Patents by Inventor Stephen Dodd
Stephen Dodd 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: 20240182455Abstract: Compounds, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, useful as inhibitors of sodium channels are provided. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts and methods of using the compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of various disorders, including pain.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2023Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: Elizabeth Mary Beck, Steven John Durrant, Sarah Skerratt, Robert Pullin, Gorka Etxebarria Jardi, David Matthew Shaw, Nadia M. Ahmad, Christopher Wray, Anisa Nizarali Virani, Kiri North, James Dodd, Michael Edward O'Donnell, Bhairavi Galan, Ronald Marcellus Knegtel, Ewa Iwona Chudyk, Joanne Louise Pinder, Stephen Andrew Thomson, Lidio Marx Carvalho Meireles, Dean Stamos, Yvonne Schmidt, Joseph Pontillo, Sara S. Hadida Ruah, Timothy Donald Neubert, Dennis James Hurley, Jinglan Zhou
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Publication number: 20240099375Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a heating member that can be formed of a heating element conformed to a heater substrate configured as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods of forming an aerosol delivery device, which can include providing a shell, providing a heating member formed of a heating element conformed to a substrate, configuring the heating member as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size, and inserting the heating member within the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Applicant: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INC.Inventors: Karen V. Taluskie, Stephen Benson Sears, Eric Taylor Hunt, William Robert Collett, Yi-ping Chang, Kristen Dodds Weight, Jeffrey A. Karg, Graham P. Eacock, Matthew C. Ebbs, Robert C. Uschold, Walker MacLaughlin Sloan, III
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Publication number: 20240065330Abstract: The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a heating member that can be formed of a heating element conformed to a heater substrate configured as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size. In some embodiments, the disclosure provides methods of forming an aerosol delivery device, which can include providing a shell, providing a heating member formed of a heating element conformed to a substrate, configuring the heating member as a truncated cone (or similar shape) having a first end of a first size and a second end of greater size, and inserting the heating member within the shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: RAI STRATEGIC HOLDINGS, INCInventors: Karen V. Taluskie, Stephen Benson Sears, Eric Taylor Hunt, William Robert Collett, Yi-ping Chang, Kristen Dodds Weight, Jeffrey A. Karg, Graham P. Eacock, Matthew C. Ebbs, Robert C. Uschold, Walker MacLaughlin Sloan, III
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Publication number: 20230405250Abstract: A method includes generating, by a sensor, physiological data associated with a user during a sleep session. The method also includes processing, by an electronic device including one or more processors, the generated physiological data to distinguish between on-therapy data and off-therapy data. The on-therapy data is the generated physiological data while a respiratory therapy system is coupled to the user and supplies pressurized air to an airway of the user. The off-therapy data is the generated physiological data while the respiratory therapy system is not supplying pressurized air to the airway of the user. The method also includes determining, by the electronic device, a sleep measure based at least in part on the off-therapy data.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Inventors: Stephen Dodd, Redmond Shouldice, Michael John Costello, Graeme Alexander Lyon
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Publication number: 20230248927Abstract: A method includes data associated with a sleep session of a user, including respiration data associated with the user during at least a portion of the sleep session and audio data reproducible as one or more sounds during at least a portion of the sleep session. The method also includes determining a respiration signal associated with the user during the sleep session based, at least in part, on at least a portion of the data. The method also includes identifying an event experienced by the user during the sleep session based, at least in part on, at least a portion of the data. The method also includes causing to be communicated to the user via a user device a graphical representation of a portion of the respiration signal and an event indication that aids in identifying the identified event within the graphical representation of the portion of the respiration signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Stephen Dodd, Roxana Tiron, Michael John Costello, Kieran Conway
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Publication number: 20230190140Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide monitoring of coughing and/or a sleep disordered breathing state of a person. One or more sensors may be configured for non-contact active and/or passive sensing. The processor(s) may extract respiratory effort signal(s) from one or more motion signals generated by active non-contact sensing with the sensor(s). The processor(s) may extract one or more energy band signals from an acoustic audio signal generated by passive non-contact sensing with the sensor(s). The processor(s) may assess the energy band signal(s) and/or the respiratory efforts signal(s) to generate intensity signal(s) representing sleep disorder breathing modulation. The processor(s) may classify feature(s) derived from the one or more intensity signals to generate measure(s) of coughing and/or sleep disordered breathing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: ResMed Sensor Technologies LimitedInventors: Roxana TIRON, Graeme Alexander LYON, Redmond SHOULDICE, Stephen MCMAHON, Alberto ZAFFARONI, Stephen DODD
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Publication number: 20230148952Abstract: A method includes receiving first data associated with a first sleep session of a user. The method also includes determining a first set of sleep-related parameters associated with the first sleep session of the user based at least in part on the first data. The method also includes receiving second data associated with a second sleep session of the user. The method also includes determining a second set of sleep-related parameters associated with the second sleep session of the user based at least in part on the second data. The method also includes receiving third data associated with a variable condition. The method also includes causing one or more indications associated with the variable condition and the first sleep session, the second sleep session, or both to be communicated to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Inventors: Christopher Andrew Wakeley Gill, Alvin Lim Zhi Guang, Sarah Terese McGann, Timothy Mark Stephenson, Matthew James Shaw, Michael Wren, Redmond Shouldice, Kieran Conway, Michael John Costello, Stephen Dodd, Cesar Lopes, Gaetano Caldarola
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Publication number: 20230099622Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed. The devices, systems, and methods detect one or more parameters with respect to movement of a user, cardiac activity of the user, audio associated with the user, or a combination thereof during a sleep session of the user; process the one or more parameters to determine a sleep status of the user, the sleep status being at least one of awake, asleep, or a sleep stage; and calculate an apnea-hypopnea index for the user during the sleep session based, at least in part, on the sleep status.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2021Publication date: March 30, 2023Inventors: Niall Fox, Anna Rice, Stephen McMahon, Graeme Lyon, Redmond Shouldice, Stephen Dodd
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Patent number: 11324840Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2019Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignees: THE USA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPT. OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, THE USA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCEInventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John Moreland
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Publication number: 20220007965Abstract: Methods and apparatus provide monitoring of a sleep disordered breathing state of a person such as for screening. One or more sensors may be configured for non-contact active and/or passive sensing. The processor(s) (7304, 7006) may extract respiratory effort signal(s) from one or more motion signals generated by active non-contact sensing with the sensor(s). The processor(s) may extract one or more energy band signals from an acoustic audio signal generated by passive non-contact sensing with the sensor(s). The processor(s) may assess the energy band signal(s) and/or the respiratory efforts signal(s) to generate intensity signal(s) representing sleep disorder breathing modulation. The processor(s) may classify feature(s) derived from the one or more intensity signals to generate measure(s) of sleep disordered breathing. The processor may generate a sleep disordered breathing indicator based on the measure(s) of sleep disordered breathing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2019Publication date: January 13, 2022Applicant: RESMED SENSOR TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Roxana TIRON, Graeme LYON, Redmond SHOULDICE, Stephen MCMAHON, Alberto ZAFFARONI, Stephen DODD
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Publication number: 20190262478Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2019Publication date: August 29, 2019Inventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John Moreland
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Patent number: 10393831Abstract: A novel MRI-compatible amplifier design uses positive feedback from a low-noise Field-Effect Transistor to amplify the signal current within a resonant NMR coil. The amplified signal current in this low-power circuit produces RF flux can be coupled out to receiving loops positioned externally without significant loss in sensitivity. In other aspects, the amplifier may be remotely powered by external resonant loops, a small non-magnetic battery, or optical power, such that the NMR coil can be positioned during highly invasive procedures such as for surgical resection of tumors in deep-lying tissues to develop high-resolution images.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2015Date of Patent: August 27, 2019Assignee: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human ServicesInventors: Joseph A. Murphy-Boesch, Stephen Dodd, Chunqi Qian, Alan Koretsky
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Patent number: 10350312Abstract: The present invention relates to magnetic contrast structures for magnetic resonance imaging, and methods of their use. The contrast structures include magnetic materials arranged as a pair of disk-shaped magnetic components with a space between a circular surface of each disk shape, or a tubular magnetic structure, a substantially cylindrical magnetic structure, a substantially spherical shell-formed magnetic structure, or a substantially ellipsoidal shell-formed structure, each defining a hollow region therein. The space and/or hollow region in the contrast structure creates a spatially extended region contained within a near-field region of the contrast structure over which an applied magnetic field results in a homogeneous field, such that nuclear magnetic moments of a second material when arranged within the spatially extended region precess at a characteristic Larmor frequency, whereby the contrast structure is adapted to emit a characteristic magnetic resonance signal of the magnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2015Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignees: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, The United States of America, as represented by the Sectretary of CommerceInventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John Moreland
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Patent number: 10220103Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: March 5, 2019Assignees: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of CommerceInventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John Moreland
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Patent number: 10215825Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents. The invention also relates to a magnetic resonance sensor that alters it shape in response to a condition of an environment such that the condition may be detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignees: The United States of America, as Represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of CommerceInventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John M Moreland
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Patent number: 10188755Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignees: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services, The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of CommerceInventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John Moreland
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Publication number: 20180292478Abstract: An imaging apparatus for imaging a sample includes a magnetic apparatus that defines a sample volume that is large enough to accommodate the sample to be imaged, and one or more magnetically manipulatable materials within the sample. The magnetic apparatus includes a magnet that is configured to create a magnetic field having a magnitude B in the sample Each magnetically manipulatable material is a material that exhibits a transition between a first magnetic state and a second magnetic state in response to a change in a property associated with the sample while the magnetic field having the magnitude B is maintained in the sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2018Publication date: October 11, 2018Inventors: Mladen Barbic, Stephen Dodd, Herman Douglas Morris, Alan Koretsky
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Publication number: 20170067974Abstract: A novel MRI-compatible amplifier design uses positive feedback from a low-noise Field-Effect Transistor to amplify the signal current within a resonant NMR coil. The amplified signal current in this low-power circuit produces RF flux can be coupled out to receiving loops positioned externally without significant loss in sensitivity. In other aspects, the amplifier may be remotely powered by external resonant loops, a small non-magnetic battery, or optical power, such that the NMR coil can be positioned during highly invasive procedures such as for surgical resection of tumors in deep-lying tissues to develop high-resolution images.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Joseph A. Murphy-Boesch, Stephen Dodd, Chunqi Qian, Alan Koretsky
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Publication number: 20150377997Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents. The invention also relates to a magnetic resonance sensor that alters it shape in response to a condition of an environment such that the condition may be detected.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2015Publication date: December 31, 2015Inventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John M. Moreland
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Publication number: 20150369895Abstract: The present invention relates to a magnetic resonance structure with a cavity or a reserved space that provides contrast and the additional ability to frequency-shift the spectral signature of the NMR-susceptible nuclei such as water protons by a discrete and controllable characteristic frequency shift that is unique to each MRS design. The invention also relates to nearly uniform solid magnetic resonance T2* contrast agents that have a significantly higher magnetic moment compared to similarly-sized existing MRI contrast agents.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Gary Zabow, Stephen Dodd, Alan Koretsky, John Moreland