Patents by Inventor Stephen Michael

Stephen 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: 20250150449
    Abstract: One or more first servers can implement an example method including storing, at a memory accessible by the first one or more servers, a primary email address for a user. The method further includes detecting a request, from a client device associated with the user, to access a network resource hosted at a second one or more servers, wherein the network resource is associated with an online service. The method also includes automatically generating a secondary email address for the user that is unique to the online service; and transmitting the secondary email address to the second one or more servers such that the online service receives the secondary email address for the user without receiving the primary email address for the user, thereby enabling the online service to transmit emails to the user despite not receiving the primary email address for the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Jeffrey Yoskowitz, Stephen Michael Yoskowitz, Andreas Imthum, Elder Donizetti Dos Santos
  • Publication number: 20250145290
    Abstract: A cavity system for use on a vehicle is provided. The cavity has a front edge and/or a rear edge and longitudinal edges. The front and/or rear and longitudinal edges define an opening. The cavity comprises at least one elongate flow partition protruding from a surface adjacent each longitudinal edge of the cavity into the ambient flow outside of the cavity. The at least one flow partition comprise an inboard surface facing predominantly towards the cavity and an outboard surface facing predominantly away from the cavity. An aircraft comprising the cavity system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventor: Stephen Michael BRAID
  • Publication number: 20250145279
    Abstract: A cavity system for use on a vehicle is provided. The cavity system comprises a cavity having at least one of a front edge and a rear edge arranged orthogonally to the actual or intended direction of travel of the vehicle, and longitudinal edges. The front and/or rear and longitudinal edges define an opening. The cavity system also comprises at least one shock stabiliser protruding from a surface adjacent each longitudinal edge of the cavity into the ambient flow outside of the cavity. An aircraft comprising the cavity system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS plc
    Inventor: Stephen Michael BRAID
  • Publication number: 20250137352
    Abstract: A downhole shunt tube isolation system having a fluid channel and a piston hydraulic chamber disposed within a valve actuator housing, wherein the fluid channel is sealed via a plug to hydraulically lock a valve in an open position, wherein a gravel slurry is configured to flow from a first tube segment through the valve to a second tube segment when the valve is in the open position. A portion of the plug is displaced to open a fluid path through the plug to the piston hydraulic chamber, wherein opening the fluid path to the piston hydraulic chamber hydraulically unlocks the valve, closing the valve via a biasing force to block the flow of the gravel slurry from a first tube segment through the valve to a second tube segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Finn Gamble McCarthy, Edmund Christopher Williamson, Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan M. Novelen
  • Publication number: 20250139626
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for enabling a transaction bypass for a user-requested block on a merchant. The method involves receiving an authorization request message from a merchant, determining if the merchant is subject to an active block instruction, and verifying customer authentication information. If the authentication information is present and the merchant matches a block instruction, a transaction bypass message is generated and sent to the issuer. Based on the issuer's response, the active block may be removed or maintained. The method also allows for sending authentication data to the issuer for verification, and periodically receiving authorization requests from the merchant. Additional features include managing an authentication security threshold and sending status notifications to the merchant. The invention ensures secure transaction processing, providing flexible handling of user-requested merchant blocks based on customer authentication and issuer approval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: Visa International Service Association
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Green, Ashwuni Sapra, Dilip Tahilani
  • Patent number: 12286942
    Abstract: A system for electromagnetically exciting certain molecules within a volume of gaseous working fluid or charge via transition frequency heating for propulsion, comprising an electrical energy source (EES), an electromagnetic wave generator (EWG), a reflection coefficient measurement device (RCMD), a controllable electrical matching network (EMN), a proportional integral derivative controller (PIDC), and a propulsor cavity (PC), wherein said PC further comprises a transmission line that comprises a waveguide and a radio frequency (RF) window, wherein said RF window provides optical access to a heating zone where the charge resides or passes through, wherein said heating zone resides in the flow path between a propulsion system's charge inlet and nozzle exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: ILIGHT INC.
    Inventors: David Anthony Amels, Stephen Michael Legensky
  • Publication number: 20250128031
    Abstract: A method may include accessing an artery in communication with an ophthalmic artery of a subject, and advancing a microcatheter along the accessed artery so as to align a distal end of the microcatheter with an ostium of the ophthalmic artery, wherein the microcatheter includes a lumen having a guidewire positioned therein. In addition, the method includes proximally withdrawing the guidewire relative to the microcatheter so as to enable a distal portion of the microcatheter to assume a curved relaxed configuration, and cannulating the ostium with the distal portion of the microcatheter when the distal portion is in the curved relaxed configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Applicant: J.D. Franco & Co., LLC
    Inventors: Michael CALHOUN, Stephen MICHAEL, Zachary TEGELS
  • Publication number: 20250128861
    Abstract: The invention relates to a dispenser (1) for a cord, preferably for a cord for sealing a threaded pipework, comprising a hollow body (10) for receiving the cord, a cover part (30) being arranged on a top edge (13) of the hollow body (10) and having an opening (41) through which the thread can be removed from the hollow body (10), and a cap (60) which is connected to the cover part (30) so as to be pivotable about a pivot axis (40) and, in a closed position, covers the opening (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Peter Cox, Stephen Michael Rayner, Ronan Murphy, James Bourke
  • Patent number: 12284520
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for verifying Access Points (APs) using crowd sourcing. In one example, a STA establishes a first non-verified connection, based on security material, with a source AP in a wireless infrastructure. A target AP in a wireless infrastructure obtains an indication that the STA is attempting to establish a second non-verified connection with the target AP. In response, the target AP establishes the second non-verified connection based on the security material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Stephen Michael Orr
  • Patent number: 12281544
    Abstract: A magnetic coupling mechanism in a downhole flow control tool comprising a first chamber within a flow path of wellbore fluids with a first component comprising a Halbach array of magnets. A second chamber isolated from the wellbore environment comprises a second component with a Halbach array of magnets. The first chamber and the second chamber are coupled with a nonmagnetic separation. The second component is translated with the first component by a strong magnetic flux produced by the array of magnets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan W. McChesney, Stephen Michael Greci, Gordon McLeary
  • Publication number: 20250120425
    Abstract: Beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) mineral salts and/or beta-hydroxybutyrate (?HB) free acid in combination with 1,3-butanediol (1,3-BD) were used to induce ketosis, achieving blood ketone levels of (2-7 mmol/L), with or without dietary restriction. A combination of the ketogenic compounds, ?HB acid and/or ?HB salt in together with 1,3BD was more than additive. What has been unknown until now, and what was unexpected is that the specific combination of the partially buffered ?HB free acid, (created as a mixture of ?HB free acid and ?HB salt), together with 1,3-BD in a particular combination is far more than additive. When used together this mixture raises serum levels far higher, up to 70% higher, than would be expected by using 1,3BD together with ?HB salt and/or BHB acid. The synergistic combination is 5 times more powerful at raising serum ?HB than the enantiomerically pure acid or salt alone and 1.23 times more powerful than the corresponding enantiomerically pure ester compounded from ?HB and 1,3-BD.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventor: Stephen Michael Zarpas
  • Publication number: 20250122800
    Abstract: Provided is a downhole tool and a well system. The downhole tool, in one aspect, includes a tubular providing one or more production fluid flow paths for a production fluid. The downhole tool, according to this aspect, further includes one or more float chambers located within the tubular, and two or more floats located within the one or more float chambers. In one aspect, a first of the two or more floats has a first density (?1) between a density of gas (?g) and a density of oil (?o), and a second of the two or more floats has a second density (?2) between the density of oil (?o) and a density of water (?w). The downhole tool, according to this aspect, further includes two or more non-contact proximity sensors configured to sense a radial location of the two or more floats to determine a gas:oil ratio and oil:water ratio.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2024
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Ibrahim El Mallawany, Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Patent number: 12278801
    Abstract: A method is provided that is performed for a wireless network that includes one or more wireless client devices that may rotate their media access control (MAC) address used for wireless communication with one or more wireless access point devices in the wireless network. The method includes determining an impact of MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices on operational resources of one or more networking devices or networking processes in a network infrastructure associated with the wireless network. The method further includes scheduling MAC address rotation by the one or more wireless client devices according to the impact on operational resources of the one or more networking devices or networking processes in the network infrastructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Edgar Barton, Jerome Henry, Stephen Michael Orr
  • Patent number: 12276181
    Abstract: Various examples of self-contained electrical power generation assemblies are described, the assemblies configured to generate electrical power using a flow of fluid flowing through a conduit configured as part of a wellbore tool or wellbore production tubing, the electrical power generation assemblies configured to be located downhole at various positions along a drill string, a section of production tubing, or some other type of conduit configured to provide a fluid passageway for a flow of one or more types of fluid within a wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci, Kanishk Parmar
  • Publication number: 20250114758
    Abstract: A system includes a recirculation line, a mainline flow meter operable to measure a flowrate of fluid flowing through the recirculation line, a mixing chamber, an inlet line coupled between the recirculation line and the mixing chamber, at least one chemical injection port coupled to the inlet line, a dedicated feed pump operably associated with each chemical injection port, and an outlet line coupled between the mixing chamber and the recirculation line. The mixing chamber includes a plurality of mixing zones, a mixing blade assembly that includes at least one blade within each mixing zone, and a motor coupled to the mixing blade assembly and operable to rotate the mixing blade assembly. Each of the dedicated feed pumps is coupled to a separate chemical supply and is operable to pump a chemical to the corresponding chemical injection port for injection into the inlet line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventor: Stephen Michael Winter
  • Patent number: 12265528
    Abstract: Techniques for handling natural language query processing are described. In some examples, a sequence-to-sequence model is used to handle a natural language query. Post-processing of a result of the sequence-to-sequence model utilizes fine-grained information from an entity linker. In some examples, the sequence-to-sequence model and aspects of a natural language query pipeline are used to handle a natural language query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Wuwei Lan, Patrick Ng, Zhiguo Wang, Ramesh M. Nallapati, Henghui Zhu, Anuj Chauhan, Sudipta Sengupta, Stephen Michael Ash, Bing Xiang, Gregory David Adams
  • Patent number: 12265074
    Abstract: A fluid flow control device, a well system, and a method are provided. The fluid flow control device, in one aspect, may include an inlet port, allowing a downhole fluid of a borehole to flow into the fluid flow control device, and an outlet port, allowing the downhole fluid to flow out of the fluid flow control device. The fluid flow control device, in accordance with this aspect, may further include a fluid chamber positioned between the inlet port and the outlet port, wherein an electrokinetic film is located within the fluid chamber and is capable of generating a voltage as the downhole fluid flows over the electrokinetic film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan W. McChesney, Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Patent number: 12264563
    Abstract: A system can be used to recover hydrogen from a geological formation. The system can include a first flow control device and a second flow control device. The first flow control device can be positioned in a wellbore, which can be positioned in a geological formation, to control flow of a first material based on one or more first fluid properties of the first material. The second flow control device can be positioned in the wellbore offset from the first flow control device to control flow of a second material based on one or more second fluid properties of the second material. The second material can be different than the first material and can include hydrogen. The flow of the first material and the flow of the second material can be controlled in response to wellbore fluid being injected into the geological formation to enhance a hydrogen-producing reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: HALLIBURTON ENERGY SERVICES, INC.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan W. McChesney
  • Publication number: 20250103753
    Abstract: A data processing service facilitates the creation and processing of data processing pipelines that process data processing jobs defined with respect to a set of tasks in a sequence and with data dependencies associated with each separate task such that the output from one task is used as input for a subsequent task. In various embodiments, the set of tasks include at least one cleanroom task that is executed in a cleanroom station and at least one non-cleanroom task executed in an execution environment of a user where each task is configured to read one or more input datasets and transform the one or more input datasets into one or more output datasets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: William Chau, Abhijit Chakankar, Stephen Michael Mahoney, Daniel Seth Morris, Itai Shlomo Weiss
  • Publication number: 20250107027
    Abstract: An in-use cover for an electrical device includes a base having an internal volume and a lid pivotably connected to the base. The base includes an upper cavity, and an extension ring coupled to the upper cavity. The upper cavity and the extension ring are integrally formed from a unitary piece. The lid is movable between an open position that at least partially exposes the electrical device and a closed position that can enclose the electrical device in the internal volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Applicant: Hubbell Incorporated
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Boener, Jonathan Randall Falls, Krishna C. Patel