Patents by Inventor Thomas Paul

Thomas Paul 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: 12258879
    Abstract: An assembly for a turbomachine includes at least a first part and a second part, and at least one bolt including a screw engaging with a nut. The screw extends through respective openings in the first part and in the second part. The bolt includes a support member having an annular collar mounted between the screw or the nut, and the first part. The collar has a support surface abutting, at least partially, on a complementary support surface of the first part. The collar also includes a recessed annular groove extending at the inner periphery of the collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: SAFRAN CERAMICS
    Inventors: Thierry Guy Xavier Tesson, Thomas Revel, Christophe Paul Aupetit, Denis Jean Armel Busquet
  • Publication number: 20250098062
    Abstract: Tamper-detect assemblies and methods of fabrication are provided. A tamper-detect assembly includes a laminate carrier with embedded tamper-detect circuitry within the laminate carrier, and one or more electronic components on the laminate carrier. Further, the tamper-detect assembly includes a heat sink cover. The heat sink cover includes a heat sink and tamper-detect circuitry integrated within the heat sink cover. The heat sink cover is mounted to the laminate carrier and encloses the one or more electronic components between the laminate carrier and the heat sink cover. Together, the embedded tamper-detect circuitry of the laminate carrier and the integrated tamper-detect circuitry of the heat sink cover define, at least in part, a secure volume about the one or more electronic components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Philipp K. BUCHLING REGO, Sushumna IRUVANTI, Jeffrey Allen ZITZ, Steven Paul OSTRANDER, Thomas Anthony WASSICK, William SANTIAGO-FERNANDEZ, Nihad HADZIC, James BUSBY
  • Publication number: 20250090057
    Abstract: An optical physiological sensor configured to perform high speed spectral sweep analysis of sample tissue being measured to non-invasively predict an analyte level of a patient. An emitter of the optical physiological sensor can be regulated to operate at different temperatures to emit radiation at different wavelengths. Variation in emitter drive current, duty cycle, and forward voltage can also be used to cause the emitter to emit a range of wavelengths. Informative spectral data can be obtained during the sweeping of specific wavelength regions of sample tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Cristiano Dalvi, Ferdyan Lesmana, Hung The Vo, Jeroen Poeze, Jesse Chen, Kevin Hughes Pauley, Mathew Paul, Sean Merritt, Thomas B. Blank, Massi Joe E. Kiani
  • Patent number: 12256199
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to assistive listening devices and systems for providing audio streams to device wearers within sound fields. In an embodiment an assistive listening device is included having a control circuit, an electroacoustic transducer for generating sound in electrical communication with the control circuit, a power supply circuit in electrical communication with the control circuit, and a communications circuit in electrical communication with the control circuit. The control circuit can be configured to issue a communication to an audio communication device or audio provisioning device including at least one of a language preference, a set of hearing requirements, data regarding a presentation delay, and an authorization status identifier, digital code, digital token, or digital key specific to a wearer of the assistive listening device. Other embodiments are also included herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin R. Burwinkel, Peter J. Tetrick, Jeffrey Paul Solum, Thomas Scheller
  • Patent number: 12252039
    Abstract: An electrified vehicle includes an electric machine, a traction battery selectively connected to the electric machine, a human-machine interface (HMI), and a controller programmed to, after receiving a signal from the HMI enabling towed vehicle operation of the electrified vehicle, control the electric machine to generate a regenerative braking torque in response to deceleration of the electrified vehicle exceeding an associated deceleration threshold and road grade being below a road grade threshold. The controller may also be programmed to control friction brakes of the electrified vehicle in response to the deceleration exceeding the associated threshold. The controller may control brake lights of the electrified vehicle in response to the regenerative braking and/or friction braking. Regenerative and friction braking may be released in response to acceleration exceeding a corresponding threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: William David Treharne, Thomas Anthony Vassa, Anthony Paul Magagnoli
  • Publication number: 20250083903
    Abstract: System and method are provided for automation of placing and transporting of parcels or packages in containers. Aspects of disclosure provide automation for filling and manipulation of containers, and closure of filled containers, in systems where materials, products, packages, and other items may require containerization. Other aspects of disclosure provide automation for transport of one or more empty and/or filled containers from/to various staging areas of such systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Applicant: Aegis Sortation, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony J. Young, Jeffrey Paul Henley, Kevin Raney, Robert Browder, Marvin Gregory Whitlock, Scott Crance, Ken Ice, Michael Karaglanis, Brian Yount, Barry Sweatt, Thomas M. Phillips, Logan Young, Derek Robert Strum, David Wesley Caldwell, II, James Thomas Hind
  • Publication number: 20250088359
    Abstract: Techniques for enabling the association of client devices to anonymized households during an authorization process is performed at a server including processor(s) and non-transitory memory. The server receives a request for a service or content from a client device that specifies a device identifier, a first hash value approximating a unit in which the client device is deployed, and a second hash value representing a connection to the unit. The server records and evaluates the request based on the device identifier, the first hash value, and the second hash value so that an access token is generated for the client device and bound to the first hash value. The server sends the access token to the client device for access to the service or content via the connection to the unit upon validating the request or reports an anomaly determined based on the recorded data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Itai Ephraim Zilbershtein, Thomas Paul Burnley
  • Publication number: 20250074580
    Abstract: An aircraft including at least one aerodynamic wall against which an airflow flows in a direction of flow when the aircraft is in flight and at least one cavity opening at the aerodynamic wall, the cavity being delimited by a tubular lateral wall and a bottom. The cavity comprises at least one reduction in passage section spaced apart from the bottom and extending only over a part of the circumference of the tubular lateral wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Thierry FARGIER, Maria Del Sagrario JUANAS FERNANDEZ, Thomas NODE-LANGLOIS, Stéphane GALDEANO, Jean-Paul ROMEO
  • Patent number: 12240068
    Abstract: A vertical bundle air-cooled heat exchanger, a finned tube assembly for an air cooled condenser and method for forming the same, and a system for removing thermal energy generated by radioactive materials. In one aspect, an air cooled condenser sized for industrial and commercial application includes an inlet steam distribution header for conveying steam, a condensate outlet header for conveying condensate, an array of tube bundles each having a plurality of finned tube assemblies having a bare steel tube with an exposed outer surface and a set of aluminum fins brazed directly onto the tube by a brazing filler metal. The steel tubes may be spaced apart by the aluminum fins and have an inlet end fluidly coupled to the inlet steam distribution header and an outlet end fluidly coupled to the outlet header. A forced draft fan may be arranged to blow air through the tube bundles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventors: Krishna P. Singh, Joseph Gerald Leo Rajkumar, Indresh Rampall, Frank David Sanderlin, William G. Scholfield, Dmitriy Yakov Kats, Joseph Paul Mosher, Robert Charles Sloan, Thomas G. Haynes
  • Patent number: 12242110
    Abstract: A multi-fiber cable assembly includes a pigtail segments spliced to a trunk segment using multiple mass fusion splices. The splices are disposed at axially spaced positions within a hollow, flexible conduit. Fibers of the trunk segment are axially fixed at a first demarcation region disposed at the first end of the conduit. Fibers of the pigtail segments are axially fixed at a separate, second demarcation region disposed at the second end of the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Cyle D. Petersen, Thomas Marcouiller, John Paul Anderson
  • Patent number: 12241333
    Abstract: A method for designing a cement composition may include: providing a target compressive strength and a target composition density; selecting at least one cementitious material from a plurality of cementitious materials; calculating a required amount of water to produce a cement composition with the target composition density, the cement composition comprising the water and the at least one cementitious material; calculating a compressive strength of the cement composition based at least in part on a model of compressive strength; comparing the calculated compressive strength to the target compressive strength; and preparing the cement composition with the calculated compressive strength.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: John Paul Bir Singh, Xueyu Pang, Krishna Babu Yerubandi, Thomas Jason Pisklak, Ronnie Glen Morgan, Siva Rama Krishna Jandhyala
  • Publication number: 20250064130
    Abstract: Apparatus for an aerosol generating system comprises an inductive element for inductively heating a susceptor arrangement to heat an aerosol generating material to thereby generate an aerosol, an insulating member which in use is located between the inductive element and the susceptor arrangement to thermally insulate the susceptor arrangement from the inductive element; a temperature sensor for measuring a temperature at a location in the system insulated in use from the susceptor arrangement by the insulating member, and a control arrangement. The control arrangement is configured to monitor the temperature measured by the temperature sensor and take a control action if, based on the temperature measured by the temperature sensor, the control arrangement determines that the susceptor arrangement is overheating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Paul BLANDINO, Edward Joseph HALLIDAY
  • Patent number: 12235708
    Abstract: Devices and methods for cache prefetching are provided. A device is provided which comprises a quality of service (QOS) component having first assigned registers used to store data to execute a program, a plurality of non-QOS components having second assigned registers used to store data to execute the program and a power management controller, in communication with the QOS component and the non-QOS components. The power management controller is configured to issue fences for the non-QOS components when it is determined that one or more of the non-QOS components are idle, issue a fence for the QOS component when the fences for the non-QOS components are completed and enter a reduced power state when the fences for the non-QOS components and the fence for the QOS component are completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Tsien, Alexander J. Branover, Indrani Paul, Christopher T. Weaver, Thomas J. Gibney, Stephen V. Kosonocky, John P. Petry, Mihir Shaileshbhai Doctor
  • Patent number: 12233593
    Abstract: An additively manufactured article is assembled from a plurality of printed voxels. The article includes a lattice of unit cells of a composite lattice material and an encasing matrix of structural material arranged between adjacent unit cells of the lattice. The structural material has greater mechanical strength than the composite lattice material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: VADIENT OPTICS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Leonard Allen, John Paul Harmon, Samuel Peter Grimm, George Williams, Peter George Hugger
  • Patent number: 12226079
    Abstract: A scope system includes a processor and a scope device. The scope device includes a handle configured to remain outside of the body and an elongated shaft extending from the handle to a distal tip and including a working channel extending therethrough. The working channel is open at the distal tip of the shaft. The shaft is inserted through a bodily lumen to a target surgical site. The shaft includes at least one sensor transmitting to the processor sensor data relating to the target surgical site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Pereira, Eric Wong, William Stanhope, Timothy Paul Harrah, Thomas Michael Zappia, Jr., Kimberly Degraaf, Adam Perry Nodiff
  • Patent number: 12227717
    Abstract: A solid block detergent composition is described which can be dispensed with a water spray to form an aqueous detergent for cutting and removing grease, removing and suspending soils and rinsing easily leaving cleaned ware. The solid block detergent contains a neutralized sulfonated anionic surfactant in combination with various processing aids to optimize soil removal in a formulation that can be pressed for form a solid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.
    Inventors: Wendy Lo, Erik C. Olson, Thomas Muller, Jeffrey John Biggs, Angela Sivanich, Katherine Molinaro, Kelsey West, Matthew Paul Molinaro
  • Publication number: 20250045991
    Abstract: In one aspect, an example method can be used with a system comprising a set of domain specific language (DSL)-compatible modules. The method can include: (i) designing a template for an interactive media object, wherein the template includes one or more fixed portions and one or more variable portions; (ii) curating the designed template by at least using received input to modify the one or more variable portions of the designed template; (iii) modifying the curated template by replacing a content placeholder of the curated template with a corresponding content item, thereby automatically converting the curated template into an interactive media object definition file; and (iv) using the interactive media object definition file to render and present, via a media selection menu of a presentation device, an interactive media object defined by the interactive media object definition file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Mehul Sanghavi, Rachel Elise Bailin, Thomas Paul DeGarmo, JR., Prajit Jose Madan, David Anthony Webb, Andrew Laurence Ashbacher
  • Publication number: 20250045511
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for a format agnostic document viewer with document translation that provide the ability for a user to either select a portion of the viewed document text in the format agnostic viewer and have it translated into a selected language, or for the user to have the entire document presented in the format agnostic viewer in translated form. The translated text may be shown side-by-side with the original document text in the format agnostic viewer, or can replace the original text on the visible page in the format agnostic viewer. The translated text may be formatted according to, or displayed with, some enhancements to account for differences in the original text and translated text or other differences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Michael John Chowaniec, Thomas Demmler, Jeremy Paul Duke
  • Patent number: 12219228
    Abstract: A method of calibrating a robotic imaging apparatus includes providing the robotic imaging apparatus, calibrating a stereoscopic camera portion of the apparatus to robot space, and registering the robot space to a patient space. An embodiment of the apparatus includes a base section defining the robot space, a robotic arm including a first end connected to the base section, a second end including a coupling interface, and a plurality of joints and links connecting the first end to the second end, each joint including a motor configured to rotate the joint around an axis and a joint sensor configured to transmit a position of the respective joint, a stereoscopic camera connected at the coupling interface, and a sensor positioned at the coupling interface and configured to detect force imparted on the stereoscopic camera by an operator and to transmit output data indicative of the detected force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Alcon Inc.
    Inventors: Maximiliano Ramirez Luna, Michael Weissman, Thomas Paul Riederer, George Charles Polchin, Ashok Burton Tripathi, Patrick Terry
  • Publication number: 20250036812
    Abstract: Systems and methods for intelligent detection of sensitive data are disclosed. A sending device associated with a sending user account receives an input message via a communication interface. The sending device detects sensitive information in the input message by using a trained machine learning (ML) algorithm to analyze the input message based on a sensitive messaging profile associated with the sending user account. The sending device enables the sending user account to control one or more settings of the sensitive information. The sending device transmits the sensitive information according to the one or more settings to one or more receiving devices associated with one or more receiving user accounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Zoom Video Communications, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas William Noble, Shane Paul Springer