Patents by Inventor Michael Roberts

Michael Roberts 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).

  • Publication number: 20240121227
    Abstract: Existing approaches to security within network, for instance oneM2M networks, are limited. For example, content might only be protected while the content is in transit between entities that trust each other. Here, the integrity and the confidentiality of content in an M2M network are protected. Such content may be “at rest,” such that the content is stored at a hosting node. Only authorized entities may store and retrieve the data that is stored at the hosting node, and the data may be protected from a confidentiality perspective and an integrity perspective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Vinod Kumar CHOYI, Yogendra C. SHAH, Dale N. SEED, Michael F. STARSINIC, Shamim Akbar Rahman, Quang LY, Zhuo CHEN, William Robert FLYNN, IV
  • Publication number: 20240121882
    Abstract: A thermoplastic interposer formed of ordered polymer sheets that may be configured to act as an interconnect and as a thermal energy spreader. In examples, the thermoplastic interposer may include one or more extensions or wings to further dissipate heat. In examples, laser direct structuring (LDS) may be used to form or more through silicon vias (TSVs) or through-chip vias. In examples, the ordered polymer sheets may be extruded via a roll-to-roll process, stacked, and processed to form a laminate interposer structure that makes up the interposer. In examples, the thermoplastic interposer may be used in multi-layer structures interconnecting two or more board assemblies such as printed circuit boards (PCB)s.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Brian Toleno, Michael Nikkhoo, Arman Boromand, Sheng Ye, Andrew John Ouderkirk, Jonathan Robert Peterson
  • Publication number: 20240115195
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide compliance management tools such as for respiratory pressure therapy. In some versions, a respiratory pressure therapy system may include one or more processors, such as of a data server, configured to communicate with a computing device and/or a respiratory pressure therapy device. The respiratory pressure therapy device may be configured to deliver respiratory pressure therapy to a patient for a session. The computing device may be associated with the patient. The processor(s) may be further configured to compute a therapy quality indicator of the session from usage data relating to the session. The therapy quality indicator may be a number derived from contributions of a plurality of usage variables for the session in the usage data. The processor(s) may be further configured to present, such as by transmitting, the therapy quality indicator to the computing device. The therapy quality indicator may promote patient compliance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: ResMed inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey Peter ARMITSTEAD, Mark David BUCKLEY, Michael Waclaw COLEFAX, Susan Robyn LYNCH, Dion Charles Chewe MARTIN, Gregory Robert PEAKE, Dinesh RAMANAN, Jamie Graeme WEHBEH, Natalie ZOTELO
  • Patent number: 11951194
    Abstract: Described are effervescent dissolvable solid structures comprising effervescent agglomerated particles which enhance the consumer experience and can improve dissolution of the structure. Also described are processes for the Dissolvable Solid Structure comprising effervescent agglomerated particles. Also described are methods for making the effervescent agglomerated particle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventors: Stephen Robert Glassmeyer, Jennifer Elaine Hilvert, Jason Donald McCarty, Eric Paul Granberg, Andreas Josef Dreher, Michael Sean Pratt, Mark William Hamersky
  • Patent number: 11953678
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems, methods, and structures for aberration correction of optical phased arrays that employ a corrective optical path difference (OPD) in the near-field of an OPA to correct or cancel out aberrations in emitted beams of the OPA including those reaching far-field distances by generating a spatially-varying OPD across the aperture of the OPA that is substantially equal and opposite to an equivalent OPD of the aberration(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Photonics LLC
    Inventors: Peter Nicholas Russo, Ehsan Shah Hosseini, Christopher Vincent Poulton, Erman Timurdogan, Diedrik Vermeulen, Michael Robert Watts, Michael J. Whitson
  • Patent number: 11952607
    Abstract: The disclosure provides genetically engineered microorganisms and methods for improved biological production of ethylene glycol and precursors of ethylene glycol. The microorganism of the disclosure produces ethylene glycol or a precursor of ethylene glycol through one or more of 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate, oxaloacetate, citrate, malate, and glycine. The disclosure further provides compositions comprising ethylene glycol or polymers of ethylene glycol such as polyethylene terephthalate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: LanzaTech, Inc.
    Inventors: Zachary Robert Cowden, Ching Leang, Michael Koepke, Rasmus Overgaard Jensen, Alexander Paul Mueller
  • Patent number: 11951542
    Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter relates to multi-material electrical contacts, and methods of making multi-material electrical contact comprising a functionally graded monolithic structure, having a first metal and a second metal, an amount of the second metal as compared to an amount of the first metal increases with distance in the structure from a first surface to a second opposing surface of the structure such that the second metal content increases continuously or incrementally throughout the height of the electrical contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: EATON INTELLIGENT POWER LIMITED
    Inventors: Michael Lee Killian, Jacob A. Kallivayalil, Yong Liu, Darron Robert Mohr
  • Publication number: 20240111115
    Abstract: A fiber optic cable assembly including a main cable portion having a plurality of subunit cables and tap points at which the subunit cables are separated from the main cable portion. A junction shell is positioned at each tap point. The subunit cable is pivotable to two orientations relative to the main cable portion in the junction shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Todd Faulkner, Stephen Robert Horan, JR., Lars Kristian Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20240110500
    Abstract: A sensing apparatus includes two or more sensor arrangements, a housing which is configured to house the two or more sensor arrangements, a first sensor arrangement which is configured to sense a first property, a second sensor arrangement which is configured to sense a second property, and an output arrangement which is configured to provide an output signal from the sensing apparatus in dependence upon an output of the first sensor arrangement and an output of the second sensor arrangement, the first property is different from the second property, and the sensing arrangement is configured to provide a combined signal output by way of the output arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Malcolm Jonathan Bacon, Michael Robert Garrard, Evan Fisher, Thomas Dressing, Yang Wang
  • Publication number: 20240109570
    Abstract: Navigating a transportation network by receiving an equipment identifier, querying a section of interest database to obtain at least one section of interest associated, accessing geolocation data from one or more geolocation sensors, querying a one section of interest using geolocation data to identify a next section of interest. With geolocation data, calculating at least one of a time to a next section of interest or a distance to a next section of interest, and determining that a reduction in speed is required, where a reduced speed is an amount of speed by which the speed must be reduced in order for the equipment to achieve a target speed associated with the next section of interest, and providing an alert configured to escalate to the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Milad Hosseinipour, Michael Trosino, Michael Craft, David Stolnis, Emily Greve, Thomas Robert Krotchko
  • Publication number: 20240111969
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer program products for natural language data generation using automated knowledge distillation techniques are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes retrieving, in response to an input query, a set of passages from at least one knowledge base by processing the input query using a first set of artificial intelligence techniques; ranking at least a portion of the set of passages by processing the set of passages using a second set of artificial intelligence techniques; generating at least one natural language answer, in response to the input query, by processing a subset of the set of passages in connection with automated knowledge distillation techniques based on the ranking of the at least a portion of the set of passages; and performing automated actions based on the ranking of the at least a portion of the set of passages and/or the at least one generated natural language answer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Robert Glass, Gaetano Rossiello, Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury, Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo
  • Patent number: 11946017
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a method of separating polyunsaturated fatty acids containing lipids from a lipids containing biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Evonik Operations GmbH, DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Manfred Bärz, Marc Beiser, Georg Borchers, Stephen Robert Cherinko, Mathias Dernedde, Michael Diehl, Xiao Daniel Dong, Jürgen Haberland, Michael Benjamin Johnson, Robert Cody Kertis, Jochen Lebert, Neil Francis Leininger, Kirt Lyvell Matthews, Sr., Holger Pfeifer, Christian Rabe, Shannon Elizabeth Ethier Resop, Ginger Marie Shank, Vinod Tarwade, David Allen Tinsley, Daniel Verkoeijen
  • Patent number: 11946025
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel whitening agents for cellulosic substrates. The whitening agents are comprised of at least two components: at least one chromophore component and at least one polymeric component. Suitable chromophore components generally fluoresce blue, red, violet, or purple color when exposed to ultraviolet light, or they may absorb light to reflect these same shades. The whitening agents are further characterized by having a dispersion component value of the Hansen Solubility Parameter of less than or equal to about 17 MPa0.5. This invention also relates to laundry care compositions including but not limited to liquid and/or powder laundry detergent formulations and rinse added fabric softening (RAFS) compositions that comprise such whitening agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Eugene Steven Sadlowski, Mark Robert Sivik, Michael David Cummings, Donna D'Angelo Morrall, Kevin Lee Kott, Keith Homer Baker, Brian Joseph Loughnane, Michael A Valenti, Laurent D. Kieken, Xiayong Michael Hong, Eduardo Torres, Dominick J. Valenti, Patrick D. Moore, Leonard J. Starks
  • Patent number: 11949795
    Abstract: Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for tracking resources using non-fungible tokens. The present invention is configured to electronically receiving, over a distributed computing network from a computing device of a user, a request for a non-fungible token (NFT) for a resource; initiating a non-fungible token (NFT) generator on the resource in response to receiving the request; generating a unique digital signature for the resource; generating, using the NFT generator, the NFT, wherein the NFT comprises at least the unique digital signature for the resource; and record the NFT for the resource on a distributed ledger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Michael Robert Young, James J. Siekman, Richard Seymour Scot
  • Patent number: 11949189
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald
  • Patent number: 11949845
    Abstract: During operation of a machine, an understanding of terrain features is critical. Accordingly, disclosed embodiments augment a video stream, captured by a camera mounted on the machine, with terrain information. In particular, an overlay is generated on at least one image frame. The overlay, which may comprise one or more semi-transparent bands, may cyclically recede from a foreground to a background of the image frame(s), cyclically advance from a background to a foreground of the image frame(s), or cyclically move horizontally across the image frame(s). The overlay may be colorized to illustrate the height of the terrain underneath the overlay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Craig Allan Lehocky, Michael William Bridenbaugh, Brad Robert Van de Veer, Jeffrey K. Berry, Jeffrey J. Baker
  • Publication number: 20240101815
    Abstract: A thermosetting composition comprising a crosslinkable component such as a vinyl ester and/or an unsaturated polyester, and an initiator component, such as cumene hydroperoxide or BPO or blends of cumene hydroperoxide and methyl ethyl ketone peroxide. The composition is suitable to be used in additive manufacturing to form objects such as molds or prototypes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Steven L. Voeks, John Robert Ilkka, Robert M. Adams, Allen Chanzhe Lee, Michael Allen Mathews
  • Publication number: 20240099307
    Abstract: A method for making an antimicrobial composite film can include forming a first coating layer by applying a first coating material on a substrate and forming a second coating layer by applying a second coating material on the first coating layer. The first coating material can comprise a first resin. The second coating material can comprise an antimicrobial material in a second resin or a dispersion. The first coating material can have a lower concentration of the antimicrobial material than the second coating material. The first and second coating layers can cooperatively define a composite film. The antimicrobial material can be asymmetrically dispersed in the composite film such that the antimicrobial material is concentrated closer to the outer surface of the composite film than to the inner surface of the composite film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Bavani Balakrisnan, Charles Brandenburg, Douglas Edmon Goforth, Cassandra Ann Haynes, Insik Jeon, Jenny Kim, Joydeep Lahiri, Jin Liu, Kevin Robert McCarthy, Michael Lesley Sorensen
  • Publication number: 20240102106
    Abstract: Described herein are methods that define cellular populations that are sensitive to RARA agonists and identify patient populations that will benefit from treatment with RARA agonists. The methods may comprise administering RARA agonists to patient populations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Robert McKeown, Christopher M. Fiore, Matthew Lucas Eaton, Emily Payton Lee, Christian Fritz
  • Publication number: 20240101533
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I: or a co-crystal, solvate, salt or combination thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin McCormack Allan, Amanda Lynn Vandehey, Gediminas Brizgys, Sachin Dhar, Ian James Doxsee, Alex Goldberg, Lars V. Heumann, Zilin Huang, Nathaniel Thomas Kadunce, Shahrokh Kazerani, Willard Lew, Vinh Xuan Ngo, Brian Michael O`Keefe, Trevor James Rainey, Benjamin James Roberts, Bing Shi, Dietrich P. Steinhuebel, Winston C. Tse, Anna Michelle Wagner, Xianghong Wang, Scott Alan Wolckenhauer, Chloe Yuyi Wong, Jennifer R. Zhang