Patents by Inventor Michael A. Landis

Michael A. Landis 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: 20190257105
    Abstract: An adapter for a pool cleaning system is provided. The adapter includes a base member having a top and a bottom surface. The adapter also includes six upper ports coupled to the top surface of the base member, each upper port including an upper aperture extending through the upper port and through the base member. The adapter further includes five lower ports coupled to the bottom surface of the base member, each lower port including a lower aperture extending through the lower port and through the base member. In some embodiments, four of lower ports are in fluid communication four of the upper ports and one of the lower ports is in fluid communication with two of the upper ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Mark Scatterday, David Johnson, Robert Michael Long, Timothy Murphy, Michael Landis
  • Patent number: 10344493
    Abstract: A cleaning head for an in-floor pool cleaning system is provided. The cleaning head includes a sleeve having a passage and an insert extending through the passage of the sleeve. The insert includes a flow path and an aperture, wherein the flow path is a curved, such as a question mark shape, and exits through the aperture. The insert is moveable between a first position with the aperture retained with in the sleeve and a second position with the aperture extending beyond the sleeve. The flow path may include an overturn at the aperture. The insert includes a nozzle, a nozzle housing, an upper guide, a lower guide and a weight with the flow path extending through each component. The nozzle includes an angled inlet opening that corresponds to an angled outlet opening of the nozzle housing that engage each other when the nozzle is coupled within the nozzle housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Blue Square Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Scatterday, Michael Landis, Jason Addink, Mark Johnson, David Johnson, Robert Michael Long, Timothy Murphy
  • Patent number: 10273703
    Abstract: An adapter for a pool cleaning system is provided. The adapter includes a base member having a top and a bottom surface. The adapter also includes six upper ports coupled to the top surface of the base member, each upper port including an upper aperture extending through the upper port and through the base member. The adapter further includes five lower ports coupled to the bottom surface of the base member, each lower port including a lower aperture extending through the lower port and through the base member. In some embodiments, four of lower ports are in fluid communication four of the upper ports and one of the lower ports is in fluid communication with two of the upper ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Blue Square Manufacturing, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Scatterday, David Johnson, Robert Michael Long, Timothy Murphy, Michael Landis
  • Publication number: 20180338342
    Abstract: Systems and methods for correcting network connectivity of a connected device are provided. Such systems and methods can include a mobile device determining whether the mobile device can connect to and communicate with a connected device, and the mobile device determining whether the mobile device is connected to a home network. When the mobile device cannot connect to and communicate with the connected device, but is connected to the home network, such systems and methods can include the mobile device transmitting or displaying messages documenting a troubleshooting process to restore the network connectivity between the mobile device and the connected device. Contents of the messages can be dependent on whether some or none of current network connectivity information related to a current network connection between the mobile device and the home network matches stored network connectivity information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Philip Ferro, James Kern, Michael Landi, Alice DeBiasio, Kaja Mohaideen Yousuff
  • Publication number: 20180257457
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a heating system to selectively heat a vehicle device structured for contact by a vehicle occupant or for the occupant to view surroundings outside the vehicle from inside it. In one form, the vehicle device is a steering wheel, and the heating system encompasses a vehicle power supply electrically coupled to a rechargeable energy source to energize a heating element that together increase device temperature more rapidly than with just one of them alone. The heating system detects depletion of the rechargeable energy source and recharges it with the vehicle power supply, while increasing the temperature more slowly because the heating element is only being energized by the vehicle power supply. If the temperature is greater than or equal to a target level, energization of the heating element includes some form of time-varying modulation to approximately maintain the temperature target level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Matthew William Michael Olson, Sean Bayle West, James Robert Chascsa, II, Karl Derek Kiefer, Kenneth Michael Landis
  • Publication number: 20180197261
    Abstract: Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products for providing visual indication of documentation and coding of medical procedures may include providing a choice of medical codes associated with a medical procedure. A user selection of one of the medical codes is detected. Based on the detection, a visual indication of the user selection is generated on one or more anatomical diagrams.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Mark L. Morsch, Michael A. Landis, Blair C. Jennings
  • Patent number: 9946846
    Abstract: Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products for providing visual indication of documentation and coding of medical procedures may include providing a choice of medical codes associated with a medical procedure. A user selection of one of the medical codes is detected. Based on the detection, a visual indication of the user selection is generated on one or more anatomical diagrams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: A-LIFE MEDICAL, LLC
    Inventors: Mark L. Morsch, Michael A. Landis, Blair C. Jennings
  • Patent number: 9892627
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing false alarms and providing a central station with information regarding occupants in a monitored region using a GPS location of a mobile device are provided. Some methods can include receiving a first signal indicative of a detected alarm condition in the monitored region, responsive to receiving the first signal, transmitting a second signal to the mobile device, receiving a third signal from the mobile device indicative of the GPS location of the mobile device, and based on a location of the monitored region and the third signal indicative of the GPS location of the mobile device, determining a likelihood of whether the detected alarm condition is real or false. Additionally or alternatively, some methods can include receiving the signal from the mobile device indicative of the GPS location of the mobile device at predetermined periodic time intervals and irrespective of the detected alarm condition in the monitored region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Philip J. Ferro, James Kern, Michael Landi
  • Publication number: 20170259157
    Abstract: A leg stabilization or performance system for a skier or snowboarder that absorbs part of the pressure on a user's legs and drives the resistance force down to user's boots, acting like a shock absorber is disclosed. This function also allows the skis or snowboard to keep closer contact with the snow, giving the skier/snowboarder more control through the turns. The performance system includes removably fixable leg straps, upper and lower adjustable leg shafts or portions, a resistance assembly with a shock absorber and a variable resistance adjuster, a boot attachment, and an activator switch. The configuration of the system allows a user to set the system to various levels of resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Mark R. Stewart, Jan Christian Andersen, Michael Landis
  • Patent number: 9752756
    Abstract: A lighting device is provided that includes an LED and an NIR filter for a control panel or a display, which does not interfere with a night vision device. The light of the LED is in an area of u?>0.19 and v?>0.46 of the u?v? diagram of the CIE-LUV chromaticity diagram. The NIR filter exhibits descending light transmittance between 500 nm and 800 nm. The thickness of the NIR filter is chosen so that a sufficient blocking effect is provided in a range of wavelengths between 600 nm and 800 nm, so that the color coordinates of the filtered useful light are in an area with a radius of 0.04 around coordinates u?=0.19 and v?=0.49 of the u?v? diagram.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ralf Biertuempfel, Steffen Reichel, Michael Landi
  • Publication number: 20170231574
    Abstract: A smartphone protective cover that houses a glucose monitor, test strips, lancets, a lancet striker, a power source, and a biohazard debris receptacle is presented. According to the preferred embodiment of the invention, the protective covering is configured to include a smartphone adapted glucose monitor and also to accept a smartphone. In the preferred embodiment, the smartphone is removably placed into the protective covering with the glucose monitor connecting to a data receptacle on the smartphone. The protective further includes a lancet storage compartment adjacent to a lancet striker having a tension control member and striker release button, a test strip storage compartment, and a biohazard debris receptacle. The lancet storage compartment and test strip storage compartment can be re-fillable or disposable. A battery is also located in the cover and is electrically connected to the glucose for monitor, thus enabling the monitor to be powered independently of the phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Applicant: Crawford Capital Investments, LLC
    Inventors: Spencer Crawford, Michael Landis
  • Publication number: 20170159309
    Abstract: A cleaning head for an in-floor pool cleaning system is provided. The cleaning head includes a sleeve having a passage and an insert extending through the passage of the sleeve. The insert includes a flow path and an aperture, wherein the flow path is a curved, such as a question mark shape, and exits through the aperture. The insert is moveable between a first position with the aperture retained with in the sleeve and a second position with the aperture extending beyond the sleeve. The flow path may include an overturn at the aperture. The insert includes a nozzle, a nozzle housing, an upper guide, a lower guide and a weight with the flow path extending through each component. The nozzle includes an angled inlet opening that corresponds to an angled outlet opening of the nozzle housing that engage each other when the nozzle is coupled within the nozzle housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Scatterday, Michael Landis, Jason Addink, Mark Johnson, David Johnson, Robert Michael Long, Timothy Murphy
  • Patent number: 9642563
    Abstract: A smartphone protective cover that houses a glucose monitor, test strips, lancets, a lancet striker, a power source, and a biohazard debris receptacle is presented. According to the preferred embodiment of the invention, the protective covering is configured to include a smartphone adapted glucose monitor and also to accept a smartphone. In the preferred embodiment, the smartphone is removably placed into the protective covering with the glucose monitor connecting to a data receptacle on the smartphone. The protective further includes a lancet storage compartment adjacent to a lancet striker having a tension control member and striker release button, a test strip storage compartment, and a biohazard debris receptacle. The lancet storage compartment and test strip storage compartment can be re-fillable or disposable. A battery is also located in the cover and is electrically connected to the glucose for monitor, thus enabling the monitor to be powered independently of the phone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2017
    Assignee: CRAWFORD CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Spencer Crawford, Michael Landis
  • Publication number: 20170116847
    Abstract: Systems and methods for reducing false alarms and providing a central station with information regarding occupants in a monitored region using the GPS location of a mobile device are provided. Some methods can include receiving a first signal indicative of a detected alarm condition in a monitored region, responsive to receiving the first signal, transmitting a second signal to a mobile device, receiving a third signal from a mobile device indicative of a location of the mobile device, and based on a location of the monitored region and the third signal indicative of the location of the mobile device, determining a likelihood of whether the detected alarm condition is real or false. Additionally or alternatively, some methods can include receiving a signal from a mobile device indicative of a location of the mobile device at predetermined periodic time intervals and irrespective of any detected alarm condition in the monitored region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Philip J. Ferro, James Kern, Michael Landi
  • Publication number: 20170114559
    Abstract: An adapter for a pool cleaning system is provided. The adapter includes a base member having a top and a bottom surface. The adapter also includes six upper ports coupled to the top surface of the base member, each upper port including an upper aperture extending through the upper port and through the base member. The adapter further includes five lower ports coupled to the bottom surface of the base member, each lower port including a lower aperture extending through the lower port and through the base member. In some embodiments, four of lower ports are in fluid communication four of the upper ports and one of the lower ports is in fluid communication with two of the upper ports.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2016
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Mark Scatterday, David Johnson, Robert Michael Long, Timothy Murphy, Michael Landis
  • Publication number: 20150138756
    Abstract: A lighting device is provided that includes an LED and an NIR filter for a control panel or a display, which does not interfere with a night vision device. The light of the LED is in an area of u?>0.19 and v?>0.46 of the u?v? diagram of the CIE-LUV chromaticity diagram. The NIR filter exhibits descending light transmittance between 500 nm and 800 nm. The thickness of the NIR filter is chosen so that a sufficient blocking effect is provided in a range of wavelengths between 600 nm and 800 nm, so that the color coordinates of the filtered useful light are in an area with a radius of 0.04 around coordinates u?=0.19 and v?=0.49 of the u?v? diagram.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf Biertuempfel, Steffen Reichel, Michael Landi
  • Publication number: 20140170761
    Abstract: A smartphone protective cover that houses a glucose monitor, test strips, lancets, a lancet striker, a power source, and a biohazard debris receptacle is presented. According to the preferred embodiment of the invention, the protective covering is configured to include a smartphone adapted glucose monitor and also to accept a smartphone. In the preferred embodiment, the smartphone is removably placed into the protective covering with the glucose monitor connecting to a data receptacle on the smartphone. The protective further includes a lancet storage compartment adjacent to a lancet striker having a tension control member and striker release button, a test strip storage compartment, and a biohazard debris receptacle. The lancet storage compartment and test strip storage compartment can be re-fillable or disposable. A battery is also located in the cover and is electrically connected to the glucose for monitor, thus enabling the monitor to be powered independently of the phone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Spencer Crawford, Michael Landis
  • Publication number: 20130047918
    Abstract: Deposition systems include a reaction chamber, a substrate support structure disposed within the chamber for supporting a substrate within the reaction chamber, and a gas input system for injecting one or more precursor gases into the reaction chamber. The gas input system includes at least one precursor gas furnace disposed at least partially within the reaction chamber. Methods of depositing materials include separately flowing a first precursor gas and a second precursor gas into a reaction chamber, flowing the first precursor gas through at least one precursor gas flow path extending through at least one precursor gas furnace disposed within the reaction chamber, and, after heating the first precursor gas within the at least one precursor gas furnace, mixing the first and second precursor gases within the reaction chamber over a substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SOITEC
    Inventors: Ronald Thomas Bertram, JR., Michael Landis
  • Patent number: 8353062
    Abstract: A protective pad includes a pre-tensioned resilient padded membrane resiliently suspended to a semi-rigid shell. A cavity is defined between the pre-tensioned padded membrane and the shell. In use, the pad is attached to the limb or joint to be protected with the tensioned membrane engaging the limb or joint to be protected. The pre-tensioned membrane and air cushion in the cavity absorb the energy of an impact transferred by the shell during a sporting event or other activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: XO Athletic, Co.
    Inventors: James J. Landi, Michael Landi
  • Publication number: 20120012119
    Abstract: This invention relates to a protective mouthguard for use by athletes that incorporates a color customizable feature, allowing users to customize the visible color of the mouthguard. The invented protective mouthguard has a u-shaped base that will fit inside of a user's mouth. The front surface of the mouthguard can be visible when the mouthguard is worn by the user inside of his mouth. A colorable strip is placed inside a cavity in the front wall of the mouthguard and is visible through holes that are placed in the front wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2011
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Applicant: XO ATHLETIC, CO.
    Inventors: James Landi, Michael Landi