Patents by Inventor Steven Gregory

Steven Gregory 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: 20240023761
    Abstract: A shower seat assembly comprising a first mounting bracket with a front side and a back side, a second mounting bracket with a front side and a back side, a first support rod hingedly connected to the first mounting bracket, a first tube stop secured to the first mounting bracket, a second support rod hingedly connected to the second mounting bracket, a second tube stop secured to the second mounting bracket, a first spring operationally associated with the first mounting bracket and the first support rod, a second spring operationally associated with the second mounting bracket and the second support rod, and a seat with an upper surface and a lower surface secured by its lower surface to the first support rod and the second support rod; wherein the back side of the first mounting bracket and second mounting bracket are each engaged to a vertical or near vertical surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: COMPONENT SOURCING INTERNATIONAL, LLC
    Inventor: STEVEN GREGORY CRAFT, II
  • Patent number: 11800956
    Abstract: A shower seat assembly comprising a first mounting bracket with a front side and a back side, a second mounting bracket with a front side and a back side, a first support rod hingedly connected to the first mounting bracket, a first tube stop secured to the first mounting bracket, a second support rod hingedly connected to the second mounting bracket, a second tube stop secured to the second mounting bracket, a first spring operationally associated with the first mounting bracket and the first support rod, a second spring operationally associated with the second mounting bracket and the second support rod, and a seat with an upper surface and a lower surface secured by its lower surface to the first support rod and the second support rod; wherein the back side of the first mounting bracket and second mounting bracket are each engaged to a vertical or near vertical surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Component Sourcing International, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Gregory Craft, II
  • Publication number: 20220305407
    Abstract: Disclose is a separator for separating liquid from a fluid stream including a mixture of gas and liquid. The separator comprises a first vessel including an outlet and an inlet for receiving the fluid stream, the first vessel in fluid communication with a second vessel via a first valve, the second vessel in fluid communication with a liquid outlet via a second valve, wherein the first vessel is arranged to enable the liquid to flow into the second vessel. The separator also has a second valve for controlling release of liquid from the second vessel, the first and second valves being pneumatically operated, the pneumatic operation of the first and second valves allowing only one of the first and second valves to be open during operation of the separator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventor: Steven Gregory Webster
  • Patent number: 11275375
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating an autonomous operation, such as an autonomous navigation, of an unmanned vehicle based on one or more fiducials. For example, image data of a fiducial may be generated with an optical sensor of the unmanned vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine a location of the fiducial. A location of the unmanned vehicle may be estimated from the location of the fiducial and the image. The autonomous navigation of the unmanned vehicle may be directed based on the estimated location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Gregory Dunn, Carl Ryan Kelso, Neil Whitney Woodward, III
  • Publication number: 20210296968
    Abstract: A system for measuring temperature in an electric motor, including a stator with field windings in the electric motor and a circuit board proximate to the field windings. The system further includes one or more thermo-electric temperature responsive devices. The thermo-electric temperature devices are mountable onto a surface of the circuit board facing the field windings. The system further includes a thermally conductive, but non-electrically conductive material, connecting the one or more thermo-electric devices to the stator windings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Jeffery Todd BREWSTER, Steven Gregory NICHOLS, William Edward ANDERSON, IV
  • Patent number: 10997544
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for delivery of items using an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”). A user may be provided with a delivery location identifier (“DLI”) that is to be placed at a delivery location within a delivery destination to identify where a UAV is to position an item as part of a delivery to the delivery destination. For example, the delivery destination may be a user's home. Within the deliver destination of the user's home, the user may select a delivery location, such as a spot in the back yard wherein the UAV is to position the ordered item as part of the delivery. To aid the UAV in navigating to the delivery location, the user places the DLI at the delivery location. The UAV detects the DLI and positions the item at or near the DLI as part of the item delivery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Avi Bar-Zeev, Brian C. Beckman, Steven Gregory Dunn, Atishkumar Kalyan, Amir Navot, Frederik Schaffalitzky
  • Patent number: 10732074
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a multi-direction wind tunnel, or “windball,” are disclosed. The system can have a series of fans configured to provide air flow in a plurality of directions to enable accurate testing of aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other vehicles capable of multi-dimensional flight. The system can comprise a spherical or polyhedral test chamber with a plurality of fans. The fans can be arranged in pairs, such that a first fan comprises an intake fan and a second fan comprises an exhaust fan. The direction of the air flow can be controlled by activating one or more pairs of fans, each pair of fan creating a portion of the air flow in a particular direction. The direction of the air flow can also be controlled by rotating one or more pairs of fans with respect to the test chamber on a gimbal device, or similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian C. Beckman, Avi Bar-Zeev, Steven Gregory Dunn, Amir Navot
  • Patent number: 10686687
    Abstract: A monitoring and messaging system for monitoring status of a plurality of assets. The system includes a data collection and normalization module configured to accept data originating from a plurality of sensors and to convert the data to normalized data for subsequent processing by the system. The system has an identification module configured to receive the normalized data and assign a subset of the normalized data generated by one or more specific sensors of the plurality of sensors to an asset selected from a plurality of assets. The system has an analysis module which includes a database of asset rules defining status states of the asset. The analysis module is programmed to receive and compare the subset of normalized data with a subset of asset rules to determine a status state of the asset. The system also has an action module which is configured to receive the status state of the asset, generate a message representing the status state of the asset and to transmit the message to a concerned party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AWARE360 LTD.
    Inventors: Steven Gregory Matthews, James Frederick McLellan, Robert Wyatt Forget, James Paul McDade
  • Patent number: 10486091
    Abstract: A continuous belt screen assembly and system used for filtering fluid for various municipal and industrial purposes. The assembly includes a pair of spaced, endless belts, lifters, and screen panels. Each lifter is operably mounted to the pair of belts for lifting of solid waste out of the fluid in the channel. Each of the screen panels can be interposed between lifters and secured in place by opposing slots defined by the lifters. The endless belts can include toothed drive links, with the ends of the teeth extending with the ends of the drive links to define an involute profile. The lifters can include a sleeve portion for receiving a pivot shaft and a paddle portion extending from the sleeve portion, terminating at a free end that can be contoured to have teeth. The lifters can be a flexible material configured to deflect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Aqseptence Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Grant Christopher Adamson, Ross Van Someren, Steven Gregory Bailey, Michael James Mcinnes
  • Patent number: 10356330
    Abstract: A small, rugged, concentric square, forward-pivot, assembly with motorized pan and tilt, two-point suspension of pan and tilt axes, multiple photo-sensors, and capable of using lenses that are much larger than pinhole lenses, is provided. It is combined with a motorized zoom lens, image sensor, processor and enclosure to form a covert outdoor video surveillance camera. It enables a viewing window for the lens to be small yet provide large angles of view without needing a light-losing, dark material or sharpness-losing perforated media to conceal it, and captures much more light than a pinhole. Three photo sensors are arranged around the lens and collectively control an IR-cut filter. The sensors are integrated into the assembly to point in the same direction as the lens, and provide a good assessment of the scene brightness even when some of them have been panned or tilted out of view of the window.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Inventor: Steven Gregory Morton
  • Patent number: 10289116
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating an autonomous operation, such as an autonomous navigation, of an unmanned vehicle based on one or more fiducials. For example, image data of a fiducial may be generated with an optical sensor of the unmanned vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine a location of the fiducial. A location of the unmanned vehicle may be estimated from the location of the fiducial and the image. The autonomous navigation of the unmanned vehicle may be directed based on the estimated location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Gregory Dunn, Carl Ryan Kelso, Neil Whitney Woodward, III
  • Patent number: 10277921
    Abstract: Decoder techniques in accordance with embodiment of the present technology include partially decoding a compressed file on a serial based processing unit to find offsets of each of a plurality of entropy data blocks. The compressed file and offset for each of the plurality of entropy encoded data blocks are transferred to a parallel based processing unit. Thereafter, the compressed file is at least partially decoded on the parallel based processing unit using the offset for each of the plurality of entropy encoded data blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michal Krasnoborski, Michael Clair Houston, Michael Denis O'Connor, Steven Gregory Parker
  • Patent number: 10068486
    Abstract: A transportation network is provided that utilizes autonomous vehicles (e.g., unmanned aerial vehicles) for identifying, acquiring, and transporting items between network locations without requiring human interaction. A travel path for an item through the transportation network may include multiple path segments and corresponding intermediate network locations, with a different autonomous vehicle utilized to transport the item along each path segment. Different possible next network locations for a travel path may selected based on transportation factors such as travel time, cost, safety, etc. (e.g., as may be related to distance, network congestion, inclement weather, etc.). Local processing (e.g., by a control system of an autonomous vehicle) may perform the selection of a next network location for a travel path (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Avi Bar-Zeev, Brian C. Beckman, Daniel Buchmueller, Steven Gregory Dunn, Gur Kimchi
  • Patent number: 10026007
    Abstract: A method provides for greatly reducing the time required for humans and machines to review long periods of recorded surveillance video, obtain images with high spatial and temporal detail, and greatly reduce the amount of data required for review. An Internet-accessible camera continuously captures video and records it internally in one or more series of short “normal” files. Each series of normal files has a particular resolution and frame rate. Periodically, a time-lapse video is also created within the camera, from images from a number of most-recent files in a given series of normal files. A user interface enables viewing a sequence of time-lapse videos, pausing playback, and clicking over to a normal video file it was made from, to view images with greater temporal detail, and back again. The method includes multiple resolutions of normal files and multiple series of time-lapse videos with different durations and sample rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Inventor: Steven Gregory Morton
  • Publication number: 20180159756
    Abstract: A monitoring and messaging system for monitoring status of a plurality of assets. The system includes a data collection and normalization module configured to accept data originating from a plurality of sensors and to convert the data to normalized data for subsequent processing by the system. The system has an identification module configured to receive the normalized data and assign a subset of the normalized data generated by one or more specific sensors of the plurality of sensors to an asset selected from a plurality of assets. The system has an analysis module which includes a database of asset rules defining status states of the asset. The analysis module is programmed to receive and compare the subset of normalized data with a subset of asset rules to determine a status state of the asset. The system also has an action module which is configured to receive the status state of the asset, generate a message representing the status state of the asset and to transmit the message to a concerned party.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: Aware360 Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven Gregory MATTHEWS, James Frederick McLELLAN, Robert Wyatt FORGET, James Paul MCDADE
  • Patent number: 9964951
    Abstract: Techniques for facilitating an autonomous operation, such as an autonomous navigation, of an unmanned vehicle based on one or more fiducials. For example, image data of a fiducial may be generated with an optical sensor of the unmanned vehicle. The image data may be analyzed to determine a location of the fiducial. A location of the unmanned vehicle may be estimated from the location of the fiducial and the image. The autonomous navigation of the unmanned vehicle may be directed based on the estimated location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Gregory Dunn, Carl Ryan Kelso, Neil Whitney Woodward, III
  • Patent number: 9959722
    Abstract: A method is described for using a surveillance system to covertly and automatically determine the presence of persons and machines that do not want to be tracked and whose identities are unknown. Video is provided by one or more surveillance cameras and recorders to assist in visually distinguishing bearers of WiFi-equipped mobile devices. A processing device covertly receives WiFi probes from mobile devices, particularly smartphones, and forms and sends messages with links for viewing relevant live and recorded video. The processing device processes WiFi information, particularly mobile device signatures known as WiFi MAC addresses, organizes and records MAC addresses and other information, analyzes patterns of previous presence of MAC addresses using a variety of parameters, adjusts its processing parameters, determines when the reception of WiFi information from particular mobile devices satisfy criteria for sending messages, and presents its analysis for review and collaboration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Inventor: Steven Gregory Morton
  • Patent number: 9916860
    Abstract: A device for recording and/or reading data to and/or from a magnetic tape includes a read/write head which has a first device set including a first plurality of magnetic data write and/or read elements and a second device set including a second plurality of magnetic data write and/or read elements. The device also includes a lateral positioning actuator and an azimuth actuator. The lateral positioning actuator and azimuth actuator are used together to position both device sets on the magnetic tape. The lateral positioning actuator laterally positions the read/write head such that during write and/or read operations the first and second pluralities of magnetic data write and/or read elements align laterally to first and second pluralities of recordable and/or readable data tracks on the magnetic tape. The azimuth actuator rotates the read/write head about an azimuthal angle. such that the elements align to lateral spacings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Darryl Wayne Yeakley, William J. Vanderheyden, Steven Gregory Trabert
  • Publication number: 20180012152
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a passenger service parameter for flight disruption are provided. A method can include receiving, by one or more processors, data indicative of user selection of flight disruption criteria. The method can further include determining, by the one or more processors, at least one impacted passenger based at least upon the data indicative of the user selection. The method can further include determining, by the one or more processors, an alternate flight accommodation for the at least one impacted passenger. The method can further include determining, by the one or more processors, a flight delay for the at least one impacted passenger based at least upon the alternate flight accommodation. The method can further include determining, by the one or more processors, a passenger service parameter associated the at least one impacted passenger based at least upon the flight delay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Michael Arguello, Charles Piet Ephraim, Jonathan Mark Dunsdon, Leif Gerald Oines, Gordon Wayne Brush, Steven Gregory
  • Patent number: 9863840
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a multi-direction wind tunnel, or “windball,” are disclosed. The system can have a series of fans configured to provide air flow in a plurality of directions to enable accurate testing of aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and other vehicles capable of multi-dimensional flight. The system can comprise a spherical or polyhedral test chamber with a plurality of fans. The fans can be arranged in pairs, such that a first fan comprises an intake fan and a second fan comprises an exhaust fan. The direction of the air flow can be controlled by activating one or more pairs of fans, each pair of fan creating a portion of the air flow in a particular direction. The direction of the air flow can also be controlled by rotating one or more pairs of fans with respect to the test chamber on a gimbal device, or similar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Inventors: Brian C. Beckman, Avi Bar-Zeev, Steven Gregory Dunn, Amir Navot