Patents by Inventor Patrick A. Davis

Patrick A. Davis 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: 11253212
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of X-ray detector cassettes that may be abutted or overlapped to form a detector assembly suitable for imaging objects that are too large to image using a single X-ray detector cassette. Such a detector assembly may be customized in terms of the size and/or shape of the field-of-view (FOV). In certain embodiments the radiation-sensitive electronics (e.g., readout electronics) are positioned to the side of the X-ray detecting components (e.g., scintillator, TFT array, and so forth), allowing the cassette to be thin relative to other detector devices and allowing the electronics to remain outside the X-ray beam path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Biju Jacob, Douglas Albagli, William Robert Ross, William Andrew Hennessy, Eric Patrick Davis, Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Nicholas Ryan Konkle
  • Publication number: 20210204889
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of X-ray detector cassettes that may be abutted or overlapped to form a detector assembly suitable for imaging objects that are too large to image using a single X-ray detector cassette. Such a detector assembly may be customized in terms of the size and/or shape of the field-of-view (FOV). In certain embodiments the radiation-sensitive electronics (e.g., readout electronics) are positioned to the side of the X-ray detecting components (e.g., scintillator, TFT array, and so forth), allowing the cassette to be thin relative to other detector devices and allowing the electronics to remain outside the X-ray beam path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Biju Jacob, Douglas Albagli, William Robert Ross, William Andrew Hennessy, Eric Patrick Davis, Bruno Kristiaan Bernard De Man, Nicholas Ryan Konkle
  • Patent number: 11055725
    Abstract: A system and method for temporal feasibility analyses that links a service requirement to a source capable of providing a service. In embodiments, the service requirement is received from a requestor, wherein the service requirement defines a type of service, location, and a request to provide the service within a predetermined time period. A repository of sources is analyzed to determine qualified sources that provide service to a region that includes the service location and have a response status greater than a predefined threshold, where the response status indicates a probability of the source being available to provide the service within the time period. A request is sent to each qualified source to provide the service, and responses are then received from at least one of the qualified sources in response to sending the request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: HOMEADVISOR, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Zeckser, Brandon Ridenour, Andrew Tilley, Patrick Davis, Casey Laird, Eric Smith
  • Publication number: 20200293535
    Abstract: A method is provided for conducting an asset inventory for a site location comprising the steps of, providing a user with a mobile interface, collecting a site ID, collecting an equipment ID, collecting equipment asset information, associating the equipment ID and equipment asset information with the site ID, and storing the equipment asset information, equipment ID, and site ID in one or more data repositories. A system for conducting site surveys is provided that comprises a server, one or more data repositories, a mobile data interface, a network, and a series of rules corresponding to service and maintenance of site equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventor: Patrick Davis
  • Patent number: 10423471
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating the integration of native applications and virtualized applications. Calls initiated from within a native application associated with a native namespace are monitored for integrated calls. The integrated calls involve resources accessible through a virtual namespace. Upon detecting an integrated call, the integrated call is provided with access to a corresponding resource by way of the virtual namespace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Doug Mangini, Patrick Davis
  • Publication number: 20190277747
    Abstract: An optical fouling sensor includes optical heating and optical temperature measurement of a sensor. The optical signals can interact with the sensor either through optical fibers or free space optical signals or any combination of the two. Using a heat transfer equation allows determination of the amount of fouling on a sensor, from the optical measurements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Bjustrom Holt, Fabien Souris, John Patrick Davis, Vincent Theo Karel Sauer, Julian Haagsma
  • Patent number: 10409901
    Abstract: Collaboration communication tools within a document editor are provided. An application such as a document authoring application displays a document and a communication panel adjacent to the document. The communication panel presents a conversation associated with the document. Communications and/or conversations associated with the documents may be obtained from different applications and aggregated to be presented in conjunction with the document. A new entry is detected for an insertion into the conversation associated with the document. The new entry is inserted into the conversation. An insertion of a section of the document into the conversation is also detected. The section of the document is tracked. The section of the document is displayed embedded into the conversation within the communication panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ruth Kikin-Gil, Patrick Davis, Shikha Desai, Seyit Yilmaz, Wesley Hodgson
  • Publication number: 20190254546
    Abstract: The present approach relates to the fabrication of probes of a probe array device using wire bonding techniques. In certain implementation, a wire bond apparatus bonds ones end of a wire to a region of a probe array substrate. The second end, however, is not bonded to the substrate and instead is either fabricated to be vertical with respect to the substrate or raised from a non-bonded site to be vertical. The process may be repeated to form multiple probes of the probe array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Craig Patrick Galligan, Nancy Cecelia Stoffel, Eric Patrick Davis, Kaustubh Ravindra Nagarkar
  • Publication number: 20180268419
    Abstract: A system and method for temporal feasibility analyses that links a service requirement to a source capable of providing a service. In embodiments, the service requirement is received from a requestor, wherein the service requirement defines a type of service, location, and a request to provide the service within a predetermined time period. A repository of sources is analyzed to determine qualified sources that provide service to a region that includes the service location and have a response status greater than a predefined threshold, where the response status indicates a probability of the source being available to provide the service within the time period. A request is sent to each qualified source to provide the service, and responses are then received from at least one of the qualified sources in response to sending the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Paul Zeckser, Brandon Ridenour, Andrew Tilley, Patrick Davis, Casey Laird, Eric Smith
  • Patent number: 10078627
    Abstract: Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Shikha Desai, Gary Caldwell, Rolf Ebeling, Taili Feng, Paul Scudieri, Sung Joon Won, Eugene Y. Suh, Ruth Kikin-Gil, Patrick Davis, Derik Stenerson, Suzan Marashi, Navneet Kambo, Zachary Burstain, Erin O'Connell
  • Publication number: 20180235544
    Abstract: A system includes an implantable sensor assembly. The implantable sensor assembly includes a housing. The housing includes a substrate layer comprising an interior surface and an exterior surface, and a cap layer, wherein the substrate layer and the cap layer are coupled to form an enclosed cavity that at least partially encloses the interior surface of the substrate layer within the cavity and wherein both the substrate layer and the cap layer are formed from an insulating material. The implantable sensor assembly also includes one or more electronic components disposed within the cavity of the housing and one or more probes disposed on the exterior surface of the substrate layer and electrically coupled to the one or more electronic components by one or more electrical connections extending through the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Kaustubh Ravindra Nagarkar, Jeffrey Michael Ashe, Eric Patrick Davis, Nancy Cecelia Stoffel
  • Publication number: 20170366641
    Abstract: A social networking platform can provide universal profiles. A universal profile can define a user's account on the social networking platform of the present invention and can include a number of different endpoints by which the user can establish channels with other users. These endpoints can include a phone number endpoint and an email endpoint as well as a number of endpoints pertaining to the user's profiles with other social networking platforms. A user can define which endpoints will be included in his or her universal profile. Then, when other users view the user's universal profile, they will be able to see which endpoints the user has included and will be able to create a channel with the user via any of the endpoints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: John Mitchell Fultz, Daniel Gene Collingridge, Bryan Lloyd Anderson, William Madison Clifton, III, Eric Jeffrey Bateman, Scott Patrick Davis, Yuvraj Parihar
  • Publication number: 20170192805
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating the integration of native applications and virtualized applications. Calls initiated from within a native application associated with a native namespace are monitored for integrated calls. The integrated calls involve resources accessible through a virtual namespace. Upon detecting an integrated call, the integrated call is provided with access to a corresponding resource by way of the virtual namespace.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Doug Mangini, Patrick Davis
  • Patent number: 9663247
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and vacuum chucks for transferring flexible elongate bodies are disclosed herein. The vacuum chucks include an elongate rigid support, a vertically oriented vacuum surface, a vacuum manifold, and a skirt seal. The systems include an elongate horizontal support structure, a transfer structure, a plurality of vertical linkages, which are operatively attached to the elongate horizontal support structure, and a plurality of vacuum chucks. Each of the plurality of vacuum chucks is operatively attached to a respective one of the plurality of vertical linkages. The methods include suspending an elongate horizontal support structure with a transfer structure, aligning each of a plurality of vacuum chucks with a respective portion of a vertical surface of a flexible elongate body, selectively actuating each of the plurality of vacuum chucks to retain the respective portion of the vertical surface of the flexible elongate body, and lifting the flexible elongate body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel M. Rotter, Kieran Patrick Davis, Stephen Lee Metschan, Richard V. Phillips, Joseph J. Pruss
  • Patent number: 9666516
    Abstract: An electronic package and a method of making the same in provided. The electronic package includes a dielectric layer and a conformal masking layer disposed on at least a portion of the dielectric layer. The electronic package further includes a routing layer disposed on at least a portion of the masking layer and a micro-via disposed at least in part in the conformal masking layer and the routing layer. Further, at least a portion of the routing layer forms a conformal electrically conductive layer in at least a portion of the micro-via. Also, the conformal masking layer is configured to define a size of the micro-via. The electronic package further includes a semiconductor die operatively coupled to the micro-via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Scott Smith, Christopher James Kapusta, Glenn Alan Forman, Eric Patrick Davis
  • Publication number: 20170147547
    Abstract: Collaboration cards are provided to enable people to collaborate and receive instant replies to comments or questions from anywhere in a collaboratively generated document. A collaborator may add somebody's name to a collaboration card and ask that person for information, for example. That person may receive the question/comment via an email, a text message, a posting, or comparable communication methods, and respond back with the requested information through the same communication channel or another communication channel. The replied content may be placed into the collaboration card created in the document, and the original sender may be enabled to accept a change to the document content based on the collaboration card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Inventors: Shikha Desai, Gary Caldwell, Rolf Ebeling, Taili Feng, Paul Scudieri, Sung Joon Won, Eugene Suh, Ruth Kikin-Gil, Patrick Davis, Derik Stenerson, Suzan Marashi, Navneet Kambo, Zachary Burstain, Erin O'Connell
  • Patent number: 9642566
    Abstract: A flexible embedded sensor array includes a first substrate, an electrically conductive pad disposed on at least a portion of the first substrate, and a plurality of sensors disposed on at least a portion of electrically conductive pads. Further, the flexible embedded sensor array includes an electrically non-conductive adhesive material disposed in proximity to one or more of the plurality of sensors, a second substrate, and an electrical contact disposed between at least a portion of the sensor and at least a portion of the second substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Christopher James Kapusta, Eric Patrick Davis, Jason Harris Karp
  • Patent number: 9632853
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating the integration of native applications and virtualized applications. Calls initiated from within a native application associated with a native namespace are monitored for integrated calls. The integrated calls involve resources accessible through a virtual namespace. Upon detecting an integrated call, the integrated call is provided with access to a corresponding resource by way of the virtual namespace.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Abhishek Agarwal, Doug Mangini, Patrick Davis
  • Publication number: 20170083490
    Abstract: Collaboration communication tools within a document editor are provided. An application such as a document authoring application displays a document and a communication panel adjacent to the document. The communication panel presents a conversation associated with the document. Communications and/or conversations associated with the documents may be obtained from different applications and aggregated to be presented in conjunction with the document. A new entry is detected for an insertion into the conversation associated with the document. The new entry is inserted into the conversation. An insertion of a section of the document into the conversation is also detected. The section of the document is tracked. The section of the document is displayed embedded into the conversation within the communication panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Ruth Kikin-Gil, Patrick Davis, Shikha Desai, Seyit Yilmaz, Wesley Hodgson
  • Publication number: 20160251091
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and vacuum chucks for transferring flexible elongate bodies are disclosed herein. The vacuum chucks include an elongate rigid support, a vertically oriented vacuum surface, a vacuum manifold, and a skirt seal. The systems include an elongate horizontal support structure, a transfer structure, a plurality of vertical linkages, which are operatively attached to the elongate horizontal support structure, and a plurality of vacuum chucks. Each of the plurality of vacuum chucks is operatively attached to a respective one of the plurality of vertical linkages. The methods include suspending an elongate horizontal support structure with a transfer structure, aligning each of a plurality of vacuum chucks with a respective portion of a vertical surface of a flexible elongate body, selectively actuating each of the plurality of vacuum chucks to retain the respective portion of the vertical surface of the flexible elongate body, and lifting the flexible elongate body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel M. Rotter, Kieran Patrick Davis, Stephen Lee Metschan, Richard V. Phillips, Joseph J. Pruss