Patents by Inventor William A. Michaels

William A. Michaels 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: 20240057989
    Abstract: Surgical repair systems and techniques for plantar plate repairs. The surgical repair systems and methods reconstruct the plantar plate through a dorsal incision. The surgical repair system embodies a variety of instruments that provide visualization and access to the plantar plate using suture to complete the repair. The repair system may include some or all of the following instruments: a metatarsal head pusher employed in open surgical space, to move the “capital fragment” in a controlled manner; a suture retriever instrument and a suture retriever funnel (sleeve); a suture passer such as a Mini Scorpion DX and accompanying needle, or a variety of shaped Micro Suture Lassos; a measuring guide; and a small joint distractor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Michael J. Coughlin, Lowell F. Weil, JR., Paul S. Shurnas (Deceased), Jesse G. Moore, William Michael Karnes
  • Patent number: 11904987
    Abstract: A personal standing balance assist assembly is adapted for use in a recreational watercraft. The balance assist assembly includes a balance assist pole having a distal end for being grasped by an occupant in a standing position on the recreational watercraft. A scupper plug is located at a proximal end of the balance assist pole and is configured to engage the watercraft adjacent a top mouth of the scupper hole. A hull plug is configured to engage the watercraft adjacent a bottom mouth of the scupper hole. An elongated assembly connector extends vertically through the scupper hole and is adapted for urging the scupper plug and hull plug into close contact with the watercraft proximate respective top and bottom mouths of the scupper hole, thereby securing the balance assist assembly to the watercraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: William Michael Rigler
  • Patent number: 11905079
    Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is engaged with the container by a neck fitment projecting from the coupling shell. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least two support zones. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: John Charles Van Rens, William Michael Cannon, Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Richard Christopher Hagee
  • Publication number: 20240049910
    Abstract: An add-on expansion module is provided that can be used with existing cooking appliances in order to allow the cooking appliance to perform multiple cooking functions. The module is designed to fit on top of a cooking appliance's vessel, with the cooking appliance's lid able to fit on the module. Therefore, the module does not require an additional lid to store. The module includes a support structure that may include one or more housings in which cooking accessories may be retained. The cooking accessories may carry out many cooking functions, including steam, air fry, smoke, sous vide, timed ingredient add, and food processor functions. The module further includes two openings that allow a user to access the contents of the vessel during the cooking process, for example to add or stir ingredients, without having to remove the module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: George Hardin, Michael Dillane, Joseph C. Spencer, Peter Weremchuk, Tom Guyett, Eliott G. Copier, William Michael Kennedy
  • Patent number: 11899685
    Abstract: Authorization is divided between a control plane and a data plane for sharing database data. A producer database engine can create a shared database via a data plane interface. A producer can then authorize access to the shared database via a control plane interface to a consumer. A consumer can associate the authorization granted to the consumer with a consumer database engine via the control plane interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Ippokratis Pandis, Jingyi Qing, Dengfeng Li, Pavel Sokolov, Eric Ray Hotinger, Mohammad Foyzur Rahman, William Michael McCreedy, Wenchuan An, Vivek Ramamoorthy, Chenqin Xu, Maximiliano Maccanti
  • Publication number: 20240026580
    Abstract: A knit spacer fabric contains an upper fabric layer with a plurality of upper yarns and forming the upper surface of the knit spacer fabric and a lower fabric layer with a plurality of lower yarns and forming the lower surface of the knit spacer fabric. The knit spacer fabric further contains a plurality of zipper connecting yarns and a plurality of linking connecting yarns. The upper fabric layer contains a plurality of spaced apart parallel knitted upper columns, each formed from at least two upper yarns knitted together and the upper yarns from one column are not knitted with the upper yarns of adjacent columns. At least a portion of the zipper connecting yarns stitch together two adjacent upper columns and at least a portion of the linking connecting yarns stitch together in one lower and one upper column.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Gadalia Vainer, William Michael Rose
  • Patent number: 11877342
    Abstract: An emergency route back number (ERBN) may be assigned for use in emergency calls. A telecommunication network associated that may be associated with a wireless service provider, may identify an emergency call directed to an emergency number (e.g., 9-1-1) that originated from a device that is not associated with a unique phone number such as a shared line, or a communication that utilizes some other indicator to establish the emergency call (e.g., an email address, or some other identifier). When an emergency call is detected that does not have a dedicated phone number, an ERBN is assigned to the communication. This ERBN may be reserved for some period of time after the emergency call ends such that emergency contact centers are able to reach callers back in case of dropped calls, fails, and/or additional emergency services that may need to reach the callers directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Michele Kinsey, Adrian T. Synal, William Michael Hooker, Mohammed Al-Mehdar
  • Publication number: 20240006075
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are computer-implemented methods and systems for assessing a risk value of a target patient, the method comprising: receiving at a server, via a connection mechanism, target patient data; estimating at the server, using one or more risk assessment models, one or more risk values associated with the target patient data. Target patient data may comprise historical data, patient population-level data, and real-time data. Risk assessment models may comprise one or more of: historical data risk assessment models, real-time data risk assessment models, or a combined risk assessment model. Methods for training such models are described. Systems and methods as described preferably enable continuous patient monitoring based on a patient's historical data and continuous, real-time physiological data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Nour Hesham Atif Ahmed Helwa, Abdallah Hassen El-Falou, Ricky Tjandra, Khaled Berry, William Michael Kovacs Pitman
  • Patent number: 11858697
    Abstract: A dispensing package for a floor treatment composition. The dispensing package includes a coupling shell and a container. The coupling shell is provided with a dispensing opening and at least one front aperture. The container includes a membrane seal engaged with a sealing surface of the container. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens, Kerry Lloyd Weaver
  • Patent number: 11858698
    Abstract: A coupling shell including a top wall, a shell wall, a front aperture in the top wall, a dispensing opening in the top wall, and a neck fitment projecting into the shell interior of the shell wall. The coupling shell can provide for a connection between a container and a dispensing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Kerry Lloyd Weaver, Richard Christopher Hagee, William Michael Cannon, John Charles Van Rens
  • Patent number: 11850942
    Abstract: Embodiments of an article comprising a cold-formed glass substrate in a curved shape, a plurality of separate mechanical retainers, and a frame are disclosed. The cold-formed glass substrate has a first major surface, and a second major surface opposing the first major surface. In one more embodiments, the plurality of separate mechanical retainers are attached to the second major surface of the cold-formed glass substrate. The mechanical retainers may be attached to the frame to define a position for each of the plurality of mechanical retainers, such that the mechanical retainers define the curved shape. Embodiments of processes to form such articles are also provided. Such processes can include attaching a plurality of separate mechanical retainers to a flexible glass substrate such that the glass substrate maintains its flexibility, and attaching the mechanical retainers to a frame, such that the mechanical retainers attached to the frame define a cold-formed curved shape for the flexible glass substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Atul Kumar, Cheng-Chung Li, William Michael Seiderman, Yawei Sun
  • Patent number: 11853221
    Abstract: In some examples, a system dynamically adjusts a prefetching load with respect to a prefetch cache based on a measure of past utilizations of the prefetch cache, wherein the prefetching load is to prefetch data from storage into the prefetch cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Xiali He, Alex Veprinsky, Matthew S. Gates, William Michael McCormack, Susan Agten
  • Patent number: 11851835
    Abstract: A device adapted to pick up a solid waste includes a pair of opposing shells that are pivotally linked to each other to form an enclosure. Each of the opposing shells includes a compartment having hollow tubular body having an open end and a closed end, wherein the closed ends are configured to connect to each other and allow the opposing shells to pivot at the connection. The device is adapted to pivot open by a tension force allowing the device to be used for scooping up solid waste and manually closing the enclosure and locking the opposing shells in a closed position to hold the waste within the enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Inventors: William Michael Gordon, Ryan S. Rose
  • Publication number: 20230409136
    Abstract: Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Jordon Thomas Boggs, Michael Timothy Brennan, Atul Kumar, Arpita Mitra, William Michael Seiderman, Yawei Sun, Wendell Porter Weeks
  • Publication number: 20230412534
    Abstract: Herein is disclosed a method of verifying the completeness and authenticity of instant messages sent from a first instant messaging application of a sender to a second instant messaging application of a recipient, the instant messages each having a sender's address and a user-accessible field for receiving content. The content of the user-accessible field is visible to the recipient upon opening the instant message in the second instant messaging application. The method includes the steps of identifying the receiver for an instant message to be sent by the sender, generating a current sequence marker for the receiver, inserting the current sequence marker into the user-accessible field of the instant message, and then sending the message. The current sequence marker represents a next sequence identifier in a sequence of instant messages between the sender and the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: William Michael Pearce
  • Patent number: 11847218
    Abstract: A virus scanning router may manages a local network, including routing network traffic between devices on the network and routing network traffic being sent to and from such devices via an external communication system. The virus scanning router remotely scans for viruses the files stored on one or more such devices on the network. The virus scanning router may be a device trusted by the other devices on local network to facilitate the virus scanning router reading and scanning one or more files stored on such devices for viruses. The virus scanning router also takes corrective actions such as isolating the infected device or isolating an affected network zone to which the remote device belongs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: DISH TECHNOLOGIES L.L.C.
    Inventor: William Michael Beals
  • Patent number: 11845157
    Abstract: A chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pad includes a polishing portion formed using a vat-based additive manufacturing process. The polishing portion includes a polymer material with a first elastic modulus. In some embodiments the polishing portion is disposed on the backing portion. The backing portion may have a second elastic modulus. The second elastic modulus may be less than the first elastic modulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: CMC MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Eric S. Moyer, Lin Fu, William Michael Spitzig, Chen-Chih Tsai, Ping Huang, Justin Stewart, Carlos Barros
  • Patent number: 11840782
    Abstract: A synthetic radiator fabric with permanent mechanical wicking defines an inner surface and has a raised knit body defining an opposite outer surface. The fabric includes hydrophilic and hydrophobic fiber-containing yarns. At the inner surface, the hydrophilic fiber-containing yarns collect liquid sweat from a wearer's skin surface and maintain the collected sweat at the inner surface, generally in the vicinity of and/or in contact with the wearer's skin, for encouraging evaporation of sweat and providing evaporative cooling. The raised knit body extends from the inner surface toward, and defines, the opposite outer surface. The hydrophobic fiber-containing yarns are arranged in a radiator-like construction forming egg-crate or honey-comb like cells or pores, defined by the knit body and open to the inner surface. At the outer fabric surface, the hydrophobic fibers receive excess sweat from the wearer's body, thereby to encourage rapid evaporation and drying, for improved breathability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: MMI-IPCO, LLC
    Inventors: Karen Beattie, David J. Anelundi, William Michael Rose, Gadalia Vainer
  • Patent number: 11839671
    Abstract: An oral care composition with tin, polyol with five or more carbon atoms, water, and a pH of greater than 7. An oral care composition with a tin ion source, a fluoride ion source, a polyol with five or more carbon atoms, water, and a pH of greater than 7. Oral care compositions with a high tin ion availability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Arif Ali Baig, Tammy K. Baker, William Michael Glandorf, Samuel James St. John
  • Publication number: 20230392965
    Abstract: A fluid monitoring module includes an enclosure, a fluid sensing device assembled with the enclosure, and a controller disposed within the enclosure. The fluid sensing device includes a body member defining a fluid port external to the enclosure and a male threaded sensor port mounted to the enclosure and extending laterally into the enclosure, a female threaded nut assembled with the sensor port, a fluid sensor seated against a counterbore portion of the sensor port, and a retaining collar having a neck portion extending into the sensor port in engagement with the fluid sensor and a head portion captured between the female threaded nut and an end face of the sensor port. The controller is in circuit communication with the fluid sensor for receiving at least one of pressure indicating signals and temperature indicating signals from the fluid sensor, and for measuring fluid data based on the received signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Michael D. Bestic, David J. Hasak, Bryan S. Reiger, Andrew Creque, Marius O. Stroescu, William Michael Ponikvar, Cal R. Brown, Matthew R. Dixon, Joshua Webb, Theodore J. Gausman, Michael Whisler, Randy Rieken, Robert Bianco, Andrew P. Marshall