Patents by Inventor Patrick Watson

Patrick Watson 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: 20210110487
    Abstract: A system and a method of managing a manufacturing process includes receiving production data relating to the manufacturing process and determining an operational mode associated with the manufacturing process using historical, multivariate senor data. The method may further determine a recommended action to affect production based on the determined operational mode. The operational mode may be based on at least one of: a level of operation in a continuous flow process relating to a joint set of process variables, a representation of a joint dynamic of the set of process variables over a predefined length, and a joint configuration of an uptime/downtime of a plurality of units comprising a process flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Nianjun Zhou, Dharmashankar Subramanian, Patrick Watson, Pavankumar Murali, Wesley M. Gifford, Jayant R. Kalagnanam
  • Patent number: 10922821
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to generate virtual motion sensor data from computer animations are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a tracker component that can track virtual location data corresponding to a feature of a computer animated character in a virtual environment. The computer executable components can further comprise a virtual motion sensor component that, based on the virtual location data, can generate virtual motion sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marco Cavallo, Ravi Tejwani, Patrick Watson, Aldis Sipolins, Jenna Reinen, Hui Wu
  • Publication number: 20200401933
    Abstract: A system includes a virtual reality system configured to enable a user to interact with a virtual environment, a plurality of biofeedback sensors configured to monitor a user, and a computer system including a virtual reality module configured to generate at least a view of the virtual environment, a biofeedback module configured to fuse output of the plurality of biofeedback sensors with a plurality of events within the virtual environment, a training module configured to generate a model of user behavior, wherein the training module executed by the computer system enables the computer system to make a prediction of a user response of the user based on a corpus of biofeedback data, and an alert module configured to generate at least one alert to the user via the virtual reality system based on the user response predicted by the computer system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Jenna Reinen, Aldis Sipolins, Patrick Watson, Ravi Tejwani, Marco Cavallo, Hui Wu
  • Publication number: 20200320379
    Abstract: Whether to train a new neural network model can be determined based on similarity estimates between a sample data set and a plurality of source data sets associated with a plurality of prior-trained neural network models. A cluster among the plurality of prior-trained neural network models can be determined. A set of training data based on the cluster can be determined. The new neural network model can be trained based on the set of training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Watson, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Siyu Huo, Noel Christopher Codella, Brian Michael Belgodere, Parijat Dube, Michael Robert Glass, John Ronald Kender, Matthew Leon Hill
  • Publication number: 20200234454
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to generate virtual motion sensor data from computer animations are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a tracker component that can track virtual location data corresponding to a feature of a computer animated character in a virtual environment. The computer executable components can further comprise a virtual motion sensor component that, based on the virtual location data, can generate virtual motion sensor data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Marco Cavallo, Ravi Tejwani, Patrick Watson, Aldis Sipolins, Jenna Reinen, Hui Wu
  • Patent number: 10699050
    Abstract: A technique relates to structuring a semiconductor device. First empty cells are placed against hierarchical boundaries of a macro block. Functional cells are added in the macro block. Remaining areas are filled with second empty cells in the macro block. Shape requirements are determined for the first empty cells and the second empty cells. The first and second empty cells are replaced with determined shape requirements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: David Wolpert, Erwin Behnen, Lawrence A. Clevenger, Patrick Watson, Chih-Chao Yang, Timothy A. Schell
  • Publication number: 20200180460
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a smart charging cable that enables dynamically and remotely controlled charging of a battery such as may be found in an electric vehicle (EV). The EV charging cable is not specific to any particular manufacturer or brand of electric vehicle thereby facilitating unrestricted application and access to vehicular charging. The EV charging cable includes a processor arranged to execute instructions stored on a memory along with a communication module for wireless communication between the cable and a remote source. A car emulator may be used to simulate the presence of a vehicle to allow switched high power sources like standard installed EV chargers as well as a power meter for measuring the flow electricity passing through the cable. The aforementioned may be housed in a control box arranged between two portions of the cable to receive and deliver power from a source to a battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Ohmenergy Limited
    Inventor: David Timothy Patrick Watson
  • Publication number: 20200180465
    Abstract: A system and method of operating a system for controlling charging of a battery of a user's electric vehicle from a power source is based upon intervening in a controlled manner between the power source and the electric vehicle and dynamically controlling a level for charging of the vehicle's electric energy storage system. The level potentially being different from a maximum available charging power from the power source. The controlled intervention occurs in accordance with a charging schedule determined by the server and transmitted by the server to the charging cable. The charging cable then operates according to the charging schedule resulting in a corresponding controlled charging of the vehicle's electric energy storage system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: Ohmenergy Limited
    Inventor: David Timothy Patrick WATSON
  • Patent number: 10659239
    Abstract: Techniques facilitating using a blockchain system that integrates the trustworthiness of the blockchain concept with open scientific research by generating a blockchain of the experiments formed, data collected, analyses performed, and results achieved are provided herein. In an example, the blockchain system can form a blockchain representing a research project, wherein the blockchain comprises a first block of research data and a second block of analysis data representing a log of an analysis performed on the research data. Summary blocks and correction blocks can also be added to the blockchain representing the post analysis of the research results. One or more of the subsequent blocks can be linked to the preceding blocks using information in block headers that can also serve to determine whether modifications to the blocks have been performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jae-Wook Ahn, Maria D. Chang, Ravindranath Kokku, Patrick Watson
  • Patent number: 10657656
    Abstract: Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to generate virtual motion sensor data from computer animations are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a tracker component that can track virtual location data corresponding to a feature of a computer animated character in a virtual environment. The computer executable components can further comprise a virtual motion sensor component that, based on the virtual location data, can generate virtual motion sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marco Cavallo, Ravi Tejwani, Patrick Watson, Aldis Sipolins, Jenna Reinen, Hui Wu
  • Publication number: 20200082210
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for data labeling is provided. The computer-implemented method assigns pseudo-labels to unlabeled examples of data using a similarity metric on an embedding space to produce pseudo-labeled examples. A curriculum learning model is trained using the pseudo-labeled examples. The curriculum learning model trained with the pseudo-labeled examples is employed in in a fine-tuning task to enhance classification accuracy of the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick Watson, Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Siyu Huo, Noel C. Codella, Brian M. Belgodere, Parijat Dube, Michael R. Glass, John R. Kender, Matthew L. Hill
  • Publication number: 20200065697
    Abstract: Techniques for assessing the proficiency of artificial intelligence agents and users in a given knowledge domain are described. A plurality of proficiency agents can be initialized with a plurality of proficiency scores, by performing a plurality of assessments between pairs of proficiency agents selected from the plurality of proficiency agents. A first client device associated with a first user is matched with a first proficiency agent of the plurality of proficiency agents, based on a first proficiency score associated with the first user and a second proficiency score of the plurality of proficiency scores corresponding to the first proficiency agent. Assessments results of an assessment performed between the first client device and the first proficiency agent are received, and a rating system update function is used to update the first proficiency score and the second proficiency score, based on the assessment results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Patrick WATSON, Maria CHANG, Jae-Wook AHN, Sharad Chandra SUNDARARAJAN, Prasenjit DEY
  • Patent number: D874728
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Rory Frederick Wellington McGarry, Brian Patrick Watson, Oliver Felix Grabes
  • Patent number: D877414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Watson, Rory Frederick Wellington McGarry, Oliver Felix Grabes, Matthew Frank Murgida
  • Patent number: D882873
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Christopher Ramm, Brian Patrick Watson, Vanessa Christie
  • Patent number: D902485
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Christopher Ramm, Brian Patrick Watson, Vanessa Christie
  • Patent number: D911607
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Rory Frederick Wellington McGarry, Brian Patrick Watson, Philipp Goeder, Oliver Felix Grabes
  • Patent number: D912326
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Christopher Ramm, Brian Patrick Watson, Kristopher William Schulz, Vanessa Christie
  • Patent number: D913592
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Rory Frederick Wellington McGarry, Brian Patrick Watson, Philipp Goeder, Oliver Felix Grabes
  • Patent number: D914289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Goeder, Christopher Ramm, Brian Patrick Watson, Vanessa Christie