Patents by Inventor Donna Kelley

Donna Kelley 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: 20220341706
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an attachment that can be fastened to a gun. The attachment may include a top surface having a longitudinal axis and an aiming sight that is parallel with the longitudinal axis, a front surface having a latitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the front surface including a muzzle aperture, a left surface, a right surface, and a fastening system. The fastening system may include a first mounting aperture of the left surface, a second mounting aperture of the right surface, and a locking pin capable of being positioned in the first mounting aperture and in the second mounting aperture such that the locking pin fastens the attachment to the gun. The attachment may be fastened to the gun such that the longitudinal axis is parallel with a longitudinal bore axis of the gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin William Dwyer, Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Bryan Edward Rogers, Donna Kelley, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Christopher James Owens
  • Publication number: 20220341694
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an attachment that can be fastened to a gun. The attachment may include a top surface having a longitudinal axis and an aiming sight that is parallel with the longitudinal axis, a front surface having a latitudinal axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, the front surface including a muzzle aperture, a left surface, a right surface, and a fastening system. The fastening system may include a first mounting aperture of the left surface, a second mounting aperture of the right surface, and a locking pin capable of being positioned in the first mounting aperture and in the second mounting aperture such that the locking pin fastens the attachment to the gun. The attachment may be fastened to the gun such that the longitudinal axis is parallel with a longitudinal bore axis of the gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin William Dwyer, Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Bryan Edward Rogers, Donna Kelley, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Christopher James Owens
  • Publication number: 20220341702
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for determining whether a user is holding a gun. The gun may include a sensor, such as a laser proximity sensor, a capacitive proximity sensor, a load cell, an accelerometer, or a biometric sensor, and the gun may determine whether a user is holding the gun based on an output generated by the sensor. A processor housed in the gun may identify activation of a proximity sensor, determine that a user is holding the gun based on the activation of the proximity sensor, and perform an action in response to determining that the user is holding the gun. The action performed by the processor may include performing a boot procedure, performing a health check procedure, visually indicating state information about the gun, audibly indicating state information about the gun, or tactilely indicating state information about the gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher James Owens, Bryan Edward Rogers, Benjamin William Dwyer, Donna Kelley, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Kai Thorin Kloepfer
  • Publication number: 20220333888
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an electromechanical trigger that is implementable in a gun. The gun may include a trigger mechanism, a trigger sensing mechanism, and a fire control manager. The fire control manager may identify a trigger break based on the trigger sensing mechanism generating a voltage, and the fire control manager may transmit a signal to an actuator mechanism based on the trigger break. A detent mechanism may be dislocated in response to a force applied to a trigger mechanism, and the trigger sensing mechanism may generate the voltage based on the dislocating of the detent mechanism. Dislocating the detent mechanism may correspond to satisfying a trigger break threshold. The actuator mechanism may be displaced in response to the signal, and displacing the actuator mechanism may result in a projectile being propelled from the gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 20, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Donna Kelley, Sara Elizabeth Falcone, Katherine Joanne Lund, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Joseph Ray Wilding, Benjamin William Dwyer, John Andrew Tomasik
  • Patent number: 11473866
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an electromechanical sear that is implementable in a gun. The gun may include a fire control manager, and the fire control manager may identify a trigger break based on a trigger sensor, transmit, based on the trigger break, a first signal to a first actuator located in a displacement path of a sear, so as to cause the first actuator to be displaced in a first direction, and transmit, based on the trigger break, a second signal to a second actuator located in the displacement path of the sear, so as to cause the second actuator to be displaced in a second direction. The transmitting the first signal to the first actuator and the transmitting the second signal to the second actuator may cause displacement of the sear and firing of the gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Biofire Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Donna Kelley, Sara Elizabeth Falcone, Katherine Joanne Lund, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Timothy Joel Thorson, Benjamin William Dwyer, Christopher James Owens, Joseph Ray Wilding, Karl Fredrick Brakora, John Andrew Tomasik
  • Patent number: 11471886
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Dropworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 11471884
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DROPWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20220307786
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides techniques, systems, and devices that support indicating gun state information. One or more electronic components may be used to indicate the gun state information, and the electronic components may be coupled with a gun. The gun may identify a state of the gun based on a compute component including a data signal, and the compute component may be coupled with the gun. The gun may select a representation of the state of the gun, where the representation of the state of the gun is compatible with an electronic component coupled with the gun. The gun may indicate, at the electronic component and based on the compute component, the state of the gun with the representation of the state of the gun. Indicating the state of the gun may include displaying an icon, illuminating the electronic component with a color, or pulsating the electronic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Thorin KLOEPFER, Bryan Edward ROGERS, Benjamin William DWYER, Donna KELLEY, Jack Hugo THIESEN, Christopher James OWENS
  • Publication number: 20220307787
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for authenticating a user at gun. The gun may include an authentication manager capable of implementing logic, processing signals, or executing instructions. The authentication manager may receive first query data from a first authentication sensor of the gun, receive second query data from a second authentication sensor of the gun, perform an authentication procedure to determine whether the first query data or the second query data matches enrollment data, where a match is determined based on the first query data or the second query data and the enrollment data satisfying a similarity threshold. The authentication manager may determine that the user is authorized to operate the gun and transmit a signal in response to the determining that the user is authorized to operate the gun. The signal may cause the gun to enter an active state which allows the gun to be fired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Bryan Edward Rogers, Donna Kelley, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Timothy Joel Thorson, Christopher James Owens
  • Publication number: 20220307789
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for an electromechanical sear that is implementable in a gun. The gun may include a fire control manager, and the fire control manager may identify a trigger break based on a trigger sensor, transmit, based on the trigger break, a first signal to a first actuator located in a displacement path of a sear, so as to cause the first actuator to be displaced in a first direction, and transmit, based on the trigger break, a second signal to a second actuator located in the displacement path of the sear, so as to cause the second actuator to be displaced in a second direction. The transmitting the first signal to the first actuator and the transmitting the second signal to the second actuator may cause displacement of the sear and firing of the gun.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Kai Thorin Kloepfer, Donna Kelley, Sara Elizabeth Falcone, Katherine Joanne Lund, Jack Hugo Thiesen, Timothy Joel Thorson, Benjamin William Dwyer, Christopher James Owens, Joseph Ray Wilding, Karl Fredrick Brakora, John Andrew Tomasik
  • Patent number: 11426726
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein can result in reduced cross-contamination, greater accuracy and precision, less expensive materials and processes, decreased run times, and/or other advantages, e.g., through use of improved injectors, partitioners, detectors, and/or other elements useful in serial flow emulsion systems and processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: DROPWORKS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20210291187
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20210291125
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20210283605
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20210106994
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Publication number: 20210106993
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 10928196
    Abstract: A vision laser receiver having a sensing surface with a fixed geometry such that laser light received by the sensing surface will illuminate a particular section of the sensing surface and the precise elevation and/or tilt of the laser receiver will be determined from the illumination of the sensing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Renard Tomas Graham, Donna Kelley
  • Publication number: 20210040708
    Abstract: A vision-based sensor system is provided for heavy equipment or other machinery that determines the pose or position of the blade with respect to the heavy equipment vehicle where the sensor system comprises a vision-based blade position system having an image acquisition device and vision system processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: Topcon Positioning Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Donna KELLEY, Aleksandr Aleksandrovich PIMENOV, Alexey VEDERNIKOV, Ivan BOGDANYUK, Mikhail Nikolaevich SMIRNOV
  • Patent number: 10906040
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dropworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao
  • Patent number: 10906038
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for serial flow emulsion processes. Systems and methods as described herein result in reduced cross-contamination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: Dropworks, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Michael Perkins, Matthew Ryan Dunn, Andrew Carl Larsen, Donna Kelley, Michael Barich, Kristopher Holub, Pin Kao