Patents by Inventor Duncan

Duncan 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: 12374773
    Abstract: In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a pan/tilt assembly for an antenna apparatus having a housing enclosing antenna components and a leg extending from the housing includes a first actuator for rotating a first gear, a second actuator for rotating a second gear, a third gear coupled to the leg and engaged by the first and second gears, and a tee having a first portion substantially transverse to a second portion, wherein the first portion has a first end rotatably received within the first gear and a second end rotatably received within the second gear, and wherein the second portion is rotatably received within the third gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Space Exploration Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Erik N. Littleton, Duncan Edwin Adams
  • Publication number: 20250240624
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, components, devices and systems for protecting timing synchronization function (TSF) values with message integrity checks (MICs). Various aspects relate generally to methods for a wireless device to protect the TSF field using an MIC. Some aspects more specifically relate to methods for the wireless device to include a MIC value generated using a TSF field of a beacon frame in a beacon extension frame. Some aspects more specifically relate to methods for the wireless device to include the MIC value generated using the TSF field in an information element (IE) of a beacon frame. In some examples, a vendor-specific (VS) IE or another IE. In some examples, the associated TSF field may be a TSF field of the beacon frame or of a recurring time epoch, such as a target beacon transmission time (TBTT) of the beacon frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod PATIL, Sai Yiu Duncan HO, George CHERIAN, Alfred ASTERJADHI, Gaurang NAIK
  • Publication number: 20250235069
    Abstract: An extraction cleaner may include a base, an upright body pivotally coupled to the base, a supply tank for supplying cleaning fluid to the base or a cleaning tool coupled to a hose, a recovery tank removably coupled to the upright body for recovering the cleaning fluid and/or debris through at least one inlet at the base and at least one inlet at the cleaning tool. A suction changeover valve may include a valve drive arrangement coupled between the base and the upright body to automatically provide suction at the cleaning tool when the upright body is in an upright position relative to the base, and suction at the base with the upright body is in a reclined position relative to the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Adam UDY, Devan SCHAPPLER, Jian cheng Wang, Yinhui Li, Daniel Innes, Mingchun Zhu, Ryan Shimizu, Richard Marc Dahlgren, Jun Bao Ma, Dan Gavin, Joseph Mills, Patrick Turner, Jia Lun Cao, Duncan Crosse, Bo Gao
  • Publication number: 20250236149
    Abstract: A suspension system of a vehicle can provide configurable stiffness and damping characteristics. The system can include a plurality of shock absorbers, one or more valve assemblies, and a plurality of accumulators. The plurality of shock absorbers, which can be synchronous or non-synchronous, each correspond to a respective wheel of a vehicle. The valve assembly is configured for controlling hydraulic fluid in the plurality of shock absorbers to achieve a plurality of suspension modes affecting bounce, pitch, roll, and warp. The valve assemblies can be controlled to manage pitch stiffness of the vehicle in response to detected conditions, such as longitudinal and lateral dynamics, with overrides in response to vertical acceleration and/or damper displacement. Accordingly, the handling improvement provided by varying suspension modes is balanced with a desire to provide improved ride characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Publication date: July 24, 2025
    Inventors: Fabio BUSNELLI, Andrea DAMIANI, Ian DUNCAN, JR.
  • Patent number: 12369269
    Abstract: A modular data center includes: a modular information technology component (MITC), in which the MITC includes a plurality of information handling systems (IHSs), a utility control component (UCC), and a first connection interface, in which the first connection interface includes a first set of mechanical and electrical connection components (MECCOMs); and a modular environmental control component (MECC), in which the MECC includes a plurality of environmental control components (ECCs) and a second connection interface, in which the second connection interface includes a second set of MECCOMs to be paired with the first set of MECCOMs to generate at least a portion of the modular data center, and in which the first connection interface is connected to the second connection interface, in which an area enclosed by the first connection interface is equal to an area enclosed by the second connection interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Tyler Baxter Duncan, Anthony Middleton, Jeffery Todd Sayles
  • Patent number: 12367391
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for selecting actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. One system includes a high-level controller neural network, low-level controller network, and subsystem. The high-level controller neural network receives an input observation and processes the input observation to generate a high-level output defining a control signal for the low-level controller. The low-level controller neural network receives a designated component of an input observation and processes the designated component and an input control signal to generate a low-level output that defines an action to be performed by the agent in response to the input observation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: DeepMind Technologies Limited
    Inventors: Nicolas Manfred Otto Heess, Timothy Paul Lillicrap, Gregory Duncan Wayne, Yuval Tassa
  • Patent number: 12364798
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments comprise AV fistulas and other anastomotic devices for creating new or reinforcing existing side-branch vessels, and/or bridging neighboring vessels together. An exemplary embodiment may comprise a sidewall port, such as a flanged sidewall port, and/or flow frame design, such as a partially bare, flexible stent or a whisk, for purposes of creating a transmural flow. Another exemplary embodiment may comprise a compliant vessel support to aid in the transition from device to vessel and/or vessel to device, and to promote vessel dilation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Jeffrey B. Duncan, Karan B. Sangha
  • Patent number: 12369088
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Described techniques relate to a soft access point (AP) in a multi-link operation including a first radio frequency link for control communications and a second radio frequency link for data communications. Described techniques further relate to a transfer of an AP role in a wireless local area network operating in accordance with an multi-link operation. Described techniques further provide for assisting, at an AP (which may be a soft AP), peer to peer communications between non-AP multi-link devices (MLDs) in a WLAN operating in accordance with an MLO.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, Gaurang Naik, Abdel Karim Ajami, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Yanjun Sun, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho
  • Patent number: 12369212
    Abstract: A wireless station (STA) operating as a non-simultaneous transmit-receive (NSTR) soft access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) is associated with a primary link and a non-primary link. The NSTR softAP MLD transmits, on only the primary link, a frame including a complete profile of the primary link and indicating a complete profile of the non-primary link. The respective complete profiles of the primary link and the non-primary link each include capabilities, operation parameters, and other discovery information. The frame can include fields and elements that carry the complete profile of the primary link, and can include a multi-link (ML) element that indicates the complete profile of the non-primary link. The NSTR softAP MLD can receive or determine an update to the operation parameters of the non-primary link, and can transmit, on the primary link, an indication of the update to the operation parameters of the non-primary link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Yanjun Sun, Gaurang Naik, Tushnim Bhattacharyya, Vikram Phogat
  • Patent number: 12369023
    Abstract: An apparatus has a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The processor(s) is configured to transmit a first message indicating a first machine learning capability of the first wireless device. The processor(s) is also configured to receive, from a second wireless device, a second message indicating a second machine learning capability of the second wireless device. The processor(s) is further configured to communicate information associated with a machine learning model for use between the first wireless device and the second wireless device based at least in part on the second machine learning capability and the first machine learning capability. The processor(s) is also configured to communicate with the second wireless device based at least in part on the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gaurang Naik, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Yanjun Sun, George Cherian, Abhishek Pramod Patil, Alfred Asterjadhi, Abdel Karim Ajami
  • Patent number: 12369031
    Abstract: Aspects relate to changing at least one communication parameter. In some examples, the at least one communication parameter may include at least one of an association identifier (AID), a packet number (PN), a sequence number (SN), a traffic identifier (TID), a timing synchronization function (TSF) value, or a combination thereof. In some examples, a first apparatus provides an indication of a change associated with at least one of the AID, the PN, the SN, the TID, the TSF value, or a combination thereof to a second apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Jouni Kalevi Malinen, Philip Michael Hawkes, George Cherian
  • Patent number: 12369115
    Abstract: This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for transmitting and receiving, between an access point (AP) and one or more stations (STAs) in a basic service set (BSS), within a 3.5 GHz bandwidth. In some examples, the AP may generate a first advertisement frame comprising information configured to enable one or more communication devices to associate with the apparatus for wireless communications via a first channel in a first operating band. In some examples, the AP may output the first advertisement frame for transmission according to a first periodic interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Abhishek Pramod Patil, Abdel Karim Ajami, Gaurang Naik, Sai Yiu Duncan Ho, Yanjun Sun, George Cherian, Alfred Asterjadhi
  • Publication number: 20250231137
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices can include features to apply electrical stimulation to liquids in which one or more compounds are present and to measure the response to the electrical stimulation. Nucleic acids can be used to track the location of the compounds within the semiconductor devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Inventors: David Duncan Lloyd, Phillip Michel Nadeau, Junfei Xia, Michael C.W. Coln, Roman Trogan
  • Publication number: 20250234434
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed herein for ultraviolet saunas. Systems include a plurality of walls of an enclosure, the enclosure being a sauna enclosure configured to accommodate a user. The systems further include a plurality of heating elements coupled to the plurality of walls, a plurality of emissive elements configured to generate ultraviolet (UV) light, and a controller coupled to the plurality of heating elements and the plurality of emissive elements. The controller includes one or more processors configured to generate activation properties for each of the plurality of heating elements and the plurality of emissive elements, activate at least one of the plurality of heating elements based on the plurality of activation properties, and activate the at least one emissive element based on the plurality of activation properties.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Sauna Works Inc. (aka Far Infrared Sauna Technology Co.)
    Inventors: Andrew Kaps, Raleigh C. Duncan
  • Publication number: 20250230727
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an apparatus, a system and a process for regulating a wellhead control mechanism. The apparatus is configured to control actuation of a wellhead control mechanism by moving a moveable body of the apparatus between a first position and a second position. When the apparatus is in the first position a valve actuator is actuatable and when the apparatus is in the second position the valve actuator is physically interfered from actuating. When the apparatus is in the second position, the wellhead control mechanism cannot be actuated and is held in either an open, a partially open or a closed position. Other embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a system that directly controls actuation of a wellhead actuation mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: July 17, 2025
    Applicant: Intelligent Wellhead Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Robert Martin, Murad Mohammad, Sheldon Kryger, Robert Duncan
  • Patent number: D1084658
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1086121
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1086123
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1086130
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Laura M. Campo, David J. Dunsmoor, Phillip M. Hobson, Jason C. Sauers, Sivesh Selvakumar, Jason L. Slupeiks
  • Patent number: D1086136
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer