Patents by Inventor Richard Stephens

Richard Stephens 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: 20230071271
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods directed to improving the functions of a vehicle. Systems and methods are provided that provide a custom tool that autogenerates a set of software agents that allows a system to separate processing, transmission and receiving of messages to achieve better synchronization. The disclosure herein also provides a simplified method of key provisioning by designating one client as a server and assigning a symmetric key to every other client permanently provisioned between that client and the server. Systems and method are further provided that predict faults in a vehicle. Systems and methods are also provided that preserve data in the event of a system crash. Systems and methods are also provided in which an operating system of a vehicle detects the presence of a new peripheral and pulls the related interface file for that new peripheral. Further, a data synchronization solution is provided herein which provides optimized levels of synchronization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Stephen Chelminski
  • Patent number: 11579441
    Abstract: A visual perception device has a look-up table stored in a laser driver chip. The look-up table includes relational gain data to compensate for brighter areas of a laser pattern wherein pixels are located more closely than areas where the pixels are further apart and to compensate for differences in intensity of individual pixels when the intensities of pixels are altered due to design characteristics of an eye piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Stephen Johnston, Brian T. Schowengerdt
  • Patent number: 11564670
    Abstract: An endoscope for removing tissue at a surgical site includes an elongated tubular body insertable within a mammalian cavity of a patient. An instrument channel extends between a first opening at a distal end and a second opening at a proximal end of the tubular body and is sized and configured to receive a surgical cutting assembly that includes an aspiration channel configured to remove material entering the endoscope via a distal end of the surgical cutting assembly. A torque generation component configured to generate torque is positioned within the distal end and configured to provide the generated torque to a coupling component. The coupling component is positioned at the distal end of the elongated tubular member and configured to actuate a cutting component of the surgical cutting assembly responsive to actuation of the torque generation component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: INTERSCOPE, INC.
    Inventors: Cosme Furlong, Michael W. Marcoux, Richard Stephen Wisdom, William R. Rebh, Jr., Evan Costa, Stephen C. Evans
  • Patent number: 11559009
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of impacting the fruit production of a plant or crop by applying short-duration thermal shock streams of hot air to the plant periodically to impact the flavonoid biosynthetic pathway mechanisms in a plant thereby improving its fruit. The method includes the steps of (1) passing by the plant in a row at a speed in an improved Thermal Plant Treatment (TPT) machine, (2) ejecting from the TPT machine at least one hot stream of air in the direction of the unit plant area, (3) optionally measuring the thermal shock profile that the plant is subjected with thermal sensors, and (4) repeating the thermal shock profile treatment steps (1) and (2) at pre-determined regular intervals over at least a fraction of the crop year.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Inventor: Richard Stephen Griffith
  • Patent number: 11523807
    Abstract: An improved flexible endoscopic instrument to precisely and efficiently obtains samples of flat polyps and multiple polyps from a patient by debriding one or more polyps and retrieving the debrided polyps without having to alternate between using a separate cutting tool and a separate sample retrieving tool and may be used with an endoscope. In one aspect, the cutting tool is coupled to a flexible torque coil or torque rope that is configured to transfer rotational energy from a powered actuator through the length of the endoscope onto the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: INTERSCOPE, INC.
    Inventors: Cosme Furlong, Michael W. Marcoux, Richard Stephen Wisdom, William R Rebh, Jr., Evan Costa, Stephen C. Evans
  • Patent number: 11528249
    Abstract: Devices in enterprise-scale networks are often tracked by asset catalogs that record the physical locations of respective devices. Such tracking often involves administratively heavy communication of device deployment, and communication or recording errors may lead to missing catalog entries or entries that incorrectly identify the physical locations of the devices. Instead, a MAC address encoding may be established that maps physical locations to particular MAC addresses, such as representing a building, floor, room, row, and rack of a device in the second through sixth MAC address octets. A locator device with a network adapter featuring a selected MAC address that encodes a particular physical address may be inserted into a network device at the physical location. The physical location of the network device may thereafter be queried for the MAC addresses of connected devices, and the selected MAC address may be translated into the physical location of the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Stephen Allinson, David Alan Glass, Philip Jacob Halley, Matthew Llewellyn Lemare Jones
  • Patent number: 11350914
    Abstract: An improved flexible endoscopic instrument to precisely and efficiently obtains samples of flat polyps and multiple polyps from a patient by debriding one or more polyps and retrieving the debrided polyps without having to alternate between using a separate cutting tool and a separate sample retrieving tool and may be used with an endoscope. In one aspect, the cutting tool is coupled to a flexible torque coil or torque rope that is configured to transfer rotational energy from a powered actuator through the length of the endoscope onto the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Interscope, Inc.
    Inventors: Cosme Furlong, Michael W. Marcoux, Richard Stephen Wisdom, William R. Rebh, Jr., Evan Costa, Stephen C. Evans
  • Patent number: 11302211
    Abstract: There is provided a method and apparatus for simulating a flight scenario during a live flight of an aircraft. The method comprises: (i) generating (60) images comprising scenes relevant to the simulated flight scenario at a simulated altitude; (ii) calculating, using live flight data received for the aircraft and with reference to a predetermined flight model (65), simulated flight data for the simulated flight scenario at the simulated altitude; and (iii) displaying, on a display system (35) of the aircraft, the calculated simulated flight data while controlling the display of said generated scene images to simulate movement of the aircraft through the displayed scene at a rate and in a direction corresponding to the displayed simulated flight data. The method and apparatus may optionally alter the response of the aircraft to control actions (70) by a pilot to simulate the response expected of the aircraft having the simulated flight characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventor: Richard Stephen Hadfield
  • Publication number: 20220051963
    Abstract: An electronic device disposed in a package that includes: an interposer, fan-out interconnect (FOI), and a lid. The interposer having first size and first surface upon which die terminals (DTs) are disposed and are configured to electrically couple to integrated circuit die (IC), and second surface upon which substrate terminals (STs) are disposed and are configured to electrically couple to substrate. The IC has second size smaller than the first size, and the IC is mounted on the first surface in electrical contact with the DTs, the interposer is mounted on third surface, and the package substrate has third size, larger than the first size. The FOI establishes electrical interconnection between DTs and STs, the DTs have first pitch size and the STs have second pitch size, larger than first pitch size. The lid has first section, configured to abut fourth surface, and second section, mounted on the third surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Luke England, Richard Stephen Graf, Huahung Kao, Ronen Sinai
  • Patent number: 11238212
    Abstract: Described in detail herein are methods and systems dynamically generating maintenance data. The system includes a first computing system which can receive identification credentials associated with a user. The second computing system can receive the identification credentials associated with the user. The second computing system can authenticate the identification credentials associated with the user. The second computing system can determine whether the user is a first type or a second type in response to authenticating the identification credentials associated with the user. The second computing system can dynamically generate and display an editable form with empty fields, on the interactive display of the first computing system, in response to determining the user is of a first type. The second computing system can dynamically populate and display a read-only report on the interactive display of the first computing system, in response to determining the user is of a second type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: RailWorks Corporation
    Inventors: Justin Mueller, Robert Rolf, Richard Stephens
  • Publication number: 20220029949
    Abstract: Devices in enterprise-scale networks are often tracked by asset catalogs that record the physical locations of respective devices. Such tracking often involves administratively heavy communication of device deployment, and communication or recording errors may lead to missing catalog entries or entries that incorrectly identify the physical locations of the devices. Instead, a MAC address encoding may be established that maps physical locations to particular MAC addresses, such as representing a building, floor, room, row, and rack of a device in the second through sixth MAC address octets. A locator device with a network adapter featuring a selected MAC address that encodes a particular physical address may be inserted into a network device at the physical location. The physical location of the network device may thereafter be queried for the MAC addresses of connected devices, and the selected MAC address may be translated into the physical location of the network device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Richard Stephen ALLINSON, David Alan GLASS, Philip Jacob HALLEY, Matthew Llewellyn Lemare JONES
  • Publication number: 20220019935
    Abstract: A device may receive log data from application logs associated with applications, service logs associated with services, and server logs associated with server devices. The device may store the log data. The device may perform natural language processing on the log data to convert the log data into event data identifying events associated with categories. The device may process the event data, with a first machine learning model, to identify patterns in the event data and to generate an alert based on the patterns. The device may process the event data, with a second machine learning model, to generate a correlation matrix for the event data and to predict an event based on the correlation matrix. The device may process the event data, with a third machine learning model, to classify the event data based on the categories and to generate a recommendation based on classifying the event data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Prakash GHATAGE, Nirav Jagdish SAMPAT, Kumar VISWANATHAN, Naveen Kumar THANGARAJ, Sattish SUNDARAKRISHNAN, Kaustubh KURHEKAR, Richard Stephen Vincent PRICE
  • Patent number: 11199859
    Abstract: Embodiment includes of a method and a system of network based operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle is disclosed. One system includes a drone user machine, a drone control machine, and a drone control console. The drone control machine is interfaced with the drone user machine through a network, and the drone control machine is interfaced with a drone through the drone control console. The drone control machine operates to receive user commands from the drone user machine through the network, generate drone control commands which are provided to the drone control console for controlling the drone, wherein the drone control commands are generated based on the user commands, receive video from the drone control console that was generated by a camera located on the drone, and communicate the video to the drone user machine over the network, wherein the video is displayed on a display associated with the drone user machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: CAPE MCUAS, INC.
    Inventors: Gabriel Charalambides, Richard Stephen Pasetto, Thomas Finsterbusch, Andrej Finsterbusch, John David Stockford, Alexander Loo, Anthony Rizk
  • Patent number: 11186528
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cast explosive composition. There is provided a precure castable explosive composition comprising an explosive material, a polymerisable binder, said cross linking reagent comprising at least two reactive groups each of which is protected by a labile blocking group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Elizabeth Stephens, Richard Stephen Arthur, Wayne Cord Hayes, Michael Edward Budd
  • Publication number: 20210361265
    Abstract: A surgical console includes a drive assembly, vacuum interface, fluid transfer device, user interface, and control circuit. The drive assembly is configured to be coupled to an endoscopic tool and to be rotated by a motor. The vacuum interface is configured to apply a vacuum to the endoscopic tool. The fluid transfer device is configured to flow fluid through the endoscopic tool. The user interface is configured to receive a user input indicating at least one of instructions to rotate the endoscopic tool while applying the vacuum, or to flow fluid through the endoscopic tool. The control circuit controls at least one of the drive assembly, the vacuum interface, or the fluid transfer device based on the instructions, and is configured to cause the drive assembly to rotate the endoscopic tool while the vacuum interface applies the vacuum responsive to the user input indicating instructions to rotate the endoscopic tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Interscope, Inc.
    Inventors: Cosme Furlong, Michael W. Marcoux, Richard Stephen Wisdom, William R. Rebh, JR., Evan Costa, Stephen C. Evans
  • Publication number: 20210317051
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cast explosive composition. There is provided a precure castable explosive composition comprising an explosive material, a polymerisable binder, said cross linking reagent comprising at least two reactive groups each of which is protected by a labile blocking group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Elizabeth Stephens, Richard Stephen Arthur, Wayne Cord Hayes, Michael Edward Budd
  • Patent number: 11146527
    Abstract: Devices in enterprise-scale networks are often tracked by asset catalogs that record the physical locations of respective devices. Such tracking often involves administratively heavy communication of device deployment, and communication or recording errors may lead to missing catalog entries or entries that incorrectly identify the physical locations of the devices. Instead, a MAC address encoding may be established that maps physical locations to particular MAC addresses, such as representing a building, floor, room, row, and rack of a device in the second through sixth MAC address octets. A locator device with a network adapter featuring a selected MAC address that encodes a particular physical address may be inserted into a network device at the physical location. The physical location of the network device may thereafter be queried for the MAC addresses of connected devices, and the selected MAC address may be translated into the physical location of the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: VERIZON MEDIA INC.
    Inventors: Richard Stephen Allinson, David Alan Glass, Philip Jacob Halley, Matthew Llewellyn Lemare Jones
  • Publication number: 20210298727
    Abstract: An improved flexible endoscopic instrument to precisely and efficiently obtains samples of flat polyps and multiple polyps from a patient by debriding one or more polyps and retrieving the debrided polyps without having to alternate between using a separate cutting tool and a separate sample retrieving tool and may be used with an endoscope. In one aspect, the cutting tool is coupled to a flexible torque coil or torque rope that is configured to transfer rotational energy from a powered actuator through the length of the endoscope onto the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Cosme Furlong, Michael W. Marcoux, Richard Stephen Wisdom, William R. Rebh, JR., Evan Costa, Stephen C. Evans
  • Publication number: 20210300838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a cast explosive composition. There is provided a precure castable explosive composition comprising an explosive material, a polymerisable binder, said cross linking reagent comprising at least two reactive groups each of which is protected by a labile blocking group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Rebecca Elizabeth Stephens, Richard Stephen Arthur, Wayne Cord Hayes, Michael Edward Budd
  • Patent number: 11083323
    Abstract: A container contains a beverage base material in a beverage base material chamber defined by a chamber bottom and a chamber wall. The container furthermore comprises an elongated handle extending in a direction having a radial component outward from the chamber. The handle is provided with an outlet channel extending from the chamber to a channel outlet provided at the free end of the handle. A beverage preparation system for preparing a beverage includes an automatic beverage preparation apparatus and such a container and is arranged for removably connecting the container to the apparatus such that the handle is positioned vertically with the channel outlet pointing downwards. A method of preparing a beverage using such a beverage preparation system in which the container is connected to the apparatus such that the handle is positioned vertically with the channel outlet pointing downwards for dispensing a beverage from the beverage base material chamber substantially vertically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: Koninklijke Douwe Egberts B.V.
    Inventors: Gerbrand Kristiaan de Graaff, Christiaan Johannes Maria Moorman, Roy Gilsing, Richard Stephens, Jo Fleming, Brad Phillips