Patents by Inventor Paul A. Thomas

Paul 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: 11970821
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to fibrous structures including active agents and having a graphic printed thereon. In some embodiments, a nonwoven web may include a fibrous structure comprising filaments. In turn, the filaments may include filament forming material, and an active agent releasable from the filaments when exposed to conditions of intended use. In addition, a graphic may be printed directly onto the fibrous structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Weisman, Hui Yang, Alrick Vincent Warner, Andreas Josef Dreher, Mark Robert Sivik
  • Patent number: 11970789
    Abstract: Filaments that contain a filament-forming material and an additive, nonwoven webs, and methods for making such filaments are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Gregory Charles Gordon, Robert Wayne Glenn, Mark Robert Sivik, Mark Ryan Richards, Stephen Wayne Heinzman, Michael David James, Geoffrey William Reynolds, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Paul Thomas Weisman, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Frank William Denome, Stephen Joseph Hodson
  • Patent number: 11969325
    Abstract: An absorbent article is disclosed. The article includes a topsheet formed of a section of formed nonwoven web material having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone comprising one or more attenuated regions adjacent to one or more built-up regions, wherein the attenuated regions have a first average basis weight and the built-up regions have a second average basis weight, wherein the first average basis weight is less than the second average basis weight, the difference in basis weights corresponding to disposition of the filaments according to the ordered arrangement. The attenuated region(s) may be included within a configuration of one or more channel portions on the topsheet. Alternatively or in combination, the attenuated region(s) may be included within a hinge portion extending along a wing portion of the topsheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arman Ashraf, Kelyn Anne Arora, Misael Omar Aviles, Lennie CruzMurphy, Antonius Lambertus DeBeer, Adrien Grenier, John Lee Hammons, Emma Lynn Sartini, Paul Thomas Weisman
  • Patent number: 11967968
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of digital-to-analog converter (DAC) channels. Each DAC channel includes a current control circuit which receives a start limit signal or an end limit signal. The current control circuit reduces an output current limit of the channel responsive to the start limit signal and increases the output current limit responsive to the end limit signal. Each channel includes a current sensor circuit adapted to measure the output current of the channel and provide a channel over-current alert signal if the output current rises above a high current limit. The system includes a controller which asserts the start limit signal if the number of channels exceeding the high current limit is greater than a maximum allowable number and asserts the end limit signal if the number of channels exceeding the high current limit is less than the maximum allowable number minus a hysteresis value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul Thomas Frost, Aditya Vighnesh Ramakanth Bommireddipalli, Hugo Cheung, Abdullah Yilmaz, Ruben Antonio Vasquez
  • Patent number: 11965479
    Abstract: A rotor lock assembly for locking a rotor of a wind turbine. The rotor lock assembly has at least one relocatable rotor lock. The relocatable rotor lock has a housing, a bushing element, a pin shaft position within the bushing element, and a locking mechanism. The housing includes a mounting portion adapted for mounting to a bearing housing adjacent to a rotor lock plate of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: GE Infrastructure Technology LLC
    Inventors: Brian William Manikas, Paul Howard Davidson, Michael Frederick Sander, Jacob Thomas Hoyt, Jason James Welsh, Kevin L Holmes
  • Publication number: 20240125325
    Abstract: A blower includes a housing including an inlet and an outlet, a bearing-housing structure provided to the housing and adapted to rotatably support a rotor, a motor provided to the bearing-housing structure and adapted to drive the rotor, and an impeller provided to the rotor. The bearing-housing structure includes a bearing shaft having a bearing surface that rotatably supports the rotor. The bearing shaft provides only a single bearing of the non-ball bearing type for the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Samuel Aziz MEBASSER, Peter Jeffrey THOMAS, Roman VINOKUR, Kevin Gene McCULLOH, William S. LANE, Yeu-chuan HSIA, Michael David BEDNAR, John Paul FREESE, Karl Yutaka IWAHASHI, David Brent SEARS, Barton John KENYON, Richard G. KRUM, Par Egron DANNAS, Hiroshi SUZUKI, Malcolm Edward LEADER
  • Publication number: 20240124426
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that are inhibitors of Polo Like Kinase 4 (PLK4). Also disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and one or more pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. Further disclosed herein are methods of treating cancer in a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject an amount of a compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Chudi NDUBAKU, Jared Thomas MOORE, Paul Anthony GIBBONS, Jae Hyuk CHANG, F. Anthony ROMERO, Xiaohui DU, Hiroyuki KAWAI, Stephane CIBLAT, Hong WANG, Vincent ALBERT, Lea CONSTANTINEAU-FORGET, Hugo de Almeida SILVA, Dilan Emine POLAT, Amit NAYYAR, Daniel Gordon Michael SHORE, Kejia WU, Joanne TAN
  • Publication number: 20240127252
    Abstract: The present technology provides solutions for determining transaction insights regarding a subject entity and on behalf of an inquiring entity. An exemplary method includes receiving an Application Programming Interface (API) communication calling an API, determining that the inquiring entity is permitted to access the transaction insights for the use case associated with the API, collecting data for the parameters in the defined in the API communication to yield collected data, analyzing the collected data to derive the transaction insights including at least one risk insight score and at least one reason code associated with the risk insight score, and providing a data pack of the transaction insights in a responsive communication to the inquiring entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ravindran Loganathan, Michael Paul Ward, Srikant Rao, Bino John Thomas, Kazuki Nishiura
  • Publication number: 20240127522
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to generating expressive avatars using multi-modal three-dimensional face modeling and tracking. One example includes a computer system comprising a processor coupled to a storage system that stores instructions. Upon execution by the processor, the instructions cause the processor to receive initialization data describing an initial state of a facial model. The instructions further cause the processor to receive a plurality of multi-modal data signals. The instructions further cause the processor to perform a fitting process using the initialization data and the plurality of multi-modal data signals. The instructions further cause the processor to determine a set of parameters based on the fitting process, wherein the determined set of parameters describes an updated state of the facial model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Harpreet Singh SAWHNEY, Benjamin Eliot LUNDELL, Anshul Bhavesh SHAH, Calin CRISTIAN, Charles Thomas HEWITT, Tadas BALTRUSAITIS, Mladen RADOJEVIC, Kosta GRUJCIC, Ivan STOJILJKOVIC, Paul Malcolm MCILROY, John Ishola OLAFENWA, Jouya JADIDIAN, Kenneth Mitchell JAKUBZAK
  • Patent number: 11957246
    Abstract: A chair with a transom, a seat support, a back portion, and a combined rock and recline mechanism. The combined rock and recline mechanism has front and rear rocking arrangements configured to enable the seat support and back portion to together rock generally forward and rearward from a neutral position relative to the transom, and a recline arrangement that is configured such that the seat support is in a first at-rest position relative to the back portion when the back portion is in an upright position, and such that reclining the back portion rearwardly from the upright position toward a reclined position moves the seat support upward and rearward from the first at-rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Formway Furniture Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Warren Bisman, James Clifford Prier, Fabian David Haarbeck, Paul Michael Wilkinson, Damon Gregory Burwell, Hugh Thomas Mccoshim, Leon Harley Craze, Rachael Jessica Hall
  • Patent number: 11962621
    Abstract: A method includes receiving, by a computer system, information related to device health of an electronic device, determining, by the computer system, a health status of the electronic device based at least in part on the received information related to the device health of the electronic device, requesting, by a switch having a port connected to the electronic device, the health status of the electronic device from the computer system, receiving, by the computer system, the request for the health status of the electronic device from the switch, transmitting, by the computer system, the health status of the electronic device to the switch, evaluating, by the switch, the transmitted health status of the electronic device using network access rules associated corresponding to health statuses, and applying, by the switch, a network access control configuration to the port of the switch based on the evaluating the transmitted health status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sophos Limited
    Inventors: Biju Ramachandra Kaimal, Andrew J. Thomas, Kerav Vaidya, Yogesh Bansal, Robert Paul Andrews
  • Publication number: 20240115810
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to medicament injection devices. An injection device includes: a movable dosage programming component comprising a rotary encoder system having a predefined angular periodicity, a sensor arrangement including a first optical sensor configured to detect movement of the movable dosage programming component relative to the sensor arrangement during dosing of a medicament, wherein the first optical sensor is configured to operate in a strobe-sampling mode at a first frequency, a second optical sensor configured to detect movement of the rotary encoder system relative to the second optical sensor wherein the second optical sensor is configured to operate in a strobe-sampling mode at a second frequency lower than the first frequency, and a processor arrangement configured to, based on the detected movement, determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Schabbach, Anthony Paul Morris, Ronald Antony Smith, Brian Charles Molyneux, Paul Richard Draper, Craig Ashley Mason, Oliver Charles Gazeley, Daniel Edward Clark, David Aubrey Plumptre, Aidan Michael O'Hare, Richard James Thomas, Felix Kramer, Beat Wyss, Philipp Müller
  • Publication number: 20240115311
    Abstract: An electrosurgical connection unit for a surgical robot arm to connect an electrosurgical instrument attached to the arm to an electrosurgical generator. The electrosurgical connection unit includes an input port connectable to the electrosurgical generator, the input port configured to receive a driving electrosurgical signal and output one or more activation signals; an output port connectable to the electrosurgical instrument, the output port configured to output the driving electrosurgical signal received on the input port; one or more activation switch units, wherein activation of an activation switch unit causes an activation signal to be output from the input port indicating a driving electrosurgical signal with a desired waveform is to be activated; and a control unit configured to selectively activate one of the one or more activation switch units in response to a control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Simon Schofield, Paul Christopher Roberts, Gordon Thomas Deane
  • Publication number: 20240117135
    Abstract: A system including an injector, a press, and a robotic conveyance is used to form a physically foamed article of footwear component from a single-phase solution of a polymeric composition and a supercritical fluid. The parameters and features of the system are configured for the formation of the footwear component in an automated manner with enhanced throughput by the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Paul Irving Archer, Hossein Allen Baghdadi, Jay Constantinou, Gregory Paul Dufour, Sami Mohamad Fakhouri, Floyd Whitney Miles, Joseph Thomas Muth, Bradley C. Tutmark
  • Publication number: 20240120096
    Abstract: A computational method, apparatus and system for diagnostic and therapeutic prediction from multimodal data is provided for using machine learning to predict medical therapeutic methods using multimodal data. The computational method, apparatus and system for diagnostic and therapeutic prediction from multimodal data may include a biomarker and subtype identification aspect, multimodality aspect, machine learning aspect, and training aspect. A method for using machine learning to predict medical therapeutic methods, which may include targets, drugs, or combinations of drugs, using multimodal data using the computational system for diagnostic and therapeutic prediction from multimodal data is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Bayo Lau, Ashley Sylvia Lee, Tarsus Thomas Lam, Paul Merrill, Hugo Y.K. Lam
  • Publication number: 20240116449
    Abstract: A glove box for a vehicle includes a bin having an upper rim and defining a storage cavity accessible via an opening defined by the upper rim. The glove box further includes a retainer pivotably coupled to the bin and operable to pivot relative to the bin between a first position and a second position. In the first position, a portion of the retainer is positioned within the storage cavity. In the second position, the retainer is positioned wholly outside of the storage cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Gregory Paul Thomas
  • Publication number: 20240115211
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for generating graphical displays of analyte data and/or health information. In some implementations, the graphical displays are generating based on a self-referential dataset that are modifiable based on identified portions of the data. The modified graphical displays can indicate features in the analyte data of a host.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Esteban CABRERA, JR., Lauren Danielle ARMENTA, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Jennifer BLACKWELL, Leif N. BOWMAN, Rian DRAEGER, Arturo GARCIA, Timothy Joseph GOLDSMITH, John Michael GRAY, Andrea Jean JACKSON, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Paul KRAMER, Aditya Sagar MANDAPAKA, Michael Robert MENSINGER, Sumitaka MIKAMI, Gary A. MORRIS, Hemant Mahendra NIRMAL, Paul NOBLE-CAMPBELL, Philip Thomas PUPA, Eli REIHMAN, Peter C. SIMPSON, Brian Christopher SMITH, Atiim Joseph WILEY
  • Patent number: 11951035
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling a patient's body temperature by endovascular heat exchange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Jessica Megan Clayton, John Thomas Buckley, Christo P. Pamichev, Craig Wendell Pendry, Paul Eric Peterson, Richard Allen Smith, Sean W. Yip, John William Jacobsen
  • Patent number: D1025472
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Simon Brian McNamee, Edward Sebert Maurice Shelton, Clément Bernard Christmann, Wee Guan Tan, Bun Tiong Chua, Min Yu Nicole Chian, Paul Thomas Brittell, Be Seng Lok, Gerald Eng, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Peter David Gammack, Leanne Joyce Garner, Laura Anne Howard
  • Patent number: D1025473
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Simon Brian McNamee, Edward Sebert Maurice Shelton, Clément Bernard Christmann, Wee Guan Tan, Bun Tiong Chua, Min Yu Nicole Chian, Paul Thomas Brittell, Be Seng Lok, Gerald Eng, Stephen Benjamin Courtney, Peter David Gammack, Leanne Joyce Garner, Laura Anne Howard