Patents by Inventor Shawn Miller
Shawn 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: 20240124709Abstract: A composition and a method for preparing a polymer composite article. The composition comprises (A) a filler in an amount of from 10 to 90 wt. The composition also comprises (B) a polymer in an amount of from 10 to 90 wt. %. wherein the (B) polymer is selected from polyolefins, polyamides, polyesters, or combinations thereof. Further, the composition comprises (C) an organopolysiloxane in an amount of from greater than 0 to 10 wt. %; the (C) organopolysiloxane having at least one silicon-bonded hydroxyl group and a viscosity of from 1,000 to 60,000 mPa·s at 25° C. The ranges for components (A)-(C) arc based on the total weight of components (A), (B) and (C) in the composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Keith BRUCE, Igor CHORVATH, Marc-Andre COURTEMANCHE, Jon V. DEGROOT, JR., Sean GAAL, Craig GROSS, James KEENIHAN, Shawn MEALEY, Scott MILLER, Tom PARSONS, Andrew SCHLADER, Cristina SERRAT, Lauren TONGE
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Patent number: 11845316Abstract: A pivot joint for connection between first and second suspension members in a vehicle suspension permits adjustment of wheel alignment characteristics without removal or disassembly of the pivot joint. Wheel alignment adjustment may be accomplished with mutual rotation of engaged components of the pivot joint, wherein engaged guide structures of the pivot joint component convert the mutual rotation to translational movement of one pivot joint component relative to the other pivot joint component. The translational movement may be oriented to selectively adjust wheel alignment characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2022Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: NORTHSTAR MANUFACTURING CO., INC.Inventors: Shawn Miller, Kurt Vinje, James Ryshavy
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Patent number: 11702151Abstract: A side step for a vehicle includes an inner side coupled to or adjacent to a vehicle body, an outer side, a top side, a bottom side, a front end and a rear end, where the front end is adapted to be arranged closer to a front of a vehicle than the rear end. An air guide is provided at one or both of the front end and the rear end, the air guide projects outwardly relative to a central portion of the side step that is spaced from the air guide, and the air guide projects outwardly from one or both of the top side and bottom side, and the air guide is thicker, in a vertical direction, at said one or both of the front end and rear end than is the air guide at a location between the front end and rear end.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: July 18, 2023Assignee: FCA US LLCInventors: Arturo Guzman-Magana, Santiago Antonelli, Shawn Miller, Robert J May
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Patent number: 11593304Abstract: A data storage system includes non-volatile data storage including a container partition and a browsable partition and control circuitry configured to backup a file in the non-volatile data storage at least in part by receiving the file from a host, the file including a plurality of chunks of data, storing the plurality of chunks of data in the browsable partition of the non-volatile data storage, determining that one or more of the plurality of chunks has been modified, storing the one or more modified chunks in a container partition of the non-volatile data storage, determining a new chunk associated with each of the one or more modified chunks, and storing the one or more new chunks in the browsable partition of the non-volatile data storage.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Linh Kochan, Shawn Miller, Michael A. Dolan, Sean Rohr
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Publication number: 20220176004Abstract: Devices and methods for reducing the amount of contagions, such as germs, from the exhaled air stream of a nebulizer are provided. Specifically, a nebulizer is provided with a disinfecting chamber in communication with the exhaled air outfeed of a nebulizer that reduces the amount of contagions exiting the outfeed to the environment. An example of such a disinfecting chamber is one that employs a UVC light source.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2021Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Shawn Miller, Jody Chastain
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Publication number: 20220169323Abstract: A side step for a vehicle includes an inner side coupled to or adjacent to a vehicle body, an outer side, a top side, a bottom side, a front end and a rear end, where the front end is adapted to be arranged closer to a front of a vehicle than the rear end. An air guide is provided at one or both of the front end and the rear end, the air guide projects outwardly relative to a central portion of the side step that is spaced from the air guide, and the air guide projects outwardly from one or both of the top side and bottom side, and the air guide is thicker, in a vertical direction, at said one or both of the front end and rear end than is the air guide at a location between the front end and rear end.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: June 2, 2022Inventors: Arturo Guzman-Magana, Santiago Antonelli, Shawn Miller, Robert J. May
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Patent number: 11077945Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are directed at devices, methods, and systems for association of reader devices to IFE monitors in a commercial passenger vehicle. An example method includes determining at a client computing system included in an IFE monitor that at least one reader device is remotely located from the client computing system; using a wired Ethernet connection to a server, the client computing system requesting the server to discover an electronic tag information; and upon the client computing system receiving the electronic tag information from the server over the wired Ethernet connection, the client computing system processing the electronic tag information, wherein another IFE monitor supplies electrical power to the at least one reader device, wherein the client computing system is unaware of a physical location of the at least one reader device, and wherein the server is included in the another IFE monitor.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 3, 2021Assignee: PANASONIC AVIONICS CORPORATIONInventors: Sang Hyup Kim, He Zheng, Nirav Patel, Shawn Miller
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Publication number: 20210129993Abstract: Disclosed embodiments are directed at devices, methods, and systems for association of reader devices to IFE monitors in a commercial passenger vehicle. An example method includes determining at a client computing system included in an IFE monitor that at least one reader device is remotely located from the client computing system; using a wired Ethernet connection to a server, the client computing system requesting the server to discover an electronic tag information; and upon the client computing system receiving the electronic tag information from the server over the wired Ethernet connection, the client computing system processing the electronic tag information, wherein another IFE monitor supplies electrical power to the at least one reader device, wherein the client computing system is unaware of a physical location of the at least one reader device, and wherein the server is included in the another IFE monitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Sang Hyup Kim, He Zheng, Nirav Patel, Shawn Miller
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Patent number: 10760329Abstract: Fenestration unit frames with integral mull posts and methods of making the same are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: September 1, 2020Assignee: Andersen CorporationInventors: Andrew Maas, Joseph Guy Reithmeyer, Duane Fier, Shawn Miller
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Publication number: 20190377709Abstract: A data storage system includes non-volatile data storage including a container partition and a browsable partition and control circuitry configured to backup a file in the non-volatile data storage at least in part by receiving the file from a host, the file including a plurality of chunks of data, storing the plurality of chunks of data in the browsable partition of the non-volatile data storage, determining that one or more of the plurality of chunks has been modified, storing the one or more modified chunks in a container partition of the non-volatile data storage, determining a new chunk associated with each of the one or more modified chunks, and storing the one or more new chunks in the browsable partition of the non-volatile data storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Inventors: LINH KOCHAN, SHAWN MILLER, MICHAEL A. DOLAN, SEAN ROHR
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Patent number: 10394760Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for backing up data in a computing system including a controller configured to backup a file in the non-volatile memory at least in part by receiving the file from a host, the file including a plurality of chunks of data and storing the plurality of chunks of data in a browsable partition of the non-volatile memory in response to said receiving the file. The controller further determines that one or more of the plurality of chunks has been modified, determine a new chunk associated with each of the one or more modified chunks, store the one or more new chunks in the browsable partition of the non-volatile memory using the communication interface in response to said determination of the one or more new chunks and store the one or more modified chunks in a container partition of the non-volatile memory using the communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Linh Kochan, Shawn Miller, Michael A. Dolan, Sean Rohr
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Patent number: 9684569Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing file backup and restore in a computing system. Certain embodiments provide a communication interface for communicating with a non-volatile memory and a controller configured to determine that a file stored in the non-volatile memory has been modified, identify a chunk of the file that has been modified, determine a new chunk associated with the modified chunk, the new chunk reflecting the modification, generate a separate chunk file including the new chunk and a filename, and storing the chunk file in the non-volatile memory using the communication interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael A. Dolan, Linh Kochan, Tamir Ram, Sean Rohr, Kent Tu, Shawn Miller
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Publication number: 20160292048Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for performing file backup and restore in a computing system. Certain embodiments provide a communication interface for communicating with a non-volatile memory and a controller configured to determine that a file stored in the non-volatile memory has been modified, identify a chunk of the file that has been modified, determine a new chunk associated with the modified chunk, the new chunk reflecting the modification, generate a separate chunk file including the new chunk and a filename, and storing the chunk file in the non-volatile memory using the communication interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2015Publication date: October 6, 2016Inventors: MICHAEL A. DOLAN, LINH KOCHAN, TAMIR RAM, SEAN ROHR, KENT TU, SHAWN MILLER
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Patent number: 8701561Abstract: Some embodiments pertain to a projectile that includes a casing and a sensor that is wrapped around the casing. As an example, the sensor may be wrapped around a longitudinal axis of the casing. The sensor obtains environmental data that the projectile is exposed to when the projectile is inside a cannon tube. As an example, the sensor may obtain pressure data that the projectile is exposed to during launch of the projectile when the projectile is inside the cannon tube. The sensor may include a plurality of segments that at least partially surround the casing. In some embodiments, the segments may be separated from the casing due to pressure that the projectile is exposed to during launch.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Shawn A. Miller, Mark A. Scott, Douglas J. Eliason, Kevin R. Greenwood
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Publication number: 20120312092Abstract: Some embodiments pertain to a projectile that includes a casing and a sensor that is wrapped around the casing. As an example, the sensor may be wrapped around a longitudinal axis of the casing. The sensor obtains environmental data that the projectile is exposed to when the projectile is inside a cannon tube. As an example, the sensor may obtain pressure data that the projectile is exposed to during launch of the projectile when the projectile is inside the cannon tube. The sensor may include a plurality of segments that at least partially surround the casing. In some embodiments, the segments may be separated from the casing due to pressure that the projectile is exposed to during launch.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 31, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Raytheon CompanyInventors: Shawn A. Miller, Mark A. Scott, Douglas J. Eliason, Kevin R. Greenwood
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Patent number: 8293658Abstract: Methods and structures relating to the formation of mixed SAMs for preventing undesirable growth or nucleation on exposed surfaces inside a reactor are described. A mixed SAM can be formed on surfaces for which nucleation is not desired by introducing a first SAM precursor having molecules of a first length and a second SAM precursor having molecules of a second length shorter than the first. Examples of exposed surfaces for which a mixed SAM can be provided over include reactor surfaces and select surfaces of integrated circuit structures, such as insulator and dielectric layers.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2010Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: ASM America, Inc.Inventors: Eric Shero, Mohith Verghese, Anthony Muscat, Shawn Miller
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Publication number: 20110198736Abstract: Methods and structures relating to the formation of mixed SAMs for preventing undesirable growth or nucleation on exposed surfaces inside a reactor are described. A mixed SAM can be formed on surfaces for which nucleation is not desired by introducing a first SAM precursor having molecules of a first length and a second SAM precursor having molecules of a second length shorter than the first. Examples of exposed surfaces for which a mixed SAM can be provided over include reactor surfaces and select surfaces of integrated circuit structures, such as insulator and dielectric layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2010Publication date: August 18, 2011Applicant: ASM America, Inc.Inventors: ERIC SHERO, Mohith Verghese, Anthony Muscat, Shawn Miller
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Publication number: 20070272365Abstract: A dual layer insect screen assembly for fenestration units has a first screening layer for blocking passage of insects through the fenestration unit. A second screening layer is moveable over the first screening layer to provide additional shading, light reflection, and other variable optical effects, while still allowing ventilation through the fenestration unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2006Publication date: November 29, 2007Inventors: Michael Wingert, Terry Kenkel, Shawn Miller, Korey Gearhart
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Publication number: 20070138215Abstract: A dispensing container fillable with a liquid includes a squeezable reservoir for holding the liquid prior to dispensing; a nipple dispensing head which is integral with the squeezable reservoir and having a distal end and a proximal end; an outlet at the distal end of the nipple dispensing head for dispensing the liquid from the container; a passage interconnecting the squeezable reservoir and the outlet; and a stop disposed near the proximal end of the nipple dispensing head to prevent over-insertion of the dispensing head into a user's mouth when the container is used to dispense the liquid to the user. Containers that are filled with liquid and a method of making the containers are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2005Publication date: June 21, 2007Applicant: Holopack International Corp.Inventors: Walter Zahn, Shawn Miller, David Rocheleau, Mohammad Sadeghi, Bernd Hansen
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Patent number: D788561Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2015Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Inventors: Shawn Miller, Timothy Lindberg, Scott Inman