Patents by Inventor Michael Brown
Michael Brown 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).
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Patent number: 11920628Abstract: An equipment mounting system for mounting equipment to a support structure is described. An equipment mounting system including: (i) a mounting plate having defined therein a plate aperture of a particular shape; (ii) a bolt having a shaft portion including a threaded portion and a non-threaded portion that is of a complementary shape that complements the particular shape of the plate aperture; and (iii) a washer having defined therein a scored aperture that includes multiple radially extending scorings. In an assembled configuration of the mounting plate, the bolt and the washer, the plate aperture of the particular shape aligns with the scoring aperture such that both of the plate aperture and the scoring aperture receive the non-threaded portion of the complementary shape, and the particular shape of the mounting plate engages with the complementary shape of the bolt to prevent rotational displacement of the bolt around the mounting plate.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: BRIGHT POWER INC.Inventors: Andrew John Bradford, Jesse Macgregor Brown, Brian Michael Peterson, Barend Venter
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Patent number: 11918912Abstract: A process to track and provide positional information for display on a remote device includes receiving, on a first recurring basis, time-stamped position information of participant(s) in a competition. The time-stamped position information is captured by a telemetry tracking system during the competition and describes a time-stamped position of each of one or more corresponding participants in a predetermined spatial region. The process includes communicating at least a subset of time-stamped position information to the remote device on a second recurring basis. The remote device uses the time-stamped position information to overlay a representation of one or more of said participants onto a first virtual reproduction of at least a relevant portion of the predetermined spatial region to produce and display an instance of a compiled virtual scene that shows a respective position of each of the participant(s) on the first virtual reproduction of the predetermined spatial region.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Infinite Athlete, Inc.Inventors: Erik Schwartz, Michael Naquin, Christopher Brown, Steve Xing, Pawel Czarnecki, Charles D. Ebersol
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Patent number: 11896031Abstract: The present invention describes a bio-based process to produce high quality protein concentrate (HQPC) by converting plant derived celluloses into bioavailable protein via aerobic incubation, including the use of such HQPC so produced as a nutrient, including use as a fish meal replacement in aquaculture diets.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: The South Dakota Board of Regent, as Governing Board for South Dakota State UniversityInventors: William Gibbons, Michael Brown
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Publication number: 20240020957Abstract: An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Justin Michael Brown, Daniel James Thyer
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Patent number: 11868379Abstract: At least one table included in first content may be determined. The at least one table includes a first plurality of rows and a first plurality of columns. It may be determined that a first term indicative of a personal name is included in a first row of the first plurality of rows and a first column of the first plurality of columns. A second row of the first plurality of rows that includes at least a first personal name in the first column and a first item of personal identifying information in a second column of the first plurality of columns may be identified. First data indicative of the first personal name and the first item of personal identifying information may be extracted. The first data may be added to a first profile associated with the first personal name.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Strider Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael Brown, Greg Levesque, Eric Harnden, Jonathan Lentz
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Patent number: 11844362Abstract: The present invention describes a bio-based process to produce high quality protein concentrate (HQPC) by converting plant derived celluloses into bioavailable protein via aerobic incubation, including the use of such HQPC so produced as a nutrient, including use as a fish meal replacement in aquaculture diets.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2021Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: The South Dakota of Regents, As Governing Board for South Dakota State UniversityInventors: William Gibbons, Michael Brown
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Publication number: 20230385110Abstract: Techniques are related to management service provider resources. The techniques may include receiving a first request to organize a first workload and a second workload. The first workload may be associated with a first computing resource provisioned on a first service provider network and the second workload may be associated with a second computing resource provisioned on a second service provider network. The techniques may import data associated with the first workload and the second workload into the space. The techniques may cause an action to be performed for the first workload and the second workload by implementing a first workflow for the first workload and implementing a second workflow for the second workload.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2023Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Kris BLIESNER, Kelly SALE, Michael BROWN, Shawn BRANSTETTER
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Patent number: 11823440Abstract: An imaging system and method uses grouping and elimination to label images of unknown items. The items may be stacked together with known or unknown items. The items may be packages, such as packages of beverage containers. A machine learning model may be used to infer skus of the packages. The machine learning model is trained on known skus but is not trained on unknown skus. Multiple images of the same unknown sku are grouped using the machine learning model. Elimination based upon lists of expected skus is used to label each group of unknown skus.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2022Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: Justin Michael Brown, Daniel James Thyer
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Publication number: 20230360419Abstract: A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2023Publication date: November 9, 2023Inventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, JR., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
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Patent number: 11808166Abstract: Embodiments of an additively fabricated turbine blade having an integral tuned mass absorber are disclosed herein. The tuned mass absorber has an elliptical cross-section that results in the suppression of blade vibrations in at least two orthogonal modes of vibration. The tuned mass absorber is formed simultaneously during the additive fabrication of the blade. In an embodiment, the tuned mass absorber extends spanwise. In another embodiment, the tuned mass absorber extends chordwise. The dynamic responses of these spanwise and chordwise tuned mass absorbers are analytically predictable such that the dynamic responses may be incorporated into the design process of the turbine blade.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2021Date of Patent: November 7, 2023Assignee: United States of America as represented by the Administrator of NASAInventor: Andrew Michael Brown
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Publication number: 20230350926Abstract: At least one table included in first content may be determined. The at least one table includes a first plurality of rows and a first plurality of columns. It may be determined that a first term indicative of a personal name is included in a first row of the first plurality of rows and a first column of the first plurality of columns. A second row of the first plurality of rows that includes at least a first personal name in the first column and a first item of personal identifying information in a second column of the first plurality of columns may be identified. First data indicative of the first personal name and the first item of personal identifying information may be extracted. The first data may be added to a first profile associated with the first personal name.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 13, 2022Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Michael Brown, Greg Levesque, Eric Harnden, Jonathan Lentz
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Patent number: 11798702Abstract: A method for obtaining 225AC from 225Ra having the steps of assembling a column having an inorganic stationary phase; priming the column to immobilize 226Ra 225Ra and natural decay products therefrom; immobilizing the 226Ra, 225Ra, 224Ra, and natural decay products therefrom onto a stationary phase within the column; and eluting the column containing the 225Ra with an aqueous sulfate solution to obtain a milking effluent that contains 225AC. Also provided is a method for obtaining pure 225AC from its isotope parents, the method comprising assembling a column having a stationary phase comprising an inorganic material; priming the column with the isotope parents to immobilize 225Ac, and natural decay products of 225AC; immobilizing the 225Ac, and natural decay products therefrom onto the stationary phase within the column 226Ra, 225Ra, 224Ra; and eluting the column containing the 225AC to obtain an effluent that contains the isotope parents.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: UCHICAGO ARGONNE, LLCInventors: Michael A. Brown, Artem Gelis, David Rotsch, Jerry A. Nolen, Jr., Amanda J. Youker
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Patent number: 11783606Abstract: A delivery system may include a pallet wrapper system having a turntable, a camera directed toward an area above the turntable, and a stretch wrap dispenser adjacent the turntable. A computer receives images from the camera of multiple sides of a pallet loaded with packages on the turntable. The computer stitches images from different sides of the stack of packages that correspond to the same package. At least one machine learning model may be used to infer SKUs of each package. Optical character recognition may be performed in parallel on the images. The determination of the SKU of each package may be based upon the inferred SKUs and on the OCR.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Rehrig Pacific CompanyInventors: Peter Douglas Jackson, Robert Lee Martin, Jr., Daniel James Thyer, Justin Michael Brown
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Patent number: 11741257Abstract: Techniques are described for providing access to anonymized user data derived from external data providers. A persona management system generates a searchable data store containing metadata related to a plurality of users of the persona management system. The metadata includes entries indicating: a first identifier of a user of the plurality of users of the persona management system, a second identifier of an external data provider of a plurality of external data providers that possess data related to users of the persona management system, a third identifier of an algorithm that is used to transform data possessed by the external data provider related to the user of the persona management system into one or more transformed data values, and the one or more transformed data values. In response to requests from various data consumers, the persona management system uses the metadata to identify users matching specified search criteria.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: FortifID, Inc.Inventors: Shantanu Rajkumar Kothavale, Anirban Basak, Michael Brown, Danny Y. Lee, Prashant Kediyal, Ronald C. Lee
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Publication number: 20230260485Abstract: A guitar pick or plectrum is provided for use with a stringed musical instrument. The guitar pick or plectrum includes a central body and a first picking wing portion peripherally extending from the central body a first longitudinal direction from the central body. The first picking wing portion includes an end portion and multiple layered picking edges each extending in the first longitudinal direction from the end portion and being spaced apart from each other a predefined distance. Each of multiple layered picking edges is configured to pick a same string on a single strum to provide a multiple sounds from a single strum when picking a single string.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2022Publication date: August 17, 2023Inventor: Terry Michael Brown, Sr.
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Patent number: 11721311Abstract: A guitar pick or plectrum is provided for use with a stringed musical instrument. The guitar pick or plectrum includes a central body and a first picking wing portion peripherally extending from the central body a first longitudinal direction from the central body. The first picking wing portion includes an end portion and multiple layered picking edges each extending in the first longitudinal direction from the end portion and being spaced apart from each other a predefined distance. Each of multiple layered picking edges is configured to pick a same string on a single strum to provide a multiple sounds from a single strum when picking a single string.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Inventor: Terry Michael Brown, Sr.
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Publication number: 20230242462Abstract: A fertilizer composition and method to produced based on milk which comes from ruminant animals like cows and goats and adding a coal dust component. The previous or past milk-based fertilizers have had poor efficacy obtained due to the high fat content of these milk sources due to using too much milk, or rather too much fat in the milk, since the bacteria in the composition will spoil and result in a foul odor, poor growth, and poor crop yield. This fertilizer composition contains a nutrient ingredient, which is the de-fatted milk, as a liquid or dry product, and are utilized between 10 percent weight and 95 percent weight plus uses the coal dust and soluble coal dust as a less expensive stabilizer and chelator as well as other minerals for Nitrogen-Phosphorus-Potassium utilization.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventors: William Robert Selkirk, JR., Rebecca Sue Selkirk, Michael Brown, Jennifer (Xiaoyu Xu) Brown
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Publication number: 20230242391Abstract: A method of dispensing customized hemp extract tinctures includes dispensing at least one of multiple cannabinoid isolate solutions and an inactive carrier oil into a tincture container by way of calibrated dispensers and sealing the tincture container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: August 3, 2023Inventor: Stephen Michael Brown
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Publication number: 20230233749Abstract: A chest drainage system securing apparatus for securing and maintaining chest drainage systems in position following placement into a human or animal patient and preventing movement or unplanned removal thereof in response to the application of significant forces in any direction thereto, be they longitudinal, torsional/rotational or bending. The securement system includes retention devices secured to a chest tube which interact with an adhesive pad releasably attached to a patient to ensure proper positioning of the chest tube. The adhesive pad includes one or more Heimlich-type valves for sealing sucking chest wounds and for sealing an incision formed in a patients skin and chest for the placement and insertion of a chest tube.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2021Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Mark Bruning, Greg Letendre, Arthur Kanowitz, Pierre Noel, Kelly McKay, Patrick Parkinson, Michael Brown, Dmitri Kyle
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Patent number: 11698814Abstract: Techniques discussed herein relate to managing service provider resources. The techniques may include receiving a first request to organize a first workload and a second workload into a space. The first workload may be associated with a first computing resource of a first service provider and the second workload may be associated with a second computing resource of a second service provider. The techniques may import data associated with the first workload and the second workload into the space. The techniques may cause an action to be performed for the first workload and the second workload by implementing a first workflow for the first workload and implementing a second workflow for the second workload.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2020Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: Vega Cloud, Inc.Inventors: Kris Bliesner, Kelly Sale, Michael Brown, Shawn Branstetter