Patents by Inventor Michael Hund

Michael Hund 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: 11945647
    Abstract: A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Heil Co.
    Inventor: Henry Michael Hund, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230159269
    Abstract: A method and device for positively identifying that a dump event of a refuse container has occurred into a refuse hopper of a refuse vehicle are provided. When used with route software, alerts may be generated if a specific refuse container is missed or if an unexpected dump event occurs during the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Ricardo Castano Salinas, Brian Huston Ham, Henry Michael Hund, JR., John Forrest Smith
  • Patent number: 11548730
    Abstract: A method and device for positively identifying that a dump event of a refuse container has occurred into a refuse hopper of a refuse vehicle are provided. When used with route software, alerts may be generated if a specific refuse container is missed or if an unexpected dump event occurs during the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: The Heil Co.
    Inventors: Ricardo Castano Salinas, Brian Huston Ham, Henry Michael Hund, Jr., John Forrest Smith
  • Publication number: 20230002153
    Abstract: A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Henry Michael Hund, JR.
  • Patent number: 11286110
    Abstract: A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: The Heil Co.
    Inventor: Henry Michael Hund, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11138216
    Abstract: A unified visualization interface is disclosed. One example is a system including an association module, a multicasting module, a data sharing module, and a unified visualization interface. The association module associates an identified event in a first visualization system with a visualization function. The multicasting module stores event data related to the identified event and the associated visualization function in a shared data source, and multicasts the identified event to a second visualization system. The data sharing module associates the event data with characteristics of the first visualization system, and shares, in response to the multicast of the identified event, the shared data source with the second visualization system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ming C Hao, Michael Hund, Nelson L Chang, Riddhiman Ghosh, Gregory William Cook, Kevin Smathers, Arun Kumar Paruchuri, Renato Keshet
  • Publication number: 20210214158
    Abstract: A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventor: Henry Michael Hund, JR.
  • Publication number: 20210078799
    Abstract: A method and device for positively identifying that a dump event of a refuse container has occurred into a refuse hopper of a refuse vehicle are provided. When used with route software, alerts may be generated if a specific refuse container is missed or if an unexpected dump event occurs during the route.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Ricardo Castano Salinas, Brian Huston Ham, Henry Michael Hund, JR., John Forrest Smith
  • Patent number: 10787314
    Abstract: A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: The Heil Co.
    Inventor: Henry Michael Hund, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10633180
    Abstract: A method and device for positively identifying that a dump event of a refuse container has occurred into a refuse hopper of a refuse vehicle are provided. When used with route software, alerts may be generated if a specific refuse container is missed or if an unexpected dump event occurs during the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: THE HEIL CO.
    Inventors: Ricardo Castano Salinas, Brian Huston Ham, Henry Michael Hund, Jr., John Forrest Smith
  • Patent number: 10628412
    Abstract: Visualization of a cohort for high-dimensional categorical data is disclosed. One example is a system including a display module to identify real-time selection of a query data element in an interactive visual representation of high-dimensional categorical data elements comprising a plurality of categorical components. A matrix generator generates a binary distance matrix with columns representing categorical components, and entries in a row indicative of a degree of similarity of respective categorical components of the selected query data element to a data element represented by the row, and determines a category weighting matrix by associating a weight with entries in each column of the binary distance matrix. An evaluator evaluates a weighted similarity score for a data element represented by a row of the category weighting matrix based on entries of the row. A selector iteratively and interactively selects, based on weighted similarity scores, a cohort of categorical data elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Wei-Nchih Lee, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim, Kevin Smathers, Jishang Wei
  • Patent number: 10614094
    Abstract: A technique for visualizing topics includes depicting topic bubbles including pixels. In one example, selected topics are identified from records based on scoring candidate terms in the records according to a user-specified metric and a metric selected from among frequencies of occurrence of records pertaining to the respective candidate terms, and negativity of sentiment expressed with respect to the candidate terms in the records. A visualization is generated including bubbles representing topics, the bubbles including pixels representing corresponding records. A bubble has a shape dependent upon a number of records and a time interval represented by the bubble. Visual indicators are assigned to the pixels in a given bubble according to values of an attribute expressed in the corresponding records for the topic represented by the given bubble, resulting in the analysis of the selected topics being less time consuming and labor intensive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MICRO FOCUS LLC
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Christian Rohrdantz, Riddhiman Ghosh, Nelson L. Chang, Meichun Hsu, Daniel Keim
  • Publication number: 20200062279
    Abstract: A method for informing the driver of a motor vehicle equipped with a wheel slip control system about the instantaneous existence of an intervention or an imminent intervention of the wheel slip control system. The driver is informed via an activation of an information provider of a driving safety system or driving comfort system independent of the wheel slip control system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventor: Michael Hund
  • Patent number: 10509800
    Abstract: Visually interactive identification of a cohort of similar data objects is disclosed. One example is a system including a data processor to access a plurality of data objects, each data object comprising a plurality of numerical components, where each component represents a data feature of a plurality of data features, and to identify, for each data feature, a feature distribution of the numerical components. A selector selects a sub-plurality of the data features of a query object, where a given data feature is selected if the component representing the given data feature is a peak for the feature distribution. An evaluator determines a similarity measure based on the sub-plurality of the data features. An interaction processor iteratively processes selection of a sub-plurality of the data features based on domain knowledge, and identifies, based on the similarity measures, a cohort of data objects similar to the query object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventors: Ming C Hao, Wei-Nchih Lee, Nelson L Chang, Michael Hund, Daniel Keim
  • Publication number: 20190308810
    Abstract: A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventor: Henry Michael Hund, JR.
  • Patent number: 10221012
    Abstract: A grabber assembly has a beam assembly with a bracket. A grabber gear assembly is coupled with the bracket. The grabber gear assembly has a pair of gear mechanisms coupled with the bracket. Each gear mechanism has a shaft and a pair of thrust bearings, one at each end of the shaft. A grabber arm mounting pad is coupled with each shaft. A gear section is coupled with each shaft. The gear sections of each shaft mesh with one another to drive the grabber arm mounting pads. An actuating driver is coupled with one of the shafts to drive the grabber gear assembly and move the arms between an open and grasping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2019
    Assignee: The Heil Co.
    Inventor: Henry Michael Hund, Jr.
  • Patent number: 10198833
    Abstract: According to an example, in a method for displaying visual analytics of entity data, geographic locations of entities may be plotted as first pixel cells on a first region and as second pixel cells on a second region of a geographic map. A determination may be made that the first pixel cells have a higher degree of overlap with each other in the first region compared to the second pixel cells in the second region. The geographic map may be distorted to enlarge the first region and the first pixel cells may be arranged in the first region in a manner that prevents the first pixel cells from overlapping each other. A color value for each of the pixel cells may be determined from a multi-paired color map that represents two variables corresponding to the entities by color and the pixel cells may be caused to be displayed on the distorted geographic map according to the determined respective color values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: ENTIT SOFTWARE LLC
    Inventors: Ming C Hao, Michael Hund, Wei-Nchih Lee, Halldor Janetzko, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim, Sebastian Mittelstaedt
  • Publication number: 20180004803
    Abstract: Visualization of a cohort for high-dimensional categorical data is disclosed. One example is a system including a display module to identify real-time selection of a query data element in an interactive visual representation of high-dimensional categorical data elements comprising a plurality of categorical components. A matrix generator generates a binary distance matrix with columns representing categorical components, and entries in a row indicative of a degree of similarity of respective categorical components of the selected query data element to a data element represented by the row, and determines a category weighting matrix by associating a weight with entries in each column of the binary distance matrix. An evaluator evaluates a weighted similarity score for a data element represented by a row of the category weighting matrix based on entries of the row. A selector iteratively and interactively selects, based on weighted similarity scores, a cohort of categorical data elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Ming C. Hao, Michael Hund, Wei-Nchih Lee, Nelson L. Chang, Daniel Keim, Kevin Smathers, Jishang Wei
  • Publication number: 20180004820
    Abstract: A unified visualization interface is disclosed. One example is a system including an association module, a multicasting module, a data sharing module, and a unified visualization interface. The association module associates an identified event in a first visualization system with a visualization function. The multicasting module stores event data related to the identified event and the associated visualization function in a shared data source, and multicasts the identified event to a second visualization system. The data sharing module associates the event data with characteristics of the first visualization system, and shares, in response to the multicast of the identified event, the shared data source with the second visualization system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: MING C HAO, MICHAEL HUND, NELSON L CHANG, RIDDHIMAN GHOSH, GREGORY WILLIAM COOK, KEVIN SMATHERS, ARUN KUMAR PARUCHURI, RENATO KESHET
  • Publication number: 20180005419
    Abstract: Visually interactive and iterative analysis of data patterns by a user is disclosed. One example is a system including a display module and an interaction processor. The display module displays, via an interactive graphical user interface, a visual representation of a plurality of data elements and respective data relations between the data elements, and wherein each data element is represented by pixel attributes of a pixel. The interaction processor iteratively and interactively processes analysis by a user based on identifying selection, by the user, of an arbitrarily shaped region of the visual representation, clipping the selected region by zooming in to the selected region, identifying, in the clipped region, selection of data elements of interest to the user, and prompting the display module to automatically blur visual representations of data elements different from the data elements of interest by modifying the pixel attributes of respective pixels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: MING C HAO, MICHAEL HUND, NELSON L CHANG, HALLDOR JANETZKO, SABASTIAN MITTELSTAEDT, KEVIN SMATHERS, DANIEL KEIM, DORON SHAKED, JISHANG WEI