Patents by Inventor Michael C. Was

Michael C. Was 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).

  • POLYALPHAOLEFINS MADE FROM DIMER OLEFINS OBTAINED FROM BRANCHED C10 MONOOLEFINS USING SOLID ACID CATALYST
    Publication number: 20250074844
    Abstract: Synthesis of polyalphaolefins by oligomerization of one or more branched C10 monoolefins with a solid acid catalyst to form an oligomer product, followed by hydrogenation of a C20+ olefin portion of the oligomer product to form the polyalphaolefins. The solid acid catalyst is selective to C20 olefin dimers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Malinski, Jeffrey C. Gee, Steven M. Bischof, Spencer A. Kerns, James Hillier, Michael S. Webster-Gardiner
  • POLYALPHAOLEFINS MADE FROM DIMER OLEFINS OBTAINED FROM BRANCHED C10 MONOOLEFINS USING ALKYL ALUMINUM CATALYST
    Publication number: 20250075015
    Abstract: Synthesis of polyalphaolefins by oligomerization of one or more branched C10 monoolefins with an alkyl aluminum catalyst to form an oligomer product, followed by hydrogenation of a C20+ olefin portion of the oligomer product to form the polyalphaolefins. The alkyl aluminum catalyst is selective to C20 olefin dimers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Malinski, Spencer A. Kerns, Julie A. Leseberg, Jeffrey C. Gee, Steven M. Bischof, James Hillier, Michael S. Webster-Gardiner
  • LASER RECEIVER
    Publication number: 20250076045
    Abstract: A laser detector includes a detection section, the detection section includes an array of photo-detectors configured to detect a vertical position of a beam. The laser detector also includes an indication section, the indication section includes an array of illumination elements configured to indicate the vertical position of the laser beam. The detection section has a height H1. The indication section has a height H2. H2 is in a range of from 0.75 to 1.25 H1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Stanley Black & Decker Inc.
    Inventors: Dominic Maurice LEONE, Fugen QIN, JB RING, Akash AGARWAL, Michael C. SCHMITTDIEL, MD Qumrul Hasan
  • COMBUSTION SECTION WITH A PRIMARY COMBUSTOR AND A SET OF SECONDARY COMBUSTORS
    Publication number: 20250075910
    Abstract: A turbine engine with a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow arrangement along an engine centerline. A combustion section for the turbine engine, having a primary combustor liner including an inner liner and an outer liner annular about an engine centerline. A dome wall extending between the inner liner and the outer liner. A set of primary dome inlets located in the dome wall and circumferentially arranged about the engine centerline. A set of secondary combustors fluidly coupled to a primary combustion chamber, the set of secondary combustors including a first mini combustor and a second mini combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Pradeep Naik, Joseph Zelina, Sripathi Mohan, Perumallu Vukanti, Clayton S. Cooper, Michael A. Benjamin, Steven C. Vise, Karthikeyan Sampath
  • ACTIVITY-INDUCIBLE FUSION PROTEINS HAVING A TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR AND A HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 90 BINDING DOMAIN
    Publication number: 20250074959
    Abstract: Activity-inducible fusion proteins including a transcription factor and a heat-shock protein 90 (hsp90) binding domain are described. The activity of the transcription factor is regulated utilizing a drug molecule that binds the hsp90 binding domain. In the absence of the drug molecule, the transcription factor is in an inactive state but can be activated in the presence of the drug molecule. The activity-inducible transcription factors can be used to alter the activation state of immune cells, and optionally can be co-expressed with a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Seattle Children's Hospital d/b/a Seattle Children's Research Institute
    Inventors: Michael C. Jensen, Jia Wei, Taylor Kimiko-Ha Ishida
  • Estimation of the Crystallographic Texture of an Alloy
    Publication number: 20250076224
    Abstract: A modified differential evolution process including a reseed operation is performed to estimate a plurality of Euler angles indicating orientations of a specified quantity of crystals approximating the crystallographic texture extracted from the material test data, the reseed operation comprising retaining a data point at a first place of a first population of data points, and replacing all other data points of the first population of data points prior to continued iterations, wherein the first population of data points is a collection of a plurality of all data points and each data point comprises the specified quantity of Euler angles, and the data point at the first place of the first population of data points is the data point within the first population of data points that best fits the material test data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Yunpeng Zhang, Michael C. Elford, Andrew Jon Eugene Stephan
  • AMINOTRIAZOLOPYRIDINES AS KINASE INHIBITORS
    Publication number: 20250074909
    Abstract: Compounds having formula (I)-(IX), and enantiomers, and diastereomers, stereoisomers, pharmaceutically acceptable salts and prodrugs thereof, are useful as kinase modulators, including RIPK1 modulation. All the variables are as defined herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Junqing Guo, Amy C. Hart, John E. Macor, Michael E. Mertzman, William J. Pitts, Steven H. Spergel, Scott Hunter Watterson, Murugaiah Andappan Murugaiah Subbaiah, Jie Chen, Carolyn Diane Dzierba, Guanglin Luo, Jianliang Shi, Sing-Yuen Sit
  • WEIGHTED IRON SET
    Publication number: 20250073544
    Abstract: The present invention is direct to a set of golf clubs comprising long irons, mid-irons and short irons. The invention contemplates the use of titanium or steel for the main body portion and a tungsten weight member coupled to the toe and a tungsten heel weight member coupled in a hosel cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Acushnet Company
    Inventors: Jason A. Mata, Marni D. Ines, Jonathan Hebreo, Joshua G. Breier, Michael E. Franz, Joshua C. Stokes, Grant M. Martens
  • SUNROOF ASSEMBLY WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20250074167
    Abstract: A sunroof assembly includes a bracket configured for attachment to a sunroof panel. The sunroof assembly also includes a guiderail supporting movement of the bracket, whereby movement of the bracket causes movement of the sunroof panel. The sunroof assembly further includes a housing defining a housing wall, wherein the housing wall and the guiderail form a boundary wall separating a wet area of the sunroof assembly from a dry area of the sunroof assembly, and wherein the bracket straddles the boundary wall such that a first side of the bracket is located in the wet area and a second side of the bracket is located in the dry area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Wells, Glover A. Kosch, Michael A. Mixon, Jacob C. Grimaldo
  • Hybrid Propulsion For Airborne Craft
    Publication number: 20250074617
    Abstract: A craft comprises at least one hull, a main wing coupled to the hull and configured to facilitate airborne operations of the craft, a plurality of propellers that include one or more electric motor propellers and one or more combustion motor propellers arranged along each of a port side and a starboard side of the main wing and configured to generate lift on the craft by blowing air over the main wing, and a control system. The control system comprises data storage having instruction code stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors of the control system, causes the control system to: after receiving a takeoff indication, increase thrust generated by the electric motor propellers to cause the craft to transition from a hull-borne mode of operation to an airborne mode of operation, and after a thrust adjustment condition occurs, increase thrust generated by the combustion motor propellers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Cory Asher Kays, Daniel Cottrell, William Thalheimer, Michael Klinker, Brett C. Peters
  • POLYURETHANE FOAM PREMIXES CONTAINING HALOGENATED OLEFIN BLOWING AGENTS AND FOAMS MADE FROM SAME
    Publication number: 20250075048
    Abstract: The invention provides polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams and methods for the preparation thereof. More particularly, the invention relates to closed-celled, polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams and methods for their preparation. The foams are characterized by a fine uniform cell structure and little or no foam collapse. The foams are produced with a polyol premix composition which comprises a combination of a hydrohaloolefin blowing agent, a polyol, a silicone surfactant, and a precipitation-resistant metal-based catalyst used alone or in combination with an amine catalyst.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Bin Yu, Mary C. Bogdan, Clifford P. Gittere, Michael Ross, Ronald S. Grossman, David J. Williams
  • Systems and methods for analog computing using a linear photonic processor
    Patent number: 12244354
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing signed matrix operations using a linear photonic processor are provided. The linear photonic processor is formed as an array of first amplitude modulators and second amplitude modulators, the first amplitude modulators configured to encode elements of a vector into first optical signals and the second amplitude modulators configured to encode a product between the vector elements and matrix elements into second optical signals. An apparatus may be used to implement a signed value of an output of the linear processor. The linear photonic processor may be configured to perform matrix-vector and/or matrix-matrix operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Lightmatter, Inc.
    Inventors: Darius Bunandar, Nicholas C. Harris, Michael Gould, Carl Ramey, Tomo Lazovich
  • Building management system with generative AI-based root cause prediction
    Patent number: 12242937
    Abstract: A method including training, by one or more processors, a generative AI model using a plurality of first service requests handled by technicians for servicing building equipment. The generative AI model may be trained to predict root causes of a plurality of first problems corresponding to the plurality of first service requests. The method may include receiving, by the one or more processors, a second service request for servicing building equipment. The method may include predicting, by the one or more processors using the generative AI model, a root cause of a second problem corresponding to the second service request based on characteristics of the second service request and one or more patterns or trends identified from the plurality of first service requests using the generative AI model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Tyco Fire & Security GmbH
    Inventors: Julie J. Brown, Young M. Lee, Rajiv Ramanasankaran, Sastry KM Malladi, Michael Tenbrock, Levent Tinaz, Samuel A Girard, David S. Elario, Juliet A Pagliaro Herman, Miguel Galvez, Trent M. Swanson, John F. Kuchler, Deepak Budhiraja, Daniela M. Natali, Josip Lazarevski, Scott Deering, Gary W. Gavin, Kristen Sheppard-Guzelaydin, James Young, Prashanthi Sudhakar, Kaleb Luedtke, Karl F. Reichenberger, Wenwen Zhao, Adam R. Grabowski, Lauren C. Dern, Nicole A. Madison, Dana S. Petersen, Nevin L. Forry, Pedriant Pena, Ghassan R. Hamoudeh, Ryan G. Danielson
  • Amide-substituted heterocyclic compounds for the treatment of conditions related to the modulation of IL-12, IL-23 and/or IFN-alpha
    Patent number: 12240840
    Abstract: Compounds having the following formula I: or a stereoisomer or pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof, where R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 are as defined herein, are useful in the modulation of IL-12, IL-23 and/or IFN?, by acting on Tyk-2 to cause signal transduction inhibition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
    Inventors: Steven H. Spergel, William J. Pitts, Michael E. Mertzman, Ryan M. Moslin, Trevor C. Sherwood, John L. Gilmore, Alaric J. Dyckman
  • Methods for improving the efficacy and expansion of immune cells
    Patent number: 12240884
    Abstract: The invention provides methods of making immune effector cells (e.g., T cells, NK cells) that can be engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR), compositions and reaction mixtures comprising the same, and methods of treatment using the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Novartis AG, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: Felipe Bedoya, Saba Ghassemi, Carl H. June, Omkar U. Kawalekar, Bruce L Levine, Jan J. Melenhorst, Michael C. Milone, Daniel J. Powell, Jr., Zoe Zheng
  • System and method for separating competing anions from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a flow of water
    Patent number: 12240771
    Abstract: A system for separating competing anions from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in a flow of water contaminated with PFAS and elevated levels of competing anions that includes a separation subsystem which receives the flow of water contaminated with PFAS and elevated levels of competing anions and separates competing anions from the PFAS and concentrates the PFAS to produce a treated flow of water having separated competing anions therein and a flow of water having a majority of PFAS therein. At least one anion exchange vessel having an anion exchange resin therein receives the flow of water having a majority of PFAS therein and removes PFAS from the water to produce a flow of treated water having a majority of the PFAS removed. The separation of competing anions by the separation subsystem increases the treatment capacity of the anion exchange resin to remove PFAS from the contaminated water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Emerging Compounds Treatment Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven E. Woodard, Michael G. Nickelsen, John C. Berry
  • Sequencing method for CAR T cell therapy
    Patent number: 12240870
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods of treating a patient with a cancer by administering to the patient a composition comprising CAR T cells and administering to the patient a small molecule linked to a targeting moiety by a linker. The disclosure also relates to compositions for use in such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignees: Purdue Research Foundation, Endocyte, Inc, Seattle Children's Hospital
    Inventors: Richard Messmann, Christopher Paul Leamon, Haiyan Chu, Yingjuan June Lu, Philip Stewart Low, Michael C. Jensen, James Matthaei, Navin Robert Charles Pinto, Julie Ruggieri Park
  • Cleaning system for polishing liquid delivery arm
    Patent number: 12240078
    Abstract: A polishing assembly includes a rotatable platen to support a polishing pad, a polishing liquid delivery arm having an enclosure open at a bottom thereof and one or more ports to deliver a polishing liquid and a cleaning fluid downwardly through an interior space of the enclosure onto the polishing pad, and a delivery arm cleaning tool removably attached to the polishing liquid delivery arm, the cleaning tool extending below the delivery arm and having a delivery arm-facing surface shaped such that the cleaning tool directs the cleaning fluid from the polishing liquid delivery arm on to a surface of the enclosure of the polishing liquid delivery arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Roy C. Nangoy, Shantanu Rajiv Gadgil, Nathan Arron Davis, Allen L. D'Ambra, Michael J. Coughlin, Sumit Subhash Patankar
  • Systems and methods for performing blockchain operations using multi-party computation cohort management groupings
    Patent number: 12244743
    Abstract: Methods and systems described herein relate to an improved platform that provides secure, encrypted communications across distributed computer networks when coordinating cryptography-based digital repositories in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications. More specifically, the methods and systems provide this improved platform by introducing additional abstraction layers into a production service for computing signatures during multi-party computation (MPC) signing procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Coinbase, Inc.
    Inventors: Luis Ocegueda, Cassandra Alexandria Heart, Anika Raghuvanshi, Adam C. Everspaugh, Jonathan Ariel Bergknoff, Michael Lodder, Paras Shah, Xiang Li
  • Building cladding attachment device
    Patent number: D1065605
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: 0776425 B.C. LTD.
    Inventors: Stefanus H. Jansen van Vuuren, Michael D. Heppell, Aaron C. Fraser