Patents by Inventor Stephen Andrews

Stephen Andrews 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: 11988081
    Abstract: Gravity assisted reservoir drainage systems and methods, which improve preexisting reservoir drainage systems and artificial lift methods using the interwell hydraulic communication that exists between closely spaced horizontal wells in certain fully developed leases completed with large multi-stage hydraulic fracture treatments in batch fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: GHW Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathon Weiss, Stephen Andrew Graham
  • Patent number: 11988370
    Abstract: A solid-state lighting fixture assembly having a lighting fixture with a socket configured to receive a plug associated with one or more accessories to allow for easy in-field mounting of accessories, e.g., controls, onto installed lighting fixtures. The socket may be internally electrically connected to an auxiliary power output of a driver and/or to a battery power pack within the lighting fixture assembly, thereby providing direct-current voltage power for the accessory and, also, allowing for signal transmission to and from the accessory. Each accessory includes one or more sensors and communication components to provide the connected lighting fixture assembly with specific capabilities including, but not limited to, motion detection, ambient light level detection, ambient temperature measurement and wireless communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: MAXLITE, INC
    Inventors: Ramesh Raghavan, Aymen Chami, Eric Clohosey, Stephen Andrew Entrekin, Xiaoming Dai
  • Patent number: 11979044
    Abstract: Methods and devices for wired charging and communication with a wearable device are described. In one embodiment, a symmetrical contact interface comprises a first contact pad and a second contact pad, and particular wired circuitry is coupled to the first and second contact pad to enable charging as well as receive and transmit communications via the contact pads as part of various device states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: SNAP INC.
    Inventors: Russell Douglas Patton, Jonathan M Rodriguez, II, Stephen Andrew Steger
  • Patent number: 11970973
    Abstract: An example system comprises an electric machine including a stator and a rotor, a cooling system configured to supply a cooling fluid to cool the electric machine, and a stator tube configured to contain the cooling fluid within a stator portion of the electric machine and prevent the cooling fluid from contacting the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce Electrical Norway AS, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew Long, David Russell Trawick, Sean Morgan, Kolbeinn Kristjansson
  • Publication number: 20240130496
    Abstract: A carry case for an electronics-enabled eyewear device has incorporated therein electronic components for connection to the eyewear device while storing the eyewear device. The case comprises a rigid frame structure defining an openable holding space for the pair of smart glasses, and a compressible shock-resistant protective cover on the frame structure. The exterior of the case may be predominantly defined by the shock resistant protective cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew Steger, Tiffany Ming Tsao, Qiaokun Huang
  • Publication number: 20240134850
    Abstract: The present disclosure is related to techniques for converting a natural language utterance to a logical form query and deriving a natural language interpretation of the logical form query. The techniques include accessing a Meaning Resource Language (MRL) query and converting the MRL query into a MRL structure including logical form statements. The converting includes extracting operations and associated attributes from the MRL query and generating the logical form statements from the operations and associated attributes. The techniques further include translating each of the logical form statements into a natural language expression based on a grammar data structure that includes a set of rules for translating logical form statements into corresponding natural language expressions, combining the natural language expressions into a single natural language expression, and providing the single natural language expression as an interpretation of the natural language utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Chang Xu, Poorya Zaremoodi, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Nitika Mathur, Philip Arthur, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Gioacchino Tangari, Mark Edward Johnson, Thanh Long Duong, Vishal Vishnoi, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Christopher Mark Broadbent
  • Patent number: 11962857
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses for content recommendations based on user activity data are described herein. An analytics subsystem may receive first activity data. The first activity may be indicative of a plurality of first engagements with a first plurality of media assets. At least one machine learning model may be configured to receive an input of activity data, such as the first activity data, and to determine at least one content recommendation on that basis. The at least one content recommendation may comprise a recommendation for at least one media asset. The at least one media asset may be associated with at least one media asset classification. The analytics subsystem may send the at least one content recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ON24, Inc.
    Inventors: Jayesh Sahasi, Jairo Diaz, Brian Streit, Stephen Andrew Sims
  • Patent number: 11942843
    Abstract: An EC motor with a rotor. The rotor has a hub with outwardly extending silicon steel laminates with gaps between. Rectangular neodymium permanent magnets are positioned in the gaps. Wedge-shaped ferrite permanent magnets are positioned radially between the silicon steel laminates and the hub of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: East West Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventor: Stephen Andrew Semidey
  • Patent number: 11927760
    Abstract: An article includes a hollow enclosure defining a void. The void has a first section and a second section separate from the first section. An electronic component is housed in the first section and the second section of the void. A low pressure mold material is molded into the first section of the void and cured around a first segment of the electronic component to encapsulate the first segment of the electronic component. A support seal is inserted into the second section of the void adjacent a second segment of the electronic component. The support seal defines a sealing barrier on one side of the low pressure mold material that limits the flow of low pressure mold material out of the first section of the void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventor: Stephen Andrew Steger
  • Patent number: 11918142
    Abstract: An artificial gravity heating system includes a cylindrical compartment formed of a hollow cylinder having a bottom base and an open top end. An electric motor rotates the cylindrical compartment to provide centripetal motion of materials inside the cylindrical compartment. While rotating, the materials move towards an inner wall of the cylindrical compartment. A heating element is conductively coupled along an outer wall of the cylindrical compartment for heating the materials against the inner wall via conduction. A temperature sensor is operatively coupled to the cylindrical compartment for monitoring a temperature of the cylindrical compartment. A controller is configured to control operation of the heating element based on the temperature monitored via the temperature sensor. An artificial gravity heating method is used to process materials including heating ingredients to cook food. The artificial gravity heating system may also be configured as a vapor generator dehydrator or a thermal gas generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Ascent Technology, LLC
    Inventors: James T. Sears, Stephen Andrew Hibbs
  • Patent number: 11919887
    Abstract: Compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as inhibitors of sodium channels are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and methods of using the compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of various disorders, including pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven John Durrant, Nadia M. Ahmad, Elizabeth Mary Beck, Lidio Marx Carvalho Meireles, Ewa Iwona Chudyk, Gorka Etxebarria Jardi, Bhairavi Galan, Sara S. Hadida Ruah, Dennis James Hurley, Ronald Marcellus Knegtel, Timothy Donald Neubert, Joanne Louise Pinder, Joseph Pontillo, Robert Pullin, Yvonne Schmidt, David Matthew Shaw, Sarah Skerratt, Dean Stamos, Stephen Andrew Thomson, Anisa Nizarali Virani, Christopher Wray
  • Publication number: 20240069527
    Abstract: A thermal management system for an energy storage system for an aircraft includes a pump circulating a thermal management fluid through the thermal management system and an energy storage device of the aircraft. A controller circuitry may control a variable pumping capacity of the pump based on sensing pressure or temperature of the thermal management fluid at the energy storage device. The controller circuitry may default operation of the pump to a first pumping capacity in response to the pressure or temperature being within a predetermined operating range and a predetermined failure condition or a power demand of an aircraft engine supply bus exceeding a predetermined threshold. The controller controlling operation of the pump to a second pumping capacity in response to absence of the power demand signal of the aircraft engine supply bus and the pressure or temperature being within the predetermined operating range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew LONG, Michael DOUGHERTY, Tomasz Marek LUBECKI, Firman SASONGKO, Chandana Jayampathi Gajanayake
  • Publication number: 20240061832
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for converting a natural language utterance to an intermediate database query representation. An input string is generated by concatenating a natural language utterance with a database schema representation for a database. Based on the input string, a first encoder generates one or more embeddings of the natural language utterance and the database schema representation. A second encoder encodes relations between elements in the database schema representation and words in the natural language utterance based on the one or more embeddings. A grammar-based decoder generates an intermediate database query representation based on the encoded relations and the one or more embeddings. Based on the intermediate database query representation and an interface specification, a database query is generated in a database query language.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Mark Edward Johnson, Shivashankar Subramanian, Aashna Devang Kanuga, Nitika Mathur, Gioacchino Tangari, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Poorya Zaremoodi, Vasisht Raghavendra, Thanh Long Duong, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Vishal Vishnoi, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Philip Arthur, Syed Najam Abbas Zaidi
  • Publication number: 20240062011
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed herein for using named entity recognition to resolve entity expression while transforming natural language to a meaning representation language. In one aspect, a method includes accessing natural language text, predicting, by a first machine learning model, a class label for a token in the natural language text, predicting, by a second machine-learning model, operators for a meaning representation language and a value or value span for each attribute of the operators, in response to determining that the value or value span for a particular attribute matches the class label, converting a portion of the natural language text for the value or value span into a resolved format, and outputting syntax for the meaning representation language. The syntax comprises the operators with the portion of the natural language text for the value or value span in the resolved format.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Aashna Devang Kanuga, Cong Duy Vu Hoang, Mark Edward Johnson, Vasisht Raghavendra, Yuanxu Wu, Steve Wai-Chun Siu, Nitika Mathur, Gioacchino Tangari, Shubham Pawankumar Shah, Vanshika Sridharan, Zikai Li, Diego Andres Cornejo Barra, Stephen Andrew McRitchie, Christopher Mark Broadbent, Vishal Vishnoi, Srinivasa Phani Kumar Gadde, Poorya Zaremoodi, Thanh Long Duong, Bhagya Gayathri Hettige, Tuyen Quang Pham, Arash Shamaei, Thanh Tien Vu, Yakupitiyage Don Thanuja Samodhve Dharmasiri
  • Patent number: 11905026
    Abstract: An example system includes a throttle control for managing power in a hybrid propulsion system that includes an electrical propulsion unit configured to operate using electrical energy sourced from an electrical energy storage system (ESS) and/or one or more electrical generators, the throttle control comprising: a control lever movable through a plurality of positions, the plurality of positions including: a regeneration position; an off position; a maximum electric only position; a maximum continuous dual source position; and a maximum non-continuous dual source position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew Long, David Kopeschka, Michael P. Dougherty, Mark McLaren
  • Publication number: 20240055763
    Abstract: Eyewear including a dipole antenna having a first leg and a second leg, wherein the first leg includes at least a portion of a battery, such as a conductive case of the battery. An antenna feed is coupled to the dipole antenna between the second leg and the battery. The second leg may comprise a flexible printed circuit (FPC), and the second leg is an active leg. The second leg has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion may have the same physical length. The first portion may be dielectrically loaded with a high permittivity loaded material, and the second portion may be dielectrically loaded with a low permittivity loaded material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ugur Olgun, Choonshin You, Stephen Andrew Steger, Patrick Timothy McSweeney Simons
  • Patent number: 11897211
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for automatic extrudate loading and alignment. An extrudate handling system includes a head end assembly and an imaging device (which may be part of the head end assembly). The imaging device is configured to image an end face of an extrudate, and generate, during translation of the extrudate, an imaging output signal indicative of a rotational position of the end face of the extrudate. The head end assembly includes a rotational effector to rotate the extrudate during translation thereof and a fixed effector rotationally fixed relative to a track. The extrudate handling system is able to determine the rotational position of the web angle of the extrudate and precisely adjust the rotational position while linearly translating the extrudate along the track. The extrudate handling system provides greater accuracy, reduced costs, and improved results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Colby William Audinwood, Brian Stephen Banks, Stephen Andrew Campbell, John Christian Duroe, Dustin Andrew Jochum, Anthony Nicholas Rodbourn, Gary Yaw
  • Publication number: 20240011438
    Abstract: Methods of controlling an in-line heater for an energy storage device are provided. A determination is made that a pump is running. When running, the pump circulates a thermal management fluid through a thermal management conditioning loop, which includes the in-line heater and a heat transfer hardware configured to transfer heat between the thermal management fluid and the energy storage device, wherein the in-line heater is in thermal communication with the thermal management fluid. The in-line heater is turned on in response to the determination that the pump is running and a temperature of the thermal management fluid is below a lower control limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew LONG, Michael DOUGHERTY, Tomasz Marek LUBECKI, Firman SASONGKO, Chandana Jayampathi Gajanayake, Michael Adam Zagrodnik
  • Publication number: 20240011437
    Abstract: A thermal management system for an energy storage system, the energy storage system comprising an energy storage device, an energy storage monitoring system including circuitry dedicated and configured to monitor a temperature of the energy storage device. The thermal management system comprises: a thermal management conditioning loop, a pump configured to circulate a thermal management fluid through the thermal management conditioning loop, a heat source, and a heat transfer hardware in thermal communication with the energy storage device. An energy storage controller of the energy storage monitoring system is configured to confirm that a temperature of the thermal management fluid and/or a temperature of the energy storage device is below an upper safety limit, between a lower control limit and an upper control limit, or both, and in response, to send an enable heater request indicating the heat source is to turn on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Rolls-Royce Corporation
    Inventors: Stephen Andrew LONG, Michael DOUGHERTY, Tomasz Marek LUBECKI, Firman SASONGKO, Chandana Jayampathi Gajanayake, Michael Adam Zagrodnik
  • Patent number: D1023077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sub-Zero Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Leroy Cruver, IV, Stephen Andrew Derfiny