Patents by Inventor Michael Woods
Michael Woods 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).
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Publication number: 20240133815Abstract: A holder is described. The holder is for a sample vial and includes a base and a cap, where the holder and cap include one or more materials that are opaque or optically black. The holder includes an interior space for placement of the vial in a light-tight environment, where the holder cap includes an opening for insertion of a probe therethrough and into the sample vial. The disclosure also includes systems and methods using the holder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Andrew LEONI, Michael DUGAS, Sue WOODS, Eden COUILLARD, Nimesh KHADKA, Eric MARTIN
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Publication number: 20240124281Abstract: The present disclosure is a hydraulic jack including a housing that supports a reservoir, a motor, a pump assembly, and a lift assembly. The housing includes a lift portion in which the lift assembly is at least partially supported, and a power supply portion configured to removably receive a power supply. The motor is configured to receive power from the power supply. The pump assembly receives a rotational output from the motor to generate a flow of hydraulic fluid from the reservoir. The lift assembly is extendable between a retracted position and an extended position in response to the flow of hydraulic fluid and is configured as a three-stage lift assembly with a first stage that extendable in a first manner, and second and third stages extendable in a second manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Benjamin G. Politte, Alyssa T. Gaull, Shane A. Wood, Carl N. Chandler, Frederick B. Hidle, Joshua P. Colllins, Michael K. Saporsky
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Publication number: 20240124897Abstract: Compositions and methods for editing, e.g., introducing double-stranded breaks, within the TTR gene are provided. Compositions and methods for treating subjects having amyloidosis associated with transthyretin (ATTR), are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Intellia Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Yong Chang, Seth C. Alexander, Kristy M. Wood, Arti Mahendra Prakash Kanjolia, Shobu Odate, Jessica Lynn Seitzer, Reynald Michael Lescarbeau, Walter Strapps
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Patent number: 11957206Abstract: Described are soles for a shoe, in particular for a sports shoe, with a midsole. The midsole includes a first sole region, which includes particle foam. The midsole further includes a deformation region within the midsole, wherein the deformation region has a volume greater than that of a single expanded particle and is positioned so that it allows a sideward deformation of the material of the first sole region under a pressure load on the sole.Type: GrantFiled: July 1, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Tru Huu Minh Le, Angus Wardlaw, Dirk Meythaler, Stuart David Reinhardt, Darren Michael Wood, Charles Griffin Wilson, III, Juergen Weidl, Stanislav Goussev, Carl Arnese
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Patent number: 11947957Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide to techniques for automatically grouping software applications based on their technical patterns/characteristics (i.e., technical facets) via machine learning (ML) algorithms. For instance, a first set of software applications that exhibit a high prevalence of one or more first technical facets may be grouped into a first category, a second set of software applications that exhibit a high prevalence of one or more second technical facets may be grouped into a second category, and so on. Once grouped into categories, the software applications in a given category may be assessed, analyzed, and/or processed together for various purposes.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: VMware LLCInventors: Phillip Steven Woods, Joseph G Szodfridt, Christopher Michael Umbel, Shaun Anderson, Rohit Bajaj
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Patent number: 11942766Abstract: A clamp apparatus is disclosed. The clamp apparatus includes a first half having a first end and a second end; a second half having a first end and a second end, the first and second halves being connected together at the first ends; and wherein the second end of the first half and the second end of the second half are flared outwardly away from a centerline of the clamp apparatus to receive a conductor therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Utility Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Matthew Nolte, Aaron Wood, Michael Mingus, Peter Shirilla, Jonathon S. Spencer
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Patent number: 11943325Abstract: A computer system is provided that includes a storage system, at least one transceiver, and a processing system with at least one hardware processor. The storage system stores a first list pair. The transceiver receives electronic data messages that each include a respective data transaction request. The processing system determines how the new data transaction request should be processed based on which communication protocol was used to submit the request. Updates regarding the first list pair are sent out to non-party client computer systems using different communication protocols, where one is faster than the other, but the slower update includes private data therein.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NASDAQ, INC.Inventors: Leo Golubovsky, Michael Wood, Jonathan Wakefield
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Patent number: 11931140Abstract: Navigation and simulation systems and methods for minimally invasive therapy in which the navigation system imports a planning method using patient specific preoperative images. The navigation system uses intraoperative imaging during the medical procedure to update the preoperative images and provides images of tracked surgical tools along the surgical path prepared from the preoperative images.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Inventors: Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Gal Sela, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop, Alex Panther, Nishanthan Shanmugaratnam, William Lau
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Publication number: 20240084475Abstract: Apparatuses and methods for creating phobic and philic surfaces (for example, superphobic and superphilic surfaces) are disclosed. Embodiments include methods for determining a heat treatment technique that increases the likelihood that a uniformly etched surface with minimal pitting will be formed when the surface of a material is subject to etching. Additional embodiments include evaluating the PRE number of the material, performing an anodic polarization sweep of the material, evaluating the polarization curve (current vs. potential) for the material, performing different etching protocols depending on the range of values the PRE number of the material belongs, and/or pulsing the current applied to the material during the etching process. Additional embodiments include apparatuses and methods for predictably etching a surface (such as a surface of a metal alloy) of a material, which can include etching interior portions of a hollow work piece.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Timothee L. POURPOINT, Blair N. FRANCIS, John Wood ELLIS, Michael Shaw TITUS, Benjamin Paul SMITH
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Patent number: 11920411Abstract: A drive unit of a top drive system includes a drive stem having a plurality of ports from an exterior thereof to an interior thereof. A plurality of sliding coupling members is disposed in the ports. A coupling collar encircles the drive stem and has actuation surfaces and recessed surfaces on an interior thereof, wherein the recessed surfaces align with the ports when the coupling collar is in a first position, and the actuation surfaces align with the ports when the coupling collar is in a second position.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: WEATHERFORD TECHNOLOGY HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Michael Henke, Michael Kratzert, Thomas Veit, Kevin Wood
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Publication number: 20240027644Abstract: A method and system for azimuthal direction detection of a cable. The method may comprise disposing an electromagnetic logging tool into a wellbore, transmitting a primary electromagnetic field from the one or more transmitters, recording one or more secondary electromagnetic fields at the one or more receivers, and identifying a direction to the cable from the one or more secondary electromagnetic fields. The system may comprise one or more transmitters disposed on the electromagnetic logging tool and configured to transmit a primary electromagnetic field. The system may further comprise one or more receivers disposed on the electromagnetic logging tool and configured to record one or more secondary electromagnetic fields. Additionally, the system may further comprise an information handling system configured to identify a direction to an azimuthally localized reduction in metal of the conductor or increase in the metal of the conductor from the secondary electromagnetic fields.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.Inventors: Baris Guner, Ahmed Fouda, Kristoffer Thomas Walker, Stuart Michael Wood
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Patent number: 11786310Abstract: Systems and methods are provided in which local tissue diagnostic measurements are correlated with archival local tissue diagnostic data from prior tissue analyses to supplement diagnostic measurements with tissue analysis data from prior tissue analyses having similar local tissue diagnostic data. The tissue analysis data may include information such as pathology data, outcome data, and diagnosis data. The archived local tissue diagnostic data and the tissue analysis data may be stored in a database, and employed for a wide variety of methods, involving preoperative, intraoperative, and/or postoperative phases of a medical procedure. Methods and systems are also provided for displaying, on a medical image shown in a user interface, hyperlinked reference markers associated with tissue analyses, where the reference markers are shown at locations corresponding to local tissue analyses, and where associated diagnostic data and/or tissue analysis may be viewed by selecting a given reference marker.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 17, 2023Inventors: Cameron Piron, Gal Sela, Monroe M. Thomas, Simon Alexander, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Michael Wood, Alex Panther, Joshua Richmond, Wes Hodges, David Gallop
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Publication number: 20230309648Abstract: Improved soles and insoles for shoes, in particular sports shoes, are described. In an aspect, a sole for a shoe, in particular a sports shoe, with at least a first and a second surface region is provided. The first surface region comprises expanded thermoplastic polyurethane (“TPU”). The second surface region is free from expanded TPU.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Stuart David Reinhardt, Darren Michael Wood, Angus Wardlaw, Timothy Kelvin Robinson, John Whiteman
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Publication number: 20230316280Abstract: Using a machine learning model(s) for fraud reduction is described. A payment service computing platform may receive, from an electronic device, user data associated with a user, and dynamically determine an incentive(s) associated with the user based on the user data. The incentive(s) may be determined using a trained machine learning model(s) that is trained based on previously collected user data. The payment service computing platform can then cause a user interface to be displayed via a payment application executing on the electronic device, wherein the user interface presents an interactive element(s) for receiving the incentive(s) in exchange for the user referring at least one other user to a payment service.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Mohsen Sardari, Angelo Monteux, Michael Woods, Brian Boates, Dustin Stolp, Meenal Chhabra, Scott Cole
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Patent number: 11726276Abstract: A photonics transceiver is described herein, wherein the photonics transceiver exhibits improved areal bandwidth density and improved energy per bit consumption relative to conventional photonics transceivers. The photonics transceiver achieves an areal bandwidth density of at least 5 Tbps/mm2 with an energy consumption of less than 500 fJ/bit (sum of energy consumed for both a transmitted bit and a received bit). The photonics transceiver is a multi-chip module, where chips in the multi-chip module are tightly integrated with one another. The multi-chip module includes light source, photodetector, photonics, and control/logic chips. The photonics chip includes transparent conducting oxide integrated optical modulators and multiplexers and demultiplexers based on MEMS-tunable optical ring resonators.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignees: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, The Texas A&M University SystemInventors: Michael Wood, Alejandro J. Grine, Darwin K. Serkland, Bryan James Kaehr, Andrew E. Hollowell, Gregory M. Peake, Alexander Ruyack, Sam Palermo
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Publication number: 20230250373Abstract: Stillage solids concentration methods are disclosed wherein a solids concentration aid is added to a process stream mixture in a corn to ethanol process. The solids concentration aid may comprise a cationic polymer coagulant or flocculant or both, a starch based coagulant or flocculant or a biologically derived (i.e., plant or animal origin) coagulant or flocculant. Acrylamide/quaternary ammonium copolymers and homopolymeric polydiallyldimethyl ammonium chloride polymers are noteworthy examples of suitable solids concentration aids.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2022Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: John Andrew Schrader, Bryan Williams, Michael Wood, Jeniffer Brown, Umit Turunc
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Patent number: 11722120Abstract: A microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-tunable optical ring resonator is described herein. The ring resonator includes a resonator ring and a tuner ring, along with one or more springs. The springs may be internal or external, i.e., either within or outside the areal footprint of the resonator ring and the tuner ring. The one or more springs are configured to displace the tuner ring from the resonator ring by a desired gap based upon a desired resonant wavelength of the resonator ring. Tuning is implemented by applying a voltage to the ring resonator, with motion of the tuner ring causing a corresponding change in the effective index of the resonator ring. As the ring resonator is essentially a capacitive device, it draws very little power once tuning is achieved.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Michael Wood, Alejandro J. Grine, Darwin K. Serkland, Alexander Ruyack
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Patent number: 11717376Abstract: A system and method for dynamic validation, registration correction for surgical navigation during medical procedures involving confirmation of registration between previously registered virtual objects, in a common coordinate frame of a surgical navigation system and an operating room, and intra-operatively acquired imaging during the medical procedure in the common coordinate frame. The method involves displaying intra-operatively acquired imaging of the surgical field, containing the real objects corresponding to the previously registered virtual objects, with the real objects being tracked by a tracking system.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2020Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: Synaptive Medical Inc.Inventors: Gal Sela, Cameron Piron, Michael Wood, Joshua Richmond, Murugathas Yuwaraj, Stephen McFadyen, Monroe M. Thomas, Wes Hodges, Simon Alexander, David Gallop
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Patent number: 11707108Abstract: Improved soles and insoles for shoes, in particular sports shoes, are described. In an aspect, a sole for a shoe, in particular a sports shoe, with at least a first and a second surface region is provided. The first surface region comprises expanded thermoplastic polyurethane (“TPU”). The second surface region is free from expanded TPU.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: adidas AGInventors: Stuart David Reinhardt, Darren Michael Wood, Angus Wardlaw, Timothy Kelvin Robinson, John Whiteman
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Patent number: 11692446Abstract: A method for forming a component for a gas turbine engine may include forming a first portion of the component that includes a cast metal or metal alloy, forming a second portion of the component that includes presintered preform defining at least one support structure, positioning the second portion on the first portion to define an assembly such that the first portion and the second portion define at least one cooling channel therebetween, and heating the assembly to join the first portion and the second portion and form the component.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignees: Rolls-Royce North American Technologies, Inc., Rolls-Royce CorporationInventors: Matthew T. Kush, Michael Wood, Scott Nelson, Joseph Peter Henderkott