Patents by Inventor Gerard Miller

Gerard Miller 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: 12236186
    Abstract: Systems and methods for populating the fields of an electronic form are disclosed. A method includes automatically initiating a hands-free mode of operation based on a first input from a user; receiving a second input corresponding to a value of a current field of a plurality of fields of an electronic form; converting, using a plug-in, the second input into the value for the current field, where the value is identified by comparing syllables of the second input to known syllables associated with a historical input of the user; displaying the value in the current field; determining, using the plug-in, that the value in the current field matches an expected value for the current field; and prompting the user to submit the electronic form in response to determining that the electronic form is complete based on a determination that a predefined subset of the plurality of fields are populated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Gerard K. Cohen, Edmund Gauci, Eric Miller
  • Publication number: 20150165871
    Abstract: An auxiliary or supplemental vehicle heating system that operates on natural gas or propane is provided for use with a vehicle engine having a liquid cooling/heating circuit. A propane- or natural gas-fired burner supplies heat during the operation or non-operation of the engine and the heat produced is used to supply heat to the engine, passenger compartment(s), mobile work areas, cargo containers and in the case of natural gas vehicles, provide heat to the on-board fuel system regulator. Thus, the auxiliary or supplemental heating system supplies heat independent of the engine's liquid cooling/heating circuit. In some embodiments, the cooling/heating circuit uses the heat produced from the natural gas or propane auxiliary heating system to supply heat to the engine via a heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2014
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Gerard Miller, Timothy Morse
  • Publication number: 20090260377
    Abstract: A heating and air-conditioning system for a motor vehicle, having at least one running-state system having a heat exchanger and a blower to supply an air flow across the heat exchanger; and a stop-state system having a heat carrier loop connected to the running-state heat exchanger, wherein coolant within the heat carrier loop can stream through the running-state heating heat exchanger. The system can include a housing having a stop-state coolant heater or cooler, a pump to move a coolant through the heat carrier loop, a controller to control the pump and the running-state blower (including the use of a temperature sensor), a power supply, which is available in a stopped state, and a blower to supply an air flow across the running-state heat exchanger. The housing can have a connection interface corresponding to running-state air ducts, whereby retroactive installation of the system is facilitated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 22, 2009
    Inventors: Gerard Miller, Wolfgang Kraemer
  • Patent number: 5798523
    Abstract: An apparatus for irradiating a biological substance with a substantially uniform quantity of radiation energy comprises a radiation-generating device for producing radiation energy, a support structure for receiving the biological substance, and a motorized mechanism for reciprocating the radiation-generating device along a given path whereby the biological substance receives radiation energy from the radiation-generating device at each passage of the radiation-generating device. A series of sensors lie into a given plane and are subjected to radiation energy from the radiation-generating device upon each passage of that radiation-generating device for sensing and measuring the quantity of radiation energy by surface unit passing through the given plane and reaching the biological substance. Finally the radiation-generating device and the motorized mechanism are de-energized when the measured quantity of radiation energy by surface unit has reached a predetermined value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 25, 1998
    Assignee: Theratechnologies Inc.
    Inventors: Luc Villeneuve, Gerard Miller, Robert Bernier, Claude Laurendeau, Prabir Kumar Pal