Patents by Inventor John Maxwell

John Maxwell 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: 12251705
    Abstract: A food recycler can include a bucket with a certain configuration for processing waste food. A bucket includes an interior surface having thereon a set of projections. A grinding mechanism includes a first arm connected to a rotational member, the first arm having a first distal end adjacent to the interior surface of the bucket and that has notches that are complementary to the projections. A second arm has a second distal end also having notches complementary to projections. Waste food is processed with the grinding mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Food Cycle Science Corporation
    Inventors: Timothy John Maxwell, Meng Wang, Bradley Crepeau
  • Publication number: 20250082502
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein relate to devices and systems for use in ophthalmic procedures. In some embodiments, a handpiece device for use with a surgical system is provided. The handpiece device includes a housing, a cable assembly, and a tapered optical fiber. The cable assembly is disposed through a distal end of the housing and optically coupled to the tapered optical fiber. The tapered optical fiber has a diameter that decreases between a proximal end of the tapered optical fiber and a distal end thereof. In some embodiments, the tapered optical fiber comprises a single-crystal fiber. In further embodiments, the tapered optical fiber comprises a tapered sapphire core fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: John Morgan BOURNE, Gisele MAXWELL, Mikhail OVCHINNIKOV, Adela APOSTOL
  • Patent number: 12248555
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and software products provide increased trust in authentication of a user to an authentication server when a trusted witness client device witnesses the authentication of the user on the user's root client device. Both the root and the witness client devices cooperate to present the user with an interactive task during the authentications and each client device independently captures movement of the user performing the interactive task, during which, the user is authenticated to the root client device. An increased level of trust in the authentication of the user is achieved by the authentication server when the captured movements match expected movements of the user performing the interactive task and the authentication server has proof that the witness client devices witnessed a successful authentication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: ORCHID AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS INC.
    Inventors: John N. Irwin, III, Priscilla Babb, R. Maxwell Flaherty, J. Christopher Flaherty
  • Publication number: 20250068194
    Abstract: Systems and techniques are described for monitoring energy use habits of consumers. In some implementations, a method includes obtaining temperature data from a monitored property. An energy model of the monitored property is generated based on the obtained temperature data. The current temperature data is obtained from the monitored property. The current temperature data is provided to the generated energy model to generate a duty-cycle for turning an HVAC system of the monitored property off an on during the on-peak hours. The HVAC system of the monitored property is instructed to cycle off and on during the on-peak hours based on the generated duty-cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Lawrence Reeder, Caspar John Anderegg, Gustaf Nicolaus Maxwell Lonaeus, William Converse Blanchard, Jean-Paul Martin, Benjamin Michael Machlin
  • Patent number: 12232567
    Abstract: A shoe has an upper with a foot receiving shoe opening. A heel counter is located at a rear portion of the upper and includes a rigid heel cup. The heel cup has a lower portion, a midportion, and an upper portion having a curvature extending from a top edge of the heel cup and that is curved downward towards the shoe opening. On a vertical cross-section, the heel cup has a S wave shape. A compressible layer is located along an inner wall of the heel cup and is configured to curve around a portion of a user's ankle above the user's heel once donned. The compressible layer may be compressed during donning of the shoe and may at least partially expand to secure the foot within the shoe once donned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank F Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Patent number: 12213558
    Abstract: An article of footwear includes a heel counter support situated on the upper and above the sole structure. The heel counter support may have at least two hollow receptacles with backward angles, a compressible component having two ends, and each one of the two hollow receptacles receives one end of the compressible component. The compressible component may have a first configuration and may be capable of distorting into a second configuration under a load of a user's foot when the user is donning the footwear. The compressible component may be capable of automatically returning to the first configuration after the user's foot in fully inserted into the footwear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Publication number: 20250032745
    Abstract: The invention relates to a breathing assistance apparatus that may be configured to reduce the risk of damage to electronics within the apparatus as a result of liquid leaks within the apparatus or impacts to the apparatus. In other forms, the apparatus may be configured to allow for easy assembly and/or safe operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Douglas Richard Wright, Peter Lawrence Grylls, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Philip John Dickinson, Yi-Cheng Sun, Silvan Terence Butler, Sergiu Constantin Filip, Samuel William Saunders, Andrew Martin Letton
  • Publication number: 20250022319
    Abstract: A communication system may include a communication device configured to receive a video stream including sign language content and any content indicators associated with the video stream during a real-time communication session within a single communication device or between a plurality of communication devices. The communication system may also include a translation engine configured to automatically translate the sign language content into word content during the real-time communication session without assistance of a human sign language interpreter. Further, the communication system may be configured to output the word content translation to a communication device during the real-time communication session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: John Carlock, Conrad Maxwell
  • Patent number: 12171723
    Abstract: Systems and methods for making and delivering personalized, medically prescribed pharmaceuticals to an individual patient are described. Individual unit doses (IUDs) of medicine may be prepared specific to the individual in need of same, by using a system, which includes a networked control system in combination with manufacturing assemblies specific to the IUDs and delivering the medicine to the patient directly from the manufacturer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Mark Schobel, Keith Kendall, Dan Barber, Theresa Wood, Peter Boyd, John Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20240415232
    Abstract: The shoe includes a sole and an upper including a layer of elastic material positioned to stretch and create tension that enhances securement of a foot inserted into the shoe. The shoe includes a heel cup having polymer material, affixed to the sole and upper, and having an upper portion, a midportion, and a lower portion. In a first configuration, the upper portion has a downward incline with a first angle relative to a vertical line, and the upper portion is capable of distorting into a second configuration under a load of the foot when donning the shoe. In the second configuration, the upper portion has a downward incline with a second angle relative to the vertical line, the second angle being greater than the first angle. An interior foam layer is adjacent to an interior wall of the upper portion, is compressible, and extends into the shoe opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SKECHERS U.S.A., Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Publication number: 20240415233
    Abstract: The shoe includes a sole and an upper including at least one layer of elastic material positioned to stretch and create tension that enhances securement of a foot inserted into the shoe. The shoe includes a heel cup with thermoplastic elastomer material. The heel cup is affixed to the sole and upper and includes an upper portion, a midportion, and a lower portion. The heel cup includes enhanced flexibility regions oriented vertically along its rearmost portion. The shoe includes an interior foam layer with EVA and/or polyurethane foam and that is bonded to an interior wall of the upper portion of the heel cup. The interior foam layer is compressible and extends into the shoe opening, providing securement of the foot once inserted. The interior foam layer is covered by an elastic textile having wicking properties, the elastic textile form fitted to the shape of the interior foam layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SKECHERS U.S.A., Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Publication number: 20240415234
    Abstract: The shoe includes a sole and an upper including at least one layer of elastic material positioned to stretch and create tension that enhances securement of a foot inserted into the shoe. The shoe includes a heel cup with polymer material, the heel cup affixed to the sole and upper, and the heel cup includes an upper portion, a midportion, and a lower portion. The shoe includes an interior foam layer adjacent to at least an interior wall of the upper portion of the heel cup, the interior foam layer being compressible, and the interior foam layer extends into the shoe opening, providing securement of the foot once inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Applicant: SKECHERS U.S.A., Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Patent number: 12163647
    Abstract: A light-emitting system (1000) removably attachable to headgear is provided, which comprises: a form factor (1010) configured to surround a portion of the headgear when the light-emitting system (1000) is removably attached to the headgear for use; a plurality of halo lighting elements (1100) configured to selectively generate at least a partial halo of light that radiates outwardly away from the light-emitting system; and at least one task lighting element (1120) aligned in a direction along a task light axis (1130) that is fixed and oriented downwardly at an oblique angle (?) relative to a transverse plane (TP) of the light-emitting system (1000), the at least one task lighting element (1120) being configured to selectively generate flood task lighting in an area in front of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Illumagear, Inc.
    Inventors: Chris Doughty, John Maxwell Baker, Jedediah Joaquin McCann, Joshua Robert Buesseler
  • Publication number: 20240398066
    Abstract: The article of footwear further includes a heel cup attached to the upper and extending from the sole structure to at least a portion of the rear heel collar of upper. Additionally, the heel cup is uniformly molded with an upper portion, midportion, and lower portion and the upper portion has a smaller mediolateral length than the midportion, and the midportion and lower portion form a concave structure configured to receive the heel. The midportion includes a peripheral portion having a first thickness and a central portion having a second thickness, and the second thickness is less than the first thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: SKECHERS U.S.A. Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank F. Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Publication number: 20240381977
    Abstract: A shoe includes a heel counter with a heel cup. The heel cup may be uniformly molded with an upper portion, midportion, and a lower portion. The upper portion has a smaller mediolateral length than the midportion, and a thickness of the heel cup decreases from a peripheral portion of the heel cup toward a central region of the midportion. The central region of the midportion provides flexibility of the heel cup, and the rearmost portion of the heel cup has an overall vertical S wave cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Applicant: SKECHERS U.S.A. Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank F. Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Publication number: 20240324726
    Abstract: The article of footwear further includes a heel cup attached to the upper and extending from the sole structure to at least a portion of the rear heel collar of upper. Additionally, the heel cup is uniformly molded with an upper portion, midportion, and lower portion and the upper portion has a smaller mediolateral length than the midportion, and the midportion and lower portion form a concave structure configured to receive the heel. The midportion includes a peripheral portion having a first thickness and a central portion having a second thickness, and the second thickness is less than the first thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: SKECHERS U.S.A. Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank F Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Publication number: 20240277114
    Abstract: A shoe includes a sole and an upper having a heel counter with a heel cup. The upper includes a foot receiving shoe opening. The heel cup is uniformly molded with an upper portion, midportion, and lower portion. On a vertical cross-section, the heel cup has a S wave shape and a thickness of the heel cup decreases gradually from a peripheral portion of the heel cup toward a central region of the heel cup. The heel cup is attached to an interior compressible layer, and the compressible layer extends into the shoe opening. The compressible layer may be compressed by a user's foot during insertion or removal of the user's foot, and may at least partially expand to hold an ankle of the user's foot once the foot is inserted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: SKECHERS U.S.A. Inc. II
    Inventors: John Maxwell Weeks, Scott Kelley, Frank F. Chuang, Pei-Chun Liao, Johnson Tja, Hui Xie, Kurt Stockbridge
  • Patent number: D1043067
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II
    Inventor: John Maxwell Weeks
  • Patent number: D1046403
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Skechers U.S.A., Inc. II
    Inventor: John Maxwell Weeks
  • Patent number: D1064166
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Raytheon Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: John Maxwell Connolly, Carter K. McCormick