Patents by Inventor Thomas Hill

Thomas Hill 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: 10057521
    Abstract: A high-speed CMOS camera includes an array of pixel circuits coupled to a photodiode array, an oscillator circuit, and a pattern generator circuit. The pattern generator circuit includes a high speed shift register and a non-overlap generator. The shift register is programmable to produce a pulse train of trigger pulses that defines an interframe and a frame's shutter duration. The non-overlap generator deserializes the incoming pulse train of trigger pulses, and it produces a time-separated reset pulse based on the pulse train of trigger pulses. The shift register is configured to permit the frame durations and the interframe times to be selected arbitrarily over specified ranges in increments of a basic time unit that depends on the oscillator period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: Marcos O. Sanchez, Liam D. Claus, Gideon Robertson, John L. Porter, Jr., Sean Pearson, Kurt Wessendorf, Tom Gurrieri, Thomas Hill, Andrew Montoya, Doug Trotter
  • Publication number: 20180224835
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for analysis and characterization of manufacturing information such as process trees or genealogies using graph theory. More specifically, using graph theory to analyze manufacturing information of a manufacturing operation allows for deep analysis of relationships between batches or units in a process tree and their closeness or distance, to identify clusters associated with specific quality characteristics or problems, to identify common antecedents of specifically labeled batches (e.g., problem batches), and/or to detect overall desirable or undesirable characteristics of the process tree (e.g., centrality, etc.).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, Pawel Lewicki
  • Publication number: 20180209626
    Abstract: A light fixture having master circuit boards and one or more LED circuit boards connectable in various alternative combinations for light fixtures having alternative lengths, the master board including a switch and AC-DC rectifier and the LED boards including linear AC drivers and one or more LED arrays, the switch on the master board controlling the linear AC drivers on the LED board or boards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Pritam Yadav, T. Warren Weeks, E. Thomas Hill
  • Patent number: 10007681
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for extracting the samples from big data to extract most information about the relationships of interest between dimensions and variables in the data repository. More specifically, extracting information from large data repositories follows an adaptive process that uses systematic sampling procedures derived from optimal experimental designs to target from a large data set specific observations with information value of interest for the analytic task under consideration. The application of adaptive optimal design to guide exploration of large data repositories provides advantages over known big data technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: TIBCO SOFTWARE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, Pawel Lewicki
  • Patent number: 9970639
    Abstract: A light fixture having master circuit boards and one or more LED circuit boards connectable in various alternative combinations for light fixtures having alternative lengths, the master board including a switch and AC-DC rectifier and the LED boards including linear AC drivers and one or more LED arrays, the switch on the master board controlling the linear AC drivers on the LED board or boards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2018
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Pritam Yadav, T. Warren Weeks, Jr., E. Thomas Hill, III
  • Patent number: 9962341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) which comprises or consists essentially of cannabidiol (CBD) and one other cannabinoid selected from cannabigerol (CBG), cannabigerolic acid (CBGA), cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) for use as a medicament, and more particularly, for use in the treatment of cancer. These combinations have shown themselves to be synergistic in treating one or more of: breast cancer; liver cancer; lung cancer; pancreatic cancer; melanoma; ovarian cancer; gastric cancer; renal cancer or bladder cancer. Two particularly favored API combinations are: cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG); and cannabidiolic (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: GW Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Colin Stott, Marnie Duncan, Thomas Hill
  • Patent number: 9952577
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for analysis and characterization of manufacturing information such as process trees or genealogies using graph theory. More specifically, using graph theory to analyze manufacturing information of a manufacturing operation allows for deep analysis of relationships between batches or units in a process tree and their closeness or distance, to identify clusters associated with specific quality characteristics or problems, to identify common antecedents of specifically labeled batches (e.g., problem batches), and/or to detect overall desirable or undesirable characteristics of the process tree (e.g., centrality, etc.).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: TIBCO Software Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, Pawel Lewicki
  • Publication number: 20180078204
    Abstract: A lifestyle service with data and routines storable in a memory of a wearable electronic device is discussed. The lifestyle service has at least a Sleep data routine and an Activity data routine. The lifestyle service can cooperate with an insight engine. The lifestyle service is aware of different types of information contained in one or more time synchronous applications. The system can compare tracked physical activity data with historical data in set increments in light of the information in the time synchronous applications and then communicate notifications to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Jacob Aaron Surbur, Heather Mehle Shapiro, Kevin Thomas Hill
  • Publication number: 20180062984
    Abstract: In a first enclave of a label switching network (LSN), a protocol data unit (PDU) of the LSN is formatted to include a network service field specifying a service to be applied to the PDU. The service field can be positioned between PDU data link layer and network layer fields. The PDU specifies PDU routing/forwarding information for a path in the LSN ending in an LSN second enclave, and routing/forwarding for a destination between path segments in a non-LSN. The PDU is communicated from the first enclave, via the non-LSN, to the second enclave in accordance with the routing/forwarding information for the destination between path segments in the non-LSN. In the second enclave, each network service specified for the PDU is determined and then applied to the PDU. The second enclave transmits the network serviced PDU from the second enclave in accordance with the routing/forwarding information of the PDU in the label switching network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Craig Thomas Hill, James Guichard, Darrin Joseph Miller, Carlos M. Pignataro
  • Publication number: 20180052450
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for identifying sources of variation in complex manufacturing processes via a variation identification operation. In certain embodiments, the variation identification operation is performed via a variation identification system. The variation identification operation addresses special class of analytic problems, namely the estimation of variance components and related statistics from very large (big data) hierarchically nested designs of random factors. These types of data structures occur frequently across various industries, and in particular in automated and batch manufacturing where the variability in product quality as measured in final product testing should be related to batches, lots, wafers, suppliers, etc. upstream of the process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Dell Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, Daniel W. Scott, Vladimir S. Rastunkov
  • Publication number: 20180025276
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing an analytics workflow generation operation. The analytics workflow generation operation enables generation of targeted analytics workflows (e.g., via a data scientist (i.e., an expert in data modeling)) that are then published to a workflow storage repository so that the targeted analytics workflows can be used by domain experts and self-service business end-users to solve specific classes of analytics operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Applicant: Dell Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, George R. Butler, Vladimir S. Rastunkov
  • Publication number: 20170364590
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a variable and interaction detection operation. In certain embodiments, the variable and interaction detection operation detects important variables and as well as interactions among certain important variables in big data. In certain embodiments, the variable and interaction detection operation includes a robust automated process flow (i.e., an analytic recipe) which identifies important variables and their interactions in large data sets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Applicant: Dell Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, Vladimir S. Rastunkov, Daniel W. Scott
  • Publication number: 20170316050
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing in-database operations, comprising: presenting an automation interface to a user, the user interface automation interface enabling a user to select one or more key performance indicators; instantiating an in-database processing operation, the in-database processing operation performing feature selection from a high dimensional parameter space; executing at least one database statement within the storage system to derive a subset of diagnostic parameters from the high dimensional parameter space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Dell Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hill, Vladimir S. Rastunkov, George R. Butler
  • Patent number: 9803828
    Abstract: An LED module for a luminaire has a downwardly directed heat sink comprising cooling fins that extend rearward from the module's front end and downward from its top wall, which has a top face that abuts the underside of a luminaire carrier plate. A circuit board carrying at least one LED is mounted on the front face, and a prism is mounted to the heat sink over the LED(s). The front (light-emitting) face of the catadioptric prism has several prominent side-by-side sections which emit beam patterns that diverge laterally and overlap in a central region. A prominent full-width upper section on the front face emits a primarily downwardly directed beam pattern to help fill in dark spots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Thomas Carl Lueken, Michael Scott Neuer, Zhijie Chen, Jamey Butteris, Ezekial Thomas Hill
  • Patent number: 9782126
    Abstract: A lifestyle service with data and routines storable in a memory of a wearable electronic device is discussed. The lifestyle service has at least a Sleep data routine and an Activity data routine. The lifestyle service can cooperate with an insight engine. The lifestyle service is aware of different types of information contained in one or more time synchronous applications. The system can compare tracked physical activity data with historical data in set increments in light of the information in the time synchronous applications and then communicate notifications to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Pebble Technology, Corp.
    Inventors: Jacob Aaron Surbur, Heather Mehle Shapiro, Kevin Thomas Hill
  • Publication number: 20170262502
    Abstract: A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing an auto-query construction operation for use with a distributed analytics operation. More specifically, in certain embodiments, the auto-query construction operation provides automatically generates SQL code instructions via an auto-query construction user interface (UI) settings in a computational system, such as the Dell Statistica computational system. The auto-query construction operation allows a user to interact with a common interface to provide query information including decision variables, parameters of an analysis and convergence criteria. The query information provided via the UI is automatically transformed to database queries and subsequent computation system operations. Thus, the user experience remains intact whether the analytics is performed in database or within the computation system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: Dell Software, Inc.
    Inventors: Vladimir S. Rastunkov, Thomas Hill, George R. Butler
  • Publication number: 20170190617
    Abstract: The invention is directed to compositions and methods for the manufacture of pigmented solids structures for which can be used for construction and/or decoration. Manufacturing comprises fixing one or more pigments to an aggregate material such as crushed rock, stone or sand. The pigmented aggregate is incubated with urease or urease producing microorganisms, an amount of a nitrogen source such as urea, and an amount of calcium source such as calcium chloride forming calcite bridges between particles of aggregate. The resulting solid has a hardness and colorfastness for most any construction material. Using selected aggregate and pigment, the process also provides for the manufacture of simulated-stone materials such as clay or granite bricks or blocks, marble counter-tops, and more. The invention is also directed to composition containing microorganisms and pigment as kits that can be added to most any aggregate materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Applicant: Biomason, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Hill, Steven W. McAllister, J. Michael Dosier, Ginger K. Dosier
  • Publication number: 20170156666
    Abstract: A lifestyle service with data and routines storable in a memory of a wearable electronic device is discussed. The lifestyle service has at least a Sleep data routine and an Activity data routine. The lifestyle service can cooperate with an insight engine. The lifestyle service is aware of different types of information contained in one or more time synchronous applications. The system can compare tracked physical activity data with historical data in set increments in light of the information in the time synchronous applications and then communicate notifications to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Jacob Aaron Surbur, Heather Mehle Shapiro, Kevin Thomas Hill
  • Publication number: 20170143642
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) which comprises or consists essentially of cannabidiol (CBD) and one other cannabinoid selected from cannabigerol (CBG), cannabigerolic acid (CBGA), cannabidiolic acid (CBDA), and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) for use as a medicament, and more particularly, for use in the treatment of cancer. These combinations have shown themselves to be synergistic in treating one or more of: breast cancer; liver cancer; lung cancer; pancreatic cancer; melanoma; ovarian cancer; gastric cancer; renal cancer or bladder cancer. Two particularly favored API combinations are: cannabidiol (CBD) and cannabigerol (CBG); and cannabidiolic (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2015
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: GW Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Colin Stott, Marnie Duncan, Thomas Hill
  • Publication number: 20170075013
    Abstract: A system (1) for attaching a plurality of seismic nodes (110, 110a) along a main carrier rope (101). The main carrier rope is made of steel or synthetic fibre, and comprises no power or communication lines. The system has a length measuring device (210) for providing a measured length (Lm) of deployed main carrier rope (101); a data source (220, 230, 240) for providing positioning data affecting the rope position of each seismic node (110, 110a) on the main carrier rope (101); a control unit (200) for providing an attachment command whenever the measured length (Lm) corresponds to a rope position of a seismic node (110, 110a) computed from the positioning data; and a node attaching unit (100) for attaching a seismic node (110, 110a) to the main carrier rope (101) in response to the attachment command. The system is capable of attaching nodes (110) with different node spacing between some or all nodes along the main carrier rope (101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Ian MCMILLIAN, Michael RUSSELL, Thomas HILLS, Terje NALUM