Patents by Inventor Ian Michael

Ian Michael 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).

  • Compact aero-thermo model based control system
    Patent number: 10145307
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling a fluid based engineering system are disclosed. The systems and methods may include a model processor for generating a model output, the model processor including a set state module for setting dynamic states of the model processor, the dynamic states input to an open loop model based on the model operating mode, the model generates current state derivatives and synthesized parameters as a function of the dynamic states and the model input, wherein a constraint on the current state derivatives is based a series of modules, each member of the series of modules arranged in at least a primary stream group and a secondary stream group corresponding to a component of the system. The model processor may further include an estimate state module for determining an estimated state of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Boris Karpman, Thomas Niemczycki, Ian Michael Dinsmore, David Sembiante, Robert H. Luppold
  • Automatic generation of training data for anomaly detection using other user's data samples
    Patent number: 10147049
    Abstract: A method (and structure) generates a classifier for an anomalous detection monitor for a target user on a system or application used by a plurality of users and includes providing an access to a memory device storing user data samples for all users of the plurality of users. A target user is selected from among the plurality of users. Data samples for the target user and data samples for other users of the plurality of users are used to generate a normal sample data set and an abnormal (anomalous) sample data set to serve as a training data set for training a model for an anomaly detection monitor for the target user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 4, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Suresh N. Chari, Ian Michael Molloy, Youngja Park
  • Apparatus and method for estimating a shift amount when performing floating-point subtraction
    Patent number: 10140093
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for estimating a shift amount when employing processing circuitry to perform a subtraction operation to subtract a second significand value of a second floating-point operand from a first significand value of a first floating-point operand in order to generate a difference value. Shift estimation circuitry then determines an estimated shift amount to be applied to the difference value. The shift estimation circuitry comprises significand analysis circuitry to generate, from analysis of the significand values of the two floating-point operands, a first bit string identifying a most significant bit position within the difference value that is predicted to have its bit set to a determined value. In parallel, shift limiting circuitry generates from an exponent value a second bit string identifying a shift limit bit position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: David Raymond Lutz, Ian Michael Caulfield
  • Two-Level Sequence Learning for Analyzing, Metering, Generating, and Cracking Passwords
    Publication number: 20180332023
    Abstract: Managing passwords is provided. A machine training process is performed using a set of existing passwords to train a machine learning component. Members of a set of semantic categories are used to categorize respective passwords in the set of existing passwords. Password strengths corresponding to a set of candidate passwords are evaluated using the machine learning component. A resource is secured with a candidate password having a password strength greater than or equal to a defined password strength threshold level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Suresh Chari, Taesung Lee, Ian Michael Molloy, Youngja Park
  • Improvements in or Relating to Organic Compounds
    Publication number: 20180318785
    Abstract: A microcapsule composition, wherein the shell of the microcapsules comprises at least one polyurea which contains at least one permanent cationic group, which is covalently bonded to the shell and the core comprises at least one perfume ingredient, and wherein the shell of the microcapsules does not contain guanidinium groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Applicant: GIVAUDAN SA
    Inventors: Emmanuel AUSSANT, Ian Michael HARRISON
  • Connector and duplex connector assembly
    Patent number: 10120140
    Abstract: Connectors and a duplex clip for forming duplex connector assemblies are provided herein. The connector includes a rigid latch member for positive locking with another component, such as an adaptor. The duplex clip is configured to hold two connectors to form a duplex connector assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: Fluke Corporation
    Inventors: Seymour Goldstein, Ian Michael Davidson
  • AUTOMATED MESSAGING
    Publication number: 20180310144
    Abstract: Approaches provide for generating an introductory text message to be delivered to a recipient when a voice-enabled communications device is used to send a message to the recipient for a first time. For example, audio input data that includes an instruction to send a text message can be received and an application can analyze the audio input data to determine an instruction to send a text message, a message body, and an intended recipient of the text message. The application can determine whether a text message has previously been sent to the intended recipient using the voice-enabled communications device or another device associated with the customer's account. In the situation where a text message has been sent, a text message is generated that includes the message body and the application causes the text message to be sent to the intended recipient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Ryan Christopher Rapp, Douglas Vincent O'Dell, Kathryn Lynn Parker, Jonathan Leonard Da Silva, Ian Michael Menzies, Christo Frank Devaraj, David Michael Rowell
  • Allowing deletion of a dispatched instruction from an instruction queue when sufficient processor resources are predicted for that instruction
    Patent number: 10095518
    Abstract: Instruction queue circuitry maintains an instruction queue to store fetched instructions. Instruction decode circuitry decodes instructions dispatched from the queue. The instruction decode circuitry allocates processor resource(s) for use in execution of the decoded instruction. Detection circuitry detect, for an instruction to be dispatched from a given instruction queue, a prediction indicating whether sufficient processor resources are predicted to be available for allocation to that instruction by the instruction decode circuitry. Dispatch circuitry dispatches an instruction from the queue to the instruction decode circuitry and allows deletion of the dispatched instruction from that instruction queue when the prediction indicates that sufficient processor resources are predicted to be available for allocation to that instruction by the instruction decode circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: ARM Limited
    Inventors: Andrew James Antony Lees, Ian Michael Caulfield, Peter Richard Greenhalgh
  • APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING A SHIFT AMOUNT WHEN PERFORMING FLOATING-POINT SUBTRACTION
    Publication number: 20180285076
    Abstract: An apparatus and method are provided for estimating a shift amount when employing processing circuitry to perform a subtraction operation to subtract a second significand value of a second floating-point operand from a first significand value of a first floating-point operand in order to generate a difference value. Shift estimation circuitry then determines an estimated shift amount to be applied to the difference value. The shift estimation circuitry comprises significand analysis circuitry to generate, from analysis of the significand values of the two floating-point operands, a first bit string identifying a most significant bit position within the difference value that is predicted to have its bit set to a determined value. In parallel, shift limiting circuitry generates from an exponent value a second bit string identifying a shift limit bit position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: David Raymond LUTZ, Ian Michael CAULFIELD
  • Vapor compression system
    Patent number: 10088208
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a refrigerant loop, a compressor disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to circulate refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, a heat exchanger disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to place the refrigerant in thermal communication with a cooling fluid flowing through tubes of a tube bundle within the heat exchanger, an inlet of the heat exchanger configured to direct the refrigerant into the heat exchanger, a trough of the heat exchanger configured to receive the refrigerant from the inlet, and a perforated baffle of the heat exchanger disposed downstream of the trough and configured to direct the refrigerant from the trough over the tubes of the tube bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Jay A. Kohler, Patrick Christian Marks, Ian Michael Casper, Kurt Devlin
  • HANDLING STALLING EVENT FOR MULTIPLE THREAD PIPELINE, AND TRIGGERING ACTION BASED ON INFORMATION ACCESS DELAY
    Publication number: 20180267805
    Abstract: A processing pipeline for processing instructions with instructions from multiple threads in flight concurrently may have control circuitry to detect a stalling event associated with a given thread. In response, at least one instruction of the given thread may be flushed from the pipeline, and the control circuitry may trigger fetch circuitry to reduce a fraction of the fetched instructions which are fetched from the given thread. A mechanism is also described to determine when to trigger a predetermined action when a delay in accessing information becomes greater than a delay threshold, and to update the delay threshold based on a difference between a return delay when the information is returned from the storage circuitry and the delay threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ian Michael CAULFIELD, Max John BATLEY, Chiloda Ashan Senarath PATHIRANE
  • Variable repetition rate supercontinuum pulses
    Patent number: 10074957
    Abstract: A method of providing optical supercontinuum pulses can comprise generating optical pump pulses with an optical pump laser, the optical pump pulses having a pump pulse repetition rate; launching optical pump pulses into a nonlinear optical element comprising an optical fiber; generating optical supercontinuum pulses from the optical pump pules via spectral broadening within the optical fiber; selectively providing a plurality of different repetition rates for the optical pump pulses so as to generate optical supercontinuum pulses having different repetition rates; and providing nominally identical spectral broadening of the optical supercontinuum pules having the different repetition rates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: NKT Photonics A/S
    Inventors: John Redvers Clowes, Anatoly Borisovich Grudinin, Ian Michael Godfrey
  • HAND TRUCKS
    Publication number: 20180229745
    Abstract: A hand truck having improvements made to simplify and make more ergonomically use of a hand truck by an operator. The hand truck provided having adjustable handles and a bottom portion having adjustable stair climbers with improved feature and an improved wheel and brake assembly have an axle-less wheel assembly and an improved caliper mounting system. These features are discussed in detail in the forgoing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Magline, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Brewer, Donald Dobler, Ian Michael Cobb, Grey Burchfield Parker
  • CONNECTOR AND DUPLEX CONNECTOR ASSEMBLY
    Publication number: 20180210155
    Abstract: Connectors and a duplex clip for forming duplex connector assemblies are provided herein. The connector includes a rigid latch member for positive locking with another component, such as an adaptor. The duplex clip is configured to hold two connectors to form a duplex connector assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Seymour Goldstein, Ian Michael Davidson
  • MICROCAPSULES
    Publication number: 20180185808
    Abstract: Encapsulated perfume composition comprising at least one aminoplast core-shell microcapsule dispersed in a suspending medium, the microcapsule comprising a perfume-containing core encapsulated in a shell, said shell comprising a network of cross-linked aminoplast resin, wherein 75-100% of the resin comprises 50-90%, preferably from 60-85%, of a terpolymer and from 10-50%, preferably from 10-25%, of a polymeric stabilizer; the terpolymer comprising: (a) from 20-35 wt %, preferably 22-30% by weight of moieties derived from at least one triamine, (b) from 30-60 wt %, preferably 40-55% by weight of moieties derived from at least one diamine, (c) from 20-35 wt %, preferably 22-30% by weight of moieties derived from the group consisting of alkylene and alkylenoxy moieties having 1 to 6 methylene units, preferably 1 to 4 methylene units and most preferably 1 methylene unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Emmanuel AUSSANT, Ian Michael HARRISON
  • DETERMINING A PREDICTED BEHAVIOUR FOR PROCESSING OF INSTRUCTIONS
    Publication number: 20180173535
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises prediction circuitry (40, 100, 80) for determining, based on current prediction policy information (43, 82, 104), a predicted behaviour to be used for processing instructions. The current prediction policy information is updated based on an outcome of processing of instructions. A storage structure (50) stores at least one entry identifying previous prediction policy information (60) for a corresponding block of instructions. In response to an instruction from a block having a corresponding entry in the storage structure (50) which identifies the previous prediction policy information (60), the current prediction policy information (43, 82, 104) can be reset based on the previous prediction policy information 60 identified in the corresponding entry of the storage structure (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Max John BATLEY, Simon John CRASKE, Ian Michael CAULFIELD, Peter Richard GREENHALGH, Allan John SKILLMAN, Antony John PENTON
  • Folding knife
    Patent number: D821173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: APEX BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: David Jonathan Byron, Ian Michael Cobb, John Griffin Biering, Jr., Jonathan Siebert Beckwith
  • Measuring wheel
    Patent number: D831516
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: APEX BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Ian Michael Cobb, David Jonathan Byron
  • Measuring wheel
    Patent number: D831517
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: APEX BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Ian Michael Cobb, David Jonathan Byron
  • Measuring tape
    Patent number: D832122
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2018
    Assignee: APEX BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Ian Michael Cobb, Vlad Patrangenaru, David Jonathan Byron