Patents by Inventor Sarah Smith
Sarah 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).
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Patent number: 11967109Abstract: According to one embodiment, a system for determining a position of a vehicle includes an image sensor, a top-down view component, a comparison component, and a location component. The image sensor obtains an image of an environment near a vehicle. The top-down view component is configured to generate a top-down view of a ground surface based on the image of the environment. The comparison component is configured to compare the top-down image with a map, the map comprising a top-down light LIDAR intensity map or a vector-based semantic map. The location component is configured to determine a location of the vehicle on the map based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Sarah Houts, Alexandru Mihai Gurghian, Vidya Nariyambut Murali, Tory Smith
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Publication number: 20240053215Abstract: A fault detector for detecting the occurrence of a rapid pressure rise within electrical equipment. The fault detector has a chamber having an interior, a diaphragm in sealing engagement with the chamber and an aperture providing fluid communication between the interior of the chamber and the external environment of the chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Thomas Jacob ZUIDERVEEN, Yen-You LIN, Audrey Joy Corrine SIEBERT-TIMMER, John Paul CHISHOLM, Jeremy Michael VAN HORN, Elizabeth Sarah Smith PRICE, Allison GIANNAROS, Amanda Mahn Hah TUEY, Adrian Bernard SILGARDO, Justin George PEZZIN, Richard Luke GRANDBOIS, Braden David Seung-Jin SCOTT
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Patent number: 11851258Abstract: A material storage and transport system is disclosed. The material storage and transport system can include a material storage tray forming a storage volume defined by a bottom and walls extending up from the bottom along a perimeter of the bottom. The material storage and transport system can also include a releasable strap adapted to extend across the bottom when in a securing configuration and a sample carrier, including at least one sample secured to a sample support substrate by a molded sheet. The material storage and transport system can include a hinged lid that is integrally connected to a wall of the material storage tray, and configured to convert between a folded-in position, an opened position, and a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Adam I. Sandow, Paul Charles Bird, Sarah Smith
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Publication number: 20230242884Abstract: The invention provides compositions comprising novel adenosine base editors (e.g., ABE8) that have increased efficiency and methods of using these adenosine deaminase variants for editing a target sequence and methods of using same to treat genetical disorder or conditions, e.g. sickle cell disease, with engraftment.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Beam Therapeutics Inc.Inventors: Sarah SMITH, Dana LEVASSEUR, Jonathan YEN
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Patent number: 11700808Abstract: A novel hybrid squash plant, designated YELLOW QUEEN is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid squash designated YELLOW QUEEN, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid squash designated YELLOW QUEEN, and to methods for producing a squash plant by crossing the hybrid squash YELLOW QUEEN with itself or another squash plant.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: H.M.Clause, Inc.Inventor: Sarah Smith
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Publication number: 20230137391Abstract: The organophilic clay comprises a smectite-type clay ion exchanged with quaternary ammonium ions, where at least 75 mol-% of said quaternary ammonium ions are bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters and at least 90% of the fatty acid moieties of the bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters have a structure RC(O) with group R being a linear alkyl or alkenyl group containing from 9 to 21 carbon atoms. The organophilic clay is useful for thickening oil based compositions, in particular drilling fluids for drilling oil or gas wells, comprising an oil phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Applicant: Evonik CorporationInventors: Sarah Smith, Gary DAVIS, Dennis PARRISH, Miyako HISAMOTO
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Patent number: 11634621Abstract: The organophilic clay comprises a smectite-type clay ion exchanged with quaternary ammonium ions, where at least 75 mol-% of said quaternary ammonium ions are bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters and at least 90% of the fatty acid moieties of the bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters have a structure RC(O) with group R being a linear alkyl or alkenyl group containing from 9 to 21 carbon atoms. The organophilic clay is useful for thickening oil based compositions, in particular drilling fluids for drilling oil or gas wells, comprising an oil phase.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: Evonik CorporationInventors: Sarah Smith, Gary Davis, Dennis Parrish, Miyako Hisamoto
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Patent number: 11462849Abstract: An electrical connector having an electrical conductor member with a first opening and a second opening. Grab rings mounted in the openings have inner diameters containing teeth with crests defining a superimposed inner diameter. The teeth of the grab rings deflect and frictionally engage the outer diameter of the wires to retain them in the openings. A sleeve of insulation material covers an exterior of the conductor member. The sleeve has ends that protrude past the openings and receive an insulation layer of the wires. Resilient electrical contact members are recessed from the grab rings in the openings. The electrical contact members have inner portions biased into contact with the electrical wires and outer portions biased into contact with the conductor member.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: BAKER HUGHES OILFIELD OPERATIONS, LLCInventors: Sean Cain, Scott Strattan, Sarah Smith, Chad Craig
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Publication number: 20220256801Abstract: A novel hybrid squash plant, designated YELLOW QUEEN is disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of hybrid squash designated YELLOW QUEEN, to the plants and plant parts of hybrid squash designated YELLOW QUEEN, and to methods for producing a squash plant by crossing the hybrid squash YELLOW QUEEN with itself or another squash plant.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventor: Sarah SMITH
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Publication number: 20220153497Abstract: A material storage and transport system is disclosed. The material storage and transport system can include a material storage tray forming a storage volume defined by a bottom and walls extending up from the bottom along a perimeter of the bottom. The material storage and transport system can also include a releasable strap adapted to extend across the bottom when in a securing configuration and a sample carrier, including at least one sample secured to a sample support substrate by a molded sheet. The material storage and transport system can include a hinged lid that is integrally connected to a wall of the material storage tray, and configured to convert between a folded-in position, an opened position, and a closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Applicant: Material Technologies CorporationInventors: Adam I. SANDOW, Paul Charles BIRD, Sarah SMITH
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Patent number: 11273967Abstract: A material storage and transport system is disclosed. The material storage and transport system can include a material storage tray forming a storage volume defined by a bottom and walls extending up from the bottom along a perimeter of the bottom. The material storage and transport system can also include a releasable strap adapted to extend across the bottom when in a securing configuration and a sample carrier, including at least one sample secured to a sample support substrate by a molded sheet. The material storage and transport system can include a hinged lid that is integrally connected to a wall of the material storage tray, and configured to convert between a folded-in position, an opened position, and a closed position.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Adam I. Sandow, Paul Charles Bird, Sarah Smith
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Publication number: 20210305742Abstract: An electrical connector having an electrical conductor member with a first opening and a second opening. Grab rings mounted in the openings have inner diameters containing teeth with crests defining a superimposed inner diameter. The teeth of the grab rings deflect and frictionally engage the outer diameter of the wires to retain them in the openings. A sleeve of insulation material covers an exterior of the conductor member. The sleeve has ends that protrude past the openings and receive an insulation layer of the wires. Resilient electrical contact members are recessed from the grab rings in the openings. The electrical contact members have inner portions biased into contact with the electrical wires and outer portions biased into contact with the conductor member.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2021Publication date: September 30, 2021Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLCInventors: Sean Cain, Scott Strattan, Sarah Smith, Chad Craig
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Publication number: 20210164849Abstract: A temperature sensor has a heat-sensitive element contained within a chamber, the heat-sensitive element changing from a first configuration to a second configuration at a predetermined temperature, and a biased member biased towards the chamber. The biased member initially is prevented from entering the chamber when the heat-sensitive element is in the first configuration and enters the chamber when the heat-sensitive element is in the second configuration. In some aspects, the first configuration is solid and the second configuration is liquid and a selectively permeable element is provided to allow the heat-sensitive element to exit the chamber in the liquid configuration. An indicator can be provided that has a plurality of feet initially held in a retained configuration by the biased member until the biased member enters the chamber to release the feet for sliding motion of the indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Thomas Jacob Zuiderveen, Jeremy Michael Van Horn, Justin George Pezzin, Yen-You Lin, Audrey Joy Corrine Siebert-Timmer, Elizabeth Sarah Smith Price, John Paul Chisholm
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Publication number: 20210047554Abstract: The organophilic clay comprises a smectite-type clay ion exchanged with quaternary ammonium ions, where at least 75 mol-% of said quaternary ammonium ions are bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters and at least 90% of the fatty acid moieties of the bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters have a structure RC(O) with group R being a linear alkyl or alkenyl group containing from 9 to 21 carbon atoms. The organophilic clay is useful for thickening oil based compositions, in particular drilling fluids for drilling oil or gas wells, comprising an oil phase.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Applicant: Evonik CorporationInventors: Sarah SMITH, Gary DAVIS, Dennis PARRISH, Miyako HISAMOTO
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Patent number: 10875697Abstract: A material storage and transport system is disclosed. The material storage and transport system can include a material storage tray forming an open-top storage volume defined by a bottom and walls extending up from the bottom along a perimeter of the bottom. The material storage and transport system can also include a releasable strap adapted to extend across the bottom when in a securing configuration and a sample carrier, including at least one sample secured to a sample support substrate by a molded sheet. A lid element and the sample carrier can be adapted (i) to fit within the storage volume when arranged parallel to the bottom, and (ii) to be secured to the material storage tray by the releasable strap.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2018Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: MATERIAL TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Adam I. Sandow, Paul Charles Bird, Sarah Smith
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Patent number: 10865338Abstract: The organophilic clay comprises a smectite-type clay ion exchanged with quaternary ammonium ions, where at least 75 mol-% of said quaternary ammonium ions are bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters and at least 90% of the fatty acid moieties of the bis-(2-hydroxypropyl)-dimethylammonium fatty acid esters have a structure RC(O) with group R being a linear alkyl or alkenyl group containing from 9 to 21 carbon atoms. The organophilic clay is useful for thickening oil based compositions, in particular drilling fluids for drilling oil or gas wells, comprising an oil phase.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Evonik CorporationInventors: Sarah Smith, Gary Davis, Dennis Parrish, Miyako Hisamoto
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Publication number: 20200379732Abstract: A method for sorting digital images, the method comprising the steps of: a) Receiving a digital image acquired with an electronic device associated with a user, the digital image being sent using the electronic device to an electronic image sorting system; b) Generating, using an image analysis portion of the electronic image sorting system, one or more initial identifiers based on the contents of the digital image; c) Sending the one or more initial identifiers to an identifier analysis portion of the electronic image sorting system, wherein the identifier analysis portion includes an electronic database of one or more rules adapted to generate one or more additional identifiers based on the one or more initial identifiers; d) Sending, using the electronic image sorting system, the one or more initial identifiers and/or the one or more additional identifiers, to the electronic device to allow the user to generate one or more selected identifiers from the one or more initial identifiers and/or the one or morType: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2019Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Sarah Smith, Majella Edwards
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Publication number: 20200031551Abstract: A material storage and transport system is disclosed. The material storage and transport system can include a material storage tray forming a storage volume defined by a bottom and walls extending up from the bottom along a perimeter of the bottom. The material storage and transport system can also include a releasable strap adapted to extend across the bottom when in a securing configuration and a sample carrier, including at least one sample secured to a sample support substrate by a molded sheet. The material storage and transport system can include a hinged lid that is integrally connected to a wall of the material storage tray, and configured to convert between a folded-in position, an opened position, and a closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Applicant: Material Technologies, LLCInventors: Adam I. SANDOW, Paul Charles BIRD, Sarah SMITH
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Publication number: 20190382820Abstract: A recovery medium that is particularly suited for following enzymatic reactions where the fluorescent product is excited at a wavelength of 320 to 370 nm and emits at a wavelength of 420 to 460 nm is provided. The recovery medium is clear in color and does not contain the combination of compounds that participate in the Maillard reaction. The recovery medium is suitable for self-contained biological indicator systems.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: December 19, 2019Inventors: Kelly SOTO, Nicholas WHITE, Jennifer AUFMUTH, Sarah SMITH, Kathleen A. FIX, William A. YIRAVA
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Publication number: 20190291919Abstract: A material storage and transport system is disclosed. The material storage and transport system can include a material storage tray forming a storage volume defined by a bottom and walls extending up from the bottom along a perimeter of the bottom. The material storage and transport system can also include a releasable strap adapted to extend across the bottom when in a securing configuration and a sample carrier, including at least one sample secured to a sample support substrate by a molded sheet. The material storage and transport system can include a hinged lid that is integrally connected to a wall of the material storage tray, and configured to convert between a folded-in position, an opened position, and a closed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: Material Technologies, LLCInventors: Adam I. SANDOW, Paul Charles BIRD, Sarah SMITH