Patents by Inventor Michael W. Wells

Michael W. Wells 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: 20240179188
    Abstract: A system and method for authorization policy analysis. A policy analyzer answers first-order questions about authorization policies by reducing the policies to Satisfiability modulo theories (SMT). Input to the analyzer includes a policy to be analyzed and a schema for that policy. If the policy passes strict validation against the schema, then the analyzer symbolically evaluates the policy to encode its semantics as an SMT expression. The SMT expression is used for formulate a desired query about policy behavior such as, for example, if there is any input on which two policies both evaluate to true. The reduction to SMT produces a quantifier-free formula in a combination of decidable theories to support large scale deployments. This reduction is achieved by focusing the analysis on policies that pass strict validation, rather than attempting to analyze arbitrary policies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Emina TORLAK, Kyle HEADLEY, Michael W. HICKS, Neha RUNGTA, Andrew Marshall WELLS
  • Publication number: 20240179181
    Abstract: A system and method for authorization policy evaluation. Authorization policies are authored in a general-purpose authorization language. An evaluation engine is used in a provider network by application developers to manage access within their applications based on fine-grained permissions. The policy language combines elements of role-based and attributed-based access control within an intuitive syntax and efficient evaluation strategy. The policy syntax separates role-based expressions of a policy from attribute-based expressions of the policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Emina TORLAK, Darin MCADAMS, Neha RUNGTA, Michael W. HICKS, Craig Ryan DISSELKOEN, Aaron Joseph ELINE, John Holman KASTNER, Kyle HEADLEY, Anwar MAMAT, Richard Matthew MCCUTCHEN, Andrew Marshall WELLS, Kesha Hanne HIETALA, Shaobo HE, Mark Edward STALZER, Julian LOVELOCK
  • Publication number: 20240088710
    Abstract: In accordance with exemplary embodiments, methods and systems are provided for providing electrical power for a manufacturing facility for manufacturing of a vehicle, the vehicle having a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and a processor, including: positioning the vehicle at the manufacturing facility, the manufacturing facility having an electrical component; and providing electrical power from the RESS of the vehicle to the electrical component of the manufacturing facility, in accordance with instructions provided by the processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael R. Kaphengst, Seog-Chan Oh, Joshua Lee Solomon, James W. Wells, Alfred Manser, Barry L. Farmer
  • Patent number: 11923686
    Abstract: In accordance with exemplary embodiments, methods and systems are provided for providing electrical power for a manufacturing facility for manufacturing of a vehicle, the vehicle having a rechargeable energy storage system (RESS) and a processor, including: positioning the vehicle at the manufacturing facility, the manufacturing facility having an electrical component; and providing electrical power from the RESS of the vehicle to the electrical component of the manufacturing facility, in accordance with instructions provided by the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Michael R Kaphengst, Seog-Chan Oh, Joshua Lee Solomon, James W Wells, Alfred Manser, Barry L Farmer
  • Patent number: 11912547
    Abstract: A system includes a platform to support a vehicle on a first side of the platform and a passive motion device arranged on a second side of the platform, opposite the first side, to move upon actuation. A mechanical actuator actuates the passive motion device based on movement of one or more wheels of the vehicle to change a position of the vehicle. The position of the vehicle relative to the platform is unchanged and the passive motion device is actuated by only the movement of the one or more wheels of the vehicle to change the position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: James W. Wells, Michael R. Kaphengst, Alfred Manser, Barry L. Farmer, Seog-Chan Oh
  • Patent number: 5257473
    Abstract: A fish line holder and baiting apparatus stores a common line with fish hooks on a carousel type unit with several arms radiating from a common hub. Each of the arms may carry 150 hooks on a stainless steel rod. The common line is fed into automatic baiting apparatus which is a series of three chambers, a first horizontal hopper, then a vertical hopper and a transition conduit which moves the line via suitable fairleads into the vertical bait hopper. By the use of suitable articulated weights and various fairleads for centering the line, the line can be trolled out behind a moving fishing boat at a relatively high speed with good efficiency in baiting each hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1993
    Inventors: Albert Reynolds, Michael W. Wells
  • Patent number: D354358
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 10, 1995
    Inventor: Michael W. Wells