Patents by Inventor Michael A. Thompson

Michael A. Thompson 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: 20230387536
    Abstract: A battery group includes a carrier tray, battery module, and set of output terminals. The carrier tray includes an upper rail mount adapted to be received by a mounting bracket. The battery module is coupled to the carrier tray. The output terminals are operatively coupled to terminals of the battery module, the output terminals positioned on a rear face of the carrier tray. The carrier tray and battery module are adapted to be slidingly received by a cabinet or other enclosure such that the output terminals are engaged to an electrical system of the cabinet or other enclosure by sliding the battery group fully into the cabinet or other enclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Ryan LOOFS, Michael WARHUS, Michael BECK, Michael THOMPSON
  • Publication number: 20230386839
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of depositing a metal oxo photoresist using dry deposition processes. In an embodiment, the method comprises forming a first metal oxo film on the substrate with a first vapor phase process including a first metal precursor vapor and a first oxidant vapor, and forming a second metal oxo film over the first metal oxo film with a second vapor phase process including a second metal precursor vapor and a second oxidant vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Lakmal Charidu Kalutarage, Mark Joseph Saly, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Thomas Joseph Knisley, Kelvin Chan, Regina Germanie Freed, David Michael Thompson, Susmit Singha Roy, Madhur Sachan
  • Patent number: 11832416
    Abstract: Systems and methods for datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a system or method herein causes a process for a structure that includes a component tracking system, where such a system includes individual components within individual servers or individual racks, the process being based in part on at least location information and configuration information from one or more of an optical sensor or a radio sensor associated with a motile-support that is adapted for at least three dimensional (3D) movement in a space having the individual servers or the individual racks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ryan Kelsey Albright, William Andrew Mecham, Benjamin Goska, Aaron Richard Carkin, Tahir Cader, William Ryan Weese, Michael Thompson, Jordan Levy, Siddha Ganju, Fred Devoir, Elad Mentovich, Elijah Chen
  • Patent number: 11821324
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes a pressurized fluid source, a duct system comprising a plurality of ducts in fluid communication with the pressurized fluid source, and a duct failure detection system. The duct failure detection system includes a plurality of pressure sensors. Each of the plurality of pressure sensors is in operable communication with two ducts of the plurality of ducts. Each of the plurality of ducts has at least two pressure sensors of the plurality of pressure sensors in operable communication therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Mehmet Cem Apaydin, Craig Alan Gonyou, Scott Alan Schimmels, Christopher Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230365108
    Abstract: Systems and Methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle, may include: receiving sensor data, the sensor data comprising vehicle parameter information for the autonomous vehicle; using the sensor data to determine a vehicle state for the autonomous vehicle, wherein the vehicle state comprises information regarding a magnitude of an actual or predicted effective understeer gradient for the vehicle; computing a yaw moment required to correct the effective understeer gradient based on the magnitude of the effective understeer gradient; and determining a combination of one or more vehicle control inputs, including applying a brake torque, to correct the effective understeer gradient; applying the brake torque to a single wheel of the vehicle, wherein an amount of brake torque applied is sufficient to lock up the single wheel to create a yaw moment on the vehicle to achieve the computed yaw moment required to correct the effective understeer gradient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: YAN MING JONATHAN GOH, JOHN SUBOSITS, MICHAEL THOMPSON, ALEXANDER R. GREEN, AVINASH BALACHANDRAN
  • Patent number: 11807206
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to emergency lateral maneuvers using brake-induced tire sliding. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a vehicle state for a vehicle according to sensor data about a surrounding environment. The method includes computing, using the sensor data and the vehicle state, lateral accelerations that are yaw-free for the vehicle. The method includes, in response to detecting that the vehicle state is associated with an emergency event, selecting a maneuver from the lateral accelerations. The method includes controlling the vehicle according to the maneuver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Ming Jonathan Goh, John Subosits, Michael Thompson, Alexander R. Green, Avinash Balachandran
  • Publication number: 20230340889
    Abstract: A turbine engine includes a pressurized fluid source, a duct system comprising a plurality of ducts in fluid communication with the pressurized fluid source, and a duct failure detection system. The duct failure detection system includes a plurality of pressure sensors. Each of the plurality of pressure sensors is in operable communication with two ducts of the plurality of ducts. Each of the plurality of ducts has at least two pressure sensors of the plurality of pressure sensors in operable communication therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Mehmet Cem Apaydin, Craig Alan Gonyou, Scott Alan Schimmels, Christopher Michael Thompson
  • Patent number: 11786122
    Abstract: An apparatus to treat, inhibit, or prevent an eye condition in a patient can include a cover, sized and shaped to fit over an eye of a patient to define a cavity between the cover and an anterior surface of the eye when the cover is located over the patient eye. The apparatus can include a pressure source, in communication with the cavity, capable of applying non-ambient pressure in the cavity. The apparatus can include control circuitry, in communication with the pressure source, configured to vary non-ambient pressure applied to the cavity to affect a targeted pressure relationship between an indication of a first physiological pressure level and a second physiological pressure level associated with the eye of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Equinox Ophthalmic, Inc.
    Inventors: John Berdahl, George Tsai, Hal Walbrink, Vance Michael Thompson, Enrico Brambilla
  • Publication number: 20230311380
    Abstract: A method for overmolding a tubular structure including inserting a core pin into the tubular structure so that at least a portion of a main body of the core pin extends at least partially out of the tubular structure. The method further includes clamping the tubular structure to a mold cavity structure in an Z-direction using a retaining structure, in which the retaining structure includes an inclined portion and the flexible portion extends out of the mold cavity structure. The method also includes injecting a thermoplastic material into a mold cavity of the mold cavity structure to overmold at least a portion of the tubular structure, in which the injecting of the thermoplastic material includes the thermoplastic material contacting the portion of the core pin extended from the tubular structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: David Schroeder, Michael A. Thompson, Alain Crosfield, Douglas Wenell
  • Patent number: 11775855
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for a service for managing quantum computing resources are disclosed. A task management service receives a description of a task specified by a client. From a pool of computing resources of a provider network, the service selects a quantum computing resource for implementation of the task. The quantum computing resource comprises a plurality of quantum bits. The service causes the quantum computing resource to run a quantum algorithm associated with the task. The service receives one or more results of the quantum algorithm from the quantum computing resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: David R. Richardson, Marc John Brooker, James Michael Thompson
  • Patent number: 11752989
    Abstract: Systems and Methods for controlling an autonomous vehicle, may include: receiving sensor data, the sensor data comprising vehicle parameter information for the autonomous vehicle; using the sensor data to determine a vehicle state for the autonomous vehicle, wherein the vehicle state comprises information regarding a magnitude of an actual or predicted effective understeer gradient for the vehicle; computing a yaw moment required to correct the effective understeer gradient based on the magnitude of the effective understeer gradient; and determining a combination of one or more vehicle control inputs, including applying a brake torque, to correct the effective understeer gradient; applying the brake torque to a single wheel of the vehicle, wherein an amount of brake torque applied is sufficient to lock up the single wheel to create a yaw moment on the vehicle to achieve the computed yaw moment required to correct the effective understeer gradient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Yan Ming Jonathan Goh, John Subosits, Michael Thompson, Alexander R. Green, Avinash Balachandran
  • Publication number: 20230281069
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods to perform diagnostic evaluation of data center data. In at least one embodiment, one or more processors determine one or more diagnostic results based, at least in part, on a trained application model to receive homomorphically encrypted log data and to execute the model with the homomorphically encrypted log data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Goska, Ryan Albright, William Andrew Mecham, William Ryan Weese, Aaron Richard Carkin, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230266772
    Abstract: A mobile printing robot system for printing a construction layout. The method addresses a problem that occurs when there is a loss of a tracking lock to an absolute positioning device, such as a total station. In a construction site, a line of sight between a mobile robot and an absolute positioning device may be lost when the mobile robot moves into a shadowed region behind an obstacle, such as a column. The mobile printing robot may use its local sensor data to continue to print until a maximum estimated position is reached. The mobile robot may also provide position updates to the absolute positioning device to aid it to regain a track lock when the mobile robot emerged from the shadowed region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Philipp Josef Herget, Nickolas Rossi, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230251844
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for verifying fingerprints associated with components to be installed on printed circuit boards (PCBs). In at least one embodiment, one or more processors determine whether a component fingerprint associated with a component to be installed on the PCB corresponds to an expected fingerprint, the component fingerprint based, at least in part, on a firmware version associated with the component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Goska, Ryan Albright, William Andrew Mecham, William Ryan Weese, Aaron Richard Carkin, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230244324
    Abstract: A tablet computer is provided, which includes a sensor section operable to detect positional input by a human operator and output a positional input signal; a display, laid over the sensor section, operable to receive and display a video signal; and a processor, coupled to a memory storing programs for running an operating system (OS) and executing software loaded to the memory, the processor being operable to receive and process the positional input signal from the sensor section and to output a video signal of the OS and the software to the display. The tablet computer further includes a sensor signal filter capable of selectively communicating the positional input signal from the sensor section to the processor, to a separate external processor, or to neither the processor nor the separate external processor; and a display switch capable of coupling the display to the processor or to the separate external processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 3, 2023
    Inventors: Konrad Pollmann, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230237201
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for communication interfaces of a programmable part. In at least one embodiment, one or more communication interfaces are secured to a top side of a programmable part to provide programmable access to the programmable part after installation on a printed circuit board (PCB), the one or more communication interfaces to be selectively disabled based, at least in part, on a status of the programmable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Benjamin Goska, Ryan Albright, William Andrew Mecham, William Ryan Weese, Aaron Richard Carkin, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230180426
    Abstract: Apparatuses, sytstems, and methods to adjust flow areas. In at least one embodiment, one or more flow control devices adjust a flow area of a server component inlet or the server component outlet based, at least in part, on at least one of sensor data or server component operating conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Ryan Albright, William Andrew Mecham, Aaron Richard Carkin, William Ryan Weese, Benjamin Goska, Michael Thompson, Scott Millward
  • Publication number: 20230126350
    Abstract: Configurations for communication interfaces are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a volatile memory bridge provides an interface between a server component and a control entity to receive and transmit a firmware configuration to the server component at startup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Aaron Richard Carkin, William Ryan Weese, Ryan Albright, Benjamin Goska, William Andrew Mecham, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230125892
    Abstract: Configurations for communication interfaces are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a processor includes one or more circuits to determine a firmware configuration for one or more server components and to transmit the firmware configuration at startup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ryan Albright, William Ryan Weese, Aaron Richard Carkin, William Andrew Mecham, Benjamin Goska, Michael Thompson
  • Publication number: 20230127535
    Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein include methods of depositing a metal oxo photoresist using dry deposition processes. In an embodiment, the method comprises forming a first metal oxo film on the substrate with a first vapor phase process including a first metal precursor vapor and a first oxidant vapor, and forming a second metal oxo film over the first metal oxo film with a second vapor phase process including a second metal precursor vapor and a second oxidant vapor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Lakmal Charidu Kalutarage, Mark Joseph Saly, Bhaskar Jyoti Bhuyan, Thomas Joseph Knisley, Kelvin Chan, Regina Gemanie Freed, David Michael Thompson, Susmit Singha Roy, Madhur Sachan