Patents by Inventor Owen Thomas
Owen Thomas 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).
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Patent number: 12591810Abstract: A network-accessible machine learning service is provided herein. For example, the network-accessible machine learning service provider can operate one or more physical computing devices accessible to user devices via a network. These physical computing device(s) can host virtual machine instances that are configured to train machine learning models using training data referenced by a user device. These physical computing device(s) can further host virtual machine instances that are configured to execute trained machine learning models in response to user-provided inputs, generating outputs that are stored and/or transmitted to user devices via the network.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2024Date of Patent: March 31, 2026Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Jr., Stefano Stefani, Owen Thomas
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Publication number: 20260030323Abstract: Artifacts, including parameters are data sets, associated with experiment tasks are stored at an experiment management service. A query specifying a particular value of a parameter and a particular data set is received, and an indication of an experiment result associated with the particular data set and the particular parameter value is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2025Publication date: January 29, 2026Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Owen Thomas, Kenneth O. Henderson, JR., Sumit Thakur, Glenn Danthi, Hugh Payton Staub, Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Vladimir Zhukov
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Patent number: 12455942Abstract: Artifacts, including parameters are data sets, associated with experiment tasks are stored at an experiment management service. A query specifying a particular value of a parameter and a particular data set is received, and an indication of an experiment result associated with the particular data set and the particular parameter value is provided.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: October 28, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Owen Thomas, Kenneth O Henderson, Jr., Sumit Thakur, Glenn Danthi, Hugh Payton Staub, Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Vladimir Zhukov
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Patent number: 12444756Abstract: Simple membrane electrode and frame assemblies for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack and improved methods for making them are disclosed which involve the use of a single adhesive layer. Using an appropriate design, the single adhesive layer can provide multiple bonds, including a bond between one of the gas diffusion layers and a catalyst coated membrane assembly, between the catalyst coated portion of the catalyst coated membrane assembly and the frame, and between either the other of the gas diffusion layers and the frame, or between an uncoated portion of the catalyst coated membrane assembly and the frame.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignees: AVL List GmbH, AVL Fuel Cell Canada Inc.Inventors: Owen Thomas, Max Cimenti, Emerson Gallagher
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Patent number: 12423615Abstract: Techniques described herein may be implemented in the context of a computing resource service provider. A machine learning (ML) service provides an interface to clients which can be used to create, read, update, and delete ML pipelines. ML pipelines can be converted to a human-readable format, which a server persists. Clients of a machine learning service can start, stop, and resume executions a ML pipeline based on the human-readable format of the ML pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Owen Thomas, Arun Babu Nagarajan, Kenneth O Henderson, Weixun Wang, Urvashi Chowdhary
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Publication number: 20250217699Abstract: A network-accessible machine learning service is provided herein. For example, the network-accessible machine learning service provider can operate one or more physical computing devices accessible to user devices via a network. These physical computing device(s) can host virtual machine instances that are configured to train machine learning models using training data referenced by a user device. These physical computing device(s) can further host virtual machine instances that are configured to execute trained machine learning models in response to user-provided inputs, generating outputs that are stored and/or transmitted to user devices via the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2024Publication date: July 3, 2025Inventors: Thomas Albert Faulhaber, JR., Stefano Stefani, Owen Thomas
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Patent number: 12009560Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell, which membrane electrode assembly comprises a membrane (2) with a catalyst layer (3) and a frame (6) arranged on the same side of the membrane (2) and a gap (5) between the catalyst layer (3) and the frame (6). To allow an easy and cost-effective way for manufacturing such a membrane assembly, the manufacturing method comprises the following steps: *- Positioning a first decal layer (10, 13), which is made of the same material as the first catalyst layer (3), on the first side of the membrane (2) in a way that the first decal layer (10, 13) overlaps the frame (6), *- positioning a second decal layer (10, 14), which is made of the same material as the second catalyst layer (4), on the second side of the membrane (2), *- pressing the first decal layer (10, 13) and the second decal layer (10, 14) against each other with the membrane (2) and the frame (6) positioned in-between.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: CELLCENTRIC GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Carmen Chuy, Owen Thomas, Keping Wang, Yunsong Yang
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Patent number: 11977958Abstract: A network-accessible machine learning service is provided herein. For example, the network-accessible machine learning service provider can operate one or more physical computing devices accessible to user devices via a network. These physical computing device(s) can host virtual machine instances that are configured to train machine learning models using training data referenced by a user device. These physical computing device(s) can further host virtual machine instances that are configured to execute trained machine learning models in response to user-provided inputs, generating outputs that are stored and/or transmitted to user devices via the network.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Jr., Stefano Stefani, Owen Thomas
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Patent number: 11797878Abstract: A network-accessible machine learning service is provided herein. For example, the network-accessible machine learning service provider can operate one or more physical computing devices accessible to user devices via a network. These physical computing device(s) can host virtual machine instances that are configured to train machine learning models using training data referenced by a user device. These physical computing device(s) can further host virtual machine instances that are configured to execute trained machine learning models in response to user-provided inputs, generating outputs that are stored and/or transmitted to user devices via the network.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Jr., Stefano Stefani, Owen Thomas
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Publication number: 20230281276Abstract: Artifacts, including parameters are data sets, associated with experiment tasks are stored at an experiment management service. A query specifying a particular value of a parameter and a particular data set is received, and an indication of an experiment result associated with the particular data set and the particular parameter value is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Owen Thomas, Kenneth O Henderson, JR., Sumit Thakur, Glenn Danthi, Hugh Payton Staub, Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Vladimir Zhukov
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Publication number: 20230155152Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrochemical fuel cell device having stacked cells and a membrane-electrode assembly (20). The membrane-electrode assembly (20) comprises, amongst others, a first gas diffusion layer (21) arranged on one side of a membrane (23) and a second gas diffusion layer (22) arranged on the opposite side of the membrane (23) for distributing fluids across each side of the membrane (23).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2022Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicants: AVL List GmbH, AVL Fuel Cell Canada Inc.Inventors: Owen THOMAS, Max CIMENTI, Laura RAIBECK
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Publication number: 20230127441Abstract: The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell, which membrane electrode assembly comprises a membrane (2) with a catalyst layer (3) and a frame (6) arranged on the same side of the membrane (2) and a gap (5) between the catalyst layer (3) and the frame (6). To allow an easy and cost-effective way for manufacturing such a membrane assembly, the manufacturing method comprises the following steps: • - Positioning a first decal layer (10, 13), which is made of the same material as the first catalyst layer (3), on the first side of the membrane (2) in a way that the first decal layer (10, 13) overlaps the frame (6), • - positioning a second decal layer (10, 14), which is made of the same material as the second catalyst layer (4), on the second side of the membrane (2), • - pressing the first decal layer (10, 13) and the second decal layer (10, 14) against each other with the membrane (2) and the frame (6) positioned in-between.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2021Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Carmen CHUY, Owen THOMAS, Keping WANG, Yunsong YANG
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Patent number: 11586847Abstract: Artifacts, including parameters are data sets, associated with experiment tasks are stored at an experiment management service. A query specifying a particular value of a parameter and a particular data set is received, and an indication of an experiment result associated with the particular data set and the particular parameter value is provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Owen Thomas, Kenneth O Henderson, Jr., Sumit Thakur, Glenn Danthi, Hugh Payton Staub, Thomas Albert Faulhaber, Vladimir Zhukov
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Publication number: 20230048138Abstract: Simple membrane electrode and frame assemblies for a solid polymer electrolyte fuel cell stack and improved methods for making them are disclosed which involve the use of a single adhesive layer. Using an appropriate design, the single adhesive layer can provide multiple bonds, including a bond between one of the gas diffusion layers and a catalyst coated membrane assembly, between the catalyst coated portion of the catalyst coated membrane assembly and the frame, and between either the other of the gas diffusion layers and the frame, or between an uncoated portion of the catalyst coated membrane assembly and the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicants: AVL List GmbH, AVL Fuel Cell Canada Inc.Inventors: Owen THOMAS, Max CIMENTI, Emerson GALLAGHER
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Patent number: 11456475Abstract: A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for a fuel cell, which membrane assembly includes a membrane with a catalyst layer and a frame arranged on the same side of the membrane and a gap between the catalyst layer and the frame. To allow an easy and cost-effective way for manufacturing such a membrane assembly, the manufacturing method may include the following steps: positioning a first decal layer, which is made of the same material as the first catalyst layer, on the first side of the membrane in a way that the first decal layer overlaps the frame, positioning a second decal layer, which is made of the same material as the second catalyst layer, on the second side of the membrane, pressing the first decal layer and the second decal layer against each other with the membrane and the frame positioned in-between.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignees: cellcentric GmbH & Co. KG, Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Owen Thomas, Keping Wang, Carmen Chuy, Yunsong Yang
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Patent number: 11201344Abstract: A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for a fuel cell. To overcome a problem of chemical degradation at an edge of the membrane, the method comprises the following steps: positioning a first decal layer, which is made of the same material as a first catalyst layer, on a first side of the membrane, positioning a second decal layer, which is made of the same material as a second catalyst layer, on a second side of the membrane, pressing a compression pad, which is positioned on the first decal layer with the first decal layer and the second decal layer fully overlapping the compression pad, and the second decal layer against each other with the first decal layer and the membrane positioned in-between, whereby pressure on the first and the second decal layer is applied only in an area covered by the compression pad.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: December 14, 2021Assignees: Daimler AG, Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Sebastian Prass, Manpal Ghuman, Andrew Leow, Jennie Eastcott, Owen Thomas
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Publication number: 20210280885Abstract: A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for a fuel cell. To overcome a problem of chemical degradation at an edge of the membrane, the method comprises the following steps: positioning a first decal layer, which is made of the same material as a first catalyst layer, on a first side of the membrane, positioning a second decal layer, which is made of the same material as a second catalyst layer, on a second side of the membrane, pressing a compression pad, which is positioned on the first decal layer with the first decal layer and the second decal layer fully overlapping the compression pad, and the second decal layer against each other with the first decal layer and the membrane positioned in-between, whereby pressure on the first and the second decal layer is applied only in an area covered by the compression pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Sebastian Prass, Manpal Ghuman, Andrew Leow, Jennie Eastcott, Owen Thomas
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Publication number: 20210280884Abstract: A method for manufacturing a membrane assembly for a fuel cell, which membrane assembly includes a membrane with a catalyst layer and a frame arranged on the same side of the membrane and a gap between the catalyst layer and the frame. To allow an easy and cost-effective way for manufacturing such a membrane assembly, the manufacturing method may include the following steps: positioning a first decal layer, which is made of the same material as the first catalyst layer, on the first side of the membrane in a way that the first decal layer overlaps the frame, positioning a second decal layer, which is made of the same material as the second catalyst layer, on the second side of the membrane, pressing the first decal layer and the second decal layer against each other with the membrane and the frame positioned in-between.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Owen Thomas, Keping Wang, Carmen Chuy, Yunsong Yang
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Patent number: 10915878Abstract: Disclosed is cash-release system and methods of use for releasing a cash balance of an account associated with a releasee from a secure facility. One embodiment includes a ticket/card printer/dispenser and a cash-release station operating at the secure facility and a network operations center operating remotely to the secure facility. The network operations center may include an operations processor that is coupled with the ticket dispenser and the cash-release station via a secure communications network, wherein the operations processor implements a cash-release management module to retrieve identity information for and the account balance of the releasee from an accounts-management and records system associated with the secure facility, to dispense an encoded ticket/card providing or linking to the identity information and the account balance, and to operate a cash-release station to read the encoded ticket, verify the identity information, and dispense the account balance to the releasee.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2018Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Union Supply Group, Inc.Inventors: Lyndel D. Hay, Doyle R. Schaefers, Owen Thomas
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Patent number: 10566640Abstract: Improved additives can be used to prepare polymer electrolyte for membrane electrode assemblies in polymer electrolyte fuel cells. Use of these improved additives can not only improve durability and performance, but can also provide a marked performance improvement during initial conditioning of the fuel cells. The additives are chemical complexes comprising certain metal and organic ligand components.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2016Date of Patent: February 18, 2020Assignees: Daimler AG, Ford Motor CompanyInventors: Keping Wang, Yunsong Yang, Carmen Chuy, Jing Li, Owen Thomas, Yuquan Zou