Patents by Inventor Thomas Nichols

Thomas Nichols 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: 20250221659
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis system is provided. A wearable treatment and analysis system may include a module configured to be mounted to a wearable medical article, wherein the module comprises: one or more optical sensors configured to generate image data of a body surface region of a wearer of the wearable medical article, a wireless network interface configured to transmit the sensor data. A wearable treatment and analysis system may include a computing system comprising one or more computer processors and executable instructions, wherein the computing system is configured to: receive the image data from the plurality of optical sensors, receive contextual data associated with the wearer; and evaluate the image data and contextual data using a machine learning model to generate a score representing a current state of the body surface region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Nichols, Samir Shreim
  • Patent number: 12254989
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis module is provided. The module is positioned on or near a body surface region of interest. The module provides remote access to sensor data, treatment administration, and/or other health care regimens via a network connection with a user device and/or management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: PREH Holding, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 12237149
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a system used in a semiconductor device manufacturing process. More specifically, embodiments provided herein generally include apparatus and methods for synchronizing and controlling the delivery of an RF bias signal and a pulsed voltage waveform to one or more electrodes within a plasma processing chamber. The apparatus and methods disclosed herein can be useful to at least minimize or eliminate a microloading effect created while processing small dimension features that have differing densities across various regions of a substrate. The plasma processing methods and apparatus described herein are configured to improve the control of various characteristics of the generated plasma and control an ion energy distribution (IED) of the plasma generated ions that interact with a surface of a substrate during plasma processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Deyang Li, Sunil Srinivasan, Yi-Chuan Chou, Shahid Rauf, Kuan-Ting Liu, Jason A. Kenney, Chung Liu, Olivier P. Joubert, Shreeram Jyoti Dash, Aaron Eppler, Michael Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20250038888
    Abstract: An apparatus for marking errors in FlexO/ZR data includes circuitry configured to receive an Open Forward Error Correction (OFEC) block, decode a plurality of checksums in a payload area of the OFEC block, detect errors in the payload area based on the decoded plurality of checksums, and mark the detected errors in the payload area. The plurality of checksums are added during adaptation of the FlexO/ZR data to the OFEC block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastien Gareau, Jeffery Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 12167122
    Abstract: A personal care system having a treatment device for applying a treatment to the skin or hair of a user is provided. The treatment device has a camera for taking an image of the skin. The system may include or be in communication with an application programming interface (API) that can process the image. The system or an associated API can recommend the use of treatment regimens or topical products according to information determined from the digital image of the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: PREH Holding, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20240395413
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis module is provided. The module is positioned on or near a body surface region of interest. The module provides remote access to sensor data, treatment administration, and/or other health care regimens via a network connection with a user device and/or management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 12149352
    Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving (51) blocks of data that has been Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoded via Open Forward Error Correction (OFEC) adaptation; decoding (52) the blocks of data; processing (53) checksum data that is included in padding data required in the OFEC adaptation, wherein the padding data is distributed across N rows of payload data; and determining (54) a location of any errors in the payload data based on the processed checksum data. The OFEC adaptation is for mapping the blocks of data into any of a FlexO structure, a ZR structure, and variants thereof, and the location of any errors can be used for error marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastien Gareau, Jeffery Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20240298086
    Abstract: A personal care system having a treatment device for applying a treatment to the skin or hair of a user is provided. The treatment device has a camera for taking an image of the skin. The system may include or be in communication with an application programming interface (API) that can process the image. The system or an associated API can recommend the use of treatment regimens or topical products according to information determined from the digital image of the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20240007225
    Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving (51) blocks of data that has been Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoded via Open Forward Error Correction (OFEC) adaptation; decoding (52) the blocks of data; processing (53) checksum data that is included in padding data required in the OFEC adaptation, wherein the padding data is distributed across N rows of payload data; and determining (54) a location of any errors in the payload data based on the processed checksum data. The OFEC adaptation is for mapping the blocks of data into any of a FlexO structure, a ZR structure, and variants thereof, and the location of any errors can be used for error marking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastien Gareau, Jeffery Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 11854702
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis module is provided. The module is positioned on or near a body surface region of interest. The module provides remote access to sensor data, treatment administration, and/or other health care regimens via a network connection with a user device and/or management system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: PREH HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 11785330
    Abstract: A personal care system having a treatment device for applying a treatment to the skin or hair of a user is provided. The treatment device has a camera for taking an image of the skin. The system may include or be in communication with an application programming interface (API) that can process the image. The system or an associated API can recommend the use of treatment regimens or topical products according to information determined from the digital image of the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: PREH HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20230215582
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis module is provided. The module is positioned on or near a body surface region of interest. The module provides remote access to sensor data, treatment administration, and/or other health care regimens via a network connection with a user device and/or management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20230215583
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis module is provided. The module is positioned on or near a body surface region of interest. The module provides remote access to sensor data, treatment administration, and/or other health care regimens via a network connection with a user device and/or management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 11552722
    Abstract: A coherent optical modem includes an optical interface; and circuitry connected to the optical interface and configured to detect a first timing reference point in a transmit Digital Signal Processor (DSP) frame in a transmit direction from a first node to a second node, and detect a second timing reference point in a receive DSP frame in a receive direction from the second node to the first node, wherein the first timing reference point and the second timing reference point are determined based on a pattern in any DSP frame field including i) padding area, ii) a reserved area, and iii) a DSP Multi-Frame Alignment Signal (MFAS) area. The pattern can be input in select DSP frames for a time period that is greater than a time period for each DSP frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastien Gareau, Jeffery Thomas Nichols, Manoj Verghese, Andrew McCarthy
  • Publication number: 20220399123
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis module is provided. The module is positioned on or near a body surface region of interest. The module provides remote access to sensor data, treatment administration, and/or other health care regimens via a network connection with a user device and/or management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20220210332
    Abstract: A personal care system having a treatment device for applying a treatment to the skin or hair of a user is provided. The treatment device has a camera for taking an image of the skin. The system may include or be in communication with an application programming interface (API) that can process the image. The system or an associated API can recommend the use of treatment regimens or topical products according to information determined from the digital image of the skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Publication number: 20220190946
    Abstract: A coherent optical modem includes an optical interface; and circuitry connected to the optical interface and configured to detect a first timing reference point in a transmit Digital Signal Processor (DSP) frame in a transmit direction from a first node to a second node, and detect a second timing reference point in a receive DSP frame in a receive direction from the second node to the first node, wherein the first timing reference point and the second timing reference point are determined based on a pattern in any DSP frame field including i) padding area, ii) a reserved area, and iii) a DSP Multi-Frame Alignment Signal (MFAS) area. The pattern can be input in select DSP frames for a time period that is greater than a time period for each DSP frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Sebastien Gareau, Jeffery Thomas Nichols, Manoj Verghese, Andrew McCarthy
  • Patent number: 11184112
    Abstract: Systems and methods include receiving blocks of data that has been Forward Error Correction (FEC) encoded via Open Forward Error Correction (OFEC) adaptation; decoding the blocks of data; processing Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) data that is included in padding data required in the OFEC adaptation, wherein the padding data is distributed across N rows of payload data; and determining a location of any errors in the payload data based on the processed CRC data. The OFEC adaptation is for mapping the blocks of data into any of a FlexO-x frame structure, a ZR frame structure, and variants thereof, and the location of any errors can be used for error marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Ciena Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastien Gareau, Jeffery Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: 11122206
    Abstract: A personal care system having a treatment device for applying a treatment to the skin or hair of a user is provided. The treatment device has a camera for taking an image of the skin. The system may include or be in communication with an application programming interface (API) that can process the image. The system or an associated API can recommend the use of treatment regimens or topical products according to information determined from the digital image of the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: PREH HOLDING, LLC
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols
  • Patent number: D1000624
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols