Patents by Inventor Michael A. Elliott

Michael A. Elliott 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).

  • Publication number: 20250009018
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-generating article is provided, the device including: a housing having an opening; a chamber within the housing to receive the article; a heater assembly within the housing to heat the chamber; a part at or proximate to the opening to move between a first position, in which the article is insertable into the chamber, and a second position, in which the part has reduced a size of the opening; and a controller coupled to the part to actuate the part to move between the first and the second positions, the part being configured to move from the first position to the second position in a first direction, and the controller being configured to move in a second direction to cause the part to move from the first position to the second position, the second direction being different from the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Michael Elliott DOYLE
  • Publication number: 20240418416
    Abstract: A system includes a pressure exchanger (PX) and a condenser. An outlet of the condenser is fluidly coupled to a first inlet of the PX. The system further includes a generator assembly configured to be conditionally coupled to the PX. Coupling the generator assembly to the PX causes a turbine to convert rotational energy of the PX to electrical energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2024
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: Azam Mihir Thatte, Matthew Hans Truax, Michael Paul Gustafson, Joseph Michael Marchetti, James Elliott McLean, JR., David Deloyd Anderson
  • Publication number: 20240390464
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods of treating overweight or obese patients with or without type 2 diabetes mellitus. The treatment comprises administration of a dual GLP-1 receptor and GIP receptor agonist.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: Carmot Therapeutics Inc.
    Inventors: Manu Chakravarthy, Alexandra Steinberg, Jingtao Wu, Michael Elliott
  • Patent number: 12146761
    Abstract: An indoor location is mapped into a grid comprising grid cells, each cell associated with items or objects detected as being present in the corresponding cell. The grid, grid cells, and linked items and/or objects are generated and updated using an Augmented Reality (AR) algorithm that maps a physical environment into cells and measures distances and directions within the environment relative to each cell. Walking paths (routes) to the items within the indoor location are generated using the grid information. As a user walks a path, the user's position within the indoor location is mapped and tracked to the cells and the path revised based on the user's actual position. A user device provides video via an AR application to track the user's position; a rendering of the position and path are superimposed within the video being viewed by the user on the user-operated device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: NCR Voyix Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Scott Elliott, John Edward Haney, Kip Oliver Morgan, Andrew Michael Reusche
  • Patent number: 12127588
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-generating article is provided, the device including: a housing having an opening; a chamber within the housing to receive at least a portion of the article through the opening; a heater assembly within the housing and including a heating element to heat at least a portion of the chamber; a mechanism including at least one member at or proximate to the opening and configured to move between a first position in which the article can be inserted into the chamber via the opening, and a second position in which the member has reduced a size of the opening relative to a size of the opening when the member is in the first position; and at least one guide track along which the member is configured to slide when the member moves between the first and the second positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Michael Elliott Doyle
  • Patent number: 12122066
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing an extrusion die (100) having a plurality of pins (600a-c) and a plurality of slots (601) defined by the plurality of pins, each pin having a base, the method including applying a coating material (604) over side walls of the bases of the pins of the extrusion die and removing a portion of the coating material coated over the side walls of the bases of the plurality of pins with a cutting tool (650). In some embodiments, the cutting tool has a cutting width (652) equal to a target slot width (640) of the slots. In some embodiments, applying the coating material over the side walls of the bases of the pins includes overcoating a coating material to a thickness that is greater than a thickness needed to define a target slot width of the slots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Timothy Eugene Antesberger, Dana Eugene Coots, Eric Jay Dacheux, Kevin Eugene Elliott, Gary Michael Huzinec, Neil James Sidebottom
  • Patent number: 12084633
    Abstract: A unit dose detergent product includes a unit dose pouch with a water soluble film, and a liquid detergent encapsulated in the unit dose pouch. The liquid detergent includes a soil release polymer, at least 10% by weight of an alkyl-ether sulfate, an alkoxylated polyamine, less than 30% by weight of water, and, optionally, a polyglycol. A mixture of 2 parts of the liquid detergent composition to 1 part water has a viscosity below 3,000 centipoise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Jennifer Diane Coletta, Sarah Anne Elliott, Jeff Michael Gardner, Kristen Marie Higgins, Daniel Thomas Piorkowski, Napaporn Komesvarakul Slattery, Joseph D. Dahlmeyer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12037183
    Abstract: A reusable container for transporting, inspecting, and/or storing a fuel cell or other item may include a crate or box lined with plurality of cushioning inserts to protect a fuel cell placed within the container, and a plurality of straps that extend inwardly from walls of the container and couplable to the fuel cell. The straps are tensionable to suspend at least a portion of the weight of the fuel cell from the walls of the container while a portion of the fuel cell may rest on top of cushioning inserts at the floor of the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: American Fuel Cell and Coated Fabrics Company, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Accordino, Adam Garfein, Scott McMurtry, Todd Wine, Faith Elliott, Travis Williams, Anil Menawat
  • Publication number: 20240158513
    Abstract: Described herein are Fc variants and methods for the efficient production of antibodies and other multimeric protein complexes (collectively referred to herein as heteromultimeric proteins). Heteromultimeric proteins may be capable of specifically binding to more than one target. The targets may be, for example, different epitopes on a single molecule or located on different molecules. The methods combine efficient, high gene expression level, appropriate assembly, and ease of purification for the heteromultimeric proteins. The invention also provides methods of using these heteromultimeric proteins, and compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising these antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Michael ELLIOTT, Justin M. Scheer
  • Patent number: 11912773
    Abstract: Described herein are Fc variants and methods for the efficient production of antibodies and other multimeric protein complexes (collectively referred to herein as heteromultimeric proteins). Heteromultimeric proteins may be capable of specifically binding to more than one target. The targets may be, for example, different epitopes on a single molecule or located on different molecules. The methods combine efficient, high gene expression level, appropriate assembly, and ease of purification for the heteromultimeric proteins. The invention also provides methods of using these heteromultimeric proteins, and compositions, kits and articles of manufacture comprising these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Michael Elliott, Justin Scheer
  • Publication number: 20230413934
    Abstract: A garment includes a torso portion having a neck opening and is configured to be supported by shoulders of a wearer. A hood is coupled to a back of the torso portion about the neck opening and is configured to fit on a head of the wearer in a hood up position. A first fastener is supported by a back of the hood and is spaced a first distance from the neck opening. A second fastener is supported by a back of the torso portion and is spaced a second distance from the neck opening to releasably secure the hood via engagement with the first fastener in a hood down position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Elliott Jordan
  • Publication number: 20230397663
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-generating article is provided, the device including: a housing having an opening; a chamber within the housing to receive at least a portion of the article through the opening; a heater assembly within the housing and including a heating element to heat at least a portion of the chamber; a mechanism including at least one member at or proximate to the opening and configured to move between a first position in which the article can be inserted into the chamber via the opening, and a second position in which the member has reduced a size of the opening relative to a size of the opening when the member is in the first position; and at least one guide track along which the member is configured to slide when the member moves between the first and the second positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Michael Elliott DOYLE
  • Patent number: 11819057
    Abstract: An aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-generating article is provided, the device including: a housing having an opening; a chamber disposed within the housing, and configured to receive at least a portion of the article through the opening; a heater assembly disposed within the housing and including a heating element configured to heat at least a portion of the chamber; and a holding mechanism including at least one holding member disposed at or proximate to the opening of the housing and configured to move between: a first position, in which the article can be inserted into the chamber via the opening, and a second position, in which the holding member has reduced a size of the opening relative to another size of the opening when the holding member is in the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventor: Michael Elliott Doyle
  • Publication number: 20230322492
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a chute liner for mounting on a shelf of a material transfer chute. The shelf has at least one locking formation aperture formed therein. The chute liner has a base for mounting on the shelf. The base has an operatively upper surface that comes into contact with material passing through the chute and an opposed operatively lower surface. The base has at least one mounting formation that depends from the operatively lower surface of the base that defines a passage which in use is passed through the locking formation aperture in the shelf. The chute liner also has a locking member passed through the passage until it operatively engages the mounting formation to lock the base to the shelf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Metso Outotec Finland Oy
    Inventors: Martin James Barnes, Liam Michael Elliott Fry, Heath Sewell
  • Publication number: 20230297652
    Abstract: The disclosed technology teaches integrating theme management of user interfaces that implement an authentication journey for hosted services, receiving user input and responsively configuring a switch block node used in the journey. A first configured control of the node selects an authentication-related state variable to set a switch and a second configured control specifies alternative settings. Also receiving user input and responsively composing a script used in the node to process the state variable and select among the switch settings, responsive to the state variable, and receiving user input and responsively creating a visual branding theme. Further included is receiving user input and responsively composing a directed graph in which nodes that implement the authentication journey are connected, applying the themes to named theme nodes, positioning and connecting the switch block node to subsequent named theme nodes, to which the switch block node alternatively directs a flow of the journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: ForgeRock, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Lawrence HERTEL, Craig GERING, Katy ATKINSON, Colin Madigan DEAN, Michael ELLIOTT, Volker Gunnar SCHEUBER HEINZ, Charles Daniel MASUCCI
  • Patent number: 11702850
    Abstract: A wall structure having a horizontal base stud, which wall structure has an upper wall panel, and a horizontal base stud, wherein the base stud has openings to allow for liquids to escape in the event of a plumbing leak, and additional openings to allow for air flow from the exterior to the interior of the wall structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Elliott Cox
  • Publication number: 20230059565
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a dynamically weighted unobserved component model (“DW-UCM”) in a demand forecasting engine of a data analytics system. Dynamic weighting is performed based on a machine learning framework that includes tools, interfaces, and a library for developing improved machine learning models (e.g., dynamic demand forecasting models) of a dynamic weighting machine learning pipeline. In particular, the dynamic weighting machine learning pipeline can include a first module that is configured to predict if a segment (e.g., travel segment) under evaluation is open or closed (e.g., due to a restriction or rule), a second module that forecasts near-term recovery (e.g., approx. 0 - 4 weeks), and a third module that predicts longer term recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Arun Karthik Ravindran, Aaron Dean Arnoldsen, Pradeep Nema, Michael Elliott Beyer, Pawel Romanski, Magdalena Jolanta Krupa, Alejandro Fernandez Pique, Aymeric Pascal Punel, Carl Reed Jessen, Wei Zou, Raman Deep Singh, Max Barkhausen, Remi Lalanne, Robert Andrew Fowler
  • Publication number: 20220251821
    Abstract: A wall structure having a horizontal base stud, which wall structure has an upper wall panel, and a horizontal base stud, wherein the base stud has openings to allow for liquids to escape in the event of a plumbing leak, and additional openings to allow for air flow from the exterior to the interior of the wall structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Elliott Cox
  • Patent number: 11160301
    Abstract: The present invention relates to method for production of a slurry for homogenized tobacco material, said method comprising: Selecting tobacco of one or more tobacco types; Coarse grinding said tobacco; Blending said tobacco of one or more tobacco types; and Fine grinding said tobacco of one or more tobacco types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Philip Morris Products S.A.
    Inventors: Yorick Klipfel, Johannes Petrus Maria Pijnenburg, Michael Elliott Doyle, Juan David Manzur Bedoya, Pascal Rausis
  • Publication number: 20210101733
    Abstract: Container systems employing linking subsystems for coupling enclosure bodies, and related methods are disclosed. A container system may include first and second enclosure bodies. Each of the bodies contains a wall structure enclosing an inner space and a lip forming a passageway through the wall structure. The container system also includes a linking subsystem configured to reversibly couple the wall structures of the bodies together. The user may uncouple the bodies from each other and recouple them together as desired. In this manner, the container system offers a more stable combination resistant to falling over and an organizational flexibility to couple the bodies together when items within the bodies and desired to be used together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 8, 2021
    Inventors: William Dean Hunter, Danielle Jessen Howell, Michael Elliott Jones