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).

  • NULL DATA PACKET ANNOUNCEMENT (NDPA) FRAME INDICATION
    Publication number: 20230098549
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus related to NDPA frame indication. An aspect of the disclosure provides a method. The method includes sending, to one or more stations (STAs), a request for channel state information (CSI). The request includes a null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame including a first field and a second field. The first field indicates presence of the second field, and the second field indicates a variant of the NDPA frame. The method further includes receiving, from the one or more STAs, a CSI feedback response based on the request. In some embodiments, the first field is one of a sounding dialog token field and indicates the presence of the second field via at least two bits. In some embodiments, the first field is a frame control field and indicates the second field via a 4-bit subtype subfield.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michael Peter MONTEMURRO, Jung Hoon SUH, Osama ABOUL-MAGD, Stephen MCCANN, Yan Xin, Kwok Shum Au
  • Method of manufacturing a double-sided laminate including dry milling a conductive trace pattern and providing a cover layer with precut access holes that expose the trace pattern
    Patent number: 11617270
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a double-sided, single conductor laminate includes providing a laminated substrate that includes a conductive layer, an adhesive layer and a support layer; dry milling a trace pattern in the laminated substrate by removing selected areas of the conductive layer and the adhesive layer; and attaching a first cover layer using a first adhesive layer to the conductive layer. The first cover layer includes one or more precut access holes that align with one or more traces of the trace pattern.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Gentherm Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Peter Ciaccio, Timothy Hughes
  • Wireless network service type
    Patent number: 11617127
    Abstract: A service type announcement element indicates one or more service types offered by an access point (AP) that supports station a wireless network. The service type announcement element is generated by the AP and included in a beacon frame or in a probe response frame. The beacon frame or the probe response frame is transmitted by the AP and received by a mobile device prior to the mobile device being associated with the AP. The mobile device makes a determination whether any of the one or more service types can assist with an operation of an application on the mobile device and implements a network selection algorithm based on the determination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Battery and capacitor assembly for a vehicle and a method for heating and cooling the battery and capacitor assembly
    Patent number: 11616262
    Abstract: A battery and capacitor assembly for a hybrid vehicle includes a plurality of battery cells, a plurality of capacitor cells, a cooling plate, a pair of end brackets, and a housing. The plurality of capacitor cells are arranged adjacent to the plurality of battery cells such that the plurality of battery cells and the plurality of capacitor cells form a cell stack. The pair of end brackets are disposed at opposite ends of the cell stack and are attached to the cooling plate. The pair of end brackets compress the plurality of battery cells and the plurality of capacitor cells. The housing is attached to the cooling plate and encloses the cell stack and the pair of end brackets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Gentherm Incorporated
    Inventors: Michael Peter Ciaccio, Brian Moorhead
  • Vertical grow tower conveyance system for controlled environment agriculture
    Patent number: 11612112
    Abstract: A vertical farming structure having vertical grow towers and associated conveyance mechanisms for moving the vertical grow towers through a controlled environment, while being exposed to controlled lighting, airflow, humidity and nutritional support. The present disclosure describes a reciprocating cam mechanism that provides a cost-efficient mechanism for conveying vertical grow towers in the controlled environment. The reciprocating cam mechanism can be arranged to increase the spacing of the grow towers as they are conveyed through the controlled environment to index the crops growing on the towers. The present disclosure also describes an irrigation system that provides aqueous nutrient solution to the grow towers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: MJNN LLC
    Inventors: Gage Goodspeed Coffin, Michael Peter Flynn, Brice Leon Klein, Alexandre Le Roux, Timothy Michael Murcko, Nathaniel R. Storey
  • WALLET ASSEMBLY AND METHOD OF USE
    Publication number: 20230089796
    Abstract: A wallet assembly that receives a contactless payment card includes a wallet arranged as at least a bifold wallet with first and second wallet sides, one side configured to receive the contactless card and the other configured to receive additional items and payment cards. RFID shielding eliminates electromagnetic signals from the additional payment cards. A flap attached to the wallet side holding the contactless card has a hole or window that physically exposes a portion of the payment card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Peter Shields
  • Method and system for battery life improvement for low power devices in wireless sensor networks
    Patent number: 11611934
    Abstract: A method at a module within a sensor system for updating a timing profile, the method including: turning on a radio of the sensor module for a first time duration; detecting signals from other modules within the sensor system; for each signal, storing data comprising a time such signal is received and an identifier for a module sending such signal; sending the data to a server; and receiving the timing profile from the server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Hashim Mohammad Qaderi, Edward Snow Willis, Yuhui Liu, Michael Peter Montemurro
  • Automated hardware for input/output (I/O) test regression apparatus
    Patent number: 11604713
    Abstract: A test apparatus is provided for use with a mainframe and an adapter. The test apparatus includes a logical adapter interface unit and a control system. The logical adapter interface unit is interposable between the adapter and the mainframe whereby an I/O signal transmittable from the adapter and to the mainframe is transmitted through the logical adapter interface unit. The logical adapter interface unit is configured to manipulate the I/O signal. The control system is coupled to the logical adapter interface unit and the mainframe and is configured to control manipulations of the I/O signal by the logical adapter interface unit to mimic a condition of I/O traffic being run through the adapter and to log a response of the mainframe to the manipulations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Michael Peter Lyons, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett
  • DEVICE AND TESTING APPARATUS FOR LIQUID AND VAPOR WIRE EXPOSURE TESTING
    Publication number: 20230071753
    Abstract: A testing device includes a scaffold for supporting conductive wires. The scaffold is placed in housing in which liquid and vapor phases of a fluid are provided, such that a first of the conductive wires extends into the liquid and a second of the conductive wires remains in the vapor throughout a test. The scaffold may include a plurality of lower support members and a plurality of upper wire support members, each of the support members including a plurality of routing supports to wrap a respective one of the test wires around. The device allows measurements to be made contemporaneously for the test wires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: The Lubrizol Corporation
    Inventors: Gregory James Hunt, Michael Peter GAHAGAN, Mitchell Andrew PEPLOW, Christopher Paul PRENGAMAN, Ronny RIMAN
  • Material processing plant
    Patent number: 11596950
    Abstract: A mobile recycling plant with a single diesel engine to power the crusher intermittently and the generator continuously, with a return conveyor discharge chute 502 that is automatically stowed by merely folding the top portion of the return conveyor, with an automatic retraction of the return conveyor 130 by merely lower the screening machine, with a dual screen dual angle screening machine, and with a system for deploying a ferrous metal removal system 160.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: Terex USA, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Peter Stemper, Ryan Anthony Mumm, Alex Ross, Edwin J. Sauser
  • High retention force serviceable plug-on joint assembly
    Patent number: 11598376
    Abstract: A joint assembly includes a first member having splines formed therein. A second member includes splines formed thereon and is coupled to the first member. The splines of the first member engage the splines of the second member. An access window is formed on the first member. A ring retains the first member to the second member. A seal extends across a joint between the first member and the second member and covers the access window. A portion of the ring is accessible through the access window following removal of the seal, where the ring can be manipulated to release the first member from the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEAPCO INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Walter Hopson, Arvind Srinivasan, Michael Peter Kinsella
  • VERIFICATION OF CONTROL COUPLING AND DATA COUPLING ANALYSIS IN SOFTWARE CODE
    Publication number: 20230048792
    Abstract: Methods and systems for verifying control coupling analysis in testing of software code include: selecting a source file to be tested, the source file having source code, the source file selected from a system set including a plurality of source files from one or more nodes in a system; identifying one or more control couples within the source file by performing static analysis on the source code of the source file; defining one or more test runs of the software code, the one or more test runs including one or more of the identified control couples, and the one or more test runs using dynamic analysis; executing the one or more defined test runs; identifying control coupling coverage of the source file based on the dynamic analysis; and generating a control coupling report based on the identified control coupling coverage of the source file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ian Jon HENNELL, James Adrian HANSON, Michael Peter CIESLAR
  • PROGESTERONE FORMULATION TO TRIGGER OVULATION AND PROVIDE LUTEAL PHASE SUPPORT
    Publication number: 20230044690
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for ovulation induction in females in need thereof. Current methods for inducing ovulation have unpleasant side effects and are expensive. The disclosed compositions and methods are safe, efficacious, and inexpensive. An exemplary method of inducing ovulation includes steps of monitoring ovarian follicle development and size during the follicular phase of the menstrual cycle; and administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition including progesterone or ioidentical progesterone in an amount effective to increase the plasma concentration of progesterone to between about 0.1 ng/ml to about 1 ng/ml when the follicle reaches a size of at least 15 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicants: AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE, INC., VITRONOVA LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY
    Inventors: Michael Peter DIAMOND, Dmitri DOZORTSEV
  • Wireless local area networks
    Patent number: 11570251
    Abstract: In some examples, a system includes a plurality of network controllers, a WI-FI wireless local area network (WLAN) over which at least a first network controller and a second network controller of the plurality of network controllers are to communicate, wherein a link between the first network controller and the second network controller through the WI-FI WLAN is a synchronized link.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Stephen McCann, Michael Peter Montemurro, James Randolph Winter Lepp
  • TECHNIQUE FOR MARKING A PROLATE OBJECT
    Publication number: 20230015628
    Abstract: A printing system includes: a printer for outputting a printed product; and a device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a closed circumferential manner around a prolate object. The device includes a mechanical interface and the printer includes a mechanical interface, which are positively and/or by force-locking connected in a mounted state and which release the positive and/or force-locked connection by a planar motion, a partial rotation, and/or a current change to a released state. The device further includes: a material interface for receiving printed material output by the printer in the mounted state of the device, and at least one actuator for arranging the marking on the prolate object in a circumferentially closed manner by the printed product output by the printer or for providing the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement in the mounted state of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Benjamin Pradel, Juergen Gretscher, Michael Peter
  • DISPLAY WITH INTEGRATED CAMERAS
    Publication number: 20230018098
    Abstract: A display includes two-integrated cameras. A first camera is situated in a top right corner of a front display surface of the display and a second camera is situated in a top left corner of the front display surface. The display is connected to a transaction terminal with the first camera focused on a bagging area associated with the transaction terminal and with the second camera focused on a staging area associated with the transaction terminal. Each camera captures images of items and the item images are streamed over a high-speed display port directly to the transaction terminal. The transaction terminal performs item recognition, item tracking, and auditing on the items based the item images during transaction processing at the transaction terminal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventors: Steven James Birnie, Ian McFarlane Denny, Michael Peter Gillies
  • Heated three-dimensional printer head for variable material deposition
    Patent number: 11554546
    Abstract: An additive manufacturing device is provided and includes a printing material source, a printing head and a temperature control system. The printing material source is configured to contain a supply of printing material. The printing head is receptive of the printing material from the printing material source and is configured to print an object with the printing material. The temperature control system is coupled to the printing head and is configured to adjust a temperature of the printing material during printing to cause state changes of the printing material resulting in the printing material being one of soluble and insoluble in a solvent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Andrew Hicks, Miles C. Pedrone, Tynan J. Garrett, Michael Peter Lyons
  • Apparatus for mitigating wandering spurs in a fractional-N frequency synthesizer
    Patent number: 11552645
    Abstract: The present invention provides a fractional-N frequency synthesizer comprising a divider controller comprising a multistage noise Shaping (MASH) digital delta-sigma modulator comprising L error feedback modulator (EFM) stages, wherein the jth EFM stage is configured to receive as an input the sum of the error of the preceding EFM stage and a high amplitude dither signal derived from the error of the kth EFM stage, where 1?j?k?L.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: University College Dublin
    Inventors: Dawei Mai, Michael Peter Kennedy
  • Data investigation and visualization system
    Patent number: 11550788
    Abstract: Data investigations are performed by querying a plurality of data sources. A system receives an investigation input and queries a plurality of data sources in accordance with the received input. The system receives, in response to the querying, response data from the plurality of data sources, and generates and stores a data structure representing relationships between the first investigation input and the first response data. The data structure may be in the form of a knowledge graph. The system may generate and display a visualization of the data structure. The system may generate and store a record of investigation steps used to generate the data structure, such that the investigation steps may be applied in future instances, for example using different inputs, to generate new data structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: NOBLIS, INC.
    Inventors: Kyle Nicolas Forsyth, Mark Jason Sanders, Adam Keith Korobow, Eric Richard McCabe, Mychal William Ivancich, David Michael Peters, Cody Steven Jenkins
  • LABEL PRINTER AND SYSTEM FOR MARKING A PROLATE OBJECT
    Publication number: 20230001708
    Abstract: A printer for outputting a printed product includes: a print head for printing on a print medium moving in a longitudinal direction, the print medium including a plurality of separate or separable labels detachably arranged on a carrier along the longitudinal direction; and a material interface for outputting the print medium printed by the printer as a printed product, the material interface including a dispensing edge and a support, which deflect the carrier over the dispensing edge and the support downstream of the print head in the longitudinal direction. The dispensing edge is arranged relative to the support in a first position to induce a detaching deflection of the carrier for detaching the respective label. The dispensing edge and the support are arranged in a second position relative to each other to induce an entraining deflection for entraining the respective label on the carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Michael Peter, Albrecht Schierholz