Patents by Inventor Christopher MICHAEL

Christopher MICHAEL 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).

  • HIGH PURITY TIN COMPOUNDS CONTAINING UNSATURATED SUBSTITUENT AND METHOD FOR PREPARATION THEREOF
    Publication number: 20240376134
    Abstract: Monoorgano tin trialkoxide compounds having chemical formula R?Sn(OR)3 and containing less than about 5 mol % tin tetraalkoxide are described. R? is a linear or branched, unsaturated hydrocarbon group having about 2 to about 4 carbon atoms and each R is independently trimethylsilyl, phenyl, or a linear or branched, optionally fluorinated, alkyl group having about 1 to about 5 carbon atoms. Methods for synthesizing and purifying these compounds are also provided. The monoorgano tin compounds may be used for the formation of high-resolution EUV lithography patterning precursors and are attractive due to their high purity and minimal concentration of diorgano tin impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Li YANG, Christopher Michael CAROFF
  • HAPTIC TRACKPAD LOUDSPEAKER
    Publication number: 20240377862
    Abstract: Current mobile devices that feature force feedback touchpads include haptic engines that operate in a narrow bandwidth and therefore cannot be used as a dual-purpose center channel for media playback. Further, a separate dedicated loudspeaker for a center channel would add cost and reduce integration space. The presently disclosed dual-use haptic trackpad loudspeaker can enable an enhanced audio experience without the need for an additional dedicated loudspeaker. The dual-use haptic trackpad loudspeaker can be used for haptics feedback as well as provide audio output over the frequency range 400 Hz to 10 kHz. The dual-use haptic trackpad loudspeaker may use a tuned spring-mass actuator and adopt mechanical properties to provide a specific desired mechanical compliance to the dual-use haptic trackpad loudspeaker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: Eric SIMPSON, Christian LORENZ, Nicolas DEFOREIT, Christopher Michael FORRESTER, Alfonso MARTINEZ, Chun Beng GOH, Thomas Joseph LONGO
  • Short-term wash treatment of produce
    Patent number: 12137719
    Abstract: A produce wash system is provided. The produce wash system includes a produce line including a short-term wash device and a rinse transition component followed by a wash device, a short-term wash treatment that is applied by the short-term wash device to a product, wherein the short-term wash treatment remains on the product for a pretreatment time that lasts until the short-term wash treatment is rinsed off, and a rinse solution applied by the rinse transition component that rinses the product after the product leaves the short-term wash device and before the product enters the wash device, and a wash treatment that is applied by the wash device to the product, wherein the wash treatment rinses any remaining short-term wash treatment from the product. The pretreatment time is set at or below a damage threshold time beyond which the short-term wash treatment damages the product beyond a damage threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: SMARTWASH SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: James M. Brennan, Danny Elmer Lindstrom, Christopher Michael McGinnis, Eric Child Wilhelmsen
  • Network monitoring tool
    Patent number: 12143283
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for network monitoring are provided. The method retrieves and processes performance data files from each technology type in the network. These performance data files are then loaded into a time series database. At least one key performance indicator is derived from the data. The performance data is organized by region and pool level and then displayed by region and pool level. The method provides configurable thresholds for key performance indicators and alerts users to those thresholds. The apparatus provides a display allowing both monitoring and test functions to be selected. The display is automatically updated based on a predetermined, selectable time interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar, Leyth Wehelie Adan, Christopher Michael O'Boyle
  • FAST APPROACH FOR ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE COMPUTATION THROUGH DIMENSION EXPANSION
    Publication number: 20240369731
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for an improved method for determining and evaluating an impedance of an annulus associated with a casing of a wellbore. For example, aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and techniques for performing two-dimensional (2D) and/or three-dimensional (3D) simulations (e.g., 2D and 3D numerical modeling) for predicting physical properties of a material or sample and determining calibration functions used to improve the efficiency and accuracy of the determined impedance results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Jichun SUN, Xusong Wang, Xiang Wu, Christopher Michael Jones, Qingtao Sun
  • Inorganic scale detection or scaling potential downhole
    Patent number: 12134968
    Abstract: A method and system for identifying scale. The method may include disposing a fluid sampling tool into a wellbore. The fluid sampling tool may comprise at least one probe configured to fluidly connect the fluid sampling tool to a formation in the wellbore and at least one passageway that passes through the at least one probe and into the fluid sampling tool. The method may further comprise drawing a formation fluid, as a fluid sample, through the at least one probe and through the at least one passageway, perturbing the formation fluid, and analyzing the fluid sample in the fluid sampling tool for one or more indications of scale.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Jones, James Martin Price, Anthony Herman VanZuilekom, Rohin Naveena-Chandran
  • IN-VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA MIXING
    Publication number: 20240364756
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a plurality of media signals from a plurality of consoles included in a vehicle, wherein each of the plurality of consoles is included in a common communication session; causing video signals associated with the plurality of media signals to be displayed at a first console in the plurality of consoles; spatializing, based on a position, an audio signal associated with a first media signal of the plurality of media signals to generate a spatialized audio signal, the first media signal being associated with a second console of the plurality of consoles, the position being either a position of a first window displaying the video signal associated with the first media signal or a position of an occupant of the vehicle associated with the second console; and driving a set of loudspeakers to reproduce the spatialized audio signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Riley WINTON, Christopher Michael TRESTAIN, Maxwell B. WILLIS, Carl Alexander SANDSTROM, Christopher LUDWIG
  • ESTIMATING MATERIAL PROPERTIES USING PROXY MODELS
    Publication number: 20240361482
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and techniques for predicting sample characteristics in a wellbore. An example method can include determining a set of values of estimated characteristics of a sample in a wellbore; determining, via a proxy model, a predicted ultrasonic wave response corresponding to the set of values of the estimated characteristics of the sample; based on a comparison of the predicted ultrasonic wave response with a measured ultrasonic wave response associated with the sample, determining an error associated with the predicted ultrasonic wave response; determining whether the error associated with the predicted ultrasonic wave response is below a threshold; and determining whether to update the set of values of the estimated characteristics of the sample based on determining whether the error is below the threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Xusong WANG, Christopher Michael Jones, Xiang Wu, Jichun Sun, Ho Yin Ma
  • NEUROMODULATION TO TARGET GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER AND/OR INCRETIN PATHWAYS
    Publication number: 20240358315
    Abstract: The subject matter of the present disclosure generally relates to techniques for neuromodulation that include applying energy (e.g., ultrasound energy) into the tissue to cause a change in a glucose transporter pathway molecule and/or an incretin pathway molecule. In one embodiment, the neuromodulation is performed as a treatment of a metabolic disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: October 31, 2024
    Inventors: Victoria Eugenia Cotero, Christopher Michael Puleo, John Frederick Graf
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 12128665
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, comprising fibrous structures, and more particularly articles comprising fibrous structures comprising a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved consumer relevant properties, for example improved bulk and absorbent properties, compared to known articles and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Step clip fastening system and method
    Patent number: 12129656
    Abstract: A method of assembling a deck board by using a step clip fastening device is disclosed. The method comprising the steps of fastening the step clip fastening device onto a joist by using a plurality of fastening tools; sliding a first end of the deck board into an inner cavity of a step clip attached at a first end of the step clip fastening device; and snapping a second end of the deck board into an inner cavity of a corresponding step clip facing the step clip attached at the first end of the step clip fastening device to form a mating relationship between the deck board and the step clip fastening device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Barrette Outdoor Living, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher Michael Schneider
  • COSMETIC METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR THE TREATMENT OF SKIN TISSUE USING TWO WAVELENGTHS OF LASER ENERGY
    Publication number: 20240350824
    Abstract: A method of treatment of skin tissue with two laser devices of unequal wavelengths comprising the steps of: (1) activating the two laser devices simultaneously to produce two laser beams of unequal wavelength; (2) directing the two laser beams into a handpiece having a distal tip to direct the laser beams onto the skin tissue; (3) directing the two laser beams within the handpiece to an adjustable beam deflector; and, (4) the adjustable beam deflector directing the two laser beams onto the skin tissue to produce a pattern of laser spots simultaneously but separated from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Jay M. Vahlensieck, Patrick Reichert, David Youngquist, Christopher Michael Bradley, Jeffrey A. Tilley, Alan Scott Crarer
  • COMPACT ELECTRIC DRIVE UNITS AND VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20240351416
    Abstract: Compact electric drive units and vehicles with such drive units are provided. An exemplary electric drive unit includes an electric motor configured to provide an electric motor torque; an input differential configured to split the electric motor torque into a first path and a second path; a final drive gear on each path; a pinion gear on each path; and a rear transfer shaft assembly and a front transfer shaft assembly on each path. Further, each pinion gear is configured to transfer torque to a respective rear transfer shaft assembly and a respective front transfer shaft assembly, and the respective rear transfer and front transfer shaft assemblies are configured to transfer torque to the respective final drive gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Chi Teck Lee, James M. Hart, Christopher Michael Kaminski, Favian Zavala
  • FLUID HOLDUP MONITORING IN DOWNHOLE FLUID SAMPLING TOOLS
    Publication number: 20240352854
    Abstract: Methods to identify fluid holdups during downhole fluid sampling operations includes obtaining, using a sampling tool positioned within a wellbore, one or more fluid measurements using at least one sensor having a first set of spatial resolution, obtaining one or more second fluid measurements having a second spatial resolution, calculating a first fluid ratio using the at least one sensor having the first set of spatial resolution measurements, calculating a second fluid ratio of the second fluid measurements using the at least one sensor having the second set of spatial resolution, wherein the second set of spatial resolution is lower than the first set of spatial resolution, and identifying fluid holdup within the sampling tool when the differences between the two fluid ratios are higher than a limit or a similarity of the two fluid ratios are lower than a limit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhonghuan Chen, Bin Dai, Christopher Michael Jones, Wei Zhang
  • FUCAN AND MODIFIED FUCAN COMPOSITIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONDITIONS RELATED TO CAPSULAR CONTRACTURE AND TO INHIBITING FIBROUS GROWTH AROUND OR ON TRANSPLANTS
    Publication number: 20240350531
    Abstract: Compositions and methods comprising medically-acceptable fucans suitable for medical and surgical applications, including treatment of capsular contracture and other foreign body reaction (FBR) conditions, and medical and surgical applications related to transplants and transplant operations, such as GVHD and fibrous growth around or on implants or transplants after implantation/transplantation, and related diseases, infections, and traumas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Applicant: ARC Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Hesong Sun, Ian Millet, Christopher Michael Kevin Springate
  • Vehicle systems and related methods of dynamic path construction
    Patent number: 12122425
    Abstract: Vehicles and related systems and methods are provided for controlling a vehicle in an autonomous operating mode. One method involves identifying one or more avoidance zones in a vicinity of the vehicle, determining a deadline for completing a lateral maneuver to avoid a priority avoidance zone of the one or more avoidance zones, obtaining an initial reference lateral trajectory for the lateral maneuver based at least in part on the deadline, autonomously operating one or more actuators onboard the vehicle in accordance with the initial reference lateral trajectory, and thereafter obtaining one or more updated reference lateral trajectories for the vehicle, wherein the one or more actuators onboard the vehicle are autonomously operated in accordance with the one or more updated reference lateral trajectories in lieu of the initial reference lateral trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Tetyana V Mamchuk, Paul A Adam, Christopher Michael Churay
  • Fibrous structure-containing articles that exhibit consumer relevant properties
    Patent number: 12122137
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan, James Roy Denbow
  • Placemat
    Patent number: D1047527
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Inventor: Christopher Michael Barfoot
  • Stackable keg
    Patent number: D1048796
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Inventor: Christopher Michael Rowe
  • Towel
    Patent number: D1050768
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sama Sama Group Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Christopher Michael Coates