Patents by Inventor Michael A. George

Michael A. George 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: 11993547
    Abstract: An electrical termination unit or feedthrough which may be used for routing electrical conductors through a chamber wall, or otherwise across a barrier between isolated atmospheric conditions. The electrical termination unit may have aluminum as the interface material to the chamber interface and may utilize a ceramic insulator. The electrical termination unit may have the aluminum used as the interface brazed directly to a ceramic surface of the insulator. The aluminum that forms the chamber interface may be formed within a hollow ceramic tube in the same process step that brazes the aluminum to the ceramic tube with a hermetic joint. Machining subsequent to the brazing of the aluminum to the ceramic insulator may allow for achievement of the final form desired. A method for manufacturing such an electrical termination unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Brent Elliot, Dennis George Rex, Guleid Hussen, Michael Parker, Jason Stephens
  • Patent number: 11995731
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for artifact attribution is provided. The method can be performed by a generative system, or generative AI. The method can include storing a proprietary artifact created by a creator and terms of use for usage of the proprietary artifact defined by the creator. The method can also include generating a new artifact based on the proprietary artifact and the user's rights to the proprietary artifact. The method can also include determining an attribution for the new artifact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: OP3N, LLC
    Inventors: Ricardo Augusto Nardim Fornari, Michael Robert Brown, Nicholas George Nassim, Satish Isukapalli Kumar
  • Patent number: 11992446
    Abstract: A patient support apparatus that comprises a frame and a side rail mounted to the frame. The side rail comprises a side rail body and a pair of arms mounting the side rail body for rotational movement relative to the frame. The pair of arms has a pair of upper pivot connections connected to the side rail body and a pair of lower pivot connections for mounting to the frame. The upper pivot connections engage a timing link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Brian J. Tessmer, Christopher Ryan Sweeney, Jeffrey C. Shiery, Michael T. Brubaker, Dickson J. Brubaker, Dan George Parker
  • Patent number: 11991537
    Abstract: A method at a connector device, the method including receiving a first message from a peripheral device, the first message being received over a short range communications protocol connection utilizing a generic reading and writing service attribute profile; repackaging data within the first message into a second message at the connector device; and transmitting the second message to a network element, the transmitting utilizing a second communications connection, wherein the repackaging data populates a field within the second message with information about an attribute profile operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Dongkai Guo, Darren Edward Rogers, Pierre Pierre Blais, Michael George Haines
  • Publication number: 20240150171
    Abstract: A plant for providing purified hydrogen gas comprises a dehydrogenation unit for releasing a dehydrogenation mixture comprising hydrogen gas and at least one impurity from an at least partly laden hydrogen carrier medium, a separation/purification unit fluidically connected to the dehydrogenation unit, for removing the hydrogen gas from the dehydrogenation mixture, a purge gas feed fluidically connected to the separation/purification unit, for feeding purge gas into the separation/purification unit (6), a thermal conversion unit fluidically connected to the separation/purification unit, for thermally converting a tail gas mixture comprising the purge gas and at least one impurity, and a heat transfer unit for transferring heat generated in the thermal conversion unit to the dehydrogenation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Michael GEORGE, Daniel BASCHKE, Holger BÜCH, Rico WESTERATH, Caspar PAETZ
  • Publication number: 20240154516
    Abstract: A soft-switching Phase-Shift Full-Bridge (PSFB) converter system may include a transformer comprising a primary side and a secondary side. Phase-leading circuitry and phase-lagging circuitry may be located on the primary side of the transformer. The phase leading a phase lagging circuitry may include one or more bridge switches. The system may further include clamping circuitry coupled to the secondary side of the transformer. The clamping circuitry configurable to, when in an active clamping mode, short the secondary side of the transformer. An inductance may be included on the primary side of the transformer to collect and store energy from an input source when the secondary side of the transformer is shorted. The energy stored in the inductance may be used to enable soft-switching of the bridge switches in the phase-lagging circuitry during a dead time or a circulating time of the bridge switches in the phase-leading circuitry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Siyuan Chen, Michael George Negrete
  • Publication number: 20240154720
    Abstract: Data can be sent from a sender to a receiver with reliability of transmission encoding data blocks into packets each having a packet header and a packet payload, a block size, a global packet sequence number that uniquely identifies the packet relative to other packets of the data, a block identifier of the data block, and an encoding identifier. The sender determines from feedback from the receiver whether packets are lost and sends repair packets as needed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Michael George Luby, Lorenz Christoph Minder
  • Patent number: 11977565
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) for ingesting and enriching data regarding a plurality of entities are provided. A first data set comprising company data and a second data set comprising customer data are ingested. The first data set is processed to generate a processed data set. The first data set may be processed by applying an entity matching technique, wherein one or more data elements are generated based on whether an entity of the first data set and an entity of the second data set are commonly associated. The first data set may additionally or alternatively be processed by applying a statistical matching technique, wherein one or more predicted data elements are generated based on similarity between an entity of the first data set and one or more entities of the second data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: PwC Product Sales LLC
    Inventors: Amit Dhir, Henry Huang, Michael Reid, Pradnesh Deshmukh, Vasundhara Rungta, Prachi Agrawal, Pranati Dang, Tarun Sharma, Vasudeva Sankaranarayanan, Surya Turlapati, Mathew George
  • Patent number: 11972281
    Abstract: A first intermediate representation of a first portion of a source code implementing an application and a second intermediate representation of a second portion of the source code is received by a processing device. The first intermediate representation and the second intermediate representation is merged, at run-time, into a merged intermediate representation, wherein the first intermediate representation includes a reference to a function in the second intermediate representation. An execution flow transfer instruction within the merged intermediate representation is identified based on a run-time value of a parameter of the application. The execution flow transfer instruction references the function. A set of executable instructions implementing the function is identified within the merged intermediate representation. The execution flow transfer instruction is replaced with a copy of the set of executable instructions implementing the function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Murphy, Shelton George Dsouza, Shandeep Nagori, Thibaut Lutz
  • Patent number: 11967324
    Abstract: The method S200 can include: at an aircraft, receiving an audio utterance from air traffic control S210, converting the audio utterance to text, determining commands from the text using a question-and-answer model S240, and optionally controlling the aircraft based on the commands S250. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from the air traffic control (ATC) stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Merlin Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Pust, Joseph Bondaryk, Matthew George
  • Publication number: 20240125427
    Abstract: Mounting a device to a surface is achieved using a mount coupled to the surface and including a swing arm hinged so that the swing arm is movable between an open position permitting insertion or removal of the device, and a capture position in which the swing arm holds the device. Ideally, hinges include a retainer such as a torque insert are a part of the mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua George Zarecky, Michael Samuel Sabatino
  • Publication number: 20240127936
    Abstract: A computer implemented method for generating personalized responsive assistance for a person needing assistance (PNA) is disclosed. The method begins with the system receiving a PNA's contact data and a trust group manager's (TGM) contact data. The system then sends a request to the TGM for association of TGM's device with PNA's device. The system then receives approval and proceeds with storing an indicator of the association of the devices. The TGM then sends the system a person providing assistance's (PPA) data. The system will then send an invite to the PPA, to join a trust group associated with the PNA. After the PPA accepts the invite to join the PPA group, the system will receive a request for an audio/visual connection between the PNA and the PPA. As the PNA is in need of assistance, an audio/visual connection will be permitted allowing the PPA to help the PNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Douglas George Towne, John Medcalf, Michael Wilhelm Hartman, Corey Saur
  • Patent number: 11960981
    Abstract: Systems and methods for model evaluation. A model is evaluated by performing a decomposition process for a model output, relative to a baseline input data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: ZESTFINANCE, INC.
    Inventors: Douglas C. Merrill, Michael Edward Ruberry, Ozan Sayin, Bojan Tunguz, Lin Song, Esfandiar Alizadeh, Melanie Eunique DeBruin, Yachen Yan, Derek Wilcox, John Candido, Benjamin Anthony Solecki, Jiahuan He, Jerome Louis Budzik, Armen Avedis Donigian, Eran Dvir, Sean Javad Kamkar, Vishwaesh Rajiv, Evan George Kriminger
  • Patent number: 11960832
    Abstract: Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and other computer-implemented methods are used to identify various semantically important chunks in documents, automatically label them with appropriate datatypes and semantic roles, and use this enhanced information to assist authors and to support downstream processes. Chunk locations, datatypes, and semantic roles can often be automatically determined from what is here called “context”, to wit, the combination of their formatting, structure, and content; those of adjacent or nearby content; overall patterns of occurrence in a document, and similarities of all these things across documents (mainly but not exclusively among documents in the same document set).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Docugami, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Paul Begun, Steven DeRose, Taqi Jaffri, Luis Marti Orosa, Michael B. Palmer, Jean Paoli, Christina Pavlopoulou, Elena Pricoiu, Swagatika Sarangi, Marcin Sawicki, Manar Shehadeh, Michael Taron, Bhaven Toprani, Zubin Rustom Wadia, David Watson, Eric White, Joshua Yongshin Fan, Kush Gupta, Andrew Minh Hoang, Zhanlin Liu, Jerome George Paliakkara, Zhaofeng Wu, Yue Zhang, Xiaoquan Zhou
  • Publication number: 20240117479
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon fluid containment article having a wall with a surface that is wetted by hydrocarbon fluid. The surface includes an anti-coking coating. The anti-coking coating includes a copper salt, a silver salt, or a combination thereof. A gas turbine engine component including a wall having a first surface and an anti-coking coating on the first surface of the wall that is wetted by hydrocarbon fluid. The anti-coking coating including a copper salt, a silver salt, or a combination thereof that prevents the formation of gum or coke on a surface thereon. Methods for reducing the deposition of thermal decomposition products on a wall of an article are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence Bernard Kool, Bangalore Aswatha Nagaraj, Thomas George Holland, Alfred Albert Mancini, Michael Anthony Benjamin
  • Publication number: 20240117029
    Abstract: The present invention relates to bispecific anti-CCL2 antibodies binding to two different epitopes on human CCL2, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, their manufacture, and use as medicaments for the treatment of cancers, inflammatory, autoimmune and ophthalmologic diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Jens FISCHER, Guy GEORGES, Anton JOCHNER, Gregor JORDAN, Hubert KETTENBERGER, Joerg MOELLEKEN, Tilman SCHLOTHAUER, Georg TIEFENTHALER, Valeria RUNZA, Meher MAJETY, Martin SCHAEFER, Maria VIERT, Shu FENG, Wei Shiong Adrian HO, Siok Wan GAN, Runyi Adeline LAM, Michael GERTZ
  • Publication number: 20240119321
    Abstract: A generative interactive video computer-implemented method and system applies trained computer-implemented neural networks to generate a sequence of images, which may comprise a video, and which contains identified objects, and then delivers the sequence of images to a user. The sequence of images may be further generated in accordance with an inference of a preference from user behavioral information. The identified objects may be provided to the system in the form of natural language and/or images. The system then generates and delivers to users natural language-based responses to user requests for information with respect to the identified objects, including attributes that are associated with the identified objects. Users may direct the system to generate video-based virtual environments that include representations of the identified objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Revealit Corporation
    Inventors: Garry Anthony Smith, Zachary Oakes, Steven Dennis Flinn, Naomi Felina Moneypenny, Michael George Renie
  • Patent number: 11949406
    Abstract: A driver can be configured to provide sensed phase currents as feedback to a controller to indicate the output currents from each phase of a switch mode power supply (SMPS). The driver can be configured to temperature compensate the sensed currents in one of two ways. If a temperature sensor is directly coupled to the driver, then the driver may be configured to temperature compensate the sensed currents from each phase based on a temperature measurement made by the temperature sensor. If a temperature sensor is not directly coupled to the driver, then the driver may be configured to temperature compensate the sensed current from each phase based on a temperature signal received from a bus coupled to the driver. The bus can communicate the temperature signal so that multiple drivers can utilize one temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Paul J. Harriman, Thomas Patrick Duffy, James George Hill, Michael Scott Lay, Margaret Spillane
  • Patent number: 11945840
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel protein pores and their uses in analyte detection and characterisation. The invention particularly relates to an isolated pore complex formed by a CsgG-like pore and a modified CsgF peptide, or a homologue or mutant thereof, thereby incorporating an additional channel constriction or reader head in the nanopore. The invention further relates to a transmembrane pore complex and methods for production of the pore complex and for use in molecular sensing and nucleic acid sequencing applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: VIB VZW, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Han Remaut, Sander Van Der Verren, Nani Van Gerven, Lakmal Jayasinghe, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace, Pratik Raj Singh, Richard George Hambley, Michael Jordan, John Joseph Kilgour
  • Patent number: 11950164
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes storing, by a tracking system server, information identifying each of multiple first computing devices and a location of each computing device. The method includes receiving a request including an identifier for a second computing device and configuration instructions executable by the second computing device. The method includes determining a most recent location associated with the second computing device. The method includes identifying a computing device from the first computing devices based at least in part on the stored location of the computing device and the most recent location associated with the second computing device. The method includes sending, to the identified computing device, a forwarding request including the identifier for the second computing device and the configuration instructions. The identified computing device is configured to send the configuration instructions to the second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Tile, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael George Farley, Jose Pons Vega, Charles Y. Choi, Renu Janjam