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: 11429555
    Abstract: In an embodiment, a coprocessor may include a bypass indication which identifies execution circuitry that is not used by a given processor instruction, and thus may be bypassed. The corresponding circuitry may be disabled during execution, preventing evaluation when the output of the circuitry will not be used for the instruction. In another embodiment, the coprocessor may implement a grid of processing elements in rows and columns, where a given coprocessor instruction may specify an operation that causes up to all of the processing elements to operate on vectors of input operands to produce results. Implementations of the coprocessor may implement a portion of the processing elements. The coprocessor control circuitry may be designed to operate with the full grid or partial grid, reissuing instructions in the partial grid case to perform the requested operation. In still another embodiment, the coprocessor may be able to fuse vector mode operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aditya Kesiraju, Andrew J. Beaumont-Smith, Boris S. Alvarez-Heredia, Srikanth Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11431075
    Abstract: A resilient antenna securing device that includes a frame structure and a plurality of fin components projecting outwardly from the frame structure. The fin components are configured to receive and hold one or more RF antenna portions. Each fin of a first pair of the plurality of fins components includes a tab that extends toward the other fin of the first pair of fins. At least one first intermediate fin of the plurality of fins is disposed between the first pair of fins. The tabs from the first pair of fins together trap a first RF antenna portion between the tabs and the at least one first intermediate fin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VEEA INC.
    Inventors: Michael Mirabella, Bob Migliorino, Shaun Greaney, Theodore Lubbe, Michael Liccone, Dave Doyle, Perry Wintner, Clint Smith
  • Patent number: 11428876
    Abstract: A housing including a plurality of openings for receiving fiber optic connectors and protecting the polished end face of the connectors from damage while the connectors are stored within a telecommunications connection cabinet. A module with a plurality of optical fiber cables connected to a first optical fiber cable and terminated by a fiber optic connector. Each of the connectors are inserted within openings in a connector holder for storage and protection until the cables need to be connected to a customer equipment cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Trevor D. Smith, Michael Kenneth Barth, Soutsada Vongseng, Steven C. Zimmel
  • Patent number: 11429221
    Abstract: A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. For example, the transducer comprises electronic circuitry configured to encode the digital data in a signal for transmission to the sensor. The sensor controller is configured to operate both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Wacom Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Oliver P. King-Smith, Bernardus H. Smit, Peyman Hadizad
  • Patent number: 11426881
    Abstract: A system including a programmable motion device and an end effector for grasping objects to be moved by the programmable motion device is disclosed. The system includes a vacuum source that provides a high flow vacuum such that an object may be grasped at an end effector opening while permitting a substantial flow of air through the opening, and a dead-head limitation system for limiting any effects of dead-heading on the vacuum source in the event that a flow of air to the vacuum source is interrupted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Kevin Ahearn, John Richard Amend, Jr., Benjamin Cohen, Michael Dawson-Haggerty, William Hartman Fort, Christopher Geyer, Jennifer Eileen King, Thomas Koletschka, Michael Cap Koval, Kyle Maroney, Matthew T. Mason, William Chu-Hyon McMahan, Gene Temple Price, Joseph Romano, Daniel Smith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Prasanna Velagapudi, Thomas Allen
  • Patent number: 11428872
    Abstract: An optical connector includes a first attachment area for receiving and permanently attaching to an optical waveguide. A light coupling unit is disposed and configured to move translationally and not rotationally within the housing of the connector. The light coupling unit includes a second attachment area for receiving and permanently attaching to an optical waveguide received and permanently attached at the first attachment area. The light coupling unit also includes light redirecting surface. The light redirecting surface is configured such that when an optical waveguide is received and permanently attached at the first and second attachment areas, the light redirecting surface receives and redirects light from the optical waveguide. The optical waveguide limits, but does not prevent, a movement of the light coupling unit within the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Terry L. Smith, Barry S. Carpenter, Takayuki Hayauchi
  • Patent number: 11428171
    Abstract: A multi-spool turbomachine having an electric machine that can be controlled to input power to one of the spools of the turbomachine is provided. In one aspect, the multi-spool turbomachine can be a hybrid electric gas turbine engine for an aircraft. The hybrid electric gas turbine engine can include a first spool, a second spool, and an electric machine operatively coupled with the first spool. In response to an increase in thrust demand, the electric motor receives electrical power from an electrical power source. In turn, the electric machine applies a torque to the first spool, causing the first spool to increase in rotational speed. In this manner, the electric machine can electrically assist the turbomachine to meet the increase in thrust demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas William Brown, Justin Paul Smith, Dominic Barone
  • Patent number: 11431801
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for offloading the management of sensor data and generating custom views of sensor data. Sensor data received from a data network through a message is stored within storage managed by a computing device. A handle is generated to identify the sensor data. The sensor data within the message is replaced with the handle, and the message is transmitted to a device within the data network. The device may use handles of sensor data to request custom views of sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: NetApp Inc.
    Inventors: David Slik, Keith Arnold Smith
  • Patent number: 11428725
    Abstract: A wireless power initiated test system can use an aircraft controller to automatically initiate a test sequence to determine status of systems of the aircraft, based on the detection of receipt of the wireless power at the aircraft. The detection of receipt of the wireless power at the aircraft can be based on the detection at a voltage regulator of the aircraft which is receiving the wireless power from a wireless power receiver of the aircraft. The system may also power the aircraft controller during the test sequence using the wireless power received. Such a system may quickly and efficiently initiate, power and perform a pre-flight test sequence to determine statuses of systems of the aircraft, such as during a competition or race of the aircraft. The system may apply to drones, as well as of other types of aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Performance Drone Works LLC
    Inventors: Phil Herlihy, Nate Ferris, Trevor Smith, Ryan Gury, Nicholas Horbaczewski
  • Patent number: 11427289
    Abstract: A gyroscopic roll stabilizer comprises a gimbal having a support frame and enclosure configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure, a flywheel assembly including a flywheel and flywheel shaft, one or more bearings for rotatably mounting the flywheel inside the enclosure, a motor for rotating the flywheel, and bearing cooling system for cooling the bearings supporting the flywheel. The bearing cooling system enables heat generated by the bearings to be transferred through the flywheel shaft to a heat sink disposed within a cavity in the end of the flywheel shaft, or to a liquid coolant circulating within the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: WAVETAMER LLC
    Inventors: Grady F. Smith, David Holden, Jeffrey Peterson
  • Patent number: 11430193
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method implements a resilient interdependent spatial alignment (RISA) process to improve and maintain spatial alignment between two associated coordinate systems by moving a follow coordinate system to align it to a lead coordinate system. In some use cases, the coordinate systems may be a physical space and a corresponding digital model of the space. A user device such as an augmented reality headset or robotic sensors may be moving in the physical space, and alignment to the model is continually maintained, updated and improved responsive to acquired spatial data to enable, for example, holographic display of the model in the headset very closely aligned to the physical space. Multiple volumes can each have corresponding digital “spaces” or RisaSites to manage anchor data with dynamic hand-off among them while accommodating differing scale and density.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Argyle Inc.
    Inventor: Logan Smith
  • Patent number: 11430546
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided that allow a user to draw and edit a chemical structure using one or more gestures performed on an input interface. For example, the user may assign an atom label to a chemical structure representation by performing a press and tap gesture, change a chemical bond characteristic in the chemical structure representation by performing a tap gesture, and/or lengthen a molecular chain in the chemical structure representation by performing a drag gesture. The user may also rotate the chemical structure representation in the graphical display by performing one or more rotation gestures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: PerkinElmer Informatics, Inc.
    Inventors: Robin Young Smith, Scott Gregory Flicker, Daniel Malcolm Oberlin, Andrew Smellie
  • Patent number: 11427634
    Abstract: Compositions and method are provided for treating diseases associated with semaphorin-4D (SEMA4D) pathology, including autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases, cancers, neuroinflammatory disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Vaccinex, Inc.
    Inventors: Ernest S. Smith, Angelica Cornelison, Maria G. M. Scrivens, Mark Paris, Maurice Zauderer
  • Patent number: 11430336
    Abstract: Vehicle monitoring systems and methods are described. According to one aspect, a vehicle monitoring system includes a plurality of vehicle monitoring devices individually configured to communicate with circuitry of a respective one of a plurality of vehicles being monitored by the vehicle monitoring system, to receive vehicle information regarding the one vehicle from the circuitry of the one vehicle at a plurality of moments in time, and to output a plurality of messages externally of the vehicle monitoring device at a plurality of moments in time, wherein the messages from the vehicle monitoring devices include the vehicle information being monitored by the vehicle monitoring system, and a management device configured to receive the messages and the vehicle information included within the messages, to store the vehicle information, to process the vehicle information, and to generate and output a communication regarding the vehicles to a recipient party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Inventors: Kenneth Lynn Smith, Michael David Smith
  • Patent number: 11427116
    Abstract: A seat and cooling system for the seat include a porous seat surface, an air spacer disposed on a side of the seat surface that defines an air channel, a substantially air impermeable barrier having an opening therein in communication with the air channel and a blower configured to draw air through the seat surface and from the air channel. Air drawn from around an occupant on the seat surface draws moisture from the occupant, causing moisture to evaporate, to provide a cooling sensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Samuel Smith, Manfred Mueller
  • Patent number: 11426100
    Abstract: A system for obtaining and outputting real time blood glucose values or one or more indicators related thereto is described. The system comprises a sensor for obtaining blood glucose data from an individual in real time. The system includes an analyzer for comparing in a first comparison some or all of the blood glucose data obtained in real time and for generating an indicator in real time when the analyzer in comparing some or all of the blood glucose data identifies blood glucose data as unacceptable, the indicator provided as output on the user interface in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Socrates Health Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas F. Sutherland, Scott J. Smith
  • Patent number: 11426855
    Abstract: A power tool is provided including a brushless DC (BLDC) motor having a stator assembly and a rotor; a substantially-cylindrical motor housing having an open end for receiving the stator assembly, a rear end, a substantially-cylindrical bearing pocket formed in the rear end to receive the rear bearing of the motor therein, and a radially-extending slot formed at or near its rear end; and a positional sensor board radially received within the slot along a central receiving axis. The positional sensor board includes a curved inner edge shaped to be positioned around the bearing pocket and includes positional sensors mounted around the curved inner edge and facing the rotor to sense a rotational position of the rotor. The curved inner edge is disposed on a side corner of the positional sensor board such that the positional sensor board is asymmetrically-shape in a direction of the receiving axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew M. Palich, Michael R. Marjomaa, Kevin L. Pulley, David J. Smith, Dennis A. Bush, Mark T. Cherry
  • Patent number: 11431191
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for providing power. A system comprising a generator, an inverter, and a battery can be used to provide power. The system can also comprise a transfer switch. The system can provide power to another device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Constellation Energy Generation, LLC
    Inventors: David D. Heilman, Justin R. Smith
  • Patent number: 11429756
    Abstract: Improved CAD systems provide automatic generation of simplified and defeatured versions of complex 3D CAD models. The systems receive a 3D model representing a real-world object as an assembly. The model is formed of the assembly, plural components, and features. In response to user command, the systems select one or more components of the plural components. The systems apply a simplification operation to the selected one or more components. The simplification operation derives a simplified geometric entity (e.g., box, cylinder, solid 3D polygonal outline, or solid 3D tight fit outline) by projecting at least one silhouette outline that encloses the selected one or more components. The at least one projected silhouette outline excludes features of the selected one or more components from graphical view. The systems generate a simplified model from the derived simplified geometric entity. The systems may use the generated simplified model to replace components in 3D models.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES SOLIDWORKS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Nick Birkett-Smith, Manish Bharvirkar
  • Patent number: D962575
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: UNGER MARKETING INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventors: William Harrington, Robert F. Smith, Joseph K. Patterson