Patents by Inventor Michael A. Cook

Michael A. Cook 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: 12279604
    Abstract: A device for connecting a lure to a fishing line, the device includes a main shaft having a line attachment end and a lure holding end. A line holding element is provided at the line attachment end and a lure holding loop is provided at the lure holding end. The device further includes various other components to improve lure retention without impairing lure movement. These other components include one or more from the group of a retaining loop, three or more resistance points, a zigzag structure and a reverse direction terminating segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Inventor: Todd Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20250120334
    Abstract: A turf applicator including a main body, a primary spray tank, an auxiliary spray tank, and a removable fertilizer hopper, where only one of the auxiliary spray tank or the removable fertilizer hopper is used at a time, a controller; and a removable frame. The removeable frame includes: a plurality of connection points to secure the removable fertilizer hopper or the auxiliary spray tank to the main body, a plurality of mounting flanges to support the removable fertilizer hopper or the auxiliary spray tank, and at least one vertical slot where at least one wing nut and at least one carriage bolt secure the removable frame with the removable fertilizer hopper or the auxiliary spray tank to the main frame. When the auxiliary spray tank is used the controller enables fluid transfer from the auxiliary spray tank to the primary spray tank to balance weight distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventor: David Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20250122937
    Abstract: A manifold for use in a turf applicator spray system, the manifold includes: an inlet to receive fluid flow; a first and second outlet for directing the fluid flow; a valve plunger; a solenoid valve to raise and lower the valve plunger; a compression spring moveable between a compressed state and an uncompressed state; where when in the compressed state the valve plunger is compressed to send the fluid flow from the inlet to the first outlet and when in the uncompressed state the fluid flow is from the inlet to the second outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventor: David Michael Cook
  • Patent number: 12236415
    Abstract: The electronic device may invoke a host application. The device may display a first host user interface on the display, the first host user interface including a first host user interface component associated with a child application. In response, the device may invoke, using the host application, the child application executed at the electronic device. The device may transmit, using the host application, a request for data associated with a child user interface component to the child application. The device may transmit, using the child application, the request for data associated with the child user interface component to a child application server, wherein the data associated with the child user interface component is inaccessible by the host application. The device may receive, using the child application, the data associated with the child user interface component from the child application server. The device may display the child user interface component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Synchrony Bank
    Inventors: Jason Chen, Patrick Joseph Caraher, Abha Kataria, Darren Antoine Robinson, Derk Carel Doijer, Alex Muller, Michael Cook, James Oldham, Daniel Murphy, Amanda Schaufler, Timothy Christensen, Amable De Los Santos
  • Patent number: 12216795
    Abstract: A system may include an interface configured to couple to a network, and includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory may be configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to process search results corresponding to multiple data owners to selectively filter personally identifiable information (PII) associated with one or more consumers from the set of search results according to data sharing permissions for each of the data owners to produce filtered results. The instructions may further cause the processor to provide the filtered results to a user device through the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20250034321
    Abstract: The present invention relates to epoxy curing agent compositions comprising naphthol and naphthol derivatives in combination with at least one polyamine having three or more active amine hydrogens, and use of these curing agents as hardener for epoxy resins. These curing agent compositions may be used to cure, harden and/or crosslink an epoxy resin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: EVONIK OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Sudhir ANANTHACHAR, Gauri Sankar LAL, Nicholas BAURKOT, Raghuraman GOVINDAN KARUNAKARAN, Shafiq FAZEL, Michael COOK
  • Publication number: 20240317927
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a waterborne amine curing agent, process of making such curing agent, and curable amine-epoxy compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Publication date: September 26, 2024
    Applicant: EVONIK OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Yan Zhenlong, Shiying Zheng, Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20240298568
    Abstract: An applicator including: a frame with hopper mounted thereon to hold and dispense a granule product, the hopper including an electronically controlled gate(s); a tank to hold a liquid product; a electronically controlled spray tip(s) to dispense the liquid product; a spray pump located between the tank and spray tip(s); an operator control interface for receiving input from an operator; a control coupled to the operator control interface, the electronically controlled gate(s), and the spray tip(s), where the control receives input, dispenses the liquid or granule product based on the input received from the operator control; where when the liquid product is dispensed, the control provides a signal to the spray tip(s) to regulate a flow of the liquid product, and when the granule product is dispensed, the control provides a signal to the electronically controlled gate(s) to regulate a flow of the granule product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: David Michael Cook, Stephen W. Brewer
  • Patent number: 12086376
    Abstract: This application generally relates to defining, displaying and interacting with tags in a 3D model. In an embodiment, a method includes generating, by a system including a processor, a three-dimensional model of an environment based on sets of aligned three-dimensional data captured from the environment, and associating tags with defined locations of the three-dimensional model, wherein the tags are respectively represented by tag icons that are spatially aligned with the defined locations of the three-dimensional model as included in different representations of the three-dimensional model rendered via an interface of a device, wherein the different representations correspond to different perspectives of the three-dimensional model, and wherein selection of the tag icons causes the tags respectively associated therewith to be rendered at the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Matterport, Inc.
    Inventors: James Mildrew, Matthew Tschudy Bell, Dustin Michael Cook, Preston Cowley, Lester Lee, Peter McColgan, Daniel Prochazka, Brian Schulman, James Sundra, Alan Tan
  • Patent number: 12052938
    Abstract: A riding hydraulically driven aerator is disclosed herein. The aerator includes a frame, an engine, one or more hydraulic pumps, one or more drive wheels, one or more tine assemblies, and one or more hydraulic motors. The hydraulic motors are coupled to the drive wheels and to the tine assemblies. The hydraulic pumps provide power to the hydraulic motors and are coupled to the engine with a toothed timing belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: STINGER EQUIPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: David Michael Cook, Joshua Michael Otto
  • Publication number: 20240245780
    Abstract: Pharmaceutical compositions comprising poorly water-soluble drugs (PSDs) and sucrose acetate isobutyrate (SAIB). The compositions are amorphous solid solutions or amorphous solid dispersions where the PSDs are present in the molecular or the amorphous state in the SAIB. The PSDs in amorphous form in the amorphous solid solutions can be stable against crystallization on exposure to elevated temperature and humidity conditions. Oral dosage forms containing the compositions are characterized by a higher dissolution rate in water, a higher serum maximum concentration (Cmax), and/or a greater area under the curve (AUG) than an equivalent oral dosage form without the SAIB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicants: Eastman Chemical Company, The Texas A&M University System
    Inventors: Ziyaur RAHMAN, Eman M. MOHAMED, Sathish DHARANI, Tahir KHUROO, Mansoor A. KHAN, Phillip Michael COOK, Rajendran ARUNAGIRI
  • Patent number: 12023005
    Abstract: An illumination system for illuminating a lumen within a body of a patient comprising a tube having a proximal end and an opposed distal end and an internal chamber, the tube being configured for placement within a lumen of the body. The system also includes an illumination subsystem including an optical fiber that is sized and configured to seat within the internal chamber of the tube and a light source for generating light that is emitted by the fiber optic cable. The optical fiber, when mounted within the tube and when the light source generates light, emits light at the distal end of the tube so as to transilluminate the lumen and surrounding tissue so as to be able to locate the distal end of the tube within the lumen of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignees: Fraen Corporation, Neuroceuticals Inc., Acera LLC
    Inventors: Shinya Miike, Thomas V. Root, Michael S. Epstein, Michael Cook, Carlton Jones
  • Publication number: 20240195886
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for implementing reciprocal data sharing in a data exchange system. Limitations may be placed on the amount of data an exchange member may access based on the amount of data contributed. The system may include determining a data contribution associated with a first member of the data exchange, determining a data access limit for the first member based on the data contribution, and providing data to the first member when the first member has not exceeded the data access limit. In some embodiments, there may be separate data access limits for each member of the data exchange, so that a first member may have different access limits when accessing data from a second member, data from a third member, and data from a fourth member. Further, the system may limit a requester to a type of data that corresponds to the type of data contributed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Cook, Gregor R. Bonin, Aaron Antonio Rodriguez
  • Publication number: 20240193305
    Abstract: A compromised data exchange system extracts data from websites using a crawler, detects portions within the extracted data that resemble personally identifying information (PII) data based on PII data patterns using a risk assessment module, and compares a detected portion to data within a database of disassociated compromised PII data to determine a match using the risk assessment module. A risk score may be assigned to a data item within the database in response to determining the match. In some embodiments, URL data may also be detected in the extracted data. The detected URL data represents further websites that can be automatically crawled by the system to detect further PII data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Applicant: Early Warning Services, LLC
    Inventors: Lester Leland Lockhart, III, David Hugh Munson, Gregor R. Bonin, Michael Cook
  • Patent number: 11988825
    Abstract: In one aspect, a light module is disclosed, which includes a housing providing a hollow chamber extending from a proximal end to a distal end, and a lens positioned in the hollow chamber, where the lens has a lens body comprising an input surface for receiving light from a light source and an output surface through which light exits the lens body, said lens further comprising a collar at least partially encircling said lens body. The light module further includes at least one shoulder on which the lens collar can be seated for positioning the lens within the housing. A light source, e.g., an LED, is coupled to the hollow chamber, e.g., at its proximal end, for providing light to the lens. In some embodiments, an optical window is disposed in the hollow chamber and is optically coupled to the output surface of the lens such that the light exiting the lens passes through the optical window before exiting the light module. In some embodiments, the shoulder can be formed as part of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Acera, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas V. Root, Thomas Davis, Michael Cook, Carlton S. Jones, David Leo, Michael S. Epstein
  • Publication number: 20240152646
    Abstract: A system includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to determine a privacy policy score for one of an application and a website and provide the privacy policy score to a device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Cook
  • Publication number: 20240143833
    Abstract: A system may include an interface configured to couple to a network, and includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor. The memory may be configured to store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to process search results corresponding to multiple data owners to selectively filter personally identifiable information (PII) associated with one or more consumers from the set of search results according to data sharing permissions for each of the data owners to produce filtered results. The instructions may further cause the processor to provide the filtered results to a user device through the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Cook
  • Patent number: 11944650
    Abstract: A method of preventing or reducing the occurrence and/or development of a hernia within a subject at risk of developing a hernia includes implanting a graft material in contact with an opening in an abdominal wall. The graft material promotes healing of the abdominal wall and includes placental or placental derived tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY AND AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE
    Inventors: Frank Ho Pak Lau, Ian Hodgdon, Michael Cook
  • Patent number: 11930250
    Abstract: Graphical descriptor data associated with a particular video asset may include data for one or more graphical descriptor images and graphical descriptor metadata related to each graphical descriptor image. The graphical descriptor images can be simultaneously presented on a display screen with the video asset content and used to navigate to different content in that video asset. The graphical descriptors can also be used to navigate to content of one or more different assets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Cook, Walt Michel
  • Patent number: D1073855
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Inventor: Todd Michael Cook