Patents by Inventor Erik Josephs

Erik Josephs 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: 20250109988
    Abstract: A method for fabrication of a chip for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS), including: providing a substrate; texturing a surface of the substrate to form a plurality of pillars randomly on the surface until a desired average pillar height, average pillar width and/or pillar density is/are reached; depositing a metal onto the surface of the textured substrate; and thermally annealing the metal such that the metal forms a layer encasing the pillars.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Matthew Singer, Ryan Joseph Priore, Longfei Ye, Erik Baigar
  • Publication number: 20250101842
    Abstract: A blender tub for hydraulic fracturing operations and associated components are provided. A spinning proppant distributor located above the blender tub liquid level interrupts and redirects falling granular proppant material (e.g. sand) into the tub. A fluid intake channel wraps around at least part of the blender tub outside wall and introduces liquid (e.g. water) into the blender tub via a plurality of channels. The liquid is introduced with a force and angle which imparts a vortex within the blender tub. The above aspects facilitate blending of material within the tub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Ty-Crop Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventors: Gary Wayne TEICHROB, Ryan Joseph WILSON, Matthew Raymond Silas EDWARD, Brent Douglas VAN KLEECK, Nathanael David SACCHETTI, Mads BJØRNENAK, Erik Heimar ZACHARIASEN
  • Publication number: 20250101843
    Abstract: A blender tub for hydraulic fracturing operations and associated components are provided. A spinning proppant distributor located above the blender tub liquid level interrupts and redirects falling granular proppant material (e.g. sand) into the tub. A fluid intake channel wraps around at least part of the blender tub outside wall and introduces liquid (e.g. water) into the blender tub via a plurality of channels. The liquid is introduced with a force and angle which imparts a vortex within the blender tub. The above aspects facilitate blending of material within the tub.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Ty-Crop Manufacturing Ltd.
    Inventors: Gary Wayne TEICHROB, Ryan Joseph WILSON, Matthew Raymond Silas EDWARD, Brent Douglas VAN KLEECK, Nathanael David SACCHETTI, Mads BJØRNENAK, Erik Heimar ZACHARIASEN
  • Patent number: 12242330
    Abstract: Techniques are described for monitoring the health of services in a computing environment such as a data center. More particularly, the present disclosure describes techniques for monitoring the health and availability of capabilities in a computing environment such as a data center by enabling alarms to be associated with the capabilities. A capability refers to a set of resources in a data center. By providing the ability to associate an alarm with a capability, the health or availability of the associated capability can be monitored or ascertained by tracking the state of the alarm associated with the capability. For example, if the alarm associated with a particular capability is triggered, it may indicate that the particular capability and the one or more resources corresponding to the particular capability are not in a healthy state. Accordingly, by monitoring alarms associated with capabilities, the health of the associated capabilities can be ascertained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Kavyashree Mysore Jagadeesh, Erik Joseph Miller
  • Patent number: 12234777
    Abstract: In examples, a clutch assembly includes a first clutch member disposed near a first end of a first shaft. The first clutch member defines a first surface. The first shaft includes a starter motor coupled to a second end of the first shaft. The clutch assembly includes a second clutch member disposed near a first end of a second shaft. The second clutch member defines a second surface opposing the first surface, and the second shaft includes an accessory gearbox of a gas turbine engine coupled to a second end of the second shaft. The surfaces of the first and second clutch member engage such that rotational motion is transferred between the first clutch member and the second clutch member. The first clutch member and the second clutch member are configured to passively disengage from each other and actively reengage with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mathew Hill, Michael Joseph Kabbes, Erik A. Munevar, Peter Schenk, Jacob Ward Harral
  • Publication number: 20250057116
    Abstract: A gravity-induced automatic animal drink dispenser apparatus with no moving parts that promotes increased sanitation and minimizes the amount of work required to maintain a supply of liquids to the animals. The animal drink dispenser apparatus comprises a housing defining an interior volume adapted to store a supply of liquids, a bottom tray releasably attachable to a bottom of the housing defining a trough, at least one passageway, defined by the bottom tray, fluidly communicating the interior volume of the housing with the trough by force of gravity, and a vent apparatus adapted to equalize a pressure in a volume of air above the liquids in the housing, which is reduced when said liquids are dispensed to the trough, with the ambient air.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventor: Erik Joseph Diedrichsen
  • Publication number: 20250031791
    Abstract: A balloon assembly includes a balloon having a body, a port having only a single inlet for passage of gas into the body of the balloon, and a valve assembly including an upper valve body and a separate lower valve body cooperating to define an interior. A valve member is disposed in the interior which moves from a first position to a second position in response to the passage of air through the valve assembly from the single inlet of the port to the balloon. In the first position, the valve member is against the lower valve body, disabling the passage of air through the valve assembly from the balloon to the port. In the second position, the valve member is away from the lower valve body, enabling the passage of air through the valve assembly from the single inlet to the balloon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Totali EZ Balloons, LLC
    Inventors: Erik Josephs, Craig Ovans
  • Publication number: 20250039157
    Abstract: Techniques for transferring data to a secure computing region that is isolated from any public networks is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more artifacts for the secure computing region are packaged. As part of the packaging, one or more data packets and metadata for the one or more artifacts can be generated. The metadata indicates corresponding destination components for the one or more artifacts within the secure computing region. The data packet(s) are received and transmitted by a first data diode endpoint device. The first data diode endpoint device is configured to transmit data to the secure computing region via a second data diode endpoint device, the second data diode endpoint device being configured to restrict data from being transmitted to a destination outside of the secure computing region. The transmission of the one or more data packets may be monitored by the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Nadir Kiyanclar, Caleb Dockter, Erik Joseph Miller
  • Publication number: 20250038605
    Abstract: One variation of a system for an electric motor includes a set of coil assemblies defining: an inner radial facet, an outer radial facet, a first axial facet, and a second axial facet opposite the first axial facet. Additionally, each coil assembly in the set of coil assemblies includes a receiving member arranged at the outer radial facet of the coil assembly. Furthermore, the system includes a rotor comprising a set of magnetic elements: encompassing the inner radial facet, the outer radial facet, the first axial facet, and the second axial facet of the set of coil assemblies; and defining a radial magnetic tunnel. The system also includes a housing: engaging the receiving member of each coil assembly, in the set of coil assemblies to couple the housing to the set of coil assemblies; and includes a shaft coupled to the set of magnetic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Erik Christopher Hatch, Anto Joseph Barigala Charles Paulraj, Abla Hiriri
  • Publication number: 20250034548
    Abstract: Provided are modular prime editing systems, comprising: i) a fusion protein comprising a Cas9 nickase protein linked to a nucleotide polymerase (NT) protein, ii) a prime editor template RNA (petRNA) comprising a primer binding site (PBS), a nucleotide polymerase template (NPT), and at least one MS2 hairpin, and iii) a single guide RNA (sgRNA).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Erik Joseph Sontheimer, Jonathan Kenneth Watts, Wen Xue, Zexiang Chen, Bin Liu
  • Publication number: 20250035049
    Abstract: An example system includes a first gas-turbine engine (GTE) of a plurality of GTEs that are configured to propel an aircraft, the first GTE comprising: a first air-turbine starter (ATS) of a plurality of ATSs, the first ATS configured to rotate a spool of the first GTE; and a first electric starter of a plurality of electric starters, the first electric starter configured to rotate the spool of the first GTE; a second GTE of the plurality of GTEs, the second gas-turbine engine comprising: a second ATS of the plurality of ATSs, the second ATS configured to rotate a spool of the GTE; and a second electric starter of the plurality of electric starters, the second electric starter configured to rotate the spool of the GTE; and one or more controllers configured to control the plurality of GTEs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Peter Schenk, Erik A. Munevar, Philip J. Steffen, Brian Joseph Huber
  • Patent number: 12208691
    Abstract: A controller selectively generates output for display indicative of a recommendation against use of a power outlet in a vehicle with devices external to the vehicle having a power rating greater than a predefined power rating threshold based on a difference between a current state of charge of a battery of the vehicle and a required state of charge for the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Brendan F. Diamond, Erik J. Christen, Matthew Joseph, Shehan Haputhanthri
  • Publication number: 20250026396
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus to control stowable steering wheels are disclosed herein. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a steering column assembly including a sensor, a first portion, and a second portion moveable relative to the first portion, machine readable instructions, and programmable circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to move the first portion relative to the second portion, determine based on an output of the sensor that the first portion has encountered an obstruction, and after determining the first portion has encountered the obstruction, stop a movement the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Erik William Soderlind, Taras Andrew Palczynski, Alan Joseph Porter
  • Patent number: 12204916
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for migrating services from a virtual bootstrap environment. A distributed computing system can generate a virtual cloud network in a data center of a host region. A virtual bootstrap environment may be implemented in the virtual cloud network. The virtual bootstrap environment can include a plurality of services. The distributed computing system can also deploy an instance of one of the plurality of services to a target region data center. When the instance has been deployed, an indication that the deployment was successful can be received by the distributed computing system. In response, the distributed computing system may identify additional resources associated with the deployed instance of the service and update another service in the virtual bootstrap environment with that resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Erik Joseph Miller, Michel Belleau
  • Publication number: 20240417707
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to Neisseria meningitidis (Nme) 2 Cas9 (Nme2Cas9) and Nme2SmuCas9 variants comprising one or more amino acid substitutions with increased genome editing activities (e.g., improve nuclease and base editing efficiencies).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Erik Joseph Sontheimer, Nathan Bamidele, Zexiang Chen
  • Publication number: 20240408238
    Abstract: The present invention is related to the field of gene editing. In particular, the gene editing is directed toward single nucleotide base editing. For example, such single nucleotide base editing results in a conversion of a mutated base pair to a wild type base pair. The high accuracy and precision of the presently disclosed single nucleotide base gene editor is accomplished by a fusion protein including an NmeCas9 nuclease and an inlaid nucleotide deaminase protein domain. The Nme2Cas9 protospacer interacting domain may be replaced with an SmuCas9 protospacer interacting domain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 12, 2024
    Inventors: Erik Joseph SONTHEIMER, Wen XUE, Han ZHANG, Nathan BAMIDELE, Xiaolong DONG
  • Patent number: 12149509
    Abstract: Techniques for transferring data to a secure computing region that is isolated from any public networks is disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more artifacts for the secure computing region are packaged. As part of the packaging, one or more data packets and metadata for the one or more artifacts can be generated. The metadata indicates corresponding destination components for the one or more artifacts within the secure computing region. The data packet(s) are received and transmitted by a first data diode endpoint device. The first data diode endpoint device is configured to transmit data to the secure computing region via a second data diode endpoint device, the second data diode endpoint device being configured to restrict data from being transmitted to a destination outside of the secure computing region. The transmission of the one or more data packets may be monitored by the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Nadir Kiyanclar, Caleb Dockter, Erik Joseph Miller
  • Publication number: 20240309396
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods and compositions for gene editing. In particular. the disclosure relates to compositions and methods of making and using modified nucleic acid donor templates for highly efficient and precise gene editing, such as gen editing in immune cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2024
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Kenneth Watts, Erik Joseph Sontheimer, Craig Cameron Mello, Zexiang Chen, Krishna Sumanth Ghanta
  • Patent number: D1058955
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Inventor: Erik Joseph Diedrichsen
  • Patent number: D1064430
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventor: Erik Joseph Diedrichsen