Patents by Inventor Kevin Michael

Kevin 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).

  • Publication number: 20220416496
    Abstract: Some embodiments may include a fiber laser system comprising: a pump combiner; a plurality of fiber laser pump modules arranged for pumping a pulsed output from the fiber laser system; and a pump controller to operate in a first operation mode to pump a pulsed output from the fiber laser system and to operate in a second different operation mode to pump a continuous wave (CW) output from the fiber laser system; the pump controller to, in the first operation mode, simultaneously activate individual fiber laser pump modules of the plurality of fiber laser pump modules; and the pump controller to, in the second operation mode, sequentially activate the individual fiber laser pump modules of the plurality of fiber laser pump modules. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: NLIGHT, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael CARBONE, C. Geoffrey FANNING, Dennis MCCAL, Richard FARMER
  • Patent number: 11536523
    Abstract: A feed tray assembly for a belt-fed weapon includes a bottom tray portion configured for mounting at a top of the weapon. The feed tray assembly further includes a feed tray cover mounted to the bottom tray portion and configured for lateral sliding opening and closing movement, such as on laterally extending pins riding in corresponding channels of the bottom tray portion. The feed tray cover has (1) a closed position in which it covers the bottom tray portion to retain the belt of ammunition during operation, and (2) an open position laterally displaced from the closed position to enable insertion of the belt of ammunition. Due to this lateral sliding movement of the feed tray cover, a sighting optic may be mounted on the weapon with a forward portion directly above the feed tray assembly without any undesired mechanical interference.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Textron Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Ayotte, Andrew Joseph Bosley, Ed Charles Volz, Leonard Terrence Katilas
  • Patent number: 11539594
    Abstract: In an example, a method to display a graphical diagram includes receiving source data that includes multiple nodes arranged in a directed acyclic graph (DAG) in which each child node of a set of child nodes has multiple DAG parent nodes. The nodes include the DAG parent nodes. The method includes converting the DAG to a tree in which each of the nodes has no more than one tree parent node. The method includes displaying, based on the tree, a graphical diagram in which child graphical objects that represent child nodes that each has multiple DAG parent nodes are positioned in intersection areas of container graphical objects that represent the DAG parent nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: LUCID SOFTWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Ellsworth, Kevin Joseph Reece, Jonathan Bronson, Benjamin N. Dilts
  • Publication number: 20220407942
    Abstract: The application describes an apparatus including a processor operably coupled to a non-transitory memory including instructions stored thereon. The apparatus also includes plural, discrete radio resources operably in communication with the processor. Each of the plural, discrete radio resources includes a modem having a separate IP address. The processor is configured to execute the instructions of discovering the modem of each of the plural, discrete radio resources. The processor is also configured to execute the instructions of assigning a TCP port to each of the discovered modems. The processor is further configured to execute the instructions of creating an individualized session for each of the modems. The processor is even further configured to execute the instructions of scanning an area for mobile equipment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Adam Christopher Markham, Brett Michael Brotherton, Kevin Michael Dyer
  • Patent number: 11531533
    Abstract: A computing system running a host operating system and a virtual machine (VM). The computing system includes at least one device that is directly assigned to the VM. The computing system is configured to execute one or more first VM components and one or more second VM components. The one or more first VM components are configured to manage the one or more second VM components via one or more identification pointers. While the one or more second VM components remain loaded in a system memory, and the directly assigned device remains attached to the VM and remains configured to communicate with the one or more second VM component, the one or more first VM components are shut down and restored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Broas, David Alan Hepkin, Wen Jia Liu, Hadden Mark Hoppert
  • Patent number: 11532902
    Abstract: Provided are terminal-free connectors for flexible interconnect circuits. A connector comprises a housing chamber defined by at least a first side wall and a second side wall oppositely positioned about the base. An edge support is positioned at each of the first side wall and the second side wall. The edge supports allow for precise placement of the flexible interconnect circuit inside the housing chamber. A cover piece is coupled to the base via a first hinge, and is configured to move between a released position and a clamped position. The cover piece includes a clamp portion securing the flexible interconnect circuit against the edge supports in the clamped position. A slider may be configured to move between an extended position and an inserted position within the housing chamber, and may include a convex upper surface configured to urge the flexible interconnect circuit upwards in the inserted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: CelLink Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Coakley, Malcolm Parker Brown, Mark Terlaak, Will Findlay
  • Patent number: 11526083
    Abstract: A method includes driving, while producing a burst of pulses at a pulse repetition rate, a spectral feature adjuster among a set of discrete states at a frequency correlated with the pulse repetition rate; and in between the production of the bursts of pulses (while no pulses are being produced), driving the spectral feature adjuster according to a driving signal defined by a set of parameters. Each discrete state corresponds to a discrete value of a spectral feature. The method includes ensuring that the spectral feature adjuster is in one of the discrete states that corresponds to a discrete value of the spectral feature of the amplified light beam when a pulse in the next burst is produced by adjusting one or more of: an instruction to the lithography exposure apparatus, the driving signal to the spectral feature adjuster, and/or the instruction to the optical source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cymer, LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael O'Brien, Thomas Patrick Duffey, Joshua Jon Thornes
  • Publication number: 20220390970
    Abstract: A power management device and microprocessor within a System-in-Package (SiP) are provided with communication signals externally available as outputs from the SiP so that they can be reconfigured by an external device. Methods for the configuration of SiPs and Power Management Integrated Circuits (PMICs) packaged within a SiP are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Octavo Systems LLC
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Troy, Peter Robert Linder
  • Publication number: 20220392365
    Abstract: A computer implemented interactive oral presentation display system provides server computers allowing one or more client devices and one or more administrator devices access to an oral presentation display application which provides client user interfaces having a first image display area and a second image display area concurrently displayed on a display surface allowing the client user to control presentation of streaming media in the first image display area and selection of one or more images for serial display in the second image display area, each of which can be coupled in timed synchronized relation with the streaming media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Applicant: Bongo Learn, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey S. Lewis, Kevin Michael Pike
  • Patent number: 11519272
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in Table I. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul G. Deivernois, Kevin Michael Barnett, Matthew John McKeever, Michael James Healy
  • Patent number: 11519273
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in one of Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV, Table V, Table VI, Table VII, Table VIII, or Table IX. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael James Healy, Matthew John McKeever, Sabarinath Devarajan, Uday Krishna Pappala, Kevin Michael Barnett, Kumaran Vale Mudaliar, Wilfried Rick, Moorthi Subramaniyan, Karan Ghule, Denis Stankovic, Yu Wang, Marco Micheli, Mariadas Anton Charles Anandarajah, Michael Loetzerich
  • Patent number: 11514131
    Abstract: A computer server includes processor and memory hardware. The processor hardware executes instructions including parsing a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request from a first user agent to identify a first data object matching a set of characteristics and generating a new data element based on the HTTP request. The instructions include, in response to the first data object being present: extracting a first set of serialized data elements and serializing them with the new data element to generate a second data object. The instructions include, in response to the first data object being absent and a user associated with the first user agent being identifiable: determining a second set of serialized data elements based on an identity of the user, and serializing them with the new data element to generate the second data object. The instructions include transmitting an HTTP response including the second data object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: TD Ameritrade IP Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Wysocki, Michelle Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11516904
    Abstract: Provided are flexible hybrid interconnect circuits and methods of forming thereof. A flexible hybrid interconnect circuit comprises multiple conductive layers, stacked and spaced apart along the thickness of the circuit. Each conductive layer comprises one or more conductive elements, one of which is operable as a high frequency (HF) signal line. Other conductive elements, in the same and other conductive layers, form an electromagnetic shield around the HF signal line. Some conductive elements in the same circuit are used for electrical power transmission. All conductive elements are supported by one or more inner dielectric layers and enclosed by outer dielectric layers. The overall stack is thin and flexible and may be conformally attached to a non-planar surface. Each conductive layer may be formed by patterning the same metallic sheet. Multiple pattern sheets are laminated together with inner and outer dielectric layers to form a flexible hybrid interconnect circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: CelLink Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Coakley, Malcolm Parker Brown, Jose Juarez, Emily Hernandez, Joseph Pratt, Peter Stone, Vidya Viswanath, Will Findlay
  • Publication number: 20220372878
    Abstract: A rotor blade includes an airfoil having an airfoil shape. The airfoil shape has a nominal profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z set forth in one of Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV, Table V, Table VI, Table VII, Table VIII, or Table IX. The Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z are non-dimensional values from 0% to 100% convertible to dimensional distances expressed in a unit of distance by multiplying the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y and Z by a scaling factor of the airfoil in the unit of distance. The X and Y values, when connected by smooth continuing arcs, define airfoil profile sections at each Z value. The airfoil profile sections at Z values are joined smoothly with one another to form a complete airfoil shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Michael James Healy, Matthew John McKeever, Sabarinath Devarajan, Uday Krishna Pappala, Kevin Michael Barnett, Kumaran Vale Mudaliar, Wilfried Rick, Moorthi Subramaniyan, Karan Ghule, Denis Stankovic, Yu Wang, Marco Micheli, Mariadas Anton Charles Anandarajah, Michael Loetzerich
  • Publication number: 20220377242
    Abstract: A system for automatically maintaining focus while tracking remote flying objects includes an interface and processor. The interface is configured to receive two or more images. The processor is configured to determine a bounding box for an object in the two or more images; determine an estimated position for the object in a future image; and determine an estimated focus setting and an estimated pointing direction for a lens system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Marcin Camacho, Calvin Michael Hareng, Corey Martin Hass, Forrest Nelson Iandola, Gokul Ganesh Subramanian, Nadav Ben-Haim, Adnan Esmail, Kevin Michael Christensen
  • Publication number: 20220377232
    Abstract: A system for automatically acquiring focus of remote flying objects (RFOs) includes an interface and processor. The interface is configured to receive a radar data and a lens temperature data. The processor is configured to determine a focal setting for a lens system based at least in part on the radar data and the lens temperature data; and provide the focal setting for the lens system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Marcin Camacho, Calvin Michael Hareng, Corey Martin Hass, Forrest Nelson Iandola, Gokul Ganesh Subramanian, Nadav Ben-Haim, Adnan Esmail, Kevin Michael Christensen
  • Publication number: 20220361721
    Abstract: Some example sheet product dispensers that accommodate one or more sheet product rolls are provided herein. An example sheet product dispenser includes a dispensing mechanism with a drive roller and nip roller. A motor is configured to rotate the drive roller to cause a portion of the sheet product to dispense from the sheet product dispenser. A controller is configured to determine a sheet length for dispensing and cause the motor to operate to cause sheet product to be dispensed from the sheet product dispenser. The controller is further configured to monitor an amount of rotation of the motor as the motor operates and cause, in an instance in which the amount of rotation of the motor corresponds to the determined sheet length, the motor to cease operation so as to cause the determined sheet length of sheet product to be dispensed from the sheet product dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Kevin Michael Swanson, Jacob Charles Dahl, Mark Edwin Peters
  • Patent number: 11500358
    Abstract: A system for monitoring and controlling a manufacturing environment is disclosed. Aspects discussed include beacons broadcasting identifying information for aspects of the manufacturing environment such as workstations, manufactured items, machines, equipment, and people. The identifying information may be used to generate reports about the operation of these and possibly other aspects, as well as provide control options for changing the manufacturing environment. Employees may move about the environment to visually monitor activities taking place, while the system may automatically query for additional information about the tools, equipment, people encountered in the environment. Control options for changing aspects of the manufacturing processes may also be automatically displayed as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: The Lake Companies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Paul Lake, Kevin Michael Moens
  • Publication number: 20220354316
    Abstract: Some example product dispensers that accommodate two full paper towel rolls are provided herein. The product dispenser may employ separate dispensing mechanisms for each product roll and may include roll holders that articulate out from the housing to facilitate easy loading and access to replacement and loading of the other product roll. A roll partition may be utilized to separate the web paths of the two product rolls and enable rotation of front roll holders. Example funnel covers and nip covers can aid with intuitive installation. Example roll holders with retention mechanisms help prevent unintentional dropping of the installed product roll. Other beneficial features include utilizing motor operation sensing to dispense a desired sheet length, automatic/assisted loading into the dispensing mechanism, automatic switching between dispensing of product rolls, and always dispensing from the smaller product roll first. Many other features/structures of example product dispensers are also described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Scott Borke, Ryan Joseph Schuh, Kevin Michael Swanson, Jacob Charles Dahl, Nickolas Everett Madsen
  • Publication number: 20220358240
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an adaptive data privacy platform that facilitates compliance with privacy laws and regulations, and compliance with organizational requirements within an organizational context. Other embodiments and implementations may be described and/or claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Ryan Neal, Aaron Weller, Emily Leach, Kevin Michael Donahue, Jonathan A. Sterling, Parinati Sarnot, Claudiu Barbura