Patents by Inventor Thomas Fox
Thomas Fox 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).
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Publication number: 20240135271Abstract: Systems and methods to generate predicted variances of an operation based on data from one or more connected databases.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: American Airlines, Inc.Inventors: James Fox, Randeep Ramamurthy, Julianne Anderson, Arthur Busse, Marcial Lapp, Daniel Muzich, Thomas Trenga
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Publication number: 20240135270Abstract: Systems and methods to generate predicted variances of an operation based on data from one or more connected databases.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: American Airlines, Inc.Inventors: James Fox, Randeep Ramamurthy, Julianne Anderson, Arthur Busse, Marcial Lapp, Daniel Muzich, Thomas Trenga
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Publication number: 20240126980Abstract: Provided is a method for review of an XBRL document. An XBRL document is received followed by a request to create an XBRL review for the XBRL document. A selection of an XBRL fact included in the XBRL document is received and a first review status, of a plurality of review statuses, is applied to the selected XBRL fact. The selected XBRL fact is monitored to detect a change to the XBRL fact, and in response to detecting a change to the XBRL fact, the first review status of the XBRL fact is updated to a second review status of the plurality of review statuses.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: David Baker Winn, III, Thomas Joseph Wacha, Dana Andrew Oredson, Taylor Wertzberger, Kevin Fox, Shaun Brockhoff, Christopher Flores, Kirsten Baxter-Tjaden, Edward Joseph Cupps, Jason Carl Jones
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Publication number: 20240124198Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to contain and dispense a fluid, such as a thixotropic fluid. In some embodiments, a bottle having a closure cap includes a control device, a base, and a disk, where the base and disk define a mixing chamber configured to facilitate mixing of any serum or liquid separated from the fluid back therein. In some embodiments, a dispensing bottle includes a non-removable closure cap with a tamper evident feature that indicates whether the cap was previously opened. By one approach, the dispensing bottle includes discontinuous threads on a bottle neck and ratchet projections on a closure cap that engage the discontinuous thread(s) to prevent or inhibit manual removal of the cap from the bottle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Balint Hiltser, Guus Lueb, Charlotte Catherine Erik Devries, Kim Bertens-Vlems, Thomas Cox, Jamie Fox
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Patent number: 11954699Abstract: A computer based system for remapping prime class seat bookings is disclosed. The system remaps prime class bookings a floor class, or if the floor class is closed, into a higher, displacement class. Via remapping, airline systems, such as inventory management systems, revenue management systems, and the like, may better account for the true value of prime class bookings.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: AMERICAN AIRLINES, INC.Inventors: Jonathan Tracy, James Fox, Julianne Bowles, Michael Costello, Daniel Muzich, Thomas Trenga
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Publication number: 20240103492Abstract: A method for data transfer from a legacy system to a modernized application alternative to the legacy system is provided. A Robotic Process Automation (RPA) agent monitors incoming legacy payloads. The RPA agent creates an integration pathway from the legacy system to the modernized application alternative to the legacy system. The RPA agent intercepts the incoming legacy payloads using any of payload injection, cancellation, or workflow interruption by integrating the RPA agent at a User Interface (UI) or an Application Programming Interface (API) level. The RPA agent captures the incoming legacy payloads. The RPA agent executes a determination of heritage, modernized, or mixed origination. The method also includes installing, through the integration pathway under a control of the RPA agent, portions of the legacy system corresponding to the incoming legacy payloads into the modernized application alternative to the legacy system responsive to the determination of heritage, modernized, or mixed origination.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Melanie Dauber, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Spencer Thomas Reynolds, Jeremy R. Fox
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Publication number: 20240104831Abstract: One embodiment of a method for generating representations of scenes includes assigning each image included in a set of images of a scene to one or more clusters of images based on a camera pose associated with the image, and performing one or more operations to generate, for each cluster included in the one or more clusters, a corresponding three-dimensional (3D) representation of the scene based on one or more images assigned to the cluster.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Yen-Chen LIN, Valts BLUKIS, Dieter FOX, Alexander KELLER, Thomas MUELLER-HOEHNE, Jonathan TREMBLAY
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Patent number: 11932460Abstract: A tamper-evident closure is provided and includes a base and a lid. The lid is movable between a closed and an open position with respect to the base. The closure includes a tamper-evident member which is initially provided on or by the base with the closure in an unopened condition. The tamper-evident member is released from the base when the lid is initially moved to the open position and is then retained by the lid.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Obrist Closures Switzerland GmbHInventors: Jamie Fox, Thomas Cox
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Patent number: 11920538Abstract: An anti-polish ring for an internal combustion engine is provided. The anti-polish ring includes an axially extending ring portion that is configured to scrape a top portion of a piston in a cylinder liner. The anti-polish ring is configured to accommodate passage of an intake or exhaust valve thereby. The anti-polish ring may include an alignment feature so that the anti-polish ring is inserted in a predetermined orientation in the cylinder. The anti-polish ring may include a heat shield and/or a seating member.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Cummins Inc.Inventors: Owen Summerfield, Craig Daniel Fox, Robert Harries, Jamie Kehoe, Kent H. Clark, John M Antonevich, Reid M. Irish, Scott A. Ragon, Stephen G. Townsend, Peter Thomas Quanz
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Publication number: 20240073365Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure relate to web conference contact routing. An indication of a first participant device of a web conference attempting to contact a second participant device of the web conference can be received, where the second participant device is designated as a screen sharer within the web conference during a time of the contact and where the contact is configured to be received on a display shared in the web conference. Two or more candidate devices for routing the contact from the first participant device to can be identified. A candidate device of the two or more candidate devices for routing the contact from the first participant device to can be selected using a set of selection criteria. Contact from the first participant device can be routed to the selected candidate device instead of the display of the second participant device shared in the web conference.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Melanie Dauber, Zachary A. Silverstein, Jacob Ryan Jepperson, Jeremy R. Fox, Spencer Thomas Reynolds
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Patent number: 11390375Abstract: Control surface actuator assemblies, aircraft hydraulic systems including the same, and associated aircraft and methods. A control surface actuator assembly includes a flight control surface operatively coupled to a support structure, a torque-generating hydraulic actuator configured to apply a torque to pivot the flight control surface, and a variable horn radius (VHR) hydraulic actuator configured to vary an actuator moment arm length for pivoting the flight control surface. In some examples, an aircraft hydraulic system includes such control surface actuator assemblies, and an aircraft includes such aircraft hydraulic systems. In some examples, a method of operating one or more flight control surfaces of an aircraft includes controlling a selected flight control surface by adjusting, with a VHR hydraulic actuator, an actuator moment arm length corresponding to the selected flight control surface and pivoting, with a torque-generating hydraulic actuator, the selected flight control surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Jeffrey M. Roach
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Patent number: 11362541Abstract: Technologies for dynamic forecasting, aggregation, and validation may include circuitry configured to collect data indicative of power flows at multiple locations in an electrical grid, to receive one or more parameters for generation of a customized forecast indicative of predicted power flows associated with one or more of the multiple locations over a defined time period, to select a subset of the collected data that satisfies the one or more parameters, to produce a model to predict power flows in the electrical grid associated with the one or more locations, to determine whether the model is validated by determining whether a predicted production of power minus predicted losses is within a predefined range of a predicted consumption of power at the one or more locations, and to produce the customized forecast of predicted power flows associated with the one or more locations for the defined time period.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: HITACHI ENERGY SWITZERLAND AGInventors: Thomas Fox, Karl Eric Harper
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Patent number: 11286054Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft is disclosed, and includes a first propeller, a second propeller, a first hybrid propulsion system, a second hybrid propulsion system, and a cross-connecting clutch. The first hybrid propulsion system includes a first motor coupled to a first engine by a first overrunning clutch, where the first hybrid propulsion system is operably coupled to drive the first propeller. The second hybrid propulsion system includes a second motor coupled to a second engine by a second overrunning clutch, where the second hybrid propulsion system is operably coupled to drive the second propeller. The cross-connecting clutch is operably coupled to both the first hybrid propulsion system and the second hybrid propulsion system and configured to actuate into an engaged position.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Michael Thomas Fox
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Patent number: 11286206Abstract: The present application discloses various cementitious compositions that incorporate waste materials therein. In some embodiments, the waste materials incorporated in the compositions are mixed construction and demolition fines, including but not limited to small pieces of glass, wood, metal, drywall, cardboard, masonry, and other architectural material and waste materials. Various methods for using said compositions are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Material Solution Services, Inc.Inventors: Brian M. Hilliard, Michael C. Ciccone, Sr., Steven J. Kolbe, Deborah Staas-Haught, John Thomas Fox, Pan Ni, Kun Yang
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Patent number: 11180240Abstract: Inerters with friction disk assemblies, and aircraft hydraulic systems and aircraft including the same. An inerter comprises an inerter housing containing an inerter fluid, a threaded shaft extending within the inerter housing and fixed relative to the first terminal, and an inerter rod extending at least partially within the inerter housing and fixed relative to the second terminal. The inerter further includes a friction disk assembly that, together with the inerter fluid, is configured to damp a motion of the second terminal relative to the first terminal. The friction disk assembly includes a fixed portion and a rotating portion, and is configured such that rotation of the rotating portion generates a frictional torque that opposes the rotation of the rotating portion. In some examples, the inerter is a component of a hydraulic actuator, an aircraft hydraulic system including the hydraulic actuator, and/or an aircraft including the aircraft hydraulic system.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Michael Thomas Fox
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Publication number: 20210309348Abstract: Inerters with friction disk assemblies, and aircraft hydraulic systems and aircraft including the same. An inerter comprises an inerter housing containing an inerter fluid, a threaded shaft extending within the inerter housing and fixed relative to the first terminal, and an inerter rod extending at least partially within the inerter housing and fixed relative to the second terminal. The inerter further includes a friction disk assembly that, together with the inerter fluid, is configured to damp a motion of the second terminal relative to the first terminal. The friction disk assembly includes a fixed portion and a rotating portion, and is configured such that rotation of the rotating portion generates a frictional torque that opposes the rotation of the rotating portion. In some examples, the inerter is a component of a hydraulic actuator, an aircraft hydraulic system including the hydraulic actuator, and/or an aircraft including the aircraft hydraulic system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2020Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventor: Michael Thomas Fox
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Publication number: 20210276695Abstract: Control surface actuator assemblies, aircraft hydraulic systems including the same, and associated aircraft and methods. A control surface actuator assembly includes a flight control surface operatively coupled to a support structure, a torque-generating hydraulic actuator configured to apply a torque to pivot the flight control surface, and a variable horn radius (VHR) hydraulic actuator configured to vary an actuator moment arm length for pivoting the flight control surface. In some examples, an aircraft hydraulic system includes such control surface actuator assemblies, and an aircraft includes such aircraft hydraulic systems. In some examples, a method of operating one or more flight control surfaces of an aircraft includes controlling a selected flight control surface by adjusting, with a VHR hydraulic actuator, an actuator moment arm length corresponding to the selected flight control surface and pivoting, with a torque-generating hydraulic actuator, the selected flight control surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Jeffrey M. Roach
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Patent number: 11092212Abstract: A wire strainer including a drive means having a mounting block with a drum mounted for rotation relative thereto, and an actuation means connected to the drum for selectively causing the drum to rotate relative to the mounting block. A line member is operatively connected to the drum in a manner such that rotation of the drum in one direction causes the drum to pull the line member relative to the mounting block. Locking means is operatively connected to the mounting block and adapted to selectively lock the drum against rotation in the opposite direction. Gripping means is operatively connected to the mounting block, wherein the gripping means is adapted to be releasably attached to a wire to be strained. The line member includes securing means for releasably securing the line member to a strainer post or similar anchor.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: RURAL INNOVATIONS PTY LTDInventor: Richard Thomas Fox
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Patent number: 11072418Abstract: A hydraulic system for an aircraft. The hydraulic system can include a hydraulic actuator that is operatively coupled to a flight control member. Hydraulic fluid is moved through the hydraulic system by an engine driven pump that delivers hydraulic fluid to the actuator at a first pressure, and a boost pump that delivers hydraulic fluid to the actuator at a second pressure that is higher than the first pressure. The hydraulic system is configured such that the hydraulic fluid returning from the actuator to the engine driven pump can be delivered to the boost pump prior to reaching the engine driven pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
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Publication number: 20210101692Abstract: A propulsion system for an aircraft is disclosed, and includes a first propeller, a second propeller, a first hybrid propulsion system, a second hybrid propulsion system, and across-connecting clutch. The first hybrid propulsion system includes a first motor coupled to a first engine by a first overrunning clutch, where the first hybrid propulsion system is operably coupled to drive the first propeller. The second hybrid propulsion system includes a second motor coupled to a second engine by a second overrunning clutch, where the second hybrid propulsion system is operably coupled to drive the second propeller. The cross-connecting clutch is operably coupled to both the first hybrid propulsion system and the second hybrid propulsion system and configured to actuate into an engaged position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: April 8, 2021Inventor: Michael Thomas Fox