Patents by Inventor Michael Jennings

Michael Jennings 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).

  • Publication number: 20240119449
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method including maintaining information about digital assets in relation to a first wallet account; generating, using a machine learning model, a reward configuration to be associated with a user account, the model trained based at least in part on transaction activity associated with the user account; processing a payment for a point-of-sale (POS) transaction using a payment instrument associated with the user account; determining, based on an amount of the payment and the reward configuration, an amount of the digital assets to be distributed to the user account wherein the amount of the digital assets is based on a value of the digital assets at a time of the POS transaction; and updating, after the POS transaction, an internal ledger maintained by the payment service and associated with the first wallet account to assign the digital assets to a second wallet account associated with the user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: OWEN JENNINGS, MICHAEL DUANE, REBECCA CORCILLO, BENJAMIN SHEN
  • Patent number: 11929523
    Abstract: Batteries including electrochemical cells, associated components, and arrangements thereof are generally described. In some aspects, batteries with housings that undergo relatively little expansion and contraction even in cases where electrochemical cells in the battery undergo a relatively high degree of expansion and contraction during charging and discharging are provided. Batteries configured to apply relatively high magnitudes and uniform force to electrochemical cells in the battery, while in some cases having high energy densities and a relatively low pack burden, are also provided. In certain aspects, arrangements of electrochemical cells and associated components are generally described. In some aspects, thermally conductive solid articles that can be used for aligning components of the battery are described. In some aspects, thermally insulating and compressible components for battery packs are generally described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Sion Power Corporation
    Inventors: Mark Niedzwiecki, Daniel G. Milobar, Ryan Michael Niccum, Jared M. Jennings, Homa Shayan
  • Publication number: 20230416397
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to CD73 (e.g., human CD73) and antagonize CD73 function. Also provided are anti-CD73 antibodies that further comprise a TGF?-binding moiety or a VEGF-binding moiety. The instant disclosure additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Nicholas S. WILSON, Jeremy D. Waight, Shawn Michael Jennings, Olga Ignatovich, Emmanuel Cyrille Pascal Briend, Benjamin Maxime Morin, Oliver Schon, Spencer Campbell
  • Patent number: 11692042
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to CD73 (e.g., human CD73) and antagonize CD73 function. Also provided are anti-CD73 antibodies that further comprise a TGF?-binding moiety or a VEGF-binding moiety. The instant disclosure additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: AGENUS INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Stuart Wilson, Jeremy Dale Waight, Shawn Michael Jennings, Olga Ignatovich, Emmanuel Cyrille Pascal Briend, Benjamin Maxime Morin, Oliver Schon, Spencer Campbell
  • Patent number: 11536757
    Abstract: A sensor assembly including a capacitive sensor, like a microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphone, and an electrical circuit therefor are disclosed. The electrical circuit includes a first transistor having an input gate connectable to the capacitive sensor, a second transistor having an input gate coupled to an output of the first transistor, a feedforward circuit interconnecting a back-gate of the second transistor and the output of the first transistor, and a filter circuit interconnecting the output of the first transistor and the input gate of the second transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Jennings, Dean Badillo
  • Publication number: 20220062402
    Abstract: This invention relates generally to polynucleotides, polypeptides, compositions, methods and uses for eliciting an immune response to Neisseria, methods for immunizing a subject against a Neisseria infection, and methods for preventing and/or treating a Neisseria infection in a subject. More particularly, the invention relates to antigenic Neisseria polypeptides and encoding polynucleotides, and related uses and methods, including use for preparing compositions and medicaments for eliciting an immune response to Neisseria, for immunizing a subject against a Neisseria infection, and for preventing and/or treating a Neisseria infection in a subject. The invention also relates to methods for producing therapeutic anti-Neisseria antigen-binding molecules, and therapeutic uses of those antigen-binding molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Freda E.-C. JEN, Kate SEIB, Evgeny SEMCHENKO, Michael JENNINGS
  • Publication number: 20210396795
    Abstract: A sensor assembly including a capacitive sensor, like a microelectromechanical (MEMS) microphone, and an electrical circuit therefor are disclosed. The electrical circuit includes a first transistor having an input gate connectable to the capacitive sensor, a second transistor having an input gate coupled to an output of the first transistor, a feedforward circuit interconnecting a back-gate of the second transistor and the output of the first transistor, and a filter circuit interconnecting the output of the first transistor and the input gate of the second transistor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Publication date: December 23, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Jennings, Dean Badillo
  • Publication number: 20210171634
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to LAG-3 (e.g., human LAG-3) and antagonize LAG-3 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Stuart Wilson, David Adam Savitsky, Shawn Michael Jennings, Marc van Dijk, Cornelia Anne Mundt
  • Publication number: 20210065124
    Abstract: An online system server determines changes in employment stages for the employees of an organization, where the organization may have multiple employees. The online system server may store employee record in an employment history database, and implement an employment history database schema facilitate the determination of the employment movement. The employment history database schema may define that the rows of an employee history database table includes pointers, where the pointers indicate a prior employer or a subsequent employer. Using formulated queries with the employment history database schema, the online system server allows an organization to more accurately log the changes in employment stages for the employees of the organization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Publication date: March 4, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Reeves, Michael Jennings
  • Publication number: 20210054074
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to LAG-3 (e.g., human LAG-3) and antagonize LAG-3 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Nicholas Stuart Wilson, David Adam Savitsky, Shawn Michael Jennings, Marc van Dijk, Cornelia Anne Mundt
  • Publication number: 20210039042
    Abstract: A water production system is provided that uses ambient air, a desiccant, a refrigeration cycle, and heat generated by the refrigeration cycle to generate water that may be used when water is scarce, for example during a natural disaster recovery operation. The system may use commercial electrical power in one embodiment, but when commercial electrical power is unavailable, it may rely on generator power. When it relies on generator power, the system may use excess heat exhausted by the generator to heat ambient air prior to its introduction to the desiccant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Mario Caggiano, Michael Jennings
  • Patent number: 10882908
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to LAG-3 (e.g., human LAG-3) and antagonize LAG-3 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Agenus Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Stuart Wilson, David Adam Savitsky, Shawn Michael Jennings, Marc van Dijk, Cornelia Anne Mundt
  • Patent number: 10844119
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to LAG-3 (e.g., human LAG-3) and antagonize LAG-3 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: AGENUS INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Stuart Wilson, David Adam Savitsky, Shawn Michael Jennings, Marc van Dijk, Cornelia Anne Mundt
  • Publication number: 20200362037
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to LAG-3 (e.g., human LAG-3) and antagonize LAG-3 function. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Nicholas Stuart Wilson, David Adam Savitsky, Shawn Michael Jennings, Marc van Dijk, Cornelia Anne Mundt
  • Publication number: 20200175453
    Abstract: Described herein are techniques for generating for each company in a set of companies a rating score that represents the desirability of employment with the company. The rating score for each company is derived by analyzing the member profiles of members of an online system to identify employee transitions between companies over certain time periods. At the beginning of a first time period, each company is assigned a baseline score. Each transition represents an employee departure (loss), for one company, and an employee hire (win), for the other company. With each transition by an employee to/from a company, the rating score of the impacted companies are adjusted—increased for a win, decreased for a loss—in some proportion that is relative to the current rating scores of the impacted companies. Accordingly, company A hires an employee from Company B, the rating scores of companies A and. B will impact the level of the adjustment that is made to their respective rating scores as a result of the transition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Sebastian Predescu, Blake Henderson, Michael Booz, Juanyan Li, Joseph Kelly, Michael Jennings
  • Patent number: 10657519
    Abstract: A device may perform a first authentication operation, associated with a contactless media device, using a first key. The first key may permit a security mode of the contactless media device to be modified. The device may cause the contactless media device to set the security mode to a first security mode that causes the contactless media device to secure at least one transmission from the contactless media device. The device may perform a second authentication operation, associated with the contactless media device, using a second key that permits information to be read from or written to the contactless media device. The device may read first secured information from or write second secured information to the contactless media device. The first secured information or the second secured information may be secured based on the security mode of the contactless media device being set to the first security mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: Accenture Global Services Limited
    Inventors: Avishek Somani, Sunil Raina, Michael Jennings
  • Patent number: 10616691
    Abstract: A microphone circuit having an amplifier with an input operably coupled to a microphone motor also includes a low pass filter operably coupled to the output of the amplifier and a positive feedback network that operably couples to an output of the low-pass filter and to the amplifier input. For many useful application settings the aforementioned amplifier has unity gain while the positive feedback network has a fractional gain less than unity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: Knowles Electronics, LLC
    Inventors: Dean Badillo, Michael Jennings
  • Publication number: 20200005204
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for determining the employment type of online-service members and the generation of employment reports. One method includes training a machine learning program (MLP) for categorizing employment type, for title and company, as field or full-time-corporate. The full-time-corporate category is for full-time corporate employees. For each employee title in a first company, the method includes accessing data for members of an online service having the title and employed by the first company, and determining, by the trained MLP, the employment type for the title and the first company based on the accessed data. Further, the method includes operations for providing a user interface for generating an employment report for the first company, the user interface including one or more options for filtering data based on the employment type, and for presenting the employment report on the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hitesh Kumar, Michael Jennings, Xin Xia, David Golland, Daniel Francis, Ted Tomlinson
  • Publication number: 20190352418
    Abstract: The instant disclosure provides antibodies that specifically bind to CD73 (e.g., human CD73) and antagonize CD73 function. Also provided are anti-CD73 antibodies that further comprise a TGF?-binding moiety or a VEGF-binding moiety. The instant disclosure additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising these antibodies, nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, expression vectors and host cells for making these antibodies, and methods of treating a subject using these antibodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Nicholas Stuart Wilson, Jeremy Dale Waight, Shawn Michael Jennings, Olga Ignatovich, Emmanuel Cyrille Pascal Briend, Benjamin Maxime Morin, Oliver Schon, Spencer Campbell
  • Publication number: 20190102725
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for determining employment start dates for members of a social network that have not indicated their employment start date in their profiles to generate employment market reports. One method includes an operation for receiving a request to infer a member start date for a member with an unknown member start date at a company. A distribution over time of known member start dates is determined for members of the social network with a known employment start date at the company, and a time interval is identified defining the boundaries for the member start date. A cohort group is selected from several cohort groups, that include members with known member start dates having a same cohort feature value as the member. A start-date probability distribution is determined based on the distribution of the known member start dates, the cohort group, and the time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Publication date: April 4, 2019
    Inventors: Xin Xia, Michael Jennings, Ted Tomlinson