Patents by Inventor Tim Smith

Tim Smith 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: 12236806
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to improving existing technologies by detecting engagement of the one or more components of the logistics vehicle, which may be indicative of receiving an indication that the user is performing at least a first logistics operation. At least partially in response to the detecting, various embodiments cause display, at one or more monitors, of data where the data includes one or more instructions for the user to perform at least a second logistics operation and/or the data includes a video feed of real world scenes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Hafford, Tim Smith
  • Patent number: 11879511
    Abstract: A disc brake assembly having brake pads, a brake carrier, a caliper, and an actuating arrangement. The caliper is slidable with respect to the brake carrier for clamping and release of a rotor by the brake pads. The actuating arrangement is configured to selectively move the caliper and the brake carrier relative to each other generally transverse to a first longitudinal axis so as to lock or inhibit sliding of the caliper relative to the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Szafnauer, Sean Cleary, Tim Smith, Anthony Williams, Paul Thomas
  • Publication number: 20230196941
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed, in part, to improving existing technologies by detecting engagement of the one or more components of the logistics vehicle, which may be indicative of receiving an indication that the user is performing at least a first logistics operation. At least partially in response to the detecting, various embodiments cause display, at one or more monitors, of data where the data includes one or more instructions for the user to perform at least a second logistics operation and/or the data includes a video feed of real world scenes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew HAFFORD, Tim SMITH
  • Publication number: 20220299079
    Abstract: A disc brake assembly having brake pads, a brake carrier, a caliper, and an actuating arrangement. The caliper is slidable with respect to the brake carrier for clamping and release of a rotor by the brake pads. The actuating arrangement is configured to selectively move the caliper and the brake carrier relative to each other generally transverse to a first longitudinal axis so as to lock or inhibit sliding of the caliper relative to the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Szafnauer, Sean Cleary, Tim Smith, Anthony Williams, Paul Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220299075
    Abstract: A brake assembly including a caliper that has a first guide bore, a brake carrier arranged to receive a brake pad, a first guide pin secured to the brake carrier, and a first lock arrangement. The first lock arrangement is operable to selectively inhibit relative sliding between the caliper and the brake carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Meritor Heavy Vehicle Braking Systems (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Alex Szafnauer, Sean Cleary, Tim Smith, Anthony Williams, Paul Thomas
  • Publication number: 20220290091
    Abstract: Systems and methods for process control of automated cell engineering systems are provided. Automated cell engineering systems provide automated cell processing functionality. Automated process control systems provide control, interconnectivity, monitoring, data archival, software updating, and other oversight functions for automated cell engineering systems. Further, central control process systems provide control, monitoring, data archival, software updating, and other oversight functions for automated process control systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Eytan ABRAHAM, PHIL DENSHAM, Raelyn DANIELS, NUALA TRAINOR, IAN GRANT, TIM SMITH
  • Publication number: 20200179582
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides cell therapy production systems that can suitably be used in a patient bedside setting. Such systems allow for direct removal of a patient's blood, automated processing to produce a cell therapy, and then infusion back into the patient, without the need to remove the system from the patient's bedside. Also provided herein are systems for production of cell therapies in a bedside setting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Erika MCAFEE, Yaling SHI, Samatha BANDAPALLE, Eytan ABRAHAM, Phil DENSHAM, Raelyn DANIELS, Nuala TRAINOR, Ian GRANT, Tim SMITH
  • Patent number: 10598634
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a couplant and an arrangement of a couplant, a transducer, and a construction component. The couplant is adapted to couple the transducer to the surface of the construction component. The couplant provides 36% to 40% mass portion of hard metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Sebastian Ziegler, Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith, Allan Thomson, Mairi Joan Torrie, Andreas Clemens von der Ham
  • Publication number: 20190393580
    Abstract: Structures and methods for interconnects and associated alignment and assembly mechanisms for and between chips, components, and 3D systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Rollin, J. Robert Reid, David Sherrer, Will Stacy, Ken Vanhille, J. Marcus Oliver, Tim Smith
  • Patent number: 10361471
    Abstract: Structures and methods for interconnects and associated alignment and assembly mechanisms for and between chips, components, and 3D systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: NUVOTRONICS, INC
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Rollin, J. Robert Reid, David Sherrer, Will Stacy, Ken Vanhille, J. Marcus Oliver, Tim Smith
  • Patent number: 10193203
    Abstract: Structures and methods for interconnects and associated alignment and assembly mechanisms for and between chips, components, and 3D systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: NUVOTRONICS, INC
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Rollin, J. Robert Reid, David Sherrer, Will Stacy, Ken Vanhille, J. Marcus Oliver, Tim Smith
  • Publication number: 20190018563
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for monitoring media interactions, and the embodiments disclosed herein are focussed on media interactions at mobile devices. A software application executing at the mobile device is configured to monitor user interactions with the device during that media item playback (using any one or more of the available device inputs, which may include the likes of touchscreens, cameras, buttons, microphones, gyroscopes, and so on). The timing and nature of these user interactions is analysed relative to media event data defined, thereby to identify correlations. The presence/absence of such correlations may be used for a number of purposes, such as media lockout control, competitions/promotions, entertainment provision, data collection/analysis, and the like. One very specific example is to instruct a user to, whilst viewing a football match, touch the location of a particular sponsor's logo (printed on a real-world substrate) each time it appears on screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Samuel Kell WILSON, John FORRESTER, Tim SMITH
  • Patent number: 10119943
    Abstract: A couplant and an arrangement of a couplant include a transducer and a construction component. The couplant is adapted to couple the transducer to a surface of the construction component. The couplant comprises basically 15% to 75% mass portion of hard metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith, Allan Thomson, Mairi Joan Torrie, Sebastian Ziegler, Andreas Clemens Van Der Ham
  • Patent number: 9990617
    Abstract: Concurrent first and second uses of a consumer's credit card are made during a POS transaction to effect information sharing. The first use includes conventionally executing a primary transaction, while the second use includes a presentation to the consumer at POS with information sharing opt-in and/or privacy notices from the consumer's financial institution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Milton Massey Frazier, Tim Smith
  • Publication number: 20180123217
    Abstract: Structures and methods for interconnects and associated alignment and assembly mechanisms for and between chips, components, and 3D systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Rollin, J. Robert Reid, David Sherrer, Will Stacy, Ken Vanhille, J. Marcus Oliver, Tim Smith
  • Patent number: 9760893
    Abstract: A system and method for distributing reminder information in an electronic network includes an information service that is configured to provide information distribution services through said information distribution network. User devices are provided for device users to communicate with the information service for receiving the information distribution services. A transport structure communicates with network entities in the information distribution network for collecting appropriate types of metadata. A transport server then performs a metadata analysis procedure upon the various types of metadata to responsively generate the reminder information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignees: Sony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Jacobs, Rajiv Rainier, Milton Frazier, Austin Noronha, Tim Smith, Donald L. Loughery, III
  • Publication number: 20170176398
    Abstract: Embodiments provide a couplant and an arrangement of a couplant, a transducer, and a construction component. The couplant is adapted to couple the transducer to the surface of the construction component. The couplant provides 36% to 40% mass portion of hard metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Applicant: Aktiebolaget SKF
    Inventors: Sebastian Ziegler, Joseph Erskine, Keith Hamilton, Gerard McGoogan, Tim Smith, Allan Thomson, Mairi Joan Torrie, Andreas Clemens von der Ham
  • Publication number: 20170038940
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for monitoring media interactions, and the embodiments disclosed herein are focussed on media interactions at mobile devices. A software application executing at the mobile device is configured to monitor user interactions with the device during that media item playback (using any one or more of the available device inputs, which may include the likes of touchscreens, cameras, buttons, microphones, gyroscopes, and so on). The timing and nature of these user interactions is analysed relative to media event data defined, thereby to identify correlations. The presence/absence of such correlations may be used for a number of purposes, such as media lockout control, competitions/promotions, entertainment provision, data collection/analysis, and the like. One very specific example is to instruct a user to, whilst viewing a football match, touch the location of a particular sponsor's logo (printed on a real-world substrate) each time it appears on screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Inventors: Samuel Kell WILSON, John FORRESTER, Tim SMITH
  • Patent number: 9513524
    Abstract: We describe a wide band variable transmission optical device having an electronically active cell comprising a guest-host mixture of a liquid crystal host and a dichroic guest dye material contained between a pair of plastic substrates. The liquid crystal host has an axis orientation that is alterable between a clear state orientation and a dark state orientation and the dichroic guest dye material includes one or more dichroic dyes. The optical device is characterized in that it exhibits a wide absorption band that is greater than 175 nm within a visible wavelength range of 400-700 nm, has a clear state transmission equal to or above 30% and a dark state transmission equal to or below 40%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: ALPHAMICRON INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Pedro Coutino Soto, Tim Smith, Roy E. Miller, Ludmila Sukhomlinova, Volodymyr Bodnar, Christine Baker, Tamas Kosa, Bahman Taheri
  • Publication number: 20160294035
    Abstract: Structures and methods for interconnects and associated alignment and assembly mechanisms for and between chips, components, and 3D systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: Jean-Marc Rollin, J. Robert Reid, David Sherrer, Will Stacy, Ken Vanhille, J. Marcus Oliver, Tim Smith