Patents by Inventor Smith

Smith 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: 20250140363
    Abstract: An electronic system configured for application in a drug delivery device or drug delivery add-on device to implement a data storage is disclosed. The electronic system includes at least a processor provided for processing data, a non-volatile memory provided for storing data, and an electronic component with a volatile memory, in which the electronic component is configured to be continuously supplied with electric power to maintain data stored in the volatile memory, and the processor is configured to store at least part of the processed data in the volatile memory of the electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventor: Ronald Antony Smith
  • Publication number: 20250140260
    Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing voice detection via a network microphone device (NMD) based on a selected voice-assistant service (VAS) are disclosed herein. In one example, the NMD detects sound via individual microphones and selects a first VAS to communicate with the NMD. The NMD produces a first sound-data stream based on the detected sound using a spatial processor in a first configuration. Once the NMD determines that a second VAS is to be selected over the first VAS, the spatial processor assumes a second configuration for producing a second sound-data stream based on the detected sound. The second sound-data stream is then transmitted to one or more remote computing devices associated with the second VAS.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Connor Kristopher Smith, Kurt Thomas Soto, Charles Conor Sleith
  • Publication number: 20250141228
    Abstract: A node in a power distribution system is described. The node includes an electrical connection to a single-phase power signal from an AC mains power source, a wireless communication interface configured to receive a first phase synchronization message, and a controller. The controller is configured to determine whether the first phase synchronization message is acceptable and detect a zero-crossing event on the single phase power signal subsequent to the receipt of the first phase synchronization message in response to determining that the first phase synchronization message is acceptable. The controller is further configured to calculate a time difference between the receipt of the first phase synchronization signal and the detected zero-crossing event, determine a local phase angle based on the time difference, and establish an identity of the single phase power signal based on the local phase angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: David Haynes, Christopher Fleck, Roger Smith, Rebecca Ross
  • Publication number: 20250142762
    Abstract: A vent cover for an information handling system including: a body having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and a plurality of slots positioned within the body and extending between the first and the second surface, the plurality of slots including: first slots having a first length and extending between a first diameter and a second diameter of a first annulus; and second slots having a second length and extending between the second diameter and a third diameter of a second annulus, the first annulus including the second annulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Qinghong He, Jeffrey Scott Smith
  • Publication number: 20250138697
    Abstract: A computer system optionally displays a user interface object that reveals content based on whether the content is private or shared. A computer system optionally displays a user interface object that includes shared content based on whether participants have entitlement to the content. A computer system optionally displays a sharing indicator that indicates that the respective content is shared with one or more other participants.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Connor A. SMITH, Joseph P. CERRA, Willem MATTELAER
  • Publication number: 20250134275
    Abstract: A mattress protector is provided herein. In example embodiments, a mattress protector includes a waterproof sheet attached to at least one strap removably couplable to itself. The waterproof sheet includes at least one fabric section having a top surface configured to engage with an adhesive of an underpad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventor: Martasz Smith
  • Publication number: 20250139028
    Abstract: An apparatus in an illustrative embodiment comprises at least one processing device that includes a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to implement a centralized discovery controller for coupling to a host and to a storage system accessed by the host, with the centralized discovery controller being configured to receive from the host a congestion alert, and responsive to the received congestion alert, to send to the host and to one or more targets of the storage system corresponding congestion control messages. The congestion alert is illustratively received in the centralized discovery controller from a multi-path input-output (MPIO) driver of the host, where the MPIO driver controls delivery of IO operations from the host to the storage system over selected paths. The congestion control messages may comprise respective Asynchronous Event Notifications (AENs) associated with respective Asynchronous Event Requests (AERs).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: James R. Salvadore, Claire O’Keeffe, Erik P. Smith, Arieh Don
  • Publication number: 20250134086
    Abstract: A replaceable insert for an insect trapping device is provided. The insert has an upper end region, a lower end region, and a first longitudinal centerline extending from the upper end region to the lower end region. The insert has an elongate, substantially planar adhesive surface for trapping an insect and a substantially planar, elongate tab positioned in the lower end region of the insert and extending away from the elongate, substantially planar adhesive surface. The tab has a first side edge, and a second side edge, wherein the first side edge and the second side edge converge at a proximal end of the tab. The tab comprises a second longitudinal centerline that is laterally offset a distance of from about 11 mm to about 15 mm from the first longitudinal centerline. The insert is asymmetric about the first longitudinal centerline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher Lawrence SMITH, Danilo ROSSI, Andrea PEDROTTI
  • Publication number: 20250141946
    Abstract: An example method involves receiving, by a playback device in a media playback system, limited-access media, where the limited-access media corresponds to a limited-access playback device characteristic. The method may further involve determining, by the playback device, that a particular playback device having the limited-access playback device characteristic is active in the media playback system. Based on determining that the particular playback device having the limited-access playback device characteristic is active in the media playback system, the method may further involve causing the media playback system to play back the limited-access media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Brad Wolf, Ben Smith
  • Publication number: 20250135038
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods for treating co-morbid transaminasemia associated with a glycogen storage disorder. In certain embodiments, the invention provides methods for assessing readiness of a subject with Pompe disease for combination therapy with an anti-transaminitis agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Tahseen MOZAFFAR, Angela SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250136056
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a sensor cleaning system that cleans one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle. Each sensor can have one or more corresponding sensor cleaning units that are configured to clean such sensor using a fluid (e.g., a gas or a liquid). Thus, the sensor cleaning system can include both a gas cleaning system and a liquid cleaning system. According to one aspect, the sensor cleaning system can provide individualized cleaning of the autonomous vehicle sensors. According to another aspect, a liquid cleaning system can be pressurized or otherwise powered by the gas cleaning system or other gas system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Wesly Mason Rice, Nikolaus Wittenstein, Zhizhuo Jin, Paul Kevin Smith, Sean Joseph Kennelly, Peter Brueckner, David Patrick Rice
  • Publication number: 20250135076
    Abstract: Embodiments of apparatuses and methods for determining a positioning of sensors in a wound dressing are disclosed. In some embodiments, a wound monitoring and/or therapy system can include a wound dressing and a plurality of sensors configured to measure one or more wound characteristics. The wound monitor system can also include at least one positioning device configured to indicate position and/or orientation in the wound of a sensor of the plurality of sensors. In some embodiments, a detector can be configured to determine, based on the positioning data, the position and/or orientation in the wound of the sensor of the plurality of sensors. In some embodiments, the plurality of sensors can be positioned on a strip or string of material in communication with the positioning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Philip Gowans, Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt, Marcus Damian Phillips, Damian Smith, Charlotte Urwin
  • Publication number: 20250135503
    Abstract: An automated cleaning system for a mobile device includes a conveyor to move the mobile device through the cleaning system; a first wiper to wipe an automatically dispensed cleaning solution from a first major surface of the mobile device; a first mobile device flipper to flip the mobile device 180 degrees; a side cleaner to clean four sides of the mobile device; a second wiper to wipe an automatically dispensed cleaning solution from a second major surface of the mobile device; and a smudge remover to remove smudges from the first major surface or the second major surface of the mobile device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Communications Test Design, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Smith, Nidhin Davis, Kartik Patel, Christopher Mandeen, Jaclyn Domsohn, Manickavel Ganesan
  • Publication number: 20250135931
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for multi-space vehicle charging. An example system may include a cord management system configured to extend across a plurality of parking spaces and configured to move a charging connector of a cord to at least one selected parking space of the plurality of parking spaces associated with at least one vehicle. The cord may extend from a charging device. An example method may include receiving a request to charge a vehicle located in a parking space of a plurality of parking spaces and/or moving a charging connector of a cord extending from a charging device to the parking space of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Melanie Kathleen MacKinnon, Jonathan James Smith, Mark Brian Yazemboski, Nathan Peter Vreeland
  • Publication number: 20250139111
    Abstract: Visual search in an operating system of a computing device can process and provide additional information on the content being provided for display. The computing device can include an operating system that includes a visual search interface that obtains and processes display data associated with content currently being provided for display. The visual search interface can generate display data based on the current content provided for display, process the display data with one or more on-device machine-learned models, and provide additional information to the user. The visual search interface may transmit data associated with the display data to perform additional data processing tasks. Application suggestions may be determined and provided based on the visual search data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Golden Gopal Krishna, Shadia Walsh, Rosemary Margaret La Prairie, Carsten Hinz, Simon Edward Roberts, Sarah Fay Smith, Stacy Lou Chiou, Zhipeng Pan, Clement Dickinson Wright
  • Publication number: 20250140364
    Abstract: A medicine administration and tracking system includes a delivery device configured to deliver a plurality of doses of medicine over a plurality of days and a computing device configured to receive dose information for each dose. The computing device includes a software application operable to cause the computing device to retrieve the dose information for all doses within a pre-determined period of days, categorize each dose within the pre-determined period of days into one of a plurality of time blocks throughout a 24-hour timeframe, determine a time of interest based on a time block of the plurality of time blocks having the least amount of doses categorized therein, and select a physiological parameter reading from a plurality of physiological parameter readings as a physiological parameter reading of interest based on a proximity of a time of the physiological parameter reading to the determined time of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Michael R. Mensinger, Angela R. Gaetano, Madison B. Smith, Heung Yong Im, Francis W. Pascual, Jasper Benke, Sneha Thanasekaran
  • Publication number: 20250142284
    Abstract: Various implementations include systems and approaches for grouping speakers. In some cases, a method includes, configuring a first set of acoustic properties to be applied to an audio device in response to detecting an identifier for a given location; in response to detecting the identifier, automatically applying the first set of acoustic properties to the audio device for audio playback; and in response to no longer detecting the identifier, automatically applying a second set of acoustic properties to the audio device for audio playback, the second set of acoustic properties being different from the first set of acoustic properties in at least one aspect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Lauren Taylor Westendorf, Todd Richard Reily, Matthew Christopher Smith, Jenna Marie Duggan-Lykes
  • Publication number: 20250136499
    Abstract: A glass-based article may include from about 45 mol. % to about 80 mol. % SiO2; from about 0 mol. % to about 10 mol. % Na2O; less than about 5 mol. % K2O; a non-zero amount of Al2O; and. an amorphous phase and a crystalline phase. The article may further in include a stress profile comprising a surface compressive stress (CS) and a maximum central tension (CT). A ratio of Li2O (mol. %) to R2O (mol. %) in the article is from about 0.5 to about 1, where R2O is the sum of Li2O, Na2O, and K2O in the article. CT may be greater than or equal to about 50 MPa and less than about 100 MPa. CS may be greater than 2.0?CT. A depth of compression (DOC) of the stress profile may be greater than or equal to 0.14?t and less than or equal to 0.25?t, where t is the thickness of the article.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Guangli Hu, Charlene Marie Smith, Zhongzhi Tang, Steven Alvin Tietje
  • Publication number: 20250135213
    Abstract: A leadless neurostimulation device having a header unit including at least one primary electrode having a contact surface that defines an external surface of the leadless neurostimulation device, a housing including a secondary electrode positioned on the same side of the leadless neurostimulation device as the at least one primary electrode, and a anchor device including at least one suture point for securing the leadless neurostimulation device to patient tissue or at least one protrusion nub configured to create mechanical resistance that impedes relative movement between wherein the leadless neurostimulation device and the patient tissue when implanted, where the at least one primary electrode and the secondary electrode are configured to transmit an electrical stimulation signal therebetween to provide electrical stimulation therapy to a target nerve of a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Steven T. Deininger, Jerel K. Mueller, Todd V. Smith, Jeffrey Clayton, Thomas M. Hillebrand, Phillip C. Falkner, Jenna N. George, Sarah J. Offutt
  • Publication number: 20250142680
    Abstract: A heating system is provided. The heating system comprises an induction heating assembly configured to generate a varying magnetic field and a heating target assembly comprising one or more heating targets, wherein the one or more heating targets are moveable relative to the induction heating assembly, the one or more heating targets being heatable by penetration with the varying magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Daniel James Bernard SMITH, Barrie Charles MECROW, Mark TURNER