Patents by Inventor Michael Le
Michael Le 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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Patent number: 12139613Abstract: The present invention relates to asphalt mixture compositions, suitable for building roads, pavements and paved areas, roofing, vehicle parking areas, house-drives, footways, recreation areas such as tennis courts or playgrounds, agricultural uses such as farm roads or animal cubicles, airfields, runways and access roads, hard standings, storage areas, hydraulic applications such as dam construction, coastal protection and other. The present invention also concerns a method of providing such compositions and various uses thereof. In particular, this invention concerns the replacement of, at least a part of, a binder or a binder composition comprised by said asphalt mixture composition, said binder or binder composition preferably being bitumen or polymer modified bitumen, with digestate additive and one or more further component(s), such as aggregate(s), additive(s) and/or filler(s).Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Renescience A/SInventors: Duy Michael Le, Linda Kaare Nørskov
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Patent number: 12142821Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for increasing a performance of a small wireless device comprising one or more conductive elements electrically coupled with an antenna. A user interface element of the wireless device may be configured to operate as a radiative component of an antenna structure. A power source element may be electrically isolated from a ground, resulting in decreased coupling with the antenna. Moreover, an antenna bandwidth may be increased, via modification of one or more antenna characteristics and/or the addition of one or more novel antenna components, in order to increase the detune-resiliency of the antenna. In addition, the radio frequency performance and reliability of the wireless device may be improved by maintaining fixed positioning between various components of the wireless device. Thus, the antenna and the one or more conductive elements may be configured to increase the device performance.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2022Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: Shure Acquisition Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Zachara, Michael Le
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Publication number: 20240213658Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for increasing a performance of a small wireless device comprising one or more conductive elements electrically coupled with an antenna. A user interface element of the wireless device may be configured to operate as a radiative component of an antenna structure. A power source element may be electrically isolated from a ground, resulting in decreased coupling with the antenna. Moreover, an antenna bandwidth may be increased, via modification of one or more antenna characteristics and/or the addition of one or more novel antenna components, in order to increase the detune-resiliency of the antenna. In addition, the radio frequency performance and reliability of the wireless device may be improved by maintaining fixed positioning between various components of the wireless device. Thus, the antenna and the one or more conductive elements may be configured to increase the device performance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2022Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Christopher Zachara, Michael Le
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Patent number: 11898014Abstract: The current invention concerns composition comprising bitumen, one or more plasticity modifying agent(s), and lignin, as well as methods and uses related to such compositions. In particular, compositions are disclosed with improved properties, such as mixing properties.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Inbicon A/SInventors: Duy Michael Le, Mia Frosch Mogensbæk Foverskov
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Publication number: 20210171775Abstract: The present invention relates to asphalt mixture compositions, suitable for building roads, pavements and paved areas, roofing, vehicle parking areas, house-drives, footways, recreation areas such as tennis courts or playgrounds, agricultural uses such as farm roads or animal cubicles, airfields, runways and access roads, hard standings, storage areas, hydraulic applications such as dam construction, coastal protection and other. The present invention also concerns a method of providing such compositions and various uses thereof. In particular, this invention concerns the replacement of, at least a part of, a binder or a binder composition comprised by said asphalt mixture composition, said binder or binder composition preferably being bitumen or polymer modified bitumen, with digestate additive and one or more further component(s), such as aggregate(s), additive(s) and/or filler(s).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Duy Michael Le, Linda Kaare Nørskov
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Publication number: 20210094000Abstract: Method for treating a gaseous feedstock containing molecular oxygen and one or more volatile compounds, which method comprises the following steps: a) bringing said gaseous feedstock containing molecular oxygen and one or more volatile organic compounds into contact with a monolith comprising silica and titanium dioxide, said monolith comprising a type-I macropore volume, of which the diameter of the pores is greater than 50 nm and less than or equal to 1000 nm, of between from 0.1 to 3 ml/g, and a type-II macropore volume, of which the diameter of the pores is greater than 1 ?m and less than or equal to 10 ?m, of between from 1 to 8 ml/g; b) irradiating said monolith with at least one irradiation source producing at least one wavelength lower than 400 nm in order to convert said volatile organic compounds into carbon dioxide, said step b) being carried out at a temperature between ?30° C. and +200° C. and at a pressure between 0.01 MPa and 70 MPa.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2019Publication date: April 1, 2021Applicant: IFP Energies NouvellesInventors: Sophie BERNADET, Antoine FECANT, Serge RAVAINE, Renal-Vasco BACKOV, Michael LE BECHEC, Sylvie LACOMBE
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Patent number: 10936432Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for implementing a fault-tolerant parallel computation framework are disclosed. Execution of an application comprises execution of a plurality of processes in parallel. Process states for the processes are stored during the execution of the application. The processes use a message passing interface for exchanging messages with one other. The messages are exchanged and the process states are stored at a plurality of checkpoints during execution of the application. A final successful checkpoint is determined after the execution of the application is terminated. The final successful checkpoint represents the most recent checkpoint at which the processes exchanged messages successfully. Execution of the application is resumed from the final successful checkpoint using the process states stored at the final successful checkpoint.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Tin-Yu Lee, Rejith George Joseph, Scott Michael Le Grand, Saurabh Dileep Baji
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Patent number: 10903697Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for multi-phase coil control in power transfer systems. One example power transfer device generally includes a plurality of coils configured to generate at least one charging field, the plurality of coils comprising a first coil and a second coil, and a controller configured to identify that a coupling factor between the first coil and a third coil, which is external to the power transfer device, is at or below a threshold, and to adjust, based on the identification, one or more parameters associated with a current applied to the first coil to transfer power from the first coil to the second coil.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 26, 2021Assignee: WiTricity CorporationInventors: Chang-Yu Huang, Mickel Bipin Budhia, Michael Le Gallais Kissin, Jonathan Beaver, Nicholas Athol Keeling
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Patent number: 10886692Abstract: The present invention relates to telecommunication techniques and integrated circuit (IC) devices. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a laser deriver apparatus that includes a main DAC section and a mini DAC section. The main DAC section processes input signal received from a pre-driver array and generates an intermediate output signal. The mini DAC section provides a compensation signal to reduce distortion of the intermediate output signal. The intermediate output signal is coupled to output terminals through a cascode section and/or a T-coil section. There are other embodiments as well.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2020Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: INPHI CORPORATIONInventors: Karim Abdelhalim, Jorge Pernillo, Halil Cirit, Michael Le
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Patent number: 10886786Abstract: In certain aspects, methods and systems for controlling power transfer at a wireless power receiver are disclosed. In certain aspects, a method includes determining a duty cycle of a DC-DC converter of the wireless power receiver. The method further includes determining a duty cycle limit for an AC switching controller based on the determined duty cycle. The method further includes determining an operational duty cycle for the AC switching controller. The method further includes comparing the operational duty cycle to the duty cycle limit. The method further includes adjusting at least one of a desired voltage and current input to the DC-DC converter when the operational duty cycle is greater than the duty cycle limit.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: WiTricity CorporationInventors: Chang-Yu Huang, Michael Le Gallais Kissin, Jonathan Beaver
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Patent number: 10846096Abstract: Memory management is provided for processors, such as GPUs used to process data using a trained machine learning model. Requests received to a CPU can be stored to a request queue until the queue is full, or until a timeout value has been reached for periods of lower activity. The requests can then be batched and sent to a GPU as a single message on a single thread. Memory can be pre-allocated, and the trained model loaded into GPU memory once for processing of the relevant batches. The individual requests can be processed by the GPU and the results analyzed to determine at least a subset of results to return to the CPU, which can be provided back as results of the processing.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: A9.com, Inc.Inventors: Kiuk Chung, Edward Kandrot, Scott Michael Le Grand
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Patent number: 10797506Abstract: In certain aspects, methods and systems for converting DC power to AC power by a wireless power receiver are disclosed. Certain aspects provide a wireless power receiver including a resonant circuit. The wireless power receiver includes a first switching circuit coupled to the resonant circuit, the first switching circuit configured to act as an inverter and generate a first signal, based on an output from a battery, at a resonant frequency of the resonant circuit, the first signal having an envelope at a first frequency. The wireless power receiver includes a second switching circuit coupled to the resonant circuit that is configured to bias the second switching circuit at the resonant frequency in response to the first signal, wherein the second switching circuit is configured to act as a rectifier and is configured to extract the envelope to generate a second signal at half of the first frequency.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2018Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: WiTricity CorporationInventors: Edward Van Boheemen, Chang-Yu Huang, Michael Le Gallais Kissin
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Publication number: 20200303968Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for multi-phase coil control in power transfer systems. One example power transfer device generally includes a plurality of coils configured to generate at least one charging field, the plurality of coils comprising a first coil and a second coil, and a controller configured to identify that a coupling factor between the first coil and a third coil, which is external to the power transfer device, is at or below a threshold, and to adjust, based on the identification, one or more parameters associated with a current applied to the first coil to transfer power from the first coil to the second coil.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2019Publication date: September 24, 2020Applicant: WiTricity CorporationInventors: Chang-Yu Huang, Mickel Bipin Budhia, Michael Le Gallais Kissin, Jonathan Beaver, Nicholas Athol Keeling
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Patent number: 10720277Abstract: Systems and methods are described for a ferrite arrangement that mitigates dimensional-tolerance effects on performance of a wireless charging pad, such as a WEVC pad. These systems and methods include a power-transfer structure having ferrite bars arranged to form ferrite strips in a staggered pattern to provide a path for magnetic flux induced by a magnetic field. The staggered pattern includes a series of ferrite strips that alternate defined starting-point locations at opposing sides of the power-transfer structure. Ending-point locations of the ferrite strips are not defined, but are based on an accumulation of lengthwise dimensional tolerances of the ferrite bars used to form the ferrite strips. Using the staggered pattern in a base power-transfer structure defines a coupling range for coupling with a vehicle power-transfer structure and a range limit for associated magnetic field emissions by the base power-transfer structure.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: WiTricity CorporationInventors: Mickel Bipin Budhia, Chang-Yu Huang, Nicholas Athol Keeling, Michael Le Gallais Kissin
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Patent number: 10659523Abstract: At the request of a customer, a distributed computing service provider may create multiple clusters under a single customer account, and may isolate them from each other. For example, various isolation mechanisms (or combinations of isolation mechanisms) may be applied when creating the clusters to isolate a given cluster of compute nodes from network traffic from compute nodes of other clusters (e.g., by creating the clusters in different VPCs); to restrict access to data, metadata, or resources that are within the given cluster of compute nodes or that are associated with the given cluster of compute nodes by compute nodes of other clusters in the distributed computing system (e.g., using an instance metadata tag and/or a storage system prefix); and/or restricting access to application programming interfaces of the distributed computing service by the given cluster of compute nodes (e.g., using an identity and access manager).Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2014Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Rejith George Joseph, Tin-Yu Lee, Scott Michael Le Grand, Saurabh Dileep Baji
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Publication number: 20200153192Abstract: The present invention relates to telecommunication techniques and integrated circuit (IC) devices. In a specific embodiment, the present invention provides a laser deriver apparatus that includes a main DAC section and a mini DAC section. The main DAC section processes input signal received from a pre-driver array and generates an intermediate output signal. The mini DAC section provides a compensation signal to reduce distortion of the intermediate output signal. The intermediate output signal is coupled to output terminals through a cascode section and/or a T-coil section. There are other embodiments as well.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 15, 2020Publication date: May 14, 2020Inventors: Karim ABDELHALIM, Jorge PERNILLO, Halil CIRIT, Michael LE
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Publication number: 20200105384Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a sample preparation and analysis system based on detected unique sample identities and locations is described. A method embodiment includes, but is not limited to, storing on a sample analysis information system a sample type and a sample type protocol for execution by a sample preparation system via a sample data manager; storing on the sample analysis information system an association between a unique identifier positioned on a sample container and the sample type with a sample logging manager; identifying the unique identifier at the sample preparation system with an identifier capture device of the sample preparation system; accessing from the sample analysis information system the sample type protocol based on the sample type associated with the unique identifier; and queuing a sampling procedure to execute the sample type protocol based on a sample order assigned to the sample type via the sample data manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Michael P. Field, Daniel R. Wiederin, Guosheng Zhang, Kevin Hahn, Liang Zhang, Michael Le, Karl Hauke
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Publication number: 20200105383Abstract: Systems and methods for managing a sample preparation and analysis system based on detected unique sample identities and locations is described. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a sample analysis information system communicatively connected with each of a sample data manager, a sample logging manager, and a sample preparation system, wherein the sample data manager stores on the sample analysis information system a sample type with a sample type protocol for execution by the sample preparation system, the sample logging manager assigns the sample type with a unique identifier positioned on a sample container, and the sample preparation system includes an identifier capture device to identify the unique identifier, access the sample type protocol from the sample analysis information system, and execute the sample type protocol responsive to a queue associated with a sample order assigned to the sample type via the sample data manager.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2019Publication date: April 2, 2020Inventors: Michael P. Field, Daniel R. Wiederin, Guosheng Zhang, Kevin Hahn, Liang Zhang, Michael Le, Karl Hauke
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Patent number: 10600564Abstract: A multiphase IPT primary track conductor arrangement comprising a first phase conductor and a second phase conductor, the conductors being arranged substantially in a plane and so as to overlap each other and being arranged such that there is substantially balanced mutual coupling between the phase conductors.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2011Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: AUCKLAND UNISERVICES LIMITEDInventors: Mickel Bipin Budhia, Grant Anthony Covic, John Talbot Boys, Michael Le Galais Kissin
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Patent number: D973899Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2020Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: SOCLEAN INC.Inventors: Kurt Michael Maw, Robert A. Charles, Michael Le, Julianna Miller