Patents by Inventor Michael Xu
Michael Xu 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: 12007186Abstract: A trigger lock for a trigger of a firearm, components thereof, and associated methods. The trigger lock comprises a first guard including a bolt having a catch. The trigger lock includes a second guard comprising a bolt receiver configured to receive the bolt to connect the first and second guards with the trigger between the first and second guards for obstructing access to the trigger. The bolt receiver includes a keeper arranged to engage the catch when the bolt is in the bolt receiver to maintain the first and second guards connected to each other. The second guard includes a shield overlying the bolt receiver and configured to obstruct cutting of the bolt receiver to disengage the keeper from the at least one catch.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: AOB Products CompanyInventors: Brett Eckelkamp, Michael Cottrell, Sherry Xu, Brian Steere
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Patent number: 12007282Abstract: A method has been developed to monitor the aging of an illuminator (such as a lamp) and the interior sphere wall in a sphere-based color measurement instrument. This monitoring process or method is configurable to independently monitor the aging of the illuminator as well as the aging of the interior surface of a color measurement device using standard calibration measurements already present in the color measurement device.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: DATACOLOR INC.Inventors: Michael H. Brill, Zhiling Xu, Kathleen A. Edwards
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Publication number: 20240180586Abstract: Various embodiments of a dural elevating and cutting apparatus and methods of use are disclosed herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2024Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Richard Li, Alexander Dasilva, Jake Xu, Ambike Bhraguvanshi, Michael Bohl
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Publication number: 20240185517Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, co-registering MRI data with CT data to derive merged data, the MRI data and the CT data being associated with an anatomical part of a patient, the MRI data being obtained prior to implantation of a plurality of electrodes into the anatomical part and the CT data being obtained after the implantation of the plurality of electrodes, performing segmentation on the merged data to identify locations of the plurality of electrodes, resulting in identified locations, localizing a region of interest in the merged data based on the identified locations of the plurality of electrodes and based on activity recordings relating to the anatomical part, and generating a model of the anatomical part by performing multimodal image fusion of the activity recordings and the merged data to derive an output for VR viewing or manipulation. Additional embodiments are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicants: THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS, OSF HEALTHCARE SYSTEMInventors: Bradley P. Sutton, Matthew Bramlet, Yogatheesan Varatharajah, James Evans, Andres Maldonado, Michael Xu, Nathan Soria
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Publication number: 20240182476Abstract: The present disclosure provides diacylglycerol kinase modulating compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, for treating cancer, including solid tumors, and viral infections, such as HIV or hepatitis B virus infection. The compounds can be used alone or in combination with other agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Masaaki Sawa, Mai Arai, Ryoko Nakai, Hirokazu Matsumoto, Catherine Pugh, Eric Hu, Juan Guerrero, Jesse Jacobsen, Jonathan William Medley, Jie Xu, Latesh Lad, Leena Patel, Michael Graupe, Qingming Zhu, Stephen Holmbo, Tetsuya Kobayashi, Will Watkins, Yasamin Moazami, Suet C. Yeung, Julian A. Codelli, Heath A. Weaver
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Publication number: 20240184822Abstract: A method of providing a personalized audio briefing to a user is performed at an electronic device. The device receives identification of information sources associated with the user. Each of the information sources is associated with a content type. The device receives an authorization to access the identified information sources and a preferred order of content types for presentation within the audio briefing. It transmits to a remote system the identification, the authorization, and the preferred order. Following the transmitting, the device receives a verbal input from the user requesting the audio briefing. In response to the verbal input, the device receives a response generated by the remote system, including content from the information sources and information inserted by the remote system based on the authorization to access received from the user. The device outputs an audible response according to the preferred order.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Michael Andrew Goodman, Bibo Xu
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Patent number: 11999808Abstract: The current invention provides a novel method to synthesize a mono-disperse non-porous polymer particles with a unique gradient composition from the core to the shell. In particular, The present invention offers the flexibility to design the chemical and physical properties of different sections of the particle. This flexibility allows for significant latitude in the design of particles for analyzing a large variety of samples in different fields—through using these particles in different chromatography techniques including, but not limited to, ion exchange HPLC (e.g., bio-separation at different modes), reversed-phase HPLC, narrow bore and capillary HPLC, hydrophilic/hydrophobic interaction liquid chromatography, capillary electrochromatography separation, and two dimensional liquid chromatography.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: Waters Technologies CorporationInventors: Darryl W. Brousmiche, Kevin Daniel Wyndham, Mingcheng Xu, Michael F. Morris
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Publication number: 20240173307Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating the integrated stress response (ISR) and for treating related diseases; disorders and conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2023Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Kathleen Ann Martin, Carmela Sidrauski, Marina Pliushchev, Jennifer M. Frost, Yunsong Tong, Xiangdong Xu, Lei Shi, Qingwei Zhang, Zhaoming Xiong, Ramzi Farah Sweis, Michael J. Dart, Kathleen J. Murauski
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Publication number: 20240177108Abstract: An online concierge system receives location information associated with pickers and actual orders associated with a geographical zone. A model trained to predict a likelihood an actual order associated with the zone will be available for servicing within a timeframe is accessed and applied to forecasted orders. Each picker is matched to an order for servicing by minimizing a value of a function that is based on a difference between a location associated with each picker matched to an actual order and an associated retailer location, a difference between the location associated with each picker matched to a forecasted order and an associated retailer location, and the predicted likelihood. Recommendations for accepting an actual order, moving to a retailer location associated with a forecasted order, or checking back later with the system are generated based on the matches and sent for display to a client device associated with each picker.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Youdan Xu, Krishna Kumar Selvam, Michael Chen, Radhika Anand, Rebecca Riso, Ajay Sampat
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Publication number: 20240172462Abstract: Organic electroluminescent devices are provided, including devices having a tandem structure in which two or more plasmonic OLEDs are arranged in a stack. The plasmonic OLEDs may be inverted or non-inverted. A common electrode disposed between the OLEDs or an outer electrode of the device provides the enhancement layer for one or plasmonic OLEDs in the stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Michael HACK, Michael S. WEAVER, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Michael FUSELLA, Xin XU
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Publication number: 20240166960Abstract: A method for producing renewable arctic diesel is provided herein. The method includes contacting a bio-derived feedstock with a hydrotreatment catalyst under effective hydrotreatment conditions to produce a hydrotreated feedstock and separating the hydrotreated feedstock into gas phase products and liquid phase products. The liquid phase products include an oxygen content of less than 0.4 wt % but greater than 10 ppm. The method also includes contacting the liquid phase products with a ZSM-48-based isomerization/dewaxing catalyst under effective isomerization/dewaxing conditions to produce an isomerized product stream including a change in cloud point (?CP) of 50 degrees ° C. or more. The method further includes separating the isomerized product stream into gas phase products and liquid phase products, as well as fractionating the liquid phase products to produce renewable naphtha and renewable arctic diesel with a cloud point of ?20° C. or less and a yield of 80 wt % or more.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2021Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Samuel J. CADY, Xiaochun XU, Shifang LUO, Michael H. RING, Joseph E. GATT
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Publication number: 20240166652Abstract: Provided herein are compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating the integrated stress response (ISR) and for treating related diseases; disorders and conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Kathleen Ann Martin, Carmela Sidrauski, Marina Pliushchev, Jennifer M. Frost, Yunsong Tong, Lawrence A. Black, Xiangdong Xu, Lei Shi, Qingwei Zhang, SeungWon Chung, Zhaoming Xiong, Ramzi Farah Sweis, Michael J. Dart, Brian S. Brown, Kathleen J. Murauski
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Patent number: 11991194Abstract: Embodiments presented herein describe techniques for generating a linguistic model of input data obtained from a data source (e.g., a video camera). According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, a sequence of symbols is generated based on an ordered stream of normalized vectors generated from the input data. A dictionary of words is generated from combinations of the ordered sequence of symbols based on a frequency at which combinations of symbols appear in the ordered sequence of symbols. A plurality of phrases is generated based an ordered sequence of words from the dictionary observed in the ordered sequence of symbols based on a frequency by which combinations of words in ordered sequence of words appear relative to one another.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2021Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Intellective Ai, Inc.Inventors: Ming-Jung Seow, Wesley Kenneth Cobb, Gang Xu, Tao Yang, Aaron Poffenberger, Lon W. Risinger, Kishor Adinath Saitwal, Michael S. Yantosca, David M. Solum, Alex David Hemsath, Dennis G. Urech, Duy Trong Nguyen, Charles Richard Morgan
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Publication number: 20240158412Abstract: Described herein are compounds that are useful in treating a USP7-mediated disorder. In some embodiments, the USP7-mediated disorder is cancer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Xianhai HUANG, Takao SUZUKI, Sarah BOYCE, Yan ZHANG, Zhaowu XU, Alexandre COTE, Jeremy GREENWOOD, Heidi KOLDSOE, Eric THERRIEN, Michael TRZOSS, Jiayi XU
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Publication number: 20240161670Abstract: Dynamic refresh rate (DRR) switching is used to dynamically update a refresh rate of content presented on an interface. When a first application and a second application are presented on a user interface at a first refresh rate; a request may be received to temporarily boost the first refresh rate to a second, higher, refresh rate. DRR switching is initiated as the first refresh rate is temporarily boosted to a second refresh rate. Applications that are opted in to the second refresh rate receive signals to refresh content at the second refresh rate, while applications that are not opted in to the second refresh rate receive signals to refresh content at a virtualized refresh rate that matches the first refresh rate. Thus, the first application refreshes content at the first refresh rate and the second application refreshes content at the second, higher refresh rate, providing a smooth user experience without unnecessarily utilizing power consumption.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Michael Paul Erich VON HIPPEL, Ana Marta AMARAL DE CARVALHO, Hrushit Kamal PARIKH, Reiner FINK, Steve Michel PRONOVOST, Zhigang XU, Zachary Scott NORTHRUP, Leonardo E. BLANCO
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Publication number: 20240162519Abstract: A power module, such as a power module of a traction powertrain of an electrified vehicle, includes a power module cell arranged in a stack that defines a coolant supply manifold and a coolant return manifold. The power module cell includes a power stage having a substrate. The substrate includes first microchannels configured to input coolant from the supply manifold and impeded from outputting coolant to the return manifold, second microchannels configured to output coolant to the return manifold and impeded from inputting coolant from the supply manifold, and third microchannels crisscrossing and connecting the first and second microchannels in fluid communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2022Publication date: May 16, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Man Prakash Gupta, Alfredo R. Munoz, Michael W. Degner, Zhuxian Xu
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Publication number: 20240156649Abstract: A highly extensible nonwoven web is provided. The highly extensible nonwoven web may include continuous multi-component fibers. The continuous multi-component fibers may include polypropylene, wherein the polypropylene has a crystallinity of less than about 41%. The polypropylene may have a melting temperature of less than about 161° C. The highly extensible nonwoven web may define a plurality of apertures. The apertures may be patterned. The highly extensible nonwoven web may form a portion of an absorbent article.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Han XU, Meganne FRISCH, Jaroslav KOHUT, Sascha KREISEL, Jiri KUMMER, Fang LIU, Michael J. RODDY, Patricia ROLON, Eric R. SCHURDAK
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Publication number: 20240160200Abstract: A system includes an article supply location, wherein the article supply location includes a plurality of articles to be sorted, first and second transport vehicles, each having a first position in which an article is stowed about the vehicle and a second position in which the article is deposited into a proximal container. And a control system. The control system is configured to receive an order for a plurality of disparate articles, determine one destination container of a plurality of destination containers to direct the transport vehicle to deposit a selected article, direct the first transport vehicle to transport a selected article to the destination container and deposit the article by manipulation of the first transport vehicle from the first position to the second position for deposit of the selected article in the destination container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2024Publication date: May 16, 2024Inventors: Jianqiang Zhu, Juejing Xu, John C. Spain, Michael C. Futch, James M. Serstad, Richard C. Kaminska, III, Selden W. McKnight, JR.
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Patent number: 11984661Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second phased antenna arrays and a triplet of first, second, and third ultra-wideband antennas. An antenna module in the device may include a dielectric substrate. The first and second arrays and the triplet may be formed on the dielectric substrate. The third and second ultra-wideband antennas may be separated by a gap. The first array may be laterally interposed between the third and second ultra-wideband antennas within the gap. The third ultra-wideband antenna may be laterally interposed between the first phased antenna array and at least some of the second array. An integrated circuit may be mounted to the dielectric substrate using an interposer. The antenna module may occupy a minimal amount of space within the device and may be less expensive to manufacture relative to scenarios where the arrays and the ultra-wideband antennas are formed on separate substrates.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yi Jiang, Jiangfeng Wu, Siwen Yong, Hao Xu, Ana Papio Toda, Carlo di Nallo, Michael D. Quinones, Mattia Pascolini, Amin Tayebi, Aaron J. Cooper, Per Jakob Helander, Johan Avendal
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Patent number: 11981870Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing a bio-derived feedstock in a commercial scale reactor to form renewable distillate boiling range fractions while managing the heat release. The management of the heat release is achieved in part by introducing 1.0 vol % or more of CO into at least a portion of the reaction environment for hydroprocessing of the bio-derived feedstock. The 1.0 vol % or more of CO can selectively reduce the activity of hydrotreating catalyst for olefin saturation.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: ExxonMobile Technology and Engineering CompanyInventors: Xiaochun Xu, Shifang Luo, Samuel J. Cady, Michael H. Ring