Patents by Inventor Scott Adams

Scott Adams 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: 10071482
    Abstract: A method comprising scanning a first painted surface of a first vehicle having two or more paint layers with a robotic terahertz radiation instrument to obtain a first painted surface thickness data and map for each of the two or more paint layers, comparing the first thickness map to a control map, and adjusting one or more paint application parameters based on a comparison of the first thickness map with the control map for painting a second surface of a second vehicle different than the first vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Edward Nichols, Tony Misovski, Scott Adams, Aaron Fiala
  • Patent number: 10062979
    Abstract: A terminal block marker designed to identify a terminal block. The terminal block marker includes a rigid base and a flexible film insert. The rigid base includes a top with a first arm having a first inwardly extending projection and a second arm having a second inwardly extending projection. The rigid base also includes a bottom with legs extending in a direction opposite the arms to hold the terminal block marker in the terminal block. A flexible film insert with identification markings is installed on the rigid base. The flexible film insert is positioned under a first projection of the first arm and rotated downward until the flexible film insert snaps under the second projection of the second arm. The first and second projections retain the flexible film insert on the rigid base to form the terminal block marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Scott Adams, Zachary Scott Ganster, Jennifer Lynn Schwert
  • Publication number: 20180170157
    Abstract: A system is provided for gaining access to a sunroof of a vehicle, in particular a car, including a sunroof control unit (19) and a sunroof actuation switch (27), in particular, for actuation of opening and/or closing and/or tilting of a sunroof. The sunroof actuation switch has one switch contact (28) or a plurality of switch contacts, wherein the sunroof control unit (19) and the sunroof actuation switch (27) are re-configured to communicate data, such as programming and/or reprogramming data and/or parameter setting data and/or diagnostic data, from and/or to the sunroof control unit (19) through the one switch contact (28) or at least one of the plurality of switch contacts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Phillip Iott, Scott Adams
  • Publication number: 20180147973
    Abstract: A simple and lightweight solution that provides shippers of dry bulk material an apparatus that facilitates the efficiencies of backhaul pricing in the form of a trailer that is convertible from a configuration used with dry bulk material in an efficient manner (i.e., sealed to outside exposure, food safe, easily cleaned, etc.) to a configuration used with packaged goods as efficiently as a standard van trailer (i.e., must allow forklifts to load palletized and packaged goods for conventional loading and unloading at conventional warehouses with conventional loading docks).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Scott Adams, Alfie Young Bingham, III
  • Publication number: 20180053449
    Abstract: A sign waving apparatus that includes a base, a housing enclosing a motor, a frame support connecting the base and the housing, and a sign mount mechanically connected to a motor. The sign or signs attach to the surfaces of the sign mount. The sign mount moves relative to the housing in a variety of different motions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Velocity Signs, LLC
    Inventors: Scott ADAMS, Josh FAHERTY
  • Publication number: 20170277904
    Abstract: A third party intermediary and a data protection method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a content request receiving circuit configured to receive a service request from a user, to communicate the service request to a provider, and to receive pre-approved versions of content from the provider, a content matching circuit configured to match a pre-approved version of content of the pre-approved versions of content to the user based on a condition of the user, a user data receiving circuit configured to receive user data to complete the pre-approved version of the content, and a zero-knowledge verifiable computing circuit configured to execute a program using zero-knowledge verifiable computing to remove private content from the pre-approved version of the content to ensure privacy of the condition of the user from the provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Susann Marie Keohane, James R. Kraemer, Jeb R. Linton
  • Publication number: 20170270220
    Abstract: A system comprises a hashing logic, which executes instructions to convert raw data into a first logical address and payload data, where the first logical address describes metadata about the payload data. A hardware translation unit executes instructions to translate the first logical address into a first physical address on a storage device. A hardware load/storage unit stores the first logical address and the payload data at the first physical address on the storage device. A content addressable store is associated with a reference to the logical addressed data in this location addressable high dimensional store, where the content addressable store is searched for the desired content word using at least one temporal attribute to retrieve the corresponding references with low latency. A hardware exclusive OR (XOR) unit compares two logical address vectors to derive a Hamming distance between the two logical address vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Scott ADAMS, Suparna BHATTACHARYA, Robert R. FRIEDLANDER, James R. KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20170233198
    Abstract: A simple and lightweight solution to the storage and delivery of dry flowable materials that is cost-effective, can be standardized to facilitate transportation and isolates the materials from exposure to air, insects and other contaminants. An apparatus includes a vessel and a delivery assembly, having a rotary feeder that upon gravity discharge of the dry flowable material moves such material to a desired location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Jeff Bingham, Scott Adams
  • Patent number: 9703894
    Abstract: A system comprises a hashing logic, which executes instructions to convert raw data into a first logical address and payload data, where the first logical address describes metadata about the payload data. A hardware translation unit executes instructions to translate the first logical address into a first physical address on a storage device. A hardware load/storage unit stores the first logical address and the payload data at the first physical address on the storage device. A content addressable store is associated with a reference to the logical addressed data in this location addressable high dimensional store, where the content addressable store is searched for the desired content word using at least one temporal attribute to retrieve the corresponding references with low latency. A hardware exclusive OR (XOR) unit compares two logical address vectors to derive a Hamming distance between the two logical address vectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Suparna Bhattacharya, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 9697898
    Abstract: A content addressable memory system, method and computer program product is described. The memory system comprises a location addressable store having data identified by location and multiple levels of content addressable stores each holding ternary content words. The content words are associated with references to data in the location addressable store and the content words containing at least one next entry bit for sorting content words in a physical ordered sequence to create content ordered memory. The content store levels might be implemented using different technologies that have different performance, capacity, and cost attributes. The memory system includes a content based cache for improved performance and a content addressable memory management unit for managing memory access operations and virtual memory addressing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Samuel Scott Adams, Suparna Bhattacharya, Robert R. Friedlander, James R. Kraemer
  • Patent number: 9620037
    Abstract: A sign waving apparatus that includes a base, a housing enclosing a motor, a frame support connecting the base and the housing, and a sign mount mechanically connected to a motor. The sign or signs attach to the surfaces of the sign mount. The sign mount moves relative to the housing in a variety of different motions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: Velocity Signs, LLC
    Inventors: Scott Adams, Josh Faherty
  • Publication number: 20170091344
    Abstract: A system comprises a hashing logic, which executes instructions to convert raw data into a first logical address and payload data, where the first logical address describes metadata about the payload data. A hardware translation unit executes instructions to translate the first logical address into a first physical address on a storage device. A hardware load/storage unit stores the first logical address and the payload data at the first physical address on the storage device. A content addressable store is associated with a reference to the logical addressed data in this location addressable high dimensional store, where the content addressable store is searched for the desired content word using at least one temporal attribute to retrieve the corresponding references with low latency. A hardware exclusive OR (XOR) unit compares two logical address vectors to derive a Hamming distance between the two logical address vectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel Scott ADAMS, Suparna BHATTACHARYA, Robert R. FRIEDLANDER, James R. KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20170091639
    Abstract: Automatically create abstractions of large sets of data and then probabilistic inferences based on the abstractions. The probabilistic inference is derived from the logical hierarchy using Bayesian statistics to infer a probabilistic event based upon a characteristic of the data in a hierarchy of synthetic events. The logical hierarchy of a set of a plurality of synthetic events is related by at least one characteristic of data is built by accessing a first set of data. The first set of data is organized based on a first characteristic. A second set of data different than the first set of data is accessed. A second set of data based is organized based on a second characteristic. The first characteristic and the second characteristic are processed to generate a synthetic event. The synthetic event is a third set of data representing a result of a mathematical computation defined by an operation S(p1)==>F(p2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel Scott ADAMS, Robert R. FRIEDLANDER, James R. KRAEMER, Kelly Grant LEE
  • Publication number: 20170092358
    Abstract: A content addressable memory system, method and computer program product is described. The memory system comprises a location addressable store having data identified by location and multiple levels of content addressable stores each holding ternary content words. The content words are associated with references to data in the location addressable store and the content words containing at least one next entry bit for sorting content words in a physical ordered sequence to create content ordered memory. The content store levels might be implemented using different technologies that have different performance, capacity, and cost attributes. The memory system includes a content based cache for improved performance and a content addressable memory management unit for managing memory access operations and virtual memory addressing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel Scott ADAMS, Suparna BHATTACHARYA, Robert R. FRIEDLANDER, James R. KRAEMER
  • Publication number: 20170050208
    Abstract: A method comprising scanning a first painted surface of a first vehicle having two or more paint layers with a robotic terahertz radiation instrument to obtain a first painted surface thickness data and map for each of the two or more paint layers, comparing the first thickness map to a control map, and adjusting one or more paint application parameters based on a comparison of the first thickness map with the control map for painting a second surface of a second vehicle different than the first vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2015
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Edward Nichols, Tony Misovski, Scott Adams, Aaron Fiala
  • Publication number: 20170054231
    Abstract: A terminal block marker designed to identify a terminal block. The terminal block marker includes a rigid base and a flexible film insert. The rigid base includes a top with a first arm having a first inwardly extending projection and a second arm having a second inwardly extending projection. The rigid base also includes a bottom with legs extending in a direction opposite the arms to hold the terminal block marker in the terminal block. A flexible film insert with identification markings is installed on the rigid base. The flexible film insert is positioned under a first projection of the first arm and rotated downward until the flexible film insert snaps under the second projection of the second arm. The first and second projections retain the flexible film insert on the rigid base to form the terminal block marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Applicant: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Michael Scott Adams, Zachary Scott Ganster, Jennifer Lynn Schwert
  • Publication number: 20170004740
    Abstract: A self-laminating rotating cable marker label is constructed of a transparent film having a first adhesive area, an adhesive-free smooth area, and a second adhesive area. A print-on area forms one side of the transparent film, the print-on area adapted to receive indicia identifying the cable about which the marker label is applied. A perforation extends across the transparent film providing a line of separation of the transparent film. When wrapped around a cable, the second adhesive area overlies the print-on area such that the cable identifying indicia is visible through the transparent second adhesive area. As the transparent film is wrapped around the cable, the first adhesive area adheres to the cable. The remainder of the transparent film is rotated, breaking the perforation, whereby the smooth area of the film in contact with the cable provides smooth rotation of the label around the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Applicant: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Jack E. Caveney, David Scott Morrison, Michael Scott Adams
  • Patent number: 9443449
    Abstract: A self-laminating rotating cable marker label is constructed of a transparent film having a first adhesive area, an adhesive-free smooth area, and a second adhesive area. A print-on area forms one side of the transparent film, the print-on area adapted to receive indicia identifying the cable about which the marker label is applied. A perforation extends across the transparent film providing a line of separation of the transparent film. When wrapped around a cable, the second adhesive area overlies the print-on area such that the cable identifying indicia is visible through the transparent second adhesive area. As the transparent film is wrapped around the cable, the first adhesive area adheres to the cable. The remainder of the transparent film is rotated, breaking the perforation, whereby the smooth area of the film in contact with the cable provides smooth rotation of the label around the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Jack E. Caveney, David Scott Morrison, Michael Scott Adams
  • Patent number: PP27504
    Abstract: This invention relates to a new and distinct everbearing variety of raspberry plant named ‘INTREPID’. The new variety is primarily adapted to the growing conditions of the central coast of California and is characterized by the following: medium to small sized fruit of light red coloration. Fruit is of consistent conic shape, high gloss, very easy release from receptacle and poor flavor. Foliage is strongly concave, medium green; possessing weak rugosity and equal 3-5 foliates. Primocanes have a medium strength waxy coal, sparse thorn density and are absent of any anthocyanin coloration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Plant Sciences, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Adams, Stephen M. Ackerman
  • Patent number: D813064
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Derek W. Blanton, Michael Scott Adams