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: 9469782
    Abstract: An environmentally acceptable catalyst, coating system, and methods for thermal cure silicone release coatings that utilize bismuth (“Bi”) catalyst to retain properties of tin (“Sn”)-catalyzed systems but do not have the toxicity and environmental hazards associated therewith. The coating systems and methods also provide a laminate that shows reduced orange peel distortion over time compared with tin (“Sn”)-catalyzed systems and methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: CPFilms Inc.
    Inventors: Igor V. Khudyakov, Michael Hawkins
  • Patent number: 9453949
    Abstract: An electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product useful particularly for automotive and architectural window films is disclosed. The electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product includes a polymeric substrate and a composite coating with the composite coating including first and second layers each containing a binding group component which together form a complimentary binding group pair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Brija Nand, Lee Campbell Boman, Kevin C. Krogman, Michael Hawkins, Anthony Brian Port
  • Publication number: 20160251807
    Abstract: A railroad crosstie (tie) may be fabricated from a composite material including a fiber reinforced polymer shell manufactured by pultrusion or other process, and filled by a suitable material, typically selected from expanded elastomeric polymer (such as polyurethane resin or other polymer), concrete, lightweight concrete formed by conventional aggregate, sand, cement, water, and an ultra light filler such as natural materials, sawdust, beads of expanded polymer such as expanded polystyrene, microspheres of glass or plastic, a recycled wooden tie in conjunction with any of the above, or the like. Fasteners may be driven such as spikes, threaded, such as screws, lag screws, spreading screws, rivets, or the like into apertures, pilot holes, or directly into fill absent apertures therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: September 1, 2016
    Inventors: Michael A. Hawkins, Michael L. Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20160231480
    Abstract: An electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product useful particularly for automotive and architectural window films is disclosed. The electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product includes a polymeric substrate and a composite coating with the composite coating including first and second layers each containing a binding group component which together form a complimentary binding group pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Lee Campbell Boman, Michael Hawkins, Kevin C. Krogman, Genichi Minase, Brija Nand, Kayur Ashwin Patel, Anthony Brian Port
  • Publication number: 20160231481
    Abstract: An electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product useful particularly for automotive and architectural window films is disclosed. The electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product includes a polymeric substrate and a composite coating with the composite coating including first and second layers each containing a binding group component which together form a complimentary binding group pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2016
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Lee Campbell Boman, Michael Hawkins, Jeremy L. Isbell, Kevin C. Krogman, Brija Nand, Kayur Ashwin Patel, Anthony Brian Port
  • Patent number: 9396307
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for interruption workflow management in a clinical enterprise. Certain embodiments provide an interruption workflow management system for a clinical enterprise. The system includes a worklist including a plurality of patient indicators representing patients for which tasks are to be performed by a user. The system also includes a patient panel displaying patient information associated with a patient indicator selected from the worklist. The system further includes a patient indicator shelf holding one or more patient indicators from at least one of the worklist and the patient panel for later retrieval in response to user input. The patient indicator shelf facilitates restoration of a patient indicator from the patient indicator shelf to display in the patient panel in response to user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Hawkins, Christopher Burt, Kenneth Lopez, Jason Klotzer, Andres Olivares, Natalia Lipetskaia
  • Publication number: 20160170104
    Abstract: An electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product useful particularly for automotive and architectural window films is disclosed. The electromagnetic energy-absorbing optical product includes a polymeric substrate and a composite coating with the composite coating including first and second layers each containing a binding group component which together form a complimentary binding group pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2014
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Applicant: Eastman Chemical Company
    Inventors: Brija Nand, Lee Campbell Boman, Kevin C. Krogman, Michael Hawkins, Anthony Brian Port
  • Patent number: 9274444
    Abstract: Incorporation of organic amines as neutralization agents in based phase inversion emulsification (PIE) processes to provide emulsification of high molecular amorphous and high molecular branch amorphous polyester resins, which are traditionally difficult to emulsify. The organic amines facilitate emulsification of these resins to achieve desired particle size with a narrow size distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: XEROX CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yulin Wang, Shigang Steven Qiu, Ke Zhou, Karen Moffat, Edward G. Zwartz, Michael Hawkins, Paul Gerroir
  • Publication number: 20150278358
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for adjusting presentation characteristics of a search engine results page (SERP) by a client device based on a query intent of a user. The client may forward a search prefix to a search service and in response receive one or more query suggestions and one or more machine learning algorithms configured to each query suggestion. The user executes a search query comprising the query intent by selecting one of the query suggestions. The client device computes scores for each result group using the machine learning algorithm configured for the selected query suggestion. At least one presentation characteristic of the SERP is adjusted so that at least one result group is emphasized over another based on the respective result group scores representing a relevance to the query intent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Elbio Renato Abib, Ashish Gandhe, Gaurav S. Anand, Anderson Aiziro, Rylan Michael Hawkins, Hossein Shahbazi
  • Publication number: 20150090099
    Abstract: This invention comprises a method to transform a poem into a song. The client first composes a poem or a passage. Next, the client goes to the “Make Your Poem a Song” website: http:www.makeyourpoemasong.com (hereinafter “MYPS”). The client then populates the unique specification menus on the website. Selections from the specification menus allow the client to mold each and every aspect of the song creation process. After the client selects each song aspect, the MYPS coordinator chooses a composer to write the song based on the song chosen song characteristics. The composer then creates a song based on the characteristics chosen by the client. When the composer has created the “blueprint” of the song, the composer releases a small portion of the song to the client through the MYPS coordinator. The client then has 48 hours to comment on the song. If client has no comment, the composer creates, mixes and masters the song in final form, depending on the package chosen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2013
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventor: David Michael Hawkins
  • Publication number: 20140370428
    Abstract: Incorporation of organic amines as neutralization agents in based phase inversion emulsification (PIE) processes to provide emulsification of high molecular amorphous and high molecular branch amorphous polyester resins, which are traditionally difficult to emulsify. The organic amines facilitate emulsification of these resins to achieve desired particle size with a narrow size distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Yulin Wang, Shigang Steven Qiu, Ke Zhou, Karen Moffat, Edward G. Zwartz, Michael Hawkins, Paul Gerroir
  • Patent number: 8789431
    Abstract: An sampling device for capturing a material sample and a method of using said device to process said material sample in situ within the device. Embodiments of the invention may be disposed as elongate probes having extendable sample capture elements. A sample capture element of such a device may include a sample capture pocket located near a distal end thereof for capturing and trapping a sample of material. The sample capture pocket may be provided with a port for receiving material therein and a port for expelling material therefrom. These ports may be placed in communication with corresponding material transfer channels extending through the sample capture element to allow for the in situ processing of a material sample, and the subsequent discharge of the sample to an analyzer or another downstream location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mettler-Toledo AG
    Inventors: Peter Alfred Blacklin, Wayne Fowler, Jr., Joel Michael Hawkins, Howard William Ward, II
  • Publication number: 20140200925
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for interruption workflow management in a clinical enterprise. Certain embodiments provide an interruption workflow management system for a clinical enterprise. The system includes a worklist including a plurality of patient indicators representing patients for which tasks are to be performed by a user. The system also includes a patient panel displaying patient information associated with a patient indicator selected from the worklist. The system further includes a patient indicator shelf holding one or more patient indicators from at least one of the worklist and the patient panel for later retrieval in response to user input. The patient indicator shelf facilitates restoration of a patient indicator from the patient indicator shelf to display in the patient panel in response to user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2014
    Publication date: July 17, 2014
    Applicant: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Hawkins, Christopher Burt, Kenneth Lopez, Jason Klotzer, Andres Olivares, Natalia Lipetskaia
  • Publication number: 20140141263
    Abstract: Structure coated with a biocidal foul release coating system, the structure being obtained by a. providing a substrate, b. coating the substrate with a first coating layer, c. applying at least one subsequent coating layer on top of the first coating layer, the first coating layer containing a biocide, the subsequent coating layer(s) containing less biocide than the first coating layer and which is(are)free or substantially free of biocide, and wherein the first and the subsequent coating layer(s) form a biocidal foul release coating system showing a controlled leaching of the biocide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: AKZO NOBEL COATINGS INTERNATIONAL B.V.
    Inventors: Phillip Keith Jones, Ian Michael Hawkins, Andrew Curry, Zhiyi Li, John David Sinclair-Day
  • Patent number: 8719046
    Abstract: Certain embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for interruption workflow management in a clinical enterprise. Certain embodiments provide an interruption workflow management system for a clinical enterprise. The system includes a worklist including a plurality of patient indicators representing patients for which tasks are to be performed by a user. The system also includes a patient panel displaying patient information associated with a patient indicator selected from the worklist. The system further includes a patient indicator shelf holding one or more patient indicators from at least one of the worklist and the patient panel for later retrieval in response to user input. The patient indicator shelf facilitates restoration of a patient indicator from the patient indicator shelf to display in the patient panel in response to user input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2014
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Michael Hawkins, Christopher Burt, Kenneth Lopez, Jason Klotzer, Andres Olivares, Natalia Lipetskaia
  • Patent number: 8685605
    Abstract: Toners containing encapsulated crystalline resin have lower minimum fix temperatures without charge degradation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Xerox Corportion
    Inventors: Guerino Sacripante, Ke Zhou, Jordan Wosnick, Edward Zwartz, Michael Hawkins
  • Patent number: 8668739
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an orthopedic implant that may be used to repair and/or replace focal defects in an individual's articular cartilage. In one exemplary embodiment, the present invention provides a unitary orthopedic implant that includes a bone contacting layer and an articulating layer. In exemplary embodiments, the bone contacting layer may have a thickness of between about 1 millimeter and 3 millimeters. In exemplary embodiments, the articulating layer may have a thickness of between about 1 millimeter and 2 millimeters. As a result, the orthopedic implant may have an overall thickness of between about 2 millimeters and about 5 millimeters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: Zimmer, Inc.
    Inventors: Cheryl Blanchard, Erin Johnson, Michael Hawkins, Hallie Brinkerhuff
  • Publication number: 20130325435
    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: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Rylan Michael Hawkins, Eric Scott Albright, Nicholas A. Beal, Peter Geoffrey Constable, Wade H. Curtiss, Erik Fortune, Andrew Stuart Glass, Samuel Aaron Beard
  • Publication number: 20130273471
    Abstract: Toners containing encapsulated crystalline resin have lower minimum fix temperatures without charge degradation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: Xerox Corporation
    Inventors: Guerino Sacripante, Ke Zhou, Jordan Wosnick, Edward Zwartz, Michael Hawkins
  • Patent number: 8365617
    Abstract: An in situ sampling device for capturing a material sample from a vessel. Embodiments of the present invention may be disposed as elongate probes having extendable sample capture elements. A sample capture element of such a device may include a concave sample capture pocket located near a distal end thereof. The sample capture pocket is adapted to capture a known volume of material when the sample capture element is extended into said material. The material sample remains trapped in the sample capture pocket upon sample capture element retraction. The sample capture pocket may be provided with a port for receiving material therein and a port for expelling material therefrom. These ports may be placed in communication with corresponding material transfer channels extending through the sample capture element. A device of the present invention provides for substantially contemporaneous sample capture and sample processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2013
    Assignee: Mettler-Toledo AG
    Inventors: Peter Alfred Blacklin, Wayne Fowler, Jr., Joel Michael Hawkins, Howard William Ward, II