Patents by Inventor John Strong

John Strong 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).

  • Publication number: 20150119859
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a strong, flexible catheter shaft for use in a catheter system. The flexible catheter shaft includes a braided polyimide tube including one or more outer layers of material of varying flexibility. The flexible catheter shaft provides a shaft having sufficient stiffness and kink resistance to allow an operator to advance an electrode basket connected to the flexible catheter shaft through a guide catheter to a target ablation site without causing vessel trauma. The distal tip of the flexible catheter shaft is designed to have sufficient flexibility to reduce any risk of kicking out a guide catheter when tracking the electrode basket around turns into side branches or bifurcations in the vasculature of a patient and includes a distal spring coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2014
    Publication date: April 30, 2015
    Inventors: Tobias Cajamarca, Gregory James Dakin, Jeffrey John Strong
  • Patent number: 8870906
    Abstract: A multi-section tubular member including a sleeve surrounding and bridging a joint between a first section and a second section of the tubular member, and a method of forming a multi-section tubular member are disclosed. A polymeric sleeve may extend over a portion of the first section and an adjoining portion of the second section. A length of heat shrink tubing may be placed over the sleeve and heated, thereby compressing the heat shrink tubing around the sleeve. The sleeve may then be thermally bonded to each of the first section and the second section. The heat shrink tubing may then be removed, leaving the sleeve securely joining the first section and the second section to form a multi-section tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery John Strong, Kristi Flury, Chrismar L. Scribner, Melissa Sjoquist, Craig C. Belton
  • Publication number: 20100170619
    Abstract: A multi-section tubular member including a sleeve surrounding and bridging a joint between a first section and a second section of the tubular member, and a method of forming a multi-section tubular member are disclosed. A polymeric sleeve may extend over a portion of the first section and an adjoining portion of the second section. A length of heat shrink tubing may be placed over the sleeve and heated, thereby compressing the heat shrink tubing around the sleeve. The sleeve may then be thermally bonded to each of the first section and the second section. The heat shrink tubing may then be removed, leaving the sleeve securely joining the first section and the second section to form a multi-section tubular member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2010
    Publication date: July 8, 2010
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Jeffery John Strong, Kristi Flury, Chrismar L. Scribner, Melissa Sjoquist, Craig C. Belton
  • Patent number: 7678223
    Abstract: A multi-section tubular member including a sleeve surrounding and bridging a joint between a first section and a second section of the tubular member, and a method of forming a multi-section tubular member are disclosed. A polymeric sleeve may extend over a portion of the first section and an adjoining portion of the second section. A length of heat shrink tubing may be placed over the sleeve and heated, thereby compressing the heat shrink tubing around the sleeve. The sleeve may then be thermally bonded to each of the first section and the second section. The heat shrink tubing may then be removed, leaving the sleeve securely joining the first section and the second section to form a multi-section tubular member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey John Strong, Kristi Flury, Chrismar L. Scribner, Melissa Sjoquist, Craig C. Belton
  • Patent number: 7149985
    Abstract: A system and a method for navigating within a display having one or more display sections are disclosed. A section from the one or more display sections is selected. In response to the selection, a navigational symbol is displayed on a border of the selected section, the symbol corresponding to a direction in which a highlight may be moved. In one embodiment, the highlight is moved in the corresponding direction in response to the selection of the symbol. In another embodiment, the symbol indicates an availability of an adjacent section in the corresponding direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2006
    Assignee: Thomson Licensing
    Inventors: Sheila Renee Crosby, Steven Todd Barlow, Robert John Strong
  • Publication number: 20060163032
    Abstract: A buffer conveyor (12) for conveying conformable work products (66) includes a collapsible conveyor belt (13) having an infeed section (14), a collapsible intermediate section (16) and an outfeed section (18). The infeed section (14) may be driven at a non-continuous speed, and the outfeed section may also be driven at a uniform, or non-continuous, speed, but the average speed of both the infeed and outfeed sections is the same. The intermediate section of the conveyor is driven at a non-uniform speed that is slower than, but proportional to, the speed of the infeed section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Inventors: John Strong, Lennart Olsson
  • Publication number: 20060157388
    Abstract: A method is provided for sorting incoming products (e.g., chicken butterflies) to be portioned into two or more types of end products (e.g., sandwich portions, strips, nuggets, etc.) to meet production goals. The method includes generally four steps. First, information on incoming products is received. Second, for each incoming product, a parameter value (e.g., the weight of an end product to be produced from the incoming product) is calculated for each of the two or more types of end products that may be produced from the incoming product. Third, the calculated parameter values for the incoming products for the two or more types of end products, respectively, are normalized so as to meet the production goals while at the same time achieving optimum parameter values. Fourth, for each incoming product, the end product with the best (e.g., largest) normalized parameter value is selected as the end product to be produced from the incoming product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventors: George Blaine, John Strong, Arthur Vogeley, Craig Pfarr
  • Patent number: 6019033
    Abstract: An apparatus for destroying pathogens on food, including a steam chamber having an entrance opening and an exit opening. An entrance door structure nominally closes the entrance opening in the steam chamber and an exit door structure nominally closes the exit opening of the steam chamber. Each of the entrance and exit door structures are composed of a plurality of closely vertically adjacent segments that are mounted to the entrance and exit openings to open and close independently of each other. Flanges extend horizontally from the upper and lower edges of the door segments to maintain a relatively close seal with the adjacent door segment even though the door segments are opened or closed a relatively differing amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2000
    Assignee: Frigoscandia, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Wilson, Jerome D. Leising, John Strong, Jon Hocker, Jerry O'Connor
  • Patent number: 5976005
    Abstract: An apparatus for destroying pathogens on meat includes a dewatering station, a steam heating chamber, and a cooling chamber. The meat is treated as it is moved along by a conveyor. The dewatering chamber includes an air blower with nozzles for blowing air at the surface of the meat to remove surface water from the meat. The steam heating chamber is disposed adjacent the dewatering chamber and includes a steam heating chamber enclosure that is sealed for maintaining a positive pressure in the steam heating chamber relative to the dewatering chamber. In one embodiment the steam chamber moves along with the meat on the conveyor. The cooling chamber is disposed adjacent the steam chamber opposite from the dewatering station. The cooling chamber has nozzles for spraying chilled water onto the surface of the meat for rapidly cooling the meat after it is passed through the steam heating chamber. The meat conveyor extends through the dewatering chamber, the steam chamber, and the chilled water chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Assignee: Frigoscandia Equipment Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Wilson, John Strong, Jon Hocker, Jerry O'Connor, Jerome D. Leising
  • Patent number: 5731987
    Abstract: An operating system for telescoping a telescopic boom for a crane, particularly a boom having three or more telescoping sections, enabling the boom to be extended and retracted automatically under load according to a predetermined sequence which optimises the load capacity of the boom and the stability of the crane. The boom may be switched rapidly between modes of operation in one of which all of the telescoping sections may extend or retract and in another of which at least one telescoping section is maintained in the fully retracted position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1998
    Assignee: Kidde Industries, Inc.
    Inventors: John Strong, Peter Clark, Nigel Harrison, Christopher Watson
  • Patent number: 5711981
    Abstract: An apparatus for destroying pathogens on meat includes a dewatering station, a steam heating chamber, and a cooling chamber. The meat is treated as it is moved along by a conveyor. The dewatering chamber includes an air blower with nozzles for blowing air at the surface of the meat to remove surface water from the meat. The steam heating chamber is disposed adjacent the dewatering chamber and includes a steam heating chamber enclosure that is sealed for maintaining a positive pressure in the steam heating chamber relative to the dewatering chamber. In one embodiment the steam chamber moves along with the meat on the conveyor. The cooling chamber is disposed adjacent the steam chamber opposite from the dewatering station. The cooling chamber has nozzles for spraying chilled water onto the surface of the meat for rapidly cooling the meat after it is passed through the steam heating chamber. The meat conveyor extends through the dewatering chamber, the steam chamber, and the chilled water chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Frigoscandia Inc.
    Inventors: Robert C. Wilson, Jerome D. Leising, John Strong, Jon Hocker, Jerry O'Connor