Patents by Inventor Michael Peter

Michael Peter 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).

  • Patent number: 11432190
    Abstract: In some examples, a device aggregates data frames into an aggregated data frame for communication in an Outside the Context of a Basic Service Set (OCB) mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Publication number: 20220257149
    Abstract: A system includes a sensing assembly configured to be disposed on a mastoid of a user. The sensing assembly includes a housing, a first sensor disposed in the housing and configured to measure a first phybrata signal from the user, and a second sensor disposed in the housing and configured to measure a second phybrata signal from the user, the second phybrata signal different from the first phybrata signal. A controller is in communication with the sensing assembly. The controller is configured to: receive a first phybrata data from the sensing assembly, the first phybrata data including information obtained from the first phybrata signal and the second phybrata signal. The controller is configured to determine a phybrata parameter associated with the user based on the first phybrata data, and determine a phybrata signature associated with the user based on the phybrata parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: John D. Ralston, Ryan Michael Peters, Christopher J. Banman
  • Publication number: 20220258643
    Abstract: A charging system for charging a plurality of electric vehicles simultaneously comprising: a plurality of charging points; a first plurality of power modules, each one of the first plurality of power modules being connected to a respective one of the plurality of charging points; a second plurality of power modules, each one of the second plurality of power modules being switchably connectable to any one of the plurality of charging points, and a controller configured to control the switchable connections between the second plurality of power modules and the plurality of charging points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Peter Boxwell
  • Publication number: 20220260966
    Abstract: A method for the representation and operation of production resources, in particular for the plastics-processing industry, on one or several central operating units, preferably a computer or control station. Symbols for the production resource connected via a network or the management tools associated with the production resource, such as configuration systems or database systems, are present and selectable on the central operating unit, wherein after selection of one or several symbols on the screen of the operating unit, the visualization, in particular the visualization component from the associated production resources or management tool is started or executed on the operating unit. Subsequently, complete representation and operation is possible through the cooperation of the visualization software available at the operating unit and a control software running decentrally in the production resources.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: Wittmann Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes RELLA, Michael Peter WITTMANN
  • Patent number: 11415454
    Abstract: A method at a computing device, the method including obtaining sensor data for a vehicle providing one or both of displacement or acceleration information for the vehicle; calculating a vibration frequency for the vehicle; retrieving calibration data for the vehicle, the calibration data comprising at least a first known mass; a second known mass; a vibration frequency for the vehicle at the first known mass; and a vibration frequency of the vehicle at a second known mass; and using the calibration data and the vibration frequency for the vehicle, calculating a load estimation for the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Michael Peter Montemurro, Shouxing Qu
  • Patent number: 11416293
    Abstract: A control unit including at least one processor and at least one memory connected to the at least one processor, a virtualization system, the virtualization system including a scheduler for scheduling a plurality of virtual machines to assign processing time to each of the virtual machines according to a predetermined fixed sequence of virtual machine switches forming a cycle period, which is repeated, the cycle period being the minimum time period after which the scheduling is repeated, wherein the virtualization system and the plurality of virtual machines are real-time systems, the virtual machines having respectively at least one real-time attribute, wherein at least one the real time attribute of a first virtual machine are different to the corresponding real-time attribute(s) of a second virtual machine, wherein predetermined fixed sequence of virtual machine switches is calculated based on the at least one real time attribute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: OpenSynergy GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Prantner, Shantanu Singh Bundela, Pierre-Antoine Bernard, Michael Peter
  • Patent number: 11408891
    Abstract: The invention relates to platinum and rhenium complexes of formula (I) that may be used as imaging agents. In particular, the invention relates to imaging agents, for example imaging agents for use in the imaging of peroxisomes. Certain embodiments of the invention relate to compounds per se. Other embodiments relate to a process for the preparation of compounds and to the use of compounds as imaging agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: University of Lancaster
    Inventors: Michael Peter Coogan, Sarah Louise Allinson, Daria Maria Kania, Charlotte Meri Amber Farrow, Jane Harmer, Harriet Louise Steel
  • Patent number: 11405857
    Abstract: A mobile device may retrieve service information about a network prior to associating with the network. Utilizing an advertisement protocol to transmit service query messages, a mobile device may receive service query responses from a network that identify the services available prior to establishing network capability. In other words, the messaging is prior to the exchange of any authentication parameters between the device and the network as well prior to the establishment of a recognized session between the device and the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Patent number: 11405828
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device selects a selected rate bucket of a plurality of different rate buckets, where a rate bucket of the plurality of different rate buckets comprises a plurality of coding rates. A higher-level layer in the wireless device sends, to a lower-level layer in the wireless device, an indication of the selected rate bucket. The lower-level layer uses the selected rate bucket in a wireless communication by the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: James Randolph Winter Lepp, Michael Peter Montemurro, Stephen McCann
  • Publication number: 20220227007
    Abstract: Automated pickup and laydown systems for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture that includes vertical grow towers. Some implementations of the invention can be used to create a horizontal-to-vertical interface between a vertical grow structure that includes vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers through a controlled environment, and a central processing system that processes (for example, harvests, cleans, transplants, etc.) the grow towers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: MJNN LLC
    Inventors: Michael Peter Flynn, Merritt Jonathan Jenkins, Gage Goodspeed Coffin, Alexandre Le Roux, Charles Dylan Karr, Nadav Sahar Hendel
  • Publication number: 20220225588
    Abstract: Mechanisms that facilitate location and alignment of grow towers for one or more processing operations. In one implementation, the alignment mechanism comprises a track including an alignment feature and one or more engagement actuators. The alignment feature is configured to engage features of a track-contacting face of a grow tower. The engagement actuators press the grow tower against the track, causing the alignment feature to engage the grow tower and align it along the track to facilitate processing operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: MJNN LLC
    Inventors: Mark Cuson, Tamara Tahir Hasoon, Michael Peter Flynn, Aidan Patrick Barry, Charles Dylan Karr, Frank Spiteri
  • Publication number: 20220232706
    Abstract: A flexible circuit comprises a laminated substrate, a layer of a protective coating, and first and second components. The laminated substrate comprises a support layer and a conductive layer arranged on the support layer. The conductive layer includes conductive traces. Edges of the conductive traces taper outwardly and towards the support layer. The layer of the protective coating is deposited on the conductive traces. The first component is soldered at a first connection point on one of the conductive traces. The soldering sublimates the protective coating. The second component is connected to the conductive layer at a second connection point. The second connection point is free of the protective coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Peter CIACCIO
  • Publication number: 20220225572
    Abstract: Harvesting systems for an automated crop production system for controlled environment agriculture that includes vertical grow towers or other grow structures. Some implementations of the invention include a two-stage grouping mechanism that increases the amount of plants or crops harvested from a grow tower. Some implementations of the invention allow for harvesting of grow towers having grow sites on opposing faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: MJNN LLC
    Inventors: Michael Peter Flynn, Maria Alexandria Malone, Brice Leon Klein
  • Patent number: 11394615
    Abstract: A method for balancing sensors within a sensor system, the method including receiving, at a gateway, data from a plurality of sensors, each of the plurality of sensors being connected to one of a plurality of sensor modules or the gateway; determining, at the gateway, that a signal strength from a first sensor falls below a threshold, the first sensor being one of the plurality of sensors; and based on the determining, allocating the first sensor to connect to a different one of the plurality of sensor modules, or to the gateway if connected to one of the plurality of sensor modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Publication number: 20220217899
    Abstract: Automated transplanter assemblies and systems. For example, the disclosure sets forth a plug holder and assembly adapted to transplant plugs into tight-fitting plug holders. The disclosure also conveys a transplanter assembly useful in transplant operations where a plug holder is oriented at a non-perpendicular angle to the surface of a grow tower or other structure that contains the plug holder. The disclosure also provides a transplanter system useful in transplanting plugs into grow towers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Applicant: MJNN LLC
    Inventors: Tamara Tahir Hasoon, Mark Cuson, Michael Peter Flynn, Merritt Jonathan Jenkins, Matthew James Matera, Travis Callahan
  • Publication number: 20220207215
    Abstract: A contaminant-risk analysis device generates a CAD model of a defined space based on received parameters, simulates a contaminant spread model relative to the CAD model, generates a contaminant risk assessment for the defined space based on the contaminant spread model being applied to the CAD model, and generates a revised CAD model of the defined space based on the generated contaminant risk assessment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Yi Liu, Gang Wang, Stephanie Veronica Liebel, Christos Alkiviadis Polyzois, Michael Peters, Katheryn Yoder
  • Patent number: 11375440
    Abstract: In some examples, a wireless device includes a communication interface to communicate with a wireless network, and at least one processor configured to, while the wireless device is in a pre-associated state, receive, from an access point (AP), information including a network address policy of the wireless network. The at least one processor is configured to further, in response to the information including the network address policy, use an address of the wireless device according to the network address policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • Publication number: 20220198344
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises obtaining data associated with an event ticket and data associated with a digital health certificate of a user; generating a scannable code that includes the data associated with the event ticket and the data associated with the digital health certificate of the user, the scannable code configured to be scanned by a relying party device and causing the relying party device to display at least a notification indicating a ticket status and information associated with the user; and provide the scannable code to memory of a user device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John BARRETT, James Robert ALFRED, Ming Chee TSANG, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Adam Richard SCHIEMAN, Neil Patrick ADAMS
  • Publication number: 20220198926
    Abstract: A method at a computing device within an Intelligent Transportation System, the method including detecting a traffic event at the computing device; determining no fixed roadside unit is available from the computing device; establishing an Internet Protocol connection from the computing device to a network node; and sending a traffic event message from the computing device to the network node, the traffic event message providing information for the traffic event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Stephen MCCANN, Adrian BUCKLEY
  • Publication number: 20220200810
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method comprises sending, to a first device, a request for a signed certificate, the request for the signed certificate comprising a signed hash of data associated with a user, a corresponding public key of the user, and the data associated with the user; sending, to a second device different from the first device, a request for the signed certificate, the request comprising information to retrieve the signed certificate; and obtaining, from the second device, a signed certificate, the signed certificate comprising the public key of the user, the hash of the data associated with the user, and information indicating a health status of the user, the data associated with the user being absent from the signed certificate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen John BARRETT, James Robert ALFRED, Ming Chee TSANG, Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Adam Richard SCHIEMAN, Neil Patrick ADAMS, Robert Joseph LOMBARDI