Patents by Inventor Michael Davies

Michael Davies 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: 20140332707
    Abstract: A valve has a housing defining an inlet and an outlet and a cavity therebetween which receives a valve seat. The valve seat defines a slot which receives a gate. The valve seat is sealingly engaged with the housing, the gate sealingly engages the valve seat and is movable within the slot between an open and a closed position using an actuator. An opening in the housing provides access to the cavity. The valve seat may be removed from the housing through the opening by attaching the valve seat to the gate, thereby attaching the valve seat to the actuator, and withdrawing the gate from the housing using the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: William J. Reilly, Lawrence W. Thau, JR., Michael Davis, Michael Prince
  • Patent number: 8869683
    Abstract: A roller grill includes a housing structure adapted to support the roller grill; a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to a pre-cooked food product; a plurality of rollers mounted in a row, each roller mounted on an end of a corresponding tube and including a plurality of detented projections extending from a circumferential surface of the roller; and a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a continuous looped surface coupled to a motor shaft and contactingly engaged with the detented projections of the plurality of rollers. The roller grill further includes a protrusion mounted to the housing structure and in contacting engagement with the continuous looped surface, such that the continuous looped surface is contactingly engaged with at least two detented projections of each roller of the plurality of rollers mounted in the row.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: ADCO Industries—Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Raymond E. Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Patent number: 8864659
    Abstract: A surgical apparatus for positioning within a tissue tract accessing an underlying body cavity, includes a seal anchor member comprising a compressible material and being adapted to transition between a first expanded condition to facilitate securing of the seal anchor member within the tissue tract and in substantial sealed relation with tissue surfaces defining the tissue tract and a second compressed condition to facilitate at least partial insertion of the seal anchor member within the tissue tract. The seal anchor member defines a central longitudinal axis and has leading and trailing ends. At least one longitudinal object port extends between the leading and trailing ends and is adapted for reception of a surgical object whereby compressible material defining the at least one longitudinal object port is adapted to deform to establish a substantial sealed relation with the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Michael Davis
  • Patent number: 8857322
    Abstract: A roller grill for heating a pre-cooked food product includes a housing structure adapted to support the roller grill; a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to the pre-cooked food product; a plurality of non-metallic gears, each non-metallic gear mounted on an end of a corresponding tube; a motor including a motor shaft and adapted to generate a rotational power through the motor shaft at a first rotational speed; and a drive sub-assembly adapted to transfer the rotational power from the shaft to the plurality of non-metallic gears at a second rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ADCO Industries—Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffery Hankins, Raymond E. Davis, William Neal Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Patent number: 8857321
    Abstract: A roller grill for heating a pre-cooked food product includes a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to the pre-cooked food product; a plurality of spur gears, each spur gear mounted on an end of a corresponding tube; and a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a motor; a timing pulley coupled to a shaft having a plurality of worm gears mounted thereon; and a timing belt coupled to the motor and the timing pulley and adapted to transfer rotary motion generated by the motor into rotary motion of the tubes through contacting engagement of the worm gears with the spur gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ADCO Industries—Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffery Hankins, Raymond E. Davis, William Neal Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Patent number: 8857319
    Abstract: A roller grill for heating a pre-cooked food product includes a housing structure adapted to support the roller grill; a plurality of tubes having outer surfaces adapted to transfer heat to a pre-cooked food product; a plurality of tube gears, at least one tube gear mounted on an end of a corresponding tube; and a drive assembly. The drive assembly includes a motor having a shaft adapted to rotate at a first rotational speed; and a plurality of idler gears mounted to a portion of the housing structure and contactingly engaged with the plurality of tube gears, the idler gears adapted to transfer a rotational power from the motor to the plurality of tube gears at a second rotational speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: ADCO Industries—Technologies, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffery Hankins, Raymond E. Davis, William Neal Davis, Clifton Glenn Hampton, Raymond Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20140301087
    Abstract: A housing for a luminaire is disclosed. The housing can include a housing top and a housing body coupled to each other. The housing body can include at least one wall that is bendable to form a cavity. The housing body can also include at least one first housing body coupling feature disposed on a first end, and at least one second complementary housing body coupling feature disposed on the first end adjacent to the at least one first housing body coupling feature. The housing body can further include at least one second housing body coupling feature disposed on a second end, and at least one first complementary housing body coupling feature disposed on the second end adjacent to the at least one second housing body coupling feature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Grzegorz Wronski, Huang Rongxiu, Zhihong Lin, Jared Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20140240500
    Abstract: A system and method provides an image that adjusts in response to at least one vehicle mounted sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventor: Michael Davies
  • Publication number: 20140233719
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring and visualizing contact center routing strategies via a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface displays a routing diagram depicting a contact center routing strategy. The routing diagram includes a plurality of blocks each associated with logic for managing an interaction with the contact center. A processor monitors contact center performance as interactions with the contact center are managed according to the routing strategy. The processor identifies one of the plurality of blocks affected by the contact center performance, and further identifies a threshold associated with the identified block. The processor determines whether the contact center performance satisfies the threshold, and modifies a visual appearance of the identified block based on the determination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Leonid Vymenets, David Beilis, Michael Davies, Aaron Surty, Vyacheslav Zhakov, Adrian Lee-Kwen
  • Publication number: 20140211933
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring and visualizing contact center performance via a graphical user interface. A processor identifies a plurality of contact center metrics, identifies predicted values for the plurality of contact center metrics, and displays a reference geometric object having a plurality of vertices representing the predicted values for the plurality of contact center metrics. The processor also determines actual values for the plurality of contact center metrics and overlays over the display of the reference geometric object, a display of a current geometric object. The current geometric object has a plurality of vertices representing the actual values for the plurality of contact center metrics. Deviation of the current geometric object from the reference geometric object is an indication of deviation of one or more actual values from the predicted values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: July 31, 2014
    Inventors: Leonid Vymenets, David Beilis, Michael Davies, Aaron Surty, Vyacheslav Zhakov, Vidas Placiakis
  • Patent number: 8778682
    Abstract: A method of delivering exogenous molecules, comprising: providing a plurality of cells having a cell membrane; adding a plurality of exogenous molecules to the cells; exposing the cells to a defocused infrared (IR) light to permeabilize the cell membrane of the cells; and delivering the exogenous molecules to the cells through the permeablized cell membrane, wherein an intensity of the IR light at the optical focus is at least greater than or equal to an order of 104 W/cm2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Kenneth Roger Conway, Allen Lawrence Garner, Evelina Roxana Loghin, Siavash Yazdanfar, Dmitry Vladimirovich Dylov, Brian Michael Davis, Chulmin Joo
  • Publication number: 20140191439
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus adapted for the free-form manufacture of complex systems using multiple three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques using multiple materials on a continuously rotating disk with a flat surface in combination with the continuous increasing of distance between the material(s) source(s) and the build surface so as to allow for the continuous feed manufacturing of 3D Objects and complex systems. The continuous rotation of the build platform in combination with the continuous z-axis motion of the build platform results in the deposit of a continuously forming helically shaped layer that folds back onto previously deposited sections of the helix and thereby forms a 3D object or system of objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: New York University
    Inventor: Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20140177819
    Abstract: A system and method for composing a routing strategy for a contact center via a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface provides a plurality of selectable blocks and a workspace for assembling selected ones of the plurality of blocks. Each of the plurality of blocks is associated with logic for managing an interaction with the contact center. A processor receives identification of one of the blocks and identification of a location in the workspace area relative to other blocks in the workspace area, and places the identified block in the identified location. The processor generates the routing strategy based on the blocks in the workspace area and location of the blocks relative to each other in the workspace area. The processor also stores a layout of the blocks in the workspace area as a routing diagram for the routing strategy. The processor activates the routing strategy for managing the inbound interaction according to the activated routing strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Inventors: Leonid Vymenets, David Beilis, Michael Davies, Aaron Surty, Vyacheslav Zhakov, Adrian Lee-Kwen
  • Patent number: 8740925
    Abstract: A surgical system comprising a cannula assembly and an obturator assembly for penetrating tissue is disclosed. A cover of the cannula assembly is mounted to a cannula housing and has a cover aperture therethrough. The cover has a trailing end face defining a predetermined geometrical configuration, at least a portion of the trailing end face is obliquely arranged relative to a longitudinal axis and terminates in, and leads toward the cover aperture to facilitate guiding of the surgical object through the cover aperture. The obturator assembly includes an obturator housing and an obturator member. The obturator housing has a housing base defining a leading end face, which defines a predetermined geometrical configuration corresponding to the predetermined geometrical configuration of the trailing end face of the cover to mate therewith upon assembly of the obturator assembly with the cannula assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventors: Michael Bettuchi, Robert C. Smith, Michael Davis, Brian Rockrohr, Gregory Fischvogt
  • Publication number: 20140148465
    Abstract: The invention describes methods and compositions for alleviating medical afflictions for which anxiety may cause or exacerbate the affliction. A subject suffering from the affliction is treated with a combination of a pharmaceutical compound that enhances learning, and a second pharmaceutical recognized to be useful for treatment of the affliction, wherein D-cycloserine is the pharmaceutical compound that enhances learning. Representative afflictions include pain, mood disorders, anxiety disorders including performance anxiety, insomnia, female sexual dysfunction, chronic fatigue, autism spectrum disorders, fibromyalgia, and attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: May 29, 2014
    Inventors: Jason P. McDevitt, Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20140093946
    Abstract: An embodiment of a system is provided herein, wherein the system allows for the analysis and selection of numerous experimental conditions to optimize transfection efficiency and cell viability. The system is used for magnetic particle based nucleic acid delivery by optimizing various parameters. The system comprises a control module; an incubation module for incubating magnetic nanoparticle and nucleic acid; a transfection module and an analysis module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2013
    Publication date: April 3, 2014
    Applicant: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jean-Baptiste Mathieu, Brian Michael Davis, Vasile Bogdan Neculaes, Evelina Roxana Loghin, Kenneth Roger Conway
  • Patent number: 8688685
    Abstract: Accelerated sub-string searches on large data sets can be performed using filtering processes that can improve or optimize run time performance. A first filtering process can include partitioning a binary tree into sections to enable an exact search to replace a substring search for part of the binary tree and for part of the binary tree to be potentially excluded from substring searching. A second filtering process can include comparing count representations of entries in the binary tree and of a received input string to potentially further exclude entries from substring searching.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Bin Qin, Michael Davis, David Lyons
  • Publication number: 20140057160
    Abstract: An alkaline cell comprising a housing having a bottom end and a top end, and an electrode assembly disposed within the housing. The electrode assembly comprises a single first electrode and a single second electrode, a separator therebetween, and an electrolyte. The first electrode comprises a hollow outer body and at least one inner body positioned inside the outer body, the outer body and the at least one inner body being joined together inside the housing to form a single substantially homogeneous structure having an essentially uniform electrode properties. The second electrode comprises an intermediate body at least partially disposed between the outer body and the at least one inner body and electrically isolated from the outer body and the at least one inner body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2013
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Applicant: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Stuart Michael Davis, Javit Ahmed DRAKE, Christopher P. HAINES
  • Patent number: 8644007
    Abstract: A secondary disconnect assembly is provided for a racking assembly of an electrical switching apparatus, such as a circuit breaker. The racking assembly movably couples the circuit breaker to a switchgear enclosure. The secondary disconnect assembly includes a mounting assembly having an elongated mounting member. The elongated mounting member has first and second opposing ends and first and second opposing sides. A sliding assembly is movably coupled to the first side between the first and second ends. A latching member is pivotably coupled to the sliding assembly. The latching member moves between an unlatched position corresponding to the circuit breaker being movable independently with respect to the sliding assembly, and a latched position corresponding to the latching member fixedly coupling the sliding assembly to the circuit breaker in order that the circuit breaker moves with the sliding assembly. The racking assembly may also include a position indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Eaton Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Davis Pearce, Michael Howard Abrahamsen, Jon Christopher Beaver, Melvin Lavern Hughes
  • Patent number: D701314
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2014
    Assignee: Mentis LLC
    Inventors: Albert Michael Davis, James Allen Higgins