Patents by Inventor Patrick Philips
Patrick Philips 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: 11969751Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system by which a precise amount of a viscous fluid sealing compound can be dispensed at required locations through computer vision-based observation of the fluid deposited, its rate and amount of deposition and location; and that the dispensed fluid may be accurately shaped through robotic or other special purpose mechanism motion. The invention enables instant quality inspection of the dispensing process in terms of the locations, amounts and shapes of newly created seals.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: MACDONALD, DETTWILER AND ASSOCIATES INC.Inventors: Limin Shang, Adam Neil Philip, Piotr Jasiobedzki, Mark Patrick Barnet, Timothy Reedman
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Publication number: 20240122564Abstract: A method of training a neural network is described that includes receiving an image of an anatomical portion of a subject, receiving a CAD model of a surgical implant, generating a first simulated image based on the image and the CAD model, the first simulated image depicting the surgical implant and the anatomical portion of the subject, modifying the simulated image to include simulated artifacts from metal, beam hardening, and scatter, to yield a second simulated image corresponding to the first simulated image, and providing the second simulated image to a neural network as an example input and the first simulated image to the neural network as an example output.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Andre D. A. Souza, Michael Philip Marrama, Patrick A. Helm, Mehdi Rahman, Kyo C. Jin, Michael D. Ketcha
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Publication number: 20240102493Abstract: A hydraulic drive system for an agricultural implement includes a high pressure supply line configured to provide hydraulic fluid under pressure. The hydraulic drive system also includes a low pressure return line configured to return the hydraulic fluid. The hydraulic drive system further includes a plurality of hydraulic motors and coupled to the high pressure supply line. The hydraulic drive system still further includes a plurality of cylinder systems isolated from the high pressure supply line to minimize a supply pressure of the hydraulic fluid provided from a pump coupled to the high pressure supply line and to minimize throttling losses in the hydraulic drive system during operation of the hydraulic drive system.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Francesco Pintore, Stefano Fiorati, Eugenio Leati, Trevor Philip Stanhope, Xiaofan Guo, Andrea Vacca, Patrick Michael Stump
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Patent number: 11933332Abstract: A hydraulic drive system for an agricultural implement includes a high pressure supply line configured to provide hydraulic fluid under pressure. The hydraulic drive system also includes a low pressure return line configured to return the hydraulic fluid. The hydraulic drive system further includes a plurality of hydraulic motors and coupled to the high pressure supply line. The hydraulic drive system still further includes a plurality of cylinder systems isolated from the high pressure supply line to minimize a supply pressure of the hydraulic fluid provided from a pump coupled to the high pressure supply line and to minimize throttling losses in the hydraulic drive system during operation of the hydraulic drive system.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: CNH Industrial America LLCInventors: Francesco Pintore, Stefano Fiorati, Eugenio Leati, Trevor Philip Stanhope, Xiaofan Guo, Andrea Vacca, Patrick Michael Stump
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Patent number: 10927999Abstract: A support assembly is configured to be arranged as a tripod and as a handle. The support assembly has a first leg, further having a first leg upper plate, a first leg lower plate having a first leg lower plate magnet, and a first leg lower magnet. A second leg further has a second leg upper plate having a second leg upper plate magnet, a second leg lower plate, and a second leg lower magnet. A third leg further has a third leg upper plate having a third leg upper plate magnet, a third leg lower plate having a third leg lower plate magnet, and a third leg stop plate. The legs can be arranged to form either a handle or a tripod.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2019Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Inventors: Caleb Lawrence Wojcik, Patrick Philip Flynn
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Patent number: 10687927Abstract: The invention relates to a method to automatically predict a calving moment of a cow, comprising: recording, by a three-dimensional camera system, at least one three-dimensional image of the cow, processing, by a processing device, the at least one image of the cow, wherein processing of the image comprises determining a parameter indicative of the calving moment, and predicting a calving moment of the cow on the basis of the parameter.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventors: Ester De Groot, Xiangyu Song, Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Patent number: 10571458Abstract: A method and a device for determining the emission of greenhouse gas, in particular methane, by ruminants, in particular dairy animals includes counting eructations (“belches”) of the animal. This is done by measuring a signal linked to the eructations, for example sound with a microphone. Given that the methane content of an eructation of this type is more or less constant, the total methane emission can be derived therefrom by counting.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventor: Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Patent number: 10405957Abstract: A method for monitoring oestrus of a cattle animal, for example a cow. The method includes: a) collecting activity data of the animal, b) computing a current activity level based on the activity data, c) deciding whether to generate an oestrus attention signal by comparing at least one current activity level to a corresponding baseline activity level. The computing b) further includes b1) detecting travelling movements of the animal and b2) correcting the baseline activity level for detected travelling movements.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: Lely Patent N.V.Inventors: Pieter Neelus Kool, Adolf Jan Van Der Kamp, Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Patent number: 10244736Abstract: Monitoring activity of an animal in a system for housing freely moving animals including a plurality of animal ID stations, includes the steps of a) recording a first visit of said animal at a first of said animal ID stations, b) recording a subsequent second visit of said animal at a second of said animal ID stations, and c) determining a distance covered by said animal as the distance between said first animal ID station at said first visit and said second animal ID station at said second visit. With such simple means, parts of which are already present in e.g. most robot dairy stables, important information about activity of animals can easily be gathered.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2013Date of Patent: April 2, 2019Assignee: Lely Patent N.V.Inventors: Xiangyu Song, Pieter Neelus Kool, Adolf Jan Van Der Kamp, Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Patent number: 10154654Abstract: A method to determine a body condition score of an animal including: providing a three-dimensional camera system configured and arranged to record at least one three-dimensional image of the animal, and an image processing device to process the image; recording at least one three-dimensional image of the animal; processing the image. The processing the image includes: forming a three-dimensional surface representation of a part of the animal from the three-dimensional image recorded by the three-dimensional camera system; determining, in the image, reference points of the animal, at least including hook bone points and pin bone points of the animal; selecting a surface part of the animal representative for a body condition of the animal using the reference points; analyzing a first parameter representative for a body condition of the animal of the selected surface part; and determining the body condition score based on the first parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventors: Adolf Jan Van Der Kamp, Xiangyu Song, Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Patent number: 10071956Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of dibenzenesulfonimide.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2015Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: SRF LIMITEDInventors: Thirupathi Arumugam, Mariano Patrick Philips, Dilli Babu, Maheshwaran Chellaiah, Sarathy Iyengar, Rajdeep Anand
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Publication number: 20180228587Abstract: The invention relates to a method to automatically predict a calving moment of a cow, comprising: recording, by a three-dimensional camera system, at least one three-dimensional image of the cow, processing, by a processing device, the at least one image of the cow, wherein processing of the image comprises determining a parameter indicative of the calving moment, and predicting a calving moment of the cow on the basis of the parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventors: Ester DE GROOT, Xiangyu SONG, Patrick Philip Jacob VAN DER TOL
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Patent number: 9918454Abstract: A method and device are provided for generating an attention indication for a dairy animal that is kept in an environment with a freely accessible robotic milking system, including measuring a plurality of visit intervals, milking intervals, respectively of said dairy animal, determining a value of a statistical parameter regarding the measured plurality of intervals from the measured intervals, generating the attention indication, in particular a mastitis alarm signal, if the value exceeds a predetermined threshold value. Valuable information can be derived from the spread of, or change in, the values.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventor: Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Publication number: 20170210705Abstract: The present invention provides a process for the preparation of dibenzenesulfonimide.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2015Publication date: July 27, 2017Inventors: Thirupathi ARUMUGAM, Mariano Patrick PHILIPS, Dilli BABU, Maheshwaran CHELLAIAH, Sarathy IYENGAR, Rajdeep ANAND
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Publication number: 20170020113Abstract: A method to determine a body condition score of an animal including: providing a three-dimensional camera system configured and arranged to record at least one three-dimensional image of the animal, and an image processing device to process the image; recording at least one three-dimensional image of the animal; processing the image. The processing the image includes: forming a three-dimensional surface representation of a part of the animal from the three-dimensional image recorded by the three-dimensional camera system; determining, in the image, reference points of the animal, at least including hook bone points and pin bone points of the animal; selecting a surface part of the animal representative for a body condition of the animal using the reference points; analyzing a first parameter representative for a body condition of the animal of the selected surface part; and determining the body condition score based on the first parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: Lely Patent N.V.Inventors: Adolf Jan VAN DER KAMP, Xiangyu SONG, Patrick Philip Jacob VAN DER TOL
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Publication number: 20160295838Abstract: The invention relates to a method to monitor growth of an animal, in particular a calf, the method including recording, by a three-dimensional camera system, at least one three-dimensional image of the animal, and processing, by a processing device, the at least one image of the animal, wherein processing of the image comprises the steps of: forming a three-dimensional surface representation of a surface part of the animal from the at least one image, determining a size parameter representative for the size of the animal on the basis of the surface representation, and determining a volume parameter representative for the volume of the animal, and monitoring the volume parameter and size parameter or a combination thereof to monitor growth of the animal.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: Lely Patent N.V.Inventors: Adolf Jan VAN DER KAMP, Patrick Philip Jacob VAN DER TOL
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Patent number: 9250226Abstract: A method for estimating a greenhouse gas emission from a ruminant in a loose housing environment, and in a predetermined time period from T0 to Tdesired, the method including: determining a model emission rate function EM(t) for the ruminant determining the moments of eating feed by the ruminant, at least during the predetermined time period, as a series of points in time {T1, T2, T3, . . . , Tn} constructing the estimated real emission rate function ER(t) on the basis of the model emission rate function and the moments of eating feed, and integrating ER(t) from T0 to Tdesired. Also provided is a greenhouse gas emission estimation device, arranged to perform this method. In the device and method, use is made of the insight that knowing the eating moments can fine-tune calculations for establishing greenhouse gas emissions from the animals.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventors: Adolf Jan Van Der Kamp, Leendert Kool, Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Publication number: 20150351885Abstract: A method for monitoring oestrus of a cattle animal, for example a cow. The method includes: a) collecting activity data of the animal, b) computing a current activity level based on the activity data, c) deciding whether to generate an oestrus attention signal by comparing at least one current activity level to a corresponding baseline activity level. The computing b) further includes b1) detecting travelling movements of the animal and b2) correcting the baseline activity level for detected travelling movements.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2013Publication date: December 10, 2015Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventors: Pieter Neelus KOOL, Adolf Jan VAN DER KAMP, Patrick Philip, Jacob VAN DER TOL
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Patent number: 9164081Abstract: A method and a device for determining the emission of greenhouse gas, in particular methane, by ruminants, in particular dairy animals includes counting eructations (“belches”) of the animal. This is done by measuring a signal linked to the eructations, for example sound with a microphone. Given that the methane content of an eructation of this type is more or less constant, the total methane emission can be derived therefrom by counting.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventor: Patrick Philip Jacob Van Der Tol
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Patent number: D757053Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2013Date of Patent: May 24, 2016Assignee: LEVEL 3 COMMUNICATIONS, LLCInventors: Yunas Nadiadi, Paul Farnsworth, Jeff Storey, Ajit Kumar Rao, Eric David Gundersen, Allen Edward Dixon, Sanjiv Kumar, Rene Grippo, Luke Patrick Philips, Rajiv Kumar Singh, Christopher John Cuttitta