Patents by Inventor Stephen Bell
Stephen Bell 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: 12223092Abstract: A method of reducing a data volume of a data stream in a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a robot having a base and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument, the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered, the method comprising: receiving a data stream captured by the surgical robotic system, the data stream comprising data relating to a surgical procedure and having a first data volume; identifying a feature in the received data stream indicative of an event in the surgical procedure; and modifying, in dependence on the identified feature, the received data stream to generate a modified data stream having a second data volume that is smaller than the first data volume.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITEDInventors: Steven Bishop, Stephen Bell, Ricardo Michael Henderson Da Silva
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Publication number: 20240263689Abstract: A servo motor system having a direct drive motor, a controller, an encoder and a ball screw nut. The system may include a direct drive motor and a controller communicatively coupled to the direct drive motor and configured to provide a control signal to the direct drive motor to control rotational motion. The system may further include an encoder coupled to the direct drive motor and the controller and configured to provide a feedback signal to the controller indictive of the rotational motion of the direct drive motor. The system may further include a rotatably attached ball screw nut coupled to a housing for the direct drive motor, the ball screw nut configured to engage a ball screw shaft such that rotational motion imparted by the direct drive motor causes the servo motor system to move about the ball screw shaft while the ball screw shaft remains stationary.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2024Publication date: August 8, 2024Inventor: Stephen Bell
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Publication number: 20240109808Abstract: Disclosed herein is a transportable bio-cement comprising a desiccated microorganism package; where the microorganism package comprises one or more microorganisms; a first binder, where the first binder is produced by the microorganism; and where the microorganism has protected itself by a layer of the first binder; where the transportable bio-cement is devoid of moisture. Disclosed herein too is a method of manufacturing a transportable dry composition comprising blending together a microorganism package; a nutrient; and a liquid; activating the microorganism package to produce a first binder; subjecting the microorganism package to desiccation to form a transportable bio-cement; and blending the transportable bio-cement with an aggregate to form a bio-concrete; where the aggregate comprises a substrate, a second binder, and a liquid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Wilfred V. Srubar, III, Sherri Cook, Jeffrey Cameron, Mija Hubler, Stephen Bell, Linfei Li
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Patent number: 11477315Abstract: An application for storing on a server for download to a client device for executing on the client device.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: Cardex Group Pty Ltd.Inventors: Rafik Elmasri, David Elmasri, Juan Manuel Carvajal Millan, Melad Barjel, Stephen Bell, Charlie Barjel
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Patent number: 11457080Abstract: A system, method, and computer readable medium for managing service mesh for container instances. The method includes generating a service mesh that includes a plurality of computing resources. The method further includes obtaining, from an instantiated computing resource, a request to associate the computing resource with another computing resource in the service mesh, where the request comprising a set of constraints that allows the other computing resource to be identified. Based on the set of constraints, the computing resources in the service mesh are connected in which the computing resources communicate with each other through a dedicated proxy.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2018Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kiran Kumar Meduri, David Stephen Bell, Scott Howard La Vigne, Shubha Shree Bheemarao, Ivan Vitjuk, Karan Kumar Vasnani, James Joseph Straub, Yathish Sudhakara Gangolli
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Publication number: 20220286687Abstract: A method of reducing a data volume of a data stream in a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a robot having a base and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument, the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered, the method comprising: receiving a data stream captured by the surgical robotic system, the data stream comprising data relating to a surgical procedure and having a first data volume; identifying a feature in the received data stream indicative of an event in the surgical procedure; and modifying, in dependence on the identified feature, the received data stream to generate a modified data stream having a second data volume that is smaller than the first data volume.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 10, 2020Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Steven Bishop, Stephen Bell, Ricardo Michael Henderson Da Silva
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Publication number: 20210014349Abstract: An application for storing on a server for download to a client device for executing on the client device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Rafik ELMASRI, David ELMASRI, Juan Manuel CARVAJAL MILLAN, Melad BARJEL, Stephen BELL, Charlie BARJEL
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Patent number: 10718354Abstract: A compact back-flow stopper using an elastic flexure mechanism for a cooling fan is shown and described. The backflow stopper assembly comprises a frame configured to structurally support a fin array when coupled to a fan. The fin array comprises a plurality of flexural deformation elements and associated fin elements arrayed in a radial arrangement to establish a pathway for airflow, each of the flexural deformation elements configured to move an attached fin element responsive to airflow impacting the attached fin element. Flex limiter elements are coupled to the frame and configured to limit flexure of the fin elements beyond a predetermined flexure in relation to the frame to stop backflow of air through the fin array. A fan assembly with a backflow stopper is shown and described. Also, a data storage assembly using fan assemblies with backflow stoppers is also shown and described.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Michael Stephen Bell, Toshiki Hirano, Neale Marvin Jones, Jeffrey David Wilke
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Patent number: 10560560Abstract: An application for storing on a server for download to a client device for executing on the client device.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2017Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Cardex Group Pty LtdInventors: Rafik Elmasri, David Wassim Elmasri, Juan Manuel Carvajal Millan, Melad Barjel, Stephen Bell, Charlie Barjel
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Patent number: 10067542Abstract: A storage canister is provided. The storage canister in one example includes an enclosure, multiple Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) located within the enclosure, a plurality of mounting elements configured to receive the multiple HDDs, wherein each mounting element of the plurality of mounting elements is configured to receive a HDD, a plurality of suspension elements supporting the plurality of mounting elements, with each suspension element of the plurality of suspension elements supporting and providing vibration isolation to a corresponding HDD of the multiple HDDs, and an external connector configured to be externally accessible, with the external connector being electrically coupled to the plurality of mounting elements.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Michael Stephen Bell, Toshiki Hirano, Vipin Ayanoor Vitikkate
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Publication number: 20180209446Abstract: A compact back-flow stopper using an elastic flexure mechanism for a cooling fan is shown and described. The backflow stopper assembly comprises a frame configured to structurally support a fin array when coupled to a fan. The fin array comprises a plurality of flexural deformation elements and associated fin elements arrayed in a radial arrangement to establish a pathway for airflow, each of the flexural deformation elements configured to move an attached fin element responsive to airflow impacting the attached fin element. Flex limiter elements are coupled to the frame and configured to limit flexure of the fin elements beyond a predetermined flexure in relation to the frame to stop backflow of air through the fin array. A fan assembly with a backflow stopper is shown and described. Also, a data storage assembly using fan assemblies with backflow stoppers is also shown and described.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2018Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Michael Stephen Bell, Toshiki Hirano, Neale Marvin Jones, Jeffrey David Wilke
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Publication number: 20180143670Abstract: A storage canister is provided. The storage canister in one example includes an enclosure, multiple Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) located within the enclosure, a plurality of mounting elements configured to receive the multiple HDDs, wherein each mounting element of the plurality of mounting elements is configured to receive a HDD, a plurality of suspension elements supporting the plurality of mounting elements, with each suspension element of the plurality of suspension elements supporting and providing vibration isolation to a corresponding HDD of the multiple HDDs, and an external connector configured to be externally accessible, with the external connector being electrically coupled to the plurality of mounting elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2017Publication date: May 24, 2018Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Michael Stephen Bell, Toshiki Hirano, Vipin Ayanoor Vitikkate
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Patent number: 9971943Abstract: A vehicle 1 towing a trailer 4 is fitted with three video cameras 5, 6, 7 fitted to the rear of the vehicle and on each door mirror. A view from any camera can be presented to the driver on a display 11. A predicted trailer path, calculated in a computing unit 10, is also presented to the driver on the display 11 as guide lines overlaid on the camera view. The computing unit 10 is also configured to calculate a hitch angle by tracking the position of a trailer-mounted marker in the camera view.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2016Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeremy John Greenwood, Stephen Nicholls, Andrew Stephen Bell Crawford
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Patent number: 9938990Abstract: A compact back-flow stopper using an elastic flexure mechanism for a cooling fan is shown and described. The backflow stopper assembly comprises a frame configured to structurally support a fin array when coupled to a fan. The fin array comprises a plurality of flexural deformation elements and associated fin elements arrayed in a radial arrangement to establish a pathway for airflow, each of the flexural deformation elements configured to move an attached fin element responsive to airflow impacting the attached fin element. Flex limiter elements are coupled to the frame and configured to limit flexure of the fin elements beyond a predetermined flexure in relation to the frame to stop backflow of air through the fin array. A fan assembly with a backflow stopper is shown and described. Also, a data storage assembly using fan assemblies with backflow stoppers is also shown and described.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 10, 2018Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Michael Stephen Bell, Toshiki Hirano, Neale Marvin Jones, Jeffrey David Wilke
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Patent number: 9829937Abstract: A storage canister is provided. The storage canister in one example includes an enclosure, multiple Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) located within the enclosure, a plurality of mounting elements configured to receive the multiple HDDs, wherein each mounting element of the plurality of mounting elements is configured to receive a HDD, a plurality of suspension elements supporting the plurality of mounting elements, with each suspension element of the plurality of suspension elements supporting and providing vibration isolation to a corresponding HDD of the multiple HDDs, and an external connector configured to be externally accessible, with the external connector being electrically coupled to the plurality of mounting elements.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Toshiki Hirano, Vipin Ayanoor Vitikkate, Michael Stephen Bell, Darya Amin-Shahidi
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Patent number: 9612629Abstract: A sealed storage canister is provided. The sealed storage canister in one example includes a sealed enclosure configured to be substantially hermetically sealed for retaining a predetermined gas or gas mixture, multiple unsealed Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) located within the sealed enclosure, with the multiple unsealed HDDs configured to allow the predetermined gas or gas mixture to move through the multiple unsealed HDDs, at least one mounting element configured to receive the multiple HDDs, and an external connector configured to be externally accessible, with the external connector being directly or indirectly electrically coupled to the multiple unsealed HDDs.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Toshiki Hirano, Michael Stephen Bell, Darya Amin-Shahidi, Vipin Ayanoor Vitikkate
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Publication number: 20170083773Abstract: A vehicle 1 towing a trailer 4 is fitted with three video cameras 5, 6, 7 fitted to the rear of the vehicle and on each door mirror. A view from any camera can be presented to the driver on a display 11. A predicted trailer path, calculated in a computing unit 10, is also presented to the driver on the display 11 as guide lines overlaid on the camera view. The computing unit 10 is also configured to calculate a hitch angle by tracking the position of a trailer-mounted marker in the camera view.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2016Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Jeremy John Greenwood, Stephen Nicholls, Andrew Stephen Bell Crawford
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Patent number: 9566911Abstract: A vehicle 1 towing a trailer 4 is fitted with three video cameras 5, 6, 7 fitted to the rear of the vehicle and on each door mirror. A view from any camera can be presented to the driver on a display 11. A predicted trailer path, calculated in a computing unit 10, is also presented to the driver on the display 11 as guide lines overlaid on the camera view. The computing unit 10 is also configured to calculate a hitch angle by tracking the position of a trailer-mounted marker in the camera view.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 14, 2017Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jeremy John Greenwood, Stephen Nicholls, Andrew Stephen Bell Crawford
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Publication number: 20160327062Abstract: A compact back-flow stopper using an elastic flexure mechanism for a cooling fan is shown and described. The backflow stopper assembly comprises a frame configured to structurally support a fin array when coupled to a fan. The fin array comprises a plurality of flexural deformation elements and associated fin elements arrayed in a radial arrangement to establish a pathway for airflow, each of the flexural deformation elements configured to move an attached fin element responsive to airflow impacting the attached fin element. Flex limiter elements are coupled to the frame and configured to limit flexure of the fin elements beyond a predetermined flexure in relation to the frame to stop backflow of air through the fin array. A fan assembly with a backflow stopper is shown and described. Also, a data storage assembly using fan assemblies with backflow stoppers is also shown and described.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Inventors: Darya Amin-Shahidi, Michael Stephen Bell, Toshiki Hirano, Neale Marvin Jones, Jeffrey David Wilke
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Patent number: 9361946Abstract: A vibration isolating hard disk drive carrier for isolating the transfer of vibration from one hard disk drive to another comprising a carrier body and one or more isolation hangers is disclosed. The carrier has a first surface configured to couple to inherent features of a first external surface of a hard disk drive, and a second surface configured to couple to inherent features of a second external surface hard disk drive. One or more isolation hangers configured to support the hard disk drive in a vertical orientation are coupled to the carrier body.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: June 7, 2016Assignee: HGST Netherlands B.V.Inventors: Michael Stephen Bell, Jeffrey David Wilke