Patents by Inventor Todd A. Anderson

Todd A. Anderson 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: 11412037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods suitable for real-time streaming over a decentralized or centralized network. In the decentralized network, the present invention relates to a system and method that utilizes a block-chain distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time. In the centralized network, the present invention utilizes a centralized stream manager to manage nodes within the distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Infrared5, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Allen, Davide Lucchi, Paul Gregoire, Todd Anderson, Rajdeep Rath, Andy Shaules, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20220241804
    Abstract: An electrostatic spray system (10) includes a supply module (14) configured to store a supply of charged liquid for spraying by an electrostatic sprayer (26). A feed module (12) is connected to the supply module to fill the supply tank (44) of the supply module as needed during spraying to provide a continuous supply of liquid for the electrostatic sprayer. The feed module is controlled such that the feed module is electrically isolated from a main reservoir (18) connected to earth ground potential when the feed module is providing liquid to the supply module, and the feed module is electrically isolated from the supply module when the feed module is receiving liquid from the main reservoir. The feed module transfers the liquid from the main reservoir to the supply module without electrically connecting the supply module to the main reservoir (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Todd A. Anderson, Jacob K. Krech
  • Publication number: 20220108182
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to train models for program synthesis are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is to execute the instructions to sample pairs of programs, the pairs of programs including first programs and second programs, the first programs including natural language descriptions and second programs, calculate program similarity scores corresponding to the pairs of programs, and train a model based on entries corresponding to ones of the pairs of programs, at least one of the entries including a corresponding one of the natural language descriptions with a paired one of the second programs, and a corresponding one of the program similarity scores.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Todd A. Anderson, Shengtian Zhou, Javier Turek, Celine Lee, Justin Gottschlich
  • Publication number: 20220094729
    Abstract: A live media streaming architecture facilitates live interaction among multiple participants, such as viewers and stage performers for a show. A cluster of computers is responsible for generating, transmitting, and displaying a composed live stream, such as a grid, of one group of individuals, by mixing live streams from those individuals, that will allow them to interact with a stage performer or other contributors or other individuals during an event. The architecture can support receiving the live streams at a physical location of an event or other locations for centralized redistribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Shaules, Chris Allen, Davide Lucchi, Todd Anderson
  • Publication number: 20210277628
    Abstract: A remote control console or operator's station includes a proportional travel control joystick that effects continuous changes in machine travel speed through movement of the joystick away from a central-biased position, a sensor that measures progressively changing positions of the joystick, and an electronic controller communicatively coupled to the sensor and the joystick. The electronic controller is programmed to perform a closed loop control including mapping the progressively changing positions of the joystick to corresponding desired machine travel speeds, and adjusting the speeds of an engine used to propel the machine and the amounts of service braking used to slow the machine to achieve desired machine travel speeds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: CATERPILLAR INC.
    Inventors: Randall Todd ANDERSON, Michael William BRIDENBAUGH
  • Publication number: 20210172435
    Abstract: A regulator pump provides disconnects an inflow from an outflow, such that a downstream pressure is unaffected by an upstream pressure. The regulator pump receives a fluid through an input valve, while an output valve remains in a closed position. The fluid continues to flow to the regulator pump until the regulator pump is full. With the regulator pump filled with the fluid, the inlet valve shifts to a closed position, thereby isolating the regulator pump chamber from the fluid source. The regulator pump drives the fluid downstream to an applicator with the inlet valve closed. The regulator pump fully isolates the upstream fluid from the downstream fluid such that the upstream pressure has no effect on the downstream pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Todd A. Anderson, Vu K. Nguyen, Paul F. Boschert
  • Publication number: 20210058456
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods suitable for real-time streaming over a decentralized or centralized network. In the decentralized network, the present invention relates to a system and method that utilizes a block-chain distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time. In the centralized network, the present invention utilizes a centralized stream manager to manage nodes within the distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Chris Allen, Davide Lucchi, Paul Gregoire, Todd Anderson, Rajdeep Rath, Andy Shaules
  • Patent number: 10913216
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade panel of a wind turbine includes placing a mold of the rotor blade panel relative to a computer numeric control (CNC) device. The method also includes forming one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins in the mold. The method also includes printing and depositing, via the CNC device, printing and depositing, via the CNC device, a plurality of rib members that intersect to form at least one three-dimensional (3-D) reinforcement grid structure onto an inner surface of the one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins before the one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins have cooled from forming. Further, the grid structure bonds to the fiber-reinforced outer skin(s) as the structure is deposited. In addition, the plurality of rib members include, at least, a first rib member extending in a first direction and a second rib member extending in a different, second direction. Moreover, the first rib member has a varying height along a length thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Robert Tobin, Thomas Merzhaeuser, Todd Anderson
  • Patent number: 10865769
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a rotor blade panel of a wind turbine includes placing one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins into a mold of the rotor blade panel. The method also includes printing and depositing, via a computer numeric control (CNC) device, a plurality of rib members that form at least one three-dimensional (3-D) reinforcement grid structure onto an inner surface of the one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins. Further, the grid structure bonds to the one or more fiber-reinforced outer skins as the grid structure is deposited. Moreover, the method includes printing at least one additional feature into the grid structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: James Robert Tobin, Norman Arnold Turnquist, Stephen Bertram Johnson, Don Conrad Johnson, Thomas Merzhaeuser, Peggy Lynn Baehmann, Stefan Herr, Murray Fisher, Andrew McCalip, Alan M. Walker, Todd Anderson
  • Patent number: 10848553
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods suitable for real-time streaming over a decentralized or centralized network. In the decentralized network, the present invention relates to a system and method that utilizes a block-chain distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time. In the centralized network, the present invention utilizes a centralized stream manager to manage nodes within the distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Infrared5, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Allen, Davide Lucchi, Paul Gregoire, Jr., Todd Anderson, Rajdeep Rath, Andy Shaules
  • Publication number: 20200327118
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies a query code, translates the query code into a query graph, generates a candidate vector based on a candidate graph, wherein the candidate graph is associated with a candidate code, generates a query vector based on the query graph, and determines a similarity measurement between the query vector and the candidate vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Nesreen K. Ahmed, Dipanjan Sengupta, Todd Anderson, Theodore Willke
  • Publication number: 20200326696
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that obtains categorization information and corresponding uncertainty information from a perception subsystem, wherein the categorization information and the corresponding uncertainty information are to be associated with an object in an environment. The technology may also determine whether the corresponding uncertainty information satisfies one or more relevance criteria, and automatically control the perception subsystem to increase an accuracy in one or more subsequent categorizations of the object if the corresponding uncertainty information satisfies the one or more relevance criteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventors: Ignacio Alvarez, Todd Anderson, Vy Vo, Javier Felip Leon, Javier Perez-Ramirez
  • Patent number: 10679421
    Abstract: An interactive spa that may allow users to experience what it would be like to use a fully operational spa. The spa may contain a cutaway, or a void, on one of the sides of the spa to allow users to enter and exit the spa without needing to climb over the sides. The spa may also have windows that allow users to view certain internal aspects of the spa for display purposes. The spa may also utilize one or more virtual reality sensors to allow users to experience, to an extent, what it would be like use an operational spa. The spa may include a monitor stand that may have one or more touch-screen monitors, which may allow users to browse through information about the spa or view the virtual reality content that users are seeing while within the spa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Bullfrog International, LC
    Inventors: Eric Hales, Todd Anderson, Samson Madsen
  • Publication number: 20200150755
    Abstract: An interactive spa that may allow users to experience what it would be like to use a fully operational spa. The spa may contain a cutaway, or a void, on one of the sides of the spa to allow users to enter and exit the spa without needing to climb over the sides. The spa may also have windows that allow users to view certain internal aspects of the spa for display purposes. The spa may also utilize one or more virtual reality sensors to allow users to experience, to an extent, what it would be like use an operational spa. The spa may include a monitor stand that may have one or more touch-screen monitors, which may allow users to browse through information about the spa or view the virtual reality content that users are seeing while within the spa.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Hales, Todd Anderson, Samson Madsen
  • Publication number: 20200123742
    Abstract: A method for controlling a system pressure within a closed system includes sending a signal to a pressure control valve corresponding to a pressure set point and actuating the pressure control valve to vary a pilot pressure of a control fluid contained within a pressure control line that is fluidly connected to a pressure regulator. A diaphragm of the pressure regulator is disposed between the pressure control line and a system line and acts on a fluid with the system line to modify the system pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Peter N. Dufault, Todd A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10550552
    Abstract: A method for controlling a system pressure within a closed system includes sending a signal to a pressure control valve corresponding to a pressure set point and actuating the pressure control valve to vary a pilot pressure of a control fluid contained within a pressure control line that is fluidly connected to a pressure regulator. A diaphragm of the pressure regulator is disposed between the pressure control line and a system line and acts on a fluid with the system line to modify the system pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Peter N. Dufault, Todd A. Anderson
  • Patent number: 10513839
    Abstract: A method for controlling a system pressure within a closed system includes sending a signal to a pressure control valve corresponding to a pressure set point and actuating the pressure control valve to vary a pilot pressure of a control fluid contained within a pressure control line that is fluidly connected to a pressure regulator. A diaphragm of the pressure regulator is disposed between the pressure control line and a system line and acts on a fluid with the system line to modify the system pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2019
    Assignee: Graco Minnesota Inc.
    Inventors: Peter N. Dufault, Todd A. Anderson
  • Publication number: 20190325316
    Abstract: Example apparatus and methods for program synthesis using genetic algorithms are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a program length predictor to predict a length of a first program by executing a first neural network model, a program generator to generate a candidate program having a length corresponding to the predicted length, a candidate program analyzer to generate a fitness score for the candidate program by executing a second neural network model and to identify the first candidate program for use in a breeding operation relative a second candidate program based on the fitness score, and a genetic program generator to perform the breeding operation with at least one of the first candidate program or the second candidate program to generate an evolved candidate program.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Todd A. Anderson, Mohammad Mejbah Ul Alam, Shengtian Zhou, Justin Gottschlich
  • Publication number: 20190325314
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to optimize execution of a machine learning model are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a quantizer to quantize a layer of a model based on an execution constraint, the layer of the model represented by a matrix. A packer is to pack the quantized layer of the matrix to create a packed layer represented by a packed matrix, the packed matrix having non-zero values of the matrix grouped together along at least one of a row or a column of the matrix. A blocker is to block the packed layer into a blocked layer by dividing the non-zero values in the packed matrix into blocks. A fuser is to fuse the blocked layer into a pipeline. A packager is to package the pipeline into a binary.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: Mikael Bourges-Sevenier, Adam Herr, Sridhar Sharma, Derek Gerstmann, Todd Anderson, Justin Gottschlich
  • Publication number: 20190320014
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods suitable for real-time streaming over a decentralized or centralized network. In the decentralized network, the present invention relates to a system and method that utilizes a block-chain distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time. In the centralized network, the present invention utilizes a centralized stream manager to manage nodes within the distributed network to securely and reliably stream multimedia in real-time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Chris Allen, Davide Lucchi, Paul Gregoire, JR., Todd Anderson, Rajdeep Rath, Andy Shaules