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).

  • Publication number: 20220067084
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • Patent number: 11263239
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a set of labels associated with a set of content items. Each label in the set of labels can be associated with at least one content item in the set of content items. It can be determined that at least two labels, out of the set of labels, are related. The at least two labels can be determined to be related based on at least one of a co-occurrence metric associated with the at least two labels or a topic similarity metric associated with the at least two labels. One label can be selected, out of the at least two labels, as being representative of the at least two labels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignee: META PLATFORMS, INC.
    Inventors: Ehud Weinsberg, Bogdan State, AmaƧ Herda{hacek over (g)}delen, Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bai Xiao, Danilo Torres de Sa Resende
  • Patent number: 11236274
    Abstract: The invention is directed to utilization of a series of cross-linked 1,4-benzenediamine-co-alkyldiamine polymers and the use of the polymers to remove mercury from a hydrocarbon in fluid form.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Othman Charles Sadeq Othman Al-Hamouz, Tawfik Abdo Saleh, Thomas Frederick Garrison, Michael Lee Fraim, Mohamed Abdel-Aziz Habib
  • Patent number: 11210859
    Abstract: A computer system calibrates an image from digital motion video, which originated from a camera that has a view of a scene from a period of time, with an image rendered from a three-dimensional model of the scene for a view based on a location (position and orientation) of the camera in the scene. The calibrated image from the digital motion video can be overlaid on the rendered image in a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface can allow a user to modify opacity of the overlay of the calibrated image from the digital motion video on the rendered image. The overlaid image can be used as a guide by the user to provide inputs with respect to the three-dimensional model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Occam Video Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Andrew Thomas Fredericks
  • Patent number: 11210114
    Abstract: A system and method for sharing information amongst user display devices, such as cell phones, smart phones, tablet computers, or other devices with an electronically controllable screen or display, in a peer to peer (P2P) network, to display one image or video across the totality of all of the display devices, regardless of where the display devices are positioned or how they are oriented relative to each other, and a system and method for identifying the exact position and orientation of each display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Inventor: Thomas Frederick Utsch
  • Patent number: 11209791
    Abstract: A tool for machining an object including a first part including a rotatable member that is rotatable to cause rotation of a machine tool, a second part, a joint coupling the first part and the second part to enable relative movement between the first part and the second part, and a sensor to sense an object to be machined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: James Kell, Thomas Frederick Danvers, Adam Nagy, Dragos Aurelian Axinte, Mark Hugh Raffles, Amir Rabani, Salvador Cobos-Guzman
  • Publication number: 20210374812
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a campaign management platform that manages campaigns on behalf of an organization. In embodiments, a method includes receiving organizational data from the organization that indicates donor outcome data and attributes of previous donors to previous campaigns of the organization. The method includes determining random individual data of a plurality of random individuals including attributes thereof. The method also includes generating training data based on the donor outcome data and the random individual data and training a machine-learned donor prediction model based on the training data that is trained to receive a set of attributes of an individual and determine a likelihood that the individual will donate to the campaign based on the set of attributes of the individual, where the donor prediction model may be leveraged to determine whether a lead of the campaign is likely to contribute to a campaign of the organization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: BOODLE, INC.
    Inventors: Francis Quang Hoang, Shawn Nathan Olds, Yang-pin Ansel Teng, Matthew Dale Hicks, Eric James Okimoto, Thomas Frederick Davids
  • Patent number: 11173617
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein relate to a coupling apparatus for a medical device having a coupler body, a cavity defined in the coupler body, a rotatable drive component disposed within the cavity and having at least two pin-receiving openings, and an actuable locking ring disposed around the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: BOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Thomas Frederick
  • Patent number: 11144099
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can present landscape content through a display screen of the computing device, the landscape content being presented in a landscape viewing mode. A rotation of the display screen to transition to a portrait viewing mode can be determined. The landscape content can be scaled based on the rotation of the display screen, wherein the scaled landscape content is presented through the display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian McIntyre Silber, Thomas Frederick Dimson, Ryan Keenan Olson
  • Publication number: 20210307813
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and more specifically including end effectors that can be incorporated into such devices. Certain end effector embodiments include various vessel cautery devices that have rotational movement as well as cautery and cutting functions while maintaining a relatively compact structure. Other end effector embodiments include various end effector devices that have more than one end effector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels
  • Publication number: 20210248750
    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: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Ian McIntyre Silber, Ryan Keenan Olson
  • Publication number: 20210244439
    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: August 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick, Shane Farritor, Jack Mondry, Eric Markvicka, Dmitry Oleynikov, Jacob Greenburg
  • Patent number: 11065050
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein relate to various medical device components, including components that can be incorporated into robotic and/or in vivo medical devices, and more specifically including end effectors that can be incorporated into such devices. Certain end effector embodiments include various vessel cautery devices that have rotational movement as well as cautery and cutting functions while maintaining a relatively compact structure. Other end effector embodiments include various end effector devices that have more than one end effector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Thomas Frederick, Joe Bartels
  • Patent number: 11030238
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the disclosure include a character management system that determines and utilizes contextual meaning with regard to standardized image characters. In particular, the character management system determines contextual meaning with regard to standardized characters based on the manner in which the standardized characters are utilized in a repository of electronic documents. Moreover, the character management system can utilize the contextual meaning to search, recommend, analyze, and translate with regard to the use of standardized image characters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Bogdan State, Shankar Kalyanaraman, Hamdan Azhar
  • Publication number: 20210122984
    Abstract: The invention is directed to utilization of a series of cross-linked 1,4-benzenediamine-co-alkyldiamine polymers and the use of the polymers to remove mercury from a hydrocarbon in fluid form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2018
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
    Inventors: Othman Charles Sadeq Othman AL-HAMOUZ, Tawfik Abdo SALEH, Thomas Frederick GARRISON, Michael Lee FRAIM, Mohamed Abdel-Aziz HABIB
  • Patent number: 10990635
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media can obtain a plurality of ephemeral content collections that are candidates for an ephemeral content feed of a user, wherein each of the plurality of ephemeral content collections includes one or more ephemeral content items. A score for each of the plurality of ephemeral content collections can be determined based at least in part on a probability of the user selecting the ephemeral content collection. The plurality of ephemeral content collections can be ranked based on the respective scores of the plurality of ephemeral content collections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Rui Wang
  • Publication number: 20210098233
    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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Inventors: Sunil Kapoor, Thomas Frederick
  • Publication number: 20210093586
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating traumatic brain injury (TBI). The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of treating a transient hypoxic and/or ischemic condition in the central nervous system. More specifically, the present invention is directed to pharmaceutical compositions and methods of reducing the occurrence of nerounal cell death in the centeral nervous system, such as, reducing the occurrence brain cell death in the hippocampus and/or the cortex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 1, 2021
    Applicant: THE UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
    Inventors: David J. Poulsen, Thomas Frederick Rau
  • Publication number: 20210090962
    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: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Inventors: Sunil Kapoor, Thomas Frederick
  • Patent number: 10929979
    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: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Frederick Dimson, Ian McIntyre Silber, Ryan Keenan Olson