Patents by Inventor Christopher Andrews

Christopher Andrews 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: 20220165666
    Abstract: A parallel redundant system comprises a substrate, a first circuit disposed over the substrate, a first conductor disposed at least partially in a first layer over the substrate and wire routed to the first circuit, a second circuit disposed over the substrate, the second circuit redundant to the first circuit, a second conductor disposed in a second layer over the substrate and electrically connected to the second circuit, the second conductor disposed at least partially over the first conductor, a dielectric layer disposed at least partially between the first layer and the second layer, and a laser weld electrically connecting the first conductor to the second conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Erich Radauscher, Ronald S. Cok, Matthew Alexander Meitl, Christopher Andrew Bower, Christopher Michael Verreen, Erik Paul Vick
  • Publication number: 20220166738
    Abstract: Traditional messaging applications (such as email, social networking platforms, text, instant messaging, chat, etc.) are ill-equipped for collaboration. For instance, a sender and recipients corresponding regarding a topic are often required to exchange multiple messages. As a result, determining a consensus regarding the topic or summarizing the collaboration is difficult and cumbersome. Moreover, when links are included in messages, recipients are required to navigate away from the messaging application to view the linked content. A messaging application is provided that may be configured to enable users to dynamically collaborate regarding links or data within a sent message or a receive message. In aspects, a collaborative user experience (UX) is provided, which may be an interface within a message that enables real-time collaboration between a sender and one or more recipients regarding message content—without exchanging additional messages or navigating away from the messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Leeviana Peng GRAY, Sebastien Rene VANDENBERGHE, Kyle P. CURLETT, Yan Zhong LEIGH, Brian D. MEERSMA, Benjamin G. WILDE, Natalie Ann MIONIS, Sophia Isabel VENNIX, Christopher Andrews JUNG, Humberto LEZAMA GUADARRAMA
  • Patent number: 11343521
    Abstract: A method of encoding and decoding video data is described. According to an aspect of an invention, luma and chroma components may have separate quadtree plus binary tree (QTBT) structures and a scaling parameter for a chroma coding block is determined based on one or more properties of a luma component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Jie Zhao, Seung-Hwan Kim, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Publication number: 20220150494
    Abstract: A video coding device may be configured to perform video coding according to one or more of the techniques described herein. In one example, a method of partitioning video data for video coding, comprises receiving a video block including sample values, and partitioning the sample values according to the following set of partitioning modes: quadtree, horizontal or vertical symmetric binary tree, horizontal or vertical asymmetric binary tree, and horizontal or vertical triple tree.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Weijia ZHU, Christopher Andrew SEGALL, Kiran Mukesh MISRA, Jie ZHAO, Michael HOROWITZ
  • Patent number: 11324513
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for treating vascular defects are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, includes an occlusive device comprising a mesh having a low-profile state for intravascular delivery to the aneurysm and a deployed state, the mesh comprising a first end portion, a second end portion, and a length extending between the first and second end portions, and a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge, and a width extending between the first and second lateral edges. The mesh may have a predetermined shape in the deployed state in which (a) the mesh is curved along its width, (b) the mesh is curved along its length, and (c) the mesh has an undulating contour across at least a portion of one or both of its length or its width. The mesh is configured to be positioned within the aneurysm in the deployed state such that the mesh extends over the neck of the aneurysm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Gregory Hamel, Patrick Quinn, Arturo Rosqueta, Stephen Sosnowski, Christopher Andrews, Hieu Dang, Dinh Nguyen, Robert Pecor, Minh Q. Dinh, Ahramahzd Tatavoosian
  • Patent number: 11330260
    Abstract: A video coding device and method are provided to perform video coding by receiving a value indicating a maximum allowed partitioning depth; updating the maximum allowed partitioning depth based on one or more inference rules; determining a partitioning for a coded video block based on the maximum allowed partitioning depth; and reconstructing the video data based on the determined partitioning for the coded video block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG Innovation Company Limited
    Inventors: Wei-Jia Zhu, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Jie Zhao, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Publication number: 20220125455
    Abstract: Retrieval of material from vessel lumens can be improved by electrically enhancing attachment of the material to the removal device. The removal device can have a core assembly that includes a hypotube coupled to a first electrical terminal and a pushwire coupled to a second electrical terminal, the pushwire extending through the hypotube lumen. An insulating layer separates the hypotube and the pushwire, and an interventional element is coupled to a distal end of the pushwire. The interventional element can be disposed adjacent to a thrombus. An electrical signal is delivered to the interventional element to promote adhesion of the thrombus to the interventional element. The electrical signal can optionally be a periodic waveform, and the total energy delivered can be between 0.75-24,000 mJ and the peak current delivered via the electrical signal can be between 0.5-5 mA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Gaurav Girdhar, Hoai Nguyen, Andy Huynh, Ashok Nageswaran, Christopher Andrews
  • Publication number: 20220126049
    Abstract: A patient interface includes a frame assembly including connectors operatively attachable to headgear, a cushion assembly provided to the frame assembly and including a seal-forming structure structured to form a seal with the patient's nose and/or mouth, and an air delivery connector provided to the frame assembly and operatively connected to an air delivery tube for supplying the air at positive pressure along an air flow path. The cushion assembly is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the air delivery connector. The air delivery connector is structured to releasably connect to the frame assembly independently of the cushion assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Amal Shirley AMARASINGHE, Ravikumar BALUCHAGI, Adam Francis BARLOW, Andrew James BATE, Emily Elizabeth BLANCH, David James BRAUND, Christopher Samuel CULLEN, Errol Savio Alex D'SOUZA, Bruce Richard DAVIES, Craig David EDWARDS, Christopher Andrew Wakeley GILL, Lachlan Richard GOLDSPINK, Thomas KIRBY, Kishore MARKAPURAM CHENGALVARAYAN, Holly Elizabeth MILLER, Lemmy NGA, Chia Ik TAN, Matthew Robin WELLS
  • Patent number: 11313092
    Abstract: A spreader assembly may include a hopper, a pair of augers positioned in a dual auger arrangement and a metering gate assembly including a gate and a biasing force generator. The gate may have a general M-shape with an inner extension and may be positioned generally above the augers with the inner extension extending between the augers. The biasing force generator may be operable to apply a biasing force to the gate causing the gate to operate as a metering gate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: SWENSON SPREADER, LLC
    Inventors: Jason K. Grimes, Christopher Andrew Williams Norkus
  • Patent number: 11313173
    Abstract: Smart electric shades system, and its method of operation. A smart electric shades (SES) device includes a window blind, and a motor able to open and close the window blind. The SES device includes a Wi-Fi transceiver able to receive an incoming Wi-Fi signal indicating a remote command to control another SES unit that is external to and separate from that SES device. The SES device also includes a non-Wi-Fi reduced-power wireless transceiver, to send to that other SES unit a non-Wi-Fi wireless communication signal, based on the incoming Wi-Fi command, indicating the remote command to control that other SES unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: OLIBRA LLC
    Inventors: Zohar Shinar, Christopher Andrew Merck
  • Patent number: 11315909
    Abstract: A display comprises a transparent polymer support, an array of light emitters embedded in the support, and a redistribution layer. Each light emitter comprises electrode contacts that are substantially coplanar with a back surface of the support and emits light through a front surface of the support opposite the back surface when provided with power through the electrode contacts. The redistribution layer comprises a dielectric layer that is disposed on and in contact with the support back surface and distribution contacts that extend through the dielectric layer. Each of the distribution contacts is electrically connected to an electrode contact and is at least partially exposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Bower, Matthew Alexander Meitl, Glenn Arne Rinne, Justin Walker Brown, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 11316086
    Abstract: A printed structure comprises a device comprising device electrical contacts disposed on a common side of the device and a substrate non-native to the device comprising substrate electrical contacts disposed on a surface of the substrate. At least one of the substrate electrical contacts has a rounded shape. The device electrical contacts are in physical and electrical contact with corresponding substrate electrical contacts. The substrate electrical contacts can comprise a polymer core coated with a patterned contact electrical conductor on a surface of the polymer core. A method of making polymer cores comprising patterning a polymer on the substrate and reflowing the patterned polymer to form one or more rounded shapes of the polymer and coating and then patterning the one or more rounded shapes with a conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Bower, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 11311559
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, compositions and kits for treating a viral infection, for example, COVID-19, MERS and SARS. The disclosed compositions provide for enhanced delivery of the disclosed antiviral agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: POVIVA CORP.
    Inventors: John Docherty, Christopher Andrew Bunka
  • Publication number: 20220120907
    Abstract: A peripheral perception system for providing a 360-coverage of a peripheral region around a machine is disclosed. The peripheral perception system includes a first perception device mounted to a first surface of the machine, defining a first elevation and a first angle with respect to a vertical axis of the machine; and a second perception device mounted to a second surface of the machine, defining a second elevation and a second angle with respect to the vertical axis. The first perception device scans a first field of view covering a first peripheral region of the machine and the second perception device scans a second field of view covering a second peripheral region of the machine, such that the first field of view and the second field of view combinedly provide 360-degree coverage of the peripheral region around the machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Applicant: Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
    Inventors: Todd Alex Impola, Timothy M. O'Donnell, Jacob J. McAlpine, Christopher Andrew Wahlmark
  • Publication number: 20220122520
    Abstract: A flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, an array of pixels distributed in rows and columns over the display substrate, the array having a column-control side, and column controller disposed on the column-control side of the array providing column data to the array of pixels through column-data lines. In some embodiments, rows of pixels in the array of pixels form row groups and each column of pixels in a row group receives column data through a separate column-data line. In some embodiments, each pixel in each column of pixels in the array of pixels is serially connected and each pixel in the array of pixels comprises a token-passing circuit for passing a token through the serially connected column of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald S. Cok, Christopher Andrew Bower
  • Publication number: 20220122519
    Abstract: A flat-panel display comprises a display substrate, an array of pixels distributed in rows and columns over the display substrate, the array having a column-control side, and column controller disposed on the column-control side of the array providing column data to the array of pixels through column-data lines. In some embodiments, rows of pixels in the array of pixels form row groups and each column of pixels in a row group receives column data through a separate column-data line. In some embodiments, each pixel in each column of pixels in the array of pixels is serially connected and each pixel in the array of pixels comprises a token-passing circuit for passing a token through the serially connected column of pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Andrew Bower, Ronald S. Cok
  • Patent number: 11309197
    Abstract: An example of a method of micro-transfer printing comprises providing a micro-transfer printable component source wafer, providing a stamp comprising a body and spaced-apart posts, and providing a light source for controllably irradiating each of the posts with light through the body. Each of the posts is contacted to a component to adhere the component thereto. The stamp with the adhered components is removed from the component source wafer. The selected posts are irradiated through the body with the light to detach selected components adhered to selected posts from the selected posts, leaving non-selected components adhered to non-selected posts. In some embodiments, using the stamp, the selected components are adhered to a provided destination substrate. In some embodiments, the selected components are discarded. An example micro-transfer printing system comprises a stamp comprising a body and spaced-apart posts and a light source for selectively irradiating each of the posts with light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: X Display Company Technology Limited
    Inventors: Erich Radauscher, Ronald S. Cok, Christopher Andrew Bower, Matthew Alexander Meitl
  • Patent number: 11310495
    Abstract: A method of filtering reconstructed video data, the method comprising: determining whether one or more conditions associated with the adjacent reconstructed video blocks are satisfied; selecting a filter based on whether the one or more conditions are satisfied; modifying sample values in the adjacent reconstructed video blocks based on the selected filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignees: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHA, FG INNOVATION COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventors: Seung-Hwan Kim, Jie Zhao, Kiran Mukesh Misra, Christopher Andrew Segall
  • Publication number: 20220116646
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing motion vector prediction for video coding are disclosed. A motion vector predictor is determined based at least in part on motion information associated with a selected motion vector predictor origin and offset values corresponding to a selected sampling point. The sampling point is specified according to a set of direction and distance on a sampling map for the motion vector predictor origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Byeongdoo CHOI, Kiran Mukesh MISRA, Jie ZHAO, Philip COWAN, Weijia ZHU, Sachin G. DESHPANDE, Frank BOSSEN, Christopher Andrew SEGALL
  • Patent number: D952254
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: The Gillette Company LLC
    Inventors: Armando Miguel Hurtado, Christopher Andrew Emanuel, Jonathon Albert Riehle, Jahdiel Fyfield