Patents by Inventor John Miller

John 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).

  • PERSONALIZED CALIBRATION OF AN IN-EAR DEVICE
    Publication number: 20220394398
    Abstract: An in-ear device occludes an ear canal of an ear of a user. The in-ear device is configured to be calibrated such that the user perceives audio content as though the in-ear device is not occluding the ear canal. A transducer of the in-ear device presents audio content, and an inner microphone of the in-ear device detects sound pressure data within the ear canal. A controller of the in-ear device determines a blocked sound pressure at the entrance to the ear canal based on sound pressure data from an outer microphone. The controller generates sound filters custom to the user based in part on the detected sound pressure within the ear canal and the blocked sound pressure at the entrance to the ear canal. The controller adjusts audio content using the sound filter, and the transducer presents the adjusted audio content to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Pablo Francisco Faundez Hoffmann, Antonio John Miller
  • DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIAL USER INTERFACES
    Publication number: 20220391482
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to digital identification credential user interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    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
  • DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION CREDENTIAL USER INTERFACES
    Publication number: 20220391481
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to digital identification credential user interfaces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    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
  • Audio system for dynamic determination of personalized acoustic transfer functions
    Patent number: 11523213
    Abstract: An eyewear device includes an audio system. In one embodiment, the audio system includes a microphone array that includes a plurality of acoustic sensors. Each acoustic sensor is configured to detect sounds within a local area surrounding the microphone array. For a plurality of the detected sounds, the audio system performs a direction of arrival (DoA) estimation. Based on parameters of the detected sound and/or the DoA estimation, the audio system may then generate or update one or more acoustic transfer functions unique to a user. The audio system may use the one or more acoustic transfer functions to generate audio content for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Ravish Mehra, Antonio John Miller, Vladimir Tourbabin
  • PRE-HARDENED STEEL COMPOSITION AND MACHINE PARTS MADE THEREWITH
    Publication number: 20220356551
    Abstract: A mud pump with components manufactured from high strength and toughness steel is disclosed. The mud pump includes a power end and a fluid end. The power end includes a motor, crankshaft rotationally engaged with the motor and a connecting rod rotationally engaged with the crank shaft. The fluid end includes a piston, a cylinder, a drilling fluid module, a discharge manifold, and a strainer cross. At least one of the plunger, the drilling fluid module, the discharge manifold, and the strainer cross has the following composition in weight percent: 0.25-0.55% carbon, 0.70-1.50% manganese, a maximum of 0.025% phosphorous, a maximum of 0.050% sulfur, a maximum of 0.80% silicon, 0.10-0.80% nickel, 1.40-2.20% chromium, 0.10-0.55% molybdenum, a maximum of 0.030% vanadium, a maximum of 0.35% copper, a maximum of 0.040% aluminum, a balance of iron, and incidental impurities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: A. Finkl & Sons Co.
    Inventors: Benjamin W. Ritchey, John A. Miller, Louis-Philippe Lapierre-Boire
  • USER INTERFACES FOR AN ELECTRONIC KEY
    Publication number: 20220332285
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to managing and using an electronic key. In some embodiments, the electronic key is utilized to cause a vehicle to unlock one or more doors of the vehicle when a computer system that includes the electronic key is positioned within a first threshold distance of the vehicle. In some embodiments, a user interface object associated with the electronic key is displayed in a first position of an accounts user interface when a computer system that includes the electronic key is positioned within a second threshold distance of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Matthew SANDERS, Mayura Dhananjaya DESHPANDE, Vitalii KRAMAR, Thomas John MILLER, Marcel VAN OS, Trevor W. YOUNG
  • SOLID STATE ELECTROLYTES
    Publication number: 20220336847
    Abstract: A product includes a solid state electrolyte particle coated with a coating consisting essentially of metal oxide. A method includes depositing a coating on a solid state electrolyte particle by atomic layer deposition. A method includes fabricating a product using a plurality of solid state electrolyte particles coated with a coating consisting essentially of metal oxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Jianchao Ye, Jose Ali Espitia, John Miller, Marissa Wood
  • HIGH PERFORMANCE TRANSPARENT PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCERS AS AN ADDITIONAL SOUND SOURCE FOR PERSONAL AUDIO DEVICES
    Publication number: 20220329933
    Abstract: An audio system comprises an array of transparent piezoelectric transducers on a transparent surface. Each transparent piezoelectric transducer includes one or more piezoelectric layers and one or more conductive layers that are substantially transparent to visible light. A transparent piezoelectric transducer may include, e.g., a first conductive layer, a first piezoelectric layer on the first conductive layer, and a second conductive layer on the first piezoelectric layer. Or in another example, the transparent piezoelectric transducer includes many (e.g., 20-30) piezoelectric layers and many (e.g., 20-30) conductive layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Chuming Zhao, Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Antonio John Miller
  • Personalized calibration of an in-ear device
    Patent number: 11470428
    Abstract: An in-ear device occludes an ear canal of an ear of a user. The in-ear device is configured to be calibrated such that the user perceives audio content as though the in-ear device is not occluding the ear canal. A transducer of the in-ear device presents audio content, and an inner microphone of the in-ear device detects sound pressure data within the ear canal. A controller of the in-ear device determines a blocked sound pressure at the entrance to the ear canal based on sound pressure data from an outer microphone. The controller generates sound filters custom to the user based in part on the detected sound pressure within the ear canal and the blocked sound pressure at the entrance to the ear canal. The controller adjusts audio content using the sound filter, and the transducer presents the adjusted audio content to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Pablo Francisco Faundez Hoffmann, Antonio John Miller
  • Adjustment of acoustic map and presented sound in artificial reality systems
    Patent number: 11470439
    Abstract: A headset generates an acoustic map that is a visual representation of sound pressure of sound within a local area. The acoustic map is displayed as a virtual object that is overlaid onto visual content being presented by the headset. Sound is adjusted in accordance with a command. The acoustic map is updated based on the adjusted sound, and the adjusted sound is presented and the updated acoustic map is presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Antonio John Miller, Vladimir Tourbabin
  • Sweetening compositions and processes for preparing them
    Patent number: 11464247
    Abstract: The invention relates to sweetening compositions obtained from the Luo Han Guo fruit, a member of the Cucurbiticeae family. The compositions are free of bitter-tasting impurities, have a light colour and contain about 16-75% mogroside V and about 30-95% total terpene glycosides on a dry weight basis. A filtered (0.2 ?m) solution of the composition in water with a solids content of 1% w/v has an absorbance at 420 nm of about 0.55 or below. Also disclosed is a method of preparing such compositions which includes a heating step to encourage the formation of melanoidins, highly coloured impurities, thereby permitting their removal by filtration providing a lighter coloured product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: GUILIN GFS MONK FRUIT CORP.
    Inventors: Rex Murray Lyndon, Christopher John Miller, Garth Selwyn Smith, Lan Fusheng
  • MINIATURE HIGH PERFORMANCE MEMS PIEZOELECTRIC TRANSDUCER
    Publication number: 20220321999
    Abstract: A dipole speaker assembly comprises a transducer section, a front volume section, and a rear volume section. The transducer section includes a frame and piezoelectric actuators coupled to the frame. The piezoelectric actuators are configured to generate an acoustic pressure wave. The transducer section includes a first side and a second side, the second side being opposite the first side. The front volume section is coupled to the first side to form a front cavity, the front volume section including an aperture from which the generated acoustic pressure wave exits the front volume section towards an ear canal of a user. The rear volume section is coupled to the second side to form a rear cavity. The generated acoustic pressure wave exiting the rear volume section cancels the generated acoustic pressure wave exiting the front volume section in the far field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Chuming Zhao, John Raymond Brodie, Rex Pinegar Price, Michael Smedegaard, Antonio John Miller, Tetsuro Oishi
  • COMPOUNDS USEFUL IN HIV THERAPY
    Publication number: 20220298160
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of Formulae (I)-(II), salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, as well as methods of treating or preventing HIV in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicants: GLAXOSMITHKLINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (NO.2) LIMITED, VIIV HEALTHCARE COMPANY
    Inventors: Martha Alicia DE LA ROSA, John MILLER, Lita S. SUWANDI, David TEMELKOFF, Emile Johann VELTHUISEN
  • MASON CONTAINER LID
    Publication number: 20220297905
    Abstract: A lid element for use with a canning container includes a centrally disposed domed portion, an annular channel portion disposed radially outwardly of the domed portion, and an annular peripheral portion disposed radially outwardly of the channel portion. The peripheral portion is configured to be axially aligned with a rim of the canning container about a circumference of the rim when the lid element is engaging the rim. The channel portion extends away from each of the domed portion and the peripheral portion with respect to an interior axial direction corresponding to an axial direction of the lid element towards the interior of the canning container when the lid element is engaging the rim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: John Miller, Daniel Miller, Matteo Rini, Lee Heilman, Lakin Phillips
  • Head-related transfer function determination using cartilage conduction
    Patent number: 11445318
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to calibrating head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) for a user of an audio system (e.g., as a component of a headset) using cartilage conducted sounds. A test sound is presented to a user using a transducer (e.g., cartilage conduction) and an audio signal is responsively received via a microphone at an entrance to the user's ear canal. The test sound and audio signal combination may be provided to an audio server where a model is used to determine one or more HRTFs for the user. Information describing the one or more HRTFs is provided to the audio system to be used for providing audio to the user. The audio server may also use a model to determine geometric information describing a pinna of the user based on the combination. In one embodiment, the geometric information is used to determine the one or more HRTFs for the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Vamsi Krishna Ithapu, Antonio John Miller
  • Merchandiser with sensing capabilities
    Patent number: 11419435
    Abstract: A merchandiser for storing refrigerated product for purchase by a customer is provided. The merchandiser includes a housing defining a cavity; an opening defined by the housing, the opening providing access to the cavity; a door coupled to the housing and movable between a first position and a second position, wherein the door covers the opening in the first position and the door is positioned away from the opening in the second position such that the cavity is accessible; a lock coupled to the door, the lock actuable between a locked position and an unlocked position, wherein the lock is configured to lock the door in the first position in the locked position; and a controller coupled to the lock, the controller configured to actuate the lock to the unlocked position in response to receiving an unlock signal from a remote device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Leer, Inc.
    Inventors: William M. Huffar, Karl E. Katuin, Michael A. Andrew, Stephen J. Dieter, Terry D. Matt, John A. Miller, Nicholas A. Truesdale
  • 4'-ETHYNYL-2'-DEOXYADENOSINE DERIVATIVES AND THEIR USE IN HIV THERAPY
    Publication number: 20220259252
    Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of Formulae (I) and (II), salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, as well as methods of treating or preventing HIV in subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicants: GLAXOSMITHKLINE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (NO.2) LIMITED, VIIV HEALTHCARE COMPANY
    Inventors: John MILLER, Vicente SAMANO, David TEMELKOFF, Emile Johann VELTHUISEN
  • FACE BASED PAYMENT SYSTEM AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220253862
    Abstract: A system for face-based payment includes two screens coupled together. One screen is configured to display a payment interface to a cashier. The other screen is configured to display a payment interface to a customer and to receive camera data indicative of the customer. One or more processors are configured to perform a facial recognition operation in response to receiving the camera data indicative of the customer and to perform a payment transaction in response to performing the facial recognition operation. The screens may be coupled to a transparent barrier positioned between the screens and that extends beyond the boundaries of the screens. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: John Miller, Sean Olson, Kourosh Gohar
  • IN-EAR DEVICE FOR BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING
    Publication number: 20220240802
    Abstract: A system provides blood pressure monitoring for a user. The system includes an in-ear device, a sensor, and a processor. The in-ear device includes in-ear electrodes that capture electrical signals of pulses of a user's heartbeat from within an ear canal of the user. The sensor captures sensor data indicating tissue movements caused by the user's heartbeat. The processor determines a time interval between a peak in an R wave in electrocardiogram (EKG) data generated using the electrical signals and a peak in a waveform representing the tissue movement generated using the sensor data. The processor determines a blood pressure level of the user using the time interval. The sensor may be located on the in-ear device, and may be a motion sensor, an acoustic sensor, or a photoplethysmogram (PPG) sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Morteza Khaleghimeybodi, Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner, Antonio John Miller
  • USER INTERFACES FOR SHARING AN ACCOUNT WITH ANOTHER USER IDENTITY
    Publication number: 20220245232
    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: August 5, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Mischa MCLACHLAN, Steven EASTCOTT, Brian JETT, Katie MCINDOE, Thomas John MILLER, Ashish Chandrakant NAGRE, Rachel REDDY, Marcel VAN OS, Vinay VENKATESH, Haya Iris VILLANUEVA GAVIOLA, Nicole Marie WEAVER