Patents by Inventor Christopher Charles

Christopher Charles 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: 11883305
    Abstract: An ankle-foot prosthesis comprises a foot structure having a foot keel leaf spring, a heel leaf spring, and an upper J leaf spring above the keel leaf spring. An ankle bearing block is mounted to the keel leaf spring and a shank shell is mounted to the ankle bearing block. A shank interface mounts to the shank shell. A processor controlled active element extends along an axis between the shank shell and the upper leaf-spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Hugh M. Herr, Matthew Lawrence Handford, Christopher Charles Williams, Matthew Eli Carney, Daniel Visan Levine
  • Patent number: 11869242
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for recording a portion of content of a sports game. A request to record the portion of the content, which specifies game clock time criteria, is received by user equipment. During transmission of the content, frames of the content including a game progress graphic are analyzed to determine time values representing progress points of the sports game. In response to determining that a first time value representing a first progress point of the sports game matches the game clock time criteria of the request, the user equipment begins to record the portion of the content. In response to determining that a second time value does not match the game clock time criteria of the request, the user equipment stops the recording of the portion of the content and stores the recorded portion of the content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Rovi Guides, Inc.
    Inventors: Abraham George Chackungal, Christopher Charles Lidaka
  • Patent number: 11867915
    Abstract: A device includes a frame configured to be supported in front of a user eye. The frame has a first side facing the user eye and a second side opposite the first side and facing an environment. A light emitting diode is supported by the frame to emit light. The light emitting diode is obscured by an opaque material from an observer in front of the user in the environment. A light deflector is supported by the frame to direct the emitted light from the light emitting diode towards the user eye.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jessie Cindy Maikim, Christopher Charles Aholt, James Peele Terrell, Jr., Jordan Christopher Jur, Joel Steven Kollin
  • Patent number: 11867952
    Abstract: An adapter block assembly includes an adapter block, a circuit board arrangement, and a cover attached to the adapter block so that the circuit board arrangement is held to the adapter block by the cover. Contact assemblies can be disposed between the adapter block and the circuit board arrangement. The cover can be latched, heat staked, or otherwise secured to the adapter block. Each component of the adapter block assembly can include one or more parts (e.g., multiple adapter blocks, multiple circuit boards, and/or multiple cover pieces).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignees: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC, CommScope Connectivity UK Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Marcouiller, Christopher Charles Taylor, John T. Pfarr, Kristofer Bolster, Oscar Fernando Bran de Leon, Loren J. Mattson
  • Publication number: 20240002574
    Abstract: A thermoplastic polyurethane resin composition comprising: a thermoplastic polyurethane resin; an ultraviolet absorber package comprising a benzotriazole compound (UVA1), and a triazine compound (UVA2) wherein the mass ratio of UVA1 to UVA2 is from 1:1 to 3:1; optionally, a hindered amine light stabilizer and/or an antioxidant compound; and wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane resin composition has a maximum ultraviolet transmittance of ?3% in the wavelengths between 280 nm and 365 nm and an ultraviolet transmittance of ?6% in the wavelengths between 365 nm and 370 nm when the thermoplastic polyurethane resin is formed into a film having a thickness of 6 mils and wherein the cumulative weight % of UVA1 and UVA2 in the polyurethane resin composition ranges from 0.5 wt % to 0.85 wt % based on the total weight of the polyurethane resin composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Zarif Farhana Mohd ARIS, Lidina Kalunga CANUTO, Christopher Charles MARKEN, Lan CAO
  • Patent number: 11858359
    Abstract: The invention relates to a power system for a vehicle, the power system for a vehicle, the power system comprising a plurality of supercapacitors, a plurality of batteries, at least one electronic load and a master controller, arranged so that at least one battery is connected with at least one supercapacitor, such that power from the at least one battery may be supplied to the at least one supercapacitor, wherein the master controller ability to switch the at least one supercapacitor to a further at least one supercapacitor and wherein at least one battery and/or at least one supercapacitor of the plurality of supercapacitors supplies power to the electronic load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventors: Maneeshi Trivedi, Christopher Charles Grayson
  • Patent number: 11862912
    Abstract: A connector arrangement includes a plug nose body; a printed circuit board positioned within a cavity of the plug nose body; and a plug cover that mounts to the plug nose body to enclose the printed circuit board within the cavity. The printed circuit board includes a storage device configured to store information pertaining to the electrical segment of communications media. The plug cover defines a plurality of slotted openings through which the second contacts are exposed. A connector assembly includes a jack module and a media reading interface configured to receive the plug. A patch panel includes multiple jack modules and multiple media reading interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Charles Taylor, Gordon John White, Alastair Hoath, Joseph C. Coffey, Loren J. Mattson, Duane Sand
  • Patent number: 11852824
    Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to using an array of hot mirrors in an eye-imaging system. One example provides a head-mounted display system, comprising a frame, an eye-imaging camera supported on the frame, a switchable hot mirror array comprising a plurality of switchable hot mirrors configured to direct light reflecting from an eye toward the eye-imaging camera, and a controller configured to control switching of a reflectivity of each of the plurality of switchable hot mirrors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Eliot Lundell, Joel Steven Kollin, Ishan Chatterjee, Maria Esther Pace, Mark Theodore Bolas, Bernard Charles Kress, Robert Thomas Held, Andreas Georgiou, Christopher Charles Aholt
  • Publication number: 20230398470
    Abstract: A FOG (Fats, Oil, or Grease) separator apparatus includes (1) a first reservoir or chamber having a wastewater inlet configured to receive wastewater containing FOG; (2) a second reservoir or chamber which is separated from the first reservoir by a first 5 weir configured to permit overflow of at least FOG from the first reservoir to the second reservoir; and (3) a third reservoir or chamber separated from the second reservoir by a second weir configured to permit overflow of at least FOG from the second reservoir to the third reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Charles CLEMES
  • Publication number: 20230399243
    Abstract: A FOG (Fats, Oil and Grease) collector (100, 100?) includes at least one floating member (110, 110?) which is configured operatively to float in an effluent containing zone. The FOG collector has at least one heating arrangement (112) configured to warm effluent (150) in the effluent containing zone, thereby liquifying, at least partially, FOG (152) in the effluent. The FOG collector has collecting arrangement (114, 114?) configured to draw in at least some of the warmed effluent including the liquified FOG out of the effluent containing zone for further treatment, processing and/or separation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Charles Clemes
  • Publication number: 20230394364
    Abstract: One example provides a reconfigurable computing fabric to manage machine learning (ML) processing including a configurable interconnect structure and a number programmable logic blocks each having a configurable set of operations. For each of a number of fabric configurations of the computing fabric, each programmable logic block has a corresponding set of operations and the interconnect structure has a corresponding data path structure to interconnect the programmable logic blocks with one another and with inputs and outputs of the computing fabric. The programmable logic blocks include an input/output block having a set of operations including to provide virtual interfaces to receive external session requests for ML processing from request sources, and an elastic AI/ML processing block having a set of operations including to configure a number of AI/ML engines with a session implementation for each external session request and each of a number of event-driven internal session requests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ravi Shankar Subramaniam, Robert Campbell, Jeffrey Kevin Jeansonne, Lan Wang, Christopher Charles Mohrman
  • Publication number: 20230396139
    Abstract: An electric machine is provided. The electric machine defines a centerline and includes: a stator assembly; a rotor assembly rotatable relative to the stator assembly about the centerline; and an actuator coupled to the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both for moving the rotor assembly, the stator assembly, or both along the centerline between a first position and a second position, the rotor assembly positioned closer to the stator assembly when in the first position than when in the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Darek Tomasz Zatorski, Mohamed Osama, Christopher Charles Glynn
  • Publication number: 20230383607
    Abstract: A method comprises determining an initial bit profile of a drill bit prior to the drill bit being used for drilling a wellbore. The method comprises determining a wear depth for at least one element of the drill bit after the drill bit has drilled at least a portion of the wellbore and determining a final bit profile of the drill bit based on the wear depth for the at least one element of the drill bit. The method comprises performing the following for each of one or more intermediate steps between the initial bit profile and the final bit profile, determining an intermediate bit profile of the drill bit and determining at least one wear parameter for the at least one element based on the intermediate bit profile of the drill bit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Shilin Chen, Christopher Charles Propes
  • Publication number: 20230385474
    Abstract: A method comprises determining an initial element wear profile of at least one element of a drill bit prior to the drill bit being used for drilling a wellbore and determining a wear depth for each of the at least one element of the drill bit after the drill bit has drilled at least a portion of the wellbore. The method includes determining a final element wear profile of the at least one element of the drill bit based on the wear depth of at least one element of the drill bit. The method includes performing the following for each of one or more intermediate steps between the initial element wear profile and the final element wear profile, determining an intermediate element wear profile of the at least one element; and determining at least one wear parameter for the at least one element based on the intermediate element wear profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Shilin Chen, Christopher Charles Propes
  • Patent number: 11828229
    Abstract: A panel for attenuating noise is disclosed comprising a face skin having a first inner surface, a base skin having a second inner surface, a cellular core connected to and forming a plurality of cells between the face skin and the base skin, wherein the cellular core is defined by a cell structure having a plurality of cell walls extending between the face skin and the base skin defining each of the plurality of cells and a septum disposed within each of the plurality of cells, the septum defining an upper chamber proximate the face skin and a lower chamber proximate the base skin, wherein the face skin comprises a plurality of perforations fully through the face skin and in fluid communication with the upper chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ROHR, INC.
    Inventors: David Edward Pierick, Richard Scott Alloway, Jose S. Alonso-Miralles, Hwa-Wan Kwan, Raymond R. Listak, Christopher Charles Koroly
  • Patent number: 11808394
    Abstract: This invention relates to a seal system for sealing between an elongate element such as a cable and a surface or substrate around an aperture in the surface through which the elongate element passes. The seal system comprises a seal body to surround the aperture and seal against the surface or substrate around the aperture. The seal body comprises at least one passage for penetration of the elongate element through the seal body at a side of the seal body. The at least one passage providing for a seal to the elongate element. Also provided is a fixing component adapted to be attached over at least part of the seal body and/or through the seal body to seal with the surface or substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Lake Products Limited
    Inventors: Andrew Leo Haynes, Christopher Charles Morrow, James Robert Winton, Gabriel Ioan Giurgiu
  • Publication number: 20230333579
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and system for accelerated cooking using surface temperature measurements. A thermometer measures the surface temperature of food within a cooking appliance that heats a surrounding fluid, such as air, water, or oil. A feedback control algorithm uses the surface temperature and a target temperature to control the surrounding fluid's temperature. Initially, the fluid is heated above the target temperature to quickly raise the food's surface temperature. As the food warms, the fluid temperature decreases, stabilizing near the target temperature. This maintains the surface temperature near the target, accelerating the core's temperature equilibrium. The method may also allow temporary surface temperature overshoot for further time reduction. This method enables accelerated, precise cooking, accounting for evaporative cooling effects, without the need for complex user inputs or sous vide/humidity-controlled appliances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventor: Christopher Charles Young
  • Patent number: 11790806
    Abstract: A pilot and burner apparatus is provided for use in firefighting training. The apparatus includes a main fuel conduit and a main fuel valve. The apparatus includes a pilot tube and a pilot fuel conduit configured to deliver fuel from the main fuel conduit to the pilot tube. The apparatus includes main and pilot fuel valves to respectively control a flow of fuel in the main and pilot fuel conduits. In a pilot phase, the valves direct fuel to the pilot tube. An ignition component is configured to ignite fuel in the pilot tube to generate a pilot flame. In a burn phase, the pilot flame generates a controllable flame out of a main burner pipe by igniting fuel exiting the main fuel conduit. The controllable flame can be delivered to a training structure for training purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Fireblast Global, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Wayne Egelin, Jr., Christopher Charles Yirsa
  • Patent number: 11789593
    Abstract: Methods for displaying improved user interfaces are disclosed. The method includes receiving a user interface request to display a user interface of an issue tracking system from a user device. The user interface displays a plurality of objects and the user interface request includes a user identifier of a user of the user device and a user identifier of the requested user interface. The method further includes determining a time since the user last viewed the user interface, retrieving object data for the requested user interface based on the user interface identifier, retrieving activity data for the requested user interface based on the time since the user last viewed the user interface, and communicating the object data and activity data to the user device for displaying on the user device, the user device displaying the object data and displaying one or more activity indicators based on the received activity data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignees: ATLASSIAN PTY LTD., ATLASSIAN US, INC.
    Inventors: Jose Ignacio Romagnoli, Christopher Charles Mann
  • Patent number: 11790410
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage mediums storing methods of natural capital measurement are described. A region of influence for the area whose natural capital is to be measured is determined and segmented into a plurality of segments. A land assessment model, including a system dynamics model and a spatially explicit model, is generated for the region of influence by training one or more machine learning algorithms to classify land use categories for the segments and to determine statistical relationships between state variables and properties of the segment. A flow sequence for simulating a transport of materials between the plurality of segments is executed to update the land assessment model. Health indicators for the natural capital of the area are generated using the updated land assessment model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: DOWNFORCE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED
    Inventors: Jacqueline Myriam McGlade, Kevin Peter Morris, Christopher Charles Lakey