Patents by Inventor Richard Muller

Richard Muller 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).

  • Network Architecture, Methods, and Devices for a Wireless Communications Network
    Publication number: 20230224059
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus in a fifth-generation wireless communications, including an example method, in a wireless device, that includes receiving a downlink signal comprising an uplink access configuration index, using the uplink access configuration index to identify an uplink access configuration from among a predetermined plurality of uplink access configurations, and transmitting to the wireless communications network according to the identified uplink access configuration. The example method further includes, in the same wireless device, receiving, in a first subframe, a first Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing (OFDM) transmission formatted according to a first numerology and receiving, in a second subframe, a second OFDM transmission formatted according to a second numerology, the second numerology differing from the first numerology. Variants of this method, corresponding apparatuses, and corresponding network-side methods and apparatuses are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan Parkvall, Janne Peisa, Gunnar Mildh, Robert Baldemair, Stefan Wager, Jonas Kronander, Karl Werner, Richard Abrahamsson, Ismet Aktas, Peter Alriksson, Junaid Ansari, Shehzad Ali Ashraf, Henrik Asplund, Fredrik Athley, Håkan Axelsson, Joakim Axmon, Johan Axnäs, Kumar Balachandran, Gunnar Bark, Jan-Erik Berg, Andreas Bergström, Håkan Björkegren, Nadia Brahmi, Cagatay Capar, Anders Carlsson, Andreas Cedergren, Mikael Coldrey, Icaro L. J. da Silva, Erik Dahlman, Ali El Essaili, Ulrika Engström, Mårten Ericson, Erik Eriksson, Mikael Fallgren, Rui Fan, Gabor Fodor, Pål Frenger, Jonas Fridén, Jonas Fröberg Olsson, Anders Furuskär, Johan Furuskog, Virgile Garcia, Ather Gattami, Fredrik Gunnarsson, Ulf Gustavsson, Bo Hagerman, Fredrik Harrysson, Ning He, Martin Hessler, Kimmo Hiltunen, Songnam Hong, Dennis Hui, Jörg Huschke, Tim Irnich, Sven Jacobsson, Niklas Jaldén, Simon Järmyr, Zhiyuan Jiang, Martin Johansson, Niklas Johansson, Du Ho Kang, Eleftherios Karipidis, Patrik Karlsson, Ali S. Khayrallah, Caner Kilinc, Göran N. Klang, Sara Landström, Christina Larsson, Gen Li, Lars Lindbom, Robert Lindgren, Bengt Lindoff, Fredrik Lindqvist, Jinhua Liu, Thorsten Lohmar, Qianxi Lu, Lars Manholm, Ivana Maric, Jonas Medbo, Qingyu Miao, Reza Moosavi, Walter Müller, Elena Myhre, Karl Norrman, Bengt-Erik Olsson, Torgny Palenius, Sven Petersson, Jose Luis Pradas, Mikael Prytz, Olav Queseth, Pradeepa Ramachandra, Edgar Ramos, Andres Reial, Thomas Rimhagen, Emil Ringh, Patrik Rugeland, Johan Rune, Joachim Sachs, Henrik Sahlin, Vidit Saxena, Nima Seifi, Yngve Selén, Eliane Semaan, Sachin Sharma, Cong Shi, Johan Sköld, Magnus Stattin, Anders Stjernman, Dennis Sundman, Lars Sundström, Miurel Isabel Tercero Vargas, Claes Tidestav, Sibel Tombaz, Johan Torsner, Hugo Tullberg, Jari Vikberg, Peter von Wrycza, Thomas Walldeen, Pontus Wallentin, Hai Wang, Ke Wang Helmersson, Jianfeng Wang, Yi-Pin Eric Wang, Niclas Wiberg, Emma Wittenmark, Osman Nuri Can Yilmaz, Ali Zaidi, Zhan Zhang, Zhang Zhang, Yanli Zheng
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING FLOW AND PRESSURE CROSS COUPLING BETWEEN AIR COMPRESSOR FLOW AND FUEL CELL STACK BACKPRESSURE
    Publication number: 20230187663
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods in a vehicle or powertrain system including an air stream flowing through an air compressor and an air cooler into a fuel cell stack, an air stream flowing out of the fuel cell stack to an ambient through a backpressure valve, one or more sensors for measuring pressure or temperature in the first air stream or second air stream, and a controller controlling the flow of the first air stream, the flow of the scond air stream and the opening of the backpressure valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Sumit TRIPATHI, Richard J. ANCIMER, Salvatore RANIERI, Maximilian Muller
  • Storing hazardous material in a subterranean formation
    Patent number: 11666953
    Abstract: Methods for storing or disposing of nuclear waste include forming a drillhole that extends into the Earth from a terranean surface. The drillhole includes an entry at least proximate the terranean surface, a substantially vertical drillhole portion, and a hazardous material storage drillhole portion that is coupled to the substantially vertical drillhole portion and is formed in a subterranean salt formation. The methods further include moving a storage canister into the hazardous material storage drillhole portion. The storage canister is sized to fit from the drillhole entry through the substantially vertical drillhole portion, and into the hazardous material storage drillhole portion of the drillhole. The storage canister has an inner cavity that encloses nuclear waste material. The methods further include positioning a seal in the drillhole to isolate the hazardous material storage drillhole portion of the drillhole from the entry of the drillhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Elizabeth Muller
  • FLAT APERTURE TELEPHOTO LENS
    Publication number: 20230134175
    Abstract: One embodiment provides an imaging device, including: a sparsely-filled optical aperture having a shape forming an outer portion of the optical aperture, wherein at least a portion of an inner portion formed by the outer portion of the optical aperture is not a part of the optical aperture; and imaging optics, wherein the imaging optics include at least one reflection device optically located after the optical aperture and at least one imaging sensor optically located after the at least one reflection device, wherein light entering the optical aperture reflects from the at least one reflection device onto the at least one imaging sensor. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • HAZARDOUS WASTE CANISTER WITH DUAL LID
    Publication number: 20230130489
    Abstract: A hazardous material storage system includes a drillhole extending into the Earth and including an entry at least proximate a terranean surface. The drillhole includes a substantially vertical portion, a curved portion, and a horizontal portion that includes a hazardous waste repository formed within a first portion of the horizontal portion of the drillhole, the hazardous waste repository vertically isolated, by a rock formation, from a subterranean zone that includes mobile water, and a safety runway formed within a second portion of the horizontal portion exclusive of the hazardous waste repository and adjacent the curved portion, the safety runway defined by a particular length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • STORING HAZARDOUS MATERIAL IN A SUBTERRANEAN FORMATION
    Publication number: 20220402004
    Abstract: Methods for storing or disposing of nuclear waste include forming a drillhole that extends into the Earth from a terranean surface. The drillhole includes an entry at least proximate the terranean surface, a substantially vertical drillhole portion, and a hazardous material storage drillhole portion that is coupled to the substantially vertical drillhole portion and is formed in a subterranean salt formation. The methods further include moving a storage canister into the hazardous material storage drillhole portion. The storage canister is sized to fit from the drillhole entry through the substantially vertical drillhole portion, and into the hazardous material storage drillhole portion of the drillhole. The storage canister has an inner cavity that encloses nuclear waste material. The methods further include positioning a seal in the drillhole to isolate the hazardous material storage drillhole portion of the drillhole from the entry of the drillhole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Elizabeth Muller
  • STORING HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIAL
    Publication number: 20220367080
    Abstract: A nuclear waste storage system includes a human-unoccupiable directional drillhole formed from a terranean surface into a subterranean formation, the drillhole including a substantially vertical portion and a substantially horizontal portion that includes a hazardous waste repository for nuclear waste storage; a casing including one or more tubular sections sized to fit within the drillhole; and a coating attached to an exterior surface of the casing, the exterior surface facing a rock formation through which the drillhole is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2020
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Elizabeth Muller
  • Hazardous material repository systems and methods
    Patent number: 11488736
    Abstract: A hazardous material storage system includes a drillhole extending into the Earth and including an entry at least proximate a terranean surface. The drillhole includes a substantially vertical portion, a curved portion, and a horizontal portion that includes a hazardous waste repository formed within a first portion of the horizontal portion of the drillhole, the hazardous waste repository vertically isolated, by a rock formation, from a subterranean zone that includes mobile water, and a safety runway formed within a second portion of the horizontal portion exclusive of the hazardous waste repository and adjacent the curved portion, the safety runway defined by a particular length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • HAZARDOUS MATERIAL REPOSITORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220288658
    Abstract: A power generator system includes one or more heat transfer members configured to contact: a heat source in a hazardous waste repository of a directional drillhole that stores nuclear waste in one or more nuclear waste canisters, and a heat sink in the hazardous waste repository; and one or more thermoelectric generators thermally coupled to the one or more heat transfer members and configured to generate electric power based on a temperature difference between the heat source and the heat sink.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • CROSSTALK BARRIER IN A LENS ARRAY
    Publication number: 20220276412
    Abstract: An apparatus, including: a plurality of lens tiles; and a base housing and positioning the plurality of lens tiles in an array configuration; the base comprising a plurality of light-occluding barriers, wherein each of the plurality of light-occluding barriers is located between two adjacent of the plurality of lens tiles. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Neal Weinstock, Richard A. Muller
  • HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CANISTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220223308
    Abstract: Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • Hazardous material repository systems and methods
    Patent number: 11338338
    Abstract: A drillhole plug includes a frame or housing of a corrosion-resistant material and sized to fit within a milled portion of a directional drillhole that includes a hazardous waste repository; and a material that fills at least a portion of the frame or housing. The material exhibits creep such that the material fills one or more voids between the frame or housing and a subterranean formation adjacent the milled portion of the directional drillhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • Storing hazardous material in a subterranean formation
    Patent number: 11338337
    Abstract: Techniques for storing hazardous material include moving a storage canister sized to enclose radioactive hazardous material through an entry of a drillhole that extends into a terranean surface and is at least proximate the terranean surface; moving the storage canister from the entry through an angled drillhole portion that is coupled to the entry and deviates from true vertical at an angle; moving the storage canister from the angled drillhole portion to a hazardous material storage drillhole portion coupled to the angled drillhole portion; moving the storage canister into the hazardous material storage drillhole portion; and forming a seal in the drillhole that isolates the hazardous material storage portion of the drillhole from the entry of the drillhole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Elizabeth Muller
  • RADIOACTIVE WASTE REPOSITORY SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20220157482
    Abstract: A hazardous material repository includes a drillhole formed from a terranean surface into a subterranean zone that includes a geologic formation, where the drillhole includes a vertical portion and a non-vertical portion coupled to the vertical portion by a transition portion, the non-vertical portion includes a storage volume for hazardous waste; a casing installed between the geologic formation and the drillhole, the casing including one or more metallic tubular sections; at least one canister positioned in the storage volume of the non-vertical portion of the drillhole, the at least one canister sized to enclose a portion of hazardous material and including an outer housing formed from a non-corrosive metallic material; and a backfill material inserted into the non-vertical portion of the drillhole to fill at least a portion of the storage volume between the at least one canister and the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Joe H. Payer, Stefan Finsterle, John Apps, Richard A. Muller
  • Hazardous material canister systems and methods
    Patent number: 11289230
    Abstract: Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • STORING HAZARDOUS MATERIAL IN A SUBTERRANEAN FORMATION
    Publication number: 20220080481
    Abstract: Techniques for storing hazardous material include moving a storage canister sized to enclose radioactive hazardous material through an entry of a drillhole that extends into a terranean surface and is at least proximate the terranean surface; moving the storage canister from the entry through an angled drillhole portion that is coupled to the entry and deviates from true vertical at an angle; moving the storage canister from the angled drillhole portion to a hazardous material storage drillhole portion coupled to the angled drillhole portion; moving the storage canister into the hazardous material storage drillhole portion; and forming a seal in the drillhole that isolates the hazardous material storage portion of the drillhole from the entry of the drillhole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Elizabeth Muller
  • Near-eye foveal display
    Patent number: 11256005
    Abstract: An apparatus and system for a display screen for use in near-eye display devices. Small light emitting devices are placed behind a plurality of light-directing beads. The light emitting devices and light-directing beads for a display device and system placed in front of a user for near-eye display. This allows a user to experience near-eye display with greater resolution, wider field of view and faster frame rate. Other embodiments are described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Soliddd Corp.
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, Neal Weinstock
  • HAZARDOUS MATERIAL CANISTER SYSTEMS AND METHODS
    Publication number: 20210343440
    Abstract: Techniques for inspecting a weld of a nuclear waste canister include positioning a gamma ray image detector near a nuclear waste canister that encloses nuclear waste. The nuclear waste canister includes a housing that includes a volume in which the waste is enclosed and a top connected to the housing with at least one weld to seal the nuclear waste in the nuclear waste canister. The techniques further include receiving, at the gamma ray image detector, gamma rays from the nuclear waste that travel through one or more voids in the weld; generating an image of the received gamma rays with the gamma ray image detector; and based on the generated image, determining an integrity of the at least one weld.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventor: Richard A. Muller
  • TESTING SUBTERRANEAN WATER FOR A HAZARDOUS WASTE MATERIAL REPOSITORY
    Publication number: 20210333256
    Abstract: Techniques for determining the suitability of a subterranean formation as a hazardous waste repository include determining a neutron flux of a first isotope in a subterranean formation; calculating, based at least in part on the determined neutron flux of the first isotope, a predicted production rate of a second isotope in the subterranean formation; calculating a first ratio of the predicted production rate of the second isotope relative to a theoretical production rate of a stable form of the second isotope; measuring respective concentrations of the second isotope and the stable form of the second isotope in a subterranean water sample; calculating a second ratio of the measured concentration of the second isotope relative to the measured concentration of the stable form of the second isotope; and based on a comparison of the first and second ratios, determining that the subterranean formation is suitable as a hazardous waste repository.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Inventors: Richard A. Muller, John Linus Grimsich
  • Radioactive waste repository systems and methods
    Patent number: 11158434
    Abstract: A hazardous material repository includes a drillhole formed from a terranean surface into a subterranean zone that includes a geologic formation, where the drillhole includes a vertical portion and a non-vertical portion coupled to the vertical portion by a transition portion, the non-vertical portion includes a storage volume for hazardous waste; a casing installed between the geologic formation and the drillhole, the casing including one or more metallic tubular sections; at least one canister positioned in the storage volume of the non-vertical portion of the drillhole, the at least one canister sized to enclose a portion of hazardous material and including an outer housing formed from a non-corrosive metallic material; and a backfill material inserted into the non-vertical portion of the drillhole to fill at least a portion of the storage volume between the at least one canister and the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Deep Isolation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joe H. Payer, Stefan Finsterle, John Apps, Richard A. Muller