Patents by Inventor Nicholas Ball

Nicholas Ball 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).

  • Publication number: 20240361993
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more processors comprises displaying code, receiving user selection of a portion of code, determining one or more settable data items, generating a template, displaying the template, receiving a user input value for the settable data items by the template, and executing the code with each of the settable data items set to the received user input value. A data processing pipeline is configured to pass a data item to a first transformer to provide first transformed data, store the first transformed data in a temporary memory, write the first transformed data to the data storage system, and pass the transformed data from the temporary memory to a second transformer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Eliot Ball, Matthew Jenny, Nicholas Gates, Erin Price-Wright, Kamran Khan, Gregory Manis, Emeline Wu
  • Patent number: 12056468
    Abstract: A method performed by one or more processors comprises displaying code, receiving user selection of a portion of code, determining one or more settable data items, generating a template, displaying the template, receiving a user input value for the settable data items by the template, and executing the code with each of the settable data items set to the received user input value. A data processing pipeline is configured to pass a data item to a first transformer to provide first transformed data, store the first transformed data in a temporary memory, write the first transformed data to the data storage system, and pass the transformed data from the temporary memory to a second transformer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Palantir Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Eliot Ball, Matthew Jenny, Nicholas Gates, Erin Price-Wright, Kamran Khan, Gregory Manis, Emeline Wu
  • Publication number: 20240126032
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes a cable jacket having an inner surface and an outer surface in which the inner surface defines a central bore along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable and the outer surface defines the outermost extent of the cable. The optical fiber cable also includes at least one access feature disposed in the cable jacket between the inner surface and the outer surface. Further included are a first plurality of optical fiber bundles. Each optical fiber bundle includes a second plurality of optical fiber ribbons that has a third plurality of optical fibers arranged in a planar configuration. The optical fiber cable bends uniformly in all directions transverse to the longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jessica Ruth Abercrombie, Kevin Nicholas Ball, Xiaole Cheng, Jason Clay Lail, Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare, Ellen Anderson Stupka
  • Patent number: 11874516
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes a cable jacket having an inner surface and an outer surface in which the inner surface defines a central bore along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable and the outer surface defines the outermost extent of the cable. The optical fiber cable also includes at least one access feature disposed in the cable jacket between the inner surface and the outer surface. Further included are a first plurality of optical fiber bundles. Each optical fiber bundle includes a second plurality of optical fiber ribbons that has a third plurality of optical fibers arranged in a planar configuration. The optical fiber cable bends uniformly in all directions transverse to the longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jessica Ruth Abercrombie, Kevin Nicholas Ball, Xiaole Cheng, Jason Clay Lail, Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare, Ellen Anderson Stupka
  • Patent number: 11857458
    Abstract: A freezable insert includes a mold having at least six (6) cylindrical forms and a corresponding number of flexible plastic handles which upon insertion into each form containing a non-toxic freezable substance creates at least six (6) frozen cylindrical forms each particularly suitable for removably insertion into a vagina.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventor: Nicholas A Ball
  • Patent number: 11613858
    Abstract: Barriers, such as vehicle impact barriers for placing upon an existing surface such as a road surface, or a paved surface, or a pedestrian surface. Surface-mountable and removable barriers are described for use as vehicle impact barriers. Such barriers may be employed for rapid deployment in a street, causeway or other route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: ATG ACCESS LTD
    Inventor: Robert Nicholas Ball
  • Publication number: 20210247579
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to an optical fiber cable. The optical fiber cable includes a cable jacket having an inner surface and an outer surface in which the inner surface defines a central bore along a longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable and the outer surface defines the outermost extent of the cable. The optical fiber cable also includes at least one access feature disposed in the cable jacket between the inner surface and the outer surface. Further included are a first plurality of optical fiber bundles. Each optical fiber bundle includes a second plurality of optical fiber ribbons that has a third plurality of optical fibers arranged in a planar configuration. The optical fiber cable bends uniformly in all directions transverse to the longitudinal axis of the optical fiber cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Jessica Ruth Abercrombie, Kevin Nicholas Ball, Xiaole Cheng, Jason Clay Lail, Rebecca Elizabeth Sistare, Ellen Anderson Stupka
  • Publication number: 20210189671
    Abstract: A bollard apparatus for use as a vehicle barrier includes: a plurality of bollard members; a plurality of separate foot members adapted for ground engagement by placement upon or embedment within a surface, one or more of which is attached to at least one bollard member upstanding therefrom, wherein at least one foot member includes: a front edge; a rear edge; at least one lateral edge which opposes a corresponding lateral edge of a neighbouring foot member, wherein at least one lateral edge extends between the front and rear edges and is non-planar so as to include: a first edge part; and, a second edge part that is laterally offset from the first edge part, wherein the bollard apparatus further includes a coupling assembly which couples the foot member to the neighbouring foot member, wherein the coupling assembly is attached to the lateral edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: ATG Access Ltd
    Inventor: Robert Nicholas BALL
  • Publication number: 20200056339
    Abstract: Barriers, such as vehicle impact barriers for placing upon an existing surface such as a road surface, or a paved surface, or a pedestrian surface. Surface-mountable and removable barriers are described for use as vehicle impact barriers. Such barriers may be employed for rapid deployment in a street, causeway or other route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Nicholas Ball
  • Publication number: 20170225790
    Abstract: Described herein is a life vest pouch for storage under an aircraft seat. The life vest pouch includes a closeable first opening for inserting a life vest into the pouch and a breakable seam for creating a second opening and permitting removal of a life vest from the pouch. Also described is an airline seat and row of airline seats comprising the life vest pouch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Steven Nicholas BALL, Christopher James BRADY, Martin LONGDEN
  • Publication number: 20170091673
    Abstract: A system and method for exporting a training model for performing a prediction including sending for presentation, to a user, a directed acyclic graph representing a model trained using a transformed source dataset and one or more transformations used to obtain the transformed source dataset; determining the model as an endpoint based on a user selection; determining a transformation as a start point; determining whether one or more intervening transformations exist on a path going from the start point and leading to the endpoint in the directed acyclic graph; and exporting the model and relevant transformations, the relevant transformations including the transformation at the start point and any intervening transformations on the path going from the start point and leading to the model at endpoint in the directed acyclic graph to a production environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Abhishek Gupta, Alexander Gray, Nicholas Ball, Sanjay Mehta, Terison Gregory, Troy Caldwell
  • Publication number: 20170090893
    Abstract: A system and method for facilitating interoperability of data transformations developed in different programming platforms under a unified platform including receiving a first transformation utilizing a first programming platform; receiving information about the first transformation; wrapping the first transformation; including the wrapped, first transformation in a transformation pipeline, the transformation pipeline including a second transformation that is wrapped, the second transformation utilizing a second programming platform different from the first programming platform; and executing the transformation pipeline including the wrapped, first transformation and the wrapped, second transformation in batch mode or real-time streaming mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Abhimanyu Aditya, Abhishek Gupta, Alexander Gray, Bradley Simmons, Maxsim Gibiansky, Nicholas Ball, Sanjay Mehta, Sergey Kirshner, Terison Gregory
  • Patent number: 9127423
    Abstract: A telescopic bollard comprising: a bollard assembly, the bollard assembly including an outer bollard part defining a guide bore extending in a direction along the axis thereof from a base end to a head end thereof. An inner bollard part is housed within the guide bore so as to be slidingly moveable therealong between: a telescopically retracted state in at least some of the length of the inner bollard part resides within the guide bore, and a telescopically extended state in which relatively less of the length of the inner bollard part resides within the guide bore and relatively more of said length extends beyond the head end of the outer bollard part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: ATG ACCESS LTD.
    Inventor: Robert Nicholas Ball
  • Publication number: 20140147201
    Abstract: A telescopic bollard comprising: a bollard assembly, the bollard assembly including an outer bollard part defining a guide bore extending in a direction along the axis thereof from a base end to a head end thereof. An inner bollard part is housed within the guide bore so as to be slidingly moveable therealong between: a telescopically retracted state in at least some of the length of the inner bollard part resides within the guide bore, and a telescopically extended state in which relatively less of the length of the inner bollard part resides within the guide bore and relatively more of said length extends beyond the head end of the outer bollard part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: ATG Access LTD
    Inventor: Robert Nicholas Ball