Patents by Inventor Michael Neil
Michael Neil 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: 20240184517Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for associating electronic devices together based on received commands are described. Methods for associating an audio-controlled device with a physically separate device with different hardware capabilities such that commands spoken to the audio-controlled device that require the hardware capabilities of the physically separate device can be streamlined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Justin-Josef Angel, Eric Alan Breitbard, Sean Robert Ryan, Robert Steven Murdock, Michael Douglas McQueen, Ryan Charles Chase, Colin Neil Swann
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Patent number: 11999394Abstract: A Railroad Tie Management System is disclosed that can provide an efficient and organized method of inspecting and auditing ties in a rail system. Tie mark files can be retrieved by a client from a server or database in operable communication with the client, and upon instantiation of an inspection process governed by the system, an inspection information table and tie grid can be generated. The tie grid can operable to receive commands from a user, and the inspection information table is operable to automatically increment and decrement fields contained within in response to changes within the tie grid. The tie grid can also be configured to incorporate data from tie scans and serve the data to the client in a useful and user-friendly manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2022Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: BNSF Railway CompanyInventors: Michael James Brick, Samuel Minton, Christopher Neil Pickard, Phillip Hunt, Justin Lee Devine
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Publication number: 20240177607Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes determining a status of one or more docking stations within a predetermined distance from a destination location for a user, sending instructions to display the status of the one or more docking stations, receiving a destination docking station selected by the user from the one or more docking stations, determining a docking availability at the destination docking station based on pairing statuses between the destination docking station and one or more micromobility transit vehicles docked at the destination docking station, updating the status of the destination docking station based at least on the docking availability, and sending instructions to display the updated status of the destination docking station while the user is enroute to the destination docking station.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Brent Michael ARNOLD, EriK Keith ASKIN, Jonathan Scott BERNBACH, Mayank Manesh MAKWANA, Griffin Samuel Valentine THOMSON, Collin O'Neil WALDOCH
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Publication number: 20240176960Abstract: Techniques for transcribing and/or summarizing multimedia collaboration sessions are discussed herein. For example, users can communicate within a teleconferencing meeting associated with a channel. In some examples, a first machine learning model may be configured to receive audio-visual data and user interaction data (e.g., selected emojis, detected gestures, messages or text input by a user, a thread of messages, etc.) and output a teleconferencing meeting summary. In some examples, the teleconferencing meeting summary can include one or more highlights, action items, and/or artificial intelligence (AI) notes generated using a machine learning model(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Aaron Josephus Maurer, Katherine Jane Steigman, Olivia Diane Grace, Sohom Paul, McKenna Lowry, Michael Hahn, Jacquelyn Elizabeth Rocca, Kelly Holmes Moran, Zachary Alan Kaarvik, Leonard Jackson Shearer, David Barrett-Kahn, Wii Yatani, Omar Lee, Curtis Neil Allen, JR.
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Patent number: 11980684Abstract: This invention relates to an oral immunotherapy (OIT) composition comprising granules that contain an allergenic protein, such as peanut protein, along with a humectant, such as trehalose, and a binder, such as hypromellose. The composition may further comprise a filler, such as mannitol and a lubricant, such as stearic acid. OIT compositions, methods of preparing OIT compositions and methods of treatment of food allergy using OIT compositions are provided.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Cambridge Allergy LimitedInventors: Robert Neil Ward, Ryan John Anthony Wilson, Michael John Frodsham
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Publication number: 20240104282Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for bit flip aware latch placement in integrated circuit generation are provided. The method identifies a chip design for an integrated circuit. A set of chip design constraints, associated with the chip design, is identified. A set of checking groups, associated with a plurality of latches to be placed in the chip design, is determined. Based on the set of chip design constraints and the set of checking groups, a placement scheme for the plurality of latches is selected. The method places the plurality of latches within the chip design based on the placement scheme and the set of checking groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Benjamin Neil Trombley, Chung-Lung K. Shum, Paul G. Villarrubia, K. Paul Muller, Michael Hemsley Wood, Daniel Arthur Gay, Hua Xiang, Karl Evan Smock Anderson, Erica Stuecheli, Michael Alexander Bowen, Randall J. Darden
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Patent number: 11940098Abstract: Disclosed are gas cylinder assemblies for containing pressurized gas. The gas cylinder assembly has a polymeric liner and a low-permeability barrier layer. The polymeric liner a first end portion, a second end portion and a central body. The central body comprises an outer surface and an inner surface disposed between the first end and the second end. The gas cylinder assembly comprises a reinforcement structure wound over the central body. The gas cylinder assembly further comprises a metal foil interposed between the reinforcement structure and central body. The metal foil is configured to reduce permeation of contents of the polymeric liner.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Agility Fuel Systems LLCInventors: Michael Gregory Volkmer, Dustin Joseph John, Chad Alvin Cederberg, David Neil Morgan, John David Makinson
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Patent number: 11934740Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for associating electronic devices together based on received audio commands are described. Methods for associating an audio-controlled device with a physically separate display screen device such that information responses can then be provided in both audio and graphic formats using the two devices in conjunction with each other are described. The audio-controlled device can receive audio commands that can be analyzed to determine the author, which can then be used to further streamline the association operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Justin-Josef Angel, Eric Alan Breitbard, Sean Robert Ryan, Robert Steven Murdock, Michael Douglas McQueen, Ryan Charles Chase, Colin Neil Swann
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Publication number: 20240075970Abstract: A system for modeling risk of rail buckling in railroad infrastructure is presented. The system can receive a myriad of data related to railroad tracks and/or railroad operations, and weight the data using specially-designed weighting factors that can be unique to each data type. The weighted data can be transformed via specialized algorithms to generate location scores reflective of a risk isolated to a particular area. The system can further utilize additional specialized algorithms to elucidate how such isolated risk can be extrapolated from one location to another. The system can implement a multilayer approach, formulating one or more layers of risk models and aggregating such models into an overarching risk model that can more-accurately forecast risk of rail buckling in a railroad track.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: BNSF Railway CompanyInventors: Christopher Neil Pickard, Kyle Keilty Williams, Michael L. Schram
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Publication number: 20240065963Abstract: The instant disclosure generally relates to a multicomponent composition for coating mammalian or synthetic keratin material and textiles, the composition comprising a first and second components and a third component. The first and second components comprise first and second compounds respectively. Any one or more of the first, second and third components may also comprise pigment microparticles. The first, second and third compounds meld together on keratin material and textiles and especially on hair to form a coating that can be formulated to provide temporary coverage or provide permanent coverage. The multicomponent composition formed and set in situ as a solid linked coating ranges from ready removability to substantially permanent lastingness.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Mathias Kurt HERRLEIN, Matija CRNE, Corinne MOHR, Graham Neil MCKELVEY, Simon Paul GODFREY, Axel MEYER, Petra BRAUN, Malte AFFLERBACH, Andrej GROSS, Michael A. BROOK, Yan WANG
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Patent number: 11916384Abstract: Embodiments for power generation include defining a power tile within a power distribution network having a grid of power rails, the power tile having logic gates, and applying an initial power grid pattern from a plurality of power grid patterns for the power tile such that initial power grid pattern relates to timing characteristics of the logic gates of the power tile. The power grid patterns each have a different number of connectors connecting one power rail to another power rail in the grid of power rails. A subsequent power grid pattern is selected from the power grid patterns for the power tile such that the subsequent power grid pattern meets a threshold condition for the timing characteristics of the logic gates of the power tile. The timing characteristics for the logic gates are determined based on a voltage drop associated with the subsequent power grid pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: David Wolpert, Basanth Jagannathan, Michael Hemsley Wood, Leon Sigal, James Leland, Alexander Joel Suess, Benjamin Neil Trombley, Paul G. Villarrubia
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Patent number: 11755200Abstract: Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Lee Dicks Clark, Richard Fang, Alisha Dilip Gala, Merryjane M. Fosdick, Aaron R. Teetor, Michael Neil Loholt, Leo Tian Yue, Albert Peter Yih, Joseph Spencer King, Elizabeth Picchietti Salowitz, Hanna Mclaughlin
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Publication number: 20230277948Abstract: A fantasy sports management system provides an interaction between fantasy sports and real-time sporting events. In embodiments, the system receives real-time statistical information regarding a plurality of sports players participating in one or more real-time sporting events. The sports players are assigned to teams in a fantasy sports league. The system outputs, on a display of a device of one of the users of the fantasy sports league, the real-time statistical information of the plurality of sports players that are on the user’s roster of sports players. In response to the real-time statistical information of one of the sports players on the user’s roster exceeding a threshold (e.g., the team of the one of the sports players entering the “red zone”), the system provides the user with an option to view the real-time sporting event in which the one player is participating in.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Michael Neil MACCALLUM, Mark Aleksandar JOTANOVIC, Marco Joseph GATTI
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Publication number: 20230174455Abstract: Recycled content triacetin (r-triacetin) is produced using a process and system that applies physical and/or credit-based recycled content from one or more feed materials to triacetin produced from the feed materials.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2022Publication date: June 8, 2023Applicant: Eastman Chemical CompanyInventors: Kenneth James Flint, Michael Neil Brown, Hannah Grace Moser, Evan Patrick Beaumier
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Patent number: 11633762Abstract: An adjustable roll sizer for sorting objects of different sizes includes a first set of rollers mounted to a support structure and arranged in a first parallel array. A second set of rollers is mounted to the support structure in a second parallel array that is interleaveably alignable with the first parallel array. Means for automatic control are provided for misaligning the second parallel array from the first parallel array to vary gap width between adjacent rollers. Each roller in the second parallel array may also be tapered to vary gap width as a function of roller length. Rollers may include helical ridges for urging objects along the gaps.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: SOUTHERN FABRICATION WORKS, LLCInventors: James Claude Murphy, Michael Neil Justesen
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Patent number: 11623152Abstract: A fantasy sports management system provides an interaction between fantasy sports and real-time sporting events. In embodiments, the system receives real-time statistical information regarding a plurality of sports players participating in one or more real-time sporting events. The sports players are assigned to teams in a fantasy sports league. The system outputs, on a display of a device of one of the users of the fantasy sports league, the real-time statistical information of the plurality of sports players that are on the user's roster of sports players. In response to the real-time statistical information of one of the sports players on the user's roster exceeding a threshold (e.g., the team of the one of the sports players entering the “red zone”), the system provides the user with an option to view the real-time sporting event in which the one player is participating in.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Inventors: Michael Neil MacCallum, Mark Aleksandar Jotanovic, Marco Joseph Gatti
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Publication number: 20230038711Abstract: A method of controlling occupant thermal comfort includes the steps of driving a temperature in a seating zone to a temperature set point (54), holding the temperature set point in the seating zone for a predetermined time (56), and regulating the temperature in the seating zone to a corrected temperature set point based upon an equivalent homogenous temperature relating to vehicle cabin conditions and occupant gender (58).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Ioannis Androulakis, Vladimir Jovovic, Chad Westerman, Ankit Tiwari, Michael Neil Maass
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Publication number: 20230032643Abstract: The present invention provides CR2 binding proteins which bind to human CR2, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said CR2 binding proteins and their use in the treatment or prevention of autoimmune and/or inflammatory conditions, infectious diseases and malignancies associated with the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV); and their use as vaccine adjuvants/antigen carriers.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: James Matthew BAILEY, Gerben BOUMA, Michael Neil BURDEN, Caroline J. DIMECH, David DIXON, SAN SANTOS CRUZ DE MANTOS, Christian ELLSON, Laura J. HOOK, Semra KITCHEN, Eleonora LEKOVA, Emilie MADURA, Kiran NISTALA, Jian ZHANG
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Publication number: 20220398306Abstract: Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein enable a dashboard panel application to make “widgets” available to a user on a computing device that provide application functionality without corresponding applications having to be installed on the computing device, and without the use of a conventional web browser. Configuration information is accessed that identifies a plurality of widgets selected for display in a dashboard panel of a dashboard panel application. Account credentials for the widgets are transmitted to corresponding server-hosted services at network addresses indicated in manifests of the widgets. Data associated with the widgets is received from the server-hosted services. A view of the dashboard panel is composed that includes a view of the widgets incorporating the received data. The dashboard panel view is caused to be rendered on the base graphical canvas.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2021Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Yash MISRA, Shengbo XUE, Charlie LERTLUMPRASERT, Dorothy FENG, Priya CHAUHAN, Hanna MCLAUGHLIN, Kiran KUMAR, Lauren EDELMEIER, Steven Thomas SCHALEK, Ross Nathaniel LUENGEN, Michael Neil LOHOLT, Randal James RAMIG
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Publication number: 20220398010Abstract: Techniques for adjusting a posture of an operating system mode for a touch-enabled computing device based on combinations of user preferences and user input modality signals. Various adjustments to the posture of the operating system mode do not impact whether particular user interface elements are present but rather alter characteristics with which these particular user interface elements are rendered. Posture adjustments to an operating system mode occur based on combinations user input modality signals and user preferences not to enter another mode in which particular user interface elements are no longer displayed within a task bar along a peripheral edge. An object of designing an operating system mode to have multiple different postures with common user interface elements displayed in the task bar while adjusting the characteristics thereof is to preserve the user familiarity across postures while optimizing graphical layouts to accommodate for a current user input modality.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2022Publication date: December 15, 2022Inventors: Lee Dicks CLARK, Richard FANG, Alisha Dilip GALA, MerryJane M. FOSDICK, Aaron R. TEETOR, Michael Neil LOHOLT, Leo Tian YUE, Albert Peter YIH, Joseph Spencer KING, Elizabeth Picchietti SALOWITZ, Hanna MCLAUGHLIN