Patents by Inventor Michael A. Francis

Michael A. Francis 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: 20240104991
    Abstract: A technique for controlling access to one or more attractions is achieved using a number of access keys, each being issued to one or more users. An electronic queue management part manages a virtual queue in respect of each attraction and receives electronic requests for attraction access, each request relating to an access key and being for the users associated with it to access a particular attraction. Receipt of each request causes the respective users to be added to a corresponding virtual queue. A time at which each group of users reaches the front of the virtual queue and can access the attraction is determined. The users access the attractions by presenting an access key to an access control part, in communication with the electronic queue management part. Only a user presenting an access key at the correct time for accessing the attraction is allowed access to the attraction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Accesso Technology Group PLC
    Inventors: Christopher Simon GALLEY, Christopher Simon Peter BARNABY, Ian Michael FRANCIS
  • Publication number: 20240091087
    Abstract: A garment includes an interior surface, a strap sheath carried by the interior surface and establishing a strap tunnel, a strap movably extending through the strap sheath and being slidable in the strap tunnel relative to the strap sheath. Lower and upper body versions of the garment are also disclosed, as is a method of repositioning an appendage of a wearer of a garment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Michael James Mies, Waldemar Tadeusz Raczkowski, Wiliam Francis Hayden
  • Publication number: 20240083602
    Abstract: Vehicle capture assemblies and related devices, systems, and methods include one or more probe assemblies for engaging with and securing the target vehicle. The one or more probe assemblies may include one or more attenuation features or movable joints to enable and/or dampen movement of the one or more probe assemblies relative to a capture vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Matthew Alan Michel, Michael Alfred Tosto, Kevin David Tebbe, Daisaku Inoyama, John Francis Papayanopoulos
  • Publication number: 20240081804
    Abstract: A soft tissue augmentation implant for surgically reinforcing soft tissue, such as a rotator cuff tendon in the shoulder. The implant comprises one or more slots for passing a suture through the implant. In a two-slot design, the suture may pass through the slots in a buckle configuration. The suture secures the implant to the target soft tissue. The bottom side of the implant has a rough surface or has one or protrusions. This feature facilitates mechanical integration of the implant to the target soft tissue. Also disclosed are soft tissue augmentation assemblies, surgical kits, and methods for reinforcing soft tissue (such as rotator cuff repair).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventor: Michael Francis
  • Publication number: 20240080154
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a first network entity. The techniques may generally involve generating a message with entries that represent blocks of physical resource blocks (PRBs), for transmitting reference signals over a fronthaul interface using modulation compression; transmitting the message to a second network entity via the fronthaul interface; and processing reference signals, transmitted in the blocks of PRBs on the fronthaul interface using modulation compression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Shmuel VAGNER, Michael Francis GARYANTES, Senthilkumar SUNDARAM, Abhishek Saurabh SACHIDANAND SINHA, Shingyu KWAK, Deepak AGARWAL, James KRYSL
  • Publication number: 20240076287
    Abstract: The invention relates to solid forms of (1R,3S)-3-[3-({[3-(methoxymethyl)-1-methyl-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]carbonyl}amino)-1H-pyrazol-5-yl]cyclopentyl propan-2-ylcarbamate, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such solid forms, and to use of such solid forms and pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: PFIZER INC.
    Inventors: Fengjuan CAO, Kevin Francis DEBOYACE, Michael HEBERLEIN
  • 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
  • Patent number: 11917935
    Abstract: A seed treater includes a baffle which includes a fin that is selectively movable to adjust an extent to which the fin extends into a mixing chamber during mixing of seeds and a seed treatment within the mixing chamber to facilitate mixing of the seeds and the seed treatment within the mixing chamber. The fin defines an internal flow passage configured to deliver forced fluid through the fin and into the mixing chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Monsanto Technology LLC
    Inventors: Richard Bailey, Damien Douglas Brewer, Vallabh Makadia, Michael Francis Migliazzo, Daniel James Seyer
  • Publication number: 20240073877
    Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communication by a network entity includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to receive one or more configuration commands associated with a carrier having a first configuration. The one or more configuration commands each indicate a batch number. The one or more processors are further configured to store the one or more configuration commands and, based on detection of a trigger event, to perform a reconfiguration of the carrier from the first configuration to a second configuration that is based on the one or more configuration commands.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Francis Garyantes, Abhishek Saurabh Sachidanand Sinha, Kalyan Kuppuswamy
  • Patent number: 11913616
    Abstract: A vehicle lamp includes a substrate, a lens having a pivotal attachment to the substrate and defining a lamp chamber between the lens and the substrate, at least one light source provided in the lamp chamber, an alignment portion integral with and extending from the lens parallel to the substrate and having an aperture, and an adjustment mechanism extending through the aperture and the substrate, the adjustment mechanism configured to adjust alignment of the lens with a single-point adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: MagWerks Vision Inc.
    Inventors: Michael F. Pickholz, Steven Francis Tregilgas
  • Publication number: 20240063851
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a radio unit may output capability information regarding a number of beamforming codebooks supported by the radio unit. The radio unit may obtain configuration information that configures one or more beamforming codebooks for an antenna array of the radio unit. The radio unit may communicate using the one or more beamforming codebooks. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Abhishek Saurabh SACHIDANAND SINHA, Deepak AGARWAL, Michael Francis GARYANTES, Rohan SALVI, Orod RAEESI, James KRYSL, Senthilkumar SUNDARAM, Kalyan KUPPUSWAMY
  • Patent number: 11891364
    Abstract: Methods of selectively forming substituted pyrazines are provided. Methods of the present invention can include receiving a reaction solution including at least one carbon source and at least one nitrogen source, and heating the reaction solution to a reaction temperature and holding the reaction solution at the reaction temperature for a time sufficient to produce a reaction product comprising at least one substituted pyrazine. The carbon source can be selected from the group consisting of hydroxy ketone(s), sugar(s) treated with at least one buffer, and combinations thereof. Tobacco products incorporating substituted pyrazines are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
    Inventors: Michael Francis Dube, William Monroe Coleman, III
  • Patent number: 11883969
    Abstract: A hair length mapping or cutting device uses multiple comb elements to capture bunches of hair as it is traversed across a scalp. The comb elements are traversed away from the scalp to individually measure or cut each bunch of hair to length. Hair may be cut to conform to a hair style mapped, for instance, from an earlier measurement of a hair style.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: AUTOLIFE LIMITED
    Inventor: Michael Francis Woffindin
  • Patent number: 11887062
    Abstract: A method for proactively providing information to a user about an event involving the user includes receiving user input indicating a request to display a search page and displaying the search page in response to the user input. In addition, event information may be automatically obtained and displayed on the search page in response to the user input. Some examples of event information that may be provided include participant information about a participant in the event other than the user, file information about a file that is relevant to the event, and conversation information about a conversation that is relevant to the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Yuan Wei, Wayne Sun, Tali Roth, Miles Cole Fitzgerald, Michael Francis Palermiti, II
  • Patent number: 11883432
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), particularly CARs that have adaptable receptor specificity (arCARs). Also provided are polypeptides of the CARs and other related molecules, polynucleotides, vectors, and cell compositions comprising the same. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising the polypeptides, polynucleotides, vectors, or cells of the present disclosure, and their uses in treating a disease in a subject are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: CENTURY THERAPEUTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Jill Marinari Carton, Michael Francis Naso, Luis Ghira Borges, John Wheeler, Andrew Devaney
  • Publication number: 20240027388
    Abstract: A pH sensor comprising pH sensing instrumentation, reference sensing instrumentation, an electrochemical junction, and a pH determination unit. The pH sensing instrumentation comprises a pH fluid, a pH fluid chamber, a pH sensing chamber, and a measuring electrode extending through the pH fluid chamber and comprising a tip that resides in the pH sensing chamber. The reference sensing instrumentation comprises a reference fluid, a reference chamber filled with the reference fluid, a reference electrode immersed in the reference fluid, and monitoring instrumentation. The monitoring instrumentation comprises a monitoring fluid, a monitoring fluid chamber, a monitoring sensing chamber filled with the monitoring fluid, and a monitoring electrode extending through the monitoring fluid chamber and comprising a tip that resides in the monitoring sensing chamber. The monitoring fluid chamber and the monitoring sensing chamber are immersed in the reference fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Sensorex Corporation
    Inventors: Alex D. Smith, Albert Haizhen Zhou, Jose Tafolla, Michael Francis Ross, Hamed Shadpour
  • Patent number: 11869277
    Abstract: A technique for controlling access to one or more attractions is achieved using a number of access keys, each being issued to one or more users. An electronic queue management part manages a virtual queue in respect of each attraction and receives electronic requests for attraction access, each request relating to an access key and being for the users associated with it to access a particular attraction. Receipt of each request causes the respective users to be added to a corresponding virtual queue. A time at which each group of users reaches the front of the virtual queue and can access the attraction is determined. The users access the attractions by presenting an access key to an access control part, in communication with the electronic queue management part. Only a user presenting an access key at the correct time for accessing the attraction is allowed access to the attraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ACCESSO TECHNOLOGY GROUP PLC
    Inventors: Christopher Simon Galley, Christopher Simon Peter Barnaby, Ian Michael Francis
  • Publication number: 20230421339
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first network node may provide, to a second network node, an indication of a configuration of a beam group type that supports indications of activity statuses of beams for a frequency resource range. The first network node may provide, to the second network node, an indication of the activity statuses of the beams for the frequency resource range, the indication of the activity statuses of the beams including an indication of a first set of beams that are active and an indication of a second set of beams that are inactive. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Jigneshkumar SHAH, Abhishek Saurabh SACHIDANAND SINHA, Michael Francis GARYANTES, Deepak AGARWAL, Shmuel VAGNER
  • Publication number: 20230402766
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a radio unit (RU) may transmit, to a controller of the RU, a message including an ordered list of coordinates corresponding to a plurality of antenna elements in an antenna array of the RU. The RU may receive, from the controller, an indication of one or more low-level endpoints associated with one or more activated antenna elements of the plurality of antenna elements. Numerous other aspects are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Francis GARYANTES, Abhishek Saurabh SACHIDANAND SINHA, Christian Oliver THELEN, Senthilkumar SUNDARAM, Orod RAEESI, James KRYSL, Luca BLESSENT, Deepak AGARWAL
  • Patent number: D1016196
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Selkirk Sport, LLC
    Inventors: Robert James Barnes, James Francis Barnes, Michael James Barnes