Patents by Inventor Brian Brown
Brian Brown 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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Patent number: 11988032Abstract: A vehicle door control system includes a door assembly, which includes a side door and a liftgate. The door assembly includes an actuation assembly that adjusts each of the side door and the liftgate between opened and closed positions. A sensor assembly defines a rear sensor field, a first side sensor field, and a second side sensor field. A controller determines whether a person in at least one of the rear sensor field, the first side sensor field, and the second side sensor field is a recognized passenger, determines a speed of the recognized passenger, determines whether the recognized passenger is carrying an object, and activates the actuation assembly to open at least one of the liftgate and the side door based on whether the recognized passenger is carrying an object, where timing of activation of the actuation assembly is based on the speed of the recognized passenger.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Stuart C. Salter, Aaron Halonen, Annette Lynn Huebner, Kristin Ann Hellman, David Brian Glickman, Kristopher Karl Brown
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Patent number: 11988957Abstract: An example of a flow cell includes a substrate; a first primer set attached to a first region on the substrate, the first primer set including an un-cleavable first primer and a cleavable second primer; and a second primer set attached to a second region on the substrate, the second primer set including a cleavable first primer and an un-cleavable second primer.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignees: Illumina, Inc., Illumina Cambridge LimitedInventors: Jeffrey S. Fisher, Brian D. Mather, Maria Candelaria Rogert Bacigalupo, Justin Fullerton, Ludovic Vincent, Lewis J. Kraft, Sahngki Hong, Boyan Boyanov, M. Shane Bowen, Sang Park, Wayne N. George, Andrew A. Brown
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Patent number: 11982638Abstract: A diagnostic device is described herein that can be used to perform magneto-optical detection and discernment of crystals within a biofluid sample. A magnetic field can be applied by the diagnostic device in a direction relative to light traveling through the sample. The presence of a crystal can be determined based on the magneto-optical properties of the sample. The detected crystal can be one of two similar crystal types that may be in the biofluid sample. The two similar crystal types can exhibit different magneto-optical properties under a magnetic field in a different direction. Accordingly, the type of crystal can be discerned by applying the magnetic field in the different direction as light travels through the sample. Discernment of the type of crystal can lead to diagnosis of the particular disease condition and subsequent proper treatment of the disease condition.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITYInventors: Tanvir Baig, Robert Brown, Robert Deissler, Brian T. Grimberg, Abdullah Amin
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Publication number: 20240127912Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a method that accesses various portions of data related to an event in which a user was involved. The method further determines, for the event, which informatory elements related to the event meet at least a minimum significance threshold. The method next presents to the user, via a graphical user interface, one or more informational prompts associated with the event to obtain supporting information related to those informatory elements associated with the event that were determined to meet the minimum significance threshold. The method also generates a digital data structure that includes at least a portion of dynamically written language related to the event and further includes at least a portion of the supporting information received from the user in response to the informational prompts. Other corresponding systems and computer-readable media are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Tyler Brown, Brian Coutts, Scott Brown, Eric Eliason, Nate Obray
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Patent number: 11959697Abstract: Beverage chillers are disclosed. A beverage chiller may include a container platform that receives a beverage container and a chiller tank. The chiller tank may have a central axis and may have an agitator. The chiller tank may be filled with water. A conveyor may move the container platform and beverage container into the chiller tank. The container platform and beverage container may rotate in a first direction in the chiller tank and the agitator may rotate the water in a second direction.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: Prashant Deshpande, Gurmeet Bhutani, Brian Kelly, Wilton Brown
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Publication number: 20240117330Abstract: The present disclosure provides for endonuclease enzymes having distinguishing domain features, as well as methods of using such enzymes or variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Brian Thomas, Christopher BROWN, Rose KANTOR, Audra DEVOTO, Cristina BUTTERFIELD, Lisa ALEXANDER, Daniela S.A. GOLTSMAN, Jason LIU
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Publication number: 20240110167Abstract: The present disclosure provides for endonuclease enzymes having distinguishing domain features, as well as methods of using such enzymes or variants thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Brian C. THOMAS, Christopher BROWN, Daniela S.A. GOLTSMAN, Cristina BUTTERFIELD, Lisa ALEXANDER, Cindy CASTELLE
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Patent number: 11946039Abstract: The present disclosure provides for endonuclease enzymes as well as methods of using such enzymes or variants thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Metagenomi, Inc.Inventors: Brian Thomas, Christopher Brown, Audra Devoto, Cristina Butterfield, Lisa Alexander, Daniela S. A. Goltsman
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Publication number: 20240099879Abstract: A method for regulating a core body temperature of a living subject may include removably coupling a flexible heat exchange pad to a skin surface of the living subject via a flexible adhesive composite laminate, and applying heat via the flexible heat exchange pad to the skin surface and underlying tissue of the living subject while the flexible heat exchange pad is coupled to the skin surface via the flexible adhesive composite laminate such that the applied heat regulates the core body temperature of the living subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Kenneth R. Diller, Sepideh Khoshnevis, Brian Patrick, Patrick Brown
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Publication number: 20240093239Abstract: Described herein are methods, compositions, and systems derived from uncultivated microorganisms useful for gene editing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Brian THOMAS, Christopher BROWN, Audra DEVOTO, Cristina BUTTERFIELD, Lisa ALEXANDER, Daniela S.A. GOLTSMAN, Justine ALBERS, Alan BROOKS, Greg COST, Morayma TEMOCHE-DIAZ, Cindy CASTELLE, Rebecca LAMOTHE
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Publication number: 20240076330Abstract: The present invention is directed to a fusion protein comprising a scaffold protein and a series of two or more epitopes, where the distinct epitopes are recognized by distinct antibodies, and where the series of epitopes forms a detectable protein tag. The present invention further relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding a nucleic acid sequence encoding the fusion protein, as well as vectors comprising the nucleic acid molecule. Methods of tracking a cell and kits using such vectors are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Brian BROWN, Aleksandra WROBLEWSKA
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Patent number: 11922641Abstract: A load-monitoring system includes a vehicle processor and a camera mounted in a trailer. The vehicle, via the processor, displays a first image of a trailer load, received from a trailer-mounted camera and receives selection of a monitoring point on the image, via a touch-sensitive user interface displaying the image or other selection mechanism. The vehicle also receives selection of a fixed point on the image, via the user interface. If the monitoring point moves more than a threshold amount, relative to the fixed point, for example, in subsequent images captured by the camera, the vehicle alerts the driver.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Brian Gabel, Joshua Sharpe, Keith Weston, Andrew Brown
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Patent number: 11919270Abstract: A system for forming a pressware product comprises rollers, a scoring tool, a scoring station actuator, a forming tool, and a forming station actuator. The rollers pull the web along a path having an angle. The scoring tool receives the material from the rollers and includes a vertically shiftable scoring punch with an edge that extends about an outline of the pressware product and a striker plate. The scoring station actuator shifts the scoring tool to form a slot in the web. The forming tool receives the scored web and includes a vertically shiftable positive mold assembly and negative mold assembly. The forming station actuator shifts the positive mold assembly to press against the web and form the pressware product.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Brown LLCInventors: Victor L. Chun, Steffen Brown, Russ Bliss, Philip Eichbauer, Brian Keeley, Robert Abel
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Patent number: 11820139Abstract: A print chip includes: an elongate silicon substrate defining nominal leading and trailing longitudinal sides of the print chip; circuitry layers positioned on the silicon substrate; and a MEMS layer positioned on the circuitry layers. The MEMS layer includes a plurality of parallel nozzle rows, each nozzle row having a plurality of inkjet nozzle devices arranged in a main row portion and a dropped row portion offset from the main row portion. The circuitry layers include data latches configured to provide dot data for the inkjet nozzle devices. A first row of data latches is positioned adjacent a leading row of the main row portion, and a second row of data latches is positioned adjacent a trailing row of the dropped row portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventors: Julie Catherine Hogan, Ronan Palliser, John Sheahan, Brian Brown, Caitriona Forbes, Pat Lehane
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Patent number: 11823813Abstract: A robotic system for laying out a specified wiring harness. A robotic arm is configured to arrange a plurality of wire segments along the harness support surface. A system controller is configured to direct the robotic arm to arrange each of the plurality of wire segments on the harness support surface along a specified wire route. A preparation device can label one or both ends of each wire segment as they are being laid out on the support surface. The labeler can automatically apply adhesive labels as flags at selected locations along the length of the wire segment. In a method of making a wiring harness, the robotic arm positions pins on a harness support surface to define wire routes and then arranges at least one wire segment on the harness support surface along each of the wire routes.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2020Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: WITCHITA STATE UNIVERSITYInventors: Brian Brown, Michael Wescott, Alexander VanPelt
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Patent number: 11813861Abstract: A method of printing an image from a printhead module having a plurality of horizontal nozzle rows. Each nozzle row has a main row portion and a corresponding dropped row portion vertically offset from the main row portion. The method includes the steps of: determining a predetermined delay for the dropped row portions based on the offset, a print speed and a print resolution; allocating dot data for image lines to respective nozzle rows based on the print speed and print resolution, sending first dot data for each main row portion and second dot data for each dropped row portion to the printhead module; and firing nozzles from the main row portions and dropped row portion in a predetermined sequence. Each dropped row portion is fired independently of its corresponding main row portion and delayed relative to its corresponding main row portion by the predetermined delay.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventors: Julie Catherine Hogan, Ronan Palliser, John Sheahan, Brian Brown, Caitriona Forbes, Pat Lehane
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Patent number: 11813071Abstract: Apparatus for determining the electrical conductivity of target cervical tissue using magnetic impedance spectroscopy comprising: an excitation coil for producing a magnetic field which is capable of inducing currents in the target cervical tissue; a gradiometer for detecting perturbations in said magnetic field caused by said induced currents, the gradiometer including screening means for minimising sensitivity to tissues other than the target tissue; processing means for determining an electrical conductivity of said target cervical tissue from said perturbations.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELDInventors: Brian Brown, Dilichukwu Anumba
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Publication number: 20230330992Abstract: A method of printing an image from a print chip having plurality of horizontal nozzle rows. The method includes the steps of allocating first dot data for an image line of the image to nozzles in a first row portion of a first nozzle row; allocating second dot data for the image line to nozzles in a second row portion; sending the first and second dot data to the print chip and firing respective droplets. Some bits of the first dot data correspond to pixels of the image line aligned with the second row portion, and some bits of the second dot data correspond to pixels of the image line aligned with the first row portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Brian Brown, Julie HOGAN, Ronan PALLISER, Keshu NAZNEEN, Juliette LE HIR, Rodney HARDY
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Patent number: 11787182Abstract: A method of printing an image from a printhead module having a plurality of horizontal nozzle rows, the method including the steps of: allocating first dot data for an image line of the image to nozzles of a main row portion of a first nozzle row; allocating second dot data for the image line to nozzles of a dropped row portion of a second nozzle row; and sending the first and second dot data to the printhead module and firing respective droplets. Each nozzle row of the printhead module has a same number of nozzles N; and the first nozzle row and the second nozzle row are non-corresponding nozzle rows, such that a number of nozzles contained in the main portion of the first nozzle row and a number of nozzles contained in the dropped row portion of the second nozzle row is greater or fewer than N nozzles.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventors: Brian Brown, Julie Hogan, Ronan Palliser, Keshu Nazneen, Juliette Le Hir, Rodney Hardy
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Patent number: 11772376Abstract: A method of printing an image from a printhead module having a plurality of horizontal ink planes M supplied with a same ink. Each ink plane has a nozzle row and the nozzles rows of all ink planes have vertically aligned nozzles. The method includes the steps of: defining contiguous span groups along each nozzle row, each span group containing N nozzles; allocating dot data for each image line of the image to a predetermined number of nozzles P in each span group of each nozzle row; sending the dot data to the printhead module and firing nozzles sequentially from the ink planes to print the image line. Only one nozzle from each span group in a same nozzle row is fired simultaneously, N is an integer multiple of M, and P is N divided by M.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2021Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Memjet Technology LimitedInventors: Julie Catherine Hogan, Ronan Palliser, John Sheahan, Brian Brown, Caitriona Forbes, Pat Lehane