Patents by Inventor Patrick A. Thomas

Patrick A. 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).

  • Patent number: 11922001
    Abstract: A method of operating a device, which includes providing a user interface with a display artifact; in response to an indication a user selected to copy the display artifact, storing multiple levels of detail of the display artifact; allowing the user to paste a selected level of detail by steps of: in response to an indication a user selected an input field and a paste command, displaying a plurality of paste options for pasting the display artifact into the input field, wherein the plurality of paste options each have a unique level of detail for representing the display artifact; allowing the user to select from the plurality of paste options; and in response to an indication a user selected a paste option from the plurality of paste options, pasting the display artifact with a level of detail associated with the selected paste option into the input filed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jared Brown, John Thomas Kimbell, Patrick Evan Little, Marianna Levant, Rory Akira Malcolm Fairweather, Lisa Marie Wright, Gurpreet Virdi, Grigoriy V Lyukshin, David Chege Gitau
  • Publication number: 20240070177
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for using searchable aggregate indices associated with non-aggregated value storage. In one method, a search system stores metadata values for each of a plurality of objects in a storage unit. The metadata values are stored in corresponding value storage locations that are associated with an identifiable metadata fields. An aggregate index is provided which includes a dictionary of terms that are contained in metadata values associated with a designated set of the metadata fields. The aggregate index is searched for one or more specific search terms, and one or more of the metadata values are retrieved from the value storage locations in response to the search, where the individual metadata fields associated with the retrieved metadata values are identified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 11884894
    Abstract: A method for producing a high viscosity, low volatiles blown stripped oil blend is provided. The method may include the steps of: (i) obtaining an oil blend of corn stillage oil and soybean oil having a weight ratio of corn stillage oil to soybean oil of from about 1:2 to 3:1; (ii) heating the oil blend to at least 90° C.; (iii) passing air through the heated oil blend to produce a blown oil having a viscosity of at least 50 cSt at 40° C.; and (iv) stripping the blown oil from step (iii) to reduce an acid value of the blown oil to less than 5.0 mg KOH/gram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CARGILL, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael John Hora, Patrick Thomas Murphy, John Carl Tolfa
  • Patent number: 11889480
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, apparatus, methods and/or the like for generating a resource distribution hub using for fully electronic resource distribution by using mobile device application designed to interface with an embedded Near-Field Communication (NFC) tag in a resource distribution instrument that stores instructions for processing the resource distribution authorization information. The holder (i.e., resource provider) of the resource distribution instrument can use the resource distribution instrument to communicate to a mobile communication device having an NFC reader to read the instructions and process a resource distribution according to the parameters of the mobile device application. As such, the holder (i.e., resource provider) of the resource distribution request can process the resource distribution without having to issue a credentials, aliases, pin codes, and the like conventionally used to authorizes the distribution of resources to the resource requester.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas McConnell, William Bradley Burks, Daniel James Doherty, Justin Riley duPont, Thomas Elliott, Tony England, Matthew Murphy, Nickolas Patrick Parker, Stephen Philip Selfridge, Steven Michael Twombly, James J. Williams
  • Patent number: 11851410
    Abstract: This application relates to a method of detecting negatively charged phosphate-containing membranes and membrane components, such as in cell membranes or artificial lipid vesicles, and its use, for example, in detecting apoptosis and bacterial infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: The Governing Council of the University of Toronto
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Gunning, Dziyana Kraskouskaya, Aaron Cabral, Bronte Murcar-Evans, Krimo Toutah, Elvin De Araujo
  • Patent number: 11853168
    Abstract: Responsive to a request from a user device, a content server may perform an electronic discovery function. The request may include information on a quantity of data objects desired from a collection of data objects stored in a repository. Objects stored in the repository may be managed by the content server. The content server may determine a number of batches and process the collection of data objects into batches, each having a batch size. An efficient selection process may be determined and utilized in selecting data objects from each of the batches such that a total number of data objects selected from the collection is not less than the quantity of data objects desired. The content server may make a disk image of the selected data objects and communicate same to the user device over a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Hélène Boyd
  • Patent number: 11853334
    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer program products for using searchable aggregate indices associated with non-aggregated value storage. In one method, a search system stores metadata values for each of a plurality of objects in a storage unit. The metadata values are stored in corresponding value storage locations that are associated with an identifiable metadata fields. An aggregate index is provided which includes a dictionary of terms that are contained in metadata values associated with a designated set of the metadata fields. The aggregate index is searched for one or more specific search terms, and one or more of the metadata values are retrieved from the value storage locations in response to the search, where the individual metadata fields associated with the retrieved metadata values are identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Publication number: 20230409588
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problem of query construction for finding objects that include some number (N) of a set of terms (M). Moreover, embodiments as disclosed herein may efficiently implement the searches specified by such subset operators using a subset process that combines results from a set of term processes where only one term process may be needed for each search term (or search term variant).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, David Alan Tausky
  • Patent number: 11847729
    Abstract: Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for remote production collaboration tools. The remote production collaboration tools can include one or more client devices, a server providing a single connection point, and an animation server configured to produce an animated production. The one or more client devices may provide motion capture data, audio data, control data, and/or associated timestamps. The animation server is configured to process the motion capture data, audio data, control data, and/or the associated timestamps and create the animated production. The animated production may be transmitted as a video stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Evil Eye Pictures LLC
    Inventors: Alastair Macleod, Andrew Michael Angulo, Matthew Keith McDonald, Patrick Thomas Osborne, Arnold Joseph Riebli, III, James Paul Ritts, Daniel P Rosen, Justin Schubert, Yovel Schwartz, Brian William Smith
  • Publication number: 20230399144
    Abstract: A web of preformed bags includes a sheet material and a cushioning material. The sheet material includes two sheets that are arranged to form a series of bags. The sheets are connected together to form sides of each of the bags. Each of the bags is bounded by an opening and the sides where sheets are connected together. The cushioning material is coupled to inner surfaces of the sheets in each of the bags. The web further includes a line of weakness in at least one of the sheets between each of the bags. After an object is loaded in one of the bags, the opening of the one of the bags is configured to be sealed closed with the object therein such that the cushioning material in the one of the bags is arranged to cushion the object when the one of the bags is sealed closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Gary Walter Starks, Patrick Thomas Carr, Michael John Hosken
  • Publication number: 20230383956
    Abstract: Device and method are described for operational control of a knob on a stove or range. In some examples, a safety device, a sensor relay device, and method are described for automatically positioning an operational shaft of a burner to an Off position such that the power supplied to the burner is terminated upon the occurrence of a safety event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ranjith Babu, Akshita Iyer, Patrick Thomas Bailey, Raeshon McNeil, Jeremy Losaw
  • Patent number: 11823430
    Abstract: A method for processing video data, comprising: receiving raw video data, representative of a plurality of frames; detecting, using the raw video data, one or more regions of interest in a detection frame that belongs to the plurality of frames, for example using a region proposal network; performing a cropping process on a portion of the raw video data representative of the detection frame, based on the regions of interest, so as to generate cropped raw video data; performing image processing on the cropped raw video data, including demosaicing, so as to generate processed image data for the detection frame; and analyzing the processed image data, for example using an object detection process, to determine information relating to at least one of said one or more regions of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Arm Limited
    Inventors: Paul Nicholas Whatmough, Patrick Thomas Hansen
  • Publication number: 20230366783
    Abstract: Instrumentation comb for an aircraft engine including a central tube with a longitudinal axis on which a determined number of orifices spaced apart along this longitudinal axis are drilled and a base forming a proximal end of this tube and intended to be fixed on a crankcase portion of the aircraft engine, each orifice being associated with a sensor for measuring a physical parameter of the aircraft engine and the base integrates a slave processing unit connected to each of the measuring sensors by a communication link able to receive in real time digital measurement data corresponding to the physical parameters measured by the measuring sensors and intended to be communicated to a master processing unit by a single communication link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN
    Inventors: Oscar D′ALMEIDA, Raouia GHODHBANE MASMOUDI, Sabri JANFAOUI, Patrick THOMAS
  • Patent number: 11811922
    Abstract: A key generation device for a vehicle-internal communication system and a method for the vehicle-internal management of cryptographic keys comprises providing at least one secret for a vehicle-internal key generation device and generation of at least one new cryptographic key by the vehicle-internal key generation device on the basis of the at least one secret. The generation and providing of the at least one new cryptographic key takes place autonomously and is triggered by a key-exchange event, or a combination of key-exchange events. The key-exchange event may be one of a vehicle-internal change, an environmental change and a security key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Marc Sebastian Patric Stöttinger, Patrick Thomas Michael Klapper
  • Patent number: 11788858
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Dal Santo, Hyo Jeong Shin, Krishna M. Behara, Marcos R. Vescovi, Patrick Thomas Dillon, Richard B. Warren, Ronald K. Huang, Xufeng Han
  • Patent number: 11775541
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problem of query construction for finding objects that include some number (N) of a set of terms (M). Moreover, embodiments as disclosed herein may efficiently implement the searches specified by such subset operators using a subset process that combines results from a set of term processes where only one term process may be needed for each search term (or search term variant).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Open Text SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, David Alan Tausky
  • Patent number: 11761785
    Abstract: Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael P. Dal Santo, Hyo Jeong Shin, Krishna M. Behara, Marcos R. Vescovi, Patrick Thomas Dillon, Richard B. Warren, Ronald K. Huang, Xufeng Han
  • Publication number: 20230265055
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds that are useful for the inhibition of Signal Transducer and Activator of Transcription 5a and 5b (STAT5). Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer, such as, for example, breast cancer, hematological cancer, and pancreatic cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Roman FLECK, John PROUDFOOT, Jeff OMEARA, Patrick Thomas GUNNING, Ahmed Magdy ALI, David Alexander ROSA, Angel Sampedro PALERM, Alla DARWISH, Alford Antoine JOHN
  • Publication number: 20230259563
    Abstract: A search engine may maintain a list of derived metadata. When an event occurs that requires updating a search index, the search engine can determine which metadata is derived metadata and take appropriate actions with respect to the derived metadata. For example, if a request is received to update the index for a particular object, the search engine may protect the derived metadata from change while updating the other metadata in the index. As another example, if a request is received to update the text content for the object, the search engine may change the text content and the derived metadata. By identifying derived metadata, the search engine can protect the derived metadata from change when a request is received that otherwise causes metadata to change and can change the derived metadata when a request is received that would otherwise not change the metadata portion of the index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 11720462
    Abstract: A method of monitoring execution of computer instructions includes receiving data items representing real-time measurements of side-channel information emanating from execution of computer instructions, each data item forming a value of a corresponding dimension of a side-channel information vector, receiving, for two or more of the dimensions of the side-channel vector, classifiers that assign the corresponding values of a side-channel vector to classes, and classifying the data items in accordance with the received classifiers, wherein an orthogonal distance of the data item from the classifier indicates a confidence value of the classification, generating a combined a confidence value for the side-channel information vector a, and outputting a signal if a confidence value indicates affiliation to a selected one of the two classes with a predetermined probability. The method conducts a self-test by generating a combined confidence value based to ensure correct outputting of the confidence value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Michael Klapper, Marc Sebastian Patric Stöttinger, Miguel Hernandez