Patents by Inventor David Cross

David Cross 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: 20210286632
    Abstract: A system for generating a user interface described herein can include a processor to detect a type of the system based on hardware components residing within the system or coupled to the system and determine a user interface manager to execute based on the type of the system. The processor can also execute the user interface manager to generate a user interface for the system, wherein the type of the user interface manager comprises a plurality of rules to indicate a layout of the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Ramrajprabu BALASUBRAMANIAN, Darren R. DAVIS, Kenton A. SHIPLEY, Nathan T. RADEBAUGH, Paul DYKSTRA, Jan Harold KARACHALE, Brian David CROSS, Patrick J. DERKS, William Scott STAUBER, Nishad MULYE
  • Patent number: 11060808
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides apparatus for coupling an item to another item. The apparatus comprises a coupler mounted on the item and comprising a mating face having a plurality of catches thereon, the plurality of catches comprising at least one complementary pair of catches positioned and shaped to be engaged with corresponding catches of another coupler having an identical mating face when mating faces of two couplers are facewise engaged with and rotated relative to each other to align with each other. The coupler may be implemented as a floor plate of a magazine, as a clip, or in other forms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: 1065210 B.C. LTD.
    Inventor: David Cross
  • Publication number: 20210201270
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to systems, tools, and processes for change control systems. More specifically, some embodiments relate to machine learning-based systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for job approvals, logging, and validation of critical functions and tasks based on compliance requirements, threat models, intended outcomes, rules, regulations, and similar restrictions or combinations thereof. Job approvals, rejections, and deferrals may be combined with machine learning techniques to conduct behavioral analysis in some implementations. The system disclosed herein provides for an improvement over existing change control methods requiring manual and time-consuming analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: David Cross, Yibin Liao
  • Patent number: 11044946
    Abstract: A shisha device (100) for use with a cartridge (20) containing an aerosol-generating substrate (302) includes a vessel, a receptacle, and an electrical heating element. The cartridge comprises a housing surrounding the aerosol-generating substrate. The vessel defines an interior configured to contain liquid (19) and defines an outlet in communication with the interior of the vessel. The receptacle is configured to receive the cartridge. The heating element is configured to heat the aerosol-generating substrate in the cartridge to generate an aerosol when the cartridge is received by the receptacle. The heating element is configured to heat the tobacco substrate to an extent sufficient to generate the aerosol without combusting the aerosol-generating substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Cedric Meyer, Samuel Bonnely, Angelos Kolyris, Stuart Michael Ruan Jones, John Antony Stephenson, Yaan Thomas Kinally, Michael Paton, David Cross
  • Patent number: 11009304
    Abstract: A spring comprises a continuous wire member formed into a plurality of coils along a central axis. Each of the plurality of coils comprises a plurality of straight portions extending between bend portions each extending from one of the straight portions. The plurality of coils form a first spring body and a second spring body, each spring body comprising at least three coils and having a first end and a second end with the first end of the second spring body connected to the second end of the first spring body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: 1065210 B.C. LTD.
    Inventor: David Cross
  • Publication number: 20210059297
    Abstract: A shisha device (10) comprises an aerosol-generating element (11) for receiving an aerosol-forming substrate (12). The shisha device also comprises a vessel (17) spaced from the aerosol-generating element and defining an interior for housing a volume of liquid. The vessel comprises a head space outlet (15). The shisha device also comprises an aerosol conduit (21) positioned between the aerosol-generating element and the interior of the vessel. The aerosol conduit comprises a proximal end portion defining a proximal opening (24) positioned to receive airflow from the aerosol-generating element, a distal end portion defining a distal opening (26) positioned in the interior of the vessel, and a ventilation opening (30) positioned between the proximal and distal end portions. A ratio between the total aperture area of the ventilation opening and a transverse cross-sectional area of the aerosol conduit positioned proximate to the ventilation opening is at most 1:1000.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Felix Fernando, David Cross, Terence John Wilby, Ana Isabel Gonzalez Florez, Ian Sparrow
  • Patent number: 10936593
    Abstract: In a method for resolving a query to a database, a server computing system receives a query for retrieving objects from a client device. A candidate data set of objects is determined by applying the query to the database, the candidate data set of objects including identifiers of objects satisfying the query. The candidate data set of objects is transmitted to the client computing device as the identifiers. A request for a subset of the objects corresponding to identifiers of the candidate data set of objects from the server computing system for identifiers of the candidate data set of objects that do not match the identifiers of objects stored in the cache of the client computing device is received. The subset of objects is transmitted to the client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Liberation Distribution, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Murphy Durzy, Richard Brashears, David Cross, Jeffrey Markham
  • Patent number: 10737039
    Abstract: Described is a cartridge comprising a body adapted to contain a medicament, a bung slidably disposed in the body and having a distal face and a proximal face, and a light element coupled to a component of the cartridge. Further described is a medicament delivery device comprising the cartridge, a first receiver adapted to receive an optical signal from the light element and convert the optical signal into a first electrical signal, and a second receiver adapted to receive an optical signal from the light element and convert the optical signal into a second electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Nessel, Charley Henderson, David Cross, Douglas Ivan Jennings, Ryan Anthony McGinley
  • Patent number: 10737019
    Abstract: Described is a medicament cartridge comprising a housing having open proximal and distal ends, a first coupling mechanism, and a syringe slidably disposed in the housing. The syringe includes a needle and has a retracted position in which the needle is covered by the housing and an extended position in which the needle is exposed. A delivery device comprises the medicament cartridge, an actuator comprising a plunger, a motor adapted to translate the plunger, a second coupling mechanism adapted to detachably engage the first coupling mechanism, and a control button adapted to actuate the motor. A carrier comprises a first slot for at least partially containing the actuator, a second slot for at least partially containing the medicament cartridge, a user interface adapted to provide at least one a visual signal and an audible signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Charley Henderson, David Cross, Douglas Ivan Jennings, Ryan Anthony McGinley
  • Publication number: 20200196662
    Abstract: A shisha device article includes a vessel and an aerosol-generating element. The vessel defines an interior configured to contain a volume of liquid. The vessel also includes a head space outlet. The aerosol-generating element is in fluid connection with the vessel. The aerosol-generating element includes (i) a cartridge receptacle for receiving a cartridge containing an aerosol-generating substrate; (ii) a heating element defining at least two surfaces of the cartridge receptacle; and (iii) an aerosol outlet in fluid connection with the cartridge receptacle and a fresh air inlet channel in fluid connection with the cartridge receptacle. The fresh air inlet channel is arranged to preheat air prior to the air entering the cartridge receptacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Felix Fernando, Michael Paton, David Cross, Eva Saade Latorre, Terence John Wilby
  • Patent number: 10635296
    Abstract: In many computing scenarios, a user of a primary device may wish to incorporate an auxiliary device in the presentation of an application. Such incorporation may involve a terminal services session that projects the computing environment of the primary device onto the auxiliary device; mirroring the computing environment of the primary device through the auxiliary device; and/or utilizing applications that interoperate with client applications executing on the second device. However, such techniques may not fully reflect the properties of each device, and/or may only apply to particular applications and/or configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Elizabeth Fay Threlkeld, William Scott Stauber, Petteri Mikkola, Keri Kruse Moran, Issa Y. Khoury, Brian David Cross, Darren Ray Davis, Giorgio Francesco Sega, Kenton Allen Shipley, Ramrajprabu Balasubramanian, Patrick Derks, Mohammed Kaleemur Rahman, Ryan Chandler Pendlay
  • Publication number: 20200113235
    Abstract: A shisha consumable cartridge includes a housing having an exterior surface sized and shaped for operable insertion into a shisha device. The cartridge further includes a first chamber in the housing; a first aerosol-generating substrate in the first chamber; a second chamber in the housing and adjacent to the first chamber. A second aerosol-generating substrate in the second chamber. The compositions of the first aerosol-generating substrate and the second aerosol-generating substrate may be the same or different. The first chamber defines a first fresh air inlet and an opposing first aerosol outlet, such that, in use, fresh air entering the first fresh air inlet carries aerosol generated from through the first aerosol outlet. The second chamber defines a second fresh air inlet and an opposing second aerosol outlet, such that, in use, fresh air entering the second fresh air inlet carries aerosol generated from through the second aerosol outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Felix Fernando, Michael Paton, David Cross, Eva Saade Latorre, Terence John Wilby
  • Patent number: 10576210
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a drive mechanism for an injection device for setting and dispensing of a dose of a medicament, the drive mechanism including a tubular shaped housing component extending in an axial direction (z) and comprising an inner thread, a tubular shaped display member having an outer thread engaged with the inner thread, and a dose member axially displaceable between a dose setting position (S) and a dose dispensing position relative to the display member, wherein the display member includes at least one blocking member on its outer circumference to axially engage with a blocking structure on an inside facing sidewall portion of the housing component to block an axial displacement of the dose member from the dose setting position (S) towards the dose dispensing position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Robert Veasey, John David Cross
  • Publication number: 20200060348
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aerosol-generating device (100) for use with a plurality of aerosol-forming substrates. The device comprises a receiving sleeve (102) which in turn comprises an inner receiving zone (110) within the receiving sleeve for receiving at least a first aerosol-forming substrate, and an outer receiving zone (120) extending across at least a portion of an outer circumferential periphery of the receiving sleeve for receiving at least a second aerosol-forming substrate. The device further comprises an electrical heater for heating at least the first aerosol-forming substrate or the second aerosol-forming substrate when being received in the first or second receiving zone, respectively. The invention further relates to an aerosol-generating article (200), in particular for use with such a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Oleg Mironov, Jerome Christian Courbat, Michael Paton, David Cross, Enrico Stura
  • Publication number: 20200046020
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an aerosol-generating device (1) for generating an aerosol by dispersing an aerosol-forming powder (31) into an airflow. The device comprises a device housing (2) which comprises an airflow passage therethrough and which is configured to receive a capsule (30) that contains the aerosol-forming powder to be discharged into the airflow passage. The device further comprises a magnetic actuator (40) which is configured to generate a movement of the capsule when being received in the device housing for de-agglomerating the aerosol-forming powder within the capsule. The invention further relates to an aerosol-generating system comprising an aerosol-generating device according to the invention and an aerosol-forming powder containing capsule for use with the aerosol-generating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventor: David Cross
  • Patent number: 10556059
    Abstract: An infusion pump drive and its methods of use are disclosed. In one embodiment, the infusion pump drive may include a transmission component and a spring in line with the transmission component. Displacing the transmission component may compress the spring to apply a force causing fluid to dispense from an associated reservoir. Depending on the particular embodiment, the transmission component may either be displaced continuously or displaced multiple times to dispense fluid from the reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2020
    Assignee: Biogen MA Inc.
    Inventors: David Cross, Michael Paton
  • Publication number: 20200003509
    Abstract: A spring comprises a continuous wire member formed into a plurality of coils along a central axis. Each of the plurality of coils comprises a plurality of straight portions extending between bend portions each extending from one of the straight portions. The plurality of coils form a first spring body and a second spring body, each spring body comprising at least three coils and having a first end and a second end with the first end of the second spring body connected to the second end of the first spring body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventor: David CROSS
  • Publication number: 20190377106
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light diffusion copolyester composition comprising a copolyester and a light diffusion additive. The invention further relates to articles made from the light diffusion copolyester composition comprising a copolyester and a light diffusion additive, articles made therefrom and processes for making the compositions and articles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Mark Allen Peters, I. David Cross
  • Publication number: 20190365998
    Abstract: Described is an autoinjector comprising of a case, a motor adapted to rotate a drive gear, and a curvi-linear plunger adapted to mate with the drive gear. The plunger includes a distal end with a resilient flange, which in a non-deflected state, abuts a proximal collar of a syringe, and, in a deflected state, advances through the proximal collar and engages a stopper in the syringe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicant: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Charley Henderson, David Cross, Douglas Ivan Jennings, Ryan Anthony McGinley
  • Publication number: 20190328972
    Abstract: Described is an autoinjector comprising a case, a door hingedly coupled to the case and having an open position and a closed position, a plunger slidably disposed in the case, and at least one drive spring applying a biasing force on the plunger relative to the case, wherein the door is operably coupled to the plunger, and wherein rotation of the door from the closed position to the open position moves the plunger from a distal position in the case to a proximal position in the case and compresses the at least one drive spring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Charley Henderson, David Cross, Douglas Ivan Jennings, Ryan Anthony McGinley