Patents by Inventor Thomas To

Thomas To 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: 20230216776
    Abstract: Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for the configuration of user device(s) for reception of point-to-multipoint transmission are provided. One method may include receiving, at a user equipment, a configuration for point-to-multipoint reception of a group-common transport channel. The configuration may include a group-common signaling configuration for a group of user equipment. The method may also include receiving, at the user equipment, a point-to-multipoint reconfiguration message using the group-common signaling configuration on the group-common transport channel from a device (e.g., a network node). The point-to-multipoint reconfiguration message may include an updated point-to-multipoint configuration. The method may then include receiving point-to-multipoint data, from the device on the group-common transport channel, based on the updated point-to-multipoint configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: David NAVRÁTIL, Benoist Pierre SEBIRE, Philippe GODIN, Esa Mikael MALKAMÄKI, Jarkko Tuomo KOSKELA, Horst Thomas BELLING
  • Publication number: 20230212949
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine article includes a silicon-containing ceramic wall that has an external combustion gaspath side and an internal side that borders a cooling air cavity. The external combustion gaspath side has an associated combustion gas flow direction there along. An array of cooling holes extends through the silicon-containing ceramic wall and connects the internal side with the external combustion gaspath side. The cooling holes are oriented to discharge cooling air to the external gaspath side in a direction counter to the combustion gas flow direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas J. Martin, Gajawalli V. Srinivasan, Paul F. Croteau, Matthew B. Kennedy
  • Publication number: 20230217479
    Abstract: A communication system, including: a plurality of communication devices communicating with each other by use of RF resources; a resource controller configured to control the RF resources; and an interference detector configured to detect an interferer and to provide information describing the interferer to the resource controller, wherein the resource controller controls the RF resources of the plurality of communication devices taking into account the information describing the interferer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Frank BURKHARDT, Friedemann LAUE, Stefan KÖHLER, Anna NEUPERT, Hannes ELLINGER, Priyanka NEUHAUS, Jürgen HUPP, Thomas WINDISCH
  • Publication number: 20230214484
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media for creating secured computer code are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: access computer code; convert the computer code into a numeric description of characteristics of the code; partition the computer code into blocks of code; determine a corresponding ranking of at least some of the blocks of code with an anomaly measure by applying an anomaly detection algorithm to the blocks of code; select anomalous blocks of the blocks of code by applying a threshold to the rankings; and apply code security techniques to at least one of the anomalous blocks of code to thereby create secured computer code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas HICKIE, Robert DURAND
  • Publication number: 20230215561
    Abstract: An at-home medical diagnostic test kit container including a plurality of at-home medical diagnostic test kits is provided herein. In particular, the medical diagnostic test kit container may include a machine-readable code (e.g., QR code) configured to facilitate an augmented reality experience associated with the at-home medical diagnostic test kit container. In some embodiments, a testing and diagnostic platform may facilitate tracking of inventory within the at-home medical diagnostic test kit container and/or may facilitate coordination of prescription medication order fulfillment and delivery upon indication of a medical condition that could benefit from taking prescription medication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Michael W. Ferro, JR., Colman Thomas Bryant, Sam Miller, Zachary Carl Nienstedt, Marco Magistri, John Ray Permenter
  • Publication number: 20230210552
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices (e.g., needles (e.g., hollow needles), hollow staples, articles, apparatuses, and systems), kits, and methods for treating skin and skin conditions, for example, by promoting skin tightening, such as by reducing skin laxity and reducing tissue area or volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Alec Ginggen, Kristian DiMatteo, Thomas Swyst
  • Publication number: 20230212539
    Abstract: The invention relates to the use of a protein having nuclease activity for reducing the viscosity and/or preventing an increase in viscosity of a fermentation broth, which comprises intact microorganisms after termination of the fermentation process. The invention moreover relates to a method for reducing the viscosity and/or preventing an increase in viscosity of a fermentation broth comprising intact microorganisms after fermentation and comprising a step of introducing a protein having nuclease activity into the fermentation broth during the fermentation until the start of recovering the end product. The invention further relates to fermentation processes comprising said use of a protein having nuclease activity to allow more flexibility to the downstream processing of the fermentation broth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas HAARMANN, Patrick LORENZ, Ruth SCHWERDTFEGER, Yasar KAYA, Stefania NEUBER, Michael SEEFRIED, Evelyn WALLIS
  • Publication number: 20230211526
    Abstract: Tooling formed from a 3D printed scaffold includes a 3D printed scaffold a casting material hardened within the scaffold; and a forming surface defined by the scaffold. A method forming the tooling includes 3D printing a tooling scaffold, wherein the scaffold defines a void volume and a forming surface, filling the void volume with casting material, and hardening the casting material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Brandon Sweeney, Thomas Mulholland, Luke Johnson, Bryan Zahner, Nirup Nagabandi
  • Publication number: 20230212513
    Abstract: The invention described herein is directed to compositions and methods for inducing red blood cell (RBC) differentiation. Additionally, provided herein are methods of treating a subject in need thereof by administering the induced RBC described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: The Children's Medical Center Corporation
    Inventors: Ashlee J. Conway, Tolulope O. Rosanwo, Thomas E. Williamson, Trista E. North, George Q. Daley
  • Publication number: 20230211465
    Abstract: A grinding tool (1) has a replaceable abrasive (4). A grinding layer (9) of the abrasive (4) faces a drive shaft (2) of the grinding tool (1). This enables a grinding of a workpiece (W) while exerting a tensile force (F). Surface areas (O) of the workpiece (W) facing away from a processor may thus be processed easily and flexibly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas PIECKENSTAINER, Christoph VAN DER BURG, Henrik MUNDRA
  • Publication number: 20230214731
    Abstract: The system determines even-spaced quantiles for network optimization. The system may utilize authorization level to expected network conversion. The system may be used in connection with yield management systems, inventory control systems, or revenue management systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: American Airlines, Inc.
    Inventors: James Fox, Marcial Lapp, Julianne Bowles, Randeep Ramamurthy, Yuxi Xiao, Daniel Muzich, Thomas Trenga
  • Publication number: 20230211294
    Abstract: An inline filter housing with a biodegradable, hydrophilic material that operates in conjunction with a field sampling apparatus to both concentrate field sampled environmental DNA particles from water samples and to automatically preserve the captured DNA via desiccation, thus avoiding filter membrane transfer steps, chemicals or cold storage preservation requirements. The hydrophilic filter housing is capable of rapidly preserving the field sampled environmental DNA captured on the filter membrane at ambient field temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: AUSTEN CLOUSE THOMAS, Jesse Andrew Howard
  • Publication number: 20230212548
    Abstract: The invention relates to subtilase variants, compositions comprising the variants, and methods of using the variants and compositions, e.g. for laundry or hard surface cleaning such as dishwashing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: Novozymes A/S
    Inventors: Esben Peter Friis, Rolf Thomas Lenhard, Lars Lehmann Hylling Christensen, Julie Bille Rannes
  • Publication number: 20230215236
    Abstract: A system includes a drug product packaging system that is configured to hold a plurality of cells in a lockable section thereof and to maintain the plurality of cells in a locked state via a locking mechanism, the locking mechanism being configured to receive ones of the plurality of cells into the lockable section of the drug product packaging system and configured to maintain the ones of the plurality of cells in the locked state without changing the locked state of previously received ones of the plurality of cells into the lockable section of the drug product packaging system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Mark Luke Goodman, Sam Thomas Beeler
  • Publication number: 20230211193
    Abstract: A manual activation system includes a pulley movable between an inactive position and an active position, a tension member wrapped about the pulley, the tension member having a tensile force acting on the pulley, and at least one arm rotatably mounted adjacent to the pulley. The at least one arm has a groove configured to cooperate with a portion of the pulley to selectively oppose the tensile force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Carl Kjellman
  • Publication number: 20230216946
    Abstract: A method includes, at a computer system with a display, a housing, and an attachment mechanism, detecting attachment of an accessory to the computer system, where the accessory, while attached, has a predetermined orientation relative to the attachment mechanism, and in response to detecting the attachment of the accessory to the computer system in accordance with a determination that the accessory is a first accessory with first physical dimensions, displaying, on the display, a first visual indication that the accessory has been attached to the computer system, wherein the first visual indication indicates at least one property of the first physical dimensions, and in accordance with a determination that the accessory is a second accessory with second physical dimensions that are different from the first physical dimensions, displaying, on the display a second visual indication that the accessory has been attached to the computer system, wherein the second visual indication indicates at least one property o
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas S. Hulbert, Jeremy D. Bataillou, Brian T. Gleeson, Christopher P. Foss, David C. Graham, Deena Khattab, Gemma A. Roper, Lee S. Broughton, Arian Behzadi, Alan C. Dye
  • Publication number: 20230214104
    Abstract: A method of operating a device, which includes providing a user interface with a display artifact; in response to an indication a user selected to copy the display artifact, storing multiple levels of detail of the display artifact; allowing the user to paste a selected level of detail by steps of: in response to an indication a user selected an input field and a paste command, displaying a plurality of paste options for pasting the display artifact into the input field, wherein the plurality of paste options each have a unique level of detail for representing the display artifact; allowing the user to select from the plurality of paste options; and in response to an indication a user selected a paste option from the plurality of paste options, pasting the display artifact with a level of detail associated with the selected paste option into the input filed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jared BROWN, John Thomas KIMBELL, Patrick Evan LITTLE, Marianna LEVANT, Rory Akira Malcolm FAIRWEATHER, Lisa Marie WRIGHT, Gurpreet VIRDI, Grigoriy V LYUKSHIN, David Chege GITAU
  • Publication number: 20230210515
    Abstract: A tissue anchor system is provided that includes a first tissue anchor, a second tissue anchor that is separate and distinct from the first tissue anchor, and one or more tethers, which are configured to couple the first tissue anchor to the second tissue anchor. When the first tissue anchor is unconstrained, a head thereof is coaxial with an axis of a shaft thereof, and a tissue-coupling element thereof extends from a distal end of the shaft, is generally orthogonal to the axis, and is shaped such that if the tissue-coupling element were to be projected onto a plane that is perpendicular to the axis, at least 80% of an area of a projection of the tissue-coupling element on the plane would fall within a first angle of 180 degrees in the plane having a vertex at the axis. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: 4Tech Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Gilmore, Paolo Denti, John Mullins, Charlotte Murphy, Kevin Lynn, Andrea Guidotti, Hugo Vanermen, Thomas Campbell
  • Publication number: 20230210588
    Abstract: A catheter includes, a shaft for insertion into an organ, an expandable distal-end assembly coupled to the shaft and includes splines, at least one of the splines includes a flexible substrate, configured to conform to tissue of the organ, and a sensing electrode, configured: (a) to be coupled to the flexible substrate, and (b) when in contact with the tissue, to produce a electrically signal indicative of an electrocardiogram signal sensed in the tissue, the sensing electrode including: (i) a gold substrate, formed over the flexible substrate and configured to conduct the electrically signal, (ii) a first polymer layer, formed over a first section of the gold substrate and configured to electrically isolate between the tissue and the gold substrate, and (iii) a second polymer layer, formed over a second, different, section of the gold substrate, and configured to conduct the electrocardiogram signal between the tissue and the gold substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Christopher Thomas Beeckler, Joseph Thomas Keyes, Justin George Lichter, Kevin Justin Herrera
  • Publication number: 20230215583
    Abstract: A wearable treatment and analysis module is provided. The module is positioned on or near a body surface region of interest. The module provides remote access to sensor data, treatment administration, and/or other health care regimens via a network connection with a user device and/or management system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Nichols