Patents by Inventor Michael Erickson
Michael Erickson 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).
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Publication number: 20240093438Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Dale Kelley, James Svec, Michael T. Ferraro, Kirby Erickson, Paul Richardson, Kris Edelsward
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Patent number: 11932999Abstract: Non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method comprising: obtaining asphalt shingle waste (ASW) and performing grinding, screening, and separating steps on the ASW. In some embodiments, granules are removed from the ASW. In some embodiments, the method transforms ASW into ASW powder. In some embodiments, the ASW powder is formed into a plurality of briquettes. In some embodiments, at least one of: the ASW powder, the plurality of briquettes, or any combination thereof is fed into a mixing process that results in an ASW powder filled coating.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: BMIC LLCInventors: Dale Kelley, James Svec, Michael T. Ferraro, Kirby Erickson, Paul Richardson, Kris Edelsward
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Patent number: 11927543Abstract: A system includes a memory, and at least one processing device, operatively coupled to the memory, to facilitate an etch recipe development process by performing operations including obtaining, from an optical detector, first material thickness data for a first material and second material thickness data for a second material resulting from an iteration of an etch process using an etch recipe. The first material is located at a first reflectometry measurement point and the second material is located at a second reflectometry measurement point different from the first reflectometry measurement point. The operations further include determining one or more etch parameters based on at least the first material thickness data and the second material thickness data.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.Inventors: Blake Erickson, Keith Berding, Michael Kutney, Soumendra Barman, Zhaozhao Zhu, Michelle SanPedro, Suresh Polali Narayana Rao
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Patent number: 11920347Abstract: A joist assembly system that is structured for dynamic retrieval of components, dynamic and precise positioning and location of retrieved components, assembly of the components to form a joist, and delivery of the assembled joist. The joist assembly system has a plurality of material handling systems, a plurality of welding systems, and a rigging table system. The material handling systems are structured to load and position the components such as chords and webs onto the rigging table. The rigging table in turn supports the chords or webs. Subsequently, the plurality of welding systems weld the webs to the chords to form the joist.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: NUCOR CORPORATIONInventors: Jason Alan Freidenberger, Joseph Patrick Cagle, Christopher Ray Couch, Richard Thomas Erickson, Travis Marshall Fuhrman, John Lyman Hale, Matthew Glenn Hire, Christopher William Martin, James E. Ogburn, III, Jonathan Pressley Poston, Peter Michael Puglisi, Phillip Murray Sylvester, Jr., Adam Taylor Watkins
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Publication number: 20240055707Abstract: A method of forming a brazed joint is described. The method includes pressing a non-molybdenum component, such as a cross pin of a battery case assembly, against a molybdenum component, such as a terminal pin of the battery case assembly, and applying one or more electrical pulses to form an interface liquid layer between the components that cools to form the brazed joint. At least one of the electrical pulses has a constant voltage over a pulse time. A contact resistance between the components can decrease during the pulse time, and thus, the constant voltage can cause an uncontrolled electrical current of the electrical pulse to increase. The increasing electrical current heats the components sufficiently to form the interface liquid layer having a predetermined thickness that provides a required bend strength. Removal of surface oxides provide consistent mechanical strength for this joint. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventors: Shichan Chiang, Christopher Hallmark, Michael Erickson, Kurt Erickson, Nicholas Hamor, Jeffrey Armstrong, Philip Edward Poole, Nathan Messerich
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Publication number: 20230407609Abstract: Described are a system, device, and method for atmospheric water generation (AWG). A device can include a nucleation chamber defining a cyclonic pathway therewithin. A humid gas is communicated along the cyclonic pathway within the nucleation chamber. Electrospray nozzle(s) is(are) used to disperse a nucleation initiator into the inner volume of the nucleation chamber to cause nucleation of water droplets from water vapor in the humid gas. The water droplets can be condensed out of the air to form an aqueous product. The nucleation initiator can be electrically charged before dispersion within the nucleation chamber to increase nucleation of water droplets from the humid gas. The nucleation initiator can comprise a salt, a desiccant material, a hygroscopic material, an ionic liquid, water droplets, CaCl2, NaCl, LiCl, MgCl2, KCOOH, CH3COOK, or sulfates. Humid gas can be cooled to a temperature of between about 33° F. and about 75° F. before nucleation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: David James Stuckenberg, Erick Keith Went, Owen Michael Erickson, Venkateswara Rao Kode
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Publication number: 20230388218Abstract: Techniques and devices for administering network-connected devices using tunneled routing are described for accessing administrative services using an access router in a network segment of a fabric network in which a first access router in a first network segment of a fabric network receives a first advertisement for a second network segment of the fabric network and establishes a first secure tunnel with a second access router in the second network segment in the fabric network. The first access router advertises, in the first network segment, a first network route to an Ecosystem Administrative Service, EAS, in the second network segment, and uses the advertised first network route to route messages between one or more devices in the first network segment and the EAS.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Grant Michael Erickson, Jay Dare Logue
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Patent number: 11831030Abstract: A method of forming a brazed joint is described. The method includes pressing a non-molybdenum component, such as a cross pin of a battery case assembly, against a molybdenum component, such as a terminal pin of the battery case assembly, and applying one or more electrical pulses to form an interface liquid layer between the components that cools to form the brazed joint. At least one of the electrical pulses has a constant voltage over a pulse time. A contact resistance between the components can decrease during the pulse time, and thus, the constant voltage can cause an uncontrolled electrical current of the electrical pulse to increase. The increasing electrical current heats the components sufficiently to form the interface liquid layer having a predetermined thickness that provides a required bend strength. Removal of surface oxides provide consistent mechanical strength for this joint. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.Inventors: Shichan Chiang, Christopher Hallmark, Michael Erickson, Kurt Erickson, Nicholas Hamor, Jeffrey Armstrong, Philip Edward Poole, Nathan Messerich
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Publication number: 20230379248Abstract: Techniques and devices for communicating Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) traffic using a lightweight Internet Protocol (LwIP) network stack and a tunnel router, by an electronic device in a first network segment of a fabric network are described. The tunnel router receives an Internet Protocol version (IPv4) address for an access router in a second network segment of the fabric network and establishes a secure IPv6-over-IPv4 network tunnel with the access router in the second network segment. The tunnel router advertises an IPv6 network route for the fabric network and, using the advertised IPv6 network route, routes IPv6 messages from the electronic device to one or more devices in the second network segment using the secure IPv6-over-IPv4 network tunnel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2020Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Grant Michael Erickson, Jay Dare Logue
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Patent number: 11785584Abstract: A distributed resource model is described that maintains traits of resources in a distributed computing system. The traits include properties, commands, and events that, along with protocols operating in the distributed computing system, provide real-time access to the traits of resources in the distributed computing system, as well as real-time command of controls for the resources. Controllers manage and publish the traits of resources and provide various types of functionality, such as arbitration, complexity management, fan-out of capabilities, coordination, adaptation, and resource proxying.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2022Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Google LLCInventors: John P. Kozura, Lann Martin, Robert Collier Barnes, Grant Michael Erickson, John G. Macleod, Jeffery T. Lee, Prashant P. Reddy, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Jay D. Logue, Jerry Johns
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Publication number: 20230010376Abstract: An atmospheric water generation system comprises water vapor consolidation systems configured to increase the relative humidity of a controlled air stream prior to condensing water from the controlled air stream. The water vapor consolidation system comprises a fluid-desiccant flow system configured to decrease the temperature of the desiccant to encourage water vapor to be absorbed by the desiccant from an atmospheric air flow. The desiccant flow is then heated to encourage water vapor evaporation from the desiccant flow into a controlled air stream that circulates within the system. The humidity of the controlled air stream is thereby increased above the relative humidity of the atmospheric air to facilitate condensation of the water vapor into usable liquid water.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2022Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: David James Stuckenberg, Erick Keith Went, Owen Michael Erickson, Venkateswara Rao Kode
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Publication number: 20220288505Abstract: An atmospheric water generation system absorbs water from an atmospheric air stream into a desiccant flowing along a flow path of a closed desiccant circulation loop. To ensure that the desiccant remains within the closed desiccant circulation loop, the atmospheric water generation system encompasses a membrane-based water extraction device that the desiccant flows through. The desiccant flows through the membrane-based water extraction device on a first side of a membrane, and the membrane separates the desiccant from a water-collection flow. Water absorbed into the desiccant passes from the desiccant, through the porous membrane, and into the water-collection flow, at least in part due to differences in temperature and/or pressure characteristics of the water flow and the desiccant flow. Water collected within the water-collection flow is directed to a storage tank for usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Inventors: David James Stuckenberg, Erick Keith Went, Owen Michael Erickson, Jashal Patel, Ethan Emerson Plumer, Shania Samantha Madramootoo
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Publication number: 20220264541Abstract: A distributed resource model is described that maintains traits of resources in a distributed computing system. The traits include properties, commands, and events that, along with protocols operating in the distributed computing system, provide real-time access to the traits of resources in the distributed computing system, as well as real-time command of controls for the resources. Controllers manage and publish the traits of resources and provide various types of functionality, such as arbitration, complexity management, fan-out of capabilities, coordination, adaptation, and resource proxying.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: John P. Kozura, Lann Martin, Robert Collier Barnes, Grant Michael Erickson, John G. Macleod, Jeffery T. Lee, Prashant P. Reddy, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Jay D. Logue, Jerry Johns
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Publication number: 20220239622Abstract: In embodiments of efficient network stack for wireless application protocols, a network stack receives an application-layer message in a first wireless application protocol that includes a source address and a destination address, maps the source address to an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) source address, and maps the destination address to an IPv6 source address. The source node transmits the application-layer message to a destination node in a mesh network using a network stack that implements a second wireless application protocol using the IPv6 source address, and maps the destination address to an IPv6 source address.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Google LLCInventors: Grant Michael Erickson, Martin A. Turon, Jonathan Wing-Yan Hui
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Publication number: 20220195706Abstract: An atmospheric water generation system comprises water vapor consolidation systems configured to increase the relative humidity of a controlled air stream prior to condensing water from the controlled air stream. The water vapor consolidation system comprises a fluid-desiccant flow system configured to decrease the temperature of the desiccant to encourage water vapor to be absorbed by the desiccant from an atmospheric air flow. The desiccant flow is then heated to encourage water vapor evaporation from the desiccant flow into a controlled air stream that circulates within the system. The humidity of the controlled air stream is thereby increased above the relative humidity of the atmospheric air to facilitate condensation of the water vapor into usable liquid water.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: David James Stuckenberg, Erick Keith Went, Owen Michael Erickson, Shania Samantha Madramootoo, Miguel Angel Jurado, JR., Ethan Emerson Plumer, Jashal Patel
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Patent number: 11343222Abstract: In embodiments of efficient network stack for wireless application protocols, a network stack receives an application-layer message in a first wireless application protocol that includes a source address and a destination address, maps the source address to an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) source address, and maps the destination address to an IPv6 source address. The source node transmits the application-layer message to a destination node in a mesh network using a network stack that implements a second wireless application protocol using the IPv6 source address, and maps the destination address to an IPv6 source address.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2016Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Grant Michael Erickson, Martin A. Turon, Jonathan Wing-Yan Hui
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Patent number: 11272481Abstract: A distributed resource model is described that maintains traits of resources in a distributed computing system. The traits include properties, commands, and events that, along with protocols operating in the distributed computing system, provide real-time access to the traits of resources in the distributed computing system, as well as real-time command of controls for the resources. Controllers manage and publish the traits of resources and provide various types of functionality, such as arbitration, complexity management, fan-out of capabilities, coordination, adaptation, and resource proxying.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2017Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Google LLCInventors: John P. Kozura, Lann Martin, Robert Collier Barnes, Grant Michael Erickson, John G. Macleod, Jeffery T. Lee, Prashant P. Reddy, Gregory Rourk Nelson, Jay D. Logue, Jerry Johns
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Publication number: 20190363313Abstract: A method of forming a brazed joint is described. The method includes pressing a non-molybdenum component, such as a cross pin of a battery case assembly, against a molybdenum component, such as a terminal pin of the battery case assembly, and applying one or more electrical pulses to form an interface liquid layer between the components that cools to form the brazed joint. At least one of the electrical pulses has a constant voltage over a pulse time. A contact resistance between the components can decrease during the pulse time, and thus, the constant voltage can cause an uncontrolled electrical current of the electrical pulse to increase. The increasing electrical current heats the components sufficiently to form the interface liquid layer having a predetermined thickness that provides a required bend strength. Removal of surface oxides provide consistent mechanical strength for this joint. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2019Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Shichan Chiang, Christopher Hallmark, Michael Erickson, Kurt Erickson, Nicholas Hamor, Jeffrey Armstrong, Philip Edward Poole, Nathan Messerich
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Patent number: 10452083Abstract: A thermostat includes a plurality of HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) wire connectors for receiving a plurality of HVAC control wires corresponding to an HVAC system. The thermostat also includes a thermostat processing and control circuit operative to at least partially control the operation of the HVAC system and a powering circuit coupled to the HVAC wire connectors and configured to provide an electrical load power to the thermostat processing and control circuit. The thermostat includes circuitry and methods for maximizing efficiency of energy harvested from the HVAC system connected to the thermostat, and depending on which system is connected to the thermostat, different power schemes can be implemented in order to obtain power from the HVAC system.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Daniel Adam Warren, Hugo B. Fiennes, Jonathan Alan Dutra, David Bell, Anthony Michael Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, Ian C. Smith, Edwin H. Satterthwaite, Jr., Grant Michael Erickson, Andrea Mucignat, Joseph E. Palmer
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Publication number: 20190227584Abstract: A thermostat includes a plurality of HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) wire connectors for receiving a plurality of HVAC control wires corresponding to an HVAC system. The thermostat also includes a thermostat processing and control circuit operative to at least partially control the operation of the HVAC system and a powering circuit coupled to the HVAC wire connectors and configured to provide an electrical load power to the thermostat processing and control circuit. The thermostat includes circuitry and methods for maximizing efficiency of energy harvested from the HVAC system connected to the thermostat, and depending on which system is connected to the thermostat, different power schemes can be implemented in order to obtain power from the HVAC system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: Daniel Adam Warren, Hugo B. Fiennes, Jonathan Alan Dutra, David Bell, Anthony Michael Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, Ian C. Smith, Edwin H. Satterthwaite, JR., Grant Michael Erickson, Andrea Mucignat, Joseph E. Palmer