Patents by Inventor Michael Gilbert

Michael Gilbert 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: 11493311
    Abstract: A non-pyrotechnic aerial display apparatus may include a head portion and a wing portion. The head portion may include a front portion, a rear portion, and a plurality of channels extending from the front portion toward the rear portion. The wing portion may extend rearward from the head portion. The wing portion may include a top surface, a bottom surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a rear edge extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, and an airfoil extending along the leading edge. The wing portion may include a counterweight. The apparatus may include one or more forward-facing lights. The apparatus may include one or more rearward-facing lights. Other examples may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Flyerworks LLP
    Inventors: Benjamin Dallas, Michael Gilbert, Mitchell Ross
  • Patent number: 11493312
    Abstract: A non-pyrotechnic aerial display system may include a launcher configured to launch a non-pyrotechnic aerial display apparatus. The apparatus may include a head portion and a wing portion. The head portion may include a front portion, a rear portion, and a plurality of channels extending from the front portion toward the rear portion. The wing portion may extend rearward from the head portion. The wing portion may include a top surface, a bottom surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a rear edge extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, and an airfoil extending along the leading edge. The wing portion may include a counterweight. The apparatus may include one or more forward-facing lights. The apparatus may include one or more rearward-facing lights. Other examples may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: Flyerworks LLP
    Inventors: Benjamin Dallas, Michael Gilbert
  • Patent number: 11494829
    Abstract: A number of embodiments can include a system. The system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices storing computing instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa, Ameya Ajay Shendre, Shekhar Gupta, Pavan Kumar Raichur Rajoli, Austin Lee Smith, Michael Gilbert Ebener, Jr., Vidyanand Krishnan
  • Publication number: 20220004982
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving a request from a user, wherein the request can comprise: (1) an order list of one or more items; and/or (2) a delivery address for a delivery of the one or more items of the order list to the user; determining, using a regression analysis, an estimated order collection time for a collection of the one or more items of the order list by at least one collector, wherein the regression analysis can use: one or more independent variables affecting the estimated order collection time; respective coefficients of each respective independent variable of the one or more independent variables affecting the estimated order collection time; and/or a constant applicable to the at least one collector; continuously monitoring a respective location of each respective delivery driver of one or more delivery drivers of at least on
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Deepak Deshpande, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener, Arnon Katz, Prakash Seetharaman
  • Publication number: 20220004977
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving an order from a customer for a delivery of grocery items to a fulfillment location, determining a delivery compliance time for at least one item of the grocery items, receiving a pickup notification indicating that a pickup has picked up the grocery items at a first time, determining, at a second time after the first time, if a duration of time between the first time and the second time is greater than the delivery compliance time, and, if the duration of time between the first time and the second time is greater than the delivery compliance time, coordinating displaying an expiration message on a pickup interface of a pickup electronic device of the pickup.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener
  • Publication number: 20220004983
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform: receiving, from one or more electronic devices of one or more users, one or more orders for pickup at a location during a first window of time; at a first time during the first window of time, determining when a designated pickup area at the location exceeds a predetermined level of congestion using: (1) continuously received mobile check-ins at the location; and (2) congestion data of the designated pickup area at the location; and when the designated pickup area at the location does not exceed the predetermined level of congestion during the first window of time, as determined at the first time, causing a pickup electronic device of a pickup to display a pickup request at the location to fulfill at least one order of the one or more orders during the first window of time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener
  • Publication number: 20210396501
    Abstract: A non-pyrotechnic aerial display system may include a launcher configured to launch a non-pyrotechnic aerial display apparatus. The apparatus may include a head portion and a wing portion. The head portion may include a front portion, a rear portion, and a plurality of channels extending from the front portion toward the rear portion. The wing portion may extend rearward from the head portion. The wing portion may include a top surface, a bottom surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a rear edge extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, and an airfoil extending along the leading edge. The wing portion may include a counterweight. The apparatus may include one or more forward-facing lights. The apparatus may include one or more rearward-facing lights. Other examples may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin Dallas, Michael Gilbert
  • Publication number: 20210398461
    Abstract: A non-pyrotechnic aerial display apparatus may include a head portion and a wing portion. The head portion may include a front portion, a rear portion, and a plurality of channels extending from the front portion toward the rear portion. The wing portion may extend rearward from the head portion. The wing portion may include a top surface, a bottom surface, a leading edge, a trailing edge, a rear edge extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge, and an airfoil extending along the leading edge. The wing portion may include a counterweight. The apparatus may include one or more forward-facing lights. The apparatus may include one or more rearward-facing lights. Other examples may be described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Benjamin Dallas, Michael Gilbert, Mitchell Ross
  • Patent number: 11126954
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving delivery orders and/or pickup orders from customers for pickup and/or delivery of the orders during a predetermined window of time, receiving an additional delivery order from an additional customer for an additional pickup and/or delivery of the additional order to the additional customer by a delivery driver during the predetermined window of time, determining if a pickup area at the store exceeds a predetermined level of congestion during the predetermined window of time, and, if the pickup area at the store does not exceed the predetermined level of congestion during the predetermined window of time, transmitting an additional delivery request to the delivery driver to fulfill the additional delivery order during the predetermined window of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener
  • Patent number: 11126953
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving an order request from a customer, transmitting an order list from the order request to an employee of the store for a collection of products on the order list at the store by the employee, determining an estimated order collection time, continuously monitoring an estimated order pickup time for a delivery driver of a third-party delivery service, and, when the estimated order pickup time for the delivery driver is substantially equal to the estimated order collection time, transmitting a delivery request to the third-party delivery service requesting the delivery driver to pick up the products from the store and deliver the products to the delivery address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Deepak Deshpande, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener, Arnon Katz, Prakash Seetharaman
  • Patent number: 11116212
    Abstract: Compositions and methods for controlling and/or repelling bedbugs are provided. The compositions comprise one or more compounds having bedbug repellant activity. Such compounds may be, for example, naturally occurring semiochemicals or structural or functional analogs of naturally occurring semiochemicals. Exemplary compounds are compounds of general formula (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2021
    Assignee: SemiosBio Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Michael Gilbert
  • Publication number: 20210236749
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a surgical cannula configured as an instrument retaining or centering apparatus, configured for providing insufflation gases to a surgical cavity of a patient (such as the pneumoperitoneum) and allowing insertion of medical instruments into the surgical cavity through the cannula. The cannula can include features to direct gas flow in particular directions to prevent or reduce smoke, fog/condensation, or other unwanted media from contacting a portion of a medical instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Pavlo KOKHANENKO, Benjamin Elliot Hardinge PEGMAN, Charlotte Grace LAUS, Callum James Thomas SPENCE, Abigail Sharmini Rajen ARULANDU, Zane Paul GELL, Zach Jonathan WARNER, Vincent VERDOOLD, Gabor PAPOTTI, German KLINK, Richard John BOYES, Bernard Tsz Lun IP, Monika BAUMANN, James Robert Jarmey GREENFIELD, Katie-Ann Jane BUCKELS, Donald Roy KURIGER, Joshua Robert LEE, Jesus Antonio AMADOR NORIEGA, James Michael GILBERT
  • Patent number: 11062259
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving an order from a customer for a delivery of grocery items to a fulfillment location, determining a delivery compliance time for at least one item of the grocery items, receiving a pickup notification indicating that a pickup has picked up the grocery items at a first time, determining, at a second time after the first time, if a duration of time between the first time and the second time is greater than the delivery compliance time, and, if the duration of time between the first time and the second time is greater than the delivery compliance time, coordinating displaying an expiration message on a pickup interface of a pickup electronic device of the pickup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener
  • Patent number: 11044320
    Abstract: A distribution system that provides for multicast transmission of the most important data that is of highest interest and value to client applications including HMI stations, historians, trend views, alarm management functions, advanced process controls, peer-peer communications and supervisory control. A blast list containing the types of data that are to be collected is formulated and stored in a system server and sent to embedded controllers which then multicasts that data to the system server and all console stations in the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Paul McLaughlin, Joseph Pradeep Felix, Christopher Michael Gilbert, David Barry Granatelli, James A. Strilich
  • Publication number: 20210133859
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving, at the one or more processors, an order from a customer electronic device; determining, using employee device data collected from one or more electronic devices of one or more employees of a store in a predictive analysis, an estimated collection time required for an employee of the one or more employees of the store to collect the one or more items of the order; receiving a check-in from an electronic device indicating that a pickup is en-route to pick-up the order; when the electronic device authorizes location tracking, tracking a location of the pickup after receiving the check-in from the electronic device; periodically determining, at one or more time intervals, an estimated travel time for the pickup to travel to the store from the location, as tracked; and when the estimated collection time is approxima
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener
  • Patent number: 10976032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a luminaire comprising a removable LED chip as an illuminant, a tool for transporting and replacing the removable LED chip, and a combination kit encompassing the luminaire and the tool for transporting and replacing the removable LED chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: SLS Superlight Solutions UG
    Inventors: Michael Gilbert, Peter Gilbert, Olaf Heinrich König
  • Publication number: 20210073717
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory storage devices storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform receiving one or more orders from one or more customers, each respective order of the one or more orders comprising one or more respective items for sale at a store; and for each respective order of the one or more orders from each respective customer of the one or more customers: determining a respective order completion time based on at least one of: (1) respective availabilities of one or more store associates of the store; and (2) a respective pick time estimation for the respective order as determined by a regression analysis performed on respective historical data for available associates of the one or more store associates; and facilitating displaying, on a respective electronic device of the respective customer, the respective order completion time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener, Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa, Arnon Katz
  • Patent number: 10908377
    Abstract: A microduct manifold fitting includes an end cap, a gasket, a plurality of microduct couplers, a bottom portion, a top portion, and an optical enclosure attachment mechanism. The microduct manifold has a plurality of microduct openings disposed at a lower end and one fiber opening disposed at an upper end. The upper end of the microduct manifold extends into an opening of an optical enclosure and the optical enclosure attachment mechanism secures and seals the top portion to the optical enclosure. The optical enclosure is disposed in an outside environment, and the enclosure receives and splits an outside plant cable to individual fibers. The fibers are extended through the fiber opening of the microduct manifold, through the individual microducts via the microduct couplers, and to various optical equipment within a building that desire network connectivity. The microduct manifold shields fibers within the optical enclosure and microducts from the outside environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: ARIA Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Lewis Rodman, Ryan Michael Gilbert
  • Patent number: 10909612
    Abstract: Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of receiving an order from a customer, determining an estimated collection time required for an employee of the store to collect the order at the store, receiving a mobile check-in from an electronic device indicating that a pickup is en-route to pick up the order at the store, tracking a location of the electronic device, periodically determining, at one or more time intervals, an estimated travel time for the pickup to travel to the store from the location as tracked, and, when the estimated collection time is substantially equal in duration to the estimated travel time, coordinating displaying a collection notification on a store electronic device instructing the employee of the store to begin collecting the order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: WALMART APOLLO LLC
    Inventors: Austin Lee Smith, Vidyanand Krishnan, Michael Gilbert Ebener
  • Publication number: 20210019815
    Abstract: A number of embodiments can include a system. The system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable storage devices storing computing instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa, Ameya Ajay Shendre, Shekhar Gupta, Pavan Kumar Raichur Rajoli, Austin Lee Smith, Michael Gilbert Ebener, JR., Vidyanand Krishnan