Patents by Inventor Michael Lyons
Michael Lyons 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: 20240415331Abstract: A conveyor toaster includes a toaster cabinet, an opening extending through the toaster cabinet and configured to receive a food product, and a conveyor assembly positioned in the toaster housing and associated with the feed opening. The conveyor assembly includes a conveyor belt configured to be operated by a drive motor to transport the food product past a heating element. The conveyor toaster further includes a an input sensor arranged proximate the opening and configured to detect the food product and a processor operably coupled to the input sensor and the conveyor assembly. The processor is configured to change between an operating condition with a first belt speed and an idle condition with a second belt speed based upon a signal from the input sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2024Publication date: December 19, 2024Applicant: Marmon Foodservice Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Lyons, Kyle Kestner, Greg Klostermann, Elizabeth Bertness, Michael Rainone, Caleb Nehls
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Patent number: 12156001Abstract: A multi-zone media system and method for providing multi-zone media. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly presents media content (e.g., audio content) to a user as the user moves throughout a premises.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
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Patent number: 12154177Abstract: Systems and methods are described for using data collected by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to generate insurance claim estimates that an insured individual may quickly review, approve, or modify. When an insurance-related event occurs, such as a vehicle collision, crash, or disaster, one or more UAVs are dispatched to the scene of the event to collect various data, including data related to vehicle or real property (insured asset) damage. With the insured's permission or consent, the data collected by the UAVs may then be analyzed to generate an estimated insurance claim for the insured. The estimated insurance claim may be sent to the insured individual, such as to their mobile device via wireless communication or data transmission, for subsequent review and approval. As a result, insurance claim handling and/or the online customer experience may be enhanced.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance CompanyInventors: Nathan L. Tofte, Timothy W. Ryan, Nathan W. Baumann, Michael Shawn Jacob, Joshua David Lillie, Brian N. Harvey, Roxane Lyons, Rosemarie Geier Grant
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Publication number: 20240386473Abstract: A method for monitoring user purchase making activity is described. The method includes logging a potential user purchase and purchase communications corresponding to a potential option available for purchase by a user. The method also includes predicting whether loss aversion is a factor in a purchase making process of the potential option available for purchase by the user. The method further includes determining a purchase recommendation in response to identifying that the loss aversion is the factor in the potential purchase making process of the potential option available for purchase by the user. The method also includes displaying the purchase recommendation based on a use frequency of the option purchased by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2023Publication date: November 21, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Francine R. CHEN, Kenton Michael LYONS, Totte Harri HARINEN, Alexandre Leo Stephen FILIPOWICZ
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Patent number: 12148411Abstract: A system and method for quieting unwanted sound. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method, for example implemented in a premises-based or home audio system, for quieting unwanted sound at a particular location.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo
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Patent number: 12143456Abstract: A system and method for providing zone-specific media to a user. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide a system and method that flexibly selects and provides media content (e.g., audio content), where such content is selected based, at least in part, on a user location (e.g., location within a premises).Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2023Date of Patent: November 12, 2024Assignee: SOUND UNITED, LLC.Inventors: Bradley M. Starobin, Matthew Lyons, Stuart W. Lumsden, Michael DiTullo, Paul O'Connor
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Publication number: 20240354863Abstract: Various techniques are described utilizing one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or “drones”) for various disaster and/or catastrophe-related purposes. UAVs may collect data in an attempt to predict the occurrence and/or extent of a catastrophe and/or to mitigate the impact of a catastrophe before and, if not at that time, once it has occurred. The UAVs may perform various tasks such that the damage to property caused by a catastrophe (or potential catastrophe) may be eliminated or mitigated. A UAV may receive a flight path based on an energy consumption related condition and operate based on the flight path. Operating based on the flight path includes docking the UAV with a power supply device for charging a power source of the UAV.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2024Publication date: October 24, 2024Inventors: Nathan L. Tofte, Timothy W. Ryan, Nathan W. Baumann, Michael Shawn Jacob, Joshua David Lillie, Brian N. Harvey, Roxane Lyons, Rosemarie Geier Grant
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Publication number: 20240320442Abstract: A method for a credible information guide is described. The method includes identifying a source of content accessed by a user as a non-credible information source if a credibility score is less than a credibility threshold. The method also includes determining a similarity of a message between content of the non-credible information source and a credible content from one or more credible information sources. The method further includes recommending a selected information source to the user, having a credibility score between the non-credible information source and the one or more credible information sources when a lack of message similarity is determined. The method also includes continuing the recommending of selected information sources having gradually increasing credibility scores until a credible source accessed by the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: September 26, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Alexandre Leo Stephen FILIPOWICZ, Francine R . CHEN, Totte Harri HARINEN, Kenton Michael LYONS
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Publication number: 20240299547Abstract: The invention describes ultrasound-responsive particles comprising a polypeptide shell. The surface of the particle has one or more indentations which are generally able to entrap a gas bubble. The particles are capable of generating inertial cavitation on exposure to ultrasound. The particles are therefore useful in methods of treatment which involve inertial cavitation and in the delivery of drugs to target sites via inertial cavitation.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Brian LYONS, Michael GRAY, Ken SUSLICK, Constantin COUSSIOS
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Publication number: 20240299308Abstract: The invention describes ultrasound-responsive particles having a core containing one or more therapeutic or diagnostic agents, and a polypeptide shell. The surface of the particle has one or more indentations which are generally able to entrap a gas bubble. The particles are capable of generating inertial cavitation on exposure to ultrasound. The inertial cavitation properties of the particles can be used to enhance delivery of the therapeutic or diagnostic agents to target sites in vivo.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: September 12, 2024Inventors: Brian LYONS, Michael GRAY, Ken SUSLICK, Constantin COUSSIOS
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Publication number: 20240296503Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may facilitate the generation of a virtual reconstruction model of a vehicle collision. UAVs may collect data (including images) related to the vehicle collision, such as with the insured's permission, which may be received by an external computing device associated with the insurer and utilized to perform a photogrammetric analysis of the images to determine vehicle impact points, the road layout at the scene of the collision, the state of the traffic light at the scene of the collision, the speeds and directions of vehicles, etc. This data may be used to generate a virtual reconstruction model of the vehicle collision. An insurer may use the virtual reconstruction model to perform various insurance-related tasks, such as allocating fault to drivers or autonomous vehicles involved in the vehicle collision, and adjustment of insurance pricing based upon the fault allocation.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Inventors: Nathan L. Tofte, Timothy W. Ryan, Nathan W. Baumann, Michael Shawn Jacob, Joshua David Lillie, Brian N. Harvey, Roxane Lyons, Rosemarie Geier Grant
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Patent number: 12062097Abstract: Various techniques are described utilizing one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or “drones”) for various disaster and/or catastrophe-related purposes. UAVs may collect data in an attempt to predict the occurrence and/or extent of a catastrophe and/or to mitigate the impact of a catastrophe before and, if not at that time, once it has occurred. The UAVs may perform various tasks such that the damage to property caused by a catastrophe (or potential catastrophe) may be eliminated or mitigated. A UAV may receive a flight path based on an energy consumption related condition and operate based on the flight path. Operating based on the flight path includes docking the UAV with a power supply device for charging a power source of the UAV.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 13, 2024Assignee: STATE FARM MUTUAL AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE COMPANYInventors: Nathan L. Tofte, Timothy W. Ryan, Nathan W. Baumann, Michael Shawn Jacob, Joshua David Lillie, Brian N. Harvey, Roxane Lyons, Rosemarie Geier Grant
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Publication number: 20240257180Abstract: A financial institution computing system includes an account database with a plurality of transaction parameters with respect to a financial account of a customer, a receptiveness metrics circuit structured to extract the plurality of transaction parameters from the account database, the transaction parameters including at least one financial transaction record, and indicative of a mode of the customer, and determine one or more receptiveness metrics attributed to the customer based on the mode of the customer, the one or more receptiveness metrics indicating likelihoods of the customer converting an interaction from the financial institution, wherein the interaction includes an avatar that is an aged version of the customer, and an interaction generation circuit structured to transmit the interaction to the customer at an optimal time based on the one or more receptiveness metrics.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Wayne Barakat, Michael Fitzpatrick, Mark A. Frank, Yvette M. Hatton, Pey-Ning Huang, Michael Lyon, Kimberly D. Peck, Melissa Schroder Viscomi
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Publication number: 20240259530Abstract: Examples are disclosed that relate to computing devices, head-mounted display devices and methods for remote collaborations. In one example a computing device receives receive a spatial mapping of a first three-dimensional environment and determines that a volumetric space in the spatial mapping satisfies at least one collaboration criterion. The collaboration criterion comprises a first object in the first three-dimensional environment and a second object in a second three-dimensional environment sharing a common semantic label. Based on determining that the volumetric space satisfies the collaboration criterion, a shared hologram is displayed by a first display device at the first object in the first environment and by a second display device at the second object in the second three-dimensional environment.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2024Publication date: August 1, 2024Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Todd Michael LYON, Jacob A. BOMGARDNER, Scott David PETILL
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Publication number: 20240242570Abstract: An electronic gaming system includes a processor configured to execute instructions, which when executed, cause the processor to at least receive a wager amount from an electronic gaming machine (EGM), where the wager amount is associated with a player wager in a base bingo game played by a player of the EGM. The instructions also cause the processor to receive a bingo card parameter from the EGM, where the received bingo card parameter is associated with a bingo card provided to the player in the base bingo game, determine, based upon the wager amount, an award eligibility probability, and determine, based at least in part upon the award eligibility probability, whether the player is eligible to receive an award, and in response, compare the received bingo card parameter to a plurality of bingo card parameters, the plurality of bingo card parameters defining a paytable. Moreover, the instructions may cause the processor to determine, based upon the comparison, whether to provide the award to the player.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2024Publication date: July 18, 2024Inventors: Michael Casey, Shawn Lyons, Eldon Ideus, II, Eric Telaak, Alok Trivedi, Shailendra Tomar, Rakesh Mehta, Jitin Garg
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Publication number: 20240232247Abstract: A method for inferring intent and discrepancies in a label coding scheme is described. The method includes compiling data indicating how one or more individuals labeled unstructured content according to the label coding scheme comprising a plurality of labels. The method also includes analyzing a context associated with a content labeled in a particular manner by the one or more individuals. The method further includes detecting discrepancies of meaning for a particular label used by the one or more individuals. The method also includes inferring a strategic thinking of the one or more individuals associated with the discrepancies of meaning detected for the particular label. The method further includes displaying recorded metadata associated with the strategic thinking and the discrepancies of meaning detected for the particular label between the one or more individuals regarding a coded dataset.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2022Publication date: July 11, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yin-Ying CHEN, Shabnam HAKIMI, Kenton Michael LYONS, Yanxia ZHANG, Matthew Kyung-Soo HONG, Totte HARINEN, Monica PhuongThao VAN, Charlene WU
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Patent number: 12032618Abstract: A method for inferring intent and discrepancies in a label coding scheme is described. The method includes compiling data indicating how one or more individuals labeled unstructured content according to the label coding scheme comprising a plurality of labels. The method also includes analyzing a context associated with a content labeled in a particular manner by the one or more individuals. The method further includes detecting discrepancies of meaning for a particular label used by the one or more individuals. The method also includes inferring a strategic thinking of the one or more individuals associated with the discrepancies of meaning detected for the particular label. The method further includes displaying recorded metadata associated with the strategic thinking and the discrepancies of meaning detected for the particular label between the one or more individuals regarding a coded dataset.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2022Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yin-Ying Chen, Shabnam Hakimi, Kenton Michael Lyons, Yanxia Zhang, Matthew Kyung-Soo Hong, Totte Harinen, Monica PhuongThao Van, Charlene Wu
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Patent number: 12017803Abstract: A method for capturing and deorbiting space debris includes: deploying a space debris capturing device in planetary orbit; receiving an initial target set including a first database of space debris targets that are within range of the space debris capturing device; performing a first algorithm to convert the initial target set to an accessible target set including a second database of space debris targets that are within range of the space debris capturing device; performing a second algorithm to convert the accessible target set to a final target set including a third database of space debris targets to be captured by the space debris capturing device capturing the first space debris target via a capture mechanism of the space debris capturing device; jettisoning the capture mechanism and the first captured space debris target into a decaying orbit; one of the remaining space debris targets of the third database; and positioning the space debris capturing device and the final captured space debris target intType: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteInventors: Jackson Michael Lyons, Kurt Anderson
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Patent number: 11972457Abstract: A financial institution computing system includes an account database with a plurality of transaction parameters with respect to a financial account of a customer, a receptiveness metrics circuit structured to extract the plurality of transaction parameters from the account database, the transaction parameters including at least one financial transaction record, and indicative of a mode of the customer, and determine one or more receptiveness metrics attributed to the customer based on the mode of the customer, the one or more receptiveness metrics indicating likelihoods of the customer converting an interaction from the financial institution, wherein the interaction includes an avatar that is an aged version of the customer, and an interaction generation circuit structured to transmit the interaction to the customer at an optimal time based on the one or more receptiveness metrics.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Wayne Barakat, Michael Fitzpatrick, Mark A. Frank, Yvette M. Hatton, Pey-Ning Huang, Michael Lyon, Kimberly D. Peck, Melissa Schroder Viscomi
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Publication number: 20240134898Abstract: A method for inferring intent and discrepancies in a label coding scheme is described. The method includes compiling data indicating how one or more individuals labeled unstructured content according to the label coding scheme comprising a plurality of labels. The method also includes analyzing a context associated with a content labeled in a particular manner by the one or more individuals. The method further includes detecting discrepancies of meaning for a particular label used by the one or more individuals. The method also includes inferring a strategic thinking of the one or more individuals associated with the discrepancies of meaning detected for the particular label. The method further includes displaying recorded metadata associated with the strategic thinking and the discrepancies of meaning detected for the particular label between the one or more individuals regarding a coded dataset.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: April 25, 2024Applicants: TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Yin-Ying CHEN, Shabnam HAKIMI, Kenton Michael LYONS, Yanxia ZHANG, Matthew Kyung-Soo HONG, Totte HARINEN, Monica PhuongThao VAN, Charlene WU