Patents by Inventor Thomas Nelson

Thomas Nelson 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: 20250074671
    Abstract: A portable beverage vessel allows for dynamic mixing of two isolated liquids. An outer container holds a first liquid while an inner container holding a second liquid fits inside the outer container. A lid seals the outer container and suspends the inner container. A force distribution member rests between the lid and inner container. Applying force to the lid transfers through the force distribution member to release the inner container into the outer container, mixing the liquids. The transparent outer container provides a visual of the falling inner container. The lid and inner container engage in a snap-fit suspension. A removable lid cover allows drinking access. The vessel is sized for portability and handheld drinking. The force distribution member enables controlled release of the inner container. The liquids remain isolated until mixing is desired. The vessel efficiently and intuitively mixes two liquids for enjoyment from one container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventor: Garrett Thomas Nelson
  • Publication number: 20250037052
    Abstract: A specification of one or more steps of a digital workflow specified using a graphical user interface is received. An indication of a program transfer control step in the digital workflow to return to a previously specified step in the digital workflow is received. The already specified specification of the one or more steps of the digital workflow is analyzed to determine one or more constraints of the program transfer control step. Based on the determined one or more constraints of the program transfer control step, a configuration of the program transfer control step in the digital workflow is restricted in the graphical user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Jingfei Chen, Brian P. Bimschleger, Jacob S. Burman, Jennifer M. Lyons, Harry Thomas Nelson, Alberto Alvarado Jimenez, Reema Shah, Enrico Cruz, Andrew K. Fry
  • Patent number: 12120159
    Abstract: A vehicle system includes a processor programmed to output a shared screen for a meeting at a vehicle display configured to output infotainment settings. The processor is in communication with the vehicle display and a nomadic device. The processor is programmed to parse a calendar associated with the nomadic device for a meeting within a predefined or selected time window or period. The processor is further programmed to identify login information for the meeting, establish a communication link for the meeting based on the identified login information, and output a shared screen for the meeting at the display based on the vehicle being in a predefined state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Nelson, Hussein F. Nasrallah, Thomas E. Apczynski, David Anthony Hatton
  • Patent number: 12077938
    Abstract: A work machine includes a frame, a traction system, an engine, an implement system, an operator cab with a roof; a machine control system, and a secondary control system. The secondary control system is configured to interface with the machine control system and includes a secondary control device, a control module, a communication module, a base plate, and two rails. The base plate is configured to support the control module and the communication module, and protect the plurality of harness connections. The two rails are configured to support the base plate in an operation orientation and a service orientation and each include a plurality of channels configured to support the base plate in the service orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah J. Borgman, Benjamin Thomas Nelson, Michael William Bridenbaugh
  • Publication number: 20240220214
    Abstract: A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to store a data in the data repository. The server is further configured to create, via a visual information flow creation tool, at least one information flow object, wherein the at least one information flow object comprises a flow, a sub-flow, an Action, or a combination thereof. The server is also configured to interface with the at least one information flow object via a front-end application programing interface (API), a back-end API, or a combination thereof. The server is additionally configured to execute the at least one information flow object via the front-end API, the back-end API, or a combination thereof, and to retrieve results obtained by executing the at least one information flow object via the front-end API, the back-end API, or the combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Harry Thomas Nelson, Matthew Breckenridge Stoddart, Stuart Dean Swope, David Tamjidi, Venkata Kiran Kumar Koya, Joshua Timothy Nerius, Rebecca Anita Dias
  • Patent number: 12006647
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems, methods, and apparatus related to relocatable tower technologies that facilitate on-site deployment and provide improved stiffness in order to minimize motion at a tower top in a manner that existing approaches, which focus on survivability, do not contemplate. In particular, relocatable tower technologies described herein can be deployed rapidly and at low cost, at outdoor sites, to, e.g., provide a vertical mast upon which equipment can be mounted. In certain embodiments, features of relocatable towers described herein allow the vertical mast to survive and remain rigid while being exposed to outdoor elements, such as wind gusts (e.g., up to 110 Mph). Advantages of relocatable tower technologies described herein are particularly well suited where (e.g., scanning based) imaging and/or detection equipment is mounted at a top of the tower, and/or where towers are deployed at sensitive sites such as hydrocarbon production, storage and processing facilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: MultiSensor Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Terrence K. Jones, Ethan Bushberg Skutt, Shea Thomas Nelson
  • Patent number: 11988765
    Abstract: Methods and systems for dynamically modifying a sampling operation of a sensor. The method includes obtaining a dynamically changing transmission characteristic based on an available channel bandwidth parameter. The dynamically changing transmission characteristic includes at least one of a sample rate, a time period, or a spectral bandwidth. The method further includes updating the sampling operation of the sensor based on the dynamically changing transmission characteristic. The method further includes measuring signal energy at a location of the sensor. The method further includes sampling the signal energy using the sampling operation to obtain sampled data. The method further includes providing the sampled data to a processing entity configured to analyze the data using a dynamically updated cross-ambiguity function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas R. Giallorenzi, Radivoje Zarubica, N. Thomas Nelson, Philip M. Hirz, Andrew L Nelson
  • Patent number: 11979742
    Abstract: Detection and prevention of resource drain from unauthorized wireless device connections is provided. Responsive to receiving of a connection request from a connecting device, a pre-authentication message is sent to the connecting device, the pre-authentication message including a challenge value. A vehicle hash result is computed using a hash function taking the challenge value and the unique identifier of the vehicle as inputs. A device hash result is received from the connecting device. Responsive to a match of the vehicle hash result and the device hash result, additional hardware of the vehicle is activated to perform a secondary authentication of the connecting device. Responsive to a mismatch, authentication of the connecting device is rejected without activation of the additional hardware, thereby avoiding key-off load from the additional hardware in instances where pre-authentication of the connecting device fails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Jochen Schubert, Fouad Bounefissa, Michael Andrew Simons, Thomas Nelson, Timothy Thivierge, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11934802
    Abstract: A computing system includes a server. The server is communicatively coupled to a data repository and is configured to store a data in the data repository. The server is further configured to create, via a visual information flow creation tool, at least one information flow object, wherein the at least one information flow object comprises a flow, a sub-flow, an Action, or a combination thereof. The server is also configured to interface with the at least one information flow object via a front-end application programing interface (API), a back-end API, or a combination thereof. The server is additionally configured to execute the at least one information flow object via the front-end API, the back-end API, or a combination thereof, and to retrieve results obtained by executing the at least one information flow object via the front-end API, the back-end API, or the combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Harry Thomas Nelson, Matthew Breckenridge Stoddart, Stuart Dean Swope, David Tamjidi, Venkata Kiran Kumar Koya, Joshua Timothy Nerius, Rebecca Anita Dias
  • Patent number: 11828408
    Abstract: A monitor riser includes a base configured to be received on a horizontal support surface. A monitor support shelf is situated atop and supported by the base. A slide mechanism is situated below the monitor support shelf. A dry erase pad is supported by the slide mechanism and movable in a frontward direction from a stowed position in which the dry erase pad is at least partially received under the monitor support shelf to an extended position. The dry erase pad, when in the extended position, is movable to a propped position in which the dry erase pad is angled from horizontal to present a dry erase writing surface toward a user at a front side of the monitor support shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ACCO Brands Corporation
    Inventors: Seesong Kang, Thomas A. Nelson
  • Publication number: 20230333914
    Abstract: Executing and managing flow plans by performing at least the following: receiving an indication to initiate a task flow including a plurality of discrete but related operations at a customer instance environment of a cloud-based computing platform; obtaining a definition of the task flow identifying run-time requirements for each of the plurality of operations; determining a first execution environment for the first of the plurality of operations; initiating execution of the first operation in the first execution environment; and determining the proper execution environment for subsequent operations of the task flow until all operations of the task flow are complete. Factors, such as look-ahead optimization, environmental operational capabilities, access and security requirements, current load, future load, etc. may be considered when determining the proper execution environment for a given operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Venkata Kiran Kumar Koya, Robert Peter-Paul Recatto, Nicholas Michael Stark, Harry Thomas Nelson
  • Patent number: 11772582
    Abstract: A routing assembly for routing an electrical connection between two or more sub-systems in a work machine includes a hose, a coupling member, a wiring harness, and a grommet. The hose defines a conduit. The coupling member defines a through-bore fluidly coupled with the conduit. The wiring harness facilitates passage of one or more electrical wirings through each of the conduit and the through-bore to enable electrical communication between the two or more sub-systems. The grommet is retentively engaged with the coupling member and the wiring harness respectively with a first force and a second force. The first force is greater than the second force facilitating a movement of the wiring harness with respect to the grommet without disengaging the grommet from the coupling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Codey Ryan Seaman, Benjamin Thomas Nelson, Jacob Andrew Scheirer
  • Patent number: 11765120
    Abstract: Non-volatile memory may contain definitions of: (i) a plurality of message queue implementations respectively associated with different queue behaviors, the different queue behaviors specified by corresponding sets of modes, and (ii) an application programming interface (API) through which applications can access one or more message queues. One or more processors may be configured to: create a message queue of a particular message queue type, supported by a corresponding message queue implementation, by specifying a set of modes corresponding to a queue behavior; receive, from a producing application and by way of the API, one or more messages for the message queue; store the one or more messages in a data structure associated with the message queue; receive, from a consuming application and by way of the API, a request to read from the message queue; and provide a message from the message queue to the consuming application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Khosrow Jian Motamedi, Nikhil Prashant Bendre, Harry Thomas Nelson, Sunil Kumar
  • Publication number: 20230265636
    Abstract: Presented herein are systems, methods, and apparatus related to relocatable tower technologies that facilitate on-site deployment and provide improved stiffness in order to minimize motion at a tower top in a manner that existing approaches, which focus on survivability, do not contemplate. In particular, relocatable tower technologies described herein can be deployed rapidly and at low cost, at outdoor sites, to, e.g., provide a vertical mast upon which equipment can be mounted. In certain embodiments, features of relocatable towers described herein allow the vertical mast to survive and remain rigid while being exposed to outdoor elements, such as wind gusts (e.g., up to 110 Mph). Advantages of relocatable tower technologies described herein are particularly well suited where (e.g., scanning based) imaging and/or detection equipment is mounted at a top of the tower, and/or where towers are deployed at sensitive sites such as hydrocarbon production, storage and processing facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Terrence K. Jones, Ethan Bushberg Skutt, Shea Thomas Nelson
  • Patent number: 11720415
    Abstract: Executing and managing flow plans by performing at least the following: receiving an indication to initiate a task flow including a plurality of discrete but related operations at a customer instance environment of a cloud-based computing platform; obtaining a definition of the task flow identifying run-time requirements for each of the plurality of operations; determining a first execution environment for the first of the plurality of operations; initiating execution of the first operation in the first execution environment; and determining the proper execution environment for subsequent operations of the task flow until all operations of the task flow are complete. Factors, such as look-ahead optimization, environmental operational capabilities, access and security requirements, current load, future load, etc. may be considered when determining the proper execution environment for a given operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: ServiceNow, Inc.
    Inventors: Venkata Kiran Kumar Koya, Robert Peter-Paul Recatto, Nicholas Michael Stark, Harry Thomas Nelson
  • Publication number: 20230243439
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an apparatus and system for adjusting rate of spool centering in a pilot-controlled hydraulic spool valve. The apparatus includes a first pilot port and a second pilot port. The apparatus includes a first valve port and a second valve port. The apparatus also includes a first hydraulic circuit connecting the first pilot port and the first valve port, wherein the first hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the second pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition. The apparatus further includes a second hydraulic circuit connecting the second pilot port and the second valve port, wherein the second hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the first pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: James Douglas Holmes, Eric Thomas Nelson, Nathan Bradley Wourms
  • Patent number: 11649903
    Abstract: A modular valve assembly can include a core spool module and a plurality of end connection modules. The end connection modules can be configured to be secured to the core spool module at one or more of a core inlet or a core outlet of the core spool module to provide one or more respective, different flow configurations for the modular valve assembly. The core spool module can include a bonnet portion that is integrally formed with the core inlet and the core outlet and a seat ring configured to provide a seal against flow of process fluid through the modular valve assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Fisher Controls International LLC
    Inventors: Shannon Eugene Jelken, Katherine Nicole Bartels, Thomas Nelson Gabriel, Lawrence Martin, Julian Adin Mann, III
  • Publication number: 20230133130
    Abstract: A routing assembly for routing an electrical connection between two or more sub-systems in a work machine includes a hose, a coupling member, a wiring harness, and a grommet. The hose defines a conduit. The coupling member defines a through-bore fluidly coupled with the conduit. The wiring harness facilitates passage of one or more electrical wirings through each of the conduit and the through-bore to enable electrical communication between the two or more sub-systems. The grommet is retentively engaged with the coupling member and the wiring harness respectively with a first force and a second force. The first force is greater than the second force facilitating a movement of the wiring harness with respect to the grommet without disengaging the grommet from the coupling member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Codey Ryan Seaman, Benjamin Thomas Nelson, Jacob Andrew Scheirer
  • Publication number: 20230116011
    Abstract: A work machine includes a frame, a traction system, an engine, an implement system, an operator cab with a roof; a machine control system, and a secondary control system. The secondary control system is configured to interface with the machine control system and includes a secondary control device, a control module, a communication module, a base plate, and two rails. The base plate is configured to support the control module and the communication module, and protect the plurality of harness connections. The two rails are configured to support the base plate in an operation orientation and a service orientation and each include a plurality of channels configured to support the base plate in the service orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Sarah J. Borgman, Benjamin Thomas Nelson, Michael William Bridenbaugh
  • Patent number: 11624452
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to an apparatus and system for adjusting rate of spool centering in a pilot-controlled hydraulic spool valve. The apparatus includes a first pilot port and a second pilot port. The apparatus includes a first valve port and a second valve port. The apparatus also includes a first hydraulic circuit connecting the first pilot port and the first valve port, wherein the first hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the second pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition. The apparatus further includes a second hydraulic circuit connecting the second pilot port and the second valve port, wherein the second hydraulic circuit, based on a hydraulic fluid pressure of the first pilot port, comprises one of a controlled-flow condition and an unrestricted-flow condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: BARKO HYDRAULICS, LLC
    Inventors: James Douglas Holmes, Eric Thomas Nelson, Nathan Bradley Wourms