Patents by Inventor Nigel Hinds

Nigel Hinds 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: 11455522
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device such as a smartphone is used in conjunction with a deep learning system to detect and respond to personal danger. The deep learning system monitors current information (such as location, audio, biometrics, etc.) from the smartphone and generates a risk score by comparing the information to a routine profile for the user. If the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold, an alert is sent to the smartphone which presents an alert screen to the user. The alert screen allows the user to cancel the alert (and notify the deep learning system) or confirm the alert (and immediately transmit an emergency message). Multiple emergency contacts can be designated, e.g., one for a low-level risk, another for an intermediate-level risk, and another for a high-level risk, and the emergency message can be sent to a selected contact depending upon the severity of the risk score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven A. Cordes, Michael S. Gordon, Nigel Hinds, Maja Vukovic
  • Patent number: 11424911
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, via a network, tag data that is read from a tag associated with a physical object and signed with a key assigned to the tag, determining, via a blockchain peer, that the signed tag data is validly signed based on a corresponding key pair of the tag which is accessible to the blockchain peer, determining, via the blockchain peer, whether the tag data satisfies of one or more predefined conditions of the physical object, and storing the determination via a blockchain database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Daniel Joseph Friedman, Nigel Hinds, Abhilash Narendra, Arun Paidimarri, James Thomas Rayfield, Roman Vaculin, Zhiyuan Li
  • Patent number: 11327171
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed by one or more satellites for assessing crop development by using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is presented. The method includes generating SAR images from scanning fields including crops, monitoring grown of the crops within the fields during a predetermined time period, and estimating a height of the crops during the predetermined time period by using interferometric information from one or more of the SAR images and tracking change in height and growth rates. The method further includes differentiating between crops in different fields by monitoring changes in the height of the crops during an entire growing season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Levente Klein, Siyuan Lu, Fernando Jimenez Marianno, Nigel Hinds
  • Patent number: 11267482
    Abstract: In an approach to predicting physiological and behavioral states utilizing models representing relationships between driver health states and vehicle dynamics data, one or more computer processors capture one or more vehicle motion parameters. The one or more computer processors to capture one or more physiological parameters; identify contextual data associated with the one or more captured vehicle motion parameters and the one or more captured physiological parameters; predict one or more driving behavior parameters by utilizing one or more physical models fed with the one or more vehicle motion parameters and the identified contextual data; predict one or more driver health parameters by utilizing a model trained with the one or more captured physiological parameters and the identified contextual data; generate a risk assessment based on the one or more predicted driving behavior parameters and the one or more predicted driver health parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Julien Monteil, Yassine Lassoued, Sergio Cabrero Barros, Rodrigo Hernan Ordonez-Hurtado, Martin Mevissen, Sergiy Zhuk, Nigel Hinds, Bo Wen, Jeffrey Rogers
  • Publication number: 20210281395
    Abstract: An example operation may include one or more of receiving, via a network, tag data that is read from a tag associated with a physical object and signed with a key assigned to the tag, determining, via a blockchain peer, that the signed tag data is validly signed based on a corresponding key pair of the tag which is accessible to the blockchain peer, determining, via the blockchain peer, whether the tag data satisfies of one or more predefined conditions of the physical object, and storing the determination via a blockchain database.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Chandrasekhar Narayanaswami, Daniel Joseph Friedman, Nigel Hinds, Abhilash Narendra, Arun Paidimarri, James Thomas Rayfield, Roman Vaculin, Zhiyuan Li
  • Publication number: 20210107501
    Abstract: In an approach to predicting physiological and behavioral states utilizing models representing relationships between driver health states and vehicle dynamics data, one or more computer processors capture one or more vehicle motion parameters. The one or more computer processors to capture one or more physiological parameters; identify contextual data associated with the one or more captured vehicle motion parameters and the one or more captured physiological parameters; predict one or more driving behavior parameters by utilizing one or more physical models fed with the one or more vehicle motion parameters and the identified contextual data; predict one or more driver health parameters by utilizing a model trained with the one or more captured physiological parameters and the identified contextual data; generate a risk assessment based on the one or more predicted driving behavior parameters and the one or more predicted driver health parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Julien Monteil, Yassine Lassoued, Sergio Cabrero Barros, Rodrigo Hernan Ordonez-Hurtado, Martin Mevissen, Sergiy Zhuk, Nigel Hinds, Bo Wen, Jeffrey Rogers
  • Publication number: 20200256978
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed by one or more satellites for assessing crop development by using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is presented. The method includes generating SAR images from scanning fields including crops, monitoring grown of the crops within the fields during a predetermined time period, and estimating a height of the crops during the predetermined time period by using interferometric information from one or more of the SAR images and tracking change in height and growth rates. The method further includes differentiating between crops in different fields by monitoring changes in the height of the crops during an entire growing season.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Levente Klein, Siyuan Lu, Fernando Jimenez Marianno, Nigel Hinds
  • Patent number: 10705204
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed by one or more satellites for assessing crop development by using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is presented. The method includes generating SAR images from scanning fields including crops, monitoring grown of the crops within the fields during a predetermined time period, and estimating a height of the crops during the predetermined time period by using interferometric information from one or more of the SAR images and tracking change in height and growth rates. The method further includes differentiating between crops in different fields by monitoring changes in the height of the crops during an entire growing season.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Levente Klein, Siyuan Lu, Fernando Jimenez Marianno, Nigel Hinds
  • Patent number: 10424185
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device such as a smartphone is used in conjunction with a deep learning system to detect and respond to personal danger. The deep learning system monitors current information (such as location, audio, biometrics, etc.) from the smartphone and generates a risk score by comparing the information to a routine profile for the user. If the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold, an alert is sent to the smartphone which presents an alert screen to the user. The alert screen allows the user to cancel the alert (and notify the deep learning system) or confirm the alert (and immediately transmit an emergency message). Multiple emergency contacts can be designated, e.g., one for a low-level risk, another for an intermediate-level risk, and another for a high-level risk, and the emergency message can be sent to a selected contact depending upon the severity of the risk score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Steven A. Cordes, Michael S. Gordon, Nigel Hinds, Maja Vukovic
  • Publication number: 20190179009
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method executed by one or more satellites for assessing crop development by using synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is presented. The method includes generating SAR images from scanning fields including crops, monitoring grown of the crops within the fields during a predetermined time period, and estimating a height of the crops during the predetermined time period by using interferometric information from one or more of the SAR images and tracking change in height and growth rates. The method further includes differentiating between crops in different fields by monitoring changes in the height of the crops during an entire growing season.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Levente Klein, Siyuan Lu, Fernando Jimenez Marianno, Nigel Hinds
  • Publication number: 20190156191
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device such as a smartphone is used in conjunction with a deep learning system to detect and respond to personal danger. The deep learning system monitors current information (such as location, audio, biometrics, etc.) from the smartphone and generates a risk score by comparing the information to a routine profile for the user. If the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold, an alert is sent to the smartphone which presents an alert screen to the user. The alert screen allows the user to cancel the alert (and notify the deep learning system) or confirm the alert (and immediately transmit an emergency message). Multiple emergency contacts can be designated, e.g., one for a low-level risk, another for an intermediate-level risk, and another for a high-level risk, and the emergency message can be sent to a selected contact depending upon the severity of the risk score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Steven A. Cordes, Michael S. Gordon, Nigel Hinds, Maja Vukovic
  • Publication number: 20190156655
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device such as a smartphone is used in conjunction with a deep learning system to detect and respond to personal danger. The deep learning system monitors current information (such as location, audio, biometrics, etc.) from the smartphone and generates a risk score by comparing the information to a routine profile for the user. If the risk score exceeds a predetermined threshold, an alert is sent to the smartphone which presents an alert screen to the user. The alert screen allows the user to cancel the alert (and notify the deep learning system) or confirm the alert (and immediately transmit an emergency message). Multiple emergency contacts can be designated, e.g., one for a low-level risk, another for an intermediate-level risk, and another for a high-level risk, and the emergency message can be sent to a selected contact depending upon the severity of the risk score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Steven A. Cordes, Michael S. Gordon, Nigel Hinds, Maja Vukovic