Patents by Inventor Michael Howie

Michael Howie 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: 11996117
    Abstract: A toxicity moderation system has an input configured to receive speech from a speaker. The system includes a multi-stage toxicity machine learning system having a first stage and a second stage. The first stage is trained to analyze the received speech to determine whether a toxicity level of the speech meets a toxicity threshold. The first stage is also configured to filter-through, to the second stage, speech that meets the toxicity threshold, and is further configured to filter-out speech that does not meet the toxicity threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Inventors: William Carter Huffman, Michael Pappas, Henry Howie
  • Publication number: 20060235326
    Abstract: A method for detecting a quantitative measure of a physiologic state of a human myocardium or coronary artery. Implementations of the method detect the extent of change of myocardial electrical impedance from a mean baseline value to provide diagnosis of the extent of ischemia, stenosis, tissue rejection, and reperfusion and the effectiveness of cardioplegia and ischemia pre-conditioning as well as the general effectiveness of coronary bypass surgery as measured by post-operative reperfusion. Electrodes are attached to the myocardium, baseline measurements of the mean myocardial electrical impedance are stored and the variance of the myocardial electrical impedance and a baseline value of mean myocardial electrical impedance are computed from the baseline measurements and stored. Mean myocardial electrical impedance values are periodically measured between each electrode pair over an interval of time and stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: October 19, 2006
    Inventors: Roger Dzwonczyk, Carlos Del Rio, Patrick Connell, Michael Howie
  • Patent number: 6736520
    Abstract: A forward looking mirror device is disclosed which is useful for vehicles having side mounted rear view mirrors. The forward looking mirror device consists of first and second mirrors which are pivotally mounted in a housing, the first mirror moveable to collect an image from the front of the vehicle and the second mirror moveable to reflect the image from the first mirror to the driver. The first and second mirrors are mounted adjacent the rear view mirror of the vehicle. The second mirror is separated from the rear view mirror by a distance which is pre-selected to prevent the driver from focussing on both the rear view mirror and the second mirror simultaneously. The mirror assembly is mounted to the vehicle by adjustable arms, the length of said arms being adjustable to position the second mirror at the driver's eye level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2004
    Inventors: Douglas Anthony Howie, Christopher Michael Howie, James Hubert Howie
  • Publication number: 20020048098
    Abstract: A forward looking mirror device is disclosed which is useful for vehicles having side mounted rear view mirrors. The forward looking mirror device consists of first and second mirrors which are pivotally mounted in a housing, the first mirror moveable to collect an image from the front of the vehicle and the second mirror moveable to reflect the image from the first mirror to the driver. The first and second mirrors are mounted adjacent the rear view mirror of the vehicle. The second mirror is separated from the rear view mirror by a distance which is pre-selected to prevent the driver from focussing on both the rear view mirror and the second mirror simultaneously. The mirror assembly is mounted to the vehicle by adjustable arms, the length of said arms being adjustable to position the second mirror at the driver's eye level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2001
    Publication date: April 25, 2002
    Inventors: Douglas Anthony Howie, Christopher Michael Howie, James Hubert Howie