Patents by Inventor Michael Mackey

Michael Mackey 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: 20160157318
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a light emitting diode (LED) system having a plurality of LED arrays are provided. The lighting system can include a dimmable LED driver circuit configured to provide a driver output suitable for providing a driver current to the LED arrays. A current splitter circuit can be provided between the LED driver circuit and the plurality of LED arrays to control the ratio of current from the driver output provided to each of the plurality of LED arrays. The current splitter circuit can be configured to control the current ratio provided to the plurality of LED arrays independently of the driver output according to a current ratio control curve based at least in part on a variable reference signal provided at the current splitter circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Pritam Yadav, T. Warren Weeks, JR., David John Rector, Martin C. Werr, Anthony Michael Mackey, Bruce Robeson Rhodes
  • Patent number: 9316215
    Abstract: A multiple pump system is disclosed. The multiple pump system may include a fluid tank and a multiple pump vessel connected to the fluid tank. The multiple pump vessel may include at least one first pump and at least one second pump located therein. In addition, the at least one first pump may be configured to dispense a fluid from the fluid tank at a first pressure, and the at least one second pump may be configured to dispense the fluid from the fluid tank at a second pressure. The first pressure may be different from the second pressure, such that the at least one first pump may be configured to dispense liquefied natural gas, and the at least one second pump may be configured to dispense compressed natural gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: GP STRATEGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Patent number: 9267645
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing system may include a first tank configured to contain a first fluid and a second tank configured to contain a second fluid. The system may also include a conditioning system fluidly connected to the second tank. The conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to a lower region of the second tank. The conditioning system may also include a heat exchanger. In addition, the conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to an upper region of the second tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: GP STRATEGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Publication number: 20160012532
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a system, method, and computer readable medium for facilitating a private commodity resource transaction, having logic for establishing a market for the private commodity resource transaction, communicating a plurality of market establishment prompts to the remote computer, establishing a market for the private commodity resource transaction, receiving market establishment offer information comprising a selected subset of potential respondents, offering to the selected subset of potential respondents the private commodity resource transaction, determining which potential respondents of the predetermined set of potential respondents to communicate the market establishment offer information or privately communicating the market establishment offer information to the potential respondents, receiving an acceptance response from at least one the potential respondents, identifying which of the potential respondents is associated with a first complete acceptance, privately communicating to th
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: January 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jon B. Olson, Greg Radcliff, Michael Mackey
  • Publication number: 20150300572
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may include a dispenser for dispensing a liquid. The dispenser may include a measurement chamber configured to receive the liquid, a temperature probe positioned within the measurement chamber, and a capacitance probe positioned within the measurement chamber. The capacitance probe may house the temperature probe. The dispenser may also include a first conduit fluidly coupled to the measurement chamber and configured to deliver the liquid out of the dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2015
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Patent number: 9163785
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may include a fluid dispensing system. The system may include a first tank configured to contain a first fluid and a second tank configured to contain a second fluid. The system may also include a plurality of conduits fluidly connecting the first and second tanks, wherein the first fluid in the first tank is configured to be gravity-fed or pressure-fed to the second tank. The system may also include a conditioning system fluidly connected to the second tank. The conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to a lower region of the second tank. The conditioning system may also include a heat exchanger. In addition, the conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to an upper region of the second tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: GP STRATEGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Patent number: 9052065
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may include a dispenser for dispensing a liquid. The dispenser may include a measurement chamber configured to receive the liquid, a temperature probe positioned within the measurement chamber, and a capacitance probe positioned within the measurement chamber. The capacitance probe may house the temperature probe. The dispenser may also include a first conduit fluidly coupled to the measurement chamber and configured to deliver the liquid out of the dispenser.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: GP STRATEGIES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Publication number: 20140217116
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may include a dispensing system for dispensing a cryogenic fluid. The dispensing system may include a cryogenic fluid dispenser, a pump, and a conduit connecting the pump to the dispenser. The system may also include a processor and a vehicle detection subsystem configured to detect a vehicle. When the vehicle detection subsystem provides to the processor a signal reflecting detection of a vehicle, the processor may initiate a pre-chill operation that prepares at least one of the pump or the dispenser to dispense the cryogenic fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Applicant: GP Strategies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Publication number: 20140034162
    Abstract: A multiple pump system is disclosed. The multiple pump system may include a fluid tank and a multiple pump vessel connected to the fluid tank. The multiple pump vessel may include at least one first pump and at least one second pump located therein. In addition, the at least one first pump may be configured to dispense a fluid from the fluid tank at a first pressure, and the at least one second pump may be configured to dispense the fluid from the fluid tank at a second pressure. The first pressure may be different from the second pressure, such that the at least one first pump may be configured to dispense liquefied natural gas, and the at least one second pump may be configured to dispense compressed natural gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Publication number: 20140007943
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure may include a partition for a fuel tank. The partition may include a sheet of material extending laterally within an interior mid-region of the fuel tank. The sheet may have a length and a width that are at least substantially equal to a length and a width of the mid-region of the fuel tank, and the sheet may be shaped to conform to an interior perimeter of the mid-region of the fuel tank. The partition may also be configured to substantially divide the fuel tank into an upper interior region located above the partition and a lower interior region located below the partition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: GP Strategies Corporation
    Inventors: Michael MACKEY, Douglas Sharp
  • Publication number: 20130263610
    Abstract: A fluid dispensing system. The system may include a first tank configured to contain a first fluid and a second tank configured to contain a second fluid. The system may also include a conditioning system fluidly connected to the second tank. The conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to a lower region of the second tank. The conditioning system may also include a heat exchanger. In addition, the conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to an upper region of the second tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventor: Michael Mackey
  • Publication number: 20130263609
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may include a fluid dispensing system. The system may include a first tank configured to contain a first fluid and a second tank configured to contain a second fluid. The system may also include a plurality of conduits fluidly connecting the first and second tanks, wherein the first fluid in the first tank is configured to be gravity-fed or pressure-fed to the second tank. The system may also include a conditioning system fluidly connected to the second tank. The conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to a lower region of the second tank. The conditioning system may also include a heat exchanger. In addition, the conditioning system may include at least one conduit fluidly coupled to an upper region of the second tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: GP Strategies Corporation
    Inventor: Michael MACKEY
  • Publication number: 20120137708
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure may include a dispenser for dispensing a liquid. The dispenser may include a measurement chamber configured to receive the liquid, a temperature probe positioned within the measurement chamber, and a capacitance probe positioned within the measurement chamber. The capacitance probe may house the temperature probe. The dispenser may also include a first conduit fluidly coupled to the measurement chamber and configured to deliver the liquid out of the dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2011
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventor: Michael MACKEY
  • Publication number: 20100217711
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a system, method, and computer readable medium for facilitating a private commodity resource transaction, having logic for establishing a market for the private commodity resource transaction, communicating a plurality of market establishment prompts to the remote computer, establishing a market for the private commodity resource transaction, receiving market establishment offer information comprising a selected subset of potential respondents, offering to the selected subset of potential respondents the private commodity resource transaction, determining which potential respondents of the predetermined set of potential respondents to communicate the market establishment offer information to, privately communicating the market establishment offer information to the potential respondents, receiving an acceptance response from at least one the potential respondents, identifying which of the potential respondents is associated with a first complete acceptance, privately communicating to t
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: Trumarx Data Partners, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon B. Olson, Greg Radcliff, Michael Mackey
  • Publication number: 20070022313
    Abstract: In a telecommunications network in which a threshold crossing alert (TCA) notification is generated when a threshold set for a variable related to an object of a network element (NE) of the network is crossed, there is provided a method of identifying the object, comprising: creating an entry for the variable in an alarm table of the NE, the entry comprising information concerning the identity of the NE and information concerning the position of the entry in the alarm table, constructing a managed object identity (MOID) of the object and storing this in the alarm table entry, using the alarm table entry to generate the TCA notification when the threshold is crossed, the TCA notification comprising the information concerning the identity of the NE and the information concerning the position of the entry in the alarm table, interrogating the TCA notification to read the information concerning the identity of the NE and the information concerning the position of the entry in the alarm table, accessing the alarm
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2004
    Publication date: January 25, 2007
    Applicants: MARCONI INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (RINGFENCE) INC., Ericsson AB
    Inventors: Michael Mackey, Martin Flynn, Peter Cautley