Patents by Inventor Nicholas James

Nicholas James 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: 12205458
    Abstract: A method of communicating an emergency alert includes receiving, by a central content controller (CCC), audiovisual (AV) content from a plurality of sources, encoding the content, transmitting the encoded content to regional controllers (RCs) associated with respective market areas (MAs) for broadcasting over the air (OTA), determining existence of one or more alerts, for each existing alert, identifying recipients designated for receiving the alert and transmitting the alert to devices associated with the identified recipients over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventors: Imran Arif Maskatia, Benjamin James Kauffman, Thomas Lee Rich, Nicholas James Hottinger, Michael J. Chase, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20250021677
    Abstract: A process includes receiving instruction to provide an electronic text document to a plurality of users and a security instruction. In response to the security instruction, the process generates a respective copy of the electronic text document for each user. Each respective copy of the electronic text document is associated with a user identifier of that user and each respective copy includes a respective unique identifier based on a change in presentation of at least one of at least one character of text or at least one image included in the electronic text document. Each copy of the electronic text document having a unique identifier is provided to the user associated with the user identifier associated with that respective copy of the electronic text document. A mapping of each user identifier to the respective unique identifier for the respective copy of the electronic text document is stored in storage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventor: Nicholas James Wetzig
  • Publication number: 20250023843
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of downloading a container image of a web service from a data store, wherein the web service is configured to be self-hosted, deploying a self-hosted copy of the web service within a container runtime of a local device based on execution of the downloaded container image, and modifying a domain name system (DNS) to include a mapping of the web service to a local network address of the self-hosted copy of the web service deployed in the container runtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas James Daffern, William James Simmons, James Adam Nash, Giles Auryn Hasler Billenness
  • Publication number: 20250010016
    Abstract: A humidification system can include a heater base, a chamber, and a breathing circuit. The heater base includes a heater plate positioned in a recessed region, and a heat conductive portion of the chamber is configured to contact the heater plate. The heater base includes a guard configured to control movement of the chamber into and out of the recessed region. The guard includes an anti-racking mechanism. The chamber includes an inlet port, an outlet port. A downward extension extends into the chamber from the inlet port, and a baffle is disposed at a lower end of the downward extension. A component of the breathing circuit can include a conduit hanging end cap for shipping and storage. The end cap can include a hanging component to allow the breathing circuit component to be hung from a medical stand. The system can detect when breathing circuits are connected in reverse.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: John James JACKSON, Barry Shack MANON, Victor Rosales CORRALES, Stefan Leo VAN WORKUM, Michael John ANDRESEN, Stephen David EVANS, Mark Samuel HAMILTON, Paul Fleming BUCKLEY, Jason Allan KLENNER, Hamish OSBORNE, Samuel Graham BOGGS, James William STANTON, Joseph Nathaniel GRIFFITHS, Jonathan Andrew George LAMBERT, Nicholas Edward VAUGHAN, James Owen KEHOE, Francisco Ernesto DE LA PENA DE LA FUENTE, Nicholas James Michael MCKENNA, Rachael PORTER, Simon Mordechai STAM, David Robert KEMPS, Edwin Joseph LYONS, Madeleine Bess MARTIN, Ada Yiwen SHOU, Huang-Ku LIU
  • Publication number: 20250014734
    Abstract: Surgical systems and methods are provided. The surgical systems include at least one primary surgical system, and an electronic management system in electronic communication with the primary surgical system. The electronic management system is configured to update a virtual compatibility list stored on a primary surgical system with compatibility information, create a first virtual kit for a surgical procedure, and provide the first virtual kit. The compatibility information characterizes a level of compatibility between the primary surgical system and one or more secondary surgical systems in electronic communication with the electronic management system. The first virtual kit including the primary surgical system and at least one of the one or more secondary surgical systems selected based upon the compatibility list.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jacqueline C. Aronhalt, James Hoffmaster, Kevin M. Fiebig, Nicholas James Ross, Shane R. Adams
  • Publication number: 20250016580
    Abstract: In some aspects, there is provided a method. The method may include selecting a first antenna coupled to a first transceiver at a first vehicle; determining a configuration of a first beam pattern emanated by the first antenna; and reconfiguring, based on the configuration of the first beam pattern and a beam tracking packet, the first antenna to provide a beam tracking of the first beam pattern. The first beam pattern may be associated with a wireless communication link to an object proximate to the first vehicle, which may be a second vehicle or a stationary object. Reconfiguring the first antenna may be further based on a steering angle associated with the first antenna and a distance between the first vehicle and the object proximate to the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas GUERENA, John WIACEK, Nicholas James WITCHEY
  • Publication number: 20250014726
    Abstract: Surgical systems and methods are provided. The surgical systems include a manufacturer-sealed sterile surgical package containing a surgical instrument, at least one data processor, and memory storing instructions configured to cause the at least one data processor to perform operations. The operations include receive, from a remote server, data characterizing one or more aspects of a surgical procedure involving the surgical instrument, determine a level of compatibility of the surgical instrument with each of the one or more aspects of the surgical procedure, provide the determined level of compatibility.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jacqueline C. Aronhalt, Kevin M. Fiebig, Nicholas James Ross, Shane R. Adams, Taylor W. Aronhalt
  • Publication number: 20250014098
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide for pre-deal and in-deal or live demand and allocation forecasting. For instance, historical data including information about prior completed offers may be accessed and used to generate a plurality of training input features and a plurality of training output features. These may be used to train a pre-deal demand model configured to generate a demand prediction for a new offer based on a plurality of input features for the new offer. In addition, these may be used to train a live demand model configured to generate a demand prediction for an offer while the offer is open based on a plurality of input features for the offer. Still further, a plurality of potential allocation policies to the demand prediction to generate an allocation in real time while the offer is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: PrimaryBid Limited
    Inventors: Salil Shree Pandit, Brendan David Cheshire, Michael Christopher Coombes, Joseph Lyle Carnell, Andrew James Turner, Nafiseh Vahabi, Anand Sambasivan, Kieran Roy D’Silva, James Alexander Deal, Gavin David Sutton, Hanna Karpuk, Nicholas James Osborne, James Nicholas Sanderson Smith
  • Patent number: 12192383
    Abstract: A method at an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Transmitting Entity, the method including: generating an ITS message; augmenting the ITS message with an Integrity Report generated by an integrity detection function at the ITS Transmitting Entity to create an augmented ITS message; signing the augmented ITS message with an Authorization Certificate or Ticket, the Authorization Certificate or Ticket including an assurance indication from an Audit Certificate Authority for the integrity detection function; and sending the signed, augmented ITS message to an ITS Receiving Entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John Barrett, Nicholas James Russell, John Octavius Goyo
  • Patent number: 12188386
    Abstract: A lubrication system for an internal combustion engine includes a fluid flow control device at an outlet side of the pump that regulates pressure conditions at the outlet side of the pump upstream of the lubrication circuit in the engine. The fluid flow control device is located in a recirculation path, and opens in response to a fluid pressure at the outlet of the pump exceeding a first threshold to allow the fluid to pass from the outlet side of the pump back to an inlet side of the pump. The recirculation path includes a tuning device that maintains the fluid pressure at engine speeds above the first threshold. In response to engine speeds above a second threshold, the tuning device restricts fluid flow in the recirculation path so that the fluid pressure in the fluid flow path increases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas James Welch, Matthew D. Flessner
  • Patent number: 12185215
    Abstract: There is provided a method and device for provisioning emergency number information on a user equipment. When a dialed number matches an emergency number from the provisioned emergency number information, the user equipment selects either the circuit switched domain or the packet switched domain and executes a call setup procedure for that domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Jan Hendrik Lucas Bakker, Nicholas James Russell
  • Patent number: 12179091
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to apparatus, systems, and methods to allow a user to create virtual and real-world game content to provide players with physically engaging virtual content that is anchored to real-world locations. A content creator is provided a set of “drag-n-drop” modular assets (e.g., encounter tiles, content tiles, creatures, chests, rooms, vehicles, etc.) that can be aggregated together to form a complete content set (e.g., a dungeon, level, puzzle, etc.) through which a player is able to engage the game via the real-world. Each individual modular asset may include a set of in-game challenge criteria that must be satisfied to complete an in-game challenge associated with the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventors: Shawn Semler Anderson, Matthew Wayne Geer, Jesse William Snyder, Michael E. Madden, III, John Wiacek, Jake Tyler Fyfe, Nicholas James Witchey
  • Publication number: 20240430632
    Abstract: A method includes determining one or more audio characteristics of a first digital signal representing a first portion of streaming media content provided by a media playback application to an audio output component; playing the first portion of the media content into an environment; capturing, by an audio output component, a second digital signal representing the first portion of the media content as played; determining, based on the captured second digital signal, one or more detected audio characteristics of the media content as played into the environment; determining a difference between the one or more audio characteristics of the media content and the one or more detected audio characteristics; calibrating a second portion of the media content based on the difference and based on a determination that the second portion is to be calibrated; and playing, by the audio output component into the environment, the second portion as calibrated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Gustav David Gunnar Sennton, Bich Ha Lo, Nicholas James Clark, Nicole Laure McWilliams, Richard Ledley, Alex Florescu, Jamie Garside
  • Publication number: 20240429744
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide computer-implemented methods, computer program product, and systems for charging an electronic device by induction. The pad includes a first conductive layer for connection to a first voltage; a second conductive layer for connection to a second voltage, with the second voltage is different to the first voltage, and a third conductive layer intervening between first and second layers, capable of forming different induction geometries to optimize the charging of the electronic device. The third layer includes a plurality of conductors, first transistors actuable to selectively interconnect neighboring ones of the plurality of conductors, and second transistors actuable to selectively connect each of the plurality of conductors to one of the first and second conductive layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas James Daffern, William James Simmons, James Adam Nash
  • Patent number: 12178021
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed relating to welding-type power supplies. In some examples, the power supplies may have no vents, which may help prevent environmental contaminants from entering the power supplies. Instead, the power supplies include one or more thermal interfaces configured to conduct heat generated by internal circuitry of the power supply from the interior of the power supply to an exterior of the power supply. Additionally, the thermal interface(s) may be configured for attachment to one or more exterior heat dissipating devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Alan Adam Manthe, Nicholas James Dessart
  • Patent number: 12172743
    Abstract: An intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance system is disclosed including a ground station and one or more aerial vehicles. The aerial vehicles are autonomous systems capable of communicating intelligence data to the ground station and be used as part of a missile delivery package. A plurality of aerial vehicles can be configured to cast a wide net of reconnaissance over a large area on the ground including smaller overlapping reconnaissance areas provided by each of the plurality of the aerial vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Silicis Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Stigler, Nicholas James Setar
  • Publication number: 20240415257
    Abstract: A suitcase having a base and a lid where the lid may be rotatable about a hinge from a closed configuration to an open configuration and may be secured, via one or more latching assemblies is disclosed. The lid may comprise an upper shell, and the base may comprise a lower shell. The upper shell and the lower shell may be seamlessly formed to create a water resistant and/or waterproof suitcase. The suitcase may have an extendable trolley handle assembly that is externally attached to the base of the suitcase using a plurality of mounting clips. The trolley handle assembly may comprise a pair of extrusion assemblies that are connected to the base of the suitcase and connected to each other by a grip. The suitcase may also have a removably secured interior liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Steve Charles Nichols, Andy Bondhus, Michael Christopher Cieszko, Nicholas James Lombardi, Dustin Bullock
  • Publication number: 20240420811
    Abstract: Systems and methods for tracking biological samples are presented. Intrinsic and extrinsic biological sample data and/or intrinsic and extrinsic patient data may be used to label a biological sample obtained at a point-of-care facility, which may be sent to a processing facility, wherein the labeled biological sample undergoes analysis and/or processing into a labeled therapeutic. The labeled therapeutic is delivered back to the point-of-care facility, wherein the labeled therapeutic is tested for the presence of the additives prior to administration to a patient. Multi-factor validation is performed, including validating the identity of the patient to a container, validating the identity of the labeled biological sample/therapeutic to the container, and thus, validating the identity of the labeled therapeutic to the patient. The entire life cycle of a biological sample used to generate a personalized therapeutic is validated, and ensures that mix-ups or errors in administration are reduced or eliminated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Kayvan NIAZI, Nicholas James WITCHEY
  • Patent number: 12167808
    Abstract: A leak resistant lid assembly for a beverage container where the lid assembly has a straw or similar means for a user to drink liquid is disclosed. The lid assembly may include a base, a straw that extends through the base, a gasket, and a grommet. The base may have a primary opening that receives the straw and a secondary opening in the top of the base, where the secondary opening acts as a vent to prevent a vacuum from occurring when drinking from a straw. The grommet may have a spiral ring may help create a flow path for air from inside the beverage container to the exterior environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin R. Bullock, Nicholas James Lombardi, William Drinkwater
  • Patent number: D1057627
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: REV Robotics LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas James Coussens, Orion Christopher DeYoe, Gregory Elliott Needel, David Aaron Yanoshak