Patents by Inventor Robert Kerr

Robert Kerr 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: 12657539
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may be used to determine risk scores associated with entities in a supply chain. Some embodiments described herein provide unique benefits to alternative implementation approaches including the ability to calculate risk updates using a ‘stream’ based approach rather than a batch-based approach, thereby enabling updates to be highly parallelized and reducing change to update latency. Some embodiments provide a separation of a result calculation from its use, thereby increasing decoupling and facilitating easy updates, and persistence of results in an intermediate cache thereby reducing read latency and response times when queried. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: EXIGER HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon Daniels, Pavlo Holinko, Robert Kerr, Alexander Morales, Sylphia Nox, Yang Peng, Louis Richer
  • Patent number: 12549376
    Abstract: A node in a blockchain network may invoke a process comprising receiving one or more operations for inclusion in a block, receiving a previous Merkle root created from previously determined account dispositions from a previous block, resolving the one or more operations based on the previous account dispositions to determine one or more current account dispositions, creating a current Merkle root for the one or more current account dispositions, and hashing current data for the current block, the data comprising the current Merkel root and the previous Merkle root to generate an account disposition block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2026
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, Robert Kerr
  • Patent number: 12282460
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided. A processor defines and stores units of image data of a container image, where the units of image data are compressible. A processor represents the units as nodes in a dependency graph for a container image, including one or more nodes at a dependency level in the dependency graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, Robert Kerr
  • Publication number: 20240429391
    Abstract: An electrode for an all-solid-state energy storage device, the electrode comprising an electrode composition comprising an electroactive material and an internal ionic binder in the form of at least one organic ionic plastic crystal (OIPC) and ion transport salt composite which supports comparable performance of the electrode to one using liquid electrolyte.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr, Tiago Mendes, Hiroyuki Ueda, Yan Liang
  • Publication number: 20240086370
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product are provided. A processor defines and stores units of image data of a container image, where the units of image data are compressible. A processor represents the units as nodes in a dependency graph for a container image, including one or more nodes at a dependency level in the dependency graph.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, ROBERT KERR
  • Publication number: 20230179424
    Abstract: A node in a blockchain network may invoke a process comprising receiving one or more operations for inclusion in a block, receiving a previous Merkle root created from previously determined account dispositions from a previous block, resolving the one or more operations based on the previous account dispositions to determine one or more current account dispositions, creating a current Merkle root for the one or more current account dispositions, and hashing current data for the current block, the data comprising the current Merkel root and the previous Merkle root to generate an account disposition block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, Robert Kerr
  • Publication number: 20230063503
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product are described for event-based calendar entry notifications. The method includes providing a plurality of event categories for classifying at least one event of a calendar entry. The method also includes generating a notification profile for each of the plurality of event categories based on a notification parameter used in a previous calendar entry. Lastly, the method includes applying the notification profile to an event of a new calendar entry by matching the event category of the event of the new calendar entry to an event category and using the notification profile applied to the event category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: ROBERT KERR, MICHAEL KIRWAN, Mark J Bingley, Ian Philip Kitchen
  • Patent number: 11462544
    Abstract: An array of recessed access gate lines includes active area regions having dielectric trench isolation material there-between. The trench isolation material comprises dielectric projections extending into opposing ends of individual active area regions under an elevationally outermost surface of material of the active area regions. The active area material is elevationally over the dielectric projections. Recessed access gate lines individually extend transversally across the active area regions and extend between the ends of immediately end-to-end adjacent active area regions within the dielectric trench isolation material. Other arrays are disclosed, as are methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr, Sangmin Hwang, Haitao Liu
  • Patent number: 11335959
    Abstract: An anode for a lithium or lithium-ion cell, protected with an SEI by pre-treatment in an SEI-formation cell, is stable for cell cycling even in the presence of substantial water in the cell electrolyte. A method for making the protected anode includes forming an SEI on a lithium or lithium-ion electrode by performing multiple charge/discharge cycles on the electrode in a first cell having an SEI formation electrolyte to produce the protected anode. The SEI formation electrolyte includes an ionic liquid having at least one of eight organic cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy S. Arthur, Kensuke Takechi, Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr
  • Patent number: 11298025
    Abstract: A non-invasive, optical method and device for the detection of melanoma in skin lesions. The detection of the presence of melanoma is accomplished optically by looking for specific changes (signatures) in the spectrum of optical light elastically scattered off melanoma molecules. Elastic scattering spectroscopy (ESS) converts subcellular morphological changes into scattering spectrum signatures. A melanoma discrimination analysis is performed by illuminating the lesion with a handheld device that also collects a portion of the scattered light, converts it into digital signals, analyzes the requisite spectral signatures, and provides a logical output showing the user the presence (or absence) of melanoma in the subject lesion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: DermaSensor, Inc.
    Inventors: John Noto, Robert Kerr, Maurice Ferre
  • Patent number: 11093514
    Abstract: A query comprising a graph pattern comprising a plurality of graph triples of node-edge-node is received. A graph database comprising a plurality of graph patterns is accessed and a plurality of graph patterns in the graph database that match the received query are identified. An inverse frequency for each graph triple of the received query in the accessed graph database is calculated and from this a score for each graph pattern in the graph database that matches the received query is also calculated, the score comprising a sum of the inverse frequencies for each graph triple contained within the respective graph pattern. The plurality of graph patterns in the graph database that match the received query are then ranked according to their respective calculated scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Tucker, Robert Kerr, Martin Nathan, Dominique Martindale
  • Patent number: 11012319
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for entity selection in a visualization of a network graph is provided. The present invention may include receiving as input a selection interaction. The present invention may then include generating a profile based on one or more entity characteristics of one or more entities selected in the selection interaction. The present invention may then include generating a weighting for one or more entities based on the generated profile, wherein the generated weighting is a sum of weights of one or more entity characteristics. The present invention may lastly include partitioning the user interface into one or more selectable areas, wherein a size of the selectable area is based on the generated weighting for a displayed entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Kerr, Ian P. Kitchen, Robert Tucker, Dominique Martindale, Martin Nathan
  • Publication number: 20200302003
    Abstract: Described herein is a technology that facilitates capture of recently-arrived text chunk of real-time post-appending body of on-screen text as disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: monitor a real-time post-appending body of on-screen text; obtain an end endpoint of the monitored body, which indicates a locus of the final character of existing on-screen text of the monitored body; remember the locus of the final character of existing on-screen text; adjust the end endpoint to an interior locus in the existing on-screen text of the monitored body; obtain a trigger that indicates that the monitored body may have been post-appended with new on-screen text; and in response to the trigger, chunk new on-screen text of the post-appended body based on a difference between the remembered locus and a new endpoint of the new on-screen text of the post-appended body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventor: Robert Kerr
  • Publication number: 20200036598
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for entity selection in a visualization of a network graph is provided. The present invention may include receiving as input a selection interaction. The present invention may then include generating a profile based on one or more entity characteristics of one or more entities selected in the selection interaction. The present invention may then include generating a weighting for one or more entities based on the generated profile, wherein the generated weighting is a sum of weights of one or more entity characteristics. The present invention may lastly include partitioning the user interface into one or more selectable areas, wherein a size of the selectable area is based on the generated weighting for a displayed entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Kerr, Ian P. Kitchen, Robert Tucker, Dominique Martindale, Martin Nathan
  • Publication number: 20200026771
    Abstract: A query comprising a graph pattern comprising a plurality of graph triples of node-edge-node is received. A graph database comprising a plurality of graph patterns is accessed and a plurality of graph patterns in the graph database that match the received query are identified. An inverse frequency for each graph triple of the received query in the accessed graph database is calculated and from this a score for each graph pattern in the graph database that matches the received query is also calculated, the score comprising a sum of the inverse frequencies for each graph triple contained within the respective graph pattern. The plurality of graph patterns in the graph database that match the received query are then ranked according to their respective calculated scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 23, 2020
    Inventors: ROBERT TUCKER, ROBERT KERR, MARTIN NATHAN, DOMINIQUE MARTINDALE
  • Patent number: 10505219
    Abstract: An anode for a Li-ion cell, protected with an SEI by pre-treatment in an SEI-formation cell, is stable for cell cycling even in the presence of substantial water in the cell electrolyte. A method for making the protected anode includes forming an SEI on a lithium electrode by performing multiple charge/discharge cycles on the electrode in a first cell having an SEI formation electrolyte to produce the protected anode. The SEI formation electrolyte includes an ionic liquid having at least one of eight organic cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Deakin University
    Inventors: Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy S. Arthur, Kensuke Takechi, Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr
  • Patent number: 10446875
    Abstract: An electrolyte for Li-ion and other secondary electrochemical cells includes an FSI anion and at least one of methyltriethylphosphonium; trimethylisobutylphosphonium; methyltributylphosphonium; and trihexyltetradecylphosphonium. The electrolyte uniquely enables stable cell cycling even when water is present in the electrolyte at levels as high as 5000 ppm. Methyltriethylphosphonium and trimethylisobutylphosphonium-containing electrolytes are particularly effective in this water-stabilizing capacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Deakin University
    Inventors: Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy S. Arthur, Kensuke Takechi, Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr, Fuminori Mizuno
  • Publication number: 20190259004
    Abstract: A processor may maintain a profile for a set of users of the shared calendar system including a threshold of communication volume prior to scheduling a meeting. The processor may update the threshold in the profile in response to a meeting being scheduled for the set of users based on examination of communications between the set of users within a configurable time period prior to the time of scheduling the meeting. The processor may determine, after each event in a communication chain involving the set of users, whether the volume of communications within a prior time period of the duration of the configurable time period exceeds the threshold for the profile for the set of users. The processor may propose the next mutually available timeslot for the set of users in response to the volume of communications exceeding the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Kerr, Michael Kirwan, Paul R. Lambson, Christopher Farinton Challis
  • Publication number: 20190051653
    Abstract: An array of recessed access gate lines includes active area regions having dielectric trench isolation material there-between. The trench isolation material comprises dielectric projections extending into opposing ends of individual active area regions under an elevationally outermost surface of material of the active area regions. The active area material is elevationally over the dielectric projections. Recessed access gate lines individually extend transversally across the active area regions and extend between the ends of immediately end-to-end adjacent active area regions within the dielectric trench isolation material. Other arrays are disclosed, as are methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr, Sangmin Hwang, Haitao Liu
  • Patent number: 10163908
    Abstract: An array of recessed access gate lines includes active area regions having dielectric trench isolation material there-between. The trench isolation material comprises dielectric projections extending into opposing ends of individual active area regions under an elevationally outermost surface of material of the active area regions. The active area material is elevationally over the dielectric projections. Recessed access gate lines individually extend transversally across the active area regions and extend between the ends of immediately end-to-end adjacent active area regions within the dielectric trench isolation material. Other arrays are disclosed, as are methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr, Sangmin Hwang, Haitao Liu