Patents by Inventor Michael Gorman

Michael Gorman 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: 20260093894
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic components and relationships. Cascade rules may be applied to the text model to generate a cascaded text data structure. Cascaded data may be displayed on a range of media, including a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, VR/AR devices. Cascaded data may be presented in dual screen formats to promote more accurate and efficient reading comprehension, greater ease in teaching native and foreign language grammatical structures, and tools for remediation of reading-related disabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2025
    Publication date: April 2, 2026
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Patent number: 12456002
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic components and relationships. Cascade rules may be applied to the text model to generate a cascaded text data structure. Cascaded data may be displayed on a range of media, including a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, VR/AR devices. Cascaded data may be presented in dual screen formats to promote more accurate and efficient reading comprehension, greater ease in teaching native and foreign language grammatical structures, and tools for remediation of reading-related disabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2025
    Assignee: Cascade Reading, Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Publication number: 20250187030
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved fluid dispensing process control using a machine learning tool are disclosed. In an example method, successive portions of viscous fluid are dispensed by a dispensing device according to operating parameters to train a machine learning tool to associate defect classifications with images of dispensed portions and/or operating parameters associated with dispensing the dispensed portions. The trained machine learning tool is then used in a closed loop fashion in production to detect and correct for defects associated with the dispensed portions to improve quality and production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2025
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: NORDSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Alan R. LEWIS, Cutler CROWELL, III, Michael GORMAN, Akira MORITA
  • Patent number: 12254870
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for acoustic-based linguistically-driven automated text formatting of acoustic input are described herein. An audio sample may be obtained that includes multiple words from human speech. The audio sample may be processed to determine a linguistic relationship of the words from the acoustic properties of the words. Based on the determined linguistic relationships, data such as an acoustical language model is generated to enable an arrangement of the words into a cascade format (e.g., a cascade format that establishes horizontal displacement and vertical displacement among the multiple words). A cascaded text output may be provided from the acoustical language model or other types of related data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Cascade Reading, Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Publication number: 20250069519
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for linguistic learning using automatically cascaded text are described herein. A data model is generated to identify linguistic relationships among respective words and word groups in a source text. The data model is augmented with linguistic properties associated with individual words in the source text. An arrangement of cascaded text is determined based on the linguistic relationships identified in the data model. The arrangement of cascaded text includes horizontal displacement and vertical displacement for the respective words and word groups. Display enhancements to the arrangement of cascaded text are determined wherein the display enhancements are based on user-selected options to show visual aids that identify the linguistic relationships among the respective words and word groups or linguistic properties associated with individual words. The arrangement of cascaded text and the display enhancements are output in a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Patent number: 12233429
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved fluid dispensing process control using a machine learning tool are disclosed. In an example method, successive portions of viscous fluid are dispensed by a dispensing device according to operating parameters to train a machine learning tool to associate defect classifications with images of dispensed portions and/or operating parameters associated with dispensing the dispensed portions. The trained machine learning tool is then used in a closed loop fashion in production to detect and correct for defects associated with the dispensed portions to improve quality and production efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Nordson Corporation
    Inventors: Alan R. Lewis, Cutler Crowell, III, Michael Gorman, Akira Morita
  • Patent number: 12086532
    Abstract: Various examples of approaches for using and implementing cascaded text formatting within electronic publishing and display mediums are described herein. In an example, a method for analyzing and re-formatting a stream of text, includes: obtaining a stream of human-readable text in a natural language processing (NLP) parser to identify parts-of-speech and key phrases in a proper sentence; tagging the identified parts-of-speech according to the respective parts and key phrases; generating a text cascade arrangement for a display of the proper sentence by applying predefined rules to the part-of-speech and key phrases, where such a display of the proper sentence provides breaks and cascading, including indentations, according to the pre-defined rules; and outputting an electronic display of the proper sentence which includes the text cascade arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Cascade Reading, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek, Kashif Riaz, Julie A. Van Dyke
  • Publication number: 20240273709
    Abstract: A dispensing system for dispensing a fluid material onto a substrate includes a jet dispenser configured to receive the fluid material therein, the jet dispenser having a jet cartridge operably connected thereto, the jet cartridge being configured to receive the fluid material from the jet dispenser and having a nozzle through which the fluid material is discharged towards the substrate; a camera configured to acquire a digital image of the jet dispenser; and a controller having a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to: identify, on the digital image of the jet dispenser, an identified pattern of features present on the jet dispenser; compare the identified pattern with a stored pattern, the stored pattern being stored in the memory; calculate the similarity between the identified pattern and the stored pattern; and provide an identifier value associated with the stored pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Applicant: NORDSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Cutler Crowell, Michael Gorman, David Padgett
  • Publication number: 20240257802
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for acoustic-based linguistically-driven automated text formatting of acoustic input are described herein. An audio sample may be obtained that includes multiple words from human speech. The audio sample may be processed to determine a linguistic relationship of the words from the acoustic properties of the words. Based on the determined linguistic relationships, data such as an acoustical language model is generated to enable an arrangement of the words into a cascade format (e.g., a cascade format that establishes horizontal displacement and vertical displacement among the multiple words). A cascaded text output may be provided from the acoustical language model or other types of related data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Publication number: 20230351090
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic components and relationships. Cascade rules may be applied to the text model to generate a cascaded text data structure. Cascaded data may be displayed on a range of media, including a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, VR/AR devices. Cascaded data may be presented in dual screen formats to promote more accurate and efficient reading comprehension, greater ease in teaching native and foreign language grammatical structures, and tools for remediation of reading-related disabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Patent number: 11797550
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a data science platform that is built with a specific focus on monitoring and analyzing the operation of industrial assets, such as trucking assets, rail assets, construction assets, mining assets, wind assets, thermal assets, oil-and-gas assets, and manufacturing assets, among other possibilities. The disclosed data science platform is configured to carry out operations including (i) ingesting asset-related data from various different data sources and storing it for downstream use, (ii) transforming the ingested asset-related data into a desired formatting structure and then storing it for downstream use, (iii) evaluating the asset-related data to derive insights about an asset's operation that may be of interest to a platform user, which may involve data science models that have been specifically designed to analyze asset-related data in order to gain a deeper understanding of an asset's operation, and (iv) presenting derived insights and other asset-related data to platform users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: UPTAKE TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Brad Boven, James Lamb, Charles J. Woolard, Dan Collins, Michael Gorman
  • Patent number: 11734491
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic components and relationships. Cascade rules may be applied to the text model to generate a cascaded text data structure. Cascaded data may be displayed on a range of media, including a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, VR/AR devices. Cascaded data may be presented in dual screen formats to promote more accurate and efficient reading comprehension, greater ease in teaching native and foreign language grammatical structures, and tools for remediation of reading-related disabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Cascade Reading, Inc.
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Publication number: 20230123328
    Abstract: Various examples of approaches for using and implementing cascaded text formatting within electronic publishing and display mediums are described herein. In an example, a method for analyzing and re-formatting a stream of text, includes: obtaining a stream of human-readable text in a natural language processing (NLP) parser to identify parts-of-speech and key phrases in a proper sentence; tagging the identified parts-of-speech according to the respective parts and key phrases; generating a text cascade arrangement for a display of the proper sentence by applying predefined rules to the part-of-speech and key phrases, where such a display of the proper sentence provides breaks and cascading, including indentations, according to the pre-defined rules; and outputting an electronic display of the proper sentence which includes the text cascade arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek, Kashif Riaz, Julie A. Van Dyke
  • Publication number: 20230060352
    Abstract: Systems and methods for improved fluid dispensing process control using a machine learning tool are disclosed. In an example method, successive portions of viscous fluid are dispensed by a dispensing device according to operating parameters to train a machine learning tool to associate defect classifications with images of dispensed portions and/or operating parameters associated with dispensing the dispensed portions. The trained machine learning tool is then used in a closed loop fashion in production to detect and correct for defects associated with the dispensed portions to improve quality and production efficiency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Alan R. LEWIS, Cutler CROWELL, III, Michael GORMAN, Akira MORITA
  • Publication number: 20220335203
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for linguistically-driven automated text formatting are described herein. Data representing the linguistic structure of input text may be received from Natural Language Processing (NLP) Services, including but not limited to constituents, dependencies, and coreference relationships. A text model of the input text may be built using the linguistic components and relationships. Cascade rules may be applied to the text model to generate a cascaded text data structure. Cascaded data may be displayed on a range of media, including a phone, tablet, laptop, monitor, VR/AR devices. Cascaded data may be presented in dual screen formats to promote more accurate and efficient reading comprehension, greater ease in teaching native and foreign language grammatical structures, and tools for remediation of reading-related disabilities.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Julie A. Van Dyke, Michael Gorman, Mark Lacek
  • Publication number: 20220083688
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that includes a processing system including at least one processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a unique identifying number for an entity, a vector associated with the entity, and a timestamp from a requestor, generating a key using the unique identifying number, the vector, and the timestamp, and sending the key to the requestor, wherein the requestor uses the key to store information associated with the entity. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nikhil S. Marathe, Michael Gorman
  • Patent number: 11216586
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system that includes a processing system including at least one processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations including receiving a unique identifying number for an entity, a vector associated with the entity, and a timestamp from a requestor, generating a key using the unique identifying number, the vector, and the timestamp, and sending the key to the requestor, wherein the requestor uses the key to store information associated with the entity. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Nikhil S. Marathe, Michael Gorman
  • Patent number: D981143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Gorman, Manuel Reza, Federico F. Tio, Kevin Fenton Smeds, Edmond Kuan
  • Patent number: D1037729
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Schwalbach, Sheng Yang, Russell John Kaaihue Heirakuji, Carly Lynn Marasco, Michael Gorman
  • Patent number: D1115411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2026
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Charles A. Schwalbach, Sheng Yang, Russell John Kaaihue Heirakuji, Carly Lynn Marasco, Michael Gorman