Patents by Inventor David M. Patrick
David M. Patrick 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).
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Publication number: 20240070748Abstract: A cloud-based system for use by retail store employees or customers at any location to facilitate the sale of automotive tires to consumers is provided. The system accesses multiple independent tire inventory systems from different distributors/manufacturers and provides a personalized set of recommendation tire options and accompanying TPMS service packs.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Christopher Nuta, David M. Nelms, Suchitra Vakkalagadda, Chandan Sharma, John Evankovich, Kent Hobson, Michael Clayton Patrick, Ayan Akbar, Rohini Panjrath, Sreenivasa R. Kota
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Publication number: 20240060504Abstract: An apparatus for manipulating a substance, the apparatus having a blade having: a fin hub associated with a fin formed by a sinusoidal outer edge and an inner surface extending from the sinusoidal edge to a center of the fin, the fin hub being associated with a portion of the sinusoidal outer edge of the fin, such that to cause the fin hub and the fin to rotate simultaneously about a rotational axis that is coaxial with the fin hub; wherein, said substance is simultaneously pulled in via two opposing vortexes that are coaxial with the rotational axis, toward said portion of the sinusoidal outer edge of the fin, and said substance is also simultaneously push out 360 degrees around and away from the rotational axis. The blade is configured to axially intake and radially output a substance, such as air, for rapid, efficient mixing of said substance.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2023Publication date: February 22, 2024Inventor: David M. Patrick
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Patent number: 11726914Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for bias control for a memory device are described. A memory system may store indication of whether data is coherent. In some examples, the indication may be stored as metadata, where a first value indicates that the data is not coherent and a second value or a third value indicate that the data is coherent. When a processing unit or other component of the memory system processes a command to access data, the memory system may operate according to a device bias mode when the indication is the first value, and according to a host bias mode when the indication is the second value or the third value.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dean Walker, Bryan D. Hornung, Tony M. Brewer, David M. Patrick, Christopher A. Baronne
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Publication number: 20230069820Abstract: The invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the treatment of lupus. The compounds of the present invention are isoLG savaging compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventors: David G. Harrison, David M. Patrick
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Publication number: 20230043177Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for bias control for a memory device are described. A memory system may store indication of whether data is coherent. In some examples, the indication may be stored as metadata, where a first value indicates that the data is not coherent and a second value or a third value indicate that the data is coherent. When a processing unit or other component of the memory system processes a command to access data, the memory system may operate according to a device bias mode when the indication is the first value, and according to a host bias mode when the indication is the second value or the third value.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Dean Walker, Bryan D. Hornung, Tony M. Brewer, David M. Patrick, Christopher A. Baronne
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Publication number: 20220292018Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for bias control for a memory device are described. A memory system may store indication of whether data is coherent. In some examples, the indication may be stored as metadata, where a first value indicates that the data is not coherent and a second value or a third value indicate that the data is coherent. When a processing unit or other component of the memory system processes a command to access data, the memory system may operate according to a device bias mode when the indication is the first value, and according to a host bias mode when the indication is the second value or the third value.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2021Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: Dean Walker, Bryan D. Hornung, Tony M. Brewer, David M. Patrick, Christopher A. Baronne
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Patent number: 11442858Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for bias control for a memory device are described. A memory system may store indication of whether data is coherent. In some examples, the indication may be stored as metadata, where a first value indicates that the data is not coherent and a second value or a third value indicate that the data is coherent. When a processing unit or other component of the memory system processes a command to access data, the memory system may operate according to a device bias mode when the indication is the first value, and according to a host bias mode when the indication is the second value or the third value.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Micron Technology, Inc.Inventors: Dean Walker, Bryan D. Hornung, Tony M. Brewer, David M. Patrick, Christopher A. Baronne
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Publication number: 20220266625Abstract: A wheel having a circular ring is provided. The circular ring has a rotational axis and an outer surface. A plurality of lugs is mounted in side-by-side positions on said outer surface of the circular ring. Each lug of the plurality of lugs has: a center rib, a first leg and a second leg, each leg extending from the center rib laterally and opposite of each other, and a lug plate adapted to connect the first leg to the center rib. The outermost point of each center rib may form a circular pattern that is coaxial with the rotational axis. The wheel may have a rim nested within said circular ring, said rim having a plurality of alternating scalloped protrusions, wherein said rim is configured to provide suitable clearance for tools during lug installation and removal while increasing the load capacity of said wheel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventor: David M. Patrick
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Publication number: 20220087954Abstract: The invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the treatment of lupus. The compounds of the present invention are isoLG savaging compounds.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: David G. Harrison, David M. Patrick
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Publication number: 20210197212Abstract: A centrifuge has a mechanical drive coupled to a capsule rotatable simultaneously about mutually orthogonal X, Y, and Z axes. A stationary base has a first motor driving a centrally located hub in rotation about the Z axis. The hub has a pair of colinear arms and a pair of struts extending from the arms to support an outer ring. An inner ring is positioned concentric with the outer ring and a second motor is engaged with both the outer ring and inner ring so that it is enabled for rotating the inner ring relative to the outer ring. A third motor is engaged with both the inner ring and the capsule for rotating said capsule relative to the inner ring. The simultaneous rotation of the capsule about all three axes is therefore possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: David M. Patrick, Robert S. Patrick
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Patent number: 11000858Abstract: A centrifuge has a mechanical drive coupled to a capsule rotatable simultaneously about mutually orthogonal X, Y, and Z axes. A stationary base has a first motor driving a centrally located hub in rotation about the Z axis. The hub has a pair of colinear arms and a pair of struts extending from the arms to support an outer ring. An inner ring is positioned concentric with the outer ring and a second motor is engaged with both the outer ring and inner ring so that it is enabled for rotating the inner ring relative to the outer ring. A third motor is engaged with both the inner ring and the capsule for rotating said capsule relative to the inner ring. The simultaneous rotation of the capsule about all three axes is therefore possible.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Inventors: David M. Patrick, Robert S. Patrick
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Patent number: 10940491Abstract: A spherical centrifuge has a sinusoidal track engaged on its surface, the track circling the surface following a great circle of said centrifuge. A mechanical drive engages the track enabling rotation of the centrifuge. The track may have a constant sinusoidal amplitude and a constant sinusoidal period. The centrifuge may have an interior space and a portal into the interior space. The interior space may have any shape. The centrifuge rotates about its diameter while also reciprocating in rolling motion lateral to its forward rotational direction by following the sinusoidal track.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 9, 2021Inventors: David M. Patrick, Robert S. Patrick
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Publication number: 20210060580Abstract: A centrifuge has a mechanical drive coupled to a capsule rotatable simultaneously about mutually orthogonal X, Y, and Z axes. A stationary base has a first motor driving a centrally located hub in rotation about the Z axis. The hub has a pair of colinear arms and a pair of struts extending from the arms to support an outer ring. An inner ring is positioned concentric with the outer ring and a second motor is engaged with both the outer ring and inner ring so that it is enabled for rotating the inner ring relative to the outer ring. A third motor is engaged with both the inner ring and the capsule for rotating said capsule relative to the inner ring. The simultaneous rotation of the capsule about all three axes is therefore possible.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2018Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: David M. Patrick, Robert S. Patrick
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Publication number: 20210060581Abstract: A spherical centrifuge has a sinusoidal track engaged on its surface, the track circling the surface following a great circle of said centrifuge. A mechanical drive engages the track enabling rotation of the centrifuge. The track may have a constant sinusoidal amplitude and a constant sinusoidal period. The centrifuge may have an interior space and a portal into the interior space. The interior space may have any shape. The centrifuge rotates about its diameter while also reciprocating in rolling motion lateral to its forward rotational direction by following the sinusoidal track.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2018Publication date: March 4, 2021Inventors: David M. Patrick, Robert S. Patrick
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Patent number: 10933687Abstract: A wheel having a plurality of lugs mounted in side-by-side positions forms a circular ring where each of the lugs has laterally extending legs forming a V-shape aligned with a rotational axis of the wheel. The lugs may have an outfacing rib aligned with the rotational axis and a further outfacing rib orthogonal to the rotational axis. A circular tensioning cord or strip may join the plurality of lugs. The lugs may be mutually offset around the circular ring in a sinusoidal pattern.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Inventors: David M. Patrick, Robert S. Patrick, Peter D. Visscher
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Patent number: 6137610Abstract: An optical synchronization circuit includes a non-linear optical modulator (NOM). The signal to be synchronized and a reference signal interact within the NOM. Cross-phase modulation produces a spectral shift. The output from the NOM is filtered to produced an error signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 1998Date of Patent: October 24, 2000Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited companyInventor: David M Patrick
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Patent number: 6081876Abstract: A computer memory management system that allocates each node's network cache into protected and unprotected regions. Nodes are previously configured into error containment cluster of nodes (ECCNs). Unprotected network caches may encache data accessed from any node's unprotected memory. Protected network caches may encache data accessed from nodes that are within the same ECCN, but only from a node's protected main memory. Memory address allocation techniques known in the art enable the system to know whether a processor's request for data will be found in protected or unprotected memory. Under the present invention, a node is able to first refer to network cache (protected or unprotected, as appropriate) in locating the data. If the data is not in cache, then the system refers to main memory. The present invention thus enables superior memory access advantages of cache memory techniques.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 1997Date of Patent: June 27, 2000Assignee: Hewlett-Packard CompanyInventors: Tony M. Brewer, David M. Patrick
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Patent number: 5930822Abstract: A method and system of maintaining strong ordering in a multiprocessor computer system having a coherent memory. Memory transactions are send from one or more processors to a processor agent. The processor agent sends the transactions to a memory agent via a crossbar switch. The memory agent performs memory coherency operations and sends memory transactions back to the processor agents via the crossbar switch. The crossbar switch, however, may alter the order in which the memory transactions are forwarded to the processor agent. Therefore, the memory agent also sends a timestamp for each memory transaction directly to the processor agent via a dedicated link. An arbitrator within the processor agent receives the timestamps and the memory transactions. Using the timestamps, the arbitrator reorders the memory transactions and sends the transactions to the processors in the order in which the transactions were sent. In addition, the memory agent sends a parity signal with each timestamp.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1996Date of Patent: July 27, 1999Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Co.Inventors: Kenneth Chaney, David M. Chastain, David M. Patrick
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Patent number: 5845071Abstract: The multi-node multiprocessor system with globally shared memory is partitioned into groups of nodes called error containment clusters of nodes or ECCNs. The nodes would be partitioned such that an ECCN resides on a column of nodes or a row of nodes. Within each ECCN there is coherent memory sharing. Between the ECCNs, the communication is through a messaging protocol. The memory within each node is also partitioned into protected and unprotected memory. Unprotected memory is used for messaging and protected memory is used for sharing. A failure in an error containment cluster would corrupt the memory within that cluster, specifically the protected memory within that cluster and also the unprotected memory used by that cluster to communicate with the other clusters. However, the other clusters could continue to run because their protected memory would be unaffected, and could continue to communicate through the remaining unprotected memory.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1996Date of Patent: December 1, 1998Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Co.Inventors: David M. Patrick, Alan D. Gant, David M. Chastain
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Patent number: 5742415Abstract: A non-linear optical switch includes a semiconductor optical gain medium. The switch is arranged to switch a signal at a first wavelength in response to a control signal at a second wavelength applied to the optical gain medium. The refractive index of the gain medium is modified in response to the control signal. An optical holding signal at a third wavelength is applied to the gain medium. The optical holding signal pumps the optical gain medium and thereby fixes the Fermi level. The switch may be embodied in OTDM demultiplexers, clock recovery circuits, wavelength converters and other devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 1996Date of Patent: April 21, 1998Assignee: British Telecommunications public limited companyInventors: Robert J. Manning, David M. Spirit, David M. Patrick, Andrew D. Ellis