Patents by Inventor Joseph W. Baker
Joseph W. Baker 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: 12005263Abstract: An extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) having a high voltage therapy module is configured to control a high voltage charging circuit to charge a capacitor to a pacing voltage amplitude to deliver charge balanced pacing pulses. The capacitor is chargeable to a shock voltage amplitude that is greater than the pacing voltage amplitude. The ICD is configured to enable switching circuitry of the high voltage therapy module to discharge the capacitor to deliver a first pulse having a first polarity and a leading voltage amplitude corresponding to the pacing voltage amplitude for pacing the patient's heart via a pacing electrode vector selected from extra-cardiovascular electrodes. The high voltage therapy module delivers a second pulse after the first pulse. The second pulse has a second polarity opposite the first polarity and balances the electrical charge delivered during the first pulse.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2022Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Yanina Grinberg, Paul D. Baker, Lonny V. Cabelka, Craig W. Dorma, Timothy A. Ebeling, Michael W. Heinks, James Vander Heyden, Joseph Ippolito, Joel R. Lauer, Robert T. Sawchuk, Brian W. Schousek
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Publication number: 20240175204Abstract: A system comprising a pulper configured to (i) accept surfactant, a liquid and fiber stock and (ii) generate a foam that suspends the fiber stock, wherein the foam has a half-life; a headbox configured to receive the foam-suspended fiber stock from the pulper and displace the foam-suspended fiber stock onto a forming wire, wherein a time it takes the foam-suspended fiber stock to move from the pulper to the headbox is less than the half-life; and a foam return device that removes at least some of the foam from the forming wire and returns the at least some of the foam to the pulper.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Marvin E. Swails, Vicky S. Polashock, Michael Payne, Joseph K. Baker, Charles W. Colman
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Publication number: 20240115418Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for removing heat from subcutaneously disposed lipid-rich cells are disclosed. In selected embodiments, suction and/or heat removal sources are coupled to an applicator. The applicator includes a flexible portion and a rigid portion. The rigid portion includes a thermally conductive plate and a frame coupling the thermally conductive plate and the flexible portion. An interior cavity of the applicator is in fluid communication with the suction source, and the frame maintains contiguous engagement between the heat removal source and the thermally conductive plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Mark William Baker, Joseph Coakley, Paul William Martens, Albert L. Ollerdessen, William Patrick Pennybacker, Jesse N. Rosen, Peter Yee, John W. Allison
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Patent number: 11939726Abstract: A multi-layered web is disclosed that is resilient and/or elastic in the Z-direction. Thus, when the web is compressed, the web assumes a compacted state and then expands to an expanded state when the compressive forces are removed. In one embodiment, the multi-layered web includes a middle layer made from a resilient blend of fibers positioned inbetween two outer layers. The middle layer, for instance, can contain elastomeric fibers, three-dimensional fibers, and/or debonded fibers.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: David A. Lilley, Donald E. Waldroup, Charles W. Colman, Joseph K. Baker, Marvin E. Swails, Michael Payne, Vicky S. Polashock
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Patent number: 11932988Abstract: A system comprising a pulper configured to (i) accept surfactant, a liquid and fiber stock and (ii) generate a foam that suspends the fiber stock, wherein the foam has a half-life; a headbox configured to receive the foam-suspended fiber stock from the pulper and displace the foam-suspended fiber stock onto a forming wire, wherein a time it takes the foam-suspended fiber stock to move from the pulper to the headbox is less than the half-life; and a foam return device that removes at least some of the foam from the forming wire and returns the at least some of the foam to the pulper.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.Inventors: Marvin E. E. Swails, Vicky S. Polashock, Michael Payne, Joseph K. Baker, Charles W. Colman
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Patent number: 5205323Abstract: A valve including a valve member having two different stable positions, and a valve operator for shifting the valve member between its two stable positions and holding the valve member in those positions. The valve operator includes a shuttle moveable between two extreme positions corresponding to the two stable positions, respectively, of the valve member. A first spring urges the shuttle toward one of its extreme positions and a second spring, stronger than the first spring, urges the shuttle toward the other of its extreme positions, these movements of the shuttle being transmitted to the valve member. A device, such as an electric solenoid, selectively renders the second spring ineffective with respect to the shuttle, so that when the second spring is ineffective the first spring causes the valve member to assume one of its stable positions, and when the second spring is not ineffective, the second spring causes the valve member to assume the other of its stable positions.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1992Date of Patent: April 27, 1993Assignee: Automatic Switch CompanyInventor: Joseph W. Baker
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Patent number: 5199462Abstract: A valve having a valve body formed with a chamber with which a plurality of ports in the valve body communicate. At least one of the ports is adapted for connection to a source of pressurized fluid. A rocker valve member is pivotally mounted within the chamber and swings between two extreme positions in which it closes and opens at least one of the ports. A diaphragm within the chamber extends from the periphery of the rocker valve member and the margin of the diaphragm is secured in the valve body. All the ports in the valve body face one side of the diaphragm. An operator, for swinging the rocker valve member between its extreme positions, engages the rocker valve member on the side of the diaphragm opposite the side facing the ports, so that the diaphragm serves to isolate the ports from the operator.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 1992Date of Patent: April 6, 1993Assignee: Automatic Switch CompanyInventor: Joseph W. Baker
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Patent number: 4451486Abstract: An improved animal feed supplement having reduced corrosion characteristics is obtained by forming an aqueous solution containing 87-90 percent by weight 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio)-butanoic acid and partially neutralizing the solution to a pH of 0.9-1.2.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 1982Date of Patent: May 29, 1984Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Joseph W. Baker, Dennis L. Mansfield, David J. Weinkauff
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Patent number: 4353924Abstract: An improved animal feed supplement having reduced corrosion characteristics is obtained by forming an aqueous solution containing 87-90 percent by weight 2-hydroxy-4-(methylthio)-butanoic acid and partially neutralizing the solution to a pH of 0.9-1.2.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 1979Date of Patent: October 12, 1982Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Joseph W. Baker, Dennis L. Mansfield, David J. Weinkauff
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Patent number: 4341241Abstract: A position indicating valve is disclosed and includes a housing, a valve port through the housing, and a valve member mounted on the housing for movement toward and away from the valve port. An electrically conductive valve seat is disposed about the valve port, and an electrically conductive valve seal is disposed on the valve member for engagement with the valve seat. The electrically conductive valve seal and valve seat define engageable electrical contact means and circuit means is coupled thereto, whereby the circuit means is closed when the valve seat and valve seal are in contact with each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1980Date of Patent: July 27, 1982Assignee: Brunswick CorporationInventor: Joseph W. Baker
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Patent number: 4178353Abstract: Residual PCl.sub.3 in POCl.sub.3 which has been prepared by the oxidation of PCl.sub.3 in the presence of air or oxygen-enriched air is converted to POCl.sub.3 by contacting the POCl.sub.3 /PCl.sub.3 mixture with ozone or an ozone-enriched gas.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 1975Date of Patent: December 11, 1979Assignee: Monsanto CompanyInventors: Joseph W. Baker, Dario R. Cova, James E. White