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: 11897361
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Stephen Pontefract, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Takayuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20240031630
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua Marshall, Timothy Jensen, Thomas Stephens
  • Publication number: 20230410870
    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: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Anirban Roy, Thomas Stephen Harp, Nihaar N. Mahatme, Jon Scott Choy
  • Publication number: 20230388193
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Abdul Jabbar, Stephen Francis Bush, Thomas Stephen Markham
  • Patent number: 11794605
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Takayuki Sakurai, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Thomas Stephen Pontefract
  • Patent number: 11796575
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Stephen Pontefract, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Takayuki Sakurai
  • Patent number: 11736359
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: GE Aviation Systems LLC
    Inventors: Abdul Jabbar, Stephen Francis Bush, Thomas Stephen Markham
  • Patent number: 11698397
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jun Kudo, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Takayuki Sakurai, Ayano Otogasako, Thomas Stephen Pontefract
  • Patent number: 11595711
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: USTUDIO, INC.
    Inventors: Joshua Marshall, Timothy Jensen, Thomas Stephens
  • Publication number: 20230053709
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Xinxin Sheng, Thomas Stephen McGuire, Amanda Chiu, Jonathan Hromi, Raghav Chawla
  • Publication number: 20220383107
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Stephen B. Simons, Mark Alan Peot, Thomas Stephens, Jon Cafaro, Ryan MacRae
  • Patent number: 11488147
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: FMR LLC
    Inventors: Xinxin Sheng, Thomas Stephen McGuire, Amanda Chiu, Jonathan Hromi, Raghav Chawla
  • Patent number: 11458062
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Christopher Pang, Thomas Stephen Kearney, II, Oliver Jiren Sha, Kyoo Jin Park, Vishal Pandya, Zane Miller, Edmond Irizarry
  • Patent number: 11432800
    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: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: 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
  • Publication number: 20220166677
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Abdul Jabbar, Stephen Francis Bush, Thomas Stephen Markham
  • Publication number: 20220117580
    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: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    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: 20220000451
    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: March 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    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: 20210300204
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Stephen Pontefract, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Takayuki Sakurai
  • Publication number: 20210304300
    Abstract: A bid management apparatus managing a bid to a power transaction market, the bit for a power supplied from each of energy sources capable of generating a power or storing a power to a power grid. The bid management apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: calculating a prediction value of an amount of a power suppliable to the power grid by each of the energy sources in connection with the power grid at a predetermined point in time in future at which a power transaction is performed; adding a margin to the prediction value to correct the prediction value; and determining, based on the prediction value added the margin, whether or not the bid for the power supplied from each of the energy sources in connection with the power grid at the predetermined point in time is able to be made in the power transaction market.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Ayano Otogasako, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Takayuki Sakurai, Thomas Stephen Pontefract
  • Publication number: 20210300203
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Inventors: Takayuki Sakurai, Hiroyuki Kanazawa, Jun Kudo, Ayano Otogasako, Thomas Stephen Pontefract