Patents by Inventor Dave Cole
Dave Cole 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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Patent number: 11875579Abstract: A parking objects or vehicles detection system performs vision-based parking inventory management by monitoring live vehicle ingress and egress traffic and communicating to a backend server changes in instances of vehicle parking events.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: CITIFYD, INC.Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Dave Cole, Massoud Mollaghaffari, Abdi Nassib
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Publication number: 20220051036Abstract: A parking objects or vehicles detection system performs vision-based parking inventory management by monitoring live vehicle ingress and egress traffic and communicating to a backend server changes in instances of vehicle parking events.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Dave Cole, Massoud Mollaghaffari, Igor Cornelio Lira, Gabriel Lopes
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Patent number: 11164017Abstract: A parking objects or vehicles detection system (60) uses BLE proximity sensing to identify a vehicle (520) with a beacon ID to within about one vehicle length from an access gate (516) of a vehicle parking surface lot or garage. The system performs vision-based parking inventory management (514) by monitoring live vehicle ingress and egress traffic and communicating to a backend server (70) changes in instances of vehicle parking events.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2018Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: Citifyd, Inc.Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Dave Cole, Massoud Mollaghaffari, Igor Cornelio Lira, Gabriel Lopes
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Patent number: 10997797Abstract: A vehicle parking and mass transport beacon system (60) implemented with a beacon device (10) configured as a wireless identifier and authentication mechanism offers a user a capability of bypassing infrastructures of commercial parking lots and facilities, mass transit systems, and taxi services when using them. The beacon system includes a source beacon and a user beacon, the latter of which implemented in a user smart device (36) such as a smartphone. The use of a source beacon and user smart device enables elimination of reliance on a cellular communication connection from the time of the user's grant of permission for action to the time of separation of the user smart device and the beacon by a distance outside the range of connectivity between them. Such elimination of reliance on cellular communication connection avoids delay and communication coverage issues stemming from use of a cellular communication network.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: CITIFYD, INC.Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Samuel Spencer Jeibmann, Andrew Stam Parnell, Dave Cole, Alma Emadi, Christopher J. Vondrachek, Ken Dieringer, Massoud Mollaghaffari
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Patent number: 10803750Abstract: Systems and methods communicate parking access information between a host application associated with an operator of a parking area and a web application associated with a parking fee management provider for facilitating access, by a user carrying a smartphone, to the parking area secured by an external smart object. The external smart object is controllable through operation of the web application and actuatable through wireless personal area network (WPAN) communications exchanged between the smartphone and the external smart object in response to the operation of the web application causing the host application to generate the WPAN communications.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: Citifyd, Inc.Inventors: Dave Cole, Sohrab Vossoughi, Igor Cornelio Lira, Gabriel Lopes
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Publication number: 20200250896Abstract: A vehicle parking and mass transport beacon system (60) implemented with a beacon device (10) configured as a wireless identifier and authentication mechanism offers a user a capability of bypassing infrastructures of commercial parking lots and facilities, mass transit systems, and taxi services when using them. The beacon system includes a source beacon and a user beacon, the latter of which implemented in a user smart device (36) such as a smartphone. The use of a source beacon and user smart device enables elimination of reliance on a cellular communication connection from the time of the user's grant of permission for action to the time of separation of the user smart device and the beacon by a distance outside the range of connectivity between them. Such elimination of reliance on cellular communication connection avoids delay and communication coverage issues stemming from use of a cellular communication network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Samuel Spencer Jeibmann, Andrew Stam Parnell, Dave Cole, Alma Emadi, Christopher J. Vondrachek, Ken Dieringer
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Publication number: 20200134332Abstract: A parking objects or vehicles detection system (60) uses BLE proximity sensing to identify a vehicle (520) with a beacon ID to within about one vehicle length from an access gate (516) of a vehicle parking surface lot or garage. The system performs vision-based parking inventory management (514) by monitoring live vehicle ingress and egress traffic and communicating to a backend server (70) changes in instances of vehicle parking events.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Inventors: Sohrab Vossoughi, Dave Cole, Massoud Mollaghaffari
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Publication number: 20200013289Abstract: Systems and methods communicate parking access information between a host application associated with an operator of a parking area and a web application associated with a parking fee management provider for facilitating access, by a user carrying a smartphone, to the parking area secured by an external smart object. The external smart object is controllable through operation of the web application and actuatable through wireless personal area network (WPAN) communications exchanged between the smartphone and the external smart object in response to the operation of the web application causing the host application to generate the WPAN communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Dave Cole, Sohrab Vossoughi, Igor Cornelio Lira, Gabriel Lopes
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Patent number: 10354533Abstract: Systems and methods communicate parking access information between a host application associated with an operator of a parking area and a web application associated with a parking fee management provider for facilitating access, by a user carrying a smartphone, to the parking area secured by an external smart object. The external smart object is controllable through operation of the web application and actuatable through wireless personal area network (WPAN) communications exchanged between the smartphone and the external smart object in response to the operation of the web application causing the host application to generate the WPAN communications.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: Citifyd, Inc.Inventors: Dave Cole, Sohrab Vossoughi, Igor Cornelio Lira, Gabriel Lopes
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Publication number: 20190130750Abstract: Systems and methods communicate parking access information between a host application associated with an operator of a parking area and a web application associated with a parking fee management provider for facilitating access, by a user carrying a smartphone, to the parking area secured by an external smart object. The external smart object is controllable through operation of the web application and actuatable through wireless personal area network (WPAN) communications exchanged between the smartphone and the external smart object in response to the operation of the web application causing the host application to generate the WPAN communications.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: Dave Cole, Sohrab Vossoughi, Igor Cornelio Lira, Gabriel Lopes
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Patent number: 9055942Abstract: Endoscopic plicators are passed transorally into the stomach and used to plicate stomach tissue by engaging tissue from inside of the stomach and drawing it inwardly. The tissue is drawn inwardly into a vacuum chamber, causing sections of serosal tissue on the exterior of the stomach to be positioned facing one another. The plicators allow the opposed sections of tissue to be moved into contact with one another, and preferably deliver sutures, staples or other means for maintaining contact between the tissue sections at least until serosal bonds form between them. Each of these steps may be performed wholly from the inside of the stomach and thus can eliminate the need for any surgical or laparscopic intervention. After one or more plications is formed, medical devices may be coupled to the plication(s) for retention within the stomach.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2006Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Boston Scienctific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Balbierz, Dave Cole, Samuel T. Crews, Brett Swope, Andrew Smith, John Lunsford, Fiona Sander
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Patent number: 8469977Abstract: Described herein are endoscopic plicators passed transorally into the stomach and used to plicate stomach tissue by engaging tissue from inside of the stomach and drawing it inwardly. In the disclosed embodiments, the tissue is drawn inwardly into a vacuum chamber, causing sections of serosal tissue on the exterior of the stomach to be positioned facing one another. The disclosed plicators allow the opposed sections of tissue to be moved into contact with one another, and preferably deliver sutures, staples or other means for maintaining contact between the tissue sections at least until serosal bonds form between them. Each of these steps may be performed wholly from the inside of the stomach and thus can eliminate the need for any surgical or laparoscopic intervention. After one or more plications is formed, medical devices may be coupled to the plication(s) for retention within the stomach.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: Barosense, Inc.Inventors: Daniel J. Balbierz, Dave Cole, Samuel T. Crews, Brett Swope, Andrew Smith, John Lunsford, Fiona Sander
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Publication number: 20100228272Abstract: Described herein are endoscopic plicators passed transorally into the stomach and used to plicate stomach tissue by engaging tissue from inside of the stomach and drawing it inwardly. In the disclosed embodiments, the tissue is drawn inwardly into a vacuum chamber, causing sections of serosal tissue on the exterior of the stomach to be positioned facing one another. The disclosed plicators allow the opposed sections of tissue to be moved into contact with one another, and preferably deliver sutures, staples or other means for maintaining contact between the tissue sections at least until serosal bonds form between them. Each of these steps may be performed wholly from the inside of the stomach and thus can eliminate the need for any surgical or laparoscopic intervention. After one or more plications is formed, medical devices may be coupled to the plication(s) for retention within the stomach.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Inventors: Daniel J. Balbierz, Dave Cole, Samuel T. Crews, Brett Swope, Andrew Smith, John Lunsford, Fiona Sander
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Publication number: 20080294179Abstract: A device and method for remodeling or partitioning a body cavity, hollow organ or tissue tract includes graspers operable to engage two or more sections of tissue within a body cavity and to draw the engaged tissue between a first and second members of a tissue remodeling tool. The two or more pinches of tissue are held in complete or partial alignment with one another as staples or other fasteners are driven through the pinches, thus forming a four-layer tissue plication. Over time, adhesions formed between the opposed serosal layers create strong bonds that can facilitate retention of the plication over extended durations, despite the forces imparted on them by stomach movement. A cut or cut-out may be formed in the plication during or separate from the stapling step to promote edge-to-edge healing effects that will enhance tissue knitting/adhesion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2008Publication date: November 27, 2008Inventors: Daniel J. Balbierz, Dave Cole, Samuel T. Crews, Bretton Swope, Justen England
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Publication number: 20080190989Abstract: In a method of stapling layers of tissue within a body cavity, an engaging instrument is passed between a stapler cartridge and anvil and used to engage a region of tissue. The engaging instrument is retracted to move the engaged tissue into the stapling position, and driving staples from the cartridge through at least two layers of the engaged tissue. The method and associated system may be used to form plications in body tissue, such as stomach wall tissue. Staples simultaneously driven through tissue may simultaneously capture a reinforcing elements positioned adjacent the cartridge and/or anvil prior to stapling.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2007Publication date: August 14, 2008Inventors: Samuel T. Crews, Brett Swope, Dave Cole, Andrew Smith
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Publication number: 20070219571Abstract: Described herein are endoscopic plicators passed transorally into the stomach and used to plicate stomach tissue by engaging tissue from inside of the stomach and drawing it inwardly. In the disclosed embodiments, the tissue is drawn inwardly into a vacuum chamber, causing sections of serosal tissue on the exterior of the stomach to be positioned facing one another. The disclosed plicators allow the opposed sections of tissue to be moved into contact with one another, and preferably deliver sutures, staples or other means for maintaining contact between the tissue sections at least until serosal bonds form between them. Each of these steps may be performed wholly from the inside of the stomach and thus can eliminate the need for any surgical or laparoscopic intervention. After one or more plications is formed, medical devices may be coupled to the plication(s) for retention within the stomach.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2006Publication date: September 20, 2007Inventors: Daniel Balbierz, Dave Cole, Samuel Crews, Brett Swope, Andrew Smith, John Lunsford, Fiona Sander