Patents by Inventor Daniel Francis
Daniel 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: 20240162921Abstract: A device comprises a radio frequency (RF) signal generator and a calibration system. The RF signal generator is configured to upconvert a baseband signal to an RF signal using first and second LO signals. The RF signal generator comprises first and second signal paths to process first and second differential signals. The calibration system comprises calibration control circuitry and actuator circuitry. In response to digital control signals generated by the calibration control circuitry, the actuator circuitry is configured to: inject currents into the first and second signal paths to adjust offsets of the first and second differential signals, and to balance amplitudes of the first and second differential signals; and adjust at least one of respective duty cycles of the first and second local oscillator signals, and a phase difference between the first and second local oscillator signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Sudipto Chakraborty, Pat Rosno, John Francis Bulzacchelli, Daniel Ramirez
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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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Patent number: 11969033Abstract: The disclosure provides systems, devices, and associated methods for mitigating traumatic brain injury, injury to an ocular structure, or injury to the inner ear of a subject by applying pressure to one or more neck veins before and during an injurious event.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Q30 SPORTS SCIENCE, LLCInventors: Daniel Francis Wisniewski, Sherry Lynn Jones, James Huang Lua, Kevin John Vititoe, Joseph M. Lehman, Jamison Joseph Float
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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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Patent number: 11961621Abstract: A method includes receiving patient health data; determining a score using a trained machine learning model; determining a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; comparing the score to the threshold value; and generating an alarm. A computing system includes a processor; and a memory having stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing system to: receive patient health data; determine a score using a trained machine learning model; determine a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; compare the score to the threshold value; and generate an alarm. A non-transitory computer readable medium includes program instructions that when executed, cause a computer to: receive patient health data; determine a score using a trained machine learning model; determine a threshold value using an adaptive threshold tuning learning model; compare the score to the threshold value; and generate an alarm.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANInventors: Christopher Elliot Gillies, Daniel Francis Taylor, Kevin R. Ward, Fadi Islim, Richard Medlin
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Publication number: 20240110103Abstract: Systems and methods for removing carbonaceous clinker material from a coke oven are described. A coke oven can be provided including an oven floor, coke, and clinker material deposited on the oven floor. After a temperature of the coke oven has reached a first temperature (e.g., after heating coal in the oven to produce coke), the method includes increasing the temperature of the coke oven to a second temperature that is higher than the first temperature for a predetermined amount of time. After the predetermined amount of time, the temperature is reduced to a third temperature that is lower than the first temperature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: John Francis QUANCI, Daniel C. CHARLES, Gary Dean WEST, Sharla EVATT, Mark Anthony BALL, Jason Francis CRUM
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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
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Patent number: 11925872Abstract: A video game includes a single player mode where completion of storyline objectives advances the single player storyline. The video game also includes a multiplayer mode where a plurality of players can play on an instance of a multiplayer map. Storyline objectives from the single player mode are selected and made available for completion to players in the multiplayer mode, and the single player storylines can be advanced by players completing respective storyline objectives while playing in the multiplayer mode. Combinations of storyline objectives are selected from pending storyline objectives for players connecting to a multiplayer game for compatibility with multiplayer maps. Constraints can be used to determine compatibility.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Electronic Arts Inc.Inventors: Harold Henry Chaput, Jesse Hans Stokes Harder, Daniel Lee Kading, John Christopher Epler, John Kolen, Navid Aghdaie, Kazi Atif-Uz Zaman, Kenneth Alan Moss, Thomas Murray Perlinski, Graham Francis Scott
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Patent number: 11930273Abstract: A gimbal sleeve for connecting to a camera gimbal may float between a floor surface and a ceiling surface of an aerial vehicle chassis such that the gimbal sleeve has freedom of motion in yaw, pitch, and roll directions relative to the vehicle chassis. The gimbal sleeve may comprise a pair of connection points to the lower dampers on a floor surface of the vehicle chassis. The gimbal sleeve may furthermore comprise a ball joint coupled to a back surface of the vehicle chassis. The connection points include spring forces that enable the gimbal sleeve to return to an equilibrium position in response to external vibrations and reduce the magnitude of vibrations transferred from the aerial vehicle to the gimbal and camera systems.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: GoPro, Inc.Inventors: Noriaki Saika, Christopher Bramley Fruhauf, Daniel Francis Kennedy
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Patent number: 11922195Abstract: Some embodiments support embedding of a notebooks software component in a surrounding host application, thereby promoting consistency of notebook user interfaces and user experiences between different kinds of applications. For instance, the notebook access added to an integrated development environment (IDE) may be aesthetically consistent with the notebook access added to a business analytics tool from the same vendor as the IDE. Departures from the aesthetic are still supported, e.g., a notebook access provided in a video gaming environment to teach gamers programming skills may have the same aesthetic as the simulated world of the video game, rather than an IDE aesthetic or an enterprise software aesthetic. Direct integration or proxied integration architectures may be used. Efficiencies may be gained by distinguishing between notebook viewing, editing, and executing operations, and providing more computationally expensive resources only as needed for the notebook access being performed.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: John Francis Lam, Safia Abdalla, Shibani Raj Basava, Dinesh Chandnani, Zhu Chen, Kwangje Cho, Ram Kumar Donthula, Katherine Kampf, Daniel Moth, Andrew Christopher Neil, Vaishnavi Sannidhanam, Barry Manh Tu, Vijaya Krishna Upadya, Dileep Yavanmandha
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Patent number: 11917935Abstract: A seed treater includes a baffle which includes a fin that is selectively movable to adjust an extent to which the fin extends into a mixing chamber during mixing of seeds and a seed treatment within the mixing chamber to facilitate mixing of the seeds and the seed treatment within the mixing chamber. The fin defines an internal flow passage configured to deliver forced fluid through the fin and into the mixing chamber.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLCInventors: Richard Bailey, Damien Douglas Brewer, Vallabh Makadia, Michael Francis Migliazzo, Daniel James Seyer
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Patent number: 11918794Abstract: 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 sectionwise slanted or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Further, the disclosure describes a button assembly for a drug delivery device which is shock resistant.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SanofiInventors: 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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Patent number: 11924382Abstract: A system may include one or more of a called device, a calling device, configured to call the called device, and a network module. The network module is configured to process incoming call information of a call placed to the called device and configured to route the call to a destination based on preferences of the called device.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Scott D. Hambuchen, Mark Himelfarb, Joshua Harrison Lange
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Publication number: 20240068603Abstract: Spoolable tubing suitable for use in the oil industry, and more particularly spoolable composite tubing with the ability to withstand high stress and high cracking resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Cytec Industries Inc.Inventors: James Francis Pratte, Daniel Robert Thompson
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Publication number: 20240069279Abstract: A binary photonics lattice that includes a waveguide array having a plurality of single mode waveguides disposed in a substrate, the plurality of single mode waveguides including one or more first waveguides having a first V-number V1 and one or more second waveguides having a second V-number V2. The first V-number V1 is smaller than the second V-number V2. The one or more first and second waveguides are arranged in a linear distribution having first and second edge waveguide regions and a binary waveguide region positioned between the first and second edge waveguide regions. The binary waveguide region is a symmetrical binary representation of a decimal number of two or greater. Further, the binary waveguide region includes at least one first waveguide representing a digit 0 of the symmetrical binary representation and/or at least one second waveguide representing a digit 1 of the symmetrical binary representation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Nicholas Francis Borrelli, Dan Trung Nguyen, Daniel Aloysius Nolan
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Patent number: 11909126Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods provides for technology that generates, with a phased array of elements of an antenna system, an array element radiation pattern over a scan angle range, where the phased array of elements is spaced at a predetermined wavelength spacing. The technology reflects, with a reflector of the antenna system, the array element radiation pattern emitted from the phased array of elements to Earth, and establishes, based on a shape of the reflector, a predetermined magnification as a function of scan angle range so as to increase the field-of-view of the antenna system. The technology adjusts, based on the shape of the reflector, the array element radiation pattern, by increasing magnification relative to the scan angle range, to have a gain that increases with increases in scan angle relative to a boresight of the antenna system, and reflects, with the reflector, radiation from Earth to the phased array of elements.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventors: Paul Christian Werntz, Raenaurd Turpin, Daniel Francis Mathews, Charles Youngshiuk Park
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Patent number: 11889021Abstract: One example method of operation may include collecting call metric data over a predefined period of time for identified calls, querying the call metric data to identify whether one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes, determining one or more call filtering criteria parameters require changes based on a deviation from one or more expected call metric data values included in the call metric data, modifying one or more of the call filtering criteria parameters, and updating an active call scam model stored on a call processing server based on the one or more call filtering parameters.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Mark Hamilton Botner, Collin Michael Turney, Daniel Francis Kliebhan, Robert Francis Piscopo, Jr., Charles Donald Morgan, Jamelle Adnan Brown, Chee-Fung Choy, Samuel Kenton Welch, Nysia Inet George, Andrew Collin Shaddox
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Publication number: 20240022557Abstract: One example method of operation may include receiving a call message associated with a call, determining a service provider network identifier based on a telephone number of a call origination device, identifying, from the call message, an identity header with a link to a public certificate repository storing a public certificate assigned to a service provider network hosting the call origination device, retrieving a service provider code assigned to the service provider network from the public certificate, and determining whether the service provider code matches the service provider network identifier as identified from a verification table.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Applicant: FIRST ORION CORP.Inventors: Julie Sara Fowler, Daniel Francis Kliebhan
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Publication number: 20240022107Abstract: A method of charging and distributing power between a plurality of rechargeable batteries includes providing a battery charging circuit configured to supply a charging current to a first rechargeable battery of the plurality of rechargeable batteries, and to provide the charging current to a second rechargeable battery of the plurality of rechargeable batteries, supplying the charging current to the first rechargeable battery of the plurality of rechargeable batteries, and switching the battery charging circuit to supply the charging current to the second rechargeable battery of the plurality of rechargeable batteries.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: John Rollings Cavedo, Jr., Brett Allyn Maki, Bradley Allen Pedersen, Daniel Francis Jakiela, Christopher John McGann
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Publication number: 20230420333Abstract: Aspects of features in thermally conductive substrates and methods of forming the same are described. A substrate may comprise a material having an average value of thermal conductivity equal to or greater than about 1,000 W/mK. The substrate may comprise diamond. The substrate may comprise a wide-bandgap semiconductor material. A feature may comprise an interconnect, such as a via hole. A feature may comprise a singulation feature, such as a die street. The substrate may comprise a plurality of crystals each having an average crystal grain diameter from about 10 nanometers to about 100 nanometers. The plurality of crystals may be disposed a distance of less than or equal to about 100 micrometers from a surface of the feature. The substrate may comprise a keyhole or void. The keyhole may be disposed a distance of less than or equal to about 100 micrometers from a surface of the feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2023Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Daniel FRANCIS, Frank LOWE, Kyle GRAHAM