Patents by Inventor Michael James Schmidt
Michael James Schmidt 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).
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Publication number: 20240054849Abstract: A self-service kiosk includes a housing and an imaging device in a key fob receptacle in the housing. The imaging device captures an image of a master key fob placed in the receptacle. The kiosk includes a key fob dispenser having a dispensing slot to receive a duplicated key fob and a dispensing mechanism to dispense the duplicated key fob into the dispensing slot. The kiosk also includes a processor that receives an image from the imaging device, and detects a presence of the master key fob in the key fob receptacle based on an analysis of the received image. Upon detecting the presence of the master key fob, the processor reads codes stored on the master key fob, writes the codes on a blank key fob to generate the duplicated key fob, and causes the dispensing mechanism to dispense the duplicated key fob in the dispensing slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.Inventors: Byron Keith GRICE, Michael Kenneth HART, Michael James SCHMIDT, Brian David ROSNER, Ari BENNETT, Robert FOORD, Bryan Keith SOLACE
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Patent number: 11642744Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Publication number: 20220290216Abstract: Methods, compositions, kits and apparatuses that include a fluid, the fluid containing a ternary complex and Li+, wherein the ternary complex includes a primed template nucleic acid, a polymerase, and a nucleotide cognate for the next correct base for the primed template nucleic acid molecule. As an alternative or addition to Li+, the fluid can contain betaine or a metal ion that inhibits polymerase catalysis such as Ca2+. In addition to Li+, the fluid can contain polyethylenimine (PEI) with or without betaine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 4, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Omniome, Inc.Inventors: Morassa Mohseni MIDDLETON, Mark C. WALLEN, Pinar IYIDOGAN, Michael James SCHMIDT, Brittany A. ROHRMAN, Ying Lin LIU, Fabian BLOCK, Arnold OLIPHANT
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Patent number: 11242557Abstract: Methods, compositions, kits and apparatuses that include a fluid, the fluid containing a ternary complex and Li+, wherein the ternary complex includes a primed template nucleic acid, a polymerase, and a nucleotide cognate for the next correct base for the primed template nucleic acid molecule. As an alternative or addition to Li+, the fluid can contain betaine or a metal ion that inhibits polymerase catalysis such as Ca2+. In addition to Li+, the fluid can contain polyethylenimine (PEI) with or without betaine.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: February 8, 2022Assignee: OMNIOME, INC.Inventors: Morassa Mohseni Middleton, Mark C. Wallen, Pinar Iyidogan, Michael James Schmidt, Brittany A. Rohrman, Ying Lin Liu, Fabian Block, Arnold Oliphant
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Publication number: 20210172198Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2021Publication date: June 10, 2021Applicant: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.Inventors: Byron Keith GRICE, Phillip GERLINGS, John Clayton CAMPBELL, Michael James SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20200149315Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Applicant: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.Inventors: Byron Keith GRICE, Phillip GERLINGS, John Clayton CAMPBELL, Michael James SCHMIDT
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Patent number: 10577830Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Publication number: 20200054045Abstract: The present invention provides for a nutritional composition in a liquid drink form, dry powder form, gel form, or carrier form intended to optimize human physiological performance during intense exercise and subsequently return the body to its healthy, pre-exercise state. The composition comprises a carbohydrate and a protein, and preferably a ratio of the carbohydrate to the protein is greater than about 4.3 parts by weight carbohydrate to 1 part by weight protein. Preferably, the liquid nutritional composition is comprised of: (1) carbohydrate in the range of 3.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Michael James Schmidt, David Avarbock
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Publication number: 20200002975Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2019Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Publication number: 20190345544Abstract: Methods, compositions, kits and apparatuses that include a fluid, the fluid containing a ternary complex and Li+, wherein the ternary complex includes a primed template nucleic acid, a polymerase, and a nucleotide cognate for the next correct base for the primed template nucleic acid molecule. As an alternative or addition to Li+, the fluid can contain betaine or a metal ion that inhibits polymerase catalysis such as Ca2+. In addition to Li+, the fluid can contain polyethylenimine (PEI) with or without betaine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: Omniome, Inc.Inventors: Morassa Mohseni MIDDLETON, Mark C. WALLEN, Pinar IYIDOGAN, Michael James SCHMIDT, Brittany A. ROHRMAN, Ying Lin LIU, Fabian BLOCK, Arnold OLIPHANT
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Publication number: 20190284837Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2019Publication date: September 19, 2019Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Patent number: 10400474Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Patent number: 10400272Abstract: Methods, compositions, kits and apparatuses that include a fluid, the fluid containing a ternary complex and Li+, wherein the ternary complex includes a primed template nucleic acid, a polymerase, and a nucleotide cognate for the next correct base for the primed template nucleic acid molecule. As an alternative or addition to Li+, the fluid can contain betaine or a metal ion that inhibits polymerase catalysis such as Ca2+. In addition to Li+, the fluid can contain polyethylenimine (PEI) with or without betaine.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: OMNIOME, INC.Inventors: Morassa Mohseni Middleton, Mark C. Wallen, Pinar Iyidogan, Michael James Schmidt, Brittany A. Rohrman, Ying Lin Liu, Fabian Block, Arnold Oliphant
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Patent number: 10301844Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2017Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Publication number: 20180010364Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key. The identification module may also have a tip guide, configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key. The tip guide may have a slot that exposes a tip end of the shank. The identification module may also have an imaging assembly configured to capture an image of the tip end through the slot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2017Publication date: January 11, 2018Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Patent number: 9797163Abstract: An identification module is disclosed for use in a key making machine. The identification module may have a key receiving assembly configured to receive only a shank of an existing key, and an imaging assembly configured to generate an image of the shank while the existing key is being manually held in the key receiving assembly. The identification module may also have a housing configured to house the key receiving assembly and the imaging assembly. The housing may have a slot formed therein to receive the existing key. The identification module further may have a tip guide configured to receive a tip of the shank of the existing key as the tip is inserted through the slot. The tip guide may be linearly movable by insertion of the existing key from a first location at the slot to a second location away from the slot.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.Inventors: Byron Keith Grice, Phillip Gerlings, John Clayton Campbell, Michael James Schmidt
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Patent number: 9580932Abstract: A key assembly is disclosed. The key assembly may have a blade with a head portion, a shank, and a transition region connecting the head portion to the shank. The key assembly may also have a head configured to receive the blade. The head may have a shoulder located at the transition region to limit engagement of the head with the blade, and at least one tang located at an end of the head opposite the shoulder. The at least one tang may be configured to engage a recess located within a side of the head portion and inhibit removal of the head from the blade.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.Inventors: Phillip Gerlings, Michael James Schmidt, Gary Edward Will, Bryan K. Solace
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Patent number: 9580088Abstract: A wear plate for use with a railway truck, the wear plate being configured for installation on a downwardly facing surface of a pedestal opening of a side frame of a railway truck. The wear plate includes a base and a pair of side walls extending upwardly from opposite sides of the base with inwardly disposed locking features designed to engage the pedestal when the wear plate is installed, the locking features in a preferred embodiment being configured as resilient projections that engage, clamp or drag lock onto opposite sides of the pedestal with the base of the wear plate protecting the downwardly facing pedestal surface. The wear plate may be constructed from malleable or ductile metals or plastics.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2014Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: PENNSY CORPORATIONInventors: Manuel Tavares, Wayne H. Murphy, Michael James Schmidt
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Patent number: 9506272Abstract: A key assembly is disclosed. The key assembly may have a blade with a head portion, a shank, and a transition region connecting the head portion to the shank. The key assembly may also have a head configured to receive the blade. The head may have a shoulder located at the transition region to limit engagement of the head with the blade, and at least one tang located at an end of the head opposite the shoulder. The at least one tang may be configured to engage a recess located within a side of the head portion and inhibit removal of the head from the blade.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.Inventors: Phillip Gerlings, Michael James Schmidt, Gary Edward Will, Bryan K. Solace
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Publication number: 20160097219Abstract: A key assembly is disclosed. The key assembly may have a blade with a head portion, a shank, and a transition region connecting the head portion to the shank. The key assembly may also have a head configured to receive the blade. The head may have a shoulder located at the transition region to limit engagement of the head with the blade, and at least one tang located at an end of the head opposite the shoulder. The at least one tang may be configured to engage a recess located within a side of the head portion and inhibit removal of the head from the blade.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2015Publication date: April 7, 2016Applicant: The Hillman Group Inc.Inventors: Phillip GERLINGS, Michael James SCHMIDT, Gary Edward WILL, Bryan K. SOLACE