Patents by Inventor James Flaherty
James Flaherty 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: 11979718Abstract: Hearing aid devices, methods of manufacture, methods of use, and kits are provided. In certain aspects, the hearing aid devices comprise an apparatus having a transducer and a retention structure comprising a shape profile corresponding to a tissue of the user, and a layer of elastomer.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Earlens CorporationInventors: Peter Dy, Rodney Perkins, James Silver, Jake Olsen, Paul Rucker, Kyle Imatani, Bryan Flaherty, Daniel Hallock, Iljong Lee, Ketan Muni
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Publication number: 20240127367Abstract: A crop prediction system performs various machine learning operations to predict crop production and to identify a set of farming operations that, if performed, optimize crop production. The crop prediction system uses crop prediction models trained using various machine learning operations based on geographic and agronomic information. Responsive to receiving a request from a grower, the crop prediction system can access information representation of a portion of land corresponding to the request, such as the location of the land and corresponding weather conditions and soil composition. The crop prediction system applies one or more crop prediction models to the access information to predict a crop production and identify an optimized set of farming operations for the grower to perform.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: David Patrick Perry, Geoffrey Albert von Maltzahn, Robert Berendes, Eric Michael Jeck, Barry Loyd Knight, Rachel Ariel Raymond, Ponsi Trivisvavet, Justin Y H Wong, Neal Hitesh Rajdev, Marc-Cedric Joseph Meunier, Casey James Leist, Pranav Ram Tadi, Andrea Lee Flaherty, Charles David Brummitt, Naveen Neil Sinha, Jordan Lambert, Jonathan Hennek, Carlos Becco, Mark Allen, Daniel Bachner, Fernando Derossi, Ewan Lamont, Rob Lowenthal, Dan Creagh, Steve Abramson, Ben Allen, Jyoti Shankar, Chris Moscardini, Jeremy Crane, David Weisman, Gerard Keating, Lauren Moores, William Pate
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Patent number: 11692730Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be zoned into one or more zone. The HVAC system may include HVAC components, sensors, and one or more register vents that may include vent dampers (e.g., electronically controllable vent dampers or manually operated vent dampers). Opening and closing of the vent dampers may facilitate creating zones or sub-zones in the HVAC system configuration. An HVAC control system may receive a request for conditioned air in one or more of the zones, determine a damper setting for at least one of the vent dampers, communicate the determined damper setting to a vent damper or user interface, determine which HVAC components should be active, if any, and/or provide controls signals to activate or keep active the HVAC components that are determined to be active.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: July 4, 2023Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer
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Publication number: 20210165926Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be zoned into one or more zone. The HVAC system may include HVAC components, sensors, and one or more register vents that may include vent dampers (e.g., electronically controllable vent dampers or manually operated vent dampers). Opening and closing of the vent dampers may facilitate creating zones or sub-zones in the HVAC system configuration. An HVAC control system may receive a request for conditioned air in one or more of the zones, determine a damper setting for at least one of the vent dampers, communicate the determined damper setting to a vent damper or user interface, determine which HVAC components should be active, if any, and/or provide controls signals to activate or keep active the HVAC components that are determined to be active.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer
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Publication number: 20210134443Abstract: A method builds models for matching patients to clinicians. For each of a plurality of patients, the method retrieves a plurality of clinician selection characteristics and a temporal sequence of two or more health assessments. Each health assessment tracks a plurality of health status conditions and a treating clinician. The method then forms a respective feature vector that includes the clinician selection characteristics, indicators for health characteristics, a computed health status change according to the temporal sequence of two or more health assessments, and an identifier of the treating clinician. The method uses the feature vectors to train a model that correlates sets of clinician selection characteristics and health characteristics to optimal treating clinicians. The method then stores the trained model in a database for subsequent use in matching new patients to treating clinicians.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Mark Redlus, Gabriel Eichler, Sudhir Varma, Laura Dietzen, Tina Harralson, James Flaherty, Deborah Cypher, Scott Johnson
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Publication number: 20210134444Abstract: A method provides patients with clinician referrals based on health assessment from users. Each health assessment includes a plurality of clinician selection characteristics and a plurality of health status conditions. The method retrieves a trained model, which has been trained according to a plurality of patients that have each provided a respective temporal sequence of health assessments during treatment by a respective clinician. The method forms a feature vector that includes the plurality of clinician selection characteristics and a plurality of health characteristics that are determined from the health status conditions. The method then applies the trained model to the feature vector to generate a list of candidate treating clinicians who have optimally treated patients whose clinician selection characteristics and determined health characteristics correlate with the health assessment from the user. The method then provides the generated list of candidate treating clinicians to the user for selection.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Mark Redlus, Gabriel Eichler, Sudhir Varma, Laura Dietzen, Tina Harralson, James Flaherty, Deborah Cypher, Scott Johnson
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Patent number: 10915669Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be zoned into one or more zone. The HVAC system may include HVAC components, sensors, and one or more register vents that may include vent dampers (e.g., electronically controllable vent dampers or manually operated vent dampers). Opening and closing of the vent dampers may facilitate creating zones or sub-zones in the HVAC system configuration. An HVAC control system may receive a request for conditioned air in one or more of the zones, determine a damper setting for at least one of the vent dampers, communicate the determined damper setting to a vent damper or user interface, determine which HVAC components should be active, if any, and/or provide controls signals to activate or keep active the HVAC components that are determined to be active.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer
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Patent number: 10242129Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be controlled by an HVAC control system. The HVAC control system may include a communications block, a controller and a user interface. The communications block may receive sensed data from sensing devices located within spaces of a building. The sensing devices may be located at different spaced sensor locations within the building. The controller may receive the sensed data from the communications block and based, at least in part, on the received sensed, determine recommended setting changes to the HVAC control system. The user interface may display the recommended setting changes to a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: Ademco Inc.Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer, David Emmons
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Patent number: 10151502Abstract: A system for developing HVAC system configurations for a building may develop suggested HVAC system configurations based, at least in part, on obtained building information. A user interface may accept building information that at least partially defines an interior or exterior of a building. The building information may include, among other information, current HVAC system configuration information for an HVAC system of the building including current locations of register vents within the building. A processing module in communication with the user interface may determine one or more suggested HVAC system configurations based, at least in part, on building information accepted at the user interface. The user interface may display the suggested one or more HVAC system configurations to a user.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: December 11, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer, David Emmons
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Patent number: 10126009Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be zoned into one or more zone. The HVAC system may include one or more register vents that may include vent dampers. The HVAC system may be controlled by an HVAC control system including a communications port or block, a controller operatively coupled to the communications block, and a user interface. The controller may receive sensed data received at the communications block from sensors of the HVAC system. Based, at least in part, on the received sensed data, the controller my determine recommended settings for at least one of the manually adjustable register vent dampers and display the recommended settings on the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer, David Emmons
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Publication number: 20150370927Abstract: A system for developing HVAC system configurations for a building may develop suggested HVAC system configurations based, at least in part, on obtained building information. A user interface may accept building information that at least partially defines an interior or exterior of a building. The building information may include, among other information, current HVAC system configuration information for an HVAC system of the building including current locations of register vents within the building. A processing module in communication with the user interface may determine one or more suggested HVAC system configurations based, at least in part, on building information accepted at the user interface. The user interface may display the suggested one or more HVAC system configurations to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer, David Emmons
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Publication number: 20150369507Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be zoned into one or more zone. The HVAC system may include HVAC components, sensors, and one or more register vents that may include vent dampers (e.g., electronically controllable vent dampers or manually operated vent dampers). Opening and closing of the vent dampers may facilitate creating zones or sub-zones in the HVAC system configuration. An HVAC control system may receive a request for conditioned air in one or more of the zones, determine a damper setting for at least one of the vent dampers, communicate the determined damper setting to a vent damper or user interface, determine which HVAC components should be active, if any, and/or provide controls signals to activate or keep active the HVAC components that are determined to be active.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer
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Publication number: 20150369504Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be zoned into one or more zone. The HVAC system may include one or more register vents that may include vent dampers. The HVAC system may be controlled by an HVAC control system including a communications port or block, a controller operatively coupled to the communications block, and a user interface. The controller may receive sensed data received at the communications block from sensors of the HVAC system. Based, at least in part, on the received sensed data, the controller my determine recommended settings for at least one of the manually adjustable register vent dampers and display the recommended settings on the user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer, David Emmons
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Publication number: 20150369503Abstract: A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system may be controlled by an HVAC control system. The HVAC control system may include a communications block, a controller and a user interface. The communications block may receive sensed data from sensing devices located within spaces of a building. The sensing devices may be located at different spaced sensor locations within the building. The controller may receive the sensed data from the communications block and based, at least in part, on the received sensed, determine recommended setting changes to the HVAC control system. The user interface may display the recommended setting changes to a user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: James Flaherty, Nathaniel D. Kraft, Preston Gilmer, David Emmons
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Patent number: 5707502Abstract: A sensor for measuring a concentration of an analyte in a solution. The sensor comprises a substrate layer, an electrode layer and an immobilized enzyme layer. The sensor further includes an enzyme/polymer layer and/or a hydrophobic layer. The enzyme/polymer layer includes an enzyme disposed within a polymer matrix. The hydrophobic layer is formed from a material that is more hydrophobic than the immobilized enzyme layer material. In certain embodiments, the sensor includes the enzyme/polymer layer and the hydrophobic layer disposed between the enzyme/polymer layer and the immobilized enzyme layer such that the enzyme/polymer layer is disposed along the hydrophobic layer within an area above the immobilized enzyme layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1996Date of Patent: January 13, 1998Assignee: Chiron Diagnostics CorporationInventors: Robert McCaffrey, Katarina Tkacik, Brian Holman, James Flaherty, Josef Brown, Peter Edelman
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Patent number: 5696314Abstract: An electrochemical sensor is designed for use in detecting a concentration of an analyte in a sample solution. The sensor to have a longer useful lifetime, improved stability and improved response time for single or multiple use applications. In one aspect, some of these goals are achieved by providing the multilayer enzyme electrode membrane having both nonporous and microporous layers. The microporous layer is formed from a polymer binder, a polymer powder, a surfactant and a mineral powder. In another aspect, certain of these goals are achieved by the use of a layer comprised of an enzyme disposed within a polymer matrix. In certain embodiments, the multilayer enzyme electrode membrane includes an outermost layer which is capable of dissolving in the sample solution such that the interface between the multilayer enzyme electrode membrane and the sample solution is continually renewed.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 1996Date of Patent: December 9, 1997Assignee: Chiron Diagnostics CorporationInventors: Robert McCaffrey, Bonnie Dalzell, Katarina Tkacik, Susan Holbert, Mark Boden, James Flaherty, Michael Flanagan, Josef Brown, Kimiya Takeshita, Peter Edelman