Patents by Inventor Matthew Steven
Matthew Steven 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: 11972654Abstract: A parking meter may have a housing that is formed at least significantly of an impact resistant material. In particular, the impact resistant material may comprise one of a polycarbonate copolymer or polycarbonate blended resin, a nylon-based copolymer, or a nylon-based polymer that includes long glass fiber or Kevlar fiber. The housing encloses the parking meter components to provide protection for the parking meter components against an external environment and vandalism attacks.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: J.J. MacKay Canada LimitedInventors: George Allan MacKay, James George MacKay, Adrian Ignatius O'Neil, Robert Steven Cosh, Darren Scott Cameron, Gregory Emile Chauvin, David Andrew McMullin, Michael Brown, Matthew Watson
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Publication number: 20240132160Abstract: A component for a vehicle includes a skid plate configured to attach to an underbody of the vehicle, a plurality of cooling channels extending in a longitudinal direction between the skid plate and the underbody of the vehicle, and a structural reinforcement extending outward from the skid plate. The skid plate, the plurality of cooling channels, and the structural reinforcement are additively manufactured in a unitary construction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Keith Weston, Jim Stevens, David D. Friske, Mark Meinhart, Matthew Arthur Titus
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Publication number: 20240132828Abstract: Some fluid coupling devices described herein are configured for use in fluid systems. For example, some embodiments described in this document are single-use, aseptic fluid coupling devices that can be coupled to create a sterile flow path therethrough. Some such aseptic couplings are genderless couplings such that two identical aseptic couplings can be coupled together and then latched to form a robust connection between the aseptic couplings.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Matthew Gregory Casura, Jonathan Steven Van Loon, Randall S. Williams
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Publication number: 20240114930Abstract: A consumable is provided. The consumable includes (a) at least one sweetener, and (b) a sweetness modifier comprising an extract or fraction from Gnaphalium affine or at least one flavonoid compound. The at least one sweetener is present is a sweetening amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Feng SHI, Moises GALANO, Laura H. LUCAS, Yosuke ONUMA, Matthew Steven ROACH, loana Maria UNGUREANU, Wei YUAN
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Publication number: 20240109564Abstract: A method is provided that can include activating at least two wireless communication channels in parallel, between a first wireless transceiver and a second wireless transceiver. Each of the at least two wireless communication channels can operate at a different radio carrier frequency, and the first wireless transceiver may be part of a first vehicle. The method can also include transmitting, by the first wireless transceiver, common information in parallel on the at least two wireless communication channels to the second wireless transceiver and deactivating the at least two wireless communication channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Padam Dhoj Swar, Carl L. Haas, Danial Rice, Rebecca W. Dreasher, Adam Hausmann, Matthew Steven Vrba, Edward J. Kuchar, James Lucas, Andrew Ryan Staats, Jerrid D. Chapman, Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Janmejay Tripathy, Stephen Craven, Tania Lindsley, Derek K. Woo, Ann K. Grimm, Scott Sollars, Phillip A. Burgart, James Allen Oswald, Shannon K. Struttmann, Stuart J. Barr, Keith Smith, Francois P. Pretorius, Craig K. Green, Kendrick Gawne, Irwin Morris, Joseph W. Gorman, Srivallidevi Muthusami, Mahesh Babu Natarajan, Jeremiah Dirnberger, Adam Franco
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Publication number: 20240109697Abstract: The present disclosure provides components of packaging that is adapted for storing a product including a container having a body and a cover. The body and the cover define an internal storage compartment adapted for storage of a product. The body is configured to interact with the cover so as to form a joint when engaged. A sealing member is configured to substantially cover the joint, wherein the material of the sealing member is continuous and uninterrupted, thus limiting moisture loss from a product within the internal storage compartment. The sealing member is further configured to tear in a direction that is substantially parallel to the joint of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Matthew D. Sain, Wesley Steven Jones, Pankaj C. Patel
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Patent number: 11938825Abstract: An example system includes a vehicle having a prime mover motively coupled to a drive line; a motor/generator selectively coupled to the drive line, and configured to selectively modulate power transfer between an electrical load and the drive line; a battery pack; a DC/DC converter electrically interposed between the motor/generator and the electrical load, and between the battery pack and the electrical load, the DC/DC converter comprising a DC/DC converter housing; and a covering tray positioned over a plurality of batteries of the battery pack, the covering tray comprising a connectivity layer configured to provide electrical connectivity to terminals of the plurality of batteries.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITEDInventors: Nihal Sukhatankar, Mahesh Prabhakar Joshi, Shivaprasad Vithal Goud, Thomas Joseph Stoltz, Matthew Richard Busdiecker, Kaylah J. Berndt, Glenn Clark Fortune, Sarah Elizabeth Behringer, Mark Steven George, Dennis Dukaric, Thomas Alan Genise, Gary Baker, Tissaphern Mirfakhrai, Elizabeth Jane Mercer, Viken Rafi Yeranosian, Lesley Earl Candler, Nicole Downing, Lalit Murlidhar Patil, Suyog Shekhar Kulkarni, Sunil Kumar Kunche, Rishabh Kumar Jain, Juan Chen
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Publication number: 20240091422Abstract: A renal therapy system is disclosed. In an example, the renal therapy system includes a home renal therapy machine that stores, to a log file, dates of when renal therapies were performed and a type of each renal therapy that was performed. The system also includes a server that receives the log file from the home renal therapy machine. The server compares the dates and types of performed renal therapies stored in the log file to a device program that specifies dates for performing renal therapies and the types of renal therapies to be performed. The server displays a flag in a user interface of a clinician computer when there is a deviation from the comparison.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Neil Tiwari, Joshua James Miller, Marc Steven Minkus, Matthew R. Muller, Derek Wiebenson, Douglas L. Wilkerson, Timothy G. Robinson, Anders J. Wellings, Kathryn Louise Hansbro, Borut Cizman, Brian S. Kunzeman, Robin D. Cooper, Timothy L. Kudelka, Angelo A. Sarto, Steve Joseph Lindo, Jostein Baustad, Duston Mounts, Shafali Hill
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Patent number: 11931663Abstract: An automated damping system including a damping device arranged and disposed to provide variable resistance to a load. The variable resistance provides resistance values corresponding to a displacement position of the damping device. The system includes a damping profile generator that calculates a damping profile and a sensor is arranged and disposed to measure one or more damping affecting properties. The sensor provides the one or more damping affecting properties to the damping profile generator. The damping profile provides the variable resistance based upon the one or more damping affecting properties of the load.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TAIT TOWERS MANUFACTURING, LLCInventors: Matthew Steven Bettinger, Nicholas James Bonsell, Andrew Phillips Mudie, Andrew John Penney, James Fowler Shumway, Jr., McLane Walker Snow
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Publication number: 20240088635Abstract: A tool has a first gripping portion or arm and a second gripping portion or arm hingedly connected to the first gripping portion. The first and second gripping portions define a cable space therebetween sized to receive a cable. A first lever arm and a second lever arm extend from the first gripping portion and the second gripping portion, respectively. A flexure is arranged between the first lever arm and the second lever arm and biases the first and second lever arms into a predetermined position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Applicant: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Kristin Billstrand, Marissa Jayne Feinman, Thomas Emery Backenstoes, Christopher John Gavlak, Matthew Steven Houser
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Patent number: 11926642Abstract: The invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1, R2 and - - - - - are as defined herein, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds and methods of treating COVID-19 in a patient by administering therapeutically effective amounts of the compounds and methods of inhibiting or preventing replication of SARS-CoV-2 with the compounds.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Pfizer inc.Inventors: Robert Steven Kania, Padmavani Bezawada, Emma Louise Hawking, Rohit Jaini, Samir Kulkarni, Matthew Nathan O'Brien Laramy, Jonathan Richard Lillis, Suman Luthra, Dafydd Rhys Owen, Klimentina Dimitrova Pencheva, Anil Mahadeo Rane, Matthew Forrest Sammons, Bradley Paul Sullivan, Andrew John Thiel, Martyn David Ticehurst, Jamison Bryce Tuttle, Robert Louis Hoffman
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Publication number: 20240080594Abstract: A speaker can have a main body with a generally spheroidal shape, which can be supported standing on its end. The speaker can include a subwoofer that faces forward. A plurality of mid-range drivers can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and radially outward. A plurality of tweeters can be distributed around the sub-woofer, facing generally forward and generally outward. The outer housing portion of the speaker can be covered with a fabric material. A user interface ring 162 can be touch sensitive to receive input, and can have a plurality of lights that can be illuminated separately to convey information to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Timothy David Williamson, Peter Joseph Hamblin, Maximilian Vincent Wozniak, Robert James Wilson, Wilson E. Taylor, JR., Larry E. Hand, Mark Robert Westcott, Mark Edward Trainer, Ellie Rei Fukuda, Joel Robert Sietsema, Paul Michael Belanger, Matthew Patrick Lyons, Timothy Steven DeYoung, Werner Kirchmann, Ralph Wilhelm Hermann
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Publication number: 20240070982Abstract: Described herein is a process and system for constructing three-dimensional (3D) representations of roof structures. The system can create representations of roof structures of arbitrary complexity and can create representations of dependent roof structures such as dormers. The system can create representations of roof structures that conventional methods cannot create, such as roofs with edges that are not coplanar, roofs with faces that do not connect to exterior edges, roofs composed of sub-structures, or roofs with dependent structures such as dormers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Christopher Hopper, Matthew Stevens
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Patent number: 11878897Abstract: Automated jackstand systems and methods deploy a jackstand to support a front end of a trailer parked at an automated loading dock. The jackstand prevents collapse of the trailer's landing gear and prevents upending of the trailer during loading and unloading. Advantageously, by deploying the jackstand automatically, presence of personnel in the yard where tractors and trailers are moving is not required.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: OUTRIDER TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Andrew F. Smith, Martin Edward Sotola, Peter James, Lawrence S. Klein, Matthew Steven Johannes, Jonathan Record, Garold McKinney
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Patent number: 11871234Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided that includes obtaining a first secret and a first public key, and obtaining a second secret a second public key. The method may also include authenticating the first public key of the first vehicle based on a first private key associated with the first vehicle, and authenticating the second public key of the second vehicle based on a second private key associated with the second vehicle. The method may also include preventing a man-in-the-middle attack, by securing at least one of a first vehicle-to-central office communication, a central office-to-first vehicle communication, or a first vehicle-to-second vehicle, wherein the first vehicle-to-central office communication and the central office-to-first vehicle communication are authenticated based on a determined private key associated with a respective first vehicle on-board computer, and sending a message, with the central office server, to a vehicle associated with a conditional movement authority.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: TRANSPORTATION IP HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Rebecca W. Dreasher, Adam Hausmann, Matthew Steven Vrba, Edward J. Kuchar, James Lucas, Andrew Ryan Staats, Jerrid D. Chapman, Jeffrey D. Kernwein, Janmejay Tripathy, Stephen Craven, Tania Lindsley, Derek K. Woo, Ann K. Grimm, Scott Sollars, Phillip A. Burgart, James Allen Oswald, Shannon K. Struttmann, Stuart J. Barr, Keith Smith, Francois P. Pretorius, Craig K. Green, Kendrick Gawne, Irwin Morris, Joseph W. Gorman
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Patent number: 11865703Abstract: A flexible joint includes a plurality of links, a plurality of flexures, and at least one cable which can be tensioned or relaxed to cause a bending about a plurality of axes. The links may include a base link; a last link; and a plurality of intermediate links, coupled together by the flexures such that the plurality of intermediate links, the first link, and the last link form a chain of links having the base link at a first end of the chain and the last link at a second end of the chain and each of the plurality of intermediate links is coupled to two other ones of the plurality of links by two flexures. The cable(s) extend through cable pass-through-holes in the links. The links may comprise disks with sloped faces, and may be rotational offset from another around a longitudinal axis. The flexures may comprise living hinges.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Sanctuary Cognitive Systems CorporationInventors: Connor Richard Shannon, Hatef Khadivinassab, Matthew Steven Hill
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Publication number: 20240000113Abstract: A consumable is provided. The consumable includes (a) at least one sweetener, and (b) a sweetness modifier comprising an extract or fraction from Viscum articulatum or at least one flavan or flavanone compound. The at least one sweetener is present is a sweetening amount.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2021Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Feng SHI, Moises GALANO, Laura H. LUCAS, Yosuke ONUMA, Matthew Steven ROACH, loana Maria UNGUREANU, Wei YUAN
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Patent number: D1014684Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Inventor: Matthew Steven Miller
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Patent number: D1018070Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Matthew Steven Ritter, Eric Andrew Quehl
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Patent number: D1020268Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Matthew Steven Ritter, Rachael Eden Walther, Guillermo Matias Vidal