Patents by Inventor Sean Michael

Sean Michael 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: 20200208248
    Abstract: An article formed of a metal alloy is covered at least partially with a metal hydride and a shell metal to form an assembly. Load is applied to the assembly and the assembly is heated. The shell metal deforms around the article and the metal hydride and forms a gas proof seal. The metal hydride thermally decomposes to form hydrogen gas. At least a portion of the hydrogen gas dissociates and moves as monoatomic hydrogen into the article. The metal alloy can be a zirconium metal alloy, the metal hydride can be a zirconium metal hydride, and the shell metal can be substantially copper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Glenn Aldon McRae, Christopher Edward Coleman, Curtis John St. Louis, Scott Thomas Langille, James Leigh McLean Corrigall, Heidi Marie Nordin, Sean Michael Kevin Hanlon, Scott Anthony Douglas Read, Kevin Willam McCaugherty
  • Publication number: 20200192867
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device having a display, the method including displaying a user interface on the display, wherein the user interface includes at least one folder icon for a folder, the folder icon further including a badge providing an indication of applications with notification inside the folder detecting a user interface interaction indicating a badge clearing selection; providing a menu on the user interface for clearing a folder badge; upon detecting a user interface selection in the menu, clearing the badge on the folder icon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Sean Michael McBeath
  • Publication number: 20200189176
    Abstract: Systems and methods of applying a screen protector to a surface, including aligning a first mating surface with a second mating surface within a chamber, creating a vacuum within the chamber, inflating an airbag arranged within the chamber, contacting the first mating surface with the airbag, inflating the airbag to extend towards the perimeter of the first mating surface and second mating surface, and removing all air trapped between the first mating surface and the second mating surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Sean Michael Buono, John Falligent
  • Publication number: 20200188749
    Abstract: Lacrosse heads are provided that include a polymer and graphene. The graphene increases the durability of the lacrosse heads, while having limited impact on the stiffness and flexibility of the lacrosse heads. Also provided is equipment for other contact sports that include graphene to increase durability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Hamilton Sean Michael WHITNEY, Gregory Lee KENNEALLY, Chia-Jen HSU, Bor Z. JANG, Aruna ZHAMU
  • Publication number: 20200192868
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device having a display, the method including displaying a user interface on the display, wherein the user interface includes at least one folder icon for a folder, the folder including at least two applications; determining that at least two applications in the folder have at least one notification and at least one application in the folder has more than one notification; and appending, to the folder icon, a badge having a number, wherein the number represents a number of applications in the folder having notifications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventor: Sean Michael McBeath
  • Patent number: 10672021
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for location-based trafficking for resource accumulation. The system may monitor location data of a mobile device of a user to determine when the user is within a predetermined distance from a specific geographical location of a resource. The system may then automatically transmit a token alert across a wireless network to the mobile device, activating a resource accumulation application to cause a user interface of the mobile device to display an augmented reality of a camera display that includes a virtual token. In some embodiments, the system determines that some advanced interaction has occurred between the user and a merchant associated with the geographical location of the resource and, in response, provides additional virtual tokens or improves the benefit to the user for one or more virtual tokens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Tracy Beth Greene, Sean Michael Gutman, Emily Paige Bosin
  • Patent number: 10670283
    Abstract: A desiccant wheel for a dehumidifier includes a band of material around an outer circumference of the desiccant wheel and a plurality of sprocket holes formed in the band of material. The plurality of sprocket holes are configured for coupling the desiccant wheel to a sprocket. The desiccant wheel is configured to rotate when the sprocket is rotated by a motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Therma-Stor LLC
    Inventors: Laurence A. Carlson, Jeremy Daniel Coyne, Todd R. DeMonte, Steven S. Dingle, Sean Michael Ebert, Richard G. Giallombardo, Michael J. Steffes, Joshua Alexander Trumm
  • Patent number: 10674043
    Abstract: In some examples, a print cartridge includes a memory device comprising quantized coefficients derived from a lossy compression, at a selected step size, of a difference color table including a plurality of difference nodes in which each difference node represents a difference value that is a difference of a value of a node of a color table and a value of a corresponding node of a reference table, the quantized coefficients useable to produce a reconstructed difference color table including a first set of difference nodes each representing a difference value that is within an error threshold at the selected step size, and a second set of difference nodes each representing a difference value that is outside an error threshold at the selected step size. The memory device further comprises corrective information to correct the second set of difference nodes of the reconstructed difference color table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignees: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Chuohao Tang, Sean Michael Collison, Amy Ruth Reibman, Mark Q. Shaw, Jan P. Allebach, Jay S. Gondek
  • Patent number: 10666595
    Abstract: A method at an electronic device, the method including receiving a message at the electronic device; processing the message to find a potential calendar event; comparing correspondents of the message with membership in at least one shared calendar accessible by the electronic device; selecting a shared calendar based on the comparing; and populating a calendar input field with an identifier of the selected calendar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventor: Sean Michael McBeath
  • Patent number: 10664546
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for enhancing a user's browsing experience, especially when the user is browsing third party websites via an application. For example, a user may use the application to browse web pages served from a third party website that is associated with a particular domain. While browsing the third party web pages, the user may save a URL corresponding to a third party web page that the user is currently viewing. In this manner, the user may store one or more URLs corresponding to web pages served from the third party website and/or served from multiple different third party domains browsed by the user. The saved URLs may be associated with the user. When the user browses web pages associated with a particular domain, a user selectable option may be provided that enables the user to see URLs stored for the user that are associated with that particular domain. The user may then select a particular displayed URL to access the web page corresponding to the selected URL.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: FACEBOOK, INC.
    Inventors: Vincent Lee Fiorentini, Ming Fei Li, Prakash Ahuja, Yue Cai, Sean Michael Wiese, Yi-Lin Jao, Ziqin Wang
  • Publication number: 20200161683
    Abstract: Fuel cell systems configured for efficient byproduct recovery and reuse are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a fuel cell system includes a reformer configured to reform a fuel containing methane (CH4) with steam to produce a reformed fuel having methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen (H2). The fuel cell system also includes a fuel cell configured to perform an electrochemical reaction between a first portion of the reformed fuel and oxygen (O2) to produce electricity and an exhaust having carbon dioxide (CO2), water (H2O), and a second portion of the reformed fuel. The fuel cell system further includes an oxygen enricher configured to generate an oxygen enriched gas and a combustion chamber configured to combust the second portion of the reformed fuel with the oxygen enriched gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Eric Clarence Peterson, Sean Michael James
  • Publication number: 20200158548
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for calibrating contrast measurements from laser speckle imaging systems to accurately determine unknown particle motion characteristics, such as flow rate. The calibration stores to memory calibration data, which may include a set of measurements from samples with known particle characteristics and/or estimates of noise, including the effects on contrast arising from undesired signals unrelated to the unknown particle motion characteristics. The calibration data may be accessed and used to correct an empirical measurement of contrast and/or interpolate a value of the unknown particle motion characteristic. The system may include a light source, photodetector, processor, and memory, which can be combined into a single device, such as a wearable device, for providing calibrated flow measurements. The device may be used, for example, to measure blood flow, cardiac output, and heart rate, and can be used to amplify the pulsatile signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Tyler Bywaters Rice, Sean Michael White, Bruce Yee Yang
  • Publication number: 20200160658
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for providing a platform for integration into applications for user activity interaction for cross entity and third party reward integration. In this way, the system may integrate an activity platform that provides applications or integration into applications to generate an activities network. Furthermore, the system may monitor the user utilization the activities provide triggered responses based on the activities completed. As such, the system may intervene within a known application or third party to provide triggered responses. In some embodiments, the triggered response may be a reward or status built physical alteration to an application or resource distribution item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Applicant: BANK OF AMERICA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tracy Beth Greene, Sean Michael Gutman, Emily Paige Bosin
  • Patent number: 10653590
    Abstract: Described herein is dosage of foam including from about 5 cm3 to about 70 cm3 of the foam. The foam includes from about 0.5 g to about 4 g of a detersive surfactant; from about 0.001 g to about 4 g propellant; a foam density of from about 0.04 g/cm3 to about 0.23 g/cm3; and a bubble size distribution having an R32 of from about 30 ?m to about 60 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: The Procter and Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jazmin Veronica Torres Rivera, Eric Scott Johnson, Sarah Elizabeth Mullen, Sean Michael Renock, Todd Ryan Thompson, Jean Jianqun Zhao, Robert Wayne Glenn, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20200140471
    Abstract: A compound having the following formula is disclosed. The compound is useful as an emitter in OLED applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Universal Display Corporation
    Inventors: Hsiao-Fan CHEN, Morgan C. MACINNIS, Nicholas J. THOMPSON, Tyler FLEETHAM, Jason BROOKS, Scott BEERS, Peter WOLOHAN, Sean Michael RYNO, Ivan MILAS
  • Publication number: 20200145937
    Abstract: A method for reporting power headroom-related information for a plurality of aggregated carriers. The method includes reporting in a bitmap the power headroom-related information for a number of the aggregated carriers that is less than or equal to the total number of aggregated carriers, wherein the power headroom-related information is one of a power headroom for at least one of the aggregated carriers and a path loss for at least one of the aggregated carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2020
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Sean Michael McBeath, Mo-Han Fong
  • Patent number: 10645678
    Abstract: Methods, devices, and systems for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for the transmission of information in a wireless communication system comprises receiving a downlink message, wherein the downlink message includes a first control channel element; determining a first index using the location of the first control channel element; determining a second index; determining a first orthogonal resource using the first index; determining a second orthogonal resource using the second index; spreading an uplink message using the first orthogonal resource to form a first spread signal; spreading the uplink message using a second orthogonal resource to form a second spread signal; transmitting the first spread signal using a first antenna; and transmitting the second spread signal using a second antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Hua Xu, Youn Hyoung Heo, Zhijun Cai, Andrew Mark Earnshaw, Mo-Han Fong, Sean Michael McBeath, Robert Mark Harrison
  • Publication number: 20200128305
    Abstract: A method provides for tracking client playback events when playing an asset specified in a manifest for streaming adaptive bit rate (ABR) content. The method includes generating, with a manifest manipulator, a manifest that includes an asset URL inserted at a marker denoting a placement opportunity in a content manifest requested by a client. The manifest also includes callback URLs for tracking playback events to be returned by the client. The manifest manipulator sends the manifest to the client. At least one of the callback URLs is received by a tracking proxy associated with the manifest manipulator, indicating that the event has been performed by the client. In response, a tracking URL is obtained by the tracking proxy. The tracking URL is sent to at least one asset decision system participating in an asset decision process that resulted in providing the asset URL to the manifest manipulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: David A. Romrell, Yixiang Zeng, Sean Michael Sheedy, Matthew A. Milford
  • Patent number: 10628762
    Abstract: Improving the operations of a data center that is located within a power grid and that includes its own power sources. Past operational characteristics of the power grid are analyzed to derive learned characteristics for the power grid. Current and/or future operational characteristics of the power grid are also monitored. A prediction regarding an upcoming, anticipated load for the power grid is then generated using the learned characteristics and the monitored characteristics. In response to this prediction, one or more mitigation operations are selected and then performed at the data center to ensure that the data center is adequately available. Some of these mitigation operations include, but are not limited to, causing the data center to consume more power, causing the data center's power sources to store more power, or causing the data center to migrate services and/or data to a different data center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Rees Helsel, Vincent Joseph Blas, Nicholas Andrew Keehn, Sean Michael James, Brandon Middaugh
  • Patent number: 10630868
    Abstract: In some examples, a component for a printing device includes a memory device comprising a plurality of corrective data to produce a corresponding plurality of color tables each customized for a respective media type of a plurality of media types, wherein a respective corrective data of the plurality of corrective data corresponds to nodes of a reference color table for the printing device that is able to accept the plurality of media types for printing. The respective corrective data includes a plurality of residual values to transform the nodes of the reference color table to a customized color table for use with a selected media type of the plurality of media types.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignees: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Purdue Research Foundation
    Inventors: Mark Q. Shaw, Paul Jeran, Sean Michael Collison, Terry M. Nelson, Chuohao Tang, Amy Ruth Reibman, Jan P. Allebach