Patents by Inventor Joseph Michael
Joseph Michael 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).
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Patent number: 11442863Abstract: Data processing apparatuses and methods of processing data are disclosed. The operations comprise: storing copies of data items; and storing, in a producer pattern history table, a plurality of producer-consumer relationships, each defining an association between producer load indicator and a plurality of consumer load entries, each consumer load entry comprising a consumer load indicator and one or more usefulness metrics. Further steps comprise: initiating, in response to a data load from an address corresponding to the producer load indicator in the producer pattern history table and when at least one of the corresponding one or more usefulness meets a criterion, a producer prefetch of data to be prefetched for storing as a local copy; and issuing, when the data is returned, one or more consumer prefetches to return consumer data from a consumer address generated from the data returned by the producer prefetch and a consumer load indicator of a consumer load entry.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Arm LimitedInventors: Alexander Cole Shulyak, Adrian Montero, Joseph Michael Pusdesris, Karthik Sundaram, Yasuo Ishii
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Patent number: 11441703Abstract: An alignment tool for aligning first and second conduit sections at a connection colinearly along a longitudinal axis, wherein the first conduit section has a bell end at the connection and the second conduit section has a narrow end at the connection, includes a collar portion sized to circumscribe the bell end outer diameter; a funnel portion attached to the collar portion, the funnel portion having a diameter that increases in a longitudinal direction away from the collar portion; a step on one of the collar and funnel inner surfaces, the step having a funnel portion side and a collar portion side, wherein an inner diameter of the funnel portion side of the step is equal to the bell end inner diameter; and key and keyway wings extending laterally from the collar portion, wherein the keyway wing includes a keyway and the key wing includes a key.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Inventors: Joseph Michael Loose, Jody David Seubert, Michael James Quella
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Patent number: 11439445Abstract: Provided is a method of open reduction and internal fixation of a bone of a patient using a fixation device. The method includes analyzing the bone to obtain a fracture profile, wherein the fracture profile includes data corresponding to a physical structure of the bone, shaping the fixation device using the data of the fracture profile, heat treating the fixation device by heating the fixation device to a first temperature, cooling the fixation device to a second temperature lower than the first temperature, securing the fixation device to the bone, and heating the fixation device to a third temperature lower than the first temperature and greater than the second temperature to reduce the bone.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: DYNORIF, LLCInventor: Joseph Michael Vento
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Publication number: 20220284233Abstract: One example provides a computing system comprising a storage machine storing instructions executable by a logic machine to extract features from a source and target images to form source and target feature maps, form a correlation map comprising a plurality of similarity scores, form an initial correspondence map comprising initial mappings between pixels of the source feature map and corresponding pixels of the target feature map, refine the initial correspondence map by, for each of one or more pixels of the source feature map, for each of a plurality of candidate correspondences, inputting a four-dimensional patch into a trained scoring function, the trained scoring function being configured to output a correctness score, and selecting a refined correspondence based at least upon the correctness scores, and output a refined correspondence map comprising a refined correspondence for each of the one or more pixels of the source feature map.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Joseph Michael DEGOL, Jae Yong LEE, Sudipta Narayan SINHA, Victor Manuel FRAGOSO ROJAS
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Publication number: 20220282148Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to paraffin inhibitor formulations useful to inhibit formation of paraffin aggregates and paraffin deposition on the metal surfaces during hydrocarbon production, transportation, and refining process. The paraffin inhibitor formulations can lower the pour point of the crude oil, improve the flow characteristics of the oil, inhibit paraffin deposition on metal surfaces and disperse paraffin aggregates in the oil. Methods of making and using the paraffin inhibitor formulations are further disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Robin Singh, Joseph Michael Miller, James William Ogle
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Publication number: 20220283003Abstract: A multiphase vortex flowmeter system determines the gas-to-liquid ratio (GLR) and flow rates from a well producing multiphase gas, oil and water by detecting the frequency and amplitude of vortices shed in a vortex flowmeter. In particular, the phase of the flow can be identified by detecting the change in the frequency of the vortices with respect to time, and the amplitude of the vortices. Based on the phase, the flow rates of liquid and gas can be calculated. As a feedback technique, these calculated values can be “tuned” by comparison with actual GLR and flow rates recorded for the well by a test separator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Halker Smart Solutions LLCInventors: Matthew Thomas Halker, Paul S. Brennan, William Robert Myers, Joseph MIchael Rzewnicki, Mina Lee Weldon, Kenneth Alan Barnett
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Patent number: 11435401Abstract: A fault rules engine generates a plurality of fault rules files, each of the fault rules files is associated with a respective cell type of a plurality of cell types in an integrated circuit (IC) design. Each fault rules file includes data quantifying a nominal delay for a given two-cycle test pattern and data quantifying a delta delay for the given two-cycle test pattern corresponding to a given candidate defect of a plurality of candidate defects of a given cell type of the plurality of cell types in the IC design. An IC test engine extracts an input to output propagation delay for each cell instance from a standard delay format (SDF) file for the IC design and generates cell-aware test patterns for each cell instance of each cell type in the IC design based on the plurality of fault rules files and the extracted input to output propagation delays.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Arvind Chokhani, Joseph Michael Swenton, Santosh Subhaschandra Malagi
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Patent number: 11433785Abstract: A rail assembly can include a track assembly, an elongate shaft mounted to the track assembly, and a carriage assembly received within the track assembly. The carriage assembly can include a slider bracket. The slider bracket includes a first ramp portion and a second ramp portion. The first and second ramp portions are disposed on opposite sides of the slider bracket. The first and second ramp portions each define a receiving aperture. The elongate shaft is received through the receiving apertures of the first and second ramp portions.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Macit Aktas, Joshua Gauthier, Joseph Michael Kish, Johnathan Andrew Line, Adarsh Gupta, Robert Clayton Caldwell, Changwei Xie
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Patent number: 11432800Abstract: Described are ultrasound transducer modules and handheld ultrasound imagers including thermal and acoustic management features to produce high quality ultrasound images in a portable, handheld form factor.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 6, 2022Assignee: EXO IMAGING, INC.Inventors: Janusz Bryzek, Jon Henry LeFors, Charles Edward Baumgartner, Thomas Stephen Tarter, Daniela Marisa Fredrick, James Alan Ewanich, Brian Lee Bircumshaw, Joseph Michael Adam
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Publication number: 20220277051Abstract: A system for preparing and delivering digital information, particularly digital newspaper editions, to mobile application users. The system includes mobile applications (apps) for both mobile phone and tablet devices, with content display and interactivity of each app optimized for device type. The system also includes a suite of back-office software modules which allow writers and editors to prepare stories, images and other content for delivery to the apps. One such module is a story creator, which includes an interface to a content management system allowing plain text stories and images to be imported, formatted and made interactive for delivery to the apps. The story creator module also includes interfaces to providers of data such as obituaries, classified ads and weather, and functionality for publishing daily editions of the digital newspaper using the imported content. Other features of the system include breaking news alerts, paywall integration, and interfaces to social media.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: John David Crisp, Joseph Michael Holub, Stephen Raymond Bumbaugh, Charles Aaron Ryder, Joshua Sherman Jacob
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Patent number: 11428230Abstract: A centrifugal electric submersible pump (ESP). The centrifugal ESP comprises a rotatable shaft, a series of impellers stacked on the rotatable shaft, each impeller comprising a hub secured to the rotatable shaft by a key, the series of impellers comprising an uppermost impeller and a lowermost impeller, a flanged sleeve keyed to the rotatable shaft below the lowermost impeller, and a seal disposed between the lowermost impeller and the flanged sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Austin Davis, Joseph Michael Munoz, Jeffrey G. Frey
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Patent number: 11429776Abstract: A fault rules engine generates a plurality of fault rules files. Each of the fault rules files is associated with a respective cell type of a plurality of cell types in an integrated circuit (IC) design, and each fault rules file of the plurality of fault rules files can include data quantifying a nominal delay for a given two-cycle test pattern of a set of two-cycle test patterns and data quantifying a delta delay for the given two-cycle test pattern corresponding to a given candidate defect of a plurality of candidate defects for a given cell type in the IC design. An IC test engine generates cell-aware test patterns based on the plurality of fault rules files to test a fabricated IC chip that is based on the IC design for defects corresponding to a subset of the plurality of candidate defects characterized in the plurality of fault rules files.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: CADENCE DESIGN SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Arvind Chokhani, Joseph Michael Swenton, Santosh Subhaschandra Malagi
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Patent number: 11427992Abstract: A backflow preventer including a body having an inlet for connection to an upstream portion of a plumbing system and an outlet for connection to a downstream portion of the plumbing system, a first check valve and a second check valve located in the body for preventing the reverse flow of water between the outlet and the inlet. An inlet pressure zone is positioned between the inlet and the first check valve, an outlet pressure zone is positioned between the outlet and the second check valve, and an intermediate pressure zone is positioned between the first and the second check valves. Position sensors sense the positions of the check valves, and pressure sensors sense the pressures in the zone. A controller in communication with the position sensors and the pressure sensors calculates the opening and closing pressures of the check valves.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: Watts Regulator Co.Inventors: Joseph Michael Burke, Kevin Simon, Ian David Baynes
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Publication number: 20220265355Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and devices for performing computer-aided surgical navigation. Specifically, a system for augmented reality assisted trauma fixation, which displays various views of one or more tracked items, including a guide device, a fixation plate, a surgical tracking device, and an augmented reality display. The guide device having a tip, a handle, and a fixation guide. The fixation plate having at least one aperture designed to receive the tip of the guide. The surgical tracking device configured to track one or more trackable objects associated with the guide, fixation plate, and display, and thereby calculate a location of a fixation device, such as a screw, relative to the fixation plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2020Publication date: August 25, 2022Inventors: Joseph Michael FERRANTE, Charles Christopher HEOTIS, Namal NAWANA, Constantinos NIKOU, Daniel FARLEY, Brian W. MCKINNON
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Publication number: 20220259839Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods useful for backflow prevention system that includes an actuated valve, a valve controller, one or more upstream sensors, and one or more downstream sensors. Upon detecting conditions conducive to backflow through the system using either or both the one or more upstream sensors, and the one or more downstream sensors, the valve controller causes the actuated valve to close. The system may be enhanced through the use of a qualifying check valve disposed between the actuated valve and the one or more downstream sensors to slow or impede backflow through the system. The system may be enhanced by inclusion of a run-out length between the actuated valve and the one or more downstream sensors to account for the latency in the actuator causing the valve to transition to the CLOSED position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Watts Regulator Co.Inventors: Joe Pagliaccio, Kevin Simon, Joseph Michael Burke
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Publication number: 20220259090Abstract: Systems for producing articles from glass tube include a converter having a base with a plurality of processing stations and a turret moveable relative to the base. The turret indexes a plurality of holders for holding the glass tubes successively through the processing stations. The systems further include a gas flow system or a suction system for producing a flow of gas through the glass tube during one or more heating, forming, separating or piercing operations. The flow of gas through the glass tube produced by the gas flow system or suction system may be sufficient to evacuate or purge volatile constituents of the glass from the glass tube and/or pierce a meniscus formed on the glass tube during separation, thereby reducing the Surface Hydrolytic Response (SHR) of the interior surface of the glass tube and articles made therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Lewis Kirk Klingensmith, Joseph Michael Matusick, Connor Thomas O'Malley, Matthew Daniel Trosa, Steven Robert Wagner
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Publication number: 20220258650Abstract: A vehicle seating assembly is provided that includes a pivot bracket coupled to a vehicle floor and disposed at a front of a seat frame, a gear assembly and a locking disk assembly disposed around an axis of rotation defined by the pivot bracket, wherein the gear assembly and the locking disk assembly are configured to each alternatively move the seating assembly from a sitting position to a standing position, and a track assembly disposed on the vehicle floor and between opposing side brackets of a seat frame. The track assembly includes a cam assembly movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The vehicle seating assembly further includes a crank assembly extending between the pivot bracket and the cam assembly and configured to move the cam assembly from the locked position to the unlocked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Macit Aktas, Johnathan Andrew Line, Joseph Michael Kish, Spencer Robert Hoernke, Jung Jeon
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Publication number: 20220257308Abstract: An end effector includes a distal clevis, an axle mounted to the distal clevis, a first jaw holder and corresponding first jaw member rotatably mounted to the axle, and second jaw holder and corresponding second jaw member rotatably mounted to the axle. A cylindrical sleeve axle having opposing first and second ends and defining a central passageway extending between the opposing first and second ends, the sleeve axle providing a continuously straight and uninterrupted outer surface extending entirely between the opposing first and second ends. The axle is received within the central passageway and the sleeve axle is rotatable relative to the axle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONALInventors: Barry Christian WORRELL, Joseph Michael MUELLER, Rudolph Henry NOBIS
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Patent number: 11413275Abstract: An aspect of the present disclosure is directed to an oral liquid composition comprising valsartan with enhanced solubility and stability. Other aspects are directed to methods of using the oral liquid compositions for the treatment of hypertension, treatment of heart failure and reduction of cardiovascular mortality in clinically stable patients with left ventricular failure or left ventricular dysfunction following myocardial infarction.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: ECI PHARMACEUTICALS, LLCInventors: Greg Thomas, Joseph Michael Esposito
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Patent number: 11418401Abstract: A method includes obtaining performance characterization values from endpoints managed by a first fog node at a first hierarchical level in a hierarchy of fog nodes. The method includes changing a first operating characteristic of the wireless network based on the performance characterization values. The first operating characteristic affects the operation of one or more of the endpoints. The method includes transmitting a portion of the performance characterization values to a second fog node at a second hierarchical level in the hierarchy of fog nodes. The method includes changing a second operating characteristic of the wireless network based on an instruction from the second fog node. The second operating characteristic affects the operation of the first fog node and/or other fog nodes at the first hierarchical level. Changing one or more of the first operating characteristic and the second operating characteristic satisfies an operating threshold for the wireless network.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: M. David Hanes, Charles Calvin Byers, Joseph Michael Clarke, Gonzalo Salgueiro, Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton