Patents by Inventor Patrick Thomas

Patrick 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).

  • Publication number: 20250108436
    Abstract: A method for capturing trapped powder from a part during an additive manufacturing process, the method comprising defining parameters for a part, the part defining an interior passageway defined by interior sidewalls, defining parameters for a powder removal cap, the powder removal cap comprising a body portion and a thin radial membrane connected to the interior sidewalls of the part, simultaneously creating the part and the powder removal cap via additive manufacturing, wherein the powder removal cap is created within the interior passageway and, upon completion of the creation of the part and the powder removal cap, the powder removal cap traps excess powder within the interior passageway, removing the powder removal cap from the interior passageway by breaking the radial membrane from the interior sidewalls to permit access to the interior passageway, and capturing the excess powder within the interior passageway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Ante Tony Lausic, Adam Golembeski, Patrick J. Eding
  • Patent number: 12261498
    Abstract: An actuator is introduced that utilizes the forces that result from placing a current carrying coil in a magnetic field to rotate a connected object about at least one axis. In some embodiments, the introduced coil actuator includes a coil of conductor coupled to an arm or other type of structural element that extends radially from an axis of rotation. The introduced coil actuator can be utilized to provide motion control in a variety of different applications such as gimbal mechanisms. In some embodiments, the introduced coil actuator can be implemented in a gimbal mechanism for adjusting an orientation of a device such as a camera relative to a connected platform such as the body of an aerial vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Skydio, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Thomas Adams, Patrick Allen Lowe, Benjamin Scott Thompson, Abraham Galton Bachrach, Adam Parker Bry
  • Patent number: 12257403
    Abstract: Vascular access devices and methods of their use are provided. In one embodiment, a vascular access device includes a catheter and at least one deployable wire. The catheter includes a primary lumen extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the catheter. The at least one deployable wire is secured to the catheter and configured to move relative to the catheter between a delivery configuration and a deployed configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Access Flow Systems, LLC
    Inventors: L. Van Thomas Crisco, Ashley B. Hancock, Charles Bruce Moomey, Brian Patrick Walsh, Paul John Grata, Donald A. Richardson
  • Publication number: 20250091170
    Abstract: A cooling manifold assembly configured to deliver cutting fluid includes a manifold body with a coupling for fastening the manifold body to a non-movable portion of a device configured to hold and rotate a workpiece around a central rotational axis of a guide bushing or collet of the device, where the manifold body surrounds at least a portion of the central rotational axis. A first inlet is fluidly coupled to a first channel defined in the manifold body, and a plurality of first outlets of the manifold body are fluidly coupled to the first inlet such that the plurality of first outlets are configured to direct the cutting fluid at a plurality of positions around the central rotational axis at one or a plurality of discharge angles such that the cutting fluid contacts the workpiece and is transmitted away from the guide bushing or collet of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Kellas, Sean Daniel David Bradshaw, Elijah Thomas Dukart
  • Patent number: 12251858
    Abstract: A method and system for composite molding, and the method includes additively manufacturing a mold shell that includes a part forming cavity. The method includes filling at least a portion of the mold shell with a strengthening agent. The method includes hardening the strengthening agent to form a mold, and laying-up a composite material on the part forming cavity. The method includes curing the mold to form a composite part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Gary Latham, Jeffrey G. Price, Andrew Thomas Cunningham, Thomas Curtis, Adam Golembeski, Patrick J Eding
  • Publication number: 20250086558
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining and aggregating first image content of an equipment site resulting in first aggregated image content, and providing the first aggregated image content to communication devices that render it on a respective display. Further embodiments include identifying first equipment from first user-generated input, and adjusting the first aggregated image content with a first equipment image resulting in second aggregated image content. Additional embodiments include identifying second equipment from second user-generated input, and adjusting the second aggregated image content with a second equipment image resulting in third aggregated image content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Leffler, Amanda Jean Peterlin, Jeffrey Patrick Thomas, Richard Raley, Alicia Shewring
  • Patent number: 12247182
    Abstract: A liquid laundry composition having from about 6% to about 50%, by weight of the laundry composition, of a surfactant component. The surfactant component having from about 0.5% to about 30%, by weight of the laundry composition, of an HLAS surfactant selected from alkyl benzene sulfonic acids, alkali metal or amine salts of C10-16 alkyl benzene sulfonic acids, wherein the HLAS surfactant comprises greater than 50% C12.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Phillip Kyle Vinson, Randall Thomas Reilman, Patrick Christopher Stenger, Cheyne Thomas
  • Publication number: 20250075650
    Abstract: An exhaust gas treatment system including: an internal combustion engine comprising an exhaust gas outlet; a first three way catalyst downstream of the exhaust gas outlet, wherein the first three way catalyst receives an exhaust output from the exhaust gas outlet; a hydrocarbon trap downstream of the first three way catalyst, wherein the hydrocarbon trap receives an exhaust output from the first three way catalyst; an exhaust heating unit downstream of the hydrocarbon trap, wherein the exhaust heating unit receives an exhaust output from the hydrocarbon trap; and a second three way catalyst downstream of the exhaust heating unit, wherein the second three way catalyst receives an exhaust output from the heating unit, wherein an air injection port is configured to selectively deliver a stream of air upstream of the hydrocarbon trap and downstream of the first three way catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yuntao Gu, Patrick G. Szymkowicz, Wei Li, Calvin Thomas, Mingjie Tu
  • Publication number: 20250052780
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices are provided for determining a status of a container. Some example systems include a container configured to rotate such that material(s) that may be disposed within the container are able to exit the container due to gravitational force. The systems also include a device connected to the container, which includes an accelerometer configured to sense movement corresponding to the container discharging the material(s). Such systems may also include a processor and a memory, and the processor may be configured to receive accelerometer data from the accelerometer, determine a tilt angle of the container based on the accelerometer data, determine whether the tilt angle satisfies a predetermined threshold, and cause a user to be notified when the tilt angle satisfies the predetermined threshold. The predetermined threshold may be a value representative of an assumption that a certain amount of the material(s) has been removed from the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Altman
  • Publication number: 20250032007
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to provide guidance to a user regarding management of a physiologic condition such as diabetes. The determination may be based upon a patient glucose concentration level. The glucose concentration level may be provided to a stored model to determine a state. The guidance may be determined based at least in part on the determined state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Alexandra Elena CONSTANTIN, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Naresh C. BHAVARAJU, Jennifer D. BLACKWELL, Eric S. COHEN, Basab DATTARAY, Anna Leigh DAVIS, Rian W. DRAEGER, Arturo GARCIA, John Michael GRAY, Hari HAMPAPURAM, Nathaniel David HEINTZMANN, Lauren Hruby JEPSON, Matthew Lawrence JOHNSON, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Phil MAYOU, Patrick Wile MCBRIDE, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Sumitaka MIKAMI, Andrew Attila PAL, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Philip Thomas PUPA, Eli REIHMAN, Peter C. SIMPSON, Tomas C. WALKER, Daniel Justin WIEDEBACK, Subrai Girish PAI, Matthew T. VOGEL
  • Patent number: 12210570
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed herein provide for a system and method that can manage indexing for search index partitions in a computerized search system in an automated, efficient, and intelligent manner. In particular, a search index may be partitioned. One or more index partitions may be specifically indicated as one or more reserved partitions configured to handle indexing requests associated with processing a very large amount of information. When an indexing request is received that requests indexing of a very large amount of information, the indexing request may be processed for a reserved index partition that is reserved for indexing objects associated with a very large amount of information; otherwise, the request may be processed for another index partition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 12209120
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides activatable binding polypeptides (ABPs), which contain a target binding moiety (TBM), a masking moiety (MM), and a cleavable moiety (CM). The present disclosure provides activatable antibody compositions, which contain a TBM containing an antigen binding domain (ABD), a MM and a CM. Furthermore the present disclosure also provides ABPs which contain a first TBM, a second TBM and a CM. The ABPs exhibit an “activatable” conformation such that at least one of the TBMs is less accessible to target when uncleaved than after cleavage of the CM in the presence of a cleaving agent capable of cleaving the CM. The disclosure further provides libraries of candidate ABPs, methods of screening to identify such ABPs, and methods of use. The disclosure further provides ABPs having TBMs that bind VEGF, CTLA-4, or VCAM, ABPs having a first TBM that binds VEGF and a second TBM that binds FGF, as well as compositions and methods of use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignees: The Regents of the University of California, CytomX Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Sean Daugherty, Nancy Stagliano, Jerry Thomas, Kathryn Kamath, James W. West, Sanjay Khare, Jason Sagert
  • Patent number: 12202405
    Abstract: Systems and methods for deploying emergency roadside signaling devices are disclosed. In one aspect, a control system for an object placing device of an autonomous vehicle includes a processor, and a computer-readable memory in communication with the processor and having stored thereon computer-executable instructions to cause the processor to: receive a signal comprising instructions to activate the object placing device; and provide instructions to the object placing device to place a plurality of signaling devices in accordance with predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TUSIMPLE, INC.
    Inventors: Charles A. Price, Todd B. Skinner, Juexiao Ning, Yishi Liu, Qiwei Li, Raymond Alan Thomas, Alan Camyre, Jim Giglio, Robert Patrick Brown
  • Patent number: 12204229
    Abstract: A supercontinuum radiation source including a modulator being operable to modulate pump laser radiation including a train of radiation pulses to provide modulated pump laser radiation, the modulation being such to selectively provide a burst of the pulses; and a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber being operable to receive the modulated pump laser radiation and excite a working medium contained within the hollow-core photonic crystal fiber so as to generate supercontinuum radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V.
    Inventors: Sebastian Thomas Bauerschmidt, Peter Maximilian Götz, Patrick Sebastian Uebel
  • Patent number: 12204585
    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: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventor: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck
  • Patent number: 12203078
    Abstract: The invention is related to an inducible promoter for improved and regulated gene expression, useful in synthetic biology and metabolic engineering. In particular, the present invention relates to a nucleotide sequence comprising the regulatory regions of an erythritol- and erythrulose-inducible promoter in yeast and uses thereof in an expression system thus allowing an improved and regulated gene expression and production of gene product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignees: INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE POUR L'AGRICULTURE, L'ALIMENTATION ET L'ENVIRONNEMENT, UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES, UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Nicaud, Marion Trassaert, Stephane Thomas, Patrick Fickers, Marie Vandermies, Frederic Carly
  • Patent number: 12190272
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining and aggregating first image content of an equipment site resulting in first aggregated image content, and providing the first aggregated image content to communication devices that render it on a respective display. Further embodiments include identifying first equipment from first user-generated input, and adjusting the first aggregated image content with a first equipment image resulting in second aggregated image content. Additional embodiments include identifying second equipment from second user-generated input, and adjusting the second aggregated image content with a second equipment image resulting in third aggregated image content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Benjamin J. Leffler, Amanda Jean Peterlin, Jeffrey Patrick Thomas, Richard Raley, Alicia Shewring
  • Patent number: 12178857
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the use of alkaline phosphatases, and in particular improved alkaline phosphatases such as RecAP, for the prevention, treatment, cure, or amelioration of the symptoms of acute kidney injury caused, e.g., by sepsis. The application relates to methods of preserving renal function renal function, shortening the duration of renal replacement therapy, increasing the creatinine clearance, decreasing the risk of death in subjects with sepsis-associate acute kidney injury (SA-AKI) or at risk of SA-AKI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: AM-Pharma B.V.
    Inventors: Roelof Peter Pickkers, Ravindra Lall Mehta, Patrick Thomas Murray, Michael Joannidis, Erik Jan Van Den Berg, Jacques Salomon Robert Arend
  • Patent number: 12169440
    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: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Laura Hélène Boyd
  • Patent number: 12164582
    Abstract: Embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that addresses the problems inherent in the searching based on an entire block of text. Specifically, embodiments as disclosed may provide a search operator that may address the problem of complex query construction and efficient and effective implementation for finding objects based on a block of text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: Patrick Thomas Sidney Pidduck, Michael James Dent