Patents by Inventor Steven George

Steven George 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: 20220394116
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for integrating one or more light switch panels into a monitoring system. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of determining to communicate a non-traditional file to a z-wave capable device, communicate a first data packet to the z-wave capable device, based on communicating the first data packet to the z-wave capable device, alter a schedule command class payload of a second data packet to include a first portion of the non-traditional file, alter a schedule command class payload of a third data packet to include a second portion of the non-traditional file, and alter a schedule command class payload of a fourth data packet to include a third portion of the non-traditional file, and communicate, to the z-wave capable device, the altered second data packet, the altered third data packet, and the altered fourth data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Glenn Algie, Casey Hutchinson, Doug Mendonca, Steven George Dodson
  • Patent number: 11521212
    Abstract: A gateway is provided for controlling transfer of electronic messages between a financial institution and a transaction processing system comprising a plurality of switches. The gateway includes communication circuitry operable to receive an electronic message issued by the financial institution and processing circuitry operable to determine whether the electronic message includes enough information for a switch of the transaction processing system to process the electronic message. In response to the electronic message including enough information, the communication circuitry is further operable to transmit the electronic message over a data communications network for storage in a message queue unit associated with the transaction processing system for subsequent processing by the switch. In response to the electronic message not including enough information, the communication circuitry is operable to return the electronic message to the financial institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: IPCO 2012 LIMITED
    Inventors: Steven George Garlick, Neil Antony Masters
  • Patent number: 11465335
    Abstract: A cutting assembly and a cutter are provided, wherein, in an apparatus for additive manufacturing with a filament, a deposition head has a body and an applicator for fixing a run of filament to a surface at a deposition location ending at a deposition termination point. The cutter assembly has a fixation element for fixing the cutter assembly relative to the deposition head, and a cutter movable relative to the fixation element. The deposition head has a deposition termination configuration and a cutting configuration, and after fixing the run of filament, the deposition head transitions from the deposition termination configuration to the cutting configuration. The cutter cuts the filament only when the deposition head is in the cutting configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Arevo, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven George Manuel
  • Publication number: 20220292401
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for improving prediction accuracy in machine learning techniques. A teacher model is constructed, where the teacher model generates a weight for each data case. The current student model is then trained using training data and the weights generated by the teacher model. After training the current student model, the current student model generates state features, which are used by the teacher model to generate new weights. A candidate student model is then trained using training data and these new weights. A reward is generated by comparing the current student model with the candidate student model using training and testing data, which is used to update the teacher model if a stopping rule has not been satisfied. Upon a stopping rule being satisfied, the weights generated by the teacher model are deemed to be the “optimal” weights which are returned to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Jing Xu, Si Er Han, Steven George Barbee, Xue Ying Zhang, Ji Hui Yang
  • Publication number: 20220295030
    Abstract: A device for estimating a scene illumination color for a source image is configured to: determine a set of candidate illuminants and for each of the candidate illuminants, determine a respective correction of the source image; for each of the candidate illuminants, apply the respective correction to the source image to form a corresponding set of corrected images; for each corrected image from the set of corrected images, implement a trained data-driven model to estimate a respective probability of achromaticity of the respective corrected image; and based on the estimated probabilities of achromaticity for the set of corrected images, obtain a final estimate of the scene illumination color for the source image. This approach allows for the evaluation of multiple candidate illuminates to determine an estimate of the scene illumination color.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel HERNANDEZ, Sarah PARISOT, Ales LEONARDIS, Gregory SLABAUGH, Steven George MCDONAGH
  • Patent number: 11443235
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for improving prediction accuracy in machine learning techniques. A teacher model is constructed, where the teacher model generates a weight for each data case. The current student model is then trained using training data and the weights generated by the teacher model. After training the current student model, the current student model generates state features, which are used by the teacher model to generate new weights. A candidate student model is then trained using training data and these new weights. A reward is generated by comparing the current student model with the candidate student model using training and testing data, which is used to update the teacher model if a stopping rule has not been satisfied. Upon a stopping rule being satisfied, the weights generated by the teacher model are deemed to be the “optimal” weights which are returned to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jing Xu, Si Er Han, Steven George Barbee, Xue Ying Zhang, Ji Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 11433093
    Abstract: A gyroplane employing torque compensated main rotor and hybrid power train is disclosed. The invention incorporates a torque-compensated main rotor system with a common Collective pitch control, which can be driven transiently during flight to allow Vertical Take-Off, Landing and Hovering (VTOLH) flight operations. Torque compensation is via a coaxial counter-rotating (CACR) rotor system, or alternatively using a single rotor in conjunction with one or more electronically-controlled, fixed-pitch, thruster motors. The use of electric motors for lift and torque compensation facilitates electronic and potentially autonomous control of all phases of vertical flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Inventor: John Stevens George
  • Patent number: 11418636
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for integrating one or more light switch panels into a monitoring system. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of determining to communicate a non-traditional file to a z-wave capable device, communicate a first data packet to the z-wave capable device, based on communicating the first data packet to the z-wave capable device, alter a schedule command class payload of a second data packet to include a first portion of the non-traditional file, alter a schedule command class payload of a third data packet to include a second portion of the non-traditional file, and alter a schedule command class payload of a fourth data packet to include a third portion of the non-traditional file, and communicate, to the z-wave capable device, the altered second data packet, the altered third data packet, and the altered fourth data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Alarm.com Incorporated
    Inventors: Glenn Algie, Casey Hutchinson, Doug Mendonca, Steven George Dodson
  • Publication number: 20220255339
    Abstract: A system includes a PTO device that selectively couples to a driveline of a vehicle, a motor/generator electrically coupled to an electrical power storage system, and a shared load selectively powered by one of the driveline or the motor/generator. The PTO device further includes a coupling actuator that couples the shared load to the motor/generator at a first selected ratio in a first position, and couples the shared load to the driveline at a second selected ratio in a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Stoltz, Mahesh Prabhakar Joshi, Matthew R. Busdiecker, Kaylah J. Berndt, Glenn Clark Fortune, Sarah E. Behringer, Mark Steven George, Dennis Dukaric, Thomas A. Genise, Gary Baker
  • Publication number: 20220243348
    Abstract: Various COx electrolyzer cell architectures are provided, including various flow field designs and gas diffusion layer designs that may be particularly useful in the context of COx electrolyzer cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy A. Bekkedahl, Kathryn L. Corp, Sichao Ma, Kendra P. Kuhl, Simon Gregory Stone, Steven George Goebel
  • Publication number: 20220177812
    Abstract: Detergent compositions that include a lipase variant of a parent lipase which has lipase activity and includes one or more substitutions corresponding to G23S, D27N, A40, F51I,L, E56R, D57N, V60E,K, K98I, N101D, R118, G163S, T231R, N233R, Y220F, T244E, and P256T using SEQ ID NO: 2 for numbering. Water-soluble unit dose articles including water-soluble film and a detergent composition including lipase variants. Methods of cleaning and/or treatment of surfaces using such compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Steven George Patterson, Nazarmohammad Gulamhussain Momin, Miguel D. G. P. Toscano, Thomas A. Poulsen, Carsten H. Hansen, Lone Baunsgaard, Keith Gibson
  • Patent number: 11353113
    Abstract: A seal assembly including: a collar having an opening configured to receive a rotatable shaft, an annular member having an annular opening configured to receive the collar, and first and second end plates fixedly coupled to a respective one of the first and second end surfaces of the collar. An outer surface of the collar includes one or more helical threads. The collar has a first axial length defined between first and second end surfaces of the collar, and the annular member has a second axial length defined between first and second end surfaces of the annular member, in which the second axial length is less than the first axial length. Also provided are an assembly comprising a seal assembly in accordance with the present disclosure and a method for preventing contamination of a sealed chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY
    Inventor: Steven George Scheer
  • Patent number: 11354484
    Abstract: A method of determining a failure model of a resist process of a patterning process. The method includes obtaining (i) measured data of a pattern failure (e.g., failure rate) related to a feature printed on a substrate based on a range of values of dose, and (ii) image intensity values for the feature via simulating a process model using the range of the dose values; and determining, via fitting the measured data of the pattern failure to a product of the dose values and the image intensity values, a failure model to model a stochastic behavior of spatial fluctuations in the resist and optionally predict failure of the feature (e.g., hole closing).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: ASML Netherlands B.V.
    Inventor: Steven George Hansen
  • Patent number: 11349331
    Abstract: A system includes a PTO device that selectively couples to a driveline of a vehicle, a motor/generator electrically coupled to an electrical power storage system, and a shared load selectively powered by one of the driveline or the motor/generator. The PTO device further includes a coupling actuator that couples the shared load to the motor/generator at a first selected ratio in a first position, and couples the shared load to the driveline at a second selected ratio in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Joseph Stoltz, Mahesh Prabhakar Joshi, Matthew R. Busdiecker, Kaylah J. Berndt, Glenn Clark Fortune, Sarah E. Behringer, Mark Steven George, Dennis Dukaric, Thomas A. Genise, Gary Baker
  • Publication number: 20220156572
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for processing a data set is provided. In this method, an original data set including a plurality of data records is obtained. Each data record in the original data set has values of a first number of features. A representative data set having the plurality of representative data records is determined. Each representative data record has values of a second number of representatives. The second number of representatives are obtained by training an autoencoder neutral network with values of the first number of features as inputs, and the second number is smaller than the first number. The plurality of representative data records is segmented into two or more clusters based on the values of the second number of representatives. The representative data records in the two or more clusters are partitioned to form a predefined number of representative data subsets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Si Er Han, Jing Xu, Xue Ying Zhang, Ji Hui Yang, Steven George Barbee
  • Publication number: 20220105793
    Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle having a prime mover motively coupled to a drive line; a motor/generator selectively coupled to the drive line, and configured to selectively modulate power transfer between an electrical load and the drive line; a battery pack; a DC/DC converter electrically interposed between the motor/generator and the electrical load, and between the battery pack and the electrical load, the DC/DC converter comprising a DC/DC converter housing; and a covering tray positioned over a plurality of batteries of the battery pack, the covering tray comprising a connectivity layer configured to provide electrical connectivity to terminals of the plurality of batteries.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Nihal Sukhatankar, Mahesh Prabhakar Joshi, Shivaprasad Vithal Goud, Thomas Joseph Stoltz, Matthew Richard Busdiecker, Kaylah J. Berndt, Glenn Clark Fortune, Sarah Elizabeth Behringer, Mark Steven George, Dennis Dukaric, Thomas Alan Genise, Gary Baker, Tissaphem Mirfakhrai, Elizabeth Jane Mercer, Viken Rafi Yeranosian, Lesley Earl Candler, Nicole Downing, Lalit Murlidhar Patil, Suyog Shekhar Kulkami, Sunil Kumar Kunche, Rishabh Kumar Jain, Juan Chen
  • Patent number: 11286443
    Abstract: Detergent compositions that include a lipase variant of a parent lipase which has lipase activity and includes one or more substitutions corresponding to G23S, D27N, A40, F51I,L, E56R, D57N, V60E,K, K98I, N101D, R118, G163S, T231R, N233R, Y220F, T244E, and P256T using SEQ ID NO: 2 for numbering. Water-soluble unit dose articles including water-soluble film and a detergent composition including lipase variants. Methods of cleaning and/or treatment of surfaces using such compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Steven George Patterson, Nazarmohammad Gulamhussain Momin, Miguel D. G. P. Toscano, Thomas A. Poulsen, Carsten H. Hansen, Lone Baunsgaard, Keith Gibson
  • Publication number: 20220092437
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, system, and computer program product for efficient execution of a decision tree. According to the method, respective target values of a plurality of attributes of a target entity are obtained. Representations of a plurality of leaf nodes of a decision tree are obtained. Each of the representations indicates respective statistic values of a plurality of attributes of historical entities and a statistic prediction result determined from historical prediction results output at a respective one of the plurality of leaf nodes for the historical entities. Distance measures between the target entity and the plurality of leaf nodes are determined based on the target values and the statistic values indicated by the representations of the plurality of leaf nodes. A target prediction result for the target entity is determined based on the distance measures and the statistic prediction results of the historical entities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Jing Xu, Si Er Han, Xue Ying Zhang, Steven George Barbee, Ji Hui Yang
  • Patent number: 11268052
    Abstract: A container system including a closeable container with at least one pouch in an interior space of the container, where the pouch includes a water-soluble film including a polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) resin blend, and a perfume and organic solvent containing household care composition at least partially enclosed in a compartment by the water-soluble film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Regine Labeque, Florence Catherine Courchay, Robby Renilde Francois Keuleers, Karel Jozef Maria Depoot, Hugo Robert Germain Denutte, Steven George Friedrich
  • Publication number: 20220050901
    Abstract: A security assessment scheduling tool uses a configuration file that is configurable via a user interface, to specify one or more elements of an application to be analyzed during the scoping process. Further, the security assessment scheduling tool may automatically schedule assessments for large numbers of applications using one or more constraining optimization techniques and/or via modeling the scheduling problem as an RCPSP problem. The security assessment scheduling tool processes the RCPSP problem for a defined period of time and then schedules remaining unscheduled applications within a specified time period thereby allowing the security assessment scheduling tool to schedule assessments of tens of thousands of applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Steven Tokarz, Steven George