responsive to the analysis indicating no predefined cause of incidental connection loss being present, the system triggers a vehicle alarm state protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Tarik Safir, Sam Harris, James Nicholas Murray, Hasan Akoglu, Gabriel Mitchell, Aaron Abentheuer