Patents by Inventor Kevin Walsh

Kevin Walsh 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).

  • Patent number: 11961367
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device is described. The electronic gaming device includes a display device including a first display area and a second display area and at least one processor configured to execute instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to determine a first game outcome and cause display of a first game outcome amount in the first display area. The instructions also cause the at least one processor to cause display of the first game outcome amount in the second display area, the second display area including a plurality of past game outcome amounts. The instructions further cause the at least one processor to determine a second game outcome, provide a second game outcome amount, and, based upon the second game outcome including a trigger event, provide a past game outcome amount of the plurality of past game outcome amounts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: T. Grant Bolling, Jr., Kevin Walsh
  • Publication number: 20240105015
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device includes a display device and a game controller in communication with the display device. The game controller includes a processor and a memory storing instructions, which when executed by the processor, cause the game controller to: cause display of a base game including a plurality of reels; control the plurality of reels to display a combination of symbols corresponding to a primary game outcome; determine that the primary game outcome satisfies a bonus game condition and an enhancement condition to trigger a bonus game having at least one enhanced characteristic; identify outcomes for one or more free spins of the bonus game having the at least one enhanced characteristic; randomly select an outcome for each free spin from the identified outcomes; and initiate the bonus reel game that includes display of the randomly selected outcome for each of the one or more free spins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, Jeffrey Uss, Daniel Marston, David Marsh, Allon Englman
  • Patent number: 11938454
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed towards improved systems and methods for large-scale production of nanoparticles used for delivery of therapeutic material. The apparatus can be used to manufacture a wide array of nanoparticles containing therapeutic material including, but not limited to, lipid nanoparticles and polymer nanoparticles. In certain embodiments, continuous flow operation and parallelization of microfluidic mixers contribute to increased nanoparticle production volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The University of British Columbia
    Inventors: Euan Ramsay, Robert James Taylor, Timothy Leaver, Andre Wild, Kevin Ou, Colin Walsh
  • Patent number: 11931073
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to medical imaging devices, such as a real-time visualization and diagnostic and/or therapeutic tool assembly, which may include an ergonomic handle and catheter configured for dual-function use during a medical procedure. By way of non-limiting example, the medical device may be configured for use with a probe, such as one disposed at the distal end of the catheter, and delivered within a bronchoscope working channel to provide real-time visualization (e.g., radial ultrasound imaging) and manipulation (e.g., diagnostic biopsy sampling) of pulmonary nodules in peripheral regions of the lung. As disclosed herein, in various embodiments, one or more components of the medical imaging device may be configured to position a catheter with a first tool/instrument (e.g., a biopsy needle) within a peripheral region of the lung while maintaining real-time visualization of the pulmonary nodule (e.g., with a second tool/instrument, such as a radial ultrasound probe).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, Jeremy DiTullio, Austin G. Johnson
  • Publication number: 20240087421
    Abstract: An electronic gaming system includes a display device and a game controller in communication with the display device. The game controller includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the game controller to: determine that a bonus game including display of pick icons is triggered based on a game outcome; activate a metamorphic for the bonus game based on the game outcome, the activated metamorphic being associated with a pick feature enhancement for the bonus game; cause display of a visual indication of the activated metamorphic; initiate a play of the bonus game and apply the pick feature enhancement associated with the activated metamorphic thereto; receive a selection of one of the pick icons during the play of the bonus game; and cause display of an award associated with the selected pick icon and determined based on the applied pick feature enhancement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, Daniel Marston, Jeffrey Uss
  • Publication number: 20230414386
    Abstract: Medical devices and method for making and using the same are disclosed. An example medical device may include implantable medical device for use along the biliary and/or pancreatic tract. The implantable medical device may include a tubular member having a first end configured to be disposed within the duodenum of a patient and a second end configured to be disposed adjacent to a pancreatic duct and/or bile duct. The tubular member may have a body including one or more wire filaments that are woven together. The tubular member may also have an outer surface with a longitudinal channel formed therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2023
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, John Petricca
  • Publication number: 20230380866
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices. In particular, the present disclosure relates to an assembly with an adjustable ultrasound port and flush port for lateral and axial positioning of a radial ultrasound probe within a patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, Douglas W. Garrity
  • Publication number: 20230343176
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating a persistent bonus game jackpot includes providing a persistent bonus game jackpot including an amount that defines a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, storing, within a memory, a plurality of paytables, each paytable of the plurality of paytables associated with a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot and including a probability of awarding the persistent bonus game jackpot at the associated state, determining a current state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, dynamically selecting, based upon the determined current state, a paytable from the plurality of paytables stored in the memory, evaluating a bingo card provided in association with the persistent bonus game jackpot against the dynamically selected paytable and a ball call, and determining, in response to the evaluating, to credit the amount of the persistent bonus game jackpot to a player credit balance associated with the evaluated bingo card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Eldon Ideus, II, Michael Casey, Kevin Walsh
  • Patent number: 11779480
    Abstract: Medical devices and method for making and using the same are disclosed. An example medical device may include implantable medical device for use along the biliary and/or pancreatic tract. The implantable medical device may include a tubular member having a first end configured to be disposed within the duodenum of a patient and a second end configured to be disposed adjacent to a pancreatic duct and/or bile duct. The tubular member may have a body including one or more wire filaments that are woven together. The tubular member may also have an outer surface with a longitudinal channel formed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, John Petricca
  • Patent number: 11776358
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating a persistent bonus game jackpot includes providing a persistent bonus game jackpot including an amount that defines a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, storing, within a memory, a plurality of paytables, each paytable of the plurality of paytables associated with a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot and including a probability of awarding the persistent bonus game jackpot at the associated state, determining a current state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, dynamically selecting, based upon the determined current state, a paytable from the plurality of paytables stored in the memory, evaluating a bingo card provided in association with the persistent bonus game jackpot against the dynamically selected paytable and a ball call, and determining, in response to the evaluating, to credit the amount of the persistent bonus game jackpot to a player credit balance associated with the evaluated bingo card.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eldon Ideus, II, Michael Casey, Kevin Walsh
  • Publication number: 20230274613
    Abstract: A system and method for evaluating a persistent bonus game jackpot includes providing a persistent bonus game jackpot including an amount that defines a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, storing, within a memory, a plurality of paytables, each paytable of the plurality of paytables associated with a state of the persistent bonus game jackpot and including a probability of awarding the persistent bonus game jackpot at the associated state, determining a current state of the persistent bonus game jackpot, dynamically selecting, based upon the determined current state, a paytable from the plurality of paytables stored in the memory, evaluating a bingo card provided in association with the persistent bonus game jackpot against the dynamically selected paytable and a ball call, and determining, in response to the evaluating, to credit the amount of the persistent bonus game jackpot to a player credit balance associated with the evaluated bingo card.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Eldon Ideus, II, Michael Casey, Kevin Walsh
  • Publication number: 20230211558
    Abstract: Systems and methods for additive manufacturing. In some examples, a system includes a frame defining an interior volume and an overhead robotic arm suspended from a gantry on a ceiling of the frame. The system includes manufacturing subsystems located within the interior volume of the frame. The system includes a control system configured for controlling the overhead robotic arm for parts movement among additive manufacturing processes using the manufacturing subsystems. The manufacturing subsystems can include one or more of: a microassembly station, an aerosol jetting print station, an intense pulsed light (IPL) photonic sintering station, a fiber weaving station, and a 3D printing station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: University of Louisville Research Foundation, Inc.
    Inventors: Andriy Sherehiy, Dan O. Popa, Danming Wei, Andrew Scott Nimon, Moath Hasan Alqatamin, Alireza Tofangchi, Keng Hsu, Kevin Walsh, Cindy Harnett, Thad Druffel, Dilan Ratnayake, Alexander Curry, Sushmita Challa, Amir Hossein Ghahremani, Doug Jackson, Ruoshi Zhang, Antoine Blasiak, M. Hossein Saadatzi, Garrett McGrady
  • Patent number: 11668255
    Abstract: An engine braking system includes engine braking actuators for adjusting exhaust valve timings to engine braking timings in a cylinder-number braking mode. The system further includes an engine braking controller coupled to a control switch that produces a request indicating a requested cylinder-number braking mode. The engine braking controller is structured to transition exhaust valves to the engine braking timings, determine a control term to adjust intake air pressure for varying a braking power of the engine, and to adjust geometry of an exhaust turbine based on the control term. An adjusted speed of a compressor rotated by the exhaust turbine provides a change to intake air pressure that adjusts the braking power of the engine. Different levels of braking power are provided within different cylinder-number braking modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Rajesh Narayanan Nair, Samuel Were, James Harris Mutti, Behnaz Ensan, James Vernon Dornberger, II, Rodney L. Menold, Timothy David Schwartz, Kevin Walsh
  • Publication number: 20230154286
    Abstract: A gaming device is provided. The gaming device is configured to determine that at least a threshold number of scatter symbols is displayed in respective slot positions of a plurality of reels, determine a number of free spin credits for a free spin feature, for each of the plurality of reels, cause the game display to increment a collection indicator corresponding to each reel by a number of scatter symbols displayed in the corresponding reel, generate at least one collectible symbols in one of the slot position, cause the game display to increment the collection indicator for the reels in which the collection symbols are displayed, determine that one of the collection indicators has reached a threshold number of collectible symbols, and cause the game display to display a reel replacement feature in the reel corresponding to the one of the collection indicators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Nathan Warms, Jennifer Mizzi, Rogelio Decasa, JR., Hanna Sanborn, Zachary Smith, Erick Ching, Kevin Walsh
  • Publication number: 20220370219
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for delivering targeted therapy to tissue at a treatment site with the use of a stent. The targeted therapy may include a functional and/or therapeutic agent separate from the stent, or a component of a functional and/or therapeutic agent separate from the stent and reactive with another component of a functional and/or therapeutic agent on the stent. The agent or component of an agent may be delivered with the stent, and/or before delivery of the stent, and/or after the stent has been delivered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, Sean P. Fleury, David Callaghan, Laura Emily Richards, John Thomas Favreau, James J. Scutti
  • Publication number: 20220313417
    Abstract: A pancreatic stent includes a main body convertible between a compressed configuration for delivery and an expanded configuration once deployed, the main body including an inner surface defining a stent lumen and an outer surface. A plurality of drainage features are formed within the outer surface of the main body, the plurality of drainage features permitting placement of the pancreatic stent within a patient's pancreas without blocking side branches of the pancreas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Walsh, Gary Trendel, Paul Mannion
  • Publication number: 20220292927
    Abstract: An electronic gaming device is described. The electronic gaming device includes a display device including a first display area and a second display area and at least one processor configured to execute instructions. The instructions, when executed, cause the at least one processor to determine a first game outcome and cause display of a first game outcome amount in the first display area. The instructions also cause the at least one processor to cause display of the first game outcome amount in the second display area, the second display area including a plurality of past game outcome amounts. The instructions further cause the at least one processor to determine a second game outcome, provide a second game outcome amount, and, based upon the second game outcome including a trigger event, provide a past game outcome amount of the plurality of past game outcome amounts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: T. Grant BOLLING, JR., Kevin WALSH
  • Publication number: 20220218323
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to a closure system for use in surgical procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Martin, Damien Ryan, Peter Grant, Michael Dunning, Gerard Brett, Kevin Walsh, Desmond John Regan
  • Patent number: D974561
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Walsh
  • Patent number: D1015536
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Walsh