Patents by Inventor Tyson Thomas

Tyson Thomas 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).

  • Downhole fishing tool
    Patent number: 9719317
    Abstract: A fishing tool is provided to enable retrieval of a fish from a mineral extraction system. The downhole fishing tool includes a frustoconical member for guiding broken fish such as a broken pipe into a channel created by a sliding car and an edge of a body of the downhole fishing tool. The channel enlarges by sliding the sliding car along the body of the downhole fishing tool. The downhole fishing tool body and sliding car are aligned such that the sliding car slides diagonally across the body of the downhole fishing tool thus creating a larger channel at a first point along the diagonal than at a second point along the diagonal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Inventor: Tyson Thomas
  • DOWNHOLE FISHING TOOL
    Publication number: 20150361752
    Abstract: A fishing tool is provided to enable retrieval of a fish from a mineral extraction system. The downhole fishing tool includes a frustoconical member for guiding broken fish such as a broken pipe into a channel created by a sliding car and an edge of a body of the downhole fishing tool. The channel enlarges by sliding the sliding car along the body of the downhole fishing tool. The downhole fishing tool body and sliding car are aligned such that the sliding car slides diagonally across the body of the downhole fishing tool thus creating a larger channel at a first point along the diagonal than at a second point along the diagonal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventor: Tyson Thomas
  • Locally connected neural network with improved feature vector
    Patent number: 6757666
    Abstract: A pattern recognizer which uses neuromorphs with a fixed amount of energy that is distributed among the elements. The distribution of the energy is used to form a histogram which is used as a feature vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2004
    Assignee: California Institute of Technology
    Inventor: Tyson Thomas