Patents by Inventor Steven Keith

Steven Keith 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: 12250432
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a method including: causing a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables a user to select a time range and a single digital display as a locale; and causing, based on the user selecting the time range and the single digital display as the locale, the user display to display, on the GUI, a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on the single digital display, each of the plurality of media content being ordered according to analysis insight for the single digital display selected and the time range selected. The analysis insight may include at least opportunity to see (OTS) counts of the plurality of media content on one or more digital displays associated with the locale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
  • Patent number: 12204823
    Abstract: Simulation data of the autonomous vehicle is processed by executing a simulation based on the simulation data to generate a simulation result. Then a perception scenario is generated from the simulation result. The generated perception scenario is validated by verifying whether a constraint is satisfied to produce a validated perception scenario. The validated perception scenario can be used to create or refine a perception model used for controlling the operation of autonomous vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: AURORA OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Keith Capell, Simon Box, John Michael Wyrwas
  • Publication number: 20240402578
    Abstract: A refrigerator appliance includes a liner positioned within a cabinet and having an inner liner surface that defines a chilled chamber. A door is rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber and a camera assembly is mounted to the liner for monitoring the chilled chamber. The camera assembly includes a camera housing, a camera mounted within the camera housing and being pivotable between a first orientation and a second orientation, and a pivoting mechanism that is operably coupled to the door such that the camera is oriented in the first orientation when the door is in an open position and in the second orientation when the door is in a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Keith Root, Michael Goodman Schroeder,
  • Publication number: 20240292774
    Abstract: A land preparation implement includes a rotatable drum assembly that includes a tool assembly. The tool assembly includes a tool holder and a tool. The tool includes a plurality of cleats. The tool holder includes a plurality of cleat supports. The cleats and the cleat supports cooperate to facilitate releasable coupling of the tool to the tool holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Tyler Rand Smith, Jeffrey Thomas Stanley, Steven Keith Watson, III
  • Patent number: 11949535
    Abstract: An item-management system is provided having a household appliance, a camera assembly, and a controller. The household appliance may include a cabinet. The camera assembly may be directed at the cabinet to capture an image of the cabinet. The controller may be in operative communication with the camera assembly. The controller may have access to an item list of one or more stored items. The controller may be configured to direct an item-management operation. The item-management operation may include receiving the image from the camera assembly, identifying, automatically, based on the received image, a stored item from the item list, determining, based on identifying the stored item, an unsuitable status of the identified stored item to indicate the identified stored item is inappropriate for the household appliance, and directing, based on determining the unsuitable status, a responsive action at the household appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Haitian Hu, Hairong Li, Steven Keith Root, James Quentin Pollett
  • Publication number: 20240048809
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to targeted display of media content, including a system that includes at least one processor configured to execute program instructions to implement a device and a content management system (CMS) and control the system to: send, by the device and to the CMS, a plurality of signals each triggering the CMS to play on a first display that is local to and separate from the device, a respective one of a plurality of media content of a playlist including a first media content, each of the plurality of signals sent at a different time while the first media content of the playlist is played on the first display, and ignore, by the CMS, each of the plurality of signals received prior to a first predetermined time of the played first media content of the playlist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard VENTURA, Hiroyuki KASUGA, Steven Keith PLATT
  • Patent number: 11888640
    Abstract: A system and method for data transmission and performance improvement for an appliance is provided. The system includes an appliance including a controller operably connected to a network computing device. The controller is configured to transmit a packet to a network computing device. The packet includes genealogical data for the appliance encoded in a positional numeral system. The network computing device is configured to receive the packet and decode the genealogical data for the appliance. Decoding includes translating the positional numeral system to an appliance configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Haitian Hu, Steven Keith Root, Hairong Li, James Quentin Pollett
  • Patent number: 11871689
    Abstract: A land preparation implement includes a rotatable drum assembly that includes a tool assembly. The tool assembly includes a tool holder and a tool. The tool includes a plurality of cleats. The tool holder includes a plurality of cleat supports. The cleats and the cleat supports cooperate to facilitate releasable coupling of the tool to the tool holder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Fecon, LLC
    Inventors: Tyler Rand Smith, Jeffrey Thomas Stanley, Steven Keith Watson, III
  • Patent number: 11874310
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a motor coupled to an electrical appliance are disclosed herein. The electrical appliance can include a motor assembly comprising at least one electric motor and a filter network including an electrical resistance component and an electrical capacitance component. The electrical appliance can also include a controller electrically coupled to the motor assembly and the filter network, the controller comprising one or more processors and a memory comprising instructions for performing a process. The process can include providing an input signal to the filter network and receiving an output signal from the filter network, the output signal being filtered by the filter network. The process can also include identifying a filter characteristic of the filter network based on the output signal and identifying a type of the electric motor based on the identified filter characteristic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Victoria Steele, Steven Keith Root, Mark Thomas Fryman
  • Publication number: 20240013161
    Abstract: An appliance repair instruction method for directing a user to perform a repair on an appliance is provided. The method includes the steps of receiving a request for appliance-specific repair instructions, obtaining an image of the appliance, the image including a portion of the appliance, generating an instructional overlay image including an instructional graphic associated with the image received to communicate at least one step of the appliance-specific repair instructions, and communicating the instructional overlay image. A method for directing a user to perform repairs on an appliance is provided that includes sending a request for appliance-specific repair instructions, sending an image of the appliance, and receiving an appliance-specific repair instruction step on a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Haitian Hu, Hairong Li, Steven Keith Root
  • Patent number: 11831954
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to targeted display of media content, including a device that includes a memory having program instructions stored therein; and at least one processor configured to execute the program instructions to control the device to: connect via a wide area network to a remote system, receive a rule set or an artificial intelligence (AI) model from the remote system, select media content from a plurality of media content based on applying demographics data to the rule set or AI model, and cause, based on an output of the rule set or AI model, a display, that is local to the device, to display the media content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard Ventura, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt
  • Publication number: 20230366916
    Abstract: Systems and methods for identifying a motor coupled to an electrical appliance are disclosed herein. The electrical appliance can include a motor assembly comprising at least one electric motor and a filter network including an electrical resistance component and an electrical capacitance component. The electrical appliance can also include a controller electrically coupled to the motor assembly and the filter network, the controller comprising one or more processors and a memory comprising instructions for performing a process. The process can include providing an input signal to the filter network and receiving an output signal from the filter network, the output signal being filtered by the filter network. The process can also include identifying a filter characteristic of the filter network based on the output signal and identifying a type of the electric motor based on the identified filter characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Victoria Steele, Steven Keith Root, Mark Thomas Fryman
  • Publication number: 20230356893
    Abstract: A portable beverage container is provided. The portable beverage container may include a glass vessel having a neck; a metal outer shell configured to surround a first portion of the glass vessel; a cap configured to engage with the metal outer shell to surround a second portion of the glass vessel; and an amorphous thermoplastic spout having a neck configured to be inserted through an opening in the cap and into the neck of the glass vessel. The spout may be configured to securely engage with the cap. The cap may include a lid with an elastomeric sealing member having a knob configured to extend into a recess in the spout and a recess configured to wrap around and over a lip of the spout. The spout may be removable from the cap while the cap is engaged with the outer shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Hardy STEINMANN, James Steven Keith Pelletier
  • Publication number: 20230362027
    Abstract: A system and method for data transmission and performance improvement for an appliance is provided. The system includes an appliance including a controller operably connected to a network computing device. The controller is configured to transmit a packet to a network computing device. The packet includes genealogical data for the appliance encoded in a positional numeral system. The network computing device is configured to receive the packet and decode the genealogical data for the appliance. Decoding includes translating the positional numeral system to an appliance configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Haitian Hu, Steven Keith Root, Hairong Li, James Quentin Pollett
  • Publication number: 20230315423
    Abstract: A method of operating a group of household appliances includes connecting, by a primary household appliance of the group of household appliances, to a remote computing device. The method also includes determining, by the remote computing device, that a secondary household appliance of the group of household appliances has an available update and providing, on the primary household appliance, a notification of the available update for the secondary household appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Ryan James Scheckelhoff, Steven Keith Root
  • Publication number: 20230308307
    Abstract: An item-management system is provided having a household appliance, a camera assembly, and a controller. The household appliance may include a cabinet. The camera assembly may be directed at the cabinet to capture an image of the cabinet. The controller may be in operative communication with the camera assembly. The controller may have access to an item list of one or more stored items. The controller may be configured to direct an item-management operation. The item-management operation may include receiving the image from the camera assembly, identifying, automatically, based on the received image, a stored item from the item list, determining, based on identifying the stored item, an unsuitable status of the identified stored item to indicate the identified stored item is inappropriate for the household appliance, and directing, based on determining the unsuitable status, a responsive action at the household appliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Haitian Hu, Hairong Li, Steven Keith Root, James Quentin Pollett
  • Patent number: 11738916
    Abstract: A portable beverage container is provided. The portable beverage container may include a glass vessel having a neck; a metal outer shell configured to surround a first portion of the glass vessel; a cap configured to engage with the metal outer shell to surround a second portion of the glass vessel; and an amorphous thermoplastic spout having a neck configured to be inserted through an opening in the cap and into the neck of the glass vessel. The spout may be configured to securely engage with the cap. The cap may include a lid with an elastomeric sealing member having a knob configured to extend into a recess in the spout and a recess configured to wrap around and over a lip of the spout. The spout may be removable from the cap while the cap is engaged with the outer shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Hydrovaze LLC
    Inventors: Hardy Steinmann, James Steven Keith Pelletier
  • Patent number: 11725871
    Abstract: An appliance including a control device in operative communication with a user input panel and a sensor provided. The control device is configured to emit, via the sensor, a first plurality of signals defining a first operating mode. The first operating mode includes one or more of a first scan rate or a first scan interval. The control device is configured to switch between the first operating mode and a second operating mode based on one or more of detection of a container, detection of a user, or a user input. The control device is configured to emit, via the sensor, a second plurality of signals defining the second operating mode. The second operating mode includes one or more of a second scan rate or a second scan interval different from the first operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Keith Root
  • Patent number: 11704696
    Abstract: A single tracking URL collects tracking information for multiple tracking services based on multiple tracking URL templates. A dynamic link generator generates a tracking URL configured to collect tracking information requested by each of a set of enabled tracking URL templates. The tracking information is transmitted to the tracking services associated with the enabled tracking URL templates. Additionally or alternatively, a tracking URL is configured to redirect a consumer to one of a candidate set of destination URLs. A tracking URL includes a base URL, which is resolved to an IP address of a server of a particular tracking service. Based on tracking data associated with the tracking URL and/or digital body language associated with the consumer, the particular tracking service selects one of a candidate set of destination URLs associated with the tracking URL. A destination page corresponding to the selected destination URL is presented to the consumer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Michael J. Strutton, Steven Keith Woods, Chad Estes, Kimberly Ann Wolfe, Donald Chun Wing Ho, Yizhou Jiang, Natalie You, Wenhua Li
  • Publication number: 20230217078
    Abstract: Systems and methods relate to display of insights, including a method including: causing a user display to display a graphical user interface (GUI) that enables a user to select a time range and a single digital display as a locale; and causing, based on the user selecting the time range and the single digital display as the locale, the user display to display, on the GUI, a list of a plurality of media content that have been displayed on the single digital display, each of the plurality of media content being ordered according to analysis insight for the single digital display selected and the time range selected. The analysis insight may include at least opportunity to see (OTS) counts of the plurality of media content on one or more digital displays associated with the locale.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: SHARP NEC DISPLAY SOLUTIONS, LTD.
    Inventors: Richard VENTURA, Hiroyuki Kasuga, Steven Keith Platt