Patents by Inventor Scott Urban
Scott Urban 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: 11950617Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: POET Research, Inc.Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Patent number: 11921677Abstract: Embodiments are directed to sharing namespaces across file system clusters. A file in a spoke file system may be determined based on a command provided to the spoke file system such that the file may be associated with an inode mask. Data blocks associated with the file may be determined based on the command and the inode mask such that the data blocks may be absent from the spoke file system. Requests for leases may be generated based on the absent data blocks such that each lease request corresponds to a portion of the absent data blocks Employing the leases provided by a hub file system to: copy the absent data blocks from the hub file system where each portion of absent data blocks may be associated with a lease; updating the inode mask to include the leases and each copied portion of absent blocks.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Qumulo, Inc.Inventors: Michael Patrick Kirby, Austin Elery Voecks, Alan Francisco Delgado Duran, Noah Trent Nelson, Thomas Scott Urban, Benjamin Gregory Reeves
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Patent number: 11910814Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: POET Research, Inc.Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Patent number: 11882861Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: POET Research, Inc.Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Publication number: 20240020268Abstract: Embodiments are directed to workload allocation for file system maintenance. A file system that includes storage nodes and snapshots may be provided such that each snapshot may be associated with a plurality of data blocks. If snapshots are deleted further actions may be performed, including: determining the dead blocks associated with the deleted snapshots such that each dead block may be a data block that may be unassociated with undeleted snapshots; adding the plurality of dead blocks to dead trees located on the storage nodes; determining an urgency score based on a workload model and file system metrics; determining delete tasks based on the urgency score; determining a portion of the storage nodes based on a number of delete tasks; and executing the delete tasks on the portion storage nodes to delete the dead blocks to return storage capacity to the file system.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2022Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Steven Henry Haber, Noah Trent Nelson, Thomas Scott Urban
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Publication number: 20240008512Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Patent number: 11800884Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: POET Research, Inc.Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Publication number: 20230180798Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2023Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Patent number: 11360936Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system. An object from the file system that has parent objects may be provided. A snapshot in a current epoch may be generated such that the first snapshot may be based on the object and descendants of the object. A coverage set may be provided for the object that references the snapshot and also references each other snapshot that includes the parent objects. Read-only access to a version of the object may be provided based on a correspondence of the version and a snapshot referenced by the coverage set of the object. A coverage engine compares the update to a coverage update epoch (cue) associated with the parent objects. The coverage engine updates coverage sets of the parent objects based on grandparents of the object.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2018Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Qumulo, Inc.Inventors: Steven Henry Haber, John Brazel, Neal Thomas Fachan, Robert Edward Gebert, Zacharie Lamont Kirsch, Aaron James Passey, Thomas Scott Urban
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Patent number: 11220851Abstract: A device for lubricating a hinge includes a housing, a first elongated opening, a lubrication opening, a lubrication collection chamber, and an absorption element. The first elongated opening allows the housing to be placed over a portion of a hinge. The lubrication opening is for receiving a lubrication straw. The lubrication collection chamber is located at a bottom of the housing, and the absorption element is located within the lubrication collection chamber.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2019Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Hey 9, Inc.Inventors: Larry W. Conner, II, Paul R. Metcalfe, Scott Urban
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Publication number: 20220001968Abstract: A water safety garment and apparatus configured to avoid drowning can be configured to permit submergence for a predetermined period of time without inflation. After the predetermined time has passed, the garment or other apparatus can be configured to inflate to help a person wearing the garment float on top of the water to avoid drowning or other potentially harmful condition that may result from being underwater for too long. In some embodiments, a circuit may be utilized to detect the submergence condition of a person wearing the apparatus or garment. Upon a determination that the detected submergence condition has occurred continuously for a pre-determined period of time, an inflation mechanism can be actuated to force the person wearing the apparatus or garment to float to the top of the water.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2021Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventors: Robert Garner, Paul Metcalfe, Scott Urban
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Publication number: 20210337840Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Patent number: 11155325Abstract: A water safety garment and apparatus configured to avoid drowning can be configured to permit submergence for a predetermined period of time without inflation. After the predetermined time has passed, the garment or other apparatus can be configured to inflate to help a person wearing the garment float on top of the water to avoid drowning or other potentially harmful condition that may result from being underwater for too long. In some embodiments, a circuit may be utilized to detect the submergence condition of a person wearing the apparatus or garment. Upon a determination that the detected submergence condition has occurred continuously for a pre-determined period of time, an inflation mechanism can be actuated to force the person wearing the apparatus or garment to float to the top of the water.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: BOOST IDEAS, LLCInventors: Robert Garner, Paul Metcalfe, Scott Urban
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Patent number: 11076621Abstract: Provided are methods and systems for remediating toxins present in feedstock that are used in processes to produce ethanol and other products.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2018Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: POET Research, Inc.Inventor: Shannon Scott Urban
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Patent number: 10936538Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system. A query may be provided to determine characteristics associated with a file system and a sampling model. The sampling model may be employed to determine objects in the file system based on a traversal of the file system. The sampling model may be employed to determine metrics associated with the alternate data streams (ADSs) included in the objects such that each of the objects that includes a separate main data stream and the ADSs may be associated with data blocks and the ADSs may each be associated with other data blocks. The sampling model and the query may be employed to sample the objects to provide partial results such that the sampling may be distributed between the objects based on the sampling model and the metrics. A result to the query may be provided based on the partial results.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Qumulo, Inc.Inventors: Thomas R. Unger, Michael Patrick Kirby, Thomas Scott Urban, Michael R. Fitz, Boyu Zhang
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Patent number: 10936551Abstract: Embodiments are direct to managing file systems. Alternate data streams (ADSs) of an object in a file system may be modified based on a request from a client and metrics associated with the ADSs may be modified. Values for reconcile fields associated with the object may be set based on the modified metrics such that the object with the modified ADSs may be included in a reconcile list. And, such that an acknowledgment of the request may be provided to the client. A reconcile engine may determine a parent object of the object. The object may be reconciled and the parent object may be placed on the reconcile list for reconciling in turn.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Qumulo, Inc.Inventors: Thomas R. Unger, Michael Patrick Kirby, Thomas Scott Urban, Michael R. Fitz, Boyu Zhang
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Patent number: 10860414Abstract: Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system over a network. A file system that includes a master node and client nodes may be provided. A master quorum value and a client quorum value having the same value may be provided. A profile catalog associated with the master node that includes parameters may be provided. Profile registers associated with the client nodes may be provided. Change actions may be executed on each client node based on change information provided by the master node. In response to errors, access to the file system may be suspended; the master quorum value may be modified to indicate that the file system is out of quorum; recovery actions may be executed; the client quorum value at each client node may be modified to correspond with the master quorum value; and access to the file system may be restored.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2020Date of Patent: December 8, 2020Assignee: Qumulo, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Scott Urban, Philip Taron, Patrick Jakubowski, Thomas R. Unger
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Publication number: 20200284080Abstract: A device for lubricating a hinge includes a housing, a first elongated opening, a lubrication opening, a lubrication collection chamber, and an absorption element. The first elongated opening allows the housing to be placed over a portion of a hinge. The lubrication opening is for receiving a lubrication straw. The lubrication collection chamber is located at a bottom of the housing, and the absorption element is located within the lubrication collection chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2019Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Larry W. Conner, II, Paul R. Metcalfe, Scott Urban
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Publication number: 20200247513Abstract: A water safety garment and apparatus configured to avoid drowning can be configured to permit submergence for a predetermined period of time without inflation. After the predetermined time has passed, the garment or other apparatus can be configured to inflate to help a person wearing the garment float on top of the water to avoid drowning or other potentially harmful condition that may result from being underwater for too long. In some embodiments, a circuit may be utilized to detect the submergence condition of a person wearing the apparatus or garment. Upon a determination that the detected submergence condition has occurred continuously for a pre-determined period of time, an inflation mechanism can be actuated to force the person wearing the apparatus or garment to float to the top of the water.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Robert Garner, Paul Metcalfe, Scott Urban
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Patent number: 10731229Abstract: Methods and systems for pretreating lignocellulosic biomass are disclosed. An acid solution between 1% to 1.6% sulfuric acid is applied to the biomass. The biomass is subjected to an elevated temperature to cause the production of xylose, glucose, and furfural. Adjustments to temperature, acid concentration, and time can generate at least 80% or 90% of theoretical xylose, 45% or 50% of the theoretical glucose, and less than 4000 ppm of furfural in the xylose liquor. A portion of the resulting xylose liquor may be separated from the glucan solids. The xylose liquor, still highly acidic, can be recycled to reduce subsequent acid loading requirements. Makeup acid solution is added to the xylose liquor and subsequent biomass to ensure a proper solids to liquids ratio. The biomass is again treated to higher temperatures to yield sugars. The process may be repeated for each subsequent cycle.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: POET Research, Inc.Inventors: William F. McDonald, Shannon Scott Urban, Jason L. Martin