Patents by Inventor Paul Tucker

Paul Tucker 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: 20240139170
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates methods for treating skin disorders caused by an immune deficiency with topical formulations comprising ethyl (R)-4-((1-(2-cyanoacetyl)piperidin-3-yl)amino)-1H-pyrrolo[2,3-b]pyridine-5-carboxylate (Compound I) or pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof. In particular, the topical formulations described herein may be used to treat atopic dermatitis, alopecia areata, or vitiligo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Paul CHANGELIAN, David GORDON, Francis IGNATIOUS, Walter SMITH, Steve TUCKER, Neal Stuart WALKER
  • Patent number: 11766553
    Abstract: A housing includes a cavity portion and a cover portion configured for rotary motion. The cover portion can include a receiver port configured to engage with a fitting configured for coupling to an end of a first tube. At a first alignment position of the cavity portion relative to the cover portion, the receiver port is aligned with a first retention cleat. At a second alignment position of the cavity portion relative to the cover portion, the receiver port is aligned with a fluid coupler. At a third alignment position of the cavity portion relative to the cover portion, the fitting is aligned with a second cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignees: Regents of the University of Minnesota, Cerovations, LLC
    Inventors: Ibrahim Olawale Yekinni, Aaron Paul Tucker, Thomas O. Viker
  • Patent number: 11769061
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20230191103
    Abstract: A housing includes a cavity portion and a cover portion configured for rotary motion. The cover portion can include a receiver port configured to engage with a fitting configured for coupling to an end of a first tube. At a first alignment position of the cavity portion relative to tire cover portion, the receiver port is aligned with a first retention cleat. At a second alignment position of the cavity portion relative to the cover portion, the receiver port is aligned with a fluid coupler. At a third alignment position of the cavity portion relative to the cover portion, the fitting is aligned with a second cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Ibrahim Olawale Yekinni, Aaron Paul Tucker, Thomas O. Viker
  • Patent number: 11662649
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus with a camera. A shutter is positioned horizontally in front of the lens of the camera. The shutter is configured to move in front of a lens of the camera and is further configured to move orthogonally to the horizontal axis so as to at least partially obscure the lens of first camera in a closed shutter position. The apparatus further includes a motor positioned horizontally behind the front of the lens of the camera. The motor is configured to move the shutter orthogonally to the horizontal axis between the closed shutter position and an open shutter position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Tucker, Greg George, Alexander Baker Ekrut
  • Publication number: 20230046244
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus with a camera. A shutter is positioned horizontally in front of the lens of the camera. The shutter is configured to move in front of a lens of the camera and is further configured to move orthogonally to the horizontal axis so as to at least partially obscure the lens of first camera in a closed shutter position. The apparatus further includes a motor positioned horizontally behind the front of the lens of the camera. The motor is configured to move the shutter orthogonally to the horizontal axis between the closed shutter position and an open shutter position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Tucker, Greg George, Alexander Baker Ekrut
  • Publication number: 20220154595
    Abstract: A turning system for rotating equipment, comprises a motor configured for speed control; a gear connected to the motor, the gear is further connected to the rotating equipment, the motor and gear are configured for rotating the rotating equipment at speeds less than the normal operating speed of the rotating equipment; and a controller configured to perform a method, wherein the method comprises a sequence of steps including, rotating the rotating equipment from a standstill an angular amount of rotation, stopping rotation after moving the angular amount of rotation, and maintaining the rotating equipment at a standstill for a period of time; and repeating the sequence of steps. By performing the sequence of steps after the rotating equipment comes to a standstill, bowing or sagging of the rotating equipment can be prevented, and the rotating equipment is ready to startup at anytime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Kenneth Knecht, Paul Tucker
  • Publication number: 20220071634
    Abstract: A device includes a housing, a tissue engager, and a closing mechanism. The housing can be placed over a wound, and the tissue engager can engage a portion of tissue proximate the wound. The closing mechanism is coupled to the housing and the tissue engager and can move the tissue engager from an open position to a closed position to close the wound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Arthur G. Erdman, Paul Rothweiler, Aaron Paul Tucker
  • Publication number: 20210106789
    Abstract: A device includes a base and a tube clamp. The tube clamp is coupled to an upper surface of the base. The assembled tube clamp and base are positioned around a tube and moved into engagement with a surface of a patient, at which point a lower surface of the base is adhered to the surface of the patient to anchor the tube relative to the surface of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Marcos Molina, Jennifer Kim, Joshua Cadavez, Grace Joseph, Nicholas Gulachek, Arthur G. Erdman, Paul Rothweiler, Aaron Paul Tucker
  • Patent number: 10860925
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20200302302
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Yuan Yu
  • Patent number: 10685017
    Abstract: Methods and systems for efficient query rewriting and the like are described here. One such described method comprises: offline mapping frequently-seen search queries to rewritten queries that may be better for searching; offline caching the mapping in a cache memory; and upon receiving a search query from a user similar to one of the mapped search queries, obtaining a corresponding rewritten query from the mapping in the cache memory based on predetermined conditions, and issuing a search of the rewritten query to the backend data system in order to avoid having to issue a search query to the backend data system twice while the user is online.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Amit Singhal, Eric Jackson
  • Patent number: 10533459
    Abstract: A turbine and the method of operating the turbine when taking the turbine off-line includes transmitting power to a No. 1 shaft via a main motor to turn the turbine at an original turning speed, wherein the No. 1 shaft drives a No. 2 shaft; reducing a speed of the turbine; and when the speed of the turbine is reduced to a predetermined RPM, switching power transmission to the turbine from the No. 1 shaft to a No. 2 shaft, wherein the No. 2 shaft is driven by an auxiliary motor, and the No. 2 shaft drives the No. 1 shaft to turn the turbine at a slow turning speed less than the original turning speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Inventors: Kenneth Knecht, Paul Tucker
  • Patent number: 10534997
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20180247197
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Yuan Yu
  • Patent number: 9965571
    Abstract: A method of recambering an aerofoil section. A position on one of the surfaces that intersects with a passage shock between adjacent aerofoils is determined and then projected as a shock position onto the camber line. A shock region encompassing the shock position and extending in a chordal direction towards the leading and trailing edges is defined. The camber line is recalculated in an upstream region using semi-inverse design. The camber line is extrapolated across the shock region to match a geometric criterion. The camber line is recalculated in a downstream region using semi-inverse design.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Paul Hield, James Page, Paul Tucker
  • Patent number: 9916480
    Abstract: According to an example, a security apparatus to house a device may include a chassis, a front stop having a front stop wall and a front stop opening, a rear stop having a rear stop wall and a rear stop opening, a front cover to be positioned in front of the front stop having a front cover opening, in which the front stop wall blocks direct line of sight into the front opening of the chassis through the front cover opening when the front cover is positioned in front of the front stop, and a rear cover to be positioned behind the rear stop having a rear cover opening, in which the rear cover blocks direct line of sight into the rear opening of the chassis through the rear cover opening when the rear cover is positioned behind the rear stop wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Trend Micro Incorporated
    Inventors: Paul A Tucker, John Joseph Salazar
  • Patent number: 9734211
    Abstract: A system receives a search query from a user and performs a search of a corpus of documents, based on the search query, to form a ranked set of search results. The system re-ranks the set of search results based on preferences of the user, or a group of users, and provides the re-ranked search results to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2017
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventor: Paul Tucker
  • Publication number: 20170124452
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving a request from a client to process a computational graph; obtaining data representing the computational graph, the computational graph comprising a plurality of nodes and directed edges, wherein each node represents a respective operation, wherein each directed edge connects a respective first node to a respective second node that represents an operation that receives, as input, an output of an operation represented by the respective first node; identifying a plurality of available devices for performing the requested operation; partitioning the computational graph into a plurality of subgraphs, each subgraph comprising one or more nodes in the computational graph; and assigning, for each subgraph, the operations represented by the one or more nodes in the subgraph to a respective available device in the plurality of available devices for operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, Jeffrey Adgate Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Yuan Yu
  • Publication number: 20160125206
    Abstract: According to an example, a security apparatus to house a device may include a chassis, a front stop having a front stop wall and a front stop opening, a rear stop having a rear stop wall and a rear stop opening, a front cover to be positioned in front of the front stop having a front cover opening, in which the front stop wall blocks direct line of sight into the front opening of the chassis through the front cover opening when the front cover is positioned in front of the front stop, and a rear cover to be positioned behind the rear stop having a rear cover opening, in which the rear cover blocks direct line of sight into the rear opening of the chassis through the rear cover opening when the rear cover is positioned behind the rear stop wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Paul A. Tucker, John Joseph Salazar