Patents by Inventor David Micallef
David Micallef 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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Patent number: 12631714Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a system and method for positioning an asset with a tag optimized for low-power infrastructure devices. In one embodiment, the method includes transmitting, by a serving anchor of a plurality of anchors having designated locations, during a ranging slot time period of the serving anchor, one or more anchor ranging messages. Sending, by one or more participating anchors in range of the serving anchor, each during the ranging slot time period, a return ranging message. Recording, by the serving anchor, a first timing data and by a tag positionally associated with the asset a second timing data. estimating, from said first timing data and said second timing data, either by the central entity alone or by a combination of the serving anchor and central entity, a position of the tag.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: RedLore Canada Inc.Inventors: David Micallef, Niek Van Dierdonck
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Publication number: 20260042085Abstract: Systems comprising an SCR/ASC catalyst and a component for introducing a nitrogenous reductant into the system upstream of the SCR/ASC catalyst.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2025Publication date: February 12, 2026Inventors: David MICALLEF, Andrew NEWMAN, Alex Connel PARSONS
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Publication number: 20250288980Abstract: A compression ignition internal combustion engine (30) for a heavy-duty diesel vehicle comprising an exhaust system (32) comprising a composite oxidation catalyst (12, 42) and a soot filter substrate (44, 50) disposed downstream from the composite oxidation catalyst comprising: a substrate (5), preferably a honeycomb flow-through substrate monolith, having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); two catalyst washcoat zones (1, 2) arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2025Publication date: September 18, 2025Inventors: Andrew CHIFFEY, Kieran COLE, Oliver COOPER, Christopher DALY, Lee Alexander GILBERT, Robert HANLEY, David MICALLEF, Francois MOREAU, Paul PHILLIPS, George PLATT
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Publication number: 20250271403Abstract: Mechanism, which can include systems, methods, and media, for generating an alert of a water hammer event in a steam pipe are provided, the mechanisms comprising: sampling an accelerometer coupled to a steam pipe to provide accelerometer data; determining that the accelerometer data meets or exceeds a threshold; and generating an alert that a water hammer event has occurred based at least in part on the accelerometer data. In some of the mechanisms, the sampling of the accelerometer is performed for a given period of time, and the mechanisms further comprise sampling an ultrasonic sensor for the given period of time to provide ultrasonic sensor data, and wherein the generating the alert is based at least in part on the accelerometer data and the ultrasonic sensor data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2025Publication date: August 28, 2025Inventors: Peter Owens, David Micallef
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Patent number: 12343714Abstract: A compression ignition internal combustion engine (30) for a heavy-duty diesel vehicle comprising an exhaust system (32) comprising a composite oxidation catalyst (12, 42) and a soot filter substrate (44, 50) disposed downstream from the composite oxidation catalyst comprising: a substrate (5), preferably a honeycomb flow-through substrate monolith, having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); two catalyst washcoat zones (1, 2) arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L1 and comprising a first catalyst washcoat layer (9), wherein L1<L, is defined at one end by the first substrate end (I) and at a second end by a first end (15) of a second catalyst washcoat zone (2) having a length L2 and comprising a second catalyst washcoat layer (11), wherein L2<L, wherein the second catalyst washcoat zone (2) is defined aType: GrantFiled: October 13, 2020Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Kieran Cole, Oliver Cooper, Christopher Daly, Lee Alexander Gilbert, Robert Hanley, David Micallef, Francois Moreau, Paul Phillips, George Platt
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Patent number: 12318760Abstract: A composite, zone-coated, dual-use ammonia (AMOX) and nitric oxide oxidation catalyst (12) comprises: a substrate (5) having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); two or more catalyst washcoat zones (1; 2) comprised of a first catalyst washcoat layer (9) comprising a refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon and a second catalyst washcoat layer (11) different from the first catalyst washcoat layer (9) and comprising a refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon, which two or more catalyst washcoat zones (1; 2) being arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L1, wherein L1<L, is defined at one end by the first substrate end (I) and at a second end (13) by a first end (15) of a second catalType: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Andrew Francis Chiffey, Kieran Cole, Oliver Cooper, Christopher Daly, Jonas Edvardsson, Lee Gilbert, Alexander Green, Neil Greenham, Robert Hanley, Caitlin Lucy Jenkins, Per Marsh, David Micallef, Francois Moreau, George Platt, Paul Richard Phillips, James Wylie
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Patent number: 12296319Abstract: A composite oxidation catalyst for use in an exhaust system for treating an exhaust gas produced by a vehicular compression ignition internal combustion engine is disclosed. The composite oxidation catalyst comprises a honeycomb flow-through substrate monolith and two catalyst washcoat zones arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2023Date of Patent: May 13, 2025Assignee: Johnson Matthey Public Limited CompanyInventors: Andrew Chiffey, Kieran Cole, Oliver Cooper, Christopher Daly, Lee Gilbert, Robert Hanley, David Micallef, Francois Moreau, Paul Phillips, George Platt
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Patent number: 12276638Abstract: Mechanism, which can include systems, methods, and media, for generating an alert of a water hammer event in a steam pipe are provided, the mechanisms comprising: sampling an accelerometer coupled to a steam pipe to provide accelerometer data; determining that the accelerometer data meets or exceeds a threshold; and generating an alert that a water hammer event has occurred based at least in part on the accelerometer data. In some of the mechanisms, the sampling of the accelerometer is performed for a given period of time, and the mechanisms further comprise sampling an ultrasonic sensor for the given period of time to provide ultrasonic sensor data, and wherein the generating the alert is based at least in part on the accelerometer data and the ultrasonic sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2021Date of Patent: April 15, 2025Assignee: Latency, LLCInventors: Peter Owens, David Micallef
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Publication number: 20240426967Abstract: Described are various embodiments of a system and method for positioning an asset with a tag optimized for low-power infrastructure devices. In one embodiment, the method includes transmitting, by a serving anchor of a plurality of anchors having designated locations, during a ranging slot time period of the serving anchor, one or more anchor ranging messages. Sending, by one or more participating anchors in range of the serving anchor, each during the ranging slot time period, a return ranging message. Recording, by the serving anchor, a first timing data and by a tag positionally associated with the asset a second timing data. estimating, from said first timing data and said second timing data, either by the central entity alone or by a combination of the serving anchor and central entity, a position of the tag.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2023Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: David MICALLEF, Niek VAN DIERDONCK
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Patent number: 12050895Abstract: A method and a system for programming one or more behavior of a field device connected to a network comprising an input programming language to define the one or more behaviors to create an input program, transmitting over the network the input program to a translator coupled to the field device, translating the input program to generate a field program comprising a plurality of tasks and executing said field program by an executor coupled to said field device.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: RedLore Canada Inc.Inventors: David Micallef, Niek Van Dierdonck
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Patent number: 11995967Abstract: Systems and methods for positioning assets over a wireless network are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises scheduling, at a scheduling entity communicatively coupled to the wireless network, a ranging time to execute a plurality of ranging events between a participating tag associated with a designated asset and selected from a plurality of tags, and each participating anchor of a plurality of participating anchors selected from the plurality of anchors; sending, from the scheduling entity, to the participating tag and to each participating anchor, a corresponding ranging message comprising the ranging time for each ranging event and a list identifying said participating tag and said each of the participating anchors; executing at the ranging time, each ranging event of the plurality of ranging events to produce a corresponding ranging information; and calculating, at a positioning engine a position of said participating tag and said designated asset.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: RedLore Canada Inc.Inventors: David Micallef, Niek Van Dierdonck
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Publication number: 20240091745Abstract: A composite oxidation catalyst for use in an exhaust system for treating an exhaust gas produced by a vehicular compression ignition internal combustion engine is disclosed. The composite oxidation catalyst comprises a honeycomb flow-through substrate monolith and two catalyst washcoat zones arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Andrew CHIFFEY, Kieran COLE, Oliver COOPER, Christopher DALY, Lee GILBERT, Robert HANLEY, David MICALLEF, Francois MOREAU, Paul PHILLIPS, George PLATT
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Patent number: 11845064Abstract: A composite oxidation catalyst (18, 20) for use in an exhaust system for treating an exhaust gas produced by a vehicular compression ignition internal combustion engine (30) and upstream of a particulate matter filter (44, 50) in the exhaust system comprises a substrate (5) having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); and three or more catalyst washcoat zones (1, 2, 3; or 1, 2, 3, 4) arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L1, wherein L1<L, is defined at one end by the first substrate end (I) and at a second end by a first end (19, 21) of a second catalyst washcoat zone (2) having a length L2, wherein L2<L, wherein the first catalyst washcoat zone (1) comprises a first refractory metal oxide support material and two or more platinum group metal components supported thereon comprising both platinum and pallaType: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Inventors: Andrew Chiffey, Kieran John Cole, Oliver Cooper, Christopher Daly, Lee Gilbert, Robert Hanley, David Micallef, Francois Moreau, Paul Phillips, George Platt
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Publication number: 20230278018Abstract: A compression ignition internal combustion engine (30) for a heavy-duty diesel vehicle comprising an exhaust system (32) comprising a composite oxidation catalyst (12, 42) and a soot filter substrate (44, 50) disposed downstream from the composite oxidation catalyst comprising: a substrate (5), preferably a honeycomb flow-through substrate monolith, having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); two catalyst washcoat zones (1, 2) arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L1 and comprising a first catalyst washcoat layer (9), wherein L1<L, is defined at one end by the first substrate end (I) and at a second end by a first end (15) of a second catalyst washcoat zone (2) having a length L2 and comprising a second catalyst washcoat layer (11), wherein L2<L, wherein the second catalyst washcoat zone (2) is defined aType: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2020Publication date: September 7, 2023Inventors: Andrew Francis CHIFFEY, Kieran COLE, Oliver COOPER, Christopher DALY, Lee Alexander GILBERT, Robert HANLEY, David MICALLEF, Francois MOREAU, Paul PHILLIPS, George PLATT
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Publication number: 20230244460Abstract: A method and a system for programming one or more behavior of a field device connected to a network comprising an input programming language to define the one or more behaviors to create an input program, transmitting over the network the input program to a translator coupled to the field device, translating the input program to generate a field program comprising a plurality of tasks and executing said field program by an executor coupled to said field device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: David Micallef, Niek Van Dierdonck
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Publication number: 20230211323Abstract: A composite, zone-coated, dual-use ammonia (AMOX) and nitric oxide oxidation catalyst (12) comprises: a substrate (5) having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); two or more catalyst washcoat zones (1; 2) comprised of a first catalyst washcoat layer (9) comprising a refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon and a second catalyst washcoat layer (11) different from the first catalyst washcoat layer (9) and comprising a refractory metal oxide support material and one or more platinum group metal components supported thereon, which two or more catalyst washcoat zones (1; 2) being arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L1, wherein L1<L, is defined at one end by the first substrate end (I) and at a second end (13) by a first end (15) of a second catalType: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Andrew Francis CHIFFEY, Kieran COLE, Oliver COOPER, Christopher DALY, Jonas EDVARDSSON, Lee GILLBERT, Alexander GREEN, Neil GREENHAM, Robert HANLEY, Caitlin Lucy JENKINS, Per MARSH, David MICALLEF, Francois MOREAU, George PLATT, Paul Richard PHILLIPS, James WYLIE
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Patent number: 11693640Abstract: A method and a system for programming one or more behavior of a field device connected to a network comprising an input programming language to define the one or more behaviors to create an input program, transmitting over the network the input program to a translator coupled to the field device, translating the input program to generate a field program comprising a plurality of tasks and executing said field program by an executor coupled to said field device.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: RedLore Canada Inc.Inventors: David Micallef, Niek Van Dierdonck
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Publication number: 20230209309Abstract: Systems and methods for positioning assets over a wireless network are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises: building, at a topology entity communicatively coupled to a wireless network a low-resolution spatial topology of said wireless network; selecting a list of a plurality of participating anchors for participating in a plurality of ranging events with a participating tag positionally associated with a designated asset; sending to the participating tag and to each of the participating anchors, an indication that a plurality of ranging events is to be executed therebetween; and executing, between the participating tag and each of the participating anchors, a ranging event of said plurality of ranging events; and computing, at a positioning engine a position of the participating tag and the designated asset based on a ranging information generated by the plurality of ranging events.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: David MICALLEF, Niek VAN DIERDONCK
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Publication number: 20230206740Abstract: Systems and methods for positioning assets over a wireless network are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises scheduling, at a scheduling entity communicatively coupled to the wireless network, a ranging time to execute a plurality of ranging events between a participating tag associated with a designated asset and selected from a plurality of tags, and each participating anchor of a plurality of participating anchors selected from the plurality of anchors; sending, from the scheduling entity, to the participating tag and to each participating anchor, a corresponding ranging message comprising the ranging time for each ranging event and a list identifying said participating tag and said each of the participating anchors; executing at the ranging time, each ranging event of the plurality of ranging events to produce a corresponding ranging information; and calculating, at a positioning engine a position of said participating tag and said designated asset.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: David MICALLEF, Niek VAN DIERDONCK
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Publication number: 20220152589Abstract: A composite oxidation catalyst (18, 20) for use in an exhaust system for treating an exhaust gas produced by a vehicular compression ignition internal combustion engine (30) and upstream of a particulate matter filter (44, 50) in the exhaust system comprises a substrate (5) having a total length L and a longitudinal axis and having a substrate surface extending axially between a first substrate end (I) and a second substrate end (O); and three or more catalyst washcoat zones (1, 2, 3; or 1, 2, 3, 4) arranged axially in series on and along the substrate surface, wherein a first catalyst washcoat zone (1) having a length L1, wherein L1<L, is defined at one end by the first substrate end (I) and at a second end by a first end (19, 21) of a second catalyst washcoat zone (2) having a length L2, wherein L2<L, wherein the first catalyst washcoat zone (1) comprises a first refractory metal oxide support material and two or more platinum group metal components supported thereon comprising both platinum and pallaType: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Andrew CHIFFEY, Kieran John COLE, Oliver COOPER, Christopher DALY, Lee GILBERT, Robert HANLEY, David MICALLEF, Francois MOREAU, Paul PHILLIPS, George PLATT