Patents by Inventor Michael Beal

Michael Beal 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: 20210335452
    Abstract: According to an example, a method of analyzing an output of a sequencer is provided comprising identifying genetic targets, obtaining target signature snippets responsive thereto, each target signature snippet derived from a genetic sequence of the genetic targets, receiving portions of a test sequence output by a sequencer sequencing a sample in real time, determining, in real time or near-real time with the sequencer sequencing the sample, whether a target signature snippet of the target signature snippets is in at least one portion of the test sequence, determining, for each genetic target, a probability the genetic target is in the sample based on the determination of whether the target signature snippet is present in the at least one portion of the test sequence, and outputting an analysis of the sample indicating the respective probability that each genetic target is present in the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Jacob Stuart Michael Beal, Thomas Cushing Mitchell, Daniel Wyschogrod
  • Publication number: 20210327539
    Abstract: Techniques for generating custom libraries for nucleic acid synthesis are disclosed. The techniques include: obtaining one or more nucleic acid sequences for which to generate a subsequence catalog; performing pattern recognition on the one or more nucleic acid sequences, to identify subsequences that are repeated in the one or more nucleic acid sequences; and generating the subsequence catalog, including the subsequences that are repeated in the one or more nucleic acid sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventor: Jacob Stuart Michael Beal
  • Publication number: 20210290029
    Abstract: A method and system for cleaning complex, elevated fixtures and appliances having compound curves, such as but not limited to security camera lenses and light bulbs. The invention having two main parts. A first part comprised of a conventional, telescoping rod and a second part being a flexible adapter head configured to receive and secure a cleaning towel therein. Said flexible adapter head allows a user to access and clean difficult-to-reach fixtures positioned at various angles. The adapter head also containing a flexible hoop allowing the affixed towel to remain in contact with the feature being cleaned. Other embodiments may include a flexible adaptor head with collar that fits on a plurality of handles and rods such as broom handles and PVC pipes etc. according to a user's preference. An object of the invention is to provide a more accurate means to reach and clean elevated fixtures more efficiently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventor: Brandon Michael Beal
  • Publication number: 20210281613
    Abstract: A method and devices that receive first data in a first format via a first interface using a first protocol; convert the first data into second data of a second format; output the second data in the second format to a second computing device via a second interface using a second protocol; receive third data in a third format via a third interface using a third protocol; convert the third data into fourth data of a fourth format; and output the fourth data in the fourth format to a third computing device via the second interface using a fourth protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: William Michael Beals, Nicodemus Henry Nepper, JR.
  • Patent number: 11102216
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a network gateway device (“gateway”) that provides various network management features, including a device zoning feature in which client computing devices (“client devices”) connected to the gateway are assigned to different device zones. The client devices connected to the gateway form a local area network (LAN) of the gateway, and can access an external network, e.g., Internet, using the gateway. Each of the device zones has a specific set of network access privileges. Different device zones can have different network access privileges and can provide device isolation in the LAN at different degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Network L.L.C.
    Inventor: William Michael Beals
  • Patent number: 11082726
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards remotely generating encoding metadata at a remote content distributor for use by a local user computing device. The remote content distributor receives and encodes content. During or after the encoding process, the remote content distributor generates encoding metadata that indicates how the content was encoded by the remote content distributor. The remote content distributor provides the encoding metadata to the user computer device. The user computing device receives the content and the encoding metadata and encodes the content based on the encoding metadata. The user computing device can then provide the encoded content to another computing device for decoding and presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventors: William Michael Beals, Alistair Chatwin
  • Patent number: 11070873
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed toward locally generating a replacement spot beam signal to be combined with other orbital television signals, where the replacement spot beam signal is generated from locally received over-the-air television signals. Over-the-air television signals are received at a user's premises via an over-the-air antenna and orbital signals are received at the user's premises via a satellite antenna. The orbital signals include a spot beam signal and other orbital signals. The spot beam signal is specifically generated for the geographical area associated with the over-the-air television signals. One or more available local channels are extracted from the over-the-air television signals and are converted into the replacement spot beam signal that is a satellite-compatible signal. The replacement spot beam, instead of the original spot beam signal, is then combined with the other orbital signals and provided to a content receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventors: Alistair Chatwin, William Michael Beals
  • Patent number: 11056213
    Abstract: A method of identifying regions of malicious organic sequences includes identifying a plurality of benign snippets derived from a first sequence obtained from at least one benign organism; extracting a plurality of candidate signature snippets from a second sequence obtained from a malicious organism; determining, for each of the plurality of candidate signature snippets, whether the candidate signature snippet matches at least one of the plurality of benign snippets; and responsive to the candidate signature snippet not matching the at least one of the plurality of benign snippets, identifying the candidate signature snippet as a malicious signature snippet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Raytheon BBN Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Jacob Stuart Michael Beal, Daniel Wyschogrod, Steven Wayne Jilcott, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20210173925
    Abstract: A virus scanning router may manages a local network, including routing network traffic between devices on the network and routing network traffic being sent to and from such devices via an external communication system. The virus scanning router remotely scans for viruses the files stored on one or more such devices on the network. The virus scanning router may be a device trusted by the other devices on local network to facilitate the virus scanning router reading and scanning one or more files stored on such devices for viruses. The virus scanning router also takes corrective actions such as isolating the infected device or isolating an affected network zone to which the remote device belongs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventor: William Michael Beals
  • Patent number: 11019109
    Abstract: Non-multimedia information may be produced from devices such as alarms, appliances, automobiles, building systems, weather stations, home automation systems, and the like. A method and devices communicate non-multimedia content via a standardized network architecture. Non-multimedia data is received from a remote device with a standardized network aliasing device. The standardized network aliasing device is able to communicate on a network that conforms, for example, to a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) protocol. The non-multimedia data is formatted with the standardized network aliasing device into a standardized-format file. The standardized-format file conforms to a selected media class. The standardized-format file is exposed on the network that conforms to the DLNA protocol and communicated to a remote DLNA-enabled device that is also coupled to the network that conforms to the DLNA protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventors: William Michael Beals, Nicodemus Henry Nepper, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10970367
    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for securing transmission of content from a smart card in a host television receiver to a client television receiver. The smart card can receive the encrypted content stream from the television service provider, decrypt the content stream with the global network key, identify the client television receiver as the destination of the content stream, generate a unique key specific to the content stream, encrypt the unique key with a local key known to the client television receiver, encrypt the content stream with the unique key, and transmit the encrypted content stream along with the encrypted unique key to the client television receiver. The client television receiver can then receive the encrypted content stream and the encrypted unique key, decrypt the unique key, decrypt the content stream with the unique key, and transmit the content stream to a display device of the client television receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: William Michael Beals, John Hamrick
  • Patent number: 10949533
    Abstract: A virus scanning router may manages a local network, including routing network traffic between devices on the network and routing network traffic being sent to and from such devices via an external communication system. The virus scanning router remotely scans for viruses the files stored on one or more such devices on the network. The virus scanning router may be a device trusted by the other devices on local network to facilitate the virus scanning router reading and scanning one or more files stored on such devices for viruses. The virus scanning router also takes corrective actions such as isolating the infected device or isolating an affected network zone to which the remote device belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: DISH Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventor: William Michael Beals
  • Publication number: 20210027861
    Abstract: Disclosed techniques include generating a first set of sequence snippets from a set of nucleic acid sequences having a first trait; generating a second set of second sequence snippets from a set of nucleic acid sequences having a second trait; identifying a third set of sequence snippets categorized as being of a particular type; and filtering the first set of sequence snippets and the second set of sequence snippets to remove at least one sequence snippet in the third set of sequence snippets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Jacob Stuart Michael Beal, Daniel Wyschogrod, Steven Wayne Jilcott, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210006843
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards remotely generating encoding metadata at a remote content distributor for use by a local user computing device. The remote content distributor receives and encodes content. During or after the encoding process, the remote content distributor generates encoding metadata that indicates how the content was encoded by the remote content distributor. The remote content distributor provides the encoding metadata to the user computer device. The user computing device receives the content and the encoding metadata and encodes the content based on the encoding metadata. The user computing device can then provide the encoded content to another computing device for decoding and presentation to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventors: William Michael Beals, Alistair Chatwin
  • Publication number: 20200390865
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion proteins comprising an insulin receptor agonist fused to a human IgG Fc region through the use of a peptide linker, and the use of such fusion proteins in the treatment of diabetes. The fusion protein of the present invention has an extended time action profile and is useful for providing basal glucose control for an extended period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: David Bruce Baldwin, John Michael Beals, Jonathan Wesley Day, Craig Duane Dickinson, Andrew Ihor Korytko, Gregory Alan Lazar
  • Patent number: 10820023
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed towards remotely generating encoding metadata at a remote content distributor for use by a local user computing device. The remote content distributor receives and encodes content. During or after the encoding process, the remote content distributor generates encoding metadata that indicates how the content was encoded by the remote content distributor. The remote content distributor provides the encoding metadata to the user computer device. The user computing device receives the content and the encoding metadata and encodes the content based on the encoding metadata. The user computing device can then provide the encoded content to another computing device for decoding and presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: DISH NETWORK L.L.C.
    Inventors: William Michael Beals, Alistair Chatwin
  • Publication number: 20200229340
    Abstract: A dual path agricultural machine including a control system having a number of input sensors, status sensors, and output sensors, and a controller configured to operate the dual path machine in a stability control mode and a selective rear-steer engagement and actuation mode. In the stability control mode, the controller adjusts an actual drive output of the dual path machine according to data received from the input sensors and feedback received from the output sensors so as to reduce a difference between the actual drive output and a desired drive output. In selective rear-steer engagement and actuation mode, the controller engages rear-steer mechanisms with caster wheels of the dual path machine and actuates the caster wheels via the rear-steer mechanisms if a criterion is satisfied. The controller disengages the rear-steer mechanisms from the caster wheels or does not actuate the caster wheels if the criterion is not satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: AGCO CORPORATION
    Inventors: Friedrich Robert Honeyman, Brendon Charles Nafziger, Michael Beal Bayliff
  • Patent number: 10709766
    Abstract: The present invention relates to fusion proteins comprising an insulin receptor agonist fused to a human IgG Fc region through the use of a peptide linker, and the use of such fusion proteins in the treatment of diabetes. The fusion protein of the present invention has an extended time action profile and is useful for providing basal glucose control for an extended period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Eli Lilly and Company
    Inventors: David Bruce Baldwin, John Michael Beals, Jonathan Wesley Day, Craig Duane Dickinson, Andrew Ihor Korytko, Gregory Alan Lazar
  • Publication number: 20200213328
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a network gateway device (“gateway”) that provides various network management features, including a device zoning feature in which client computing devices (“client devices”) connected to the gateway are assigned to different device zones. The client devices connected to the gateway form a local area network (LAN) of the gateway, and can access an external network, e.g., Internet, using the gateway. Each of the device zones has a specific set of network access privileges. Different device zones can have different network access privileges and can provide device isolation in the LAN at different degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: William Michael Beals
  • Patent number: 10691954
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein can include performing an initial calibration that maps each optical character of the plurality of optical characters visible in a field-of-view of a digital camera of a wide-area parking space monitoring system with corresponding parking spaces. The digital camera of the system may capture an image facing downward toward the parking spaces. The system may identify one or more optical characters that are visible within the image. The system may determine one or more parking spaces of the plurality of parking spaces that are mapped to the identified one or more optical characters, The system may output an indication of the determined one or more parking spaces that indicates the one or more parking spaces are available.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: DISK Network L.L.C.
    Inventors: William Michael Beals, Karam J. Saab