Patents by Inventor A. Lee Miller

A. Lee 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).

  • Publication number: 20250102928
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing multi-objective alignments in imprinting (e.g., single-sided or double-sided) are provided. An example system includes rollers for moving a template roll, a stage for holding a substrate, a dispenser for dispensing resist on the substrate, a light source for curing the resist to form an imprint on the substrate when a template of the template roll is pressed into the resist on the substrate, a first inspection system for registering a fiducial mark of the template to determine a template offset, a second inspection system for registering the imprint on the substrate to determine a wafer registration offset between a target location and an actual location of the imprint, and a controller for controlling to move the substrate with the resist below the template based on the template offset, and determine an overlay bias of the imprint on the substrate based on the wafer registration offset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Jeremy Lee Sevier, Satish Sadam, Joseph Michael Imhof, Kang LUO, Kangkang Wang, Roy Matthew Patterson, Qizhen XUE, Brett William Best, Charles Scott Carden, Matthew S. Shafran, Michael Nevin MILLER
  • Patent number: 12241709
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an adjustable gas block are described. Systems may include an adjustment subassembly. The adjustment subassembly may include a valve stem end with a front-most portion larger in diameter than the rear-most portion and a boss extending from the forward portion of the valve stem end; a valve ring surrounding the boss of the valve stem end; a valve threaded portion for receiving the boss of the valve stem end and having a threaded portion; and a valve rotator coupled to the valve threaded portion for adjusting the flow of gas. Systems may include a gas block assembly. The gas block assembly may include a gas block through hole; a first duct to direct pressurized gas from a barrel to a plenum; a second duct to direct a regulated volume of gas to a gas operating system; a seat valve to control the regulated volume of gas to the gas operating system; and a gas block threaded portion for coupling to the valve threaded portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: LWRC International LLC
    Inventors: Robert Stanley Schilling, Jason Lee Miller, Michael R. Llewellyn
  • Publication number: 20250069000
    Abstract: A distributed collaboration interface interacts with a workflow system. A job of the workflow system comprises a series of tasks. Each task of a single job may be performed via the collaboration interface by multiple principals. When a first principal is performing a first task of the job through a first instance of the distributed collaboration interface, second principals performing second tasks of the job may view but may not modify the first task. Moreover, second instances of the distributed collaboration interface associated with the second principals update in real time to lock the first task from being modified by the second principals as soon as the first principal obtains control of the first task within the first instance of the collaboration interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Nazmu M. Nazarali, Rhonda Lee Henderson, Craig Steven Miller, Saptak Arun Neve
  • Patent number: 12229502
    Abstract: A method for facilitating private drafting is described. A request to edit a section of a document in a draft mode is received from a first user of a plurality of users collaborating on the document. An edit for the section of the document in the draft mode is received from the first user. A result of the edit is displayed on a computing device of the first user but not on computing devices of other users of the plurality of users. A request to publish the edit is received from the first user. In response to the request to publish the edit, the result of the edit is displayed on computing devices of the other users of the plurality of users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: WORKIVA INC.
    Inventors: Travis Smith, Michael Jerome Thiesen, Hannah Joy Deering, Mark David Erickson, Ross W. Hendrickson, Bryon Lee Marks, Tanner Davis Miller
  • Patent number: 12227073
    Abstract: A display assembly for an automotive interior comprises a dynamically bendable cover panel having first and second panel portions a flexible panel portion connecting the first and second panel portions, a display positioned adjacent the first and second panel portions, and a frame that supports the cover panel and comprises a first frame portion for supporting the first panel portion, a second frame portion for supporting the second panel portion, and a hinge portion coupling the first frame portion and the second frame portion, the hinge portion configured to induce a curvature having smoothly connected arc segments in the flexible panel portion between the first panel portion and the second panel portion when the second frame portion is articulated relative to the first frame portion from a straight position to a deployed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Wesley J Buth, Scott Steven Cronk, Thomas Augustus Keebler, Evan Gray Kister, Eric Lee Miller, Jason Scott Stewart
  • Patent number: 12222432
    Abstract: A system includes a plurality of wireless transmitters and a processor configured to: receive, from a mobile device, signal strengths of signals from the wireless transmitters as detected by the mobile device. The processor is also configured to determine a location of the mobile device in a vehicle, based on a distance from the mobile device to each of the wireless transmitters, as indicated by the received signal strengths and store the location of the mobile device as an occupant location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Cuddihy, Eric L. Reed, Manoharprasad K Rao, Thomas Lee Miller
  • Patent number: 12216903
    Abstract: Systems and methods of deduplication aware scalable content placement are described. A method may include receiving data to be stored on one or more nodes of a storage array and calculating a plurality of hashes corresponding to the data. The method further includes determining a first subset of the plurality of hashes, determining a second subset of the plurality of hashes of the first subset, and generating a node candidate placement list. The method may further include sending the first subset to one or more nodes represented on the node candidate placement list and receiving, from the nodes represented on the node candidate placement list, characteristics corresponding to the nodes represented on the candidate placement list. The method may further include identifying one of the one or more nodes represented on the candidate placement list in view of the characteristic and sending the data to the identified node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: PURE STORAGE, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Lee, Christopher Lumb, Ethan L. Miller, Igor Ostrovsky
  • Publication number: 20250036304
    Abstract: A control component implements pipelined data processing operations in either of two timing domains bridged by a domain-crossing circuit according to one or more configuration signals that indicate relative clock frequencies of the two domain and/or otherwise indicate which of the two timing domains will complete the data processing operations with lowest latency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Raymond Miller, Dongyun Lee
  • Publication number: 20250035226
    Abstract: In some implementations, an apparatus includes a curved portion of a storage tank having an exterior surface, having an interior surface and having a defect, the apparatus also includes a steel patch positioned over the curved portion of a storage tank, a plurality of studs and nuts positioned near an outer perimeter of the steel patch, in which the plurality of studs being friction welded to the exterior surface of the curved portion of a storage tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Forge Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lee Miller, Daniel J. Rybicki, Mathew A. Rybicki, Lawrence J. Povse, Kenneth R. Vejr, Andre S. Todd, John M. Griffin
  • Publication number: 20250032233
    Abstract: Drivetrain assemblies for personal care devices to generate controllable power tapping motion alone or with controllable sweeping motion. The drivetrain assemblies include a drivetrain shaft at least partially contained within a body portion. The drivetrain shaft is further configured to engage a brush head member. Some drivetrain assemblies include a single actuator for generating periodic linear movement, wherein the drivetrain shaft transmits the linear movement to the brush head member via a pivoting motion and/or a translational motion. Other drivetrain assemblies include the actuator for generating periodic linear movement and a motor on the drivetrain shaft to periodically rotate the shaft about a central axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Dave AHLMAN, Scott E. HALL, David Robert STORCH, Wolter F. BENNING, Sungsoo LEE, Regan Starkey FOSTER, Kevin Arnold MILLER, Ethan ALBRIGHT, Walter Julius WEICHSLER
  • Patent number: 12209049
    Abstract: A glass container comprises a glass body comprising a first region under a compressive stress extending from a surface of the glass body to a depth of compression and a second region extending from the depth of compression into a thickness of the glass body, the second region being under a tensile stress. The glass container also includes a localized compressive stress region having a localized compressive stress extending from the surface to a localized depth of compression within the body. The localized depth of compression is greater than the depth of compression of the first region. The glass container also includes a crack re-direction region extending in a predetermined propagation direction, wherein the crack re-direction region possesses a higher tensile stress than the tensile stress in the second region in a sub-region of the crack re-direction region, the sub-region extending substantially perpendicular to the predetermined propagation direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Steven Edward DeMartino, William James Miller, Christopher Lee Timmons, David Inscho Wilcox
  • Patent number: 12208949
    Abstract: A lid assembly includes a lid element having an annularly shaped peripheral portion configured to be axially aligned with and disposed between a rim of a canning container and a radially extending portion of a retainer element when the lid assembly is engaging the canning container and the retainer element is removably coupled to the canning container. An annularly shaped sealing element is disposed on the peripheral portion of the lid element and is configured to directly engage the rim of the canning container when the lid assembly is contacting the canning container. A plurality of projections is formed in the peripheral portion of the lid element with each of the projections forming a distally disposed surface of the peripheral portion with respect to an exterior axial direction of the lid element extending away from an interior of the canning container when the lid assembly is engaging the rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: SUPERB SEALING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: John Miller, Daniel Miller, Matteo Rini, Lee Heilman, Lakin Phillips
  • Publication number: 20250028817
    Abstract: An access token broker is executed within a first iFrame, a fully trusted application is executed in a second iFrame within the first iFrame, and a partially trusted application is executed in a third iFrame within the second iFrame. The partially trusted application may identify the iFrame in which the access token broker is executing and request an access token from the access token broker. The access token broker determines whether the request for the access token is to be granted. If the request is to be granted, the access token broker requests the access token from a hosting application. The hosting application obtains the requested access token from an access token server and provides the access token to the access token broker. The access token broker receives the access token from the hosting application and provides the access token to the partially trusted application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Graham Lee MCMYNN, Patrick Carl MILLER, Luca BANDINELLI, John Giang NGUYEN
  • Patent number: 12204258
    Abstract: Systems and methods for managing multi-objective alignments in imprinting (e.g., single-sided or double-sided) are provided. An example system includes rollers for moving a template roll, a stage for holding a substrate, a dispenser for dispensing resist on the substrate, a light source for curing the resist to form an imprint on the substrate when a template of the template roll is pressed into the resist on the substrate, a first inspection system for registering a fiducial mark of the template to determine a template offset, a second inspection system for registering the imprint on the substrate to determine a wafer registration offset between a target location and an actual location of the imprint, and a controller for controlling to move the substrate with the resist below the template based on the template offset, and determine an overlay bias of the imprint on the substrate based on the wafer registration offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Lee Sevier, Satish Sadam, Joseph Michael Imhof, Kang Luo, Kangkang Wang, Roy Matthew Patterson, Qizhen Xue, Brett William Best, Charles Scott Carden, Matthew S. Shafran, Michael Nevin Miller
  • Publication number: 20250017711
    Abstract: A personal care device including a body portion; a cleaning unit having a set of cleaning elements, the set of cleaning elements extending in an axis of alignment; a controller and an actuator assembly arranged to be driven by the controller. The actuator assembly includes an actuator configured to generate first and second periodic movements, wherein the first and second periodic movements operate at different frequencies or out-of-phase with each other. The first periodic movement causes the cleaning elements to move in a first direction about a central axis of the personal care device or along a line that is tangential to a platen of the cleaning unit. The second periodic movement causes the cleaning elements to move in a second direction that is different than the first direction, wherein the second direction is normal to the platen of the cleaning unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Guido Antonius Theodorus ADRIAENSEN, Evan Dak Wah DENGLER, Priscilla BRANDAO SILVA, Sungsoo LEE, Kevin Arnold MILLER, Kayleigh Karina WILLIAMS, Lutz Christian GERHARDT
  • Patent number: 12195570
    Abstract: Antimicrobial polymer composite materials are disclosed that are suitable for making oral devices used in dental applications, such as denture bases. Acrylic resin composite materials comprising antimicrobial polymers and antimicrobial fillers provide reduction in common oral microorganisms after long-term aging, with reduced release rate of antimicrobial agents from the composite material. Antimicrobial polymers are prepared from compositions comprising acrylate and/or methacrylate monomers and polymerizable quaternary ammonium silicon-containing compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: James R. Glidewell Dental Ceramics, Inc.
    Inventors: Maggie Xiaoxia Liu, Bharathy Thaiyalan, Reid Baker, Nicole Lee Miller
  • Publication number: 20250010715
    Abstract: A display assembly for an automotive interior comprises a dynamically bendable cover panel having first and second panel portions a flexible panel portion connecting the first and second panel portions, a display positioned adjacent the first and second panel portions, and a frame that supports the cover panel and comprises a first frame portion for supporting the first panel portion, a second frame portion for supporting the second panel portion, and a hinge portion coupling the first frame portion and the second frame portion, the hinge portion configured to induce a curvature having smoothly connected arc segments in the flexible panel portion between the first panel portion and the second panel portion when the second frame portion is articulated relative to the first frame portion from a straight position to a deployed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Wesley J. Buth, Scott Steven Cronk, Thomas Augustus Keebler, Evan Gray Kister, Eric Lee Miller, Jason Scott Stewart
  • Patent number: 12183881
    Abstract: A cathode configured for a solid-state battery includes a body having grains of inorganic material sintered to one another, wherein the grains comprise lithium. A thickness of the body is from 3 ?m to 100 ?m. The first major surface and the second major surface have an unpolished granular profile such that the profile includes grains protruding outward from the respective major surface with a height of at least 25 nm and no more than 150 ?m relative to recessed portions of the respective major surface at boundaries between the respective grains.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Michael Edward Badding, Jacqueline Leslie Brown, Jennifer Anella Heine, Thomas Dale Ketcham, Gary Edward Merz, Eric Lee Miller, Zhen Song, Cameron Wayne Tanner, Conor James Walsh
  • Patent number: 12172251
    Abstract: A pneumatic motor propulsion source including a friction welding apparatus, a gas accumulator tank operably coupled to the friction welding apparatus, and an air compressor operably coupled to the gas accumulator tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Forge Tech, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Lee Miller, Daniel J. Rybicki, Mathew A. Rybicki, Lawrence J. Povse, Kenneth R. Vejr, Andre S. Todd, John M. Griffin
  • Patent number: D1060590
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: EOTech, LLC
    Inventors: Mark David Miller, John Anthony Bailey, Aaron Lee Hampton