Patents by Inventor Michael A. Josephs

Michael A. Josephs 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: 20250070617
    Abstract: In some aspects, the devices, systems and methods described herein include an energy harvesting devices that include a housing, first magnet and/or spring provided at a first end of the housing, a second magnet and/or spring provided at a second end of the housing, a free magnet that is configured to oscillate between one or more turns of wire in response to a vibration of the housing, which causes a voltage to be induced between terminal ends of the turns of wire. In some aspects, the terminal ends of the turns of wire can be coupled to a passive energy harvesting circuit that is configured to rectify/filter the voltage produced by the device, store the energy in passive storage components (e.g., capacitors) and use the stored energy to communicate information regarding the vibrations to a user device (e.g., via RF communication).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Riddell, Jeffrey Charles Andle
  • Publication number: 20250066424
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel protein pores and their uses in analyte detection and characterisation. The invention particularly relates to an isolated pore complex formed by a CsgG-like pore and a modified CsgF peptide, or a homologue or mutant thereof, thereby incorporating an additional channel constriction or reader head in the nanopore. The invention further relates to a transmembrane pore complex and methods for production of the pore complex and for use in molecular sensing and nucleic acid sequencing applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicants: VIB VZW, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Oxford Nanopore Technologies PLC
    Inventors: Han Remaut, Sander Egbert Van Der Verren, Nani Van Gerven, Lakmal Nishantha Jayasinghe, Elizabeth Jayne Wallace, Pratik Raj Singh, Richard George Hambley, Michael Robert Jordan, John Joseph Kilgour
  • Publication number: 20250067217
    Abstract: A turbo engine for an aircraft includes a gas turbine engine having a fuel system to provide fuel to a combustion section. The fuel system includes a variable displacement pump driven by an accessory gearbox that is powered by a shaft of the gas turbine engine. The variable displacement pump has an inlet side and an outlet side. The variable displacement pump includes an actuator configured to adjust a discharge flow rate of the variable displacement pump. The fuel system also includes a fuel metering valve configured to receive pressurized fuel from the variable displacement pump and control a flow rate of the pressurized fuel to the combustion section. The fuel system further includes a bypass valve fluidly coupling the outlet side and the inlet side of the variable displacement pump to direct an excess portion of the pressurized fuel at the outlet side back to the inlet side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: David Justin Brady, Victor Moreno Patan, Michael Joseph Murray, William James Mailander
  • Publication number: 20250068678
    Abstract: A method for generating a probability for a first action of a sporting event by implementing a feature set, the method including: obtaining an initial set of data relating to the first action of a sporting event, the initial set of data including at least a position of a first player on a surface and a position of a target area on the surface; generating, by a machine learning model, an initial projected scoring probability based on the initial set of data; generating a feature set relating to the sporting event; and modifying, by the machine learning model, the initial projected scoring probability to an updated scoring probability using the feature set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Stats LLC
    Inventors: Joe Dominic Gallagher, Arun Murali, Michael Stöckl, Robert Seidl, Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico, Patrick Joseph Lucey
  • Patent number: 12234778
    Abstract: Flow-metering fuel systems and related methods are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a pipe defining a flow path for fuel, the pipe fluidly coupled to a combustor, a first portion of the pipe having a first cross-sectional area, a second portion of the pipe having a second cross-sectional area smaller than the first cross-sectional area, the second portion downstream of the first portion, and an actuator to adjust a flow rate of the fuel in the pipe based on a first pressure of the fuel in the first portion of the pipe, a second pressure of the fuel in the second portion of the pipe, and a temperature of the fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: General Electric Company, GE Avio S.r.l.
    Inventors: Michael Joseph Murray, Mirko Gernone
  • Patent number: 12237707
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for controlling charging of vehicles, to avoid charging during charge-adverse time periods or during charge restriction events. This can advantageously reduce cost to vehicles owners, and or provide access to reward incentives. Further, power distribution entities (utility providers) advantageously have increased control over power distribution to avoid over-burdening of power distribution infrastructure. Further, systems and methods for determining or inferring whether a vehicle is connected to a charge station are described, which can be used to inform automatic restriction of vehicle charging.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Christopher Mallia, Christopher Joseph Mendes, Matthew Stevens, Young Seok Shin, Michael Douglas McLean
  • Patent number: 12232815
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for planning and/or carrying out a total knee replacement surgical procedure on a knee of a leg of a patient are described. Anatomical data for the leg of the patient is obtained, which allows the femoral mechanical axis, the tibial mechanical axis, and the joint line of the knee to be determined. A planned proximal tibial cut angle and a planned distal femoral cut angle are determined. A total knee replacement procedure is carried out on the knee of the patient such that a distal femoral cut is made using the planned distal femoral cut angle and a proximal tibial cut is made using the planned proximal tibial cut angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: DEPUY IRELAND UNLIMITED COMPANY, LOUGHBEG INDUSTRIAL ESTATE
    Inventors: Sarah J. Shupe, Michael Joseph Rock, David Robert Wolfson, Gianpaolo Fusari, Hawys Eleri Tomos, Robert Edward Matthews, John Naybour, Mark Heldreth
  • 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: 12234777
    Abstract: In examples, a clutch assembly includes a first clutch member disposed near a first end of a first shaft. The first clutch member defines a first surface. The first shaft includes a starter motor coupled to a second end of the first shaft. The clutch assembly includes a second clutch member disposed near a first end of a second shaft. The second clutch member defines a second surface opposing the first surface, and the second shaft includes an accessory gearbox of a gas turbine engine coupled to a second end of the second shaft. The surfaces of the first and second clutch member engage such that rotational motion is transferred between the first clutch member and the second clutch member. The first clutch member and the second clutch member are configured to passively disengage from each other and actively reengage with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignees: Rolls-Royce Corporation, Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mathew Hill, Michael Joseph Kabbes, Erik A. Munevar, Peter Schenk, Jacob Ward Harral
  • Patent number: 12234431
    Abstract: Described herein is a water-soluble unit dose with a particle having a ratio of Linear Alkylbenzene Sulfonate to Alkylethoxylated Sulfate of greater than 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Frank William Denome, Michael Joseph Dipaola, Rui Shen, Stephen Robert Glassmeyer
  • Patent number: 12232585
    Abstract: A container comprises a first pocket to store at least one item and a second pocket having an outer sidewall that is an inner sidewall of the first pocket. The container also comprises a pocket cover stowable in the second pocket while not used for covering the at least one item stored in the first pocket, wherein the pocket cover is configured to be removed from the second pocket and to cover the first pocket and the at least one item stored in the first pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Upper Echelon Products LLC
    Inventor: Michael Joseph Zucco
  • Publication number: 20250057401
    Abstract: A drive assembly for driving an imaging catheter has a rotatable fiber and a rotatable drive shaft. The drive assembly includes a fiber optic rotating junction and a motor configured to rotate the rotatable portion of the fiber optic rotating junction. In some embodiments, the drive assembly includes a sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the fiber optic rotating junction and a processor configured to obtain the detected rotational position and stop the motor only when the fiber optic rotating junction is in a predetermined rotational position. In some embodiments, the motor includes a hollow shaft through which at least a portion of the fiber optic rotating junction extends.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Brian Y. TACHIBANA, Charles W. MCNALL, Michael ZUNG, Peter Howard SMITH, Brian CHIU, Douglas Joseph Scott BOURNE, Priyanshu GUPTA
  • Publication number: 20250057540
    Abstract: An embolic coil with improved anchor, system, and method of manufacture, formed from shape memory wire comprises primary, secondary, and tertiary coils. Secondary coils may be formed from one or more open, single-turn, multi-turn, or transition loops. Anchor groups at distal and/or proximal portions of the coil may comprise one or more open, single-turn, or multi-turn loops, and may be used to facilitate manufacturing to improve safe anchoring of the coil within an aneurysm sac, regardless of the neck size. The coil may be formed on a mandrel with a groove in one or more spherical and cylindrical surfaces, which may be scaled to fabricate a variety of coil sizes. The multiple coils of the anchor and intermediate portions deploy self-adaptively in separate, non-parallel planes, substantially assuming the inner surface of an irregularly shaped, constricted, or un-constricted, aneurysm and provides improved framing, filling, and uniform fill distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Ndi Tip Teknolojileri Anonim Sirket
    Inventors: Sadik Semih DEMIRALP, Michael Joseph KUSKE, Civan ISLAK
  • Publication number: 20250057978
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides compositions and methods of using gene therapy to decrease cell migration and metastasis and reduce tumor mass or burden. The methods disclosed herein employ plasmids, vectors, and non-viral vectors that contain PCBP1 and/or PCBP1 mutants which inhibit the expression of cancer biomarkers and decrease cell migration or tumor size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Norman Zhennan LAI, Michael Joseph Karlin, Alberto Murat Croci, Vidal Felix De La Cruz, JR., Yuebin Tan
  • Publication number: 20250057519
    Abstract: A surgical handpiece is disclosed. The surgical handpiece includes a housing having a first end and a second end, a cable adjacent to the housing, the cable having an external surface, a visible light emitter disposed within the housing, and a strain relief member coupled to the external surface of the cable and disposed adjacent the first end of the housing, and the strain relief member being configured to transmit visible light emitted by the visible light emitter therethrough.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Robin Babaris, Keith Behnke, Michael Laubenthal, Adam Joseph Thelen
  • Publication number: 20250058847
    Abstract: A vehicle may include a frame having a first portion, a second portion, and a tiller. The first portion may be coupled to a front wheel and to the tiller. The second portion may be coupled to a rear wheel and detachably coupled to the first portion. A method of transitioning the vehicle between a folded configuration and an unfolded configuration may include rotating the first portion of the frame relative to the second portion of the frame between the folded configuration and unfolded configuration to cause the first portion of the frame to lock to the second portion of the frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Pride Mobility Products Corporation
    Inventors: Michael A. GRANT, Terrence Joseph DONNELLY, Walter WATKINS, James P. MULHERN
  • Publication number: 20250057704
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article having a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core structure disposed between the topsheet and backsheet, and a flex bond channel region. The absorbent core structure includes an upper nonwoven layer having polymer fibers, a lower nonwoven layer having polymer fibers, and an inner core layer disposed between the upper and lower nonwoven layers. The flex bond channel region has a dry channel depth of from about 1.0 mm to about 4.5 mm and a channel width of from about 1.0 mm to about 3.0 mm. The flex bond channel region has a Dry MD Bending Resistance of less than about 0.04 N/mm. The inner core layer comprises an outer absorbent zone that substantially surrounds a central absorbent zone. The basis weight of the central absorbent zone is greater than the basis weight of the outer absorbent zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Christopher Philip BEWICK-SONNTAG, John David NORCOM, Rong DENG, Clint Adams MORROW, Miguel Alvaro ROBLES, Michael Joseph PAGE
  • Publication number: 20250061871
    Abstract: An electronic instrument 4 includes a first cymbal 11comprising metal. The first cymbal 11 is electrically conductive. Furthermore, the electronic instrument 4 includes a capacitance-type touch sensor 43, and the first cymbal 11 is used as a touch electrode of the touch sensor 43. Thus, when a performer with capacitance touches the first cymbal 11, the line-to-ground capacitance of the first cymbal 11 changes, and a signal corresponding to the change in line-to-ground capacitance is output from the touch sensor 43. Therefore, when the performer touches the first cymbal 11 in the same manner as when muting a conventional cymbal, a signal indicating mute can be output from the touch sensor 43.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Tsutomu Tanaka, Yoshiomi Yamazaki, Tsukasa Arakawa, Michael Joseph Snyder
  • Publication number: 20250057867
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are nucleoside phosphoramidates and their use as agents for treating viral diseases. These compounds are inhibitors of RNA-dependent RNA viral replication and are useful as inhibitors of HCV NS5B polymerase, as inhibitors of HCV replication and for treatment of hepatitis C infection in mammals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Bruce S. Ross, Michael Joseph Sofia, Ganapati Reddy Pamulapati, Suguna Rachakonda, Hai-Ren Zhang, Byoung-Kwon Chun, Peiyuan Wang
  • Patent number: 12226674
    Abstract: A foot force detection system includes variable capacitors, drive sense circuits, a processing module, and a power unit. A drive sense circuit supplies a reference signal to the variable capacitor. It then generates a sensed signal regarding a characteristic of the variable capacitor based on the reference signal. It then converts the sensed signal into a digital signal. The processing module generates a digital impedance value for the variable capacitor based on the digital signal and writes the digital impedance value in memory. The power unit include a battery and a power harvesting circuit, where the battery and/or the power harvesting circuit provide power for the foot force detection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: SIGMASENSE, LLC.
    Inventors: Michael Shawn Gray, Richard Stuart Seger, Jr., Timothy W. Markison, Kevin Joseph Derichs