Patents by Inventor Mark Moore

Mark Moore 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: 11267570
    Abstract: A vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, configured to transport passengers and/or cargo, uses propellers during vertical flight and wings during forward flight to generate lift. The VTOL aircraft includes a front wing and a rear wing connected by inboard booms. The rear wing may include a wingtip boom attached to each free end of the wing. A propeller may be attached to each inboard boom and each wingtip boom. The propellers attached to the inboard booms may be stacked propellers including at least two co-rotating propellers. The aircraft can also include a cruise propeller attached to the tail region of the fuselage, where the cruise propeller is configured to rotate in a plane approximately perpendicular to the fuselage to generate thrust during forward flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Joby Aero, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Mark Moore, Robert Alan McDonald, Henry Thome Won, Adam Chase, Alex Michael Gary, Cory Seubert
  • Publication number: 20220067616
    Abstract: The present application describes a payload management system that routes a payload item associated with an individual from an origin to a destination. In some examples, the payload item is routed from the origin to the destination separate from a travel itinerary associated with the individual. For example, the payload item can be routed via a vehicle other than a VTOL aircraft that is assigned to the individual for a multi-modal transportation service.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, John Conway Badalamenti, Mark Moore, Adam Warmoth
  • Publication number: 20220055733
    Abstract: A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft provides transportation to users of a network system. The network system may include multiple aircraft or other types of vehicles to provide multi-model transportation. An aircraft may include a fuselage, a truss coupled to the fuselage, and multiple distributed electric propellers coupled to the truss. The distributed electric propellers may be positioned on at least two different planes. The fuselage may include a cabin having one or more seats for the passengers arranged in a configuration that has a compact footprint, provides legroom, provides visibility to surroundings of the aircraft, or facilitates convenient ingress or egress of passengers. The aircraft may open a port cabin door and starboard cabin door for simultaneous ingress or egress of passengers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Moore, Nikhil Goel, John Conway Badalamenti, Jon D. Petersen, David Josephson
  • Publication number: 20220040720
    Abstract: An applicator for dispensing a fluid includes a housing and a pump disposed within the housing. The applicator also includes a wand rotatably coupled to the housing. The applicator further includes a conduit that extends between the pump and the wand to deliver the fluid from the pump to the wand. The wand comprises a curved portion for receiving the conduit. The conduit, when disposed in the curved portion, intersects an axis about which the wand rotates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Inventor: Mark Moore
  • Patent number: 11244572
    Abstract: A request for transport services that identifies a rider, an origin, and a destination is received from a client device. Eligibility of the request to be serviced by a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft is determined based on the origin and the destination. A transportation system determines a first and a second hub for a leg of the transport request serviced by the VTOL aircraft and calculates a set of candidate routes from the first hub to the second hub. A provisioned route is selected from among the set of candidate routes based on network and environmental parameters and objectives including pre-determined acceptable noise levels, weather, and the presence and planned routes of other VTOL aircrafts along each of the candidate routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Joby Aero, Inc.
    Inventors: Ian Andreas Villa, Thomas Prevot, John Conway Badalamenti, Mark Moore
  • Publication number: 20220036740
    Abstract: A transport network management system identifies a service objective for a plurality of VTOL aircraft and retrieves VTOL data including locations of the plurality of VTOL aircraft. An estimate of demand for transport services to be provided at least in part by one of the VTOL aircraft is generated and routing data for the plurality of VTOL aircraft is determined based on the estimated demand and the service objective. Routing instructions based on the routing data are sent to at least a subset of the VTOL aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Nikhil Goel, Jon Petersen, John Badalamenti, Mark Moore
  • Patent number: 11202194
    Abstract: A method of propagating a radio access network (RAN) affiliation list to mobile communication devices, where the RAN affiliation list informs the mobile communication devices what cell site they are to attach to and what radio frequencies they are to use. The method comprises receiving a RAN affiliation list by a cell site, where the RAN affiliation list has a RAN affiliation list identity and comprises information about cell site affiliation for mobile communication devices that is applicable to an operating area including the cell site, transmitting the RAN affiliation list identity by the cell site on a broadcast channel, receiving by the cell site a request to download the RAN affiliation list, transmitting the RAN affiliation list by the cell site, receiving a wireless communication service request by the cell site, authorizing the wireless communication service request by the cell site based on the RAN affiliation list.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.
    Inventors: Peter P. Dawson, Ronald R. Marquardt, Mark A. Moore, Lyle W. Paczkowski
  • Publication number: 20210374655
    Abstract: A network system provides delivery of items using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones. The network system uses an infrastructure of nodes that include landing pads to dock drones, as well as interfaces to provide and receive items from docked drones. Nodes may be stationary (e.g., fixed at a building rooftop or public transit station) or mobile (e.g., mounted to a vehicle). The network system may determine a route for delivery of an item, where a drone transports the item for at least a portion of the route. For example, the route may include multiple waypoints associated with nodes between which drones travel. For other portions of the route, the network system may request a provider to transport the item using a ground-based vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew Sweeney, Nikhil Goel, Mark Moore, Jeffrey A. Holden
  • Patent number: 11174019
    Abstract: A vertical landing and take-off aircraft VTOL transitions from a vertical takeoff state to a cruise state where the vertical takeoff state uses propellers to generate lift and the cruise state uses wings to generate lift. The aircraft has an M-wing configuration with propellers located on the wingtip nacelles, wing booms, and tail boom. The wing boom and/or the tail boom can include boom control effectors. Hinged control surfaces on the wings, tail boom, and tail tilt during takeoff and landing to yaw the vehicle. The boom control effectors, cruise propellers, stacked propellers, and control surfaces can have different positions during different modes of operation in order to control aircraft movement and mitigate noise generated by the aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: Joby Aero, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Moore, John Conway Badalamenti, Ian Villa, Adam Warmoth, David Josephson
  • Patent number: 11145211
    Abstract: A transport network management system identifies a service objective for a plurality of VTOL aircraft and retrieves VTOL data including locations of the plurality of VTOL aircraft. An estimate of demand for transport services to be provided at least in part by one of the VTOL aircraft is generated and routing data for the plurality of VTOL aircraft is determined based on the estimated demand and the service objective. Routing instructions based on the routing data are sent to at least a subset of the VTOL aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Inventors: Nikhil Goel, Jon Petersen, John Badalamenti, Mark Moore
  • Patent number: 11136105
    Abstract: A vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft provides transportation to users of a network system. The network system may include multiple aircraft or other types of vehicles to provide multi-model transportation. An aircraft may include a fuselage, a truss coupled to the fuselage, and multiple distributed electric propellers coupled to the truss. The distributed electric propellers may be positioned on at least two different planes. The fuselage may include a cabin having one or more seats for the passengers arranged in a configuration that has a compact footprint, provides legroom, provides visibility to surroundings of the aircraft, or facilitates convenient ingress or egress of passengers. The aircraft may open a port cabin door and starboard cabin door for simultaneous ingress or egress of passengers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Inventors: Mark Moore, Nikhil Goel, John Conway Badalamenti, Jon D. Petersen, David Josephson
  • Patent number: 11134023
    Abstract: A method for directing network traffic includes, at a network device, receiving network traffic provided by one or more client computing devices. The network device directs the network traffic to a service entity over a first network path. A path quality indicator is received that indicates whether the network traffic directed over the first network path satisfies one or more experience criteria. Based at least on the path quality indicator indicating that the network traffic directed over the first network path does not satisfy the one or more experience criteria, the network device redirects some or all of the network traffic to the service entity over a second network path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Irving Thiel, Konstantin E. Ryvkin, Timothy Mark Moore, Todd Carlyle Luttinen
  • Patent number: 11074540
    Abstract: A network system provides delivery of items using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones. The network system uses an infrastructure of nodes that include landing pads to dock drones, as well as interfaces to provide and receive items from docked drones. Nodes may be stationary (e.g., fixed at a building rooftop or public transit station) or mobile (e.g., mounted to a vehicle). The network system may determine a route for delivery of an item, where a drone transports the item for at least a portion of the route. For example, the route may include multiple waypoints associated with nodes between which drones travel. For other portions of the route, the network system may request a provider to transport the item using a ground-based vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2021
    Inventors: Matthew Sweeney, Nikhil Goel, Mark Moore, Jeffrey A. Holden
  • Publication number: 20210172008
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for isolating new variants of known clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR) RNA-guided nuclease (RGN) genes and new CRISPR systems are provided. The methods find use in identifying CRISPR RGN gene variants in complex mixtures. Compositions comprise hybridization baits that hybridize to CRISPR RGN genes of interest in order to selectively enrich variant polynucleotides from complex mixtures. Bait sequences may be specific for a number of CRISPR RGN genes from distinct gene families of interest and may be designed to cover each CRISPR RGN gene of interest by at least 2-fold. Bait pools may also comprise baits for sequences flanking CRISPR RGN genes of interest to allow for the identification of tracrRNAs corresponding to novel CRISPR RGN variants and a complete CRISPR system comprising a CRISPR RGN and its associated guide RNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Applicant: LIFEEDIT, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandra Briner Crawley, James R. Henriksen, Mark Moore, Rebecca E. Thayer
  • Patent number: 11019117
    Abstract: In a device including a processor and a memory in communication with the processor, the memory includes executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the device to perform functions of connecting to a plurality of remote devices, using a network address and a port number that are usable for a plurality of remote devices to access the device; providing a plurality of tokens to a plurality of remote devices, respectively, each token being unique and associated with a different one of the plurality of remote devices; receiving from a first remote device, a first data packet including first media data and a first token associated with the first remote device; and identifying, based on the received first token, the first remote device as a source of the received first data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Tin Qian, Rajesh Gunnalan, Timothy Mark Moore
  • Publication number: 20210122466
    Abstract: Various examples are directed to an aerial vehicle comprising a fuselage, a first wing member, and a second wing member. The fuselage may have a nose end and a tail end. The first wing member may extend from the fuselage and comprise a first drive motor coupled to the first rotor. The second wing member may also extend from the fuselage substantially opposite the first wing member and may comprise a second drive motor coupled to a second rotor. A first motor may be coupled to rotate the first wing member and the first rotor about a first axis substantially perpendicular to a fuselage axis extending from the nose end to the tail end. A second motor may be coupled to rotate the second wing member and the second rotor about a second axis substantially perpendicular to the fuselage axis. A controller circuit may be configured to differentially actuate the first motor and the second motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Akers, Peter Kalogiannis, Mark Moore, Robert Alan McDonald, Ian Andrea Villa
  • Publication number: 20210126870
    Abstract: A method for directing network traffic includes, at a network device, receiving network traffic provided by one or more client computing devices. The network device directs the network traffic to a service entity over a first network path. A path quality indicator is received that indicates whether the network traffic directed over the first network path satisfies one or more experience criteria. Based at least on the path quality indicator indicating that the network traffic directed over the first network path does not satisfy the one or more experience criteria, the network device redirects some or all of the network traffic to the service entity over a second network path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory Irving THIEL, Konstantin E. RYVKIN, Timothy Mark MOORE, Todd Carlyle LUTTINEN
  • Patent number: 10992729
    Abstract: Techniques for endpoint configuration for a communication session are described. According to various implementations, a cloud-based connectivity service maintains network path information that identifies routing paths for routing communication sessions across different networks. The connectivity service is also able to determine configuration information for configuring endpoint devices to participate in a communication session. According to various implementations, configuration information is determined based on a packet quality of a routing path. Thus, an endpoint device can apply the configuration information to attempt to increase packet quality across a routing path, and thus increase media quality for a communication session at the endpoint device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Amer Aref Hassan, Timothy Mark Moore, Gareth L. E. Bridges, Gunter Leeb
  • Patent number: 10972510
    Abstract: A media session is established between a first device (e.g., endpoint) and a second device (e.g., endpoint) via a communication network based on connectivity checks performed by the devices. A set of candidate pairs, including network addresses available to the first device and the second device, is generated. Among the candidate pairs of the candidate pair set, a respective priority is initially assigned for connectivity checks. If a connectivity check modification condition is determined to be met for candidate pairs used for connectivity checks, the priority ordering of the candidate pairs is modified to produce a second priority ordering. This second priority ordering assigns a higher priority for a candidate pair which meets the connectivity check modification condition than a candidate pair that does not meet the condition. Based on the modified ordering, connectivity checks are performed, and the media session is configured and established using a candidate pair determined to be valid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Timothy Mark Moore, Tin Qian, Rajesh Gunnalan
  • Publication number: 20210076575
    Abstract: A plant pot, blank for making a plant pot and a process for making a plant pot is provided. The blank and plant pot includes a support disposed a distance from the base wall of the plant pot to support a nesting container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Frank FARCHIONE, Fabrizio MACALI, Mark MOORE