Patents by Inventor Michael A. Young

Michael A. Young 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).

  • FIBROUS STRUCTURE-CONTAINING ARTICLES THAT EXHIBIT CONSUMER RELEVANT PROPERTIES
    Publication number: 20220212439
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • FIBROUS STRUCTURE-CONTAINING ARTICLES THAT EXHIBIT CONSUMER RELEVANT PROPERTIES
    Publication number: 20220212437
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, comprising fibrous structures, and more particularly articles comprising fibrous structures comprising a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the articles exhibit improved consumer relevant properties, for example improved bulk and absorbent properties, compared to known articles and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timohy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Collapsible stroller
    Patent number: 11370469
    Abstract: A collapsible child's stroller with a handle frame (30), a front wheel frame (10) and a rear wheel frame (20), mutually connected at a hinge joint (12, 22, 42) for mutual angular displacement between folded and unfolded configurations. The hinge joint has two spaced apart, parallel hinge axes, about which the frames (10, 20, 30) mutually rotate. The stroller is further provided with a locking element (43, 44) moveable between a locked position in which the frames (10, 20, 30) are locked in the unfolded configuration, and an unlocked position allowing the frames (10, 20, 30) to rotate to the folded configuration. The locking element (43, 44) moves in a direction traverse to the parallel hinge axes to better transfer loads between the frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: DYNAMIC MOTION, LLC
    Inventors: Ying Hui Huang, Anthony Michael Young, Lee Baker, Mark Bayly
  • TRANSACTION TRACKING TOKEN PROPAGATION
    Publication number: 20220197727
    Abstract: An approach to tracking application transactions without modifications to the application. Receiving a message from a first application. Creating a temporary message identity and a temporary data structure. Configuring the temporary message to save tracking information. Calling the first application to retrieve the tracking information. Saving the tracking information and sending the message to a second application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Young, Cheng Luo, Carolyn Reschke, Bing Qian, Richard Michael Harran
  • CONTEXTUALLY DEFINING AN INTEREST INDEX FOR SHARED AND AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES
    Publication number: 20220198351
    Abstract: System and methods are provided that contextually define interest index requirements for shared and autonomous vehicles. An interest index is computed based on detected contextual behavioral patterns of pedestrians such as the trajectory a candidate passenger is walking given a locational context. The use of the interest index allows users of shared vehicles to benefit from an enhanced user experience that seamlessly unlocks and/or provides access to features for autonomous vehicles based on the interest index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Leon Stenneth, Jeremy Michael Young
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INCREASING PASSENGER SAFETY BASED ON ACCIDENT/ROAD LINK CORRELATION
    Publication number: 20220194426
    Abstract: An approach is provided for minimizing potential vehicle accident impacts based on accident/road link correlation and/or contextual data. The approach, for example, involves processing accident data, topology data, or a combination thereof associated with a road link to determine a potential negative impact on a passenger of a vehicle, the vehicle, or a combination thereof resulting from a potential accident on the road link. The approach also involves determining a seating position within the vehicle for the passenger, a navigation route for the vehicle, an activity for the passenger to perform or avoid while in the vehicle, a dynamic seat repositioning, or a combination thereof based on the potential negative impact. The approach further involves providing the seating position, the navigation route, the activity for the passenger, a dynamic seat repositioning, or a combination thereof as an output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome BEAUREPAIRE, Leon STENNETH, Jeremy Michael YOUNG
  • PROVIDING ACCESS TO AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE BASED ON USER'S DETECTED INTEREST
    Publication number: 20220198196
    Abstract: System and methods are provided that allow users of shared vehicles to benefit from an enhanced user experience that seamlessly unlocks and/or provides access to features for autonomous vehicles by proactively computing an interest index based on detected contextual behavioral patterns of the pedestrians such as the trajectory a candidate passenger is walking given a locational context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Leon Stenneth, Jeremy Michael Young
  • MIXED MODE VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20220185338
    Abstract: Systems and methods for mix mode automated driving including accessing a profile associated with an automated driving trip, determining a list of driving operations for the automated driving trip, and determining at least one recommended driving operation included in the list of operations based on the profile, such that the at least one recommended driving operation includes a first driving operation designated to autonomous control and a second driving operation designated to manual control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Jerome Beaurepaire, Jeremy Michael Young
  • ISOLATION AND IMMOBILIZATION OF NUCLEIC ACIDS AND USES THEREOF
    Publication number: 20220177873
    Abstract: Disclosed is a novel technique of directly isolating nucleic acids from a biological sample and use of the isolated nucleic acid complexes for various applications and assays such as biobanking and sequencing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventor: Brandon Michael YOUNG
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETERMINING MAP IMPROVEMENTS BASED ON DETECTED ACCIDENTS
    Publication number: 20220172614
    Abstract: An approach is provided for determining map improvements based on detected accidents. The approach involves determining that a vehicle was involved in an accident. The approach also involves receiving a report indicating map data configured in the vehicle at a time of the accident. The approach further involves determining an association between the configured map data and the accident. The approach further involves performing one or more of the following operations: (1) transmitting the association and/or at least a portion of the configured map data to a database and/or a computing device; or (2) determining at least one map change to the configured map data based on the determined association, and transmitting the at least one map change to the vehicle, at least one other vehicle, the database, and/or the computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome BEAUREPAIRE, Leon STENNETH, Jeremy Michael YOUNG
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR COMPUTING AN ESTATED TIME OF ARRIVALVIA A ROUTE BASED ON A DEGRADED STATE OF A VEHICLE AFTER AN ACCIDENT AND/OR MALFUNCTION
    Publication number: 20220169287
    Abstract: An approach is provided for computing an estimated time of arrival via a route based on a degraded state of a vehicle after an accident and/or malfunction. The approach involves receiving, by one or more processors, data indicating an operational status of a vehicle. The approach also involves processing, by the one or more processors, the data to determine a degraded operational state of the vehicle. The approach further involves computing, by the one or more processors, an estimated time of arrival, a route, or a combination thereof of the vehicle based on the degraded operational state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome BEAUREPAIRE, Leon STENNETH, Jeremy Michael YOUNG
  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REQUESTING A MAP UPDATE BASED ON AN ACCIDENT AND/OR DAMAGED/MALFUNCTIONING SENSORS TO ALLOW A VEHICLE TO CONTINUE DRIVING
    Publication number: 20220170752
    Abstract: An approach is provided for requesting a map update based on an accident and/or damaged/malfunctioning sensors to allow a vehicle to continue driving. The approach involves determining, by one or more processors, a status of one or more sensors, one or more systems, or a combination thereof of a vehicle. The approach also involves transmitting, by the one or more processors, a request for a map update based on the status of the one or more sensors, the one or more systems, or a combination thereof of the vehicle. The approach further involves receiving, by the one or more processors, the map update in response to the request. The approach further involves configuring, by the one or more processors, at least one system of the vehicle to operate using the map update.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome BEAUREPAIRE, Leon STENNETH, Jeremy Michael YOUNG
  • Absorbent and resilient fibrous structures
    Patent number: 11338544
    Abstract: Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Michael Gomer Stelljes, Michael Donald Suer, Timothy James Klawitter, James Roy Denbow, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Jeffrey Glen Sheehan, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Method and apparatus for determining map improvements based on detected accidents
    Patent number: 11341847
    Abstract: An approach is provided for determining map improvements based on detected accidents. The approach involves determining that a vehicle was involved in an accident. The approach also involves receiving a report indicating map data configured in the vehicle at a time of the accident. The approach further involves determining an association between the configured map data and the accident. The approach further involves performing one or more of the following operations: (1) transmitting the association and/or at least a portion of the configured map data to a database and/or a computing device; or (2) determining at least one map change to the configured map data based on the determined association, and transmitting the at least one map change to the vehicle, at least one other vehicle, the database, and/or the computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: HERE Global B.V.
    Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Leon Stenneth, Jeremy Michael Young
  • TOWEL DISPENSER TAIL GUARD
    Publication number: 20220133098
    Abstract: A shield for a rolled web material dispenser and that is defined by a body that extends continuously between a first end and a second end, as well as between a pair of respective sidewalls. The first end of body is contoured to secure the body proximate a discharge opening of an enclosure, while second end of body is offset from the first end at a distance that allows body to overlie an exposed tail of web material extending through discharge opening. The pair of respective sidewalls extend in a rearward direction such that the shield flanks the forward facing and opposing edges of the exposed tail of the rolled web material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Young
  • Structures Comprising Particles and Processes for Making Same
    Publication number: 20220133548
    Abstract: Structures, for example fibrous structures, such as absorbent material, for example absorbent core material including particles, for example super absorbent polymer particles (SAP particles), and processes for making same are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: John Daniel Algers, Christopher Philip Bewick-Sonntag, John David Norcom, Michael Joseph Page, Christopher Michael Young
  • METHOD, APPARATUS, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR GENERATING AN AUTONOMOUS DRIVING PROFILE MAP INDEX
    Publication number: 20220137641
    Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for generating an autonomous driving profile map index. In this regard, vehicle context data and location data thereof associated with a vehicle traveling along a road segment is received. The vehicle context data is determined based on a transition into a platooning driving profile for the vehicle that establishes a communication connection between the vehicle and another vehicle traveling along the road segment. Furthermore, autonomous driving profile data for the vehicle at the road segment associated with the location data is calculated based on the vehicle context data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Jeremy Michael Young, Jerome Beaurepaire
  • Spatially controllable eductor for managing solid additives and processes using same
    Patent number: 11313386
    Abstract: A spatially controllable, for example CD controllable, eductor, and more particularly an eductor that is capable of providing a variable motive fluid and processes using such an eductor are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Young, Fei Wang, Steven Lee Barnholtz, Hasan Eroglu, Edwin Arthur Stewart, John Ferney McKibben
  • METHOD TO PREDICT, REACT TO, AND AVOID LOSS OF TRACTION EVENTS
    Publication number: 20220119010
    Abstract: System and methods are provided for predicting, reacting to, and avoiding loss of traction events, such as hydroplaning for autonomous vehicles. For example, the method predicts a risk of an area being subject to hydroplaning using real-time data and/or historical data. The method may store possible hydroplaning events in a geographic map along with a risk assessment. The method provides lane level hydroplaning risk predictions and avoidance mechanisms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Leon Stenneth, Jeremy Michael Young
  • LANE MARKING
    Publication number: 20220121862
    Abstract: Systems and methods for the detection and analysis of road markings and other road objects are described. A method for detection of road markings comprises identifying image data including lane markings associated with a road segment, defining a plurality of subsections for the road segment, identifying boundary recognition observations for the lane markings from the image data corresponding to the at least one of the plurality of subsections for the road segments, calculating one or more clusters for the boundary recognition observations according to color or intensity, and outputting a lane marking indicator indicating the color or the intensity, for the at least one of the plurality of subsections for the road segments, in response to the one or more clusters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Leon Stenneth, Jerome Beaurepaire, Jeremy Michael Young