Patents by Inventor Patrick A. Miller
Patrick A. Miller 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: 20240085118Abstract: An oscillating heat pipe (OHP) device that comprise a body having a top face, a bottom face and at least one side face, a plurality of hollow OHP channels formed internally within the body, and an oscillating heat pipe (OHP) flushing duct system. The flushing duct system is formed in at least one of a body top face, a bottom face and at least one side face of an OHP device. The flushing duct system fluidly connects one or more of a plurality of OHP channels formed internally within the OHP device to an ambient environment of the device. The flushing duct system comprising at least one welding receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Patrick Margavio, Scott Hayden, John Henry Utley, Alexander Miller
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Patent number: 11913545Abstract: A compliant shifting mechanism for a power tool includes a selector, a first shift plate rotatable in response to rotation of the selector, a second shift plate rotatable in response to rotation of the first shift plate, a shift member moveable in response to rotation of the second shift plate to shift between a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation, a first torsion spring coupled to the first shift plate, and a second torsion spring coupled to the second shift plate. In response to rotation of the selector in a first direction, the first torsion spring may bias the first shift plate in the first direction for shifting compliance in the first direction. In response to rotation of the selector in an opposite second direction, the second torsion spring may bias the second shift plate in the second direction for shifting compliance in the second direction.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Black & Decker Inc.Inventors: Joseph Patrick Kelleher, Louis Marvin Vasiliades, Matthew Ronald Miller
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Patent number: 11903434Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a garment liner that couples to the interior of a clothing article. The garment liner can replace typical underwear. The garment liner can shield clothing from a person's body, and can improve comfort by conforming to the shape of the clothing instead of to the body.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Inventor: Patrick Miller
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Publication number: 20240049819Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a garment liner that couples to the interior of a clothing article. The garment liner can replace typical underwear. The garment liner can shield clothing from a person's body, and can improve comfort by conforming to the shape of the clothing instead of to the body. Various mechanisms are provided for coupling the garment liner to the clothing article.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2023Publication date: February 15, 2024Inventor: PATRICK MILLER
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Publication number: 20240038374Abstract: A system and platform are provided that enables end-users to gain insight into group and individual practices. Those insights may be obtained for any desirable aspect of each practice and the collection of practices including, but not limited to, financial information, medical information, human resources information, and patient information. That information can be used by group management to identify best practices, and it can be used to advise individual practices on strengths to be reinforced and weaknesses to be addressed. That information may be conveyed to group management and individual practices in the form of dashboards customizable to the particular functions of specific users and their personas.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Sean Patrick Miller, Biswa Prakash, William Joseph Griffin, Jeremy James Halperin, Daniel Eugenio Espinal, Brent Philip Profenno
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Publication number: 20240037479Abstract: A system and platform are provided that enables end-users to gain insight into group and individual practices. Those insights may be obtained for any desirable aspect of each practice and the collection of practices including, but not limited to, financial information, medical information, human resources information, and patient information. That information can be used by group management to identify best practices, and it can be used to advise individual practices on strengths to be reinforced and weaknesses to be addressed. That information may be conveyed to group management and individual practices in the form of dashboards customizable to the particular functions of specific users and their personas.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Inventors: Sean Patrick Miller, Biswa Prakash, William Joseph Griffin, Jeremy James Halperin, Daniel Eugenio Espinal, Brent Philip Profenno
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Patent number: 11853698Abstract: An example computer-implemented method embodying the disclosed technology comprises digitally storing a plurality of digital objects comprising first type digital objects and second type digital objects, each digital object comprising an electronic digital representation of natural language text, and certain first type digital objects each being associated with exactly one second type digital object; programmatically generating a corpus of digital documents from the plurality of digital objects; programmatically embedding the electronic digital representation of natural language text of each first type digital object not associated with one of the second type digital objects, thereby generating a second set of vectors; programmatically determining, for each of the second set of vectors, a corresponding set of nearest neighbor vectors from the first set of vectors; programmatically generating recommendation data indicating potential new associations between first type digital objects and second type digital obType: GrantFiled: May 12, 2022Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Vivun Inc.Inventors: John Robert Bruce, Matthew James Darrow, Joseph Patrick Miller, John Joseph Salvatore, Rayne Krystopher Hernandez, Alexander Matthew Metelitsa
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Patent number: 11827153Abstract: A vehicular cabin monitoring system includes a mirror head adjustably attached at a mounting structure configured to attach at an interior portion of a vehicle. The minor head accommodates a camera and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) connected in series with each other. A switch is operable in an open state, where current provided by a current driver passes through each individual LED of the plurality of LEDs, and a closed state, where current provided by the current driver passes through a first subset of LEDs of the plurality of LEDs and bypasses a second subset of LEDs of the plurality of LEDs. The switch operates in the open state when the camera captures image data for a first vehicular function, such as occupant monitoring, and operates in the closed state when the camera captures image data for a second vehicular function, such as driver monitoring.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 28, 2023Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Patrick A. Miller, Yuesheng Lu
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Publication number: 20230342708Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scoring candidate routes. One of the methods includes obtaining a predictive model trained on training examples from trip log data, wherein each training example has feature values from a particular trip and a value of a dependent variable that represents an outcome of a portion of the particular trip, wherein the features of each particular trip include values obtained from one or more external data feed sources that specify a value of a sensor measurement at a particular point in time during the trip. Sensor values from one or more external data feed sources of a sensor network are received. Feature values are generated using the sensor values received from the one or more external data feed sources. A predicted score is computed for each route using the feature values for the candidate route.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Patrick Miller Coughran, Douglas David Coughran, IV, Evan Fields, Rany Polany, Raimundo Onetto, Nathalie Saade, Nasser Mohamed, Aurelio de Padua Gandra
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Publication number: 20230302994Abstract: A vehicular cabin monitoring system includes a mirror head adjustably attached at a mounting structure configured to attach at an interior portion of a vehicle. The mirror head accommodates a camera and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) connected in series with each other. A switch is operable in an open state, where current provided by a current driver passes through each individual LED of the plurality of LEDs, and a closed state, where current provided by the current driver passes through a first subset of LEDs of the plurality of LEDs and bypasses a second subset of LEDs of the plurality of LEDs. The switch operates in the open state when the camera captures image data for a first vehicular function, such as occupant monitoring, and operates in the closed state when the camera captures image data for a second vehicular function, such as driver monitoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Patrick A. MILLER, Yuesheng LU
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Patent number: 11757263Abstract: According to one example, a spark plug gapping tool includes a first side handle, a second side handle, a middle handle, and a pusher that are made of a non-metallic material. The middle handle is positioned in-between the first side handle and the second side handle, and has a stopper surface and an insert slot that can receive a feeler gauge insert. The pusher is rotatably positioned in-between the first side handle and the second side handle, and has a hollow housing that can receive a terminal end of a spark plug. In operation, a distal end of the middle handle and distal ends of the side handles can move closer together, when a proximal end of the middle handle and proximal ends of the side handles are moved closer together by a user's hand, so as to gap the spark plug.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: GP PRODUCTIONS LLCInventors: Patrick Miller, Griffin Steinfeld
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Publication number: 20230270995Abstract: Disclosed herein is a pulse generator device for trigeminal nerve stimulation. In one embodiment, the pulse generator device comprises a processor(s) configured to: produce pulses delivered to an electrode assembly for a therapy session(s) for a patient, log data from the therapy session(s) (where the data comprises impedance of the electrode assembly connected to the pulse generator and current amplitude of the pulses), determine an average current amplitude from the data, determine an average therapy impedance from the data, determine a charge capacity of a battery of the pulse generator prior to beginning a subsequent therapy session, determine whether the charge capacity of the battery is sufficient to complete the subsequent therapy session for a designated duration of time by using the average current amplitude and the average therapy impedance. Further the pulse generator device comprises a display configured to display a screen comprising a graphical user interface (GUI).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventor: Patrick Miller
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Patent number: 11733047Abstract: Exemplary methods and systems provide for production of geographically located, accurate indoor maps of physical spaces and provide navigation guidance for users in physical spaces, and process requests for users related to available physical space within said physical spaces. Aggregated information about the physical spaces is curated and converted using automated procedures into a data model that contains all elements of said physical spaces, including geographic data about the physical space's location on the globe. The system and computer program embodiments retrieve the converted data, load it on mobile devices or computers, rendering it on these devices in the correct global geographic context, allowing users to interact with the data to select rooms, and send and receive requests to and from external systems regarding these selections. Users navigate within the physical spaces using mobile devices and the computer program embodiments in tandem to provide accurate directions and guidance.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: August 22, 2023Assignee: LOKION INTERACTIVE, LLCInventors: Christopher Fitch, Sam Lee, Kevin Yancy, Vaskin Kissoyan, Mike O'Hearn, Dale Smith, Douglas O'Brien, Patrick Miller, Marcus Stafford
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Patent number: 11727345Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for scoring candidate routes. One of the methods includes obtaining a predictive model trained on training examples from trip log data, wherein each training example has feature values from a particular trip and a value of a dependent variable that represents an outcome of a portion of the particular trip, wherein the features of each particular trip include values obtained from one or more external data feed sources that specify a value of a sensor measurement at a particular point in time during the trip. Sensor values from one or more external data feed sources of a sensor network are received. Feature values are generated using the sensor values received from the one or more external data feed sources. A predicted score is computed for each route using the feature values for the candidate route.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: Descartes Systems (USA) LLCInventors: Patrick Miller Coughran, Douglas David Coughran, IV, Evan Fields, Rany Polany, Raimundo Onetto, Nathalie Saade, Nasser Mohamed, Aurelio de Padua Gandra
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Patent number: 11708025Abstract: A vehicular vision system includes at least one color camera disposed at a vehicle and having an image sensor operable to capture image data. A first system on chip (SoC) includes an image signal processor that receives captured image data and converts the received image data to converted data that is in a format suitable for machine vision processing. A second system on chip (SoC) receives captured image data and communicates display data to a display disposed in the vehicle, with the display data being in a format suitable for display of video images at the display. At startup of the vehicle, video images derived from the display data are displayed by the display within a time period following startup of the vehicle and machine vision data processing of converted data does not commence until after the display time period has elapsed following startup of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Yuesheng Lu, Vivek Vaid, Patrick A. Miller
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Publication number: 20230200698Abstract: A method for improving the mental health of children, families and homes using “positive feedback loop” technology is described. One or more aspects of the method include obtaining a device; training the device to assign a predetermined threshold to at least one input, where the at least one input comprises a measurement of at least one condition of an ambient environment; measuring the at least one input; assigning a score to the measurement of the at least one condition of an ambient environment; evaluating whether the score exceeds the predetermined threshold; alerting at least one user when the score exceeds the predetermined threshold; and repeating the measuring, assigning, and evaluating steps until the score exceeds the predetermined threshold when the score does not exceed the predetermined threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Chaya Beck, Kirk Patrick Miller
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Publication number: 20230160934Abstract: A system for ensuring that electrically powered medical equipment is properly grounded includes a current sensor that senses current flowing within a ground connection conductor (e.g., leakage current) for the medical equipment. The sensor may operate based on induced current. Measured current is converted to a voltage value, and the voltage value is analyzed by a processor to determine whether current is present in the ground connection conductor. If no current is present, the ground connection conductor may be faulty. If current is present, the system can also identify voltage-to-patient fault conditions.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 25, 2023Applicant: NxStage Medical, Inc.Inventor: Patrick MILLER
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Publication number: 20230155355Abstract: According to one example, a spark plug gapping tool includes a first side handle, a second side handle, a middle handle, and a pusher that are made of a non-metallic material. The middle handle is positioned in-between the first side handle and the second side handle, and has a stopper surface and an insert slot that can receive a feeler gauge insert. The pusher is rotatably positioned in-between the first side handle and the second side handle, and has a hollow housing that can receive a terminal end of a spark plug. In operation, a distal end of the middle handle and distal ends of the side handles can move closer together, when a proximal end of the middle handle and proximal ends of the side handles are moved closer together by a user's hand, so as to gap the spark plug.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 20, 2023Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicant: GP Productions LLCInventors: Patrick Miller, Griffin Steinfeld
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Publication number: 20230143577Abstract: An example computer-implemented method embodying the disclosed technology comprises digitally storing a plurality of digital objects comprising first type digital objects and second type digital objects, each digital object comprising an electronic digital representation of natural language text, and certain first type digital objects each being associated with exactly one second type digital object; programmatically generating a corpus of digital documents from the plurality of digital objects; programmatically embedding the electronic digital representation of natural language text of each first type digital object not associated with one of the second type digital objects, thereby generating a second set of vectors; programmatically determining, for each of the second set of vectors, a corresponding set of nearest neighbor vectors from the first set of vectors; programmatically generating recommendation data indicating potential new associations between first type digital objects and second type digital obType: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: May 11, 2023Inventors: John Robert Bruce, Matthew James Darrow, Joseph Patrick Miller, John Joseph Salvatore, Rayne Krystopher Hernandez, Alexander Matthew Metelitsa
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Patent number: D1013579Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: STI Holdings, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Patrick Miller, Francis Steven Smidler