Patents by Inventor Steven Clarke
Steven Clarke 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: 11959405Abstract: Aspects of the present invention relate to a valve seat (20) for a poppet valve of an internal combustion engine, wherein the poppet valve comprises a head and a stem behind the head, the valve seat comprising: an aperture (21) configured to form a seal with the head of the poppet valve when the poppet valve is in a closed position; and a peripheral body (22) defining, at least in part, one or more ports (23) shaped like e.g. grooves and sized to enable injection of liquid or gas from a cylinder head of the internal combustion engine into a gas stream behind the head of the poppet valve.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: JAGUAR LAND ROVER LIMITEDInventors: Steve Jones, Tom Matthews, Matthew McAllister, Juan Antonio San Primitivo Rodriguez, Christopher Clarke, Simon Elliott, Steven Pierson
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Patent number: 11709208Abstract: In order to provide an environmentally secured voltage testing interface, an electrical enclosure box comprising a front panel is herein-described, into which is mounted a voltage indicator comprising a plurality of LED indicators that indicate a status of one or more circuits coupled thereto and monitored thereby. A test point device is also mounted through the front panel and comprises an interface comprising a plurality of external measurement sockets configured to receive one or more probes for manual measurement of voltages, wherein each external measurement socket is coupled to a voltage divider that is further coupled to each of a plurality of respective wires coupled to respective LED indicators of the voltage indicator.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: GRACE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Charles Ronald Adkins, Jr., Roger Steven Clarke, Gang Chen
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Patent number: 11615144Abstract: A computer method, system, and device of training an empathy model for detecting a type of query, the method including defining an intent for detecting closed ended queries, providing a plurality of queries that are closed ended queries to a machine learning model generator, said plurality of queries comprising training data, providing a plurality of corresponding labels identifying the plurality of queries as closed ended queries, and generating a model that classifies closed ended queries as a function of the training data.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Monty Hammontree, Travis Lowdermilk, Valentina Strachan, Maxim Lobanov, Kelley Zhao, Steven Clarke, Jessica Rich, Juan P Carrascal-Ruiz
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Publication number: 20220332448Abstract: A package for retaining a food item includes a tray with a base connected to at least one sidewall. The sidewall extends away from the base to a rim to define an inner chamber. The tray is made of a fluid impermeable material to retain fluids in the inner chamber. The package also includes a shelf made of the fluid impermeable material that is removably supported in the inner chamber such that the shelf is spaced apart from the base of the tray to permit an absorbent pad to be positioned therebetween. The shelf is configured to support the food item in the inner chamber separated from the absorbent pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: The Hillshire Brands CompanyInventors: Steven MORRIS, Jeffrey CZARNY, Steven CLARKE, Mark JONES, Nick HARDING
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Patent number: 11401059Abstract: A package for retaining a food item includes a tray with a base connected to at least one sidewall. The sidewall extends away from the base to a rim to define an inner chamber. The tray is made of a fluid impermeable material to retain fluids in the inner chamber. The package also includes a shelf made of the fluid impermeable material that is removably supported in the inner chamber such that the shelf is spaced apart from the base of the tray to permit an absorbent pad to be positioned therebetween. The shelf is configured to support the food item in the inner chamber separated from the absorbent pad.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: August 2, 2022Assignee: THE HILLSHIRE BRANDS COMPANYInventors: Steven Morris, Jeffrey Czarny, Steven Clarke, Mark Jones, Nick Harding
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Publication number: 20220091192Abstract: In order to provide an environmentally secured voltage testing interface, an electrical enclosure box comprising a front panel is herein-described, into which is mounted a voltage indicator comprising a plurality of LED indicators that indicate a status of one or more circuits coupled thereto and monitored thereby. A test point device is also mounted through the front panel and comprises an interface comprising a plurality of external measurement sockets configured to receive one or more probes for manual measurement of voltages, wherein each external measurement socket is coupled to a voltage divider that is further coupled to each of a plurality of respective wires coupled to respective LED indicators of the voltage indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: Grace Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Charles Ronald Adkins, JR., Roger Steven Clarke, Gang Chen
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Patent number: 11055329Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, and device include providing a series of queries to a user via a client query device, sending queries from the series of queries via the client query device to an information source client, receiving information from an information source via the information source client, determining a proportion of queries to information, and generating a query communication as a function of the proportion of queries to information.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2018Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Monty Hammontree, Valentina Strachan, Travis Lowdermilk, Maxim Lobanov, Kelley Zhao, Steven Clarke, Jessica Rich, Juan P Carrascal-Ruiz
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Patent number: 11049200Abstract: A server machine is configured to map an identifier of a user to an account of the user within a database. The server machine also embeds the identifier within a uniform resource locator (URL) that, when operated by a browser of the user, causes the browser to interact with a supplier server machine. The server machine later receives interaction result data from the supplier server machine, and the interaction result data includes the identifier of the user and an interaction detail resultant from the interaction initiated by the browser with the supplier server machine. A machine then detects that the interaction detail corresponds to the account of the user based on the identifier being both received in the interaction result data and mapped to the account of the user. Accordingly, the server machine causes inclusion of the interaction detail within an information entry that corresponds to the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2017Date of Patent: June 29, 2021Inventors: Adam Julian Goldstein, William Robert Glass, Melissa Anne Skevington, Andrew Joseph Dawson, Steven Clarke, Ha Tu Hang, Thomas Pierre Robert Genin, Navin Lal
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Patent number: 10767502Abstract: A turbine vane made from ceramic matrix composite material and adapted for use in a gas turbine engine. The turbine vane is made from ceramic matrix composite materials with three-dimensionally woven or braided reinforcing tows and includes an inner band, an outer band, and an airfoil that extends between the inner band and the outer band.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc., Rolls-Royce High Temperature Composites Inc.Inventors: Tara G. Schetzel, Ted J. Freeman, Jun Shi, Jeffrey A. Walston, Steven Clarke, Sean Kroszner
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Publication number: 20200115076Abstract: A package for retaining a food item includes a tray with a base connected to at least one sidewall. The sidewall extends away from the base to a rim to define an inner chamber. The tray is made of a fluid impermeable material to retain fluids in the inner chamber. The package also includes a shelf made of the fluid impermeable material that is removably supported in the inner chamber such that the shelf is spaced apart from the base of the tray to permit an absorbent pad to be positioned therebetween. The shelf is configured to support the food item in the inner chamber separated from the absorbent pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Applicant: The Hillshire Brands CompanyInventors: Steven MORRIS, Jeffrey CZARNY, Steven CLARKE, Mark JONES, Nick HARDING
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Publication number: 20190370412Abstract: A computer method, system, and device of training an empathy model for detecting a type of query, the method including defining an intent for detecting closed ended queries, providing a plurality of queries that are closed ended queries to a machine learning model generator, said plurality of queries comprising training data, providing a plurality of corresponding labels identifying the plurality of queries as closed ended queries, and generating a model that classifies closed ended queries as a function of the training data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Monty Hammontree, Travis Lowdermilk, Valentina Strachan, Maxim Lobanov, Kelley Zhao, Steven Clarke, Jessica Rich, Juan P. Carrascal-Ruiz
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Publication number: 20190370390Abstract: A computer implemented method, system, and device include providing a series of queries to a user via a client query device, sending queries from the series of queries via the client query device to an information source client, receiving information from an information source via the information source client, determining a proportion of queries to information, and generating a query communication as a function of the proportion of queries to information.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2018Publication date: December 5, 2019Inventors: Monty Hammontree, Valentina Strachan, Travis Lowdermilk, Maxim Lobanov, Kelley Zhao, Steven Clarke, Jessica Rich, Juan P. Carrascal-Ruiz
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Patent number: 10334539Abstract: A method for executing a network command using synchronized timers. The method includes obtaining, by a first device, a first current time value from a first timer of the first device, determining, by the first device, a time-to-execute value based on the first current time value, sending, from the first device to a second device, a first network command message including the network command and the time-to-execute value, repetitively obtaining, by the second device, a second current time value from a second timer of the second device, comparing, by the second device and in response to receiving the first network command message, the second current time value to the time-to-execute value extracted from the first network command message, and executing, by the second device and in response to the second current time value matching the time-to-execute value, the network command, wherein the first timer and the second timer are synchronized.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2018Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Gerard Leo Swinkels, Steven Clarke, Sharon Margaret Chisholm
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Publication number: 20190066240Abstract: A server machine is configured to map an identifier of a user to an account of the user within a database. The server machine also embeds the identifier within a uniform resource locator (URL) that, when operated by a browser of the user, causes the browser to interact with a supplier server machine. The server machine later receives interaction result data from the supplier server machine, and the interaction result data includes the identifier of the user and an interaction detail resultant from the interaction initiated by the browser with the supplier server machine. A machine then detects that the interaction detail corresponds to the account of the user based on the identifier being both received in the interaction result data and mapped to the account of the user. Accordingly, the server machine causes inclusion of the interaction detail within an information entry that corresponds to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2017Publication date: February 28, 2019Inventors: Adam Julian Goldstein, William Robert Glass, Melissa Anne Skevington, Andrew Joseph Dawson, Steven Clarke, Ha Tu Hang, Thomas Pierre Robert Genin, Navin Lal
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Publication number: 20180179906Abstract: A turbine vane made from ceramic matrix composite material and adapted for use in a gas turbine engine is disclosed in this paper. Turbine vanes in accordance with the present disclosure are made from ceramic matrix composites with three-dimensionally woven or braided reinforcing tows.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2017Publication date: June 28, 2018Inventors: Tara G. Schetzel, Ted J. Freeman, Jun Shi, Jeffrey A. Walston, Steven Clarke, Sean Kroszner
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Publication number: 20180176872Abstract: A method for executing a network command using synchronized timers. The method includes obtaining, by a first device, a first current time value from a first timer of the first device, determining, by the first device, a time-to-execute value based on the first current time value, sending, from the first device to a second device, a first network command message including the network command and the time-to-execute value, repetitively obtaining, by the second device, a second current time value from a second timer of the second device, comparing, by the second device and in response to receiving the first network command message, the second current time value to the time-to-execute value extracted from the first network command message, and executing, by the second device and in response to the second current time value matching the time-to-execute value, the network command, wherein the first timer and the second timer are synchronized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2018Publication date: June 21, 2018Applicant: Ciena CorporationInventors: Gerard Leo Swinkels, Steven Clarke, Sharon Margaret Chisholm
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Patent number: 9648402Abstract: Systems and methods, for an in-band communication channel in an optical network, include adapting one or more client signals into a line signal for transmission to the second node, and utilizing line adaptation bandwidth of the line signal for the in-band communication channel. The in-band communication channel is operationally independent from the one or more client signals while concurrently being transported together over the line signal. The line adaptation allows a rate of the line signal to be independent of rates of the one or more client signals.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2015Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Ciena CorporationInventors: Steven Clarke, Sebastien Gareau
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Publication number: 20160234580Abstract: Systems and methods, for an in-band communication channel in an optical network, include adapting one or more client signals into a line signal for transmission to the second node, and utilizing line adaptation bandwidth of the line signal for the in-band communication channel. The in-band communication channel is operationally independent from the one or more client signals while concurrently being transported together over the line signal. The line adaptation allows a rate of the line signal to be independent of rates of the one or more client signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2015Publication date: August 11, 2016Applicant: CIENA CORPORATIONInventors: Steven CLARKE, Sebastien GAREAU
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Patent number: 9003288Abstract: Systems and methods have been developed for displaying contextually relevant advertisements to users as media objects are being rendered. One or more data sources with contextual information for different portions of each media object are maintained. From this contextual information, keywords may be generated and used to locate contextually-related advertisements. The advertisements are selected based on contextual information about the media object in order to match or otherwise be contextually relevant with the media content being rendered. As the subject matter of the media object changes during rendering, different advertisements related to the new context are provided that replace the prior advertisement. The advertisements are displayed in an area that could be used for other purposes when the rendering device is not rendering media objects.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2013Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Steven Clarke-Martin, Chris Kalaboukis
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Patent number: 8504917Abstract: Systems and methods have been developed for displaying contextually relevant advertisements to users as media objects are being rendered. One or more data sources with contextual information for different portions of each media object are maintained. From this contextual information, keywords may be generated and used to locate contextually-related advertisements. The advertisements are selected based on contextual information about the media object in order to match or otherwise be contextually relevant with the media content being rendered. As the subject matter of the media object changes during rendering, different advertisements related to the new context are provided that replace the prior advertisement. The advertisements are displayed in an area that could be used for other purposes when the rendering device is not rendering media objects.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2012Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Yahoo! Inc.Inventors: Steven Clarke-Martin, Chris Kalaboukis