Patents by Inventor Thomas Graham

Thomas Graham 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: 11939244
    Abstract: Methods and systems for electrochemical treatment of fertigation water for use and for recycling in agricultural systems such as in controlled environment agricultural systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    Inventors: Serge Levesque, Thomas Graham, Dorin Bejan, Jamie Lawson, Mike Dixon, Ping Zhang
  • Patent number: 11926106
    Abstract: An additively manufactured component and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The additively manufactured component includes a cross sectional layer having a surface surrounding the cross sectional layer. The cross sectional layer is formed by moving a focal point of an energy source over a bed of additive material. A surface irregularity is formed on the surface by manipulating the energy level of the energy source. The surface may include a datum feature positioned at a predetermined location relative to the surface irregularity and the surface irregularity may be greater than a surface roughness of the surface but less than one millimeter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Scott Alan Gold, Thomas Graham Spears
  • Patent number: 11860413
    Abstract: Described herein are photonic communication platforms that can overcome the memory bottleneck problem, thereby enabling scaling of memory capacity and bandwidth well beyond what is possible with conventional computing systems. Some embodiments provide photonic communication platforms that involve use of photonic modules. Each photonic module includes programmable photonic circuits for placing the module in optical communication with other modules based on the needs of a particular application. The architecture developed by the inventors relies on the use of common photomask sets (or at least one common photomask) to fabricate multiple photonic modules in a single wafer. Photonic modules in multiple wafers can be linked together into a communication platform using optical or electronic means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Lightmatter, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Michael Gould, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid, Mykhailo Tymchenko
  • Publication number: 20230408764
    Abstract: Described herein are photonic communication platforms that can overcome the memory bottleneck problem, thereby enabling scaling of memory capacity and bandwidth well beyond what is possible with conventional computing systems. Some embodiments provide photonic communication platforms that involve use of photonic modules. Each photonic module includes programmable photonic circuits for placing the module in optical communication with other modules based on the needs of a particular application. The architecture developed by the inventors relies on the use of common photomask sets (or at least one common photomask) to fabricate multiple photonic modules in a single wafer. Photonic modules in multiple wafers can be linked together into a communication platform using optical or electronic means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Lightmatter, Inc.
    Inventors: NICHOLAS C. HARRIS, Carl Ramey, Michael Gould, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid, Mykhailo Tymchenko
  • Publication number: 20230400632
    Abstract: Described herein are photonic communication platforms that can overcome the memory bottleneck problem, thereby enabling scaling of memory capacity and bandwidth well beyond what is possible with conventional computing systems. Some embodiments provide photonic communication platforms that involve use of photonic modules. Each photonic module includes programmable photonic circuits for placing the module in optical communication with other modules based on the needs of a particular application. The architecture developed by the inventors relies on the use of common photomask sets (or at least one common photomask) to fabricate multiple photonic modules in a single wafer. Photonic modules in multiple wafers can be linked together into a communication platform using optical or electronic means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Lightmatter, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Michael Gould, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid, Mykhailo Tymchenko
  • Publication number: 20230358957
    Abstract: Described herein are photonic communication platforms that can overcome the memory bottleneck problem, thereby enabling scaling of memory capacity and bandwidth well beyond what is possible with conventional computing systems. Some embodiments provide photonic communication platforms that involve use of photonic modules. Each photonic module includes programmable photonic circuits for placing the module in optical communication with other modules based on the needs of a particular application. The architecture developed by the inventors relies on the use of common photomask sets (or at least one common photomask) to fabricate multiple photonic modules in a single wafer. Photonic modules in multiple wafers can be linked together into a communication platform using optical or electronic means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: Lightmatter, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Michael Gould, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid, Mykhailo Tymchenko
  • Patent number: 11806925
    Abstract: A system and method of monitoring a powder-bed additive manufacturing process is provided where a layer of additive powder is fused using an energy source and electromagnetic emission signals are measured by a melt pool monitoring system to monitor the print process. The measured emission signals are analyzed to identify outlier emissions and clusters of outliers are identified by assessing the spatial proximity of the outlier emissions, e.g., using clustering algorithms, spatial control charts, etc. An alert may be provided or a process adjustment may be made when a cluster is identified or when a magnitude of a cluster exceeds a predetermined cluster threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Scott Alan Gold, Thomas Graham Spears, Ajay Kumar Anand
  • Patent number: 11794425
    Abstract: A resin barrier device for connection in a vacuum line, for use in resin infusion during composite manufacture, includes a housing having an inlet port for connection to a resin source and an outlet port for connection to a vacuum source. A flow path extends between the inlet and outlet ports. A gas-permeable membrane is disposed across the flow path to prevent resin from flowing to the vacuum pump. A gasket supports the membrane and is adapted to prevent resin leakage. A method of infusing a preform with a resin also is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SHORT BROTHERS PLC
    Inventors: Oran Walsh, Jonathan Thomas Graham
  • Patent number: 11754783
    Abstract: Described herein are photonic communication platforms that can overcome the memory bottleneck problem, thereby enabling scaling of memory capacity and bandwidth well beyond what is possible with conventional computing systems. Some embodiments provide photonic communication platforms that involve use of photonic modules. Each photonic module includes programmable photonic circuits for placing the module in optical communication with other modules based on the needs of a particular application. The architecture developed by the inventors relies on the use of common photomask sets (or at least one common photomask) to fabricate multiple photonic modules in a single wafer. Photonic modules in multiple wafers can be linked together into a communication platform using optical or electronic means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Lightmatter, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Michael Gould, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid, Mykhailo Tymchenko
  • Patent number: 11745426
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and program for additive manufacturing. The additive manufacturing method may include solidifying at least a portion of a first layer (601) of build material (416) within a first scan region (902A). At least one of a build unit (400) and a build platform (310) may be moved to solidify at least a portion of the first layer (601) of build material (416) within a second scan region (902B). A second layer (602) of build material (416) may be provided over at least a portion of the first scan region (902A) and the second scan region (902B). A second layer (602) of build material (416) may be solidified within at least a portion of the third scan region (902C), the third scan region (902C) may at least partially overlap and may be offset with relation to the first scan region (902A).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Justin Mamrak, MacKenzie Ryan Redding, Thomas Graham Spears
  • Publication number: 20230236633
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises an electronic equipment chassis comprising a housing and at least one lid, the housing comprising a control panel with a first set of one or more status indicators. The apparatus also comprises at least one latch configured for securing the at least one lid to the housing, the at least one latch comprising a second set of one or more status indicators. The apparatus further comprises a processing device configured to determine status information for electronic equipment housed in the electronic equipment chassis, the status information characterizing whether at least one of opening and removing the at least one lid is safe to perform at a given time, and controlling, based at least in part on the determined status information, at least one of the first set of indicators and at least one of the second set of indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Amrita Sidhu Maguire, Yuxin Chen, Zhao Chen, Lizzy Yi Sun, Eric Thomas Graham
  • Patent number: 11679548
    Abstract: A method of controlling a manufacturing process in which directed energy selectively melts material, forming a melt pool. The method includes: generating an image having an array of individual image elements, the image including measurement, for each image element, of two or more physical properties from the group including: color, emission frequency, and sheen, the measurements collectively indicating presence of: liquid phase, melting, or incipient melting; from the measurements, mapping a boundary of the melt pool, wherein for each of the measurements that indicate liquid phase, melting, or incipient melting, corresponding image elements are defined to be inside the boundary, and wherein for each of the measurements that do not indicate liquid phase, melting, or incipient melting, the corresponding image elements are defined to be outside of the boundary; and controlling at least one aspect of the additive manufacturing process with reference to the boundary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventor: Thomas Graham Spears
  • Publication number: 20230129572
    Abstract: A system and method of monitoring a powder-bed additive manufacturing process is provided where a layer of additive powder is fused using an energy source and electromagnetic emission signals are measured by a melt pool monitoring system to monitor the print process. The measured emission signals are analyzed to identify outlier emissions and clusters of outliers are identified by assessing the spatial proximity of the outlier emissions, e.g., using clustering algorithms, spatial control charts, etc. An alert may be provided or a process adjustment may be made when a cluster is identified or when a magnitude of a cluster exceeds a predetermined cluster threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Scott Alan Gold, Thomas Graham Spears, Ajay Kumar Anand
  • Publication number: 20230114847
    Abstract: Described herein are photonic communication platforms that can overcome the memory bottleneck problem, thereby enabling scaling of memory capacity and bandwidth well beyond what is possible with conventional computing systems. Some embodiments provide photonic communication platforms that involve use of photonic modules. Each photonic module includes programmable photonic circuits for placing the module in optical communication with other modules based on the needs of a particular application. The architecture developed by the inventors relies on the use of common photomask sets (or at least one common photomask) to fabricate multiple photonic modules in a single wafer. Photonic modules in multiple wafers can be linked together into a communication platform using optical or electronic means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Lightmatter, Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas C. Harris, Carl Ramey, Michael Gould, Thomas Graham, Darius Bunandar, Ryan Braid, Mykhailo Tymchenko
  • Publication number: 20230078133
    Abstract: A system for performing advanced spectrometry using a camera of a personal electronic device. Light from a sample is captured via a light dispersion device that diffracts the light in accordance with the wavelength of that light. A sample spectrum image is captured using a camera of a personal electronic device. Spectral data is extracted from the sample spectrum image and the spectral data is wavelength calibrated by mapping each pixel position in the sample spectrum image to a wavelength. Features are extracted from the wavelength calibrated spectral data and used by classification module, trained on a dataset of features extracted from spectral data of known samples, to classify the sample. In some embodiments, a calibration spectrum image captured from a calibration light source having a known spectrum (e.g., in the same image frame using a bifurcated fiber optic cable) is used to wavelength calibrate the spectral data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Richard John Koshel, Travis Sawyer, Justina Bonaventura, Thomas Graham Knapp
  • Publication number: 20230085600
    Abstract: A self-calibrating spectrometer that captures a sample spectrum image of a sample via a light dispersion device and a calibration spectrum image of a calibration light source having a known spectrum (e.g., in the same image frame using a bifurcated fiber optic cable). Spectral data is extracted from the sample spectrum image and wavelength calibrated by matching calibration spectral data extracted from the calibration spectrum image to the known spectrum of the calibration light source, mapping each pixel position of the calibration spectrum image to a wavelength of the known spectrum of the calibration light source, and mapping each pixel position of the sample spectral data to a wavelength based on the pixel position-to-wavelength mapping. In some embodiments, extracted features from the wavelength calibrated spectral data are used by classification module, trained on a dataset of features extracted from spectral data of known samples, to classify the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Richard John Koshel, Travis Sawyer, Justina Bonaventura, Thomas Graham Knapp
  • Publication number: 20230046356
    Abstract: A resin barrier device for connection in a vacuum line, for use in resin infusion during composite manufacture, includes a housing having an inlet port for connection to a resin source and an outlet port for connection to a vacuum source. A flow path extends between the inlet and outlet ports. A gas-permeable membrane is disposed across the flow path to prevent resin from flowing to the vacuum pump. A gasket supports the membrane and is adapted to prevent resin leakage. A method of infusing a preform with a resin also is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: SHORT BROTHERS PLC
    Inventors: Oran Walsh, Jonathan Thomas Graham
  • Patent number: 11559854
    Abstract: A system and method of monitoring a powder-bed additive manufacturing process is provided where a layer of additive powder is fused using an energy source and electromagnetic emission signals are measured by a melt pool monitoring system to monitor the print process. The measured emission signals are analyzed to identify outlier emissions and clusters of outliers are identified by assessing the spatial proximity of the outlier emissions, e.g., using clustering algorithms, spatial control charts, etc. An alert may be provided or a process adjustment may be made when a cluster is identified or when a magnitude of a cluster exceeds a predetermined cluster threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Scott Alan Gold, Thomas Graham Spears, Ajay Kumar Anand
  • Patent number: 11550638
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for reducing latency in presenting content. In one aspect, a system includes a native application that presents an interactive item and a latency reduction engine. The latency reduction engine detects interaction with the interactive item that links to a first electronic resource that is different from the native application and provided by a first network domain and in response to the detecting, reduces latency in presenting the first electronic resource, including executing a first processing thread and a second processing thread in parallel. The first processing thread requests a second electronic resource from a second network domain and loads the second electronic resource and, in response to the loading, stores a browser cookie for the second network domain. The second processing thread requests the first electronic resource and presents the first electronic resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Tuna Toksoz, Thomas Graham Price
  • Patent number: 11544550
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of content objects, generating a plurality of voxelized representations for the plurality of content objects, respectively, generating one or more building blocks based on one or more sparse convolutions, which includes determining one or more active sites for each of the plurality of content objects based on the voxelized representation of each of the plurality of content objects and applying the one or more sparse convolutions to the one or more active sites, and training a machine-learning model based on a convolutional network including the one or more building blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Graham, Laurentius Johannes Paulus van der Maaten, Martin Helmut Engelcke