Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Brown

Thomas A. Brown 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: 20240359964
    Abstract: A beverage production system is provided that includes a turntable assembly comprising a central axis. The turntable assembly further includes an inner turntable and an outer turntable disposed circumferentially about the inner turntable. The beverage production system also includes a cup dispensing station configured to dispense cups onto one of the inner or outer turntables. The beverage production system also includes a beverage dispensing station configured to dispense a beverage into the cups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas, Karl Thomas Szatrowski, Hunter Patrick Wyer, Zachary Logan Dulcie, James Timothy Hance, JR., Grant Rorie Phillips, Paul Christopher Brown, Mark William Ahring, Sarah Kathrine Gilliam
  • Publication number: 20240358558
    Abstract: A durable absorbent pant (for example, underwear brief) to be worn for containing and absorbing discharges resulting from menstruation, where the pants include a visual signal to indicate the presence of a discharge or bodily exudate in one or more portions of the pant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Jill Marlene ORR, Jodi Lee BROWN, John Lee HAMMONS, Grant Edward Anders STRIEMER, J Michael BILLS, Paul Thomas WEISMAN, Scott Kendyl STANLEY, Cassandra Ann SEPELLO
  • Patent number: 12133021
    Abstract: A computer-implemented online conferencing transactional platform system comprising an interaction module, a video-conferencing module, and a storage device may allow multiple participants in a video-conference to access, co-browse, collaboratively edit, and sign a transactional document. An interaction module fetches an image of a transactional document and a field identifier for an interactive transactional document element to be filled out from a remotely-connected secure signature API, and displays the image of the document, along with the interactive transactional document element on a webpage interface to a moderator and a signer end user in a video-conference. The interaction module receives a filled-out transactional document in an I-frame from the secure signature API, allowing the signer end user to sign the transactional document using a secure embedded signature process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: LIVEOAK TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Peter Rung, Andrew Ambrose, Thomas Brown
  • Publication number: 20240346601
    Abstract: A system may receive a first resource allocation request (associated with a first company) from a first entity. The system may determine that the first request is not associated with a risk relationship and arrange for it to be processed via a claim servicing entity. Information about the first request may then be routed to a request handler device for processing and a communication with a first graphical indication may be generated. The system may also receive a second resource allocation request (associated with the first company) from a second entity and determine that it is to be processed via a risk. The system may then route information about the second request to a request handler device for processing and generate a communication with a second graphical indication. Note that the request handler device may be the same device that received the information about the first request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Erik R. Lord, Thomas F. Morgan, Brian L. Fresher, Armand J. Minutillo, Cynthia D Finley, Marie C. Norcia, Jonathan Brown, Willis D Schmidt, JR.
  • Patent number: 12116723
    Abstract: A system for creating folds in textiles. The system includes a tooling plate, a loading assembly, a fold mechanism, a wrangler mechanism, and a door mechanism. The loading assembly enable a user to load a textile into the system. The fold mechanism creates folds in the textile. The wrangler mechanism compacts a textile after folds have been created in it to retain and tighten the folds. The door mechanism opens and closes an opening in the tooling plate through which textiles can be transferred away from the wrangler mechanism. Preferably, the system may also include a robot arm equipped to transfer textiles about the system and a tying machine for applying bindings to textiles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Dye-No-Myte, Ltd.
    Inventors: Dominic Davirro, Brian Patrick O'Riordan, Ian Thomas Molitors, Nathan Matthew Brown, Luke Christopher Stonis, Terry Richard Paul, Shannon Douglas Staats
  • Publication number: 20240306657
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to reduced sugar content white chocolate confectionery products comprising at least one rare sugar, such as allulose, methods of making the same wherein the confectionery products have desirable rheological properties, organoleptic properties, stable apparent viscosity, stable plastic viscosity, stable yield value, and coloring over time. The present disclosure also relates to preventing thickening or gelling of reduced sugar content white chocolate confectionery products comprising at least one rare sugar, such as allulose, during manufacturing, and maintaining stable apparent viscosity, stable plastic viscosity, and stable yield value over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: THE HERSHEY COMPANY
    Inventors: Xiaoying WANG, Balaji SANTHANAM, James F. ST. JOHN, Rebecca THOMAS, Burton Douglas BROWN
  • Publication number: 20240312218
    Abstract: A vehicle computing system can receive raw sensor data in both a traditional sensor data processing module and a learned sensor data processing module. Each module can reproject sensor data in BEV space, and can optionally perform sensor fusion when multiple sensor data types are processed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Gunther Krehl, Thomas Monninger, Manuel Schier, Stanislaw Antol, Aaron Brown, Daniel Stang
  • Publication number: 20240296010
    Abstract: A processing unit is provided with circuitry enabling execution quick evaluation of an exponential function. A multiplier circuit is used to multiply the input operand by log2(e), such that a result for the exponential function may be determined by evaluating 2i+f, where i is an integer part of a fixed-point number and f is a fractional part of the fixed-point number. A lookup table is used for providing an estimate for 2f based on the l MSBs of f. The lookup entries are provided according to a function such that the estimates for 2f are provided without bias towards either zero or infinity in the result. In other words, the maximum multiplicative error for each entry of the lookup table is the same in both negative and positive directions. In this way, statistical errors in the evaluation of a large number of exponential functions may be avoided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas BROWN
  • Publication number: 20240270427
    Abstract: A beverage production system is provided that includes a cup dispensing station configured to dispense cups and a beverage dispensing station configured to dispense a beverage. The beverage production system also includes a turntable assembly having a central axis, an inner turntable including a row of cup receptacles, and an outer turntable disposed circumferentially about the inner turntable. The inner turntable configured to rotate about the central axis to align the cup receptacles of the row with the cup dispensing station and the beverage dispensing station. The turntable assembly configured to align an opening in the turntable assembly with a cup receptacle in the row, the opening adjacent the outer turntable. The beverage production system also having an actuator configured to move a cup positioned in the cup receptacle in the row onto the outer turntable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Aaron Thomas, Karl Thomas Szatrowski, Hunter Patrick Wyer, Zachary Logan Dulcie, James Timothy Hance, JR., Grant Rorie Phillips, Paul Christopher Brown, Mark William Ahring, Sarah Kathrine Gilliam
  • Publication number: 20240273913
    Abstract: A backend computing system can receive compressed sensor data from a database of one or more vehicles that operate throughout a road network. The system can execute a set of learnable decoders on the compressed sensor data to decompress the compressed sensor data in accordance with a set of tasks of the set of learnable decoders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Vikram Bharadwaj, Aaron Brown, Thomas Monninger
  • Publication number: 20240275403
    Abstract: A vehicle computing system can receive sensor data from a sensor suite of the vehicle. The system can execute a autoencoder on the sensor data to compress the sensor data, and can stored the compressed sensor data in an on-board database of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Vikram Bharadwaj, Aaron Brown, Thomas Monninger
  • Patent number: 12056840
    Abstract: In some embodiments, the present specification describes methods for displaying a three-dimensional image of an isolated threat object or region of interest with a single touch or click and providing spatial and contextual information relative to the object, while also executing a view dependent virtual cut-away or rendering occluding portions of the reconstructed image data as transparent. In some embodiments, the method includes allowing operators to associate audio comments with a scan image of an object. In some embodiments, the method also includes highlighting a plurality of voxels, which are indicative of at least one potential threat item, in a mask having a plurality of variable color intensities, where the intensities may be varied based on the potential threat items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Rapiscan Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mala Sivakumar, Thomas Brown, Karthik Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20240251882
    Abstract: A liquid dispensing and vending apparatus comprises filling module(s), user container holder(s), positioning mechanism(s) and controller module(s). The filling module(s) comprise: machine container(s) configured to hold liquid(s), nozzle(s) configured to dispense liquid(s) to user container(s), and measuring pump module(s) configured to pump a measured amount of liquid(s) from machine container(s) to nozzle(s). The user container holder(s) are configured to hold user container(s). Positioning mechanism(s) align user container holder(s) with filling module(s). Controller module(s) execute production instructions causing liquid formulations to be dispensed into user container(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua Thomas Brown, Thomas Robert Young, II, Robert Czarnek
  • Publication number: 20240253663
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved motion planner that safely and proactively considers worst-case agent behavior by generating a worst-case homotopy for every nominal homotopy. In some embodiments, a method comprises: generating a first set of maneuvers to be performed by a vehicle in a scenario, the first set of maneuvers based on an expected behavior of at least one agent proximate to the vehicle; generating a second set of maneuvers to be performed by the vehicle, the second set of maneuvers based on worst case behavior of the at least one agent proximate to the vehicle; generating a set of candidate trajectories based on the first set of maneuvers and the second set of maneuvers; selecting a trajectory from the set of candidate trajectories; and generating, with the at least one processor, at least one control signal to operate the vehicle based on the selected trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Nathan Spielberg, Alexander Brown, Kevin C. Gall, Georgios Mamakoukas, Jesse Adam Miller, Boaz Cornelis Floor, Thomas Koelbaek Jespersen
  • Patent number: 12051118
    Abstract: A system may receive a first resource allocation request (associated with a first company) from a first entity. The system may determine that the first request is not associated with a risk relationship and arrange for it to be processed via a claim servicing entity. Information about the first request may then be routed to a request handler device for processing and a communication with a first graphical indication may be generated. The system may also receive a second resource allocation request (associated with the first company) from a second entity and determine that it is to be processed via a risk. The system may then route information about the second request to a request handler device for processing and generate a communication with a second graphical indication. Note that the request handler device may be the same device that received the information about the first request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: HARTFORD FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
    Inventors: Erik R. Lord, Thomas F. Morgan, Brian L. Fresher, Armand J. Minutillo, Cynthia D Finley, Marie C. Norcia, Jonathan Brown, Willis D Schmidt, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20240193381
    Abstract: Radio-frequency identification (RFID) systems use readers to query and locate passive RFID tags in stores, warehouses, and other environments. A signal from the reader powers up the tag, which modulates and backscatters the signal toward the reader. Unfortunately, the maximum permitted RF signal power, self-interference at the reader, tag sensitivity, and channel loss limit the range at which readers can detect and locate tags. Using multiple readers simultaneously circumvents these limits. When used together, each reader transmits a signal to a tag in turn, and all of the readers listen for each of the tag's responses. The readers that are not transmitting do not experience self-interference and so can detect responses at lower power levels (longer ranges). Because the readers are at different locations, they measure different angles of arrival (AOAs) for each response. These simultaneous measurements can be used to locate each tag faster and with higher fidelity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Automaton, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Brown, III, Joe Mueller, Adam Blair, Spencer Hewett, Prokopios Panagiotou
  • Patent number: 12000143
    Abstract: A modular wall system includes a leveler disposed within a wall module. The leveler includes a base to which floor interfacing members of the modular wall system connect. As the leveler adjusts the height of the wall module, the base to which the floor interfacing members attach remain stationary. During installation, the bottom edges of the floor interfacing members can be trimmed to form a consistent gap below the floor interfacing members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DIRTT ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD.
    Inventors: Geoff W. Gosling, Thomas A. Brown, Jeremy J. Klaas
  • Patent number: 12000144
    Abstract: A pre-fabricated wall system that joins wall modules of different thicknesses can include a thin wall module having a depth defined by a distance from a front face thereof to a back face thereof, a thick wall module having a depth that is greater than the depth of the thin wall module, and a vertical connection post. The vertical connection post can include a first connection interface on a first side configured to secure to the thin wall module and a second connection interface on a second side opposite the first side configured to secure to the thick wall module. The thin wall module and the thick wall module can be arranged parallel or co-planar to None another when both the thin wall module and the thick wall module are secured to the vertical connection post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: DIRTT ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD.
    Inventors: Geoff W. Gosling, Colin V. Blehm, Thomas A. Brown, Taylor W. Merchant
  • Publication number: 20240176090
    Abstract: Aspects and techniques of the present disclosure relate to a cable sealing structure comprising a cable sealing body including a gel and methods of making anisotropic behavior in cable sealing structures made with a dry silicone gel. In one aspect, various three-dimensional printing techniques are used to make a cable sealing structure that includes a gel. The cable sealing body has a construction that elastically deforms to apply an elastic spring load to the gel. The cable sealing body has a construction with anisotropic deformation characteristics that allows the cable sealing body to be less deformable in one direction than in others. The cable sealing structure can be utilized to seal fiber optic cables more uniformly while limiting the potential of leakage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicants: CommScope Technologies LLC, CommScope Connectivity Belgium BVBA
    Inventors: Christiaan RADELET, Thierry Mike DECLERCK, Gary William ADAMS, Matthew Peter GALLA, Roel Modest Willy BRYON, Dirk KEMPENEERS, Robert VANHENTENRIJK, Danny Willy August VERHEYDEN, David Thomas BROWN, Michael MARIS, Julian S. MULLANEY, Valja EVERAERT, Hans BOLS
  • Patent number: 11987979
    Abstract: A leveling stud includes a threaded body extending between a top end and a bottom end thereof. The bottom end has a flat bottom surface and a dig protrusion extending from a portion of the flat bottom surface. The dig protrusion is configured to dig into a channel surface of a base track of a prefabricated wall system when the leveling stud is threaded into a positioning nut of the base track. The flat bottom surface is also configured to abut the channel surface when the leveling stud is threaded into the positioning nut.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: DIRTT ENVIRONMENTAL SOLUTIONS LTD.
    Inventors: Geoff W. Gosling, Thomas A. Brown, Jeremy J. Klaas