Patents by Inventor Peter Lyons

Peter Lyons 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: 12206736
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for FAA-certified avionics devices to safely interface with non-certified mobile telecommunications devices before, during, and after flight. Data transmitted to the certified devices do not affect functionality of the certified device unless and until a user acknowledges and/or confirms the data on the certified device. Thus, the integrity of the certified device is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: ASPEN AVIONICS, INC.
    Inventors: John Uczekaj, Brad Hayden, Peter Lyons, Constantinos Kyriakos, Joseph Lyle
  • Patent number: 12151829
    Abstract: An aircraft landing platform for a passenger carrying aircraft has a landing module that is moveable between a landing position and a gate position, the landing module has a turntable that orients a door of aircraft to facilitate disembarkment of the passenger(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Overair, Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Smith, Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 11947465
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at an operating system executing on a processor, a write request from a program to write data to a memory. The write request includes a virtual memory address and the data. It is determined that the virtual memory address is not assigned to a physical memory address. Based on the determining, the unassigned virtual memory address is assigned to a physical memory address in an overflow memory. The data is written to the physical memory address in the overflow memory and an indication that the write data was successfully written is returned to the program. Future requests by the program to access the virtual memory address are directed to the physical memory address in the overflow memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Peter Lyons, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Tynan J. Garrett, Miles C. Pedrone
  • Publication number: 20230312133
    Abstract: In one embodiment a landing platform system using translating aircraft landing modules enables supported vehicles to reduce weight, costs, and complexity by use of simple undercarriage provisions other than landing gear. Additionally, such a system has the additional benefit of increasing operational efficiency by enabling inter-flight tasks to be undertaken before and after the aircraft is at the gate position—enabling a dramatic decrease in turnaround time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Craig Smith, Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 11604713
    Abstract: A test apparatus is provided for use with a mainframe and an adapter. The test apparatus includes a logical adapter interface unit and a control system. The logical adapter interface unit is interposable between the adapter and the mainframe whereby an I/O signal transmittable from the adapter and to the mainframe is transmitted through the logical adapter interface unit. The logical adapter interface unit is configured to manipulate the I/O signal. The control system is coupled to the logical adapter interface unit and the mainframe and is configured to control manipulations of the I/O signal by the logical adapter interface unit to mimic a condition of I/O traffic being run through the adapter and to log a response of the mainframe to the manipulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Michael Peter Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett
  • Patent number: 11554546
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a printing material source, a printing head and a temperature control system. The printing material source is configured to contain a supply of printing material. The printing head is receptive of the printing material from the printing material source and is configured to print an object with the printing material. The temperature control system is coupled to the printing head and is configured to adjust a temperature of the printing material during printing to cause state changes of the printing material resulting in the printing material being one of soluble and insoluble in a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 11496566
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for FAA-certified avionics devices to safely interface with non-certified mobile telecommunications devices before, during, and after flight. Data transmitted to the certified devices do not affect functionality of the certified device unless and until a user acknowledges and/or confirms the data on the certified device. Thus, the integrity of the certified device is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ASPEN AVIONICS, INC.
    Inventors: John Uczekaj, Brad Hayden, Peter Lyons, Constantinos Kyriakos, Joseph Lyle
  • Patent number: 11347849
    Abstract: Embodiments are described for detecting ransomware attacks. Aspects include receiving a memory access request for a memory location. Aspects also include allowing the memory access request based on a determination that the memory location is not present in a decoy address table. Aspects further include terminating a process that made the memory access request based on a determination that the memory location is present in the decoy address table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Michael Peter Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett
  • Publication number: 20220114106
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, at an operating system executing on a processor, a write request from a program to write data to a memory. The write request includes a virtual memory address and the data. It is determined that the virtual memory address is not assigned to a physical memory address. Based on the determining, the unassigned virtual memory address is assigned to a physical memory address in an overflow memory. The data is written to the physical memory address in the overflow memory and an indication that the write data was successfully written is returned to the program. Future requests by the program to access the virtual memory address are directed to the physical memory address in the overflow memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Peter Lyons, Andrew C. M. Hicks, Tynan J. Garrett, Miles C. Pedrone
  • Patent number: 11301277
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method of organizing communications channels associated with virtual functions of a single root input and output virtualization (SR-IOV) adaptor. The method includes organizing a first coupling channel according to a first channel path identifier bound to designated communications over a first virtual function of the SR-IOV adaptor allocated according to first virtual function resources that support the first coupling channel. The method also includes enabling access to the first coupling channel to a first guest operating system. The method also includes receiving a teardown command associated with the first coupling channel. The method further includes initiating a reset of the first virtual function that deallocates the first virtual function resources associated the first virtual function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peter Kenneth Szwed, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 11150105
    Abstract: The present general inventive concept relates to methods and systems to select and display information on an avionics display screen. The systems and methods allow for the selection and display of information using knobs to highlight and select the desired information for display, eliminating the need for a cursor function. The systems and methods also provide for multiple pages and/or multiple windows or “tiles” within these pages and/or windows simultaneously on a single screen of a display, with each window, page, and/or tile being fully controlled independently when selected. The present general inventive concept also relates to systems and methods to provide multiple cues on an electronic display system altitude tape to a pilot in advance and impending approach to a predefined altitude. The present general inventive concept also relates to systems and methods to employ variable resolution topographical data based on display range for an avionics navigation display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Aspen Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Rieb, Jeffrey Bethel, Tony Malerich, Constantinos Kyriakos, William Brodegard, Penny Heinz, Peter Lyons, David Berlin
  • Patent number: 11027495
    Abstract: A texturizer is provided and includes an extension arm and fine and gross motor controllers. The fine motor controller includes a heating element, one or more texturizing tools and a fine motor which is operable to control respective positions and orientations of the heating element and the one or more texturizing tools. The gross motor controller is interposed between the extension arm and the fine motor controller and is operable to control a position and an orientation of the fine motor controller relative to the extension arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Publication number: 20210132971
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method of organizing communications channels associated with virtual functions of a single root input and output virtualization (SR-IOV) adaptor. The method includes organizing a first coupling channel according to a first channel path identifier bound to designated communications over a first virtual function of the SR-IOV adaptor allocated according to first virtual function resources that support the first coupling channel. The method also includes enabling access to the first coupling channel to a first guest operating system. The method also includes receiving a teardown command associated with the first coupling channel. The method further includes initiating a reset of the first virtual function that deallocates the first virtual function resources associated the first virtual function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Peter Kenneth Szwed, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 10951024
    Abstract: A system and method to automatically disconnect a retrofit electrical unit from an electrical system in the event of an emergency situation and maintain power to the retrofit electrical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: ASPEN AVIONICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Bethel, Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 10901877
    Abstract: Aspects include receiving a request in a system for code that uses a code package to be tested. Sources are scraped to find a matching code package that uses the code package to be tested. The matching code package is retrieved and stored in a database. The matching code package is assembled into a test bucket and the test bucket is provided for the code package to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 10882252
    Abstract: A method for forming an object includes rotating a first object forming device about a rotational axis at a first speed to apply a first force to the first object forming device. The first object forming device includes an additive manufacturing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tynan J. Garrett, Andrew Hicks, Michael Peter Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Yunli Tang
  • Publication number: 20200406530
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a housing, a printing bed, a printing head and a controller. The printing bed is rotatably disposed in the housing and includes a surface and a body. The body defines an air conduit terminating at an open end at the surface and is fluidly communicative with an exterior of the housing. The printing head is movably disposed in the housing and configured to print molten glass material onto the printing bed at a location corresponding to the open end of the air conduit. The controller is configured to control movements and printing operations of the printing head, rotations of the printing bed and airflow to the molten glass material through the air conduit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Publication number: 20200379881
    Abstract: Aspects include receiving a request in a system for code that uses a code package to be tested. Sources are scraped to find a matching code package that uses the code package to be tested. The matching code package is retrieved and stored in a database. The matching code package is assembled into a test bucket and the test bucket is provided for the code package to be tested.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Patent number: 10850864
    Abstract: The present general inventive concept relates to a system of method having an electronic flight display that meets the FAR 23.1311(b) regulatory requirement for redundant backup instruments in the cockpit. The present general inventive concept also provides a system and method to detect failures, obstructions, or improper operation of the aircraft pitot pressure sensing system using a combination of dissimilar sensor data that is independent from each other, e.g., allocated from different sources and employed for different purposes on different displays, and displays information on an avionics display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Aspen Avionics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Lyons, Jeffrey D. Bethel
  • Patent number: 10831475
    Abstract: Assessing portability of source code based on predictions from a learning model trained with historical outputs from a portability analyzer. A request is received as input to assess portability of source code from a source environment to at least one target environment. The learning model is applied to the source code to predict a level of portability of the source code to the at least one target environment. Results from a portability analyzer that are based on the level of portability predicted by the learning model include a confidence measure associated with one or more portions of the source code indicating the ease of portability of the one or more portions of the source code to each of the at least one target environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons