Patents by Inventor Scott Francis
Scott Francis 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: 12382301Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media herein provide for adjustment of a spectrum sharing allocation between devices operating on 5G and/or 6G technologies. An inter-operator scheduler receives common signals associated with 5G and/or 6G devices and determines time and/or frequency divisions and configurations to a shared technology spectrum to allocate spectrum resources. In response to determining an allocation of the shared spectrum, the shared spectrum can be efficiently shared among 5G and 6G devices in a dynamic and flexible manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLCInventors: Dinesh Arcot Kumar, Anokhi Shah, Scott Francis Migaldi, George Frantz Cummings, III, John Joseph Humbert, IV, William Martin Shvodian, David Charles Jones, Pascale Dumit
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Publication number: 20250247834Abstract: An electronic device configured to operate in two frequency bands having significantly different coverage areas receives coordinates associated with a smaller coverage area over a frequency band having a larger coverage area. The coordinates allow the electronic device to only power up the associated radio and search for a base station of the smaller coverage area when the electronic device is in the area described by the coordinates. This allows the electronic device to achieve significant power savings compared to even infrequent random polling to determine when a base station of the smaller coverage area radio system is available.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2025Publication date: July 31, 2025Inventors: John J. Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Terri L. Brooks, Mark L. Younge
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Patent number: 12328644Abstract: Systems and methods for registering a location tracking device affixed to an item or other merchandise with a cellular or mobile network provider associated with the purchaser are described herein. In some cases, user equipment in physical proximity to the location tracking device may establish a connection with the location tracking device to facilitate the registration process between the network provider and the location tracking device. Once the registration is complete, the location tracking device may establish a direct connection with the cellular or mobile network of the network provider such that the network provider is able to monitor the location of the location tracking device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2023Date of Patent: June 10, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Jean Cheryl Trakinat, Scott Francis Migaldi, Karri Mikael Kuoppamaki, Mark L. Younge
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Patent number: 12323887Abstract: A service type symbol may be presented on a display of a communication device to indicate a type of service supported or unsupported on the communication device over a network to which the communication device is presently connected. The communication device may determine a value of a parameter, may determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter, a service type symbol from a set of multiple different service type symbols to present on a display of the communication device, and may present the symbol on the display. Service type symbols might include, among others, a video symbol corresponding to a video streaming service, a voice symbol corresponding to a voice calling service, a basic data symbol corresponding to a basic data service.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: John Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Hsin Fu Henry Chiang
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Patent number: 12313431Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to sensing a position of a surface proximate to a resonant LC sensor. One example provides a method on a sensing device comprising one or more resonant LC sensors each configured to output a signal responsive to a position of a surface proximate to the resonant LC sensor. The method comprises, for each LC sensor, generating an oscillating signal on an antenna of the resonant LC sensor and detecting a near-field response of the resonant LC sensor at a selected frequency.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2023Date of Patent: May 27, 2025Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jouya Jadidian, Scott Francis Fullam, Rune Hartung Jensen
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Publication number: 20250134928Abstract: Provided herein are allogenic tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) engineered to express a membrane-bound interleukin 15 (mbIL 15). The allogeneic mbIL 15 TILs can be expanded in vitro using a rapid expansion protocol without the use of exogenous interleukin 2 (IL2) and can be used in allogeneic adoptive cell therapy without concomitant use of an exogenous cytokine such as IL2. The allogeneic TIL can be further engineered such that the mbIL 15 is operably linked to one or more drug responsive domains (DRDs), polypeptides that can regulate the abundance and/or activity of the IL15 upon binding of the DRD with a ligand. Also provided methods of screening for efficacy of allogeneic TILs using an allogeneic patient derived xenograft.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2023Publication date: May 1, 2025Applicant: OBSIDIAN THERAPEUTICS, INC.Inventors: Jan ter Meulen, Scott Lajoie, Scott Francis Heller, Jeremy Hatem Tchaicha, Rachel Burga, Mithun Khattar, Kyle Pedro, Paul K. Wotton
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Publication number: 20250124522Abstract: A method, system, and computer program code for determining a tax incentive for an employer. A set of cards is displayed on the storyboard interface. Each card is related to a particular criterion for determining and eligibility of the employer for the tax incentive. In response to receiving a selection of a particular card, a set of modal windows, including a set of data fields that are relevant to a particular criterion, is displayed on the storyboard interface. Information for the employer is identified that is relevant to the particular criterion. The set of data fields it is populated based on a portion of the information. A tax incentive amount is calculated based on the portion of the information. A document it is generated for claiming the tax incentive. The document includes the portion of the employer information and the incentive amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2024Publication date: April 17, 2025Applicant: ADP, Inc.Inventors: Sriranjani Chimakurthy, Amin Venjara, Udayakiran Garikipati, Arindam Das, Toni Lyons, Scott Francis
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Patent number: 12273936Abstract: The system receives orbital information for at least one satellite of a non-terrestrial network. The orbital information includes the location and velocity of the at least one satellite. The system determines a location of a wireless device and the wireless device's location relative to the at least one satellite. The system calculates a connectivity window based on the relative location. The connectivity window is a time period at the location of the wireless device during which the wireless device receives a signal from the at least one satellite to perform a network connection with the non-terrestrial network. The system connects the wireless device to the non-terrestrial network when the connectivity window of the at least one satellite is open. The system prevents the wireless device from searching for a network connection to the non-terrestrial network when the wireless device is outside the connectivity window of the at least one satellite.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Egil Gronstad, John Joseph Humbert, IV, Karri M. Kuoppamaki, Jun Liu, Kun Lu, Scott Francis Migaldi, Brian A. Olsen
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Patent number: 12244563Abstract: A system for web traffic control is provided that is based on information related to a user's previous online activity. In one embodiment, the system is able to collect information about incoming traffic, compare the information to a generated ruleset, and make and implement a decision about how to handle each request/user interaction. In one embodiment, the ruleset is based on e-commerce rules. An e-commerce rule is a unit of decision making logic based on the user's previous online activity on the e-commerce platform, e.g. “If request is to add an item to user's cart, and if user already added something to their cart less than one second ago, then block request”. In some embodiments, the rules may be executed at the firewall and/or in a web application on the e-commerce platform. In some embodiments, one or more rules may be recommended to a merchant.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: March 4, 2025Assignee: SHOPIFY INC.Inventors: Scott Francis, Blake Delaney Manders, Dennis Ho
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Patent number: 12213117Abstract: An electronic device configured to operate in two frequency bands having significantly different coverage areas receives coordinates associated with a smaller coverage area over a frequency band having a larger coverage area. The coordinates allow the electronic device to only power up the associated radio and search for a base station of the smaller coverage area when the electronic device is in the area described by the coordinates. This allows the electronic device to achieve significant power savings compared to even infrequent random polling to determine when a base station of the smaller coverage area radio system is available.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: John Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Terri L Brooks, Mark Younge
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Publication number: 20250015960Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can be utilized to schedule at least one Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission and at least one HARQ feedback message in the same Physical Resource Block (PRB). A HARQ transmission can be scheduled in a mini-slot of the PRB. Accordingly, latencies associated with transmitting and receiving the PRB can be reduced, while the high reliability of HARQ can be retained. Implementations can be applied to 5G technologies such as Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLCs) and enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), as well as other low-latency communications. A method can include determining a location of a device; selecting, based at least in part on the location of the device, a mini-slot size; scheduling, in one or more mini-slots having the mini-slot size in a PRB, a HARQ transmission; and transmitting, to the device, the HARQ transmission in the one or more mini-slots of the PRB.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2024Publication date: January 9, 2025Inventors: Shuqing Xing, Wafik Abdel Shahid, Scott Francis Migaldi
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Patent number: 12158515Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for tracking a passive controller system using an active sensor system within a mixed-reality environment. The passive controller system includes a body configured to be held in a hand of a user, as well as a plurality of retroreflectors that collectively provides at least 180 degrees of reflecting surface for reflecting a radar signal in at least 180 degrees of spherical range when the passive controller system is positioned within a predetermined distance from a source of the radar signal and with an orientation that is within the at least 180 degrees of spherical range relative to the source of the radar signal. Signals transmitted to the passive controller and reflected back from the passive controller are used to calculate the position and orientation of the passive controller system relative to the active sensor system.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2021Date of Patent: December 3, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Jouya Jadidian, Scott Francis Fullam, Rubén Caballero
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Patent number: 12120061Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices can be utilized to schedule at least one Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) transmission and at least one HARQ feedback message in the same Physical Resource Block (PRB). A HARQ transmission can be scheduled in a mini-slot of the PRB. Accordingly, latencies associated with transmitting and receiving the PRB can be reduced, while the high reliability of HARQ can be retained. Implementations can be applied to 5G technologies such as Ultra Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLCs) and enhanced Mobile BroadBand (eMBB), as well as other low-latency communications. A method can include determining a location of a device; selecting, based at least in part on the location of the device, a mini-slot size; scheduling, in one or more mini-slots having the mini-slot size in a PRB, a HARQ transmission; and transmitting, to the device, the HARQ transmission in the one or more mini-slots of the PRB.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Shuqing Xing, Wafik Abdel Shahid, Scott Francis Migaldi
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Publication number: 20240320770Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for assisting with legal research and for aiding in the discovery of information and documents relevant to a user's research focus or input text. The inventive systems receive identifications of relevant documents explicitly or implicitly from a user's research session or input text and, based on issues relevant to those documents, texts and other connections to those documents and texts, recommends similar or helpful documents to the user for their consideration. Recommendations may be ranked and filtered.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Xiaomo Liu, Xin Shuai, Quanzhi Li, Eric Milles, Eric Holten, Matt Makosky, Tom Vacek, Steven Sidwell, Ryan Kelly, Matthew A. Surprenant, Scott Francis, Mike Dahn, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Sameena Shah, Merine Thomas
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Patent number: 12069528Abstract: An access network can allocate a bearer for a network service associated with a quality-of-service (QoS) value (QV) and a retention-priority value (RPV), and determine a bearer ID for the service based on the QV, the RPV, and a supplemental priority value (SPV) different from the QV and from the RPV. Upon handover of a terminal, session(s) carried by a bearer allocated by the terminal can be terminated. That bearer can be selected using IDs of the bearers and a comparison function that, given two bearer IDs, determines which respective bearer should be terminated before the other. Upon handover of a terminal to an access network supporting fewer bearers per terminal than the terminal has allocated, a network node can select a bearer based on respective QVs and RPVs of a set of allocated bearers. The network node can deallocate the selected bearer.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Kun Lu, Boris Antsev, Terri L. Brooks, Egil Gronstad, John Humbert, Alan Denis MacDonald, Salvador Mendoza, Scott Francis Migaldi, Gary Jones, Christopher H. Joul, Jun Liu, Ming Shan Kwok, Karunakalage Viraj Rakitha Silva, Neng-Tsann Ueng
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Patent number: 12067629Abstract: A method, system, and computer program code for determining a tax incentive for an employer. A set of cards is displayed on the storyboard interface. Each card is related to a particular criterion for determining and eligibility of the employer for the tax incentive. In response to receiving a selection of a particular card, a set of modal windows, including a set of data fields that are relevant to a particular criterion, is displayed on the storyboard interface. Information for the employer is identified that is relevant to the particular criterion. The set of data fields it is populated based on a portion of the information. A tax incentive amount is calculated based on the portion of the information. A document it is generated for claiming the tax incentive. The document includes the portion of the employer information and the incentive amount.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ADP, Inc.Inventors: Sriranjani Chimakurthy, Amin Venjara, Udayakiran Garikipati, Arindam Das, Toni Lyons, Scott Francis
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Patent number: 12060798Abstract: This disclosure is directed to seal assemblies for a turbomachine. The seal assemblies include stationary and rotating components and at least one interface between the stationary and rotating components. In some examples, seal assembly includes an oleophilic coating disposed between the stationary and rotating components. The seal assembly may include a surface texture to enhance the oleophilicity of the surface coating disposed between the stationary and rotating components. In other examples, the seal assembly includes an oleophobic coating disposed between the stationary and rotating components. The seal assembly may include a surface texture to enhance the oleophobicity of the surface coating. During operation, the oleophilic seal assembly features retain lubricant between the stationary and rotating components and the oleophobic seal assembly features inhibit the escape of lubricant from the contact regions between the stationary and rotating components.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2023Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Arundhati Sengupta, Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Anand Madihalli Srinivasan, Scott Francis Wolfer
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Publication number: 20240262660Abstract: A lift assembly includes a base, a platform moveable relative to the base between raised and lowered positions, and a scissor mechanism to move the platform relative to the base. The lift assembly also includes a lift mechanism including a base support coupled to the base and extending from the base toward the platform, a platform support mounted to the platform and extending from the platform toward the base, a first linkage supported by the base support and coupled to the platform support, and a first pulley supported by the first linkage. The lift assembly also includes a drive mechanism supported by the base and a cable extending from the drive mechanism, wrapped at least partially around the first pulley, and fixed relative to the platform support. The cable is configured to be tensioned by the drive mechanism such that the lift mechanism moves the platform to the raised position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventors: Todd John Bacon, Eliana Virginia Podolski Bacon, Scott Francis Wilhelm, Richard Alan Paul Casing, III
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Publication number: 20240232762Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for workflow and practice management that are particularly useful to professional service industries. The inventive systems and methods provide tools for planning a matter or project, executing a matter or project and analyzing the success or failure of a matter or project. Templates are developed to provide organizational and task execution assistance while at the same time providing detailed information for performance analytics tools.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2024Publication date: July 11, 2024Inventors: Mike Dahn, Shelly Albaum, Brian C. Quinn, David Rawson, Chris Hendry, Damien Riehl, Emily Colbert, Scott Francis, Colleen Scimeca
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Publication number: 20240224006Abstract: A service type symbol may be presented on a display of a communication device to indicate a type of service supported or unsupported on the communication device over a network to which the communication device is presently connected. The communication device may determine a value of a parameter, may determine, based at least in part on the value of the parameter, a service type symbol from a set of multiple different service type symbols to present on a display of the communication device, and may present the symbol on the display. Service type symbols might include, among others, a video symbol corresponding to a video streaming service, a voice symbol corresponding to a voice calling service, a basic data symbol corresponding to a basic data service.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2024Publication date: July 4, 2024Inventors: John Humbert, Scott Francis Migaldi, Hsin Fu Henry Chiang