Patents by Inventor Stephen A. Thomas

Stephen A. 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: 20240100316
    Abstract: A circuit connector for a humidification system, the system comprising a base unit configured to be engaged by a humidification chamber. The circuit connector comprises an inlet to fluidly connect to an outlet of the humidification chamber to receive humidified gases therefrom, an outlet to sealably connect to or integral with a conduit for directing the humidified gases to a user, and an electrical terminal for electrically coupling the circuit connector to an electrical terminal associated with the base unit. The circuit connector may be releasably and lockably connectable to the outlet of the humidification chamber and/or orientation features may control orientation of component parts of the system as they are assembled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Hamish Adrian OSBORNE, James William STANTON, Bruce Gordon HOLYOAKE, Stephen David EVANS, David Leon MCCAULEY, Nicholas James Michael MCKENNA, Gareth Thomas MCDERMOTT, Myfanwy Jane Antica NORTON, Gavin Walsh MILLAR, Thomas Jacques Fernand MAECKELBERGHE
  • Publication number: 20240100284
    Abstract: A respiratory interface system for use in delivering a flow of a positive pressure breathing gas to an airway of a patient that includes a patient interface device with a tubing assembly structured to be disposed on the head of the patient, a mask having a sealing element structured to sealingly engage about the airway of the patient, and an adaptor. The adapter includes a flange portion that extends generally radially outward from a central aperture and a hollow male connector extending from the flange portion and coupled with a correspondingly-shaped female connector of the tubing assembly or the mask. The mask is coupled to the tubing assembly via the adaptor, and the tubing assembly, the mask, and the adapter define a pathway structured to conduct the flow of the positive pressure breathing gas to the airway of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: ADAM LeVERN BELL, KEVIN DANIEL HIMES, DANIEL STEED, JONATHAN SAYER GRASHOW, ELIZABETH EURY, RICHARD THOMAS HAIBACH, STEPHEN GEORGE HLOPICK
  • Patent number: 11931233
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a first waist region, a second waist region, and a crotch region disposed between the first and second waist regions; and a chassis having a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core positioned between the topsheet and the backsheet. The article also includes a side panel having an ultrasonically bonded, gathered laminate. The laminate has an elastomeric layer and a substrate and is joined to the chassis at a chassis attachment bond and positioned in one of the first or second waist regions. The ultrasonically bonded, gathered laminate also includes an ear structural feature comprising a surface modification to the substrate and comprising at least one of the following: embossing, apertures, perforations, slits, melted material or coatings, compressed material, secondary bonds that are disposed apart from a chassis attachment bond, plastic deformation, and folds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Sally Lin Kilbacak, Donald Carroll Roe, Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Uwe Schneider, Michael Devin Long, Michael Brian Quade, Jason Edward Naylor, Jeffry Rosiak, Stephen Joseph Lange, Urmish Popatlal Dalal, Christopher Krasen, Todd Douglas Lenser
  • Publication number: 20240075942
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for controlling operation of a vehicle. An example system for controlling operation of a vehicle includes one or more data collection components and one or more processors. The one or more data collection components are configured to collect data representative of a physical configuration of an interior vehicle component. The one or more processors are configured to access the collected data, determine, by processing the collected data, the physical configuration of the interior vehicle component, select a manner of operation based upon the determined physical configuration of the interior vehicle component, and cause the vehicle to operate according to the manner of operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Scott Thomas Christensen, Brian Mark Fields, Stephen R. Prevatt, Steve Roberson
  • Patent number: 11918136
    Abstract: A jug for a juicer has sealing features so that its contents may be isolated from the environment when it is not being filled or when used for pouring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: BREVILLE PTY LIMITED
    Inventors: Mark Thomas, Samuel Adeloju, Richard Hoare, Stephen John McClean
  • Patent number: 11920538
    Abstract: An anti-polish ring for an internal combustion engine is provided. The anti-polish ring includes an axially extending ring portion that is configured to scrape a top portion of a piston in a cylinder liner. The anti-polish ring is configured to accommodate passage of an intake or exhaust valve thereby. The anti-polish ring may include an alignment feature so that the anti-polish ring is inserted in a predetermined orientation in the cylinder. The anti-polish ring may include a heat shield and/or a seating member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Inc.
    Inventors: Owen Summerfield, Craig Daniel Fox, Robert Harries, Jamie Kehoe, Kent H. Clark, John M Antonevich, Reid M. Irish, Scott A. Ragon, Stephen G. Townsend, Peter Thomas Quanz
  • Patent number: 11914759
    Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.
    Inventors: Andrew Jackson Klein, Cory Ryan Bramall, Kyle Mouritsen, Ethan Harris Arnowitz, Jeremy Bruce Kersey, Victor Jia, Justin Thomas Savino, Stephen Michael Lucas, Darren A. Bennett
  • Publication number: 20240050844
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system that allows a user to control the audio of a headset from a game controller. Audio controls are displayed on a screen of the game controller. In addition to the game controller, the disclosed system may comprise an app, on a device external from the game controller, that is also able to display the audio controls. The audio controls may be updated via the game controller or the app while the game controller and headset are being used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Brian Young, Stephen Thomas Bright
  • Publication number: 20240042267
    Abstract: Examples of an exercise mat having a three-dimensional surface texture and methods for making same are disclosed. The exercise mat may have a first malleable layer formed from a polyurethane material with an elastic fabric material attached to a lower surface thereof. A second layer may be attached to the elastic fabric material of the first layer. The second layer may be formed from a thermoplastic elastomer material and may have the three-dimensional surface texture formed on an upper surface thereof to which the first layer conforms. The exercise mat may also include a third rubber layer attached to the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Thomas Caulton MORRIS, Colton Kai YU, Warren Christopher Howren CHENG, Glenn Malcolm BOGHOSIAN, Chen I. KAO
  • Patent number: 11893150
    Abstract: With the advent of augmented reality devices becoming increasingly prevalent, accessible, and cross-compatible, there is an opportunity to leverage the capabilities of such devices in order to streamline user interactions related to complex resource activities which require elevated security and typically are only conducted on an in-person basis. The present invention provides systems and methods for securely verifying a user during an augmented reality device session for the purposes of conducting complex resource activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Alexander, Harold Joseph Kennedy, Stephen Thomas Shannon, David Smiddy
  • Publication number: 20230418365
    Abstract: With the advent of augmented reality devices becoming increasingly prevalent, accessible, and cross-compatible, there is an opportunity to leverage the capabilities of such devices in order to streamline user interactions related to complex resource activities which require elevated security and typically are only conducted on an in-person basis. The present invention provides systems and methods for securely verifying a user during an augmented reality device session for the purposes of conducting complex resource activities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Alexander, Harold Joseph Kennedy, Stephen Thomas Shannon, David Smiddy
  • Patent number: 11827043
    Abstract: A knockdown apparatus for a finisher includes a register tray, a paddle coupled to a rotatable shaft to compile a recording medium toward an end of the register tray, and a knockdown device, provided above the register tray, to rotate to apply a downward force to the recording medium while the recording medium is in the register tray to decrease a curl in the recording medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Taehong Kim, Kevin Lo, Matthew Raisanen, Stephen Thomas Rohman
  • Patent number: 11826606
    Abstract: Examples of an exercise mat having a three-dimensional surface texture and methods for making same are disclosed. The exercise mat may have a first malleable layer formed from a polyurethane material with an elastic fabric material attached to a lower surface thereof. A second layer may be attached to the elastic fabric material of the first layer. The second layer may be formed from a thermoplastic elastomer material and may have the three-dimensional surface texture formed on an upper surface thereof to which the first layer conforms. The exercise mat may also include a third rubber layer attached to the second layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: LULULEMON ATHLETICA CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Thomas Caulton Morris, Colton Kai Yu, Warren Christopher Howren Cheng, Glenn Malcolm Boghosian, Chen I. Kao
  • Patent number: 11808186
    Abstract: A vehicle exhaust system and method of minimizing a leaked mass flow comprising an exhaust component defining a central axis and having an inner surface and an outer surface, such that the inner surface defines a primary exhaust gas flow path extending along the central axis from an inlet to an outlet, and a surface component having a hood spaced from the exhaust component to define a reservoir having a reservoir volume (V), the reservoir comprising a reservoir inlet fluidly coupled to the primary exhaust gas flow path and defining an inlet area (A), and a reservoir outlet fluidly coupled to an outside environment. The reservoir volume and inlet area having a defined relationship. The reservoir volume and a mass flow through the inlet area having a defined relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Tenneco Automotive Operating Company Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Ostromecki, Stephen Thomas, Asela Benthara-Wadumesthrige, Frederick M. Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20230352241
    Abstract: A multilayer electrical component including a plurality of parallel plate electrodes embedded in a dielectric body between first and second conductive terminations is disclosed. The dielectric body and the plurality of parallel plate electrodes form a plurality of capacitive layers each comprising a series of capacitors between the first and second conductive terminations. Each capacitor of the capacitive layers is partly defined by a gap in one of the parallel plate electrodes, wherein a gap of the one capacitive layer is laterally offset relative to a gap of an adjacent capacitive layer and a total capacitance of the adjacent capacitive layers is equivalent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Angela Ellmore, Stephen Thomas Hopwood, Simon Grant
  • Publication number: 20230347203
    Abstract: Examples of stackable exercise cushions are disclosed. The cushions include a body and are defined by shaped top and bottom surfaces. The shaped top surface has a side-view profile with at least one concave portion and at least one raised portion adjacent to the at least one concave portion such that, from a top view of the body, the at least one raised portion is at a perimeter of the at least one concave portion. The shaped bottom surface has a side-view profile with at least one concave portion underneath the at least one raised portion of the shaped top surface, at least one convex portion underneath the at least one concave portion of the shaped top surface, and at least one flat portion such that, from a bottom view of the body, the at least one flat portion is at a perimeter of the shaped bottom surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Stephen Thomas Caulton MORRIS, Colton Kai YU
  • Patent number: 11794097
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a system that allows a user to control the audio of a headset from a game controller. Audio controls are displayed on a screen of the game controller. In addition to the game controller, the disclosed system may comprise an app, on a device external from the game controller, that is also able to display the audio controls. The audio controls may be updated via the game controller or the app while the game controller and headset are being used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Voyetra Turtle Beach, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Brian Young, Stephen Thomas Bright
  • Publication number: 20230330243
    Abstract: A pharmaceutical product for administration of an anti HER2 antibody-drug conjugate in combination with an ATR inhibitor is provided. The anti-HER2 antibody-drug conjugate is an antibody-drug conjugate in which a drug linker represented by the following formula (wherein A represents the connecting position to an antibody) is conjugated to an anti-HER2 antibody via a thioether bond.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicants: Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited, AstraZeneca UK Limited
    Inventors: Jerome Thomas METTETAL, II, Stephen Thomas DURANT, Azadeh Cheraghchi Bashi ASTANEH, Alan Yin Kai LAU, Yann WALLEZ
  • Patent number: 11792243
    Abstract: A system for conducting multi-session user interactions accesses a first interaction session between the user and a first entity, where the first interaction session is via a first communication channel. The system determines first context information associated with the first interaction session, where the first context information associated with the first interaction session comprises a summary associated with the first interaction session. The system generates a token identifier (ID) uniquely identifying the user and the first context information. The system associates the token ID to the user interaction information. The system accesses a second interaction session between the user and a second entity, wherein the second interaction session is via a second communication channel. The system authenticates the user based at least in part upon the token ID. The system communicates the first context information associated with the first interaction session to the second entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Thomas Shannon, Katherine Kei-Zen Dintenfass, Adithya Gadwale
  • Patent number: D1002732
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: VOYETRA TURTLE BEACH INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Brian Young, Daniel Stuart-Cross, Stephen Thomas Bright, Daniel Adam Nuth