Patents by Inventor Michael A. Roberts

Michael A. Roberts 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).

  • Publication number: 20240174867
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a coating composition comprising a film-forming binder; and a corrosion inhibitor comprising at least one of morpholines, monosulfides, and/or piperazines. The present invention is also directed to coatings, coated metal substrates, multi-layered coated metal substrates, and methods of coating substrates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: PRC-Desoto International, Inc.
    Inventors: Megan Elizabeth Ferlic, Christopher Andrew Dacko, Stephen Glenn McQuown, John Robert Yetter, Jr., Michael Allen Mayo, Elizabeth Anne Furar, Cedric John Hils, Justin Jonathan Martin, Mary Lyn Chong Lim
  • 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: 11996607
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include headphone devices with spatially diverse antennas employing multiple operational modes and antenna switching policies. The headphone device may identify a current mode of operation and wirelessly communicate with at least one external device based at least in part on the current mode of operation. Further, operating in a first mode of operation, the headphone device may cause switching circuitry to selectively couple a first antenna to the common port in accordance with a first antenna switching policy. While operating in the second mode of operation, the headphone device may cause circuitry to selectively couple a second antenna to the common port in accordance with a second antenna switching policy that is different from the first antenna switching policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Sonos, Inc.
    Inventors: Niels van Erven, Kasra Payandehjoo, Michael Frey, Anthony Maglio, Ron Roberts
  • Patent number: 11992622
    Abstract: A humidification system for delivering humidified gases to a user can include a heater base, humidification chamber having an inlet, outlet, and associated fluid conduit, and breathing circuit including a supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit. The humidification system can include various features to help make set-up less difficult and time-consuming. For example, the supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit can be coupled into a one-piece circuit to aid set-up. Various components can be color-coded and can have corresponding structures to indicate which components should be connected to one another during set-up. Such features can also help make the set-up process more intuitive for an operator, which can reduce the need for specialized training and reduce the number of potential errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Sally Margaret Hensman, David Robert Kemps, Simon Mordechai Stam, Jason Allan Klenner, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Mark Samuel Hamilton, James William Stanton, Michael John Andresen, Jonathan Andrew George Lambert, Nicholas Edward Vaughan
  • Patent number: 11992535
    Abstract: Provided herein are certain compounds and imaging agents useful for detecting a condition or disorder associated with protein aggregation, compositions thereof, and methods of their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: CHDI Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Longbin Liu, Matthew Lee, Celia Dominguez, Peter David Johnson, Christopher John Brown, Sarah Hayes, Adrian Kotey, Matthew Robert Mills, Michael Edward Prime
  • Patent number: 11995206
    Abstract: A breach detection engine detects and mitigates the effects of breaches across one or more data sources. An index is generated based on one or more data sources and the index is queried using keywords indicative of potential breaches. A database of potential breaches is populated based on the query of the index. The potential breach database is queried using keywords associated with a system identity (e.g., a third party). A likelihood of a candidate breach is identified based on a set of breach criteria weights. A network node associated with a candidate breach determined to be an actual breach is identified for isolation or for the performance of one or more additional security actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: UPGUARD, INC.
    Inventors: Alan James Sharp-Paul, Christopher Robert Vickery, Jonathan David Hendren, Gregory Ford Pollock, Daniel Bradbury, Christian Alan Kiely, Gavin Richard Turner, Michael Franz Baukes
  • Publication number: 20240167197
    Abstract: A process, for example a continuous process, for making an article of manufacture containing a fibrous structure, for example a composite structure, and more particularly to a process for making an article of manufacture containing a fibrous structure, such as a soluble fibrous structure, containing soluble filaments is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Anthony Edward REED, Michael Sean PRATT, Paul R. MORT, III, Stephen Robert GLASSMEYER, Dinah Achola NYANGIRO, Mark William HAMERSKY, Richard Allen DIEMAR, Jeffrey Moss VAUGHN, Gavin John BROAD, Gregory Charles GORDON, Frank William DENOME, Mark Robert SIVIK, Andreas Josef DREHER
  • Publication number: 20240169641
    Abstract: Techniques for performing rendering operations are disclosed herein. The techniques include providing indices and vertices to a culling shader; culling primitives and outputting primitives and indices that are not culled; and generating information for a fine binning pass based on the indices and primitives that are not culled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Vishrut Vaibhav, Michael John Livesley, Tad Robert Litwiller
  • Publication number: 20240167499
    Abstract: The fastener assembly includes a fastener body having a threaded portion at a lower end, and a stem portion at an upper end. A cap has side walls defining a wrenching surface and a top surface connecting the top surface where the cap is secure to the stem portion on the upper end of the fastener body. The assembly also includes a decorative laser mark defined on the top surface of the cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: MACLEAN-FOGG COMPANY
    Inventors: Joe CURTIN, Mark RAVES, Luke Michael ROBERTS, Joseph VERLA, Kenneth James RIMATZKI
  • Patent number: 11990358
    Abstract: A semiconductor processing system includes a first component forming a first chamber. A first sealed environment in the first chamber is at a first state prior to a door being opened. A load port structure is disposed between the first component and a second component. The load port structure includes walls disposed around an opening of the load port structure. The load port structure is separate from the first component and the second component. A third component is configured to change at least one of the first state of the first sealed environment within the first chamber or a second state of a second sealed environment within a second chamber formed by the second component to cause the first state and the second state to be substantially similar before the door between the first sealed environment and the second sealed environment is opened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Robert Rice, Jeffery C. Hudgens
  • Patent number: 11991400
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for executing audio cryptology in real-time for audio misappropriation prevention. The system is configured for identifying, via a cryptographic device, one or more audio signals, causing the cryptographic device to generate and emit a dynamically varying continuous audio tone, continuously monitoring in real-time the one or more audio signals, via the cryptographic device, determining, via the cryptographic device, termination of the one or more audio signals based on continuously monitoring the one or more audio signals in real-time, and causing the cryptographic device to stop generating and emitting the dynamically varying continuous audio tone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kyle Mayers, George Anthony Albero, Michael Robert Young
  • Patent number: 11989261
    Abstract: A computer answers a question using a data table. The computer receives a user question and a target table containing a target cell corresponding to a target answer for the user question, with the target cell corresponding to a target column and a target row. The computer generates, a first classifier to provide column correlation values reflecting the probability that a given column is the target column. The computer generates a second classifier that provides row correlation values reflecting the probability that a given row is the target row. The computer applies the first classifier to the target table to determine a column correlation value for each column. The computer applies the second classifier to the target table to determine a row correlation value for each row. The computer suggests, as the target cell, a cell having elevated column and row correlation values relative to other target table cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Mustafa Canim, Michael Robert Glass, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Nicolas Rodolfo Fauceglia
  • Publication number: 20240157693
    Abstract: Techniques for providing a carbon composite component involve providing a first carbon composite layer having carbon fibers extending along the first carbon composite layer. The techniques further involve providing a second carbon composite layer in contact with the first carbon composite layer, the second carbon composite layer having upright carbon fibers. The techniques further involve providing a third carbon composite layer in contact with the second carbon composite layer, the third carbon composite layer having carbon fibers extending along the third carbon composite layer. The carbon composite layer having upright carbon fibers increases the interlaminar strength of the resulting structure thus providing strength in all dimensions/directions and alleviating the need for additional fasteners and/or 3D carbon/carbon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Robert FAVALORO
  • Publication number: 20240157060
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20240163214
    Abstract: Methods, system, and apparatuses may support end-to-end (E2E) quality of service (QoS) through the use of service layer (SL) sessions. For example, an application can communicate with a targeted device based on application specified schedule, latency, jitter, error rate, throughput, level of security, and cost requirements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Dale N. Seed, Michael F. Starsinic, Vinod Kumar Choyi, Quang Ly, Yogendra C. Shah, William Robert Flynn, IV, Shamim Akbar Rahman, Zhuo Chen
  • Publication number: 20240160607
    Abstract: One or more systems, devices, computer program products and/or computer-implemented methods of use provided herein relate to a process for generating the classification of files to allow for file system organization and/or query augmentation. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components can comprise a generating component that generates a keyphrase based on a context derived from evaluation of an input file, wherein the generating component employs a public repository of files annotated with a plurality of keyphrases, including the keyphrase, to generate the keyphrase based on the context, and an execution component that classifies the input file based on the keyphrase. In one or more embodiments, the input file can comprise a query, and classification of the input file can comprise augmenting the query based on the keyphrase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Gaetano Rossiello, Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Nandana Mihindukulasooriya, Michael Robert Glass
  • Publication number: 20240160653
    Abstract: Using a trained keyphrase generation model, a set of keyphrases corresponding to an input document is generated, a keyphrase in the set of keyphrases comprising a word summarizing a portion of a document. A relevance score measuring a similarity between the keyphrase and the document is calculated for a keyphrase in the set of keyphrases. The relevance score is adjusted according to a diversity balancing function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo, Gaetano Rossiello, Michael Robert Glass, NANDANA SAMPATH MIHINDUKULASOORIYA
  • Patent number: 11985195
    Abstract: A Data Producer may be configured to negotiate and initiate a Data Continuity service with an M2M/IoT system. This service may be for specific data sets or all data sets generated by the Data Producer. The M2M/IoT system may be configured to autonomously decide to start a Data Continuity Service for a data set of a Data Producer. The Data Producer may interact directly with an Aggregator SL to store its aggregated data set, and may also be configured to update and delete entries in this data set and start a data service on this aggregated data set. A Local SL may be configured to manage all interactions with an Aggregator SL, and the Local SL may be configured to retarget requests from the Data Producer to the Aggregator SL, including a request to start a data service on the aggregated data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: Convida Wireless, LLC
    Inventors: Rocco Di Girolamo, Quang Ly, Dale N. Seed, Catalina Mihaela Mladin, William Robert Flynn, IV, Shoshana Loeb, Zhuo Chen, Michael F. Starsinic
  • Publication number: 20240154435
    Abstract: An indexed sequence of bits in a buffer is allocated for tracking a battery charging state. The indexed sequence of bits has a first number of bits. A battery voltage of a rechargeable battery is sampled at a sampling rate. For each sampled battery voltage, the battery voltage is compared with a voltage threshold. A next bit position in the indexed sequence of bits is identified. In accordance with a determination that a comparison result is true, a predefined first value is added to the next bit position. A second number of bits that are filled with the predefined first value is determined. A ratio between the second number and the first number is also determined. In accordance with a determination that the ratio exceeds a threshold step-down ratio, a battery charge voltage is stepped down. The rechargeable battery is charged to a step-down voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Applicant: Google LLC
    Inventors: Michael Jonathon Chen, William Alan Saperstein, James Robert Lim, David Wang
  • Publication number: 20240150437
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for producing encapsulated natively-paired scFv amplicons, by encapsulating single cells in droplets, wherein the droplets further contain reagents for amplifying and sinking native pairings of heavy and light chain variable domain amplicons from single encapsulated cells; lysing the single encapsulated cells; and generating the encapsulated natively-paired scFv amplicons, wherein each scFv amplicon comprises a native pairing of heavy and light chain variable domain amplicons.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Partha S. CHOWDHURY, Saravanan RAJAN, Michael Robert KIERNY