Patents by Inventor John Edgar
John Edgar 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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Publication number: 20240171988Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to allocate use of controlled wireless spectrum. A method includes receiving, from a wireless local area network service provider, a request for wireless local area network spectrum for a future time window, wherein the wireless local area network spectrum is subject to automated frequency coordination, in response to the request, sending, to an incumbent that uses the wireless local area network spectrum, a query consistent with the request for the wireless local area network spectrum for the future time window, receiving, from the incumbent, in response to the query, a grant to use the wireless local area network spectrum for the future time window, and in response to receiving the grant, sending permission to the wireless local area network service provider to use the wireless local area network spectrum for the future time window.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: John Matthew Swartz, Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Matthew Aaron Silverman, Fred Jay Anderson, Vishal Satyendra Desai
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Publication number: 20240172012Abstract: Presented herein are techniques to optimize wireless local area network access point beam settings. A method includes, during a survey period, causing a first access point and a second access point in a wireless local area network, to simultaneously transmit survey transmissions according to a predetermined sequence of transmission states, receiving, from a survey station that received the survey transmissions during the survey period, telemetry associated with the survey transmissions, the telemetry including a location of the survey station when the survey station received the survey transmissions, and after the survey period, controlling, based on the telemetry associated with the survey transmissions, the first access point to operate according to a first transmission state from among the transmission states and the second access point to operate according to a second transmission state from among the transmission states.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: John Matthew Swartz, Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Matthew Aaron Silverman, Fred Jay Anderson
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Publication number: 20240155368Abstract: Techniques herein facilitate dynamic configuration of a wireless local area network (WLAN) for large public venue (LPV) environments. In one example, a method may include providing an initial configuration for access points APs of a WLAN for an event at an LPV based on a profile for the event, a location of each AP for the venue, and anticipated demand at the APs; determining, for a particular time for the event, a distribution of wireless devices and channel support capabilities of the wireless devices different locations for the LPV; and providing an updated configuration for one or more APs at the one or more locations for the venue based on the distribution of the wireless devices and the channel support capabilities of the wireless devices determined for the particular time for the event at the LPV.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: John Matthew Swartz, Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Matthew Aaron Silverman, Fred Jay Anderson, Joshua D. Suhr
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Publication number: 20240148577Abstract: A medical bed frame may include a base frame, a pair of side members selectively movable laterally towards or away from the base frame, a first and second drive assembly each comprising: a first and second pair of cams configured to move the pair of side members, and a central linkage for rotating the first and second pair of cams, a first actuator operatively connected to the central linkage of the first drive assembly and the base frame, and a second actuator operatively connected to the central linkage of the second drive assembly and the base frame, wherein the first and second actuator are configured to selectively move the central linkage in one of a first direction and a second direction, whereby selective movement of the first actuator and the second actuator results in lateral movement of the pair of side members towards or away from the base frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2023Publication date: May 9, 2024Applicant: Sizewise Rentals L.L.C.Inventors: David Delroy Driscoll, JR., Kristen Thurman, Troy Parson, Jeffery Spreier, John C. Moore, Duane Edgar Wente, III, Kenneth Scott Bower, Matthew Ray Isley
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Publication number: 20240147383Abstract: A method for providing adaptive radio transmit power based on antenna pattern and elevation tilt measured through an accelerometer is provided. The method includes estimating an orientation of a wireless device using an orientation sensor integrated in or on the wireless device, and determining an adjustment factor for a transmitter of the wireless device based on the orientation. The method further includes adjusting output power of the transmitter of the wireless device based on the adjustment factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Fred Jay Anderson, John Matthew Swartz, Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Matthew Aaron Silverman, Danielle N. Bane
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Publication number: 20240142547Abstract: A method for calibrating a magnetometer of a device is provided. The method includes collecting, with a portable calibration device having a magnetometer, magnetic field measurements in a spatial region about a mounting location where the device is to be installed for operation, estimating magnetometer compensation parameters to correct for magnetic field distortion at the mounting location based on the magnetic field measurements collected by the portable calibration device, and configuring the device installed at the mounting location based on the magnetometer compensation parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Fred Jay Anderson, John Matthew Swartz, Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Matthew Silverman, Michael F. Marlborough
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Publication number: 20240147245Abstract: A method for adaptive presence-based radio configuration of access points in a venue includes defining a number of regions in the venue in which access points are deployed, each region having a center point, and assigning a first access point to a first region, positioned at the center of the first region. The method also includes affecting a first energy level in the first region, which corresponds to a power of a transmit signal emitted by the first access point, and assigning to the first region a configurable capacity value that determines an acceptable overlap constraint between the first energy level of the first region and an energy level of a neighboring region. The method further includes generating data describing a tessellation graph in which a possible map of the access points is formed using an iterative descent process based on the first energy level and the overlap constraint.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Fred Jay Anderson, Matthew Aaron Silverman, John Matthew Swartz, Joshua D. Suhr
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Patent number: 11914264Abstract: Photonic ring modulators with high tuning efficiency and small footprint can be formed in a hybrid material platform from a silicon bus waveguide vertically coupled to an optically active compound semiconductor (e.g., III-V) ring resonator. The performance of the modulator, e.g., in terms of the tuning efficiency and the maximum insertion loss, may be optimized by suitable levels of an applied bias voltage and a heater power of a heater optionally included in the ring modulator. The disclosed hybrid photonic ring modulators may be used, e.g., in photonic transceiver circuits with high lane count.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: OpenLight Photonics, Inc.Inventors: John Parker, Jonathan Edgar Roth, Gregory Alan Fish
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Publication number: 20230226471Abstract: Contaminants are removed from a liquid (12) in a storage vessel (14), by using a working liquid to varying the volume of a working cavity (44) sequentially inside a working vessel (16) and using the variations in the volume of the working cavity (44) to vary the volume of a suction cavity (20). The working cavity (44) is defined in a working vessel (18) and the suction cavity (20) is defined in a suction vessel (26) and the vessels (16, 18) are configured so that the volumes of their internal cavities (20, 44) are inter-dependent. Using non-return mechanisms (26, 36) to ensure one-way from the storage vessel (14) via the suction cavity (20) to a filter (28) and back to the storage vessel (14).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 1, 2021Publication date: July 20, 2023Inventor: John Edgar SCRAGG
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Publication number: 20230001031Abstract: The present disclosure provides a garment comprising: a disinfecting device comprising: a cavity, a sensor operative to actuate upon one or more objects entering the cavity, and a disinfecting portion configured to disinfect the one or more objects within the cavity, the disinfecting portion being actuated upon receiving an indication from the sensor of the one or more objects entering the cavity; and a lighting apparatus disposed on an outer surface of the garment in operative communication with the disinfecting device, the lighting apparatus comprising: a clean visual indicator, an unclean visual indicator, and a switch configured to: responsive to a predetermined amount of time passing and the disinfecting portion not being actuated, display the unclean visual indicator and stop display of the clean visual indicator, and responsive to the disinfecting portion being activated, display the clean visual indicator and stop display of the unclean visual indicator.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: John Edgar Curry, Harry Edmar Schulz
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Publication number: 20220304628Abstract: A monitor comprises circuitry to receive a signal and process the signal to monitor at least one characteristic of a subject, and a flexible polymer casing forming a waterproof enclosure for the circuitry. The flexible polymer casing is infused with a conductive material at at least one location to form at least one infused electrode that extends from an exterior of the flexible polymer casing to an interior of the flexible polymer casing, and the at least one infused electrode is coupled to the circuitry so as to allow the signal to pass from outside the flexible polymer casing to the circuitry. A polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is infused with the conductive material at the at least one location is cross-linked with a polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is not infused with the conductive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: September 29, 2022Inventors: Thomas J. Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, David Peabody Goodall, III, John Edgar MacLean
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Patent number: 11350880Abstract: A monitor comprises circuitry to receive a signal and process the signal to monitor at least one characteristic of a subject, and a flexible polymer casing forming a waterproof enclosure for the circuitry. The flexible polymer casing is infused with a conductive material at location to form infused electrode that extends from an exterior of the flexible polymer casing to an interior of the flexible polymer casing, and the infused electrode is coupled to the circuitry so as to allow the signal to pass from outside the flexible polymer casing to the circuitry. A polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is infused with the conductive material at the location is cross-linked with a polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is not infused with the conductive material.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: LumiraDx UK Ltd.Inventors: Thomas J. Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, David Peabody Goodall, III, John Edgar MacLean
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Publication number: 20210393826Abstract: The present disclosure provides a device comprising: at least one opening, the at least one opening being configured receive an object; an inner cavity within the at least one opening, the inner cavity comprising: a light emitting diode (LED), a heat sink connecting the LED to a thermal reservoir, and an insulating layer arranged on the thermal reservoir, the insulating layer comprising an orifice arranged over the LED such that light from the LED passes through the orifice of the insulating layer; and a power source configured to power the LED.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 7, 2021Publication date: December 23, 2021Inventors: John Edgar Curry, Harry Edmar Schulz
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Patent number: 11110189Abstract: In one aspect, a device of the present invention can include a liquid exchange portion comprising: a first thermal reservoir, a liquid circulation channel configured to connect the first thermal reservoir to a second thermal reservoir, and a liquid pumping device configured to circulate liquid, via the liquid circulation channel, between the first thermal reservoir and the second thermal reservoir; and a disinfecting portion including a light emitting diode (LED), a heat sink, an insulating layer arranged on the second thermal reservoir, the insulating layer including an orifice arranged over the LED such that light from the LED passes through the orifice in the insulating layer, and a front layer arranged on the insulating layer arranged over the orifice. Also provided herein are garments comprising the disclosed devices, and methods for making and using the disclosed devices and garments.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: Hydro LLCInventors: John Edgar Curry, Harry Edmar Schulz
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Patent number: 10894101Abstract: A device comprises a thermal reservoir, a light emitting diode (LED), a heat sink connecting the LED to the thermal reservoir and an insulating layer arranged on the thermal reservoir, the insulating layer including an orifice arranged over the LED such that light from the LED passes through the orifice in the insulating layer.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Hydro LLCInventors: John Edgar Curry, Harry Edmar Schulz
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Publication number: 20200375548Abstract: A monitor comprises circuitry to receive a signal and process the signal to monitor at least one characteristic of a subject, and a flexible polymer casing forming a waterproof enclosure for the circuitry. The flexible polymer casing is infused with a conductive material at at least one location to form at least one infused electrode that extends from an exterior of the flexible polymer casing to an interior of the flexible polymer casing, and the at least one infused electrode is coupled to the circuitry so as to allow the signal to pass from outside the flexible polymer casing to the circuitry. A polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is infused with the conductive material at the at least one location is cross-linked with a polymer in a portion of the flexible polymer casing that is not infused with the conductive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Thomas J. Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, David Peabody Goodall, III, John Edgar MacLean
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Patent number: 10831692Abstract: A plurality of devices communicate over a bus, the devices comprising a plurality of controller devices and a plurality of second devices. Each of the controller devices is responsible for assigning one or more of the addresses including at least the address of each of a respective one or more of the second devices. A controller device comprises address allocation logic configured to assign an address to each of that controller device's respective one or more second devices, by: searching for a currently unassigned address to assign to each of the respective one or more second devices, and if an unassigned address for one of those one or more second devices cannot be found, to issue a request to at least one other of the controller devices requesting that the other controller device changes one of the one or more addresses which that other controller device is responsible for assigning.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2018Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Alexander Abraham Cornelius Van Der Zande, Jurgen Mario Vangeel, John Edgar Held
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Publication number: 20200207861Abstract: A method for inhibition of leukemic stem cells expressing IL-3R? (CD123), comprises contacting the cells with an antigen binding molecule comprising a Fc region or a modified Fc region having enhanced Fc effector function, wherein the antigen binding molecule binds selectively to IL-3R? (CD123). The invention includes the treatment of a hematologic cancer condition in a patient by administration to the patient of an effective amount of the antigen binding molecule.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: July 2, 2020Applicants: CSL Limited, University Health NetworkInventors: John Edgar DICK, Liqing Jin, Gino Luigi VAIRO, David Paul Gearing, Samantha Jane Busfield
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Patent number: 10443124Abstract: A process and an apparatus for densifying a porous structure is disclosed. The porous structure comprises a first surface, a second surface, an inner diameter surface and an outer diameter surface. The process may comprise progressive densification in conjunction with thermal gradient and/or pressure gradient densification processes.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2010Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATIONInventors: Mark James Purdy, John Edgar Finley, Mark Russell Wolke, James Warren Rudolph, Timothy Patrick Smith
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Publication number: 20190129878Abstract: A plurality of devices communicate over a bus, the devices comprising a plurality of controller devices and a plurality of second devices. Each of the controller devices is responsible for assigning one or more of the addresses including at least the address of each of a respective one or more of the second devices. A controller device comprises address allocation logic configured to assign an address to each of that controller device's respective one or more second devices, by: searching for a currently unassigned address to assign to each of the respective one or more second devices, and if an unassigned address for one of those one or more second devices cannot be found, to issue a request to at least one other of the controller devices requesting that the other controller device changes one of the one or more addresses which that other controller device is responsible for assigning.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2018Publication date: May 2, 2019Inventors: ALEXANDER ABRAHAM CORNELIUS VAN DER ZANDE, JURGEN MARIO VANGEEL, JOHN EDGAR HELD