Patents by Inventor Thomas Richards

Thomas Richards 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: 20250143433
    Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias, Nicholas James Sardar, Joshua Thomas Richards
  • Publication number: 20250136365
    Abstract: A device for odor neutralization of food waste includes a chamber to receive food waste, the chamber having an inlet and an outlet, an odor neutralizer coupled with the inlet via a first flow path, the odor neutralizer to output particles to mitigate odor emitted from the food waste, and a filter coupled with the outlet via a second flow path to filter remaining odor in the second flow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Travis Marks, Eleanor Anne Saunders, James Richard Potter, Joshua Thomas Richards
  • Patent number: 12288131
    Abstract: Fermions are the building blocks of matter. Here, we disclose a robust quantum register composed of hundreds of fermionic atom pairs trapped in an optical lattice. With each fermion pair forming a spin-singlet, the qubit is realized as a set of near-degenerate, symmetry-protected two-particle wavefunctions describing common and relative motion. Degeneracy is lifted by the atomic recoil energy, which depends on mass and lattice wavelength, thereby rendering two-fermion motional qubits insensitive to noise of the confining potential. The quantum coherence can last longer than ten seconds. Universal control is provided by modulating interactions between the atoms. Via state-dependent, coherent conversion of free atom pairs into tightly bound molecules, we tune the speed of motional entanglement over three orders of magnitude, yielding 104 Ramsey oscillations within the coherence time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Martin Zwierlein, Thomas Richard Hartke, Ningyuan Jia, Botond Oreg
  • Publication number: 20250094541
    Abstract: Techniques regarding the governing of use by a consumer of an artificial intelligence technology are described. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The system can also comprise a processor, operably coupled to the memory, and that can execute the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can include an analyzing component that can, based on an artificial intelligence usage policy, analyze a proposed use by a consumer of an artificial intelligence technology, resulting in an analyzed use of the artificial intelligence technology. The computer executable components can further include a governing component that can, based on the analyzing, govern use by the consumer of the artificial intelligence technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: John Thomas Richards, Manish Anand Bhide, Michael Hind, Aleksandra Mojsilovic, Jacquelyn Martino, David John Piorkowski
  • Publication number: 20250092949
    Abstract: A bi-directional sealing assembly for providing a fluid seal for a pony rod in stationary equipment. The sealing assembly can include first and second sealing assemblies and an intermediate mechanical component. The sealing subassemblies can include a flange element configured for contacting the pony rod. The flange elements contact and form a bi-directional fluid seal with the pony rod when mounted thereabout, such that the first sealing subassembly forms a first fluid seal when the pony rod moves in a first axial direction and the second sealing subassembly forms a second fluid seal when the pony rod moves in a second axial direction opposite to the first axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas RICHARD, Michael POLANSKY
  • Patent number: 12238616
    Abstract: An asset tracking system includes a tracking device associated with a mobile asset and a centralized device management platform. The tracking device is configured via a set of device configurations. The centralized device management platform includes one or more processors in communication with the tracking device and computer-readable memory encoded with instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive location data corresponding to a location of the tracking device; evaluate the location data to identify a zone corresponding to a physical region that includes the location of the tracking device; compare an identified zone with a set of location-based rules to identify a rule associated with the identified zone; update the set of device configurations with a device configuration that is associated with an identified rule; and sync an updated set of device configurations to the tracking device to reconfigure the tracking device based on the identified rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Insight Direct USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Alexander Eliashevsky, Landon Benjamin Register, Jonathan Lee Jackson, Thomas Richard Pankake
  • Patent number: 12235933
    Abstract: An autonomous agent operating method, system, and computer program product, including launching a first autonomous agent for a task with an initial update interval and adjusting the initial update interval for a second autonomous agent based on a second task for the second autonomous agent being similar to the task over time in relation to a trust level of a human user in a performance of the first autonomous agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John Thomas Richards, David John Piorkowski, Stephanie Houde, Yunfeng Zhang, Qingzi Liao, Rachel Katherine Emma Bellamy
  • Patent number: 12225995
    Abstract: A hair care appliance is provided. The hair care appliance includes a handle and a body coupled to the handle via a rotational hinge joint. The body can be movable via the rotational hinge joint between a straight configuration in which the body is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the handle and a bent configuration in which the body extends along an axis transverse to the longitudinal axis of the handle. A fluid flow path extends between an inlet in the handle and an outlet in the body. The hair care appliance can be operated with minimal loss of fluid flow in either the straight configuration and the bent configuration. The hair care appliance includes a fan assembly in the handle and a heater assembly in the body that are positioned to create a balanced center of mass of the hair care appliance when operated by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Colby Jackson Higgins, Adam Udy, Stephen Murphy, Stephan James Godden, Richard Mathias, Nicholas James Sardar, Joshua Thomas Richards
  • Publication number: 20250046319
    Abstract: Embodiments included herein generally relate to using non-audio data embedded in an audio signal. More particularly, embodiments relate to using non-audio data embedded into the audio signal to control an audio configuration of a plurality of speakers and/or to measure a delay of a playback device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: ROKU, INC.
    Inventors: Thomas Richard Henry DEWEY, Robert Caston CURTIS
  • Publication number: 20250043673
    Abstract: A method comprises measuring, at a surface of a wellbore during drilling of the wellbore, at least one drilling operational parameter and determining at least one at-bit model parameter, at a drill bit used for drilling the wellbore, based on the at least one drilling operational parameter measured at the surface of the wellbore. The method comprises determining a drilling efficiency based on the at least one at-bit model parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Ketan C. Bhaidasna, Yuanyan Chen, Robert P. Darbe, Thomas Richard, Christophe Tilman
  • Patent number: 12219432
    Abstract: An asset tracking system includes a tracking device associated with a mobile asset and a centralized device management platform. The tracking device is configured via a set of device configurations. The centralized device management platform includes one or more processors in communication with the tracking device and computer-readable memory encoded with instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive location data corresponding to a location of the tracking device; evaluate the location data to identify a zone corresponding to a physical region that includes the location of the tracking device; compare an identified zone with a set of location-based rules to identify a rule associated with the identified zone; update the set of device configurations with a device configuration that is associated with an identified rule; and sync an updated set of device configurations to the tracking device to reconfigure the tracking device based on the identified rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Insight Direct USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Alexander Eliashevsky, Landon Benjamin Register, Jonathan Lee Jackson, Thomas Richard Pankake
  • Publication number: 20250002951
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for the production of a biogas from a lignocellulosic biomass. These methods can include inoculating a feedstock mixture with a mixed microbial community; using a pH adjusting agent to increase a pH of the feedstock mixture to an alkaline pH; incubating the feedstock mixture at a thermophilic temperature; contacting the digestate with a pH adjusting agent to a substantially neutral pH; and incubating the first digestate to form a second biogas. Also provided are systems to convert a lignocellulosic feedstock to biogas having a first reactor operating at an alkaline pH and a thermophilic temperature; and a second reactor operating at a substantially neutral pH. The systems and methods disclosed herein can produce substantially pure biogas and a residual biogas stream having high carbohydrate conversion without the addition of non-digestible solids and can also be used to produce volatile fatty acids (VFA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: John Michael REGAN, Katharine HIRL, Michael John SHREVE, Anahita BHARADWAJ, Thomas RICHARD
  • Publication number: 20240424632
    Abstract: An apparatus is provided for forming cutting edges including a grinding stage. The grinding stage includes abrading wheels with a strip receiving end configured to receive a strip with a first profile along a path P and a strip exiting end. Axes of the abrading wheels are oriented at a tilt angle relative to the path P. Lands are provided on each abrading wheel with an abrasive surface that varies from fine to coarse in a direction from the strip receiving end to the strip exiting end. The lands are arranged in a spiral helix such that the helix is a right-handed thread on one wheel and a left-handed thread on the other wheel. An improvement is also provided for a system for removing material from a strip of metal incident on the system along a path P.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Oliver Heinz CLAUS, Michael Joseph BAXTER, Thomas Richard SHEA, Michael Aaron BROWN, Kenneth Daniel BELLIVEAU, Joseph Allan DEPUYDT
  • Publication number: 20240424633
    Abstract: A method is provided for forming cutting edges. The method includes a step of providing a grinding stage comprising a pair of abrading wheels that extend from a strip receiving end to a strip exiting end. The method further includes a step of directing a strip of metal at the strip receiving end of the grinding stage along a path P. The method also includes a step of removing material, from the strip of the metal, with an abrasive surface along the pair of abrading wheels which varies from a fine abrasion to a coarse abrasion in a direction from the strip receiving end to the strip exiting end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Oliver Heinz CLAUS, Michael Joseph BAXTER, Thomas Richard SHEA, Michael Aaron BROWN, Kenneth Daniel BELLIVEAU, Joseph Allan DEPUYDT
  • Patent number: D1070798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN AUDIO A/S
    Inventors: Iain Scott Pottie, Jacob Emil Ingemann Jensen, Thomas Richard Needham
  • Patent number: D1070800
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN Audio A/S
    Inventors: Iain Scott Pottie, Jacob Emil Ingemann Jensen, Thomas Richard Needham
  • Patent number: D1070830
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN Audio A/S
    Inventors: Iain Scott Pottie, Jacob Emil Ingemann Jensen, Thomas Richard Needham
  • Patent number: D1070831
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN AUDIO A/S
    Inventors: Iain Scott Pottie, Jacob Emil Ingemann Jensen, Thomas Richard Needham
  • Patent number: D1070848
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN AUDIO A/S
    Inventors: Iain Scott Pottie, Jacob Emil Ingemann Jensen, Thomas Richard Needham
  • Patent number: D1070851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: GN AUDIO A/S
    Inventors: Iain Scott Pottie, Jacob Emil Ingemann Jensen, Thomas Richard Needham