Patents by Inventor Michael Stewart

Michael Stewart 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: 10480785
    Abstract: A torch includes a body, a fuel tank and a microjet burner. The torch also includes an ignition button that is movable relative to the body between an upper position and a depressed position, and a cap assembly, which includes a lower cap and a safety cap rotatably coupled with the lower cap. The safety cap includes an ignition button guard, defines a flame portal, and is rotatable between a closed position and an armed position. When the safety cap is in the closed position, the ignition button guard is aligned with the ignition button and inhibits access to the ignition button, and the safety cap covers the microjet burner. When the safety cap is in the armed position, the flame portal is aligned with the microjet burner, and the ignition button guard is misaligned with the ignition button, and access to the ignition button is unobstructed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: WORTHINGTON TORCH, LLC
    Inventors: Luke Christopher Stonis, Shea Michael Stewart, Cliff Ryan Walters, Donald James Staufenberg
  • Patent number: 10476591
    Abstract: A free space optical communication system receiver (500) comprising: a central optical sensor (600); and a plurality of further optical sensors (601-604) disposed around a peripheral edge of the central optical sensor (600). The free space optical communication system receiver (500) may be coupled to means for moving the free space optical communication system receiver (500) relative to an incoming optical signal (510). A controller (508) may be configured to, using measurements of the incident optical signal (510) by the plurality of further optical sensors (601-604), control the means so as to move the free space optical communication system receiver (500) relative to the incident optical signal (510).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: Leslie Charles Laycock, Andrew James Williams, Michael Stewart Griffith
  • Publication number: 20190304408
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using one or more sensors, data associated with a device orientation; determining, using the data and at least one feature of an environment of the device, a device configuration; and implementing the determined device configuration on the device. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kenneth Scott Seethaler, David W. Douglas, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 10402407
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: obtaining, at an information handling device, user input search data; accessing contextual data; refining, using one or more processors, the user input search data based on the contextual data; searching, using one or more processors, a repository of stored tag data with refined user input search data to identify one or more stored tags matching one or more stored objects; and returning, using one or more processors, one or more results of the searching, the one or more results indicating one or more stored objects associated with stored tag data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Rod D. Waltermann, Daryl Cromer, Aaron Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 10404854
    Abstract: A centralized server system (12, 18) is arranged to monitor overload restriction requirements of session control nodes (21A-D) within a globally scalable VoIP and Multimedia network (20) in order to handle session set-up requests. An overload status module (38) in the server system receives overload status messages (22) from the session control nodes and based on these messages and the demand on each session control node determined from session set-up requests, the server system (12, 18) selects which session control nodes (21A-D) as well as which of their associated interconnects to other networks to include in a session setup response (6) to a session setup request (5) from a source session control node (21A-D).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
    Inventors: Ian William George Jenkins, Nicholas Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 10402042
    Abstract: For controlling a cursor using a force vector input by a user touch, an apparatus is disclosed. A system, method, and program product also perform the functions of the apparatus. The apparatus for controlling a cursor using a force vector input by a user touch includes a force sensor operatively coupled to a surface, a processor, and a memory that stores code executable by the processor to: measure a force vector input by a user touch at the surface, the force vector including a magnitude and a direction, translate the magnitude into a cursor velocity, and control movements of a cursor based on the cursor velocity and the determined direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Matthew Joseph Geary, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Christopher Miles Osborne, Jeffrey E. Skinner, Thomas John Sluchak, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu
  • Patent number: 10394103
    Abstract: Imaging apparatus on a host platform having an external surface, the external surface comprising a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction, the second direction being different to the first, the apparatus comprising a first and second plurality of single pixel detectors (10) distributed about said external surface such that the first plurality of single pixel detectors are distributed over the first surface and the second plurality of single pixel detectors are distributed over the second surface, each single pixel detector being configured to receive radiation reflected by an object or region of interest (18) and generate two-dimensional image data representative thereof, the apparatus further comprising an image processing module (16) for receiving said two-dimensional image data from each of a plurality of single pixel detectors (10) and reconstructing a three-dimensional image of said object or region of interest (18) using a ghost imaging algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2019
    Assignee: BAE Systems plc
    Inventors: Lydia Ann Hyde, Andrew James Williams, Michael Stewart Griffith, Nicholas Giacomo Robert Colosimo
  • Publication number: 20190260472
    Abstract: A free space optical communication system receiver (500) comprising: a central optical sensor (600); and a plurality of further optical sensors (601-604) disposed around a peripheral edge of the central optical sensor (600). The free space optical communication system receiver (500) may be coupled to means for moving the free space optical communication system receiver (500) relative to an incoming optical signal (510). A controller (508) may be configured to, using measurements of the incident optical signal (510) by the plurality of further optical sensors (601-604), control the means so as to move the free space optical communication system receiver (500) relative to the incident optical signal (510).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: LESLIE CHARLES LAYCOCK, ANDREW JAMES WILLIAMS, MICHAEL STEWART GRIFFITH
  • Patent number: 10386931
    Abstract: In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a display accessible to the processor, and storage accessible to the processor. The storage bears instructions executable by the processor to present a user interface (UI) on the display and present at least a first option on the display and a second option on the display. The first option is selectable to present at the device, at least a first representation of first user input of a first input type. The second option is selectable to present, at the device, at least a second representation of second user input of a second input type. The first user input and the second user input pertain to the UI, and the first input type is different from the second input type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Aaron Michael Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Thomas Ryan Cook, Jeffrey E. Skinner
  • Patent number: 10387721
    Abstract: An embodiment provides a method, including: accepting, at an input surface, handwriting input; identifying, using one or more processors, one or more characters included in the handwriting input; modifying one or more of the one or more characters included in the handwriting input to match penmanship; and rendering, on a display device, the handwriting input including one or more modified characters. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Howard Locker, Daryl Cromer, Aaron Michael Stewart, Karen Ruth Kluttz, Michaela Rose Case
  • Publication number: 20190253142
    Abstract: Apparatus for and method of transmitting an optical signal by a Free Space Optical, FSO, communication system, the method comprising: transmitting, by an optical signal transmitter (104), an optical signal (700) into at least part of a volume of an optical medium (302); and controlling, by a controller, the optical signal transmitter (104), to scan the at least part of the volume (302) using the optical signal (700) in a sequence of non-overlapping loops (704, 708). The sequence of non-overlapping loops (704, 708) may be a sequence of non-overlapping, concentric circular loops.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventors: MICHAEL STEWART GRIFFITH, ANDREW JAMES WILLIAMS
  • Publication number: 20190222555
    Abstract: A device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a microphone operatively coupled to the processor; a network interface operatively coupled to the processor; circuitry that parses audio signals received via the microphone for a name and a type of device; circuitry that analyzes network information associated with remote devices accessible via the network interface based at least in part on at least one of the name and the type of device to associate the name and the type of device with one of the remote devices; and circuitry that stores the name and the type of device to the memory in association with the one of the remote devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Inventors: Jeffrey Earle Skinner, Aaron Michael Stewart, Jonathan Jen-Wei Yu, Lincoln Penn Hancock, Song Wang, Ming Qian, John Weldon Nicholson, David Alexander Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20190194731
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and kits for identifying microsatellite instability (MSI) in a sample. In particular it relates to identifying microsatellite instability in a tumor sample, which may be from a subject suspected of having colorectal cancer or Lynch syndrome. The methods and kits can be used to identify mismatch repair defects. More particularly the invention relates to a panel of markers for a sequencing based MSI test, that can differentiate between MSI-H and MSS CRCs. The invention also allows for determination of biological significance, differentiating between PCR and sequencing errors and MSI induced indels/mutations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: Cancer Research Technology Limited
    Inventors: John Burn, Mohammed Ghanim Mehdi Alhilal, Franscisco Mauro Santibanez-Koref, Lisa Redford, Michael Stewart Jackson
  • Patent number: 10331219
    Abstract: An aspect provides a method, including: operating one or more sensors to detect gesture input proximate to a surface of an input device of an information handling device, wherein the input device is configured to receive one or more input types in addition to gesture input; determining, using a processor, if the gesture input detected matches a predetermined gesture; and executing at least one response action associated with the predetermined gesture. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singaore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventors: Michaela Rose Case, Aaron Michael Stewart, Wesley Abram Luttrell, Mamoru Okada, Xin Feng
  • Publication number: 20190162471
    Abstract: A system and method for sanitizing a mattress is provided. The system for sanitizing a mattress includes a pair of members with at least one member having at least one UV-C emitter, at least one light source, and at least one air source. An ozone source is in communication with the pair of members. A source of air flow is in communication with the pair of members and a heat source is in communication with the heat source. A spray source is also provided for spraying a solution. A method of sanitizing a mattress comprises the steps of applying UV-C radiation to a mattress to kill microorganisms, providing ozone to the mattress, and combining ozone with UV-C radiation and moisture to produce a purifying agent. The method further comprises the steps of applying pressure and heat to the mattress to kill pathogens and spraying a solution on the mattress.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Stewart
  • Patent number: 10305529
    Abstract: Systems and methods may provide for a device including a housing, one or more electronic components positioned within the housing, and a first cured resin composition positioned within the housing, the first cured resin composition including a thermal energy storage material and a first filler material. The device may also include a second cured resin composition positioned within the housing, the second cured resin composition including the thermal energy storage material and a second filler material. The first filler material and the second filler material may be different, wherein the first cured resin composition and the second cured resin composition may encompass at least one of the one or more electronic components. In other examples, the electronic components include a power supply and the device complies with an ATEX equipment directive for explosive atmospheres. Moreover, component underfill and/or assembly overmold processes may be used to fabricate the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: David Pidwerbecki, Mark Gallina, Mark Hemmeyer, Steven Lofland, Ponniah Ilavarasan, Michael Stewart, Kevin Byrd
  • Patent number: 10290062
    Abstract: A method and system matches social users and commercial users of an image annotation system, where annotated images are stored on a database. Image data records associated with the annotated images comprise judgment data corresponding to judgments made by social users regarding the images and social user identifiers for enabling a communication module to communicate with computing devices of respective social users who made the judgments. Commercial user records are also stored on the database, and contain information regarding commercial users for enabling the communication module to communicate with computing devices of respective commercial users. The commercial user records are searched based on a search criterion derived from an annotated image to determine a commercial user that satisfies the search criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Inventors: Linda Arhin, Michael Stewart Shunock
  • Patent number: D845364
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: WORTHINGTON TORCH, LLC
    Inventors: Shea Michael Stewart, Cliff Ryan Walters, Donald James Staufenberg, Luke Christopher Stonis
  • Patent number: D845365
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: WORTHINGTON TORCH, LLC
    Inventors: Shea Michael Stewart, Cliff Ryan Walters, Donald James Staufenberg, Luke Christopher Stonis
  • Patent number: D845366
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: WORTHINGTON TORCH, LLC
    Inventors: Shea Michael Stewart, Cliff Ryan Walters, Donald James Staufenberg, Luke Christopher Stonis