Patents by Inventor Joseph Dixon
Joseph Dixon 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: 20240107730Abstract: An information technology system includes a housing, electronics arranged within the housing, and a flexible shield arranged within the housing. The electronics emit electromagnetic interference. The flexible shield is arranged such that at least some of the electromagnetic interference is incident upon a surface of the flexible shield. The flexible shield is configured to be alternately at rest and active. The surface of the flexible shield is substantially planar when the flexible shield is at rest and the surface of the flexible shield is undulating when the flexible shield is active.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 22, 2022Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Joseph Prisco, Jacob Dixon, Marvin M. Misgen, Michael Paul Petrich
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Publication number: 20240076372Abstract: The invention provides methods for manufacturing optimized CAR T cell therapies and uses thereof. Specifically, the invention provides parameters that can be measured, e.g., evaluated, to manufacture CAR T cell therapies with optimized properties. The invention further provides methods of use in connection with said optimized CAR T cells.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Inventors: Christopher Loren Nobles, Frederic Dixon Bushman, Joseph A. Fraietta, Simon Lacey, Jan J. Melenhorst, Carl H. June
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Publication number: 20220122486Abstract: An ultrasound training model which exhibits optically clear soft tissue-mimicking materials that are simultaneously acoustically scattering and self-healing to needle punctures. An exemplary embodiment is disclosed that comprises an embedded bone-mimicking spine model and a dual-purpose lid that may be used as a friction surface mat. Various embodiments of the training model materials are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2021Publication date: April 21, 2022Applicant: Rivanna Medical LLCInventors: Adam Joseph Dixon, Frank William Mauldin, JR.
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Patent number: 10893881Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a blood clot include a catheter to be inserted into a patient. The catheter is used to deliver low stability microbubbles toward the blood clot in the patient. A thrombolytic agent is delivered toward the blood clot, and ultrasonic energy is applied to the microbubbles to vibrate the microbubbles.Type: GrantFiled: August 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: University of Virginia Patent FoundationInventors: Adam Joseph Dixon, John Alexander Hossack
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Patent number: 10724870Abstract: The present invention combines the geographical coverage possible with fixed, pre-defined route segment costs (e.g. the legal speed limit) with, wherever possible, richer time dependent costs. A user of, for example, a portable navigation device, can therefore continue route planning as before to virtually any destination in a country covered by the stored map database, but wherever possible, can also use traffic data with time-dependent costs, so that the effect of congestion with any time predictability can be accurately taken into account as an automatic, background process. It leaves the user to simply carry on driving, following the guidance offered by the navigation device, without needing to be concerned about congestion that exists now, and whether it will impact his journey.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 28, 2020Assignee: TOMTOM NAVIGATION B.V.Inventors: Thomas Bruce Watson Adam, Ian Malcolm Atkinson, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Patent number: 10557714Abstract: The present invention combines the geographical coverage possible with fixed, pre-defined route segment costs (e.g. the legal speed limit) with, wherever possible, richer time dependent costs. A user of, for example, a portable navigation device, can therefore continue route planning as before to virtually any destination in a country covered by the stored map database, but wherever possible, can also use traffic data with time-dependent costs, so that the effect of congestion with any time predictability can be accurately taken into account as an automatic, background process. It leaves the user to simply carry on driving, following the guidance offered by the navigation device, without needing to be concerned about congestion that exists now, and whether it will impact his journey.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: TOMTOM TRAFFIC B.V.Inventors: Thomas Bruce Watson Adam, Ian Malcolm Atkinson, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Patent number: 10045206Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for probe data management that facilitate anonymity between a device providing probe data and the probe data. Some embodiments relate to the removal of an association between a device identifier and an assigned probe identifier if no position information is received from the probe device for a predetermined time period, e.g. between 10 and 20 minutes. Other embodiments relate to periodic extraction of probe objects from a data store, such that a probe object is stored for at most a predetermined time period, e.g. 24 hours, and the use of position information from probe objects having the same probe identifier to create a historic journey trace.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: TOMTOM TRAFFIC B.V.Inventors: Simon Hania, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Publication number: 20180099059Abstract: A composition for cell tracking and molecular imaging containing perfluorocarbon (“PFC”) droplets having a liquid PFC core enclosed within a stabilizing shell and embedded with solid nanoparticles. The solid nanoparticles act as nucleating agents for reducing the activation pressure of the liquid PFC core required to transition the liquid PFC core to a gaseous microbubble thereby permitting the use of more body-temperature stable longer chain PFCs in the liquid PFC core. The improved stability of the PFC droplets with a reduced or limited increase in the activation pressure required due to the nucleating nanoparticles improves the efficacy of using the PFC droplets as phase-change contrast agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: John A. Hossack, Adam Joseph Dixon, Edwin Lu
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Patent number: 9895158Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a blood clot include a catheter to be inserted into a patient. The catheter is used to deliver low stability microbubbles toward the blood clot in the patient. A thrombolytic agent is delivered toward the blood clot, and ultrasonic energy is applied to the microbubbles to vibrate the microbubbles.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2015Date of Patent: February 20, 2018Assignee: University of Virginia Patent FoundationInventors: Adam Joseph Dixon, John Alexander Hossack
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Publication number: 20170360460Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a blood clot include a catheter to be inserted into a patient. The catheter is used to deliver low stability microbubbles toward the blood clot in the patient. A thrombolytic agent is delivered toward the blood clot, and ultrasonic energy is applied to the microbubbles to vibrate the microbubbles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: December 21, 2017Inventors: Adam Joseph Dixon, John Alexander Hossack
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Publication number: 20170281130Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a blood clot include a catheter to be inserted into a patient. The catheter is used to deliver low stability microbubbles toward the blood clot in the patient. A thrombolytic agent is delivered toward the blood clot, and ultrasonic energy is applied to the microbubbles to vibrate the microbubbles.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2015Publication date: October 5, 2017Inventors: Adam Joseph Dixon, John Alexander Hossack
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Publication number: 20160330615Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and systems for probe data management that facilitate anonymity between a device providing probe data and the probe data. Some embodiments relate to the removal of an association between a device identifier and an assigned probe identifier if no position information is received from the probe device for a predetermined time period, e.g. between 10 and 20 minutes. Other embodiments relate to periodic extraction of probe objects from a data store, such that a probe object is stored for at most a predetermined time period, e.g. 24 hours, and the use of position information from probe objects having the same probe identifier to create a historic journey trace.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2015Publication date: November 10, 2016Applicant: TomTom Traffic B.V.Inventors: Simon Hania, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Publication number: 20150272601Abstract: Systems and methods for treating a blood clot include a catheter to be inserted into a patient. The catheter is used to deliver low stability microbubbles toward the blood clot in the patient. A thrombolytic agent is delivered toward the blood clot, and ultrasonic energy is applied to the microbubbles to vibrate the microbubbles.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Adam Joseph Dixon, John Alexander Hossack
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Publication number: 20150192422Abstract: The present invention combines the geographical coverage possible with fixed, pre-defined route segment costs (e.g. the legal speed limit) with, wherever possible, richer time dependent costs. A user of, for example, a portable navigation device, can therefore continue route planning as before to virtually any destination in a country covered by the stored map database, but wherever possible, can also use traffic data with time-dependent costs, so that the effect of congestion with any time predictability can be accurately taken into account as an automatic, background process. It leaves the user to simply carry on driving, following the guidance offered by the navigation device, without needing to be concerned about congestion that exists now, and whether it will impact his journey.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2015Publication date: July 9, 2015Inventors: Thomas Bruce Watson Adam, Ian Malcolm Atkinson, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Publication number: 20140163849Abstract: The present invention combines the geographical coverage possible with fixed, pre-defined route segment costs (e.g. the legal speed limit) with, wherever possible, richer time dependent costs. A user of, for example, a portable navigation device, can therefore continue route planning as before to virtually any destination in a country covered by the stored map database, but wherever possible, can also use traffic data with time-dependent costs, so that the effect of congestion with any time predictability can be accurately taken into account as an automatic, background process. It leaves the user to simply carry on driving, following the guidance offered by the navigation device, without needing to be concerned about congestion that exists now, and whether it will impact his journey.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2013Publication date: June 12, 2014Applicant: TomTom International B.V.Inventors: Thomas Bruce Watson Adam, Ian Malcolm Atkinson, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Patent number: 8301171Abstract: A subscriber database, in at least one embodiment, stores RF level and timing advance information associated with all mobile telephones on a network. A location parameters database stores location data that associates different physical locations with RF levels/timing advance data that have been measured or inferred for those locations. The subscriber database is then interpreted for the purpose of establishing the location of a specific mobile telephone at a given time by matching the RF level/timing advance data for that specific mobile telephone against the location parameters database. This generates the location of the mobile telephone. The interpretation or querying of the subscriber database only occurs, however, when there is a request to establish the location of a specific mobile telephone, and not as an automated process applied to all mobile telephones on a network.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2006Date of Patent: October 30, 2012Assignee: Tomtom International B.V.Inventors: Owen Robert Dando, Ian Malcolm Atkinson, Thomas Bruce Watson Adam, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Publication number: 20100159957Abstract: A subscriber database, in at least one embodiment, stores RF level and timing advance information associated with all mobile telephones on a network. A location parameters database stores location data that associates different physical locations with RF levels/timing advance data that have been measured or inferred for those locations. The subscriber database is then interpreted for the purpose of establishing the location of a specific mobile telephone at a given time by matching the RF level/timing advance data for that specific mobile telephone against the location parameters database. This generates the location of the mobile telephone. The interpretation or querying of the subscriber database only occurs, however, when there is a request to establish the location of a specific mobile telephone, and not as an automated process applied to all mobile telephones on a network.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2006Publication date: June 24, 2010Inventors: Owen Robert Dando, Ian Malcolm Atkinson, Thomas Bruce Watson Adam, Michael Joseph Dixon
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Publication number: 20080045074Abstract: Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a retainer adapted to restrain a plurality of electrical conductors. The electrical conductors can be operably connectable to one or more circuit breakers. The retainer can be adapted to define a plurality of through-holes. Each of the plurality of through-holes can be adapted to nondestructively receive therethrough a conductor from the plurality of electrical conductors.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2007Publication date: February 21, 2008Inventors: Joseph Dixon, Roland Montalbo
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Patent number: 7174900Abstract: A method for fabricating a hair accessory includes forming a loop with a member having a first end, a middle, and a second end, wherein the loop is formed in the middle of the member. The method further includes attaching a plurality of hair strands including at least one of natural hair and synthetic hair to at least one support member, and spirally wrapping the at least one support member around at least one of the first end, the middle, and the second end of the member.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2004Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Inventors: Teresa Lane, Danilo Joseph Dixon
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Publication number: 20060114647Abstract: An apparatus and method for an electric load center including a basepan with a plurality of fastener devices for securing bus bars, neutral bars, and a variety of other electrical components to the basepan. Each fastener device comprises two independent structures, the first structure a self aligning support post and the second structure is an engaging lock. Both the self aligning support post and the engaging lock project away from the basepan first surface. The self aligning support post consists of a plurality of angled surfaces to facilitate assembly of the electrical component to the basepan first surface. The self aligning support post also contains an interior cavity that houses the engaging lock. The engaging lock has a first surface with an inclined angle with respect to the basepan and a second surface with a zero angle with respect to the basepan to facilitate retention of the bus bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2004Publication date: June 1, 2006Inventors: Joseph Dixon, Kristopher Robinson, Jeffrey Hudgins