Patents by Inventor Michael Leonard

Michael Leonard 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: 11946000
    Abstract: A hydrocarbon cracker stream is combined with recycle content pyrolysis oil to form a combined cracker stream and the combined cracker stream is cracked in a cracker furnace to provide an olefin-containing effluent. The r-pyoil can be fed to the cracker feed. More specifically the-pyoil is present in said feedstock in an amount of not more than 20% by weight, based on the total weight of the feedstock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Daryl Bitting, Kenny Randolph Parker, Michael Gary Polasek, David Eugene Slivensky, Xianchun Wu, Jerome Leonard Stavinoha, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11935055
    Abstract: An Automated Teller Machine (ATM) terminal receives a transaction request from a user. The ATM terminal triggers a camera to capture a first image of the authentication media item presented by the user, where the first image of the authentication media item is embedded with a first unique code. The ATM terminal compares the first image of the authentication media item with a second image of the authentication media item that is associated with the user, where the second image of the authentication media item is embedded with a second unique code for verifying the user. The ATM terminal determines whether the first unique code corresponds to the second unique code. The ATM terminal conducts the transaction request if it is determined that the first unique code corresponds to the second unique code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Srilekha Mudumbai Srinivasa, Brandon Sloane, Jinyoung Nathan Kim, Regina Yee Cadavid, Nia Mack, Ramkumar Korlepara, Elliott Leonard Lillard, Philip Lone Mintac, Michael Jacob Richardson, Gloria Youngsook Joo
  • Patent number: 11929089
    Abstract: An apparatus for processing a multichannel audio signal has a plurality of channel signals. The apparatus performs a time scale modulation of the multichannel audio signal and has a phase adaptor and a separator. The phase adaptor provides a processed signal by modifying a phase of a signal based on a combination of the channel signals. The separator provides separated signals based on the processed signal. A corresponding method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Christian Uhle, Michael Kratz, Paul Klose, Timothy Leonard, André Luvizotto, Sebastian Scharrer
  • Publication number: 20230279851
    Abstract: An integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station including a remote wireless communication unit located remotely from and in wireless communication with the emergency station to improve wireless reception in the integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Leonard Flaster
  • Patent number: 11727484
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for creation of securities based upon servicing records verified via a blockchain distributed ledger. The Blockchain is distributed to Participants in the Loan, such as the Borrowers, Regulators, Servicers, and Vendors. Participants may submit an aggregation criteria, such as for example a criteria used for selecting loans to be included in a securitization pool. The present disclosure further provides a method for homogenizing a variety of loan criteria and memorializing execution of a smart contract on the Blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Inventors: Shane Michael Leonard, Richard Sheridan Collins
  • Publication number: 20230205304
    Abstract: A system and method for efficient power management of an integrated circuit are described. In various implementations, a computing system includes an integrated circuit, multiple voltage regulators, and circuitry that detects when current drawn from a power rail from one of the multiple voltage regulators exceeds a limit. Upon detection, a single global alarm signal is asserted and conveyed to the integrate circuit. The integrated circuit includes at least a first group of functional blocks sharing a first power rail and a second group of functional blocks sharing a second power rail. When the global alarm signal is asserted, the functional blocks of the first group and the second group perform steps to immediately reduce power consumption. In order to maintain performance and satisfy a quality of service (QoS) parameter, a power management controller of the integrated circuit reassigns power limits shortly thereafter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Xiuting C. Man, Xiaojie He, Michael Leonard Golden, Richard M. Born
  • Publication number: 20230182152
    Abstract: A vehicle may include an undercarriage with a vacuum spoils tank and a multi-cyclone body housing mounted thereon. A vacuum spoils tank may be in fluid connection to the multi-cyclone body housing. The vacuum spoils tank may include both an inlet and an outlet. A multi-cyclone body may be housed within the multi-cyclone body housing. The housing may be positioned at the vacuum spoils tank outlet, and the multi-cyclone body may carry a plurality of mini-cyclonic chambers. Each mini-cyclonic chamber may include an outlet tube and a mini-cyclonic separator. The mini-cyclonic separator may be in fluid communication with the vacuum spoils tank outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Leonard Anderson
  • Publication number: 20230165325
    Abstract: In one aspect, a knitted loop for a mask or garment is formed by a process including providing a yarn, knitting the yarn to form an individual loop, cutting the individual loop to form two ends, and attaching at least one end of the two ends to a garment. In another aspect, a knitted loop for a mask or garment is formed by a process including providing a yarn, knitting the yarn to form a fabric tube, cutting the fabric tube into at least one individual loop, and attaching the at least one individual loop to a garment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: SIGVARIS AG
    Inventors: Michael LEONARD, Tommy WOODEN
  • Patent number: 11649818
    Abstract: An integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station including a remote wireless communication unit located remotely from and in wireless communication with the emergency station to improve wireless reception in the integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: FFP2028, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Leonard Flaster
  • Publication number: 20220163029
    Abstract: An integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station including a remote wireless communication unit located remotely from and in wireless communication with the emergency station to improve wireless reception in the integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Leonard Flaster
  • Patent number: 11294784
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for providing predictive user interface elements. A computing system may train a machine-learning model to identify issues that are likely being experienced by users contacting a customer service system based at least in part on historical user account data of a plurality of user accounts. When a request for assistance is received, user account data corresponding to the request may be obtained and provided to the model to identify issues likely experienced by a user. A number of graphical user interface (GUI) elements (e.g., “match cards”), each corresponding to one of the identified issues, may be generated, ranked, and presented in accordance with the ranking. Each GUI element may be selectable. Upon selection additional data likely to be pertinent to the selected issue may be presented alleviating a need to search for this data as would be the case in conventional systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik Bergman, Katherine M. Ryan, Jera Vincelli, Edward Michael Leonard, Alper Aras, Jeffrey Pratt, Christer Garbis, James Rosenblum, Brian Kropf
  • Patent number: 11255324
    Abstract: An integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station including a remote wireless communication unit located remotely from and in wireless communication with the emergency station to improve wireless reception in the integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: FFP2018, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Leonard Flaster
  • Patent number: 11244391
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for ingesting Legacy Records of mortgage loan servicing actions onto a Blockchain. Legacy data is converted from a relational database format into a blockchain format and entered as one or more blocks on a blockchain. Portions of the blockchain are distributed to Participants in the blockchain, such as the Borrowers, Regulators, Servicers, and Vendors. The present disclosure further provides a method for homogenizing a variety of Vendor Formats for inclusion on the Blockchain and memorializing execution of a smart contract on the Blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Inventors: Richard Sheridan Collins, Shane Michael Leonard
  • Patent number: 11243813
    Abstract: Manage a request for a computing service through a hub solution available on a network. The underlying network fabric is the communication bus between individual processes that make up a service request. A process orchestrator may publish an Internet Protocol (IP) address for service requests such as printing services, email services, Active Directory (AD) services and similar service requests. The process orchestrator may determine which processes are to be executed to complete the service request and offload the processes to an available computing resources on the network. Examples of computing resources for each process include a virtual machine and a hardware based process engine. The process orchestrator may manage the processes and act as the primary point of interface for an endpoint host requesting the service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Todd Douglas Robinson, Stephen Michael Leonard, Hamza Yaswi, Rebecca E. Lutz
  • Publication number: 20220027988
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for creation of securities based upon servicing records verified via a blockchain distributed ledger. The Blockchain is distributed to Participants in the Loan, such as the Borrowers, Regulators, Servicers, and Vendors. Participants may submit an aggregation criteria, such as for example a criteria used for selecting loans to be included in a securitization pool. The present disclosure further provides a method for homogenizing a variety of loan criteria and memorializing execution of a smart contract on the Blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: Ranieri IP, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Leonard, Richard Sheridan Collins
  • Patent number: 11156605
    Abstract: The invention, depending on aspect and embodiment, relates to capture probe controls, and capture and signal probe configurations and combinations of configurations that can facilitate accurate and efficient multiplex analyte detection, especially in electrochemical detection schemes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Leonard Wood, Aviva Ruth Jacobs
  • Patent number: 11138658
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for aggregating Mortgage Loans based upon servicing records verified via a blockchain distributed ledger. The Blockchain is distributed to Participants in the Loan, such as the Borrowers, Regulators, Servicers, and Vendors. Participants may submit an aggregation criteria, such as for example a criteria used for selecting loans to be included in a securitization pool. The present disclosure further provides a method for homogenizing a variety of loan criteria and memorializing execution of a smart contract on the Blockchain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Ranieri IP, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Leonard, Richard Sheridan Collins
  • Patent number: 11027243
    Abstract: The invention provides polymer-grafted and functionalized nonwoven membranes adapted for use in bioseparation processes, the membranes including a nonwoven web of polyester fibers having an average fiber diameter of less than about 1.5 microns, each of the plurality of polyester fibers having grafted thereon a plurality of polymer segments constructed of a methacrylate polymer, each polymer segment carrying a functional group adapted for binding to a target molecule. The invention also provides a method of bioseparation comprising passing a solution comprising the target molecule, such as a protein, through the nonwoven membrane of the invention such that at least a portion of the target molecule in the solution binds to the nonwoven membrane. A method for preparing a polymer-grafted and functionalized nonwoven membrane adapted for use in bioseparation processes is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: North Carolina State University
    Inventors: Michael Leonard Heller, Ruben G. Carbonell, Behnam Pourdeyhimi
  • Publication number: 20210103984
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for aggregating Mortgage Loans based upon servicing records verified via a blockchain distributed ledger. The Blockchain is distributed to Participants in the Loan, such as the Borrowers, Regulators, Servicers, and Vendors. Participants may submit an aggregation criteria, such as for example a criteria used for selecting loans to be included in a securitization pool. The present disclosure further provides a method for homogenizing a variety of loan criteria and memorializing execution of a smart contract on the Blockchain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Applicant: Ranieri IP, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Leonard, Richard Sheridan Collins
  • Publication number: 20200408204
    Abstract: An integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station including a remote wireless communication unit located remotely from and in wireless communication with the emergency station to improve wireless reception in the integrated, portable, battery-powered, variable-pressure electric liquid pump and power emergency station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Leonard Flaster