Patents by Inventor John A. Miller

John A. 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).

  • Publication number: 20240136152
    Abstract: A nanosecond pulser system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the nanosecond pulser system may include a nanosecond pulser having a nanosecond pulser input; a plurality of switches coupled with the nanosecond pulser input; one or more transformers coupled with the plurality of switches; and an output coupled with the one or more transformers and providing a high voltage waveform with a amplitude greater than 2 kV and a frequency greater than 1 kHz based on the nanosecond pulser input. The nanosecond pulser system may also include a control module coupled with the nanosecond pulser input; and an control system coupled with the nanosecond pulser at a point between the transformer and the output, the control system providing waveform data regarding an high voltage waveform produced at the point between the transformer and the output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kenneth Miller, John Carscadden, Ilia Slobodov, Timothy Ziemba, Huatsern Yeager, Eric Hanson, TaiSheng Yeager, Kevin Muggli, Morgan Quinley, James Prager, Connor Liston
  • Patent number: 11967036
    Abstract: A system for dynamic registration of autonomy using augmented reality can include an augmented reality system, an imaging system, a measuring system, and a computer system. The augmented reality system can be configured to display an augmented representation. The imaging system can be configured to image an anatomical feature of the patient and can generate anatomical imaging data. The measuring system can be configured to measure an anatomical movement of the patient and can generate an anatomical movement data. The computer system can be configured to receive the anatomical imaging and positional data and the anatomical movement data, generate the augmented representation based on the anatomical imaging data, associate the augmented representation with the anatomical movement data, render the augmented representation on the augmented reality system, and selectively update the augmented representation based on the anatomical movement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIVIEW XR, INC.
    Inventors: John Black, Greg A. Miller, Mina S. Fahim, Glenn Raudins
  • Patent number: 11966383
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for maintaining contact information associated with a contact. In some embodiments a request associated with a contact may be received. Contact information may be obtained from one or more external or internal sources. One or more confidence scores may be generated for the obtained contact information and for one or more values received with the request. Based on the confidence score(s), one or more values associated with the contact may be incorporated in one or more data stores. In some embodiments, suggestions for contact related information may be generated or one or more data stores may be automatically updated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Interactive Media, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Lester, Justin Miller, Hendrick Lee, Aseem Sharma, Galen Trevor Gattis, Amber Dixon, Huy Tuan Nguyen, Derek McGowan, John McCrea
  • Publication number: 20240126537
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a method of computer software update in a managed network that includes endpoints having heterogenous operating systems. The method includes receiving a first update configured modify a first application on a first endpoint implementing a first non-Linux-based operating system (OS) and first metadata associated therewith. The method includes generating a first update package based on the first metadata and distributing the first update and the first update package to the first endpoint. The method includes accessing a product update list identifying a second application in an unpatched state on the second endpoint implementing a Linux-based OS and repository information of a repository device. Based on the repository information, the method includes accessing the second update and second metadata associated therewith. The method includes generating a second update package and distributing it and the second update such that the second endpoint locally implements the second update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Ivanti, Inc.
    Inventors: Brent Miller, Todd A. Schell, John Meisner, Amanda Schultz, Mitch Berg
  • Publication number: 20240121280
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices are disclosed for simulated choral audio chatter in communication systems. One method including: receiving audio data from each of a plurality of users participating in a first group of a plurality of groups for an event using a communication system; generating first simulated choral audio chatter based on the audio data received from each of the plurality of users in the first group; and providing the generated first simulated choral audio data to at least one user of a plurality of users of the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: John C. TANG, William Arthur Stewart BUXTON, Edward Sean Lloyd RINTEL, Amos MILLER, Andrew D. WILSON, Sasa JUNUZOVIC
  • Patent number: 11951218
    Abstract: A sterilization enclosure to be placed within a sterilizer, the sterilization enclosure defining an interior for accommodating at least one surgical instrument and maintaining sterility of the at least one surgical instrument after the sterilization enclosure is removed from the sterilizer. The enclosure comprising a light source and a transparent window. The light source to illuminate the interior and the transparent window positioned such that the interior and the at least one surgical instrument are visible through the transparent window. A process indicator that is either disposed within the interior or coupled to an external surface of the sterilization enclosure. The process indicator in fluid communication with the interior of the sterilization enclosure such that the process indicator is exposed to a sterilant agent disposed within the interior of the sterilization enclosure to measure a characteristic within the interior during a sterilization process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Bruce D. Henniges, Robert W. Childers, Erik Vaclav Chmelar, Adam W. Dudycha, Michael J. Miller, Ali Moaiery, Benjamin John Purrenhage
  • Patent number: 11951384
    Abstract: A system and method for motion capture to efficiently render in-game objects, including characters, and controlling animation of characters and non-player characters. In some embodiments, the motion capture includes a machine learning model that can take as inputs information about the hand pose of a person from multiple sensors over a period of time and generates a highly probable hand pose prediction from that information, based on what it learns from a previously captured dataset of high quality sample motion captures. The systems and methods described herein overcome the imprecision conventional optical marker pipelines for the case of finger movement, where the slightest imprecision yields results that are not good enough for production.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.
    Inventors: James Stuart Miller, Gustavo Eggert Boehs, Cory John Alderman, Adam De Oliveira
  • Patent number: 11946415
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine having a waste heat recovery system is provided. The gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section, and an exhaust section in serial flow order and together defining a core air flowpath, the exhaust section including a primary exhaust flowpath and a waste heat recovery flowpath parallel to the primary exhaust flowpath; and the waste heat recovery system includes a heat source exchanger positioned in thermal communication with a first portion of the waste heat recovery flowpath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey Douglas Rambo, Brandon Wayne Miller, William Joseph Bowden, Matthew Thomas Beyer, Michael John Simonetti
  • Patent number: 11950101
    Abstract: An embodiment includes a method to increase the efficiency of security checkpoint operations. A security checkpoint kiosk serves as a Relying Party System (RPS). The RPS establishes a secure local connection between the RPS and a User Mobile-Identification-Credential Device (UMD). The RPS sends a user information request to the UMD, via the secure local connection, seeking release of user information associated with a Mobile Identification Credential (MIC). The RPS obtains authentication of the user information received in response to the user information request. The RPS retrieves user travel information based on the user information. The RPS determines that the user travel information matches the user information. When the user travel information matches the user information, the RPS approves the user to proceed past the security checkpoint kiosk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haya Iris Villanueva Gaviola, Gianpaolo Fasoli, Vinay Ganesh, Irene M. Graff, Martijn Theo Haring, Ahmer A. Khan, Franck Farian Rakotomalala, Gordon Y. Scott, Ho Cheung Chung, Antonio Allen, Mayura Dhananjaya Deshpande, Thomas John Miller, Christopher Sharp, David W. Silver, Policarpo B. Wood, Ka Yang
  • Publication number: 20240104188
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to digital identification credential user interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Haya Iris VILLANUEVA GAVIOLA, Antonio A. ALLEN, Mayura D. DESHPANDE, Thomas John MILLER, Policarpo Bonilla WOOD, JR., Ho Cheung CHUNG, Gianpaolo FASOLI, Vinay GANESH, Irene M. GRAFF, Martijn Theo HARING, Ahmer A. KHAN, Franck Farian RAKOTOMALALA, Gordon SCOTT, Christopher SHARP, David W. SILVER, Ka YANG
  • Publication number: 20240105331
    Abstract: A medical diagnostic kit are described. In one example, a medical diagnostic kit includes a container, and a plurality of medical diagnostic test kits located within the container. Each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits can include equipment necessary to perform a particular self-administered medical diagnostic test. The plurality of medical diagnostic test kits can include at least a first medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a first medical diagnostic test and a second medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a second medical diagnostic test different from the first medical diagnostic test. The container can include a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Michael W. Ferro, Sam Miller, Colman Thomas Bryant, Zachary Carl Nienstedt, Marco Magistri, Adam Charles Carlson, Igor Javier Rodriguez, James Thomas Heising, John Ray Permenter
  • Publication number: 20240105156
    Abstract: The disclosed computer-implemented method may include applying, via a sound reproduction system, sound cancellation that reduces an amplitude of various sound signals. The method further includes identifying, among the sound signals, an external sound whose amplitude is to be reduced by the sound cancellation. The method then includes analyzing the identified external sound to determine whether the identified external sound is to be made audible to a user and, upon determining that the external sound is to be made audible to the user, the method includes modifying the sound cancellation so that the identified external sound is made audible to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Lovitt, Antonio John Miller, Philip Robinson, Scott Phillip Selfon
  • Patent number: 11939367
    Abstract: The present invention is based on the seminal discovery that BTLA agonist fusion proteins modulate an immune response. Specifically, the present invention provides fusion proteins that bind BTLA enhancing BTLA signaling. The present invention further provides methods of treating cancer and immune and inflammatory diseases and disorders with a BTLA agonist fusion protein as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, Pfizer Inc.
    Inventors: Carl F. Ware, John Sedy, Tigran Aivazian, Brian Miller, Natasha K. Crellin
  • Patent number: 11939152
    Abstract: Systems and methods for efficiently managing bulk material are provided. The disclosure is directed to a portable support structure used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material and output bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. The portable support structure may include a frame for receiving and holding the one or more portable bulk material containers in an elevated position proximate the blender hopper, as well as one or more gravity feed outlets for routing the bulk material from the containers directly into the blender hopper. In some embodiments, the portable support structure may be transported to the well site on a trailer, unloaded from the trailer, and positioned proximate the blender unit. In other embodiments, the portable support structure may be a mobile support structure that is integrated into a trailer unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas W. Hawkins, Bryan John Lewis, Tori H. Miller, Wesley John Warren, Austin Carl Schaffner, Glenn Ray Fowler, Bryan Chapman Lucas, Calvin L. Stegemoeller
  • Publication number: 20240095334
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying a user interface for sharing an account associated with a first user identity with a second user identity. The user interface includes a first sharing option and a second sharing option. One or more inputs corresponding to a request to share the account are detected. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the first sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a joint owner of the account is transmitted. If the one or more inputs include a selection of the second sharing option, a request to invite the second user identity to become a participant of the account without becoming a joint owner of the account is transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Mischa MCLACHLAN, Jennifer BAILEY, Steven EASTCOTT, Corey FUGMAN, Haya Iris VILLANUEVA GAVIOLA, Richard HEARD, Brian JETT, Katie MCINDOE, Thomas John MILLER, Ashish Chandrakant NAGRE, Rachel REDDY, Akila SURESH, Marcel VAN OS, Vinay VENKATESH, Nicole Marie WEAVER
  • Patent number: 11936145
    Abstract: A controlled impedance compressible electrical connector having a housing with at least one terminal receiving cavity which extends from a first surface of the housing to a second surface of the housing. A terminal assembly is positioned in each of the at least one terminal receiving cavities of the housing. The terminal assembly has a first fixed center terminal, a second movable center terminal, a fixed outer shell, a movable outer shell, and a resilient member. The terminal assembly is configured to allow impedance of the electrical connector to be maintained as the second movable center terminal and the movable outer shell are moved relative to the first fixed center terminal, the fixed outer shell and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Francis John Blasick, Denver Harley Wilson, Keith Edwin Miller
  • Patent number: 11935138
    Abstract: A recycling kiosk for recycling and financial remuneration for submission of an electronic device such as a mobile phone is disclosed herein. The recycling kiosk includes electrical connectors and an inspection area with an upper chamber, a lower chamber, a transparent plate and at least one camera in order to perform a visual analysis and an electrical analysis of the electronic device for determination of a value of the electronic device. The recycling kiosk also includes a processor and a display for user interaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: ecoATM, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Vincent Bowles, Thomas L. Tullie, John Andrew Beane, Jeff Ploetner, John Miller, Neil Vesco
  • Patent number: 11936196
    Abstract: A magnetic inductive resonance charging circuit includes a resonant network having an inductive secondary coil that converts a magnetic field received from an inductive primary coil into an alternating current (AC) signal and a synchronous rectifier that rectifies the AC signal to generate a direct current (DC) signal for application to a load. The synchronous rectifier includes a variety of configurations for shunting the AC waveform of an AC current source in the event of a fault. For example, a rectifier controller may hold a pair of normally open switches of the rectifier off and a pair of normally closed switches of the rectifier on to shunt the AC current source when an over-voltage, over-current fault condition or an over-temperature fault condition is detected. Configurations are provided for grounding the capacitive electromagnetic interference produced in the chassis of an electric vehicle when the resonant network is unbalanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: InductEV Inc.
    Inventor: John Miller Wolgemuth
  • Patent number: D1019950
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Axonics, Inc.
    Inventors: Prabodh Mathur, John Miller
  • Patent number: D1021929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan Hunter Depaola, Thomas John Miller, Allie Mikelle Perry, Matthew Cade Sanders