Patents by Inventor James J. Hayes
James J. Hayes 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: 11937778Abstract: Apparatuses and method for determining if an endoscope is contaminated may include a sheath device to cover both the inside and outside of the endoscope. The sheath device may include a flexible tubular external sheath that extends over the endoscope to form an external protective barrier, a tubular internal sheath that extends within a lumen of the endoscope that forms an internal protective barrier, and a cap sealed to both the external sheath and the internal sheath, and a proximal sealing collar that is configured to allow the space between the endoscope and the external and/or inner sheaths to be pressurized to detect leaks indicating contamination.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Neptune Medical Inc.Inventors: Alexander Q. Tilson, Thomas Hsiu, Niklas J. Helmick, Stephan T. Hoffmann, Eugene Duval, Christopher J. Hasser, James M. Hayes, Elias Eleftheriades, Kai Pohlhammer
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Publication number: 20240090867Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for acquiring and providing information about orthopedic features of a body using acoustic energy. In some aspects, an acoustic orthopedic tracking system includes portable acoustic transducers to obtain orthopedic position information for feeding the information to an orthopedic surgical system for surgical operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Dustin Kruse, Evan Freiburg, James J. Hayes
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Patent number: 11737726Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for acquiring and providing information about orthopedic features of a body using acoustic energy. In some aspects, an acoustic orthopedic tracking system includes portable acoustic transducers to obtain orthopedic position information for feeding the information to an orthopedic surgical system for surgical operations.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Decision Sciences Medical Company, LLCInventors: Dustin Kruse, Evan Freiburg, James J. Hayes
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Publication number: 20210361259Abstract: Disclosed are articles, devices and systems providing a semi-rigid acoustic coupling medium for ultrasound diagnostic and treatment techniques. In some aspects, an acoustic coupling article includes a semi-rigid acoustic coupling medium (SACM) able to conform to a receiving body through deformation of the SACM body in order to propagate an acoustic signal within the SACM to and from the receiving body. In some embodiments, the SACM is configured in a shape having one or more attachment portions located at one end of an acoustic interface portion, such that the acoustic interface portion is operable to contact the receiving body to propagate the acoustic signal and the attachment portions are configured to be secured by an acoustic probe device to transmit and receive the propagated acoustic signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2021Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Allan Wegner, Dustin E. Kruse, James J. Hayes, Zachary Staebler
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Patent number: 11154274Abstract: Disclosed are articles, devices and systems providing a semi-rigid acoustic coupling medium for ultrasound diagnostic and treatment techniques. In some aspects, an acoustic coupling article includes a semi-rigid acoustic coupling medium (SACM) able to conform to a receiving body through deformation of the SACM body in order to propagate an acoustic signal within the SACM to and from the receiving body. In some embodiments, the SACM is configured in a shape having one or more attachment portions located at one end of an acoustic interface portion, such that the acoustic interface portion is operable to contact the receiving body to propagate the acoustic signal and the attachment portions are configured to be secured by an acoustic probe device to transmit and receive the propagated acoustic signal.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Decision Sciences Medical Company, LLCInventors: Allan Wegner, Dustin E. Kruse, James J. Hayes, Zachary Staebler
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Publication number: 20200337674Abstract: Disclosed are articles, devices and systems providing a semi-rigid acoustic coupling medium for ultrasound diagnostic and treatment techniques. In some aspects, an acoustic coupling article includes a semi-rigid acoustic coupling medium (SACM) able to conform to a receiving body through deformation of the SACM body in order to propagate an acoustic signal within the SACM to and from the receiving body. In some embodiments, the SACM is configured in a shape having one or more attachment portions located at one end of an acoustic interface portion, such that the acoustic interface portion is operable to contact the receiving body to propagate the acoustic signal and the attachment portions are configured to be secured by an acoustic probe device to transmit and receive the propagated acoustic signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2020Publication date: October 29, 2020Inventors: Allan Wegner, Dustin E. Kruse, James J. Hayes, Zachary Staebler
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Publication number: 20200029931Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for acquiring and providing information about orthopedic features of a body using acoustic energy. In some aspects, an acoustic orthopedic tracking system includes portable acoustic transducers to obtain orthopedic position information for feeding the information to an orthopedic surgical system for surgical operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Dustin Kruse, Evan Freiburg, James J. Hayes
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Patent number: 10426429Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for acquiring and providing information about orthopedic features of a body using acoustic energy. In some aspects, an acoustic orthopedic tracking system includes portable acoustic transducers to obtain orthopedic position information for feeding the information to an orthopedic surgical system for surgical operations.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 1, 2019Assignee: Decision Sciences Medical Company, LLCInventors: Dustin Kruse, Evan Freiburg, James J. Hayes
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Patent number: 10067260Abstract: Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for operating a multimode passive detection system (MMPDS). System control settings including operating parameters for the multimode passive detection system are stored. Detector signals are processed to reconstruct an image of a scanned volume and identify an object in the scanned volume based on the reconstructed image. The operating parameters and the detector signals at different processing stages are recorded. An operational health of the multimode passive detection system is monitored. Monitoring the operational health includes receiving information representing the operational health of various components of the multimode passive detection system, and determining an operational health status of one or more of the various components of the multimode passive detection system based on the received information representing the operational health of the multimode passive detection system.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: September 4, 2018Assignee: Decision Sciences International CorporationInventors: Shawn McKenney, Jeffrey Glover, Michael James Sossong, James J. Hayes
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Patent number: 9746580Abstract: Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for a multimode passive detection system (MMPDS). A MMPDS includes a detector assembly of array of drift tubes arranged as detector modules to generate detector signal data representing electrical responses to cosmic ray charged particles passing through respective detector modules and traversing through a volume of interest (VOI). Detector circuitry measures the generated detector signal data and outputs the measured detector signal data as spatially segregated data streams corresponding to respective detector modules. A clock system distributes a master clock signal throughout the detector circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2016Date of Patent: August 29, 2017Assignee: Decision Sciences International CorporationInventors: James J. Hayes, Michael James Sossong
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Publication number: 20170100092Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for acquiring and providing information about orthopedic features of a body using acoustic energy. In some aspects, an acoustic orthopedic tracking system includes portable acoustic transducers to obtain orthopedic position information for feeding the information to an orthopedic surgical system for surgical operations.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Inventors: Dustin Kruse, Evan Freiburg, James J. Hayes
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Publication number: 20160270763Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods for synthetic aperture acoustic imaging, range-Doppler measurements, and therapies are disclosed. One synthetic aperture acoustic system includes a waveform generation and processing device and an acoustic probe device that are designed to enable generation, transmission, reception, and processing of coherent, spread-spectrum, instantaneous-wideband, coded waveforms in synthetic aperture ultrasound (SAU) applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: James J. Hayes, Evan Freiburg, Dustin Kruse
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Publication number: 20160231456Abstract: Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for operating a multimode passive detection system (MMPDS). System control settings including operating parameters for the multimode passive detection system are stored. Detector signals are processed to reconstruct an image of a scanned volume and identify an object in the scanned volume based on the reconstructed image. The operating parameters and the detector signals at different processing stages are recorded. An operational health of the multimode passive detection system is monitored. Monitoring the operational health includes receiving information representing the operational health of various components of the multimode passive detection system, and determining an operational health status of one or more of the various components of the multimode passive detection system based on the received information representing the operational health of the multimode passive detection system.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: Shawn McKenney, Jeffrey Glover, Michael James Sossong, James J. Hayes
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Publication number: 20160231455Abstract: Techniques, systems and apparatus are described for a multimode passive detection system (MMPDS). A MMPDS includes a detector assembly of array of drift tubes arranged as detector modules to generate detector signal data representing electrical responses to cosmic ray charged particles passing through respective detector modules and traversing through a volume of interest (VOI). Detector circuitry measures the generated detector signal data and outputs the measured detector signal data as spatially segregated data streams corresponding to respective detector modules. A clock system distributes a master clock signal throughout the detector circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2016Publication date: August 11, 2016Inventors: James J. Hayes, Michael James Sossong
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Patent number: 5040456Abstract: A screen printing frame comprises four extruded plastic frame members made of a material which is recyclable and resistant to attack by the inks and solvents used in a sreen printing process. Each of the frame members include transverse reinforcing webs dividing the frame member into four elongated channels. At each mitered junction of the frame, four L-shaped plastic connectors are inserted into the contiguous channnels of contiguous frame members and adhesively secured. The screen or mesh is suitably stretched and attached to the frame by means of an adhesive.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 1990Date of Patent: August 20, 1991Assignee: U.S. Graphics Ltd.Inventor: James J. Hayes