Patents by Inventor A. Matthew Francis
A. Matthew Francis 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: 20240188735Abstract: A blanket includes a pocket comprising a cavity positioned between a first outer layer and the second outer layer of a body of the blanket. The pocket has a receiving edge that coincides with a portion of the first outer layer, a portion of the second outer layer, or both. The blanket also includes a sack that includes an opening having a perimeter, at least a portion of which is attached to at least a portion of the receiving edge of the pocket. When the blanket is in a wearable configuration, the sack is contained within the pocket. When the blanket is in a storage configuration, the body is at least substantially contained within the sack. Methods of converting the blanket between the wearable configuration and the storage configuration are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Craig Francis Hofmann, Matthew Marchand
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Patent number: 12009319Abstract: An integrated circuit (IC) die includes a substrate with circuitry configured for at least one function including metal interconnect levels thereon including a top metal interconnect level and a bottom metal interconnect level, with a passivation layer on the top metal interconnect level. A scribe street is around a periphery of the IC die, the scribe street including a scribe seal utilizing at least two of the plurality of metal interconnect levels, an inner metal meander stop ring including at least the top metal interconnect level located outside the scribe seal, wherein the scribe seal and the inner metal meander stop ring are separated by a first separation gap. An outer metal meander stop ring including at least the top metal interconnect level is located outside the inner metal stop ring, wherein the outer stop ring and the inner stop ring are separated by a second separation gap.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Christopher Daniel Manack, Qiao Chen, Michael Todd Wyant, Matthew John Sherbin, Patrick Francis Thompson
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Patent number: 12005240Abstract: An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) is present having a tubular chassis telescopable in a tubular case, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged relative to the chassis inside the case, where the carrier is adapted to contain a syringe with a hollow injection needle. The injector also has a drive spring and a plunger for forwarding load of the drive spring to a stopper of the syringe, wherein the syringe is lockable for joint axial translation with the carrier. A control spring is arranged around the carrier for translating the carrier in a proximal direction (P) for insertion of the needle through the chassis into an injection site.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2024Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman
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Patent number: 12002122Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for assisting with legal research and for aiding in the discovery of information and documents relevant to a user's research focus or input text. The inventive systems receive identifications of relevant documents explicitly or implicitly from a user's research session or input text and, based on issues relevant to those documents, texts and other connections to those documents and texts, recommends similar or helpful documents to the user for their consideration. Recommendations may be ranked and filtered.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2018Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: THOMSON REUTERS ENTERPRISE CENTRE GMBHInventors: Xiaomo Liu, Xin Shuai, Quanzhi Li, Eric Milles, Eric Holten, Matt Makosky, Tom Vacek, Steven Sidwell, Ryan Kelly, Matthew A. Surprenant, Scott Francis, Mike Dahn, Armineh Nourbakhsh, Sameena Shah, Merine Thomas
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Publication number: 20240168014Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for in vitro diagnosing infection in bodily fluid samples, a lyophilized bead comprising a reagent and carbohydrate, the use of a lyophilized bead comprising a reagent and carbohydrate in an enzymatic assay, a system for detecting the presence of infection in a bodily fluid and a kit for detecting the presence of infection in a bodily fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Joost Alexander Christiaan GAZENDAM, Matthew Francis BURTON
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Patent number: 11988504Abstract: A service tool and method of using for calibrating a position of a cutting edge of a blade. The service tool may comprise an inward-side face disposed between a first face and a second face. The inward-side face may include a curved portion, a leg portion and a notch configured to receive the cutting edge. The first face includes a curved edge, a plurality of horizontal lines and a plurality of vertical lines. When the cutting edge is received in the notch, and the curved portion abuts the top face of a bolt, the plurality of horizontal lines is configured to measure a vertical distance from a center of the top face to the cutting edge, and the plurality of vertical lines is configured to measure a horizontal distance from the center of the top face to the cutting edge.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventor: Matthew Francis Desio
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Publication number: 20240157060Abstract: A button for a drug delivery device with a reduced operating loudness includes a plate-like button body forming a touch surface, wherein the plate-like button body is coupled by an axial supporting member to a noise-generating interface of the drug delivery device and movable into a longitudinal direction of the drug delivery device, wherein the plate-like button body includes a material composite with at least one first component consisting of a first material and at least one second component consisting of a second material different from the first material, wherein the at least one first component and the at least one second component are coupled via at least one coupling plane that is at least section wise slanted or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Further, the disclosure describes a button assembly for a drug delivery device which is shock resistant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Matthew Meredith Jones, Anthony Paul Morris, Sophie Sladen, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Denny Lustosa Horn, Stefan Blancke, Michael Jugl
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Publication number: 20240148979Abstract: An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) is present having a tubular chassis telescopable in a tubular case, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged relative to the chassis inside the case, where the carrier is adapted to contain a syringe with a hollow injection needle. The injector also has a drive spring and a plunger for forwarding load of the drive spring to a stopper of the syringe, wherein the syringe is lockable for joint axial translation with the carrier. A control spring is arranged around the carrier for translating the carrier in a proximal direction (P) for insertion of the needle through the chassis into an injection site.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Simon Francis Brereton, Thomas Kemp, Rosie Burnell, Matthew Ekman
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Publication number: 20240148999Abstract: A patient interface including a plenum chamber, a first seal-forming structure for forming a seal around the patient's mouth, and a second seal-forming structure for forming a seal around the patient's nares. The patient interface further includes at least one stopper rib disposed in the cavity of the plenum chamber spaced apart from the first seal-forming structure in a rest position. The first seal-forming structure configured to contact the at least one stopper rib in an operational position. The at least one stopper rib configured to oppose compression of the first seal-forming structure in an anterior direction. The second seal-forming structure is not configured to contact the at least one stopper rib.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Marvin Sugi HARTONO, Kyi Thu MAUNG, Lik Tze SEET, Jing CHEN, Beng Hai TAN, Han Cheng LIN, Chuan Foong LEE, Xiang Yu ONG, Shiva Kumar SHANMUGA SUNDARA, Hugh Francis Stewart THOMAS, Sebastien DEUBEL, Chee Keong ONG, Andrew James BATE, Matthew Robin WELLS, Paul Derrick WATSON, Shannon William PRIOR
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Patent number: 11975247Abstract: A golf club head and golf club having large head dimensions, and large face characteristics, as well as unique mass property attributes driven by relationships not often considered in conventional club head design, to achieve a resistance to squaring the club head during a golf swing that is comfortable to the novice golfer, while increasing stability during off-center impacts and obtaining preferred launch characteristics. This is achieved in part via establishing a club head configuration and associated weight distribution to yield a center of gravity location that results in a preferred magnitude of Delta1 and Delta2 values, CG angle, moments of inertia, and associated ratios, relationships, and club head mass property characteristics influenced by these variables to achieve improved performance.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Mark Vincent Greaney, John Francis Lorentzen, Matthew Greensmith, Craig Richard Slyfield
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Publication number: 20240144309Abstract: An apparatus for providing normalized hydrogen correction factor comprises: a set of sensors configured to measure telemetry data of a hydrogen production plant; a memory; a database; and a processor operatively coupled to the memory, the database, and the set of sensors. The processor is configured to: receive the telemetry data from the set of sensors; receive supplier data from the database; receive customer data from a customer; determine, using a machine learning model stored in the memory, and based on the telemetry data, the supplier data, and the customer data, a normalized hydrogen correction factor; and provide the normalized hydrogen correction factor to the customer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Scott Gerald BORGERSON, Matthew Robert LETARTE, Nicholas McAvoy PARKER, William David LEHNER, Owen Francis BARWELL
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Publication number: 20240131271Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
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Publication number: 20240137027Abstract: A device includes a logic circuit comprising a clockless single flux quantum logic gate which comprises a plurality of input ports, an output port, an output Josephson junction, and a plurality of dynamic storage loop circuits and isolation buffer circuits. The output Josephson junction is coupled to an output of each dynamic storage loop circuit and configured to drive the output port. Each isolation buffer circuit is coupled to a respective input port, and a respective dynamic storage loop circuit and configured to absorb a circulating current of an antifluxon which is injected into the respective dynamic storage loop circuit to prevent the antifluxon from being output from the respective input port, and to inject a fluxon into the respective dynamic storage loop circuit in response to a single flux quantum pulse applied to the respective input port, and annihilate an antifluxon present in the respective dynamic storage loop circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Sergey Rylov, John Francis Bulzacchelli, Matthew Beck
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Publication number: 20240129231Abstract: A virtual network provider system supports a virtual network including virtual machines that are each assigned to an underlay address of an underlay addressing scheme. The virtual network provider system further includes multiple routing domains each defined to include a different subset of the virtual machines. Each of the routing domains is assigned to a range of overlay addresses of an overlay addressing scheme. For each routing domain, the assigned range of overlay addresses is allocated among the subset of the virtual machines in the routing domain. The system further includes a virtual network host configured to use addresses of the overlay addressing scheme to selectively route messages between endpoints on select pairs of the virtual machines assigned to a same routing domain of the plurality of routing domains.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Neha AGGARWAL, Chandan AGGARWAL, Rishabh TEWARI, Abhijeet KUMAR, Sudhir GOEL, Trilok NUWAL, Matthew Francis LONG, Evan Alexander BAKER, Aanand RAMACHANDRAN, Alok UPADHYAY
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Patent number: 11960577Abstract: Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for sharing and publishing files. In one aspect, the database system can maintain a user database, a file database and a library. The database system can receive a first request initiated by a first user to share a first file with one or more second users and, responsive to the first request, enable a second set of one or more permissions for each of the second users. The database system also can receive a second request initiated by the first user to publish the first file to the library and, responsive to the second request, publish the first file to the library. The database system additionally can restrict access to the published file based on permissions associated with the library.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Salesforce, Inc.Inventors: Miko Arnab Bose, Robert J. Snell, Mark Francis Movida, Valliappan Annamalai Natarajan, Adam Thielemann Wegel, Matthew Charles Hagenian, Durgesh Singh
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Patent number: 11957842Abstract: A patient interface for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes a sealing portion including a nose tip engagement portion adapted to form a seal with the patient's nose tip, an upper lip engagement portion adapted to form a seal with the patient's upper lip and/or base of the patient's nares, and nostril engagement flaps adapted to form a seal with the patient's nares. The nose tip engagement portion, the upper lip engagement portion, and the nostril engagement flaps are all structured to extend or curve outwardly from a supporting wall defining an air path.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: ResMed Pty LtdInventors: Adam Francis Barlow, Matthew Eves, Lochlan Von Moger, Phoebe Katherine Hill, Kai Stuebiger, Peter Ross Anderson
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Patent number: 11955021Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a method and system (10) for classifying vehicle behaviour, particularly abnormal behaviour of civil aircraft (12). The method may comprise receiving aircraft data from an aircraft (12) which is to be classified; and determining whether the received aircraft data comprises identification information for the aircraft (12). In response to a determination that the received aircraft data comprises identification information, the method may comprise using said identification information to classify the behaviour of the aircraft (12). In response to a determination that the received aircraft data does not comprises identification information, the method may comprise obtaining the position of the aircraft and comparing the obtained position to an expected route for the aircraft to classify the behaviour of the aircraft (12).Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLCInventors: Benjamin Thomas Chehade, Markus Deittert, Matthew Neil Joseph, Simon Jonathan Mettrick, Yohahn Aleixo Hubert Ribeiro, Frederic Francis Taylor
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Publication number: 20240100259Abstract: A dose counting system of an injection device or of a module configured to be used with or applied to an injection device is described. The dose counting system includes a sensor arrangement including a first sensor configured to output a first signal and a second sensor configured to output a second signal; and a processor configured to: detect a peak in the first signal when the first signal has increased by at least a predefined up threshold and the first signal exceeds the value of the second signal by more than a predetermined crossover threshold; determine that a unit of medicament has been administered when the first signal drops from the peak by more than a predefined down threshold and the preceding peak occurred in the second signal; and determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device by counting the administered units of medicament.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Tom Alexander Earwalker, Adam Moyo Harvey-Cook, Matthew Francis Hobson, Oliver Charles Gazeley
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Patent number: 11942903Abstract: Two Silicon Carbide negative positive negative transistors realized on a monolithic substrate as a differential pair to keep their base-emitter junctions at nearly the same temperature such that their kT/q sensitivities tract together with their base connections electrically connected to the cold junction terminals of a thermocouple to create an amplified differential voltage across output load resistors while operating at high temperature.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Inventors: James A. Holmes, A. Matthew Francis
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Publication number: 20240094870Abstract: Various aspects and embodiments are directed to a streamlined computer device and a graphical user interface that organizes interface elements into views of computer content for presentation to a user. Various views of digital media content permits users to easily and efficiently access various digital media content. Different views are used to provide an interface that is responsive to configurations of the device and responsive to activity being performed by the user. Aspects include permitting the user to maintain and manage digital media content libraries. According to some embodiments, the libraries comprise user digital media content and references digital media content. Functionality provided to a user can be tailored to the type of content displayed, accessed and/or managed. According to various aspects, methods and systems are provided for accessing and managing digital media libraries on a streamlined computing device with a plurality selectable I/O profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: LiTL LLCInventors: Robert Sanford Havoc Pennington, Matthew David Day, Noah Bruce Guyot, Daniel Kuo, Jenea Boshart Hayes, Aaron Tang, David Livingstone Fore, John H. Chuang, Chris Bambacus, Yves Behar, Joshua Morenstein, Christopher Hibmacronan, Naoya Edahiro, Donald Francis Fischer, Christian Marc Schmidt, Lisa Strausfeld, Marc Gallucci, Eric Sutton, Samuel Wallace Webber, Christine Meahan, Phillip Henson