Patents by Inventor Thomas Frederick

Thomas Frederick 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).

  • Patent number: 12205189
    Abstract: The system is disclosed for visual marking sensitive documents for leak prevention. Each time an action is taken with regard to a document (e.g., creation, viewing, downloading), that action is added to a distributed ledger, essentially creating a unique hash for a new instance of the document. This new hash is visually embedded in the document as a code comprising a plurality of differently shaded pixels, wherein some of the pixels directly encode information regarding the document (e.g., an account that generated the new instance of the document, a date, a time, a unique ID for the document, etc.) and some of the pixels do not encode information. The code is capable of being scanned either digitally or physically on a printed version of the document, such that the immediate source of the document, corresponding to who leaked the document, is able to be discerned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Equity Shift, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Gregory Frederick Bush
  • Patent number: 12205172
    Abstract: Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Equity Shift, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Marshall Gordon, III, Gregory Frederick Bush
  • Patent number: 12171512
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Also disclosed are various medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a surgical robotic device having an elongate device body, a right robotic arm coupled to a right shoulder assembly, and a left robotic arm coupled to a left shoulder assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Jack Mondry, Shane Farritor, Eric Markvicka, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels
  • Publication number: 20240407804
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein relate to systems, devices, and/or methods relating to surgical procedures, and more specifically for accessing an insufflated cavity of a patient and/or positioning surgical systems or devices into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick, Shane Farritor, Jack Mondry, Eric Markvicka, Dmitry Oleynikov, Jacob Greenburg
  • Publication number: 20240398494
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various robotic and/or in vivo medical devices having compact joint configurations and at least three degrees of freedom. Other embodiments relate to various medical device components, including forearms having grasper or cautery end effectors, that can be incorporated into certain robotic and/or in vivo medical devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Thomas Frederick, Lou Cubrich
  • Patent number: 12122206
    Abstract: Example illustrations are directed to a suspension system for a vehicle and methods. In some examples, a controller of a suspension system is configured to determine the vehicle is in a service environment, and to set a height precision mode for the suspension system based on the determination the vehicle is in the service environment. In some examples, the controller is configured to detect a suspension operating condition of the vehicle, and to change a setting associated with the suspension system based on the suspension operating condition. An example method comprises detecting, using a controller, a suspension operating condition of a suspension system of a vehicle. The method may further include changing, using the controller, a setting associated with the suspension system based upon the suspension operating condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: RIVIAN IP HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Abdallah, Mark George Milne, Jay Dixit, Derrick Michael Tan
  • Patent number: 12090367
    Abstract: Protective eyewear comprising a pair of eye pieces, each defining one of two opposing inner lateral surfaces spaced by a nose bridge. At least one of the inner lateral surfaces comprises a slot for slidably and releasably engaging a locating rib provided on said nose bridge. Said slot comprises a slot locking element and said nose bridge comprises a nose bridge locking element. In a use configuration with the locating rib of the nose bridge engaged within the slot, the slot locking element and the nose bridge locking element cooperate within said slot to releasably secure the locating rib within the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SPEEDO INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Nathan Tomlinson, Chris Johnson, Thomas Frederick Osman
  • Patent number: 12051630
    Abstract: A method of plasma-assisted semiconductor processing in multiple stations in a process chamber is provided. The method comprises: a) providing substrates at each of the multiple stations; b) distributing RF power to multiple stations to thereby generate a plasma in the station, wherein the RF power is distributed according to a RF power parameter that is adjusted to reduce station to station variations; c) tuning a frequency of the RF power, wherein tuning the frequency includes: i) measuring a current of the plasma; ii) determining, according to the current measured in (i), a change to the frequency of the RF power, and iii) adjusting the frequency of the RF power; and d) performing a semiconductor processing operation on the substrate at each station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Sunil Kapoor, Thomas Frederick
  • Publication number: 20240217504
    Abstract: Systems and methods for brake pad control based on surface roughness are provided. A system can determine a value of roughness associated with traversal of a surface by a vehicle. The system can generate, based on the value of roughness, an instruction to actuate a brake of a wheel of the vehicle to reduce an amount of separation between a rotor of the brake and a pad of the brake. The system can facilitate, based on the instruction, actuation of the brake of the wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Jared Sallee, Werner Roland Naegeli, William Jang, Somphone Khamly, Michael Fei-Kit Tung, Thomas Frederick Abdallah
  • Publication number: 20240096598
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for measuring capacitance are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Sunil Kapoor, Thomas Frederick
  • Publication number: 20240041546
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Also disclosed are various medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a surgical robotic device having an elongate device body, a right robotic arm coupled to a right shoulder assembly, and a left robotic arm coupled to a left shoulder assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Jack Mondry, Shane Farritor, Eric Markvicka, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels
  • Publication number: 20240033022
    Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to improved robotic surgical systems, including robotic surgical devices having improved arm components and/or biometric sensors, contact detection systems for robotic surgical devices, gross positioning systems and devices for use in robotic surgical systems, and improved external controllers and consoles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels, Eric Markvicka, Jack Mondry
  • Patent number: 11883065
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein relate to systems, devices, and/or methods relating to surgical procedures, and more specifically for accessing an insufflated cavity of a patient and/or positioning surgical systems or devices into the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick, Shane Farritor, Jack Mondry, Eric Markvicka, Dmitry Oleynikov, Jacob Greenburg
  • Patent number: 11881381
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus of plasma-assisted semiconductor processing is provided. The method comprises: a) providing substrates at each of the multiple stations; b) distributing RF power including a first target frequency to multiple stations to thereby generate a plasma in the stations, wherein the RF power is distributed according to a RF power parameter configured to reduce station to station variations; c) tuning an impedance matching circuit for a first station included in the multiple stations while distributing RF power to the first station by: i) measuring a capacitance of a capacitor in the impedance matching circuit without disconnecting the capacitor from the impedance matching circuit; and ii) adjusting, according to the capacitance measured in (i) and the RF power parameter, a capacitance of the capacitor; and d) performing a semiconductor processing operation on the substrate at each station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Lam Research Corporation
    Inventors: Sunil Kapoor, Thomas Frederick
  • Patent number: 11819299
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices. Also disclosed are various medical devices for in vivo medical procedures. Included herein, for example, is a surgical robotic device having an elongate device body, a right robotic arm coupled to a right shoulder assembly, and a left robotic arm coupled to a left shoulder assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Jack Mondry, Shane Farritor, Eric Markvicka, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels
  • Patent number: 11825156
    Abstract: To perform evidentiary analysis on media files generated by a video surveillance system, a media file is analyzed to determine the format of the media file. Information about that format is used to decode media files from that video surveillance system into separate streams of media data. A computer system assists a person in defining logical parameters that can be used to parse and decode a media file of a particular type and outputs corresponding format data. The format data includes data that instructs a decoder how to decode media files of that type. A second computer system that provides analysis tools includes the decoder, which receives one or more media files of a particular type and corresponding format data for that type. The second computer system can access and process each of the separate streams individually for playback or other image or media processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Axon Enterprise, Inc.
    Inventor: Andrew Thomas Fredericks
  • Patent number: 11818050
    Abstract: A traffic shaping circuit regulates packets transferred by a transmission resource into a network (e.g., a network on a chip) on behalf of a client. The packet transfers are selectively enabled or disabled based on a current budget value. The budget value is modified based on a packet-transfer cost in response to transferring a packet into the network. The rate of packet transfers into the network is monitored. A cost-adjustment signal is generated based on the rate of packet transfers. The packet-transfer cost is modified in response to the cost-adjustment signal for accounting for a subsequent-packet transfer into the network. The cost-adjustment signal may indicate an increase or decrease of the packet-transfer cost and/or a budget limit, both of which are read from a cost table comprising records ordered based on respective packet-transfer cost values. The packet-transfer cost and/or a budget limit are configurable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Detwiler, Thomas Abner Basnight, Suraj Balasubramanian
  • Patent number: 11806097
    Abstract: The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to improved robotic surgical systems, including robotic surgical devices having improved arm components and/or biometric sensors, contact detection systems for robotic surgical devices, gross positioning systems and devices for use in robotic surgical systems, and improved external controllers and consoles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels, Eric Markvicka, Jack Mondry
  • Patent number: 11727018
    Abstract: A social networking system provides a user with a feed of content items associated with other users connected to the user via the social networking system. Additionally, the social networking system identifies additional content items for presentation to the user and generates an additional feed including the additional content items. The additional content items may be determined by identifying content items having various characteristics and scoring the content items based on the characteristics. Content items having at least a threshold score are identified as additional content items. Examples of characteristics of content items include users providing content items to the social networking system, locations associated with social networking system users, and interaction with content items by social networking system users. In some embodiments, the additional feed modifies presentation of the additional content items based on their associated scores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Adrien Thomas Friggeri, Japinder Singh, Thomas Frederick Dimson, Gregor Hochmuth
  • Patent number: 11688072
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a landscape video to be presented in a vertical orientation through a display screen of a computing device. Frames of the landscape video can be cropped to allow for full screen presentation of the landscape video in the vertical orientation. The cropped frames of the landscape video can be provided for presentation through the display screen of the computing device in the vertical orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Ian McIntyre Silber, Ryan Keenan Olson