Patents by Inventor Steven Dean

Steven Dean 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).

  • Publication number: 20240129645
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to perceiving scene features using event sensors and image sensors. Paths may be scanned across objects in a scene with one or more beams. Images of the scene may be captured with frame cameras. Events may be generated based on detection of beam reflections that correspond to the objects. Trajectories may be based on the paths and the events. A distribution of intensity associated with the trajectories may be determined based on the energy associated with the traces in the images. Centroids for the trajectories may be determined based on the distribution of the intensity of energy, a resolution of the frame cameras, or timestamps associated with the events. Enhanced trajectories may be generated based on the centroids such that the enhanced trajectories may be provided to a modeling engine that executes actions based on the enhanced trajectories and the objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20240119205
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for recommending design changes in designing a digital integrated circuit. An analysis of the digital integrated circuit being designed is performed, where the result of such an analysis involves violations being identified and stored. A stored violation, such as a cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and multi-cycle violation, may then be analyzed to identify a root cause of the violation using a rule. Such a rule may be used for triaging various failures in the cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and/or multi-cycle violation of the digital integrated circuit. A design change in the design of the digital integrated circuit may then be recommended based on the identified root cause of the violation. In this manner, the root cause of failures are effectively identified in the design of digital integrated circuits using an offline analysis of cross-domain, cross-hierarchy and/or multi-cycle violations using a rules-based approach.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: SheshaShayee K Raghunathan, Charles Gates, Kerim Kalafala, Steven Joseph Kurtz, Morgan D. Davis, Debra Dean, Chris Cavitt, Chaitra M Bhat, Richard William Taggart
  • Publication number: 20240116098
    Abstract: A removable hot box is disclosed that includes a lower hot box portion, comprising: a lower housing comprising a plurality of lower clamping structures to clamp the lower housing to a press and locating structures to provide repeatable placing in the press; and a lower heating platen, received within the lower housing, wherein the lower housing or the lower heating platen comprises lower electrical connectors to provide a lower electrical connection to a heating system and lower cooling connectors to provide a lower cooling connection to a cooling system; and an upper hot box portion, positionable above the lower hot box portion and comprising: an upper housing comprising a plurality of upper clamping structures to clamp the upper housing to the press; an upper heating platen, received within the upper housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Donald Lloyd CONAWAY, Larry Dean HEFTI, Craig Eric KNOWLES, John Vincenzo STORR, Alexander SANCHO GARCIA, Marco BUCCONI, David James FALCONER FYVIE, Innes Ewan Edward EDRIDGE, Diego GONZALEZ, Steven PACIFICO
  • Publication number: 20240108118
    Abstract: A cup for retaining a cosmetic substance includes a cup body having a first end, a second end, and an inner sidewall forming a cup cavity and a stepped retention member disposed on the inner sidewall of the cup body and extending into the cup cavity. The stepped retention member has a first width value extending around the periphery of the inner sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Dean Shannon, Gianluca Mattaroccia, Timothy Hugh Calvert
  • Publication number: 20240040748
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to a cooling assembly of a host circuit device, a circuit assembly including the host circuit device and a removable circuit device, and a method for thermal management of the removable circuit device removably connected to the host circuit device. The cooling assembly includes a cooling component and a thermal gap pad having an elastomer component movably connected to the cooling component and a plurality of beams embedded in the elastomer component. Each beam includes a first end portion, a second end portion, and a body portion extended between the first and second end portions. The first end portion of each of one or more beams is disposed in a first thermal contact with the cooling component and a second end portion of each of the one or more beams is disposed in a second thermal contact with a heat sink of the removable circuit device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Harvey J. Lunsman, Steven Dean
  • Publication number: 20240040274
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to folded single sensor 3-D capture systems. An enclosure that includes an event camera, one or more beam generators, or an optical focusing system may be provided such that the beam generators may scan a scene. Paths may be scanned across objects in the scene with the beams. Events may be determined based on detection, by the event camera, of beam reflections that correspond to objects in the scene such that each beam reflection may be directed to a separate location on a sensor for the event camera by the optical focusing system. Trajectories may be determined based on the paths and the events such that each trajectory may be a parametric representation of a one-dimensional curve segment in a three-dimensional space. Three-dimensional information that corresponds to the objects may be generated based on the plurality of trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Patent number: 11887340
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Summer Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20240032249
    Abstract: A heat removal apparatus may comprise a vapor chamber device and a cover coupled to the vapor chamber device. The vapor chamber device comprises a base, a folded fin structure coupled to the base, with the base and folded fin structure defining a vapor chamber containing a wick and a working fluid. The cover and the vapor chamber device define a liquid chamber configured to receive liquid coolant. The folded fin structure comprises a plurality of folded fins defining a first plurality of grooves on a first side of the folded fin structure and defining a second plurality of grooves on a second side of the folded fin structure. The first plurality of grooves are part of the vapor chamber. The second plurality of grooves are part of the liquid chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Steven DEAN, Ernesto J. FERRER, John Paul FRANZ, Laura MALCOTTI-SANCHEZ
  • Publication number: 20240027708
    Abstract: A first electronic device may comprise a chassis and first fins. The chassis may be configured to removably couple with a second electronic device. The first fins are configured to interleave with second fins of the second electronic device in a coupled state of the first and second electronic devices. A corrugated thermal interface device comprises folded fins. The folded fins are coupled to the first fins and are also removably couplable to the second fins in the coupled state of the first and second electronic devices. Each folded fin comprises one or more lateral walls, and the corrugated thermal interface device further comprises a plurality of spring fingers coupled to and extending at least partially in a lateral direction from the lateral walls. The spring finger contacts may be contacted and displaced by the second fins in the coupled state of the first and second electronic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Harvey John LUNSMAN, Steven DEAN
  • Publication number: 20240022819
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to vision systems. Enclosures that each include event scanners, beam generators, or frame cameras may be provided such that the event cameras or the frame cameras may be arranged to provide foveated resolution and such that the enclosures each may include an aperture that enables beams from the beam generators to scan a scene that may be in a field-of-view (FOV) of the aperture. Paths may be scanned across objects in the scene with the beams. Events may be determined based on detection of beam reflections corresponding to objects in the scene. The enclosures may be rotated to orient the apertures into a physical position for continued scanning of the objects within the FOV based on directions of travel for the objects such that the directions of travel for the objects is based on scanned trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230360268
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Patent number: 11808857
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to multi-sensor superresolution scanning and capture system. A sensing system may be employed to scan a plurality of paths across objects using beams such that the sensing system includes event sensors and image sensors and such that the image sensors are a higher resolution than the event sensors. The event sensors may be employed to provide events based on detection of the beams that are reflected by the objects. The image sensors may be employed to provide images based on the reflected the beams. Enhanced trajectories may be generated based on a plurality of first trajectories and a plurality of second trajectories such that the plurality of the first trajectories are based on the events and the plurality of paths and such that the plurality of second trajectories are based on the images and the plurality of paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Summer Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230316657
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed providing auxiliary devices for augmented reality. Images or video of a scene may be captured with frame cameras included in a mobile computer. A plurality of paths may be scanned across objects in the scene with beams provided by scanning devices that may be separate from the mobile computer. A plurality of events may be determined based on detection of beam reflections corresponding to the objects such that the beam reflections may be detected the scanning devices. A plurality of trajectories may be determined based on the plurality of paths and the plurality of events such that each trajectory may be a parametric representation of a one-dimensional curve segment in a three-dimensional space. The images or video of the scene may be augmented based on the plurality of trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Patent number: 11740674
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein make previously stranded power capacity (power that is provisioned for a data center according to a computing system's nameplate power consumption but is currently not useable) available to the data center. Systems described herein generate empirical power profiles that specify expected upper bounds for the power consumption levels that applications trigger. Using the upper bounds for application power-consumption levels, a computing system described herein can reliably release part of its provisioned nameplate power for other systems or data center consumers, reducing the amount of stranded power in a data center. The method described herein avoids performance penalties for most jobs by using sensor measurements made at a rapid rate explained herein to ensure that a system power cap based on running application's measured peak power consumption is reliable with reference to the power capacitance inherent in the computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Torsten Wilde, Andy Warner, Steven Dean, Steven Martin, Pat Donlin
  • Publication number: 20230262928
    Abstract: Examples described herein relate to compact and replaceable accumulator to be utilized in a chassis-level cooling device. The accumulator is a low pressurized device having a housing, a bladder, and a compressible fluid. The housing has an inner surface defining a volume and an opening. The bladder is disposed within a volume portion and attached to the opening. The bladder includes a plurality of elongated wall sections foldably coupled to each other and defining a bladder volume therebetween. The bladder inflates by unfolding the plurality of elongated wall sections to increase the bladder volume in response to an increase in a pressure of a working fluid inside the bladder volume. The compressible fluid is contained in a remaining volume portion between the inner surface of the housing and the bladder. The compressible fluid is compressed to an offset pressure in response to inflation of the plurality of elongated wall sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Steven Dean, Michael Scott, Harvey J. Lunsman
  • Patent number: 11704835
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. Actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Summer Robotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230169683
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to the association of concurrent tracks across multiple views for sensing objects. A sensing system that employs signal beams to scan paths across an object may be provided such that two or more sensors separately detect signals reflected by the object. Events may be determined based on the detected signals such that the events include pairs of events that correspond to pairs of sensors. Essential matrices may be generated based on the positions of each pair of sensors. The pairs of events associated with the pairs of sensors may be compared based on the essential matrices of the sensors. Scores for the pairs of events may be provided based on the comparison. If a score for a pair of events may be less than a threshold value, each event in the pair of events may be associated with a same location on the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Alexander Paden, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Publication number: 20230060421
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to multi-sensor superresolution scanning and capture system. A sensing system may be employed to scan a plurality of paths across objects using beams such that the sensing system includes event sensors and image sensors and such that the image sensors are a higher resolution than the event sensors. The event sensors may be employed to provide events based on detection of the beams that are reflected by the objects. The image sensors may be employed to provide images based on the reflected the beams. Enhanced trajectories may be generated based on a plurality of first trajectories and a plurality of second trajectories such that the plurality of the first trajectories are based on the events and the plurality of paths and such that the plurality of second trajectories are based on the images and the plurality of paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke
  • Patent number: 11579668
    Abstract: Example implementations relate to a host device and a method for thermal management of a removable device, such as a pluggable electronic transceiver comprising a plurality of spring fingers that provide multipoint contact conduction cooling of the removable device. The host device includes a host circuit board having a connector, and a thermal management unit having a cooling component and the plurality of spring fingers. The cooling component is coupled to a portion of the host circuit board and includes a partially protruded portion. Each of the plurality of spring fingers includes a first end coupled to the partially protruded portion, and a second end having a dry contact surface to establish a direct thermal interface with a peripheral surface of the removable device to allow waste-heat to transfer from the removable device to the cooling component through each spring finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Harvey J. Lunsman, Steven Dean, John Franz, Brady Dulian
  • Publication number: 20230034733
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to a sensing system that employs beams to scan paths across an object such that sensors may the beams reflected by the scanned object. Events may be provided based on the detected signals and the paths such that each event may be associated with a sensor and event metrics. Crossing points for each sensor may be determined based on where the paths intersect the scanned object such that events associated with each sensor are associated with the crossing points for each sensor. Each crossing point of each sensor may be compared to each correspondent crossing point of each other sensor. Actual crossing points may be determined based on the comparison and the crossing points for each sensor. Position information for each sensor may be determined based on the actual crossing points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Schuyler Alexander Cullen, Gerard Dirk Smits, Steven Dean Gottke