Patents by Inventor James An

James An 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: 11857081
    Abstract: A load bearing surface includes a woven fabric surface and a carrier (18) overmolded onto the fabric surface. Portions of the woven fabric are bonded to the carriers (18) o as to remain fixed relative to the carrier during normal loading conditions and during abnormally high loading conditions. Other portions (14) of the woven fabric are bonded to the carrier so as to remain fixed relative to the carrier during normal loading conditions and to move or slip within the carrier, or to rupture, during abnormally high loading conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Martin Oomen, Randy James Sayers, Manfred Mueller
  • Patent number: 11859434
    Abstract: A door hinge assembly includes a hinge plate including: (i) an inner portion adapted to be connected to an associated structure; and, (ii) an outer portion adapted for pivoting connection of an associated door thereto. The hinge assembly also includes a damper system with a damper connected to one of: (i) the hinge plate; (ii) the associated door. The damper is adapted to be activated by pivoting movement of the associated door in a closing direction toward a closed position of the associated door such that said damper slows movement of the associated door toward the closed position when the damper is activated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Mansfield Engineered Components, LLC
    Inventors: James J. Collene, Brian S. White
  • Patent number: 11859935
    Abstract: A linear encoder may be used to accurately determine a number of cartridges within a magazine. Further, using a set of magnetic sensors within a buffer tube of a firearm, it is possible to determine whether a cartridge is loaded within a chamber of the weapon and/or whether the firearm is jammed. The determination of cartridges within the magazine in conjunction with the determination of whether a cartridge is in a chamber of a firearm can give a user an accurate ammunition count. Further, the use of the linear encoder makes it possible to accurately determine the cartridge count when different cartridges are loaded into the magazine or when the magazine degrades in quality over time. Moreover, the ability for magazines to communicate with a firearm enables a user to determine a total available ammunition to the user in a single display without individually checking each magazine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Maztech Industries, LLC
    Inventors: David Michael Masarik, Michael Raymond Masarik, Matthew James Masarik
  • Patent number: 11864295
    Abstract: Front end systems and related devices, integrated circuits, modules, and methods are disclosed. One such packaged module includes a multi-mode power amplifier circuit in an interior of a radio frequency shielding structure and an antenna external to the radio frequency shielding structure. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit includes a stacked output stage including a transistor stack of two or more transistors. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit also includes a bias circuit configured to control a bias of at least one transistor of the transistor stack based on a mode of the multi-mode power amplifier circuit. The radio frequency shielding structure can extend above a package substrate. The antenna can be on the package substrate. Other embodiments of front end systems are disclosed, along with related devices, integrated circuits, modules, methods, and components thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Yasser Khairat Soliman, Hoang Mong Nguyen, Anthony James LoBianco, Gregory Edward Babcock, Darren Roger Frenette, George Khoury, René Rodríguez, Leslie Paul Wallis
  • Patent number: 11859293
    Abstract: Methods to partially decrease reflectivities of at least two regions on a mirror platform relative to a reflectivity of a third region are taught. A first region is defined on a surface of the mirror platform. The first region is a media display device viewing area. A second region is defined on the surface of the mirror platform. The second region is a back lit area. A first material is selectively disposed onto a rear surface of the mirror platform outside of the first region and outside of the second region. The first material increases the reflectivity of the mirror platform outside of the first region and outside of the second region. When the mirror platform is viewed from a front side a reflectivity of a third region, which is outside of the first region and outside of the second region, is greater than a reflectivity of either the first region or the second region; and a reflectivity of the first region is different than a reflectivity of the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: ELECTRIC MIRROR, LLC
    Inventors: James V. Mischel, Jr., James V. Mischel, Sr.
  • Patent number: 11862871
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for a digital beamformed phased array feed. The system may include a radome configured to allow electromagnetic waves to propagate; a multi-band software defined antenna array tile; a power and clock management subsystem configured to manage power and time of operation; a thermal management subsystem configured to dissipate heat generated by the multi-band software defined antenna array tile; and an enclosure assembly. The multi-band software defined antenna array tile may include a plurality of coupled dipole array antenna elements; a plurality of frequency converters; and a plurality of digital beamformers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BlueHalo, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Pace, David Gregory Baur, Theodore Lyman Schuler-Sandy, William Kennedy, Jeffrey Gerard Micono, William Louis Walker, Garrett James Newell
  • Patent number: 11860613
    Abstract: A computer aided process for creation of a manufacturing facility, for production of a user-selected product, relies on a set of functional modules for specification of the facility's floorspace requirements, manufacturing equipment, and equipment layout to allow optimization of the facility for a production capacity specified by the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Zero Electric Vehicles Corp.
    Inventors: James L Maury, Damon Kuhn, Ted Post
  • Patent number: 11861982
    Abstract: A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. The gaming system can include electronic gaming machines that are compatible to receive both virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that are redeemable for credits on the electronic gaming machines. Information associated with a virtual ticket voucher can be stored on a patron-controlled portable electronic device and then can be wireless transmitted to the electronic gaming machines. The electronic gaming machines can be configured to issue virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that can be redeemed for cash or additional game play on another electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, the electronic gaming machine can be configured to issue a virtual ticket voucher to a patron-controlled portable electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: IGT
    Inventors: Dwayne R. Nelson, Steven G. LeMay, James A. Vasquez, Scott T. Gowin
  • Patent number: 11859549
    Abstract: A thermodynamic apparatus (10) comprising a compressor module (100), a turbine module (200), and a regenerative heat exchanger (300) centred on a central axis (12). The compressor module (100), turbine module (200) and regenerative heat exchanger (300) are arranged in series along the central axis (12) such that the regenerative heat exchanger (300) is provided between the compressor module (100) and the turbine module (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS PLC
    Inventor: James William Spain
  • Patent number: 11861649
    Abstract: Techniques and arrangements for concurrent processing of payments to multiple merchants in a shared program are described. A method, performed by a service computing device, can include receiving customer information associated with two transactions of a customer with two respective merchants that are in a shared program. Accrued benefits of the customer for conducting the two transactions in accordance with the program can be determined. The accrued benefits can be communicated to the customer via a customer device. The payments for both transactions can be processed, concurrently, in accordance with the accrued benefits. In examples, the merchants may be associated in the shared program based on locations of the merchants, a type of merchant, and/or goods or services offered for sale by the merchants.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Yongxue Qi, John Berian James, Amrik Kochhar
  • Patent number: 11858719
    Abstract: Consistent with embodiments of the invention, a cable package may be provided. The cable package may comprise a cable and a chamber. The cable may comprise a winding and at least one free end. The chamber may define an internal volume containing the cable. The chamber may comprise a continuous opening. The continuous opening may comprise at least one surface arranged to apply pressure to a portion of the cable located proximate to the continuous opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Southwire Company, LLC
    Inventors: Juan Alberto Galindo Gonzalez, Richard Mike Temblador, Laurentiu Dan Dragomir, Allan W. Daniel, James Phillip Tuggle
  • Patent number: 11860061
    Abstract: A track component for use with a track assembly includes a gyro sensor that monitors a track wrap angle of the track chain assembly about the idler wheel, or the drive sprocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventor: Eric James Johannsen
  • Patent number: 11863550
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for data aggregation using a limited-use code. An apparatus includes a message module configured to intercept a message comprising a limited-use code. A message may be sent from a third-party server and intended for a user of a hardware device. A limited-use code may be used to verify an identity of a user for access to a third-party server. An apparatus includes a parse module configured to parse a message to determine a limited-use code. An apparatus includes a submission module configured to provide a limited-use code to a third-party server without user input. An apparatus includes an authorization module configured to prompt a user for authorization prior to intercepting a message, parsing the message for a limited-use code, and providing the limited-use code to a third-party server without user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: MX TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: John Ryan Caldwell, James Dotter
  • Patent number: 11864304
    Abstract: An electronic device may include electrical components and other components mounted within an interior of a housing. The device may have a display on a front face of the device and may have a glass layer that forms part of the housing on a rear face of the device. The glass layer may be provided with regions having different appearances. The regions may be textured, may have coatings such as thin-film interference filter coatings formed from stacks of dielectric material having alternating indices of refraction, may have metal coating layers, and/or may have ink coating layers. Textured surfaces may be formed on thin glass layers and polymer films that are coupled to the glass layer. A glass layer may be formed from a pair of coupled glass layers. The coupled layers may have one or more recesses or other structures to visually distinguish different regions of the glass layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: James R. Wilson, Christopher D. Prest, Marta M. Giachino, Matthew S. Rogers, Que Anh S. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 11861294
    Abstract: In a method for passively relating data to metadata, associations that relate data in a first database to metadata in a second database are received, wherein an association links the data to the metadata, wherein the data is for use in a software application, and wherein the associations are created automatically without user interaction. A visual clue is displayed in a graphical interface of the software application, wherein the visual clue corresponds to a visual representation of the data, and wherein the visual clue is created based on the metadata and the associations. The metadata corresponding to the visual clue is searched for in response to detecting a user interaction with the visual clue. A first portion of the metadata related to the data is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Embarcadero Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James B. Pitts, Michael L. Swindell
  • Patent number: 11858918
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides GLP-1R agonists, and compositions, methods, and kits thereof. Such compounds are generally useful for treating a GLP-1R mediated disease or condition in a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.
    Inventors: Megan K. Armstrong, James S. Cassidy, Elbert Chin, Chienhung Chou, Jeromy J. Cottell, Chao-I Hung, Kavoos Kolahdouzan, David W. Lin, Michael L. Mitchell, Ezra Roberts, Scott D. Schroeder, Nathan D. Shapiro, James G. Taylor, Rhiannon Thomas-Tran, Nathan E. Wright, Zheng-Yu Yang
  • Patent number: 11862145
    Abstract: A method for processing multi-modal input includes receiving multiple signal inputs, each signal input having a corresponding input mode. Each signal input is processed in a series of mode-specific processing stages. Each successive mode-specific stage is associated with a successively longer scale of analysis of the signal input. A fused output is generated based on the output of a series of fused processing stages. Each successive fused processing stage is associated with a successively longer scale of analysis of the signal input. Multiple fused processing stages receive inputs from corresponding mode-specific processing stages, so that the fused output depends on the multiple of signal inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Behavioral Signal Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Efthymis Georgiou, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, James Gibson, Alexandros Potamianos, Shrikanth Narayanan
  • Patent number: 11859519
    Abstract: An engine brake rocker arm assembly for a valvetrain and operable in an engine drive mode and an engine braking mode. The assembly is configured to selectively open one of first and second exhaust valves in the engine braking mode and includes a brake rocker arm configured to rotate about a rocker shaft, and an engine brake capsule assembly movable between (i) a locked position configured to perform an engine braking operation, and (ii) an unlocked position that does not perform the engine braking operation. A lash setting tool is configured to removably engage the engine brake capsule assembly and move the engine brake capsule to the locked position to enable mechanical lash adjustment while the brake rocker arm is assembled in a valvetrain and the engine brake capsule is assembled in the brake rocker arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: James R. Sheren, Andrei Radulescu
  • Patent number: 11857640
    Abstract: Recombinant adenoviral vectors, immunogenic compositions thereof and their use in medicine, and methods for generating recombinant adenoviral vectors are provided. In particular, the an adenovirus vector having a capsid derived from chimpanzee adenovirus AdY25, wherein the capsid encapsidates a nucleic acid molecule comprising an exogeneous nucleotide sequence of interest are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Oxford University Innovation Limited
    Inventors: Matthew Douglas James Dicks, Matthew Guy Cottingham, Adrian Vivian Sinton Hill, Sarah Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11862940
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus for generating fiber delivered laser-induced white light. The apparatus includes a package case enclosing a board member with an electrical connector through a cover member and a laser module configured to the board member inside the package case. The laser module comprises a support member, at least one laser diode device configured to emit a laser light of a first wavelength, a set of optics to guide the laser light towards an output port. Additionally, the apparatus includes a fiber assembly configured to receive the laser light from the output port for further delivering to a light head member disposed in a remote destination. A phosphor material disposed in the light head member receives the laser light exited from the fiber assembly to induce a phosphor emission of a second wavelength for producing a white light emission substantially reflected therefrom for various applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: KYOCERA SLD Laser, Inc.
    Inventors: Oscar Romero, Jim Harrison, Eric Goutain, James W. Raring, Paul Rudy, Daming Liu