Patents by Inventor Richard James
Richard James 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).
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Publication number: 20240139870Abstract: A laser crafting apparatus for directing electromagnetic radiation toward a workpiece may include various features. For example, the laser crafting apparatus may include a material support tray that is removably supported within an internal volume of the laser crafting apparatus. Further, the apparatus may include pre-filter disposed in a ventilation pathway between a workspace region of the internal volume and an extractor fan. The laser crafting apparatus may include a laser carriage assembly that houses a laser module and the assembly may include a lens tray detachably coupled to the support structure of the laser carriage assembly. In various embodiments, the laser crafting apparatus includes a lid having a radiation attenuation layer and a fire suppression layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Cricut, Inc.Inventors: Sterling Kingdon, Joe Martin, Andrew James Yuill, Kurt Stalsberg, Tanner Hesterman, Richard Petty, Kyle Kenneth Johnson, Devin Higgs Anderson, Muchuan Chen, Cole Chamberlain, Adam Worsham, Colter Leys, Everett Sidney Kettle, Marc Korbuly, Stephan Clark, Jesse Anderegg, Chloe Georgiades
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Publication number: 20240143280Abstract: A circuit arrangement includes a reduction operator circuits arranged in a first level of a reduction tree. Each reduction operator circuit accumulates respective products into a respective sum. Quantizer circuits are configured to quantize the sums from the reduction operator circuits into quantized sums, respectively, based on values of the sums relative to respective first thresholds. Another reduction operator circuit is arranged in a second level of the reduction tree and is configured to accumulate the quantized sums and provide a first sum. A second-level quantizer circuit is configured to quantize the first sum into a quantized first sum based on a value of the first sum relative to a second threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: Xilinx, Inc.Inventors: Erwei Wang, Samuel Richard Bayliss, Philip Bryn James-Roxby
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Patent number: 11971989Abstract: A computer-implemented method can be used for restoring a computer system following an infection event. The computer system can have a plurality of machines, in which a plurality of back-up copies are associated with each one of the plurality of machines, and in which each of the plurality of back-up copies associated with a particular machine is a different version back-up. The method can include searching the plurality of back-up copies to identify one or more clean-back-up copies that do not comprise a signature of the infection event and restoring one or more of the plurality of machines using a respective clean-back-up copy.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Predatar LtdInventors: Neil Warwick, Anton James, Steve Miller, Richard Norgate
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Publication number: 20240136211Abstract: The invention relates to a system for manufacturing a plurality of integrated circuits, IC, mounted on a common support, the system comprising: an input station configured (adapted, arranged) to receive at least one common support; an output station configured (adapted, arranged) to receive at least one common support having a plurality of integrated circuits formed thereon; a plurality of processing modules each module being operable (configured, arranged, adapted) to perform at least one of the processing steps (e.g. deposition, patterning, etching) for forming an integrated circuit on the common support; a transfer means operable (configured, arranged, adapted) to transfer the at least one common support from the input station to the output station and to one or more of the processing modules therebetween; control means (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Richard David PRICE, Neil DAVIES, Scott WHITE, Thomas Stanley VAN DEN HEEVER, Kenneth David WILLIAMSON, Nathaniel James GREEN
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Publication number: 20240133275Abstract: A detonation module for a perforation tool is described herein. The detonation module includes a detonator, a switch circuit disposed in a fluid-sealed housing and electrically coupled to the detonator, a shielding circuit coupled to the switch circuit, an annular electrical contact electrically coupled to the switch circuit, and an annular, electrically conductive, compressive member to form a compressive electrical connection with an end of a perforation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Indranil Ghosh, Anjali Vijay Dhobale, Richard Lee Warns, Juan Carlos Luna Diaz, Andreas Hendrawinata, Tommy Nguyen, Sonia James
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Patent number: 11966730Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing a virtualization environment includes a set of host machines, each of which includes a hypervisor, virtual machines, and a virtual machine controller, and a data migration system configured to identify one or more existing storage items stored at one or more existing File Server Virtual Machines (FSVMs) of an existing virtualized file server (VFS). For each of the existing storage items, the data migration system is configured to identify a new FSVMs of a new VFS based on the existing FSVM, send a representation of the storage item from the existing FSVM to the new FSVM, such that representations of storage items are sent between different pairs of FSVMs in parallel, and store a new storage item at the new FSVM, such that the new storage item is based on the representation of the existing storage item received by the new FSVM.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Durga Mahesh Arikatla
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Patent number: 11966729Abstract: In one embodiment, a system for managing communication connections in a virtualization environment includes a plurality of host machines implementing a virtualization environment, wherein each of the host machines includes a hypervisor, at least one user virtual machine (user VM), and a distributed file server that includes file server virtual machines (FSVMs) and associated local storage devices. Each FSVM and associated local storage device are local to a corresponding one of the host machines, and the FSVMs conduct I/O transactions with their associated local storage devices based on I/O requests received from the user VMs. Each of the user VMs on each host machine sends each of its representative I/O requests to an FSVM that is selected by one or more of the FSVMs for each I/O request based on a lookup table that maps a storage item referenced by the I/O request to the selected one of the FSVMs.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Nutanix, Inc.Inventors: Richard James Sharpe, Kalpesh Ashok Bafna, Durga Mahesh Arikatla, Shyamsunder Prayagchand Rathi, Satyajit Sanjeev Deshmukh, Vishal Sinha, Anil Kumar Gopalapura Venkatesh, Rashmi Gupta, Rishabh Sharma, Yifeng Huang
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Publication number: 20240124293Abstract: A probe for a closed transfer system, the probe including a probe body and a probe tip. The probe body defines an inlet, an outlet, and a plurality of channels. The outlet is in fluid communication with the inlet via at least one of the plurality of channels. The probe tip is located at a top end of the probe body and defines a first passageway. The first passageway is in fluid communication with at least one of the plurality of channels. The probe body is configured to be slidably moveable within a coupler body between a first position where the probe tip is received within the coupler body and a second position where the probe tip extends at least partially away from the coupler body to open a fluid flow path through the coupler body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Roger James, Ben Freeston, Claire Potter, Richard Garnett, Sam Pullen
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Publication number: 20240129580Abstract: A method of synchronising audio content arranged to be played by a second device with video content played by a first device, wherein the second device includes a camera, comprises: capturing at least a portion of the video content with the camera; performing image recognition on the captured video content to identify a set time point in the audio content; and commencing playing the audio content from a selected time point in the audio content corresponding to the set time point, such that the audio content is synchronous with the video content. A method of pre-preparing video content for use in such a synchronisation method is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Dominic Sinclair Collins, David John Bomphrey, Mark Richard James
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Publication number: 20240121240Abstract: Computing platforms, methods, and storage media for providing multi-channel authentication are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, from a plurality of system access channels, authentication data related to a plurality of data transfers and to a plurality of users; consolidate the authentication data from the plurality of access channels to generate a set of consolidated authentication data; and generate a user interface, based on the set of consolidated authentication data, to enable execution of a centrally-provided authentication function at a selected system access channel for a selected user initiating a data transfer. An authentication hub according to an implementation may provide a common authentication experience and improved authentication for the plurality of access channels, which may include a telephone contact center, an in-person or branch location, and online services such as web-based or app-based.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Jacquelyn LIDDY, Robert Dean ALLEN, Joel David HAMMOND, Vamshidhar PONNAMANENI, Ryan James TEVLIN, Sara Sabrina Albuen SANTOS, Richard JONES, Bijoy NAICK, Blerina HOXHA, Merad KESTAY, Catharine Eugenie BOUCHARD, Aniruddha Prakash KUNDLEY, Meredith Katharine Carter GREENFIELD
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Publication number: 20240119315Abstract: A layered machine learning system for processing data. The machine learning system comprises decision trees with different depths. An iterative training process is performed on the layered machine learning system to determine the structures of the decision trees based on prior predictions. The fitted decision trees are further configured to update leaf values with a gradient boosting method. By cumulating the predictions of decisions trees in prior iterations, interaction effects are modeled among different depths within the layered machine learning system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Rachael MCNAUGHTON, Richard BLAND, Colin TOWERS, William JAMES
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Patent number: 11952463Abstract: A method of preparing an acid neutralizing polymer powder (ANPP) includes preparing a first reaction product by contacting and reacting virgin polyamide powder material with tert-butoxide in a first aliquot of a polar aprotic solvent and preparing a mixture of an halogenated dialkylalkylamine to a second aliquot of the polar aprotic solvent. ANPP is prepared by mixing the first reaction product and the mixture for a period of time and at a temperature sufficient to produce the ANPP.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignees: Workers First LLC, Clarkson UniversityInventors: Matthew James Borowiak, Jr., Richard Earl Partch
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Publication number: 20240109902Abstract: The invention relates to a novel group of compounds of Formula (I) or salts thereof: wherein Y, Z1, Z2, R1, R4, R5 and n are as described in the specification, which may be useful in the treatment or prevention of a disease or medical condition mediated through protein kinase B (PKB) such as cancer. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, methods of treatment of diseases mediated by PKB using said compounds and methods for preparing compounds of Formula (I).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Paul David JOHNSON, Andrew LEACH, Richard William Arthur LUKE, Zbigniew Stanley Matusiak, Jeffrey James Morris
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Publication number: 20240110152Abstract: The present invention provides automated methods for expanding TILs and producing therapeutic populations of TILs, including novel tissue culture devices and automated methods for expanding TIL populations in a closed system that lead to improved efficacy, improved phenotype, and increased metabolic health of the TILs in a shorter time period, while allowing for reduced microbial contamination as well as decreased costs.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2021Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Adrian Emanual Wells, Nermin Awad Samir Gerges, Richard Boyt Love, Joseph James Wypych
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Patent number: 11945557Abstract: A suspension system for supporting a body relative to at least four points, including: a respective front left, front right, back left and back right support arrangement between the respective point and the body, each respective support arrangement including a respective resilience arrangement and a respective control ram, each respective control ram including a respective compression chamber forming at least part of a respective compression control volume; a control arrangement including a first and a second diagonal reversible pump for displacing fluid between diagonally opposite compression control volumes. Each respective resilience arrangement can include a respective damping arrangement to restrict and/or selectively prevent compression and/or expansion of at least a portion of the respective resilience arrangement. Each respective control ram can further include a respective rebound chamber, the front control rams being cross connected and the back control rams being cross connected.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Nauti-Craft Pty LtdInventors: Laurence John Walker, Michael James Longman, Richard Monk, Ross McNab
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Patent number: 11946770Abstract: Systems and methods for mapping trip trajectories include identifying one or more vehicle trips (e.g., aircraft flights). One or more trajectory configurations associated with at least a portion of each vehicle trip can be identified, and location data associated with the one or more vehicle trips can be requested. Trip trajectory data based at least in part from the location data associated with the one or more vehicle trips and the one or more trajectory configurations associated with at least a portion of each vehicle trip can be generated. The trip trajectory data can be provided for display on a map of a geographic area including one or more locations defined by the location data associated with the one or more vehicle trips.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Richard Eddy Pineo, Kyle James Pope, Megan Zoe Potter, Austin David McDaniel, Kristopher Evans Adler
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Patent number: 11945786Abstract: The present invention provides compounds, e.g., compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, and compositions thereof. Also provided are implantable elements (e.g., devices and materials) comprising the same, as well as methods of use thereof, e.g., for treating or preventing a disease, disorder, or condition.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2017Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SIGILON THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Omid Veiseh, Richard Heidebrecht, Paul Kevin Wotton, Matthias Alexander Oberli, Robert James Miller
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Patent number: 11944534Abstract: An intraocular lens has an upper surface and a lower surface, and comprising an optic portion, and at least one haptic portion connected to the optic portion and extending outward from the optic portion, and a channel disposed in the intraocular lens and having a first end being disposed in the optic portion and a second end disposed in the haptic portion. The channel extends generally radially outward from the optic portion into the haptic portion and is generally linear in a radial direction, but can have some curvature if desired. The channel is open to a top surface of the optic portion and haptic portion along the length of the channel or is disposed below the top surface of the optic portion and haptic portion, with openings in the top surface of the optic portion and haptic portion on each end of the channel.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Inventor: Richard James Mackool
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Patent number: 11947714Abstract: An appliance includes an external communication port, such as an RJ45 port, and a wireless communication module in wireless communication with a remote server through an external network. A controller is configured to receive, using the wireless communication module, a secure unlock command from a remote server, the secure unlock command being generated when a remote service device transmits appliance identification data to the remote server, and unlock the external communication port to permit the remote service device to access operating software through the external communication port.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Ryan James Scheckelhoff, Richard Dean Suel, II, John Gilman Chapman, Jr.
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Patent number: D1024132Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Benjamin James Crick, Richard R. Dellinger, YunJae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton