Patents by Inventor Mark A. Cunningham
Mark A. Cunningham 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: 11965460Abstract: An air intake for an aircraft propulsion system includes an air inlet duct, a core flow duct, a bypass flow duct, a splitter, and a flow control device. The air inlet duct includes an intake inlet and a gas path floor. The core flow duct includes a core flow outlet. The bypass flow duct includes a bypass flow outlet. The bypass flow duct includes the gas path floor. The splitter separates the core flow duct and the bypass flow duct. The flow control device is disposed on a portion of the gas path floor. The flow control device is configured to be selectively positioned to control an air flow path for air flowing through the air inlet duct, the core flow duct, and the bypass flow duct.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventors: Raja Ramamurthy, Eray Akcayoz, Mark Cunningham, Roberto Marrano
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Publication number: 20240119467Abstract: A computer-implemented method of fraud protection is described. A server may receive one or more keywords and a likelihood of fraud from an external source. The server may receive an image of a document from a user device, wherein the document comprises at least one of a written communication or a printed communication. The server may extract text from the image of the document, compare the extracted text to the one or more stored keywords, and calculate a confidence level of fraud. The server may send an indication of the confidence level of fraud to the user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Capital One Services, LLCInventors: Michael Mossoba, Joshua Edwards, Sarah Cunningham, Mark Rothbaum
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Patent number: 11952962Abstract: An exhaust duct of an aircraft engine includes an annular inlet conduit having an inlet central axis, and at least two outlet conduits in flow communication with the inlet conduit. The at least two outlet conduits are located non-parallel to the inlet central axis. Each of the at least two outlet conduits include an outlet port defining a distal end of each of the two outlet conduits. At least one of the outlet ports is non-circular in cross-sectional shape.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Eray Akcayoz, Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11939375Abstract: A human anti-IL-23p19 antibody, including isolated nucleic acids that encode at least one anti-IL-23p19 antibody, vectors, host cells, and methods of making and using thereof have applications in diagnostic and/or therapeutic compositions, methods and devices.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Janssen Biotech, Inc.Inventors: Jacqueline Benson, Jill Carton, Mark Cunningham, Yevgeniya Orlovsky, Robert Rauchenberger, Raymond Sweet
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Patent number: 11939876Abstract: A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes a gas turbine engine and a sensor system. The gas turbine engine includes an inlet and a compressor section. A flowpath projects radially inward into the gas turbine engine from the inlet and extends through the compressor section. The sensor system includes a plurality of static pressure sensors at least partially within the flowpath. The sensor system is configured to determine a total pressure characteristic within the flowpath using the plurality of static pressure sensors.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Damien Le Pape, Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11933220Abstract: An air intake for an aircraft propulsion system includes an air inlet duct, a core flow duct, a bypass flow duct, a splitter, and a flow control device. The air inlet duct includes an intake inlet and a gas path floor. The core flow duct includes a core flow outlet. The bypass flow duct includes a bypass flow outlet. The bypass flow duct includes the gas path floor. The splitter separates the core flow duct and the bypass flow duct. The flow control device is disposed on a portion of the gas path floor. The flow control device is configured to be selectively positioned to control an air flow path for air flowing through the air inlet duct, the core flow duct, and the bypass flow duct.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp.Inventors: Raja Ramamurthy, Eray Akcayoz, Mark Cunningham, Roberto Marrano
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Patent number: 11898452Abstract: A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes a gas turbine engine and a sensor system. The gas turbine engine includes an inlet and a compressor section. A flowpath projects radially inward into the gas turbine engine from the inlet and extends through the compressor section. The sensor system includes a plurality of static pressure sensors at least partially within the flowpath. The sensor system is configured to determine a total pressure characteristic within the flowpath using the plurality of static pressure sensors.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Damien Le Pape, Mark Cunningham
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Publication number: 20240044288Abstract: A system is provided for a gas turbine engine. This engine system includes a flowpath wall, a takeoff conduit and a porous cover. The flowpath wall forms a peripheral boundary of an internal engine flowpath. The flowpath wall includes a takeoff port. The takeoff conduit includes an internal conduit passage fluidly coupled with the internal engine flowpath through the takeoff port. The takeoff conduit projects out from the flowpath wall. The porous cover for the internal conduit passage is disposed at the takeoff port.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 2, 2022Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Sid-Ali Meslioui, Mark Cunningham
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Publication number: 20240035393Abstract: A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes a gas turbine engine and a sensor system. The gas turbine engine includes an inlet and a compressor section. A flowpath projects radially inward into the gas turbine engine from the inlet and extends through the compressor section. The sensor system includes a plurality of static pressure sensors at least partially within the flowpath. The sensor system is configured to determine a total pressure characteristic within the flowpath using the plurality of static pressure sensors.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Damien Le Pape, Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11867070Abstract: A system is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft system includes a gas turbine engine and a sensor system. The gas turbine engine includes an inlet and a compressor section. A flowpath projects radially inward into the gas turbine engine from the inlet and extends through the compressor section. The sensor system includes a plurality of static pressure sensors at least partially within the flowpath. The sensor system is configured to determine a total pressure characteristic within the flowpath using the plurality of static pressure sensors.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Damien Le Pape, Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11719165Abstract: An aircraft engine comprises an air inlet duct extending from an inlet through which air is configured to enter the aircraft engine, to an outlet within the aircraft engine. At least one strut has a leading edge and a trailing edge and extends across at least part of the air inlet duct. The at least one strut has a strut passage and a plurality of static pressure measurement taps spaced apart on the trailing edge and in fluid communication with the strut passage.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Damien Le Pape, Guorong Yan, Mark Cunningham, Philippe Beauchesne-Martel, Oleg Iskra, Richard Ivakitch
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Patent number: 11658695Abstract: A device and method of verifying protective case usage, is described. The device includes one or more processors to drive an electromechanical transducer with an input signal. The electromechanical transducer generates an input force based on the input signal, and a sensor of the device generates a test output signal in response to the input force. The one or more processors determine, based on the test output signal, a level of verification that a protective case is mounted on the device. The determination can include determining whether the test output signal matches a predetermined impulse response signal indicative of an unprotected device or a protected device. A digital identification tag of the protective case can be read by a radio-frequency transceiver of the device to provide an additional level of verification that the protective case is mounted on the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: CASEFAX INC.Inventor: Randy Mark Cunningham
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Publication number: 20230134390Abstract: An aircraft engine comprises an air inlet duct extending from an inlet through which air is configured to enter the aircraft engine, to an outlet within the aircraft engine. At least one strut has a leading edge and a trailing edge and extends across at least part of the air inlet duct. The at least one strut has a strut passage and a plurality of static pressure measurement taps spaced apart on the trailing edge and in fluid communication with the strut passage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Damien LE PAPE, Guorong YAN, Mark CUNNINGHAM, Philippe BEAUCHESNE-MARTEL, Oleg ISKRA, Richard IVAKITCH
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Patent number: 11612374Abstract: A self-auscultation device and method of using the self-auscultation device to listen to a target anatomy is described. The self-auscultation device includes a chest piece to receive a listening device, such as an earphone. The listening device is mounted in the chest piece to detect a sound from the target anatomy, through the chest piece. The listening device can operate in a self-auscultation mode to adapt the listening device to generate audio data corresponding to the detected sound. An equalization filter can be applied to the audio data to compensate for a frequency response of the listening device. A data processing system can compare the audio data to predetermined auscultation data to determine a health condition of the target anatomy. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 28, 2023Inventor: Randy Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11590357Abstract: An optogenetic system and method for preventing or halting seizures. The system and method use a sensor for monitoring the activity of a neural network containing a group of target neurons, and generating an input signal indicative of said activity, the target neurons being excitatory neurons. Excitatory stimulation is delivered in the form of an optical signal by an optical stimulator to the target neurons, the optical signal being determined based on the input signal, to reduce the overall activity of the target neurons.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: University of Newcastle Upon TyneInventors: Andrew Jackson, Mark Cunningham, Stuart Baker, Patrick Degenaar
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Patent number: 11535386Abstract: There is provided a system and a method for operating a multi-engine rotorcraft. When the rotorcraft is cruising in an asymmetric operating regime (AOR) at least one engine is an active engine and is operated in an active mode to provide motive power to the rotorcraft and at least one second engine is a standby engine and is operated in a standby mode to provide substantially no motive power to the rotorcraft, at least one of a power level of the at least one second engine is increased and at least one variable geometry mechanism of the at least one second engine is moved to shed any ice accumulation on the at least one second engine.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2019Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Philippe Beauchesne-Martel, Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11415079Abstract: An ejector comprises a primary nozzle having an annular wall forming part of an outer boundary of an exhaust portion of a primary flow path of a gas turbine engine. The annular wall has a downstream end defining a plurality of circumferentially distributed lobes. The ejector further comprises a secondary nozzle having an annular wall disposed about the primary nozzle, the primary nozzle and the secondary nozzle defining a secondary flow passage therebetween for channeling a secondary flow. The secondary nozzle defines a mixing zone downstream of an exit of the primary nozzle. A flow guide ring is mounted to the primary nozzle lobes. The ring has an aerodynamic surface extending from a leading edge to a trailing edge respectively disposed upstream and downstream of the exit of the primary nozzle. The aerodynamic surface of the ring is oriented to guide the high velocity primary flow into the mixing zone.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: August 16, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Guorong Yan, Mark Cunningham, Franco Di Paola
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Publication number: 20220167942Abstract: A self-auscultation device and method of using the self-auscultation device to listen to a target anatomy is described. The self-auscultation device includes a chest piece to receive a listening device, such as an earphone. The listening device is mounted in the chest piece to detect a sound from the target anatomy, through the chest piece. The listening device can operate in a self-auscultation mode to adapt the listening device to generate audio data corresponding to the detected sound. An equalization filter can be applied to the audio data to compensate for a frequency response of the listening device. A data processing system can compare the audio data to predetermined auscultation data to determine a health condition of the target anatomy. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventor: Randy Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11339716Abstract: An inertial particle separator, having: an inlet duct defining an intake; an intermediate duct extending from the inlet duct to an engine inlet; a bypass duct in fluid communication with and extending downstream from the inlet duct, the bypass duct defining an outlet communicating with the environment of the aircraft engine, a splitter defined at an intersection of a wall of the bypass duct and a wall of the intermediate duct; a splitter vane within the intermediate duct and having a leading edge located upstream of the splitter relative to a flow circulating through the separator, the splitter vane and the wall of the intermediate duct defining a channel therebetween; and a porous plate extending across the channel and defining openings sized so as to aggregate ice and be blocked by ice under icing conditions.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.Inventors: Guorong Yan, Mark Cunningham
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Patent number: 11266371Abstract: A self-auscultation device and method of using the self-auscultation device to listen to a target anatomy is described. The self-auscultation device includes a chest piece to receive a listening device, such as an earphone. The listening device is mounted in the chest piece to detect a sound from the target anatomy, through the chest piece. The listening device can operate in a self-auscultation mode to adapt the listening device to generate audio data corresponding to the detected sound. An equalization filter can be applied to the audio data to compensate for a frequency response of the listening device. A data processing system can compare the audio data to predetermined auscultation data to determine a health condition of the target anatomy. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Inventor: Randy Mark Cunningham