Patents by Inventor Mohammad Ali

Mohammad Ali 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).

  • CAVITY-BACKED PATCH ANTENNA
    Publication number: 20160028162
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wideband antenna comprising a dielectric-loaded cavity-backed patch antenna driven with a stripline. The antenna includes a dielectric resonator. The stripline feeds a probe disposed within the dielectric resonator. The probe emits EM radiation, which is coupled to the patch antenna for transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2014
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Yu-Chin Ou, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Haim Mendel Weissman, Lior Raviv
  • Exhaust system having a flow rotation element and method for operation of an exhaust system
    Patent number: 9238992
    Abstract: An exhaust system in an engine includes an exhaust passage including an outlet, in fluidic communication with at least one combustion chamber in the engine, and integrated into a cylinder head in the engine and a flow rotation element including at least one vane, the flow rotation element positioned in the outlet of the exhaust passage swirling exhaust airflow exiting the exhaust passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Moetakef, Steve Poe
  • Radial Flow Adsorber 'U' Configuration
    Publication number: 20150360167
    Abstract: A radial U-flow adsorption unit for air purification in a TSA process, having a gas outlet at one end and at least one gas inlet at the side, preferably at the same end of the unit as the gas outlet. The simpler design of the unit facilitates manufacture, installation and transport, and reduces the capital and operating costs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: AIR PRODUCTS AND CHEMICALS, INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Stephen John Gibbon, Nasim Ul Hassan Malik, Stephen Clyde Tentarelli
  • Biocatalyst compositions and processes for their use
    Patent number: 9212358
    Abstract: The microorganism-containing biocatalysts disclosed have a large population of the microorganisms irreversibly retained in the interior of the biocatalysts. The biocatalysts possess a surprisingly stable population of microorganisms and have an essential absence of debris generation from metabolic activity of the microorganisms. The biocatalysts are composed of highly hydrophilic polymer and have an internal, open, porous structure that promotes community phenotypic changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: MICROVI BIOTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Fatemeh Razavi-Shirazi, Mohammad Ali Dorri, Farhad Dorri-Nowkoorani, Ameen(nmn) Razavi
  • Check valve for an engine vacuum pump
    Patent number: 9212662
    Abstract: A rotary vane pump includes a housing that encloses an air chamber. An intake aperture extends to the air chamber. A check valve couples with the intake aperture and includes a stop having first and second sides. A helical spring engages the first side and biases the second side against a valve seat. A porous body is disposed between the helical spring and the air chamber for preventing fluid backflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Moetakef
  • Systems and methods optimizing backhaul transport
    Patent number: 9203761
    Abstract: Systems and methods optimizing backhaul transport with respect to communication systems through the use of a heterogeneous backhaul link configuration and corresponding implementation of backhaul link path selection control to provide traffic offloading for traffic congestion mitigation are disclosed. Heterogeneous backhaul link configurations may include one or more backhaul links implementing a plurality of data paths providing different capabilities, such as may comprise a high reliability path and an unpredictable reliability path. Backhaul link path selection control of embodiments implements logic for determining when data is to be carried via one or more of the backhaul link paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2015
    Assignee: Taqua WBH, LLC
    Inventors: Seyed Mohammad Ali Arad, John Hoadley
  • PRECODING WITH A CODEBOOK FOR A WIRELESS SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150341094
    Abstract: A base station used in a wireless communications system with multiple transmission ranks is disclosed. The base station comprises a memory to store a codebook for a transmission rank, a beamforming controller to precode data with a precoding matrix selected from the codebook, and a transmitter to transmit the precoded data to a user equipment, wherein the precoding matrix is selected according to a first description and a second description, which are unique to the precoding matrix, and wherein the second description provides a finer description of the codebook than the first description. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Khojastepour
  • SYSTEM, METHOD, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM STORING A PROGRAM FOR GENERATING GEOMETRIC PATTERNS
    Publication number: 20150302618
    Abstract: A method and apparatus which allow for the creation of patterns that simultaneously combine units based on any number of spaced points without the restriction of repetition, strict geometrical order, and regularity. Patterns can be created without repetition using dissimilar units over an underlying grid with any level of regularity or irregularity. The units are also not limited by strict geometric order and can encompass any level of regularity or irregularity. The method and system further allow for customization of the overall geometric pattern without being limited by the confinements exhibited by the traditional convention. Within regular shapes, the centers can also be shifted to create an infinite field of geometric patterns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali YAGHAN
  • Gold coated super paramagnetic iron oxide nano-particles (SPIONs) and a method of synthesizing the same
    Patent number: 9161996
    Abstract: The various embodiments herein provide a gold coated SPIONs with jagged surface. The gold coated SPIONs have a core and a shell. The core is a SPION molecule and the shell is a jagged gold layer. A non-uniform polymeric gap exists between the core and the shell. The embodiments also provide a method of producing the jagged gold coated SPIONs by mixing a colloidal dispersion of SPIONs with pH sensitive polymers. Adding a gold salt to the above mixture and reducing the gold salt to form jagged gold coated SPIONs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Inventors: Morteza Mahmoudi, Mohammad Ali Shokrgozar
  • Gravity feed dispensing system for poultry and other small animals
    Patent number: 9161518
    Abstract: A gravity feed dispensing system for small animals in multi-level cages includes a rectangular hopper for containing a supply of animal feed and a number of multi-level cages. The system also includes a number of pipes with one pipe for each cage. The pipes are gathered together to form a pipe rack of upwardly facing open ends forming a planar array below the hopper. A first chute connects the hopper to the pipe rack for delivering food to the cages. A control plate having a small central opening is disposed in the chute between the hopper and the pipe racks. In addition, a pair of sliding gates is disposed between the control plate and the pipe rack together with a mechanism for opening and closing the pair of gates. The system also includes a mechanism for adjusting the vertical distance between the control plate and the pair of gates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Inventor: Jasem Mohammad Ali Rashed Al-Omani
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPLACING SIGNAL ARTIFACTS IN A GLUCOSE SENSOR DATA STREAM
    Publication number: 20150289819
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting noise episodes and processing analyte sensor data responsive thereto. In some embodiments, processing analyte sensor data includes filtering the sensor data to reduce or eliminate the effects of the noise episode on the signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventors: Apurv Ullas Kamath, Aarthi Mahalingam, Ying Li, Mohammad Ali Shariati, James H. Brauker, Mark C. Brister, Robert Boock
  • MULTICELL BEAMFORMING SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR OFDMA SMALL-CELL NETWORKS
    Publication number: 20150281978
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods and structures that provide improved spatial reuse of spectral resources in small-cell wireless networks including WiMAX, LTE, LTE-Advanced, etc. Advantageously, the systems and method disclosed while leveraging beamforming for spatial reuse across small cells also decouple it from per-frame scheduling at a small cell base station thereby allowing for beam selections to be computed with a granularity measured in seconds. In realizing these advantages, systems, methods and structures disclosed integrate beam selection with client association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Jongwon YOON, Karthikeyan SUNDARESAN, Mohammad Ali KHOJASTEPOUR, Suman BANERJEE, Sampath RANGARAJAN
  • GRAVITY FEED DISPENSING SYSTEM FOR POULTRY AND OTHER SMALL ANIMALS
    Publication number: 20150264895
    Abstract: A gravity feed dispensing system for small animals in multi-level cages includes a rectangular hopper for containing a supply of animal feed and a number of multi-level cages. The system also includes a number of pipes with one pipe for each cage. The pipes are gathered together to form a pipe rack of upwardly facing open ends forming a planar array below the hopper. A first chute connects the hopper to the pipe rack for delivering food to the cages. A control plate having a small central opening is disposed in the chute between the hopper and the pipe racks. In addition, a pair of sliding gates is disposed between the control plate and the pipe rack together with a mechanism for opening and closing the pair of gates. The system also includes a mechanism for adjusting the vertical distance between the control plate and the pair of gates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventor: Jasem Mohammad Ali Rashed Al-Omani
  • ULTRASONIC MOTOR CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20150270790
    Abstract: A method of controlling an ultrasonic motor coupled to a motor driver circuit, comprises receiving a temperature signal representing the temperature of the ultrasonic motor, receiving a position signal output by a first encoder representing the position of the ultrasonic motor, calculating an error between the position of the ultrasonic motor represented by the position signal and a target position, calculating a control signal based on the temperature of the ultrasonic motor represented by the temperature signal and the calculated error, and sending the control signal to the motor driver circuit to control the ultrasonic motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2014
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: VITAL BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali TAVALLAEI, Maria DRANGOVA
  • Capacitive touch sensor
    Patent number: 9140737
    Abstract: An apparatus including a first layer having a first substrate, first capacitive sensors on the first substrate and first electrical leads on the first substrate; and a second layer having a second substrate, second capacitive sensors on the second substrate and second electrical leads on the second substrate. The first layer is located on top of the second layer. The first capacitive sensors are arranged in a substantially ring-shaped pattern. The second capacitive sensors are arranged in a pattern sized to fit under the first layer within an inside perimeter of the substantially ring-shaped pattern of the first capacitive sensors. The second layer includes electrically conductive material spaced from the second capacitive sensors and the second electrical leads. The electrically conductive material is sized and shaped to be located under the first capacitive sensors and the first electrical leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Mockarram-Dorri
  • Capacitive touch sensor
    Patent number: 9141240
    Abstract: An apparatus including capacitive sensors, where the capacitive sensors are arrange in a first layer and a second layer, and where the first layer is located on top of the second layer; and a cover window on top of the first layer, where the cover window does not comprise electrically conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Mockarram-Dorri
  • Precoding with a codebook for a wireless system
    Patent number: 9136928
    Abstract: A method of precoding implemented in a base station used in a wireless communications system with multiple transmission ranks is disclosed. The method includes having a codebook for a transmission rank, precoding data in one or more layers with a precoding matrix selected from the codebook, and transmitting the precoded data to a user equipment, wherein the precoding matrix is selected according to a first description and a second description, which are unique to the precoding matrix, and wherein the second description provides a finer description of the codebook than the first description. Other methods, systems, and apparatuses also are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: NEC Laboratories America, Inc.
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Khojastepour
  • ULTRA LOW PROFILE CONFORMAL ANTENNA SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20150249293
    Abstract: A low profile conformal high gain multi-beam aircraft antenna includes antenna elements supported by a ground plane to create the low profile conformal high gain multi-beam aircraft antenna. Some of the antenna elements include a feeding waveguide flared in at least one of an h-plane and a v-plane. The antenna elements cooperate to create a gain pattern near a plane of the antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 3, 2015
    Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Allen Minh-Triet Tran, Ernest Tadashi Ozaki, Mohammad Ali Tassoudji, Ahmad Jalali
  • Electric device for producing successive positive and negative electric charges
    Patent number: 9119963
    Abstract: The electric device for producing successive positive and negative electric charges includes a thyristor-based electrical pulse generator for providing alternating positive and negative pulses with relatively small currents. The potential alternates between positive and negative charge current, and the small current is applied, in the form of sparks, to a body under treatment. A cup-shaped electrode is mounted in the distal end of a handle for application to the body. The treatment device is carried in a case for portability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Inventor: Mohammad Ali Al-Shemmeri
  • Purification of air
    Patent number: 9108145
    Abstract: Process of reducing water, CO2 and N2O in feed air, which: a first adsorbent such as alumina (25-40% volume) and a second adsorbent such as X zeolite (60-75% volume) are used; the online time of the adsorbent is determined by determining the concentration measured by an analyzer for CO2 concentration at a position within the length of the second adsorbent when a maximum level of N2O is simultaneously obtained at the downstream end of the second adsorbent in the feed direction, wherein the online time is the time taken from commencing passing the feed air to the first and second adsorbents to the measurement by the analyzer of the determined concentration of CO2; at least the second adsorbent is regenerated by heated regeneration gas at a temperature of 140° C.-220° C.; and the molar ratio of the regenerating gas to feed air supplied during one iteration of the cycle is 0.08-0.5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammad Ali Kalbassi, Anthony Finot, Timothy Christopher Golden, Christopher James Raiswell, Ann Marie Botelho