Patents by Inventor Thomas Gordon

Thomas Gordon 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: 20250117860
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to servers, systems, and methods for dynamic risk evaluation using weighted factors. It introduces a decision intelligence-based framework for assessing risk. Traditional methods face challenges like limited data, biases, and static assessments, where the system described herein leverages advanced data analytics, machine learning, and/or predictive modeling to enhance accuracy and personalization. In some embodiments, the system is configured to enable users to enter parameters, targeting criteria, and/or factors for tracking. The system performs risk determination, outputs premiums, and automatically monitors changes in factors over time. In some embodiments, the system enables weightings for factors to be applied automatically, where in some embodiments, AI model are configured to generate the weightings based on predictions. Example factors include heart rate, BMI, and sleep time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Joel Lieginger, David Scott Sharp, Bennett Fisher, Brandon Vallade, Thomas Gordon Batt, Vinod Bhadrakshan Paniker
  • Publication number: 20250068090
    Abstract: A fast and dynamic waveplate is described. The present systems and methods utilize stress birefringence that generates inside a plate when force is applied on one or more sides of the plate. The force is applied using one or more actuators distributed along the side(s) of the plate. The magnitude of the force can be controlled using a control unit. A generated stress birefringence is spatially varying across the plate. By carefully adjusting the force, the plate can be converted into a waveplate with an arbitrary value of retardance that is determined by the force. Since the parameter that determines the birefringence is force, a control unit can be used to apply different combinations of force values at a sub-millisecond speed to achieve fast control of the value of the birefringence as well as an orientation in the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: ASML NETHERLANDS B.V., UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER
    Inventors: Adel JOOBEUR, Richard JACOBS, Richard Carl ZIMMERMAN, Ali BASIRI, Thomas Gordon BROWN, Ashan Ariyawansa GALABADA DEWAGE
  • Publication number: 20240099456
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses (such as desks) with adjustable top panels. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a frame, having a movable component that is configured to move upwards and downwards. The apparatus also includes: a first top panel attached to the movable component and configured to move upwards and downwards with the movable component, and a second top panel attached to the frame and aligned parallel to the first panel, so that the first panel is adjustable to be flush with the second panel or adjustable to a level above the second panel. The apparatus can also include a barrier panel attached to the frame or the first panel, arranged perpendicular to the first and second panels and oriented downward from the first panel at a side of the first panel closest to the second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Andrew Addington, Andrew Phillip Addington, Thomas Gordon Addington
  • Publication number: 20240023705
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses (such as desks) with adjustable top panels. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a frame, having a movable component that is configured to move upwards and downwards. The apparatus also includes: a first top panel attached to the movable component and configured to move upwards and downwards with the movable component, and a second top panel attached to the frame and aligned parallel to the first panel, so that the first panel is adjustable to be flush with the second panel or adjustable to a level above the second panel. The apparatus can also include a barrier panel attached to the frame or the first panel, arranged perpendicular to the first and second panels and oriented downward from the first panel at a side of the first panel closest to the second panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Andrew Addington, Andrew Phillip Addington, Thomas Gordon Addington
  • Patent number: 11877649
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses (such as desks) with adjustable top panels. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a frame, having a movable component that is configured to move upwards and downwards. The apparatus also includes: a first top panel attached to the movable component and configured to move upwards and downwards with the movable component, and a second top panel attached to the frame and aligned parallel to the first panel, so that the first panel is adjustable to be flush with the second panel or adjustable to a level above the second panel. The apparatus can also include a barrier panel attached to the frame or the first panel, arranged perpendicular to the first and second panels and oriented downward from the first panel at a side of the first panel closest to the second panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: BRAND VILLAGES, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Andrew Addington, Andrew Phillip Addington, Thomas Gordon Addington
  • Publication number: 20210264300
    Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI) system may be configured to efficiently annotate most if not all unlabeled image data. Some embodiments may: provide, to an object-detection, machine-learning (ML) model, a plurality of unlabeled data such that the object-detection model predicts a plurality of regions; correct at least one vertex of bounds of at least one of the regions such that the bounds fit tighter around an object; convert the regions to first subregions by cropping the first subregions from the unlabeled data; and provide the first subregions to an embedding, ML model configured to output feature vectors for each of the first subregions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: CACI, Inc.- Federal
    Inventors: Tyler Staudinger, Ross Massey, Wolfgang Kern, Jasen Halmes, Jonathan Von Stroh, Troy Wallace, Thomas Gordon Walter Huntley, Jon Kyle Pula
  • Patent number: 10933322
    Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving an activation signal from a user interface, (b) receiving data indicative of an occurrence of an event, (c) allotting a benefit, in response to the occurrence of the event, (d) recognizing that the event occurred within a window of time with respect to a time of occurrence of the activation signal, and (e) modifying the benefit to yield a modified benefit. There is also provided a system that performs the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: FanDuel Limited
    Inventors: Daniel Jonathan Melinger, Eric John Entin, Scott Parker Shay, Thomas Gordon Griffiths
  • Patent number: 10813197
    Abstract: A lighting controller comprises power circuitry, transmitter circuitry, a touch-sensitive panel, and processing circuitry. The power circuitry is configured to relay power from the lighting controller to a solid state lighting fixture wired to the lighting controller. The transmitter circuitry is configured to wirelessly exchange signals with the solid state lighting fixture. The touch-sensitive panel is configured to emit light and receive touch input from a user. The processing circuitry is electrically coupled to the power circuitry, the transmitter circuitry, and the touch-sensitive panel. The processing circuitry is configured to wirelessly control, via the transmitter circuitry, the attribute of light emitted by the solid state lighting fixture in accordance with the touch input received via the touch-sensitive panel and control the light emitted from the touch-sensitive panel to indicate the attribute as the attribute is wirelessly controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: IDEAL INDUSTRIES LIGHTING LLC
    Inventors: Bart Reier, Daniel James Van Epps, Jr., Yuan Fang, David Power, Leigh Herman, Thomas Gordon
  • Publication number: 20180295705
    Abstract: A lighting controller comprises power circuitry, transmitter circuitry, a touch-sensitive panel, and processing circuitry. The power circuitry is configured to relay power from the lighting controller to a solid state lighting fixture wired to the lighting controller. The transmitter circuitry is configured to wirelessly exchange signals with the solid state lighting fixture. The touch-sensitive panel is configured to emit light and receive touch input from a user. The processing circuitry is electrically coupled to the power circuitry, the transmitter circuitry, and the touch-sensitive panel. The processing circuitry is configured to wirelessly control, via the transmitter circuitry, the attribute of light emitted by the solid state lighting fixture in accordance with the touch input received via the touch-sensitive panel and control the light emitted from the touch-sensitive panel to indicate the attribute as the attribute is wirelessly controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Publication date: October 11, 2018
    Inventors: Bart Reier, Daniel James Van Epps, JR., Yuan Fang, David Power, Leigh Herman, Thomas Gordon
  • Patent number: 9582117
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to touch and gesture recognition with an electronic interactive display. The interactive display has a front surface that includes a viewing area, a planar light guide disposed proximate to and behind the front surface, a light source, and at least one photo sensing element coupled with the first planar light guide. The planar light guide is configured to receive scattered light, the received scattered light resulting from interaction between light emitted by the light source and an object in optical contact with the front surface. The photo sensing element is configured to detect at least some of the received scattered light and to output, to a processor, image data. The processor is configured to recognize, from the image data, one or both of a contact pressure and a rotational orientation of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Jacek Maitan, Linda Stacey Irish, Evgeni Yurij Poliakov, Thomas Gordon Brown, Samir Kumar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20170001115
    Abstract: There is provided a method that includes (a) receiving an activation signal from a user interface, (b) receiving data indicative of an occurrence of an event, (c) allotting a benefit, in response to the occurrence of the event, (d) recognizing that the event occurred within a window of time with respect to a time of occurrence of the activation signal, and (e) modifying the benefit to yield a modified benefit. There is also provided a system that performs the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Jonathan MELINGER, Eric John ENTIN, Scott Parker SHAY, Thomas Gordon GRIFFITHS
  • Publication number: 20150309662
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus related to touch and gesture recognition with an electronic interactive display. The interactive display has a front surface that includes a viewing area, a planar light guide disposed proximate to and behind the front surface, a light source, and at least one photo sensing element coupled with the first planar light guide. The planar light guide is configured to receive scattered light, the received scattered light resulting from interaction between light emitted by the light source and an object in optical contact with the front surface. The photo sensing element is configured to detect at least some of the received scattered light and to output, to a processor, image data. The processor is configured to recognize, from the image data, one or both of a contact pressure and a rotational orientation of the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, Evgeni Petrovich Gousev, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Khurshid Syed Alam, Jacek Maitan, Linda Stacey Irish, Evgeni Yurij Poliakov, Thomas Gordon Brown, Samir Kumar Gupta
  • Publication number: 20140146088
    Abstract: This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for providing a compact, low-sensor count scanning display that is capable of both displaying graphical content and of capturing images of objects placed on or above the scanning display. Various implementations are discussed, including raster scan, line scan, and compressive sampling version.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2012
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Applicant: QUALCOMM MEMS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: John Michael Wyrwas, James Chester Meador, Thomas Gordon Brown, Xiquan Cui, Ron Lee Feldman, Russell Wayne Gruhlke, Ying Zhou, Khurshid Syed Alam, Kollengode Subramanian Narayanan
  • Publication number: 20140118468
    Abstract: A system which provides “hands-off” accommodation of an elderly, technically-challenged and/or disabled user, enabling them to stay well-connected through “virtual visits” with friends and family members. Such “virtual visits” duplicate the rich shared experience of a personal visit, through multimedia conferencing and synchronized sharing of digital media, including personal photos, home videos, or other types of digital media. The “hands-off” capability is enabled through a controller which can be installed in laptops or computer-based devices, which interacts over the Internet with a player installed for the elderly, technically-challenged and/or disabled user. The controller user interface provides controller users with the means to easily initiate, control and synchronize a “virtual visit” with the player user via the Internet, and remotely control the operation of the player, as well as the player user's television and other home entertainment devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: May 1, 2014
    Applicant: Rekinnect, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Gordon PURDY, Thomas PIRNER
  • Patent number: 7970283
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns optoelectronic transceivers. In one example, a transceiver is implemented as an uncompensated architecture that is substantially compliant with the SFP MSA and is capable of effective operation at a data rate of about 8.5 Gb/s. The transceiver includes a TOSA, ROSA, a printed circuit board, an LDPA disposed on the printed circuit board and configured for communication with the TOSA and the ROSA. Finally, the transceiver includes SFP compliant optical and electrical connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2011
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Giorgio Giaretta, Julie Sheridan Eng, Thomas Gordon Beck Mason
  • Patent number: 7809275
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns transceivers that include CDR bypass functionality. In one example, a 10 G XFP transceiver module includes integrated CDR functionality for reducing jitter. The 10 G XFP transceiver module also implements CDR bypass functionality so that the CDR can be bypassed at rate less than about 10 Gb/s, such as the Fibre Channel 8.5 Gb/s rate for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: Finisar Corporation
    Inventors: Lewis B. Aronson, Thomas Gordon Beck Mason, Yuxin Zhou, Huy Anh Vu, Giorgio Giaretta, Jiashu Chen
  • Publication number: 20100221230
    Abstract: An elective healthcare insurance model using an individual's own peripheral blood stem cells for the individual's future healthcare uses. An individual can elect to have his or her own stem cells collected, processed and preserved, while he or she is in healthy or “pre-disease” state, for future distribution for his or her healthcare needs. The process includes methods of collection, processing, preservation and distribution of adult (including pediatric) peripheral blood stem cells during non-diseased state. The stem cells collected will contain adequate dosage amounts, for one or more transplantations immediately when needed by the individual for future healthcare treatments. The collected adult or non-neonate child peripheral blood stem cells can be aliquoted into defined dosage fractions before cryopreservation so that cells can be withdrawn from storage without the necessity of thawing all of the collected cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: NEOSTEM, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Gordon HIROSE, Simon Sun-man Lam, Rubio R. Punzalan, Denis O. Rodgerson
  • Patent number: 7649468
    Abstract: A system comprising at least one liquid detector that has a cathode and an anode and at least one switching mechanism for receiving a positive voltage from the cathode and anode of a liquid detector. Each switching mechanism comprises at least one switching component that is connected with a power source. Each switching component supplying a current from its connected power source when the switching component is activated. Preferably, each switching component is activated, when the switching component receives a voltage that exceeds a threshold voltage. The system also comprises a base unit that communicates remotely or through direct connection with each switching mechanism. The base unit communicates with at least one application control device that is connected with at least one electronic control apparatus for preventing the undesirable condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Inventor: Thomas Gordon
  • Publication number: 20090270341
    Abstract: A composition for treating cancer comprising an anti-tumorally effective amount of a product comprising at least one transduction inhibitor of heterotrimeric G protein signals and at least one other anti-cancer agent selected from the group consisting of prenyltransferase inhibitors, taxol and its analogues, gemcitabine and camptothecin and its analogues, administered simultaneously, separately or spread over a period of time and a pharmaceutical carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2009
    Publication date: October 29, 2009
    Applicant: IPSEN PHARMA S.A.S.
    Inventors: Gregoire PREVOST, Marie-Odile Lonchampt, Thomas Gordon, Barry Morgan
  • Publication number: 20090136588
    Abstract: The invention encompasses methods for altering food intake, modifying nutrient digestibility and altering stool quality and/or stool frequency in an animal by adjusting the balance of metabolizable cations to metabolizable anions consumed by the animal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2008
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: Hill's Pet Nutrition, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Michael Yamka, Kim Gene Friesen, Lauren Kats, Thomas Gordon Forster