Patents by Inventor Michael Lane
Michael Lane 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: 11959445Abstract: In a fuel injector, the temperature differential between a distributor plate, through which relatively cool fuel passes, and the manifold to which the distributor plate is bonded causes stresses and strains that can reduce the durability and longevity of the fuel injector. In disclosed embodiments, the distributor plate is bonded to an outer arm and inner arm. These arms act as levers to take up the stresses and strains caused by the temperature differential, thereby increasing the durability and longevity of the fuel injector.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Solar Turbines IncorporatedInventors: Michael A. Lane, Ricardo Aleman, Robert Fanella
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Patent number: 11938989Abstract: A child seat includes a base and a seatback movable relative thereto between a retracted position, in which the seatback preferably is flush with a top of the base, and an extended position, in which a sitting area of the child seat is exposed for sitting and in which the seatback serves to support a child's back. The seatback of the child seat preferably includes a seat belt for restraint of a child when seated in the sitting area. A shopping cart includes the child seat. The seatback includes a gate movable between a retracted position, in which the gate preferably is flush with the seatback, and an extended position, in which the gate extends in a generally upright manner and partially blocks leg openings of the basket to keep items from falling there through when the seatback is in the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: ZIBRA, LLCInventors: Michael Milton Sherman, William Lane Ball
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Patent number: 11926584Abstract: The invention provides methods of preparing 8-hydroxy-2,2,14,14-tetramethylpentadecanedioic acid and methods of making a pharmaceutical material comprising a purified amount of 8-hydroxy-2,2,14,14-tetramethylpentadecanedioic acid. Also provided are compositions and pharmaceutical materials including a purified amount of 8-hydroxy-2,2,14,14-tetramethylpentadecanedioic acid as well as methods of treating various diseases and conditions using the compositions and pharmaceutical materials.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Esperion Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Richard Copp, Mohamed Abdelnasser, Christopher M. Cimarusti, Jonathan Lane, Michael Barkman, Rasidul Amin, Arthur John Cooper, Damodaragounder Gopal, Philipp Selig
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Patent number: 11918331Abstract: A movement detection device includes a signal transmission device configured to transmit a radar signal transmission toward a target area and to receive reflected radar signals, and a signal analysis device configured to analyze the reflected radar signals to detect a movement in the target area that is indicative of micro-shivering. In response to detecting the micro-shivering, the movement detection device generates an alarm.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Steven D. Baker, Jennifer Bergstrom, Heinz-Hermann Dalbert, Brandon P. Fisk, Yongji Fu, Michael S. Hood, Charles A. Lachenbruch, John A. Lane, Kenzi L. Mudge, Matthew O'Neal, Frank E. Sauser, Douglas A. Seim, Gregory J. Shannon
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Publication number: 20230344833Abstract: A resource-access management system detects whether a user is authorized to access resources. The system may include a user device being configured to include a sensor that detects sensor data associated with the user. Further, the system includes a client qualification engine that determines whether or not a client is authorized to access the resources by comparing the sensor data with a plurality of patterns for evaluating whether or not the user is an authorized user. User scores are generated based on the compared sensor data and the plurality of patterns. Further, a composite score corresponding to the user is generated using the sensor data, plurality of patterns, and one or more additional criteria. Whether the user is granted access to the resources, presented with unauthorized user tests, or blocked from access to the resources depends on the composite score and threshold values.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Applicant: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.Inventors: Fengpei Du, Michael Lane, Kenneth Ives-Halperin
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Patent number: 11736487Abstract: A resource-access management system detects whether a user is authorized to access resources. The system may include a user device being configured to include a sensor that detects sensor data associated with the user. Further, the system includes a client qualification engine that determines whether or not a client is authorized to access the resources by comparing the sensor data with a plurality of patterns for evaluating whether or not the user is an authorized user. User scores are generated based on the compared sensor data and the plurality of patterns. Further, a composite score corresponding to the user is generated using the sensor data, plurality of patterns, and one or more additional criteria. Whether the user is granted access to the resources, presented with unauthorized user tests, or blocked from access to the resources depends on the composite score and threshold values.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2022Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.Inventors: Fengpei Du, Michael Lane, Kenneth Ives-Halperin
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Patent number: 11707800Abstract: A marking system for decorating one or more workpieces includes a plurality of marking stations that can mark product images on blank workpieces to produce product workpieces, at least some of which have different sizes, shapes, materials, or a combination thereof, a control system that can select one of the plurality of marking stations and send product image data to the selected one of the plurality of marking stations, and a robotic manipulator that can transport a blank workpiece to the selected marking station under the control of the robotic manipulator. The selected marking station can mark the product image the blank workpiece based on the product image data which produces a product workpiece. The robotic manipulator can remove the product workpiece from the selected one of the plurality of marking stations.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Shutterfly, L.L.CInventors: Michael Lane Polk, David Lynn Hall
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Patent number: 11672074Abstract: A plasma confinement system includes an enclosure, one or more internal magnetic coils suspended within the enclosure in a plasma region, and one or more supports configured to support the one or more internal magnetic coils suspended within the enclosure. Each support of the one or more supports includes a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end is coupled to an interior portion of the enclosure and the second end is coupled to a component disposed within the plasma region. Each support further includes electrical conducting material disposed between the first end and the second end. The electrical conducting material is configured to, when supplied with one or more electrical currents, generate a magnetic field having a magnetic field gradient that varies along the support from the first end to the second end.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: June 6, 2023Assignee: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Jonathon Robert Heinrich, Thomas John McGuire, Gabriel Ivan Font, Michael Lane Garrett
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Publication number: 20230158603Abstract: A marking system for decorating one or more workpieces includes a plurality of marking stations that can mark product images on blank workpieces to produce product workpieces, at least some of which have different sizes, shapes, materials, or a combination thereof, a control system that can select one of the plurality of marking stations and send product image data to the selected one of the plurality of marking stations, and a robotic manipulator that can transport a blank workpiece to the selected marking station under the control of the robotic manipulator. The selected marking station can mark the product image the blank workpiece based on the product image data which produces a product workpiece. The robotic manipulator can remove the product workpiece from the selected one of the plurality of marking stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: Shutterfly, LLCInventors: Michael Lane Polk, David Lynn Hall
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Patent number: 11648628Abstract: A method for matching and tracking workpieces in laser etching operation includes generating by the computer a label image that uniquely identifies the workpiece, moving a laser head to the workpiece, setting the laser head to a first power level by a power controller, etching the product image on the workpiece using a laser beam emitted from the laser head, wherein the laser beam is modulated at the first power level in accordance with a product image in a pixel wise fashion across the workpiece, moving the laser head to the label by the transport mechanism, setting the laser head to a second power level by the power controller, etching the label image on the workpiece using a laser beam emitted from the laser head, wherein the laser beam is modulated at the second power level in accordance with the label image in a pixel wise fashion across the label.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2022Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: Shutterfly, LLCInventors: David Lynn Hall, Michael Lane Polk, Gregory Lee Franklin
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Publication number: 20230084647Abstract: A resource-access management system detects whether a user is authorized to access resources. The system may include a user device being configured to include a sensor that detects sensor data associated with the user. Further, the system includes a client qualification engine that determines whether or not a client is authorized to access the resources by comparing the sensor data with a plurality of patterns for evaluating whether or not the user is an authorized user. User scores are generated based on the compared sensor data and the plurality of patterns. Further, a composite score corresponding to the user is generated using the sensor data, plurality of patterns, and one or more additional criteria. Whether the user is granted access to the resources, presented with unauthorized user tests, or blocked from access to the resources depends on the composite score and threshold values.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Fengpei Du, Michael Lane, Kenneth Ives-Halperin
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Patent number: 11524360Abstract: A marking system for decorating one or more workpieces includes a plurality of marking stations that can mark product images on blank workpieces to produce product workpieces, at least some of which have different sizes, shapes, materials, or a combination thereof, a control system that can select one of the plurality of marking stations and send product image data to the selected one of the plurality of marking stations, and a robotic manipulator that can transport a blank workpiece to the selected marking station under the control of the robotic manipulator. The selected marking station can mark the product image the blank workpiece based on the product image data which produces a product workpiece. The robotic manipulator can remove the product workpiece from the selected one of the plurality of marking stations.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 13, 2022Assignee: Shutterfly, LLCInventors: Michael Lane Polk, David Lynn Hall
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Publication number: 20220379407Abstract: A method for matching and tracking workpieces in laser etching operation includes generating by the computer a label image that uniquely identifies the workpiece, moving a laser head to the workpiece, setting the laser head to a first power level by a power controller, etching the product image on the workpiece using a laser beam emitted from the laser head, wherein the laser beam is modulated at the first power level in accordance with a product image in a pixel wise fashion across the workpiece, moving the laser head to the label by the transport mechanism, setting the laser head to a second power level by the power controller, etching the label image on the workpiece using a laser beam emitted from the laser head, wherein the laser beam is modulated at the second power level in accordance with the label image in a pixel wise fashion across the label.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2022Publication date: December 1, 2022Applicant: Shutterfly, LLCInventors: David Lynn Hall, Michael Lane Polk, Gregory Lee Franklin
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Patent number: 11481041Abstract: Low-profile keysets and input devices having such low-profile keysets are described. In one example, the input device includes a support structure having a first and second surface; a bezel having a first and second surface, wherein the first surface of the bezel is adjacent to the first surface of the support structure, and the bezel comprises at least one opening; at least one key cap positioned within the at least one opening of the bezel, wherein each key cap is configured to move between a first and second position to trigger a function of the input device; and a fabric cover layer positioned adjacent to the second surface of the bezel, such that the bezel and the at least one key cap are positioned between the fabric cover layer and the support structure, the fabric cover layer is only adhered to the second surface of the bezel.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2020Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael Francis Deily, Michael Gordon Oldani, Yajing Liu, David Paul Platt, David Michael Lane, Thomas Joseph Longo
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Patent number: 11451553Abstract: A resource-access management system detects whether a user is authorized to access resources. The system may include a user device being configured to include a sensor that detects sensor data associated with the user. Further, the system includes a client qualification engine that determines whether or not a client is authorized to access the resources by comparing the sensor data with a plurality of patterns for evaluating whether or not the user is an authorized user. User scores are generated based on the compared sensor data and the plurality of patterns. Further, a composite score corresponding to the user is generated using the sensor data, plurality of patterns, and one or more additional criteria. Whether the user is granted access to the resources, presented with unauthorized user tests, or blocked from access to the resources depends on the composite score and threshold values.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.Inventors: Fengpei Du, Michael Lane, Kenneth Ives-Halperin
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Publication number: 20220249823Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a vascular access device (1) comprising a vascular access tube (2), such as a cannula, having a distal end region (3) terminating in a tip (4) for insertion into a blood vessel (V) of a patient and at least one lumen (5) for infusing a medicament and/or for introducing one or more catheters there-through into the blood vessel (V). The device (1) further comprises a fixation mechanism (10) that is operable to secure or fix the distal end region (3) of the vascular access tube (2) with respect to the patient to inhibit or prevent withdrawal of the tip (4) from the blood vessel (V) and/or to inhibit or prevent overinsertion of the tip (4) into the blood vessel (V).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: August 11, 2022Inventors: Scott Ryan MURPHY, Chris KYUNG, Christopher Michael ROGAN, Nyan Ye KHIN, David Michael LANE, Rodney James LANE
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Publication number: 20220245255Abstract: A system for secure processor virtualization including a secure initialization memory and one or more processors coupled to the secure initialization memory is disclosed. The secure initialization memory includes initialization instructions for launching a security runtime environment before operating systems and cryptographic keying for security handoffs. The processors are configured to retrieve the initialization instructions from the secure initialization memory at startup, execute the initialization instructions to launch the security runtime environment and retrieve at least a portion of the cryptographic keying, and generate specific keying for chip-level resources the processors by combining instruction sets of the chip-level resources and the cryptographic keying.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2020Publication date: August 4, 2022Applicant: Lockheed Martin CorporationInventors: Scott Edwin HINNERSHITZ, David Jose LOPEZ, Jason Todd KAUL, Michael Lane SMITH
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Patent number: 11389904Abstract: A method for matching and tracking workpieces in laser etching operation includes generating by the computer a label image that uniquely identifies the workpiece, moving a laser head to the workpiece, setting the laser head to a first power level by a power controller, etching the product image on the workpiece using a laser beam emitted from the laser head, wherein the laser beam is modulated at the first power level in accordance with a product image in a pixel wise fashion across the workpiece, moving the laser head to the label by the transport mechanism, setting the laser head to a second power level by the power controller, etching the label image on the workpiece using a laser beam emitted from the laser head, wherein the laser beam is modulated at the second power level in accordance with the label image in a pixel wise fashion across the label.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Shutterfly, LLCInventors: David Lynn Hall, Michael Lane Polk, Gregory Lee Franklin
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Patent number: D948161Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Inventor: Michael Lane Sinclair Alston
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Patent number: D990566Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Shutterfly, LLCInventors: Michael Lane Polk, Gregory Lee Franklin