Patents by Inventor Michael J. Hartman

Michael J. Hartman 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: 11974916
    Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward apparatuses, systems, and methods that include a prosthetic valve. The prosthetic valve may include a jacket configured to cover at least one of gaps, spaces, or interfaces in a frame or between one or more leaflets attached to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
    Inventors: David J. Arcaro, Kyle W. Colavito, Dustin V. Dienno, Cody L. Hartman, Roy Manygoats, Jr., Ryan S. Titone, Ryan D. Smith, Joshua A. Sprinkle, Benjamin A. Smith, James L. Goepfrich, Michael J. Shepard
  • Patent number: 11870838
    Abstract: A wireless gateway for steering a client device between content streaming apparatuses in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The gateway provides an access point (GW AP) including a gateway steering controller configured to determine whether a client device should be steered to a content streaming apparatus based on at least one sample measurement on received signal strength between the client device and the content streaming apparatus and at least one other content streaming apparatus, and conduct steering logic calculations. The steering logic calculations are compared against predetermined thresholds, and said gateway steering controller provides an instruction to steer the client device to one of the content streaming apparatuses based on a difference between the steering logic calculations and the predetermined thresholds. Optionally, the gateway steering controller may also provide band steering as well as signal strength steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Jay Strater, Gregory Nakanishi, Michael J. Hartman
  • Patent number: 11706638
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium perform client optimized onboarding in a wireless network. A network controller of a gateway device determines a first received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a new client device, receives a second RSSI of the new client device from each of one or more wireless extenders, and determines a strongest RSSI among the determined first RSSI and the received second RSSI from each of the one or more wireless extenders. The network controller of the gateway device receives an onboarding request with respect to any one or the gateway device and the one or more wireless extenders, and sends a command to proceed with an onboarding operation of the new client device to any one of the gateway device and the one or more wireless extenders having the strongest RSSI from the new client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Ted R Michaud, Paul Baker, Donald Cochrane, Jay William Strater, Michael J. Hartman, Gregory N. Nakanishi
  • Publication number: 20220370204
    Abstract: A system or method for bioprinting bone graft provides obtaining an image of the patient's oral facial area, and viewed with the image viewing software. A restoratively driven dental implant treatment plan is created to restore the patient's missing dentition. The restoratively driven treatment plan is created. A physical exam, review of a patient's desires and expectations, review of imaging, acquisition and review of patient photographs and intraoral digital impressions. The imaging and digital impressions are aligned, via software to create a virtual representation. The anticipated final implant retained dentures, unitary implant crowns, or implant bridges, are planned to provide optimal esthetic and functional results. Dental implants are then planned for prosthetic anchors. Bone deficiencies are evaluated and if areas of boney deficiency are present, a patient specific bone graft is designed to restore said deficient areas. Once designed, it may be printed via additive manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventor: Michael J. HARTMAN
  • Publication number: 20220272144
    Abstract: A wireless gateway for steering a client device between content streaming apparatuses in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The gateway provides an access point (GW AP) including a gateway steering controller configured to determine whether a client device should be steered to a content streaming apparatus based on at least one sample measurement on received signal strength between the client device and the content streaming apparatus and at least one other content streaming apparatus, and conduct steering logic calculations. The steering logic calculations are compared against predetermined thresholds, and said gateway steering controller provides an instruction to steer the client device to one of the content streaming apparatuses based on a difference between the steering logic calculations and the predetermined thresholds. Optionally, the gateway steering controller may also provide band steering as well as signal strength steering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Jay STRATER, Gregory NAKANISHI, Michael J. HARTMAN
  • Publication number: 20220104885
    Abstract: A system and method for a tracker arm mount for dynamic navigation is provided. The tracker arm mount accurately adapts to the patient's jawbone and is temporarily secured to the bone with screws engaging the full thickness of the bone. The tracker arm supports an occlusal positioning device and a dental prosthesis. The tracker arm mount is based off digital imaging records. The inner surface is fabricated to closely contour the outer surface, or buccal, contour of the patient's jaw bone. Attachment apertures avoid vital structures and may accept reinforcement collars. Fasteners are placed through the attachment apertures to fixate the mount to the patient's jaw bone. Slots accept corresponding tabs from an occlusal positioning device, interim dental prosthesis, or other device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventor: Michael J. Hartman
  • Patent number: 11297125
    Abstract: A wireless gateway for steering a client device between content streaming apparatuses in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The gateway provides an access point (GW AP) including a gateway steering controller configured to determine whether a client device should be steered to a content streaming apparatus based on at least one sample measurement on received signal strength between the client device and the content streaming apparatus and at least one other content streaming apparatus, and conduct steering logic calculations. The steering logic calculations are compared against predetermined thresholds, and said gateway steering controller provides an instruction to steer the client device to one of the content streaming apparatuses based on a difference between the steering logic calculations and the predetermined thresholds. Optionally, the gateway steering controller may also provide band steering as well as signal strength steering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
    Inventors: Jay Strater, Gregory Nakanishi, Michael J. Hartman
  • Publication number: 20210368361
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and computer-readable recording medium perform client optimized onboarding in a wireless network. A network controller of a gateway device determines a first received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a new client device, receives a second RSSI of the new client device from each of one or more wireless extenders, and determines a strongest RSSI among the determined first RSSI and the received second RSSI from each of the one or more wireless extenders. The network controller of the gateway device receives an onboarding request with respect to any one or the gateway device and the one or more wireless extenders, and sends a command to proceed with an onboarding operation of the new client device to any one of the gateway device and the one or more wireless extenders having the strongest RSSI from the new client device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ted R. MICHAUD, Paul BAKER, Donald COCHRANE, Jay William STRATER, Michael J. HARTMAN, Gregory N. NAKANISHI
  • Patent number: 10849205
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system, the apparatus including a housing; a light source, disposed in the housing, including at least one source of illumination; a radio frequency (RF) transmitter located on or in the housing; and at least one directional radiating element at least partially enclosed by the housing and coupled to RF transmitter, the at least one directional radiating element directing a RF signal transmitted by the RF transmitter in a predetermined direction away from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: CURRENT LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Roland Bátai, Selaka Bandara Bulumulla, Gábor Fehér, Michael J. Hartman, Róbert Horváth, Gábor Balint Törös
  • Publication number: 20180176284
    Abstract: A wireless gateway for steering a client device between content streaming apparatuses in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The gateway provides an access point (GW AP) including a gateway steering controller configured to determine whether a client device should be steered to a content streaming apparatus based on at least one sample measurement on received signal strength between the client device and the content streaming apparatus and at least one other content streaming apparatus, and conduct steering logic calculations. The steering logic calculations are compared against predetermined thresholds, and said gateway steering controller provides an instruction to steer the client device to one of the content streaming apparatuses based on a difference between the steering logic calculations and the predetermined thresholds. Optionally, the gateway steering controller may also provide band steering as well as signal strength steering.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Jay Strater, Gregory Nakanishi, Michael J. Hartman
  • Publication number: 20170111980
    Abstract: An apparatus, method, and system, the apparatus including a housing; a light source, disposed in the housing, including at least one source of illumination; a radio frequency (RF) transmitter located on or in the housing; and at least one directional radiating element at least partially enclosed by the housing and coupled to RF transmitter, the at least one directional radiating element directing a RF signal transmitted by the RF transmitter in a predetermined direction away from the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2015
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Roland BÁTAI, Selaka Bandara BULUMULLA, Gábor FEHÉR, Michael J. HARTMAN, Róbert HORVÁTH, Gábor Balint TÖRÖS
  • Patent number: 7489635
    Abstract: A method and system of congestion control in a network are provided. A required quality of service (QoS) parameter, such as a maximum allowable latency, for a packet received at a queue in the network, and a route cost metric, such as accumulated and estimated latency, are determined, and the packet is either discarded if the route cost metric exceeds the required QoS parameter, or a discard bias value is set for the packet. Also, if the required QoS parameter exceeds the route cost metric, the method includes determining whether a congestion condition exists in the network, and if the congestion condition exists, biasing the packet for discard based on its latency if the route cost metric for the packet exceeds a threshold. The network may be an IP network, and a network such as a mobile ad hoc network (MANET).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2009
    Assignee: Lockheed Martin Corporation
    Inventors: Scott C. Evans, Marc R. Pearlman, Michael J. Hartman, Asavari Rothe, Manuel A. Leiva, Martin W. Egan
  • Patent number: 6746350
    Abstract: A practice hockey puck includes a puck body with an upper surface a lower surface and a generally flat side wall interconnecting the upper and lower surface. The lower surface of the puck body has a bore defined therein. A friction reducing cover has in inner surface and a generally flat outer surface. A connecting leg extends from the inner surface. The leg is disposed in the bore in the lower surface of the puck body so as to retain the inner surface of the puck cover adjacent to the lower surface of the puck body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2004
    Inventors: Michael J. Hartman, Arthur Kleinpell, Richard Allen Hartman
  • Patent number: 6638188
    Abstract: A practice hockey puck includes a puck body with an upper surface a lower surface and a generally flat side wall interconnecting the upper and lower surface. The lower surface of the puck body has a bore defined therein. A friction reducing cover has in inner surface and a generally flat outer surface. A connecting leg extends from the inner surface. The leg is disposed in the bore in the lower surface of the puck body so as to retain the inner surface of the puck cover adjacent to the lower surface of the puck body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Inventors: Michael J. Hartman, Arthur Kleinpell, Richard Allen Hartman
  • Publication number: 20030195067
    Abstract: A practice hockey puck includes a puck body with an upper surface a lower surface and a generally flat side wall interconnecting the upper and lower surface. The lower surface of the puck body has a bore defined therein. A friction reducing coyer has in inner surface and a generally flat outer surface. A connecting leg extends from the inner surface. The leg is disposed in the bore in the lower surface of the puck body so as to retain the inner surface of the puck cover adjacent to the lower surface of the puck body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2003
    Publication date: October 16, 2003
    Inventors: Michael J. Hartman, Arthur Kleinpell, Richard Allen Hartman
  • Publication number: 20010036877
    Abstract: A practice hockey puck includes a puck body with an upper surface a lower surface and a generally flat side wall interconnecting the upper and lower surface. The lower surface of the puck body has a bore defined therein. A friction reducing coyer has in inner surface and a generally flat outer surface. A connecting leg extends from the inner surface. The leg is disposed in the bore in the lower surface of the puck body so as to retain the inner surface of the puck cover adjacent to the lower surface of the puck body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Michael J. Hartman, Arthur Kleinpell, Richard Allen Hartman
  • Patent number: 5291431
    Abstract: An array multiplier using modified Booth encoding of multiplier input signals is formed on the surface of a monolithic integrated circuit using masks generated by a computer, in accordance with a silicon compiler program, by arranging an array of standard cells selected from a library of standard cell designs in a tessellation procedure. The array multiplier is laid out in accordance with one of particular tessellation patterns, which employ simpler and more regular patterns of interconnections between cells. Carry-save addition is used in combining partial product terms to avoid concatenating long ripple carry times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Chung-Yih Ho, Chi-Yuan Chin, Richard I. Hartley, Michael J. Hartman, Kenneth B. Welles, II
  • Patent number: 5159598
    Abstract: An auxiliary monolithic integrated circuit chip provides both buffer amplification and testing interfaces. Off-the-shelf monolithic integrated circuit chips can be connected into an electronics system using one of these auxiliary buffer chips before each input port and after each output port, to implement functional testing similar to that done on monolithic integrated circuit chips with built-in test circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 27, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kenneth B. Welles, II, Paul A. Delano, Richard I. Hartley, Michael J. Hartman, Abhijit Chatterjee
  • Patent number: 5119378
    Abstract: Built-in test circuitry, which is appropriate for monolithic integrated circuit chips that are to be connected in a plural-chip package, uses electronic token passing to select one of the test input ports in the circuitry to be tested for application of test input vectors. The built-in test circuitry also uses electronic token passing to select one of the test output ports in the circuitry to be tested from which test results are to be supplied. Methods for testing based on these token passing procedures are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kenneth B. Welles, II, Richard I. Hartley, Michael J. Hartman, Paul A. Delano
  • Patent number: 5115437
    Abstract: Built-in test circuitry, which is appropriate for monolithic integrated circuit chips that are to be connected in a plural-chip package, uses electronic token passing to select one of the test input ports in the circuitry to be tested for application of test input vectors. The built-in test circuitry also uses electronic token passing to select one of the test output ports in the circuitry to be tested from which test results are to be supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1992
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Kenneth B. Welles, II, Richard I. Hartley, Michael J. Hartman