Patents by Inventor Paul Hansen

Paul Hansen 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: 11958809
    Abstract: Provided are omecamtiv mecarbil dihydrochloride salt forms, compositions and pharmaceutical formulations thereof, and methods for their preparation and use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: CYTOKINETICS, INC.
    Inventors: Sheng Cui, Henry Morrison, Karthik Nagapudi, Shawn D. Walker, Charles Bernard, Karl Bennett Hansen, Neil Fred Langille, Alan Martin Allgeier, Steven M. Mennen, Jacqueline C. S. Woo, Bradley Paul Morgan, Alex Muci
  • Publication number: 20240103181
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of providing DOP forecasts for LEO navigation for routing of vehicles, aircraft, alerting humans in vehicles, or wireless devices, and bandwidth forecasts for LEO communications. The method includes accessing a 3D map of an area including structure solids and generating cuboids in spaces not contained in the structure solids; and iteratively over time increments, calculating LEO satellites visible from the cuboids using the map and, using at least the calculated visibility, determining forecasts for the cuboids at the time increments. Also included is compressing the determined forecast spatially and temporally; and distributing the compressed DOP forecast via a CDN, responsive to queries from requestors. Systems of the requestors can take into account the forecast for routing vehicles or alerting humans in vehicles to a predicted navigation impairment. Risk analysis is applied to improving computation and distribution of forecasts. Forecasts are applied to satellite deployment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Spirent Communications Plc
    Inventors: Jeremy C. BENNINGTON, Paul HANSEN, Esther ANYAEGBU, Samuel NARDONI, Matthew POTTLE
  • Publication number: 20240101517
    Abstract: Provided are omecamtiv mecarbil dihydrochloride salt forms, compositions and pharmaceutical formulations thereof, and methods for their preparation and use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Sheng CUI, Henry MORRISON, Karthik NAGAPUDI, Shawn D. WALKER, Charles BERNARD, Karl Bennett HANSEN, Neil Fred LANGILLE, Alan Martin ALLGEIER, Steven MENNEN, Jacqueline C.S. WOO, Bradley Paul MORGAN, Alex MUCI (DECEASED)
  • Publication number: 20240094402
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of providing DOP forecasts for LEO navigation for routing of vehicles, aircraft, alerting humans in vehicles, or wireless devices, and bandwidth forecasts for LEO communications. The method includes accessing a 3D map of an area including structure solids and generating cuboids in spaces not contained in the structure solids; and iteratively over time increments, calculating LEO satellites visible from the cuboids using the map and, using at least the calculated visibility, determining forecasts for the cuboids at the time increments. Also included is compressing the determined forecast spatially and temporally; and distributing the compressed DOP forecast via a CDN, responsive to queries from requestors. Systems of the requestors can take into account the forecast for routing vehicles or alerting humans in vehicles to a predicted navigation impairment. Risk analysis is applied to improving computation and distribution of forecasts. Forecasts are applied to satellite deployment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Spirent Communications Plc
    Inventors: Jeremy C. BENNINGTON, Paul HANSEN, Esther ANYAEGBU, Samuel NARDONI, Matthew POTTLE
  • Publication number: 20240083525
    Abstract: Kingpin assembly for a semitrailer of a road train, including a king pin defining an axis of rotation (A), a pivot bearing arranged around the axis of rotation (A), and a holder connected to the pivot bearing and pivotable around the axis of rotation (A) for indirectly or directly holding an electrical and/or electromagnetic and/or pneumatic and/or hydraulic connecting means wherein the king pin includes a king pin flange for mounting the king pin indirectly or directly to the semitrailer, wherein the pivot bearing includes a fixed bearing ring or a fixed bearing ring segment relative to the king pin and a bearing ring or a bearing ring segment rotatable relative thereto, wherein the holder is fixed to the rotatable bearing ring and wherein a support element, which is axially spaced from the rotatable bearing ring and abuts directly against the king pin, is connected to the holder and is adjustable in length in the radial direction (R) with respect to the axis of rotation (A).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: José Manuel Algüera, Steffen Haber, Stephan Gitzen, Rudolf Schlotthauer, Alexander Bockius, Paul Hansen
  • Patent number: 11920814
    Abstract: A method of controlling an agricultural facility for housing a plurality of animals includes the step of regulating the environment within the agricultural facility with an automated building operational system. An automated thermal event controller is operationally coupled with the automated building operational system and generates a thermal event signal in response to a thermal event in progress, whereby the automated thermal event controller, upon receipt of the thermal event signal indicating that the thermal event is in progress, activates an alarm state. In the alarm state, the automated thermal event controller: sends an alarm signal to a system administrator; places the automated building operational system in a safety-mode condition for a first predetermined time interval; and places the automated building operational system in a normal-mode operational condition after the first predetermined time interval and if a confirmatory signal is not yet then received from the system administrator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: PRISM CONTROLS INC.
    Inventors: Sean Patrick Ryan, Kyle E. Forbush, Nikhil Kailas Shinde, Sylvester John Bentley, Timothy Paul Gess, Eric William Hansen, Douglas S. Powell
  • Publication number: 20240034153
    Abstract: A battery system having two battery packs may be configured in a high-voltage mode with the two battery packs connected in series to a converter/inverter controller. If a fault is detected with one of the batteries, selected switches are opened or closed to isolate the affected battery, whereby the battery system is configured to use the other battery to operate in a low voltage mode. A vehicle having a battery system capable of operating in either the high-voltage mode or the low-voltage mode is still capable of completing a route in the low-voltage mode. If a battery is isolated due to a transient condition, the battery system may be reconfigured to operate in the high voltage mode once the transient condition has passed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Jay Kevin Neutzler, Christopher Paul Hansen
  • Patent number: 11802972
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of enhancing RTK position resolution using an RTK-enabled GNSS positioning receiver, including receiving an RTK base station signal for differential position calculation, and receiving a forecast assured navigation signal that includes data identifying line-of-sight availability of satellites generating GNSS signals at a position of the GNSS positioning receiver. Also included is excluding from, or reducing the weighting of, GNSS position calculation satellites not identified as line-of-sight available in the forecast assured navigation signal, and computing the GNSS position calculation combining the knowledge of line of sight, or not line of sight, satellites with the RTK base station signal to perform the differential position calculation and to determine an improved calculated position of the GNSS positioning receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Paul Hansen, Esther Anyaegbu, Jeremy Charles Bennington
  • Publication number: 20230333260
    Abstract: The technology disclosed teaches a method of improving accuracy of a GNSS receiver that has a non-directional antenna, with the receiver sending CDN a request for predictive data for an area that includes the receiver. Responsive to the query, the method includes receiving data regarding LOS visibility for the receiver with respect to individual satellites, and the receiver using the data for satellite selection, for choosing some and ignoring other individual satellites. Also disclosed is using the data to exclude from satellite selection at least one individual satellite based on lack of LOS visibility to the individual satellite. Further disclosed is recognizing and rejecting spoofed GNSS signals received by a GNSS receiver that has a non-directional antenna, in response to a CDN response to a request for predictive data for an area that includes the receiver, with the receiver comparing the data with measures of signals received from individual satellites.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles Bennington, Raphael Grech, Dennis Berres, Rafal Zbikowski, Colin Richard Ford, Richard West, Paul Hansen, Arthur Edward Neeves, Esther Anyaegbu, Adam Gleave, Ronald Toh Ming Wong
  • Patent number: 11789161
    Abstract: The technology disclosed teaches a method of improving accuracy of a GNSS receiver that has a non-directional antenna, with the receiver sending CDN a request for predictive data for an area that includes the receiver. Responsive to the query, the method includes receiving data regarding LOS visibility for the receiver with respect to individual satellites, and the receiver using the data for satellite selection, for choosing some and ignoring other individual satellites. Also disclosed is using the data to exclude from satellite selection at least one individual satellite based on lack of LOS visibility to the individual satellite. Further disclosed is recognizing and rejecting spoofed GNSS signals received by a GNSS receiver that has a non-directional antenna, in response to a CDN response to a request for predictive data for an area that includes the receiver, with the receiver comparing the data with measures of signals received from individual satellites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles Bennington, Raphael Grech, Dennis Berres, Rafal Zbikowski, Colin Richard Ford, Richard West, Paul Hansen, Arthur Edward Neeves, Esther Anyaegbu, Adam Gleave, Ronald Toh Ming Wong
  • Publication number: 20230226085
    Abstract: An embodiment of a CBD or other cannabinoid or terpene or lipid-soluble Nano-Emulsion material and the process comprises a formulation comprising at least a lecithin or mixed lecithin, one or more carrier oils, and a Vitamin E TPGS from a sunflower version and a soy version or Polysorbate 80, 60 or 65. Among either version, the versions may further comprise mixed tocopherols and still further comprise at least one of; an LCT oil, an olive oil, and coconut oil. Any one of the versions may further comprise at least one of; sodium benzoate, potassium sorbate, and sorbic acid, and even yet further comprise purified water. Some embodiments may comprise a Vitamin E acetate or beeswax.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventor: Steven Paul Hansen
  • Patent number: 11639892
    Abstract: Systems and methods for skewed basis set fitting may include obtaining measured absorption data indicative of an amount of absorption of light by a sample gas at each of multiple frequencies, determining an absorption dependent cavity time constant indicative of a skew to the measured absorption data caused by light reflections within a cavity in which the sample gas is contained, obtaining reference absorption data including basis sets indicative of reference amounts of light absorbed by each of multiple gases at each of the multiple frequencies, skewing the reference absorption data based on the absorption dependent cavity time constant to generate skewed reference absorption data, and fitting the measured absorption data to the skewed reference absorption data to identify an amount of at least one constituent gas within the sample gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: ABB SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: J. Brian Leen, Kyle Owen, John Savee, Dmitry Skvortsov, Paul Hansen, Raphael Desbiens
  • Publication number: 20230128817
    Abstract: Disclosed is reducing starting time for a GNSS receiver that has an imprecise initial starting location by requesting starting assistance from a CDN that caches predictive data including first data indicated predicted LOS visibility from the receiver to individual satellites, wherein the request includes the imprecise initial staring location, receiving, from the CDN, data that includes a first block of the predictive data for the imprecise initial staring location and further adjoining second blocks of predictive data for areas surrounding the imprecise staring location, determining, by the GNSS receiver, commonly available satellites that have visibility from locations in both the first block and the second block, and calculating a first starting position using weighted values for the satellites, the commonly available satellites having higher weighted value than satellites without visibility in both locations, whereby position uncertainty of the first starting position is reduced from the imprecise initial
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles BENNINGTON, Richard WEST, Paul HANSEN, Esther ANYAEGBU, Matthew POTTLE
  • Publication number: 20230118946
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of detecting and rejecting a spoofing or jamming signal source by receiving at a first device a forecast of a visibility for each Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) satellite signal source in the forecast at a GNSS receiver coupled to the first device, calculating from at least an elevation and the received visibility of the satellite signal sources in the forecast a predicted Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR), comparing SNR acquired by the GNSS receiver of one or more of the satellite signal sources to the predicted SNR, detecting a spoofing signal source based on acquiring a higher SNR than predicted or a jamming signal source based on acquiring a lower SNR than predicted, and rejecting the spoofing or jamming signal source based on differences between the acquired and predicted SNR.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles BENNINGTON, Richard WEST, Paul HANSEN, Esther ANYAEGBU, Matthew POTTLE
  • Publication number: 20230121760
    Abstract: Disclosed is representing distant objects for analysis of satellite line-of-sight visibility from a grid of points by constructing a first 3D model of foreground objects that obscure line-of-sight visibility of satellites from a grid of points, wherein the first 3D model is at a first resolution, where spacing of grid points denotes obstruction edges, constructing a second 3D model of background objects that are more than a threshold distance away and that object obscure line-of-sight visibility of satellites from the grid of points, wherein the second 3D model is at a second resolution that is different from and coarser than the first resolution, calculating a line-of-sight visibility of the satellites from the grid of points using a combination of the first and second 3D models, and responding to a query for an area by providing the calculated line-of-sight visibility of the satellites for points of the grid within the area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles BENNINGTON, Richard WEST, Paul HANSEN, Esther ANYAEGBU, Matthew POTTLE
  • Publication number: 20230118232
    Abstract: Disclosed is determining GNSS satellite position visibility by possessing an orbital segment representing the transit of a satellite in orbit over time, a coarse ray angle interval, a fine ray angle interval, and a digital surface model. Disclosed is propagating coarse ray at coarse ray angle intervals increments in a first pass between an observable point and orbital segment at a respective coarse ray angle to determine whether the coarse ray is obstructed by features of the DSM, and recording a status of the coarse ray based on whether the coarse ray was obstructed. If pairs of successive coarse rays have different status, designating the coarse ray with NLOS visibility, then performing a second pass by propagating, per each designated coarse ray, fine rays at fine ray angle intervals, and saving an indication of time at which LOS visibility to the satellite is obstructed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles BENNINGTON, Richard WEST, Paul HANSEN, Esther ANYAEGBU, Matthew POTTLE
  • Publication number: 20230016836
    Abstract: Disclosed is route planning using a worst-case risk analysis and, if needed, a best-case risk analysis of GNSS coverage. The worst-case risk analysis identifies cuboids or 2d regions through which a vehicle can be routed with assurance that adequate GNSS coverage will be available regardless of the time of day that the vehicle travels. The best-case risk analysis identifies cuboids or 2d regions through which there is adequate coverage at some times during the day. In case path finding using the worst-case risk analysis fails, a best-case risk analysis can be requested and used to find alternate potential path(s). Time dependent forecast data that covers regions along the alternate potential path(s) can be requested and used to route vehicles, including autonomous drones, from starting points to destinations. This includes generation, distribution and use of risk analysis data, implemented as methods, systems and articles of manufacture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Matthew POTTLE, Esther Anyaegbu, Colin Richard FORD, Paul Hansen, Ronald Toh Ming Wong, Jeremy Charles Bennington, Samuel NARDONI
  • Patent number: 11536855
    Abstract: The technology disclosed teaches a method of path planning using a GNSS Forecast, requesting the GNSS Forecast of signal obscuration on behalf of a vehicle travelling in a region, receiving and using the Forecast to plan a path or route that has GNSS signals available over the path or route that satisfy a predetermined criterium. Also taught are GNSS Forecasts and planned paths or routes for a plurality of flying vehicles used by a flight control system, requesting the GNSS Forecast of signal obscuration on behalf of a flying autonomous or automated vehicle travelling in a region, receiving and using the Forecast and to plan a path with GNSS signals available over the path that satisfy predetermined criteria including accommodating real-time changes in flight paths, without leaving space, that satisfies the predetermined criteria. Also taught is certifying performance of GNSS receivers used on a flying vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Jeremy Charles Bennington, Raphael Grech, Dennis Berres, Rafal Zbikowski, Colin Richard Ford, Richard West, Paul Hansen, Arthur Edward Neeves, Esther Anyaegbu, Adam Gleave, Ronald Toh Ming Wong
  • Publication number: 20220317029
    Abstract: Systems and methods for skewed basis set fitting may include obtaining measured absorption data indicative of an amount of absorption of light by a sample gas at each of multiple frequencies, determining an absorption dependent cavity time constant indicative of a skew to the measured absorption data caused by light reflections within a cavity in which the sample gas is contained, obtaining reference absorption data including basis sets indicative of reference amounts of light absorbed by each of multiple gases at each of the multiple frequencies, skewing the reference absorption data based on the absorption dependent cavity time constant to generate skewed reference absorption data, and fitting the measured absorption data to the skewed reference absorption data to identify an amount of at least one constituent gas within the sample gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: J. Brian Leen, Kyle Owen, John Savee, Dmitry Skvortsov, Paul Hansen, Raphael Desbiens
  • Publication number: 20220221586
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of enhancing RTK position resolution using an RTK-enabled GNSS positioning receiver, including receiving an RTK base station signal for differential position calculation, and receiving a forecast assured navigation signal that includes data identifying line-of-sight availability of satellites generating GNSS signals at a position of the GNSS positioning receiver. Also included is excluding from, or reducing the weighting of, GNSS position calculation satellites not identified as line-of-sight available in the forecast assured navigation signal, and computing the GNSS position calculation combining the knowledge of line of sight, or not line of sight, satellites with the RTK base station signal to perform the differential position calculation and to determine an improved calculated position of the GNSS positioning receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: Spirent Communications PLC
    Inventors: Paul Hansen, Esther Anyaegbu, Jeremy Charles Bennington