Patents by Inventor Thomas Stephens
Thomas Stephens 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: 11966513Abstract: The application describes systems for deriving haptic and audio drive signals from an input signal received via a single channel such as an audio channel.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Cirrus Logic Inc.Inventors: Thomas Ivan Harvey, Anthony Stephen Doy, Anthony John Shilton
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Patent number: 11966571Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method comprising aggregating PFAS remediation evaluation data for a plurality of remediation options and for a plurality of predefined criteria; graphically displaying the user modifiable chart comprising the plurality of graphical representations of the aggregated PFAS remediation evaluation data, wherein: each graphical representation depicts data points visually plotted with weights, the plurality of graphical representations for the plurality of predefined criteria are visually ordered according to a rank of the plurality of predefined criteria, and the weights are based on the rank of the plurality of predefined criteria; detecting a first user input modifying the rank of at least one predefined criterion; in accordance with the first user input, automatically updating the weights of the data points; and displaying an updated user modifiable chart comprising the plurality of graphical representations of the aggregated PFAS remediation evaluation data.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: The MITRE CorporationInventors: Gary Lee Klein, Ryan Douglas Hollins, Mark Stephen Pfaff, Brittany Allison Tracy, Elizabeth Haines, James Alex Philp, Jay Nathan Lustig, Thomas W. Whieldon, Joseph John Patrick Roberts, Christopher M. Berger, Gavin Timothy Plesko
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Patent number: 11940872Abstract: A memory device comprising a memory array including memory cells to store memory data, error correcting code (ECC) circuitry configured to generate ECC data and use the ECC data to detect errors in the memory data, and an ECC circuitry checker. The ECC circuitry checker is configured to substitute the ECC data with check ECC data, compare an output of the ECC circuitry to an expected output when the substituted check ECC data is applied to the ECC circuitry, and generate an alert when the comparing indicates an error in the ECC circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited CompanyInventors: Shaun Stephen Bradley, Bernard Sherwin Leung Chiw, Andreas G Callanan, Thomas J. Meany, Pat Crowe
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Publication number: 20240068427Abstract: Systems and methods capable for use in the development of high-speed, shape-transitioning, inward-turning inlets for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles, and inlets formed thereby. The systems and methods preferably provide for designing high-speed inlets for air-breathing hypersonic vehicles, wherein unique solutions are defined in each osculating plane of the inlet. Such systems and methods optionally provide an optimization process for tuning the post throat-shock Mach number of the inlet, and/or designs a shock-capture surface using a parallel-streamlines methodology, and/or a double cowl-lip geometry to allow flow to spill overboard.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Mark Edward Noftz, Joseph Stephen Jewell, Andrew James Shuck, Jonathan Poggie, Andrew Nixon Bustard, Thomas James Juliano
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Patent number: 11911879Abstract: A flush valve installation tool and associated method is used to install and uninstall chrome flush valves. The installation tool is capable of installing and uninstalling nuts of a variety of sizes without causing damage to the surfaces of the nuts. The flush valve installation tool has opposing first and second members coupled together by a pin or bolt. The first and second members each have two or more smooth jaw faces configured to engage 4 or 5 surfaces of a nut to be installed or uninstalled. The flush valve installation tool can be adjusted to select the distance between opposing jaw faces to accommodate different sized nuts.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventors: Ector Cantu Gomez, Thomas Stephens
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Patent number: 11897361Abstract: A power calculation apparatus calculates an amount of power suppliable and demandable between a battery and a power grid. The power calculation apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: predicting the amount of power suppliable and demandable between the battery and the power grid at a predetermined point in time to calculate a prediction value of the amount of power suppliable and demandable; and switching a calculation logic to be applied to a calculation of the prediction value, based on a length of duration from a present point in time to the predetermined point in time.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Thomas Stephen Pontefract, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Takayuki Sakurai
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Publication number: 20240031630Abstract: An embodiment includes software that causes a third node to perform operations comprising: in response to receiving a first identifier for a first node that includes at least one processor, authenticate a first user of the first node via a first authentication service; in response to receiving a second identifier for a second node that includes at least one processor, authenticate a second user of the second node via a second authentication service that is unequal to the first authentication service; in response to authenticating the first user of the first node, communicate a first list of media assets to the first computing node; in response to authenticating the second user of the second node, communicate a second list of media assets to the second computing node. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Inventors: Joshua Marshall, Timothy Jensen, Thomas Stephens
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Publication number: 20230410870Abstract: A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) array includes a data array and a sensor array. Each MRAM cell includes a Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ). Each MRAM cell of the data array stores a data bit. A first and second column of the sensor array are connected to form a sensor column which includes sensor cells, each formed by a first MRAM cell in the first column together with a second MRAM cell in the second column along a same word line. Only one of a first MTJ of the first MRAM cell or second MTJ of the second MRAM cell is used as an MTJ of the sensor cell, and drain electrodes of select transistors of the first and second MRAM cells are electrically connected. Read circuitry provides read data from the data array and a sensor output indicative of a rupture state of an MTJ of the sensor array.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Anirban Roy, Thomas Stephen Harp, Nihaar N. Mahatme, Jon Scott Choy
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Publication number: 20230388193Abstract: A system and method for generating a time-sensitive network schedule for a desired TSN includes defining a network topology of the desired TSN including at least a set of end nodes communicative connected by way of a set of switching nodes, defining a set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, determining, by a TSN scheduler, a TSN schedule for the desired TSN based on the defined network topology and the defined set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes, and generating a per-device configuration for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, based on the determined TSN schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Abdul Jabbar, Stephen Francis Bush, Thomas Stephen Markham
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Patent number: 11796575Abstract: A power calculation apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory. The microprocessor is configured to perform: acquiring a power amount information regarding amounts of power input to and output from a plurality of vehicles, the amounts of power being detected by a plurality of measuring instruments provided in the plurality of vehicles or interposed between a power grid and the plurality of vehicles; classifying the plurality of measuring instruments based on errors possessed by the plurality of measuring instruments to set a plurality of groups; and calculating a total power input and output in each of the groups, based on the power amount information. The setting the plurality of groups includes setting the plurality of groups such that a mean value of errors of amounts of power in the groups is a predetermined value or less.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Thomas Stephen Pontefract, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Takayuki Sakurai
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Patent number: 11794605Abstract: A power calculation apparatus predicting and calculating an amount of power suppliable from a vehicle having a battery to a power grid via a connection apparatus, the power calculation apparatus includes a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform: predicting a position of the vehicle after a predetermined duration; predicting a degree of likelihood of connection of the vehicle to the connection apparatus after the predetermined duration, based on a predicted position of the vehicle after the predetermined duration and the connection apparatus; and predicting the amount of power suppliable from the vehicle to the power grid after the predetermined duration, based on the degree of likelihood.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Takayuki Sakurai, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Thomas Stephen Pontefract
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Patent number: 11736359Abstract: A system and method for generating a time-sensitive network schedule for a desired TSN includes defining a network topology of the desired TSN including at least a set of end nodes communicative connected by way of a set of switching nodes, defining a set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, determining, by a TSN scheduler, a TSN schedule for the desired TSN based on the defined network topology and the defined set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes, and generating a per-device configuration for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, based on the determined TSN schedule.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLCInventors: Abdul Jabbar, Stephen Francis Bush, Thomas Stephen Markham
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Patent number: 11698397Abstract: A power calculation apparatus calculating an amount of power suppliable to a power system by an energy source connectable, at a connection point, to the power system and capable of power generation and power storing, the power calculation apparatus includes: a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor, wherein the microprocessor is configured to perform: specifying a position of the connection point of the energy source in connection with the power system; acquiring a capacity information indicating a power generation capacity or a remaining storage capacity of the energy source; and calculating an amount of power suppliable by the energy source to the power system in an area within a predetermined range including the connection point, based on the capacity information and the position of the connection point.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jun Kudo, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Takayuki Sakurai, Ayano Otogasako, Thomas Stephen Pontefract
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Patent number: 11595711Abstract: An embodiment includes software that causes a third node to perform operations comprising: in response to receiving a first identifier for a first node that includes at least one processor, authenticate a first user of the first node via a first authentication service; in response to receiving a second identifier for a second node that includes at least one processor, authenticate a second user of the second node via a second authentication service that is unequal to the first authentication service; in response to authenticating the first user of the first node, communicate a first list of media assets to the first computing node; in response to authenticating the second user of the second node, communicate a second list of media assets to the second computing node. Other embodiments are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2018Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: USTUDIO, INC.Inventors: Joshua Marshall, Timothy Jensen, Thomas Stephens
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Publication number: 20230053709Abstract: The Computationally Efficient Transfer Processing, Auditing, and Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SOCOACT”) transforms smart contract request, crypto currency deposit request, crypto collateral deposit request, crypto currency transfer request, crypto collateral transfer request inputs via SOCOACT components into transaction confirmation outputs. Also, SOCOACT transforms transaction record inputs via SOCOACT components into matrix and list tuple outputs for computationally efficient auditing. A blockchain transaction data auditing apparatus comprises a blockchain recordation component, a matrix Conversion component, and a bloom filter component.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Xinxin Sheng, Thomas Stephen McGuire, Amanda Chiu, Jonathan Hromi, Raghav Chawla
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Publication number: 20220383107Abstract: A method for stabilizing disrupted neural signals received by a brain-computer interface (BCI), where a translation model is trained on a clean and disrupted dataset and is used to translate a disrupted signal to a clean signal. The clean dataset is based on the data that is received the same day the BCI is calibrated and the disrupted dataset is based on data received the same day that the model is trained. Based on the variation in daily signal disruption, the training model is retrained each day and a new translation model is applied to a disrupted dataset.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Inventors: Stephen B. Simons, Mark Alan Peot, Thomas Stephens, Jon Cafaro, Ryan MacRae
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Patent number: 11488147Abstract: The Computationally Efficient Transfer Processing, Auditing, and Search Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“SOCOACT”) transforms smart contract request, crypto currency deposit request, crypto collateral deposit request, crypto currency transfer request, crypto collateral transfer request inputs via SOCOACT components into transaction confirmation outputs. Also, SOCOACT transforms transaction record inputs via SOCOACT components into matrix and list tuple outputs for computationally efficient auditing. A blockchain transaction data auditing apparatus comprises a blockchain recordation component, a matrix Conversion component, and a bloom filter component.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2017Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: FMR LLCInventors: Xinxin Sheng, Thomas Stephen McGuire, Amanda Chiu, Jonathan Hromi, Raghav Chawla
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Patent number: 11458062Abstract: An apparatus is provided that stabilizes an applicator in response to the motion caused by a user, comprising: a receiver configured to be coupled with a cosmetic applicator; at least one sensor configured to detect a movement caused by a user; circuitry configured to determine a compensation movement to offset the detected movement; and at least one motion generation device embedded in the receiver configured to control a motion of the cosmetic applicator according to the determined compensation movement.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: L'OrealInventors: Christopher Pang, Thomas Stephen Kearney, II, Oliver Jiren Sha, Kyoo Jin Park, Vishal Pandya, Zane Miller, Edmond Irizarry
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Patent number: 11432800Abstract: Described are ultrasound transducer modules and handheld ultrasound imagers including thermal and acoustic management features to produce high quality ultrasound images in a portable, handheld form factor.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: EXO IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Janusz Bryzek, Jon Henry LeFors, Charles Edward Baumgartner, Thomas Stephen Tarter, Daniela Marisa Fredrick, James Alan Ewanich, Brian Lee Bircumshaw, Joseph Michael Adam
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Publication number: 20220166677Abstract: A system and method for generating a time-sensitive network schedule for a desired TSN includes defining a network topology of the desired TSN including at least a set of end nodes communicative connected by way of a set of switching nodes, defining a set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, determining, by a TSN scheduler module, a TSN schedule for the desired TSN based on the defined network topology and the defined set of device parameters for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes, and generating a per-device configuration for each of the set of end nodes and each of the set of switching nodes of the desired TSN, based on the determined TSN schedule.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2020Publication date: May 26, 2022Inventors: Abdul Jabbar, Stephen Francis Bush, Thomas Stephen Markham