Patents by Inventor Nicholas R. Miller
Nicholas R. Miller 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: 20240176209Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements. The suspension arrangements may include leaf springs attached to a carrier structure for the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Alfred N. Mireault, Brad V. Johnson, Nicholas D. Smyth, Rummel R. Adriano, Shashank Sharma, Steven Webster
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Patent number: 11979721Abstract: A wearable device can provide an audio module that is operable to provide audio output from a distance away from the ears of the user. For example, the wearable device can be worn on clothing of the user and direct audio waves to the ears of the user. Such audio waves can be focused by a parametric array of speakers that limit audibility by others. Thus, the privacy of the audio directed to the user can be maintained without requiring the user to wear audio headsets on, over, or in the ears of the user. The wearable device can further include microphones and/or connections to other devices that facilitate calibration of the audio module of the wearable device. The wearable device can further include user sensors that are configured to detect, measure, and/or track one or more properties of the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Joshua A. Hoover, Nicholas R. Trincia, Yue Chen, Seul Bi Kim, Chad J. Miller, Kristen L. Cretella, Yi Zou, William Leith
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Publication number: 20240115006Abstract: An article of footwear includes an adjustable element. The adjustable element includes a bladder that defines an interior void. A compressible component that is disposed within the interior void and is operable between an expanded state and a contracted state. The adjustable element also includes a lock strip including a first end anchored at a first location within the bladder and a second end disposed at an opposite end of the lock strip than the first end. A lock receives the lock strip and is operable between a locked state restricting movement of the lock strip relative to the bladder and an unlocked state permitting movement of the lock strip relative to the bladder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Nicholas R. Long, Todd W. Miller, Matthew D. Nordstrom, Richard Kristian Hansen
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Patent number: 11934322Abstract: A system comprises a storage system comprising one or more storage devices and a storage controller operatively coupled to the storage system, the storage controller comprising a processing device, the processing device to receive first raw data from a first tenant of the storage system to a first non-volatile memory express (NVMe) input/output (I/O) queue of the storage system. The processing device further to determine that the first NVMe I/O queue corresponds to a first key, wherein the first key corresponds to the first tenant. The processing device further to encrypt the first raw data using the first key to generate first encrypted data. The processing device further to store the first encrypted data on the storage system.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.Inventors: Ethan L. Miller, Andrew R. Bernat, Ronald Karr, Christopher Golden, Nicholas George Psaki, David Whitlock
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Patent number: 11934090Abstract: Various embodiments include a camera with folded optics and lens shifting capabilities. Some embodiments include voice coil motor (VCM) actuator arrangements to provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) movement. Some embodiments include suspension arrangements.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Scott W. Miller, Alfred N. Mireault, Brad V. Johnson, Nicholas D. Smyth, Rummel R. Adriano, Shashank Sharma, Steven Webster
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Patent number: 11932745Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods of forming polyimide gels. The methods generally include forming a polyamic acid and dehydrating the polyamic acid with a dehydrating agent in the presence of water. The resulting polyimide gels may be converted to polyimide or carbon xerogels or aerogels. The methods are advantageous in providing rapid or even instantaneous gelation, which may be particularly useful in formation of beads comprising the polyimide gels. Polyimide or carbon gel materials prepared according to the disclosed method are suitable for use in environments containing electrochemical reactions, for example as an electrode material within a lithium-ion battery.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Aspen Aerogels, Inc.Inventors: Redouane Begag, Roxana Trifu, Nicholas A. Zafiropoulos, Harris R. Miller, George L. Gould, Nicholas Leventis
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Patent number: 8838812Abstract: A method involves causing a wireless network interface of a computing device to be disabled, in response to detection of a network connection between the computing device and a wired network. Related apparatuses, systems, computer programs, computer-readable media and signals are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2005Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: AirPatrol CorporationInventors: Nicholas R. Miller, Sheng Fu (Sunny) Cheng
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Patent number: 6040784Abstract: A message-sending system provides for entering an identifier uniquely associated with an intended recipient and a message for the intended recipient in a WEB page, and associating the identifier with the intended recipient's pager routing information from a database accessible to a WEB Server providing the WEB page. A successful association leads to formatting a pager message for the intended recipient, and forwarding the formatted message to a pager system serving the intended recipient. In some embodiments success or failure of the pager message is reported back to the original sender.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 1997Date of Patent: March 21, 2000Assignee: Datalink Systems CorporationInventor: Nicholas R. Miller
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Patent number: 5872921Abstract: A computerized analyzer for a transactional data stream prepares feed records from the data stream, the feed records comprising all transaction records received in a finite time slice. A new feed record is prepared for each passing time slice, and, in a preferred embodiment, new time slices are generated during operation based on record volume received during a previous time slice. The feed records are condensed to significant feed records by selecting only those transaction records in each feed record that are significant according to prestored criteria including subscriber interest records. Once a significant feed record is prepared, it is compared with subscriber interest records to produce an alert table. An alert transmitter transmits alerts to subscribers following the alert table. Alerts are deleted from the alert table as they are sent to subscribers. The system is suited to many types of transactional data streams, and suited for such as stock quote data streams.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 1996Date of Patent: February 16, 1999Assignee: DataLink Systems Corp.Inventors: Manuel Zahariev, Nicholas R. Miller