Patents by Inventor Samuel A. Smith

Samuel A. Smith 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: 11267380
    Abstract: A suspension fabric seat includes a fabric seat surface formed from a woven fabric material having heating element fibers. The heating element fibers are in electrical communication with a conductor. A carrier is overmolded onto the seat surface. The carrier and the conductor are disposed in a frame and a connector is mounted to the frame in electrical communication with the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller
  • Publication number: 20220056979
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a rotational spring dampener that has a compression limiter, a first disk, and a second disk. The first disk is disposed at a first end of the compression limiter and the second disk is disposed at a second end of the compression limiter, where the second end is opposite the first end. The rotational spring dampener also has a tensile member. The tensile member is connected to the first disk and the second disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Daniel Lindsey, Steve Bivens, Samuel Smith
  • Publication number: 20220039554
    Abstract: A seat assembly includes a fabric component having a seat surface and a frame including an interior segment directly attached to the fabric component. The interior segment extends from an exterior segment that has a greater flexural resistance than the interior segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Samuel Smith, Robert A. Bratty, Michael Long, Kelly Washburn
  • Publication number: 20210353067
    Abstract: A suspended fabric seat includes a frame, a woven fabric suspended in the frame and a plurality of compression limiters attached to the woven fabric. The woven fabric is formed from monofilament fibers that are oriented in a first direction and textile fibers oriented in a second direction transverse to the first direction. The plurality of compression limiters are oriented in the first direction and are formed from a material compatible with the woven fabric. A method for making the suspended fabric seat is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Samuel Smith
  • Publication number: 20210339660
    Abstract: A seat and cooling system for the seat include a porous seat surface, an air spacer disposed on a side of the seat surface that defines an air channel, a substantially air impermeable barrier having an opening therein in communication with the air channel and a blower configured to draw air through the seat surface and from the air channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller
  • Publication number: 20210291709
    Abstract: A vehicle seat includes a support structure, a seat surface (14) and a molded polymeric frame (18). The frame has an edge region and the seat surface (14) is mounted to the frame (18) and the frame is mounted to the support structure. At least a portion of the edge region is flexible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller, Michael Long, Kelly Washburn, Robert A. Bratty
  • Patent number: 11068906
    Abstract: A server computing device may be configured to register a parcel with a component (e.g., another server, etc.) in a dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) system, generate a telecom resource right unit or information structure, and use the generated telecom resource right unit or information structure (e.g., in conjunction with components in the DSA system) to allocate the identified telecommunication resource for access and use by wireless devices that subscribe to a telecommunication network registered with the DSA system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Rivada Networks, LLC
    Inventors: Clint Smith, Samuel Smith, Declan Ganley
  • Patent number: 10789791
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for using strain gauges to detect a state of a lock. The strain gauges may be disposed within a key or a key head sub-system. The key bank system may include receiving a first signal, comparing the first signal with first or second signatures, and determining state change of a lock when the first signal matches the first or second signal within a first or second threshold. The key bank system may include receiving a current state of the lock, where the state of the lock is the first state, and changing the current state of the lock to a second state, where the second state is opposite the first state. The current state of the lock may be displayed on a communication device and may be stored in a memory of a communication device or a memory of a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor, Samuel Smith, Oliver Masters, Aaron Tomor Robert Gashi
  • Publication number: 20200294293
    Abstract: Methods, systems and computer program products for providing persistent augmented reality objects are provided. Aspects include storing user credentials by an augmented reality device. Aspects also include detecting an object identification tag disposed on a physical object. Aspects also include retrieving virtual content associated with the physical object from an online registry based on the user credentials and the object identification tag. Aspects also include displaying the virtual content in association with the physical object by the augmented reality device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2019
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Ronald David Boenig, II, David C. Reed, Michael R. Scott, Samuel Smith
  • Publication number: 20200193502
    Abstract: A system is disclosed that makes recommendations on what to wear or purchase based on what articles of clothing make up the user's wardrobe and trends on what they wear. Additionally, the system can access other users with similar wardrobes, in aggregate, to make suggestions on what to wear or purchase to follow current styles or trends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Samuel Smith
  • Publication number: 20200160634
    Abstract: A method, computer system, and computer program product for using strain gauges to detect a state of a lock. The strain gauges may be disposed within a key or a key head sub-system. The key bank system may include receiving a first signal, comparing the first signal with first or second signatures, and determining state change of a lock when the first signal matches the first or second signal within a first or second threshold. The key bank system may include receiving a current state of the lock, where the state of the lock is the first state, and changing the current state of the lock to a second state, where the second state is opposite the first state. The current state of the lock may be displayed on a communication device and may be stored in a memory of a communication device or a memory of a server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Alexander John Naylor, Samuel Smith, Oliver Masters, Aaron Tomor Robert Gashi
  • Publication number: 20200150211
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of location identification using a single beacon. The method comprises determining a first distance between a beacon and a first sensor, where the first sensor is embedded in a mobile device. It also includes determining a second distance between the beacon and a second sensor, where the second sensor is embedded in the mobile device. The method also includes defining a vector, where the vector has a magnitude equal to the distance between the first and second sensor, and a direction pointing from the first sensor to the second sensor. The method further includes calculating a plurality of potential locations. The method then determines the actual location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Samuel Smith, Alexander J. Naylor, Aaron T. R. Gashi, Oliver Masters
  • Publication number: 20200150212
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of location identification using a single beacon. The method comprises determining a first distance between a beacon and a first sensor, where the first sensor is embedded in a mobile device. It also includes determining a second distance between the beacon and a second sensor, where the second sensor is embedded in the mobile device. The method also includes defining a vector, where the vector has a magnitude equal to the distance between the first and second sensor, and a direction pointing from the first sensor to the second sensor. The method further includes calculating a plurality of potential locations. The method then determines the actual location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Samuel Smith, Alexander J. Naylor, Aaron T. R. Gashi, Oliver Masters
  • Patent number: 10607304
    Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamic transportation resource arbitrage (DTRA) may include configuring a server to dynamically manage the use of transportation resources. The server may identify, analyze, organize, and/or package available transportation resources (e.g., segments of roadways in a geographical area, etc.) as granular vehicular occupancy opportunity (VOO) elements/units that each identify an amount of a resource that is offered for allocation and use to travelers. The granular VOO elements/units may be well-defined, discrete, standardized, combinable, and/or fungible information structures or units that are suitable for comparison and/or mutual substitution. The server computing device may combine the granular VOOs to cover a specific corridor (e.g., an area that encompasses ten miles of the left lane of a highway, etc.), and dynamically offer a vehicle the right to access and use the transportation resources identified by a combination of VOOs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Arpent, LLC
    Inventors: Clint Smith, Samuel Smith, Declan Ganley
  • Publication number: 20200039399
    Abstract: A suspension fabric seat includes a fabric seat surface formed from a woven fabric material having heating element fibers. The heating element fibers are in electrical communication with a conductor. A carrier is overmolded onto the seat surface. The carrier and the conductor are disposed in a frame and a connector is mounted to the frame in electrical communication with the conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller
  • Patent number: 10107397
    Abstract: A radial piston machine includes at least one piston unit with a piston and at least one rolling element rotatably mounted in a rolling element receptable of the piston. The piston of the piston unit is polished.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Samuel Smith, Geoffrey Kermode, Alexander Graham McIntosh
  • Publication number: 20180184414
    Abstract: A dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) system may include a dynamic spectrum policy controller (DPC) and a dynamic spectrum controller (DSC) that together dynamically manage the allocation and use of resources (e.g., spectrum resources) across different networks. A wireless device may be configured to intelligently select and use these allocated resources. For example, the wireless device may be configured to traverse an ordered list of preferred of networks to identify and select a first cell site in a first telecommunication network, establish a first communication link between the wireless device and the selected first cell site, receive network information identifying a geographic region in which the wireless device is allowed to use resources of a second telecommunication network, determine whether the wireless device is in the geographical region, and establish a second communication link to a second cell in the second telecommunication network based on the received network information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Clint SMITH, Nageswara Rao Deekshitha DEVISETTI, Samuel SMITH
  • Publication number: 20180167824
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems of various embodiments involve dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) to determine, in a first server, an amount of radio frequency (RF) spectrum resources available for delivery of advertisements. A first DSA-advertisement lease proposal may be sent to a telecommunications exchange. The first DSA-advertisement lease proposal indicates the amount of RF spectrum resources available for delivery of the advertisements. A lease confirmation message may be received, including an ad-information unit configured to deliver content of an advertisement within a designated geographic zone. Advertisement-lease parameters may be sent to a second server in the first communication network. The advertisement-lease parameters may include the ad-information unit and identify the designated geographic zone for delivery of the advertisement to user equipment (UE) situated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2018
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Inventors: Clint Smith, Samuel Smith
  • Patent number: 9942904
    Abstract: A dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) system may include a dynamic spectrum policy controller (DPC) and a dynamic spectrum controller (DSC) that together dynamically manage the allocation and use of resources (e.g., spectrum resources) across different networks. A wireless device may be configured to intelligently select and use these allocated resources. For example, the wireless device may be configured to traverse an ordered list of preferred of networks to identify and select a first cell site in a first telecommunication network, establish a first communication link between the wireless device and the selected first cell site, receive network information identifying a geographic region in which the wireless device is allowed to use resources of a second telecommunication network, determine whether the wireless device is in the geographical region, and establish a second communication link to a second cell in the second telecommunication network based on the received network information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2018
    Assignee: RIVADA NETWORKS, LLC
    Inventors: Clint Smith, Nageswara Rao Deekshitha Devisetti, Samuel Smith
  • Patent number: 9930536
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems of various embodiments involve dynamic spectrum arbitrage (DSA) to determine, in a first server, an amount of radio frequency (RF) spectrum resources available for delivery of advertisements. A first DSA-advertisement lease proposal may be sent to a telecommunications exchange. The first DSA-advertisement lease proposal indicates the amount of RF spectrum resources available for delivery of the advertisements. A lease confirmation message may be received, including an ad-information unit configured to deliver content of an advertisement within a designated geographic zone. Advertisement-lease parameters may be sent to a second server in the first communication network. The advertisement-lease parameters may include the ad-information unit and identify the designated geographic zone for delivery of the advertisement to user equipment (UE) situated therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: RIVADA NETWORKS, LLC.
    Inventors: Clint Smith, Samuel Smith