Patents by Inventor J. Mitchell

J. Mitchell 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: 11941235
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing weather information. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for managing weather information are described. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for displaying daily weather information are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Caroline J. Crandall, Ian V. Bambao, Dylan O. Boelte, Wyatt R. Mitchell, Ricky Lee Richards
  • Publication number: 20240093287
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for reducing the concentration of extendable free and buried primers relative to amplification product in a sample. The disclosed methods and compositions can be used to reduce or eliminate index hopping in a next generation sequencing (NGS) platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Keith Robison, Douglas G. Smith, Adam J. Meyer, Andrew J. Mitchell, Alex Plocik, Thomas F. Knight
  • Publication number: 20240077156
    Abstract: A bar linkage for a pipe coupling can include a first bar configured to span two end rings of the pipe coupling; a second bar configured to span the two end rings of the pipe coupling; and a single tensioner extending through each of the first bar and the second bar and joining the first bar to the second bar along an axis of the bar linkage in an assembled condition of the bar linkage, the tensioner configured to draw the first bar towards the second bar, the first bar and the second bar able to be angled with respect to each other and with respect to the axis of the pipe coupling in a tightened condition of the pipe coupling when viewing the bar linkage from the top when the pipe coupling couples pipes of unequal diameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Timothy J. Mitchell, Steve Kent Fearnow, Jason White Bradley
  • Patent number: 11919647
    Abstract: Thermal control system for aircraft main landing gear wheel wells and related methods are disclosed. An example thermal control system includes a conduit defining a fluid passageway between an inlet and an outlet. The inlet of the conduit positioned in fluid communication with a landing gear wheel well and the outlet of the conduit positioned in fluid communication with the atmosphere. The conduit generates a pressure differential through the fluid passageway between the inlet and the outlet to exhaust heat from the landing gear wheel well to the atmosphere.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Andrew David Clark, Thamir Rauf Al-Alusi, David William Kirkbride, Frederick T. Calkins, Bradley J. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11914496
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to maintain data consistency in a data pipeline. In some examples, a computing system comprises data monitoring circuitry that monitors the operations of the data pipeline. The data pipeline receives input data, processes the input data, and generates output data. The data monitoring circuitry receives and processes the output data sets to identify changes between the output data sets. The data monitoring circuitry generates a consistency score based on the changes that indicates a similarity level between the output data sets. The data monitoring circuitry determines when the consistency score exceeds a threshold value. When the consistency score exceeds the threshold value, the data monitoring circuitry generates and transfers an alert that indicates ones of the output data sets that exceeded the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Data Culpa, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Patent number: 11914031
    Abstract: A mount for securing an element such as a radar transceiver on a vehicle includes a bracket securable to a vehicle bumper or other component. A cover plate is securable to the vehicle component opposite the bracket, and fasteners are extended through the cover plate and the bracket to clamp the bracket and the cover plate against opposite sides of the vehicle component, with the radar transceiver or other element located between the cover plate and a base of the bracket. An alignment arrangement may be included to permit changes to the positioning of the radar transceiver or other element between the cover plate and the base of the bracket for proper transceiver alignment. A process of securing a radar transceiver or other element on a vehicle is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Bendix Commercial Vehicle Systems LLC
    Inventors: Stephen J. Mitchell, Robert J. Custer
  • Patent number: 11913584
    Abstract: A cut warning system can include a valve sleeve defining a cavity, the valve sleeve defining a bottom sealing surface within the cavity; a pipeline extending through the cavity; a drilling machine including a shell cutter, the shell cutter defining a bottom edge, the drilling machine configured to axially advance the shell cutter from a pre-engagement position towards the bottom sealing surface, the pipeline positioned between the shell cutter and the bottom sealing surface in the pre-engagement position; and a signaling element positioned within the cavity, the signaling element configured to produce a signal when the shell cutter reaches a post-engagement position, the bottom edge being axially positioned between the pipeline and the bottom sealing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Mueller International, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy J. Mitchell, Samantha Ellen Covington, David Latimore Hughes, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20240050908
    Abstract: Provided are scalable, parallelized microfluidic chips that include arrays of microfluidic mixing channels for large-scale production of lipid nanoparticles, among other products. The disclosed chips can operate with a single set of inlets and outlet, and achieve production rates in excess of those achieved by existing methods. The disclosed devices provide large-scale production of formulations while still maintaining the physical properties and potency typical of existing methods of producing such formulations. Also provided are related methods of using the disclosed devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Michael J. MITCHELL, David Aaron ISSADORE, Sagar Prasad YADAVALI, Sarah J. SHEPHERD
  • Patent number: 11874725
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to indicate when errors occur in a data pipeline. In some examples, data monitoring circuitry monitors the operations of a data pipeline. The data monitoring circuitry ingests an output data set generated by the pipeline, compares the output data set to an expected output, identifies differences between the output data set and the expected output, and determines when the magnitude of the difference exceeds an error threshold. When the error threshold is exceeded, the data monitoring circuitry generates a graphical representation of the output data set, a graphical representation of the expected pipeline output, and an animated transition from the graphical representation of the expected pipeline output to the graphical representation of the output data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Data Culpa, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20240005605
    Abstract: Visually seamless grafting of volumetric data. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining volumetric data that represents a first volume including one or more three-dimensional objects. Planar slices of the first volume are determined and for each planar slice, a result region and an outer region are determined, the outer region located between the result region and an edge of the planar slice. A target region is determined within the result region and adjacent to an edge of the result region. The result region is modified by updating source voxels in the target region based on corresponding continuity voxels in the outer region, and the updating is weighted based on a distance of each source voxel from an associated edge of the result region. The modified result regions are grafted to a second volume at the edge of the result regions to provide a grafted volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Applicant: Roblox Corporation
    Inventor: Kenneth J. MITCHELL
  • Patent number: 11847298
    Abstract: Provided is an electric arc generation system comprising a robot, an electric arc torch attached to the robot, a power supply configured to provide an electrical power output to the torch, and a user interface for adjusting a plurality of power supply parameters. The user interface comprises a display. The system includes a processor configured to receive respective settings of the plurality of power supply parameters, and configured to analyze the settings of the plurality of power supply parameters and control the display to display a pictograph warning associated with a current parameter setting, based on a result of analyzing the settings of the plurality of power supply parameters. Said pictograph warning graphically indicates an adjustment direction for the current parameter setting. The processor is configured to automatically adjust one or more of the settings of the plurality of power supply parameters based on a predetermined operating angle of the torch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: LINCOLN GLOBAL, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Albright, Bruce J. Chantry, Levi J. Mitchell, Lance F. Guymon, Daniel J. Spieker
  • Publication number: 20230399826
    Abstract: A nozzle cap for a hydrant can include an inner cap securably engageable with a nozzle of the hydrant, the nozzle configured to connect a fire hose to the hydrant; a communications hub positioned adjacent to the inner cap; and a plug plugging an opening defined in the inner cap and securably engaged with the inner cap, the plug including a material that allows transmission of a wireless signal through the material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Haedoo Choi, Timothy J. Mitchell, Rachel Rifenberg, Christopher Joseph Duckett, Justin Blaine Childress, Emil Simion, Diego Aguilera
  • Publication number: 20230390918
    Abstract: A method of programming multiple weld passes in a collaborative robot welding system to perform multi-pass welding is provided. A root pass is programmed for a first weld seam by manually positioning a welding torch and automatically recording root pass position and angle data. Secondary passes for the first weld seam are also programmed. The tip of the welding torch is positioned at a start point and a stop point for each secondary pass. The start and stop position data of the start point and the stop point are automatically recorded for each secondary pass. Numerical position and angle offset data are automatically calculated. The root pass position and angle data and the offset data are stored as a multi-pass template. The template is translated and applied to a weld reference frame of a second weld seam to aid in programming secondary passes for the second weld seam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Levi J. Mitchell, Zachary A. Christy
  • Publication number: 20230390927
    Abstract: A method of correcting angles of a welding torch positioned by a user while training a robot of a robotic welding system is provided. Weldment depth data of a weldment and a corresponding weld seam is acquired and 3D point cloud data is generated. 3D plane and intersection data is generated from the 3D point cloud data, representing the weldment and weld seam. User-placed 3D torch position and orientation data for a recorded weld point along the weld seam is imported. A torch push angle and a torch work angle are calculated for the recorded weld point, with respect to the weldment and weld seam, based on the user-placed torch position and orientation data and the 3D plane and intersection data. The torch push angle and the torch work angle are corrected for the recorded weld point based on pre-stored ideal angles for the weld seam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Zachary A. Christy, Levi J. Mitchell
  • Patent number: 11829365
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a data monitoring system that monitors the operations of a data pipeline. The data monitoring system receives a call from the data pipeline to ingest unprocessed data. The data monitoring system generates metadata based on the unprocessed data and responsively computes expected data outputs. The data monitoring system receives a call from the data pipeline to ingest processed data that comprises actual data outputs generated by the data pipeline. The data monitoring system generates output metadata based on the processed data. The data monitoring system compares the metadata for the expected data outputs with the output metadata for the actual data outputs and determines when the expected data outputs do not align with the actual data outputs. When the expected data outputs do not align with the actual data outputs, the data monitoring system generates and transfers an alert signifying the non-alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Data Culpa, Inc.
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230367932
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present technology relate to data monitoring systems to generate multi-layered histograms. In some examples, the data monitoring system comprises a computing device that stores an executable modeling component. The modeling component, in response to execution, reads a data record associated with a data pipeline and models the data record as a histogram. The histogram comprises histogram buckets that categorize data values of the data record. The modeling component scans the histogram buckets and determines when a proportion of the data values assigned to one of the histogram buckets exceeds a threshold value. When the threshold value is triggered, the modeling component models the data values assigned to the exceeding histogram bucket as a subsidiary histogram. The subsidiary histogram comprises subsidiary histogram buckets that categorize the data values assigned to that histogram bucket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230362132
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software are included herein to manage domain name system (DNS) requests to DNS servers. In one implementation, a computing device joins a local network and identifies a connection to a first DNS server associated with the local network. The computing device further implements first DNS rules based on the connection to the first server and monitors when a second DNS server is available using the local network. When the second DNS server becomes available, the computing device implements second DNS rules in place of the first DNS rules, wherein the second DNS rules direct DNS requests to the second DNS server in place of the first DNS server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: David J. Mitchell, Paul C. van Gool
  • Patent number: 11812290
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for using a machine learning model(s) and/or artificial intelligence algorithm(s) to optimize testing of components of a system operated by a wireless carrier. For example, data generated as a result of executing a first test of a suite of tests may be provided as input to a trained machine learning model(s) to classify one or more tests of the suite of tests as having a particular characteristic. A to-be-executed test may be classified as likely to pass or likely to fail when executed, for example. An already-executed test may be classified as reliable or unreliable, as another example. Based on the classification of the test(s), the suite of tests may be modified to optimize testing of the wireless carrier's system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter P. Myron, Michael J. Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20230342281
    Abstract: Various embodiments comprise systems and methods for operating a data monitoring system to branch data models. In some examples, a data monitoring system maintains a series of models for a data stream. The data monitoring system adds a reference pointer to a position in the series of models. The data monitoring system generates a set of branch models for the data stream and appends the set of branch models to the series of models at the reference pointer. The data monitoring system compares ones of the set of branch models with corresponding ones of the series of models and generates test results based on the comparison. The data monitoring system reports the test results.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventor: J. Mitchell Haile
  • Publication number: 20230344185
    Abstract: A method, system and computer program product are provided for automated insertion of a wire contact into an insertion hole of a connector. Methods include: controlling a robot having an end-effector to position a wire contact proximate to a connector using a wire gripper and a separator device of the end-effector; controlling the robot to advance the separator device between two or more wires previously connected to the connector; controlling the robot to align the wire contact with a insertion hole of the connector; controlling the robot to advance the wire contact toward the insertion hole of the connector and at least partially insert the wire contact into the insertion hole; controlling the robot to release the wire contact from the wire gripper; and controlling the robot to withdraw the wire gripper and the separator device from between the two or more wires previously connected to the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Lars E. BLACKEN, Heiko HOFFMANN, Damien O. MARTIN, Jeffrey MCCASKEY, Bradley J. MITCHELL