Patents by Inventor Michael Thomas

Michael Thomas 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).

  • PRESSURE SUPPORT DEVICE AND METHOD OF DETERMINING CHANGES IN A PATIENT CIRCUIT
    Publication number: 20190321573
    Abstract: A pressure support device for providing pressure support therapy to a patient includes an airflow generator structured to generate pressure to provide pressure compensation to the patient via a patient circuit, one or more sensors structured to gather data related to effectiveness of the pressure compensation, and a processing unit structured to analyze outputs of the sensors while pressure support therapy is provided to the patient to determine if the pressure compensation provided to the patient is improper and to initiate action to confirm whether components of the patient circuit have been changed in response to determining that the pressure compensation provided to the patient is improper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventors: JONATHAN SAYER GRASHOW, JR., BENJAMIN IRWIN SHELLY, MICHAEL THOMAS KANE, ROBERT WILLIAM BAIKO
  • In-bottle apparatus for adding flavorings to pre-packaged drinks
    Publication number: 20190322425
    Abstract: The present invention comprises a novel in-bottle apparatus for adding flavorings to pre-packaged drinks. The apparatus, which is fully contained within a sealed drink bottle just below the bottle's lip, has a selector that allows the user to choose from a plurality of flavorings that can be released from a dispenser with the push of a button. The push button heads that make up the flavoring selector correspond to flavorings contained within the dispenser. Pushing one or more of the button heads dispenses flavoring into the primary drink contained within the drink bottle. The apparatus has a passageway on one side that allows the drink to be poured out of the bottle. The apparatus remains locked within the drink bottle's neck just below the bottle's lip before use, during use, while the drink is being consumed, and after the drink bottle is disposed of.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Thomas Beery
  • Customer incapacity management
    Patent number: 10453156
    Abstract: Systems and method of managing incapacity of a customer is provided. The subject innovation can determine when a customer cannot receive financial communications due to incapacity. The determination can be made due to lack of a response from the customer or to account activity indicating the customer may be incapacitated. The innovation can default to a designated person for sending financial communications of the customer upon a determination of incapacity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Joe Hattaway, Kourtney Eidam, Michael Thomas Duke
  • Optical assembly for a compact wide field of view digital camera with low first lens diameter to image diagonal ratio
    Patent number: 10451851
    Abstract: An optical assembly for a point action camera or other compact digital camera having a wide field of view, includes multiple lens elements, including at least one lens element that has an aspheric lens surface. The optical assembly is configured to provide a field of view in excess of 120 degrees. The optical assembly includes a ratio of a diameter of a first lens element at the object end of the optical assembly to an image diagonal is less than approximately 3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Navitar Industries, LLC
    Inventors: Russell Hudyma, Michael Thomas, Ian Wallhead, Arash Ghorbani
  • System and methods for policy-based active data loss prevention
    Patent number: 10454933
    Abstract: A system and method for policy-based active Data Loss Prevention (DLP) using a two-step process to first determine if an attempt to access a data object is governed by DLP policy, and if so, then applying the DLP policy to either allow or deny access. Attempts by an agent to access, create, modify, or distribute a data object are trapped by a policy execution point. A first query determines if DLP policies govern that access request. If they do, then the metadata is decrypted to form a second query to a policy decision point to adjudicate the access request. If the access request is allowed, then a second key is provided to decrypt the data object for further processing. The system further provides for the encryption of unencrypted data objects to protect them for all future access queries.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Sequitur Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Chenard, Michael Thomas Hendrick, Julia Narvaez
  • Electro-Mechanically Biased Supercritical Flight Control Surface Loading to Reduce High Pressure Actuation Cycles
    Publication number: 20190315455
    Abstract: An actuator assembly for an aircraft includes a support strut operatively coupled to a hinge axis of a flight control member of the aircraft, a hydraulic actuator operatively coupled to the flight control member via a pivot element, and an electro-mechanical actuator (EMA) having first and second opposing ends and a biasing member. The first end is operatively coupled to a support structure of the aircraft, and the second end is operatively coupled to both the support strut and the hydraulic actuator. The biasing member moves between a compressed state and an expanded state in response to a varying biasing load exerted on a surface of the flight control member, thereby reducing an amount of current needed to drive the EMA, as well as a number of high-pressure hydraulic cycles of the hydraulic actuator to control the flight control member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
  • Aircraft Hydraulic System With A Dual Spool Valve And Methods Of Use
    Publication number: 20190316607
    Abstract: A dual spool valve and methods of controlling hydraulic fluid that is moved to a hydraulic actuator of an aircraft. The dual spool valve may include ports to receive and discharge hydraulic fluid. The dual spool valve may also include first and second valve sections that are selectively positionable to control the flow of hydraulic fluid into and out of the actuator. One position provides for hydraulic fluid to move through closure lines. Method of controlling the dual spool valve may provide for selectively positioning the valve sections to control the flow of hydraulic fluid, and to position the valve sections to move hydraulic fluid through a closure line during certain circumstances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
  • High-Speed-Deployed, Drum-Brake, Inertia Disk for Rack and Pinion Rotational Inerter
    Publication number: 20190315454
    Abstract: A dual rack and pinion rotational inerter, configured to dampen the flutter of a flight control member of an aircraft, includes an inertial wheel and a brake member disposed on an inertial wheel. The brake member moves between a retracted position and a deployed position based on a rotational velocity of the inertial wheel. The brake member moves to the retracted position when the rotational velocity of the inertial wheel is slower than a predetermined threshold velocity to allow the rotation of the inertial wheel. When the rotational velocity of the inertial wheel is at least as fast as the predetermined threshold velocity, however, the brake member deploys to yieldingly resist the rotation of the inertial wheel. In either position, the inertial wheel causes the inerter to dampen the flutter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
  • MODULAR TOOL
    Publication number: 20190314972
    Abstract: A modular tool including a first member and a second member each including a head portion, a shaft portion and a handle portion. The first member includes a first member slot and the second member includes a second member slot. A connector includes fasteners and a pair of locking tabs. Each of the locking tabs includes a pair of locking tab openings. The first member and the second member interlock via the first member slot and the second member slot. The pair of locking tabs are disposed within a pair of locking tab slots and the fasteners run through the pairs of locking tab openings and a pair of member openings, thereby locking the first member to the second member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Brian-keith Bennett Arsenault, Michael Thomas Matthews
  • Hydraulic Systems And Methods To Control A Member
    Publication number: 20190315457
    Abstract: The hydraulic system can include a control member that is operatively coupled to a member. The control member can include a hydraulic control member and an integrated inerter. Hydraulic fluid at variable pressures is moved through the hydraulic system by pumps. The hydraulic system can be configured for hydraulic fluid returning from the control member to the first pump to be delivered to the second pump prior to reaching the first pump. A dual-spool valve is positioned between the pumps and the control member to control the flow of the hydraulic fluid. The dual-spool valve is movable to move the hydraulic fluid at variable pressures into and out of first and second chambers of the control member. The dual spool valve can also be configured to operate the control member when a spool is not operational.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
  • Base Flight Control Member Orientation Mechanism And Control
    Publication number: 20190315450
    Abstract: Methods and devices for adjusting a position of a flight control member relative to a base of an aircraft. The devices and methods include a joint that movably connects the flight control surface to the base. An extension member is connected to the flight control surface and extends through the joint. Adjustable linear members of the base are connected to the extension member and configured to adjust the position of the extension member. This adjustment results in re-orienting the flight control member relative to the base to adjust the flight of the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
  • Aircraft Hydraulic System With A Dual Spool Valve And Methods Of Use
    Publication number: 20190316606
    Abstract: A dual spool valve and methods of controlling hydraulic fluid that is moved to a hydraulic actuator of an aircraft. The dual spool valve may include first and second manifolds that each includes a movable spool. Multiple ports are positioned in each of the manifolds. The movable spools are positionable within their respective manifolds to control the movement of the hydraulic fluid that is supplied to and removed from the hydraulic actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
  • Hydraulic System For An Aircraft
    Publication number: 20190315456
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for an aircraft. The hydraulic system can include a hydraulic actuator that is operatively coupled to a flight control member. Hydraulic fluid is moved through the hydraulic system by an engine driven pump that delivers hydraulic fluid to the actuator at a first pressure, and a boost pump that delivers hydraulic fluid to the actuator at a second pressure that is higher than the first pressure. The hydraulic system is configured such that the hydraulic fluid returning from the actuator to the engine driven pump can be delivered to the boost pump prior to reaching the engine driven pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Fox, Eric Anton Howell, Jeffrey M. Roach
  • Light fixture and wireway assembly
    Patent number: 10443827
    Abstract: A light fixture and wireway assembly is provided in a low-profile configuration wherein at least a portion of a plurality of wireways are disposed in a stacked configuration with a low-profile, edge-lit LED light engine. In one configuration, at least portions of two to four individual wireways are disposed in a stacked configuration with a low-profile, edge-lit LED light engine powered by an LED power supply also disposed within the outer perimeter of the overall assembly. Each wireway can be accessed through a single wireway wall without requiring conduit outside of the outer perimeter of the assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: CLEAR-VU LIGHTING LLC
    Inventors: Daniel A. Lax, Michael Thomas Spinosa
  • Gas turbine engine with a rim seal between the rotor and stator
    Patent number: 10443422
    Abstract: An apparatus relating to a rim seal for gas turbine engine comprising a wing extending into a buffer cavity with at least one set of protuberances including a first protuberance extending into the buffer cavity and a second protuberance extending from the wing into the buffer cavity, with the first and second protuberances being axially spaced from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Jonathan Russell Ratzlaff, Michael Thomas Hogan, Julius John Montgomery
  • Engine and electrical machine health monitoring
    Patent number: 10442547
    Abstract: Systems and methods for estimating engine and electrical machine health are provided. The systems and methods therefore include features that provide for improved health estimates of one or more engines and/or electrical machines of one or more engines having an electrical machine embedded therein or coupled thereto. In particular, the systems and methods therefore include features for utilizing sensed or measured operating parameters of the electrical machines and/or operating parameters of the prime mover to estimate the health of the prime mover and/or the electrical machines embedded therein or coupled thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Brandon Wayne Miller, Sridhar Adibhatla, Michael Thomas Gansler
  • Combustor cooling structure
    Patent number: 10443500
    Abstract: The invention refers to a transition piece of a combustor of a gas turbine including an impingement cooling zone, a sequential disposed liner having at least one cooling arrangement and a closing plate with respect to the sequential disposed liner. The sequential disposed liner has a cooling channel structure. The cooling channel structure forms a closed loop cooling scheme or a quasi-closed loop cooling scheme. The cooling channel structure is operatively connected to a cooling medium to cool at least one part of the sequential disposed liner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ANSALDO ENERGIA SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventor: Michael Thomas Maurer
  • Multi-hole wash cartridge
    Patent number: D864411
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: Illumina, Singapore Pte. Ltd., Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Dangelo, James Michael Osmus, Bashkaran Subramanian, Lea Sandra Kobeli, Edward Wilson Licitra
  • Cartridge chassis
    Patent number: D864412
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Dangelo, James Michael Osmus, Lea Sandra Kobeli, Edward Wilson Licitra
  • Multi-hole cartridge
    Patent number: D865215
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Illumina, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Thomas Dangelo, James Michael Osmus, Lea Sandra Kobeli, Edward Wilson Licitra