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).
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Publication number: 20210277853Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Michael Howe, Zachary Edward Sawyer, Forrest Joel Tripp
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Publication number: 20210280305Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: September 9, 2021Inventors: Gary W. Benning, David P. Hosey, Steffen Baumann, Zachary Edward Baltrip, Douglas R. Hall
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Patent number: 10992159Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
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Publication number: 20210108895Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Michael Howe, Forrest Joel Tripp, Zachary Edward Sawyer, Anthony Victor Castro
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Publication number: 20200377162Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Michael Howe, Zachary Edward Sawyer, Jason Wan Xu, Cote Taylor
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Patent number: 10746852Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 18, 2020Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
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Publication number: 20200155038Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Dina Katabi, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Kreshnik Hoti
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Publication number: 20190105957Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: April 11, 2019Applicant: ClearMotion, Inc.Inventors: Joseph Thomas Belter, Zachary Edward Butner, Matthew Jo Taylor
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Patent number: 10241086Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Walmy Cuello Jimenez, Xueyu Pang, Paul Jones, Robert Eric Epstein, Zachary Edward Gordon, Batakrishna Mandal, Tatiana Gilstrap
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Publication number: 20180323637Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: November 8, 2018Inventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
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Patent number: 9882419Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
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Patent number: 9753131Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 9, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
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Publication number: 20170082741Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2014Publication date: March 23, 2017Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
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Publication number: 20170074980Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2015Publication date: March 16, 2017Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
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Publication number: 20170042432Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Fadel Adib, Zachary Edward Kabelac, Dina Katabi
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Publication number: 20160238562Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: August 18, 2016Inventors: Walmy Cuello Jimenez, Xueyu Pang, Paul Jones, Robert Eric Epstein, Zachary Edward Gordon, Batakrishna Mandal, Tatiana Gilstrap
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Publication number: 20160190855Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2015Publication date: June 30, 2016Inventors: Dina Katabi, Lixin Shi, Zachary Edward Kabelac
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Patent number: 9131018Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Dedo Interactive, Inc.Inventors: Homer Paul Robertson, Douglas Stephen McCluer, Catherine Dickens Kirkpatrick, Zachary Edward Brackin, Daniel Adam Dura
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Patent number: 9009838Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 27, 2008Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Brian Mathew Blocher, Thabo Husayn Fletcher, Scott Kenneth Smith, Carlos Alberto Vazquez
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Patent number: 8751663Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 9, 2009Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: Front Porch, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Edward Britton, Derek Stephen Maxson, Carlos Alberto Vazquez, Thabo Husayn Fletcher