Patents by Inventor Matthew Donald

Matthew Donald 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: 11987287
    Abstract: A method for autonomously parking a vehicle-trailer system is provided. The method includes receiving sensor system data from a sensor system supported by the vehicle. The sensor system data includes images of surroundings along a driving path of the vehicle-trailer system. The method includes determining a local map based on the sensor system data. The local map includes surroundings along the driving path. The method includes receiving a user selection of an image location within the images. The image location representing a position in the local map associated with a selected location within the surroundings. The method includes determining a parking path from a current location of the vehicle-trailer system to the position based on the local map and instructing a drive system to execute an autonomous parking behavior causing the vehicle-trailer system to autonomously drive along the parking path and autonomously park in the selected location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Autonomous Mobility US, LLC
    Inventors: Eduardo Jose Ramirez Llanos, Dhiren Verma, Xin Yu, Matthew Donald Berkemeier, Julien Ip, Kyle P Carpenter, Francisco Alejandro Fuentes Perez, Joseph Zagroba, Victor Manuel Camacho Ruiz, Andrew Phillip Bolduc, Erick Daniel Rivera Gutierrez, William Nichols, Isemany Angelica Leal Martinez
  • Publication number: 20240157060
    Abstract: A button for a drug delivery device with a reduced operating loudness includes a plate-like button body forming a touch surface, wherein the plate-like button body is coupled by an axial supporting member to a noise-generating interface of the drug delivery device and movable into a longitudinal direction of the drug delivery device, wherein the plate-like button body includes a material composite with at least one first component consisting of a first material and at least one second component consisting of a second material different from the first material, wherein the at least one first component and the at least one second component are coupled via at least one coupling plane that is at least section wise slanted or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Further, the disclosure describes a button assembly for a drug delivery device which is shock resistant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Matthew Meredith Jones, Anthony Paul Morris, Sophie Sladen, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Denny Lustosa Horn, Stefan Blancke, Michael Jugl
  • Patent number: 11980769
    Abstract: Heat and heat based treatments that may be used to modulate, inhibit and/or prevent one or more of the processes that contribute to certain vascular and/or arterial complications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Inventors: Eamon McErlean, Gary Beale, Matthew Donald Kidd
  • Publication number: 20240141835
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes: a turbomachine having a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section arranged in serial flow order, the compressor section having a high pressure compressor defining a high pressure compressor exit area (AHPCExit) in square inches; wherein the gas turbine engine defines a redline exhaust gas temperature (EGT) in degrees Celsius, a total sea level static thrust output (FnTotal) in pounds, and a corrected specific thrust, wherein the corrected specific thrust is greater than or equal to 42 and less than or equal to 90, the corrected specific determined as follows: FnTotal×EGT/(AHPCExit2×1000).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Alan Niergarth, Jeffrey Donald Clements, Jeffrey S. Spruill, Daniel Endecott Osgood, Erich Alois Krammer, Matthew Kenneth MacDonald, Scott Alan Schimmels
  • Publication number: 20240131271
    Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
  • Patent number: 11964741
    Abstract: A method includes receiving electric field data regarding an electric field that is detected in an underwater environment by a plurality of electrodes mounted on a first structure, and receiving sensor data from at least one sensor mounted on the first structure. The sensor data relates to a sensed location of a second structure. The method includes determining location data including information regarding a location of the second structure relative to the first structure in the underwater environment based on the sensor data, and determining one or more characteristics of the second structure based on the electric field data and the location data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: OCEAN FLOOR GEOPHYSICS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Claus, Craig Donald, Peter Kowalczyk, Matthew Kowalczyk
  • Publication number: 20240124596
    Abstract: Binding members for alpha chain of receptor for granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSFR?), especially antibody molecules. Use of the binding members in treating inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, asthma, allergic response, multiple sclerosis, myeloid leukaemia and atherosclerosis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Emma Suzanne Cohen, Ralph Raymond Minter, Paula Rosamund Harrison, Matthew Alexander Sleeman, Andrew Donald Nash, Louis Jerry Fabri
  • Patent number: 11936763
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, computer program products, and systems. Embodiments of the present invention can identify a network request as being deferrable and embed data of the deferrable network request within a header of a suitable carrier network request for sending to a remote server. Embodiments of the present invention can receive a carrier network request with embedded data of a deferrable network request within a header of the carrier network request. Embodiments of the present invention can then parse the embedded data from the header into a separate request message for actioning at the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Paul Chapman, Chengxuan Xing, Ashley Donald Harrison, Samuel David Goulden
  • Publication number: 20240086792
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes assigning, by a peak management system, a peak resource management schedule to a first premises and a second premises within a resource distribution network. The peak resource management schedule includes a first peak consumption period and a first limited resource consumption period for the first premises and a second peak consumption period and a second limited resource consumption period for the second premises, where the first peak consumption period and the second peak consumption period are different. The method also includes transmitting, by the peak management system, a peak resource management signal to the first premises and the second premises. The peak resource management signal includes instructions to commence execution of the peak resource management schedule at the first premises and the second premises.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Matthew Donald Karlgaard
  • Patent number: 11918794
    Abstract: A button for a drug delivery device with a reduced operating loudness includes a plate-like button body forming a touch surface, wherein the plate-like button body is coupled by an axial supporting member to a noise-generating interface of the drug delivery device and movable into a longitudinal direction of the drug delivery device, wherein the plate-like button body includes a material composite with at least one first component consisting of a first material and at least one second component consisting of a second material different from the first material, wherein the at least one first component and the at least one second component are coupled via at least one coupling plane that is at least sectionwise slanted or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Further, the disclosure describes a button assembly for a drug delivery device which is shock resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Matthew Meredith Jones, Anthony Paul Morris, Sophie Sladen, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Denny Lustosa Horn, Stefan Blancke, Michael Jugl
  • Publication number: 20240062322
    Abstract: Property Tour Management Systems (PTMS) of the present disclosure may include a PTMS application running on a network that includes multiple mobile digital devices and one or more servers. Each of the mobile digital devices may be used by respective agents or prospective buyers to carry out one or more procedures associated with property tours.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Donald McCoun, Christopher Dean Mergenthaler
  • Publication number: 20240012037
    Abstract: An electricity meter includes: a plurality of first electrical metrology components including a first load busbar, a first line current transducer positioned around the first load busbar, a first DER busbar, and a first DER current transducer positioned around the first DER busbar; and a plurality of second electrical metrology components including a second load busbar, a second line current transducer positioned around the second load busbar, a second DER busbar, and a second DER current transducer positioned around the second DER busbar. The first electrical metrology components and the second electrical metrology components are arranged in the electricity meter so that the first electrical metrology components are positioned on a first side of the electricity meter and the second electrical metrology components are positioned on a second side of the electricity meter that is non-overlapping with the first side of the electricity meter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Nikhil Tanwani, Bahadur Singh Rathore, Matthew Donald Karlgaard
  • Patent number: 11814959
    Abstract: A method for increasing an amplitude of reciprocal axial extensions and contractions of a shock tool configured to induce axial oscillations in a drillstring during drilling operations includes (a) selecting the shock tool. The shock tool has a central axis and an axial length. The shock tool includes an outer housing, a mandrel telescopically disposed within the outer housing, and a first annular piston fixably coupled to the mandrel. The shock tool has a first amplitude of reciprocal axial extension and contraction at a pressure differential between a first fluid pressure in the outer housing and a second fluid pressure outside the outer housing. In addition, the method includes (b) fixably coupling a second annular piston to the mandrel of the shock tool and increasing the axial length of the shock tool after (a). The second annular piston is axially spaced from the first annular piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NATIONAL OILWELL VARCO, L.P.
    Inventors: Sean Matthew Donald, Andrew Lawrence Scott, Yong Yang, Roman Kvasnytsia
  • Publication number: 20230347257
    Abstract: An interactive system for an amusement park attraction includes one or more processors configured to identify a non-fungible token (NFT) possessed by a user within the amusement park attraction. The one or more processors are also configured to transform the NFT into a derivative of the NFT based on context data for the amusement park attraction. The one or more processors are further configured to instruct display of the derivative of the NFT on a display screen within the amusement park attraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Michael Jordan, Gabriella Farrisi, Gargi Deb, Kristen Elizabeth Tan, Matthew Donald Dailey, Taylor Doris May Harris, Mark James Traynor, Howard Bruce Mall, JR., Victor Alexander Lugo, Anthony Melo
  • Patent number: 11773743
    Abstract: A system includes a gas turbine engine and a controller operable to determine a closing threshold with respect to an upper limit and an opening threshold with respect to a lower limit of a movement range of an effector of the gas turbine engine based on an on-board model, where the upper limit and the lower limit are defined for a target parameter of the gas turbine engine. The controller determines a projected state of the target parameter absent a correction command to the effector, applies a closing correction to the effector based on determining that the projected state of the target parameter would result in being above the closing threshold, and applies an opening correction to the effector based on determining that the projected state of the target parameter would result in being below the opening threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: RTX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Robert Liebschutz, Matthew Donald
  • Patent number: 11770803
    Abstract: In some aspects, a channel hopping sequence for communication on a mesh network is generated. The hopping sequence may include multiple channels assigned to respective positions in the hopping sequence. In some cases, a first channel is assigned to a first position such that the first channel may transmit communications in a first transmission mode, such as a low-bandwidth transmission mode. In addition, an additional channels adjacent to the first channel is also assigned to the first position such that the combination of the first channel and additional channel may transmit communications in a second transmission mode, such as a high-bandwidth transmission mode. In some cases, a whitelist is determined based on the assigned channels. The whitelist may indicate channels that do not conflict with the assigned channels during transmission of a communication. In addition, channels may be assigned to the hopping sequence based on the whitelist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Landis+Gyr Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Clifford Matthews, Matthew Donald Karlgaard, Govind Kharangate, Michael Sean Holcombe
  • Publication number: 20230293270
    Abstract: The disclosure presents a system, apparatus, and method for the creation of an accurate a repeatable dental prosthetic appliance. The system and method may be used to create prosthetics either the mandibular arch, the maxillary arch, or both. The system may include one or more of a bone reduction guide, a connectable tooth cap, an abutment guide, a scan bar, and scan bodies for use in photogrammetry record collection. The method includes installing the bone reduction guide to define an area of bone matter to remove from one or both dental arches, placing implants for the fixing of a completed dental prosthetic, and using the implants to generate accurate records to the creation of a merged computer storable record for the repeatable manufacture of dental prosthetics for the patient for whom the record was created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Digital Ape Dental Lab, LLC
    Inventors: Matthew Donald Ross, Robert Elisha Stapp, JR.
  • Patent number: 11762916
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein comprise a user interface for searching, analyzing, and interpreting documents obtained from computer databases. Exemplary systems and methods receive a user input and automatically identify, analyze, and interpret unmet technical needs and/or technical problems in specific areas of technology based on that input. Other exemplary systems and methods automatically identify, analyze, and interpret unmet technical needs and/or technical problems across numerous areas of technology based on similar user input. Other exemplary systems and methods receive user input and automatically identify, analyze, and interpret documents associated with a company to determine one or more technical capabilities of that company.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Artemis Intelligence LLC
    Inventors: Mark Daniel McClusky, Matthew Donald McClusky, Emily Elizabeth McClusky, Jonathan Nathaniel Fegely, Jonathan Hilton Evans
  • Publication number: 20230283997
    Abstract: A system and method for the real-time management of a device, and more particularly to the establishment and enforcement of policies or rules associated with the feature or functions that may be performed with the device, such as making and receiving calls, exchanging data, playing games and music, sending and receiving email, accessing web sites, and paying for goods and services. If a child or employee is using the device, there may be a need to regulate how that device can be used and to determine who will pay for what goods or services. In addition to providing all of the features associated with a device, service providers need to be able to establish and enforce rules (policies) regulating how and when that device can be used and who will pay for a good or service requested by the user of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Donald Baker, Steven Ira Geller, Douglas Owen Kesser, Daniel John Neal, Carol Ann Politi, Ben Julian Weintraub
  • Publication number: 20230282107
    Abstract: A method includes detecting a traffic disturbance in a first lane of a road with a plurality of lanes. The traffic disturbance is categorized into a category. Movement characteristics of a plurality of vehicles in the proximity of the traffic disturbance are sensed. A traffic alleviation strategy is developed based on the category of the traffic disturbance and the movement characteristics. At least one traffic command is sent to a processor of at least one vehicle based on the traffic alleviation strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Rujiao Yan, Xian Zhang, Matthew Donald Berkemeier