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).

  • Patent number: 11449021
    Abstract: An approach to positioning one or more robotic arms in an assembly system may be described herein. For example, a system for robotic assembly may include a first robot, a second robot, and a control unit. The control unit may be configured to receive a first target location proximal to a second target location. The locations may indicate where the robots are to position the features. The control unit may be configured to calculate a first calculated location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, measure a first measured location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, determine a first transformation matrix between the first calculated location and the first measured location, reposition the first feature of the first subcomponent to the first target location using the first robot, the repositioning based on the first transformation matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: DIVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Lukas Philip Czinger, Oussama Rawas, Thomas Samuel Bowden, Jr., Roy Smith
  • Patent number: 11446036
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a body, a shaft, a stapling head assembly, and an anvil. The body includes a motor, a first user input feature, and a second user input feature. The first user input feature is operable to activate the motor. The shaft extends distally from the body. The stapling head assembly is positioned at a distal end of the shaft. The stapling head assembly includes an anvil coupling feature, at least one annular array of staples, and a staple driver. The second user input feature is operable to drive the anvil coupling feature longitudinally. The staple driver is operable to drive the at least one annular array of staples. The motor is operable to drive the staple driver. The anvil is configured to couple with the anvil coupling feature. The anvil is further configured to deform the staples driven by the staple driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Brian F. DiNardo, Brian W. Bear, Charles J. Scheib, Christopher C. Miller, Craig S. Smith, Emily A. Schellin, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason E. Zerkle, Jeffrey C. Gagel, John P. Measamer, Johnny H. Alexander, III, Joseph T. Kluener, Kevin D. Sackett, Kevin L. Houser, Mark D. Overmyer, Matthew H. Bolton, Omar J. Vakharia, Richard F. Schwemberger, Richard L. Leimbach, Rodney V. Clingaman, Timothy E. Goode, William D. Fox, William R. Stager
  • Patent number: 11449047
    Abstract: A method for operating an industrial automation system may involve receiving, via a first module of a plurality of modules in a control system, an indication that an error between a measurement associated with a target variable that corresponds with at least a portion of the industrial automation system and a modeled value for the target variable. The method may then involve determining, via the first module, whether the error is within a first range of values and retraining a model used to generate the modeled value for the target variable based on a portion of a plurality of sets of data points acquired via a plurality of sensors disposed in the industrial automation system in response to the error being within the first range of values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bijan SayyarRodsari, Alexander B. Smith, Kadir Liano, Wei Dai, Yash P. Puranik
  • Patent number: 11447753
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions and methods for vaccination and research applications. In particular, provided herein are non-neuroinvasive herpesviruses and alpha herpesviruses and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: Northwestern University, Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska, Trustees of Tufts College (AKA Tufts University)
    Inventors: Gregory A. Smith, Patricia Jane Sollars, Gary Edward Pickard, Ekaterina E. Heldwein
  • Patent number: 11451028
    Abstract: A conduit nipple grounding bushing to connect between two electrical enclosures or an electrical enclosure and a conduit body, comprising a body having a first portion and a second portion forming a hollow cylindrical interior for the passage of conductors therethrough, the body having a first opening at a first end of the body and a second opening at a second end of the body, the first portion having an outer surface with one or more mounting pads along a circumferential area, each of said one or more mounting pads configured for receipt of a grounding lug, and an end surface dimensioned to contact an electrical box about a knockout hole thereof, and wherein the second portion has exterior threads configured to pass through a knockout hole of an electrical box and dimensioned for receipt of a locknut if the conduit nipple grounding bushing is connected between two electrical boxes or for threaded engagement with a threaded hub of a conduit body if the conduit nipple grounding bushing is connected between an
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Bridgeport Fittings, LLC
    Inventor: Lawrence J. Smith
  • Patent number: 11449917
    Abstract: A network computing system provides an interactive menu to enable a consumer to initiate an order session. The network computing system can detect the order session is for placement of a group order, and can further provide a recommendation to the requesting consumer with respect to personalizing the group order for individual members of the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: UBER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Clayton Smith, Andrew Timothy Szybalski, William Danner, Michael Stumpo, Sonya Ives, Clare O'Brien, Wendi Chiong
  • Patent number: 11448686
    Abstract: A test system, a method for manufacturing an electronic device, and a method for testing a wafer or electronic device that includes coupling a transistor in a series circuit with a capacitor and a resistor, coupling a voltage source to the capacitor to charge the capacitor to a non-zero DC voltage while the transistor is turned off, disconnecting the voltage source from the capacitor while the transistor is turned off, turning the transistor on while the voltage source is disconnected from the capacitor, measuring a voltage signal across the resistor while the transistor is turned on, and determining a test result indicating whether the transistor has an acceptable dynamic on-state resistance according to the voltage signal across the resistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ramana Tadepalli, Alexander George Atkins Smith
  • Patent number: 11451435
    Abstract: Technologies for providing multi-tenant support in edge resources using edge channels include a device that includes circuitry to obtain a message associated with a service provided at the edge of a network. Additionally, the circuitry is to identify an edge channel based on metadata associated with the message. The edge channel has a predefined amount of resource capacity allocated to the edge channel to process the message. Further, the circuitry is to determine the predefined amount of resource capacity allocated to the edge channel and process the message using the allocated resource capacity for the identified edge channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Francesc Guim Bernat, Karthik Kumar, Benjamin Graniello, Timothy Verrall, Andrew J. Herdrich, Rashmin Patel, Monica Kenguva, Brinda Ganesh, Alexander Vul, Ned M. Smith, Suraj Prabhakaran
  • Patent number: 11451700
    Abstract: A camera including first and second modules combinable to form the camera. The first module can be a camera module, and the second module can be a camera control module. In one embodiment, the camera module includes an image sensor, light source, and motion sensor, and the camera control module includes a power source receiver, camera control system, and image storage device port. The camera control module can be used separated from the camera module for functions such as viewing and editing images or camera settings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: AOB Products Company
    Inventors: Ryan Varnum, Timothy S. Kinney, Kyle Martin, Curtis Smith, Matthew Kinamore, James Tayon
  • Patent number: 11445654
    Abstract: A system for identifying plugging within an agricultural implement is provided. The system includes a ground engaging tool configured to be supported by the agricultural implement. A fluidic actuator is coupled to the ground engaging tool. The fluidic actuator is operable to adjust the ground engaging tool between a lifted position and a ground engaging position. A pressure sensor is configured to measure a pressure of fluid supplied to the fluidic actuator. A controller is communicatively coupled to the pressure sensor. The controller is configured to receive, from the pressure sensor, a signal that corresponds to the pressure of fluid supplied to the fluidic actuator. The controller is further configured to determine when the ground engaging tool is plugged based at least in part on the signal from the pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: CNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin M. Smith, Trevor Stanhope, Joshua David Harmon, James W. Henry
  • Patent number: 11446232
    Abstract: The invention relates to a personal care product for alleviating skin dryness, including facial skin dryness, body dryness, and breast skin dryness and for use as a massage oil. Embodiments of the personal care product include a formulation including cocoa butter, kokum butter, shea olein, and hyaluronic acid and/or cannabis oil. The personal care product may also include other plant-based glycerides, natural hormones, herbal roots and oils, amino acids, dietary supplements. The personal care product is substantially free of added water, alcohol, synthetic chemical, anti-microbial, and synthetic hormone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Damiva Inc.
    Inventors: Gardiner F H Smith, Chia Chia Sun
  • Patent number: 11452238
    Abstract: An immersion cooling system includes a housing having an interior space; a heat-generating component disposed within the interior space; and a working fluid liquid disposed within the interior space such that the heat-generating component is in contact with the working fluid liquid. The working fluid comprises a compound having Structural Formula (IA) Each Rf1 and Rf2 is, independently, (i) a linear or branched perhalogenated acyclic alkyl group having 1-6 carbon atoms and optionally contains one or more catenated heteroatoms selected from O or N; or (ii) a perhalogenated 5-7 membered cyclic alkyl group having 3-7 carbon atoms and optionally contains one or more catenated heteroatoms selected from O or N.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: 3M INNOVATIVE PROPERTIES COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael J. Bulinski, Phillip E. Tuma, Michael G. Costello, William M. Lamanna, Sean M. Smith
  • Patent number: 11448182
    Abstract: A method of making a wind turbine blade is described. The wind turbine blade comprises first and second half shells joined together and a shear web bonded between inner surfaces of the respective half shells. The blade is made in a one-stage join up process, which involves supporting the half shells in respective mould halves, and arranging one of the half shells on top of the other half shell with the shear web arranged between the two half shells. Adhesive is provided between the shear web and the inner surfaces of the respective half shells. During the join-up process, the shear web is supported by stabilisers. The use of stabilisers avoids the need for a jig to support the shear web. Stabilisers attached to an inboard end of the shear web may remain accessible after the join-up and can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Vestas Wind Systems A/S
    Inventors: Jonathan Smith, Andrew Hedges
  • Patent number: 11448203
    Abstract: A hydraulic radial piston device includes a housing, a pintle having a pintle shaft, a rotor mounted on the pintle shaft and defining a plurality of cylinders, and a plurality of pistons displaceable in the cylinders. The radial piston device further includes a piston ring that provides an interface for the pistons. The radial piston device includes various configurations for improving the performance and efficiency of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Aaron Smith, Sushant Subhash Bawdhankar, Aaron Matthew Davis, Jeffrey David Skinner, Kendrick Michael Gibson, Mark Alan Long, Nicholas John Hansen, Kendall Otis Lee
  • Patent number: 11446462
    Abstract: An apparatus or kit for a respiratory support system for delivering humidified gas to a user or patient. The apparatus comprising a humidifier chamber in pneumatic communication with a gases source, an inspiratory conduit in pneumatic communication with the humidifier chamber downstream of the humidifier chamber, a filter that is in pneumatic communication with the inspiratory conduit downstream of the inspiratory conduit, and a patient interface for delivering humidified gas to a user or patient, wherein the patient interface is in pneumatic communication with the filter downstream of the filter, or is configured to be placed in pneumatic communication with the filter downstream of the filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Bruce Gordon Holyoake, Samantha Dale Oldfield, Alicia Jerram Hunter Evans, Callum James Thomas Spence, Craig Karl White, Dexter Chi Lun Cheung, Matthew Jon Payton, Michael Robert Barraclough, Daniel John Smith, Kevin Blake Powell
  • Patent number: 11451475
    Abstract: The present invention is provides a method and apparatus for routing a data packet in a network. For each nearby device capable of routing the packet toward a further destination, an associated cost or utility is determined. The device with lowest cost or highest utility is selected and the packet is forwarded toward same. The selecting may use a comparator tree. The cost or utility may be associated with forwarding the data packet from the candidate device toward the further destination. The cost or utility may be based on a distance from candidate device to the further destination, and may be determined using a Haversine function or approximation thereof, or by computing an inner product of a first vector and a second vector originating at a center of Earth, the first vector directed toward the candidate device, the second vector directed toward the further destination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: William Carson McCormick, Peter Ashwood-Smith
  • Patent number: 11447811
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of diagnosing a dysbiosis in a subject, methods of determining a suitable treatment, and methods of treating a dysbiosis. In some aspects, the present disclosure relates to diagnosing or determining a subtype of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: smartDNA Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Margaret Smith
  • Patent number: 11446079
    Abstract: A surgical instrument end effector assembly includes a first jaw member and a second jaw member. The second jaw member includes an ultrasonic blade body and first and second electrodes disposed on either side of the ultrasonic blade body and extending longitudinally along a majority of a length of the ultrasonic blade body. The ultrasonic blade body is adapted to receive ultrasonic energy from an ultrasonic waveguide. The first and second electrodes taper in width proximally to distally and are adapted to connect to a source of electrosurgical energy. The first jaw member is movable relative to the second jaw member between a spaced-apart position and an approximated position for grasping tissue therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Rachael L. Kabala, Anthony B. Ross, David J. Van Tol, Robert B. Stoddard, Robert B. Smith
  • Patent number: 11448430
    Abstract: An embodiment of the instant disclosure comprises a reversible heat pump and water heating system for conditioning a space and heating water. The system comprises a refrigerant circuit that includes a compressor, a source heat exchanger, a space heat exchanger, and an expansion device. A 4-way reversing valve alternates between heating and cooling modes of operation. The system includes a heat exchanger for heating water in the water heating loop, and a 3-way valve that either actuates the refrigerant flow through the water heater heat exchanger or bypasses at least a portion of the refrigerant flow around the water heater heat exchanger. The heat pump system is operable in at least five modes—space heating only, space cooling only, water heating only, and either space heating or space cooling combined with water heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Climate Master, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Taras, Michael S. Privett, Jeremy R. Smith
  • Patent number: PP34607
    Abstract: A novel and distinct variety of Asparagopsis taxiformis, provided as a source of halogenated compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BLUE OCEAN BARNS
    Inventors: Vivienne Hay, Matthew Rothe, Joan Salwen, Jennifer Smith, Gal Dishon, Hannah Resetarits