Patents by Inventor Andrew Morris
Andrew Morris 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: 20240140664Abstract: A container having a base and a lid is provided. The lid may be rotatable about a hinge from a closed configuration to an open configuration and may be secured, via one or more latching assemblies. The latch assembly may comprise a latch body, a locking member, a biasing member, and an activating member. The lid may have a handle that has a stowed and a carry position, where the handle may be maintained in the stowed position until acted upon by a first force greater than a threshold force to move the handle from the stowed position to the carry position. Similarly, when in the carry position, the handle may be maintained in the carry position until acted upon by a second force greater than the threshold force to move the handle from the carry position to the stowed position.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Mark D. Miller, Nicholas James Lombardi, Steven M. Scott, Elizabeth Ruchte, Andrew J. Winterhalter, Liza Morris
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Patent number: 11970313Abstract: An insulating container having a base and a lid is provided. The lid may be rotatable about a hinge from a closed configuration to an open configuration and may be secured, via one or more latching devices, in the closed configuration. In some examples, the insulating container further includes a pull handle assembly with a telescopic three-stage arm configuration defined by a stowed configuration, a partially extended configuration, and a fully extended configuration. In other examples, the insulating container further includes a wheel assembly with a pair of wheels mounted with one or two axles, and further including a wheel grommet for absorbing shock and cushioning the axle. In still other examples, the insulating container further includes a drain plug assembly on the rear sidewall adjacent to the bottom portion of the base, the drain plug assembly comprising a main tube that cooperatively engages with an outer tube with a plurality of ratchet teeth that engage one or more ratchet keys on the main tube.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLCInventors: Liza Morris, Andrew J. Winterhalter, Robert Secker, Dustin R. Bullock, Elizabeth Ruchte, Ryan Nixon, Derek G. Sullivan, John Loudenslager, John Fritz, Erik Steven Larson, Lance Harrison, Michael Christopher Cieszko
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Patent number: 11969161Abstract: A tissue retraction system comprising a drive gear coupled to a shaft. The tissue retraction system includes a first plurality of linking members located along a second axis and configured to rotate along the second axis based on contact with the drive gear as the drive gear is rotated. The tissue retraction system includes a linking member selector configured to rotate along the first axis, wherein the linking member selector comprises a cylindrical body integrally formed with a handle. The tissue retraction system includes a right arm assembly, a left arm assembly, and a center arm that are each configured to move along trajectories. The tissue retraction system includes a first retractor blade, a second rector blade, and a third retractor blade. The tissue retraction system includes an array with tracking markers.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Nuvasive, Inc.Inventors: Byron Riemhofer, Andrew Morris, Steven Lillig
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Patent number: 11967885Abstract: A brake-generator system and associated method including: a rotor secured to a vehicle wheel, the rotor including a housing cylinder and a plurality of magnets affixed to an inner surface of the housing cylinder, where the plurality of magnets are radially arranged with alternating polarity; and a stator fixed to a vehicle wheel axle, the stator including a plurality of steel laminations and a plurality of conductor blocks, each conductor block of the plurality of conductor blocks being disposed in a slot formed in a steel lamination of the plurality of steel laminations; where the plurality of conductor blocks include a plurality of windings for carrying selectively-applied electrical current, such that with the rotor disposed around the stator and current being applied to the plurality of windings, a braking of the vehicle wheel results.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: INDUCTIVE VENTURES, LLCInventors: Andrew Wissing, Tony Morris, Geoff Wissing, Kent Davey
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Publication number: 20240123383Abstract: The present disclosure provides small diameter tubular porous fiber filters. These tubular porous fiber filters have many uses including but not limited a filtration medium for removing particles of 5 microns or less from liquid or air.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Nicole Elizabeth Morris-Anastasi, Michael Andrew Clendenning, Michael W. Spencer, Qiang Zhou, Guoqiang Mao
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Publication number: 20240129674Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone or hearing aid. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus to enhance incoming audio signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Chromatic Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. Casper, Igor Lovchinsky, Nicholas Morris, Matthew de Jonge, Jonathan Macoskey, Philip Meyers, IV
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Publication number: 20240121562Abstract: A hearing aid includes neural network circuitry configured to implement a neural network trained to separate a speech subsignal and a noise subsignal from an input audio signal, and digital processing circuitry. The digital processing circuitry includes a speech wide dynamic range compression (WDRC) pipeline and a noise WDRC pipeline. The speech WDRC pipeline is configured to apply a set of speech fitting curves to the speech subsignal based at least in part on the level of the speech subsignal. The noise WDRC pipeline is configured to apply a set of noise fitting curves to the noise subsignal based at least in part on the level of the noise subsignal. The set of speech fitting curves is different from the set of noise fitting curves.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Chromatic Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Morris, Igor Lovchinsky, Andrew J. Casper
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Publication number: 20240109564Abstract: A method is provided that can include activating at least two wireless communication channels in parallel, between a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver. Each of the at least two wireless communication channels can operate at a different radio carrier frequency, and the first wireless transceiver may be part of a first vehicle. The method can also include transmitting, by the first wireless transceiver, common information in parallel on the at least two wireless communication channels to the second wireless transceiver and deactivating the at least two wireless communication channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Padam Dhoj Swar, Carl L. Haas, Danial Rice, Rebecca W. Dreasher, Adam Hausmann, Matthew Steven Vrba, Edward J. Kuchar, James Lucas, Andrew Ryan Staats, Jerrid D. Chapman, Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Janmejay Tripathy, Stephen Craven, Tania Lindsley, Derek K. Woo, Ann K. Grimm, Scott Sollars, Phillip A. Burgart, James Allen Oswald, Shannon K. Struttmann, Stuart J. Barr, Keith Smith, Francois P. Pretorius, Craig K. Green, Kendrick Gawne, Irwin Morris, Joseph W. Gorman, Srivallidevi Muthusami, Mahesh Babu Natarajan, Jeremiah Dirnberger, Adam Franco
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Patent number: 11950056Abstract: The disclosure generally relates to a method, system and apparatus to improve a user's understanding of speech in real-time conversations by processing the audio through a neural network contained in a hearing device. The hearing device may be a headphone or hearing aid. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to an apparatus to enhance incoming audio signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Chromatic Inc.Inventors: Andrew J. Casper, Igor Lovchinsky, Nicholas Morris, Matthew de Jonge, Jonathan Macoskey, Philip Meyers, IV
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Patent number: 11937047Abstract: An ear-worn device may include two or more microphones configured to generate time-domain audio signals, each of the two or more microphones configured to generate one of the time-domain audio signals; processing circuitry comprising analog processing circuitry, digital processing circuitry, beamforming circuitry, and short-time Fourier transformation (STFT) circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to generate, from the time-domain audio signals, one or more frequency-domain non-beamformed audio signals and one or more frequency-domain beamformed signals; and enhancement circuitry comprising neural network circuitry configured to receive multiple frequency-domain input audio signals originating from the one or more frequency-domain non-beamformed audio signals and the one or more frequency-domain beamformed signals, and implement a single neural network trained to generate, based on the multiple frequency-domain input audio signals, a noise-reduced and spatially-focused output audio signal or an outputType: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Chromatic Inc.Inventors: Igor Lovchinsky, Israel Malkin, Jonathan Macoskey, Philip Meyers, IV, Andrew Casper, Nicholas Morris, Matthew de Jonge
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Publication number: 20240082018Abstract: Devices and methods for bone fixation including a bone fixation system including a bone plate or intervertebral spacer including a plurality of apertures dimensioned to receive bone fasteners and at least one polymeric element capable of transitioning from a solid state to a flowable state. The polymeric element transitions to a flowable state as a result of exposure to ultrasonic vibration. The polymeric element is placed on the bone plate or intervertebral spacer adjacent a fastener in an aperture and acts to prevent rotational and/or translational movement of the fastener relative to the bone plate or intervertebral spacer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Ryan Donahoe, Andrew Morris
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Patent number: 11925549Abstract: A valve for endovascular heart valve repair that provides improved sealing of the valve against the native wall. The valve assembly has a sealing region at a distal end of the valve. The sealing region having a delivery position and a sealing position, wherein in the delivery position, the sealing region has a first length, and in the sealing position, the sealing region has a second length less than the first length and a thickness in the sealing position is greater in the sealing position than in the delivery position.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Anteris Technologies CorporationInventors: Andrew Reed, Dave Mathieu, William Morris Leonard Neethling
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Publication number: 20240071593Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that provide smart alerts to users, e.g., alerts to users about diabetic states that are only provided when it makes sense to do so, e.g., when the system can predict or estimate that the user is not already cognitively aware of their current condition, e.g., particularly where the current condition is a diabetic state warranting attention. In this way, the alert or alarm is personalized and made particularly effective for that user. Such systems and methods still alert the user when action is necessary, e.g., a bolus or temporary basal rate change, or provide a response to a missed bolus or a need for correction, but do not alert when action is unnecessary, e.g., if the user is already estimated or predicted to be cognitively aware of the diabetic state warranting attention, or if corrective action was already taken.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 24, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Anna Leigh DAVIS, Scott M. BELLIVEAU, Naresh C. BHAVARAJU, Leif N. BOWMAN, Rita M. CASTILLO, Alexandra Elena CONSTANTIN, Rian W. DRAEGER, Laura J. DUNN, Gary Brian GABLE, Arturo GARCIA, Thomas HALL, Hari HAMPAPURAM, Christopher Robert HANNEMANN, Anna Claire HARLEY-TROCHIMCZYK, Nathaniel David HEINTZMAN, Andrea Jean JACKSON, Lauren Hruby JEPSON, Apurv Ullas KAMATH, Katherine Yerre KOEHLER, Aditya Sagar MANDAPAKA, Samuel Jere MARSH, Gary A. MORRIS, Subrai Girish PAI, Andrew Attila PAL, Nicholas POLYTARIDIS, Philip Thomas PUPA, Eli REIHMAN, Ashley Anne RINDFLEISCH, Sofie Wells SCHUNK, Peter C. SIMPSON, Daniel S. SMITH, Stephen J. VANSLYKE, Matthew T. VOGEL, Tomas C. WALKER, Benjamin Elrod WEST, Atiim Joseph WILEY
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Patent number: 11912477Abstract: A container having a base and a lid is provided. The lid may be rotatable about a hinge from a closed configuration to an open configuration and may be secured, via one or more latching assemblies. The latch assembly may comprise a latch body, a locking member, a biasing member, and an activating member. The lid may have a handle that has a stowed and a carry position, where the handle may be maintained in the stowed position until acted upon by a first force greater than a threshold force to move the handle from the stowed position to the carry position. Similarly, when in the carry position, the handle may be maintained in the carry position until acted upon by a second force greater than the threshold force to move the handle from the carry position to the stowed position.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLCInventors: Mark D. Miller, Nicholas James Lombardi, Steven M. Scott, Elizabeth Ruchte, Andrew J. Winterhalter, Liza Morris
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Patent number: 11913176Abstract: The present invention relates broadly to a handheld tool (10) for installing or removing a railway track fastener (12) in the form of an e-clip. The handheld tool (10) generally comprises a drive assembly (24) including an actuator sub-assembly (26), and a driven assembly (28) including an actuated sub-assembly (30) operatively coupled to the actuator sub-assembly (26). The actuator sub-assembly (26) actuates by rotation under the influence of an impact wrench (not shown) effecting longitudinal movement of the driven assembly (28). The drive assembly (24) further includes a jaw member (36) mounted to a bracket (38) extending from an actuator housing (34) of the drive assembly (24). The driven assembly (28) includes an actuated housing (40) within which the actuated sub-assembly (30) is housed. The driven assembly (28) further includes an opposing jaw member (42) mounted to an opposing bracket (44) extending from the actuated housing (40).Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: MELVELLE EQUIPMENT CORP. PTY LTDInventors: Andrew Melvelle, Ben de Rooy, Gary Morris
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Patent number: 11909750Abstract: Disclosed herein is a fraud analysis data reduction technique. When reviewing a large set of data for potential fraudulent action there is often too much data for a human to reasonably analyze. A technique to reduce the overall amount of data associates entities that have duplicate values stored in corresponding data elements with one another and removes those entities that do not have at least one duplicate value. The entities with duplicate values are entered into a node graph and analyzed for connected components. The connected components analysis and a duplicate threshold analysis provide usable results to identify fraudulent activity.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SPLUNK INC.Inventor: Andrew Morris
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Patent number: 11855832Abstract: A method and system for multicast flow restoration following network failure detection. Specifically, in addressing the aftermath following a network failure, one or more embodiments disclosed herein propose a solution through which failure-impacted network multicast(s) may be identified and, subsequently, restored with or without third-party intervention. To that end, one or more embodiments disclosed herein employ(s) a centralized network controller configured to obtain aggregated network state, including network topology information, through numerous logical agents interspersed across a network. Thereafter, the aggregated network state may be leveraged to ascertain and remedy any network multicast disruptions.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.Inventors: Frederic Laine, Nader Lahouti, Ryan Andrew Morris, Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam, Sudip Regmi
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Publication number: 20230412450Abstract: A method and system for multicast flow restoration following network failure detection. Specifically, in addressing the aftermath following a network failure, one or more embodiments disclosed herein propose a solution through which failure-impacted network multicast(s) may be identified and, subsequently, restored with or without third-party intervention. To that end, one or more embodiments disclosed herein employ(s) a centralized network controller configured to obtain aggregated network state, including network topology information, through numerous logical agents interspersed across a network. Thereafter, the aggregated network state may be leveraged to ascertain and remedy any network multicast disruptions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Frederic Laine, Nader Lahouti, Ryan Andrew Morris, Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam, Sudip Regmi
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Publication number: 20230412490Abstract: A method and system for deterministic network bandwidth aware multicast flow provisioning. In addressing network bandwidth oversubscription, embodiments disclosed herein propose a solution through which an intelligent and deterministic methodology may be implemented for provisioning network multicast traffic flows in order to minimize, if not eliminate, network bandwidth oversubscription. To that end, embodiments disclosed herein employ a centralized network controller configured to obtain a range of aggregated network state pertinent to deterministic, network bandwidth aware multicast traffic flow programming. Said aggregated network state may be collected through a number of logical agents dispersed throughout a network, and may include network device connectivity, network path or link bandwidth capacity, and network multicast status information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Nader Lahouti, Ryan Andrew Morris, Sakti Aishwarya Arunachalam, Sudip Regmi
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Patent number: D1024557Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: YETI Coolers, LLCInventors: Mark D. Miller, Nicholas James Lombardi, Steven M. Scott, Elizabeth Ruchte, Andrew J. Winterhalter, Liza Morris