Patents by Inventor Alan Mitchell
Alan Mitchell 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: 11963745Abstract: Various embodiments provide a wellness tracking device with a base plate that may be utilized as a combination electrode by a variety of sensors. The base plate may be a multi-material electrode that includes a conductor and a transparent or semi-transparent material to enable optical sensing. In certain embodiments, the base plate supports a plurality of different sensors, which may selectively utilize the base plate as an electrode.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FITBIT, INC.Inventors: Jens Mitchell Nielsen, Jaclyn Leverett Wasson, Kyung Nim Noh, Man-Chi Liu, Alan Luu, Peter Colin Dess, Lindsey Michelle Sunden, Lukas Bielskis, Thomas Consolazio, Steven Thomas Woodward, Dennis Jacob McCray
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Patent number: 11707772Abstract: A high flow differential cleaning system uses a source of pressurized compressed dry gas to pressurize a holding tank. A component to be cleaned is securely loaded and oriented against a blast plate designed specifically for the desired pressure, flow, and volume. A fast-actuated valve system opens to direct high volumes of pressurized gas from a holding tank through and around the component(s) held within the cleaning chamber for the removal of remnant powder and foreign particles from interior cavities as well as exterior component surfaces.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASAInventors: Kevin Scott Edwards, Mark Alan Mitchell, Eric Townsend Fox
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Publication number: 20230226523Abstract: This invention pertains to a dehydrogenation catalyst. More particularly, but not exclusively, this invention pertains to dehydrogenation catalysts comprising platinum, platinum silicide and/or platinum phosphide being supported on various metal-oxide supports, which may also be modified metal-oxide supports, for the dehydrogenation of a liquid organic hydrogen carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2023Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventor: Alan Mitchell Clegg
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Patent number: 11585790Abstract: A sample may be prepared and then analyzed using a liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry system to determine presence and concentration of herbicide(s) present in the sample. In some examples, the method involves providing a sample containing one or more herbicides and adding a base to the sample. The base may increase the pH of the sample to ?12, thereby hydrolyzing esters of the one or more herbicides. The method may further involve, subsequent to hydrolyzing the esters of the one or more herbicides, adding an acid to the sample so as to lower the pH of the sample to ?3. Once prepared, the sample can be injected into a liquid chromatography instrument to separate the herbicide molecules from other molecules present in the sample before being ionized and characterized by mass-to-charge ratio and relative abundance using one or more mass spectrometers.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Pace Analytical Services, LLCInventors: Johnny Alan Mitchell, Nic Rasnake, Leora Loftis
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Publication number: 20210213491Abstract: A high flow differential cleaning system uses a source of pressurized compressed dry gas to pressurize a holding tank. A component to be cleaned is securely loaded and oriented against a blast plate designed specifically for the desired pressure, flow, and volume. A fast-actuated valve system opens to direct high volumes of pressurized gas from a holding tank through and around the component(s) held within the cleaning chamber for the removal of remnant powder and foreign particles from interior cavities as well as exterior component surfaces.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2020Publication date: July 15, 2021Inventors: Kevin Scott Edwards, Mark Alan Mitchell, Eric Townsend Fox
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Publication number: 20210150468Abstract: Methods and systems for managing attribute data for shipping and handling within a retail supply chain are disclosed. Item attributes of new items are recorded upon first receipt at a distribution center and are stored in a local database. This attribute data is synchronized to a centralized database. Data from the centralized database is pushed out to other distribution centers. The use of a centralized database of item attributes streamlines the process of inputting data for new items. This database is accessible by multiple systems with the supply chain to determine how the items should be processed. A pathfinding system utilizes item attribute data and facility data to determine a processing route for each item passing through a distribution facility.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2019Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Adam Charles Wright, Mark Steven Siebenaller, Thomas Alan Mitchell, Deepa Sarasamma, David Michael Stephens, Mohanraj Subramaniam, Laura Anne Herzog, Michael Warren Weum, Gurupandi Ponnaiah, Pavan Kumar Bajaj, Suresh Gogineni, Allen Sajjith Arulsamy Nayagam, Sundar Puthur Gomathinayagam, Sara Steinberger
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Publication number: 20210108191Abstract: Recombinant and in vitro reconstitution methods for producing lasso peptides are provided. Methods of screening lasso peptides are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2018Publication date: April 15, 2021Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the University of IllinoisInventor: Douglas Alan MITCHELL
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Patent number: 10348851Abstract: A first server receives a request for a file from a first client device. The first server determines that the file is not fully available in a cache that is available to the first server and receives at least a portion of the file from a second server. While the file is being received, the first server writes data of the file to a temporary cache file as it is being received; streams the file to the first client device from the temporary cache file; receives a request for the file from a second client device; and streams the file to the second client device from the temporary cache file without waiting for the requested file to be fully received at the first server and without transmitting an additional request for the file to the second server.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2018Date of Patent: July 9, 2019Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.Inventors: Ka-Hing Cheung, Jonathan Philip Levine, Robert Alan Mitchell Burke
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Patent number: 10077810Abstract: A sensor hub for use in machine condition monitoring comprising a rotation sensor and a wireless communication module each operatively connected to a processing device. The rotation sensor and processing device are configured to receive power from a controller of the monitored machine. One or more additional sensors, which may be associated with the monitored machine or another machine, may also be operatively connected to the processing device. In an embodiment, the additional sensors may comprise any one or more of, or any combination of, an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, an acoustic sensor, an high frequency sensor, an humidity sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, a current sensor or a proximity sensor. The wireless communication module may support an ad hoc wireless communication protocol. Further, the wireless communication module may receive additional sensor data from one or more wireless sensor nodes associated with the monitored machine or another machine.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2015Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: Dynapar CorporationInventors: Mark Edward Langille, Kirk Alan Mitchell, Erik John Brewster, Abhishek Sumeet Jadhav, Ferran Alberto Ayala, Scott Thomas Benigni
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Patent number: 10064483Abstract: A support device adapted for improving the ergonomic support for the arm and wrist and forearm of a user of computer-related input devices is provided. The support device may include a body interconnecting a base to two spaced apart wing supports oriented at latitudinal and longitudinal support angles relative to the supporting surface on which the devices slides. Each wing provides waterfall edges along its periphery. The void between the wing supports, the supine triangular shape, and the waterfall edges facilitates a more neutral position of the forearm and wrist supporting between the two wing supports, reducing pressure points there along, and avoiding direct pressure to the carpal tunnel canal and mid-forearm regions that house anatomical structures that may be impacted by high pressures. The latitudinal support angle can be adjusted.Type: GrantFiled: November 17, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Inventor: Dennis Alan Mitchell
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Patent number: 10012549Abstract: A device, system and method for remotely determining the temperature and orientation of at least one medium is provided. The device may form a body adapted to penetrate a medium, wherein the body houses a thermal sensor, an accelerometer sensor, a gyroscopic sensor, each electronically connected to a wireless transmitter extending from the body. The plurality of sensors may be adapted to determine the continuous temperature, relative position and orientation of the penetrated medium, all relative to time, while the wireless transmitter is adapted to transmit the plurality such determinations to at least one remote device. The resulting system enables a user to remotely monitoring a level of doneness for a plurality of media in terms of their respective temperatures, orientations, and positioning relative to the time spent on or in at least one heating element.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2015Date of Patent: July 3, 2018Inventor: Dennis Alan Mitchell
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Publication number: 20170065075Abstract: A support device adapted for improving the ergonomic support for the arm and wrist and forearm of a user of computer-related input devices is provided. The support device may include a body interconnecting a base to two spaced apart wing supports oriented at latitudinal and longitudinal support angles relative to the supporting surface on which the devices slides. Each wing provides waterfall edges along its periphery. The void between the wing supports, the supine triangular shape, and the waterfall edges facilitates a more neutral position of the forearm and wrist supporting between the two wing supports, reducing pressure points there along, and avoiding direct pressure to the carpal tunnel canal and mid-forearm regions that house anatomical structures that may be impacted by high pressures. The latitudinal support angle can be adjusted.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventor: Dennis Alan MITCHELL
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Publication number: 20160069853Abstract: A device, system and method for remotely determining the temperature and orientation of at least one medium is provided. The device may form a body adapted to penetrate a medium, wherein the body houses a thermal sensor, an accelerometer sensor, a gyroscopic sensor, each electronically connected to a wireless transmitter extending from the body. The plurality of sensors may be adapted to determine the continuous temperature, relative position and orientation of the penetrated medium, all relative to time, while the wireless transmitter is adapted to transmit the plurality such determinations to at least one remote device. The resulting system enables a user to remotely monitoring a level of doneness for a plurality of media in terms of their respective temperatures, orientations, and positioning relative to the time spent on or in at least one heating element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Dennis Alan MITCHELL
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Publication number: 20160066685Abstract: A support device adapted for improving the ergonomic support for the arm and wrist and forearm of a user of computer-related input devices is provided. The support device may include a body dimensioned and adapted for maintaining two support pads spaced apart along a shared horizontal axis so as to form a predetermined void along said horizontal axis and at a predetermined vertical distance above a supporting surface. The predetermined void prevents direct pressure to a carpal tunnel canal region of a supported wrist and forearm. The support device provides a low-friction base for sliding along the supporting surface for maintaining wrist and forearm support as the user transitions between input devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2015Publication date: March 10, 2016Inventor: Dennis Alan MITCHELL
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Publication number: 20150294552Abstract: A sensor hub for use in machine condition monitoring comprising a rotation sensor and a wireless communication module each operatively connected to a processing device. The rotation sensor and processing device are configured to receive power from a controller of the monitored machine. One or more additional sensors, which may be associated with the monitored machine or another machine, may also be operatively connected to the processing device. In an embodiment, the additional sensors may comprise any one or more of, or any combination of, an accelerometer, a temperature sensor, an acoustic sensor, an high frequency sensor, an humidity sensor, a barometric pressure sensor, a current sensor or a proximity sensor. The wireless communication module may support an ad hoc wireless communication protocol. Further, the wireless communication module may receive additional sensor data from one or more wireless sensor nodes associated with the monitored machine or another machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Applicant: Dynapar CorporationInventors: Mark Edward Langille, Kirk Alan Mitchell, Erik John Brewster, Abhishek Sumeet Jadhav, Ferran Alberto Ayala, Scott Thomas Benigni
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Apparatus, system, and method for mitigating diesel exhaust fluid deposits and associated conditions
Patent number: 8528319Abstract: According to one embodiment, described herein is an apparatus for mitigating on-board diagnostic (OBD) faults generated by an OBD system of an internal combustion engine (ICE) system having a selective catalytic reduction system with a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) decomposition tube. The apparatus includes a fault mitigation module that is configured to monitor at least one OBD signal of the OBD system and issue a request for regenerating the DEF decomposition tube when a value of the at least one OBD signal reaches a predetermined regeneration threshold corresponding with the at least one OBD signal. The regeneration threshold is reachable prior to an OBD fault threshold corresponding with the at least one OBD signal. The apparatus also includes a regeneration module that is configured to regenerate the DEF decomposition tube according to the issued request.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2010Date of Patent: September 10, 2013Assignee: Cummins IP, Inc.Inventors: Daniel D. Wilhelm, Kwadwo O. Owusu, April Evans, Xiao Lin, Robert Kern, Douglas Alan Mitchell, Lisa Farrell -
Publication number: 20120169586Abstract: A virtual interface including a virtual screen generator configured to produce a virtual display screen, a display generator configured to project at least one virtual display element onto the virtual display screen, and at least one sensor configured to detect interaction with the at least one virtual display element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Applicant: CARRIER CORPORATIONInventor: Charles Alan Mitchell
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APPARATUS, SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR MITIGATING DIESEL EXHAUST FLUID DEPOSITS AND ASSOCIATED CONDITIONS
Publication number: 20110146240Abstract: According to one embodiment, described herein is an apparatus for mitigating on-board diagnostic (OBD) faults generated by an OBD system of an internal combustion engine (ICE) system having a selective catalytic reduction system with a diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) decomposition tube. The apparatus includes a fault mitigation module that is configured to monitor at least one OBD signal of the OBD system and issue a request for regenerating the DEF decomposition tube when a value of the at least one OBD signal reaches a predetermined regeneration threshold corresponding with the at least one OBD signal. The regeneration threshold is reachable prior to an OBD fault threshold corresponding with the at least one OBD signal. The apparatus also includes a regeneration module that is configured to regenerate the DEF decomposition tube according to the issued request.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: CUMMINS IP, INCInventors: Daniel D. Wilhelm, Kwadwo O. Owusu, April Evans, Xiao Lin, Robert Kern, Douglas Alan Mitchell, Lisa Farrell -
Publication number: 20070209978Abstract: An indicator for a refrigerator filter which has a body configured to contain a replaceable filter cartridge and including an openable cap to enclose the filter cartridge within the body. The indicator includes a control having a filter life determination mechanism and arranged to emit a signal when a life of the filter cartridge is determined to be expired. A visual display is arranged in association with the body which comprises an illuminating component which illuminates upon receipt of the signal from the control, graphics positioned in association with the body, and a light pipe extending from the graphics towards the illuminating component to transmit light from the illuminating component to the graphics.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2006Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventor: Alan Mitchell
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Publication number: 20060186030Abstract: A filter flushing adapter is provided for use with a filter device where the filter device has an opening forming an inlet and a second opening forming an outlet and with a filter medium positioned between the inlet and the outlet. The filter flushing adapter includes a body having a first open end leading to an interior passage of the body. A second open end leads to the interior passage. The second open end may have a connection fitting configured to receive the filter device and the first open end may have a connection fitting to receive an outlet of a kitchen faucet. An overflow outlet is positioned in the adapter between the first open end and the second open end communicating between the interior passage of the body and an exterior of the body and being aligned with the outlet of the filter device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2005Publication date: August 24, 2006Inventors: Rachel Sohn, Alan Mitchell