Patents by Inventor A. M. McDonald
A. M. McDonald 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: 20240131491Abstract: This disclosure relates to a select class of porous adsorbent, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) capable of adsorbing carbon dioxide, their manufacturing, applications, and methods of use. Specifically, this disclosure relates to the solvo(hydro)thermal synthesis of a family of metal-organic frameworks, and their subsequent processing and transformation into material forms suitable for use in acid gas separations. More specifically, this disclosure relates to the preparation and recovery of MOFs at multiple scales of production, demonstrating the suitability and robustness of the materials thus obtained by the disclosed synthetic route and post-synthetic manipulation employed to tailor the materials for use in a variety of commercial acid gas separation systems, with improved performances, recyclability, and reuse characteristics.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: MOSAIC MATERIALS, INC.Inventors: Aeri Gosselin, Joel H. Gamoras, Zoey Rose Herm, Thomas M. McDonald, Graham B. Wenz, Lina Zhu
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Patent number: 11957373Abstract: Determining orientation of cutting windows of a mechanical resection instrument. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including: sensing a location of a cutting window through an outer tube of the mechanical resection instrument, the sensing based on a magnetic field strength of a first magnet; sensing a location of a cutting window through an inner tube concentrically disposed within the outer tube, the sensing based on a combined magnetic field strength of the first magnet and a second magnet; and stopping a rotation of the inner tube relative to the outer tube with the cutting window through the outer tube and the cutting window through the inner tube in a predetermined orientation, the stopping based on the combined magnetic field strength.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: SMITH & NEPHEW, INC., SMITH & NEPHEW ORTHOPAEDICS AG, SMITH & NEPHEW ASIA PACIFIC PTE. LIMITEDInventors: Rafal Z. Jezierski, Peter M. Cesarini, Christopher D. McDonald
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Publication number: 20240082108Abstract: Prescription medications, especially opioids, are often abused. The present invention provides a pill dispensing device that is designed to reduce misuse, diversion, and pilfering or prescribed opioids or other medications that may require regulated dispensing. The device of the present invention securely holds a repository of pills and dispenses a single pill only after the allotted prescribed time interval and only after verification of the correct user through the biometric ID device. The dispensing device includes a locked tamper-resistant outer housing, a biometric ID device, a display for alerting the user to critical information, (such as time to the next pill and number of pills remaining) and a secure mechanical pill dispensing mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Andrea Gielen, Soraya J. Bailey, Eileen M. McDonald, Nathan W. Scott, Christopher Dykes
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Patent number: 11918935Abstract: Provided are spacers, ion-exchange devices comprising spacers, and methods of preparing spacers for improved fluid distribution and sealing throughout an ion-exchange device. These spacers can include an internal cavity surrounded by a perimeter of the spacer. The perimeter can have a first opening and a second opening within the perimeter, and the first opening and the second opening can be located on opposite sides of the internal cavity. The spacers can also have a first and second plurality of channels located within the perimeter, wherein each channel of the first and second plurality of channels extends from the internal cavity towards the first opening or the second opening.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Brian M. McDonald, Michael James Connor, Jr.
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Patent number: 11912591Abstract: Provided are water treatment systems and methods of treating water that include separating dissolved salts from a feed stream using an organic solvent brine stream. For example, described are water treatment systems comprising: an electrodialysis device comprising an inlet feed stream, an inlet brine stream, an outlet product stream, and an outlet brine stream; and a precipitation tank comprising an inlet stream and an outlet stream, wherein the inlet stream of the precipitation tank comprises the outlet brine stream of the electrodialysis device, and the inlet brine stream of the electrodialysis device comprises the outlet stream of the precipitation tank, and wherein inlet brine stream and outlet brine stream comprises an organic solvent.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventors: Brian M. Mcdonald, Ethan L. Demeter
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Patent number: 11911729Abstract: The present disclosure is directed ion-exchange systems and devices that include composite ion-exchange membranes having 3D printed spacers on them. These 3D printed spacers can drastically reduce the total intermembrane spacing within the system/device while maintaining a reliable sealing surface around the exterior border of the membrane. By adding the spacers directly to the membrane using additive manufacturing, the amount of material used can be reduced without adversely impacting the manufacturability of the composite membrane as well as allow for complex spacer geometries that can reduce the restrictions to flow resulting in less pressure drop associated with the flow in the active area of the membranes.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventors: Ethan L. Demeter, Michael James Connor, Jr., Chad Unrau, Brian M. McDonald
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Publication number: 20240049616Abstract: A guidance system that automatically switches guidance modes in connection with executing an end turn. As the agricultural machine travels in a first, row sense guidance mode along a first guidance line in a non-coverage area, an approaching boundary between the non-coverage area and a headland area is identified. If the headland area contains crop rows, then, upon reaching the boundary, the guidance system switches to a second, GPS guidance mode. The agricultural machine travels along a first turn guidance line from the first guidance line to a preexisting headland guidance line, wherein the guidance system switches to the first guidance mode. The agricultural machine then travels in a direction parallel to the crop rows of the headland area. When leaving the headland guidance line, the guidance system switches to the second guidance mode, and then back to the first guidance mode upon the agricultural machine returning to the boundary.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Michael A. Torzewski, Pradeep Ghorpade, Amey Katti, Kshitija Harish Petkar, Brandon M. McDonald
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Patent number: 11866430Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I): or a salt thereof, wherein: R1, R2, R3, and R4 are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds to inhibit the activity of one or both of diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGK ?) and diacylglycerol kinase zeta (DGK?), and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in the treatment of viral infections and proliferative disorders, such as cancer.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyInventors: Louis S. Chupak, Min Ding, Robert G. Gentles, Yazhong Huang, Scott W. Martin, Ivar M. Mcdonald, Stephen E. Mercer, Richard E. Olson, Upender Velaparthi, Michael Wichroski, Xiaofan Zheng
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Patent number: 11845058Abstract: A system and method for acid gas separations using porous frameworks of metal atoms coordinatively bound to polytopic linkers that are functionalized with basic nitrogen ligands that expose nitrogen atoms to the pore volumes forming adsorption sites. Adjacent basic nitrogen ligands on the metal-organic framework can form an ammonium from one ligand and a carbamate from the other. The formation of one ammonium carbamate pair influences the formation of ammonium carbamate on adjacent adsorption sites. Adsorption of acid gas at the adsorption sites form covalently linked aggregates of more than one ammonium carbamate ion pair. The acid gas adsorption isotherm can be tuned to match the step position with the partial pressure of acid gas in the gas mixture stream through manipulation of the metal-ligand bond strength by selection of the ligand, metal and polytopic linker materials.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Jeffrey R. Long, Thomas M. McDonald
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Patent number: 11839173Abstract: A compaction mitigation system for a work area and a method of mitigating compaction in a work area may include determining a compaction map of the work area having compaction data associated with a plurality of reference points, passing a work tool through the work area at the plurality of reference points, and adjusting the work tool at the plurality of reference points based on the compaction data.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2022Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: DEERE & COMPANYInventors: Brandon M. McDonald, Jacob D. Mayer, Thomas G. Mueller, Benjamin M. Smith, Ryan Jensen
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Patent number: 11833474Abstract: The present invention provides a device capable of reducing the resistance and increasing the ion exchange rate in an electrodialysis, electro-deionization, or capacitive deionization apparatus and a method for producing said device. More specifically, the device is an electrodialysis spacer designed to have an ionically conductive surface of either cationic nature, anionic nature or a combination of both, which act as conductive pathways for ions as they move towards their respective electrode. The method of producing said spacer involves coating a substrate, such as a woven mesh, expanded netting, extruded netting or non-woven material, with perm-selective ionomer solutions and applying that substrate to an inert spacer material that has undergone chemical or mechanical etching.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: MIS IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Brian M. McDonald, Ethan L. Demeter
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Publication number: 20230373279Abstract: A pickup truck that includes a cab section located in front of a bed section is provided. The pickup truck comprises a tonneau cover that covers the bed section. The tonneau cover includes a plurality of panel sections; and wherein each of the plurality of panel sections is movable with respect to each other to allow access to, or conceal the bed section underneath. At least one prop rod assembly includes a longitudinally extending first rod having a first end and a second end. The first end of the longitudinally extending first rod is pivotably and removably coupled to a side rail that is secured to the first side of the bed section, and the second end of the longitudinally extending first rod is located opposite the first end and pivotably coupled to the first latch assembly of the third panel section.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Inventors: Eugene A. Dylewski, II, Adrian Cook, Justin J. McGraw, Christopher David Mattison, Ernest M. McDonald, II
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Patent number: 11787218Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for manufacturing embossed laminated hardcover book cases and embossed laminated hardcover books. The method of manufacturing an embossed laminated hardcover book case may comprise: receiving a book printing request from a user; printing a desired cover design on a cover sheet based at least in part on the received book printing request; applying a laminate sheet to the cover sheet using a laminating apparatus; embossing the laminate sheet using a textured roller of the laminating apparatus to define an embossed laminated cover sheet; providing a spine board and front and rear cover boards based at least in part on the received book printing request; and combining the spine board, the front and rear cover boards, and the embossed laminated cover sheet to define the embossed hardcover book case. Adding a book block converts the case into an embossed laminated hardcover book.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2023Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Lightning Source LLCInventors: John Kwiatkowski, James Hartzell, Kenneth M. McDonald
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Publication number: 20230298394Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to obtain diagnostic information for a system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes vehicle interface circuitry to obtain information corresponding to a detected problem of a vehicle, cloud interface circuitry to obtain, via a network communication, an output of a machine learning model executed based on the information, the output to indicate (a) a component associated with the detected problem, and (b) a probability associated with the component, instruction generation circuitry to generate instructions for performing a test on the component, and user interface control circuitry to cause the instructions to be displayed on a mobile device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Terence D. Pickett, Brandon M. McDonald, Timothy A. Wilcox
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Publication number: 20230287716Abstract: A vehicle that includes a door, handle, shaft, and a latch assembly is provided. The latch assembly is coupled to the door to selectively secure the door. The latch assembly includes a security tether configured to prevent the shaft from moving the pawl when the lock lever is located in the locked condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: September 14, 2023Inventors: Eugene A. Dylewski, II, Ernest M. McDonald, II
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Patent number: 11726967Abstract: A versioned file storage system (VFS) and method for operating and using the same is disclosed. In an aspect, a mechanism is provided wherein a first VFS interface unit coupling the VFS to a local data storage system is replaced with a second VFS interface unit in a coordinated procedure for taking the first unit offline, making a reliable snapshot of its data and cache structure in the VFS, and loading the same data and cache structure into the second VFS interface brought online. The first and second VFS interfaces transfer the necessary data to achieve the switch through respective side-loading daemons running in each interface. Clients in the local data storage system experience minimal interruption of services in the VFS.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Nasuni CorporationInventors: Christopher S. Lacasse, Kevin William Baughman, Robert Mason, Matthew M. McDonald, David M. Shaw, Jon Vincent
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Patent number: 11718166Abstract: A pickup truck that includes a cab section located in front of a bed section is provided. The pickup truck comprises a tonneau cover that covers the bed section. The tonneau cover includes a plurality of panel sections; and wherein each of the plurality of panel sections is movable with respect to each other to allow access to, or conceal the bed section underneath. At least one prop rod assembly includes a longitudinally extending first rod having a first end and a second end. The first end of the longitudinally extending first rod is pivotably and removably coupled to a side rail that is secured to the first side of the bed section, and the second end of the longitudinally extending first rod is located opposite the first end and pivotably coupled to the first latch assembly of the third panel section.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Leer GroupInventors: Eugene A. Dylewski, II, Adrian Cook, Justin J. McGraw, Christopher Davie Mattison, Ernest M. McDonald, II
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Publication number: 20230242569Abstract: The present invention relates to novel phosphorous (V) (P(V)) reagents, methods for preparing thereof, and methods for preparing organophosphorous (V) compounds by using the novel reagents.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: Michael Anthony SCHMIDT, Bin ZHENG, Kyle KNOUSE, Justine deGRUYTER, Martin D. EASTGATE, Phil BARAN, William R. EWING, Richard E. OLSON, Ivar M. MCDONALD
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Patent number: 11713316Abstract: Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I): or a salt thereof, wherein: R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and m are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds to inhibit the activity of one or both of diacylglycerol kinase alpha (DGK?) and diacylglycerol kinase zeta (DGK?), and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds. These compounds are useful in the treatment of viral infections and proliferative disorders, such as cancer.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb CompanyInventors: Upender Velaparthi, Louis S. Chupak, Chetan Padmakar Darne, Min Ding, Robert G. Gentles, Yazhong Huang, Manjunatha Narayana Rao Kamble, Scott W. Martin, Raju Mannoori, Ivar M. McDonald, Richard E. Olson, Hasibur Rahaman, Prasada Rao Jalagam, Saumya Roy, Gopikishan Tonukunuru, Sivasudar Velaiah, Jayakumar Sankara Warrier, Xiaofan Zheng, John S. Tokarski, Bireshwar Dasgupta, Kotha Rathnakar Reddy, Thiruvenkadam Raja
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Patent number: 11701619Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to ion-exchange systems and devices that can monitor key parameters related to the performance of the ion-exchange device. Specifically, the ion-exchange systems and devices disclosed herein can provide real time voltage drop across groups of membrane pairs using diagnostic spacer borders between the pairs. In addition, the ion-exchange systems and devices disclosed herein can monitor the compression force applied by the compression plates holding the ion-exchange systems and devices together.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: MIS IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Michael James Connor, Jr., Brian M. McDonald, Ethan Demeter, Thomas Beales