Patents by Inventor Sean Thomas

Sean Thomas 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).

  • Publication number: 20250147588
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas Benjamin PELIS, Preston Douglas BROWN, Sean Thomas Mostajo O'HARA, Robert Michael LOHSE, Andrew Carl HEISEY
  • Publication number: 20250122439
    Abstract: A method of capturing and disposing of fats, oil and/or grease (“FOG”) is disclosed. The method includes: providing a porous container formed of a porous fabric, wherein the porous container is filled with an absorbent material capable of absorbing a quantity of the fats, oil, and/or grease through the porous fabric of the porous container; placing the porous container and the absorbent material contained therein in a grease trap; allowing the grease trap to fill up with water and a mixture of fats, oil, and/or grease; removing the fats, oil, and/or grease from the grease trap after a pre-determined period of time, while the water remains in the grease trap; and transporting the fats, oil, and/or grease. The fats, oil, and/or grease may be removed from the grease trap and transported with a vacuum truck.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: MARTIN FRANKLIN MCCARTHY, SEAN THOMAS MCCARTHY
  • Publication number: 20250118445
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to optimize resources of a medical device system, including to analyze physiologic information of a patient occurring over specific time periods relative to a prior heart failure event, to adjust, in response to a detected or received trigger event, a baseline value for the patient from a long-term baseline value to one of a shorter-term baseline value or a static value indicative of a baseline value at a prior time relative to the detected or received trigger event, to determine a readmission score for the patient based on the analyzed physiologic information, and to provide a control signal to control a mode or operation of the medical device system based on the readmission score to optimize resources of the medical device system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Jonathan Bennett Shute, Ramesh Wariar, Stephen B. Ruble, Sean Thomas Horan, Brian Kwan, Craig Stolen
  • Publication number: 20250117885
    Abstract: A method may include generating a hybrid image associated with a first interpretation corresponding to a first value of a media parameter and a second interpretation corresponding to a second value of the media parameter. The hybrid image may include a first visibility ratio between the first interpretation and the second interpretation. The method may include refining the hybrid image to create a refined hybrid image that includes a second visibility ratio different than the first visibility ratio. The method may include displaying the refined hybrid image, and receiving a user input related to a first perception of the refined hybrid image by a user. The method may include determining, based at least in part on the user input, an optimized value of the media parameter, and providing output media for display to the user to a playback device according to the optimized value of the media parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Doh-Suk KIM, Jeffrey RIEDMILLER, Sean Thomas MCCARTHY, Scott DALY
  • Patent number: 12268495
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are provided for utilizing user movement data obtained from one or more wearable sensors during physical activity to compare individualized changes overtime, for example typical versus atypical movement patterns, with subgroup analyses for assessing changes between other users in order to develop an assessment of movement for, for example, tracking injury risk, performance, and/or rehabilitation. The movement information may comprise multi-sensor, high dimensional datasets. Techniques are provided for integrating human movement data from one or more wearable sensor with one or more additional data sources to define an individualized movement profile of a user's movements. The user or another individual may be notified when the user's movements deviate from this individualized movement profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: UTI Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Ronald Reed Ferber, Dylan Robert John Kobsar, Sean Thomas Osis, Christian Arthur Clermont, Lauren Christine Benson
  • Patent number: 12264181
    Abstract: Provided herein are polypeptides, compositions comprising the polypeptides and methods for genome editing and gene regulation (e.g., activation and/or repression) using the polypeptides or the compositions comprising the polypeptides, such as, DNA binding domains derived from the genus of Ralstonia. Also disclosed are DNA binding proteins that include a fragment of N-cap sequence of a TALE protein, such as, a Xanthomonas TALE protein. Also disclosed are DNA binding proteins that include a fragment of N-cap sequence of a DNA binding protein derived from bacteria of the genus Ralstonia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences
    Inventors: John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, Fyodor Urnov, Sean Thomas
  • Publication number: 20250083720
    Abstract: Railcar inspection systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed, including a railcar inspection portal. The railcar inspection portal includes a physical structure positioned around a railroad track, and through which a railcar can travel. The railcar inspection portal can include wheel detection sensors along the railroad track for detecting the presence of a railcar passing over the sensors. The sensors can transmit signals, corresponding to railcars passing over the sensors, to computing devices for determining railcar speeds. The railcar inspection portal can include imaging devices configured to capture images and readings of railcars passing through the inspection portal. Based on a determined speed corresponding to a passing railcar, the computing devices can control the imaging devices to capture specific areas or components of the passing railcar, or individual cars thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Mabby Nicholas Amouie, Evan Thomas Gebhardt, Alex Samoylov, Sean Thomas, John Hoang
  • Publication number: 20250088759
    Abstract: Assemblies, systems, and methods for inspecting vehicles are disclosed. An assembly can comprise a first angled camera, a second angled camera, an upright camera, lights, and a housing configured to attach to a railway between opposing rails. The first angled camera can be oriented at least partially in a vertical direction and at least partially in a first horizontal direction, and directed to a first target region from a first viewpoint. The second angled camera can be oriented at least partially in the vertical direction and at least partially in a second horizontal direction that is substantially opposite the first horizontal direction, and directed to a second target region from a second viewpoint. The upright camera can be oriented substantially in a vertical direction, and configured to capture images of a third target region from a third viewpoint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Mabby Nicholas Amouie, Evan Thomas Gebhardt, Colin Usher, Alex Samoylov, John Hoang, Sean Thomas, Parth Mandrekar, Brian Thomas Yeager, Thomas Samuel Fox
  • Publication number: 20250088760
    Abstract: An inspection assembly can comprise a first camera, a second camera, one or more lights, and a housing. The first camera can be angled at least partially in a vertical direction and at least partially in a horizontal direction to thereby be configured to capture images of a target region in a three-dimensional space from a first viewpoint. The second camera can be positioned apart from the first camera, angled at least partially in the vertical direction and at least partially in the horizontal direction, and directed to the target region from a second viewpoint that is different from the first viewpoint. The housing can comprise a base and a shroud and can be configured to attach to one or more rail ties and to at least partially envelop the first camera and the second camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Mabby Nicholas Amouie, Evan Thomas Gebhardt, Colin Usher, Alex Samoylov, John Hoang, Sean Thomas, Parth Mandrekar, Brian Thomas Yeager, Thomas Samuel Fox
  • Publication number: 20250086314
    Abstract: A system can include one or more memory devices storing instructions thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to receive a message of a message or event stream, the message including a medical data or other data. The instructions cause the one or more processors to parse the message into a plurality of components representing personal identifying information of the medical data. The instructions cause the one or more processors to transform the plurality of components to de-identify the personal identifying information. The instructions cause the one or more processors to write a second message based on the plurality of transformed components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Sean Thomas Boylan, Philip Johnson, Milosz Dominik Milewski, Nino Musanovic, Conor Killilea
  • Patent number: 12244869
    Abstract: Given a sequence of images in a first codeword representation, methods, processes, and systems are presented for image reshaping using rate distortion optimization, wherein reshaping allows the images to be coded in a second codeword representation which allows more efficient compression than using the first codeword representation. Syntax methods for signaling reshaping parameters are also presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peng Yin, Fangjun Pu, Taoran Lu, Tao Chen, Walter J. Husak, Sean Thomas McCarthy
  • Patent number: 12240782
    Abstract: A glass composition includes SiO2, Al2O3, B2O3, alkali metal oxides, alkaline earth oxides, TiO2, CeO2, Fe2O3, and is provides a yellow-colored glass article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Kaveh Adib, Xiaoju Guo, Sean Thomas Ralph Locker, Lina Ma, Nicole Taylor Wiles
  • Patent number: 12244867
    Abstract: A quantization parameter signalling mechanism for both SDR and HDR content in video coding is described using two approaches. The first approach is to send the user-defined QpC table directly in high level syntax. This leads to more flexible and efficient QP control for future codec development and video content coding. The second approach is to signal luma and chroma QPs independently. This approach eliminates the need for QpC tables and removes the dependency of chroma quantization parameter on luma QP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Fangjun Pu, Taoran Lu, Peng Yin, Sean Thomas McCarthy
  • Publication number: 20250063199
    Abstract: A quantization parameter signaling mechanism for both SDR and HDR content in video coding is described using two approaches. The first approach is to send the user-defined QpC table directly in high level syntax. This leads to more flexible and efficient QP control for future codec development and video content coding. The second approach is to signal luma and chroma QPs independently. This approach eliminates the need for QpC tables and removes the dependency of chroma quantization parameter on luma QP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
    Inventors: Fangjun Pu, Taoran Lu, Peng Yin, Sean Thomas McCarthy
  • Patent number: 12216821
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to user interface control of a head-worn computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Mentor Acquisition One, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas Benjamin Pelis, Preston Douglas Brown, Sean Thomas Mostajo O'Hara, Robert Michael Lohse, Andrew Carl Heisey
  • Patent number: 12209259
    Abstract: DNA cleaving enzymes are disclosed. The DNA cleaving enzymes are fused to a heterologous DNA binding domain that is designed to bind to a target nucleic acid sequence. Nucleic acids and expression cassettes encoding the DNA cleaving enzymes are also provided. Methods for genome editing using the DNA cleaving enzymes, fusion proteins, and compositions thereof are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Altius Institute for Biomedical Sciences
    Inventors: John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, Fyodor Urnov, Jocelynn Pearl, Sean Thomas
  • Publication number: 20250006362
    Abstract: A neural network is trained using transfer learning to analyze medical image data, including 2D, 3D, and 4D images and models. Where the target medical image data is associated with a species or problem class for which there is not sufficient labeled data available for training, the system may create enhanced training datasets by selecting labeled data from other species, and/or labeled data from different problem classes. During training and analysis, image data is chunked into portions that are small enough to obfuscate the species source, while being large enough to preserve meaningful context related to the problem class (e.g., the image portion is small enough that it cannot be determined whether it is from a human or canine, but abnormal liver tissues are still identifiable). A trained checkpoint may then be used to provide automated analysis and heat mapping of input images via a cloud platform or other application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: AI:ON Innovations, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Thomas Curtin, Curtis Mitchel Stewart, Ryan Matthew Gilbride, Douglas Kirkpatrick, Christopher Iovino
  • Patent number: 12173244
    Abstract: A method of capturing and disposing of fats, oil and/or grease is disclosed. The method comprises: providing a porous container formed of a porous fabric; positioning in the porous container an absorbent material capable of absorbing a quantity of fats, oil and grease through the porous fabric of the porous container; placing the container and the absorbent material contained therein in a grease trap comprising a source of fats, oil and/or grease for absorbing the fats, oil and/or grease; removing the porous container of absorbent material and absorbed fat, oil and/or grease from the source of fats, oil and/or grease; removing the absorbent material, fats, oil and/or grease from the removed porous container; and extracting the absorbed fats, oil, and/or grease from the absorbent material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Inventors: Martin Franklin MCCarthy, Sean Thomas MCCarthy
  • Publication number: 20240422345
    Abstract: An input image represented in an input domain is received from an input video signal. Forward reshaping is performed on the input image to generate a forward reshaped image represented in a reshaped image domain. Non-reshaping encoding operations are performed to encode the reshaped image into an encoded video signal. At least one of the non-reshaping encoding operations is implemented with an ML model that has been previously trained with training images in one or more training datasets in a preceding training stage. A recipient device of the encoded video signal is caused to generate a reconstructed image from the forward reshaped image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Peng YIN, Fangjun PU, Taoran LU, Arjun ARORA, Guan-Ming SU, Tao CHEN, Sean Thomas MCCARTHY, Walter J. HUSAK
  • Publication number: 20240409835
    Abstract: A method of capturing and disposing of fats, oil and/or grease (“FOG”) is disclosed. The method includes providing a vacuum truck to a user, wherein the vacuum truck has a tank with (1) a vacuum hose; (2) an inlet to the tank connected directly to the hose; (3) an outlet from the tank; (4) and one or more mixing components. The method also calls for positioning an absorbent material within the tank that is capable of absorbing a quantity of FOG. Next, FOG is vacuumed from a grease trap via the hose and mixed with the absorbent material to create a biofuel. Finally, the biofuel is discharged from the outlet of the tank into a containment device at a burn facility and subsequently burned. Alternatively, the absorbent material may be contained within a containment device at the burn facility and mixed with the FOG at the facility before being burned.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Martin Franklin McCarthy, Sean Thomas McCarthy