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: 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
  • Publication number: 20230401031
    Abstract: Various embodiments discussed herein enable client applications to be heavily integrated with a voice assistant in order to both perform commands associated with voice utterances of users via voice assistant functionality and also seamlessly cause client applications to automatically perform native functions as part of executing the voice utterance. For example, some embodiments can automatically and intelligently cause a switch to a page the user needs and automatically and intelligently cause a population of particular fields of the page the user needs based on a user view context and the voice utterance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Jaclyn Carley KNAPP, Andrew Paul MCGOVERN, Harris SYED, Chad Steven ESTES, Jesse Daniel Eskes RUSAK, David Ernesto Heekin BURKETT, Allison Anne O'MAHONY, Ashok KUPPUSAMY, Jonathan Reed HARRIS, Jose Miguel Rady ALLENDE, Diego Hernan CARLOMAGNO, Talon Edward IRELAND, Michael Francis PALERMITI, II, Richard Leigh MAINS, Jayant KRISHNAMURTHY
  • Publication number: 20230398621
    Abstract: A nickel-based braze alloy composition is described, including nickel, about 1 weight % to about 5 weight % boron (B); and about 1 weight % to about 20 weight % germanium (Ge). The composition is free of any silicon. Superalloy articles that contains a crack or other type of void or gap filled with the nickel-based braze alloy composition are also described, along with methods for filling such a gap. Related articles of manufacture and brazing processes to join metal components are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Raghavendra Rao Adharapurapu, Michael Francis Xavier Gigliotti, Jr., David Edwin Budinger, Pazhayannur Ramanathan Subramanian, Jeffrey Jon Schoonover
  • Publication number: 20230382997
    Abstract: Provided herein are HLA-PEPTIDE targets and antigen binding proteins that bind HLA-PEPTIDE targets. Also disclosed are methods for identifying the HLA-PEPTIDE targets as well as identifying one or more antigen binding proteins that bind a give n HLA-PEPTIDE target.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Karin Jooss, Wade Blair, Brendan Bulik-Sullivan, Jennifer Busby, Michele Anne Busby, Joshua Michael Francis, Gijsbert Marnix Grotenbreg, Mojca Skoberne, Roman Yelensky
  • Publication number: 20230385021
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a complaint tree data structure based on audio conversation data of a medical visit are provided. Transcript conversation data is generated based on the audio conversation data using one or more automatic speech recognition (ASR) models. A complaint tree section corresponding to a section of the complaint tree data structure is determined based on the transcript conversation data. A plurality of medical entities corresponding to the complaint tree section are extracted from the transcript conversation data, and a relationship between two or more medical entities is determined. A complaint tree data structure is constructed based on the complaint tree section, the plurality of extracted medical entities, and the relationship between the two or more medical entities. Output data comprising an indication of one or more characteristics of the medical visit is generated based on the constructed complaint tree data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Augmedix Operating Corporation
    Inventors: Cory ADAMS, Michael Francis BALLOU, Muffakham Ali Farhan MOHAMMED, Greice SILVA, Saurav CHATTERJEE, Chad GREGERSON, Sarah Rocio NIEHAUS
  • Patent number: 11819417
    Abstract: A glenoid implant comprises a body comprising: an articular surface and a scapula-engaging surface, the scapula-engaging surface including first and second portions angled relative to each other; and a fixation feature extending from the scapula-engaging surface. A method comprises: forming a planar bone surface at a glenoid using a guide pin; forming a first bore into the glenoid located near the guide pin; forming a second bore into the glenoid offset from the first bore; inserting an augment ream guide into the first and second bores; and forming an angled bone surface at the glenoid relative to the planar bone surface using the augment ream guide. A ream guide comprises: a base having first and second surfaces; a bone peg extending from the first surface; an alignment peg spaced from the bone peg; and a guide peg extending from the second surface at an oblique angle to the bone peg.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Biomet Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Francis Kovacs, Thomas M. Vanasse, Lawrence Gulotta
  • Publication number: 20230357785
    Abstract: This disclosure concerns a genetic platform for obtaining modified Cannabis plant materials exhibiting desirable novel chemotypes and agronomic traits, for example, by modulating the cannabinoid biosynthetic pathway.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Applicant: GROWING TOGETHER RESEARCH INC.
    Inventors: C. Michael FRANCIS, Glen BORCHERT, Samuel E. PROCTOR
  • Publication number: 20230351832
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of estimating a length of a queue associated with a resource within a venue. Images of the queue may be received, each image corresponding to a segment of the queue. A server may estimate a number of venue guests in the queue by: for each of a first subset of the images, estimating a number of pixels of the image that correspond to venue guests in the queue; and for each of a second subset of the images, detecting and counting individual venue guests visible in the image. A notification including the estimated number of venue guests in the queue, an estimated current wait time, and/or a time at which a venue guest joining the queue is permitted entry to the resource, may be sent to devices corresponding to venue guests.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Simon Galley, Christoper Simon Peter Barnaby, Ian Michael Francis, Benjamin Keeling Mathews, Christoper Andrew Ella
  • Publication number: 20230336033
    Abstract: A device for inductively charging an electronic accessory includes a first portion, a second portion, and a spacer. The first portion includes a first transmission coil in a first plane where the first transmission coil is configured to generate a first magnetic field, and the second portion includes a first transmission coil in a second plane where the second transmission coil is configured to generate a second magnetic field. The spacer is positioned between the first transmission coil and the second transmission coil and between the first plane and the second plane. The spacer material magnetically insulates the second transmission coil from the first magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Casey Sean CALLAN, Stefan Jon KRISTJANSSON, Daniel Thomas NEVISTIC, George KARAVAEV, Michael Francis DEILY, David William VOTH, Srinivas Reddy NAGAMPET
  • 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