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: 20250297485
    Abstract: A mounting kit and method for accurately positioning a board on a wall are disclosed. The kit comprises a board, a mounting template, an alignment guide to ensure proper board-to-template positioning, and a marking tool for transferring hole locations. The alignment guide includes receiving channels and backstops for precise alignment, and may feature a level indicator. The method involves using the alignment guide to position the board and template, marking hole locations, transferring the template to the wall, and installing fasteners. The kit may include standoff fasteners, such as cleats with interlocking angled or socket-based connections. This system simplifies the installation process by eliminating guesswork and enhancing precision, making it particularly useful for mounting glass boards and other display surfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2025
    Publication date: September 25, 2025
    Applicant: ACCO BRANDS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas Nelson, Jonathen Shearer, Brian Beck, Matthew Wright, David Pehar, Anthony DeMore
  • Patent number: 12409929
    Abstract: Aircraft pitch control systems and methods are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, an aircraft pitch control system comprises a movable horizontal stabilizer and an elevator movably coupled to the horizontal stabilizer. The elevator is electronically geared to the horizontal stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2025
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Ahn, Clinton Eric Tanner, Thomas Nelson, Scott Black
  • 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: 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: 11501794
    Abstract: Described herein is a system for improving sentiment detection and/or recognition using multiple inputs. For example, an autonomously motile device is configured to generate audio data and/or image data and perform sentiment detection processing. The device may process the audio data and the image data using a multimodal temporal attention model to generate sentiment data that estimates a sentiment score and/or a sentiment category. In some examples, the device may also process language data (e.g., lexical information) using the multimodal temporal attention model. The device can adjust its operations based on the sentiment data. For example, the device may improve an interaction with the user by estimating the user's current emotional state, or can change a position of the device and/or sensor(s) of the device relative to the user to improve an accuracy of the sentiment data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yelin Kim, Yang Liu, Dilek Hakkani-tur, Thomas Nelson, Anna Chen Santos, Joshua Levy, Saurabh Gupta
  • Publication number: 20220345886
    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: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jochen SCHUBERT, Fouad BOUNEFISSA, Michael Andrew SIMONS, Thomas NELSON, Timothy THIVIERGE, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11414049
    Abstract: A controller may implement a key delivery manager on the vehicle side to aid in control of consumer access key delivery. These controls may include, for example, key redelivery to a mobile device, choosing a type of key delivery according to availability of vehicle connectivity, and revoking keys according to availability of vehicle connectivity. By using the key delivery manager, the controller takes into account state knowledge as well as connectivity availability to dictate which delivery method (and subsequent user interactions) should be utilized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Thivierge, Jr., Thomas Nelson, Ali Hassani, Hamid M. Golgiri
  • Publication number: 20220097827
    Abstract: Aircraft pitch control systems and methods are disclosed. In one exemplary embodiment, an aircraft pitch control system comprises a movable horizontal stabilizer and an elevator movably coupled to the horizontal stabilizer. The elevator is electronically geared to the horizontal stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas AHN, Clinton Eric TANNER, Thomas NELSON, Scott BLACK
  • Publication number: 20220073031
    Abstract: A controller may implement a key delivery manager on the vehicle side to aid in control of consumer access key delivery. These controls may include, for example, key redelivery to a mobile device, choosing a type of key delivery according to availability of vehicle connectivity, and revoking keys according to availability of vehicle connectivity. By using the key delivery manager, the controller takes into account state knowledge as well as connectivity availability to dictate which delivery method (and subsequent user interactions) should be utilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Timothy THIVIERGE, JR., Thomas NELSON, Ali HASSANI, Hamid M. GOLGIRI
  • Patent number: 11238058
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate identification of additional trigger-terms for a structured information card. In one aspect, the method includes actions of accessing data associated with a template for presenting structured information, wherein the accessed data references (i) a label term and (ii) a value. Other actions may include obtaining a candidate label term, identifying one or more entities that are associated with the label term, identifying one or more of the entities that are associated with the candidate label term, and for each particular entity of the one or more entities that are associated with the candidate label term, associating, with the candidate label term, (i) a label term that is associated with the particular entity, and (ii) the value associated with the label term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Najork, Sujith Ravi, Michael Bendersky, Peter Shao-sen Young, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mingyang Zhang, Thomas Nelson, Xuanhui Wang
  • Patent number: 11230368
    Abstract: Aircraft pitch control systems and methods are disclosed. An aircraft pitch control system (28) comprises a movable horizontal stabilizer (24) and an elevator (26) movably coupled to the horizontal stabilizer. The elevator is electronically geared to the horizontal stabilizer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: BOMBARDIER INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Ahn, Clinton Eric Tanner, Thomas Nelson, Scott Black
  • Publication number: 20210221494
    Abstract: Aircraft pitch control systems and methods are disclosed. An aircraft pitch control system (28) comprises a movable horizontal stabilizer (24) and an elevator (26) movably coupled to the horizontal stabilizer. The elevator is electronically geared to the horizontal stabilizer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas AHN, Clinton Eric TANNER, Thomas NELSON, Scott BLACK
  • Publication number: 20210227006
    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: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas NELSON, Hussein F. NASRALLAH, Thomas E. APCZYNSKI, David Anthony HATTON
  • Patent number: 11044283
    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: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Nelson, Hussein F. Nasrallah, Thomas E. Apczynski, David Anthony Hatton
  • Patent number: 11021135
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to wirelessly communicate with a mobile device application. The processor is further configured to receive a vehicle-command from the mobile device application and send a wireless instruction to a vehicle instructing an action corresponding to and responsive to the received vehicle command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: David Martin Gersabeck, David Anthony Hatton, Ziad Alhihi, Michael Andrew Simons, Thomas Nelson, Ryan Conroy
  • Publication number: 20210049165
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate identification of additional trigger-terms for a structured information card. In one aspect, the method includes actions of accessing data associated with a template for presenting structured information, wherein the accessed data references (i) a label term and (ii) a value. Other actions may include obtaining a candidate label term, identifying one or more entities that are associated with the label term, identifying one or more of the entities that are associated with the candidate label term, and for each particular entity of the one or more entities that are associated with the candidate label term, associating, with the candidate label term, (i) a label term that is associated with the particular entity, and (ii) the value associated with the label term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Najork, Sujith Ravi, Michael Bendersky, Peter Shao-sen Young, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mingyang Zhang, Thomas Nelson, Xuanhui Wang
  • Patent number: 10841765
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive a vehicle event and determine a wireless device present connection state relative to a vehicle infotainment system. The processor is further configured to communicate with a remote server through a vehicle modem, including transmission of the wireless device present connection state, based on the occurrence of the vehicle event. The processor may also be configured to request that the remote server instruct a wireless device to pair with a vehicle infotainment system if the wireless device present connection state indicates the wireless device is not presently paired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Nelson, David Anthony Hatton, Hussein F. Nasrallah
  • Patent number: 10841764
    Abstract: A system includes a processor configured to receive a vehicle event and determine a wireless device present connection state relative to a vehicle infotainment system. The processor is further configured to communicate with a remote server through a vehicle modem, including transmission of the wireless device present connection state, based on the occurrence of the vehicle event. The processor may also be configured to request that the remote server instruct a wireless device to pair with a vehicle infotainment system if the wireless device present connection state indicates the wireless device is not presently paired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Nelson, David Anthony Hatton, Hussein F. Nasrallah
  • Patent number: 10824630
    Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage medium, to facilitate identification of additional trigger-terms for a structured information card. In one aspect, the method includes actions of accessing data associated with a template for presenting structured information, wherein the accessed data references (i) a label term and (ii) a value. Other actions may include obtaining a candidate label term, identifying one or more entities that are associated with the label term, identifying one or more of the entities that are associated with the candidate label term, and for each particular entity of the one or more entities that are associated with the candidate label term, associating, with the candidate label term, (i) a label term that is associated with the particular entity, and (ii) the value associated with the label term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
    Inventors: Marc Alexander Najork, Sujith Ravi, Michael Bendersky, Peter Shao-sen Young, Timothy Youngjin Sohn, Mingyang Zhang, Thomas Nelson, Xuanhui Wang
  • Patent number: 10759388
    Abstract: A smartwatch having at least one controller in communication with an user interface and a transceiver. The transceiver configured to communicate with a nomadic device. The at least one controller configured to, in response to a wireless signal having a unique user identifier received at the nomadic device, receive a control function from an application corresponding to the unique user identifier. The at least one controller may be further configured to configure the user interface based on the control function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Nelson, David Anthony Hatton, Hussein F. Nasrallah