Patents by Inventor Michael A. Brown

Michael A. 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).

  • Patent number: 11974668
    Abstract: A storage assembly is provided with a pair of spaced apart brackets. A pair of hubs is each pivotally connected to one of the pair of spaced apart brackets. A rotary limit is connected to one of the pair of hubs and one of the pair of spaced apart brackets to limit the pair of hubs to a range of rotation relative to the pair of spaced apart brackets. A pair of bars is each connected to the pair of hubs to rotate with the pair of hubs to support and store articles upon the pair of bars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: LIBERTY HARDWARE MFG. CORP.
    Inventors: Tara Brown, Robert Douglas Hegarty, James Allen Austin, III, Michael Witt, Jeffrey John Mathison, Margaret Rider, Rose Ford, Ethan Creasman, Gabriel Prero, Patrick William Boehnen
  • Patent number: 11978300
    Abstract: A single space parking meter assembly for retrofitting onto an existing coin vault assembly includes a number of parking meter components enclosed within a protective outer covering that is rotatably or slidably engageable with the coin vault assembly when a bottom surface of the protective outer covering is positioned against or adjacent to an upper surface of the coin vault assembly. A locking mechanism secures the protective outer covering to the coin vault assembly when the protective outer covering is engaged with the coin vault assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: J.J. MacKay Canada Limited
    Inventors: George Allan MacKay, James George MacKay, Adrian Ignatius O'Neil, Robert Steven Cosh, Darren Scott Cameron, Gregory Emile Chauvin, David Andrew McMullin, Michael Brown, Matthew Watson
  • Patent number: 11979976
    Abstract: Provided are interconnect circuits and methods of forming thereof. A method may involve laminating a substrate to a conductive layer followed by patterning the conductive layer. This patterning operation forms individual conductive portions, which may be also referred to as traces or conductive islands. The substrate supports these portions relative to each other during and after patterning. After patterning, an insulator may be laminated to the exposed surface of the patterned conductive layer. At this point, the conductive layer portions are also supported by the insulator, and the substrate may optionally be removed, e.g., together with undesirable portions of the conductive layer. Alternatively, the substrate may be retained as a component of the circuit and the undesirable portions of the patterned conductive layer may be removed separately. These approaches allow using new patterning techniques as well as new materials for substrates and/or insulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: CelLink Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Coakley, Malcolm Parker Brown, Dongao Yang, Michael Lawrence Miller, Paul Henry Lego
  • Publication number: 20240143634
    Abstract: An entity may want to capture personal data associated with one or more individuals. Personal data can include, for example, phone number(s), physical address(es), job titles, email address(es), or any other item of personal identifying information. The entity may be able to find such personal data via a variety of different data sources. For example, the entity may be able to find such personal data via tens, hundreds, thousands, or millions of different websites, documents, files, etc. The entity may also want to categorize the captured personal data by individual.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2024
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Brown, Greg Levesque, Eric Harnden, Jonathan Lentz
  • Patent number: 11972624
    Abstract: A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Rehrig Pacific Company
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, Jr., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
  • Patent number: 11972654
    Abstract: A parking meter may have a housing that is formed at least significantly of an impact resistant material. In particular, the impact resistant material may comprise one of a polycarbonate copolymer or polycarbonate blended resin, a nylon-based copolymer, or a nylon-based polymer that includes long glass fiber or Kevlar fiber. The housing encloses the parking meter components to provide protection for the parking meter components against an external environment and vandalism attacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: J.J. MacKay Canada Limited
    Inventors: George Allan MacKay, James George MacKay, Adrian Ignatius O'Neil, Robert Steven Cosh, Darren Scott Cameron, Gregory Emile Chauvin, David Andrew McMullin, Michael Brown, Matthew Watson
  • Patent number: 11970481
    Abstract: This disclosure is drawn to substituted pyridine compounds and compositions, and associated methods, useful for inhibition of SARM1 activity and/or for treating or preventing a neurological diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NURA BIO, INC.
    Inventors: Jennifer Aiden Kozak, Sean Pomeroy Brown, Christopher Michael Tegley, Alexander Wayne Schammel, Liusheng Zhu, Maximiliano De La Higuera Macias, Shilpa Sambashivan
  • Patent number: 11970409
    Abstract: Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are destroyed by oxidation in supercritical conditions. PFAS in water can be concentrated and prepared for destruction in a pretreatment phase. Following annihilation of the PFAS in supercritical conditions to levels below 5 parts per trillion (ppt), the water effluent can be used to recover heat, returned to sub-critical conditions, and then released back into the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Revive Environmental Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Lindy E. Dejarme, Kavitha Dasu, Russell R. Sirabian, Jeffrey Ellis, Dan Garbark, Nathan Bryant, John Tallarico, Joseph Casciano, Slawomir Winecki, David Holley, Joshua James, Keith Brown, Doug Hendry, Darwin Argumedo, Aaron Frank, Christopher Gordon Scheitlin, Michael M. Miller
  • Publication number: 20240133911
    Abstract: A fluid injector system includes at least one injector for pressurizing and delivering at least one fluid from at least one fluid reservoir, at least one fluid path section in fluid communication with the at least one injector and having a predetermined index of refraction, and a first proximal sensor and a first distal sensor arranged along the at least one fluid path section. Each of the first proximal sensor and the first distal sensor includes an emitter configured to emit light through the at least one fluid path section, and a detector configured to receive the light emitted through the at least one fluid path section and generate an electrical signal based on the received light. The fluid injector system further includes at least one processor programmed or configured to determine, based on a difference in the electrical signals generated by the first proximal sensor and the first distal sensor, at least one property of a content of the at least one fluid path section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: William Barone, Ronald Brown, Curtis Pastor, Michael Swantner, Christopher Capone, Jaroslaw Wlodarczyk, Charles Lang
  • Patent number: 11965877
    Abstract: The invention provides barcode libraries and methods of making and using them including obtaining a plurality of nucleic acid constructs in which each construct comprises a unique N-mer and a functional N-mer and segregating the constructs into a fluid compartments such that each compartment contains one or more copies of a unique construct. The invention further provides methods for digital PCR and for use of barcode libraries in digital PCR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Samuels, Jeffrey Charles Olson, Andrew Watson, Keith Brown, Darren R. Link
  • Publication number: 20240125676
    Abstract: A flow device, method, and system are provided for determining the fluid particle composition. An example flow device includes a fluid sensor configured to monitor at least one particle characteristic of fluid flowing through the fluid sensor. The example flow device also includes at least one processor configured to, upon determining the at least one particle characteristic satisfies a particle criteria, generate a control signal for an external device. The example flow device also includes a fluid composition sensor configured to be powered based on the control signal and further configured to capture data relating to the fluid particle composition. The example flow device is also configured to generate one or more particle profiles of at least one component of the fluid based on the data captured by the fluid composition sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Andy Walker Brown, Adam D. McBrady, Ryadh Abdullah Zakaria, Stephan Michael Bork
  • Patent number: 11957746
    Abstract: The present invention in particular relates to a method of producing an immunogenic composition exhibiting reduced virucidal activity, as well as to the immunogenic composition and uses thereof, wherein the method in particular comprises the steps of: (a) providing a mixture with a first liquid and a recombinant protein, (b) concentrating the recombinant protein in the mixture by removing a portion of the first liquid from the mixture, and (c) processing the solution resulting from step (b) by continuous diafiltration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Inventors: Leigh Wilmes, Matthew Coons, Amanda Brown, Michael Johannes Gassel, Francois-Xavier Orveillon, Katharina Hedwig Toepfer, Elida Bautista, Kathy Schlesinger
  • Patent number: 11960057
    Abstract: An ophthalmic article having a coating system which provides antireflective and easy clean properties to the ophthalmic article. The coating system includes alternating layers of low refractive index metal oxide and high refractive index metal oxynitrides and corresponding high refractive index metal oxides. The coating system provides favorable surface energy to the ophthalmic article when at least one layer of the high refractive index metal oxynitride is encapsulated between two layers of low refractive index metal oxide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: HOYA Optical Labs of America, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Marshall, Jeffrey Brown
  • Publication number: 20240116901
    Abstract: This disclosure is drawn to substituted pyridine compounds and compositions, and associated methods, useful for inhibition of SARM1 activity and/or for treating or preventing a neurological diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jennifer Aiden KOZAK, Sean Pomeroy BROWN, Christopher Michael TEGLEY, Alexander Wayne SCHAMMEL, Liusheng ZHU, Maximiliano DE LA HIGUERA MACIAS, Shilpa SAMBASHIVAN
  • Publication number: 20240111482
    Abstract: The disclosed playback devices, media playback systems, and/or methods improve upon the media playback experience by selectively reducing audio quality under certain conditions. The reduction of audio quality may be based on one or more aspects of the acoustic environment, such as the number and locations of one or more users, noise levels, playback device locations relative to the acoustic environment, etc. The media playback system may monitor or periodically poll each of one or more playback devices and other devices or sensors in and around an acoustic environment to determine whether there are opportunities to reduce audio quality for one or more playback devices. This reduction in quality allows the media playback system to conserve resources in one or more aspects and, potentially, divert those resources to other aspects for purposes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Michael Bello, Daniel Jones, Peter Dodds, Briet Louise Brown, Christopher Pike
  • Publication number: 20240108501
    Abstract: Provided for herein is a method of cell transplantation using an injection attachment having a hub containing a plurality of cells and a cannula extending from a distal end of the hub. The method includes orienting the injection attachment such that the cannula points downwardly until the plurality of cells settle together proximate the distal end, inserting the cannula into a tissue of a subject, and injecting the volume of cells into the tissue of the subject using the injection attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: FUJIFILM Cellular Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Tianran LIU, Randy LEARISH, Cayla THOMPSON, Matthew STERNFELD, Michael PHILLIPS, Virginia MATTIS, Lucas CHASE, Erik BROWN
  • Patent number: 11945796
    Abstract: This disclosure is drawn to substituted pyridine compounds and compositions, and associated methods, useful for inhibition of SARM1 activity and/or for treating or preventing neurological diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NURA BIO, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Pomeroy Brown, Keira Garland, Shilpa Sambashivan, Christopher Michael Tegley, Liusheng Zhu
  • Patent number: 11945837
    Abstract: Methods of enhancing efficiency of downstream chromatography steps for purification of proteins comprising: (a) passing a composition comprising a polypeptide of interest and various contaminants through an ion exchange membrane, wherein the polypeptide and the membrane have opposite charge, at operating conditions comprised of a buffer having a pH sufficiently distinct from the pi of the polypeptide to enhance the charge of the polypeptide and a low ionic strength effective to prevent the shielding of charges by buffer ions, which cause the membrane to bind the polypeptide and at least one contaminant, (b) overloading the ion exchange membrane such that at least one contaminant remains bound to the membrane while the polypeptide of interest is primarily in the effluent; (c) collecting the effluent from the ion exchange membrane comprising the polypeptide of interest; (d) subjecting the membrane effluent comprising the polypeptide of interest to a purification step of similar charge as the previous membrane,
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Jerome Joseph Bill, Jr., Arick Michael Brown, Christopher John Dowd, Brooke Ellen Thayer
  • Patent number: 11946041
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for screening a library of peptide ligands, said library comprising a plurality of polypeptides covalently linked to a molecular scaffold at two or more amino acid residues, comprising the steps of displaying said library of peptide ligands in a genetic display system, wherein the polypeptide comprises two or more reactive groups which form a covalent linkage to the molecular scaffold, and at least one loop which comprises a sequence of amino acids subtended between two of said reactive groups; exposing the peptide ligands to one or more cells which display one or more target molecules on the cell surface; and screening the peptide ligands for binding against the target, and selecting the ligands which bind to the target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BicycleRD Limited
    Inventors: Liuhong Chen, Michael Skynner, Amy Brown, James Cooke, Rachid Lani
  • Patent number: D1023897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Teak Isle Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Brown, Michael Smith