Patents by Inventor Michael Evans

Michael Evans 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: 20240132406
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a gypsum panel and a method of making such gypsum panel. For instance, in one embodiment, the gypsum panel comprises a gypsum core and a first facing material and a second facing material sandwiching the gypsum core, wherein the gypsum core includes gypsum and one or more components of a reclaim gypsum panel, such as reclaimed gypsum and reclaimed facing material. The methods of the present invention are directed to making the aforementioned gypsum panels by providing the first facing material, providing a gypsum slurry comprising gypsum, water, and one or more components of a reclaim gypsum panel, such as reclaimed gypsum and reclaimed facing material, onto the first facing material, and providing a second facing material on the gypsum slurry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Veda Evans, Michael Blades, R. G. Iyer, Eli Stav, Bradley J. Busche, Craig Robertson, Gene Whittington, Joseph J. Bailey
  • Publication number: 20240122816
    Abstract: Suggested is a non-disposable multi-use article which is impregnated or coated with a care additive and is capable of transferring said care additive from its surface to human skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: William CHAZEY III, John TEFFENHART, Timothy EVANS-LORA, Keith MC DERMOTT, Michael IMPERIALE
  • Patent number: 11957608
    Abstract: Aneurysms are treated by filling at least one double-walled filling structure with a curable medium within the aneurysm. The filling structures may be delivered over balloon deployment mechanisms in order to shape and open tubular lumens therethrough. Scaffolds are placed into the tubular lumens in order to help maintain the shape, anchor the filling structures in place, and provide improved blood flow transition into and out of the tubular lumens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Nellix, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Evans, Gwendolyn A. Watanabe, Amy Lee, Steven L. Herbowy
  • Patent number: 11958657
    Abstract: Disclosed is a lidded magazine (100) for holding plural generally flat sample collection cards (10) in spaced parallel relation, the magazine is open at its top and includes upstanding opposed side walls (110,120), each wall (110,120) further including plural opposed pairs of inwardly extending wall ribs (112,122) spaced along each wall (110,120) to provide therebetween card accepting slots, a first slot dimension (W) being defined by the spacing between an interior face (154) of each wall, the magazine being characterised in that the walls (110,120) at the top (152) of each slot (150) are tapered outwardly such that the first dimension (W) is greatest at the top of the slot (150).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: QIAGEN HEALTHCARE BIOTECHNOLOGIES SYSTEMS GmbH
    Inventors: Kathryn Louise Lamerton, Michael John Smith, Phillip Evans, Kristina Swann
  • Patent number: 11962824
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine total audience ratings. An example apparatus includes metrics generator circuitry to generate a first audience size for media accessed by first devices of a first media platform at a first level of aggregation, the first level of aggregation corresponding to the media accessed on a first television network and on a first website, generate a second audience size for the media accessed by the first devices of the first media platform at a second level of aggregation, the second level of aggregation corresponding to the media accessed on the first television network and accessed on the first website and a second website, comparator circuitry to compare the first audience size to the second audience size, adjustor circuitry to reduce the first audience size based on the second audience size, and audience determination circuitry to determine a total audience size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: David J. Kurzynski, Fatemehossadat Miri, Rachel Worth Olson, Peter Schnatz, Balachander Shankar, Samantha M. Mowrer, Michael Grotelueschen, Zachary Zofrea, Arijit Jha, Robert Gottesman, Michael Evan Anderson
  • Publication number: 20240121456
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to determine total audience ratings. An example apparatus includes metrics generator circuitry to generate a first audience size for media accessed by first devices of a first media platform at a first level of aggregation, the first level of aggregation corresponding to the media accessed on a first television network and on a first website, generate a second audience size for the media accessed by the first devices of the first media platform at a second level of aggregation, the second level of aggregation corresponding to the media accessed on the first television network and accessed on the first website and a second website, comparator circuitry to compare the first audience size to the second audience size, adjustor circuitry to reduce the first audience size based on the second audience size, and audience determination circuitry to determine a total audience size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: The Nielsen Company (US), LLC
    Inventors: David J. Kurzynski, Fatemehossadat Miri, Rachel Worth Olson, Peter Schnatz, Balachander Shankar, Samantha M. Mowrer, Michael Grotelueschen, Zachary Zofrea, Arijit Jha, Robert Gottesman, Michael Evan Anderson
  • Patent number: 11951688
    Abstract: A generator injection tool is provided. The generator injection tool injects an adhesive into a generator that includes a rotor positioned within a stator having a stator vent, the stator and rotor having a gap therebetween. The generator injection tool includes a first carriage sized to fit within the gap, a tube, a first motor, a controller, and an adhesive source. An end of the tube is movable between a first position in which the end is outside of the stator vent and a second position within the stator vent. The first motor is operable to move the tube between the first position and the second position. The controller is operable to selectively activate the first motor to position the end of the tube within the stator vent. The adhesive source moves the adhesive through the tube end to inject a portion of the adhesive into the stator vent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY, INC.
    Inventors: Anthony Barca, Lucas Ramsey, Bryce Merrill, Eric Evans, Michael A. Hall, Carl R. Larson
  • Publication number: 20240112556
    Abstract: A modular patient monitor provides a multipurpose, scalable solution for various patient monitoring applications. In an embodiment, a modular patient monitor utilizes multiple wavelength optical sensor and/or acoustic sensor technologies to provide blood constituent monitoring and acoustic respiration monitoring (ARM) at its core, including pulse oximetry parameters and additional blood parameter measurements such as carboxyhemoglobin (HbCO) and methemoglobin (HbMet). Expansion modules provide blood pressure BP, blood glucose, ECG, CO2, depth of sedation and cerebral oximetry to name a few. Aspects of the present disclosure also include a transport dock for providing enhanced portability and functionally to handheld monitors. In an embodiment, the transport dock provides one or more docking interfaces for placing monitoring components in communication with other monitoring components. In an embodiment, the transport dock attaches to the modular patient monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Massi Joe E. Kiani, Ammar Al-Ali, Michael O'Reilly, Paul Ronald Jansen, Nicholas Evan Barker, Anand Sampath
  • Publication number: 20240112110
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods for ingesting of raw client data into a supply chain optimization system. The client enterprise data system (EDS) provides raw data, typically in tabular format across many files, to a data management module of the optimization system. This data is then profiled. and a set of mapping AI models is applied to the profiled data. Each of the plurality of mapping AI models corresponds to a single input feature of the optimization model. As the mapping models are applied, a live preview is generated. This live preview is reviewable by a human operator, and human input can be provided. When there is input, the individual mapping model is updated (without impacting the other mapping models), and a new live preview for that given feature is generated. The resulting standardized feature set may be consumed by the supply chain optimization model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: David Michael Evans, Robert Derward Rogers, Vishnuvyas Sethumadhavan, Mehran Najafi
  • Patent number: 11944767
    Abstract: A wire lock assembly for an access port of an elongate medical tube includes a body having an exterior surface, an interior surface, and a central opening disposed therethrough, an attachment mechanism disposed through the exterior surface of the body, the attachment mechanism having an open end and a closed end, at least one notch arranged on the body and positioned proximate to the central opening and at least one seal supported within the interior surface of the body in communication with the central opening, the seal comprising a passageway therethrough, where the interior surface of the body defines a non-linear pathway for securing one or more medical devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Bradley R. Doepker, Michelle D. Martinez, Tyler Evans McLawhorn, John C. Sigmon, Jr., Shaun Gittard, Michael Brecht, Maximiliano Soetermans
  • Patent number: 11948173
    Abstract: A system for selecting an image to accompany text from a user in connection with a social media post. The system includes receiving text from the user; identifying one or more search terms based on the text; identifying candidate images from images in one or more image databases using the search terms, where the candidate images comprise a sponsored image; presenting one or more candidate images to the user, where the sponsored image is presented preferentially compared to other candidate images; receiving from the user a selected image from the one or more candidate images; generating the social media post comprising the selected image and the user-submitted text; and transmitting the social media post for display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: MediaLab.AI
    Inventors: Michael Heyward, Maarten Bosma, Samuel Brotherton, Charles DePue, III, Manuel Ernesto Gomez Contreras, Chase Evans
  • Publication number: 20240101962
    Abstract: The invention features pancreatic islet and pancreatic organoids, and cell cultures and methods that are useful for the rapid and reliable generation of pancreatic islet and pancreatic islet organoids. The invention also features methods of treating pancreatic diseases and methods of identifying agents that are useful for treatment of pancreatic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and pancreatic cancer, using the pancreatic islet and pancreatic organoids of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Salk Institute for Biological Studies
    Inventors: Ronald EVANS, Michael DOWNES, Annette ATKINS, Eiji YOSHIHARA, Ruth YU
  • Publication number: 20240099570
    Abstract: Devices for maintaining a telescope during a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) technique such as laparoscopy or thoracoscopy. A telescope maintenance assembly is comprised of a disc and a dome. The disc is absorbent and includes a central aperture. The dome is hollow and includes an inlet port, a lower protrusion, and outlet ports which abut against the disc when attached thereto. To prepare the assembly for use, the disc is secured about a proximal port of a trocar and the lower protrusion is inserted through the central aperture, and an anti-fog solution is transmitted into and through the dome to wet the disc. After the disc is wetted, the wetted disc can be used by a surgeon or assistant to wipe debris from a lens or other optical component of the telescope without needing to remove the telescope from the trocar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Michael Evans, George Crawford
  • Publication number: 20240104282
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program product for bit flip aware latch placement in integrated circuit generation are provided. The method identifies a chip design for an integrated circuit. A set of chip design constraints, associated with the chip design, is identified. A set of checking groups, associated with a plurality of latches to be placed in the chip design, is determined. Based on the set of chip design constraints and the set of checking groups, a placement scheme for the plurality of latches is selected. The method places the plurality of latches within the chip design based on the placement scheme and the set of checking groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Neil Trombley, Chung-Lung K. Shum, Paul G. Villarrubia, K. Paul Muller, Michael Hemsley Wood, Daniel Arthur Gay, Hua Xiang, Karl Evan Smock Anderson, Erica Stuecheli, Michael Alexander Bowen, Randall J. Darden
  • Publication number: 20240095280
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a multi-tenant system that executes graph language requests using graph operations of a graph language. A graph language request—that configures tenant data for tenants in a multi-tenant system—is executed using a graph operations engine. The graph operations engine receives and parses a graph language request that includes a list of tenants and a definition of data operations. The set of data operations of the definition are executed on a tree of data operation nodes comprising a plurality of leaf nodes and a root node. Executing the data operations is based on graph language actions (e.g., composition, transformation, and aggregation) that support asynchronously returning results data associated with configuring the Tenant data. Executing the data operations of the definition causes generation of results data (e.g., root node results or leaf node results) configuration of the tenant data in the multi-tenant system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Neil Evan LYDICK, Ling YAN, Jagadeesh KALKI, Michael SPEER, Ciaran MURPHY
  • Publication number: 20240092809
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are low dielectric constant (low-k) two-dimensional covalent organic framework materials that have a dielectric constant k less than 2.4, optionally less than 1.9, and are comprised of regularly porous, covalently linked, layer structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Austin Michael Evans, William Robert Dichtel, Mark C. Hersam, Vinod Kumar Sangwan, Ioannina Castano, Patrick E. Hopkins, Ashutosh Giri
  • Patent number: 11931011
    Abstract: Devices for maintaining a telescope during a minimally invasive surgery (MIS) technique such as laparoscopy or thoracoscopy. A telescope maintenance assembly is comprised of a disc and a dome. The disc is absorbent and includes a central aperture. The dome is hollow and includes an inlet port, a lower protrusion, and outlet ports which abut against the disc when attached thereto. To prepare the assembly for use, the disc is secured about a proximal port of a trocar and the lower protrusion is inserted through the central aperture, and an anti-fog solution is transmitted into and through the dome to wet the disc. After the disc is wetted, the wetted disc can be used by a surgeon or assistant to wipe debris from a lens or other optical component of the telescope without needing to remove the telescope from the trocar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Michael Evans, George Crawford
  • Patent number: 11927523
    Abstract: In flow cytometry, particles (2) can be distinguished between populations (8) by combining n-dimensional parameter data, which may be derived from signal data from a particle, to mathematically achieve numerical results representative of an alteration (48). An alteration may include a rotational alteration, a scaled alteration, or perhaps even a translational alteration. Alterations may enhance separation of data points which may provide real-time classification (49) of signal data corresponding to individual particles into one of at least two populations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Beckman Coulter, Inc.
    Inventors: George C. Malachowski, Paul Barclay Purcell, Edward Allan Stanton, Kenneth Michael Evans
  • Publication number: 20240078308
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure involve implementations that may be used to protect neural network models against adversarial attacks by obfuscating neural network operations and architecture. Obfuscation techniques include obfuscating weights and biases of neural network nodes, obfuscating activation functions used by neural networks, as well as obfuscating neural network architecture by introducing dummy operations, dummy nodes, and dummy layers into the neural networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Mark Evan Marson, Michael Alexander Hamburg, Helena Handschuh
  • Publication number: 20240074596
    Abstract: A portable booster seat for supporting a child on a chair having a retractable clamping arm that is extendable to an underside surface of a chair seat and selectively moveable to clamp the booster seat to the chair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Michael L. LONGENECKER, Raymond Evan GOOD