Patents by Inventor David Stephen
David Stephen 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: 11981951Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of methyl methacrylate. The process of the present invention comprises the steps of: a) providing a microorganism in a fermentation medium, under conditions which said microorganism will produce a C3-C12 methacrylate ester; b) providing an organic phase in contact with the fermentation medium, said organic phase including C3-C12 methacrylate ester in a higher concentration than that in the fermentation medium; c) removing organic phase containing the said C3-C12 methacrylate ester from contact with the fermentation medium; and d) transesterifying the removed C3-C12 methacrylate ester with methanol, optionally after separation from the organic phase, to produce methyl methacrylate.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2017Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Mitsubishi Chemical UK LimitedInventors: Graham Ronald Eastham, Zoe Bethany Clare Disley, David William Johnson, Gill Stephens, Mark Waugh
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Publication number: 20240138934Abstract: Systems and methods for performing concomitant medical procedures are disclosed. In one aspect, the method involves controlling a first robotic arm to insert a first medical instrument through a first opening of a patient and controlling a second robotic arm to insert a second medical instrument through a second opening of the patient. The first robotic arm and the second robotic arm are part of a first platform and the first opening and the second opening are positioned at two different anatomical regions of the patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Joshua F. DEFONZO, Alexander Tarek HASSAN, Frederic H. MOLL, David Stephen MINTZ, David M. SCHUMMERS, Paxton H. MAEDER-YORK, Andrew F. O'ROURKE
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Publication number: 20240143905Abstract: A method for partially publishing edits to a document is described. A first document including a first cell and a second cell is displayed on first user account on a first computing device and on a second user account. A second document including a linked version of the first cell and a linked version of the second cell is displayed. An edit of the first cell is received from the first user account and an edit of the second cell is received. In response to receiving an indication from the first user account that the edit of the first cell is to be published, the edit of the first cell is made to the linked version of the first cell, while the linked version of the second cell is unchanged so that the content of the linked version of the second cell no longer matches that of the second cell.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2024Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Hannah Joy Deering, Thieu Van Tran Pham, Travis Smith, Edward Joseph Cupps, Aaron David Hall, Matthew Peter Hinrichsen, Ryan A. King, Joshua John Przybyszewski, Madelyn Renee Stephens
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Publication number: 20240138822Abstract: A biopsy device for percutaneous tissue removal includes an elongated housing having an operational axis, a stylet hub slidably mounted in the housing, where the stylet hub is movable relative to the housing between a proximal, armed position, and a distal, fired position, the stylet hub having a stylet strike, a cannula hub slidably mounted in the housing alongside the stylet hub, and a spring-biased arming member. The cannula hub is movable relative to the housing between a proximal, armed position, and a distal, fired position. The arming member is moveably mounted to the housing proximal of the respective stylet and cannula hubs, and configured for manually-actuated movement from a relaxed, extended position to a loaded, compressed position to define a compressive arming stroke. The biopsy device also includes an arming member biasing spring that restores the arming member from the compressed position to the extended position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: HOLOGIC, INC.Inventors: Zachary Stephen Swick, Rosario Friedman, Brett Haarala, David Sauvageau, Donna Schulz Torres
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Patent number: 11967222Abstract: A method performed at a computer system includes: obtaining door lock activation data for a door of a dwelling of the user; obtaining current occupancy data for the dwelling; setting a configuration of a controller for the dwelling, based at least in part on the door lock activation data for the door and the current occupancy data for the dwelling; the first configuration including for each sensor in a set of sensors coupled to the controller, disabling the sensor or disabling alerts from the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Jesse William Boettcher, Sophie Solveig Le Guen, Jason Rundle Rukes, Ted Stephen Boda, David Sloo
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Publication number: 20240127711Abstract: A method and system to convert user activities performed in a real world into virtual world activity. The system includes a virtual world environment with a virtual activity tracker to obtain virtual activity performance data for an activity performed by a user in the virtual world environment; and a virtual world database to store the virtual activity performance data in a virtual profile of the user. The system also includes a real world activity tracker to obtain real world activity performance data for a real world activity performed by the user; and an activity convertor to convert the real world activity performance data into an amount of converted virtual activity performance data and add the converted virtual activity performance data to the virtual profile of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Mario GALASSO, Wesley E. ALLINGER, David M. HAUGEN, Robert David KASWEN, Mark Stephen FITZSIMMONS
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Publication number: 20240128549Abstract: An iron-air battery including an iron electrode in contact with an anode current collector, wherein the iron electrode includes a plurality of channels; an oxygen reduction reaction electrode having a first surface facing the plurality of channels and an opposing second surface in contact with air; an oxygen evolution reaction electrode interdigitated with the plurality of channels of the iron electrode, wherein at least a portion of the oxygen evolution reaction electrode is disposed within the plurality of channels in a direction perpendicular to a plane of the oxygen reduction reaction electrode; and an electrolyte in contact with the iron electrode, the first surface of the oxygen reduction reaction electrode, the plurality of channels, and the oxygen evolution reaction electrode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Joseph Stephen Manser, Christopher Thomas Reynolds, Karen Thomas-Alyea, Michael Chon, David Hooke, Michael Andrew Gibson, Yuto Takagi, Johanna Goodman, Robert Wesley Morgan, Valerie Christine Sacha, Angel Ruben Rivera, Joseph Anthony Pantano, Julia Sokol, Nicholas Reed Perkins
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Patent number: 11961602Abstract: A system configured to be coupled with a participant of an activity. The system comprises: a participant activity monitoring unit configured for monitoring a performance of the activity by the participant; an activity information module configured for storing performance information corresponding to the activity; and a participant performance correlator configured for delivering comparative performance data based on the monitored performance of the activity by the participant and the stored performance information.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Fox Factory, Inc.Inventors: Mario Galasso, Wesley E. Allinger, David M. Haugen, Robert David Kaswen, Mark Stephen Fitzsimmons
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Publication number: 20240118792Abstract: A method for configuring a system having a wearable optical unit is disclosed. The method includes powering on the system, and in response to the system being powered on, using one or more processors to control the system to: determine whether to cause the system to run a configuration workflow, and in response to determining to cause the system to run the configuration workflow, (a) control the system in connection with configuring an interpupillary distance (IPD) for a user of the system, (b) determine whether the IPD is configured for the user, and (c) in response to determining that the IPD is configured for the user, control the system in connection with configuring a focus of the optical unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Trae Benjamin Stephens, Benjamin Eli Nelson Chelf, Nicholas Cory Johnson, John Aaron Boiles, Nicholas Grant Lewis, Kevin Robert McKinney, Steven David Oliver, Tun Yuen Yeung, Meghan Easley, Robin Porter, Jeremiah O'Leary, Keith Alsberg, Robert Samuel Clay
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Publication number: 20240110463Abstract: A wellhead bracing system for a subsea well includes a base plate assembly and a wellhead brace assembly. The base plate assembly comprises a top surface, a bottom surface, a base plate aperture, and a plurality of anchor holes. The wellhead brace assembly comprises a vertical plate assembly having a cylindrical shape, a horizontal plate assembly to which the vertical plate assembly is attached, and a vertical support assembly attached to an outer surface of the vertical plate assembly and attached to the top surface of the horizontal plate assembly. Horizontal plate holes of the horizontal plate assembly are configured to attach to studs on the top surface of the base plate to secure the wellhead brace assembly to the base plate assembly. The wellhead bracing system slides onto a wellhead of the subsea well and braces an exterior of the wellhead.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Wangming Lu, Khiem Nguyen, Jay Patrick Painter, Caleb Kimbrell Carroll, William Stephen Averill, Deryck Edward Matthew Williams, David Crenshaw Barrow, Michael Ryan Fitzsimmons
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Publication number: 20240109915Abstract: A compound having the structures: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable solvate of said compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt, wherein; R selected from the group consisting of H, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy and —(CH2)m—W, where W is C3-C8 cycloalkyl, bicycloalkyl, bridged bicycloalkyl, phenyl, 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl or heterocyclic containing one, two or three heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of N, S and O atoms; wherein each of said alkyl, cycloalkyl, alkoxy, heterocyclic, phenyl, naphthyl or heteroaryl may be unsubstituted or substituted by phenyl, halo, cyano, deuterium, hydroxy, C1-C6 alkyl, C1-C6 alkoxy, —SO2—R?, —CONR?R?, NR?COR?, —NR?CONR?R?, —NR?CO2R?, —(CH2)n—SO2—R?, —NHSO2—R?, —NR?SO2—R?, —SO2NR?R?, NR?R? or SR? where R? and R? are independently H, C1-C6 alkyl or C3-C8 cycloalkyl; R1 selected from the group consisting of phenyl, naphthyl, 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl or heterocyclic containing one, two, three or four heteroatoms seType: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: Pfizer Inc.Inventors: Scott William Bagley, Andrea Nicole Bootsma, Chulho Choi, Robert Lee Dow, David James Edmonds, Carmen Noemi Garcia-Irizarry, Brian Stephen Gerstenberger, Gajendra Ingle, Jessica Gloria Katherine O'Brien, Mihir Dineshkumar Parikh, Gwenaella Christine Rescourio, Daniel Copley Schmitt
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Publication number: 20240108348Abstract: A device (15, 50, 55, 60, 100, 200) for altering blood flow characteristics in a vessel (20), the device (15, 50, 55, 60, 100, 200) comprising: a cuff (10) configured to be surgically positioned around a portion of the vessel (20); a first pad (40) located on an internal wall of the cuff (10), wherein the pad (40): locally reduces a cross-sectional area of a passageway (25) extending through the cuff (10) and/or defines a passageway (25) within the cuff (10) which is non-linear.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: David Stephen Celermajer, Anthony Ujhazy, Zoran Milijasevic
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Publication number: 20240109462Abstract: A vehicle seat and storage system includes a vehicle seat having a seat base and a seat back extending from the seat base. A storage apparatus is connected to the seat back and is movable from a stowed position against the seat back to an extended position away from the seat back. The storage apparatus is configured to position and secure one or more cargo items. A seat motor is operably connected to the seat. The seat motor is configured to move the seat back from a first position extending upward from the seat base to a second position where the seat back is disposed flat against the seat base.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2022Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Patrick Minjeur, David M. Aller, Christopher Stephen Flemming, Lisa M. Simms, John Joseph Katona, Owen Rauch, Siddhant Kansal, Zachariah Smith, Paul W. Alexander
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Publication number: 20240095680Abstract: A method of implementing administrative services for a compensation platform is disclosed. One or more interactive compensation representation views are generated based on an evaluation of mapping rules against a flexible ontology and current data state, the flexible ontology comprising customizable compensation components, relationships, and properties. One or more compensation representation views are dynamically updated in real-time in response to changes in compensation data, user context, or access permissions without requiring manual regeneration of the one or more compensation representations. The one or more interactive compensation representation views include a user interface element displayed in response to a user selection of compensation data, wherein the user interface element provides direct access to compensation information relevant to the selected compensation data without requiring a change to another screen or another user context.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Jenna Nicole Soojin Lee, Ian William Richard, Laura Elizabeth Pearson, Christian Nguyen, Tovin Thomas, Adam Carter, David Achee, David Christopher Sally, Miranda Howitt, Vincent Yao, Seth Goldenberg, Aimee Jin Peng, William Qingdong Yan, Rahul Rangnekar, Matthew Stephen Wysocki, Michael Ryan Shohoney, Tyler Kowalewski, Ami Tushar Bhatt, Jeffrey Ryan Gurr, Cap Watkins, Ryan Maas, Asha Camper Singh, Leonardo Faria, Elliot Piersa Dahl, Nina Ojeil
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Publication number: 20240095772Abstract: The referral system described herein can give users the ability to recommend a vendor (such as, e.g., a company or a service provider) to another user via electronic sharing of a dynamically generated code when one or more pre-established conditions have been met, such as when the vendor has submitted a qualifying offer to the referral system and the user is verified to have previously utilized the referral system to redeem a prior offer of the given vendor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Josh Adam Peasley, Shawnee Marie Hayes, David Scott Smith, Devon Dominic Niccole, Tony Stephen Sailer
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Publication number: 20240095645Abstract: A method of generating customizable goal representation is disclosed. A request from a user to view a goal representation is received. A flexible goal ontology is accessed that comprises one or more goal entities, one or more goal relationships between the goal entities, or one or more goal properties, the one or more goal properties including one or more metadata attributes relating to the one or more goal entities. A set of mapping rules is obtained that defines mappings between one or more goals. The set of mapping rules is evaluated to assemble a customized goal representation tailored to the user. The customized goal representation is updated based on a revaluation of the mapping rules affected by changes to the one or more goal entities, the one or more goal relationships, or the one or more properties.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Sven Martin Andreas Elfgren, Friedrich I. Riha, Elliot Piersa Dahl, Eric Koslow, Nicole Jensen McMullin, Natasha Hede, Connie Lynn Chen, Alexa Jean Kriebel, Chije Wang'ati, JR., Megan McGowan, Ami Tushar Bhatt, Jeffrey Ryan Gurr, Tyler Kowalewski, Rahul Rangnekar, Byron Sha Yang, Jerry Wu, Ricky Rizal Zein, Romain Beauxis, Adnan Chowdhury, Priya Balasubramanian, Gilles Yvetot, Shaylan Hawthorne, Adnan Pirzada, Matthew Michael Parides, Jenna Nicole Soojin Lee, Ian William Richard, Laura Elizabeth Pearson, Christian Nguyen, Tovin Thomas, Adam Carter, David Achee, David Christopher Sally, Miranda Howitt, Vincent Yao, Seth Goldenberg, Aimee Jin Peng, William Qingdong Yan, Matthew Stephen Wysocki, Michael Ryan Shohoney, Ryan Maas, Asha Camper Singh, Leonardo Faria, Elliot Piersa Dahl
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Publication number: 20240098003Abstract: Systems and methods may be used to assess network communications by generating one or more current communication parameters based on communications at an intelligent electronic device (IED) within an electric power delivery system. Network communications may be assessed by determining, at the IED, whether the communications fall within one or more thresholds for the current communication parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Edson L. Hernandez Cortinas, Preston Stephens, Bharat Nalla, Mauricio G. Silveira, Gabriel DeRuwe, Dennis Holmbo, David J. Dolezilek
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Patent number: 11934758Abstract: A method for dynamically generating or interacting with an electromagnetic field includes providing a spatial array of conductive segments, a switching device operable on each of the conductive segments to either allow or block transmission of an electrical signal and a control device operable on the switching device. A sequence of the conductive segments are connected to form a conductive path where each segments intersects with at least two different ones of the conductive segments at a node. The switching device operates to connect a selected first one of the conductive segments with a selected second one of the conductive segments to form the sequence according to a logic signal from the control device. Power is supplied to the conductive path to produce an electromagnetic field which depends at least in part on the spatial arrangement of the connected sequence of the conductive segments.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: 11886894 Canada Ltd.Inventors: David Allan Prystupa, John Stephen Pacak, Peter Condie Nell
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Patent number: 11918316Abstract: A robotically enabled teleoperated system can include a controller and a robotic tool capable of manipulation by the controller. The controller can include a handle, a gimbal and a positioning platform. The handle can be configured for actuation by an operator to cause a corresponding manipulation of the robotic tool. The gimbal can include a joint and a load cell. The joint can be configured to be manipulated based on an impedance control, such that manipulation of the gimbal causes a corresponding manipulation of the robotic tool based on a displacement of the joint. A portion of the positioning platform can be configured to be manipulated based on an admittance control, such that manipulation of the positioning platform causes a corresponding manipulation of the robotic tool based on a force imparted on the controller and measured by the load cell.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Auris Health, Inc.Inventors: Yanan Huang, Colin Allen Wilson, David Stephen Mintz, Jason Tomas Wilson
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Publication number: 20240065268Abstract: The present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous treatments for foliar disease. Particularly, the present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous treatment compositions and methods for applying such treatment compositions for controlling, treating, or preventing for foliar disease in trees and shrubs. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to novel and advantageous treatment compositions and methods for applying such treatment compositions comprising flutriafol for controlling, treating, or preventing for foliar disease in trees and shrubs wherein the treatment may be done via soil application.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Rainbow Tree CompanyInventors: David Lawrence Anderson, Blake Marie Thilmony, Samuel Randall Drahn, Patrick Stephen Anderson