Patents by Inventor Michael Shepherd

Michael Shepherd 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: 20260070664
    Abstract: A seat restraint system holds a user to a seating rig using multiple restraints. These restraints can be released simultaneously using a release actuation system, thereby quickly freeing the user from the seating rig. Certain types of restraints are extendable relative to the seating rig between retracted and extended positions to facilitate freedom of movement of the user. The release actuation system allows the restraints to extend without unintentional actuation of the release mechanism. The release actuation system allows the restraints to be released regardless of the position (e.g., retracted, extended, therebetween) of the extendable restraints.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Scott HAACK, Lyle BERKENBOSCH, Brandon GANEY, Joshua LONG, Michael SHEPHERD
  • Patent number: 12561369
    Abstract: A system can present a first graph visual representation of data of a first database in a first user interface. The system can receive user data at the first user interface that is indicative of interacting with the first graph visual representation of the data. The system can determine graph metadata for the data of the first database from the user data. The system can store the graph metadata in a second database, wherein the first database is separate from the second database. The system can determine a second graph visual representation that comprises a combination of the data of the first database and the graph metadata of the second database. The system can present the second graph visual representation in a second user interface, wherein the second user interface comprises the first user interface or another user interface other than the first user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2026
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Mustafa M. Albasha, Michael Shepherd
  • Patent number: 12154376
    Abstract: A system can determine, from a video of an online session, respective bounding boxes of text names of people, wherein the text names are presented in the video, and wherein images of the people are present in the video. The system can determine, from the video, respective faces of the people. The system can associate a first bounding box of the bounding boxes with a first face of the faces based on the first bounding box satisfying a function of distance with respect to the first face among the faces. The system can extract a name from the first bounding box via optical character recognition. The system can extract a subportion of the video that comprises the first face. The system can store an association between the name and the subportion of the video that comprises the first face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Jonathan Whitson
  • Patent number: 12125278
    Abstract: A system can identify time-series bio telemetry data that corresponds to a first user of an online session, wherein the time-series bio telemetry data identifies a first user engagement of the first user. The system can identify a first video recording of the online session, wherein the first video recording is representative of a first video of the first user. The system can input the time-series bio telemetry data and the first video recording as a first input to a neural network model to produce a trained neural network model, wherein the trained neural network model is configured to classify a second user engagement from a second video recording representative of a second video of a second user. The system can classify the second user engagement of the second user comprising inputting the second video recording as a second input to the trained neural network model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Jonathan Whitson
  • Patent number: 11838107
    Abstract: A system can, in response to determining to capture bio telemetry data associated with client devices, synchronize respective second clock times of respective client devices with a first clock time maintained by a network time protocol server, wherein the respective client devices are configured to capture the bio telemetry data of respective users associated with the client devices, wherein the respective users are associated with respective user accounts. The system can synchronize the bio telemetry data of the respective users based the respective second clock times.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Jonathan Whitson
  • Publication number: 20230267734
    Abstract: A system can identify time-series bio telemetry data that corresponds to a first user of an online session, wherein the time-series bio telemetry data identifies a first user engagement of the first user. The system can identify a first video recording of the online session, wherein the first video recording is representative of a first video of the first user. The system can input the time-series bio telemetry data and the first video recording as a first input to a neural network model to produce a trained neural network model, wherein the trained neural network model is configured to classify a second user engagement from a second video recording representative of a second video of a second user. The system can classify the second user engagement of the second user comprising inputting the second video recording as a second input to the trained neural network model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Jonathan Whitson
  • Publication number: 20230237186
    Abstract: A system can receive a database query that is associated with a user account and that is directed to a first database that stores graph data. The system can determine, based on information received from a second database, whether the user account has authorization to make the database query, wherein the second database stores graph metadata information about the first database, and wherein a schema of the second database corresponds to data entities of the first database and relations between respective data entries of the first database. The system can in response to determining from the second database that the user account has the authorization to make the database query, perform the database query with respect to the first database to produce a query result, and return the database query result to be accessible via a device associated with authenticated use of the user account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Mustafa M. Albasha, Michael Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20230239064
    Abstract: A system can, in response to determining to capture bio telemetry data associated with client devices, synchronize respective second clock times of respective client devices with a first clock time maintained by a network time protocol server, wherein the respective client devices are configured to capture the bio telemetry data of respective users associated with the client devices, wherein the respective users are associated with respective user accounts. The system can synchronize the bio telemetry data of the respective users based the respective second clock times.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Jonathan Whitson
  • Publication number: 20230237095
    Abstract: A system can present a first graph visual representation of data of a first database in a first user interface. The system can receive user data at the first user interface that is indicative of interacting with the first graph visual representation of the data. The system can determine graph metadata for the data of the first database from the user data. The system can store the graph metadata in a second database, wherein the first database is separate from the second database. The system can determine a second graph visual representation that comprises a combination of the data of the first database and the graph metadata of the second database. The system can present the second graph visual representation in a second user interface, wherein the second user interface comprises the first user interface or another user interface other than the first user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Mustafa M. Albasha, Michael Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20230237837
    Abstract: A system can determine, from a video of an online session, respective bounding boxes of text names of people, wherein the text names are presented in the video, and wherein images of the people are present in the video. The system can determine, from the video, respective faces of the people. The system can associate a first bounding box of the bounding boxes with a first face of the faces based on the first bounding box satisfying a function of distance with respect to the first face among the faces. The system can extract a name from the first bounding box via optical character recognition. The system can extract a subportion of the video that comprises the first face. The system can store an association between the name and the subportion of the video that comprises the first face.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Jonathan Whitson
  • Patent number: 11689378
    Abstract: A system can receive respective bio telemetry data from a group of people in an online session, wherein the bio telemetry data comprises alpha wave data and beta wave data. The system can determine a current moving average for the current time period based on a numerical combination of respective beta wave data of the bio telemetry data and respective alpha wave data of the bio telemetry data, wherein the numerical combination is scaled by a first weighting value, wherein the current moving average is decreased by a previous moving average for a previous time period, and wherein the previous moving average is scaled by a second weighting value. The system can, in response to determining that attentiveness by the group of people has decreased based on the previous moving average being greater than the current moving average, sending attentiveness notification data directed to an instructor user account.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Jonathan Whitson
  • Patent number: 11461411
    Abstract: An information handling system is provided for extracting data associated with a data field of a database from a randomly formatted source document. A processor of the information handling system receives the document, embeds a text-based representation of text of the document into vector data associated with the text, and encodes the vector data through a first neural network into reconstructed text activations. The processor further concatenates the vector data with an image-based representation of the document to provide first concatenated data, and encodes the first concatenated data through a second neural network into extracted visual feature activations. The processor further concatenates the reconstructed text activations with the extracted visual feature activations to provide second concatenated data, decodes the second concatenated data to identify particular data associated with the data field, and updates an entry of the database with the particular data in the data field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Saurabh Jha
  • Publication number: 20210374190
    Abstract: An information handling system is provided for extracting data associated with a data field of a database from a randomly formatted source document. A processor of the information handling system receives the document, embeds a text-based representation of text of the document into vector data associated with the text, and encodes the vector data through a first neural network into reconstructed text activations. The processor further concatenates the vector data with an image-based representation of the document to provide first concatenated data, and encodes the first concatenated data through a second neural network into extracted visual feature activations. The processor further concatenates the reconstructed text activations with the extracted visual feature activations to provide second concatenated data, decodes the second concatenated data to identify particular data associated with the data field, and updates an entry of the database with the particular data in the data field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, Saurabh Jha
  • Patent number: 10304972
    Abstract: Solar cells with silicon oxynitride dielectric layers and methods of forming silicon oxynitride dielectric layers for solar cell fabrication are described. For example, an emitter region of a solar cell includes a portion of a substrate having a back surface opposite a light receiving surface. A silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy, 0<x, y) dielectric layer is disposed on the back surface of the portion of the substrate. A semiconductor layer is disposed on the silicon oxynitride dielectric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: SunPower Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, David D. Smith
  • Patent number: 9896813
    Abstract: A method of preventing soil erosion in, among areas, seaside locations, includes drilling holes in the ground and filling the holes with a mixture of the soil and gelatin, and then curing the mixture in situ to form a barrier against soil erosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Inventors: Nicholas Ford, Gavin Garland, Randy Garland, Albert Kim, Ian Lindberg, John Lindberg, Michael Mirabito, Michael Nogaj, Thomas Rafferty, Rahul Rangarajan, Michael Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20170051463
    Abstract: A method of preventing soil erosion in, among areas, seaside locations, includes drilling holes in the ground and filling the holes with a mixture of the soil and gelatin, and then curing the mixture in situ to form a barrier against soil erosion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Nicholas Ford, Gavin Garland, Randy Garland, Albert Kim, Ian Lindberg, John Lindberg, Michael Mirabito, Michael Nogaj, Thomas Rafferty, Rahul Rangarajan, Michael Shepherd
  • Patent number: 9458587
    Abstract: Soil erosion in, among other areas, seaside locations, is prevented by the steps of: drilling holes in the ground; filling these holes with a mixture of the soil and gelatin, then curing the mixture in situ to form a barrier against soil erosion. The holes form stabilization walls and are placed seaside to a structure to be protected from erosion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Inventors: Nicholas Ford, Gavin Garland, Randy Garland, Albert Kim, Ian Lindberg, John Lindberg, Michael Mirabito, Michael Nogaj, Thomas Rafferty, Rahul Rangarajan, Michael Shepherd
  • Patent number: 9163629
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a resilient material lined stator and method of forming. A method of forming a resilient material lined stator can include disposing a resilient material tube 400 with a profiled helical inner surface 401 into the bore of a body 420. A cast material 410 can be disposed therebetween. The cast material 410 can bond to the body 420 to form a resilient material lined stator or the body 420 can be removed. The cast material 310 can include a conduit 312 or conductor 314 extending therethrough. The cast material 310 can include a pathway 316 formed therethrough. The resilient material can be an elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: Schlumberger Technology Corporation
    Inventors: Lawrence Lee, Michael Shepherd
  • Publication number: 20150194539
    Abstract: Solar cells with silicon oxynitride dielectric layers and methods of forming silicon oxynitride dielectric layers for solar cell fabrication are described. For example, an emitter region of a solar cell includes a portion of a substrate having a back surface opposite a light receiving surface. A silicon oxynitride (SiOxNy, 0<x, y) dielectric layer is disposed on the back surface of the portion of the substrate. A semiconductor layer is disposed on the silicon oxynitride dielectric layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Michael Shepherd, David D. Smith
  • Patent number: 9063827
    Abstract: In accordance with the present disclosure, a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) component is described. The DRAM component may comprise an integrated circuit, with the integrated circuit including an array of volatile memory cells. A first volatile memory cells of the array of volatile memory cells may be defective. The integrated circuit may also include non-volatile memory, and the non-volatile memory may contain a reference to the first volatile memory cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Michael Shepherd