Patents by Inventor Michael Hawkins

Michael Hawkins 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: 11169551
    Abstract: A system includes a first valve fluidly connected to a first vessel and a second valve fluidly connected to a second vessel. The first valve includes a body and a piston. The body includes first and second ports and a bore having a longitudinal axis. The first port is in communication with the bore and an interior of the first vessel. The second port is in communication with the bore, the second valve, and an atmosphere exterior to the first vessel. The piston is movable along the longitudinal axis of the bore. A first position of the piston blocks the first port; a second position of the piston allows fluid communication between the first and second ports. The first valve is configured so that fluid pressure from the second valve, communicating through the second port, urges the piston to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY AS
    Inventors: Michael Hawkins, Chad Cederberg
  • Publication number: 20210315723
    Abstract: An orthopedic device comprises a frame assembly comprising a parallel frame member and a perpendicular frame member. Each of the parallel frame member and the perpendicular frame member are substantially elongate in shape, and each have a first end and a second end. The orthopedic device further comprises at least three primary extensions each having a mount end and a free end. The perpendicular frame member is coupled by the first end thereof to the parallel frame member along the length of the parallel frame member between the first end and the second end thereof. Each of the at least three primary extensions is adjustably disposed by the mount end thereof along the frame assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventor: Michael Hawkins
  • Patent number: 11106760
    Abstract: Enhanced metadata with optimized output. In an embodiment, a content object is received. First metadata to be associated with the content object is determined. At least one metadata field to be acquired is determined based on an association, within a stored knowledge structure, of the at least one metadata field with the first metadata. Second metadata to be associated with the content object is acquired based on the at least one metadata field. A metadata structure and markup format for the content object are determined. The metadata structure incorporates both the first metadata and the second metadata. The content object is output with the metadata structure and in the markup format.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: EINSTEIN INDUSTRIES, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Silkey, Ted Ricasa, Sergiy Zubatiy, Jeremy Michael Hawkins, Christopher Cherry
  • Patent number: 11078205
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: Prelude Therapeutics, Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Lin, Juan Luengo, Rupa Shetty, Michael Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20210157343
    Abstract: A system includes a first valve fluidly connected to a first vessel and a second valve fluidly connected to a second vessel. The first valve includes a body and a piston. The body includes first and second ports and a bore having a longitudinal axis. The first port is in communication with the bore and an interior of the first vessel. The second port is in communication with the bore, the second valve, and an atmosphere exterior to the first vessel. The piston is movable along the longitudinal axis of the bore. A first position of the piston blocks the first port; a second position of the piston allows fluid communication between the first and second ports. The first valve is configured so that fluid pressure from the second valve, communicating through the second port, urges the piston to the second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Hawkins, Chad Cederberg
  • Patent number: 10949230
    Abstract: A device may be configured to enable a user to select a language, and may fulfill resource requests from applications by selecting, from among resources respectively associated with a language, a resource associated with the selected language of the user. However, this resource selection process may be inadequate if the user selects multiple languages; if a resource associated with the selected language of the user is unavailable, but resources associated with related languages are available; or if the user and/or the application specifies an ordering for the selection among the languages. Presented herein are techniques for performing the resource selection by, for respective languages selected by the user, calculating a weight representing a suitability of the language for the resource request; generating a selection order of the selected languages according to the weights; and selecting a resource based on the position of the associated language in the selection order.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Rylan Michael Hawkins, Eric Scott Albright, Nick Beal, Peter Geoffrey Constable, Wade H. Curtiss, Erik Fortune, Andrew Stuart Glass, Samuel Aaron Beard, Microsoft Technology Licensing
  • Patent number: 10942533
    Abstract: A system includes a first valve fluidly connected to a first vessel and a second valve fluidly connected to a second vessel. The first valve includes a body and a piston. The body includes first and second ports and a bore having a longitudinal axis. The first port is in communication with the bore and an interior of the first vessel. The second port is in communication with the bore, the second valve, and an atmosphere exterior to the first vessel. The piston is movable along the longitudinal axis of the bore. A first position of the piston blocks the first port; a second position of the piston allows fluid communication between the first and second ports. The first valve is configured so that fluid pressure from the second valve, communicating through the second port, urges the piston to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY AS
    Inventors: Michael Hawkins, Chad Cederberg
  • Patent number: 10898928
    Abstract: A system and a method of sorting scrap particles is provided. A moving conveyor containing scrap particles is imaged using a vision system to create a vision image corresponding to a timed location of the conveyor, and is sensed using a sensing system to create a sensing matrix corresponding to the timed location. The sensing system has at least one array of analog proximity sensors. A control system analyzes the vision image as a vision matrix of cells, and generates a vision vector containing vision data from the vision matrix for the particle. The control system analyzes the sensing matrix, and generates a sensing data vector containing sensing data from the sensing matrix for the particle. The control system classifies the particle into one of at least two classifications of a material as a function of the vision data vector and the sensing data vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Huron Valley Steel Corporation
    Inventors: Kalyani Chaganti, Paul Torek, Michael A. Hawkins
  • Patent number: 10894682
    Abstract: A packaged flexible film is described. The packaged flexible film includes (i) a cylindrical core having an outer surface; (ii) a supply of flexible film wound about the core with a leading edge adjacent the outer surface and forming a connection ridge along the outer surface; and (iii) a cover strip comprising a compressed compressible cover material covering said connection ridge. Also described are a packaging system for flexible film and a multilayer flexible film packaging tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Eastman Performance Films, LLC
    Inventors: Peter Ian Carver, Michael Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20200361946
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Hong Lin, Juan Luengo, Rupa Shetty, Michael Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20200361945
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Juan Luengo, Hong Lin, Michael Hawkins, Rupa Shetty, Philip Pitis, Gisela Saborit Villarroya
  • Publication number: 20200291037
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Juan Luengo, Hong Lin, Michael Hawkins, Rupa Shetty, Philip Pitis, Gisela Saborit Villarroya
  • Patent number: 10711007
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Prelude Therapeutics Incorporated
    Inventors: Juan Luengo, Hong Lin, Michael Hawkins, Rupa Shetty, Philip Pitis, Gisela Saborit Villarroya
  • Publication number: 20200148692
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Hong Lin, Juan Luengo, Rupa Shetty, Michael Hawkins
  • Patent number: 10627555
    Abstract: Optical products that include a composite coating, deposited on a substrate, provided with at least one bilayer having a first layer and a second layer, each provided with a binding group component which together form a complementary binding group pair. The at least one bilayer comprises a pigment blend that includes: a) at least two pigments that, when mixed together and formed into a bilayer, exhibit a color reflection value that is less than about 2.5; and b) one or more pigments that when mixed and formed into a bilayer selectively block visible light in a wavelength range of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Southwall Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Krogman, James Yancy Farrow, Daniel Lewis Hodder, David Lee Honeycutt, Lee Campbell Boman, Anthony Brian Port, Bruce Robert Lang, Michael Hawkins
  • Patent number: 10613261
    Abstract: Optical products that comprise a composite coating having multiple bilayers of a first layer and a second layer, each provided with a binding group component which together form a complementary binding group pair, the multiple bilayers comprising: at least one bilayer a) comprised of a first pigment or pigment blend that exhibits a color reflection value that is less than about 2.5; at least one bilayer b) comprised of a pigment or pigment blend that selectively blocks visible light in a wavelength range of interest; and at least one bilayer c) comprised of a second pigment or pigment blend that exhibits a color reflection value that is less than about 2.5, wherein the optical product selectively blocks visible light in the wavelength range of interest, while exhibiting a color reflection value that is less than about 2.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Southwall Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Krogman, James Yancy Farrow, Daniel Lewis Hodder, David Lee Honeycutt, Lee Campbell Boman, Anthony Brian Port, Bruce Robert Lang, Michael Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20200101497
    Abstract: A system has a conveyor for carrying at least two categories of scrap particles positioned at random on a surface of the conveyor, with at least some of the particles comprising metal. The system has a sensor array with a series of analog inductive proximity sensors arranged transversely across the conveyor. An active sensing end face of each sensor lies in a sensing plane, and the sensing plane is generally parallel with the surface of the conveyor. A control system of is configured to sample and quantize analog signals from the series of sensors in the array, and locate and classify a scrap particle on the conveyor passing over the array into one of at least two categories of material based on the quantized signals. A method for sorting the particles is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Applicant: HURON VALLEY STEEL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael A HAWKINS, Kalyani CHAGANTI, Paul TOREK, Benjamin H AUBUCHON, Richard WOLANSKI, Kerry LANG
  • Patent number: 10570140
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula I Pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I, as well as methods of their use and preparation, are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Prelude Therapeutics Incorporated
    Inventors: Hong Lin, Juan Luengo, Rupa Shetty, Michael Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20190330002
    Abstract: A packaged flexible film is described. The packaged flexible film includes (i) a cylindrical core having an outer surface; (ii) a supply of flexible film wound about the core with a leading edge adjacent the outer surface and forming a connection ridge along the outer surface; and (iii) a cover strip comprising a compressed compressible cover material covering said connection ridge. Also described are a packaging system for flexible film and a multilayer flexible film packaging tape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: EASTMAN PERFORMANCE FILMS, LLC
    Inventors: PETER IAN CARVER, MICHAEL HAWKINS
  • Patent number: D866583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Hawkins, Christopher Burt, Kenneth Lopez, Jason Klotzer, Andres Olivares, Natalia Lipetskaia