Patents by Inventor Thomas Browne

Thomas Browne 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: 20250030432
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems related to analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and in particular, to settling the reference voltage in an ADC and to settling the reference voltage in a time-interleaved arrangement of ADCs. A method of settling of a reference voltage in an ADC may include generating, on a reference voltage line, an analog reference voltage, and connecting, at the time of generating the analog reference voltage, a pre-charged capacitor of the ADC to the reference voltage line to reduce a voltage error during the generation of the analog reference voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas BROWN, Hariprasad CHANDRAKUMAR, Georgios DOGIAMIS, Benjamin HERSHBERG
  • Publication number: 20240412476
    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: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Mala Sivakumar, Thomas Brown, Karthik Krishnan
  • 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: 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
  • 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: 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
  • Publication number: 20240063136
    Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) device comprises an array comprising rows and columns of conductive interconnect pads. At least one optical alignment fiducial region is distinct from the array and comprises a fiducial pattern, wherein the fiducial pattern comprises a first group of pads contiguous to a second group of pads, and wherein a width of a space between nearest pads of the first and second groups is wider than the spaces between pads within each group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Haris Khan Niazi, Yi Shi, Adel Elsherbini, Xavier Brun, Georgios Dogiamis, Thomas Brown, Omkar Karhade
  • Patent number: 11844377
    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 filing module(s). Controller module(s) execute production instructions causing liquid formulations to be dispensed into user container(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Artesa Corp.
    Inventors: Joshua Thomas Brown, Thomas Robert Young, Robert Czarnek
  • Publication number: 20230298295
    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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Mala Sivakumar, Thomas Brown, Karthik Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20230241445
    Abstract: A barbell includes a central section having opposed ends, a mounting structure including first and second tubular members located at the ends of the central section and engaged with the first tubular member, and a second barbell section engaged with the second tubular member. The first barbell section includes a first bar portion having a first sleeve mounted thereon, and the first bar portion has a first proximal end received in the first central passage and connected to the first tubular member to connect the first barbell section to one end of the central section. The second barbell section includes a second bar portion having a second sleeve rotatably mounted thereon, and the second bar portion has a second proximal end received in the second central passage and connected to the second tubular member to connect the second barbell section to the other end of the central section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Nicolas Garcia, William Henniger, Ahmik Jones, Martin Pritchett, Charlie Tighe, Thomas Brown
  • Patent number: 11701058
    Abstract: A personal impact monitoring system is described herein comprising a monitoring station that receives impact events sent from personal impact monitors using a monitoring station receiver. The impact events which specify impact parameters associated with the impact events are stored in a data storage location associated with the monitoring station. Software operating on the operating station is configured to receive the impact events from the data storage location and to perform calculations based on the impact events to identify notable impact events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: i1 SENSORTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence V. Calcano, David Thomas Brown, Christopher C. Genau, David Ernest Snyder, James M. Stearns, Brian Michael Ronald, Jesse David Harper, John F. Harris
  • Publication number: 20230188675
    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: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Rung, Andrew Ambrose, Thomas Brown
  • Patent number: 11650269
    Abstract: Axial magnetic flux sensors are described. The axial magnetic flux sensors comprise multiple substrates with conductive traces on them in some embodiments, and in other embodiments a single substrate or no substrate. When multiple substrates are provided, the substrates couple together such that the conductive traces connect to form a coil. The coil may be a continuous, multi-loop coil. When the substrates are coupled together, they may define an opening to accommodate a shaft or other piece of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz, Christopher Thomas Brown
  • Publication number: 20230107383
    Abstract: A robotic surgery system includes an orienting platform, a manipulator, and a set-up linkage. The manipulator includes an instrument holder, a pitch linkage, and a yaw linkage. The instrument holder is operable to translate the surgical instrument along an insertion axis to insert the surgical instrument through a remote center of manipulation (RC). The pitch linkage is operable to rotate the instrument holder around a pitch axis that intersects the RC. The yaw linkage is operable to rotate the pitch linkage around a yaw axis. The set-up linkage is connected between the yaw linkage and the orienting platform. The set-up linkage is operable to reposition the manipulator relative to the orienting platform with a motion that maintains the RC in a fixed position relative to the orienting platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Bruce Michael Schena, Roman L. Devengenzo, Scott Luke, David Martin, Thomas G. Cooper, Thomas Brown
  • Publication number: 20230066970
    Abstract: Axial magnetic flux sensors are described. The axial magnetic flux sensors comprise multiple substrates with conductive traces on them in some embodiments, and in other embodiments a single substrate or no substrate. When multiple substrates are provided, the substrates couple together such that the conductive traces connect to form a coil. The coil may be a continuous, multi-loop coil. When the substrates are coupled together, they may define an opening to accommodate a shaft or other piece of equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Applicant: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Ephraim David Hurwitz, Christopher Thomas Brown
  • Patent number: 11594001
    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: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Rapiscan Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Mala Sivakumar, Thomas Brown, Karthik Krishnan
  • Patent number: 11576734
    Abstract: A robotic surgery system includes an orienting platform, a support linkage movably supporting the orienting platform, a plurality of surgical instrument manipulators, and a plurality of set-up linkages. Each of the manipulators includes an instrument holder and is operable to rotate the instrument holder around a remote center of manipulation (RC). At least one of the manipulators includes a reorientation mechanism that when actuated moves the attached manipulator through a motion that maintains the associated RC in a fixed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Bruce Michael Schena, Roman L. Devengenzo, Scott Luke, David Martin, Thomas G. Cooper, Thomas Brown
  • Patent number: D1064130
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Coulter Ventures, LLC.
    Inventors: Thomas Brown, William Henniger, Ahmik Jones, Martin Pritchett, Charlie Tighe
  • Patent number: D1069226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: AIR IP Holdings Limited
    Inventors: James Todd, Christopher Rowe, Thomas Brown, Jon Stafford, Paul Dawson