Patents by Inventor Michael A. Schultz
Michael A. Schultz 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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Patent number: 11988652Abstract: Packed-tip electrospray ionization (ESI) emitters for mass spectrometry are described. In one aspect an ESI emitter stores a first type of particle. A liquid chromatography (LC) column is coupled with the emitter via a junction. The LC column stores a different type of particle than the ESI emitter to facilitate better chromatographic and ESI performance.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Thermo Finnigan LLCInventors: Joshua A. Silveira, Dale Lindseth, Gary A. Schultz, Eloy R. Wouters, Michael L. Poltash, Brandon Howard Robson
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Publication number: 20240150082Abstract: A reclosure article is configured for permanent attachment to a flexible container. The article includes a resilient, elongated strip including first and second fasteners proximate each of two opposed ends, wherein at least the first fastener includes a slot configured to receive one of first and second opposite side edges of the flexible container. A method is described for closing a flexible container using a reclosure article that is permanently attached to the container. The method includes inserting one of first and second opposite side edges of the flexible container into a slot of the article.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Jay A. Milbrandt, Trevor Wintz, Michael Schultz, David Schiller
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Publication number: 20240112585Abstract: A stolen aircraft shutdown system comprising a processor, a communications unit configured to receive information relating to a status indicator of an aircraft, corresponding to either a safe or a stolen value, and to provide a status input to the processor unit, a ground determination unit configured to receive aircraft operational data from an aircraft, corresponding to either a grounded or an airborne value, and to provide a location input to the processor. The processor unit is configured to determine the value of the status indicator and the value of the location indicator, and to provide immobilisation instructions to a control system of an aircraft to disable an aircraft function when the value of the status indicator is determined to be stolen, and the value of the location indicator is determined to be grounded.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Sven-Olaf BERKHAHN, Sarico SCHULTZ, Michael LÜDTKE
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Publication number: 20240107956Abstract: A method for excluding an aggressive incompatibility (AI) trait from Agaricus bisporus mushroom strains, wherein the method includes mating a culture of a hybrid mushroom line designated B18287-s82, a representative culture of the line having been deposited under NRRL Accession No. 68168, with a culture of the white mushroom line designated WBL-s290, to obtain an F1 hybrid mushroom strain designated J19109, a representative culture of the F1 strain having been deposited under NRRL Accession No. 68163. Upon fruiting a culture of the new F1 strain designated J19109 to obtain homokaryotic spores therefrom, one obtains cultures of homokaryotic lines from the homokaryotic spores from F1 strain J19109 and selects a culture of a homokaryotic line from the F1 strain J19109. The culture of a homokaryotic line from F1 strain J19109 is mated with a culture of the mushroom line designated J11500-s80, to obtain an F2 hybrid mushroom strain.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Michael KESSLER, Michelle SCHULTZ, Mark LOFTUS, Aniça AMINI, Sylvie DELBECQUE, Wes SCHULTZ, Richard KERRIGAN, Mark WACH
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Patent number: 11949146Abstract: An apparatus including an inner conductor and an outer conductor. The inner conductor may comprise a cylindrical portion, a tapered end and a plurality of blades. The blades may be arranged around the cylindrical portion and extend along a length of the cylindrical portion with a predetermined shape. The shape may have a probe at a first end and a second end of the shape may meet the cylindrical portion. The tapered end may have an input/output (I/O) transition. The outer conductor may comprise a cavity, a first connector and a plurality of second connectors. The inner conductor may be within the cavity. The first connector may be connected to the I/O transition. Each of the second connectors may be connected to the probe of one of the blades. The shape of each of the blades may be configured to provide a low-loss transition for a microwave signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mission Microwave Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael P. DeLisio, Jr., Donald Xiaodong Wu, Nathaniel Schultz, Blythe C. Deckman
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Patent number: 11949392Abstract: An apparatus comprising a first circuit and a circuit. The first circuit may be configured to receive an input signal, split the input signal into component signals and present the component signals to a plurality of amplifiers. The second circuit may be configured to receive amplified component signals from the amplifiers and combine the amplified component signals into an output signal. The circuits may each comprise an outer conductor, an inner conductor, a cavity and a plurality of blades. Each of the blades may be arranged evenly spaced along a surface within the cavity and extend along a length of the surface with a shape. The shape of the blades may have a probe and the shape may gradually meet the surface and may be configured to provide a low-loss transition for propagation of a microwave signal. The output signal may be an amplified version of said input signal.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Mission Microwave Technologies, LLCInventors: Michael P. DeLisio, Jr., Donald Xiaodong Wu, Nathaniel Schultz, Blythe C. Deckman
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Patent number: 11932831Abstract: A water-based graphene dispersion is made by shear stabilization. The method of preparing the water-based graphene dispersion using shear stabilization includes adding a composition containing a graphene powder, a super wetter surfactant and a water dispersible rheology agent into water to form an aqueous mixture; and shearing the aqueous mixture under high pressures to break down the thick layers of the graphene powder to thin layers of graphene platelet particles and to form the water-based graphene dispersion with the graphene platelet particles dispersed in the water-based graphene dispersion. The water-based graphene dispersion is stable without visible phase separation after storage at room temperature for at least one year or even more than one year.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2022Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: TURTLE WAX, INC.Inventor: Michael A. Schultz
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Patent number: 11921289Abstract: A personal display device for displaying virtual images to a wearer. The personal display device includes a frame having a right temple section, a left temple section, a right rear section, a left rear section, a right eye see-through section, and a left eye see-through section; a projection display device connected to the frame for projecting an image to the wearer; at least one waveguide stack module connected to the frame for propagating image-bearing light beams along a length of the at least one waveguide stack module, the at least one waveguide stack module being configured to receive the image from the projection display device and detected touch motions of the wearer sensed by the touchpad including sensing directions of the touch motions of the wearer.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Vuzix CorporationInventors: Paul Travers, Tyler Porter, Robert Schultz, Gregory Moens, Connor Hack, Adalberto Perez Reyes, Kevin Lloyd, Marc J. Krolczyk, Michael J. Telek, Paul A. Boris, Robert W. Gray, Alexander Kelly
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Publication number: 20240067342Abstract: A cabin monument having a monument body and a transparent film which is connected to the monument body. The transparent film has a large number of light-emitting elements. Further provided is an aircraft having at least one such cabin monument and a control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Sven-Olaf BERKHAHN, Sarico SCHULTZ, Michael LÜDTKE
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Publication number: 20240070722Abstract: Systems and methods for targeted advertising to specific consumers are disclosed. A system may include a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: receive, over a network, consumer data from a client device; identify a plurality of client-provided consumers from the consumer data; obtain a plurality of unique consumer identifiers corresponding to the plurality of client-provided consumers; and identify at least one first overlapping unique consumer identifier by matching at least one of the plurality of client-provided consumers with at least one publisher-provided consumer provided by a first publisher device of a plurality of publisher devices, the first publisher device having a highest priority among the plurality of publisher devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 5, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Merkle, Inc.Inventors: Peter RANDAZZO, John GAJEWSKI, John LEE, Nicholas A. ILLOBRE, Dionisio ESPINAL, Gerald Matthew BAVARO, Matthew SCHULTZ, Michael JOYCE, David Michael YONCHAK, Kelly Renee LEGER
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Patent number: 11897771Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method of graphene exfoliation and/or stabilization. Both graphene and silica are mixed in an organic solvent to form a liquid precursor, which is then directed through an orifice formed by a metal cylinder and a flat metal plate. The metal cylinder is pressed against the flat metal plate by a high pressure. The high shear between the metal cylinder and the flat metal plate breaks down the thick layers of graphene to thin layers, which are stably dispersed in the gel formed by the silica.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: TURTLE WAX, INC.Inventor: Michael A. Schultz
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Publication number: 20230191979Abstract: A swing wall assembly is provided. The assembly may have a fixed wall attached to a supporting surface of the space. A geared hinge connects a swing wall to the fixed wall so that the swing wall may be offset from the supporting surface by a caster distance. A caster assembly may protrude from a lower portion of the swing wall by the caster distance so as to be moveable along the supporting surface. The swing wall may be connected to a header by way of a self-aligning lock. A sliding lock may connect the swing wall and or a pod wall that can be operatively associated with the swing wall opposite the fixed wall. The pod wall allows the swing wall assembly to selectively close off different types of spaced within an enclosed space of a recreational vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventor: Justin Michael Schultz
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Patent number: 11643257Abstract: A dispensing fitment assembly includes a fitment assembly and a dispensing probe. The fitment assembly includes a fitment housing and a plug. The fitment housing is configured to operatively couple to a container opening of a fluid container. The plug is positioned within an interior portion of the fitment housing. The plug is slidingly movable between an open and closed position. Engagement between the dispensing probe and the interior surface of the plug is configured to move the plug from the closed position to the open position. Disengagement between the dispensing probe and the interior surface of the plug is configured to move the plug from the open to closed position.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: Ecolab USA Inc.Inventors: Karl Alan Heinbuch, Matthew D. Lausted, Jeffrey Michael Schultz, Kevin Michael Welle, Bradley Jacob Johnson
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Patent number: 11624528Abstract: A system and method for configuring a water heater. The method includes capturing, with a mobile device a scannable feature of a rating plate and receiving, with the mobile device, an input indicative of a configuration selection. The method further includes configuring, with the mobile device, the water heater based on the configuration selection.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: A. O. Smith CorporationInventors: John Matthew Schulz, Carl Edward McDow, Steven J. Wilcox, Michael Schultz
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Publication number: 20230039120Abstract: A water-based graphene dispersion is made by shear stabilization. The method of preparing the water-based graphene dispersion using shear stabilization includes adding a composition containing a graphene powder, a super wetter surfactant and a water dispersible rheology agent into water to form an aqueous mixture; and shearing the aqueous mixture under high pressures to break down the thick layers of the graphene powder to thin layers of graphene platelet particles and to form the water-based graphene dispersion with the graphene platelet particles dispersed in the water-based graphene dispersion. The water-based graphene dispersion is stable without visible phase separation after storage at room temperature for at least one year or even more than one year.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2022Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventor: Michael A. Schultz
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Patent number: 11512265Abstract: A water-based graphene dispersion is made by shear stabilization. The method of preparing the water-based graphene dispersion using shear stabilization includes adding a composition containing a graphene powder, a super wetter surfactant and a water dispersible rheology agent into water to form an aqueous mixture; and shearing the aqueous mixture under high pressures to break down the thick layers of the graphene powder to thin layers of graphene platelet particles and to form the water-based graphene dispersion with the graphene platelet particles dispersed in the water-based graphene dispersion. The water-based graphene dispersion is stable without visible phase separation after storage at room temperature for at least one year or even more than one year.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2022Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Turtle Wax, Inc.Inventor: Michael A. Schultz
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Publication number: 20220325918Abstract: A system and method for configuring a water heater. The method includes capturing, with a mobile device a scannable feature of a rating plate and receiving, with the mobile device, an input indicative of a configuration selection. The method further includes configuring, with the mobile device, the water heater based on the configuration selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: October 13, 2022Inventors: John Matthew Schulz, Carl Edward McDow, Steven J. Wilcox, Michael Schultz
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Publication number: 20220296030Abstract: A retrofit infuser may be configured to be used with a drinking container to allow material, held within the infuser, to be infused within a liquid of the drinking container. The material may be fruits, vegetables, teas, coffee beans, coffee grounds, or other food and drink related items. The infuser may include a lid. The lid may be configured to removably secure the infuser within a neck of the drinking container or to float atop a liquid in the drinking container. The infuser may include a cage configured to hold the material to be infused and to allow the material to be infused into the liquid of the drinking container. The cage may be configured to be removably secured within the lid of the infuser. The infuser may further be configured to removably secure to a straw of the drinking container.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 18, 2022Publication date: September 22, 2022Applicant: P.S. Kreative, LLCInventors: Michael Schultz, Aaron Clymer
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Patent number: D1011805Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2018Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: Whitmor, Inc.Inventors: Sandy Felsenthal, Milton D. Ruiz, Lauren Budzak, Michael Schultz, Kristy Smith, Steve Westcott
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Patent number: D1016578Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Inventors: Michael Schultz, Aaron Clymer