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).

  • Patent number: 12199969
    Abstract: An enclave manager of a network enclave obtains a request to retrieve configuration information and state information corresponding to compute devices and network devices comprising a network enclave. The request specifies a set of parameters of the configuration information and the state information usable to generate a response to the request. The enclave manager evaluates the compute devices, the network devices, and network connections among these devices within the network enclave to obtain the configuration information and the state information. Based on the configuration information and the state information, the enclave manager determines whether the network enclave is trustworthy. Based on the parameters of the request, the enclave manager generates a response indicating a summary that is used to identify the trustworthiness of the network enclave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Cisco Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: David Delano Ward, Robert Stephen Rodgers, Andrew Phillips Thurber, Eric Voit, Thomas John Giuli
  • Publication number: 20250009340
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Janusz Bryzek, Jon Henry LeFors, Charles Edward Baumgartner, Thomas Stephen Tarter, Daniela Marisa Fredrick, James Alan Ewanich, Brian Lee Bircumshaw, Joseph Michael Adam
  • Publication number: 20240429124
    Abstract: An electronic module. The electronic module includes at least one power semiconductor electrically connected to a contacting arrangement, and at least one cooling element for at least indirectly cooling the at least one power semiconductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Arne Stephen Fischer, Hartmut Wayand, Johannes Meckbach, Lukas Loeber, Thomas Kiedrowski
  • Publication number: 20240422597
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method of evaluating wireless device and/or wireless network performance and/or user experience, on a wireless electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Tutela Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Brennen Stephen CHOW, Hunter Banford Bulmer MACDONALD, David Daniel YARISH, Anthony Sean KROEKER, Stephen William NEVILLE, Thomas E. DARCIE
  • Publication number: 20240422596
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method of evaluating wireless device and/or wireless network performance and/or user experience, on a wireless electronic device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: Tutela Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Brennen Stephen CHOW, Hunter Banford Bulmer MACDONALD, David Daniel YARISH, Anthony Sean KROEKER, Stephen William NEVILLE, Thomas E. DARCIE
  • Patent number: 12169891
    Abstract: There is a method of computing a stylized, animatable representation of a subject from a family of stylized animatable representations. The method comprises: accessing a realistic representation of the subject; computing a mesh mapping using a model that was formed using a data set of training examples which pair realistic representations of other subjects with instances of the family. The method also comprises applying the mesh mapping to the realistic representation of the subject to produce a target mesh; and selecting the stylized animatable representation from the family, by assessing closeness of the target mesh with instances of the family.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Stephen Wilde, Xian Xiao, Marta Malgorzata Wilczkowiak, Thomas Joseph Cashman
  • Patent number: 12153785
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method comprising: aggregating option evaluation data for a plurality of options and for a plurality of predefined criteria; graphically displaying the user modifiable chart comprising the plurality of graphical representations of the aggregated option 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 option evaluation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: The MITRE Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Lee Klein, Brittany Allison Tracy, Elizabeth Haines, Thomas W. Whieldon, Christopher M. Berger, Gavin Timothy Plesko, Mark Stephen Pfaff
  • Publication number: 20240366857
    Abstract: A pre-filled pharmaceutical package comprising a liquid formulation of a VEGF-antagonist, for example Ranibizumab, inside the package. A nonlimiting example of the package can be a syringe, cartridge, or vial, made in part or in whole of a thermoplastic polymer, coated on the interior with a tie coating or layer, a barrier coating or layer, a pH protective coating or layer, and optionally a lubricity coating or layer. Optionally, the package further comprises a bag, a blister, a pouch or any other vessel. Stability performance of the VEGF-antagonist packaged in the coated COP vessel comparable to or better than glass was obtained. The said pre-filled pharmaceutical package comprising a liquid formulation of a VEGF-antagonist is suitable for sterilization (such as for surface and/or terminal sterilization) with sterilization gas residuals being minimal and/or lower than required by ISO 10993-7.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Carsten Brockmeyer, Christopher Weikart, Murray Stephen Bennett, Jean-Pierre Giraud, Thomas Strungmann
  • Patent number: 12134997
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: Purdue Research Foundation, University of Notre Dame Du Lac
    Inventors: Mark Edward Noftz, Joseph Stephen Jewell, Andrew James Shuck, Jonathan Poggie, Andrew Nixon Bustard, Thomas James Juliano
  • Publication number: 20240352907
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Edward Noftz, Joseph Stephen Jewell, Andrew James Shuck, Jonathan Poggie, Andrew Nixon Bustard, Thomas James Juliano
  • Patent number: 12121499
    Abstract: This invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising or consisting essentially of the phytocannabinoids cannabidivarin (CBDV) and cannabidiol (CBD). The composition is particularly safe and efficacious for use in the treatment of neurological conditions, characterized by hyper-excitability of the central nervous system, convulsions or seizures such as occur in epilepsy. Preferably the CBDV and the CBD are present with at least one non-cannabinoid component of cannabis such as one or more terpenes or a terpene fraction. More particularly the composition further comprises one or more cannabichromene type compounds. Particularly cannabichromene propyl variant (CBCV) and/or cannabichromene (CBC).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: GW PHARMA LTD.
    Inventors: Benjamin Whalley, Claire Williams, Gary Stephens, Thomas Hill
  • Publication number: 20240349429
    Abstract: An electronic assembly having a power semiconductor component and a circuit carrier. The power semiconductor component has a contact region on opposite sides; the contact region facing the circuit carrier is in electrical contact with a connection region of the circuit carrier; the power semiconductor component is in electrical contact on the side facing away from the circuit carrier, in the region of the contact region, with a further circuit carrier; an additively generated connecting layer is arranged on the contact region and/or the connection region of the circuit carriers; and the connecting layer is connected to the connection region and/or the contact region using a solder connection. The connecting layer has a lower modulus of elasticity in a direction or plane extending perpendicularly to the surface of the power semiconductor component than in a direction or plane extending in parallel with the surface of the power semiconductor component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Arne Stephen Fischer, Hartmut Wayand, Johannes Meckbach, Lukas Loeber, Thomas Kiedrowski
  • Patent number: 12115425
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are disclosed for a standalone and multi-game miniature golf structure. A structure includes a digital display screen positioned to align vertically with a rear end of a putting surface and sensor(s) positioned below the digital display screen. The sensor(s) are configured to detect lateral positions at which balls cross the rear end. The structure includes processor(s), that for each shot of a plurality of miniature golf games, are configured to send command signals to the digital display screen to display putting target(s); identify, via the sensor(s), a lateral position at which a golf ball crosses the rear end of the putting surface; determine whether the lateral position of the golf ball aligns vertically with any of the putting target(s); and generate a score for the shot based on the lateral position of the golf ball relative to the putting target(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Puttshack LTD
    Inventors: Samuel Nicolas Jones, Thomas Stephen David Hopkinson, Stephen Peter Slade, Adam Camies
  • Patent number: 12109781
    Abstract: A decorated laminate including: an outer ply; an inner ply; a polymer interlayer between the inner ply and the outer ply; and organic ink printed decoration on one or both of internal surfaces of the laminate between the outer ply and the polymer interlayer or between the inner ply and polymer interlayer, wherein the decorated laminate has a stone impact resistance as defined herein. Also disclosed is a method of making and using the decorated laminate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Cleary, Mark Stephen Friske, Timothy Scott Huten
  • Patent number: 12094510
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Anirban Roy, Thomas Stephen Harp, Nihaar N. Mahatme, Jon Scott Choy
  • Patent number: 12089076
    Abstract: There is provided a system and method of evaluating wireless device and/or wireless network performance and/or user experience, on a wireless electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Tutela Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Brennen Stephen Chow, Hunter Banford Bulmer MacDonald, David Daniel Yarish, Anthony Sean Kroeker, Stephen William Neville, Thomas E. Darcie
  • Publication number: 20240286323
    Abstract: The invention refers to a method for producing expanded polymer pellets, which comprises the following steps: melting a polymer comprising a polyamide; adding at least one blowing agent; expanding the melt through at least one die for producing an expanded polymer; and pelletizing the expanded polymer. The invention further concerns polymer pellets produced with the method as well as their use, e.g. for the production of cushioning elements for sports apparel, such as for producing soles or parts of soles of sports shoes. A further aspect of the invention concerns a method for the manufacture of molded components, comprising loading pellets of an expanded polymer material into a mold, and connecting the pellets by providing heat energy, wherein the expanded polymer material of the pellets or beads comprises a chain extender. The molded components may be used in broad ranges of application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 29, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Edward Holmes, Tru Huu Minh Le, Sabrina Kerling, Dharan Kirupanantham, Volker Altstädt, Amir Fathi, Daniel Raps, Clemens Keilholz, Thomas Koeppl, Paul Smith, Jan Hill, Angus Wardlaw, Daniel Stephen Price, James Tarrier, Christopher Robertson
  • Publication number: 20240279670
    Abstract: This technology relates in part to methods of identifying plant cultivars based on the terpene synthase genes that are identified and/or quantified (e.g., copy number, ploidy) in the cultivars. The methods provided herein permit plant cultivars with desired characteristics/phenotypes, e.g., a desired terpene production profile, to be selected for use in various applications, such as agriculture (e.g., selecting cultivars for breeding desired characteristics and/or lineages) and medicine (e.g., therapeutic activity).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Stephen PAULI, Anthony TORRES, Reginald GAUDINO, Keith ALLEN, Thomas BLANK, Kymron B.J. DE CESARE
  • Patent number: D1053263
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Puttshack LTD
    Inventors: Samuel Nicolas Jones, Thomas Stephen David Hopkinson
  • Patent number: D1053951
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Puttshack LTD
    Inventors: Samuel Nicolas Jones, Thomas Stephen David Hopkinson