Patents by Inventor Kevin Matthews

Kevin Matthews 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: 11043823
    Abstract: One embodiment can provide a system for conditioning rechargeable battery cells. The system can include a cell-group conditioning module. The cell-group conditioning module can include a cell interface block that includes a cell contact module and a circuit module. The circuit module can be configured to supply power to cells and can be positioned adjacent to the cell contact module. The cell-group conditioning module can further include a cell platform configured to accommodate a number of cells and an actuation mechanism coupled to the cell interface block or the cell platform and configured to reduce a distance between the cell interface block and cell platform, thereby allowing the cell contact module to establish electrical contact with the cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Tesla, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Matthews, Turner Caldwell, Martin Sukup
  • Publication number: 20210130365
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds according to Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, and R7 are defined herein. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) as well as the use of such compounds as M4 receptor agonists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Amy CALHOUN, Xin CHEN, Kevin Matthew GARDINIER, Edward Charles HALL, Keith JENDZA, Nancy LABBE-GIGUERE, James NEEF, Daniel Steven PALACIOS, Ming QIAN, Michael David SHULTZ, Christopher G. THOMSON, Kate Yaping WANG, Fan YANG
  • Publication number: 20210107889
    Abstract: Provided herein are compounds according to Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R5, and R7 are defined herein. Also provided herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I) as well as the use of such compounds as M4 receptor agonists.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Amy CALHOUN, Xin CHEN, Kevin Matthew GARDINIER, Edward Charles HALL, Keith JENDZA, Nancy LABBE-GIGUERE, James NEEF, Daniel Steven PALACIOS, Ming QIAN, Michael David SHULTZ, Christopher G. THOMSON, Kate Yaping WANG, Fan YANG
  • Patent number: 10958702
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining and applying a timeout for streaming video. Processing circuitry of a device may request video fragments to be downloaded and played, and if a requested fragment is not downloaded entirely before expiration of a timeout, the device may adjust the timeout to allow the download to complete. A timeout may be set based on available bandwidth and a size of a fragment requested for download, and the timeout may be extended based on network and/or device conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Yang Yang, Yongjun Wu, Kevin Matthew McCaw, Satheesh Ramalingam, Viet Anh To, Alon Dulce
  • Publication number: 20210084097
    Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for coordinating content selection across devices. A user device may transmit a request for webpage content and in response, may receive response communications that include the webpage content, embedded content, and a script. The user device may retrieve a device identifier initially generated by a remote system from a locally stored data object. The user device can detect, using the script, whether at least part of the embedded content is being presented within a portion of the webpage that is displayed on a screen of the user device. The user device may then transmit a report communication to a remote ID-graph system that includes the device identifier and an indication as to whether the at least part of the embedded content was presented within the portion of the webpage that was displayed on the screen of the user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: Oracle International Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Matthew Whitcher, David Michael Mitchell, Robin Layne Opie, Thomas Joseph Waits, Rong Xia
  • Publication number: 20200407867
    Abstract: An electroplating assembly for holding a workpiece through a thermodynamic cycle of electroplating comprises a plating rack that supports the workpiece. An electric bus bar is disposed on the plating rack. At least one connector joins the workpiece with the plating rack. At least one flexible support joins the workpiece with the plating rack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: International Truck Intellectual Property Company, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Matthew Elskafoss
  • Patent number: 10874240
    Abstract: A landing pad receptacle receives and stores a package delivered by an unmanned vehicle, comprising: a housing; a storage compartment in the housing; and a validation device that detects a presence of a package delivered by a unmanned vehicle in the storage compartment and authenticates a package for return by a unmanned vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Lewis, Matthew Dwain Biermann, Kevin Matthew Charles
  • Patent number: 10831745
    Abstract: A system includes one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of: receiving, from a user computer, a destructive read request including header information indicating that a record stored in a persistent database is to be deleted after the record is successfully read from the persistent database; in response to receiving the destructive read request, retrieving the record, which was identified by the destructive read request, from the persistent database; after retrieving the record, receiving a success signal that confirms that the record was successfully read from the persistent database; and in response to receiving the success signal, automatically deleting the record, which was identified by the destructive read request, from the persistent database without receiving another instruction to delete the record. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Matthew Charles, John R. Frerking, Richard Talmadge Jackson, Jr., Clifford V. Vanderpool, Michael John Karagines
  • Patent number: 10826181
    Abstract: A hybrid patch antenna assembly is provided including an antenna element board having first and second layers separated by a dielectric and a radio board coupled to the antenna element board by at least two legs of a ladder line and separated from the antenna element board by a predetermined distance such that the antenna element board is suspended above the radio board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Sensus Spectrum, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Matthew Wolf
  • Patent number: 10794978
    Abstract: A method for correcting one or more artifacts within a multi-spectral magnetic resonance image is provided. The method includes acquiring a plurality of spectral bins each including a plurality of voxels and corresponding to a different frequency of MR signals emitted by an imaged object. The plurality of voxels of each spectral bin correspond to the frequency of the spectral bin so as to define a spatial coverage of the spectral bin. The method further includes expanding each spectral bin by increasing the spatial coverage of the spectral bin, and generating the multi-spectral magnetic resonance image based at least in part on the expanded spectral bins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignees: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, THE MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN
    Inventors: Suryanarayanan Sivaran Kaushik, Kevin Matthew Koch
  • Publication number: 20200312641
    Abstract: A method of determining mass defect plots with user-defined mass scaling, filtering, and labeling in a mass spectrometer is described. An implementation of the method comprises, (i) generating a mass defect plot from the data, (ii) filtering all ions in the mass defect plot that do not have an associated isotopologue ion, (iii) selecting an unidentified ion, (iv) determining an isotope pattern of the unidentified ion, (v) identifying one or more elements indicated by the isotope pattern for the unidentified ion; (vi) searching formulas containing one or more elements indicated by the isotope pattern for the unidentified ion, (vii) determining a chemical formula of the identified ion, and (viii) displaying the chemical formulas for the unidentified ion on a screen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2017
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: LECO Corporation
    Inventors: Jonathan David Byer, Kevin Matthew Siek
  • Publication number: 20200257774
    Abstract: Systems and methods for entitlement tracking and control with blockchain technology are provided. A server node may receive usage information indicating usage of a licensed component by a remote device. The server node may generate a datablock that includes the usage information and append the datablock to a blockchain. The server node may acquire, from the blockchain, a license smart contract. The license smart contract may include control logic to control access to the license component. The server node may control access to the license component by the remote device based on the usage information and the control logic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Applicant: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Matthew Mintz, Arthur R. Leinen, III, Melanie Jean Cutlan, Richard Thomas Meszaros
  • Patent number: 10650123
    Abstract: Systems and methods for entitlement tracking and control with blockchain technology are provided. A server node may receive usage information indicating usage of a licensed component by a remote device. The server node may generate a datablock that includes the usage information and append the datablock to a blockchain. The server node may acquire, from the blockchain, a license smart contract. The license smart contract may include control logic to control access to the license component. The server node may control access to the license component by the remote device based on the usage information and the control logic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Accenture Global Solutions Limited
    Inventors: Kevin Matthew Mintz, Arthur R. Leinen, III, Melanie Jean Cutlan, Richard Thomas Meszaros
  • Patent number: 10638949
    Abstract: A method includes: accessing MRI data acquired from a joint area, the MRI data including a series of spatially mapped spectral data points; generating MRI images of the joint area; receiving information encoding a region of interest that encompasses a suspected metal particle deposition area over at least one of the MRI images; constructing magnetic field maps using the MRI data, each representing off-resonance frequency shifts over the joint area; removing a background of off-resonance field inhomogeneity from the magnetic field map such that the region of interest is free from off-resonance field inhomogeneity; identifying clusters from the magnetic field maps with the background of off-resonance field inhomogeneity removed, the clusters defined over a first dimension of offset frequencies and a second dimension of cluster volumes; and computing a quantitative metric by combining information from the identified clusters according to both the first dimension and the second dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignees: New York Society for the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the Hospital for Special Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin
    Inventors: Kevin Matthew Koch, Matthew F. Koff, Hollis Potter
  • Publication number: 20200114593
    Abstract: An autoclave may be reconfigured to accommodate differently shaped parts by relatively rotating portions of the autoclave.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Sergey Barmichev, Kevin Matthew Retz
  • Patent number: 10623506
    Abstract: A user input indicating that an email account is to be added is detected. Search logic is controlled to automatically search for any preexisting email accounts corresponding to the user, and the configuration information corresponding to any preexisting accounts is obtained. A set of configuration information for the email account to be added is predicted, based upon the configuration information obtained from any preexisting accounts, and an email account is added, using the predicted configuration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew T. McFadden, Hayley L. Steplyk, Sirirat Reinikka, Svetlana A. Borodina, Scott A. Moody, Jonathan H. Mollerup, Kevin Matthew Dargie, Zongyao Mao
  • Patent number: 10620077
    Abstract: A technique for detecting spills is disclosed. A number of electrodes within a portion of a surface are connected to a resistance meter. The resistance meter detects a spill by measuring a change in resistance between two or more electrodes when a fluid is spilled over the two or more of the electrodes. The location of the spill can also be determined based on a known location for each of the electrodes. The size of the spill can further be determined based on a number of electrodes which measured a change in resistance due to the spilled fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Jackson Lewis, Matthew Dwain Biermann, Kevin Matthew Charles
  • Publication number: 20200085700
    Abstract: Formulations suitable for use with fibrous substrates are provided. The formulations provide increased wet strength, high dispersibility, and shape retention of premoistened fibrous substrates. Such formulations comprise at least one dielectric-adjusting solvent, and optionally water, coupling agents, salts, personal care components, hard surface cleaning components, or combinations thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Inventors: Brian Patrick Argo, Abdus Salam, Jennifer L. Faucett, Stephanie Petrina Boyce, Kevin Matthew Holtman, Daniel Peter Gardner, Arinne Nicole Lyman
  • Patent number: 10589852
    Abstract: An embodiment device includes a clamp body having a clamp opening, an extension opening and a traverse block having an internally threaded portion, a reaction plate having a recess in a first face at a first side of the reaction plate and one or more pins disposed in the recess extending away from the first face, and further having an extension extending along a long axis of the reaction plate through the extension opening, and bearing blocks disposed on a second side of the reaction plate opposite the first side, where the traverse block is disposed between the bearing blocks. An actuator is aligned parallel to the long axis of the reaction plate and extending through each of the bearing blocks and through the traverse block, and the actuator has an eternally threaded portion engaged with the internally threaded portion of the clamp body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Kevin Matthew Knott
  • Patent number: 10538040
    Abstract: An autoclave may be reconfigured to accommodate differently shaped parts by relatively rotating portions of the autoclave.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Sergey Barmichev, Kevin Matthew Retz