Patents by Inventor Michael Dustin

Michael Dustin 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: 20250133695
    Abstract: A flow-through folding membrane accumulator comprises a hollow cylindrical housing and a folding flexible membrane disposed in an interior volume of the housing. The membrane defines an interior liquid channel extending through the membrane along a longitudinal axis, and liquid coolant flows from an inlet of the accumulator through the interior liquid channel to an outlet of the accumulator. The membrane is sealed to the housing such that an air-tight cavity filled with a gas is formed between the housing and the membrane. The cavity radially surrounds the internal liquid channel, with the membrane separating the cavity and the internal liquid channel. Volumes of the cavity and channel change in response to deformation of the membrane and based on pressures of the liquid coolant. The membrane may comprise multiple folds extending parallel to the longitudinal axis and distributed circumferentially around the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Dustin Scott, Steven J. Dean, Harvey John Lunsman
  • Patent number: 12207431
    Abstract: A system chassis may comprise a frame having a width, depth, and height and a plurality of divider walls coupled to the frame and forming a plurality of receptacles each configured to receive an electronics tray containing an electronic assembly. Each of the plurality of divider walls comprises a metal sheet having a front edge, a back edge, and two lateral edges, the two lateral edges attached to two lateral walls of the frame. The front edge of the metal sheet has a concave shape such that a distance between the front edge and the back edge of the metal sheet continuously decreases while moving laterally from one lateral edge to a center of the front edge and continuously increases while moving laterally from the center to the opposite lateral edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Harvey John Lunsman, John Paul Franz, Michael Dustin Scott
  • Publication number: 20240376917
    Abstract: A screw-latching assembly is provided. The assembly includes a screw with a head, a tip, and a body between the head and tip. The body includes a threaded portion adjacent to the tip and an unthreaded portion adjacent to the head, and the unthreaded portion includes a built-in collar with an outer diameter larger than that of the body. The assembly includes a supporting bracket supporting and partially encompassing a first portion of the screw. The supporting bracket includes a base and multiple sidewalls, with a first sidewall comprising a first opening to allow a second portion of the screw to extend out of the supporting bracket and a second sidewall comprising a second opening to allow access to the head by a torquing tool. The assembly includes a spring surrounding at least a portion of the body, with the spring positioned between the built-in collar and the first sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2024
    Publication date: November 14, 2024
    Inventors: John P. Franz, Robert E. Mascia, Michael Dustin Scott
  • Publication number: 20240298419
    Abstract: A system chassis may comprise a frame having a width, depth, and height and a plurality of divider walls coupled to the frame and forming a plurality of receptacles each configured to receive an electronics tray containing an electronic assembly. Each of the plurality of divider walls comprises a metal sheet having a front edge, a back edge, and two lateral edges, the two lateral edges attached to two lateral walls of the frame. The front edge of the metal sheet has a concave shape such that a distance between the front edge and the back edge of the metal sheet continuously decreases while moving laterally from one lateral edge to a center of the front edge and continuously increases while moving laterally from the center to the opposite lateral edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Harvey John Lunsman, John Paul Franz, Michael Dustin Scott
  • Patent number: 12066052
    Abstract: A screw-latching assembly is provided. The assembly includes a screw with a head, a tip, and a body between the head and tip. The body includes a threaded portion adjacent to the tip and an unthreaded portion adjacent to the head, and the unthreaded portion includes a built-in collar with an outer diameter larger than that of the body. The assembly includes a supporting bracket supporting and partially encompassing a first portion of the screw. The supporting bracket includes a base and multiple sidewalls, with a first sidewall comprising a first opening to allow a second portion of the screw to extend out of the supporting bracket and a second sidewall comprising a second opening to allow access to the head by a torquing tool. The assembly includes a spring surrounding at least a portion of the body, with the spring positioned between the built-in collar and the first sidewall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: John P. Franz, Robert E. Mascia, Michael Dustin Scott
  • Publication number: 20240239847
    Abstract: The invention relates to an isolated proteinaceous particle comprising a core of perform and/or granzyme, the core being surrounded by a glycoprotein shell comprising thrombospondin-1 (TSP-1) or a fragment thereof, a variant thereof or an orthologue thereof. The invention further relates to nn engineered proteinaceous particle comprising a core of perform and/or granzyme, the core being surrounded by a glycoprotein shell comprising a thrombospondin protein, or a fragment thereof, a variant thereof or an orthologue thereof, wherein the granzyme and/or the thrombospondin is genetically modified. Further related materials, medical uses and manufacture are also contemplated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Michael DUSTIN, Stefen BALINT
  • Publication number: 20230111661
    Abstract: A screw-latching assembly is provided. The assembly includes a screw with a head, a tip, and a body between the head and tip. The body includes a threaded portion adjacent to the tip and an unthreaded portion adjacent to the head, and the unthreaded portion includes a built-in collar with an outer diameter larger than that of the body. The assembly includes a supporting bracket supporting and partially encompassing a first portion of the screw. The supporting bracket includes a base and multiple sidewalls, with a first sidewall comprising a first opening to allow a second portion of the screw to extend out of the supporting bracket and a second sidewall comprising a second opening to allow access to the head by a torquing tool. The assembly includes a spring surrounding at least a portion of the body, with the spring positioned between the built-in collar and the first sidewall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: John P. Franz, Robert E. Mascia, Michael Dustin Scott
  • Publication number: 20220301075
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technology for automatically triggering delivery of a digital receipt for one or more financial transactions based on a change in location of the user or a time. In at least some embodiments, the technology includes a payment system detecting a change in location of a user or a change in time and determining, based on the change, that a payment transaction has occurred. The payment system then causes presentation of digital receipt for the payment transaction on a mobile device of a customer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Dustin Moring, Brian Grassadonia, Lauren A. Myrick, David W. Maxwell
  • Patent number: 11410154
    Abstract: In some examples, methods and systems may process one or more payment transactions between a merchant and a customer by obtaining at least one payment proxy having a syntax including a monetary currency indicator preceding an alphanumeric character. The payment proxy may be transmitted by a transmitter component of a payment beacon device. The method includes generating, through an application accessed through the customer device, a message by identifying the payment proxy in a message and a money transfer amount in the message; parsing the payment proxy to identify the merchant associated with the payment proxy in the message; identifying a merchant financial account associated with the identified merchant, based on a stored association between the merchant financial account and the identified merchant; and initiating, by the payment processing system, a transfer of funds indicative of the money transfer amount from a financial account of the customer to a financial account of the merchant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Block, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Grassadonia, Jesse Dorogusker, Matthew H. Maibach, Jeremy Wade, Michael Dustin Moring
  • Patent number: 11410247
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technology for automatically triggering delivery of a digital receipt for a financial transaction based on a previously stored electronic address for receiving digital receipts. In at least some embodiments, the technology includes a digital receipt system working in coordination with one or more merchants' POS device to deliver receipts for current transactions based on a previously stored electronic address from past transactions. The first time a user utilizes a payment instrument in a transaction, the system associates and stores the payment-instrument information with an identifier of the user. The next time a transaction is detected that involves the identifier, the system automatically triggers receipt delivery to an electronic address associated with the identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Square, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Dustin Moring, Brian Grassadonia, Lauren A. Myrick, David W. Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20210322455
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for increasing the suppressive function of regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Bruce R. Blazar, Cameron McDonald-Hyman, Michael Dustin, Sudha Kumari, Tom Neubert, James Muller, Keli Hippen
  • Publication number: 20210216991
    Abstract: In some examples, methods and systems may process one or more payment transactions between a merchant and a customer by obtaining at least one payment proxy having a syntax including a monetary currency indicator preceding an alphanumeric character. The payment proxy may be transmitted by a transmitter component of a payment beacon device. The method includes generating, through an application accessed through the customer device, a message by identifying the payment proxy in a message and a money transfer amount in the message; parsing the payment proxy to identify the merchant associated with the payment proxy in the message; identifying a merchant financial account associated with the identified merchant, based on a stored association between the merchant financial account and the identified merchant; and initiating, by the payment processing system, a transfer of funds indicative of the money transfer amount from a financial account of the customer to a financial account of the merchant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Brian Grassadonia, Jesse Dorogusker, Matthew H. Maibach, Jeremy Wade, Michael Dustin Moring
  • Patent number: 10993959
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for increasing the suppressive function of regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignees: Regents of the University of Minnesota, New York University
    Inventors: Bruce R. Blazar, Cameron McDonald-Hyman, Michael Dustin, Sudha Kumari, Tom Neubert, James Muller, Keli Hippen
  • Publication number: 20200258167
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technology for automatically triggering delivery of a digital receipt for a financial transaction based on a previously stored electronic address for receiving digital receipts. In at least some embodiments, the technology includes a digital receipt system working in coordination with one or more merchants' POS device to deliver receipts for current transactions based on a previously stored electronic address from past transactions. The first time a user utilizes a payment card in a transaction, the system associates and stores a user-provided electronic address with the card. The next time the user utilizes the card in a new transaction, the system identifies the card has been used in a past transaction, determines the electronic address associated with the card, and automatically triggers receipt delivery to the electronic address, regardless of the new transaction being with a same or different merchant than the one in the past transaction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Dustin Moring, Brian Grassadonia, Lauren A. Myrick, David W. Maxwell
  • Publication number: 20190355034
    Abstract: Data describing a purchase order to be prepared by a merchant and an expected arrival time of a user for arriving at a geographic location of the merchant can be received. An order preparation time for the purchase order based on the one or more items specified in the purchase order can be determined. The order preparation time can be a time needed by the merchant to prepare the purchase order. An order start time based on the order preparation time for the purchase order and on the expected arrival time can be determined. The order start time can be a time for beginning preparation of the purchase order to have the purchase order ready at the expected arrival time. The data describing the purchase order and the order start time can be presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Dustin Moring, Nathan Spindel, Mark Jen
  • Patent number: 10319013
    Abstract: Data describing a purchase order to be prepared by a merchant and an expected arrival time of a user for arriving at a geographic location of the merchant can be received. An order preparation time for the purchase order based on the one or more items specified in the purchase order can be determined. The order preparation time can be a time needed by the merchant to prepare the purchase order. An order start time based on the order preparation time for the purchase order and on the expected arrival time can be determined. The order start time can be a time for beginning preparation of the purchase order to have the purchase order ready at the expected arrival time. The data describing the purchase order and the order start time can be presented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: SQUARE, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Dustin Moring, Nathan Spindel, Mark Jen
  • Publication number: 20190022125
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for increasing the suppressive function of regulatory T-cells (Tregs) are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2016
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Bruce R. Blazar, Cameron McDonald-Hyman, Michael Dustin, Sudha Kumari, Tom Neubert, James Muller, Keli Hippen
  • Publication number: 20140350078
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of identifying candidate compounds useful as chemotherapeutics or anti-infective compounds or anti-inflammatory drugs. This method involves providing a plurality of test compounds. The plurality of test compounds are incubated with human Regulatory T (Treg) cells expressing Disc-Large Homo log 1 (Dlgh1) or in which Dlgh1 is suppressed, where the Treg cells have an immunological synapse (IS). Test compounds which inhibit Dlgh1 expression, recruitment to the IS, and/or activity in the Treg cells are identified as candidate compounds potentially useful as chemotherapeutics or anti-infective compounds. Test compounds which enhance Dlgh1 recruitment to the IS and/or activity in the Treg cells are identified as candidate compounds potentially useful as anti-inflammatory drugs. The present invention also relates to methods of treating inflammatory conditions, cancers, and infectious diseases in a subject, as well as methods of inhibiting Treg cell activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Michael Dustin, Alexandra Zanin-Zhorov
  • Publication number: 20120196919
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for treating a variety of diseases and disorders that are mediated or sustained through the activity of PKC-theta, including immunological disorders and atherosclerosis. Specifically, the invention relates to a method of treating an immunological disorder or atherosclerosis in a patient comprising treating blood from the patient, or a defined component of said blood, with an inhibitor of PKC-theta ex vivo and then re-administering the treated blood to the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Applicants: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Maryanne Brown, Michael Dustin, Alexandra Zanin-Zhorov
  • Patent number: 7284332
    Abstract: A hole center marking system comprises a punch device and an alignment member. The punch device includes a body assembly and a punch movably disposed within the body assembly. The body assembly has a circular cross-sectional exterior shape at a first end portion thereof. An indenting tip portion of the punch is forcibly biased to a position within the body assembly adjacent the first end portion of the body assembly. The alignment member has a central bore configured for having the first end portion of the body assembly engaged therein. The central bore of the alignment member is size to provide a close-tolerance fit between the central bore and the first end portion of the body assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Inventor: Michael Dustin Long