Patents by Inventor Thomas Francis

Thomas Francis 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: 20240411766
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements to data aggregation related to artificial intelligence applications, specifically applications related to aggregating time-series data. As one example, systems and methods are described herein for predicting effects when aggregating time-series data and modifying the one or more data streams used to populate a model profile and/or feed an artificial intelligence application with the time-series data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Applicant: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ernst Wilhelm Spannhake, II, Thomas Francis Gianelle, Milan Shah
  • Patent number: 12166789
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and products are configured for receiving a request from a first electronic device to connect to a first network and determining an electronic communication protocol of the first electronic device. A database can be queried to identify a communication protocol restriction corresponding to the electronic communication protocol of the first electronic device and connecting the first electronic device to a subnetwork. Continuous monitoring of data traffic can be performed to identify data packets transmitted from the first electronic device to a second electronic device can be performed, and, upon identifying at least one data packet transmitted from the first electronic device to the second electronic device, the connection between the first electronic device and the second electronic device can be terminated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ryan Russell, Thomas Francis Powers
  • Patent number: 12164525
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements to data aggregation related to artificial intelligence applications, specifically applications related to aggregating time-series data. As one example, systems and methods are described herein for predicting effects when aggregating time-series data and modifying the one or more data streams used to populate a model profile and/or feed an artificial intelligence application with the time-series data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ernst Wilhelm Spannhake, II, Thomas Francis Gianelle, Milan Shah
  • Publication number: 20240394785
    Abstract: A system includes location indicators, a central computing system, and a mobile scanning device. The location indicators transmit location signals and are arranged in a store that includes stocked items. The central computing system stores an item association table that maps location values to the stocked items. The location values indicate locations of the stocked items in the store. The mobile scanning device receives ordered items from the central computing system, detects location signal(s), and determines a first location value based on the detected location signal(s). The mobile scanning device arranges the ordered items on a display based on the first location value, scans a first ordered item, and transmits data to the central computing system indicating that the first ordered item is associated with the first location value. The central computing system updates the item association table based on the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Francis
  • Publication number: 20240365784
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula 1, including all geometric and stereoisomers, N-oxides, and salts thereof, wherein R1, A, R2, R4, R5, L and Q are as defined in the disclosure. Also disclosed are compositions containing the compounds of Formula 1 and methods for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising contacting the invertebrate pest or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound or a composition of the disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ming XU, Thomas Francis PAHUTSKI, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20240361335
    Abstract: Given a set of therapeutic epitopes, a cassette sequence is designed to reduce the likelihood that junction epitopes are presented in the patient. The cassette sequence is designed by taking into account presentation of junction epitopes that span the junction between a pair of therapeutic epitopes in the cassette. The cassette sequence may be designed based on a set of distance metrics each associated with a junction of the cassette. The distance metric may specify a likelihood that one or more of the junction epitopes spanning between a pair of adjacent epitopes will be presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Thomas Francis Boucher, Roman Yelensky, Jennifer Busby
  • Patent number: 12118126
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method for providing simplified user management within a software application, the method including: receiving, within a user management interface of the software application, input from an editing user to perform an action corresponding to a user within the software application, wherein the action comprises modifying the user within the software application; validating, within the software application, the editing user is authorized to perform the action within the software application, wherein the validating includes determining the editing user is an existing user within the software application and determining the user is associated with the editing user; and performing, responsive to validating the editing user is authorized to perform the action, the action with respect to the user in the software application. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: TeleTracking Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Prabhuvel Kandaswamy, Manoj Srinivas Kamavarapu, Timothy Klaus Schruben, Thomas Francis Havranek, Jr., Scott Joseph Jubeck, Jeanne C. Iasella
  • Publication number: 20240330299
    Abstract: An interwoven approximate membership query (AMQ) data structure interweaves multiple AMQ data sets. The interwoven AMQ data structure collapses the AMQ data sets into a composite membership representation. The interwoven AMQ data structure still represents a computer database, but the interwoven AMQ data structure yields far faster membership results. The interwoven AMQ data structure requires orders of magnitude less data reads. Memory allocation is reduced, processor cycles are reduced, input/output operations are reduced, and translations from kernel space to user space are reduced. The interwoven AMQ data structure greatly improves computer functioning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: CrowdStrike, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Francis Lyons
  • Publication number: 20240330726
    Abstract: An array of quantum dot qubits (e.g., an array of spin qubits) relies on a gradient magnetic field to ensure that the qubits are separated in frequency in order to be individually addressable. Furthermore, a strong magnetic field gradient is required to electrically drive the electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) of the qubits. Quantum dot devices disclosed herein use microcoil arrangements for providing a gradient magnetic field, the microcoil arrangements integrated on the same chip (e.g., on the same die or wafer) as quantum dot qubits themselves. Unlike previous approaches to quantum dot formation and manipulation, various embodiments of the quantum dot devices disclosed herein may enable improved control over magnetic fields and their gradients to realize better frequency targeting of individual qubits, help minimize adverse effects of charge noise on qubit decoherence and provide good scalability in the number of quantum dots included in the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Luethi, Hubert C. George, Felix Frederic Leonhard Borjans, Simon Schaal, Lester Lampert, Thomas Francis Watson, Jeanette M. Roberts, Jong Seok Park, Sushil Subramanian, Stefano Pellerano
  • Patent number: 12097657
    Abstract: A three-dimensional structure is formed when layers of a material are deposited onto a substrate and scanned with a high energy beam to at least partially melt each layer of the material. Upon scanning the layers at predetermined locations at least a first segment overlapping a second segment and underlapping a third segment is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Francis McCarthy, Brock Miller, Robin Stamp, Yuri Zaitsev, Robert W. Klein, Marc Esformes, David Markel, Amit Mistry, Joseph Robinson
  • Publication number: 20240303594
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of location indicators for arrangement throughout a store that includes a plurality of stocked items. Each of the location indicators defines a different area of the store. The system includes a computing system configured to generate a location map that defines a plurality of sections in the store. Each section includes a plurality of areas of the store defined by different location indicators. The location map defines how the sections and the areas are arranged. The system includes a mobile scanning device that is configured to wirelessly receive an electronic customer order including a plurality of ordered items. The mobile scanning device determines a location value associated with a location indicator and arranges at least some of the plurality of ordered items on the display based on the determined location value and the location map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Francis
  • Publication number: 20240285251
    Abstract: Systems and methods for non-invasively measuring intracranial in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for estimating an intracranial pressure of a patient, including introducing a tracer into the blood of a patient, recording, using an imaging device, the traversal of the tracer through a brain of the patient as a kinetic curve, estimating a mean transit time (MTT) of the tracer through the brain of the patient based on the kinetic curve, measuring a mean arterial pressure (MAP) of the patient, calculating an intracranial pressure index as MAP?Ck/MTT, where C is a constant to scale proportional relationships based on healthy patient population characteristics, and k is a constant in pressure/time, and providing the intracranial pressure index. In various embodiments, regions of the brain unaffected by transient vascular abnormalities are identified and are used for data collection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Applicant: BURL Concepts, Inc.
    Inventors: Thilo Hoelscher, Thomas Francis Doyle, Mark Banham
  • Patent number: 12074235
    Abstract: Transparent, electrically conductive vanadium oxide-based perovskite films and methods of making the vanadium oxide-based perovskite films are provided. Transparent conducting vanadate perovskites are made by forming a layer of amorphous vanadate perovskite precursor around a plurality of nanoscale, crystalline, perovskite oxide seeds and heating the layer of amorphous vanadate perovskite precursor at a temperature that favors lateral vanadate perovskite crystal growth from the perovskite oxide seeds over homogeneous crystal nucleation within the layer of amorphous vanadate perovskite precursor material. The crystallization processes can form the desired vanadate perovskite phase directly or via a transformation in a controlled gas environment from an initial crystallized vanadate perovskite phase that has a higher oxidation state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Paul Gregory Evans, Thomas Francis Kuech, Donald E. Savage, Yajin Chen, Samuel Marks
  • Patent number: 12073456
    Abstract: A system includes location indicators, a central computing system, and a mobile scanning device. The location indicators transmit location signals and are arranged in a store that includes stocked items. The central computing system stores an item association table that maps location values to the stocked items. The location values indicate locations of the stocked items in the store. The mobile scanning device receives ordered items from the central computing system, detects location signal(s), and determines a first location value based on the detected location signal(s). The mobile scanning device arranges the ordered items on a display based on the first location value, scans a first ordered item, and transmits data to the central computing system indicating that the first ordered item is associated with the first location value. The central computing system updates the item association table based on the data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Francis
  • Patent number: 12050966
    Abstract: An array of quantum dot qubits (e.g., an array of spin qubits) relies on a gradient magnetic field to ensure that the qubits are separated in frequency in order to be individually addressable. Furthermore, a strong magnetic field gradient is required to electrically drive the electric dipole spin resonance (EDSR) of the qubits. Quantum dot devices disclosed herein use microcoil arrangements for providing a gradient magnetic field, the microcoil arrangements integrated on the same chip (e.g., on the same die or wafer) as quantum dot qubits themselves. Unlike previous approaches to quantum dot formation and manipulation, various embodiments of the quantum dot devices disclosed herein may enable improved control over magnetic fields and their gradients to realize better frequency targeting of individual qubits, help minimize adverse effects of charge noise on qubit decoherence and provide good scalability in the number of quantum dots included in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Florian Luethi, Hubert C. George, Felix Frederic Leonhard Borjans, Simon Schaal, Lester Lampert, Thomas Francis Watson, Jeanette M. Roberts, Jong Seok Park, Sushil Subramanian, Stefano Pellerano
  • Publication number: 20240202588
    Abstract: The systems and methods may use one or more artificial intelligence models that predict an effect of a predicted event on a current state of the system. The systems and methods may use one or more artificial intelligence models that predict an effect and/or occurrence of a predicted event based on the current state of the system. In order to generate responses that are both timely and pertinent (e.g., in a dynamic fashion), the system must determine both quickly (i.e., in real-time or near real-time) and accurately the predicted event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ernst Wilhelm SPANNHAKE, II, Thomas Francis GIANELLE, Milan SHAH
  • Publication number: 20240193165
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements to data aggregation related to artificial intelligence applications, specifically applications related to aggregating time-series data. As one example, systems and methods are described herein for predicting effects when aggregating time-series data and modifying the one or more data streams used to populate a model profile and/or feed an artificial intelligence application with the time-series data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Citibank, N.A.
    Inventors: Ernst Wilhelm SPANNHAKE, II, Thomas Francis GIANELLE, Milan SHAH
  • Patent number: 12004967
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for planning placement of an acetabular implant for a patient based on pelvic tilt. The system includes one or more sensors to be placed on the patient to provide measurements of a pelvic tilt angle of the patient taken with the patient in various functional positions to produce patient-specific data based on pelvic tilt from which to plan an inclination angle and a version angle of the acetabular implant for the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.
    Inventors: Thomas Francis McCarthy, Vincent Libranda Alipit
  • Publication number: 20240161060
    Abstract: A computing system receives a scheduled customer order and an unscheduled customer order from a first customer and a second customer, respectively. The scheduled order is associated with a pickup time at a store defined by the first customer. The unscheduled order is requested for immediate pickup by the second customer. A first picker mobile scanning device (MSD) and a second picker MSD are moved throughout the store by a first picker and a second picker, respectively. The computing system includes first picker data and second picker data indicating that the first picker MSD and the second picker MSD are configured to receive items from scheduled orders and unscheduled orders, respectively. The computing system is configured to assign items from the scheduled order and the unscheduled order to the first picker MSD and the second picker MSD based on the first picker data and the second picker data, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Francis
  • Publication number: 20240119411
    Abstract: Picker mobile scanning devices (MSDs) are associated with different pickers in a store. A computing system receives initial customer orders. The computing system assigns ordered items from the initial customer orders to the picker MSDs and stores a plurality of picker records, wherein each picker record includes data associated with a corresponding picker and picker MSD, and wherein each picker record includes an order limit number that indicates a number of different customer orders that can be assigned to the picker MSD. The computing system receives a new customer order including newly ordered items, determines a candidate set of pickers that have availability to receive newly ordered items based on the order limit numbers and a number of currently assigned customer orders associated with each of the pickers. The computing system selects a picker from the candidate set and assigns a set of newly ordered items to the selected picker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Francis