Patents by Inventor Michael Charles
Michael Charles 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: 20240171117Abstract: The present invention relates generally to the photovoltaic generation of electrical energy. The present invention relates more particularly to photovoltaic arrays for use in photovoltaically generating electrical energy. Aspects of the present invention provide a variety of photovoltaic roofing elements and systems that include, for example, interlocking geometries to provide for water handling and integration with conventional roofing materials; and wire management features that can protect wiring and associated electrical components from physical and/or environmental damage.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2024Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Robert D. LIVSEY, Joseph Charles Gombarick, Sophia Chihlas, Husnu M. Kalkanoglu, Michael E. Blackburn, Stephen W. Steffes, Gregory F. Jacobs, Michael J. Noone
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Publication number: 20240169314Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide systems and methods to streamline the mechanism by which data users access differently regulated data through the use of one or more integrated identifiers. The integrated identifiers lessen or eliminate the need to separately maintain one set of identifiers for regulated data and another set for non-regulated data. The methods and systems may be applicable in various credit and healthcare contexts where regulations over data use are prevalent. In one or more embodiments, a data user receives a unique integrated identifier for each of the data user's current or prospective customers, and the integrated identifiers can be used to persistently identify and track the customers over time and across applications that access regulated and/or non-regulated data. In the healthcare context, a healthcare provider may utilize a patient ID as the integrated identifier. To protect privacy, the integrated identifier may not include social security numbers or birthdates.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 10, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Helen McMillan, John Lawrence Skurtovich, Anita Kress, Timothy Sumida, Michael Charles McVey
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Publication number: 20240166612Abstract: The invention provides arylthioether acetamide and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and their use in the treatment of medical conditions, such as bacterial infections, and in inhibiting LpxA activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Michael Dominic RYAN, Alastair PARKES, Olivier RĂ©mi BARBEAU, Adele FAULKNER, Maisie HOLBROW-WILSHAW, Michelle SOUTHEY, Angelo SANZONE, Christophe BOLDRON, Elise GADOULEAU, Timothy GORMAN, Kate SPEAR, Thomas Martin KRULLE, Vasileios ROUMPELAKIS, Spencer Charles Robert NAPIER
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Publication number: 20240167197Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2024Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: 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
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Patent number: 11989583Abstract: Circuitry comprises two or more clusters of execution units, each cluster comprising one or more execution units to execute processing instructions; and scheduler circuitry to maintain one or more queues of processing instructions, the scheduler circuitry comprising picker circuitry to select a queued processing instruction for issue to an execution unit of one of the clusters of execution units for execution; in which: the scheduler circuitry is configured to maintain dependency data associated with each queued processing instruction, the dependency data for a queued processing instruction indicating any source operands which are required to be available for use in execution of that queued processing instruction and to inhibit issue of that queued processing instruction until all of the required source operands for that queued processing instruction are available and is configured to be responsive to an indication to the scheduler circuitry of the availability of the given operand as a source operand for useType: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Chris Abernathy, Eric Charles Quinnell, Abhishek Raja, Michael David Achenbach
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Patent number: 11987505Abstract: The present invention provides improved methods for purifying and/or removing multiply charged cations and suspended solids from water. In particular the process relates to an additive composition that has the appropriate surfactant characteristics for effectively removing multiply charged cations and suspended solids from an aqueous or oil/aqueous mixed phase via foam fractionation. According to the invention, a hydrophobically modified polymer that acts as an associative thickener is used in the presence of a source of alkalinity or anionic reactant as well as surfactant in appropriate ratios to facilitate multiply charged cation and suspended solids removal for water purification in any of a number of commercial, environmental and industrial applications.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: ECOLAB USA INC.Inventors: Victor Fuk-Pong Man, Michael Charles Denoma
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Patent number: 11987836Abstract: A method is provided for generating single-stranded DNA circles from a biological sample. The method comprises the steps of: treating the biological sample with an extractant to release nucleic acids, thereby forming a sample mixture; neutralizing the extractant; denaturing the released nucleic acids to generate single-stranded nucleic acids; and contacting the single-stranded nucleic acids with a ligase that is capable of template-independent, intramolecular ligation of single-stranded DNA to generate the single-stranded DNA circles. All the steps of the method are performed without any intermediate nucleic acid isolation or nucleic acid purification. The single-stranded DNA circles may be amplified and further analyzed. Also provided is a kit which comprises compositions for carrying out the novel methods.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS USA LLCInventors: Ryan Charles Heller, Nichole Lea Wood, Robert Scott Duthie, John Richard Nelson, Wei Gao, Michael James Rishel, Klaus Gustav Hentrich
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Patent number: 11988621Abstract: An apparatus for thermal interface material detection includes a heat dissipating device stack up that includes a heat dissipating device, a thermal interface material, a heat generating component, and a printed circuit board. The heat dissipating device is disposed on the thermal interface material, the thermal interface material is disposed on the heat generating component, and the heat generating component is disposed on the printed circuit board. A channel in a body of the heat dissipating device includes an embedded conductive probe, where a first end of the embedded conductive probe leads to a lower surface of the body of the heat dissipating device and a second end of the embedded conductive probe leads to an upper surface of the body of the heat dissipating device.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Shawn Matthew Johnston, Clinton William Erie, Ryan Paske, Steven Charles Erickson, Michael John MacPherson
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Publication number: 20240158356Abstract: Compounds and methods for treating diseases mediated by a P2X3 and/or a P2X2/3 receptor antagonist, the methods comprising administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or prodrug thereof, wherein X is O, D, Y, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7 and R8 are as defined herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Roche Palo Alto LLCInventors: CHRIS ALLEN BROKA, DAVID SCOTT CARTER, MICHAEL PATRICK DILLON, RONALD CHARLES HAWLEY, ALAM JAHANGIR, CLARA JEOU JEN LIN, DANIEL WARREN PARISH
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Publication number: 20240159790Abstract: Automated pipetting systems and methods are disclosed for aspirating and dispensing fluids, particularly biological samples. In one aspect, a liquid dispenser includes a manifold and one or more pipette channels. The manifold includes a vacuum channel, a pressure channel, and a plurality of lanes. Each lane includes an electrical connector, a port to the pressure channel, and a port to the vacuum channel. The pipette channels can be modular. Each pipette channel includes a single dispense head and can be selectively and independently coupled to any one lane of the plurality of lanes. In some aspects, a valve in the pipette channel is in simultaneous fluid communication with a pressure port and a vacuum port of the manifold. The valve selectively diverts gas under pressure and gas under vacuum to the dispense head in response to control signals received through the electrical connector of the manifold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Stephen LaChance, Alyssa Shedlosky, Alexander Clark, Redeat Girma Alemu, Craig Bark, Steven Charles Rotundo, Michael T. Vansickler
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Publication number: 20240161476Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for identifying an emitter or transmitter (e.g., among a plurality of emitters) to a desired degree of accuracy. The method or system may receive a signal in a receiver from a transmitter, wherein the signal propagates from the transmitter to the receiver. The method or system may demodulate the received signal to generate a demodulated signal having a carrier frequency of zero and determine a bispectrum associated with the demodulated signal. The method or system may classify the bispectrum into a classification using a neural network having been trained to a signal emitted by the transmitter. The method or system may determine an accuracy of the classification based on a probability of the classification being greater than a threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventor: Michael Charles Kleder
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Patent number: 11983395Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for dynamically modifying electronic content presented on a user device by third-party content providers based on goals associated with one or more entities. A content modification system may receive inputs related to goals for a user. The content modification system may synthesize the goals associated with the user. When the user uses a user device to request content from a third-party server, the content modification system may obtain the content and extract items included within the content. The content modification system may modify the content based on the synthesized goals, such as re-arranging the items, highlighting some of the items, or adding and/or removing items. The content modification system may cause the user device to present the modified content.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Gwendolyn Phelan Roberts, Vladimir Bacvanski, Michael Charles Todasco
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Patent number: 11981264Abstract: A device holder assembly that includes a body and a housing coupled to the body. A drive assembly is rotatably coupled to the housing. A leg assembly that includes a first leg and a second leg is coupled to the housing. A first rack gear is coupled to the first leg and the drive assembly. A second rack gear is coupled to the second leg and the drive assembly. The drive assembly permits instantaneous movement of the first leg and the second leg. A first finger is rotatably coupled to the first leg and a second finger is coupled to the second leg. The first finger has a first finger outer surface and the second finger has a second finger outer surface that are generally coplanar with the body outer surface when the first finger and the second finger are in a retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Rafael Rego, Tuan Quoc Nguyen, Bradley Berner, Michael Arbaugh, Gary Vincent Morales, Robert Charles Shipley
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Publication number: 20240150814Abstract: Provided herein is technology related to the chemical modification and purification of DNA. Specifically, the technology provides methods for performing a bisulfite conversion reaction on small amounts of single-stranded, fragmented DNA and performing the subsequent desulfonation and purification steps on magnetic beads.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Michael J. Domanico, Hatim Allawi, Graham P. Lidgard, Brian Aizenstein, Oliver Hunt, Tobias Charles Zutz
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Publication number: 20240151503Abstract: A warhead includes a gas generator, a plurality of barrels, and a plurality of projectiles. The warhead is configured to selectively actuate the gas generator to generate a pressurized gas that energetically propels the projectiles through and out from the barrels to strike a target.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Sean Kevin Treadway, Erik Charles Wemlinger, Michael John Worsham, James Edward Painter, III
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Publication number: 20240153626Abstract: A medical diagnostic kit are described. In one example, a medical diagnostic kit includes a container, and a plurality of medical diagnostic test kits located within the container. Each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits can include equipment necessary to perform a particular self-administered medical diagnostic test. The plurality of medical diagnostic test kits can include at least a first medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a first medical diagnostic test and a second medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a second medical diagnostic test different from the first medical diagnostic test. The container can include a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Michael W. Ferro, JR., Sam Miller, Colman Thomas Bryant, Zachary Carl Nienstedt, Marco Magistri, Adam Charles Carlson, Igor Javier Rodriguez, James Thomas Heising, John Ray Permenter
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Publication number: 20240153893Abstract: Embodiments of an IC device are disclosed. In some embodiments, an integrated circuit (IC) device, includes: an first active semiconductor layer that includes first active semiconductor device regions; a second active semiconductor layer that includes active semiconductor regions, the second active semiconductor layer being connected to the first active semiconductor layer and being positioned over the first active semiconductor layer; a first redistribution layer positioned over the second active conductor layer, the first redistribution layer is electrically connected to the first active semiconductor layer and the second active semiconductor layer; a passivation layer positioned on the first redistribution layer; a second redistribution layer positioned over the passivation layer, wherein the second redistribution layer is electrically connected to the first redistribution layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Michael Carroll, Eric K. Bolton, Ma Shirley Asoy, Xi Luo, Daniel Charles Kerr, Chi-Hsien Chiu
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Publication number: 20240152659Abstract: A method of modifying a CAD system model performed on a data processing system includes receiving a dataset of co-ordinates representing an article in 2d, or in 3d and receiving 2d or 3d constraints respectively, to be applied to any changes to the dataset of co-ordinates for the article. A modification to be applied to the dataset is received and combined with the relevant 2d and 3d constraints to produce a constrained modification for each of the article and associated article. The constrained modification is solved in 2d and in 3d to determine whether a solution exists in which all constraints are met. If the solve is successful, the constrained modification is applied to each dataset simultaneously and, updated datasets are stored. If the solve fails, the constraints may be reduced and the solve step repeated, or the process is terminated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Siemens Industry Software Inc.Inventors: Michael John Gibbens, Douglas Joseph King, Howard Charles Duncan Mattson
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Publication number: 20240155305Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for efficiently rendering audio. A method may include receiving a request to present a first audio track, wherein the first audio track is based on a first audio model comprising a shared model component and a first model component; receiving a request to present a second audio track, wherein the second audio track is based on a second audio model comprising the shared model component and a second model component; rendering a sound based on the first audio track, the second audio track, the shared model component, the first model component, and the second model component; and presenting, via one or more speakers, the an audio signal comprising the rendered sound.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Remi Samuel AUDFRAY, Mark Brandon HERTENSTEINER, Samuel Charles DICKER, Blaine Ivin WOOD, Michael Z. LAND
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Patent number: 11974676Abstract: A body support structure includes a structural lattice structure having a first stiffness, and a compressive lattice structure supported by the structural lattice structure and having a second stiffness less than the first stiffness. A skin lattice structure is supported by the compressive lattice structure, wherein the skin lattice structure is resistant to shear deformation in response to a normal force and is expandable in a direction transverse to the normal force.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: STEELCASE INC.Inventors: Nickolaus William Charles Deevers, Carl V. Forslund, III, John Hamilton, Kurt R. Heidmann, James Ludwig, Bruce Smith, Aaron Michael Porterfield, Sharon L. Tracy, Paul Noll