Patents by Inventor Nicholas Scott

Nicholas Scott 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: 20200214866
    Abstract: Stent delivery systems including a deployment sheath for the stent, and an anti-catch member positionable adjacent to a proximal end of the deployment sheath and designed to allow the proximal end of the deployment sheath to be passed through the stent without catching on the stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: NICHOLAS SCOTT STEENWYK, BRADY SCOTT LOGAN, ROWAN OLUND HETTEL
  • Patent number: 10708294
    Abstract: A system and method are provided to select mitigation parameters. The method includes receiving selection of at least one mitigation parameter, accessing a selected portion of stored network traffic or associated summaries that corresponds to a selectable time window, applying a mitigation to the selected portion of the stored network traffic or associated summaries using the selected at least one mitigation parameter, and outputting results of the applied mitigation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: Arbor Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Northway, Jr., Andrew D. Mortensen, James E. Winquist, Ronald G. Hay, Nicholas Scott
  • Publication number: 20200214124
    Abstract: An example printed circuit board includes a ground plane having a fusible region and a power plane. The power plane is isolated from the ground plane by an insulating layer. At least one circuit component is mounted to the ground plane and is positioned within the fusible region of the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Wilfredo Martinez, James Paul Muccioli, Nicholas Scott Hartley
  • Patent number: 10637885
    Abstract: A method for configuring a network monitoring device is provided. One or more performance metrics associated with one or more thresholds to be configured are received from a user. Historical network traffic flow information associated with a previously detected malicious activity is analyzed to identify characteristic values for the one or more performance metrics. Threshold values are automatically configured based on the identified characteristic values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Arbor Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Winquist, William M. Northway, Jr., Ronald G. Hay, Nicholas Scott, Lawrence B. Huston, III
  • Patent number: 10602119
    Abstract: It is contemplated that the present invention can provide methods and systems for the near-simultaneous frame acquisition from multiple cameras. This can be achieved in two different ways. If the cameras are set to work in triggering mode, the triggering of a first camera and a subsequent camera are adjusted by overlapping the trigger signals and image communication control signals of each camera in order to capture near-simultaneous images from each of the cameras. If the cameras are in video mode, they will be kept synchronous by using a common clock and starting them at the same time. As each camera generates frames, individual, corresponding frames are sampled from each camera in a sequential manner upon receiving a triggering signal. In this way, near simultaneous images can be sampled and saved from multiple cameras in video mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: A & L Canada Laboratories Inc.
    Inventors: Aref Bakhtazad, Jayshri Sabarinathan, Himanshu Shrinkhal, Zahra Ataee, Nicholas Scott Mitchell, Greg Patterson, Ata Haddadi, Bo Shan
  • Publication number: 20190373940
    Abstract: A substance processing system includes a pressurizer configured to pressurize air and a processing chamber configured to process a substance. The system also includes a heat exchanger coupled between the pressurizer and the processing chamber. A nozzle is coupled to the processing chamber such that output from the nozzle comprises a substantially even pressure distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Jens Peter Voges, Fong Liu, John Laird, Scott Whitman, Zachary Russell HEINEMAN, Dylan Hilmer Bird, Nicholas Scott Reimnitz, Pietro Valsecchi
  • Patent number: 10375199
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one survey to be presented to users of the social networking system, wherein the survey is targeted to a number of users at each time interval. A uniform distribution of users that may be surveyed is determined, wherein users in the uniform distribution are each assigned a numerical value. A sampling window that references a numerical range that is adjusted upon completion of each time interval is determined, wherein users that have been assigned a numerical value within the numerical range are eligible for the survey.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Shiyu Zhao, Matthew K. Choi, Nicholas Scott LaGrow
  • Publication number: 20190224305
    Abstract: Engineered Influenza polynucleotides, viruses, vaccines, and methods of making and using the same are provided. More specifically, the present inventors have developed replication competent engineered influenza viruses having, for example, a modified segment 4 and/or segment 6 that include at least one additional polynucleotide encoding a heterologous polypeptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Duke University
    Inventors: Nicholas Scott Heaton, Alfred Theodore Harding, Brook Elizabeth Heaton
  • Publication number: 20190226149
    Abstract: A dispersible wet wipe includes a layer of cellulosic fibers. In one embodiment, a first binder is applied in a coating N comprising randomly distributed deposits of the binder. A second binder is applied in an intermittent pattern on the surface to define first regions on the surface that include first binder but no second binder and to define second regions on the surface that include both first binder and second binder. The first and second binders can have the same chemical composition. In a second embodiment, a first binder is applied to a web surface in a first pattern, and, after applying the first binder, a second binder is applied to the web surface in a second pattern that is different than the first pattern. In a third embodiment, a binder is applied to a web surface in a pattern, the pattern having first regions and second regions, wherein the add-on level of the binder in the first regions is lower than the add-on level of the binder in the second regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Inventors: Nathan John Vogel, Amanda Ann Gantz, Nicholas Scott Walker, David James Sealy Powling, Carly Elizabeth Herr
  • Publication number: 20190211487
    Abstract: A method of making a dispersible wet wipe includes providing a web of cellulosic fibers. In one embodiment, a first binder is applied to a web surface in a coating that comprises randomly distributed deposits of the first binder. A second binder is applied an intermittent pattern on the web surface to define first regions on the first surface that include first binder but no second binder and to define second regions on the first surface that include both first binder and second binder. In a second embodiment, a first binder is applied to a web surface in a first pattern, and, after applying the first binder, a second binder is applied to the web surface in a second pattern that is different than the first pattern. In a third embodiment, a binder is applied to a web surface in a pattern, the pattern having first regions and second regions, wherein the add-on level of the binder in the first regions is lower than the add-on level of the binder in the second regions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Nathan John Vogel, Amanda Ann Gantz, Nicholas Scott Walker, David James Sealy Powling, Carly Elizabeth Herr
  • Publication number: 20190208798
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a receptacle configured to receive a container containing a substance for processing. The container includes a readable tag having processing information associated with the substance. The apparatus also includes a processing chamber operably coupled to the receptacle and configured to receive the substance and process the substance. The apparatus further includes a controller operably coupled to the processing chamber and configured to generate one or more processing instructions based on the processing information in the readable tag and further based on additional processing information received from a remote device. The processing is also configured to process the substance based on the one or more processing instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Jens Peter VOGES, Fong LIU, John LAIRD, Scott WHITMAN, Zachary Russell HEINEMAN, Dylan Hilmer BIRD, Nicholas Scott REIMNITZ
  • Publication number: 20190149626
    Abstract: Methods and systems for attributing browsing activity from two or more different network-connected devices to a single user are disclosed. In one aspect, cookies generated by the browsing activity of different unidentified devices at a website are received. A random forest classifier trained on probabilities output from a Gaussian mixture model is applied to the unidentified cookies to determine a probability that two different cookies were generated by the same user. In some embodiments, personalized content is then delivered to the user based on the characteristics of the paired cookies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Applicant: Target Brands, Inc.
    Inventors: SHALIN S. SHAH, NICHOLAS SCOTT EGGERT, RAMASUBBU VENKATESH
  • Patent number: 10268553
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for predicting data storage device failures using adaptive failure prediction modeling. In some embodiments, monitored parameters are used to predict a potential imminent failure of a first data storage device using a first copy of a first failure prediction model (FPM). Data associated with the predicted potential imminent failure are transferred by the device across a computer network to a host device. The host device generates an updated, second FPM responsive to the transferred data as well as from data from at least a second data storage device transmitted across the computer network having a second copy of the first FPM. A first copy of the updated, second FPM is transferred, via the network, for use by the second data storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignee: Seagate Technology LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Scott Eggert, Wenjuan Wang, Sailaja Venkata Chilaka, Satya V. Allumallu, Jason M. Feist, Bruce D. Emo
  • Publication number: 20180205756
    Abstract: A system and method are provided to select mitigation parameters. The method includes receiving selection of at least one mitigation parameter, accessing a selected portion of stored network traffic or associated summaries that corresponds to a selectable time window, applying a mitigation to the selected portion of the stored network traffic or associated summaries using the selected at least one mitigation parameter, and outputting results of the applied mitigation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: Arbor Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Northway, JR., Andrew D. Mortensen, James E. Winquist, Ronald G. Hay, Nicholas Scott
  • Publication number: 20180152474
    Abstract: A method for configuring a network monitoring device is provided. One or more performance metrics associated with one or more thresholds to be configured are received from a user. Historical network traffic flow information associated with a previously detected malicious activity is analyzed to identify characteristic values for the one or more performance metrics. Threshold values are automatically configured based on the identified characteristic values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: James E. Winquist, William M. Northway, JR., Ronald G. Hay, Nicholas Scott, Lawrence B. Huston, III
  • Publication number: 20180137415
    Abstract: Apparatus and associated methods relate to developing a predictive analytic model based on data records partitioned as a function of at least one relationship between parts and folds, assigning more than one part to test each fold, and assigning at least one part to test more than one fold; and evaluating the predictive analytic model based on more than one prediction determined for each observation in each test data record as a function of a predictive analytic model not trained on the test data record. In an illustrative example, the relationship between parts and folds may exclude some of the training data in common, with the same degree of overlap in the data between each pair of folds. Various examples may advantageously produce models built on each pair of folds having nearly equal pairwise-correlation of their predictions with models built on any other pair of folds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Applicant: Minitab, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Steinberg, Nicholas Scott Cardell
  • Publication number: 20180060192
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for predicting data storage device failures using adaptive failure prediction modeling. In some embodiments, monitored parameters are used to predict a potential imminent failure of a first data storage device using a first copy of a first failure prediction model (FPM). Data associated with the predicted potential imminent failure are transferred by the device across a computer network to a host device. The host device generates an updated, second FPM responsive to the transferred data as well as from data from at least a second data storage device transmitted across the computer network having a second copy of the first FPM. A first copy of the updated, second FPM is transferred, via the network, for use by the second data storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Nicholas Scott Eggert, Wenjuan Wang, Sailaja Venkata Chilaka, Satya V. Allumallu, Jason M. Feist, Bruce D. Emo
  • Patent number: 9902641
    Abstract: A mold for shaping glass-based material can include a mold body having a surface, wherein at least a portion of the mold body near the surface comprises at least about 90% by weight nickel and from about 0.2% to about 0.35% by weight manganese; and a nickel oxide layer on the surface of the mold body. The nickel oxide layer has first and second opposing surfaces wherein the first surface of the nickel oxide layer contacts and faces the surface of the mold body and the second surface of the nickel oxide layer includes a plurality of grains. The plurality of grains has an average grain size of about 150 ?m or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Jill Marie Hall, Nicholas Scott Ryan, Wenchao Wang, Kim E Womer
  • Patent number: 9849041
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing a tampon includes the steps of at least partially overlaying a web of base material with a web of absorbent material. The web of absorbent material is secured to the web of base material with a first securement. At least one of the web of base material and the web of absorbent material is folded after the first securement. The web of absorbent material is further secured to the web of base material with a second securement that is a stronger securement than the first securement. The web of absorbent material and the web of base material together define a web of cover material. The web of cover material is applied to an absorbent structure. The web of cover material and the absorbent structure is manipulated such that the web of cover material extends about a circumference of the absorbent structure to form a tampon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Scott Wolter, Charles Robert Tomsovic, Wayne D. Beyer, Ronald A. Hilt, Joshua Fiedorowicz, Brian Alberts, Martin Gottvald, Steven Craig Gehling
  • Patent number: 9842175
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and system for automatically identifying and selecting preferred classification and regression trees. The invention is used to identify a specific decision tree or group of trees that are consistent across train and test samples in node-specific details that are often important to decision makers. Specifically, for a tree to be identified as preferred by this system, the train and test samples must both agree on key measures for every terminal node of the tree. In addition to this node-by-node criterion, an additional tree selection method may be imposed. Accordingly, the train and test samples rank order the nodes on a relevant measure in the same way. Both consistency criteria may be applied in a fuzzy manner in which agreement must be close but need not be exact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Minitab, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Steinberg, Nicholas Scott Cardell