Patents by Inventor Christopher Miller
Christopher Miller 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: 20240155039Abstract: A service implemented at a first isolated virtual network of a provider network is added to a database of privately-accessible services. Configuration changes that enable network packets to flow between the first isolated virtual network and a second isolated virtual network without utilizing a network address accessible from the public Internet are implemented. Service requests originating at the second isolated virtual network are transmitted to the first isolated virtual network via private pathways of the provider network. Metrics corresponding to service requests directed from the second isolated network to the service are collected and provided to the respective owners of one or both isolated virtual networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Tailor Akers, Michael Siaosi Voegele, Kevin Christopher Miller, Chao Yuan, David Brian Lennon, Patrick Stephenson
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Patent number: 11975328Abstract: The assembly includes a docking console and a manifold. The docking console includes a cartridge support surface having a first end and a second end. The manifold has one or more wells defined therein. The docking console further includes a manifold retention bracket to releasably hold the manifold against a fluid cartridge supported on the cartridge support surface at an interface position such that the one or more wells are in fluid communication with the fluid cartridge and a biased seal bar to press the fluid cartridge against the manifold held by the manifold retention bracket. A hydrophilic porous frit disposed within at least one of the wells and is to permit liquid to flow through the outlet aperture but prevent gas from passing through the outlet aperture.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignees: ILLUMINA, INC., ILLUMINA CAMBRIDGE LIMITEDInventors: Bradley Kent Drews, Gudrun Stengel, James Christopher Blake, Mohammed Kafeel Ahamed, Michael Steven Becker, Michael Dangelo, Mark J. Nibbe, Daniel L. Fuller, Oliver Jon Miller
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Patent number: 11964215Abstract: A toy vehicle track system of the present application includes electrical connections between the track pieces that allow a central hub, referred to herein as a “portal piece,” to communicate with any track pieces included in the track system. In order to ensure that the portal piece can quickly and accurately identify track configurations that are built, the toy vehicle track system implements a communications protocol that supports communications between any two pieces of track. Based on these communications, the portal piece can determine an orientation, a track type, and a position of any track pieces attached, whether directly or indirectly, to the portal piece. The portal piece can then transmit this information to an electronic device executing an application associated with the track system to allow for digital play on a digital version of the track configuration (among other digital play modes).Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Mattel, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Lynn Kelliher, Christopher D. Cimerman, Gerry Cody, Stephen C. Hallaian, Adam Miller, Jebraeil Samo
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Patent number: 11967484Abstract: A pulse generator is disclosed. The pulse generator includes a DC source; a plurality of switches, a transformer; and a pulsing output. The pulse generator can be coupled with a plasma chamber. The pulsing output outputs high voltage pulses having a peak-to-peak voltage greater than 1 kV and a voltage portion between consecutive high voltage bipolar pulses that has a negative slope that substantially offsets the voltage reduction on a wafer within a plasma chamber due to an ion current. The resulting voltage at the wafer may be substantially flat between consecutive pulses.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Eagle Harbor Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Bowman, Connor Liston, Kenneth Miller, Timothy Ziemba
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Patent number: 11966747Abstract: A secure start system for an autonomous vehicle can include a communications router comprising an input interface to receive a boot-loader to enable network communications with a backend system. The secure start system utilizes a tunnel key from the backend system to establish a private communications session with a backend data vault. The secure start system then retrieves a set of decryption keys from the backend data vault, via the private communications session, to decrypt a plurality of encrypted drives of the autonomous vehicle, which enables one or more functions of the autonomous vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: UATC, LLCInventors: Christopher Valasek, Charles Miller
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Publication number: 20240119030Abstract: A rule independent and view agnostic data model is provided. The data model retains contexts for data associated with a resource through a lifecycle of the resource. A set of the data that corresponds to a particular context can be returned through interfaces to users and/or workflows for any given point in time in the lifecycle and/or for any given event during the lifecycle. Each set of data is associated with an event in the lifecycle. Particular data within a given set of data for a resource can be resolved to provide a particular context using a durability property feature set on entities of the data in the data model to reference past data maintained for other past events associated with the entities during of the lifecycle of the resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Jason Christopher Miller Randal, Derrick Spell
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Patent number: 11955116Abstract: Content is organized for brands by selecting a plurality of brand templates. After each selection, a set of properties is generated by applying a portion of settings of the respective brand template, with the remaining settings being overridden with settings for a channel communicating one of a plurality of presentations to a node of a network involved in the communication. The plurality of presentations may include different renditions of the same content. The properties may include sections configured for different focus areas and/or types of content associated with at tags to enable brand-level-targeting. Filters may be identified in the properties. Based on each of the identifications, a property from among the generated sets of properties may be selected based on comparisons with the associated tags.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Aaron Miller, Jason D. Justman, Lora Clark Bouchard, Michael Ellery Bouchard, Kevin James Cotlove, Mathew Keith Gitchell, Stacia Lynn Haisch, Jonathan David Kersten, Matthew Karl Marchio, Peter Arthur Pulliam, George Allen Smith, Todd Christopher Tibbetts
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Patent number: 11953623Abstract: A sensor pod system includes one or more sensor pods with a plurality of sensors configured to collect data from an environment. A sensor pod may have an effective field of view created by individual sensors with overlapping fields of view. The sensor pod system may include sensors of different types and modalities. Sensor pods of the sensor pod system may be modularly installed on a vehicle, for example, an autonomous vehicle and collect and provide data of the environment during operation of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Zoox, Inc.Inventors: Derek Adams, Daniel Glenn Johnson, Christopher William Labadie, Ryan McMichael, Daniel Miller, Peter Thomas Mitros, Anubhav Thakur, Joseph Patrick Warga, Austin In-Jei Yi
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Publication number: 20240106303Abstract: Systems and methods for electric motor cooling. The cooling system, in one example, includes a sealing ring coupled to or formed in a stator and including a flange that axially extends outward from an axial side of the stator. The cooling system further includes a first sealing sleeve with a first sealing interface that is formed between the sealing sleeve and a motor housing and a second sealing interface that is formed between the sealing sleeve and the flange, where a cavity is formed between the sealing sleeve and the sealing ring in which a stator end winding is at least partially immersed in a coolant.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Matthew K. PASCHALL, Samuel Wesley COX, Carl TRUDEL, Alexandre PARE, Steven VANHEE, Luke MILLER, Christopher M. COOK
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Publication number: 20240095242Abstract: A multimodal embedding modifier generates a modified seed search selection embedding for providing a set of search results. The multimodal embedding modifier enhances the ability and accuracy of identifying a user's true intent when searching the online marketplace. For example, embodiments disclosed herein can allow a user to navigate multiple modalities for an item. In some embodiments, a user may select a search result corresponding to an initial search query, and further modify the selected search result by inputting a modifier (e.g., a textual modifier). The multimodal embedding modifier can be trained using a training dataset including a text embedding, an image embedding, another type of embedding, or a combination thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Christopher MILLER, Shubhangi Tandon, SenthilKumar GOPAL, Selcuk Kopru
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Publication number: 20240097939Abstract: In accordance with a designation of a private alias endpoint as a routing target for traffic directed to a service from within an isolated virtual network of a provider network, a tunneling intermediary receives a baseline packet generated at a compute instance. The baseline packet indicates a public IP (Internet Protocol) address of the service as the destination, and a private IP address of the compute instance as the source. In accordance with a tunneling protocol, the tunneling intermediary generates an encapsulation packet comprising at least a portion of the baseline packet and a header indicating the isolated virtual network. The encapsulation packet is transmitted to a node of the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Christopher Miller, Richard Alexander Sheehan, Douglas Stewart Laurence, Marwan Salah El-Din Oweis, Andrew Bruce Dickinson
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Publication number: 20240089197Abstract: Methods and apparatus for interfaces to manage inter-regional connectivity for direct network peerings. A system may include a connectivity coordinator, a first resource collection in a first geographical zone and a second resource collection in a second geographical zone. The coordinator implements a programmatic interface defining connectivity operations. The coordinator receives a request via the interface to establish a logically isolated network path to the second resource collection on behalf of a client that has a dedicated physical link set up to connect to the first resource collection. In response to the request, the coordinator performs one or more configuration operations to enable traffic to flow from the client's network to the second resource collection over a logically isolated network path using the dedicated physical link.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. Doane, Kevin Christopher Miller, David B. Lennon
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Patent number: 11920887Abstract: A pre-pack assembly for use with an air gun and for use with a magazine that is removably insertable into the air gun, the pre-pack assembly includes a pre-pack that contains a gas canister, wherein inserting the pre-pack into the chamber of the magazine fluidly connects the gas canister with the magazine.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Unit Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Glenn Sandgren, Juan D. Tobón, Nathaniel Jacob Leon, Christopher Blodgett, Daniel Luby, Charles Miller, Jamie Scott Snider, Sol Cody Snider, Zachary Christopher Lloyd
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Publication number: 20240068771Abstract: A gun safety system can include a mount assembly comprising a mounting rail and a first lock mechanism, the mount assembly configured to secure the mounting rail to a support structure; and a gun safe assembly comprising an outer housing and an inner housing assembly disposed within the outer housing, the inner housing assembly including a sleeve at least partially defining a gun storage cavity, the outer housing comprising a first mounting rail guide, the first lock mechanism being accessible through the gun storage cavity in response to the gun safety system being in a docked configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: ULTIMATE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLCInventors: Neil Oakshott, Jeffrey Orr, Rob Johnson, Ryan Parker, Christopher Miller
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Patent number: 11913441Abstract: Systems are provided for an air compressor system. In one example, a system includes a housing, a piston arranged in the housing, and a crankshaft arranged in the housing, the crankshaft coupled to a connecting rod of the piston, and the crankshaft forces the piston to oscillate from a first end of the housing to a second end, the piston pressurizing air in the housing to a first pressure at the first end and to a second pressure at the second end, the second pressure greater than the first.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Andrew Miller, Christopher Lucke, Jeffrey Hritz, Matthew Chatham, Wesley Martincic
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Patent number: 11916013Abstract: Interconnect structures including super vias are formed during back-end-of-line processing using sacrificial placeholders to protect the bottom portions of the super vias while upper portions of the super vias are formed. The sacrificial placeholders are removed and replaced by metal conductors that fill the bottom and upper portions of the super vias.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Yann Mignot, Christopher J. Waskiewicz, Eric Miller, Chanro Park
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Patent number: 11902364Abstract: Techniques are described for providing managed computer networks, such as for managed virtual computer networks overlaid on one or more other underlying computer networks. In some situations, the techniques include facilitating replication of a primary computing node that is actively participating in a managed computer network, such as by maintaining one or more other computing nodes in the managed computer network as replicas, and using such replica computing nodes in various manners. For example, a particular managed virtual computer network may span multiple broadcast domains of an underlying computer network, and a particular primary computing node and a corresponding remote replica computing node of the managed virtual computer network may be implemented in distinct broadcast domains of the underlying computer network, with the replica computing node being used to transparently replace the primary computing node in the virtual computer network if the primary computing node becomes unavailable.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Eric Jason Brandwine, Kevin Christopher Miller, Andrew J. Doane
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Publication number: 20240017883Abstract: Methods and apparatus for removably or irremovably interconnectable building block containers such as those capable of initially storing consumable items such as food and drink. After consumption of the food or drink, the cavity containing same may be cleaned and/or refilled with consumable or non-consumable items. The building block containers are utilized as building block toys and may be manufactured or otherwise designed to be collectable. In one aspect, the container connectors are nearly identical such that any one connector may mate with any other connector. In another aspect, the connectors are nearly identical but the orientations of each connector vary to allow mating to occur when the connectors are properly oriented. In another aspect, the container is a cube juice box with connectors on all four corners of all six sides of the container. A frame for holding a juice container may also be utilized.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: ChangeBox IP Holdings, LLCInventors: Christopher Mark Marschall, Paul Dowd, Christopher Miller, Robert Marvin
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Patent number: 11870644Abstract: Techniques are described for providing managed virtual computer networks that have a configured logical network topology with virtual networking devices, such as by a network-accessible configurable network service, with corresponding networking functionality provided for communications between multiple computing nodes of the virtual computer network by emulating functionality that would be provided by the virtual networking devices if they were physically present.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Christopher Miller, Eric Jason Brandwine, Andrew J. Doane
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Patent number: D1021519Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Fellow Industries, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Hudak, Nicholas Terzulli, Patrick Donaghy, Matthew Flowers, Christopher HibmaCronan, Joshua T. Morenstein, Jacob Miller, Christian Scott Ross