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: 12116359
    Abstract: The invention relates, in certain aspects, to developable forms of certain compounds that are useful to treat and/or prevent EBV infection and related conditions in a subject. The invention further provides EBNA1 inhibitors, and/or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, that are useful for the treatment of diseases caused by latent Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection and/or lytic EBV infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The Wistar Institute
    Inventors: Troy E. Messick, Paul M. Lieberman, Garry R. Smith, Arlindo L. Castelhano
  • Patent number: 12115827
    Abstract: A motion control system includes a top mount, a bottom mount, a rigid housing, an air spring, and a linear actuator. The air spring transfers force of a first load path between the top mount and the bottom mount. The air spring includes a pressurized cavity containing pressurized gas that transfers the force of the first load path. The linear actuator transfers force of a second load path between the top mount and the bottom mount in parallel to the first load path. The rigid housing defines at least part of the pressurized cavity and transfers the force of the second load path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan L. Hall, Jacob L. Dawson, Paul J. Keas, Troy A. Carter, Roland R. Smith
  • Patent number: 12112840
    Abstract: A system comprising one or more processors, and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: displaying, one or more instructions on a user interface of a mobile device to instruct a user to capture each respective image of a prescription label; determining, using contrast, a location of each respective image in the set of images that is associated with the respective different portions of the prescription label on the medication package; reconstructing each of the respective different portions of the prescription label on the medication package as a flattened reconstruction of the respective different portions of the prescription label; and providing for display on the user interface a reconstructed prescription label. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Walter R. Smith, Chi-Kai Chien, Christian Hagel-Sorensen, Frédéric Médous, Peyman Oreizy, Jonathan Schwartz, Brittany Staten, Paul Teixeira
  • Publication number: 20240324904
    Abstract: One or more radar sensors can be used to monitor patients in a variety of different environments and embodiments. In one embodiment, radar sensors can be used to monitor a patient's movement, including movement in a patient bed and around a room. In another embodiment, a patient position can be monitored in a patient bed, which can be used as feedback for control of bladders of a patient bed. Additional embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Steven D. Baker, Douglas A. Seim, Frank E. Sauser, Theodore Corsaro, Michael Churilla, Kathryn R. Smith, Eric R. Meyer, Gregory J. Shannon, Michael S. Hood, Brandon P. Fisk, Rachel L. Williamson
  • Patent number: 12106379
    Abstract: A system including one or more processor and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform: extracting one or more feature values from at least one image of an insurance card of a user; generating a feature vector associated with the at least one image of the insurance card of the user; reducing, using dimensionality reduction, an amount of data in the feature vector to a reduced set of data; determining, by a machine learning model, a first insurance plan of the user based on machine learning model input data comprising the reduced set of data; identifying at least one alternative insurance plan for the user; and sending instructions to display a recommendation of the at least one alternative insurance plan on a user interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Walter R. Smith, Frédéric Médous
  • Publication number: 20240320722
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identity verification to provide access to restricted goods or services. A first device may receive, from a second device operated on behalf of a user, a first request to purchase a restricted good or service. The first device may transmit, to the second device responsive to the first request, a second request comprising an identification of information of the user, and an identification of validation system; and may receive the requested information of the user. The first device may generate an attestation key comprising a hash of the requested information of the user and the identification of the validation system; and may determine that a record in a centralized or distributed ledger at an address corresponding to the attestation key is associated with a non-zero transaction value. Responsive to the determination, the first device may provide the restricted good or service to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: Civic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan R. SMITH, Vinodan k. LINGHAM, Stephen SMIT
  • Publication number: 20240317596
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a liquefied ammonia-ammonium composition, also referenced herein as a eurefstic composition. The composition includes ammonia, an ammonium cation, and a halogenated anion, and the composition remains in liquid form at ambient temperatures and pressures. The composition can be formed by contacting gaseous ammonia with a solid halogenated ammonium salt, such as ammonium triflate or ammonium hexafluorophosphate, which absorbs the ammonia to form the liquid eurefstic composition. The eurefstic composition provides a convenient, safe, and ammonia-dense liquid that is easily transportable and safely storable until later use, for example to release and generate ammonia, to be electrolyzed to generate hydrogen gas, etc. The ammonia or hydrogen gas can then be used as a combustion fuel or other energy source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Inventors: Chenjia Mi, Reza Ghazfar, Milton R. Smith, III, Thomas W. Hamann
  • Patent number: 12097973
    Abstract: Wing panels having composite wing skins and stringers are produced on a moving production line. The wing panels are formed on mandrels that move through workstations along the production line where laminators layup the wing skins and pick-and-place machines place stringers on the wing skins that are supplied by stringer feeder lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. Smith, Darrell Darwin Jones
  • Patent number: 12085102
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for reducing drag includes forming a smooth surface on a first portion of a physical object. The method also includes forming periodic riblets on a second portion of the physical object. The second portion of the physical object is adjacent to the first portion of the physical object. Each riblet of the periodic riblets of the second portion of the physical object is depressed below a plane of the smooth surface of the first portion of the physical object. The method further includes generating a flow over the periodic riblets of the second portion of the physical object and over the smooth surface of the first portion of the physical object. A length of each riblet of the periodic riblets runs parallel to a direction of the flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Brian R. Smith, Patrick James Yagle, Paul Douglas McClure
  • Patent number: 12083741
    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; a compactor disposed downstream of the outlet relative to the trajectory and configured to press the material transversely against an adjacent surface, and a cutting module located between the outlet and the compactor. The compactor and the cutting module may be configured to move together relative to the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Continous 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: 12077319
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fabricating a part on a mandrel. The system includes a series of stations divided into at least two groups of stations, wherein each group of stations performs fabrication operations on a particular zone of the mandrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. Smith, Darrell D. Jones, Paul Chace Wilcoxson, Raviendra Sidath Suriyaarachchi, Robert William Whiting, Jeremy Evan Justice
  • Patent number: 12076164
    Abstract: Some embodiments of pacing systems employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy. The wireless electrode assemblies may wirelessly receive energy via an inductive coupling so as to provide electrical stimulation to the surrounding heart tissue. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assembly may include one or more biased tines that shift from a first position to a second position to secure the wireless electrode assembly into the inner wall of the heart chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventors: William J. Drasler, Michael J. Pikus, Roger Hastings, Scott R. Smith, Daniel M. Lafontaine, Douglas R. Saholt, Graig L Kveen, Martin R. Willard
  • Patent number: 12075319
    Abstract: A system for providing dynamic roadside assistance coordination may include a customer mobile device or vehicle in direct, or indirect, wireless communication with an insurance provider and/or service provider remote server. The customer's device may transmit a request for roadside assistance (e.g., towing services), and a current GPS location. In response, a closest, trusted service provider vehicle may be determined, and then directed to the customer's location. For instance, a software application may receive the customer location and compare it with availability information to match the customer with a close and trusted service provider. The customer's device may receive an acknowledgement that help is on the way, and be able to track the current location of the service provider vehicle while en route. Payment for the roadside assistance may be automatically and electronically paid by the insurance provider. As a result, prompt and safe roadside assistance may be provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Company
    Inventors: George T. Dulee, Natalie R. Smith, Matthew Clarenson, Michelle Ann Curtis, Justin Davis, Jacob Alt
  • Publication number: 20240279095
    Abstract: A septic tank system includes a multiple compartmented (or chambered) supplemental tank. The supplemental tank has a cover/lid with a plurality of strategically situated access holes (both small and large ports) for servicing the various chambers from above ground.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: John R. Smith, Ron Keffer, Robert Horger, Andrew C. Middleton, Robin L. Weightman, Peter Goodale, Richard Donahue
  • Publication number: 20240274551
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for a frequency based integrated circuit that selectively filters out unwanted bands or regions of interfering frequencies utilizing one or more tunable notch or bandpass filters or tunable low or high pass filters capable of operating across multiple frequencies and multiple bands in noisy RF environments. The tunable filters are fabricated within the same integrated circuit package as the associated frequency based circuitry, thus minimizing R, L, and C parasitic values, and also allowing residual and other parasitic impedance in the associated circuitry and IC package to be absorbed and compensated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: William R. Smith, JR., Jaroslaw Adamski, Dan William Nobbe, Edward Nicholas Comfoltey, Jingbo Wang
  • Patent number: 12059417
    Abstract: A method of treatment of a patient suffering from autonomic dysfunction is described. The method of treatment can include the steps of initially evaluating the patient and administering buprenorphine to treat the patient, for example, daily. The patient undergoing such treatment is subjected to monitoring. The monitoring of the patient may be on a periodic basis, for example, a weekly basis, a daily basis, or on a real-time basis. Such monitoring may be through any one or combination of a plurality of bodily measurements that includes, for example, heart rate variability or blood catecholamine concentrations. Monitoring of the patient may also occur remotely. Methods are also described for determining whether the amount of buprenorphine provided to the patient may be tapered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: SMITH GENETICS RESEAR CH, LLC
    Inventor: Douglas R. Smith
  • Publication number: 20240253800
    Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft includes an engine having a central axis. A cowl surrounds the engine and includes a cowl lip. A compression ramp is spaced away from the cowl lip. An inlet is formed by the cowl lip and the compression ramp. The compression ramp is non-planar. The compression ramp is movable relative to the cowl lip to vary compression of an inlet airflow through the inlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Thomas R. Smith, Matthew J. Roode
  • Publication number: 20240256703
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing identity verification services to users by providing a staking mechanism to incentivize participants in an identity verification system to be truthful and accurate and determining validator accuracy and associated setting of fees for using validator attestations to create an efficient, private and secure system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Civic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Riedel, Jonathan R. Smith, Vinodan K. Lingham, Llewellyn Claasen, James A.G. Kilroe, Kyle M. Levin
  • Patent number: 12049330
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for assembling an aircraft. The method includes receiving a lower half barrel section of fuselage that is inverted to a keel-up orientation; and installing a floor grid into the lower half barrel section while inverted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Daniel R. Smith, Darrell D. Jones, Jeremy Evan Justice
  • Publication number: 20240246909
    Abstract: The present invention provides EBNA1 inhibitors, and/or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, that are useful for the treatment of diseases caused by EBNA1 activity, such as, but not limited to, cancer, infectious mononucleosis, chronic fatigue syndrome, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and/or rheumatoid arthritis. The present invention further provides EBNA1 inhibitors, and/or pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, that are useful for the treatment of diseases caused by latent Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) infection and/or lytic EBV infection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Troy E. Messick, Garry R. Smith, Allen B. Reitz, Paul M. Lieberman, Mark E. McDonnell, Yan Zhang, Marianne Carlsen, Shuai Chen