Patents by Inventor Michael Ellis

Michael Ellis 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: 12289357
    Abstract: Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files being a media file played on the second device. The first device may display a user selectable list of the files on the first device before issuing a request for the media file to the data storage server. The data storage server may send the media file to the first device from the data storage server, and the first device may play back the media file where the second device left off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rosenblatt, Gloria Lin, Amir Mahmood Mikhak, Taido Lantz Nakajima, Sean Anthony Mayo, Andrew Hodge, Anthony Michael Fadell, Jeffery Theodore Lee, Shawn A. Ellis, Policarpo Wood, Alan Christopher Cannistraro
  • Patent number: 12287016
    Abstract: A brake assembly is configured for use with a wheel in an ambient environment. The wheel includes a rim rotatably mounted to an axle. The brake assembly includes a brake stack and an actuation assembly configured to selectively apply a force to the brake stack. A cover sealingly engaged the rim to at least partially define a fluidic barrier between a brake cavity and the ambient environment. The brake stack is located within the brake cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignees: SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS, SAFRAN LANDING SYSTEMS CANADA INC.
    Inventors: Graeme Peter Arthur Klim, Justin Guang Yuang Cheng, Leszek Marian Dacko, Andrew Michael Ellis
  • Publication number: 20250132952
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an apparatus for intelligent matching of disparate input data received from disparate input data systems in a complex computing network for establishing targeted communication to a computing device associated with the intelligently matched disparate input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Melanie D. Courtright, Vincent P. DeRobertis, Michael D. Bigby, William C. Robinson, Greg Ellis, Heidi D.E. Wilton, John R. Rothwell, Jeremy S. Antoniuk
  • Publication number: 20250128619
    Abstract: A work machine that is powered by batteries in a power unit uses a locally distributed electrical system and a locally distributed hydraulic system. A portion of power from the power unit is provided to an inverter installed in a front section of the work machine to power electrical equipment installed in the front section. Another portion of the power from the power unit is provided to an inverter installed in a rear section of the work machine to power electrical equipment installed in the rear section. Additionally, a hydraulic pump installed in the front section pressurizes hydraulic fluid in a front accumulator for use by hydraulic loads in the front section and a hydraulic pump installed in the rear section pressurizes the hydraulic fluid in a rear accumulator for use by hydraulic loads in the rear section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: Caterpillar Underground Mining Pty Ltd.
    Inventors: Andrew Ellis Diecker, Michael James Wolfert, Alexander Eli Dowling
  • Publication number: 20250125639
    Abstract: An example portable charging case for smart glasses comprises a glasses-retention portion of the charging case. The glasses-retention portion defines an interior surface of the portable charging case, and the glasses-retention portion is configured to apply a resistance force to securely hold smart glasses along the interior surface. The portable charging case also includes a retention bracket that is coupled with the glasses-retention portion. The retention bracket is configured to apply a force to the nose pad of the smart glasses to hold the smart glasses in place to facilitate stable charging between electrical contacts of the charging case and other electrical contacts on the nose pad of the smart glasses.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Rolando Abella Pausal, Peter Wesley Bristol, Shane Michael Ellis, Inès Le Bihan
  • Patent number: 12278857
    Abstract: Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files being a media file played on the second device. The first device may display a user selectable list of the files on the first device before issuing a request for the media file to the data storage server. The data storage server may send the media file to the first device from the data storage server, and the first device may play back the media file where the second device left off.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Rosenblatt, Gloria Lin, Amir Mahmood Mikhak, Taido Lantz Nakajima, Sean Anthony Mayo, Andrew Hodge, Anthony Michael Fadell, Jeffery Theodore Lee, Shawn A. Ellis, Policarpo Wood, Alan Christopher Cannistraro
  • Patent number: 12257406
    Abstract: A catheter system may include a catheter hub, a septum disposed within the catheter hub, a catheter tube extending from the catheter hub, a needle hub, and an introducer needle secured within the needle hub. The catheter hub may include a push tab and one or more ribs, which may extend outwardly from an upper surface of the catheter hub. The ribs may be shorter in height than the push tab and/or may be generally parallel to the push tab. The introducer needle may include a flashback notch. In response to insertion of the introducer needle into vasculature, blood may flow into the introducer needle, through the flashback notch, and into a flashback chamber disposed between the septum and the catheter tube. The flashback chamber may be disposed distal to the push tab and the ribs, which may improve visualization of the flashback chamber by a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Michael Garrison, Bart D. Peterson, Ralph L. Sonderegger, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Thomas Solosko, Stephen T. Bornhoft, Marty Stout, Carl Ellis
  • Publication number: 20250093652
    Abstract: One example provides a head mounted display (HMD) device comprising a projection system and left eye and right eye display optical paths configured to transmit left eye and right eye images for viewing. The projection system comprises left and right display image projectors. The HMD device further comprises a display alignment tracker (DAT) system comprising a DAT optical path comprising left side and right side DAT optical paths. The DAT system further comprises a camera coupled to an output of the DAT optical path, and a visible light filter located along the DAT optical path. The HMD device further comprises a controller configured to control the projection system to output a fiducial image comprising a visible color of light transmitted by the visible light filter and to blank the visible color of the fiducial image from a fiducial portion of both the left and right eye images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Lasse-Petteri LEPPANEN, Xiao Chuan ONG, Yarn Chee POON, Yifei ZHANG, Wyatt Owen DAVIS, Matthew David ELLIS, Algird Michael GUDAITIS, Akash ARORA
  • Publication number: 20250083978
    Abstract: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are destroyed by oxidation in supercritical conditions. PFAS in water can be concentrated and prepared for destruction in a pretreatment phase. Following annihilation of the PFAS in supercritical conditions to levels below 5 parts per trillion (ppt), the water effluent can be used to recover heat, returned to sub-critical conditions, and then released back into the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2024
    Publication date: March 13, 2025
    Inventors: Lindy E. Dejarme, Kavitha Dasu, Russell R. Sirabian, Christopher F. Buurma, Jeffrey Ellis, Michael M. Miller, Dan Garbark, Nathan Bryant, John Tallarico, Joseph Casciano, Slawomir Winecki, David Holley, Joshua James, Keith Brown, Doug Hendry, Darwin Argumedo, Aaron Frank, Christopher Gordon Scheitlin
  • Patent number: 12250096
    Abstract: This disclosure is directed to an apparatus for intelligent matching of disparate input data received from disparate input data systems in a complex computing network for establishing targeted communication to a computing device associated with the intelligently matched disparate input data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Research Now Group, LLC
    Inventors: Melanie D. Courtright, Vincent P. Derobertis, Michael D. Bigby, William C. Robinson, Greg Ellis, Heidi D. E. Wilton, John R. Rothwell, Jeremy S. Antoniuk
  • Patent number: 12233356
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to multistep chromatographic methods for preparing extracellular vesicles (EVs). The methods were demonstrated to be effective in preparing highquality EVs in a large scale. The methods enable preparation of EVs for therapeutic and diagnostic applications, and isolation and/or sub-fractionation of EVs with desired properties for specific use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: LONZA SALES AG
    Inventors: Aaron Noyes, Michael Doherty, Kimberly Ellis, Raymond Bourdeau, Kayla Desanty
  • Publication number: 20250061391
    Abstract: In an aspect, a computer-implemented method performed at a server is described. The method may include: receiving, at the server and from a remote computing device, video data defining a video purporting to include at least one scene of a work environment for a project to be performed at a physical location; obtaining project definition data defining one or more parameters of the project; generating a project profile based on at least a portion of the video data and at least a portion of the project definition data; matching the project profile to at least one project-seeker account; and generating a notification of the project associated with the project profile on a computing device associated with the matched project-seeker account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Applicant: Fixvi Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Keith GORDON, Cameron Michael CROMPTON, Graham Bristo Nicholas SCHENCK, Mark Andrew ELLIS
  • Publication number: 20250037010
    Abstract: A method of determining a user intent from a predefined set of user intents includes receiving user-generated text through an electronic user interface, such as a website, and generating first embeddings representative of the user-generated text. The method further includes calculating a respective individual intent score for each of a plurality of training phrases, each individual intent score calculated according to a similarity of the first embeddings to second embeddings, representative of a respective training phrase of the plurality of training phrases, wherein each training phrase is associated with an intent of a predefined set of user intents, outputting, to the user in response to the user-generated text, a plurality of user intents according to the respective individual intent scores, receiving, from the user, a selection of one of the plurality of user intents, and classifying, according to the selection, a user intent for the user-generated text.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Ellis, Resham Lal Jagadheesh, Nian Yan
  • Publication number: 20240404336
    Abstract: A system and method for using a portable device to communicate with a vehicle to authorize one or more vehicle operations. The portable device may authorize the vehicle to unlock/lock doors, start the vehicle engine, or mobilize the vehicle, or a combination thereof. The vehicle may include a vehicle transmitter system with one or more transmitters disposed at various locations on the vehicle, and the portable device may be configured to monitor a communication strength between the portable device and the one or more transmitters of the transmitter system. Based on the monitored signal strength, the portable device may determine location information about itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: J. Michael Ellis, Eric Smith, Aaron Day, Kurt Dykema, Warren E. Guthrie, Brent Bouws, David L. Klamer, Kent D. Pilcher
  • Publication number: 20240369849
    Abstract: Frame assemblies for a head-mounted display may include a facial interface frame, a display support frame, and at least one extendible tab coupled to the facial interface frame and the display support frame. The at least one extendible tab may be movable between a retracted position at which a near-eye display supported by the display support frame is located a first distance from the facial interface frame and a second position at which the near-eye display is located at a second, greater distance from the facial interface frame. Various other methods, head-mounted displays, frames and frame elements, and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Wesley Bristol, Luke Fryer, Rolando Abella Pausal, Joel Bernard Jacobs, David Michael Pickett, Enric Vial Roig, Yi-yaun Chen, Scott Andrew Dallmeyer, Shane Michael Ellis, Glen Jason Tompkins, Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Mauricio Romano
  • Publication number: 20240369848
    Abstract: Frames for a head-mounted display may include a front frame portion, a facial interface portion with outer peripheral regions configured to flex to conform to a user's facial features when in use, and two upper support elements connecting the facial interface portion to the front frame portion. Intersection points between the upper support elements and the facial interface portion may be separated by a common interpupillary distance of expected users. Various other methods, head-mounted displays, frames and frame elements, and systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Wesley Bristol, Luke Fryer, Rolando Abella Pausal, Joel Bernard Jacobs, David Michael Pickett, Enric Vial Roig, Yi-yaun Chen, Scott Andrew Dallmeyer, Shane Michael Ellis, Glen Jason Tompkins, Joseph Patrick Sullivan, Mauricio Romano
  • Patent number: 12109753
    Abstract: A method of applying a cover to a housing may include bonding a plurality of reinforcement elements to respective inside corners of a textile having an initial shape and disposing the plurality of reinforcement elements within respective recesses at corners of the housing to secure the textile to the housing. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Shane Michael Ellis, Kristen Renee Hayenga
  • Patent number: D1062727
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Tzu-Wei Tai, Toshiyuki Tanaka, Chao Long Chou, Yuan-Ping Chu, Derric Christopher Hobbs, Michael Ellis Smith
  • Patent number: D1065814
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: AbbVie Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Malick, Elizabeth Hanna, Ryan Brumund, Leslie Herring, Michael Rakauskas, Ben Ellis, Jose Miguel Martinez, Jen Rocket, Corin Frost, Miranda Degg
  • Patent number: D1070123
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Duralum Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William Edward Ellis Anson, Brian Michael Quinn, Don Jay Coulson, Marie-Dominique Seta