Patents by Inventor Michael Cox

Michael Cox 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: 20250027234
    Abstract: Methods of manufacturing multi-material fibers having one or more electrically-connectable devices disposed therein are described. In certain instances, the methods include the steps of: positioning the electrically-connectable device(s) within a corresponding pocket provided in a preform material; positioning a first electrical conductor longitudinally within a first conduit provided in the preform material; and drawing the multi-material fiber by causing the preform material to flow, such that the first electrical conductor extends within the multi-material fiber along a longitudinal axis thereof and makes an electrical contact with a first electrode located on each electrically-connectable device. A metallurgical bond may be formed between the first electrical conductor and the first electrode while drawing the multi-material fiber and/or, after drawing the multi-material fiber, the first electrical conductor may be located substantially along a neutral axis of the multi-material fiber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2024
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Inventors: Chia-Chun Chung, Jason Cox, Kristina McCarthy, Kristen Mulherin, Jimmy Nguyen, Michael Rein, Tong Heng
  • Patent number: 12182694
    Abstract: In various examples, physical sensor data may be generated by a vehicle in a real-world environment. The physical sensor data may be used to train deep neural networks (DNNs). The DNNs may then be tested in a simulated environment—in some examples using hardware configured for installation in a vehicle to execute an autonomous driving software stack—to control a virtual vehicle in the simulated environment or to otherwise test, verify, or validate the outputs of the DNNs. Prior to use by the DNNs, virtual sensor data generated by virtual sensors within the simulated environment may be encoded to a format consistent with the format of the physical sensor data generated by the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Clement Farabet, John Zedlewski, Zachary Taylor, Greg Heinrich, Claire Delaunay, Mark Daly, Matthew Campbell, Curtis Beeson, Gary Hicok, Michael Cox, Rev Lebaredian, Tony Tamasi, David Auld
  • Patent number: 12181377
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring conditions in a crawl space is provided. The system generally comprises at least one sensor, computing device, data aggregator operably connected to the at least one sensor, processor operably connected to the computing device, power supply, and non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon. The system is designed to collect condition data via the at least one sensor and determine whether the conditions within the crawl space could have a detrimental impact on the building. In particular, the system is designed to monitor settling of a building over time and alert a user if the settling exceeds a predefined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Independence Materials Group, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Bayless, Andy Burran, John Calagaz, Michael Cox
  • Publication number: 20240400101
    Abstract: In various examples, systems and methods are disclosed relating to refinement of safety zones and improving evaluation metrics for the perception modules of autonomous and semi-autonomous systems. Example implementations can exclude areas in the state space that are not safety critical, while retaining the areas that are safety-critical. This can be accomplished by leveraging ego maneuver information and conditioning safety zone computations on ego maneuvers. A maneuver-based decomposition of perception safety zones may leverage a temporal convolution operation with the capability to account for collision at any intermediate time along the way to maneuver completion. This provides a significant reduction in zone volume while maintaining completeness, thus optimizing or otherwise enhancing obstacle perception performance requirements by filtering out regions of state space not relevant to a system's route of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Sever Ioan TOPAN, Yuxiao CHEN, Edward FU SCHMERLING, Karen Yan Ming LEUNG, Hans Jonas NILSSON, Michael COX, Marco PAVONE
  • Patent number: 12137865
    Abstract: A cleaner head for a vacuum cleaning appliance includes a housing which defines a suction chamber. The suction chamber has a suction inlet through which air enters the suction chamber, and a suction port through which air exits the suction chamber. The cleaner head includes a plurality of casters for supporting the cleaner head. Each caster is rotatable relative to the housing about a first axis which is perpendicular to the suction inlet. Each caster is also rotatable relative to the housing about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Aaron Yii How Teo, Stefan Koch, Robert Michael Cox, Stuart Lloyd Genn
  • Publication number: 20240339311
    Abstract: A method for measuring a concentration of an analyte in a sample includes: sampling, from a first sample, a first one or more droplets for mass analysis, wherein the first sample includes the sample; performing mass analysis on the first one or more droplets to determine a first intensity of an analyte in the first one or more droplets; sampling, from a second sample, a second one or more droplets for mass analysis, wherein the sec-ond sample includes the sample and a first spike of the analyte; performing mass analysis on the second one or more droplets to determine a second intensity of the analyte in the second one or more droplets; fitting a curve to the first intensity and the second intensity; and based on the fitted curve, calculating an analyte concentration for the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Applicant: DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas R. COVEY, David Michael COX, Michael JARVIS, Chang LIU
  • Publication number: 20240296068
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to switching between execution schedules related to execution of tasks, or runnables, by multiple compute engines. The execution schedules includes respective sets of commands that dictate timing and order of execution, by the compute engines, of tasks, or runnables, corresponding to computing applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Ashutosh Tadkase, Ian Tramble, Akash Bellubbi, Suraj Das, Ranvijay Singh, Linda Xiong, John Lore, Albert Davies, Ian Howson, Peter Boonstoppel, Sai Gurrappadi, Pulkit Desai, Sever Topan, Sharat Janapareddy, Ashkan Vafaee, Michael Cox
  • Publication number: 20240282560
    Abstract: The technology relates to systems and methods for performing mass spectrometry analysis of a sample. An example method may include receiving, as input via an input device, a target mass-to-charge (m/z) ratio for a fragment ion of interest; setting a target m/z range based on the target m/z ratio; ionizing the sample to generate precursor ions; fragmenting the precursor ions to generate fragment ions having a range of mass-to-charge ratios larger than the target m/z range; accelerating the fragment ions to a detector such that fragment ions inside and outside of the target m/z ratio are detected; summing a count of fragment ions within the target m/z range without storing ion counts for fragment ions outside of the target m/z range; and storing the summed ion count as corresponding with the target mass-to-charge ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Lyle L. BURTON, Nic BLOOMFIELD, David Michael COX
  • Patent number: 12066358
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring conditions in a crawl space is provided. The system generally comprises at least one sensor, computing device, data aggregator operably connected to the at least one sensor, processor operably connected to the computing device, power supply, and non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon. The system is designed to collect condition data via the at least one sensor and determine whether the conditions within the crawl space could have a detrimental impact on the building. In particular, the system is designed to alert a third-party when a condition might cause damage to a building so that the third-party might correct the cause of the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Independence Materials Group, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Bayless, Andy Burran, John Calagaz, Michael Cox
  • Publication number: 20240272943
    Abstract: One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to executing, by a plurality of compute engines, a plurality of runnables of a computing application based at least on an execution schedule and a set of commands associated with the execution schedule. The execution schedule may be generated using a compiling system to include the set of commands. The set of commands may include one or more individual commands corresponding to one or more timing fences dictating a timing and order of execution of one or more individual runnables of the plurality of runnables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Ashutosh Tadkase, Akash Bellubbi, Ian Tramble, Peter Boonstoppel, Suraj Das, Ranvijay Singh, Sever Topan, Albert Davies, Linda Xiong, Sharat Janapareddy, Ashkan Vafaee, Sai Gurrappadi, Pulkit Desai, John Lore, Michael Cox, Ian Howson
  • Publication number: 20240220318
    Abstract: In various examples, a system is provided for monitoring and controlling program flow in an event-triggered system. A program (e.g., application, algorithm, routine, etc.) may be organized into operational units (e.g., nodes executed by one or more processors), each of which tasked with executing one or more respective events (e.g., tasks) within the larger program. At least some of the events of the larger program may be successively executed in a flow, one after another, using triggers sent directly from one node to the next. In addition, the system of the present disclosure may include a manager that may exchange communications with the nodes to monitor or assess a status of the system (e.g., determine when a node has completed an event) or to control or trigger a node to initiate an event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2024
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Alexander Boonstoppel, Michael Cox, Daniel Perrin
  • Publication number: 20240197068
    Abstract: A brushbar for a vacuum cleaner is described. The brushbar includes a cylindrical body, one or more pairs of bristle strips and one or more plush strips arranged helically about the body. Each pair of bristle strips includes a first strip of first bristles and a second strip of second bristles, the first bristles being stiffer and shorter than the second bristles. The plush strips are arranged on either side of each pair of bristle strips and include a plush of fibres.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Frederick Michael THORNTON, Nichola Lauren CLIFTON, Robert Michael COX, Oliver Francis BURKE, Thomas Michael MCVEY
  • Publication number: 20240159716
    Abstract: A method of performing liquid chromatography (LC) with an LC system including an LC column and an analyzer includes delivering a transport liquid to an open port interface (OPI) of a sample receiving circuit, wherein the sample receiving circuit includes a sample transfer chamber. A sample is ejected from a sample holder into the OPI with a non-contact ejector. The transport liquid and the sample are received in the sample transfer chamber. The sample transfer chamber is decoupled from the sample receiving circuit. A solvent is delivered to the analysis circuit. The sample is pushed from the sample transfer chamber with the solvent. The sample and the solvent is passed through the LC column to produce an eluent. The eluent is analyzed with the analyzer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: DH Technologies Development Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: David Michael COX, Chang LIU
  • Patent number: 11934872
    Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring and controlling program flow in an event-triggered system. A program (e.g., application, algorithm, routine, etc.) may be organized into operational units (e.g., nodes executed by one or more processors), each of which tasked with executing one or more respective events (e.g., tasks) within the larger program. At least some of the events of the larger program may be successively executed in a flow, one after another, using triggers sent directly from one node to the next. In addition, the system of the present disclosure may include a manager that may exchange communications with the nodes to monitor or assess a status of the system (e.g., determine when a node has completed an event) or to control or trigger a node to initiate an event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Peter Alexander Boonstoppel, Michael Cox, Daniel Perrin
  • Publication number: 20240085914
    Abstract: In various examples, techniques for determining perception zones for object detection are described. For instance, a system may use a dynamic model associated with an ego-machine, a dynamic model associated with an object, and one or more possible interactions between the ego-machine and the object to determine a perception zone. The system may then perform one or more processes using the perception zone. For instance, if the system is validating a perception system of the ego-machine, the system may determine whether a detection error associated with the object is a safety-critical error based on whether the object is located within the perception zone. Additionally, if the system is executing within the ego-machine, the system may determine whether the object is a safety-critical object based on whether the object is located within the perception zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sever Ioan Topan, Karen Yan Ming Leung, Yuxiao Chen, Pritish Tupekar, Edward Fu Schmerling, Hans Jonas Nilsson, Michael Cox, Marco Pavone
  • Publication number: 20240081591
    Abstract: An autonomous surface cleaning apparatus includes a body, a drive system carried by the body, and a cleaning assembly disposed at a front of the body. The cleaning assembly includes a housing defining a suction chamber and a suction channel extending from the suction chamber to a suction channel opening provided in a first side surface of the cleaning assembly, and a side suction nozzle mounted to an extension and retraction assembly that is arranged to allow the side suction nozzle to be moved between an extended position. The side suction nozzle includes a first resilient blade and a second resilient blade, the first resilient blade being arranged such that a surface of the first resilient blade is substantially forward facing and the second resilient blade being arranged such that a surface of the second resilient blade is substantially downward facing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Dyson Technology Limited
    Inventors: Stuart Lloyd GENN, Robert Michael COX, Matthew Jonathan STUBBS
  • Publication number: 20240077378
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring conditions in a crawl space is provided. The system generally comprises at least one sensor, computing device, data aggregator operably connected to the at least one sensor, processor operably connected to the computing device, power supply, and non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon. The system is designed to collect condition data via the at least one sensor and determine whether the conditions within the crawl space could have a detrimental impact on the building. In particular, the system is designed to alert a third-party when a condition might cause damage to a building so that the third-party might correct the cause of the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Independence Materials Group, LLC
    Inventors: Ben Bayless, Andy Burran, John Calagaz, Michael Cox
  • Patent number: 11877613
    Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention provides a protective sports glove having a novel combination of liner sections, breathable mesh sections, stretch joints, and shock absorbing cushions to provide maximum protection to the user's fingers, hands, wrists, and lower forearms while maintaining as much flexibility within the glove and tactile feel on both palmar and dorsal sides of the glove as possible. A novel 2-panel palmar section construction eliminates the presence of seams, stitching or excess material in a critical area on the palmar side of a wearer's hand to further improve tactile feel and grip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: WM. T. Burnett IP, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Cox
  • Patent number: 11874663
    Abstract: A system and method for an on-demand shuttle, bus, or taxi service able to operate on private and public roads provides situational awareness and confidence displays. The shuttle may include ISO 26262 Level 4 or Level 5 functionality and can vary the route dynamically on-demand, and/or follow a predefined route or virtual rail. The shuttle is able to stop at any predetermined station along the route. The system allows passengers to request rides and interact with the system via a variety of interfaces, including without limitation a mobile device, desktop computer, or kiosks. Each shuttle preferably includes an in-vehicle controller, which preferably is an AI Supercomputer designed and optimized for autonomous vehicle functionality, with computer vision, deep learning, and real time ray tracing accelerators. An AI Dispatcher performs AI simulations to optimize system performance according to operator-specified system parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Gary Hicok, Michael Cox, Miguel Sainz, Martin Hempel, Ratin Kumar, Timo Roman, Gordon Grigor, David Nister, Justin Ebert, Chin-Hsien Shih, Tony Tam, Ruchi Bhargava
  • Patent number: D1017361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BLACK & DECKER INC.
    Inventor: Michael Cox