Patents by Inventor Paul Patrick

Paul Patrick 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).

  • Publication number: 20240150242
    Abstract: A three-part epoxy grout composition comprises a liquid epoxy blend, a liquid hardener, and a graded particulate aggregate, wherein the dry aggregate particles are pretreated with an applied adhesion promoter in an amount of 0.01 to 5% by weight. The volume of pretreated aggregate particles, when mixed with the epoxy blend and the hardener, comprises at least 70% by volume of the cured grout. Pretreatment of the aggregate by coating with adhesion promoter allows more efficient use of chemicals along with improved strength. Related methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Lawrence S. Shapiro, Michael K. Harvey, Scott Atom Saverse, Douglas A. Cheney, Zbigniew Andrew Szczepaniak, Brandon Michael Belcher, Paul Matz, Timothy Patrick Fitzgerald, Shawn Thomas Noble
  • Publication number: 20240147324
    Abstract: Methods to perform, maintain and report measurements on a transmission-reception point (TRP) using limited reference signal transmission are described herein. The mobility measurement reports may utilize physical channels. Methods to obtain measurements on neighbor TRPs using limited RS transmissions are also described herein. Random-Access procedures to enable the addition of a neighbor TRP or handover without requiring higher layer signaling (and possibly without an interface between source and target TRP) are also described herein. New triggers to perform RA in order to decrease handover latency are also described herein. Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) behavior upon receiving RAR from multiple possible TRPs are also described herein. For example, a WTRU may store RAR information and use it later in an interrupted RA procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Patrick Tooher, Ghyslain Pelletier, Benoit Pelletier, Paul Marinier, Yugeswar Deenoo, Martino M. Freda
  • Publication number: 20240128762
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a process for configuring or commissioning a solar power system includes receiving, at a controller, hardware identifiers of a plurality of power electronics modules to be configured. Each of the plurality of power electronics modules of at least a portion of the plurality of power electronics modules is associated with a corresponding photovoltaic panel. A hub is configured to wirelessly communicate with the plurality of power electronics modules. The controller is physically connected to the hub and communicates with the hub via wiring that also carries power from photovoltaic panels to an inverter. The process includes configuring, by the controller, the plurality of power electronics modules using the received hardware identifiers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kyle Breuning Evans, Sebastian Wolf, Mark Holveck, Hai-Yue Han, Craig Patrick Timms, Paul Chapman, Christopher Wright, Ryan Pflaum
  • Publication number: 20240129841
    Abstract: Cell detection information, such as cell identity, frequency, dormant/active mode, etc. may be determined. This cell detection information may be reported based on properties of a received Auxiliary Synchronization Signal (AuSS) or discovery signal. The received signal may be processed as a function of its timing, for example, with respect to timing of a serving cell. A WTRU may obtain cell detection information for a neighbor cell. A cell may also be detected by surrounding WTRUs. A WTRU may determine timing of cell reactivation from a detected property of the AuSS or discovery signal. A WTRU may trigger an RRC procedure upon selecting a dormant but temporarily reactivated cell. An eNB may transmit AuSS for a dormant cell based on detection of signals received from neighbor cells. Quasi-colocation (QCL) demodulation may be performed based on the detected signal. The on/off state of a cell may be indicated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Marinier, Ghyslain Pelletier, J. Patrick Tooher, Diana Pani
  • Publication number: 20240115418
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for removing heat from subcutaneously disposed lipid-rich cells are disclosed. In selected embodiments, suction and/or heat removal sources are coupled to an applicator. The applicator includes a flexible portion and a rigid portion. The rigid portion includes a thermally conductive plate and a frame coupling the thermally conductive plate and the flexible portion. An interior cavity of the applicator is in fluid communication with the suction source, and the frame maintains contiguous engagement between the heat removal source and the thermally conductive plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Mark William Baker, Joseph Coakley, Paul William Martens, Albert L. Ollerdessen, William Patrick Pennybacker, Jesse N. Rosen, Peter Yee, John W. Allison
  • Publication number: 20240121652
    Abstract: A method implemented by a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) includes receiving a DeModulation Interference Measurement (DM-IM) resource, determining an interference measurement based on the DM-IM resource, and demodulating a received signal based on the interference measurement. An interference is suppressed based on the interference measurement. At least one DM-IM resource is located in a Physical Resource Block (PRB). The DM-IM resource is located in a PRB allocated for the WTRU. The DM-IM resource is a plurality of DM-IM resources which form a DM-IM pattern, and the DM-IM pattern is located on a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) and/or an enhanced Physical Downlink Shared Channel (E-PDSCH) of at least one Long Term Evolution (LTE) subframe. The DM-IM resources are different for different Physical Resource Blocks (PRB) in the LTE subframe. The DM-IM is located in a Long Term Evolution (LTE) Resource Block (RB), and the DM-IM pattern is adjusted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Paul MARINIER, Moon-il LEE, J. Patrick TOOHER, Marian RUDOLF, Shahrokh NAYEB NAZAR, Janet STERN-BERKOWITZ
  • Patent number: 11956789
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for uplink (UL) transmissions in wireless systems. The systems, methods and instrumentalities may include a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) with a receiver configured to receive one or more uplink (UL) grants that may include allocations associated with a regular UL (RUL) carrier and a supplementary UL (SUL) carrier. The RUL and SUL carriers may be associated with a common downlink (DL) carrier of a serving cell. The WTRU may include a processor configured to select data from one or more logical channels for transmission in accordance with the allocations. The WTRU may include a transmitter configured to transmit data from one logical channel on the RUL carrier and to transmit data from another logical channel on the SUL carrier in accordance with the allocations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Faris Alfarhan, Mouna Hajir, Ghyslain Pelletier, J. Patrick Tooher, Paul Marinier, Martino M. Freda
  • Patent number: 11956822
    Abstract: A WTRU may be configured to perform radio link monitoring (RLM) based on RLM reference signals (RLM-RSs) transmitted in a cell operating in an unlicensed spectrum. The WTRU may evaluate a radio link failure (RLF) status for the cell using a first RLM criteria based on the RLM-RSs. A transmission instance of the RLM-RSs may be skipped, for example, due to a listen before talk (LBT) failure at a gNodeB (gNB). The WTRU may adapt or change the first RLM criteria and/or evaluate the RLF status of the cell operating in the unlicensed spectrum using a second RLM criteria based on determining that the transmission instance of the RLM-RSs was skipped. The first RLM criteria may correspond to a first RLM process that utilizes a first set of RLM parameters. The second RLM criteria may correspond to a second RLM process that utilizes a second set of RLM parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Yugeswar Deenoo, Mouna Hajir, J. Patrick Tooher, Ghyslain Pelletier, Paul Marinier
  • Patent number: 11956713
    Abstract: In a network comprising both fixed transmission points and mobile transmission points, the transmission points may transmit discovery reference signals that allow WTRUs to detect and/or synchronize to the transmission points. The fixed and mobile transmission points may transmit discovery reference signals with different characteristics that allow the WTRUs to distinguish between fixed and mobile transmission points. The mobile transmission points may also transmit a separate maintenance reference signal that allows WTRUs to maintain a connection with the mobile transmission point. For networks in which fixed a mobile transmission points operate in different frequency bands, the mobile transmission points may also periodically transmit discovery beacon signals in the frequency band of the fixed transmission points to allow discovery. Conditions may be imposed on WTRUs before the WTRU will transmit to the network a measurement report reporting on a potential transmission point to which it may be switched.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Jiaxin Yang, Benoit Pelletier, Paul Marinier, J. Patrick Tooher
  • Publication number: 20240113974
    Abstract: Mobile management method, system and client. Method includes receiving a DNS query for a host name from an application on client; retrieving reputation data associated with host name from a local cache on client; and determining a policy based on host name and the reputation data. Based on determined policy for the host name, blocking attempted network flows to a host corresponding to host name to produce blocked attempted network flows. Method also includes sending attempted network flow metadata related to the blocked attempted network flows to a collector on client; transmitting the attempted network flow metadata from the collector to a VPN server pool via a VPN tunnel; and producing an anomaly report from the transmitted attempted network flow metadata. The anomaly report includes at least one of anomalies, cohorts, trends, location boundaries, detected network security issues, detected compromised clients and/or optimized network usage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Applicant: MOBILE SONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Joseph T. SAVARESE, Steven HECKT, Michael E. BRYANT, Eric C. MCNEILL, Carter SMITH, Elizabeth KIHSLINGER, Thomas Gunther HELMS, Camilla KEENAN-KOCH, Joseph G. SOUZA, Paul HOOVER, S. Aaron STAVENS, Christian E. HOFSTAEDTER, Jonathan SCOTT, Erik OLSON, James Scott SIMPKINS, Stephen Gregory FALLIN, John Harvey HILLOCK, Eivind NAESS, Michael Lee SNYDER, David Michael MIRLY, Marius LEE, Glenn Patrick ARANAS, Norman C. HAMER, Tridib DUTTA, Andrew James HOOVER, Thomas A. SWEET, Mark ANACKER, An PHAN
  • Patent number: 11944694
    Abstract: Oral care compositions and/or unit-dose oral care compositions comprising a high level of surfactant. Oral care compositions and/or unit-dose oral care compositions with a high foaming efficiency. Oral care compositions and/or unit-dose oral care compositions with one or more web forming materials, one or more surfactants, and a sugar alcohol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeanette Marie Swartz, Arif Ali Baig, Gregory Charles Gordon, Min Mao, Melissa Cherie Payne, Holly Balasubramanian Rauckhorst, Paul Albert Sagel, Paul Dennis Trokhan, Brian Patrick Croll, Dinah Achola Nyangiro
  • Patent number: 11946503
    Abstract: A connector is provided to attach a supported member to a supporting member, with the supported member being in sloped and skewed relation to the supporting member. The connector has back members attached to side members. A seat member attaches to the side members through a hinged connection. The seat member interfaces with the bottom face of the supported member and can be disposed at a sloped angle. A pair of seat side members extend from the seat member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Simpson Strong-Tie Company Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Evans, Dustin P. Muhn, Rachel Marie Holland, Benedict Ang, Paul Howard Oellerich, James M. Benton, Timothy Patrick Murphy
  • Patent number: 11945502
    Abstract: Systems and methods for coordinating steering controls between towing vehicles and towed vehicles provide more cohesive parking experiences during towing events, including bidirectional charging towing events. The towed vehicle may be controlled to provide assistive parking steering maneuvers to assist the towing vehicle when parking during the towing event. The assistive parking steering maneuver may include maneuvering a drive wheel of the towed vehicle either toward or away from a detected curb or detected traffic, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Kenneth Patrick McHugh, Peter Phung, David Brian Glickman, Paul Kenneth Dellock
  • Patent number: 11944696
    Abstract: A detergent product containing one or more active agents is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Gregory Charles Gordon, Frank William Denome, Alyssandrea Hope Hamad-Ebrahimpour, Stephen Joseph Hodson, Brian Patrick Croll, John Gerhard Michael, Andreas Josef Dreher, Paul Dennis Trokhan
  • Patent number: 11949406
    Abstract: A driver can be configured to provide sensed phase currents as feedback to a controller to indicate the output currents from each phase of a switch mode power supply (SMPS). The driver can be configured to temperature compensate the sensed currents in one of two ways. If a temperature sensor is directly coupled to the driver, then the driver may be configured to temperature compensate the sensed currents from each phase based on a temperature measurement made by the temperature sensor. If a temperature sensor is not directly coupled to the driver, then the driver may be configured to temperature compensate the sensed current from each phase based on a temperature signal received from a bus coupled to the driver. The bus can communicate the temperature signal so that multiple drivers can utilize one temperature sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEMICONDUCTOR COMPONENTS INDUSTRIES, LLC
    Inventors: Paul J. Harriman, Thomas Patrick Duffy, James George Hill, Michael Scott Lay, Margaret Spillane
  • Publication number: 20240107549
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) determines PDCCH candidates. For a slot, the WTRU determines a number of valid PDCCH candidates associated with at least one search space based on a number of designated search spaces associated with the WTRU in the slot, a type of the search space, a priority associated with the search space, a number of required CCE channel estimates associated with the search space, a maximum number of PDCCH candidates in a slot, and a number of control resource sets (CORESETs) associated with the slot. The WTRU may then attempt to decode CCEs in the at least one search space to recover a PDCCH associated with the WTRU. The WTRU may drop PDCCH candidates from the search space when the number of PDCCH exceeds a maximum value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Patrick Tooher, Paul Marinier, Aata El Hamss, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Patent number: 11938051
    Abstract: Cervical collars, components thereof, and methods of using them overcome issues with conventional cervical collars.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: DJO, LLC
    Inventors: Alexis Doty, Tara VandenBerg, Robert Bejarano, Kevin Patrick Larmer, J. Andrew Moulds, Jeffrey M. Mullally, Paul J. Klock
  • Publication number: 20240087828
    Abstract: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) switches are disclosed. Parallel configurations of back-to-back MEMS switches are disclosed in some embodiments. An isolation connection of constant electrical potential may be made to a midpoint of the back-to-back switches. In some embodiments, a separate MEMS switch is provided as a shunt switch for the main MEMS switch. MEMS switch device configurations having multiple switchable signal paths each coupling a common input electrode to a respective output electrode are also disclosed. The MEMS switch device includes shunt switches each coupling a respective output electrode to a reference potential. The presence of a shunt switch coupled to an output electrode enhances the isolation of the signal path corresponding to that output electrode when the path is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
    Inventors: Padraig Fitzgerald, Philip James Brennan, Jiawen Bai, Michael James Twohig, Bernard Patrick Stenson, Raymond C. Goggin, Mark Schirmer, Paul Lambkin, Donal P. McAuliffe, David Aherne, Cillian Burke, James Lee Lampen, Sumit Majumder
  • Publication number: 20240080142
    Abstract: Method, apparatus, and systems for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) enhancement in wireless communications are disclosed. In one representative embodiment, a method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) for wireless communications includes identifying a codebook process from a set of codebook processes based on a first indication, associating a set of bits of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback with the identified codebook process, maintaining the set of bits associated with the identified codebook process based on a condition, receiving a second indication to transmit the set of bits associated with the identified codebook process, and transmitting the set of bits based on the second indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Aata El Hamss, Paul Marinier, J. Patrick Tooher, Faris Alfarhan, Ghyslain Pelletier
  • Publication number: 20240074616
    Abstract: Disclosed is a food processing apparatus having a food processing chamber, comprising a blade arrangement and a motor arranged to drive the blade arrangement. The blade arrangement comprises a body having a surface arrangement delimiting a cavity and a plurality of cutting blades extending from the surface arrangement into the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Jingwei TAN, Declan Patrick KELLY, Yun CHEN, Paul Bernard Joseph HIGGINS