Patents by Inventor Wilkinson

Wilkinson 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).

  • TRANSGENIC BANANA PLANTS HAVING INCREASED RESISTANCE TO FUSARIUM OXYSPORUM TROPICAL RACE 4 AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME
    Publication number: 20240141372
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for producing transgenic banana plants that exhibit increased resistance to Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense Tropical Race 4 (TR4), and the banana plants and bananas so produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew DiLeo, Jack Q. Wilkinson, Daniel Stauffer, Tomas Hasing, Tengfang Huang, Taylor Frazier-Douglas, Maria Angels de Luis Balaguer, Fayaz Khazi
  • GLASS COMPOSITIONS AND GLASS-CERAMIC ARTICLES FORMED THEREFROM HAVING IMPROVED MECHANICAL DURABILITY
    Publication number: 20240140856
    Abstract: A glass-ceramic article includes a crystalline phase, a residual glass phase, greater than or equal to 55 mol % and less than or equal to 80 mol % SiO2, greater than or equal to 1 mol % and less than or equal to 8 mol % Al2O3, greater than or equal to 13 mol % and less than or equal to 35 mol % Li2O, greater than or equal to 0.05 mol % and less than or equal to 5 mol % Na2O, greater than or equal to 0.05 mol % and less than or equal to 3 mol % K2O, greater than or equal to 0.2 mol % and less than or equal to 2 mol % P2O5, and greater than or equal to 1.5 mol % and less than or equal to 10 mol % ZrO2, wherein the crystalline phase comprises a lithium disilicate sub-phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Qiang Fu, Charlene Marie Smith, Alana Marie Whittier, Taylor Marie Wilkinson
  • ENGRAVING MACHINE FOR ENGRAVING METALLIC AND NON-METALLIC ITEMS
    Publication number: 20240139881
    Abstract: An engraving machine may have a housing, a receptacle, and a laser head located within the housing. The receptacle may receive an item to be engraved. The laser head may have a laser generator. The engraving machine may have a gripper head to retrieve the item from the receptacle and to position the item relative to the laser head. The engraving machine may have a controller. The controller may receive an inscription to be engraved on the item, determine a distance of the laser head from the item, and position the laser head at the determined distance. The controller may also cause the laser generator in the laser head to emit a laser beam for engraving the item. Further, the controller may cause the gripper head to dispense the item into a dispensing bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: David WILKINSON, Roger PALMER
  • Systems and methods for secure tokenized credentials
    Patent number: 11973877
    Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and computer readable media are provided in various embodiments having regard to authentication using secure tokens, in accordance with various embodiments. An individual's personal information is encapsulated into transformed digitally signed tokens, which can then be stored in a secure data storage (e.g., a “personal information bank”). The digitally signed tokens can include blended characteristics of the individual (e.g., 2D/3D facial representation, speech patterns) that are combined with digital signatures obtained from cryptographic keys (e.g., private keys) associated with corroborating trusted entities (e.g., a government, a bank) or organizations of which the individual purports to be a member of (e.g., a dog-walking service).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
    Inventors: Edison U. Ortiz, Mohammad Abuzar Shaikh, Margaret Inez Salter, Sarah Rachel Waigh Yean Wilkinson, Arya Pourtabatabaie, Iustina-Miruna Vintila
  • MOGROSIDE COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF PRODUCING SAME
    Publication number: 20240132902
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for producing transgenic plants and other organisms that exhibit increased production of mogroside compounds, in particular mogroside V, and the mogroside compounds, plants and plant parts so produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Tengfang Huang, Jack Q. Wilkinson, Anna Matthiadis, Devarshi Selote, Matthew Kilgore, Matthew DiLeo, Fayaz Khazi, Kevin Potter, Daniel Stauffer, Todd Rands
  • Graph database for outbreak tracking and management
    Patent number: 11966397
    Abstract: A graph database for outbreak tracking and management is disclosed. In an example embodiment, an outbreak management system includes a memory device storing instructions that define a graph database for disease outbreak tracking. The instructions specify for a given host that a host node is created and an episode node is connected to the host node via a ‘case’ link. The episode node is associated with episode parameters that are related to a disease classification of the host. In addition, the instructions specify that an outbreak node is connected to the episode node via a ‘part of’ link to indicate that the host has become part of an outbreak of the disease. The outbreak node is connected to a definition node via a ‘defined as’ link. The definition node specifies disease parameters of the disease that is related to the outbreak node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignees: Baxter International Inc., Baxter Healthcare SA
    Inventors: Paul Randall, Ian Smith, Jonathan Haynes, Sam Wilkinson
  • System and method for sentiment and misinformation analysis of digital conversations
    Patent number: 11966702
    Abstract: This is a system for sentiment analysis and misinformation detection for text transcriptions of conversations and statement. More particularly, this is a software system that uses neural network, machine learning (ML) models, which have been trained solely on text sourced from the internet, for the classification of the sentiment and risk of misinformation conveyed through a piece of text as it relates to a specified subject matter. Such a system typically is used on digital communication platforms, such as social media sites, to enable the determination of public opinion and perception in order to provide competitive intelligence for decision-making.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ALPHAVU, LLC
    Inventors: Scott G. Wilkinson, Marshall McCraw, Michael Smith, Zachary Hernandez
  • MODIFICATION OF CARDIAC SENSING AND THERAPY
    Publication number: 20240123244
    Abstract: In some examples, a method for controlling delivery of cardiac therapy and cardiac sensing by a medical device system including electrodes for delivering the cardiac therapy may include storing, in a memory of the medical device system, a respective value for each of a plurality of cardiac therapy and/or sensing parameters and, in association with each of a plurality of heart position states, a respective modification of at least one of the cardiac therapy and/or sensing parameters. Such a method also may include determining a current one of the plurality of heart position states of the patient, modifying the at least one cardiac therapy and/or sensing parameter value according to the modification associated with the current heart position state, and controlling the delivery of the cardiac therapy and/or cardiac sensing according to the modified at least one cardiac therapy and/or sensing parameter value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Wilkinson, Darrell J. Swenson
  • Chair
    Patent number: 11957246
    Abstract: A chair with a transom, a seat support, a back portion, and a combined rock and recline mechanism. The combined rock and recline mechanism has front and rear rocking arrangements configured to enable the seat support and back portion to together rock generally forward and rearward from a neutral position relative to the transom, and a recline arrangement that is configured such that the seat support is in a first at-rest position relative to the back portion when the back portion is in an upright position, and such that reclining the back portion rearwardly from the upright position toward a reclined position moves the seat support upward and rearward from the first at-rest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Formway Furniture Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Warren Bisman, James Clifford Prier, Fabian David Haarbeck, Paul Michael Wilkinson, Damon Gregory Burwell, Hugh Thomas Mccoshim, Leon Harley Craze, Rachael Jessica Hall
  • Projectile ranging with digital map
    Patent number: 11959729
    Abstract: A terrain-referenced navigation system for an aircraft comprises: a stored digital terrain map; a position calculation unit arranged to calculate aircraft position relative to the stored digital terrain map to determine a terrain-referenced aircraft position; a fall line calculation unit arranged to calculate a fall line for a projectile starting from the terrain-referenced aircraft position as a launch point; and an impact point calculation unit arranged to directly compare the fall line with the digital terrain map, by incrementally comparing a height of the projectile along the fall line with a height of the terrain according to the stored digital terrain map in order to find an expected impact point on the terrain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ATLANTIC INERTIAL SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Nicholas Robert Geoffrey Wilkinson, Martin Richard Godfrey
  • Depth dependent pixel filtering
    Patent number: 11954877
    Abstract: Sensors, including time-of-flight sensors, may be used to detect objects in an environment. In an example, a vehicle may include a time-of-flight sensor that images objects around the vehicle, e.g., so the vehicle can navigate relative to the objects. Sensor data generated by the time-of-flight sensor can include returns associated with highly reflective objects that cause glare. In some examples, a depth of a sensed surface is determined from the sensor data and additional pixels at the same depth are identified. The subset of pixels at the depth are filtered by comparing a measured intensity value to a threshold intensity value for the depth. Other threshold intensity values can be applied to subsets of pixels at different depths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Subasingha Shaminda Subasingha, Yongzhe Chen, Mehran Ferdowsi, Samuel Holladay, Turhan Karadeniz, Robert Nicholas Moor, Joseph Patrick Warga, Harrison Thomas Waschura, Silas Kogure Wilkinson
  • METHODS FOR UAV ROUTING COMBINING UAV FLIGHTS AND UAV ASSISTED TRAVEL
    Publication number: 20240111310
    Abstract: A method of carrying a UAV combined with a package on an assist vehicle (AV) in assisted travel mode over one route section, flying the UAV combined with a package over another route section, and carrying the UAV combined with the package on second AV in assisted travel mode over a third route section, the route sections being contiguous. Also, a method of flying a UAV combined with a package over one route section, carrying the UAV combined with the package on an AV in assisted travel mode over a second route section, and flying the UAV combined with the package over a third route section, the route sections being contiguous.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ronan Xavier Ehasoo, Stuart Leslie Wilkinson
  • SCRATCH RESISTANT GLASS AND METHOD OF MAKING
    Publication number: 20240109806
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a glass-based article includes exposing a glass-based substrate having a lithium aluminosilicate composition to an ion exchange treatment to form the glass-based article. The ion exchange treatment including a molten salt bath having a concentration of a sodium salt in a range from 8 mol % to 100 mol %. The glass-based article includes sodium having a non-zero varying concentration extending from a surface of the glass-based article to a depth of the glass-based article The glass-based article has compressive stress layer extending from the surface to a spike depth of layer from 4 micrometers to 8 micrometers. The glass-based article includes a molar ratio of potassium oxide (K2O) to sodium oxide (Na2O) averaged over a distance from the surface to a depth of 0.4 micrometers that is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or equal to 1.8.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Jaymin Amin, Xiaoju Guo, Pascale Oram, Rostislav Vatchev Roussev, Ljerka Ukrainczyk, Taylor Marie Wilkinson
  • Retractable charging station
    Patent number: 11945324
    Abstract: A charging station for charging the battery of a vehicle, comprising: a base portion configured for mounting in a substructure; a charging portion having a charging outlet for connection to a vehicle; and a retraction mechanism for moving the charging portion between an extended position in which it extends out of the base portion and a retracted position; and a controller for controlling the retraction mechanism; the controller being configured to: determine whether a predetermined period of time has elapsed since the most recent charging from the charging outlet ceased; and cause the retraction mechanism to move the charging portion to the retracted position if the predetermined period of time is determined to have elapsed since the most recent electrical supply from the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: URBAN ELECTRIC NETWORKS LTD
    Inventor: Olivier Freeling-Wilkinson
  • Capillary action collection device and container assembly
    Patent number: 11944434
    Abstract: A container assembly is disclosed including an outer container, a hollow inner member, and a closure. The outer container has a closed bottom, an open top, and a sidewall extending therebetween. The hollow inner member is disposed within the outer container and has an inner surface defining at least one capillary channel. The inner member includes a first end adjacent to the open top of the outer container and has an outer periphery seated against the sidewall of the outer container. The closure has a proximal end and a distal end. The closure proximal end is seated at least partially within the first end of the inner member to seal the outer container and inner member and define a fluid collection chamber. The closure distal end defines a recessed area shaped to direct fluid under capillary action to the at least one capillary channel in the inner member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Benjamin R. Bartfeld, Bradley M. Wilkinson, Ajit Dastane
  • Method for producing a crystalline film on a substrate surface
    Patent number: 11946160
    Abstract: An apparatus and method is provided for coating a surface of a material with a film of porous coordination polymer. A first substrate having a first surface to be coated is positioned in a processing chamber such that the first surface is placed in a substantially opposing relationship to a second surface. In some embodiments, the second surface is provided by a wall of the processing chamber, and in other embodiments the second surface is provided by a second substrate to be coated. The first substrate is held such that a gap exists between the first and second surfaces, and the gap is filled with at least one reaction mixture comprising reagents sufficient to form the crystalline film on at least the first surface. A thin gap (e.g., having a thickness less than 2 mm) between the first and second surfaces is effective for producing a high quality film having a thickness less than 100 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Matrix Sensors, Inc
    Inventors: David K Britt, Paul R Wilkinson, Steven Yamamoto
  • Resistor plate assembly with contact bands
    Patent number: 11949294
    Abstract: An assembly comprises a resistor plate for a rotating rectifier assembly (RRA). A shaft bore is defined through the resistor plate for passage of a shaft of an electrical machine, and the resistor plate defines a main annular body around the shaft bore. A first protrusion extends radially outward from the main annular body, so that a first pin bore extends through the first protrusion. At least one contact band is seated in a the pin bore of the resistor plate for mounting a direct current (DC) pin to the resistor plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Hamilton Sundstrand Corporation
    Inventors: Kyle S. Sirbasku, Dhaval Patel, Andrew R. Wilkinson, Mary Christelle Ann Calacal, Yaser J. Isa, Edward C. Allen, Duane C. Johnson
  • Automatic linking of loyalty accounts of authorized users to loyalty accounts of primary users
    Patent number: 11941652
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for automatically providing linking partner loyalty rewards accounts using authorized user and primary user information associated with an account. One example method includes authenticating a user at a partner system, and receiving from the user information associated with an account. The information associated with user's account is communicated to a financial institution system via an API where the user can then be verified as an authorized user on an account. The financial institution system then provides the partner system with information associated with the primary user of the account, and the partner system can link a loyalty account of the primary user with the loyalty account of the authenticated user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Inventors: Adrian Bloy, Morgan Klein-MacNeil, Syrous Delavari-Maraghi, Trevor Ross Gimbel, Caroline Elizabeth Wilkinson, Sonali Suresh Nagarkar
  • Borated detergents and their lubricating applications
    Patent number: 11939550
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an overbased alkaline earth metal hydrocarbyl-substituted salicylate detergent comprising both carbonate and borate moieties and exhibiting the following characteristics: a basicity index of at least 3.8; a ratio of soap content to mass % boron is greater than 55 mmol/kg; a soap content of at least 330 mmol/kg; a TBN, measured according to ASTM D2896, of at least 220 mg KOH/g; and a mass ratio of borate to carbonate from 0.75 to 6.0, wherein the alkaline earth metal comprises calcium and/or magnesium, and the hydrocarbyl substitution comprises 9 to 30 carbon atoms. Methods of making the boron-containing salicylate detergent, specifically to be package-stable, are also disclosed, as well as package-stable lubricant additive package concentrates and lubricating oil compositions containing same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Infineum International Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Daniel Wilkinson, Oliver Delamore, Alexander Coxon, Marcus Popowicz, Ara Samonte, Mallika Rana
  • Methods for improved treatment of cancer
    Patent number: 11938138
    Abstract: Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of a methods for increasing chemotherapy sensitivity or decreasing chemotherapy resistance using BET inhibitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Washington University
    Inventors: Robi Mitra, Arnav Moudgil, Michael Nathaniel Wilkinson