Patents by Inventor Thomas Ellis

Thomas Ellis 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: 20260170289
    Abstract: An LLM assisted-curation, hallucination-free, content generation system is provided. The system may include a user-facing system and a content management system. The user-facing system may receive and respond to questions via a chatbot user interface linked to a production chatbot system. Questions corresponding to responses in need of improvement are electronically transmitted to an LLM within the content management system. The LLM communicates with an information repository to retrieve data relating to the responses in need of improvement. The LLM, constrained by the retrieved data, generates improved answers to the questions. The improved answers are displayed to a content editor via a content management user interface. Upon receipt of approval by the content editor, the improved answers are electronically transmitted to the production chatbot system with which to respond to users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: June 18, 2026
    Inventors: John C. O'Keefe, Thomas Ellis, Hari Gopalkrishnan, Priyank Shah, Chris Welles, Sushil Golani, Tara Daniels, Christine Peli, Claire M. Keith, Jennifer L. Mayo, Richard G. Hille
  • Patent number: 11888164
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a battery, comprising an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte disposed between the anode and the cathode, a halogen in contact with the cathode, and a metal in contact with the anode, wherein the halogen is in contact with a polymeric halogen sequestering agent (HSA) which is a polymer comprising a moiety capable of sequestering the halogen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Gelion Technologies Pty Ltd
    Inventors: Thomas Maschmeyer, Nathan Coad, Thomas Ellis, Shufeng Zhao, Brian Stanley Hawkett, Duc Ngoc Nguyen, The Vien Huynh
  • Publication number: 20220059846
    Abstract: The present specification relates to a battery, comprising an anode, a cathode, an electrolyte disposed between the anode and the cathode, a halogen in contact with the cathode, and a metal in contact with the anode, wherein the halogen is in contact with a polymeric halogen sequestering agent (HSA) which is a polymer comprising a moiety capable of sequestering the halogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: THOMAS MASCHMEYER, NATHAN COAD, THOMAS ELLIS, SHUFENG ZHAO, BRIAN STANLEY HAWKETT, DUC NGOC NGUYEN, THE VIEN HUYNH
  • Publication number: 20200157487
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a system and method for control of at least one bioreactor, other cell cultivation-related equipment, and systems containing any combination of these in a plant. For example, a Plant-Wide Control System (PWCS) or a Process Control System (PCS) may be divided into three main components: hardware (including operating systems, such as a controller communicating with one or more servers of a network associated with the PWCS, (2) software (such as a control module) for performing control, and (3) one or more instrument control loops, which may be used by the software to maintain certain process values. Moreover, a Height Equivalent of a Theoretical Plate (HETP) value and an asymmetry factor may be determined based on real-time analysis on a chromatography column, using PWCS components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Rex POLLEY, Matthew Sarcopski, Robert Horton, Thomas Ellis, Paul Pease, John Chapin
  • Patent number: 10570363
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a system and method for control of at least one bioreactor, other cell cultivation-related equipment, and systems containing any combination of these in a plant. For example, a Plant-Wide Control System (PWCS) or a Process Control System (PCS) may be divided into three main components: hardware (including operating systems, such as a controller communicating with one or more servers of a network associated with the PWCS, (2) software (such as a control module) for performing control, and (3) one or more instrument control loops, which may be used by the software to maintain certain process values. Moreover, a Height Equivalent of a Theoretical Plate (HETP) value and an asymmetry factor may be determined based on real-time analysis on a chromatography column, using PWCS components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Lonza Ltd.
    Inventors: Rex Polley, Matthew Sarcopski, Robert Horton, Thomas Ellis, Paul Pease, John Chapin
  • Publication number: 20170107476
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a system and method for control of at least one bioreactor, other cell cultivation-related equipment, and systems containing any combination of these in a plant. For example, a Plant-Wide Control System (PWCS) or a Process Control System (PCS) may be divided into three main components: hardware (including operating systems, such as a controller communicating with one or more servers of a network associated with the PWCS, (2) software (such as a control module) for performing control, and (3) one or more instrument control loops, which may be used by the software to maintain certain process values. Moreover, a Height Equivalent of a Theoretical Plate (HETP) value and an asymmetry factor may be determined based on real-time analysis on a chromatography column, using PWCS components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Rex POLLEY, Matthew SARCOPSKI, Robert HORTON, Thomas ELLIS, Paul PEASE, John CHAPIN
  • Patent number: 7892040
    Abstract: Communications connectors having a plurality of signal carrying paths include a printed circuit board and a plurality of contacts. The printed circuit board has a plurality of contact pads, a plurality of output terminals, and a plurality of conductive paths that electrically connect at least some of the plurality of contact pads to respective ones of the plurality of output terminals. The contacts each have a plug contact region. In these connectors, a first of the plurality of signal carrying paths extends from the plug contact region of a first of the plurality of contacts to a first of the plurality of output terminals through a first of the contact pads and a first of the conductive paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2011
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Michael Walter Canning, Troy Long, Ron Guelden
  • Publication number: 20090298341
    Abstract: Communications connectors having a plurality of signal carrying paths include a printed circuit board and a plurality of contacts. The printed circuit board has a plurality of contact pads, a plurality of output terminals, and a plurality of conductive paths that electrically connect at least some of the plurality of contact pads to respective ones of the plurality of output terminals. The contacts each have a plug contact region. In these connectors, a first of the plurality of signal carrying paths extends from the plug contact region of a first of the plurality of contacts to a first of the plurality of output terminals through a first of the contact pads and a first of the conductive paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2009
    Publication date: December 3, 2009
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Michael Walter Canning, Troy Long, Ron Guelden
  • Patent number: 7591686
    Abstract: Communications connectors having a plurality of signal carrying paths include a printed circuit board and a plurality of contacts. The printed circuit board has a plurality of contact pads, a plurality of output terminals, and a plurality of conductive paths that electrically connect at least some of the plurality of contact pads to respective ones of the plurality of output terminals. The contacts each have a plug contact region. In these connectors, a first of the plurality of signal carrying paths extends from the plug contact region of a first of the plurality of contacts to a first of the plurality of output terminals through a first of the contact pads and a first of the conductive paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Michael Walter Canning, Troy Long, Ron Guelden
  • Patent number: 7381097
    Abstract: Communications connectors that include parasitic conductive loops are provided, such as a wire connection system that includes a first pair of wire connection terminals mounted in a mounting substrate, a second pair of wire connection terminals mounted in a mounting substrate and a parasitic conductive loop mounted adjacent at least the first pair of wire connection terminals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2008
    Assignee: CommScope, Inc. of North Carolina
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Derek Scarbrough
  • Publication number: 20070276094
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thermoplastic polyolefin composition having improved adhesion to applied polymeric foams or coatings, the composition comprising (a) polypropylene, (b) a hydrogenated copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and an alkylene compound, comprising (i) from 1 to no more than 30% by weight of vinyl aromatic residues, based on the weight of the copolymer, and (ii) at least 55% by weight of alkylene residues that are C4 or higher, based on total alkylene content of copolymer (b) prior to hydrogenation, (c) a functionalized polyolefin, and (d) a monoamine terminated polyalkylene oxide. In one embodiment, the functionalized polyolefin (c) and monoamine terminated polyalkylene oxide (d) form an adduct that is thermodynamically miscible with the copolymer (b) at adduct:copolymer (b) ratios of from 0.1:9.9 to 9.9:0.1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 29, 2007
    Inventors: Srimannarayana Kakarala, Thomas Ellis
  • Publication number: 20070265396
    Abstract: Disclosed is a thermoplastic polyolefin composition having a reduced melt viscosity, (a) polypropylene, (b) a hydrogenated copolymer of a vinyl aromatic compound and an alkylene compound, comprising (i) from 1 to no more than 30% by weight of vinyl aromatic residues, based on the weight of the copolymer, and (ii) at least 60% by weight of alkylene residues that are C4 or higher, based on the weight of the copolymer, and a processing oil (f).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2007
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Inventors: Srimannarayana Kakarala, Thomas Ellis, Ralph Bankston
  • Publication number: 20070243728
    Abstract: Communications connectors having a plurality of signal carrying paths include a printed circuit board and a plurality of contacts. The printed circuit board has a plurality of contact pads, a plurality of output terminals, and a plurality of conductive paths that electrically connect at least some of the plurality of contact pads to respective ones of the plurality of output terminals. The contacts each have a plug contact region. In these connectors, a first of the plurality of signal carrying paths extends from the plug contact region of a first of the plurality of contacts to a first of the plurality of output terminals through a first of the contact pads and a first of the conductive paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Publication date: October 18, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Michael Canning, Troy Long, Ron Guelden
  • Publication number: 20070173103
    Abstract: Communications connectors that include parasitic conductive loops are provided, such as a wire connection system that includes a first pair of wire connection terminals mounted in a mounting substrate, a second pair of wire connection terminals mounted in a mounting substrate and a parasitic conductive loop mounted adjacent at least the first pair of wire connection terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2006
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Derek Scarbrough
  • Publication number: 20070123883
    Abstract: Systems, including methods, apparatus, and kits, for fixing bones, such as rib bones, with bone plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2006
    Publication date: May 31, 2007
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Joel Gillard
  • Patent number: 7201618
    Abstract: A telecommunications connector includes first and second pairs of electrical conductors. The first and second pairs of conductors are arranged in one region of the connector such that one conductor of the first pair is selectively positioned to be closer to both of the conductors of the second pair than is the other conductor of the first pair, and such that the one conductor of the first pair couples a common mode signal of a first polarity onto the conductors of the second pair. In another region of the connector the other conductor of the first pair is selectively positioned to be closer to both of the conductors of the second pair to asymmetrically couple a common mode signal of a second polarity onto the conductors of the second pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2007
    Assignee: CommScope Solutions Properties, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Wayne Larsen, Amid I. Hashim, Julian Pharney
  • Publication number: 20060229556
    Abstract: The present invention is a safety syringe for use with a plurality of interchangeable needles. The plurality of needles may be inserted by the user into the safety syringe for use. In operations, the user selects the desired needle, e.g., a needle having a particular gauge or size or of a particular type. The user inserts the needle (14) into a safety syringe (10) comprising a barrel (6), a needle assembly area (18) located within or attached to the barrel and a plunger (66). The needle couples to the syringe by a number of means. For instance, a locking mechanism (20, 22) may be used by which a needle hub located within the needle assembly has an area adapted to mate with a corresponding area on the needle. Or, the needle may be formed as part of a separate needle assembly, whereby the user will place the entire needle assembly onto the end of the syringe barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2006
    Publication date: October 12, 2006
    Applicant: MedSafe Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Pressly, Charles Vaughn, G. Brockway, Thomas Ellis
  • Publication number: 20060189215
    Abstract: A telecommunications connector includes first and second pairs of electrical conductors. The first and second pairs of conductors are arranged in one region of the connector such that one conductor of the first pair is selectively positioned to be closer to both of the conductors of the second pair than is the other conductor of the first pair, and such that the one conductor of the first pair couples a common mode signal of a first polarity onto the conductors of the second pair. In another region of the connector the other conductor of the first pair is selectively positioned to be closer to both of the conductors of the second pair to asymmetrically couple a common mode signal of a second polarity onto the conductors of the second pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Publication date: August 24, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Ellis, Wayne Larsen, Amid Hashim, Julian Pharney
  • Publication number: 20060123733
    Abstract: A metal roof truss assembly is provided comprising a plurality of elongated structural members, including a top chord, a bottom chord, and a web member. Each structural member comprises a planar base and planar legs extending from the longitudinal edges of the base. The base and the legs define an open longitudinal channel. A flange integral with the longitudinal edges of each leg has a planar first portion extending outwardly from the legs and a planar second portion extending from the longitudinal edges of the first portion of the flanges. The end of a first structural member is inserted into the channel defined by the legs and the base of a second structural member. The inserted end of the first structural member has no flanges for a length equal to at least the depth to which the first structural member is received in the channel of the second structural member so that the outer surface of the legs of the first structural member are adjacent the inner surface of the legs of the second structural member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2004
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Donald Moody, Courtney Hanson, Thomas Ellis
  • Publication number: 20060122564
    Abstract: A syringe apparatus and process for using the same is provided, the syringe apparatus having a barrel, a plunger movable within the barrel, a needle assembly attached to an end of the barrel and having a passageway therethrough, a deformable base positioned within the barrel, flexible supports included on the deformable base, a spring within the passageway of the needle assembly, a hollow needle passing through the passageway, an enlarged head on the needle, and a rupturable web on an end of the plunger, whereby when the plunger moves through the barrel toward the needle assembly, a fluid can be moved from the barrel through the hollow of the needle, and continued movement of the plunger flexes the supports and moves the deformable base downwardly until such time a sufficient force is imparted to the rupturable web by the enlarged head to tear the web, the deformable base then releasing the needle due to force applied by the spring to project the needle into the interior of the plunger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Applicant: MedSafe Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William Pressly, Charles Vaughn, G. Brockway, Thomas Ellis