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).

  • Patent number: 12241346
    Abstract: A spool valve assembly and methods for use downhole to control fluid flow into a borehole from a downhole formation. The assembly includes a valve body having an interior. The assembly also includes a spool moveable within the valve body interior from a first position wherein the spool prevents flow through the valve body, to a second position wherein the spool allows flow through the valve body at a first flow rate, and to a third position wherein the spool allows flow through the valve body at a second flow rate different than the first flow rate. The spool is moveable from the first position to the second position using hydrostatic fluid pressure acting on the spool from outside the valve body. The spool is moveable from the second position to the third position using gas pressure from a chemical reaction producing a force sufficient to overcome the hydrostatic pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan W. McChesney, Michael Linley Fripp
  • Publication number: 20250067154
    Abstract: Regulating downhole fluid flow through a plurality of valves to treat wellbore sections while also allowing for production to continue. If it is determined that fluid flow through a valve of a plurality of valves is below a threshold, maintaining fluid flow through the below threshold valve may be maintained while restricting fluid flow through other valves of the plurality. This restriction fluidly isolates a section of a well from other sections of the well. Once isolated, a treatment substance may be injected through the below threshold valve into the isolated section of well. Afterwards, the closed valves may be reopened while restricting fluid flow through the treated section valve for a threshold period of time, the treated section valve may then be reopened after the threshold period of time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Applicant: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Michael GRECI, Julia MOSINA, Graham BAINES, Brad Robert BULL
  • Publication number: 20250067482
    Abstract: An apparatus to be positioned in a geothermal wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises one or more components to inject a supercritical fluid into the subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises a flow control assembly configured to control flow of the supercritical fluid into the geothermal wellbore based on a density of the supercritical fluid in the subsurface formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2023
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Ryan W. McChesney, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Publication number: 20250069170
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating title reports in standardized formats and providing an environment for exchanging the title reports. The system can receive property documents from a plurality of sources. The property documents can be appended with metadata so as to enable the system to order the property documents within a title report. In some examples, generated title reports can accessible within a cloud environment for requesting entities to access. A user device for building and uploading a title in a standardized format is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: February 27, 2025
    Inventors: Stasio French Rusek, Stephen Michael Beehler
  • Publication number: 20250059538
    Abstract: Provided are compositions and methods for silencing suppressor tRNAs. Further provided are compositions and methods for silencing suppressor tRNAs during AAV production for producing virions comprising sequences coding for suppressor tRNAs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Sandhya Pande, Anupama Lakshmanan, Lauriel Earley, Stephen Michael Burleigh, Collin Hauskins, Adrian Wrangham Briggs, Kevin Stein
  • Patent number: 12231395
    Abstract: Techniques herein facilitate a device address rotation management protocol that may be implemented for a wireless local area network (WLAN), which can be used to influence when wireless client devices or stations may rotate their Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, how to perform such rotations, and/or the like. In one example, a method may include providing, by an access point (AP), a first communication indicating that the AP supports a MAC address rotation management protocol; obtaining, by the AP, a second communication from a wireless station (STA) indicating that the STA intends to perform a MAC address rotation; and transmitting, by the AP, a third communication to influence the MAC address rotation of the STA, the third communication comprising a rotation status indicator and timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Stephen Michael Orr
  • Publication number: 20250055831
    Abstract: Techniques herein facilitate a device address rotation management protocol that may be implemented for a wireless local area network (WLAN), which can be used to influence when wireless client devices or stations may rotate their Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, how to perform such rotations, and/or the like. In one example, a method may include providing, by an access point (AP), a first communication indicating that the AP supports a MAC address rotation management protocol; obtaining, by the AP, a second communication from a wireless station (STA) indicating that the STA intends to perform a MAC address rotation; and transmitting, by the AP, a third communication to influence the MAC address rotation of the STA, the third communication comprising a rotation status indicator and timing information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 13, 2025
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Stephen Michael Orr
  • Patent number: 12225005
    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: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: JOINESTY, INC.
    Inventors: Robert Jeffrey Yoskowitz, Stephen Michael Yoskowitz, Andreas Imthurn, Elder Donizetti Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 12223080
    Abstract: This disclosure describes a natural language question (NLQ) query service within a service provider network that provides row level security (RLS) for autocomplete during entry of NLQs and fuzzy matching in NLQ answering. The rules take the form of per-user predicates such as Tim can only see rows with region=US. In configurations a complex extraction and preprocessing pipeline to extract distinct combinations of values against RLS predicate “rule keys” is used. Those distinct values are indexed along with grouped rule keys to enable pushing down predicates at auto-complete time. This enables pushing part of RLS rule handling to ingestion time of a dataset rather than handling all RLS rule handling at query time, enabling meeting of latency goals. In configurations, a single logical document of unique cell values is split into multiple documents with a subset of rule keys to handle scalability limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Amjad Al-Rikabi, Stephen Michael Ash, William Michael Siler, Rajkumar Haridoss, Rajesh Patel, Kushal Yelamali
  • Publication number: 20250043205
    Abstract: The present invention is related to biofuel oily suspensions that use biocarbon in their composition. In this scenario, the present invention provides a biofuel oily suspension, comprising 5 to 50% by weight of micronized biocarbon and 50 to 95% by weight of oil. The biofuel oily suspension of the present invention is better adapted to compression internal combustion engines (diesel type) currently on the market, dispensing with major adaptations to them. Furthermore, the biofuel oily suspension of the present invention is highly sustainable and has an energy volumetric density and viscosity compared to liquid fossil fuels currently on the market.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Applicant: Tecnored Desenvolvimento Tecnologico S.A.
    Inventors: Ronald Lopes DE OLIVEIRA, Guilherme Francisco GONÇALVES, Stephen Michael POTTER, Álvaro Guedes SOARES, Ewerton Giovani DE ALMEIDA, Leonardo Caputo DE MOURA, Rilei Vilaça RIBEIRO
  • Publication number: 20250041592
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for implanting electrodes within a cerebral vessel of a subject. For example, disclosed are various types of implantable electrode arrays, stents carrying electrode arrays, delivery devices for implantable electrode arrays, electrical interfaces for an implantable electrode array, connector lead cable assemblies for an implantable electrode array, and methods of delivering and deploying implantable electrode arrays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2024
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas Lachlan OPIE, Stephen Michael RONAYNE, Michael HAINES, Gil Simon RIND
  • Publication number: 20250038689
    Abstract: “An electrical propulsion system comprises an inverter, an electrical motor assembly, an assembly, and a rotor position sensor. The inverter comprises a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA). The electrical motor assembly comprises a stator and a rotor. The assembly is configured to rotate a propeller and comprises a moving component and a stationary component. The rotor position sensor comprises at least one sensor coupled to the PCBA, and a magnet located on the moving component. The at least one sensor is configured to detect a magnetic field of the magnet through the stationary component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Archer Aviation Inc.
    Inventors: Scott GRAVES, Alan BALDWIN, Stephen Michael SPITERI, Wei WU, Alan D. TEPE
  • Patent number: 12212542
    Abstract: Techniques herein facilitate a device address rotation management protocol that may be implemented for a wireless local area network (WLAN), which can be used to influence when wireless client devices or stations may rotate their Media Access Control (MAC) addresses, how to perform such rotations, and/or the like. In one example, a method may include providing, by an access point (AP), a first communication indicating that the AP supports a MAC address rotation management protocol; obtaining, by the AP, a second communication from a wireless station (STA) indicating that the STA intends to perform a MAC address rotation; and transmitting, by the AP, a third communication to influence the MAC address rotation of the STA, the third communication comprising a rotation status indicator and timing information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert E. Barton, Stephen Michael Orr
  • Patent number: 12205058
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method of discovering processes for robotic process automation (RPA) includes: recording a plurality of event streams, each event stream corresponding to a human user interacting with a computing device to perform one or more tasks; concatenating the event streams; segmenting some or all of the concatenated event streams to generate one or more application traces performed by the user interacting with the computing device, each application trace corresponding to one of the one or more tasks performed by the user; clustering the traces according to a task type; identifying, from among some or all of the clustered traces, one or more candidate processes for robotic automation; prioritizing the candidate processes; and selecting at least one of the prioritized candidate processes for robotic automation. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TUNGSTEN AUTOMATION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Jiyong Ma, Stephen Michael Thompson, Jan W. Amtrup
  • Patent number: 12204465
    Abstract: Apparatus, methods and system relating to a vehicular telemetry environment for an intelligent Bluetooth beacon I/O expansion of the vehicular telemetry hardware system. The intelligent Bluetooth beacon I/O expansion provides a capability to receive beacon data, log beacon data, communicate beacon data and operate on beacon data to determine and further communicate a range of operational conditions, such as damage, hazardous and missing objects in the form of text messages, audio messages or compliance and management reports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Geotab Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Charles Cawse, Darren Marc Lohmann Beams, Stephen Michael Fox, Cong Zhu
  • Publication number: 20250019793
    Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and processes for manufacturing solid agglomerates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Applicant: TECNORED DESENVOLVIMENTO TECNOLÓGICO S/A
    Inventors: Ronald Lopes DE OLIVEIRA, Guilherme Francisco GONÇALVES, Stephen Michael POTTER, Rafael Araújo LOVATTI
  • Patent number: 12196077
    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: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Ibrahim El Mallawany, Michael Linley Fripp, Stephen Michael Greci
  • Patent number: 12197400
    Abstract: A data processing service receives a request from a first collaborator to create a clean room for data sharing collaboration with at least a second collaborator. In response, the data processing service creates an execution environment separate from the data environment of the first collaborator and the second collaborator. The first and second collaborators can then add content into the clean room in the form of data tables and executable notebooks. Approval from each collaborator is required before a notebook can be executed using any data table shared into the clean room. Upon receiving notebook approval from each collaborator, the data processing service creates a notebook job to execute the notebook on one or more cluster computing resources of the data processing service to generate an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Databricks, Inc.
    Inventors: William Chau, Abhijit Chakankar, Stephen Michael Mahoney, Daniel Seth Morris, Itai Shlomo Weiss
  • Patent number: 12198065
    Abstract: A system and method for designing a physical system using a genetic algorithm includes building a plurality of data structures necessary to build, heal, and verify a plurality of dependency chains; ensuring that multiple dependencies in a respective one of the plurality of dependency chains are represented correctly; removing any dependencies that will be trivially satisfied at random; in response to determining that one or more dependencies is consistent with another dependency, considering one or more combinations of dependencies; and building configurations that satisfy the dependencies and combinations of dependencies by associating the dependencies and combinations of dependencies with selected technology options and recursively specifying and/or revising additional technology options that are consistent with the dependencies or combinations of dependencies, until a configuration is fully specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC
    Inventors: John H. Gauthier, Matthew John Hoffman, Geoffry Scott Pankretz, Adam J. Pierson, Stephen Michael Henry, Darryl J. Melander, Lucas Waddell, John P. Eddy
  • Publication number: 20250012169
    Abstract: Provided is a float for use with a fluid flow control device, a fluid flow control device, a method for manufacturing a fluid flow control device, and a well system. The float, in one aspect, includes a ceramic base material having one or more cavities therein, the ceramic base material and the one or more cavities creating a net density for the float that is between a first density of a desired fluid and a second density of an undesired fluid, such that the float may control fluid flow through a flow control device when encountering the desired fluid or the undesired fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Stephen Michael Greci, Ryan W. McChesney, Ryan M. Novelen