Patents by Inventor Michael Hart
Michael Hart 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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Patent number: 11974127Abstract: Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: CAPITAL ONE SERVICES, LLCInventors: Kaitlin Newman, Kimberly Haynes, Charles Nathan Crank, Andrew Cogswell, Colin Hart, Jeffrey Rule, Lara Mossler, Latika Gulati, Abdelkader Benkreira, Sarah Jane Cunningham, Sophie Bermudez, Michael Mossoba, Wayne Lutz
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Publication number: 20240133905Abstract: Cell deposition and staining apparatuses and methods are disclosed herein. In particular, the deposition and staining apparatuses disclosed herein provide low-volume, automated bench top systems for depositing and staining cellular samples on a cytological slide. An example deposition and staining apparatus includes a housing having an access door; a substrate processing holder located within the housing configured to hold one or more substrates and/or one or more substrate cartridges, wherein the substrate processing holder is accessible when the access door is in an open configuration; at least one opening located at least partially above at least a portion of the substrate processing holder; a spray nozzle configured to dispense a gaseous substance into the substrate processing area; a user interface configured receive an input from a user, and in response to receiving the input, cause execution of a pre-programmed protocol; and a waste and/or reagent holder element.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Hariharan Subramanian, Michael Verleye, Micah Litow, Justin R. Derbas, Sergey Rozhok, John Hart, Chester Henderson, Rebecca Bartel, Nathan Ray, Anthony White
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Patent number: 11968271Abstract: Systems and methods for sender profile and/or recipient profile disambiguation and/or confirmation are disclosed. In instances where a sender profile is not indicated by a user sending a communication from a communal device, heuristic data may be utilized to infer the sender profile. Similar heuristic data may also be used when selection of the sender profile is associated with a low confidence level. Heuristic data may also be used to infer the recipient profile when the user does not indicate the recipient profile or when selection of the recipient profile is associated with a low confidence. Various confirmations may result from the sender and recipient profile disambiguation.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Christopher Geiger Parker, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, James Alexander Stanton, Aaron Takayanagi Barnet, Venkatesh Kancharla, Gregory Michael Hart
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Patent number: 11958213Abstract: A tile saw includes a saw with a cutting blade, a frame supporting the saw, a table supporting a workpiece and being slidable relative to the frame, and a rear fence secured to the table. The rear fence has an engagement surface and is adjustable between an operating position and a bypassed position. The bypassed position includes the engagement surface of the fence being no higher than even with the planar surface of the table to allow a workpiece to extend beyond a rear edge of the table. In the operating position, the engagement surface of the rear fence projects axially from the planar surface of the table to support the workpiece as the workpiece is pushed into the cutting blade during operation. The fence can be adjusted between the operating and bypassed positions by using any one of a cam lever clamp, pin and guideway, or rotatable latch.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: TECHTRONIC CORDLESS GPInventors: Nicholas Costanzo, Michael Hart, Eric M. Nevel, Charles Moody Wacker, II, Ryan Burt
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Patent number: 11935041Abstract: Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission system between transmitting and receiving devices are provided. In an embodiment, each of the transmitting and receiving devices can contain a master key. The transmitting device can generate a diversified key using the master key, protect a counter value and encrypt data prior to transmitting to the receiving device, which can generate the diversified key based on the master key and can decrypt the data and validate the protected counter value using the diversified key.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Kaitlin Newman, Colin Hart, Jeffrey Rule, Lara Mossler, Sophie Bermudez, Michael Mossoba, Wayne Lutz, Charles Nathan Crank, Melissa Heng, Kevin Osborn, Kimberly Haynes, Andrew Cogswell, Latika Gulati, Sarah Jane Cunningham, James Ashfield
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Publication number: 20240082129Abstract: The present disclosure relates to hair coloring base compositions and ready-to-use hair coloring compositions comprising 2-methoxymethyl-P-phenylenediamine, an oxidative dye precursor. The hair coloring base composition is mixed with a developer composition to form a ready-to-use hair coloring composition having a lower than typical pH, 7. These compositions are effective for coloring hair, especially beard hair. The color imparted to the hair is long-lasting (tenacious) and skin sensitivity due to the coloring process is minimized or prevented. Methods for making the composition and methods for coloring hair, especially beard hair, are also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Taylor Katherine HART, Kimberly DREHER, Brian Michael KLUCK, Minli SHI
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Patent number: 11893603Abstract: Techniques for selecting and providing highly targeted, interactive advertisements in a personalized manner. These advertisements may be audio-only advertisements, video-only advertisements, or advertisements that include both audio and video. As described below, advertisements may be selected and/or generated for a particular user based on an array of factors, including the user's interactions with multiple different client devices (e.g., a tablet computing device, a voice-controlled device, a television etc.), as well as additional behavior of the user. In some instances, the client devices may include a voice-controlled device that the user interacts with via voice commands and that provides audible content for output to the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Michael Hart, Ian W. Freed
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Publication number: 20240005918Abstract: An audio controlled assistant captures environmental noise and converts the environmental noise into audio signals. The audio signals are provided to a system which analyzes the audio signals for a plurality of audio prompts, which have been customized for the acoustic environment surrounding the audio controlled assistant by an acoustic modeling system. The system configured to detect the presence of an audio prompt in the audio signals and transmit instructions associated with the detected audio prompt to at least one of the audio controlled assistant or one or more cloud based services, in response.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: John Daniel Thimsen, Gregory Michael Hart, Ryan Paul Thomas
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Patent number: 11862153Abstract: An audio controlled assistant captures environmental noise and converts the environmental noise into audio signals. The audio signals are provided to a system which analyzes the audio signals for a plurality of audio prompts, which have been customized for the acoustic environment surrounding the audio controlled assistant by an acoustic modeling system. The system configured to detect the presence of an audio prompt in the audio signals and transmit instructions associated with the detected audio prompt to at least one of the audio controlled assistant or one or more cloud based services, in response.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: John Daniel Thimsen, Gregory Michael Hart, Ryan Paul Thomas
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Patent number: 11755381Abstract: A request is received from a client device at a first datacenter of a distributed cloud computing network. The first request triggers execution of code at the distributed cloud computing network. The execution of the code includes transmitting additional requests to destination(s) external to the distributed cloud computing network. A second datacenter of the distributed cloud computing network is selected to execute the code, where the selection is based on an optimization goal. The code is executed at the second datacenter. The first datacenter receives a result from the code being executed at the second datacenter. The first datacenter transmits a response to the client device that is based at least in part on the result.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2023Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.Inventors: Michael Hart, Alyson Cabral, Kenton Taylor Varda
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Publication number: 20230216927Abstract: Systems and methods for sender profile and/or recipient profile disambiguation and/or confirmation are disclosed. In instances where a sender profile is not indicated by a user sending a communication from a communal device, heuristic data may be utilized to infer the sender profile. Similar heuristic data may also be used when selection of the sender profile is associated with a low confidence level. Heuristic data may also be used to infer the recipient profile when the user does not indicate the recipient profile or when selection of the recipient profile is associated with a low confidence. Various confirmations may result from the sender and recipient profile disambiguation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2022Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Christopher Geiger Parker, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, James Alexander Stanton, Aaron Takayanagi Barnet, Venkatesh Kancharla, Gregory Michael Hart
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Patent number: 11675774Abstract: Distributed system resources may be managed by applying user created policies to the resources. To ensure that valid policies are applied, remote validation for the policies may be implemented. A validation event for a policy may be detected. A remote validation agent may be identified for the policy and a validation request sent to the remote validation agent that includes information for validating the policy. The remote validation agent may return a validation result for the policy. If valid, a policy action that triggered the remote validation event for the policy may be allowed. If invalid, the policy action that triggered the remote validation event for the policy may be denied.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2016Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Collins, Zachary Mohamed Shalla, Marvin Michael Theimer, John Petry, Michael Hart, Serge Hairanian, Anders Samuelsson, Salvador Salazar Sepulveda, Ji Luo
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Publication number: 20230160752Abstract: Methods, systems and devices are disclosed to detect and compensate wavefront errors associated with light that spans a large range of wavelengths and different polarization states. One example system includes an optical wavefront sensor that is positioned to receive input light after propagation through a turbulent medium, such as air or water or other liquids, and to detect a wavefront error associated with at least one spectral component of the received light that has a plurality of spectral components. The system further includes a wavefront compensator that is positioned to receive the input light and to simultaneously effectuate wavefront corrections for the plurality of spectral components of the input light based on the detected wavefront error.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Stanley Pau, Michael Hart
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Patent number: 11657812Abstract: Methods and systems for providing message playback using a shared electronic device is described herein. In response to receiving a request to output messages, a speech-processing system may determine a group account associated with a requesting device, and may determine messages stored by a message data store for the group account. Speaker identification processing may also be performed to determine a speaker of the request. A user account associated with the speaker, and messages stored for the user account, may be determined. A summary response indicating the user account's messages and the group account's message may then be generated such that the user account messages are identified prior to the group account's messages. The messages may then be analyzed to determine an appropriate voice user interface for the requester such that the playback of the messages using a shared electronic device is more natural and conversational.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Brian Oliver, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, Gregory Michael Hart, Ran Mokady
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Patent number: 11630377Abstract: A lens assembly includes a lens having an inner surface and an outer surface. A lens barrel supports the lens and has outer and inner lens barrel ends separated by a longitudinal axis. The lens is arranged along the longitudinal axis to span the outer lens barrel end such that the inner surface of the lens is within the lens barrel and the outer surface of the lens is outside the lens barrel. A heater element is located within the lens barrel. The heater element has a heater element electrical lead extending radially and longitudinally therefrom to provide power to the heater element. A carrier ring extends circumferentially around at least a portion of an outside lens barrel surface adjacent the inner lens barrel end. The carrier ring includes at least one lead station radially aligned with the heater element electrical lead.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Anthony Louis Rivas, Thomas E. Blake, III, Michael A. Hart
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Publication number: 20230055616Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are described that enable improved determination of wavefront errors associated with light traveling through turbulent media, such as through the atmosphere. The described systems use a Rayleigh-Raman polychromatic laser guide star (RRPLGS) to measure the tilt at the wavelength of observation by making use of the dispersion of the refractive index of air and differential tilt measurements at multiple combinations of wavelengths based on the Rayleigh and Raman back-scattered light. The described RRPLGS systems have a number of advantages, including scalability of returned flux and flexibility in selection of short wavelengths, allowing for a combination of multiple tilt measurements, and enabling characterization of the turbulent media without relying on photons from the object of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Michael Hart, Lennon Reinhart
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Patent number: 11546434Abstract: Systems and methods for sender profile and/or recipient profile disambiguation and/or confirmation are disclosed. In instances where a sender profile is not indicated by a user sending a communication from a communal device, heuristic data may be utilized to infer the sender profile. Similar heuristic data may also be used when selection of the sender profile is associated with a low confidence level. Heuristic data may also be used to infer the recipient profile when the user does not indicate the recipient profile or when selection of the recipient profile is associated with a low confidence. Various confirmations may result from the sender and recipient profile disambiguation.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christo Frank Devaraj, Christopher Geiger Parker, Sumedha Arvind Kshirsagar, James Alexander Stanton, Aaron Takayanagi Barnet, Venkatesh Kancharla, Gregory Michael Hart
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Patent number: 11545115Abstract: A video display hub is mounted in a common household area such as a kitchen or family room. The display hub is configured to display various types of information for users in the area, such as weather, traffic updates, schedules, notes, messages, lists, news, etc. When the user is at a distance from the display hub, information is presented at a relatively low density, with a low level of granularity and detail in conjunction with large fonts, graphics, and icons. When the user is close to the display hub, information is presented at a relatively high density, with a high level of granularity and detail in conjunction with small fonts, graphics, and icons.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2019Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Douglas McQueen, Meng Li, Eric Alan Breitbard, Robert Steven Murdock, Julien George Beguin, Gregory Michael Hart, Scott Ian Blanksteen
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Patent number: 11495229Abstract: Devices and techniques are generally described for sending a first instruction for a device to output first content while the speech-processing device is in an ambient state during a first time period. First feedback data is received indicating that a first action associated with the first content was requested at a first time. A determination is made that the first time is during the first time period. Timing data related to a current time of the device is determined. Second content is determined based at least in part on the first action being requested during the first time period and the timing data. A second instruction is sent effective to cause the device to output second content while in the ambient state during a second time period.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Guoning Hu, Michael Hart, Seth Brickman, Ashok Gupta, David Jason Jones, Sandy Huang Cook
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Patent number: 11488591Abstract: Techniques for altering audio being output by a voice-controlled device, or another device, to enable more accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) by the voice-controlled device. For instance, a voice-controlled device may output audio within an environment using a speaker of the device. While outputting the audio, a microphone of the device may capture sound within the environment and may generate an audio signal based on the captured sound. The device may then analyze the audio signal to identify speech of a user within the signal, with the speech indicating that the user is going to provide a subsequent command to the device. Thereafter, the device may alter the output of the audio (e.g., attenuate the audio, pause the audio, switch from stereo to mono, etc.) to facilitate speech recognition of the user's subsequent command.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2019Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Michael Hart, William Spencer Worley, III