Patents by Inventor Michael A. Robinson

Michael A. Robinson 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).

  • Patent number: 10894650
    Abstract: A fitment for a package with an interior compartment for containment of a flowable material is described. The fitment may have a body with an exterior wall and an interior wall. The interior wall may define a passageway extending through the body from a top opening to a bottom opening. The fitment may have at least one dispersion member with an edge extending into the passageway, the edge dividing at least a portion of a width of the passageway extending between the interior wall. The fitment may include a baffle member having a surface extending into, and at least partially obstructing, the passageway. The fitment may include a flange portion associated with the exterior wall, the flange portion positioned to interface the fitment with the package.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Michael Robinson, Jason Fyfe, Jeffrey Townsend
  • Publication number: 20200407141
    Abstract: A fitment for a package with an interior compartment for containment of a flowable material is described. The fitment may have a body with an exterior wall and an interior wall. The interior wall may define a passageway extending through the body from a top opening to a bottom opening. The fitment may have at least one dispersion member with an edge extending into the passageway, the edge dividing at least a portion of a width of the passageway extending between the interior wall. The fitment may include a baffle member having a surface extending into, and at least partially obstructing, the passageway. The fitment may include a flange portion associated with the exterior wall, the flange portion positioned to interface the fitment with the package.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Applicant: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Michael Robinson, Jason Fyfe, Jeffrey Townsend
  • Patent number: 10841756
    Abstract: Techniques related to managing data communications between devices are described. In an example, a computer system receives, from a first device, a request to transfer a communications session with the first device and a second device. The computer system determines contextual data associated with the communications session. Using at least the contextual data, the computer system determines the communications session is permitted to be transferred from the first device to a third device based. The computer system causes a transferred communications session to be established with the third device and the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Shambhavi Sathyanarayana Rao, Patrick Fiori, Ford Davidson, Rohit Lohani, Shawn Michael Banks, Merle Michael Robinson, Ninad Parkhi
  • Patent number: 10827718
    Abstract: The cotton variety ST 5020GLT is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and cotton lint as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety ST 5020GLT with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of ST 5020GLT and to plants of ST 5020GLT reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from ST 5020GLT.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: BASF AGRICULTURAL SOLUTIONS SEED, US LLC
    Inventor: Michael Robinson
  • Publication number: 20200346838
    Abstract: Powdered hair bleach individually packaged in pre-measured sizes, weights, or volumes. The powdered hair bleach is encased in a dissolvable substrate. Packages include one or more chambers and include additional compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Publication date: November 5, 2020
    Applicant: L'Oreal
    Inventors: Michael Robinson, Jason Fyfe
  • Patent number: 10817963
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing travel itinerary filters. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a flight query including a plurality of parameters; determining a plurality of itineraries that satisfy the parameters of the flight query; clustering the plurality of itineraries into a plurality of clusters, wherein the clusters depend upon values of particular features of the plurality of itineraries that satisfy the flight query, and wherein each cluster is generated to have particular values for one or more features of a plurality of features; generating one or more filters corresponding to one or more of the clusters, wherein each filter has the particular values of the one or more features identified by the corresponding cluster; and providing the plurality of itineraries that satisfy the flight query and the one or more filters for filtering the plurality of itineraries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventor: Hugh Michael Robinson
  • Publication number: 20200332498
    Abstract: Systems for generation of liquid water are provided. In embodiments, the systems comprise a thermal desiccant unit comprising a porous hygroscopic material located within a housing including a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, a working fluid that accumulates heat and water vapor upon flowing from fluid inlet of the housing, through the porous hygroscopic material, and to the fluid outlet of the housing, a condenser comprising a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet for condensing water vapor from the working fluid; an enthalpy exchange unit operatively coupled between the thermal desiccant unit and the condenser, wherein the enthalpy exchange unit transfers enthalpy between the working fluid output from the thermal desiccant unit and the working fluid input to the thermal desiccant unit, and, wherein the enthalpy exchange unit transfers enthalpy between the working fluid output from the condenser and the working fluid input to the condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Zero Mass Water, Inc.
    Inventors: Cody Friesen, Michael Robinson, Grant Friesen, Kamil Salloum, Kimberly McGuinness, Luis Mejiaortega
  • Patent number: 10793860
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of traits, diseases and conditions that respond to the modulation of HBV gene expression and/or activity, and/or modulate a HBV gene expression pathway. Specifically, the invention relates to double-stranded nucleic acid molecules including small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules that are capable of mediating or that mediate RNA interference (RNAi) against HBV gene expression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Sirna Therapeutics, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Bartz, Duncan Brown, Michael Robinson
  • Publication number: 20200312907
    Abstract: A memory device includes a first electrode, a conductive layer including iridium above the first electrode, a magnetic junction on the conductive layer and a second electrode above the magnetic junction. The magnetic junction includes a magnetic structure including a first magnetic layer including cobalt, a non-magnetic layer including platinum or tungsten on the first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer including cobalt on the non-magnetic layer. The magnetic junction further includes an anti-ferromagnetic layer on the magnet structure, a fixed magnet above the anti-ferromagnetic layer, a free magnet above the fixed magnet and a tunnel barrier between the fixed magnet and the free magnet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Ouellette, Christopher Wiegand, Justin Brockman, Tofizur Rahman, Oleg Golonzka, Angeline Smith, Andrew Smith, James Pellegren, Aaron Littlejohn, Michael Robinson, Huiying Liu
  • Publication number: 20200313084
    Abstract: A memory device includes a first electrode, a conductive layer including iridium above the first electrode and a magnetic junction directly on the conductive layer. The magnetic junction further includes a pinning structure above the conductive layer, a fixed magnet above the pinning structure, a tunnel barrier on the fixed magnet, a free magnet on the tunnel barrier layer and a second electrode above the free magnet. The conductive layer including iridium and the pinning structure including iridium provide switching efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Applicant: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Ouellette, Christopher Wiegand, Justin Brockman, Tofizur Rahman, Oleg Golonzka, Angeline Smith, Andrew Smith, James Pellegren, Michael Robinson, Huiying Liu
  • Publication number: 20200298223
    Abstract: A system and method is disclosed for efficiently sulfiding metal catalyst resident in a reactor vessel comprises a sulfiding module and a hydrogen sulfide detection module and a remote computer all arranged and configured to communicate wirelessly and to allow remote control and monitoring of the modules and sulfiding process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: JAMES MAXIE ROBINSON, JAMES MICHAEL ROBINSON
  • Publication number: 20200283997
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for producing liquid water from ambient air. In certain embodiments, a system includes a regeneration fluid pathway configured to receive a regeneration fluid and a thermal unit configured to heat the regeneration fluid. The system can further include a continuous desiccant unit that comprises an adsorption zone and a desorption zone, as well as a batch desiccant unit that includes a regeneration inlet and a batch desiccant housing. The batch desiccant housing can include a batch desiccant inlet configured to input the ambient air, a batch desiccant outlet configured to output a batch output fluid, and a batch desiccant material. A condenser unit can be configured to produce liquid water from the regeneration fluid, and the system can maximize a water production rate of the condenser unit based on an amount of heat carried by the regeneration fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2018
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Zero Mass Water, Inc.
    Inventors: Kamil Salloum, Heath Lorzel, Michael Robinson, Grant Friesen, Jonathan Goldberg, Cody Friesen
  • Patent number: 10753955
    Abstract: A manufacturing computer device for dynamically adapting additive manufacturing of a part is provided. The manufacturing computer device includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The at least one memory device stores a build file for building the part including a plurality of geometries that each include one or more values of a first build parameter. The processor is programmed to receive sensor information of a build of the part by a machine, compare the sensor information for each geometry of the plurality of geometries to the corresponding one or more values of the first build parameter, determine one or more values for a second build parameter for each of the geometries based on the one or more differences, and generate an updated build file for the part including the one or more values for the second build parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rogier Sebastiaan Blom, John Freer, Dean Michael Robinson, Subhrajit Roychowdhury, Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10747202
    Abstract: A manufacturing computer device for dynamically adapting additive manufacturing of a part is configured to store a build file for building the part including one or more build parameters and receive build information. The manufacturing computer device is also configured to compare the sensor information to the one or more build parameters to determine one or more differences. The computer device is further configured to determine one or more adjustments to the one or more build parameters. Moreover, the computer device is configured to generate an updated build file based on the one or more adjustments. In addition, the computer device is further configured to transmit the updated build file to at least one machine of the plurality of machines for manufacture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Rogier Sebastiaan Blom, John Freer, Dean Michael Robinson, Subhrajit Roychowdhury, Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20200257191
    Abstract: The invention is an improved mercury vapor apparatus for developing daguerreotype photographs and modified daguerreotype methods for the production of holograms and etched semiconductor masks, or other types based on the daguerreotype process. The improved mercury vapor apparatus uses 99.99% less mercury by weight than the traditional inverted pyramid apparatus used by those skilled in the art. This is accomplished by replacing liquid mercury with a metal plate amalgamated with mercury to serve as the source for mercury vapor, providing improved convenience for chemical handling and safety. The mercury vapor apparatus is easily transported and eliminates any risks due to spilled mercury. Furthermore, the mercury vapor apparatus is adapted for developing daguerreotype plates, and other types based on the daguerreotype process, while in the camera plate holder, effectively blocking actinic light from spoiling the plate and eliminating the need for darkroom facilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2019
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventor: Michael A. Robinson
  • Patent number: 10739187
    Abstract: A wireless field device for use in monitoring acoustic noise includes an acoustic sensor configured to sense acoustic noise. Processing circuitry coupled to the acoustic sensor is configured to identify a hazardous noise condition based upon the sensed acoustic noise and a personnel noise exposure standard. Output circuitry provides a warning output in response to an identified noise condition. A system is also provided which uses one or more acoustic sensors implemented in wireless field mounted monitors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: ROSEMOUNT INC.
    Inventors: Theodore H. Schnaare, Cory Michael Robinson, Richard Louis Nelson
  • Publication number: 20200228394
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for managing status of state machines in a computing network. Various embodiments of the present technology can be used to track and maintain an active log associated with each state machine in a computing network. The active log of a state machine can be periodically analyzed at a predetermined time interval to determine an anticipated state of the state machine and a current state of the state machine. In response to determining that the state machine is in an inconsistent state (i.e., the anticipated state does not match the current state of the state machine), a suitable action can be taken to switch the current state of the state machine from the inconsistent state to a suitable new state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: Joji Thomas Mekkattuparamban, Michael Robinson
  • Publication number: 20200218740
    Abstract: A method for processing data relationships on electronic media sites includes: receiving a first data string and a second data string corresponding to a first account and at least one submission on the electronic media site; determining a content identifier of the at least one submission; correlating the determined content identifier with a database of identified content; determining a value of the at least one indicator to the data relationship between first and second accounts based on: content, context, frequency, recency, and volume of the indicator; receiving a third data string corresponding to the second account; processing the first and third data strings to determine identities of the first and second accounts; assigning a relationship designation between the first and second accounts; and receiving a fourth data string selected from a plurality of data strings according to a priority determined by a plurality of relationship designations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: ROBERT KRAUS, SCOTT TILTON, MICHAEL ROBINSON, DAVID LIN
  • Publication number: 20200199596
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods for the study, diagnosis, and treatment of traits, diseases and conditions that respond to the modulation of HBV gene expression and/or activity, and/or modulate a HBV gene expression pathway. Specifically, the invention relates to double-stranded nucleic acid molecules including small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules that are capable of mediating or that mediate RNA interference (RNAi) against HBV gene expression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Steven Bartz, Duncan Brown, Michael Robinson
  • Patent number: 10641154
    Abstract: An aftertreatment system comprises a particulate filter configured to filter PM possessing a predetermined, least effective size range included in an exhaust gas flowing through the aftertreatment system. A PM sensor assembly is positioned downstream of the particulate filter and includes a housing having an inlet, an outlet, a sidewall and defines an internal volume. A PM sensor is positioned within the internal volume. The housing is configured to redirect a flow of exhaust gas entering the PM sensor assembly around the PM sensor so that small particles included in the exhaust gas flow having a first size within or smaller than the predetermined size range are directed around the particulate matter sensor. Large particles having a second size larger than the predetermined size range impact the PM sensor. A controller is communicatively coupled to the PM sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Cremeens, Aleksey Yezerets, Reshma Prattipati, Michael A. Robinson