Patents by Inventor Matthew Sanders
Matthew Sanders 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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Publication number: 20240148610Abstract: A syringe adapter includes a housing having a first end and a second end with the first end configured to be secured to a first container, a cannula having a first end and a second end with the second end positioned within the housing, and a collet having a first end and a second end with at least a portion of the collet received within the housing. The collet includes a body defining a passageway, a seal member received by the passageway, and an arcuate, resilient locking member connected to the body of the collet. The collet is movable from a first position where the locking member is open to receive a mating connector to a second position where radially outward movement of the locking member is restricted.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2024Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Laurie Sanders, Matthew Zachek
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Patent number: 11959889Abstract: An apparatus for testing paving samples includes a base that includes a paving sample tray about the cabinet and configured for translation relative to the cabinet. A roller is configured for imparting compressive forces to a sample carried by the sample tray. An arm is configured for moving the roller from a stowed position to an in-use position where the roller contacts the sample. A cylinder assembly having a piston therein supplies pressure forces to the arm to move the arm from the stowed position to the in-use position, wherein a depth of travel of the arm is limited by the sample. As the sample is compressed, the depth of travel increases. A measurement device is in communication with the cylinder for determining an amount of travel of the arm to thus determine an amount of compression of the sample.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Troxler Electronic Laboratories Inc.Inventors: Matthew Marchese, William Sanders, Yan Zhang, Robert Ernest Troxler
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Patent number: 11961358Abstract: A gaming system randomly selects a trigger value for a feature, which starts when the current value of a symbol counter reaches the trigger value. In some examples, a gaming system includes memory that stores data defining reel strips. When a symbol counter is initialized, an initial value of the symbol counter is randomly selected from a range of allowable initial values having an upper limit. A trigger value is randomly selected from a range between the initial value and a ceiling value, which is greater than the upper limit. For each of one or more instances, symbols are selected from the reel strips for display, and the current value of the symbol counter is incremented based on the count of designated symbols, if any, among the selected symbols. Responsive to the current value of the symbol counter reaching the trigger value, the feature is started.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia PTY LimitedInventors: Scott Olive, Matthew Deitz, Liam Sanders
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Publication number: 20240115953Abstract: A method of improving accessibility for the user operation of a first application on a computer includes the steps of taking one or more measurements of a current user's interaction with an application on the computer, comparing the one or more measurements with expectations derived from measurements from a first corpus of users, characterising one or more needs of the current user based upon the comparison, and modifying at least a first property of the first application responsive to the characterised need or needs.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Matthew Sanders, Christopher William Henderson, Jesus Lucas Barcias, Maurizio Cerrato, Nima Karshenas, Calum Armstrong, Christopher George Buchanan
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Publication number: 20240112057Abstract: An optics-integrated confinement apparatus system comprises a confinement apparatus chip having a confinement apparatus formed thereon and having at least one apparatus optical element disposed and/or formed thereon.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Matthew Bohn, Christopher John Carron, Bryan DeBono, Chris Ertsgaard, Robert D. Horning, Molly Krogstad, Patricia Lee, Lora Nugent, Adam Jay Ollanik, Mary Rowe, Steve Sanders, Alex Zolot
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Publication number: 20240097259Abstract: A rechargeable lithium-ion battery assembly configured to provide power to a forklift vehicle, the battery assembly including a plurality of battery modules integrated into the assembly, where each integrated battery module includes a plurality of battery cells within a module casing, with the cells being grouped and interconnected in both series and parallel to provide in combination an overall predetermined electrical potential between a positive terminal and a negative terminal for each module, and where each module uses two conductors within a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) as busbars, with the PCBA being disposed adjacent to a first end of each battery cell in the module and being electrically coupled by wire bonds with each battery cell, and the PCBA also having a processor (a battery management system, or BMS) for management control of the integrated module.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: EControls, LLCInventors: Kennon Guglielmo, Adam Schumann, Brent Ludwig, Matthew Martin, Justin Sanders
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Patent number: 11922775Abstract: An electronic method of operating a gaming system. The method includes selecting a plurality of symbols, displaying the selected symbols, and upon the displayed symbols including one or more designated symbols, retaining each displayed designated symbol for a subsequent game round at a respective symbol display position at which the designated symbol is displayed. The method also includes, in the subsequent game round, selecting, a plurality of symbols from the symbol data, upon a further designated symbol being selected for display at a symbol display position at which the retained designated symbol is displayed, modifying the retained designated symbol to indicate that a win containing the retained designated symbol will be increased, and upon the selected symbols in the subsequent game round corresponding to a winning outcome incorporating the modified retained designated symbol, making an award of an award value corresponding to the winning outcome modifier by the increase.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LTD.Inventors: Liam Sanders, Matthew Chan
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Patent number: 11878250Abstract: A content modification system comprising a content receiving unit operable to receive content comprising a virtual environment and one or more active elements, an input receiving unit operable to receive inputs from one or more users, an element addition unit operable to generate one or more virtual elements within the virtual environment in response to the received inputs, the virtual elements being unable to be interacted with by the one or more active elements, and a content generation unit operable to generate modified content comprising the virtual environment, the one or more active elements, and the one or more generated virtual elements.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Maria Chiara Monti, Fabio Cappello, Matthew Sanders, Timothy Bradley, Oliver Hume, Jason Craig Millson
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Publication number: 20240010589Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having general formula I for use in the activation of AMPK. A composition comprising said compound and methods for use thereof, in the activation of AMPK, are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2021Publication date: January 11, 2024Inventors: DENIS MARCEL BARRON, OLIVIER CICLET, MARTINE NARANJO PINTA, KATYAYANEE NEOPANE, YANN RATINAUD, MATTHEW SANDERS
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Publication number: 20230414638Abstract: The present invention relates to a substituted resorcylic acid compound having general formula I and compositions comprising said compound for use in the activation of AMPK. The compounds are useful for the treatment or prevention of a condition, disorder or disease related to type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and/or obesity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: DENIS MARCEL BARRON, OLIVIER CICLET, MARTINE NARANJO PINTA, KATYAYANEE NEOPANE, YANN RATINAUD, MATTHEW SANDERS
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Publication number: 20230384826Abstract: A wearable data processing apparatus includes one or more attachment members for attaching the wearable data processing apparatus to a part of a limb of a user, one or more sensors to generate user input data in response to one or more user inputs, wireless communication circuitry to transmit the user input data to an external device and to receive control data based on the user input data from the external device, processing circuitry to generate one or more output signals in dependence upon the control data and an output unit to output one or more of the output signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Maria Chiara Monti, Matthew Sanders, Pedro Federico Quijada Leyton
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Patent number: 11717755Abstract: A content generation system, the system comprising an input obtaining unit operable to obtain one or more samples of input text and/or audio relating to a first content, an input analysis unit operable to generate n-grams representing one or more elements of the obtained inputs, a representation generating unit operable to generate a visual representation of one or more of the generated n-grams, and a display generation unit operable to generate second content comprising one or more elements of the visual representation in association with the first content.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Fabio Cappello, Maria Chiara Monti, Matthew Sanders, Timothy Bradley, Oliver Hume, Jason Craig Millson
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Patent number: 11688127Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes input circuitry to receive viewpoint data indicative of respective viewpoints for a plurality of spectators of a virtual environment, detection circuitry to detect a portion of the virtual environment viewed by each of the respective viewpoints in dependence upon the viewpoint data, selection circuitry to select one or more regions of the virtual environment in dependence upon at least some of the detected portions, and output circuitry to output data indicative of one or more of the selected regions.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2021Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Maria Chiara Monti, Fabio Cappello, Matthew Sanders, Timothy Edward Bradley, Oliver Hume
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Publication number: 20230158403Abstract: A data processing apparatus includes storage circuitry to store graphics data for a first device, receiving circuitry to receive second device information indicative of one or more properties for a second device with one or more different capabilities to the first device, control circuitry to reduce a quality of at least one aspect of the graphics data in dependence upon the second device information to obtain modified graphics data and output circuitry to output the modified graphics data, where the control circuitry is configured to reduce a quality of the at least one aspect according to a predetermined quality level from a plurality of predetermined quality levels for the at least one aspect, the predetermined quality level identified in dependence upon the second device information.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc.Inventors: Danjeli Schembri, Oliver Hume, Matthew Sanders, Fabio Cappello
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Patent number: 11583507Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having general formula I for use in the activation of AMPK. A composition comprising said compound for use in the activation of AMPK is also provided. Said compounds are 9,10 dihydrophenanthrenes, in particular selected from the group consisting of: (i) Lusianthridin i.e. 7-Methoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-2,5-diol, (ii) 7-Methoxy-9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-2,3,5-triol, (iii) 9,10-dihydrophenanthrene-2,5-diol, (iv) 9,10-Dihydrophenanthrene-2,4,7-triol (v) 9,10-Dihydro-7-methoxy-3,5-phenanthrenediol, and the activation of AMPK improves the condition, disorder, or disease related to cardiometabolic health, obesity, type 2 diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, cardiovascular disease, and cancer.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2019Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: Societe des Produits Nestle S.A.Inventors: Denis Marcel Barron, Yann Ratinaud, Kei Sakamoto, Matthew Sanders, Robin Willows
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Patent number: 11586704Abstract: A method for facilitating the testing of a data sample involves a computing device carrying out the following actions: displaying a data sample on a user interface; receiving, via the user interface, a selection of a test to be performed on the data sample; receiving, via the user interface, an input of a result of the test; generating, in a graph database, a vertex representing a visual indicator corresponding to the input result; and creating, in the graph database, an association between the vertex representing the visual indicator and a vertex representing a file containing the displayed data sample.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2018Date of Patent: February 21, 2023Assignee: WORKIVA INC.Inventors: John Bonk, Ryan Gilsdorf, James Michael Morse, Jason Aguilon, David Andrew Haila, Matthew Sanders, Patrick Corwin Kujawa, Robert Reed Becker, Sean Martin Kelly Burke, Stephen Bush, Thomas Ryan Connell
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Publication number: 20230048350Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having general formula (I) for use in the activation of AMPK. A composition comprising said compound for use in the activation of AMPK is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: DENIS MARCEL BARRON, YANN RATINAUD, KEI SAKAMOTO, MATTHEW SANDERS
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Publication number: 20230035592Abstract: The present invention relates to a combinations of direct AMPK activators with indirect AMPK activators for use in activating AMPK. In particular, combinations of benzocoumarins of formula I which are direct AMPK activators with urolithins of formula VII which are indirect AMPK activators.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: MATTHEW SANDERS, YANN RATINAUD, DENIS MARCEL BARRON, KEI SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230026772Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having general formula I for use in the activation of AMPK. A composition comprising said compound for use in the activation of AMPK is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: January 26, 2023Inventors: MATTHEW SANDERS, DENIS MARCEL BARRON, YANN RATINAUD, KEI SAKAMOTO
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Publication number: 20230008317Abstract: The present invention relates to a compound having general formula I for use in the activation of AMPK. A composition comprising said compound for use in the activation of AMPK is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: MATTHEW SANDERS, YANN RATINAUD, DENIS MARCEL BARRON, KEI SAKAMOTO