Patents by Inventor Eric Martin

Eric Martin 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: 20230024762
    Abstract: A heat source package, comprising a housing having a metal base portion with one or more channels formed therein, the one or more channels having an inner surface, a coating of an anti-corrosive material adhered to a portion of the inner surface of the one or more channels wherein the anti-corrosive material is selected to have a thermal conductivity within a threshold range such that the coating changes the thermal resistance of a coated portion of the channel less than 25% with respect to an uncoated portion of the metal base portion. In examples, a heat source may be thermally coupled to the inner surface of the channels and the channels may be formed to conduct a liquid coolant from a liquid inlet to a liquid outlet to dissipate heat away from the heat source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: NLIGHT, INC.
    Inventors: Mark J. DEFRANZA, Eric MARTIN
  • Patent number: 11559987
    Abstract: One example provides a fluidic die including a nozzle layer disposed on a substrate, the nozzle layer having an upper surface opposite the substrate and including a plurality of nozzles formed therein, each nozzle including a fluid chamber and a nozzle orifice extending through the nozzle layer from the upper surface to the fluid chamber. A conductive trace is exposed to the upper surface of the nozzle layer and extends proximate to a portion of the nozzle orifices, an impedance of the conductive trace indicative of a surface condition of the upper surface of the nozzle layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Daryl E. Anderson, James R. Przybyla, Chien-Hua Chen, Diane R. Hammerstad
  • Patent number: 11547228
    Abstract: An oyster opener device, system, kit, and/or method which preferably greatly enhances the ease and enjoyment of preparing oysters or other shellfish. The oyster opener may be entirely manually powered, manually powered and free of all motors and electrical components, may be operated by a powered device, may include a motor, or may be operated manually with a powered assist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventor: Eric Martin Levin
  • Patent number: 11541658
    Abstract: One example provides a fluidic die including a semiconductor substrate, and a nozzle layer disposed on the substrate, the nozzle layer having a top surface opposite the substrate and including a nozzle formed therein, the nozzle including a fluid chamber disposed below the top surface and a nozzle orifice extending through the nozzle layer from the top surface to the fluid chamber, the fluid chamber to hold fluid, and the nozzle to eject fluid drops from the fluid chamber via the nozzle orifice. An electrode is disposed in contact with the nozzle layer about a perimeter of the nozzle orifice, the electrode to carry an electrical charge to adjust movement of electrically charged components of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Daryl E. Anderson, Eric Martin, James R. Przybyla, Chien-Hua Chen
  • Patent number: 11532217
    Abstract: An opening detection device for an opening element such as a door or window including a module that is applied to an inner side of the opening element, wherein the module includes means for detecting movement of the opening element, first presence detection means forming a conical beam defining what is termed a trust perimeter encompassing an operating distance over which an operator operates the mechanism for opening the opening element on the first side of the opening element, second presence detection means for detecting a presence on what is termed a mistrust perimeter circumscribed around the opening element and means for processing data from the detection means, for memory storage and for computation that are connected to the detection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Inventors: Didier Filhol, Eric Martin
  • Publication number: 20220379601
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluidic die is described. The fluidic die includes an array of fluid actuators grouped into primitives. The fluidic die also includes a fluid actuator controller to selectively activate fluid actuators via activation data. The fluidic die also includes an array of actuator evaluators, wherein each actuator evaluator of the fluidic die is coupled to a subset of the array of fluid actuators. The actuator evaluators selectively evaluate an actuator characteristic of a selected fluid actuator based on: an output of an actuator sensor paired with the selected fluid actuator, the activation data, and an evaluation control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Applicant: HEWLETT-PACKARD DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Daryl E Anderson
  • Patent number: 11487724
    Abstract: The embodiments provide a system and method for continuously updating a target repository to include both the latest data and corrected historical data. The system includes a data manager and at least two staging repositories. Each time the system retrieves the latest data from the source repository it also retrieves a portion historical data. Both the latest data and the historical data are transformed, and the historical portion of the transformed data is compared with corresponding data from the target repository to determine if there are any defects in the data from the target repository. The target repository is automatically updated if a defect is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Eric Martin Gertonson, Robert Hugh Newman, II, Christopher John Hohimer, Jonathan Allen Meadows, Brett Justin Moan, Eric Overstreet
  • Publication number: 20220333319
    Abstract: A damping system for a cable disposed within an upper pipe and a lower pipe includes a damper plate assembly connected to the upper pipe, a slider ring connected to and/or supported by the lower pipe, the slider ring having a hole in which the cable is arranged; and a shroud surrounding the damping system at a position where the upper pipe is adjacent to the lower pipe, such that the damper plate assembly and the slider ring are covered by the shroud. In such damping systems, the damper plate assembly and the slider ring are in contact with each other such that the transverse movement of the upper pipe relative to the lower pipe generates a frictional force to reduce an amplitude of the transverse movement of the upper pipe relative to the lower pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: John R. Crigler, Robert William Sward, Eric Martin Sommer, Justin Malcolm Campbell, Christopher Daryl Ledford, Simon Ruas
  • Patent number: 11467116
    Abstract: In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a fluid analysis system is described. The fluid analysis system includes a fluidic die. The fluidic die includes a fluid chamber to hold a volume of fluid to be analyzed and an impedance sensor disposed within the fluid chamber. The impedance sensor measures an impedance of the fluid in the fluid chamber. The fluid analysis system also includes an evaluator device electrically coupled to the impedance sensor. The evaluator device determines at least one property of the fluid based on the impedance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Daryl E. Anderson, James Michael Gardner, James A. Feinn, Kevin Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 11467031
    Abstract: A method is presented for determining path length fluctuations in an interferometer using a reference laser with an arbitrary frequency with respect to the measured light. The method includes: injecting reference light along signal paths of the interferometer; measuring interference between the reference light at an output of the interferometer; determining an optical phase difference between the reference light in the two signal paths of the interferometer by measuring intensity modulation of the interference between the reference light and subtracting an intended frequency modulation from the measured intensity modulation; accumulating an unwrapped phase difference between the reference light in the two signal paths of the interferometer, where the unwrapped phase difference is defined in relation to a reference; and determining path length fluctuation of light in the interferometer using the unwrapped phase difference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Steven T. Cundiff, Chris Smallwood, Eric Martin
  • Publication number: 20220313812
    Abstract: The present invention relates to killed/inactivated and/or recombinant Senecavirus A immunogenic compositions and vaccines, and methods of preventing or treating animals in need of with such an immunogenic compositions and vaccines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc.
    Inventors: Arun V. IYER, Abby Rae PATTERSON, Joseph Gilbert VICTORIA, Eric Martin VAUGHN, Luis Alejandro HERNANDEZ, Jennifer L. ENGLISH
  • Publication number: 20220296017
    Abstract: An oyster opener device, system, kit, and/or method which preferably greatly enhances the ease and enjoyment of preparing oysters or other shellfish. The oyster opener may be entirely manually powered, manually powered and free of all motors and electrical components, may be operated by a powered device, may include a motor, or may be operated manually with a powered assist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Martin Levin
  • Patent number: 11443190
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing cell images using neural networks. One of the methods includes obtaining data comprising an input image of one or more biological cells illuminated with an optical microscopy technique; processing the data using a stained cell neural network; and processing the one or more stained cell images using a cell characteristic neural network, wherein the cell characteristic neural network has been configured through training to receive the one or more stained cell images and to process the one or more stained cell images to generate a cell characteristic output that characterizes features of the biological cells that are stained in the one or more stained cell images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Philip Charles Nelson, Eric Martin Christiansen, Marc Berndl, Michael Frumkin
  • Publication number: 20220266591
    Abstract: A die for a printhead is provided in examples. The die includes a number of fluidic actuator arrays, proximate to a number of fluid feed holes. A number of address lines are disposed proximate to a number of logic circuits on a low-voltage side of the fluid feed holes. An address decoder circuit is coupled to at least a portion of the address lines to select a fluidic actuator in a fluidic actuator array for firing. The address decoder circuit is customized to select a different address for each fluidic actuator in the fluidic actuator array. A logic circuit triggers a driver circuit located in a high-voltage side of the plurality of fluid feed holes opposite the low-voltage side, based, at least in part, on a bit value for the fluidic actuator array, the fluidic actuator selected by the address decoder circuit, and a firing signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Eric Martin, Scott A. Linn, James Michael Gardner
  • Publication number: 20220258228
    Abstract: System for tracking and assessing the condition of replaceable refractory elements in a metallurgic facility comprising: a) a plurality of identifiable metallurgical vessels, such as ladles, wherein each one of said identifiable metallurgical vessels comprises removable refractory elements, such as slide gate valve plates; b) a plurality of replacement refractory elements, wherein each replacement refractory element comprises a machine-readable identification tag comprising refractory element identification data; c) a reading station, such as an RFID workbench, for reading the machine-readable identification tags of a replacement refractory element positioned in a reading zone of the reading station; d) a refractory condition tool for assessing the condition of refractory elements coupled to anyone of said metallurgical vessels; e) a monitoring unit connectable to the reading station and the refractory condition tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: VESUVIUS GROUP, S.A.
    Inventors: Patrick ARNULF, Antonio FAVIA, Denis JUAN, Eric MARTIN, Jan MENNERICH, Corentin PICARD
  • Patent number: D964057
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Martin Levin
  • Patent number: D964058
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Martin Levin
  • Patent number: D964059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Martin Levin
  • Patent number: D964060
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Martin Levin
  • Patent number: D964079
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Eric Martin Levin