Patents by Inventor Christopher A. Michaels

Christopher A. Michaels 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: 20240110390
    Abstract: A deck tile assembly is disclosed. The deck tile assembly comprises a frame having at least four sides. The deck tile assembly further comprises a plurality of bars for providing a support structure to the frame. The deck tile assembly further comprises at least two parallel sleepers permanently attached between two opposite sides of the frame and mounted on the plurality of bars. The deck tile assembly further comprises at least two step clip fastening devices, wherein each of the step clip fastening device is mounted on one of the at least two parallel sleepers. The deck tile assembly further comprises at least two supporting members for attaching the frame with the ground surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Christopher J. Heritage, Evan Carl Parker, JR.
  • Publication number: 20240110382
    Abstract: A cable railing assembly having a plurality of posts, an expandable cable guide assembly, and a tensioning apparatus, and a method of assembling the cable railing assembly. The expandable cable guide assembly includes a pair of cable braces with a cable extending in a serpentine fashion between the cable braces. The tensioning apparatus includes a tensioner base, a tensioner body, a compression spring positioned between the tensioner base and the tensioner body, a movable carriage slidably mounted adjacent the tensioner body and comprising a cable clamp for gripping the cable, and a threaded adjuster secured to the body and operative for moving the movable carriage along the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Christopher Heritage, Patrick Bertke, Ryan Burgess
  • Publication number: 20240110380
    Abstract: A cable railing assembly having a plurality of posts, an expandable cable guide assembly, and a tensioning apparatus, and a method of assembling the cable railing assembly. The expandable cable guide assembly includes a pair of cable braces with a cable extending in a serpentine fashion between the cable braces. The tensioning apparatus includes a tensioner base, a tensioner body, a compression spring positioned between the tensioner base and the tensioner body, a movable carriage slidably mounted adjacent the tensioner body and comprising a cable clamp for gripping the cable, and a threaded adjuster secured to the body and operative for moving the movable carriage along the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Christopher Heritage, Patrick Bertke, Ryan Burgess
  • Publication number: 20240110381
    Abstract: A cable railing assembly having a plurality of posts, an expandable cable guide assembly, and a tensioning apparatus, and a method of assembling the cable railing assembly. The expandable cable guide assembly includes a pair of cable braces with a cable extending in a serpentine fashion between the cable braces. The tensioning apparatus includes a tensioner base, a tensioner body, a compression spring positioned between the tensioner base and the tensioner body, a movable carriage slidably mounted adjacent the tensioner body and comprising a cable clamp for gripping the cable, and a threaded adjuster secured to the body and operative for moving the movable carriage along the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Christopher Heritage, Patrick Bertke, Ryan Burgess
  • Publication number: 20240110383
    Abstract: A cable railing assembly having a plurality of posts, an expandable cable guide assembly, and a tensioning apparatus, and a method of assembling the cable railing assembly. The expandable cable guide assembly includes a pair of cable braces with a cable extending in a serpentine fashion between the cable braces. The tensioning apparatus includes a tensioner base, a tensioner body, a compression spring positioned between the tensioner base and the tensioner body, a movable carriage slidably mounted adjacent the tensioner body and comprising a cable clamp for gripping the cable, and a threaded adjuster secured to the body and operative for moving the movable carriage along the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Christopher Heritage, Patrick Bertke, Ryan Burgess
  • Publication number: 20240114284
    Abstract: An earphone including a first earbud and a microphone device. The first earbud includes a housing and a motherboard at least partially disposed in the housing. The housing has a restricting surface. The restricting surface surrounds at least a part of the motherboard. The microphone device includes a shell, a circuit board, a connector and a restricting component. The circuit board is disposed in the shell. The connector protrudes from the circuit board and electrically connects the circuit board to the motherboard. The restricting component protrudes from the shell and rests on the restricting surface of the housing to restrict a movement of the shell and the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Pei-Hsun LU, Christopher Michael MANCINI
  • Publication number: 20240110385
    Abstract: A cable railing assembly having a plurality of posts, an expandable cable guide assembly, and a tensioning apparatus, and a method of assembling the cable railing assembly. The expandable cable guide assembly includes a pair of cable braces with a cable extending in a serpentine fashion between the cable braces. The tensioning apparatus includes a tensioner base, a tensioner body, a compression spring positioned between the tensioner base and the tensioner body, a movable carriage slidably mounted adjacent the tensioner body and comprising a cable clamp for gripping the cable, and a threaded adjuster secured to the body and operative for moving the movable carriage along the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: BARRETTE OUTDOOR LIVING, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Christopher Heritage, Patrick Bertke, Ryan Burgess
  • Publication number: 20240110405
    Abstract: A system includes an initial position identified to build one or more connected structures. The system also includes one or more corner brackets attached to a plurality of frame members at the initial position. The system also includes a plurality of mid-beams and center braces positioned in between each of the frame members and each of the corner brackets to enable decorative screen panels to be placed between each of the frame members and corner brackets. The decorative screen panels are positioned over the mid-beams and center beams and in between the corner brackets and frame members. The system also includes a plurality of corner posts each inserted into one of the corner brackets. The corner posts, combined with the corner brackets form a T-shaped frame around the decorative screen panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Paige Barbara Moore, Patrick Joseph Bertke
  • Publication number: 20240110452
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a downhole logging tool configured for placement in a wellbore comprises a first magnet configured to activate a first volume of ferromagnetic fluid disposed between the downhole logging tool and the wellbore to achieve a first seal between a primary analysis region of the downhole logging tool and a wellbore fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Xiang Wu, Jichun Sun
  • Publication number: 20240110336
    Abstract: Sanitary tissue products of the present disclosure may comprise a ply consisting of a first layer and/or a second layer. At least one of the first and second layers may comprise from about 55% to about 95% non-wood fibers. Sanitary tissue products of the present disclosure may comprise non-wood fibers and a ply comprising a first layer and a second layer. The first layer may be a consumer-facing layer, wherein the consumer-facing layer may have a consumer-facing side, wherein the consumer-facing side may comprise a plurality of pillows. Sanitary tissue products of the present disclosure may comprise non-wood fibers and may have a lint value greater than about 6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael YOUNG, Jeffrey Glen SHEEHAN, Kathryn Christian KIEN, Ward William OSTENDORF
  • Patent number: 11944490
    Abstract: Techniques for accurate positioning of an energy application device for neuromodulation treatment protocols are provided. A neuromodulation positioning patch is applied to a patient's skin. The energy application device is coupled to a frame of the neuromodulation positioning patch to position a transducer of the energy application device within an opening at a treatment position within the opening. The frame is also coupled to a removable dock for an imaging probe. When the frame is coupled to the removable dock the frame of the neuromodulation positioning patch, acquires image data through the opening to identify or verify the treatment position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Puleo, Jeffrey Michael Ashe, David Andrew Shoudy, Victoria Eugenia Cotero, James Enrico Sabatini
  • Patent number: 11946368
    Abstract: A system to determine a contamination level of a formation fluid, the system including a formation tester tool to be positioned in a borehole, wherein the borehole has a mixture of the formation fluid and a drilling fluid and the formation tester tool includes a sensor to detect time series measurements from a plurality of sensor channels. The system includes a processor to dimensionally reduce the time series measurements to generate a set of reduced measurement scores in a multi-dimensional measurement space and determine an end member in the multi-dimensional measurement space based on the set of reduced measurement scores, wherein the end member comprises a position in the multi-dimensional measurement space that corresponds with a predetermined fluid concentration. The processor also determines the contamination level of the formation fluid at a time point based the set of reduced measurement scores and the end member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Bin Dai, Dingding Chen, Christopher Michael Jones
  • Patent number: 11946369
    Abstract: A method comprises receiving a measurement of a pressure in a subsurface formation at a number of depths in a wellbore formed in the subsurface formation across a sampling depth range of the subsurface formation to generate a number of pressure-depth measurement pairs and partitioning the sampling depth range into a number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises performing a fitting operation over each of the number of fluid depth ranges to determine a fluid gradient for the type of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges. The method comprises generating a solution set of one or more solutions based on the fluid gradient of the reservoir fluid for each of the number of fluid depth ranges determined from performing the fitting operation, wherein each solution defines a partitioning of the sampling depth range and the fluid gradient of each fluid depth range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamed Chok, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Jonas Toelke
  • Patent number: 11947957
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide to techniques for automatically grouping software applications based on their technical patterns/characteristics (i.e., technical facets) via machine learning (ML) algorithms. For instance, a first set of software applications that exhibit a high prevalence of one or more first technical facets may be grouped into a first category, a second set of software applications that exhibit a high prevalence of one or more second technical facets may be grouped into a second category, and so on. Once grouped into categories, the software applications in a given category may be assessed, analyzed, and/or processed together for various purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: VMware LLC
    Inventors: Phillip Steven Woods, Joseph G Szodfridt, Christopher Michael Umbel, Shaun Anderson, Rohit Bajaj
  • Patent number: 11946361
    Abstract: Quality factors associated with formation pressure measurements at various depths in the geologic formation are determined based on one or more well logs of formation properties in a geologic formation. A formation testing tool with two or more probes is positioned in a borehole of the geologic formation based on the quality factors. The two or more probes in the borehole perform respective formation pressure measurements, where each formation pressure measurement is performed at a different depth. The formation pressure measurements and the given distance between the two or more probes indicate a formation pressure gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, Bin Dai, Anthony Herman van Zuilekom
  • Patent number: 11945796
    Abstract: This disclosure is drawn to substituted pyridine compounds and compositions, and associated methods, useful for inhibition of SARM1 activity and/or for treating or preventing neurological diseases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: NURA BIO, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Pomeroy Brown, Keira Garland, Shilpa Sambashivan, Christopher Michael Tegley, Liusheng Zhu
  • Publication number: 20240101497
    Abstract: A method for producing an olefin product, including the steps of converting a hydrocarbon feedstock to an unsaturated hydrocarbon stream through a steam cracking process in an olefins production plant; combusting hydrogen to provide at least some of the heating duty to the steam cracking process, wherein the hydrogen has a carbon intensity less than about 1.0 kg CO2e/kg H2, wherein the hydrogen is produced using a hydrogen production process; providing at least some of the required energy for the hydrogen production process from a biomass power plant; and processing the unsaturated hydrocarbon stream to recover the olefin product. The olefin product may comprise ethylene having a well-to-gate carbon intensity less than about 0.6 kg CO2e/kg C2H4, or may comprise propylene having a well-to-gate carbon intensity less than about 0.6 kg CO2e/kg C3H6.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael MILLER, Gregory David SMITH, Anna Louise BUCKLEY, Byron Gladus BEST, III, Bengt Arne JARLSJO, Dainel Joseph SHAPIRO
  • Publication number: 20240101419
    Abstract: A method for producing hydrogen product having a low carbon intensity is provided. The method includes the steps of: (a) converting a hydrocarbon feedstock to a hydrogen product using a hydrocarbon reforming process; (b) providing at least some of the required energy for the hydrogen production process from a biomass power plant; and (c) processing one or more flue gas streams from the biomass power plant in a carbon capture unit to reduce CO2e emissions. The hydrogen product has a carbon intensity preferably less than about 1.0 kg CO2e/kg H2, more preferably less than 0.45 kg CO2e/kg H2, and most preferably less than 0.0 kg CO2e/kg H2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Byron Gladus Best, III, Christopher Michael Miller, Anna Louise Buckley, John Edwin Plumlee, Bengt Arne Jarlsjo, Daniel Joseph Shapiro
  • Publication number: 20240102403
    Abstract: A method for providing energy from waste heat from an electrolysis process to one or more commercial or industrial operations is provided. The method includes the steps of converting water to oxygen and a hydrogen product through an electrolysis process, wherein the hydrogen product has a carbon intensity less than about 0.45 kg CO2e/kg H2, and wherein at least some of the required energy for the electrolysis process is provided from a biomass power plant. The method further includes recovering waste heat from the electrolysis process, and then converting at least some of the waste heat to thermal energy for use in the one or more commercial or industrial operations. Examples of commercial and industrial operations includes, without limitation, greenhouses, algae farms, district cooling, and district heating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael MILLER, Anna Louis BUCKLEY, Byron Gladus BEST, III, Bengt Arne JARLSJO, Daniel Joseph SHAPIRO
  • Publication number: 20240102179
    Abstract: Methods for producing a hydrogen product having a carbon intensity less than about 0.45 kg CO2e/kg H2 is provided. The method includes the steps of converting water to oxygen and the hydrogen product through an electrolysis process, providing at least some, and substantially all, of the required energy for the electrolysis process from a biomass power plant, and processing one or more flue gas streams from the biomass power plant in a carbon capture unit to reduce CO2e emissions. The energy produced from the biomass power plant may comprise one or more of electricity, steam used as process steam in the electrolysis process, steam used as thermal energy in the electrolysis process, and steam used to power a mechanical drive for one or more compressors, pumps, or other motors generating shaft torque in the electrolysis process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Michael MILLER, Anna Louise BUCKLEY, Byron Gladus BEST, III, Bengt Arne JARLSJO, Daniel Joseph SHAPIRO