Patents by Inventor Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee 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: 12262146
    Abstract: Described are methods and systems in which the censorship and supervision tasks normally performed by secured facility personnel are augmented or automated entirely by a Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System. In embodiments, the Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation System performs voice biometrics, speech recognition, non-verbal audio classification, fingerprint and other biometric authentication, image object classification, facial recognition, body joint location determination analysis, and/or optical character recognition on the video visitation data. The Secure Nonscheduled Video Visitation utilizes these various analysis techniques in concert to determine if all rules and regulations enforced by the jurisdiction operation the secured facility are being followed by the parties to the video visitation session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
  • Publication number: 20250093106
    Abstract: An infrared sensor positioned in a reflow oven includes a reflow oven and a first IR sensor turret suspended over a conveyor surface of the reflow oven, where a directional movement of the first IR sensor turret matches a directional movement of the conveyor surface. A method for managing the IR sensor turret positioned in a reflow oven includes locating, by a first IR sensor turret, a point of interest on a PCBA, where the PCBA is positioned on a conveyor in a reflow oven. The method further includes tracking, by the first IR sensor turret, the point of interest on the PCBA, where the PCBA is moving along the conveyor in the reflow oven. The method further includes capturing, by the first IR sensor turret, a first set of thermal data at the point of interest for a first subarea of the reflow oven.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Abdikarim Hussein, Theron Lee Lewis, Timothy Jennings, James D. Bielick, David J. Braun, Stephen Michael Hugo, John R. Dangler
  • Publication number: 20250094405
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method for detecting and classifying columns of tables and/or tabular data arrangements within image data includes: detecting one or more tables and/or one or more tabular data arrangements within the image data; extracting the one or more tables and/or the one or more tabular data arrangements from the processed image data; and classifying either: a plurality of columns of the one or more extracted tables; a plurality of columns of the one or more extracted tabular data arrangements; or both the columns of the one or more extracted tables and the columns of the one or more extracted tabular data arrangements. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Stephen M. Thompson, Iurii Vymenets, Donghan Lee, Markus Georg Lust
  • Patent number: 12256494
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a multilayer circuit board is provided which includes forming a layer of a the multilayer circuit board with an internal clearance region having a modified voltage-to-ground clearance of conductive material adjacent to an aperture of the multilayer circuit board. The modified voltage-to-ground clearance of conductive material is based on a configuration of a connector pin to be press-fit connected within the aperture of the multilayer circuit board, and the internal clearance region is enlarged in a direction of greatest normal force outward from the aperture with insertion of the connector pin into the aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: James D. Bielick, Theron Lee Lewis, David J. Braun, John R. Dangler, Timothy P. Younger, Stephen Michael Hugo, Timothy Jennings
  • Patent number: 12253725
    Abstract: This present disclosure seals the light propagation path in an optical interconnection element from external contaminants. The optical interconnection element includes a reflective surface, which can also be sealed from external contaminants Additional novel concepts include all enclosed sealed regions of the optical interconnection element being fluidly connected and making the final seal of the optical interconnection element with a thin plate, which can bend reducing the pressure differential between the ambient environment and the sealed internal volume of the optical interconnection element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: SAMTEC, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Brian Puffer, Raymond Lee, R. Brad Bettman, Edwin Loy, Dyan Seville-Jones, Arlon Martin, Stephen Michael Girlando, Christopher Alan Bandfield
  • Patent number: 12249863
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method are disclosed for providing electrical charge to residents of a controlled-environment facility. In an embodiment, a charging station may be provided in an area accessible to an inmate to allow charging of in an inmate smart device, such as a phone or tablet. In an embodiment, a portable charger may be provided to an inmate for charging a smart device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
  • Publication number: 20250075160
    Abstract: System and methods for continuous culture comprise performing a first continuous culture of cells in a chamber of a first bioreactor under culture conditions that produce cell growth; moving culture fluid comprising cells from the chamber of the first bioreactor into a chamber of a second bioreactor though one or more fluidic conduits; and performing, in the chamber of the second bioreactor, a second continuous culture of cells under culture conditions that produce at least one culture product. The process is performed under conditions wherein the rate of cell growth in the first continuous culture is greater than that of the second continuous culture, and the production of culture product in the first continuous culture is less than that of the second continuous culture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Shannon HALL, Ouwei WANG, Brian LEE, Stephen HUBBARD
  • Publication number: 20250079335
    Abstract: Vibration isolation can be provided for a vibration sensitive component to be bonded to electronic circuit boards or other surfaces by an assembly that includes two substrates with rigid portions that are electrically coupled to each other via a flexible interconnect. The rigid portions of the two substrates are bonded together via an elastic structure in a stacked arrangement with the first substrate above the second substrate. The flexible interconnect electrically couples the first substrate to the second substrate and the second substrate is configured to be bonded and electrically coupled to an electronic circuit board or other larger substrate via contacts on a surface of the rigid portion of the second substrate. The vibration sensitive component can be bonded to the rigid portion of the first substrate and couped to the flexible interconnect via the first substrate, thereby coupling it to the second substrate and the larger substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael B. Vincent, Stephen Ryan Hooper, Scott M. Hayes, Dwight Lee Daniels, Chayathorn Saklang
  • Publication number: 20250074842
    Abstract: Captured carbon dioxide is converted into ultra-high purity hydrocarbons, particularly methane. A gas stream containing carbon dioxide is fed to a reactor containing both sorbent and catalyst, until the sorbent portions are substantially saturated with carbon dioxide; non-sorbed species are removed from the first reactor via vacuum and/or purge cycles with high-purity gas; hydrogen gas is introduced to the first reactor to a pressure above ambient; reactor temperature is raised to facilitate desorption of carbon dioxide; and the carbon dioxide is catalytically transformed with the hydrogen gas into methane by recirculating the gas through the reactor. Carbon dioxide adsorption and desorption occur within the sorbent portions, while methanation takes place on the catalytic portions assisted by the sorbent at a temperature substantially consistent with the desorption. Downstream upgrading steps may remove or reduce impurities to produce ultra-high purity methane for chemical vapor deposition or other processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: STEPHEN E. BEATON, GAURAV KAMAT, FORD McCLURE, ANNA LEE TONKOVICH
  • Patent number: 12228221
    Abstract: There is provided a seal assembly comprising: a first component and a second component spaced apart from the first component so as to define a passage for the transfer of fluid from an inlet of the seal assembly to an outlet of the seal assembly, wherein the first component comprises a concavity at least partially defining the passage, and wherein no part of the second component extends into the portion of the passage bounded by the concavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Cummins Ltd
    Inventors: Robin Daniels, James Alexander McEwen, Levinia Mathews, Christopher Parry, Thomas Roberts, George E. Sandford, Stephen Caddy, Thomas Hulson, Dave Lee, Martin Selway, Kevin Franks, Lisa Jane Hill, Henry David Lambton Carr, Jonathan Wilson, Lee Curtis, Fahim Ismail Patel, Matthew Whittlesea, Matthew J. Purdey, Donald E. Willey
  • Patent number: 12225335
    Abstract: A power tool having multiple wireless communication states and a method of wirelessly communicating by a power tool. The power tool includes a motor, a battery pack interface that selectively receives a battery pack, a backup power source, and a wireless communication controller coupled to the backup power source and the battery pack interface. The wireless communication controller operates in a connectable state when coupled to a battery pack and transmits tool operational data to the external device and receives tool configuration data from the external device. The wireless communication controller operates in an advertisement state when the wireless communication controller is coupled to and powered by the backup power source. In the advertisement state, the wireless communication controller is configured to transmit the unique tool identifier. The external device may also display an indication of the communication state of the power tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Milwaukee Electric Tool Corporation
    Inventors: Burtrom Lee Stampfl, Matthew J. Mergener, Alex Huber, Paul Rossetto, Cole A. Conrad, Stephen Matson, Scott R. Fischer, Mark A. Kubale, Christian Coulis
  • Publication number: 20250045316
    Abstract: An example method includes providing, to a sequence model (i) a plurality of few-shot prompts, wherein each prompt comprises a demonstration passage, a demonstration task, and a demonstration query, wherein the demonstration task describes a type of retrieval, and wherein the demonstration query is relevant to the demonstration task, and (ii) a plurality of passages sampled from a corpus of passages. The method also includes receiving, from the sequence model and for the plurality of passages and based on the plurality of few-shot prompts, a respective plurality of predicted task-query pairs, the sequence model having been prompted to predict a task based on an input passage, and predict an output query relevant to the predicted task. The method further includes generating a synthetic training dataset comprising the plurality of passages and the respective plurality of predicted task-query pairs. The method also includes providing the synthetic training dataset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Jinhyuk Lee, Zhuyun Dai, Xiaoqi Ren, Iftekhar Naim, Yi Luan, Blair Yuxin Chen, Siddhartha Reddy Jonnalagadda, Ming-Wei Chang, Daniel Matthew Cer, Gustavo Adolfo Hernandez Abrego, Jeremy Robert Cole, Colin Hearne Evans, Yuzhe Zhao, Pranay Bhatia, Rajvi Kapadia, Riham Hassan Abdel-Moneim Mansour, Raphael Dominik Hoffman, Simon Kunio Tokumine, Scott Bradley Huffman, Stephen Zachary Karukas, Michael Yiupun Kwong, Shu Zheng, Yan Qiao, Lukas Rutishauser, Anand Rajan Iyer
  • Publication number: 20250045685
    Abstract: A system for a system for a computer program product is provided that includes a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer executable code to obtain at least one of driver data or vehicle data and determine that a vehicle is at a first pickup location. The executable code can also be configured to obtain animal data related to the first pickup location, determine that the vehicle is at a first drop off location, obtain additional animal data related to the first drop off location, dynamically adjust the animal data to form adjusted animal data based on the additional animal data obtained, and record in a memory the adjusted animal data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: GlobalVetLink, L.C.
    Inventors: Stephen James Adamson, Stacey Lee Noe, Kristy Shiota
  • Patent number: 12214460
    Abstract: An adaptive workpiece support system comprising a wear plate comprising a precision datum face and a plurality of tool holes, and accessories interactive with the plurality of tool holes of the wear plate to support, locate, and hold a workpiece against the wear plate for machining the workpiece. The plurality of tool holes is laid out in a grid and extending through the precision datum face, a thickness of the wear plate, and a backside face of the wear plate. The wear plate is configured to locate a workpiece relative to three axes of a machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Justin Lee Peters, Stephen Lynn Farabee
  • Patent number: 12218489
    Abstract: An exposed electrode negative air ion device, either stand-alone or mounted in an exposed environment 56 as part of a negative air ion panel system 50. Each device comprises: (a) an electronics module 22, the electronics module 22 including a negative voltage generator 22B; and (b) an exposed electrode 10, the exposed electrode 10 including a mat surface 11 of intertwined individual fibres electrically connected to the negative voltage generator 22B. The mat surface 11 has a minimum mean resistance of RMIN to restrict a maximum capacitive current discharge below a capacitive current discharge detection threshold. The negative voltage generator 22B is configured to generate a negative voltage source 23 from a power supply 21 within a set of electrical parameters. The set of electrical parameters includes a maximum preset negative voltage of VMAX and a maximum operating current, the maximum operating current set below or equal to a direct current detection threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TEMASEK LIFE SCIENCES LABORATORY LIMITED
    Inventors: Kheng Nam Lee, Sharvin Kumar S/O N Arjunan, Swain Stephen, Hean Chuan Fong
  • Patent number: 12215151
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods for treating cancer using molecules having an antigen binding fragment that immunospecifically binds to BTN1A1, such as anti-BTN1A1 antibodies. These molecules include those having an antigen binding fragment that immunospecifically binds to glycosylated BTN1A1, such as anti-glycosylated BTN1A1 antibodies. Also included are molecules having an antigen binding fragment that immunospecifically bind to BTN1A1 dimers, such as anti-BTN1A1 dimer antibodies. Also provided are methods for treating anti-PD-1 therapy or anti-PD-L1 therapy resistant or refractory cancers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: STCUBE & CO., INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Sunghan Yoo, Yong-Sik Bong, Kyu Lee Han, Michael Joseph Surace
  • Publication number: 20250040358
    Abstract: An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light-emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes for the diodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer, and may have other structures that facilitate distribution of the ground power supply.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Chin-Wei Lin, Stephen S. Poon, Warren S. Rieutort-Louis, Cheng-Ho Yu, ChoongHo Lee, Doh-Hyoung Lee, Ting-Kuo Chang, Tsung-Ting Tsai, Vasudha Gupta, Younggu Lee
  • Patent number: 12213331
    Abstract: An organic electronic optoelectronic device comprises a substrate, a first electrode positioned over the substrate, a first organic buffer layer positioned over the first electrode, and a first inorganic emissive layer positioned over the first organic buffer layer. A method of fabricating an organic optoelectronic device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of Michigan
    Inventors: Byungjun Lee, Jongchan Kim, Stephen R. Forrest
  • Patent number: 12206814
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides details on an intermediary service bureau (ISB) system which includes an ISB center that acts as an intermediary communication center between communication devices used by correctional facilities and contract providers. The ISB records communications, stores security data, and provides front end processing to facilitate an inmate to communicate with an outside party by way of a contract provider. Further, the ISB provides accounting services for inmates and friends and family that use services provided the contract provider. The contract provider provides security and routing services for the ISB by obtaining data from the ISB and updating data at the ISB according to the communications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Lee Hodge
  • Publication number: 20250023981
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a monitoring environment that monitors an activity for activity that may be indicative of being prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely suspicious activity, or activity that is prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely prohibited activity. The monitoring environment verifies the activity is actually being monitored within the monitoring environment. The verification can require one or more monitoring persons monitoring the activity to perform one or more tasks to verify their attentiveness in monitoring the activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: Global Tel*Link Corporation
    Inventor: Stephen Lee HODGE