Patents by Inventor Todd A. Brown
Todd A. Brown 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).
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Publication number: 20240092178Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling operation of a vehicle system are provided. This vehicle system can be at least partially powered by electric current conducted to a collector device of the vehicle system from a conductive pathway extending along a route traveled by the vehicle system. A voltage level of the conductive pathway may be monitored, and a conduction impaired location of the conductive pathway may be identified based at least in part on the voltage level of the conductive pathway that is monitored. The collector device or a removal device may be controlled to remove a contaminant from the conductive pathway at the conduction impaired location, the vehicle system may be controlled to compensate for the conduction impaired location, and/or an off-board facility and/or another vehicle system may be notified of the conduction impaired location responsive to identifying the conduction impaired location.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jennifer Sobierajski, Jeffrey John Wolff, Timothy Warren Brown, Henry Todd Young, Ibrahim Kacar
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Publication number: 20240092179Abstract: A method including detecting that a vehicle that may be propelled by an electric drive system having one or more motors disconnects or begins disconnecting from an off-board source of power while the one or more motors are being powered by the off-board source of power. The method may include supplanting a decreasing amount of a first electric energy supplied by the off-board source of power to the electric drive system with an amount of a second electric energy supplied by an onboard source of power to the electric drive system responsive to the detection of the disconnect from the off-board source of power.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jennifer Sobierajski, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Haris Memic, Henry Todd Young, Ibrahim Kacar, James Ghofulpo, Jeffrey John Wolff, Timothy Warren Brown, Daniel Robert Wallace
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Patent number: 11842318Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities for tracking an item delivery are provided. In one embodiment, an item is associated with a vehicle (e.g., manned or unmanned terrestrial vehicle, nautical vehicle, and/or aerial vehicle) by updating item data in a database. An item tracking session is then generated based on the item data. Upon the determination that session availability trigger has occurred, access to the item tracking session is provided to a user. Data representing an updated location of the delivery vehicle is then used to update the item data to indicate the current location of the item as the updated location of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: UNITED PARCEL SERVICE OF AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Sumeet Pradeep Shroff, Kenny Takano Takahashi, Jeffrey J. Horne, Thomas V. Hoffmann, Michael J. Donohue, Ferdinand So, Julian Pulfrey, Michael Kerr, Larry Augsburger, Todd Brown, Susan Ruggles, Shane Hennessy, John Brelesky
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Patent number: 11715054Abstract: Techniques are described for automatically generating meta-alerts based on operational and security risk alert volumes for an entity. In particular, a central device receives entity alert information from other devices in a computer system of an enterprise business, which may have office branches that are each staffed by employees. The central device compares alert volumes of a given entity for a given period of time (e.g., a month) to one or more baseline thresholds determined based on the average alert volume of peer entities during the same period of time and the entity's own historical alert volumes to identify spikes or increases in the volume of alerts for the given entity. If the entity is trending high for the period of time, the central device generates a meta-alert to bring awareness to the relatively high volume of alerts identified for that entity.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Daniel Jeffery Johnson, Matthew Todd Brown, Christopher Smith, Ruoding Wong, Joe Heger, Rachel Nemecek
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Patent number: 11600392Abstract: The technology uses aggregated health data and outbreak models to conduct differential diagnosis and provide risk assessments that indicate a likelihood of contracting COVID-19. A healthcare organization server provides COVID-19 diagnostic kits and health applications to participating computing devices that log user health data and registers contacts with other participating users via wireless interactions. The organization compares received data with data received from computing devices from a plurality of other users and identifies common occurrences. The server creates an outbreak model of a geographic region based on the data. The server communicates a determined likelihood of contracting COVID-19 of the user to the user computing device. The server provides the outbreak model to the user, healthcare workers, or others for use in responding to the outbreak.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: The Broad Institute, Inc., President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeInventors: Pardis Sabeti, Andres Colubri, Todd Brown
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Publication number: 20220027846Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities for tracking an item delivery are provided. In one embodiment, an item is associated with a vehicle (e.g., manned or unmanned terrestrial vehicle, nautical vehicle, and/or aerial vehicle) by updating item data in a database. An item tracking session is then generated based on the item data. Upon the determination that session availability trigger has occurred, access to the item tracking session is provided to a user. Data representing an updated location of the delivery vehicle is then used to update the item data to indicate the current location of the item as the updated location of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2021Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventors: Sumeet Pradeep Shroff, Kenny Takano Takahashi, Jeffrey J. Horne, Thomas V. Hoffmann, Michael J. Donohue, Ferdinand So, Julian Pulfrey, Michael Kerr, Larry Augsburger, Todd Brown, Susan Ruggles, Shane Hennessy, John Brelesky
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Patent number: 11188861Abstract: Techniques are described for automatically generating meta-alerts based on operational and security risk alert volumes for an entity. In particular, a central device receives entity alert information from other devices in a computer system of an enterprise business, which may have office branches that are each staffed by employees. The central device compares alert volumes of a given entity for a given period of time (e.g., a month) to one or more baseline thresholds determined based on the average alert volume of peer entities during the same period of time and the entity's own historical alert volumes to identify spikes or increases in the volume of alerts for the given entity. If the entity is trending high for the period of time, the central device generates a meta-alert to bring awareness to the relatively high volume of alerts identified for that entity.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: November 30, 2021Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Daniel Jeffery Johnson, Matthew Todd Brown, Christopher Smith, Ruoding Wong, Joe Heger, Rachel Nemecek
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Patent number: 11151510Abstract: Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities for tracking an item delivery are provided. In one embodiment, an item is associated with a vehicle (e.g., manned or unmanned terrestrial vehicle, nautical vehicle, and/or aerial vehicle) by updating item data in a database. An item tracking session is then generated based on the item data. Upon the determination that session availability trigger has occurred, access to the item tracking session is provided to a user. Data representing an updated location of the delivery vehicle is then used to update the item data to indicate the current location of the item as the updated location of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: United Parcel Service of America, Inc.Inventors: Sumeet Pradeep Shroff, Kenny Takano Takahashi, Jeffrey J. Horne, Thomas V. Hoffmann, Michael J. Donohue, Ferdinand So, Julian Pulfrey, Michael Kerr, Larry Augsburger, Todd Brown, Susan Ruggles, Shane Hennessy, John Brelesky
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Publication number: 20210151198Abstract: The technology uses aggregated health data and outbreak models to conduct differential diagnosis and provide risk assessments that indicate a likelihood of contracting COVID-19. A healthcare organization server provides COVID-19 diagnostic kits and health applications to participating computing devices that log user health data and registers contacts with other participating users via wireless interactions. The organization compares received data with data received from computing devices from a plurality of other users and identifies common occurrences. The server creates an outbreak model of a geographic region based on the data. The server communicates a determined likelihood of contracting COVID-19 of the user to the user computing device. The server provides the outbreak model to the user, healthcare workers, or others for use in responding to the outbreak.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Pardis Sabeti, Andres Colubri, Todd Brown
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Patent number: 11008373Abstract: The invention relates to novel designer osteogenic proteins having altered affinity for a cognate receptor, nucleic acids encoding the same, and methods of use therefor. More preferably, the novel designer osteogenic proteins are designer BMPs and have altered affinity for a cognate BMP receptor. The designer BMPs demonstrate altered biological characteristics and provide potential useful novel therapeutics.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Wyeth, LLC.Inventors: Stephen Berasi, Robert Vincent Martinez, Michael John Cain, John Martin Wozney, Howard Seeherman, Zong Sean Juo, Valerie Perrine Calabro, Christopher Todd Brown
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Publication number: 20210050116Abstract: The technology uses aggregated health data and outbreak models to conduct differential diagnosis and provide risk assessments that indicate a likelihood of contracting COVID-19. A healthcare organization server provides COVID-19 diagnostic kits and health applications to participating computing devices that log user health data and registers contacts with other participating users via wireless interactions. The organization compares received data with data received from computing devices from a plurality of other users and identifies common occurrences. The server creates an outbreak model of a geographic region based on the data. The server communicates a determined likelihood of contracting COVID-19 of the user to the user computing device. The server provides the outbreak model to the user, healthcare workers, or others for use in responding to the outbreak.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2020Publication date: February 18, 2021Inventors: Pardis SABETI, Andres Colubri, Todd Brown
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Publication number: 20190241634Abstract: The invention relates to novel designer osteogenic proteins having altered affinity for a cognate receptor, nucleic acids encoding the same, and methods of use therefor. More preferably, the novel designer osteogenic proteins are designer BMPs and have altered affinity for a cognate BMP receptor. The designer BMPs demonstrate altered biological characteristics and provide potential useful novel therapeutics.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2018Publication date: August 8, 2019Inventors: Stephen BERASI, Robert Vincent Martinez, Michael John Cain, John Martin Wozney, Howard Joel Seeherman, Zong Sean Juo, Valerie Perrine Calabro, Christopher Todd Brown
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Patent number: 10370424Abstract: The invention relates to novel designer osteogenic proteins having altered affinity for a cognate receptor, nucleic acids encoding the same, and methods of use therefor. More preferably, the novel designer osteogenic proteins are designer BMPs and have altered affinity for a cognate BMP receptor. The designer BMPs demonstrate altered biological characteristics and provide potential useful novel therapeutics.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: August 6, 2019Assignee: Wyeth, LLC.Inventors: John Wozney, Howard Seeherman, Christopher Todd Brown
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Patent number: 10300172Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing osteoinductive synthetic bone grafts are provided in which a porous ceramic granule, which may be incorporated within a biocompatible matrix material, is loaded with an osteoinductive agent. Loading of granules is facilitated in some cases by the use of low-pH buffers and pre-treatments.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Bioventus, LLC.Inventors: Eric Vanderploeg, Howard Seeherman, Christopher G. Wilson, John Wozney, Christopher Todd Brown
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Publication number: 20190126938Abstract: Integrated performance braking is disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a hand-operated lever of a vehicle, a data interface to operatively couple the lever to an anti-lock braking system (ABS) of the vehicle, and a brake controller to cause at least one wheel of the vehicle to lock via the ABS when the lever is rotated to a defined angular position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2017Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: John Wicks, Evert Hendrik Aalt Kasteel, Todd Brown
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Patent number: 10272925Abstract: Integrated performance braking is disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a hand-operated lever of a vehicle, a data interface to operatively couple the lever to an anti-lock braking system (ABS) of the vehicle, and a brake controller to cause at least one wheel of the vehicle to lock via the ABS when the lever is rotated to a defined angular position.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: John Wicks, Evert Hendrik Aalt Kasteel, Todd Brown
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Patent number: 10196433Abstract: The invention relates to novel designer osteogenic proteins having altered affinity for a cognate receptor, nucleic acids encoding the same, and methods of use therefor. More preferably, the novel designer osteogenic proteins are designer BMPs and have altered affinity for a cognate BMP receptor. The designer BMPs demonstrate altered biological characteristics and provide potential useful novel therapeutics.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Wyeth LLCInventors: Stephen Berasi, Robert Vincent Martinez, Michael John Cain, John Martin Wozney, Howard Joel Seeherman, Zong Sean Juo, Valerie Perrine Calabro, Christopher Todd Brown
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Patent number: 10147171Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for generating regional digital subtraction angiography (DSA) images and roadmap images with landmarks. In one embodiment, a method comprises generating a mask from a set of mask images of an anatomy of a subject, and generating a masked image by applying the mask to acquired image data of the anatomy of the subject, including weighting the mask differently inside a region of interest (ROI) of the image than outside the ROI, the weighting inside ROI independent of the weighting outside the ROI. In this way, a user may be able to adjust a relative magnitude of subtraction inside and outside the ROI, and thus be able to visualize both vasculature and landmarks within the same image frame.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Todd Brown, Timothy Skuster, James Zhengshe Liu
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Patent number: 9999310Abstract: A hanging system is disclosed. The hanging system is especially adapted to couple with travel bags of various sizes for holding garments and accessories in place when traveling or commuting. A second embodiment includes a hangar accessory which allows the hanging system to be mounted from a standard hanging rod.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2016Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Inventor: Todd Brown
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Publication number: 20180134762Abstract: The invention relates to novel designer osteogenic proteins having altered affinity for a cognate receptor, nucleic acids encoding the same, and methods of use therefor. More preferably, the novel designer osteogenic proteins are designer BMPs and have altered affinity for a cognate BMP receptor. The designer BMPs demonstrate altered biological characteristics and provide potential useful novel therapeutics.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Stephen BERASI, Robert Vincent Martinez, Michael John Cain, John Martin Wozney, Howard Joel Seeherman, Zong Sean Juo, Valerie Perrine Calabro, Christopher Todd Brown