Patents by Inventor Zachary Edwards

Zachary Edwards 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).

  • Publication number: 20210277853
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a floor plate defining a front and a back of the vehicle, wall sections to receive vehicle loading and transfer the vehicle loading to the floor plate, and a fluid delivery assembly supported by the floor plate. The fluid delivery assembly includes an intake manifold that resides at the back, an outlet that resides at the front, and a set of lateral conduits extending between the intake manifold and the outlet to laterally convey fluid entering the intake manifold from a fluid source to the outlet for delivery to a fluid target. Accordingly, the back may connect to the fluid source and the front may deliver the fluid thus keeping the vehicle sides and top available for other uses. Moreover, the low isolated placement of the fluid delivery assembly safeguards the fluid delivery assembly and provides a low center of gravity for vehicle stability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Howe, Zachary Edward Sawyer, Forrest Joel Tripp
  • Publication number: 20210280305
    Abstract: A data logger for collecting, storing, and transferring data received from a sterilizer is described herein. The data logger is sized and shaped to fit into a slot or opening defined by the sterilizer and previously used for receiving a printing device to output sterilizer data on a printer ribbon. The data logger includes a circuit to facilitate receiving data formatted to conform to at least two different transmission protocols (e.g. RS-232 serial data transmission protocol or TTL serial data transmission protocol). The circuit allows the data logger to be used with different styles of sterilizers and thus increases the set of viable sterilizers. The data logger includes at least one memory device for storing the logged data. This memory device may be a removable component. The data logger may also include a port or connector element for a second memory device such as a USB stick.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Gary W. Benning, David P. Hosey, Steffen Baumann, Zachary Edward Baltrip, Douglas R. Hall
  • Patent number: 10992159
    Abstract: A method for wireless power transfer adapts to changing configuration of receivers, including changes in number of, location and/or orientiation of, magnetic coupling to, and load of circuits (e.g., battery charging circuits) of one or more receivers. The adaptation can be performed without interrupting optimal or near-optimal power transfer to the receivers, and can provide a measure of fairness among multiple receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
  • Publication number: 20210108895
    Abstract: A technique for a modular tracked vehicle that can be reconfigured as needed to address different requirements and use cases. The modular tracked vehicle includes a chassis hull that allows interchangeable components to be connected thereto. The interchangeable components include interchangeable final drives which drive the vehicle's tracks. The chassis hull stores an energy reservoir, such as a battery or fuel tank, and the final drives include at least a gear box and drive axle. Different final drives may be provided for different torque levels, speed levels, energy sources, and or other specifications, and the final drives may be swapped based on mission requirements. Other components of the modular tracked vehicle may be interchangeable, as well. The technique may be provided, for example, as a modular tracked vehicle, a platform for a modular tracked vehicle, and/or as a method for use with a modular tracked vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Howe, Forrest Joel Tripp, Zachary Edward Sawyer, Anthony Victor Castro
  • Publication number: 20200377162
    Abstract: Example techniques have been presented for providing tracked vehicles with deployable towing wheels. Such techniques involve a track vehicle having a vehicle body, a track coupled to the vehicle body, and a wheel assembly coupled to the vehicle body. The wheel assembly includes a wheel and is operable to assume a towing position in which at least a portion of the wheel extends below the track and enables the tracked vehicle to be towed on the wheel without the track making ground contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Howe, Zachary Edward Sawyer, Jason Wan Xu, Cote Taylor
  • Patent number: 10746852
    Abstract: A method for monitoring periodic motions of one or more subjects uses signal reflections from the subjects. The method includes emitting a transmitted signal from a transmitting antenna and receiving a received signal at one or more receiving antennas. The received signal includes a combination of a number of reflections of the transmitted signal, at least some of which are associated with the subjects. The received signal, including the reflections, is processed to determine an estimate of a fundamental frequency of the periodic motions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
  • Publication number: 20200155038
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a patient undergoing therapy includes wirelessly tracking a motion of the patient over time to generate a sequence of data representing the motion of the patient over time, processing the sequence of data representing the motion of the patient over time using a biometric parameter extraction module to extract data representing one or more biometric parameters, determining an estimated response of the patient to the therapy based at least in part of the data representing one or more biometric parameters, and providing a characterization of the estimated response of the patient to the therapy to one or more of a caretaker, the patient, or a clinician.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Dina Katabi, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Kreshnik Hoti
  • Publication number: 20190105957
    Abstract: A pressurized top mount assembly is described wherein a pressurized fluid volume receives an end of a piston rod and is configured to counteract a net static force on a top mount by a suspension component which may be an active suspension actuator, a passive suspension damper or a semi active suspension damper. The pressurized fluid volume may be in fluid communication with one or more of fluid volumes in the suspension component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicant: ClearMotion, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas Belter, Zachary Edward Butner, Matthew Jo Taylor
  • Patent number: 10241086
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method for validating an acoustic bond-log tool includes having a test fixture including a wellbore casing emulating tubing. An outer tubing emulates a well formation and forms a perimeter of an annulus surrounding the wellbore casing emulating tubing. The wellbore casing tubing is configured with a stepped outer surface emulating different wellbore casing sidewall thicknesses. A dividing structure is coupled in the axial direction to the outer surface of the wellbore casing emulating tubing and to the inner surface of the outer tubing to radially subdivide the annulus into a plurality of hermetically sealable sample sections. Each sample section contains a sample of a material having a known acoustic impedance. The acoustic bond-log tool is validated by comparing a bond-log tool measurement of the acoustic impedance of each sample in a particular sample section to the known acoustic impedance of the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Walmy Cuello Jimenez, Xueyu Pang, Paul Jones, Robert Eric Epstein, Zachary Edward Gordon, Batakrishna Mandal, Tatiana Gilstrap
  • Publication number: 20180323637
    Abstract: A method for wireless power transfer adapts to changing configuration of receivers, including changes in number of, location and/or orientiation of, magnetic coupling to, and load of circuits (e.g., battery charging circuits) of one or more receivers. The adaptation can be performed without interrupting optimal or near-optimal power transfer to the receivers, and can provide a measure of fairness among multiple receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
  • Patent number: 9882419
    Abstract: A method for wireless power transfer adapts to changing configuration of receivers, including changes in number of, location and/or orientation of, magnetic coupling to, and load of circuits (e.g., battery charging circuits) of one or more receivers. The adaptation can be performed without interrupting optimal or near-optimal power transfer to the receivers, and can provide a measure of fairness among multiple receivers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
  • Patent number: 9753131
    Abstract: A motion tracking system makes use of a number antennas to transmit and receive radio frequency signals that are reflected from objects (e.g., people) in the environment of the system, which may include one or more rooms of a building, the interior of a vehicle, etc., and may be partitioned, for example, walls or cloth sheets. In general, the objects in the environment include both fixed objects, such as chairs, walls, etc., as well as moving objects, such as but not limited to people. The system can track people, who may be moving around a room, or may be relatively stationary, for instance, sitting in a chair of lying in bed, but may nevertheless exhibit breathing motion that may be detected. The system may detect body or limb gestures made by the people in the environment, and detect physical activity including detection of falls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
  • Publication number: 20170082741
    Abstract: A motion tracking system makes use of a number antennas to transmit and receive radio frequency signals that are reflected from objects (e.g., people) in the environment of the system, which may include one or more rooms of a building, the interior of a vehicle, etc., and may be partitioned, for example, walls or cloth sheets. In general, the objects in the environment include both fixed objects, such as chairs, walls, etc., as well as moving objects, such as but not limited to people. The system can track people, who may be moving around a room, or may be relatively stationary, for instance, sitting in a chair of lying in bed, but may nevertheless exhibit breathing motion that may be detected. The system may detect body or limb gestures made by the people in the environment, and detect physical activity including detection of falls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
  • Publication number: 20170074980
    Abstract: In one aspect, a reference transmit signal is distributed to each of one or more transmit antennas, and delayed by multiple different times before transmission from the transmit antennas. The reference transmit signal (or a delayed version of the reference signal) is also used at each of the receive antennas to determine propagation (time of flight) times reflecting from bodies from each of the transmit antennas to the receive antenna. In another aspect, locations of multiple objects are determined by iteratively (a) determining a location of a body based on determined propagation times between multiple transmitter-receiver pairs, and (b) having determined a location, effectively removing the effect of reflections from that location from the remaining signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2015
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
  • Publication number: 20170042432
    Abstract: A method for monitoring periodic motions of one or more subjects uses signal reflections from the subjects. The method includes emitting a transmitted signal from a transmitting antenna and receiving a received signal at one or more receiving antennas. The received signal includes a combination of a number of reflections of the transmitted signal, at least some of which are associated with the subjects. The received signal, including the reflections, is processed to determine an estimate of a fundamental frequency of the periodic motions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
  • Publication number: 20160238562
    Abstract: In some implementations, a method for validating an acoustic bond-log tool includes having a test fixture including a wellbore casing emulating tubing. An outer tubing emulates a well formation and forms a perimeter of an annulus surrounding the wellbore casing emulating tubing. The wellbore casing tubing is configured with a stepped outer surface emulating different wellbore casing sidewall thicknesses. A dividing structure is coupled in the axial direction to the outer surface of the wellbore casing emulating tubing and to the inner surface of the outer tubing to radially subdivide the annulus into a plurality of hermetically sealable sample sections. Each sample section contains a sample of a material having a known acoustic impedance. The acoustic bond-log tool is validated by comparing a bond-log tool measurement of the acoustic impedance of each sample in a particular sample section to the known acoustic impedance of the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2013
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Walmy Cuello Jimenez, Xueyu Pang, Paul Jones, Robert Eric Epstein, Zachary Edward Gordon, Batakrishna Mandal, Tatiana Gilstrap
  • Publication number: 20160190855
    Abstract: A method for wireless power transfer adapts to changing configuration of receivers, including changes in number of, location and/or orientation of, magnetic coupling to, and load of circuits (e.g., battery charging circuits) of one or more receivers. The adaptation can be performed without interrupting optimal or near-optimal power transfer to the receivers, and can provide a measure of fairness among multiple receivers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2015
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
  • Patent number: 9131018
    Abstract: A method of displaying social media data is provided. The method includes accessing stored social media data from a plurality of social media outlets and obtaining social media data having associated context information. The obtained social media data includes at least first social media data from a first social media outlet and second social media data from a second social media outlet. The method includes providing a user interface that displays representations of the first and second social media data as a function of the context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: Dedo Interactive, Inc.
    Inventors: Homer Paul Robertson, Douglas Stephen McCluer, Catherine Dickens Kirkpatrick, Zachary Edward Brackin, Daniel Adam Dura
  • Patent number: 9009838
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for effecting an internet user's privacy directive. In the method, copied packets, that are based on original packets sent from a user client, are monitored for a web content request including state information that is not in compliance with a user's privacy directive. Upon detection of a copied packet having a web content request including noncompliant state information, the state information is modified to comply with the user's privacy directive. A replacement packet is forwarded to the user client such that the user client receives the replacement packet before receiving a response packet from a target server of the corresponding original packet. The replacement packet has a redirection with a renewed web content request including the modified state information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
  • Patent number: 8751663
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for targeted web content modification. In the method, a network service provider determines whether a web content request from an internet user station is a first-type request or a second-type request. If the web content request is a first-type request, then the first-type web content request is forwarded to the internet. Otherwise, if the web content request is a second-type request, then the second-type web content request is tunneled to a content modification station. The content modification station selectively responds to the tunneled second-type web content request with a redirection including a modified web content request. The internet user client receives modified web content based on the modified web content request.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Carlos Alberto Vazquez, Thabo Husayn Fletcher