Patents by Inventor Richard To

Richard To 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: 11023408
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus for communication over a serial bus in accordance with an I3C protocol are described that enable a slave device to request that a bus master device terminate a write transaction with the slave device. The serial bus may be operated according to an I3C single data rate protocol. In various aspects of the disclosure, a method performed at a master device coupled to a serial bus includes initiating a write transaction between the master device and a slave device, where the write transaction includes a plurality of data frames, and at least one data frame is configured with a transition bit in place of a parity bit. The method may include terminating the write transaction when the slave device drives a data line of the serial bus while receiving the transition bit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Radu Pitigoi-Aron, Chandan Pramod Attarde, Richard Dominic Wietfeldt, Lalan Jee Mishra
  • Patent number: 11020494
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides non-human animal models of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Also provided are methods for producing the non-human animal models and uses of the non-human animal models to screen and evaluate agents for treating or preventing NAFLD.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: CROWN BIOSCIENCE INC. (TAICANG)
    Inventors: Richard Peterson, Charles Van Jackson, Gao Sun, Guodong Zhang, Yixin (Jim) Wang
  • Patent number: 11025674
    Abstract: A system and method for generating comprehensive security profiles and ratings for organizations that takes into account the organization's infrastructure and operations in generating the profile, and the context and purpose of the rating to be generated related to the profile. The system and method may further comprise gathering data about the totality of the organization's infrastructure and operations, generating a cybersecurity profile using active and passive internal and external reconnaissance of the organization to determine cybersecurity vulnerabilities and potential impacts to the business in light of the information gathered about the organization's infrastructure and operations, and generating cybersecurity scores and ratings that take into account all of the above information, plus the context and purpose of the score or rating to be generated based on the cybersecurity profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: QOMPLX, INC.
    Inventors: Jason Crabtree, Andrew Sellers, Richard Kelley
  • Patent number: 11023522
    Abstract: A method for creating a single playlist with multiple authors is disclosed. The method includes storing a uniform resource locator (URL) of a playlist and a first identifier (ID) of a first user that is an author of the playlist as metadata of the playlist, receiving an invite indication that a second user is to be invited as another author of the playlist, providing sharing options for inviting the second user to be the another author, receiving a sharing indication of a selected sharing option of the sharing options, providing, based on the selected sharing option, an invitation to the second user, the invitation to request the second user to be an author of the playlist and to provide access to the playlist via the URL, and storing a second ID of the second user and permissions corresponding to the second user as the metadata of the playlist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Jason Robert Richard Sanio, Courtney Hampson
  • Patent number: 11025612
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided, in a communication device associated with a first computing device, for capturing security data exchanged between the first computing device and a second computing device. The mechanisms receive a data message from either the first computing device or the second computing device. The data message is part of an operation for establishing a secure communication connection between the first computing device and the second computing device. The mechanisms filter the received data message for security data passed in the received data message and mirror the security data to an analysis port of the communication device. Moreover, the mechanisms output, via the analysis port, the security data to a data collection and analysis system that analyzes the security data with regard to security requirement compliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas H. Benjamin, Steven E. T. Hikida, John T. Peck, Bruce A. Rich, Richard L. Robinson
  • Patent number: 11022690
    Abstract: A system simultaneously tracks multiple objects. All or a subset of the objects includes a wireless receiver and a transmitter for providing an output. The system includes one or more wireless transmitters that send commands to the wireless receivers of the multiple objects instructing different subsets of the multiple objects to output (via their respective transmitter) at different times. The system also includes object sensors that receive output from the transmitters of the multiple objects and a computer system in communication with the object sensors. The computer system calculates locations of the multiple objects based on the sensed output from the multiple objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: SPORTSMEDIA TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard H. Cavallaro, James Orville McGuffin, John Roy Borton
  • Patent number: 11020113
    Abstract: A surgical instrument. The surgical instrument has a force delivery system which communicates a changing force to a user of the surgical instrument when a limit of a surgical function is reached. A sensor senses position of a moving element to communicate a signal to the force delivery system. In various embodiments, the system generates a vibratory force to signal the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jerome R. Morgan, Richard L. Leimbach, Mark D. Overmyer
  • Patent number: 11022070
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an ORC container comprising the following components: a container, in particular an ISO container, having arranged therein an ORC device for converting heat energy into electrical or mechanical energy, wherein the ORC device comprises a working medium; a heat introduction device provided on the ISO container and used for supplying heat energy from an aggregate container; and a spacer device arranged on the container, wherein the spacer device is suitable for providing an intermediate space between the ORC container and the aggregate container. The present invention additionally relates to a system comprising an ORC container and an aggregate container as well as to a method for installing such a system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: ORGAN ENERGY AG
    Inventors: Richard Aumann, Fabian Weigand
  • Patent number: 11024989
    Abstract: A coaxial cable connector includes a nut having a seal-grasping surface portion and a seal having an elastically deformable tubular body attached to the nut. The body has a posterior end with a sealing surface that cooperatively engages the seal-grasping surface portion of the nut and an anterior end with a forward sealing surface configured to cooperatively engage an interface port. The nut defines a first through hole extending in the longitudinal direction and configured to receive a center conductor of a coaxial cable. The anterior end of the seal defines a second through hole extending in the longitudinal direction and configured to receive a center conductor of a coaxial cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: PPC BROADBAND, INC.
    Inventors: Harold J. Watkins, Noah P. Montena, Steve Stankovski, Jeremy Amidon, Richard Maroney, Amos McKinnon, Daniel Daoust
  • Patent number: 11024738
    Abstract: Semiconductor device structures and techniques are provided for measuring contact resistance. A semiconductor device is disclosed including a first source/drain region and a contact disposed on the first source/drain region and configured to supply energy to the semiconductor device. A fin extends between the first source/drain region and a second source/drain region of the semiconductor device. A first contact material layer is disposed on the second source/drain region and a first active drain contact is disposed on the first contact material layer. A first sensor drain contact is also disposed on the first contact material layer. A second contact material layer is disposed on the second source/drain region and a second active drain contact is disposed on the second contact material layer. A third contact material layer is disposed on the second source/drain region and a second sensor drain contact is disposed on the third contact material layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Zuoguang Liu, Richard Glen Southwick, III, Xin Miao, Chun Wing Yeung
  • Patent number: 11023835
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for decommissioning information technology assets using solution data modelling. The system is typically configured for generating solution data models comprising a plurality of asset systems and a plurality of users, wherein each of the plurality of asset systems is associated with at least one user of the plurality of users and wherein at least a first of the plurality of asset systems is associated with at least a second of the plurality of asset systems, storing the solution data models in a model database, identifying at least one information technology asset for decommissioning, accessing a first solution data model associated with the at least one information technology asset, identifying one or more relationships associated with the at least one information technology asset, and decommissioning the at least one information technology asset based on the one or more relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Katy Leigh Huneycutt, Richard LeRoy Hayes, Aaron Dion Kephart
  • Patent number: 11022083
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system for aligning at least one injector body to be installed into an engine block along a first direction. The alignment apparatus includes a first alignment member configured to swing between a clearance position and an alignment position, wherein the first alignment member is configured to align the at least one injector body along a second direction when in the alignment position. The apparatus further includes a second alignment member configured to align the at least one injector body along a third direction by contacting the at least one injector body via a first and second contacting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Jay Hinten, Brandon David Harvey, Curtis Kremer
  • Patent number: 11020987
    Abstract: An ink pressure modulation method is presented in a direct-to-shape printing system for applying images on the exterior of an axially symmetrical media object that has a contoured, varying exterior surface, such as occurs on curved wine bottles and sports equipment like bats. The method varies ink pressures based on the movement positions of each print head as they move over the surface of the media object. A movement-based formula is presented to allow for continuous updating of pressures in ink tank manifolds to allow independent changes in pressure to each inkjet print head during printing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: LSINC Corporation
    Inventors: James Richard Bullington, Christopher Shea Curry
  • Patent number: 11026082
    Abstract: A wireless device identification system including one or more sensors each having at least one software defined radio to receive signals transmitted between one or more wireless devices and a mobile wireless device, one or more processors, and one or more memory devices. The one or more memory devices having stored thereon instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to capture cellular information, Wi-Fi information, Bluetooth information, and local network information from the received signals. The instructions can include correlating the captured information to the mobile wireless device by creating a weighted edge relationship graph having a plurality of nodes, including a node corresponding to each of the cellular information, the Wi-Fi information, the Bluetooth information, and the local network information, and determining an association strength between each node of the relationship graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Ubiety Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Richard Espy, Keith Puckett, Brian Sykes, Mark Hoffmann, Michael Cox
  • Patent number: 11023413
    Abstract: A method of operating a system comprising multiple processor tiles divided into a plurality of domains wherein within each domain the tiles are connected to one another via a respective instance of a time-deterministic interconnect and between domains the tiles are connected to one another via a non-time-deterministic interconnect. The method comprises: performing a compute stage, then performing a respective internal barrier synchronization within each domain, then performing an internal exchange phase within each domain, then performing an external barrier synchronization to synchronize between different domains, then performing an external exchange phase between the domains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: GRAPHCORE LIMITED
    Inventors: Daniel John Pelham Wilkinson, Stephen Felix, Richard Luke Southwell Osborne, Simon Christian Knowles, Alan Graham Alexander, Ian James Quinn
  • Patent number: 11020477
    Abstract: A RNA vaccine containing a RNA molecule encoding an allergen or derivative thereof, in which the allergen is an allergen of Alnus glutinosa, Alternaria alternata, Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Apium graveolens, Arachis hypogaea, Betula verrucosa, Carpinus betulus, Castanea sativa, Cladosporium herbarum, Corylus avellana, Cryptomeria japonica, Cyprinus carpio, Daucus carota, Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus, Fagus sylvatica, Felis domesticus, Hevea brasiliensis, Juniperus ashei, Malus domestica, Quercus alba or Phleum pratense.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: BIONTECH RNA PHARMACEUTICALS GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Thalhamer, Richard Weiss, Elisabeth Rosler, Sandra Scheiblhofer, Angelika Fruhwirth
  • Patent number: 11026351
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes embodiments of apparatuses and methods related to a computing apparatus with a closed cooling loop thermally coupled to one or more processors disposed on a circuit board of the computing apparatus. The closed cooling loop circulates a dielectric fluid to absorb heat from the processor. A portion of the dielectric fluid is evaporated from the processor heat absorbed by the dielectric fluid. A heat exchanger is coupled to the circuit board and thermally coupled to the closed cooling loop. The heat exchanger is to include a coolant flow to remove heat from the dielectric fluid circulated through the portion of the closed cooling loop thermally coupled to the heat exchanger. A vapor portion of the dielectric fluid is condensed from the heat removed by the coolant flow. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Devdatta P. Kulkarni, Richard J. Dischler
  • Patent number: 11023196
    Abstract: A flexible display includes a plurality of pixel chips, chixels, provided on a flexible substrate. The chixels and the light emitters thereon may be shaped, sized and arranged to minimize chixel, pixel, and sub-pixel gaps and to provide a desired bend radius of the display. The flexible substrate may include light manipulators, such as filters, light converters and the like to manipulate the light emitted from light emitters of the chixels. The light manipulators may be arranged to minimize chixel gaps between adjacent chixels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: NanoLumens Acquistion, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Cope, Drew F. Meincke, Daniel P. Bradbury, David Scott Rowley
  • Patent number: D920796
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Cornerstone CM, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael G. Marantis, Richard A. Ponton, Joshua W. Hubbard, Jonathan P. Richards
  • Patent number: D920850
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Harley-Davidson Motor Company Group, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Daniels, Frank Savage, Brad Richards