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).
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Patent number: 12657539Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2024Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: EXIGER HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Brandon Daniels, Pavlo Holinko, Robert Kerr, Alexander Morales, Sylphia Nox, Yang Peng, Louis Richer
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Patent number: 12549376Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 10, 2026Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, Robert Kerr
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Patent number: 12282460Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 22, 2025Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, Robert Kerr
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Publication number: 20240429391Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2022Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr, Tiago Mendes, Hiroyuki Ueda, Yan Liang
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Publication number: 20240086370Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, ROBERT KERR
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Publication number: 20230179424Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: June 8, 2023Inventors: Francis McNamee, Paula May Tomaszko, Andrew Jack Bell, Robert Kerr
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Publication number: 20230063503Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2021Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: ROBERT KERR, MICHAEL KIRWAN, Mark J Bingley, Ian Philip Kitchen
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Patent number: 11462544Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr, Sangmin Hwang, Haitao Liu
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Patent number: 11335959Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 31, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy S. Arthur, Kensuke Takechi, Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr
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Patent number: 11298025Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 10, 2017Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: DermaSensor, Inc.Inventors: John Noto, Robert Kerr, Maurice Ferre
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Patent number: 11093514Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 23, 2018Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert Tucker, Robert Kerr, Martin Nathan, Dominique Martindale
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Patent number: 11012319Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 24, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Robert Kerr, Ian P. Kitchen, Robert Tucker, Dominique Martindale, Martin Nathan
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Publication number: 20200302003Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventor: Robert Kerr
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Publication number: 20200036598Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2018Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Robert Kerr, Ian P. Kitchen, Robert Tucker, Dominique Martindale, Martin Nathan
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Publication number: 20200026771Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: ROBERT TUCKER, ROBERT KERR, MARTIN NATHAN, DOMINIQUE MARTINDALE
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Patent number: 10505219Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Deakin UniversityInventors: Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy S. Arthur, Kensuke Takechi, Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr
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Patent number: 10446875Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Deakin UniversityInventors: Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy S. Arthur, Kensuke Takechi, Patrick Howlett, Maria Forsyth, Robert Kerr, Fuminori Mizuno
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Publication number: 20190259004Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2018Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Robert Kerr, Michael Kirwan, Paul R. Lambson, Christopher Farinton Challis
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Publication number: 20190051653Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2018Publication date: February 14, 2019Applicant: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr, Sangmin Hwang, Haitao Liu
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Patent number: 10163908Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Sanh D. Tang, Kamal M. Karda, Wolfgang Mueller, Sourabh Dhir, Robert Kerr, Sangmin Hwang, Haitao Liu