Patents by Inventor Wayne A. Bowman

Wayne A. Bowman 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: 11880682
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to perform multiply-accumulate operations of reduced precision numbers in a systolic array. Each row of the systolic array can receive reduced inputs from a respective reducer. The reduced input can include a reduced input data element and/or a reduced weight. The systolic array may lack support for inputs with a first bit-length and the reducers may reduce the bit-length of a given input from the first bit-length to a second shorter bit-length and provide the reduced input to the array. In order to reduce the bit-length, the reducer may reduce the number of trailing bits of the input. Further, the systolic array can receive a reduced and rounded input. The systolic array can propagate the reduced input through the processing elements in the systolic array. Each processing element may include a multiplier and/or an adder to perform arithmetical operations based on the reduced input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Gilbert Meyer, Thomas A Volpe, Ron Diamant, Joshua Wayne Bowman, Nishith Desai, Thomas Elmer
  • Patent number: 11711258
    Abstract: In various examples, a system identifies a first issue object associated with the alert by making a first set of determinations, based on an alert of an active issue of a system resource. Additionally, the system can determine whether the active issue associated with the first issue object can be automatically corrected by one or more self-healing processes, based on the first issue object. Moreover, the system can implement the one or more self-healing processes, based on determining that the active issue associated with the first issue object can be automatically corrected by one or more self-healing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Ledbetter, Jeremy Wayne Bowman, Michael Samuhasilp, Nathan Anderson, Maria Cecilia Bustos
  • Publication number: 20230004384
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to perform multiply-accumulate operations of reduced precision numbers in a systolic array. Each row of the systolic array can receive reduced inputs from a respective reducer. The reduced input can include a reduced input data element and/or a reduced weight. The systolic array may lack support for inputs with a first bit-length and the reducers may reduce the bit-length of a given input from the first bit-length to a second shorter bit-length and provide the reduced input to the array. In order to reduce the bit-length, the reducer may reduce the number of trailing bits of the input. Further, the systolic array can receive a reduced and rounded input. The systolic array can propagate the reduced input through the processing elements in the systolic array. Each processing element may include a multiplier and/or an adder to perform arithmetical operations based on the reduced input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Gilbert Meyer, Thomas A Volpe, Ron Diamant, Joshua Wayne Bowman, Nishith Desai, Thomas Elmer
  • Publication number: 20230004523
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided to perform multiply-accumulate operations of reduced precision numbers in a systolic array. Each row of the systolic array can receive reduced inputs from a respective reducer. The reducer can receive a particular input and generate multiple reduced inputs from the input. The reduced inputs can include reduced input data elements and/or a reduced weights. The systolic array may lack support for inputs with a first bit-length and the reducers may reduce the bit-length of a given input from the first bit-length to a second shorter bit-length and provide multiple reduced inputs with second shorter bit-length to the array. The systolic array may perform multiply-accumulate operations on each unique combination of the multiple reduced input data elements and the reduced weights to generate multiple partial outputs. The systolic array may sum the partial outputs to generate the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Gilbert Meyer, Thomas A. Volpe, Ron Diamant, Joshua Wayne Bowman, Nishith Desai, Thomas Elmer
  • Publication number: 20220188073
    Abstract: To reduce power consumption, data bits or a portion of a data register that is not expected to toggle frequently can be grouped together, and be clock-gated independently from the rest of the data register. The grouping of the data bits can be determined based on the data types of the workload being operated on. For a data register configured to store a numeric value that supports multiple data types, the portion of the data register being clock-gated may store a group of data bits that are unused for one or more data types of the multiple data types supported by the data register. The portion of the data register being clock-gated can also be a group of data bits that remain unchanged or have a constant value for numeric values within a certain numeric range that is frequently operated on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Joshua Wayne Bowman, Thomas A. Volpe, Sundeep Amirineni, Nishith Desai, Ron Diamant
  • Publication number: 20210377106
    Abstract: In various examples, a system identify a first issue object associated with the alert by making a first set of determinations, based on an alert of an active issue of a system resource. Additionally, the system can determine whether the active issue associated with the first issue object can be automatically corrected by one or more self-healing processes, based on the first issue object. Moreover, the system can implement the one or more self-healing processes, based on determining that the active issue associated with the first issue object can be automatically corrected by one or more self-healing processes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Joshua Ledbetter, Jeremy Wayne Bowman, Michael Samuhasilp, Nathan Anderson, Maria Cecilia Bustos
  • Patent number: 11121914
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and correcting a cloud environment are disclosed. An alert associated with an active issue at a component is received and an issue object is generated based on the alert. A self-healing flow is executed based on an alert type of the alert to attempt to correct the active issue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Joshua Ledbetter, Jeremy Wayne Bowman, Michael Samuhasilp, Nathan Anderson, Maria Cecilia Bustos
  • Publication number: 20210160127
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and correcting a cloud environment are disclosed. An alert associated with an active issue at a component is received and an issue object is generated based on the alert. A self-healing flow is executed based on an alert type of the alert to attempt to correct the active issue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Joshua Ledbetter, Jeremy Wayne Bowman, Michael Samuhaslip, Nathan Anderson, Maria Cecilia Bustos
  • Patent number: 8731030
    Abstract: The method for transmission a set of digital data is provided. The method comprises: (A) processing a received signal transmitted from a preceding site by at least one repeater located in a repeater hub in a processing site. The received signal includes a microwave carrier, whereas the processing compensates the received microwave signal for degradation due to propagation between the preceding site and the processing site. The method further comprises the step (B) of conditioning the received microwave signal for subsequent transmission from the processing site to a subsequent site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Remec Broadband Wireless LLC
    Inventors: Patric Wood McDonald, Charles Wayne Bowman
  • Patent number: 6235459
    Abstract: An imaging support element comprising a polymeric film support and a thermally stable single subbing layer is made by forming a coating over the polymeric film support, the coating having a surface including amine reactive groups in a density of at least 1010 per cm2 and then heat treating the polymeric film support with the coating thereon at a temperature in the range of from about 50° C. below the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric support up to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric support. The polymeric film support is nitrogen plasma treated. The layer is preferably formed by coating a monomer solution on the nitrogen plasma treated polymer support wherein the coated monomer has at least two vinyl sulfone groups which provide the amine reactive groups. Alternatively, the layer may be formed by applying to the polymeric support web a coating including at least one non-amine reactive comonomer and at least one comonomer having amine reactive side groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jeremy M. Grace, Louis J. Gerenser, Wayne A. Bowman, Elizabeth G. Burns, Richard A. Castle, David M. Teegarden
  • Patent number: 6190842
    Abstract: An imaging support element comprising a polymeric film support and a thermally stable single subbing layer is made by forming a coating over the polymeric film support, the coating having a surface including amine reactive groups in a density of at least 1010 per cm2 and then heat treating the polymeric film support with the coating thereon at a temperature in the range of from about 50° C. below the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric support up to the glass transition temperature (Tg) of the polymeric support. The polymeric film support is nitrogen plasma treated. The layer is formed by applying to the polymeric support web a coating including at least one non-amine reactive comonomer and at least one comonomer having amine reactive side groups.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Jeremy M. Grace, Louis J. Gerenser, Wayne A. Bowman, Elizabeth G. Burns, Richard A. Castle, David M. Teegarden
  • Patent number: 6093525
    Abstract: Thermally processable imaging elements in which the image is formed by imagewise heating or by imagewise exposure to light followed by uniform heating has a protective overcoat layer containing poly(silicic acid), a hydroxyl-containing monomer or polymer and an acrylate or methacrylate latex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Charles L. Bauer, Wayne A. Bowman
  • Patent number: 6015772
    Abstract: A dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on one side thereof a dye image-receiving layer comprising a vinyl latex polymer having the following general formula:A.sub.a -B.sub.b -C.sub.cwherein:A is derived from monomers which, when homopolymerized, yield a polymer having a Tg greater than 25;a is between 5 and 45 mole percent;B is derived from monomers which, when homopolymerized, yield a polymer having a Tg less than 10;b is between 35 and 90 mole percent;C is a repeat unit derived from the salt of an anionic water-soluble monomer; andc is between 0 and 20 mole percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2000
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Elizabeth G. Burns, Kristine B. Lawrence, Wayne A. Bowman, Hwei-Ling Yau
  • Patent number: 5981431
    Abstract: A dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on one side thereof a dye image-receiving layer comprising a water-dispersible polyester having the following structure: ##STR1## wherein: A is the residue of one or more diol components;B is the residue of a diacid component; andD is the residue of another diacid component;the dye image-receiving layer having an overcoat layer comprising a fluorine-containing acrylate polymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 9, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Kristine B. Lawrence, Wayne A. Bowman, Teh-Ming Kung
  • Patent number: 5891827
    Abstract: A dye-receiving element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having on one side thereof a polymeric dye image-receiving layer and on the other side thereof a backing layer comprising a water-soluble polymeric binder, inorganic particles, and a cationic, polymeric mordant for anionic dyes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: David P. Brust, George B. Bodem, Wayne A. Bowman
  • Patent number: 5891610
    Abstract: Thermally processable imaging elements in which the image is formed by imagewise heating or by imagewise exposure to light followed by uniform heating has a protective overcoat layer containing poly(silicic acid), and a mixture of a water-soluble hydroxyl-containing polymer and a polyvinyl acetal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Charles L. Bauer, Wayne A. Bowman
  • Patent number: 5856051
    Abstract: The present invention is an imaged photographic element having a protective overcoat thereon. The protective overcoat formed by the steps of providing a photographic element having at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer; applying a coating comprising hydrophobic polymer particles having an average size of 0.01 to 1 microns, a melting temperature of from 55.degree. to 200.degree. C. at a weight percent of 30 to 95, and gelatin at a weight percent of 5 to 70 over the at least one silver halide light-sensitive emulsion layer. The silver halide light sensitive emulsion layer is developed to provide an imaged photographic element. The hydrophobic polymer particles are then fused to form a protective overcoat. In an alternate embodiment the coating further includes water soluble polymer materials at a weight percent of from 5 to 45.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Hwei-ling Yau, Wendy S. Krzemien, Christine J. T. Landry-Coltrain, Wayne A. Bowman
  • Patent number: 5801118
    Abstract: This invention relates to a dye-donor element for thermal dye transfer comprising a support having thereon a dye layer comprising an image dye in a polymeric binder, and wherein the dye layer also containing a release agent comprising a copolymer having the following formula: ##STR1## wherein R.sup.1 and R.sup.3 each independently represents hydrogen or methyl;R.sup.2 represents a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group of from 1 to about 6 carbon atoms;R.sup.4 represents a divalent bridging group having from 1 to about 16 carbon atoms;R.sup.5 represents a haloalkyl group having from about 3 to about 20 carbon atoms, wherein the halogen consists essentially of fluorine;x represents 25-95 weight percent; andy represents 5-75 weight percent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Eastman Kodak Company
    Inventors: Wayne A. Bowman, Karen M. Kosydar
  • Patent number: D471951
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Inventor: E. Wayne Bowman
  • Patent number: D410731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1999
    Inventors: Kenneth Wayne Bowman, Ronnie Buggs