Patents by Inventor Paul Gaffney

Paul Gaffney 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: 20240065722
    Abstract: A method for coupling a first medical device component to a second medical device component comprising altering the first medical device component from a natural state to an altered state, by reducing a cross-sectional dimension of the first medical device, fitting a first portion of the first medical device component in the altered state into a first opening of the second medical device component, wherein the first medical device component includes second portions not within the first opening of the second medical device component, and allowing the second portions of the first medical device component to revert back to the natural state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian GAFFNEY, Paul SMITH, James J. SCUTTI, Rachel Marie WILLIAMS
  • Patent number: 11671380
    Abstract: In a virtual computing environment, a virtual computing services deployment assigns a user to a computing class based on the expected resources that user will consume. A method includes defining computing classes and provisioning each user according to their assigned computing class. A portion of available resources are instantiated as a computing environment for the user based on the assigned computing class.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: VMware, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20230158583
    Abstract: A burr includes a shaft portion and a milling portion. Cutters are separated by main flutes having a main flute depth. The cutters extend helically at a first twist angle. Each cutter has a cutting edge between a rake face and a relief face. The rake face forms a rake angle, and the relief face forms a relief angle. Chip breakers in each relief face have a chip breaker depth. At the largest diameter of the milling portion, the chip breaker depth is between 5 and 25 percent of the main flute depth, the rake angle is between ?3 degrees and +14 degrees, the relief angle is between 10 degrees and 20 degrees, the first twist angle is greater than 25 degrees, and the number of main flutes is less than 15.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Robertson, Paul Gaffney, John Hetherton
  • Publication number: 20210136005
    Abstract: A business method associates provisioning costs with a usage history indicative of user computing demand, and coalesces the cost data to identify an appropriate provisioning level balancing the provisioning cost and the usage demand cost. Conventional computing environments suffer from the shortcoming of being prone to overprovisioning or underprovisioning a user. Such misprovisioning is inefficient because it denotes underutilized computing resources or ineffective and/or disgruntled users. Costs increase either due to the excessive hardware bestowed on the overprovisioned user, or in support costs addressing the underprovisioned user. Configurations herein substantially overcome such shortcomings by defining a policy indicative of overprovisioning and underprovisioning indicators (misprovisioning flags), and defining rules to specify a triggering event indicating the need to reassess the provisioning of a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2021
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Eric Y. Pulier, Clinton B. Battersby, Paul Gaffney
  • Patent number: 10568784
    Abstract: A plastic sheath dimensioned to fit securely and snugly around an arm or leg cast or bandage of a wearer includes a flexible elastic band at an open first end constructed with at least one expandable trough encircling the sheath, with a stretchable band looped over the elastic band and fitted within the trough at said first end, and with the stretchable band being rollable forwardly from the opened first end of the sheath towards an opposite sealed second end from trough to trough when it is desired to remove the sheath from being worn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Inventor: Paul Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20160136000
    Abstract: A plastic sheath dimensioned to fit securely and snugly around an arm or leg cast or bandage of a wearer includes a flexible elastic band at an open first end constructed with at least one expandable trough encircling the sheath, with a stretchable band looped over the elastic band and fitted within the trough at said first end, and with the stretchable band being rollable forwardly from the opened first end of the sheath towards an opposite sealed second end from trough to trough when it is desired to remove the sheath from being worn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventor: Paul Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20100305485
    Abstract: A plastic sheath dimensioned to fit securely and snugly around an arm or leg cast or bandage of a wearer includes a flexible elastic band at an open end constructed with at least one expandable trough encircling the sheath, with a rubberized band looped within the trough, and with the rubberized band being rollable forwardly from the open end of the sheath towards an opposite sealed second end from trough to trough when it is desired to remove the sheath from being worn.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventor: Paul Gaffney
  • Patent number: D703132
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Delta-Q Technologies Corp.
    Inventors: Guy Timothy Pearson, Jeff Douglas Everett, Boguslaw Wozniczka, David Paul Gaffney, Alex Jeffrey Feldman, Alexander John Stone, Terry James Brown