Patents by Inventor Michael Lucas
Michael Lucas 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: 20250129800Abstract: A siphon to facilitate siphoning of a liquid from a tank is disclosed. The siphon includes a base to support the siphon on a bottom of the tank and a pipe coupled to the base and extending in a vertical direction. The pipe includes an inlet opening arranged facing and spaced apart from the base defining a gap therebetween and an outlet opening arranged distally from the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2023Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventor: Michael Lucas
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Publication number: 20240400367Abstract: A method for determining required volumetric mass flow of alcoholic blended beverage ingredients for a continuous blend system using a computing device includes receiving a required syrup/water ratio, a selected target alcohol strength, an alcohol strength of an alcohol supply, a type of container, and a selected container filling rate; calculating a required volumetric mass flow of ingredients, a required alcohol volumetric mass flow of the alcohol supply, a required blended syrup and water volumetric mass flow of a proportioner, and a required syrup volumetric mass flow of a syrup supply to the proportioner for the production fill; calculating a volumetric mass flow of water in the required alcohol volumetric mass flow of the alcohol supply and a required water volumetric mass flow of a water supply to the proportioner for the production fill accounting for the calculated volumetric mass flow of; and, outputting instructions to the continuous blend system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2023Publication date: December 5, 2024Applicant: Bevcorp, LLCInventor: Lawrence Michael Lucas
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Publication number: 20240402795Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2024Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Andrew Jackson KLEIN, Cory Ryan BRAMALL, Kyle MOURITSEN, Ethan Harris ARNOWITZ, Jeremy Bruce KERSEY, Victor JIA, Justin Thomas SAVINO, Stephen Michael LUCAS, Darren A. BENNETT
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Publication number: 20240302809Abstract: Process control systems for operating process plants are disclosed herein. The process control systems include control modules that are decoupled from the I/O architecture of the process plants using signal objects or generic shadow blocks. This decoupling is effected by using the signal objects or generic shadow blocks to manage at least part of the communication between the control modules and the field devices. Signal objects may convert between protocols used by control modules and field devices, thus decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture. Generic shadow blocks may be automatically configured to mimic the operation of field devices within a controller executing the control modules, thus partially decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture by using the shadow blocks to manage communication between the control modules and the field devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Larry Oscar Jundt, Gary K. Law, Edward McDevitt, Matt Stoner, Godfrey R. Sherriff, David R. Denison, Mark J. Nixon, James R. Balentine, J. Michael Lucas, Stephen Gilbert
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Patent number: 12067159Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Andrew Jackson Klein, Cory Ryan Bramall, Kyle Mouritsen, Ethan Harris Arnowitz, Jeremy Bruce Kersey, Victor Jia, Justin Thomas Savino, Stephen Michael Lucas, Darren A. Bennett
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Patent number: 12012217Abstract: An aircraft includes a fuselage, a main entry door with an associated passenger loading zone, an auxiliary power unit (APU) in the fuselage, and an APU inlet assembly. The APU inlet assembly has an inlet duct, and inlet door, and means for redirecting sound waves coupled to or integrated with an interior side of the inlet door. The inlet duct has a first end coupled to the APU, and a second end associated with the inlet door. The inlet door moves between a closed position and an open position. The means for redirecting sound waves is positioned at a particular location on the interior side of the inlet door, and includes certain acoustic features and characteristics. The particular location and the acoustic features and characteristics cooperate to redirect sound waves generated by the APU away from the passenger loading zone when the inlet door is in the open position.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: GULFSTREAM AEROSPACE CORPORATIONInventor: Michael Lucas
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Publication number: 20240168542Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2024Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Andrew Jackson KLEIN, Cory Ryan BRAMALL, Kyle MOURITSEN, Ethan Harris ARNOWITZ, Jeremy Bruce KERSEY, Victor JIA, Justin Thomas SAVINO, Stephen Michael LUCAS, Darren A. BENNETT
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Patent number: 11914759Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC.Inventors: Andrew Jackson Klein, Cory Ryan Bramall, Kyle Mouritsen, Ethan Harris Arnowitz, Jeremy Bruce Kersey, Victor Jia, Justin Thomas Savino, Stephen Michael Lucas, Darren A. Bennett
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Publication number: 20240059424Abstract: An aircraft includes a fuselage, a main entry door with an associated passenger loading zone, an auxiliary power unit (APU) in the fuselage, and an APU inlet assembly. The APU inlet assembly has an inlet duct, and inlet door, and means for redirecting sound waves coupled to or integrated with an interior side of the inlet door. The inlet duct has a first end coupled to the APU, and a second end associated with the inlet door. The inlet door moves between a closed position and an open position. The means for redirecting sound waves is positioned at a particular location on the interior side of the inlet door, and includes certain acoustic features and characteristics. The particular location and the acoustic features and characteristics cooperate to redirect sound waves generated by the APU away from the passenger loading zone when the inlet door is in the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2022Publication date: February 22, 2024Applicant: Gulfstream Aerospace CorporationInventor: Michael Lucas
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Publication number: 20230135974Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2021Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Andrew Jackson KLEIN, Cory Ryan BRAMALL, Kyle MOURITSEN, Ethan Harris ARNOWITZ, Jeremy Bruce KERSEY, Victor JIA, Justin Thomas SAVINO, Stephen Michael LUCAS, Darren BENNETT
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Publication number: 20230137920Abstract: Examples of augmented reality (AR) environment control advantageously employ multi-factor intention determination and include: performing a multi-factor intention determination for summoning a control object (e.g., a menu, a keyboard, or an input panel) using a set of indications in an AR environment, the set of indications comprising a plurality of indications (e.g., two or more of a palm-facing gesture, an eye gaze, a head gaze, and a finger position simultaneously); and based on at least the set of indications indicating a summoning request by a user, displaying the control object in a position proximate to the user in the AR environment (e.g., docked to a hand of the user). Some examples continue displaying the control object while at least one indication remains, and continue displaying the control object during a timer period if one of the indications is lost.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2022Publication date: May 4, 2023Inventors: Andrew Jackson KLEIN, Cory Ryan BRAMALL, Kyle MOURITSEN, Ethan Harris ARNOWITZ, Jeremy Bruce KERSEY, Victor JIA, Justin Thomas SAVINO, Stephen Michael LUCAS, Darren A. BENNETT
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Patent number: 11609542Abstract: Process control systems for operating process plants are disclosed herein. The process control systems include control modules that are decoupled from the I/O architecture of the process plants using signal objects or generic shadow blocks. This decoupling is effected by using the signal objects or generic shadow blocks to manage at least part of the communication between the control modules and the field devices. Signal objects may convert between protocols used by control modules and field devices, thus decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture. Generic shadow blocks may be automatically configured to mimic the operation of field devices within a controller executing the control modules, thus partially decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture by using the shadow blocks to manage communication between the control modules and the field devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 21, 2023Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Larry Oscar Jundt, Gary Law, Edward McDevitt, Matt Stoner, Godfrey R. Sherriff, David R. Denison, Mark J. Nixon, James R. Balentine, J. Michael Lucas, Stephen Gilbert
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Publication number: 20220049387Abstract: A sock having a foot bed configured to expand at least two sizes on the National Association of Hosiery Manufacturers (NAHM) sock size measuring system while comfortably accommodating the foot of the wearer. The body portion and foot bed are mesh knit substantially entirely on the same needle cylinder using heavier body yarns, lighter denier nylon fibers and/or stronger spandex fibers than is typical for manufacturing socks.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2020Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Kayser-Roth CorporationInventor: Michael Lucas
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Patent number: 11214374Abstract: Aircraft, vibration isolation assemblies, and methods of assembling vibration isolation assemblies are provided. An aircraft includes a vibration isolation assembly. The vibration isolation assembly includes a mounting track, a plate, a clamp block, a vibration isolator, and a support fitting. The mounting track defines a cavity and includes flanges that define an opening to the cavity. The plate is configured to be positioned on the flanges outside of the cavity. The clamp block is configured to be fastened to the plate under the flanges of the mounting track within the cavity. The vibration isolator is configured to be laterally constrained by the clamp block within the cavity. The support fitting is configured to be secured to the vibration isolator outside of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: January 4, 2022Assignee: Gulfstream Aerospace CorporationInventors: Michael Lucas, Kristopher P. Lynch, Benjamin Frank Wilson, Jeffrey Jonas
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Publication number: 20210210184Abstract: A method for determining whether a patient may be enrolled into a clinical trial includes the steps of examining the patient's medical record from an electronic health record system, deriving a plurality of first concepts from the medical record, normalizing each concept in the plurality of first concepts to produce, for each normalization, a normalized concept, comparing each normalized concept to a list of study criteria, to indicate if the normalized concept meets the criteria, and if each criteria is met, indicating that the patient is not ineligible for enrollment in the clinical trialType: ApplicationFiled: March 19, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Michael Lucas, Jonathan Ozeran, Jason Taylor, Louis Fernandes
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Patent number: 10957433Abstract: A method includes the steps of determining a first concept from a text of a medical record from an electronic health record system, the first concept relating to a patient, identifying a match to the first concept in a first list of concepts, wherein the first list of concepts is not a predetermined authority, referencing the first concept with an entity in a database of related concepts, identifying a match to a second concept in a second list of concepts, the second list of concepts not directly linked to the first list of concepts except by a relationship to the entity, wherein the second list of concepts is the predetermined authority, and providing the second concept as an identifier of the patient's medical record.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: Tempus Labs, Inc.Inventors: Michael Lucas, Jonathan Ozeran, Jason Taylor, Louis Fernandes
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Patent number: 10909137Abstract: Techniques for streaming big data in a process plant are disclosed. Generally, these techniques facilitate storage or communication of process control data, including alarms, parameters, events, and the like, in near real-time. Receivers of big data, such as big data historians or devices requesting specific data, are configured via an initial set of metadata, and thereafter receive updated metadata upon requesting it from the transmitting device, such as when the receiving device encounters an identifier in the data, which identifier was not defined in the metadata previously received.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2014Date of Patent: February 2, 2021Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Terrence L. Blevins, Mark J. Nixon, Ken J. Beoughter, Daniel D. Christensen, J. Michael Lucas, Paul R. Muston
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Publication number: 20200301388Abstract: Process control systems for operating process plants are disclosed herein. The process control systems include control modules that are decoupled from the I/O architecture of the process plants using signal objects or generic shadow blocks. This decoupling is effected by using the signal objects or generic shadow blocks to manage at least part of the communication between the control modules and the field devices. Signal objects may convert between protocols used by control modules and field devices, thus decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture. Generic shadow blocks may be automatically configured to mimic the operation of field devices within a controller executing the control modules, thus partially decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture by using the shadow blocks to manage communication between the control modules and the field devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2020Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: Larry Oscar Jundt, Gary Law, Edward McDevitt, Matt Stoner, Godfrey R. Sherriff, David R. Denison, Mark J. Nixon, James R. Balentine, J. Michael Lucas, Stephen Gilbert
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Publication number: 20200176098Abstract: A method includes the steps of determining a first concept from a text of a medical record from an electronic health record system, the first concept relating to a patient, identifying a match to the first concept in a first list of concepts, wherein the first list of concepts is not a predetermined authority, referencing the first concept with an entity in a database of related concepts, identifying a match to a second concept in a second list of concepts, the second list of concepts not directly linked to the first list of concepts except by a relationship to the entity, wherein the second list of concepts is the predetermined authority, and providing the second concept as an identifier of the patient's medical record.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Michael Lucas, Jonathan Ozeran, Jason Taylor, Louis Fernandes
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Patent number: 10671038Abstract: Process control systems for operating process plants are disclosed herein. The process control systems include control modules that are decoupled from the I/O architecture of the process plants using signal objects or generic shadow blocks. This decoupling is effected by using the signal objects or generic shadow blocks to manage at least part of the communication between the control modules and the field devices. Signal objects may convert between protocols used by control modules and field devices, thus decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture. Generic shadow blocks may be automatically configured to mimic the operation of field devices within a controller executing the control modules, thus partially decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture by using the shadow blocks to manage communication between the control modules and the field devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: FISHER-ROSEMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Larry Oscar Jundt, Gary Law, Edward McDevitt, Matt Stoner, Godfrey R. Sherriff, David R. Denison, Mark J. Nixon, James R. Balentine, J. Michael Lucas, Stephen Gilbert