Patents by Inventor R. Smith

R. Smith 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: 12354501
    Abstract: Interactive augmented-reality technologies track simulated-radiation exposure of a user moving through a physical scene. The simulated-radiation exposure tracking is performed using radiation voxels associated with a simulated radiation field caused as if a radioactive source of a particular type was emitting radiation from a predetermined location of the scene. Each radiation voxel is indicative of a respective level of the simulated radiation field at the voxel's scene location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2025
    Assignee: UT-Battelle, LLC
    Inventors: M. Scott Greenwood, Michael B. R. Smith, Nick Thompson, Noel B. Nelson, Douglas E. Peplow
  • Publication number: 20250214300
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for additively manufacturing a composite structure. The system may include a support, and a print head operatively connected to and moveable by the support. The print head may include an outlet configured to discharge a material in a trajectory along a central axis of the outlet, and a compactor disposed downstream of the outlet relative to the trajectory and configured to press the material transversely against an adjacent surface. The outlet may be configured to translate relative to the compacting module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Applicant: Continuous Composites Inc
    Inventors: Trevor David Budge, Brock Adam Jahner, Jeremiah R. Smith, Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew Michael Stulc, Samuel VanDenBerg, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Andrew John Overby
  • Publication number: 20250207666
    Abstract: An assembly configuration prevents eddy or other electrical currents from flowing through the bearings that support relative motion of two components by incorporation of a sealing element that includes an electrically conductive additive material, thereby providing a conductive pathway to shunt the electrical currents externally from the bearings or around the bearings. The sealing element is therefore a two-function sealing element that seals the system components and additionally shunts the electrical currents externally from or around the bearings to prevent current flow through the bearings. A material of the contacting sealing element is electrically conductive, and in this manner, the sealing element is sufficiently electrically conductive to provide an electrically conductive path between the two components to shunt the eddy currents around the bearings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Applicant: Parker-Hannifin Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald J. THOMAS, Thomas R. SMITH, Aydin AYKANAT
  • Patent number: 12336746
    Abstract: Screw inserter instruments and methods for implanting a bone screw are disclosed herein. In one exemplary embodiment, a screw inserter instrument can include a screw drive assembly having a first handle and a driver shaft coupled to the first handle, and a stylet assembly having a second handle and a stylet extending through the driver shaft. The first handle can have a locked configuration, in which the first handle and the driver shaft are coupled such that the first handle can maintain the driver shaft in a fixed position while the second handle is rotated relative to the first handle, and an unlocked configuration, in which the first handle and the driver shaft can rotate simultaneously in a first direction and the first handle can rotate independent of the driver shaft in a second opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 24, 2025
    Assignee: Medos International Sàrl
    Inventors: Joshua Rodriguez, Daniel Moreno, Nicholas Pavento, Keanan R. Smith, James Murray, Eric Biester
  • Publication number: 20250191000
    Abstract: A global trade and SESG management system includes a processor in electronic communication with at least one data repository having product data stored thereon. The processor is configured to generate an electronic data record (EDR) corresponding to a product and store the EDR in memory associated with the processor. The EDR includes: a record identifier; summary data representative of one or more attributes of the product; and an electronic pointer identifying the location of the product data on the data repository. The processor is further configured to determine a regulatory categorization for the product and a confidence value for the regulatory categorization. The regulatory categorization is determined from at least one of the summary data or the product data. The confidence value is indicative of a probability that the determined regulatory categorization is a most optimal categorization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: KYG Trade, INC.
    Inventor: Todd R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250178007
    Abstract: A plural component dispensing system includes a first heated hose, a second heated hose, a controller, and a dispensing device. The first heated hose and the second heated hose include electrical wires that supply heat to the first and second heated hoses to heat fluid components within the first and second heated hoses. The first and second heated hoses are electrically coupled to the controller and are fluidly coupled to the dispensing device. The controller is configured to control and alternate the electrical power supplied to the first heated hose and the second heated hose to heat the first heated hose independent of the second heated hose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Peterson, Stephen P. Schneider, Mark J. Brudevold, Matthew R. Smith, Joseph E. Tix
  • Publication number: 20250152441
    Abstract: A patient support apparatus includes a support surface including a topper. An opening is formed in a side of the support surface. A cavity extends from the opening into the support surface. An inlet port is positioned within the cavity and fluidly coupled to the topper. A pneumatic blower is configured to removably position within the cavity and has an outlet port that couples to the inlet port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Applicant: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Darrell L. Borgman, Douglas E. Borgman, Arpit Shah, Wui Hsien Wong, Keith Moores, Jason M. Gilreath, Michael R. Montini, Charles A. Lachenbruch, Eric R. Meyer, Frank E. Sauser, Catherine M. Wagner, Rachel L. Williamson, Brandon P. Fisk, Jason B. Grace, Brian Guthrie, Nicole Johannigman, Gregory P. Shannon, David C. Newkirk, Michael Churilla, Jnanesha Ramegowda, Taylor Franklin, Kathryn R. Smith, John G. Byers, Frederick K. Schultz, Andrew R. Wager, Sridhar Karimpuzha Seshadri, Gary R. Gibbons, Scott M. Corbin, John Goewert, Thomas L. Simpson, Faron L. Blessing, James D. Voll, Kin Meng Choi, Stephen S. Amrhein, Herve Gautier, John-Francois Lellig, Philippe Kaikenger, Matthieu Guetta
  • Patent number: 12296984
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assembling a wing. Methods include suspending an upper wing panel of an aircraft beneath a shuttle, translating a rib to a position it, and placing the rib into contact with, then affixing the rib to, the upper wing panel, while suspended. Some methods include installing ribs and spars to the upper wing panel, and joining a lower wing panel to the ribs and spars, while the upper wing panel is suspended. Some methods involve joining ribs to spars (e.g., all, or some) to produce a support structure that is then affixed to the upper wing panel. Systems include a shuttle that suspends an upper wing panel, and a cart that includes supports to hold a rib, a chassis to translate the rib to a position beneath the upper wing panel, and a lifting apparatus to lift the rib into contact with the upper wing panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. Smith, Darrell D. Jones
  • Patent number: 12290983
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for additively manufacturing a composite structure. The system may include a support, and a print head operatively connected to and moveable by the support. The print head may include a first supply configured to hold a liquid matrix, a second supply configured to hold a continuous reinforcement, and a wetting module configured to separately receive the liquid matrix and the continuous reinforcement from the first and second supplies, respectively, and to discharge a composite material including the continuous reinforcement wetted with the liquid matrix. The wetting module may include a body forming an internal chamber having an upstream open end and a downstream open end, an entrant nozzle disposed within the upstream open end and configured to receive the continuous reinforcement, and an exit nozzle disposed within the downstream closed end and configured to discharge the composite material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor David Budge, Brock Adam Jahner, Jeremiah R. Smith, Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew Michael Stulc, Samuel VanDenBerg, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Andrew John Overby
  • Patent number: 12294228
    Abstract: Examples of charging systems are described which may utilize a network of resonator circuits. Control methods are described which may locate a charging location at which an electronic device is placed proximate the charging system and identify a path of resonator circuits to activate to charge the electronic device. Individual resonator circuits in the path may be activated by selecting a resonant frequency of the resonator circuit such that power may be transferred by the resonator circuit at an operating frequency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Joshua R. Smith, Xingyi Shi
  • Patent number: 12290985
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for additively manufacturing a composite structure. The system may include a support, and a print head operatively connected to and moveable by the support. The print head may include an outlet configured to discharge a material in a trajectory along a central axis of the outlet, and a compactor disposed downstream of the outlet relative to the trajectory and configured to press the material transversely against an adjacent surface. The outlet may be configured to translate relative to the compacting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Continuous Composites Inc.
    Inventors: Trevor David Budge, Brock Adam Jahner, Jeremiah R. Smith, Nathan Andrew Stranberg, Andrew Michael Stulc, Samuel VanDenBerg, Stephen Tyler Wilson, Andrew John Overby
  • Publication number: 20250131128
    Abstract: Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to privatize consumer data are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a consumer data acquirer to collect original data corresponding to (a) confidential information associated with consumers and (b) behavior information associated with the consumers, and a data obfuscator. The data obfuscator is to determine a degree to which the original data is to be obfuscated and a type of obfuscation to be applied to the original data based on the original data, generate obfuscation adjustments of the original data based on the degree and the type, and generate an obfuscation model based on the obfuscation adjustments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Bruce C. Richardson, Shixiao Li, Martin Quinn, Michael R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250125746
    Abstract: An electrostatic clutch includes a shaft having an electrically conductive first layer. The clutch also includes a hold attachment rotatably coupled to the shaft and a tension band having an electrically conductive second layer. The tension band is wrapped around the shaft such that a first end of the tension band is coupled to the hold attachment. The clutch includes a dielectric material disposed between the first layer and the second layer and a load attachment rotatably coupled to the shaft. The clutch is configured for an engaged mode where a voltage applied between the first layer and the second layer causes the tension band to clasp the shaft and the load attachment and the hold attachment to be rotationally locked to the shaft, and for a disengaged mode where the voltage is absent and the shaft can rotate freely with respect to the load attachment and the hold attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Jeffrey Lipton, Joshua R. Smith, Timothy Amish, Jeffrey Auletta, Chad Christopher Kessens
  • Patent number: 12270424
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for reducing drag includes forming first periodic riblets on a smooth surface of a physical object and forming second periodic riblets on the smooth surface of the physical object. The method further includes generating a flow over the first and second periodic riblets of the physical object. Each first periodic riblet comprises a first transition region at a first end of each first periodic riblet and a second transition region at a second end of each first periodic riblet. Each second periodic riblet comprises a first transition region at a first end of each second periodic riblet and a second transition region at a second end of each second periodic riblet. Each second transition region at the second end of each first periodic riblet overlaps each first transition region at the first end of each second periodic riblet. A length of each riblet of the first and second periodic riblets runs parallel to a direction of the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Brian R. Smith, Patrick J. Yagle, Paul Douglas McClure
  • Patent number: 12265358
    Abstract: Various examples of out-of-plane multicolor waveguide holography systems, methods of manufacture, and methods of use are described herein. In some examples, a multicolor waveguide holography system includes a planar waveguide to convey optical radiation between a grating coupler and a metasurface hologram. The grating coupler may be configured to couple out-of-plane optical radiation of three different color incident at three different angles into the planar waveguide. The combined multicolor optical radiation may be conveyed by the waveguide to the metasurface hologram. The metasurface hologram may diffractively decouple the three colors of optical radiation for off-plane propagation to form a multicolor holographic image in free space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventors: David R. Smith, Zhiqin Huang, Daniel L. Marks
  • Publication number: 20250099276
    Abstract: A stent system and method to prevent stent migration. The stent system includes a magnetic stent comprising an outer surface and an inner surface, a proximal end, and a distal end with three or more magnets disposed thereon and configured to form a ring. The system may further have a magnetic ring comprising three or more magnets configured to form a ring. The magnetic ring is disposed proximally or distally to the magnetic stent, which allows magnetic repulsion to maintain the position of the stent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Nischal Acharya, Olivia Heutlinger, Ninh Tuan Nguyen, Brian R. Smith
  • Patent number: 12258314
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise EBNA1 inhibitors useful for the treatment of diseases caused by EBNA1 activity such as cancer, infectious mononucleosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and rheumatoid arthritis. Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention also comprise EBNA1 inhibitors useful for the treatment of diseases caused by latent Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection. Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention also comprise EBNA1 inhibitors useful for the treatment of diseases caused by lytic Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY
    Inventors: Troy E. Messick, Garry R. Smith, Allen B. Reitz, Paul M. Lieberman, Mark E. McDONNELL, Yan Zhang, Venkata Velvadapu
  • Patent number: 12259362
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for inspecting aircraft fuselages. Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) stations inspect sections of a fuselage via pulsed-line assembly techniques. After each pulse, a section of fuselage is moved by less than its length, and one or more NDI stations disposed at different portions of the section to inspect the section of fuselage for out-of-tolerance conditions. A method for inspecting a structure for inconsistencies which includes advancing a structure along a track in a process direction through a Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) station, indexing the structure to the NDI station and inspecting the structure with the NDI station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. Smith, Darrell D. Jones, Barry A. Fetzer, Jeremy Evan Justice, James C. Kennedy
  • Patent number: 12251724
    Abstract: A plural component dispensing system includes a first heated hose, a second heated hose, a controller, and a dispensing device. The first heated hose and the second heated hose include electrical wires that supply heat to the first and second heated hoses to heat fluid components within the first and second heated hoses. The first and second heated hoses are electrically coupled to the controller and are fluidly coupled to the dispensing device. The controller is configured to control and alternate the electrical power supplied to the first heated hose and the second heated hose to heat the first heated hose independent of the second heated hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Peterson, Stephen P. Schneider, Mark J. Brudevold, Matthew R. Smith, Joseph E. Tix
  • Patent number: D1073316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Magpul Industries Corp.
    Inventors: Danny R. Smith, Timothy Eric Roberts, William Furman O'Dell, Michael Werner