Patents by Inventor Stephen Baker
Stephen Baker 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).
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Patent number: 11957338Abstract: Stapling assemblies for use with a surgical stapler are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the stapling assembly includes a cartridge having a plurality of staples disposed therein and a non-fibrous adjunct formed of at least one fused bioabsorbable polymer and configured to be releasably retained on the cartridge. Adjunct systems for use with a surgical stapler are also provided. Surgical end effectors using the stapling assemblies are also provided. Methods for manufacturing stapling assemblies and using the same are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Jason L. Harris, Michael J. Vendely, Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Austin Bridges, Peyton Hopson, Jackie Donners, Hardik Kabaria, Farhad Javid, David Arthur Kelly, Elliott Baker, Stephen J. Peter, Xinyu Gu, Gina Michelle Policastro, Sharon Chen
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Publication number: 20240119777Abstract: A method for completing jammed transactions at a transaction device by a computing system includes receiving partial transaction information related to an interrupted transaction, storing a physical document associated with the interrupted transaction at a receptacle such that the transaction device is operable to receive additional documents, receiving a first data packet associated with the interrupted transaction from a computing device where the first data packet includes image data captured by the computing device, determining additional transaction information based on the first data packet, and executing operations related to the interrupted transaction based on the additional transaction information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Galen Alexander, Jonathan Baker, Jason Cain, Frank Digangi, Tom Florian, Stephen Fry
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Patent number: 11947017Abstract: Techniques for controlling an autonomous vehicle with a processor that controls operation, includes operating a Doppler LIDAR system to collect point cloud data that indicates for each point at least four dimensions including an inclination angle, an azimuthal angle, a range, and relative speed between the point and the LIDAR system. A value of a property of an object in the point cloud is determined based on only three or fewer of the at least four dimensions. In some of embodiments, determining the value of the property of the object includes isolating multiple points in the point cloud data which have high value Doppler components. A moving object within the plurality of points is determined based on a cluster by azimuth and Doppler component values.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.Inventors: Devlin Baker, Stephen C. Crouch
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Patent number: 11732730Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the current disclosure, a blower assembly is provided that includes a housing having a pair of side walls and an outer wall connecting the side walls. The outer wall has a cutoff portion and an outlet portion. The housing includes an outlet defined at least in part by an outlet end of the outlet portion and the cutoff portion. The outer wall includes a scroll portion connecting the cutoff portion and the outlet portion. The outlet portion flares outwardly away from the cutoff portion as the outlet portion extends from the scroll portion to the outlet end of the outlet portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Revcor, Inc.Inventors: Zvirimumwoyo P. Chinoda, Nathan K. Shoemaker, Madan Baral, Stephen Baker, Stephen A. Adamski
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Publication number: 20230197309Abstract: Aluminum alloy wires with improved electrical conductivity and improved ultimate tensile strength are disclosed. The aluminum alloys include magnesium, silicon, and copper and are formed without a solution heat treatment. The aluminum alloy wires are useful as conductors for overhead transmission lines. Methods of making the aluminum alloy wires are further disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2023Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Richard Stephen Baker, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Nhon Q. Vo, Francisco U. Flores
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Publication number: 20220196032Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the current disclosure, a blower assembly is provided that includes a housing having a pair of side walls and an outer wall connecting the side walls. The outer wall has a cutoff portion and an outlet portion. The housing includes an outlet defined at least in part by an outlet end of the outlet portion and the cutoff portion. The outer wall includes a scroll portion connecting the cutoff portion and the outlet portion. The outlet portion flares outwardly away from the cutoff portion as the outlet portion extends from the scroll portion to the outlet end of the outlet portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Zvirimumwoyo P. Chinoda, Nathan K. Shoemaker, Madan Baral, Stephen Baker, Stephen A. Adamski
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Patent number: 11274677Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the current disclosure, a blower assembly is provided that includes a housing having a pair of side walls and an outer wall connecting the side walls. The outer wall has a cutoff portion and an outlet portion. The housing includes an outlet defined at least in part by an outlet end of the outlet portion and the cutoff portion. The outer wall includes a scroll portion connecting the cutoff portion and the outlet portion. The outlet portion flares outwardly away from the cutoff portion as the outlet portion extends from the scroll portion to the outlet end of the outlet portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: Revcor, Inc.Inventors: Zvirimumwoyo P. Chinoda, Nathan K. Shoemaker, Madan Baral, Stephen Baker, Stephen A. Adamski
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Patent number: 11232453Abstract: Methods, media, and systems directed to a platform for determining, processing, storing, and analyzing authentication data from various internal and external systems within an authentication ecosystem, and from other authentication systems providing authentication services.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 25, 2022Assignee: Mastercard International IncorporatedInventors: Brian John Piel, Anand Reddy Mallepally, Paul Stephen Baker, Mark Hey
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Patent number: 11156655Abstract: At least one monitoring element may be configured to sense a current drawn by equipment being monitored from at least one power source and produce a monitoring signature representing the sensed current. At least one sensor may be configured to output a detection signal in response to a change in a monitored condition. At least one circuit element may be placed in series between the at least one power source and the equipment being monitored. The at least one circuit element may be configured to couple the at least one power source and the equipment being monitored by default and decouple the at least one power source from the equipment being monitored in response to receiving the detection signal. The monitoring signature may include a feature representing the change in the monitored condition in response to the at least one circuit element decoupling the at least one power source from the equipment being monitored.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Siemens Mobility Pty Ltd.Inventor: Stephen Baker
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Patent number: 10850752Abstract: A switch for a point machine, point machine having said switch, and a method for operating said point machine. The switch opening and closing a circuit providing current to the motor of the point machine. The switch having an elastic element, such as a spring, to create “snap-action” to open and close the circuit. Operation of the motor compressing the spring to open the circuit and cut-off power to the motor when the point machine has completed movement of a point.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2015Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Siemens Mobility Pty Ltd.Inventors: Stephen Baker, Dion Marriott
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Publication number: 20200357535Abstract: Aluminum alloy wires with improved electrical conductivity and improved ultimate tensile strength are disclosed. The aluminum alloys include magnesium, silicon, and copper and are formed without a solution heat treatment. The aluminum alloy wires are useful as conductors for overhead transmission lines. Methods of making the aluminum alloy wires are further disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2019Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Shenjia Zhang, Richard Stephen Baker, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Nhon Q. Vo, Francisco U. Flores
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Publication number: 20200299809Abstract: An 8000-series aluminum alloy, useful to form wires, including a rare-earth element. The alloy exhibits improved creep resistance and stress relaxation resistance, as compared to the same alloy that is substantially free of the rare-earth element, while the electrical conductivity of the alloy is substantially unaffected by the addition of the rare-earth element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Nhon Q. VO, Francisco U. FLORES, Davaadorj BAYANSAN, Srinivas SIRIPURAPU, Shenjia ZHANG, Richard Stephen BAKER
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Patent number: 10774478Abstract: A monitoring and warning system is provided that measures a track displacement as an indication of an operational condition of railway tracks and a rail track structure. The system comprises a sensor and a device coupled to the sensor. In response to a physical measurement of a vertical displacement of a railway track in a down direction by the sensor, the device is configured to provide a warning signal indicative of a possible future failure of the railway track or the rail track structure for proactive track maintenance purposes.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2015Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Siemens Mobility Pty Ltd.Inventor: Stephen Baker
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Publication number: 20200278396Abstract: At least one monitoring element may be configured to sense a current drawn by equipment being monitored from at least one power source and produce a monitoring signature representing the sensed current. At least one sensor may be configured to output a detection signal in response to a change in a monitored condition. At least one circuit element may be placed in series between the at least one power source and the equipment being monitored. The at least one circuit element may be configured to couple the at least one power source and the equipment being monitored by default and decouple the at least one power source from the equipment being monitored in response to receiving the detection signal. The monitoring signature may include a feature representing the change in the monitored condition in response to the at least one circuit element decoupling the at least one power source from the equipment being monitored.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventor: Stephen Baker
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Patent number: 10706043Abstract: Provided is a system for providing a computer-implemented targeted search interface including a graphical user interface including at least one selectable option and at least one untitled search break. The system includes a database having a plurality of search results. The system further includes a processor, programmed or configured to, in response to actuation of a first selectable option: generate at least one related search break; prompt the user to input user data; receive the user data; generate, from the user data, a user profile; identify at least one group of related users; and, in response to actuation of the at least one related search break, generate, on a graphical user interface, a plurality of subsets of the at least one related search break, wherein a subset of the plurality of subsets of the at least one related search break has a relationship with a group of related users.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2017Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: WeDiscover, Inc.Inventors: Kenneth Orkin, Sondra Baker, Daniel Wade, Stephen Baker
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Publication number: 20200132085Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the current disclosure, a blower assembly is provided that includes a housing having a pair of side walls and an outer wall connecting the side walls. The outer wall has a cutoff portion and an outlet portion. The housing includes an outlet defined at least in part by an outlet end of the outlet portion and the cutoff portion. The outer wall includes a scroll portion connecting the cutoff portion and the outlet portion. The outlet portion flares outwardly away from the cutoff portion as the outlet portion extends from the scroll portion to the outlet end of the outlet portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Zvirimumwoyo P. Chinoda, Nathan K. Shoemaker, Madan Baral, Stephen Baker, Stephen A. Adamski
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Patent number: 10450637Abstract: A conductive element of a cable or a wire is formed of an improved aluminum-zirconium alloy. The aluminum-zirconium alloy further includes an inoculant. The aluminum-zirconium alloy exhibits excellent ultimate tensile strength values and resistance to heat. Bonding wires formed from an improved aluminum-zirconium alloy exhibiting certain ultimate tensile strength values, fatigue resistance and/or creep rates are also described. Methods of forming cables and wires are also further disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignees: General Cable Technologies Corporation, NanoAl, LLCInventors: Srinivas Siripurapu, Cornelius A. Muojekwu, Janusz Stanislaw Sekunda, Richard Stephen Baker, Nicholas John Duer, Nhon Q. Vo
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Publication number: 20190153566Abstract: Improved 8000-series aluminum alloys exhibiting improved creep resistance and stress relaxation resistance are disclosed and are useful to form wires. The improved 8000-series aluminum alloys include a rare earth element. The electrical conductivity of the aluminum alloy is substantially unaffected by the addition of the rare earth element.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Srinivas SIRIPURAPU, Shenjia ZHANG, Richard Stephen BAKER, Nhon Q. VO, Francisco U. FLORES, Davaadorj BAYANSAN
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Patent number: 10288610Abstract: Provided are assays, kits and compositions for testing subjects, particularly asymptomatic subjects, to ascertain whether or not they are carriers of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi. Methods for detecting the presence of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi indicating molecules by a variety of methods such as immunoassays and mass spectrometry also are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignees: THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH (ICDDR,B), THE CHANGELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORDInventors: Richelle Charles, Edward T. Ryan, Firdausi Qadri, Stephen Baker
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Publication number: 20180371699Abstract: A monitoring and warning system is provided that measures a track displacement as an indication of an operational condition of railway tracks and a rail track structure. The system comprises a sensor and a device coupled to the sensor. In response to a physical measurement of a vertical displacement of a railway track in a down direction by the sensor, the device is configured to provide a warning signal indicative of a possible future failure of the railway track or the rail track structure for proactive track maintenance purposes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: December 27, 2018Inventor: Stephen BAKER