Patents by Inventor Michael Allen

Michael Allen 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: 10794726
    Abstract: A method of calculating a climb-dive marker (CDM) that is visibly present on a display even as the aircraft approaches a roll angle of +/?90° is provided. An exemplary CDM method comprises obtaining, an X-axis velocity, a Y-axis velocity, and a Z-axis velocity in aircraft body coordinates of an aircraft; calculating a CDM elevation; and displaying, by the controller, the calculated CDM elevation. The method can further comprise obtaining an angle of attack (AoA) of the aircraft and a roll angle of the aircraft, wherein the AoA is set as the value of the CDM elevation when the roll angle is within a preset range. The CDM elevation may also be calculated using a combination of the AOA and the CDM formula when roll angle is within a second preset range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: ELBIT SYSTEMS OF AMERICA, LLC
    Inventors: John Timothy Pearson, Lawerance Ray Butler, Keith Thomas Grandin, Michael Allen Robb
  • Publication number: 20200301032
    Abstract: A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions readable and executable by a workstation (18) including at least one electronic processor (20) to perform a quality control (QC) method (100). The method includes: receiving a current QC data set acquired by a pixelated detector (14) and one or more prior QC data sets acquired by the pixelated detector; determining stability levels of detector pixels (16) of the pixelated detector over time from the current QC data set and the one or more prior QC data sets; labeling a detector pixel of the pixelated detector as dead when the stability level determined for the detector pixel is outside of a stability threshold range; and displaying, on a display device (24) operatively connected with the workstation, an identification (28) of the detector pixels labelled as dead.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Inventors: CHUANYONG BAI, ANDRIY ANDREYEV, SHUSHEN LIN, BIN ZHANG, MICHAEL ALLEN MILLER, XIYUN SONG, JINGHAN YE, DWIVEDI SHEKHAR, ZHIQIANG HU, YU-LUNG HSIEH, ILYA BRODSKIY, THOMAS CHRISTOPHER BULGRIN, YANG-MING ZHU, DOUGLAS B. MCKNIGHT
  • Publication number: 20200298264
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining the identity of a liquid within a liquid dispenser are provided. A device includes a holder having an opening that is configured to retain the liquid dispenser. A surface of the liquid dispenser is configured to affix a label identifying a liquid within the liquid dispenser. A plurality of lenses are mounted on the holder. Each lens has a respective field of view that includes a respective portion of the surface of the liquid dispenser. In addition, the device includes a plurality of fiber bundles. Each fiber bundle includes an input that is configured to receive a respective signal from a respective one of the plurality of lenses. Further, the device includes an imaging sensor that is configured to receive the respective signals from the plurality of fiber bundles and to form a plurality of images of the surface of the liquid dispenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2020
    Publication date: September 24, 2020
    Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Supriyo Sinha, Michael Allen, Todd Whitehurst, Dimitri Azar
  • Patent number: 10774680
    Abstract: An optical sensor for a rotating blade stage of a turbomachine is disclosed. The optical sensor includes a housing to be mounted relative to a circumferential interior surface of a casing of the turbomachine. Optical fiber(s) are operatively coupled to the housing for communicating: an optical signal for sending toward the rotating blade stage and a return optical signal reflected by the rotating blade stage, through the casing. An optical signal redirecting element is configured to redirect the optical signal from optical fiber(s) inwardly toward the rotating blade stage relative to the casing, and redirect the return optical signal reflected by the rotating blade stage into the at least one optical fiber. Optical fiber(s) have a longitudinal shape configured to follow the circumferential interior surface of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kurt Kramer Schleif, Michael Allen Ball, Andrew David Ellis
  • Patent number: 10767176
    Abstract: This invention pertains to modified compositions for use in CRISPR systems, and their methods of use. In particular, length-modified and chemically-modified forms of crRNA and tracrRNA are described for use as a reconstituted guide RNA for interaction with Cas9 of CRISPR systems. The resultant length-modified and chemically-modified forms of crRNA and tracrRNA are economical to produce and can be tailored to have unique properties relevant to their biochemical and biological activity in the context of the CRISPR Cas9 endonuclease system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Allen Collingwood, Ashley Mae Jacobi, Garrett Richard Rettig, Mollie Sue Schubert, Mark Aaron Behlke
  • Patent number: 10768981
    Abstract: A method for dynamically scheduling a data-processing workload includes recognizing minimum and maximum execution slice sizes and predicting an execution slice size for a current job of a collection of jobs. If the predicted execution slice size exceeds the maximum slice size or if the job involves date-dependent records in the future of the current date, the job is split into a working slice and a remainder slice, the remainder slice is added to the collection of jobs and the working slice is executed. Otherwise, if the predicted execution slice size is between the minimum and maximum execution slice sizes, the current job is executed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Allen Gasser, David Kemal Felstead, Michael Joseph Wetzel
  • Publication number: 20200276706
    Abstract: A virtualization system implemented within a cloud server enables the simulation of robot structure and behavior in a virtual environment. The simulated robots are controlled by clients remote from the cloud server, enabling human operators or autonomous robot control programs running on the clients to control the movement and behavior of the simulated robots within the virtual environment. Data describing interactions between robots, the virtual environment, and objects can be recorded for use in future robot design. The virtualization system can include robot templates, enabling users to quickly select and customize a robot to be simulated, and further enabling users to update and re-customize the robot in real-time during the simulation. The virtualization system can re-simulate a portion of the robot simulation when an intervention by a human operator is detected, positioning robots, people, and objects within the virtual environment based on the detected intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Apurva Shah, Michael Allen Taylor, Jason DePerro
  • Publication number: 20200276705
    Abstract: A virtualization system implemented within a cloud server enables the simulation of robot structure and behavior in a virtual environment. The simulated robots are controlled by clients remote from the cloud server, enabling human operators or autonomous robot control programs running on the clients to control the movement and behavior of the simulated robots within the virtual environment. Data describing interactions between robots, the virtual environment, and objects can be recorded for use in future robot design. The virtualization system can include robot templates, enabling users to quickly select and customize a robot to be simulated, and further enabling users to update and re-customize the robot in real-time during the simulation. The virtualization system can re-simulate a portion of the robot simulation when an intervention by a human operator is detected, positioning robots, people, and objects within the virtual environment based on the detected intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Apurva Shah, Michael Allen Taylor, Jason DePerro
  • Publication number: 20200276708
    Abstract: A virtualization system implemented within a cloud server enables the simulation of robot structure and behavior in a virtual environment. The simulated robots are controlled by clients remote from the cloud server, enabling human operators or autonomous robot control programs running on the clients to control the movement and behavior of the simulated robots within the virtual environment. Data describing interactions between robots, the virtual environment, and objects can be recorded for use in future robot design. The virtualization system can include robot templates, enabling users to quickly select and customize a robot to be simulated, and further enabling users to update and re-customize the robot in real-time during the simulation. The virtualization system can re-simulate a portion of the robot simulation when an intervention by a human operator is detected, positioning robots, people, and objects within the virtual environment based on the detected intervention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Apurva Shah, Michael Allen Taylor, Jason DePerro
  • Publication number: 20200270342
    Abstract: The disclosure provides compositions and methods for the treatment of ocular conditions associated with angiogenesis comprising administering an antibody that targets a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin PETERS, Michael Allen FLYNN
  • Patent number: 10754227
    Abstract: A cover for a camera body having a hot shoe and an attached lens has a flexible sleeve that has an opening for the end of the lens and an opening through which the camera body and lens can be inserted and through which the camera body can be manipulated. The sleeve is provided with a clear panel or window for viewing the camera body. The cover has a connector attached to the sleeve and protruding inwardly for detachable connection to the hot shoe of the camera body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Think Tank Photo, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Allen Sturm
  • Patent number: 10744168
    Abstract: A GMP adapted to provide the PAL gene for the treatment of PKU when administered orally. The GMP of the present invention may include a probiotic, a PAL gene to be expressed using the probiotic, wherein the PAL gene is functionally attached to a promoter and a ribosome binding site, and may be codon-optimized for expression in a certain host organism. A method of treating the metabolic disease of PKU by oral administration and ingestion of a GMP is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
    Inventors: Katherine Durrer, Michael Allen, Ione Hunt von Herbing
  • Publication number: 20200260157
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to credit commercial broadcasts are disclosed. Example commercial crediting apparatus disclosed herein compare first identification information and first timing information obtained from a first monitored data feed with second identification information and second timing information in a second monitored data feed to identify a first final distributor code represented in the second monitoring data feed, the first identification information and the first timing information corresponding to a first commercial represented in the first monitored data feed. Disclosed example apparatus also access data that maps a first original distributor code to the first final distributor code, identify the first commercial in lineup data based on the first original distributor code, and adjust, based on a duration of the first commercial, a duration obtained for a first media program listed in the lineup data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Narasimha Reddy Goli, Gangadhar Jakkula, Michael Allen Bivins, Thomas A. Potter, Venkata Lakshmi Kumar Pittu, Kevin J. Rini
  • Publication number: 20200255387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to processes and intermediates for preparing Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH) receptor antagonists of structure (VI); and stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Donald J. GALLAGHER, Laszlo R. TREIBER, Robert Michael HUGHES, Onorato CAMPOPIANO, Peng WANG, Yuxin ZHAO, Shine K. CHOU, Michael Allen OUELLETTE, Donald Nicholas HETTINGER
  • Patent number: 10731981
    Abstract: A combined altitude display apparatus for generating a combined altitude value is provided. The apparatus comprises a first altitude input interface, wherein the first altitude input interface receives a first altitude value; a second altitude input interface, wherein the second altitude input interface receives a second altitude value, wherein the second altitude value indicated by the second altitude input interface has a cyclical range; an altitude output interface, wherein the altitude output interface outputs a third altitude value; and a data fusion component coupled to the first altitude input interface and the second altitude input interface and configured to calculate the third altitude value based on the first altitude value and the second altitude value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Elbit Systems of America, LLC
    Inventors: John Timothy Pearson, Lawerance Ray Butler, Keith Thomas Grandin, Michael Allen Robb, Donald Grant Gwynne
  • Publication number: 20200239567
    Abstract: The disclosure provides compositions and methods for the treatment of ocular conditions associated with angiogenesis comprising administering an antibody that targets a tyrosine phosphatase inhibitor in a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin Peters, Michael Allen Flynn
  • Patent number: 10728783
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for improving inter-Radio Access Technology (RAT) measurements. A user equipment (UE) determines, while in a connected state Discontinuous Reception (CDRX) mode in a first cell of a first Radio Access Technology Network (RAT), that a second cell of a second RAT is to be measured. The UE schedules at least two operational periods related to transitioning between ON and OFF states of the CDRX mode to overlap, to increase a period available for measuring signals in the second cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Scott Allan Hoover, Arvind Vardarajan Santhanam, Srinivasan Balasubramanian, Kushang Desai, Vishal Hingorani, Rajarajan Rajendran, Hua Feng, Michael Allen Corley, Selvi Shah
  • Publication number: 20200231886
    Abstract: Low sulphur marine fuel compositions are provided. Embodiments comprise 10 to 50 wt % of a residual hydrocarbon component, with the remaining 50 to 90 wt % selected from a non-hydroprocessed hydrocarbon component, a hydroprocessed hydrocarbon component, and a combination thereof. Embodiments of the marine fuel composition can have a sulphur content of about 0.1 wt % or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Lawrence Stephen KRAUS, Danny F DROUBI, Dana Tatum LIPINSKY, Michael Allen BRANCH, Cynthia S DELANEY-KINSELLA, Koen STEERNBERG, Tommy Louis BRUMFIELD, Ariel BRU
  • Patent number: 10717978
    Abstract: This invention pertains to mutant Cas9 nucleic acids and proteins for use in CRISPR/Cas endonuclease systems, and their methods of use. In particular, the invention pertains to an isolated mutant Cas9 protein, wherein the isolated mutant Cas9 protein is active in a CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system, wherein the CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system displays reduced off-target editing activity and maintained on-target editing activity relative to a wild-type CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system. The invention also includes isolated nucleic acids encoding mutant Cas9 proteins, ribonucleoprotein complexes and CRSPR/Cas endonuclease systems having mutant Cas9 proteins that display reduced off-target editing activity and maintained on-target editing activity relative to a wild-type CRISPR/Cas endonuclease system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: INTEGRATED DNA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Anthony Vakulskas, Michael Allen Collingwood, Garrett Richard Rettig, Mark Aaron Behlke
  • Patent number: D895656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Allen