Patents by Inventor Michael D. Fox

Michael D. Fox 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: 11932802
    Abstract: Various shaped abrasive particles are disclosed. Each shaped abrasive particle includes a body having at least one major surface and a side surface extending from the major surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN CERAMICS & PLASTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Todd M. Cotter, Francois Wagner, Rene G. Demers, Richard J. Klok, Alexandra Marazano, Adam D. Lior, James A. Salvatore, Sujatha K. Iyengar, David F Louapre, Sidath S. Wijesooriya, Ronald Christopher Motta, Gary A. Guertin, Michael D. Kavanaugh, Doruk O. Yener, Jennifer H. Czerepinski, Jun Jia, Frederic Josseaux, Ralph Bauer, Frank J. Csillag, Yang Zhong, James P. Stewart, Mark P. Dombrowski, Sandhya Jayaraman Rukmani, Amandine Martin, Stephen E. Fox, Nilanjan Sarangi, Dean S. Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11814974
    Abstract: A tip shroud, comprising a plurality of tip shoes encircling a rotor assembly, in a turbine may deform due to thermal gradients experienced during operation of the turbine. Accordingly, a tip shoe is disclosed that utilizes an internal cooling cavity to supply coolant throughout the interior of the tip shoe, as well as to the slash faces of the tip shoe. In addition, features are described that increase the surface area exposed to the coolant, while remaining suitable for additive manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Sudhakar Bollapragada, Xiaoqiang Zeng, Michael D. Fox, Branden R. Elam, Daniel Ryan, Karen A. Thole, Thomas M. Corbett
  • Patent number: 11666219
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a functional mapping of a brain lesion in a patient's brain. The method comprises determining using a computer processor, based on human connectome data stored on at least one computer datastore in communication with the computer processor, at least one functional network associated with a location of a brain lesion identified in an image of a patient's brain. The at least one functional network includes a plurality of brain areas functionally connected to the location of the brain lesion and a plurality of correlation measures. Each of the correlation measures indicates a strength of functional connection between the location of the brain lesion and a respective brain area of the plurality of brain areas in the at least one functional network. The method further comprises determining, based at least one functional network, a likelihood that the brain lesion is causing one or more patient symptoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Fox
  • Patent number: 11633059
    Abstract: A motorized window covering system is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and at least one drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. A motor is connected to the rotatable drive element and controls operation of the window covering. An external battery tube assembly is connected by a conduit to the rotatable drive element and is configured to provide power to the motor. The external battery tube assembly includes a switch and controls operation of the motorized window covering. When pulled or lifted the external battery tube assembly initiates movement, stops movement or reverses movement of the motor. In this way, the system provides a unique way of controlling operation of a motorized window covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Current Products Corp.
    Inventors: Willis Jay Mullet, Daniel T. Matthews, Michael D. Fox, Richard Scott Hand
  • Publication number: 20230035029
    Abstract: A tip shroud, comprising a plurality of tip shoes encircling a rotor assembly, in a turbine may deform due to thermal gradients experienced during operation of the turbine. Accordingly, a tip shoe is disclosed that utilizes an internal cooling cavity to supply coolant throughout the interior of the tip shoe, as well as to the slash faces of the tip shoe. In addition, features are described that increase the surface area exposed to the coolant, while remaining suitable for additive manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Sudhakar BOLLAPRAGADA, Xiaoqiang ZENG, Michael D. FOX, Branden R. ELAM, Daniel RYAN
  • Patent number: 11033138
    Abstract: An architectural covering is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and a drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. The rotatable drive element is connected to a wall, ceiling or other structure by brackets. In one arrangement a drive shaft having at least one bearing is then attached to the brackets such that the rotatable drive elements rotate upon the bearings. This arrangement provides an efficient, simple and convenient manner of attaching a rotatable drive element to brackets for mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: CURRENT PRODUCTS CORP.
    Inventors: Willis J. Mullet, Michael D. Fox, Daniel T. Matthews, Dale McCarthy, Darrin W. Brunk
  • Patent number: 10874242
    Abstract: A curtain assembly comprises a rotatable drive element wherein at least one helical guide structure is formed on, or into, the outer surface of the drive element. A drive attachment element having a structure that communicates with the helical guide structure to move the drive attachment element axially along the drive element when the drive element is rotated. Specific embodiments incorporate either a manual or motor-driven rotation assembly for rotating the drive element. Further specific embodiments involve a helical guide structure that comprises a helical groove and a structure that comprises a tooth that engages with the helical groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT PRODUCTS CORP.
    Inventors: Willis Jay Mullet, Daniel T. Matthews, Michael D. Fox
  • Publication number: 20200352443
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for providing a functional mapping of a brain lesion in a patient's brain. The method comprises determining using a computer processor, based on human connectome data stored on at least one computer datastore in communication with the computer processor, at least one functional network associated with a location of a brain lesion identified in an image of a patient's brain. The at least one functional network includes a plurality of brain areas functionally connected to the location of the brain lesion and a plurality of correlation measures. Each of the correlation measures indicates a strength of functional connection between the location of the brain lesion and a respective brain area of the plurality of brain areas in the at least one functional network. The method further comprises determining, based at least one functional network, a likelihood that the brain lesion is causing one or more patient symptoms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
    Inventor: Michael D. Fox
  • Patent number: 10799056
    Abstract: A motorized window covering system is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and at least one drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. A motor is connected to the rotatable drive element and controls operation of the window covering. An external battery tube assembly is connected by a conduit to the rotatable drive element and is configured to provide power to the motor. The external battery tube assembly includes a switch and controls operation of the motorized window covering. When pulled or lifted the external battery tube assembly initiates movement, stops movement or reverses movement of the motor. In this way, the system provides a unique way of controlling operation of a motorized window covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT PRODUCTS CORP.
    Inventors: Willis Jay Mullet, Daniel T. Matthews, Michael D. Fox, Richard Scott Hand
  • Patent number: 10736452
    Abstract: A motorized drapery system having an elongated rotating drive element that has a non-circular cross-sectional shape such as square, rectangular, trapezoidal, cross shaped or any other non-circular shape that is twisted. In one arrangement the drive element is twisted in one direction along its entire length. In another arrangement the drive element is twisted in one direction in a first section and twisted in an opposite direction in a second section thereby providing a center opening/center closing drapery. A plurality of rings are positioned around the drive element including at least one driver ring that includes a feature that connects to the drive element and is configured to facilitate movement along the drive element, and a plurality of idler rings that are configured to slide along the drive element. A curtain is connected to the rings and opens and closes as the rings move along the drive element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT PRODUCTS CORP.
    Inventors: Willis Jay Mullet, Daniel T. Matthews, Michael D. Fox, Harry Edward Asbury, Richard Scott Hand
  • Patent number: 10731478
    Abstract: A turbine blade having a base and an airfoil, the base including a root end. The airfoil including a skin extending from the base and defining a first edge, a second edge, having a tip end opposite from the root end. The turbine blade further including a base rib extending from the base and into the airfoil, a center divider extending from adjacent the first edge towards the second edge, a center rib disposed between the center divider and the second edge, extending from adjacent the center divider towards the tip end and extending from adjacent the center divider towards the root end, a tip center rib extending from adjacent the second edge towards the first edge, a tip rib extending from adjacent the tip center rib towards the base, a dividing rib and a first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Hongzhou Xu, Kevin Liu, Michael D. Fox
  • Publication number: 20200190998
    Abstract: A turbine blade having a base and an airfoil, the base including a root end. The airfoil including a skin extending from the base and defining a first edge, a second edge, having a tip end opposite from the root end. The turbine blade further including a base rib extending from the base and into the airfoil, a center divider extending from adjacent the first edge towards the second edge, a center rib disposed between the center divider and the second edge, extending from adjacent the center divider towards the tip end and extending from adjacent the center divider towards the root end, a tip center rib extending from adjacent the second edge towards the first edge, a tip rib extending from adjacent the tip center rib towards the base, a dividing rib and a first channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Solar Turbines Incorporated
    Inventors: Hongzhou Xu, Kevin Liu, Michael D. Fox
  • Publication number: 20200069100
    Abstract: A motorized window covering system is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and at least one drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. A motor is connected to the rotatable drive element and controls operation of the window covering. An external battery tube assembly is connected by a conduit to the rotatable drive element and is configured to provide power to the motor. The external battery tube assembly includes a switch and controls operation of the motorized window covering. When pulled or lifted the external battery tube assembly initiates movement, stops movement or reverses movement of the motor. In this way, the system provides a unique way of controlling operation of a motorized window covering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Publication date: March 5, 2020
    Inventors: Willis Jay Mullet, Daniel T. Matthews, Michael D. Fox, Richard Scott Hand
  • Publication number: 20190387912
    Abstract: An architectural covering is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and a drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. The rotatable drive element is connected to a wall, ceiling or other structure by brackets. In one arrangement a drive shaft having at least one bearing is then attached to the brackets such that the rotatable drive elements rotate upon the bearings. This arrangement provides an efficient, simple and convenient manner of attaching a rotatable drive element to brackets for mounting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Willis J. MULLET, Michael D. FOX, Daniel T. MATTHEWS, Dale MCCARTHY, Darrin W. BRUNK
  • Patent number: 10463855
    Abstract: A system and a method for optimizing the configuration of multisite transcranial current stimulation, including providing an electric field characteristic target map on the brain's cortex, the target map including multiple cortical targets, the multiple cortical targets are localized and/or continuously varying and spatially extended, providing a weight map on the cortical surface prioritizing the important of areas in the target map for the purposes of optimization; and calculating, based on the target and weight maps, optimal currents and optimal locations for a plurality of electrodes intended for providing transcranial current stimulation to globally stimulate at once the multiple cortical targets with excitatory, inhibitory or neutral stimulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignees: NEUROELECTRICS BARCELONA S.L., BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Oscar Ripolles Mateu, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Michael D. Fox, Pedro Michael Cavaleiro Miranda
  • Patent number: 10405684
    Abstract: An architectural covering is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and a drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. The rotatable drive element is connected to a wall, ceiling or other structure by brackets. In one arrangement a drive shaft having at least one bearing is then attached to the brackets such that the rotatable drive elements rotate upon the bearings. This arrangement provides an efficient, simple and convenient manner of attaching a rotatable drive element to brackets for mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Current Products Corp.
    Inventors: Willis J. Mullet, Michael D. Fox, Daniel T. Matthews, Dale McCarthy, Darrin W. Brunk
  • Patent number: 10137307
    Abstract: Techniques for identifying individual target sites for application of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to a brain of a patient for treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. The identification of the target TMS stimulation sites may be based on using functional connectivity magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to determine cortex regions of the brain that are functionally connected to other regions of the brain that may be stimulated to decrease symptoms of depression and other disorders. For example, target stimulation sites may be identified in the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) to remotely modulate the activity in a subgenual cingulate region and other limbic regions functionally connected with the DLPFC. TMS may be applied to the patient's head at the identified target TMS sites to treat depression and other neurological and psychiatric disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Michael D. Fox
  • Publication number: 20180255953
    Abstract: An architectural covering is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and a drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. The rotatable drive element is connected to a wall, ceiling or other structure by brackets. In one arrangement a drive shaft having at least one bearing is then attached to the brackets such that the rotatable drive elements rotate upon the bearings. This arrangement provides an efficient, simple and convenient manner of attaching a rotatable drive element to brackets for mounting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Willis J. MULLET, Michael D. FOX, Daniel T. MATTHEWS, Dale MCCARTHY, Darrin W. BRUNK
  • Patent number: 9999313
    Abstract: An architectural covering is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and a drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. The rotatable drive element is connected to a wall, ceiling or other structure by brackets. In one arrangement a drive shaft having at least one bearing is then attached to the brackets such that the rotatable drive elements rotate upon the bearings. This arrangement provides an efficient, simple and convenient manner of attaching a rotatable drive element to brackets for mounting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: CURRENT PRODUCTS CORP.
    Inventors: Willis J Mullet, Michael D Fox, Daniel T Matthews, Dale McCarthy, Darrin W. Brunk
  • Publication number: 20170340882
    Abstract: A system and a method for optimizing the configuration of multisite transcranial current stimulation, including providing an electric field characteristic target map on the brain's cortex, the target map including multiple cortical targets, the multiple cortical targets are localized and/or continuously varying and spatially extended, providing a weight map on the cortical surface prioritizing the important of areas in the target map for the purposes of optimization; and calculating, based on the target and weight maps, optimal currents and optimal locations for a plurality of electrodes intended for providing transcranial current stimulation to globally stimulate at once the multiple cortical targets with excitatory, inhibitory or neutral stimulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2017
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: Giulio Ruffini, Oscar Ripolles Mateu, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Michael D. Fox, Pedro Michael Cavaleiro Miranda