Patents by Inventor Seth David Silk

Seth David Silk 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: 12691697
    Abstract: An autonomous labeling system is disclosed that includes a media applicator, a robotic device, and a media replenishment system. The media applicator is configured to apply media to objects. The robotic device is operatively coupled to the media applicator and configured to move the media applicator. The media replenishment system configured to stage a supply of media for installation in the media applicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2026
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Seth David Silk, David F. Beck, Edward Anthony Hackett, Anthony Ross Helberg
  • Patent number: 12457473
    Abstract: Techniques for adjusting the strengths of signals received from a transmitter based on the transmitter's likely location are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, by one or more processors, location information corresponding to one or more respective areas expected to be visited by an individual; receiving, by the one or more processors, measurements indicative of signal strengths of one or more signals transmitted by a transmitter associated with the individual and received by one or more receivers configured to receive one or more signals transmitted by the transmitter, the one or more receivers being positioned at respective receiver locations corresponding to one or more respective areas; and adjusting, by the one or more processors, the received measurements indicative of the signal strengths of the one or more signals transmitted by the transmitter based on the one or more respective areas expected to be visited by the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Mark Clayton, Patrick Martin Brown, John M. Seimer, Andrew Ehlers, Seth David Silk
  • Patent number: 12445801
    Abstract: Techniques for adjusting the sizes of geo-fences based on an individual's likely location are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining one or more geo-fenced zones corresponding to one or more respective areas; receiving location information indicative of the one or more areas expected to be visited by the individual, of the one or more respective areas; and adjusting the one or more geo-fenced zones based on the one or more respective areas expected to be visited by the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2025
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Richard Mark Clayton, Patrick Martin Brown, Andrew Ehlers, Seth David Silk
  • Publication number: 20250206046
    Abstract: An autonomous labeling system is disclosed that includes a media applicator, a robotic device, and a media replenishment system. The media applicator is configured to apply media to objects. The robotic device is operatively coupled to the media applicator and configured to move the media applicator. The media replenishment system configured to stage a supply of media for installation in the media applicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: June 26, 2025
    Inventors: Seth David Silk, David F. Beck, Edward Anthony Hackett, Anthony Ross Helberg
  • Publication number: 20250095363
    Abstract: A wearable device is disclosed. The wearable device comprises a camera, a display device, and a controller. The controller is configured to receive, from the camera, a video stream that depicts a user performing an operation and process, using an operation performance model, a set of frames of the video stream that indicates a state of a performance of the operation by the user. The controller is also configured to determine, based on the state of the performance by the user, a next task of the operation; obtain task information associated with performance of the next task of the operation; and cause, based on the task information, the display device to present instructional information associated with facilitating performance of the next task of the operation. The operation performance model is trained based on a plurality of historical videos indicative of historical performances of the operation by other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: ZEBRA TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Matthew Louis Kowalski, Andrew Ehlers, Nathan J. Clevenger, Scott R. Olson, Seth David Silk
  • Patent number: 12242993
    Abstract: Feedback generation for a container load process includes digitizing a manual workflow into stages, assigning intermediate targets to each stage, monitoring the workflow, and generating notifications to exert feedback control over the workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Seth David Silk, Gamaethige Sulak Soysa, Andrew Ehlers
  • Patent number: 12190584
    Abstract: An operation management system is disclosed. The operation management system may receive a video stream from a wearable device of a user that is performing an operation in a physical environment. The operation management system may process, using an operation performance model, a set of frames of the video stream that indicates a state of a performance of the operation by the user. The operation management system may determine, based on the state of the performance by the user, a next task of the operation. The operation management system may configure display data that is associated with a physical object that is associated with the next task. The display data may be associated with an indicator that identifies the physical object and/or task information associated with performing the next task. The operation management system may provide the display data to the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Louis Kowalski, Andrew Ehlers, Nathan J. Clevenger, Scott R. Olson, Seth David Silk, Nicole Daphne Tricoukes
  • Publication number: 20240412454
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing container utilization are disclosed herein. The method determines a total volume of a container, detects an object being loaded into the container, and determines whether the object is non-conforming or conforming. The method, responsive to determining the object is non-conforming, associates a volume of the non-conforming object with an occupied volume of the container, and associates a volume of at least one space proximate to the non-conforming object with the occupied volume of the container. The method, responsive to determining the object is conforming, associates a volume of the conforming object with the occupied volume of the container. The method determines container utilization based on the occupied volume of the container and the total volume of the container, and displays, on a user interface, the container utilization for a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Yuri Astvatsaturov, Seth David Silk, Justin F. Barish
  • Publication number: 20240331125
    Abstract: Methods for assessing container utilization are disclosed herein. An example method includes capturing an image featuring a container, and segmenting the image into a plurality of regions. For each region the example method may include cropping the image to exclude data that exceeds a respective forward distance threshold, and iterating over each data point to determine whether a matching point is included. Responsive to whether a matching point included for a respective data point, the method may include adding the respective data point or the matching point to a respective region based on a position of the respective data point. Further, the method may include calculating a normalized height of the respective region based on whether or not a gap is present in the respective region; and creating a 3D model visualization of the container that depicts container utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Justin F. Barish, Seth David Silk
  • Patent number: 12086934
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing trailer utilization are disclosed herein. The method generates a trailer interior map and captures an image of the trailer interior. The map includes first voxels associated with the trailer interior and the image includes a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) image data points. The method generates a 3D map of an object based on a set of 3D points indicative of respective 3D image data points corresponding to respective first voxels and determines whether the object is non-conforming. The method determines at least one of second voxels associated with unusable space proximate to a non-conforming object, third voxels associated with the non-conforming object, and fourth voxels associated with a conforming object. The method determines an occupied portion of the trailer based on the first voxels, third voxels, and fourth voxels and trailer utilization based on the occupied portion of the trailer, the first voxels, and the second voxels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Yuri Astvatsaturov, Seth David Silk, Justin F. Barish
  • Publication number: 20240119732
    Abstract: An operation management system is disclosed. The operation management system may receive a video stream from a wearable device of a user that is performing an operation in a physical environment. The operation management system may process, using an operation performance model, a set of frames of the video stream that indicates a state of a performance of the operation by the user. The operation management system may determine, based on the state of the performance by the user, a next task of the operation. The operation management system may configure display data that is associated with a physical object that is associated with the next task. The display data may be associated with an indicator that identifies the physical object and/or task information associated with performing the next task. The operation management system may provide the display data to the wearable device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Louis Kowalski, Andrew Ehlers, Nathan J. Clevenger, Scott R. Olson, Seth David Silk, Nicole Daphne Tricoukes
  • Publication number: 20240114318
    Abstract: Techniques for adjusting the strengths of signals received from a transmitter based on the transmitter's likely location are disclosed herein. An example method includes receiving, by one or more processors, location information corresponding to one or more respective areas expected to be visited by an individual; receiving, by the one or more processors, measurements indicative of signal strengths of one or more signals transmitted by a transmitter associated with the individual and received by one or more receivers configured to receive one or more signals transmitted by the transmitter, the one or more receivers being positioned at respective receiver locations corresponding to one or more respective areas; and adjusting, by the one or more processors, the received measurements indicative of the signal strengths of the one or more signals transmitted by the transmitter based on the one or more respective areas expected to be visited by the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Mark Clayton, Patrick Martin Brown, John M. Seimer, Andrew Ehlers, Seth David Silk
  • Publication number: 20240114314
    Abstract: Techniques for adjusting the sizes of geo-fences based on an individual's likely location are disclosed herein. An example method includes determining one or more geo-fenced zones corresponding to one or more respective areas; receiving location information indicative of the one or more areas expected to be visited by the individual, of the one or more respective areas; and adjusting the one or more geo-fenced zones based on the one or more respective areas expected to be visited by the individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Richard Mark Clayton, Patrick Martin Brown, Andrew Ehlers, Seth David Silk
  • Publication number: 20240112402
    Abstract: Systems and methods for assessing trailer utilization are disclosed herein. The method generates a trailer interior map and captures an image of the trailer interior. The map includes first voxels associated with the trailer interior and the image includes a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) image data points. The method generates a 3D map of an object based on a set of 3D points indicative of respective 3D image data points corresponding to respective first voxels and determines whether the object is non-conforming. The method determines at least one of second voxels associated with unusable space proximate to a non-conforming object, third voxels associated with the non-conforming object, and fourth voxels associated with a conforming object. The method determines an occupied portion of the trailer based on the first voxels, third voxels, and fourth voxels and trailer utilization based on the occupied portion of the trailer, the first voxels, and the second voxels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Yuri Astvatsaturov, Seth David Silk, Justin F. Barish
  • Patent number: 11946796
    Abstract: A method of generating feedback for a container load process includes: during a load process for a container at a load bay, controlling a sensor assembly disposed at the load bay to capture sensor data depicting an interior of the container; at a computing device connected to the sensor assembly, detecting, based on the sensor data, a wall of items placed in the container interior; determining, at the computing device from the sensor data: (i) a boundary attribute of the detected wall, and (ii) a composition attribute of the detected wall; comparing, at the computing device, (i) the boundary attribute to a boundary criterion, and (ii) the composition attribute to a composition criterion; and responsive to at least one of the boundary attribute not meeting the boundary criterion, or the composition attribute not meeting the composition attribute, generating an alert for transmission to a client computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Seth David Silk, Andrew Ehlers, Nirav Shah, Peter S. Carberry, IV
  • Publication number: 20240104453
    Abstract: Systems and methods for pairing a device and an individual are provided. The system receives first task data indicative of a first set of tasks to be executed by an individual among one or more individuals, device data indicative of identification information of a device, and data of the one or more individuals. The system selects at least one attribute of the data of the one or more individuals and weights the selected at least one selected attribute. The system determines a profile and a profile value for each of the one or more individuals based on the weighted at least one attribute of the data of the one or more individuals, and pairs the first task data and the device with a first individual from among the one or more individuals based on the determined profile value for each of the one or more individuals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Louis Kowalski, Andrew Ehlers, Seth David Silk
  • Patent number: 11763439
    Abstract: Methods for assessing trailer utilization are disclosed herein. An example method includes capturing an image featuring a trailer, and segmenting the image into a plurality of regions. For each region the example method may include cropping the image to exclude data that exceeds a respective forward distance threshold, and iterating over each data point to determine whether or not a matching point is included. Responsive to whether or not a matching point included for a respective data point, the method may include adding the respective data point or the matching point to a respective region based on a position of the respective data point. Further, the method may include calculating a normalized height of the respective region based on whether or not a gap is present in the respective region; and creating a 3D model visualization of the trailer that depicts trailer utilization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Justin F. Barish, Seth David Silk
  • Patent number: 11651590
    Abstract: An operation management system is disclosed. The operation management system may receive a video stream from a wearable device of a user that is performing an operation in a physical environment. The operation management system may process, using an operation performance model, a set of frames of the video stream that indicates a state of a performance of the operation by the user. The operation management system may determine, based on the state of the performance by the user, a next task of the operation. The operation management system may configure display data that is associated with a physical object that is associated with the next task. The display data may be associated with an indicator that identifies the physical object and/or task information associated with performing the next task. The operation management system may provide the display data to the wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Louis Kowalski, Andrew Ehlers, Nathan J. Clevenger, Scott R. Olson, Seth David Silk, Nicole Daphne Tricoukes
  • Publication number: 20230128009
    Abstract: Methods for assessing trailer utilization are disclosed herein. An example method includes capturing an image featuring a trailer, and segmenting the image into a plurality of regions. For each region the example method may include cropping the image to exclude data that exceeds a respective forward distance threshold, and iterating over each data point to determine whether or not a matching point is included. Responsive to whether or not a matching point included for a respective data point, the method may include adding the respective data point or the matching point to a respective region based on a position of the respective data point. Further, the method may include calculating a normalized height of the respective region based on whether or not a gap is present in the respective region; and creating a 3D model visualization of the trailer that depicts trailer utilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Justin F. Barish, Seth David Silk
  • Publication number: 20230053372
    Abstract: A method of generating feedback for a container load process includes: during a load process for a container at a load bay, controlling a sensor assembly disposed at the load bay to capture sensor data depicting an interior of the container; at a computing device connected to the sensor assembly, detecting, based on the sensor data, a wall of items placed in the container interior; determining, at the computing device from the sensor data: (i) a boundary attribute of the detected wall, and (ii) a composition attribute of the detected wall; comparing, at the computing device, (i) the boundary attribute to a boundary criterion, and (ii) the composition attribute to a composition criterion; and responsive to at least one of the boundary attribute not meeting the boundary criterion, or the composition attribute not meeting the composition attribute, generating an alert for transmission to a client computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Seth David Silk, Andrew Ehlers, Nirav Shah, Peter S. Carberry, IV