Patents by Inventor Alan Meissner

Alan Meissner 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).

  • Patent number: 11868728
    Abstract: Techniques for providing and implementing a single skill associated with custom functionality and system-provided functionality are described. The skill may be used to invoke functionality in response to a user input without requiring a user remember exact formulations to cause the functionality to be performed. The skill may be associated with more than one domain. For example, the skill may be associated with custom sample user inputs (corresponding to the custom functionality) that correspond to a custom domain while the skill may also be associated with system-provided sample user inputs (corresponding to the system-provided functionality) associated with a non-custom domain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery Alan Meissner, Ernesto Gonzalez, Nikhil Mehta, Anemona Oana Hagea, John Montague Howard
  • Publication number: 20070039725
    Abstract: A vaporizing heat exchanger (10, 68) is provided for vaporizing a fluid flow using a thermal energy containing flow. Flow paths (24, 26, 28) for each of the fluid flow and the thermal energy containing flow are located relative to each other such that the fluid flow makes multiple passes wherein the fluid is vaporized and subsequently superheated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2006
    Publication date: February 22, 2007
    Inventors: Jeroen Valensa, Michael Reinke, Alan Meissner
  • Publication number: 20060089540
    Abstract: A device for assisting in managing food and medicine intake includes a plurality of alarms each set to correspond to a time for a patient to intake at least one of food and medicine; a display for displaying a time setting for each of the alarms; a mechanism for storing verbal messages containing recorded human voice instructions for taking the at least one of the food and medicine; and a mechanism for audibly outputting the verbal messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2004
    Publication date: April 27, 2006
    Inventor: Alan Meissner
  • Publication number: 20050247440
    Abstract: A heat exchanger including upper and lower header tanks, a vertical baffle in the lower header tank defining first and second longitudinal chambers, a check valve, two tube rows, and a coolant inlet to the first chamber and outlet from the second chamber. The baffle includes a by-pass hole therethrough. One tube row includes a plurality of vertical tubes extending between the upper header tank and the first chamber of the lower header tank, and the other tube row includes a plurality of vertical tubes extending between the upper header tank and the second chamber of the lower header tank. The check valve creates a leak-proof seal during standard operating mode to prevent pressure release from the header tank and creates an air path between the header tank and the environment during draining mode to allow vacuum relief from the header tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Inventors: Alan Meissner, Gregory Mross, Robert Linstroth, Jae An