Patents by Inventor Grayson Morris
Grayson Morris 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: 9009365Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: April 14, 2015Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Gerald George Pechanek, David Strube, Edwin Franklin Barry, Charles W. Kurak, Jr., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo Rodriguez, Marco Jacobs
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Publication number: 20140059324Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Inventors: Gerald George Pechanek, David Strube, Edwin Franklin Barry, Charles W. Kurak, JR., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo Rodriguez, Marco Jacobs
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Patent number: 8394447Abstract: The apparatus and method use an optical feedback system to align a brush assembly with a stent strut. Once alignment is achieved, a coating is dispensed onto the stent strut via the brush assembly and the brush assembly is moved along the stent strut to coat the stent strut.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Grayson Morris, Svava Maria Atladottir, Carla Pienknagura
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Patent number: 8397000Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: March 12, 2013Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Gerald George Pechanek, David Strube, Edwin Franklin Barry, Charles W. Kurak, Jr., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Publication number: 20130007331Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: ALTERA CORPORATIONInventors: Gerald G. Pechanek, David Carl Strube, Edwin Frank Barry, Charles W. Kurak, JR., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Patent number: 8296479Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2012Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Gerald George Pechanek, David Strube, Edwin Franklin Barry, Charles W. Kurak, Jr., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Publication number: 20120124335Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2012Publication date: May 17, 2012Applicant: ALTERA CORPORATIONInventors: Gerald G. Pechanek, David Carl Strube, Edwin Franklin Barry, Charles W. Kurak, JR., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Patent number: 8117357Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2011Date of Patent: February 14, 2012Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Gerald George Pechanek, David Carl Strube, Edwin Frank Barry, Charles W. Kurak, Jr., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Publication number: 20110219210Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: ALTERA CORPORATIONInventors: Gerald G. Pechanek, David Carl Strube, Edwin Frank Barry, Charles W. Kurak, JR., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Publication number: 20110144736Abstract: The present invention is directed to a flexible expandable stent for implantation in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery. The stent generally includes a series of metallic cylindrical rings longitudinally aligned on a common axis of the stent and interconnected by a series of links which be polymeric or metallic. Varying configurations and patterns of the links provides longitudinal and flexural flexibility to the stent while maintaining sufficient column strength to space the cylindrical rings along the longitudinal axis. The metallic material forming the rings provides the necessary radial stiffness.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2010Publication date: June 16, 2011Applicant: Abbott Cardiovascular Systems Inc.Inventors: Santosh Prabhu, Brian Brandt, Henjen Ho, Kyle Marie Krueger, Grayson Morris, Carla Rosa Pienknagura
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Patent number: 7962667Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2007Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Inventors: Gerald G. Pechanek, David Carl Strube, Edwin Frank Barry, Charles W. Kurak, Jr., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Publication number: 20090291196Abstract: The apparatus and method use an optical feedback system to align a brush assembly with a stent strut. Once alignment is achieved, a coating is dispensed onto the stent strut via the brush assembly and the brush assembly is moved along the stent strut to coat the stent strut.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2009Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Grayson Morris, Svava Maria Atladottir, Carla Pienknagura
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Patent number: 7588642Abstract: The apparatus and method use an optical feedback system to align a brush assembly with a stent strut. Once alignment is achieved, a coating is dispensed onto the stent strut via the brush assembly and the brush assembly is moved along the stent strut to coat the stent strut.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2004Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Grayson Morris, Svava Maria Atladottir, Carla Pienknagura
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Patent number: 7506137Abstract: Techniques for adding more complex instructions and their attendant multi-cycle execution units with a single instruction multiple data stream (SIMD) very long instruction word (VLIW) processing framework are described. In one aspect, an initiation mechanism also acts as a resynchronization mechanism to read the results of multi-cycle execution. This multi-purpose mechanism operates with a short instruction word (SIW) issue of the multi-cycle instruction, in a sequence processor (SP) alone, with a VLIW, and across all processing elements (PEs) individually or as an array of PEs. A number of advantageous floating point instructions are also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2007Date of Patent: March 17, 2009Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Gerald George Pechanek, David Strube, Edward A. Wolff, Edwin Franklin Barry, Grayson Morris, Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider
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Publication number: 20090063724Abstract: Details of a highly cost effective and efficient implementation of a manifold array (ManArray) architecture and instruction syntax for use therewith are described herein. Various aspects of this approach include the regularity of the syntax, the relative ease with which the instruction set can be represented in database form, the ready ability with which tools can be created, the ready generation of self-checking codes and parameterized test cases. Parameterizations can be fairly easily mapped and system maintenance is significantly simplified.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2007Publication date: March 5, 2009Inventors: Gerald G. Pechanek, David Carl Strube, Edwin Frank Barry, Charles W. Kurak, JR., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Patent number: 7465315Abstract: A stent pattern includes an improved portal region for repairing a main vessel and a side branch vessel forming a bifurcation. More particularly, the stent has rings aligned along a common longitudinal axis that are connected by links, where the stent has a proximal section, a distal section, and a central section (portal region). The number of rings and the expanded diameter of the sections are varied to create a “trap door” capable of expanding to a slightly larger diameter than the proximal section and the distal section of the stent. The configuration of the stent pattern of the portal region prevents the occurrence of portal overlap of immediately adjacent rings into the portal region during stent deployment. The stent is implanted at a bifurcation so that the proximal section and the distal section are in the main vessel, and the central section contacts at least a portion of the opening to the side branch vessel.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2006Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Advanced Cardiovascular Systems, Inc.Inventors: Grayson Morris, Rommel Lumauig
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Publication number: 20080133892Abstract: Techniques for adding more complex instructions and their attendant multi-cycle execution units with a single instruction multiple data stream (SIMD) very long instruction word (VLIW) processing framework are described. In one aspect, an initiation mechanism also acts as a resynchronization mechanism to read the results of multi-cycle execution. This multi-purpose mechanism operates with a short instruction word (SIW) issue of the multi-cycle instruction, in a sequence processor (SP) alone, with a VLIW, and across all processing elements (PEs) individually or as an array of PEs. A number of advantageous floating point instructions are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2007Publication date: June 5, 2008Applicant: ALTERA CORPORATIONInventors: Gerald G. Pechanek, David Carl Strube, Edward A. Wolff, Edwin Frank Barry, Grayson Morris, Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider
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Publication number: 20070239251Abstract: The present invention is directed to a flexible expandable stent for implantation in a body lumen, such as a coronary artery. The stent generally includes a series of metallic cylindrical rings longitudinally aligned on a common axis of the stent and interconnected by a series of links which be polymeric or metallic. Varying configurations and patterns of the links provides longitudinal and flexural flexibility to the stent while maintaining sufficient column strength to space the cylindrical rings along the longitudinal axis. The metallic material forming the rings provides the necessary radial stiffness.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2007Publication date: October 11, 2007Applicant: ABBOTT CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS INC.Inventors: Santosh Prabhu, Brian Brandt, Henjen Ho, Kyle Krueger, Grayson Morris, Carla Pienknagura
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Patent number: 7266620Abstract: A system core having an internal memory which transfers data from an external device to the internal memory is described. To this end, the system core includes a processor, a direct memory access (DMA) controller, an instruction memory and a plurality of memories. The instruction memory contains processor instructions and DMA instructions. The DMA controller fetches DMA instructions from the instruction memory. The DMA controller executes the fetched DMA instructions and thus populates the plurality of memories with data from the external device. The processor then operates on the data found in the populated memories.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2004Date of Patent: September 4, 2007Assignee: Altera CorporationInventors: Gerald George Pechanek, David Strube, Edwin Franklin Barry, Charles W. Kurak, Jr., Carl Donald Busboom, Dale Edward Schneider, Nikos P. Pitsianis, Grayson Morris, Edward A. Wolff, Patrick R. Marchand, Ricardo E. Rodriguez, Marco C. Jacobs
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Patent number: RE41703Abstract: A SIMD machine employing a plurality of parallel processor (PEs) in which communications hazards are eliminated in an efficient manner. An indirect Very Long Instruction Word instruction memory (VIM) is employed along with execute and delimiter instructions. A masking mechanism may be employed to control which PEs have their VIMs loaded. Further, a receive model of operation is preferably employed. In one aspect, each PE operates to control a switch that selects from which PE it receives. The present invention addresses a better machine organization for execution of parallel algorithms that reduces hardware cost and complexity while maintaining the best characteristics of both SIMD and MIMD machines and minimizing communication latency. This invention brings a level of MIMD computational autonomy to SIMD indirect Very Long Instruction Word (iVLIW) processing elements while maintaining the single thread of control used in the SIMD machine organization.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2004Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: Altera Corp.Inventors: Gerald George Pechanek, Thomas L. Drabenstott, Juan Guillermo Revilla, David Strube, Grayson Morris