Patents by Inventor Michael Gall
Michael Gall 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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Patent number: 11846624Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system with modular sensors and wireless connectivity components for monitoring properties of field soil is described. In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system comprises one or more sensors that are configured to determine one or more measures of at least one property of soil. The integrated sensor system also includes one or more processing units that are configured to receive, from the sensors, the measures of at least one property of soil and calculate soil property data based on the measures. The system further includes a transmitter that is configured to receive the soil property data from the processing units, establish a communications connection with at least one computer device, and automatically transmit the soil property data to the at least one computer device via the communications connection. In an embodiment, the communications connection is a wireless connection established between the transmitter and a smart hub or a LoRA-enabled device.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: CLIMATE LLCInventors: Justin Koch, Michael H. Malone, Phil David Baurer, Nalini Gupta, Calden Nathaniel Carroll Stimpson, Andreas Markus Wenzel, Jordan Kusiek, Michael Gall, Jeffrey Lawrence Kohne, Eric L. Borrowman
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Publication number: 20220283137Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system with modular sensors and wireless connectivity components for monitoring properties of field soil is described. In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system comprises one or more sensors that are configured to determine one or more measures of at least one property of soil. The integrated sensor system also includes one or more processing units that are configured to receive, from the sensors, the measures of at least one property of soil and calculate soil property data based on the measures. The system further includes a transmitter that is configured to receive the soil property data from the processing units, establish a communications connection with at least one computer device, and automatically transmit the soil property data to the at least one computer device via the communications connection. In an embodiment, the communications connection is a wireless connection established between the transmitter and a smart hub or a LoRA-enabled device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Climate LLCInventors: Justin KOCH, Michael H. MALONE, Phil David BAURER, Nalini GUPTA, Calden Nathaniel Carroll STIMPSON, Andreas Markus WENZEL, Jordan KUSIEK, Michael GALL, Jeffrey Lawrence KOHNE, Eric L. BORROWMAN
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Patent number: 11346832Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system with modular sensors and wireless connectivity components for monitoring properties of field soil is described. In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system comprises one or more sensors that are configured to determine one or more measures of at least one property of soil. The integrated sensor system also includes one or more processing units that are configured to receive, from the sensors, the measures of at least one property of soil and calculate soil property data based on the measures. The system further includes a transmitter that is configured to receive the soil property data from the processing units, establish a communications connection with at least one computer device, and automatically transmit the soil property data to the at least one computer device via the communications connection. In an embodiment, the communications connection is a wireless connection established between the transmitter and a smart hub or a LoRA-enabled device.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Climate LLCInventors: Justin Koch, Michael H. Malone, Phil David Baurer, Nalini Gupta, Calden Nathaniel Carroll Stimpson, Andreas Markus Wenzel, Jordan Kusiek, Michael Gall, Jeffrey Lawrence Kohne, Eric L. Borrowman
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Method of manufacturing a spectacle lens, finished uncut spectacle lens and semi-finished lens blank
Patent number: 11307436Abstract: A finished uncut spectacle lens has a curved front surface including an optical bowl with a convex curvature and a peripheral lentic zone surrounding the optical bowl. The curvature of the curved front surface in the peripheral lentic zone is flatter than in the optical bowl. The optical bowl size is large enough that a lens filling the entire frame can be glazed from it. The inclusion of a flatter peripheral lentic zone enables a larger diameter of the finished unglazed lens (d) with larger edge thickness than would be possible if the same back surface was cut on a semi-finished blank having a uniform spherical front, without compromise to the finished lens center thickness. In addition, a method of manufacturing such a spectacle lens and a semi-finished lens blank used in the method are provided.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 19, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Angela Nolan, Michael Gall -
METHOD OF MANUFACTURING A SPECTACLE LENS, FINISHED UNCUT SPECTACLE LENS AND SEMI-FINISHED LENS BLANK
Publication number: 20210341750Abstract: A finished uncut spectacle lens has a curved front surface including an optical bowl with a convex curvature and a peripheral lentic zone surrounding the optical bowl. The curvature of the curved front surface in the peripheral lentic zone is flatter than in the optical bowl. The optical bowl size is large enough that a lens filling the entire frame can be glazed from it. The inclusion of a flatter peripheral lentic zone enables a larger diameter of the finished unglazed lens (d) with larger edge thickness than would be possible if the same back surface was cut on a semi-finished blank having a uniform spherical front, without compromise to the finished lens center thickness. In addition, a method of manufacturing such a spectacle lens and a semi-finished lens blank used in the method are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Angela Nolan, Michael Gall -
Patent number: 10875140Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a spectacle lens is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining prescription data descriptive of an ophthalmic prescription of a user in the plus prescription range; obtaining frame data descriptive of a perimeter of a spectacle frame in which the lens is to be mounted; providing a lens blank having a convex front surface and a back surface; determining a final cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a final cutting phase; and determining an intermediate cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in an initial cutting phase. Further, it is provided that the intermediate cutting surface is different from the final cutting surface; and the final cutting surface comprises a prescription zone in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2020Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbHInventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Angela Nolan, Philipp Ellinger, Michael Gall
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Publication number: 20200282507Abstract: A manufacturing method for manufacturing a spectacle lens is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining prescription data descriptive of an ophthalmic prescription of a user in the plus prescription range; obtaining frame data descriptive of a perimeter of a spectacle frame in which the lens is to be mounted; providing a lens blank having a convex front surface and a back surface; determining a final cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in a final cutting phase; and determining an intermediate cutting surface to be machined on the back surface of the lens blank in an initial cutting phase. Further, it is provided that the intermediate cutting surface is different from the final cutting surface; and the final cutting surface comprises a prescription zone in which the final cutting surface together with the front surface fulfills the ophthalmic prescription of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2020Publication date: September 10, 2020Inventors: Ray Steven Spratt, Angela Nolan, Philipp Ellinger, Michael Gall
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Patent number: 10705802Abstract: Data type configuration data is expressed and deployed to a database system to obtain a relational representation of the data types in addition to the compile code representation. Users or developers extend the data types by adding data to the relational representation, and the runtime environment operates off of the relational representation. Because the data types are extended (such as by creating new entities) using the data type tables in the relational representation, the extensions obtain the benefits of the type checking performed at compile time.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2013Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Michael Gall, Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan, Henrik Jakobsen
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Publication number: 20200132658Abstract: In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system with modular sensors and wireless connectivity components for monitoring properties of field soil is described. In an embodiment, an integrated sensor system comprises one or more sensors that are configured to determine one or more measures of at least one property of soil. The integrated sensor system also includes one or more processing units that are configured to receive, from the sensors, the measures of at least one property of soil and calculate soil property data based on the measures. The system further includes a transmitter that is configured to receive the soil property data from the processing units, establish a communications connection with at least one computer device, and automatically transmit the soil property data to the at least one computer device via the communications connection. In an embodiment, the communications connection is a wireless connection established between the transmitter and a smart hub or a LoRA-enabled device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2019Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Justin Koch, Michael H. Malone, Phil David Baurer, Nalini Gupta, Calden Nathaniel Carroll Stimpson, Andreas Markus Wenzel, Jordan Kusiek, Michael Gall, Jeffrey Lawrence Kohne, Eric L. Borrowman
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Patent number: 10568316Abstract: A mobile platform structured and operable to perform: in-field phenotype and/or genotype data acquisition; image data acquisition; tissue sampling; selection and/or counting of plants growing in a plot; plant height measurement; product and treatment application to plants growing in the plot (e.g., prescriptive and localized insecticide products); sampling of soil where such plants are growing; removal of weeds in such plots; and real-time analysis of all such data and/or samples acquired/collected. Additionally, when combined with location positioning technology and path planning, such a vehicle is further structured and operable to re-enter a field numerous times throughout a season to accurately and repeatably monitor growing conditions, plant response or prescriptive application of a product.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: MONSANTO TECHNOLOGY LLCInventors: Michael Gall, Edward Carter, Haitao Xiang, Kevin Deppermann, Steven J. Baldwin, Thomas W. Christian, Susan A. Macisaac, Akash D. Nakarmi, Boyan N. Peshlov, Beiyan Zeng
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Patent number: 10437832Abstract: Some database tables include a relational field, where a record of the table stores a foreign-key reference value that identifies a related record of a second table. While fulfilling a request comprising a query over the database, the system may identify a context of the request, wherein the context is supplemental to the query, and wherein the context relates to the relational field. For example, a security policy may permit a requester to query the first table, but restrict the requester from accessing the second table that the relational field of the first table references, where dereferencing the relational field may cause unexpected results. Instead, the system may evaluate the context of the request, and may fulfill the request based on the context by providing a response that substitutes, for the value that references the second table, a substitute value that does not reference the second table.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Lars Dragheim Blaaberg, Ahmad Mahdi El Husseini, Ganapathi Subramanian Sadasivam, Michael Gall, Jeffrey Anderson
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Patent number: 10271194Abstract: An Incident-centric Mass Notification System (“Incident-centric MNS system”) for notifying a plurality of recipients of an Emergency Event is disclosed. The Incident-centric MNS system may include a Mass Notification System (“MNS”) Notification Engine, modality corridor (“MoCo”) dispatcher, and a plurality of modality corridors, wherein each modality corridor of the plurality of modality corridors establishes, for signal communication, a signal path from a plurality of signal paths, between the MNS Notification Engine and a recipient of the plurality of recipients. The MNS Notification Engine is configured to manage MNS Incidents and Notifications and the MoCo dispatcher is configured to select a first modality corridor from the plurality of modality corridors to establish a first signal path from the MNS Notification Engine.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2017Date of Patent: April 23, 2019Assignee: Siemens Schweiz AGInventors: Johannes P. Ros, Christoph Wienands, Michael Gall, Christof J. Budnick, Michael Wittemann
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Patent number: 10017609Abstract: Polyamides based on dicarboxylic acids and on diamines are produced in a batch process by 1) feeding the entire amount of monomer composed of dicarboxylic acids, of diamines, and, if appropriate, of further polyamide-forming monomers, in the desired stoichiometry, in a closed stirred-tank reactor, 2) heating the monomer mixture in the stirred-tank reactor, with stirring, and with setting of a certain pressure, to a desired reaction temperature for the production of a prepolymer, 3) if appropriate, completely or partially depressurizing the reaction mixture from stage 2), 4) if appropriate, carrying out further thermal treatment of the reaction mixture from stage 2) or 3), and 5) reacting the reaction mixture from stage 2), 3), or 4) in the melt in a vented extruder for further increase of the molecular weight, with discharge of water vapor, and without use of additional polyamide-forming monomers or of polyamides.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Philippe Desbois, Faissal-Ali El-Toufaili, Michael Gall, Andreas Wollny
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Patent number: 9977703Abstract: An event subscriber subscribes to an event. When the event occurs, the publisher calls into a framework to look for subscriber attributes on program entities and raises the event with program entities that contain the correct attributes.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2012Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Michael Gall, Michael Fruergaard Pontoppidan
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Publication number: 20170337248Abstract: Some database tables include a relational field, where a record of the table stores a foreign-key reference value that identifies a related record of a second table. While fulfilling a request comprising a query over the database, the system may identify a context of the request, wherein the context is supplemental to the query, and wherein the context relates to the relational field. For example, a security policy may permit a requester to query the first table, but restrict the requester from accessing the second table that the relational field of the first table references, where dereferencing the relational field may cause unexpected results. Instead, the system may evaluate the context of the request, and may fulfill the request based on the context by providing a response that substitutes, for the value that references the second table, a substitute value that does not reference the second table.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Lars Dragheim Blaaberg, Ahmad Mahdi El Husseini, Ganapathi Subramanian Sadasivam, Michael Gall, Jeffrey Anderson
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Patent number: 9754319Abstract: A source document framework for accounting systems is described. An apparatus may comprise an accounting application arranged for execution by the processor circuit, the ERP application comprising a source document framework component arranged to create a new source document type to add to heterogeneous source document types, and a source document process component arranged to process source documents of the heterogeneous source document types, with at least one of the heterogeneous source document types including a previous source document type arranged for use with process logic specific to the previous source document type, and process one or more source documents of the new source document type with the process logic specific to the previous source document type. Other embodiments are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2012Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLCInventors: Arthur Greef, John Healy, David Reinhold, Michael Gall, Manoj Swaminathan, Ronald Schulz
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Publication number: 20170230808Abstract: An Incident-centric Mass Notification System (“Incident-centric MNS system”) for notifying a plurality of recipients of an Emergency Event is disclosed. The Incident-centric MNS system may include a Mass Notification System (“MNS”) Notification Engine, modality corridor (“MoCo”) dispatcher, and a plurality of modality corridors, wherein each modality corridor of the plurality of modality corridors establishes, for signal communication, a signal path from a plurality of signal paths, between the MNS Notification Engine and a recipient of the plurality of recipients. The MNS Notification Engine is configured to manage MNS Incidents and Notifications and the MoCo dispatcher is configured to select a first modality corridor from the plurality of modality corridors to establish a first signal path from the MNS Notification Engine.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: Siemens Schweiz AGInventors: Johannes P. Ros, Christoph Wienands, Michael Gall, Christof J. Budnick, Michael Wittemann
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Publication number: 20170223947Abstract: A mobile platform structured and operable to perform: in-field phenotype and/or genotype data acquisition; image data acquisition; tissue sampling; selection and/or counting of plants growing in a plot; plant height measurement; product and treatment application to plants growing in the plot (e.g., prescriptive and localized insecticide products); sampling of soil where such plants are growing; removal of weeds in such plots; and real-time analysis of all such data and/or samples acquired/collected. Additionally, when combined with location positioning technology and path planning, such a vehicle is further structured and operable to re-enter a field numerous times throughout a season to accurately and repeatably monitor growing conditions, plant response or prescriptive application of a product.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2015Publication date: August 10, 2017Inventors: Michael Gall, Edward Carter, Haitao Xiang, Richard Cullen, Josh Prange, Kevin Deppermann
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Patent number: 9641692Abstract: An Incident-centric Mass Notification System (“Incident-centric MNS system”) for notifying a plurality of recipients of an Emergency Event is disclosed. The Incident-centric MNS system may include a Mass Notification System (“MNS”) Notification Engine, modality corridor (“MoCo”) dispatcher, and a plurality of modality corridors, wherein each modality corridor of the plurality of modality corridors establishes, for signal communication, a signal path from a plurality of signal paths, between the MNS Notification Engine and a recipient of the plurality of recipients. The MNS Notification Engine is configured to manage MNS Incidents and Notifications and the MoCo dispatcher is configured to select a first modality corridor from the plurality of modality corridors to establish a first signal path from the MNS Notification Engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2013Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: Siemens Schweiz AGInventors: Johannes P. Ros, Christoph Wienands, Michael A. Gall, Christof J. Budnik, Michael Wittemann
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Publication number: 20160275422Abstract: A computer system for modelling transactions is provided that includes a processor a data store coupled to the processor. The data store containing a plurality of cost object models and a plurality of cost elements. The processor is configured to receive an indication of a cost event and flow an aspect of the cost event through at least one cost object stored in the data store.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2015Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: Xavier Chape, Arthur Greef, Michael Gall, Bo Kampmann