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).
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Patent number: 11455564Abstract: Qubit allocation for noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers is provided. A quantum circuit comprises a plurality of logical qubits. A hardware specification comprising a connectivity graph of a plurality of physical qubits. A directed acyclic allocation graph is determined based on the plurality of logical qubits and the connectivity graph. The allocation graph comprises a node for each possible allocation of the plurality of logical qubits to the plurality of physical qubits, each allocation having a fidelity, and a plurality of directed edges, each edge connecting to its corresponding first node from its corresponding second node, the first node corresponding to a first allocation, the second node corresponding to a sub-allocation of the first allocation. The allocation graph is searched for a weighted shortest path from a root node of the allocation graph to a leaf node of the allocation graph. The allocation corresponding to the weighted shortest path is outputted.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Prineha Narang, Will Thomas Finigan, Michael Cubeddu, Yudong Cao, Thomas Richard Lively
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Patent number: 11440701Abstract: A block assembly for connecting a first section and a second section of a load bearing assembly includes a male fitting and a female fitting. The male fitting includes a male fitting body and a projection extending from the male fitting body. The female fitting includes a female fitting body and defines a fitting cavity extending within an interior of the female fitting body. The male fitting couples with the female fitting by inserting the male fitting body within the fitting cavity and moving the male fitting body toward a base of the female fitting. The projection on the male fitting interacts with an interlocking joint on the female fitting to resist detachment of the male fitting with respect to the female fitting.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2019Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Paxxal Inc.Inventors: Omar Shawaf, Ezzeldin Elmassry, Ben Stoller, Ellwood Phillip Hunt, III, Thomas Richard Hopson, III
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Publication number: 20220277608Abstract: The present technology is directed to a kiosk for storing, displaying, and distributing a plurality of baked products. The kiosk may include, for example, a housing defining a chamber therein and configured to receive a plurality of baked products. The kiosk may include one or more sensors configured to analyze the individual baked products to determine one or more baked unit parameters and adjust one or more baking inputs based on the measured parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Paul Wilbur Heisey Brandauer, Eric James Wilkinson, Randall Wilkinson, Denver Allan Wilkinson, Ronald Jay Wilkinson, Thomas Richard Mann
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Patent number: 11429360Abstract: A method of using artificial intelligence to provide source code from an original programming language in a target programming language showing regions of low confidence. The method includes receiving, by a computing device, a code base in an original programming language. The computing device further provides the code base in the original programming language to a target programming language using an artificial intelligence tool. The computing device additionally displays the code base in the target programming language using a visualization tool in a visual interface. The computing device still further displays the regions of uncertainty to a human user in the visual interface. The regions of uncertainty provide low confidence regions of the code base in the target programming language for targeted user intervention. The regions of low confidence correlate with violations to provide displayed actionable insight regions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Mayank Agarwal, Kartik Talamadupula, Justin David Weisz, Stephanie Houde, Fernando Carlos Martinez, Michael Muller, John Thomas Richards, Steven I. Ross
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Patent number: 11431221Abstract: A brushless motor has a rotor assembly including a shaft, an impeller, a bearing assembly and a rotor core. The brushless motor has a stator assembly and a frame having an outer portion and an inner portion radially inward of the outer portion. The inner portion supports at least one of the rotor assembly and the stator assembly. The brushless motor has a strut extending between the outer portion and the inner portion. The strut extends at least partially into a recess formed in the stator assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Thomas Richard Stafford, Vadivel Kumaran Sivashanmugam, Lukasz Andrzej Kowalczyk
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Patent number: 11423029Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for index-side synonym expansion. One method includes obtaining a token sequence for a resource and indexing a token in the token sequence. The indexing includes applying one or more stemming rules to the particular token to generate a stemmed form of the token, obtaining a variant of the stemmed form of the token, and storing data associating the resource with both the token and the variant as index terms for the resource in a search engine index.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: August 23, 2022Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Thomas Richard Strohmann, Dimitra Papachristou
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Publication number: 20220260716Abstract: An imaging device includes a pixel array including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a photoelectric conversion region that converts incident light into electric charge, and a first transfer transistor coupled to a first floating diffusion and the photoelectric conversion region. The imaging device includes a first driving circuit to control the plurality of pixels in an imaging mode to generate a color image, and a second driving circuit to control the plurality of pixels in a depth mode to generate a depth image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2020Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATIONInventors: Thomas Richard AYERS, Ping Wah WONG, Frederick BRADY
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Publication number: 20220257468Abstract: A pharmaceutical container may include a cylindrical hollow container body (100) defining a hollow chamber (111) to receive a pharmaceutical liquid, the container body (100) including a portion on a sidewall (121) of the container body (100), wherein the portion has a longitudinal extension along the longitudinal axis of the container body (100) and a circumferential extension along the circumference of the container body (100), thereby forming a window (122) through the sidewall (121) of the container body (100) into the hollow chamber (111), the window (122) comprising two long edges (124) and two short edges (125), and a Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna (110) arranged on the outer surface (120) of the sidewall (121) of the container, the antenna (110) including one or a plurality of nested antenna windings (150), each of them surrounding an interior periphery (140) including a substantially longitudinal portion (141) arranged along the two long edges (124) of the window (122), and a substantially cirType: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Andrew BRYANT, Alain Schmidlin, Daniel Latham, Gabriel Iobbi, Arun Venkatasubramanian, Thomas Richard Redman, Timothy Duncan Wooller, Franck Rubiconi, Robert George Milner, Richard Andrew Hall, Symon Cotton, Simon Peter Attard
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Publication number: 20220261885Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for generating financial goal packages. Personal and financial information is received from a user. Multiple budgeting strategies are generated based on the received personal and financial information. The budgeting strategies specify an amount of money to be saved by the user every set time period. A selection of a budgeting strategy is received from the user. Multiple goal packages specifying an allocation for the money saved by the user are generated. The multiple goal packages are scored based on the selected budgeting strategy. A goal package is selected based on the scores of each of the goal packages. The selected goal package is displayed to the user via a graphical user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Audrey Ji-eun Kim, Benjamin Michael Bartholomew, Stephany Yerger Kirkpatrick, Thomas Richard Gilmour
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Patent number: 11419201Abstract: Systems and methods for providing dynamic lighting are provided. In an exemplary aspect, one or more characteristics of light provided from a lighting device or a group of lighting devices changes over time to shape the environment of an indoor space according to dynamic lighting instructions. Dynamic lighting may improve the health or wellbeing of individuals in an indoor space, for example, by simulating an outdoor environment to reduce stress, by providing circadian entrainment to improve sleep and wakefulness, or the like. Other aspects of the present disclosure enable lighting devices to provide light that is synchronized with one or more other devices and does not significantly drift over time so that the lighting devices can provide seamless dynamic lighting experiences that shape the environment of an indoor space.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: IDEAL Industries Lighting LLCInventors: Ronald W. Bessems, Matthew Brian Deese, Kory Alexander Liszt, John W. Frailey, Shane Michael O'Donnell, Ronald Lee Fienberg, Thomas Richard Hinds, Gary David Trott
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Publication number: 20220255632Abstract: A photonic-based microwave generator includes a mode-locked laser that generates an optical pulse train, a feedback photodiode that samples the optical pulse train, and a servo amplifier that processes the photodiode output into a servo signal. The servo signal controls the mode-locked laser to suppress relative intensity noise on the optical pulse train. The microwave generator may also include a microwave photodiode for converting the optical pulse train into a microwave signal. The microwave generator may also include a second servo amplifier that processes a low-frequency output of the microwave photodiode into a second servo signal that drives an optical modulator that modulates the optical pulse train. The microwave photodiode, optical modulator, and servo amplifier form a feedback loop that suppresses amplitude noise on the microwave signal. By reducing amplitude noise and relative intensity noise, phase noise caused by amplitude-to-phase noise conversion is minimized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2021Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventor: Thomas Richard Schibli
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Publication number: 20220226219Abstract: A personal care composition comprising a cleansing phase comprising one or more cleansing surfactants comprising: i. a piroctone compound; ii. sodium benzoate; iii. a fragrance comprising a fragrance component selected from benzyl acetate, hexyl acetate, phenethyl alcohol, ethyl butyrate, eucalyptol, limonene, undecalactone, eugenol and mixtures thereof, in which the ratio of piroctone to sodium benzoate to the defined fragrance components iii) is from 1:1:1 to 1:130:130.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2020Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Stuart Campbell-Lee, Thomas Richard Pointon
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Publication number: 20220202156Abstract: An attachment for a hair dryer that is intended to curl the user's hair during the drying process. The attachment includes a tubular first body, a tubular second body, a hair curling post, and a baffle. The tubular first body extends between a hair curling entrance and an attachment outlet, the first body also including an airflow entrance. The tubular second body that extends between an attachment entrance and a second body outlet, the second body outlet being coupled to the airflow entrance of the first body. The hair curling post extends through at least the inside of the first body. The baffle is operable to direct airflow through the first body in a generally circular manner about the hair curling post in a first direction at times the baffle is in a first position and in a second direction at times the baffle is in a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventor: Joshua Thomas Richards
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Publication number: 20220202158Abstract: An attachment for a hair dryer that is movable between a first position and a second position in order to alter one or more characteristics of the airflow therethrough. In one embodiment, an internal sliding element is movable within an outer housing in order to alter the internal flow paths inside the housing. In a second embodiment, movable arms cause changes to the shape of an outer housing made of a flexible and resilient material. Motion of the arms between positions causes a change in the shape of the attachment outlet.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: James Richard Potter, Joshua Thomas Richards, Steven Luke Bailey
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Publication number: 20220202157Abstract: An attachment for a hair dryer that is movable between a first position and a second position in order to alter one or more characteristics of the airflow therethrough. In one embodiment, an attachment having multiple facets and types of projections with varying stiffness are provided on an outer housing that can be rotated relative to a base by the user. In a second embodiment, an attachment having a concave surface with prongs extending therethrough that can be moved such that the exposed portion of the prongs are lengthened or shortened, as desired.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 31, 2020Publication date: June 30, 2022Inventors: Joshua Thomas RICHARDS, Thomas Edward Kingsborough CODY, Steven Luke BAILEY, Shannon Marie MCSWEENEY, Daniel John INNES
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Publication number: 20220189129Abstract: A computer-implemented method and a system are provided for visualising colocalised fluorescence signals. The method accesses signal intensity data obtained from a first fluorescence channel and a second fluorescence channel in which the signal intensity data is associated with voxels in an image. A regression factor on the signal intensity data is calculated to generate a regression parameter corresponding to a degree of correlation between the signal intensity data obtained from the first and second fluorescence channels The signal intensity data is mapped to the regression parameter and colourmap values are assigned to each voxel based on the mapped signal intensity data in which colourmap values of voxels embodying poorly correlated signal intensity data are reduced. The method renders the voxels in the image in colours according to their colourmap values to visualise colocalisation in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Benjamin LOOS, Thomas Richard NIESLER, Rensu Petrus THEART
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Patent number: 11361773Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Roku, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Richard Henry Dewey, Robert Caston Curtis
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Patent number: 11352886Abstract: A component includes an outer wall that includes an exterior surface, and at least one plenum defined interiorly to the outer wall and configured to receive a cooling fluid therein. The component also includes a coating system disposed on the exterior surface. The coating system has a thickness. The component further includes a plurality of adaptive cooling openings defined in the outer wall. Each of the adaptive cooling openings extends from a first end inflow communication with the at least one plenum, outward through the exterior surface and to a second end covered underneath at least a portion of the thickness of the coating system.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2017Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: James Albert Tallman, Andrew Philip Shapiro, Gary Michael Itzel, Curtis Alan Johnson, Victor John Morgan, Jacob John Kittleson, Bradley Thomas Richards
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Patent number: 11348168Abstract: A system and a method are disclosed for generating financial goal packages. Personal and financial information is received from a user. Multiple budgeting strategies are generated based on the received personal and financial information. The budgeting strategies specify an amount of money to be saved by the user every set time period. A selection of a budgeting strategy is received from the user. Multiple goal packages specifying an allocation for the money saved by the user are generated. The multiple goal packages are scored based on the selected budgeting strategy. A goal package is selected based on the scores of each of the goal packages. The selected goal package is displayed to the user via a graphical user interface.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2016Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance CompanyInventors: Audrey Ji-eun Kim, Benjamin Michael Bartholomew, Stephany Yerger Kirkpatrick, Thomas Richard Gilmour
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Patent number: 11324661Abstract: A pharmaceutical container includes a cylindrical hollow container body defining a hollow chamber to receive a pharmaceutical liquid, the container body including a portion on a sidewall) of the container body, wherein the portion has a longitudinal extension along the longitudinal axis of the container body and a circumferential extension along the circumference of the container body, thereby forming a window through the sidewall of the container body into the hollow chamber. In embodiments of the invention, the window comprises two long edges and two short edges, and a Near Field Communication (NFC) antenna. In embodiments of the invention, the antenna comprises one or a plurality of nested antenna windings.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Novartis AGInventors: Andrew Bryant, Alain Schmidlin, Daniel Latham, Gabriel Iobbi, Arun Venkatasubramanian, Thomas Richard Redman, Timothy Duncan Wooller, Franck Rubiconi, Robert George Milner, Richard Andrew Hall, Symon Cotton, Simon Peter Attard