Patents Examined by M. A.
  • Patent number: 11991848
    Abstract: A protective film includes a panel protective film, a first protective film disposed on a surface of the panel protective film and covering the surface of the panel protective film, the first protective film having a surface and an opposite surface facing the panel protective film, and a second protective film disposed on an opposite surface of the panel protective film and covering the opposite surface of the panel protective film, the second protective film having a surface facing the panel protective film and an opposite surface opposed to the surface of the second protective film, wherein the first protective film includes a first film layer, a first adhesive layer disposed on the opposite surface of the first film layer, and a blocking layer disposed on an opposite surface of the first adhesive layer along an edge of the first adhesive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dong Su Yee
  • Patent number: 11991866
    Abstract: Examples of hybrid cooling System for datacenters are disclosed. In an example, the hybrid cooling system includes a chiller plant to provide supply of coolant, an air-cooling unit (ACU), and a coolant distribution line. The coolant distribution line comprises a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion in series fluid communication. The ACU receives supply of the coolant from the chiller plant via the first portion. The hybrid cooling system further includes a coolant distribution unit (CDU) coupled to an electronic component in the data hall. The ACU and the CDU are in series fluid communication via the second portion of the coolant distribution line and the coolant egressing the ACU passes through the second portion to be fed back to the CDU. The hybrid cooling system includes a heat exchanger in series fluid communication with the CDU via the third portion of the coolant distribution line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP
    Inventors: Munther Salim, Michael Dedkov
  • Patent number: 11991846
    Abstract: A system can include a display assembly that includes a display, a display side, a back side, a frame and a serial bus socket; and a cable clip, removably attachable to the back side of the display assembly, that receives a portion of a cable that includes a serial bus connector receivable by the serial bus socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Brian William Wallace
  • Patent number: 11991860
    Abstract: A fluid cooling device includes a bottom plate, an adhesive layer and a spray cooling cover. The bottom plate includes a substrate and a chip, and the spray cooling cover is fixed on the bottom plate by an adhesive layer. In addition, the spray cooling cover includes a fluid inlet and a plurality of fluid outlets to utilize a working fluid to cool the chip directly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: AURAS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chien-Yu Chen, Wei-Hao Chen
  • Patent number: 11991795
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a heated throw. The heated throw includes rectangular shawl body with an electric heating layer laid inside. A connector which is electrically connected to the electric heating layer and a silicone key is fixed to a position, relatively close to a corner, on the shawl body. The silicone key is sewn on the shawl body to facilitate an operation and avoid a solution of directly operating by a controller, so that the heated throw is more convenient and fast to use. The electric heating layer and the silicone key are electrically connected to the connector. The connector is connected to a plug through the controller. The controller is used for controlling heating output of the electric heating layer, and exchanging heated throw state information and user control information with the silicone key through the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Zhejiang Shuogi Home Textile Products Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yibing Xia, Mingwen Qi, Tianming Luo
  • Patent number: 11986372
    Abstract: A method for preserving the alveolar ridge using partial extraction therapy. The method comprises de-coronating the tooth to leave a tooth root, de-coring a coronal portion of the tooth root to leave a tooth ring, severing an apical root portion of the tooth root from the tooth ring and removing the apical root portion. The tooth ring provides a ring of natural material that reinforces the coronal part of the tooth socket in the gum and reduces or obviates alveolar resorption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: CASTLE WALL PTY LTD
    Inventors: Cameron Glenn Castle, Glenn Alan Castle
  • Patent number: 11986339
    Abstract: System (10) for determining a position of an interventional device (11) respective an image plane (12) defined by an ultrasound imaging probe (13). The position is determined based on ultrasound signals transmitted between the ultrasound imaging probe (13) and an ultrasound transducer (15) attached to the interventional device (11). An image reconstruction unit (IRU) provides a reconstructed ultrasound image (RUI). A position determination unit (PDU) computes a lateral position (LAPTOFSmax, ?IPA) of the ultrasound transducer (15) respective the image plane (12) based on a time of flight (TOFSmax) of a maximum detected intensity (ISmax) ultrasound signal. The position determination unit (PDU) also computes an out-of-plane distance (Dop) between the ultrasound transducer (15) and the image plane (12).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Mischa Megens, Hendrik Roelof Stapert, Mustafa Hakan Gokgurler, Stefan Van De Pas, Jeroen Kortsmit, Franciscus Hendrikus Van Heesch, Harm Jan Willem Belt, Ameet Kumar Jain, Kunal Vaidya
  • Patent number: 11986377
    Abstract: A re-closable wound dressing is provided. A base layer is operable to be attached to a skin of a patient. The base layer forms a pre-fabricated aperture through which a wound of the patient is accessible. A cover layer is coupled with the base layer. The cover layer is operable to cover the pre-fabricated aperture, and is permanently adhered to the base layer along at least a portion of the cover layer. The base layer and the cover layer are made of like materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Geof Clippert
  • Patent number: 11986342
    Abstract: A method may include intravenously directing first bubbles into a patient's venous circulatory system and to a right side of the patient's heart. The first bubbles may have sizes that fall within a first range. The method may further include monitoring the patient's heart, with ultrasound imaging, to detect presence of the first bubbles on a left side of the patient's heart. Upon detecting the first bubbles on the left side of the patient's heart, the method may further include intravenously directing second bubbles into the patient's venous circulatory system and to the right side of the patient's heart. The second bubbles may have sizes that fall within a second range that is different than the first range. Upon detecting the second bubbles on the left side of the patient's heart, the method may further include initiating treatment to minimize risk of stroke in the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Agitated Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Micah J Eimer, Morgan Evans, Benjamin Arcand, Jennifer Chmura, C. Lance Boling
  • Patent number: 11986396
    Abstract: An implant for restoring height of a vertebral body. The implant includes upper and lower plates configured to be moved away from one another in the craniocaudal direction. A first support and a second support are arranged to crisscross in a proximal-to-distal direction to facilitate increased expansion of the implant, and a third support and a fourth support may be arranged to crisscross in the proximal-to-distal direction. Certain supports may be laterally spaced from one another to define a void space for receiving a retaining element. An upper support fork may include a first pair of supports arranged in a V-shaped configuration and converge at an apex that is coupled to an underside of the upper plate. A lower support fork may include a second pair of supports arranged in a V-shaped configuration and converge at another apex that is coupled to an upper side of the lower plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Limited
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Oglaza, Eleftherios Louvis
  • Patent number: 11986343
    Abstract: An ultrasonic endoscope includes: an ultrasonic transducer having an ultrasonic vibrator; a distal end portion body disposed continuously with a proximal end side of the ultrasonic transducer; an erecting base housing portion that is disposed in the distal end portion body and has an opening which opens toward one side in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the distal end portion body; a treatment tool lead-out port that communicates with the inside of the erecting base housing portion; an erecting base that is disposed in the inside of the erecting base housing portion and changes a lead out direction of a treatment tool led out from the treatment tool lead-out port; and a cleaning communication hole that is formed in a wall surface on a side opposite to a side where the opening of the erecting base housing portion is disposed and communicates with an outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Morimoto, Toshizumi Tanaka, Shozo Iyama
  • Patent number: 11986421
    Abstract: A device for exchanging heat with a subject having skin is provided. The device includes a heat exchanging member having a heat transfer surface configured to form a heat conducting interface with the subject's skin. The device further includes a substantially flexible sensing device disposed in the interface between the heat exchanging member and the subject's skin. The sensing device is configured to measure a parameter of the interface without substantially impeding heat transfer between the heat exchanging member and the subject's skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc.
    Inventors: Mitchell Levinson, Jesse N. Rosen
  • Patent number: 11986354
    Abstract: An ultrasonic apparatus for medical examination using ultrasonic waves, comprising a movable transducer probe which includes a transducer array of electroacoustic transducers for transmitting ultrasonic signals into a patient body and receiving as analog raw data ultrasonic echoes; the transducer probe configured to generate digital raw data based on the received analog raw data which comprises measurement data sets for temporally consecutive measurement time intervals, and is configured to transmit the digital raw data via a digital data interface; a computer device configured to buffer the respective measurement data sets of the digital raw data and is configured to carry out a digital beamforming for each of the buffered measurement data sets, to obtain a reconstructed image of the tissue sector, and generate, based on the reconstructed images, an image stream with a predetermined image refresh rate and supply it to a display means which reproduces the image stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: H-NEXT GMBH
    Inventor: Oliver Heid
  • Patent number: 11986423
    Abstract: A method of using a vitrectomy instrument are disclosed herein. This method comprises the steps of: (i) providing a vitrectomy instrument; (ii) operating the vitrectomy instrument in a first mechanical cutting mode where a cutting power generator of the vitrectomy instrument is used to reciprocably drive the tubular body portion for shearing the tissue, the vitreous, and/or the silicone oil; and (iii) operating the vitrectomy instrument in a second ultrasonic cutting mode where the cutting power generator is inactive, and an ultrasonic generator of the vitrectomy instrument is used to vibrate the tubular body portion for vibratory fragmentation and/or cutting of the tissue, the vitreous, and/or the silicone oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Gholam A. Peyman
  • Patent number: 11986355
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an ultrasound imaging system comprising: an image processor configured to receive at least one set of volume data resulting from a three-dimensional ultrasound scan of a body and to provide corresponding display data, an anatomy detector configured to detect a position and orientation of an anatomical object of interest within the at least one set of volume data, a slice generator for generating a plurality of two-dimensional slices from the at least one set of volume data, wherein said slice generator is configured to define respective slice locations based on the results of the anatomy detector for the anatomical object of interest so as to obtain a set of two-dimensional standard views of the anatomical object of interest, wherein the slice generator is further configured to define for each two-dimensional standard view which anatomical features of the anatomical object of interest are expected to be contained, and an evaluation unit for evaluating a quality factor for e
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Irina Waechter-Stehle, Jurgen Weese
  • Patent number: 11986178
    Abstract: Methods and devices are provided for anchoring suture to bone. In one exemplary embodiment, a suture anchor is provided that includes one or more bone-engaging surfaces features and an external sidewall. The external sidewall can allow a suture coupled to the suture anchor and located between the anchor and bone to be movable relative to the suture anchor, even when the suture anchor is partially or fully disposed within a bone hole. Suture threaders and suture anchor drivers are also provided that can be used with the various methods and devices disclosed herein, or with other methods and devices known in the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Medos International Sarl
    Inventors: Douglas Hester, Brian Otrando
  • Patent number: D1027720
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventor: Jianyu Wang
  • Patent number: D1027758
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Takayuki Nakajima, Yuta Nozaki, Tsuyoshi Oba
  • Patent number: D1028103
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Engler, Peter Tanoury, Sean Kyne
  • Patent number: D1028294
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: NINGBO JINGHUI OPTO-ELECTRONIC CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guohui Bai, Xia Xiao, Guohuan Feng