Patents by Inventor Edward A. Vaughan
Edward A. Vaughan 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: 11992622Abstract: A humidification system for delivering humidified gases to a user can include a heater base, humidification chamber having an inlet, outlet, and associated fluid conduit, and breathing circuit including a supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit. The humidification system can include various features to help make set-up less difficult and time-consuming. For example, the supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit can be coupled into a one-piece circuit to aid set-up. Various components can be color-coded and can have corresponding structures to indicate which components should be connected to one another during set-up. Such features can also help make the set-up process more intuitive for an operator, which can reduce the need for specialized training and reduce the number of potential errors.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Sally Margaret Hensman, David Robert Kemps, Simon Mordechai Stam, Jason Allan Klenner, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Mark Samuel Hamilton, James William Stanton, Michael John Andresen, Jonathan Andrew George Lambert, Nicholas Edward Vaughan
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Publication number: 20230181866Abstract: A humidification system can include a heater base, a chamber, and a breathing circuit. The heater base includes a heater plate positioned in a recessed region, and a heat conductive portion of the chamber is configured to contact the heater plate. The heater base includes a guard configured to control movement of the chamber into and out of the recessed region. The guard includes an anti-racking mechanism. The chamber includes an inlet port, an outlet port. A downward extension extends into the chamber from the inlet port, and a baffle is disposed at a lower end of the downward extension. A component of the breathing circuit can include a conduit hanging end cap for shipping and storage. The end cap can include a hanging component to allow the breathing circuit component to be hung from a medical stand. The system can detect when breathing circuits are connected in reverse.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2022Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: John James JACKSON, Barry Shack MANON, Victor Rosales CORRALES, Stefan Leo VAN WORKUM, Michael John ANDRESEN, Stephen David EVANS, Mark Samuel HAMILTON, Paul Fleming BUCKLEY, Jason Allan KLENNER, Hamish OSBORNE, Samuel Graham BOGGS, James William STANTON, Joseph Nathaniel GRIFFITHS, Jonathan Andrew George LAMBERT, Nicholas Edward VAUGHAN, James Owen KEHOE, Francisco Ernesto DE LA PEÑA DE LA FUENTE, Nicholas James Michael MCKENNA, Rachael PORTER, Simon Mordechai STAM, David Robert KEMPS, Edwin Joseph LYONS, Madeleine Bess MARTIN, Ada Yiwen SHOU, Huang-Ku LIU
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Publication number: 20230131400Abstract: The operational parameters of a respiratory apparatus can be controlled through the use of a user interface located on a separate or separable mobile computing device. Sensors or features located on the mobile computing apparatus can be used to adjust the operation parameters or therapy of the respiratory apparatus or otherwise improve the compliance of a patient utilizing the respiratory apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Guohua BAO, Venkata Subbarao POTHARAJU, Arjen David KAT, Gavin Andrew Bryson RYAN, Ian Patrick Sarsfield HICKEY, Benjamin Wilson CASSE, Sujeewa WANNIGAMA, Gregory Martyn SMITH, Nordyn ALAMI, Nimansha BUDHIRAJA, Donald Roy KURIGER, Adam John DARBY, Bernhard Florian LAMPRECHT, Jeremy Livingston MILLER, Johannes Nicolaas BOTHMA, Dean Antony BARKER, Quinton Michael SMITH, Emma Louise NASIMI, Andrew Jun LI, Nicholas Edward VAUGHAN, Zarin KASAD
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Patent number: 11517689Abstract: The operational parameters of a respiratory apparatus can be controlled through the use of a user interface located on a separate or separable mobile computing device. Sensors or features located on the mobile computing apparatus can be used to adjust the operation parameters or therapy of the respiratory apparatus or otherwise improve the compliance of a patient utilizing the respiratory apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2014Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Guohua Bao, Venkata Subbarao Potharaju, Arjen David Kat, Gavin Andrew Bryson Ryan, Ian Patrick Sarsfield Hickey, Benjamin Wilson Casse, Sujeewa Wannigama, Gregory Martyn Smith, Nordyn Alami, Nimansha Budhiraja, Donald Roy Kuriger, Adam John Darby, Bernhard Florian Lamprecht, Jeremy Livingston Miller, Johannes Nicolaas Bothma, Dean Antony Barker, Quinton Michael Smith, Emma Louise Nasimi, Andrew Jun Li, Nicholas Edward Vaughan, Zarin Kasad
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Patent number: 11511069Abstract: A humidification system can include a heater base, a chamber, and a breathing circuit. The heater base includes a heater plate positioned in a recessed region, and a heat conductive portion of the chamber is configured to contact the heater plate. The heater base includes a guard configured to control movement of the chamber into and out of the recessed region. The guard includes an anti-racking mechanism. The chamber includes an inlet port, an outlet port. A downward extension extends into the chamber from the inlet port, and a baffle is disposed at a lower end of the downward extension. A component of the breathing circuit can include a conduit hanging end cap for shipping and storage. The end cap can include a hanging component to allow the breathing circuit component to be hung from a medical stand. The system can detect when breathing circuits are connected in reverse.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: John James Jackson, Barry Shack Manon, Victor Rosales Corrales, Stefan Leo Van Workum, Michael John Andresen, Stephen David Evans, Mark Samuel Hamilton, Paul Fleming Buckley, Jason Allan Klenner, Hamish Osborne, Samuel Graham Boggs, James William Stanton, Joseph Nathaniel Griffiths, Jonathan Andrew George Lambert, Nicholas Edward Vaughan, James Owen Kehoe, Francisco Ernesto De La Pe{hacek over (n)}a De La Fuente, Nicholas James Michael McKenna, Rachael Porter, Simon Mordechai Stam, David Robert Kemps, Edwin Joseph Lyons, Madeleine Bess Martin, Ada Yiwen Shou, Huang-Ku Liu
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Publication number: 20200289783Abstract: A humidification system for delivering humidified gases to a user can include a heater base, humidification chamber having an inlet, outlet, and associated fluid conduit, and breathing circuit including a supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit. The humidification system can include various features to help make set-up less difficult and time-consuming. For example, the supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit can be coupled into a one-piece circuit to aid set-up. Various components can be color-coded and can have corresponding structures to indicate which components should be connected to one another during set-up. Such features can also help make the set-up process more intuitive for an operator, which can reduce the need for specialized training and reduce the number of potential errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2020Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Sally Margaret Hensman, David Robert Kemps, Simon Mordechai Stam, Jason Allan Klenner, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Mark Samuel Hamilton, James William Stanton, Michael John Andresen, Jonathan Andrew George Lambert, Nicholas Edward Vaughan
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Patent number: 10709866Abstract: A humidification system for delivering humidified gases to a user can include a heater base, humidification chamber having an inlet, outlet, and associated fluid conduit, and breathing circuit including a supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit. The humidification system can include various features to help make set-up less difficult and time-consuming. For example, the supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit can be coupled into a one-piece circuit to aid set-up. Various components can be color-coded and can have corresponding structures to indicate which components should be connected to one another during set-up. Such features can also help make the set-up process more intuitive for an operator, which can reduce the need for specialized training and reduce the number of potential errors.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2015Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare LimitedInventors: Sally Margaret Hensman, David Robert Kemps, Simon Mordechai Stam, Jason Allan Klenner, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Mark Samuel Hamilton, James William Stanton, Michael John Andresen, Jonathan Andrew George Lambert, Nicholas Edward Vaughan
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Publication number: 20170252531Abstract: A humidification system for delivering humidified gases to a user can include a heater base, humidification chamber having an inlet, outlet, and associated fluid conduit, and breathing circuit including a supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit. The humidification system can include various features to help make set-up less difficult and time-consuming. For example, the supply conduit, inspiratory conduit, and optional expiratory conduit can be coupled into a one-piece circuit to aid set-up. Various components can be color-coded and can have corresponding structures to indicate which components should be connected to one another during set-up. Such features can also help make the set-up process more intuitive for an operator, which can reduce the need for specialized training and reduce the number of potential errors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2015Publication date: September 7, 2017Inventors: Sally Margaret Hensman, David Robert Kemps, Simon Mordechai Stam, Jason Allan Klenner, Andrew Paul Maxwell Salmon, Mark Samuel Hamilton, James William Stanton, Michael John Andresen, Jonathan Andrew George Lambert, Nicholas Edward Vaughan
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Publication number: 20160228671Abstract: A humidification system can include a heater base, a chamber, and a breathing circuit. The heater base includes a heater plate positioned in a recessed region, and a heat conductive portion of the chamber is configured to contact the heater plate. The heater base includes a guard configured to control movement of the chamber into and out of the recessed region. The guard includes an anti-racking mechanism. The chamber includes an inlet port, an outlet port. A downward extension extends into the chamber from the inlet port, and a baffle is disposed at a lower end of the downward extension. A component of the breathing circuit can include a conduit hanging end cap for shipping and storage. The end cap can include a hanging component to allow the breathing circuit component to be hung from a medical stand. The system can detect when breathing circuits are connected in reverse.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2014Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: John James JACKSON, Barry Shack MANON, Victor Rosales CORRALES, Stefan Leo VAN WORKUM, Michael John ANDRESEN, Stephen David EVANS, Mark Samuel HAMILTON, Paul Fleming BUCKLEY, Jason Allan KLENNER, Hamish OSBORNE, Samuel Graham BOGGS, James William STANTON, Joseph Nathaniel GRIFFITHS, Jonathan Andrew George LAMBERT, Nicholas Edward VAUGHAN, James Owen KEHOE, Francisco Ernesto De La Pena DE LA FUENTE, Nicholas James Michael MCKENNA, Rachael PORTER, Simon Mordechai STAM, David Robert KEMPS, Edwin Joseph LYONS, Madeleine Bess MARTIN, Ada Yiwen SHOU, Huang-Ku LIU
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Publication number: 20160193437Abstract: The operational parameters of a respiratory apparatus can be controlled through the use of a user interface located on a separate or separable mobile computing device. Sensors or features located on the mobile computing apparatus can be used to adjust the operation parameters or therapy of the respiratory apparatus or otherwise improve the compliance of a patient utilizing the respiratory apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2014Publication date: July 7, 2016Inventors: Guohua BAO, Venkata Subbarao POTHARAJU, Arjen David KAT, Gavin Andrew Bryson RYAN, Ian Patrick Sarsfield HICKEY, Benjamin Wilson CASSE, Sujeewa WANNIGAMA, Gregory Martyn SMITH, Nordyn ALAMI, Nimansha BUDHIRAJA, Donald Roy KURIGER, Adam John DARBY, Bernhard Florian LAMPRECHT, Jeremy Livingston MILLER, Johannes Nicolaas BOTHMA, Dean Antony BARKER, Quinton Michael SMITH, Emma Louise NASIMI, Andrew Jun LI, Nicholas Edward VAUGHAN, Zarin KASAD
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Patent number: 9033839Abstract: An electric drive module for use in electric vehicles includes an electric traction motor, a geared reduction unit driven by the electric motor, a differential unit interconnecting a pair of axleshafts to a pair of wheels, and a disconnect mechanism for selectively coupling and uncoupling the geared reduction unit and the differential unit. The disconnect mechanism is configured to normally couple the geared reduction unit to the differential unit. The disconnect mechanism uncouples the geared reduction unit from the differential unit to prevent peak torque transients and torque reversals between the electric motor and the wheels.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: Magna E-Car Systems of America, Inc.Inventors: Michel Paul Rossey, Edward A. Vaughan
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Publication number: 20140100974Abstract: An automated method for enabling a customer to make a payment for goods or services using one of several possible payment choices selectable by the customer by entering the customer's mobile telephone number and a personal identification number (PIN) at a point of payment terminal and then selecting one of several possible previously entered credit card numbers or payment mechanisms. Once the payment option is selected, the point of sale terminal conducts the transaction with the selected payment option.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2012Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: ELECTRONIC TRANSACTION SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventor: Edward Vaughan
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Patent number: 8176051Abstract: A system and method for searching a bytestream or other string in a case insensitive manner. In a preferred embodiment, the present invention includes an ASCII tree that associated both upper and lower case letters of an incoming header key (or other symbols) with nodes. When enough nodes are gathered, a target word is found.Type: GrantFiled: May 27, 2004Date of Patent: May 8, 2012Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Erik John Burckart, Madhu K. Chetuparambil, Rohit Dilip Kelapure, Jeffrey A. Lee, Aravind Srinivasan, Kevin Edward Vaughan
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Publication number: 20110071873Abstract: Apparatus and method for analyzing and managing fatigue primarily in aviation occupations. The invention is adaptable to other occupations where assuring crew rest is critical. Air crew specific graphical user interfaces (GUIs) allow for the insertion of sleep into crew work schedules. Alternative sleep models are used for different modes of sleep. The invention produces as an output work/sleep schedules with an associated effectiveness determination.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2010Publication date: March 24, 2011Inventors: Edward Vaughan, Lynn Lee
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Patent number: 7797690Abstract: System, process and program product for optimizing a computer program during run time. During run time, a determination is made whether the computer program calls a method which includes a conditional evaluation of a variable which is fixed and the evaluation of the fixed variable does not result in anything productive being accomplished except to return to execution of the computer program. If so, the call to the method which includes the conditional evaluation is deleted from the computer program for subsequent iterations of the computer program. Consequently, the subsequent execution of the computer program will yield a same result as if the conditional evaluation was executed. If the evaluation of the fixed variable results in something productive being accomplished, the call to the method which includes the conditional evaluation is not deleted from the subsequent execution of the computer program.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2005Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard Elderkin Nesbitt, Brian Marshall O'Connell, Kevin Edward Vaughan
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Patent number: 7543069Abstract: Session state affinity is maintained in a workload balancing system that includes a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) routing server and a plurality of application servers. The application servers maintain backup session state information for a first session to a first server of the plurality of application servers at fewer than all of the plurality of application servers, detect the unavailability of the first application server at an application server of the plurality of application servers other than the first application and determine a second server that continues the first session. An identification of the second server and the first session is sent from an application server of the plurality of application servers to a HTTP routing server responsive to detecting the unavailability of the first server.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2004Date of Patent: June 2, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Srinivas Hasti, Gabriel Garcia Montero, Aravind Srinivasan, Renganathan Sundararaman, Kevin Edward Vaughan
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Patent number: 7519684Abstract: Extensible URI-pattern-based servlet request processing frameworks process and respond to requests for resources sent over a network by client programs to application programs in multi-tiered data processing systems. An extension processor component, an improved web container; and an improved web application architecture form the framework. The extension processor component includes one or more extension processor factories, each of which generates a single type of extension processor to handle specific application components. Each extension processor is adapted to respond to a request having a declared pattern. The extension processor factory resides within the web container and provides a list of patterns for which it is responsible. The extension factory also instantiates an extension processor to respond to a request having a pattern that matches that extension processor's declared pattern.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2004Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard Andrew Backhouse, Srinivas Hasti, Scott Dilworth Johnson, Arvind Srinivasan, Kevin Edward Vaughan
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Patent number: 7509633Abstract: A system for automatically segmenting the compilation of a large Java project under a controller node to a grid of slave nodes so as to reduce build time. A build tree scanner at the controller node sizes the number of files in the project and the length of each source file. Each slave node has a complete and synchronized set of all compilable units in the project. The controller node automatically segments the source files into a number of filesets commensurate with the number and resource capacities of slave nodes available for the build, allocates the filesets to the slave nodes, and automatically generates build filesets from a master dependency tree built from dependency trees constructed by each slave node. The build sets are then equitably allocated to the slave nodes. Then the targets are reaped and placed on the controller node, which performs post-compilation tasks.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2004Date of Patent: March 24, 2009Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard Elderkin Nesbitt, Brian Marshall O'Connell, Kevin Edward Vaughan
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Patent number: 6418544Abstract: A method, system, and computer readable code for improving stress testing of Web servers. An altered form of client cache is used, enabling more realistic and representative client requests to be issued during the testing process. This altered cache format is referred to herein as a “meta-cache”, and is defined as storing a minimal subset of the information that would typically be cached from a response. This minimal subset is that which enables constructing conditional HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) GET requests. By providing a capability for realistically simulating conditional requests as well as unconditional requests, the stress applied to the server is more representative of the actual traffic load it will experience. By minimizing the amount of information kept in the meta-cache, this realistic simulation is possible without the overhead of a full client cache, and also allows more browsers to be simulated from a particular workstation.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 1999Date of Patent: July 9, 2002Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Richard Elderkin Nesbitt, Robert John Schroder, II, Kevin Edward Vaughan
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Patent number: 4988070Abstract: A hanger apparatus for supporting a tubular member relative to a body, having a flexible elongate member with a resilient member fastened to a first end for attachment of the elongate member to the body, and clip means fastened to a second end for attachment to an intermediate portion of the elongate member, thereby forming a loop between the second end and the intermediate portion of said elongate member within which the tubular member may be supported.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 1989Date of Patent: January 29, 1991Assignee: General Motors CorporationInventors: Raymond D. Hollinger, James M. Dawson, Edward A. Vaughan