Patents by Inventor Thomas Jenkins
Thomas Jenkins 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: 9195720Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from a user device, data indicating a user performed a user input gesture combining a first display object in a plurality of display objects with a second display object in the plurality of display objects; identifying attributes that are associated with both the first display object and the second display object; and performing a search based on the attributes.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Henrique Dias Penha, Mark Brophy, Mathew Inwood, Mikkel Crone Koser, Thomas Jenkins, Adam Skory, Bjorn E. Bringert, Hugo B. Barra, Andrew Anderson Stewart, Robert W. Hamilton
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Patent number: 9155492Abstract: An illuminating wire medical device may include an elongate flexible housing and an illuminating fiber and a core wire extending through at least part of the housing, the core wire providing desired pushability and torquability. The illuminating device may further include a connector assembly cooperating with the illuminating fiber to accommodate changes in length, to absorb forces applied during use of the device and to channel errant light away from the illuminating fibers of the device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Jenkins, Tom Thanh Vo, Eric Goldfarb, Scott J. Baron
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Patent number: 9078783Abstract: A method is disclosed for clearing effusion from an ear. The method may include applying liquid to an ear canal, which is proximal to a perforated tympanic membrane, which is proximal to a middle ear containing effusion, applying an ear device to seal and pressurize the liquid inside the ear canal, the ear device regulating the amount of pressure inside the ear canal, and inducing a Eustachian tube, which is distal to the middle ear, to open, which causes the fluid to displace the effusion into the Eustachian tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2009Date of Patent: July 14, 2015Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: John H. Morriss, Greg Liu, Rohit Girotra, Tom Thanh Vo, Richard Roy Newhauser, Jr., Thomas Jenkins, Joshua Makower
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Patent number: 8979888Abstract: Devices and methods for locating sinus ostia and positioning a guide wire within the sinus ostia. The subject devices include a shaft having a distal end, a proximal end, a curved region located between the distal and proximal ends, and an interior channel, an extensible and retractable guide wire movably mounted within the interior channel and a probe tip joined to the guide wire. Certain devices further include expandable portions for engaging and treating body anatomy.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2009Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: John H. Morriss, Joshua Makower, Carlos F. Fernandez, Eric Goldfarb, Thomas Jenkins
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Patent number: 8880461Abstract: A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Open Text S.A.Inventors: Paul Thomas Jenkins, Daniel Wray Barkley, Robert W. Boender, Adam Murray Howatson, Willard Carter Morton, Jr., Cheryl Lynne McKinnon, Florian Müller, Martin Sumner-Smith, Matthew David George Timmermans
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Patent number: 8840602Abstract: A system and method for use in iontophoretic anesthesia of a tympanic membrane are disclosed. The system generally includes an earplug and an electrode device. The earplug includes at least one sealing member for sealing the earplug in an ear canal. The sealing member includes microholes which vent fluid above a certain pressure threshold. A headset may connect the earplug to a second earplug. The method involves using the system on a human or animal subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2009Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: John H. Morriss, Greg Liu, Rohit Girotra, Bernard H. Andreas, Scott J. Baron, Paul G. Hayter, Thomas Jenkins, Richard R. Newhauser, Jr., Jeffrey A. Walker
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Publication number: 20140280049Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for receiving, from a user device, data indicating a user performed a user input gesture combining a first display object in a plurality of display objects with a second display object in the plurality of display objects; identifying attributes that are associated with both the first display object and the second display object; and performing a search based on the attributes.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2013Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventors: Henrique Dias Penha, Mark Brophy, Mathew Inwood, Mikkel Crone Koser, Thomas Jenkins, Adam Skory, Bjorn E. Bringert, Hugo B. Barra, Andrew Anderson Stewart, Robert W. Hamilton
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Patent number: 8782070Abstract: Information is stored in a data pattern. The data pattern includes an identity table, a version table that includes at least one reference to the identity table, and an audit table that includes at least one reference to the version table. The identity table stores information identifying the information. The version table stores version information identifying one or more versions of the information identified in the identity table. The audit table stores audit information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information was modified. The audit table may also store effectiveness information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information is in effect.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Laurence W. Becker, Mark Kleidon, Brent Thomas Jenkins
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Publication number: 20140156704Abstract: Example techniques and systems may obtain one or more search types associated with a geographic location of a computing device. In one example, a technique may include determining, by a mobile computing device, a geographic location of the mobile computing device and obtaining one or more search types associated with the geographic location. Responsive to obtaining the one or more search types, the technique may also include outputting, by the mobile computing device and for display, a graphical user interface comprising at least an indication of the one or more search types associated with the geographic location.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Applicant: Google Inc.Inventor: Thomas Jenkins
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Publication number: 20140034303Abstract: Wellbore rotational indexing devices, methods and systems for indexing a wellbore device downhole. The rotational indexing device has an electronic controller electronically configured to cause a rotary actuator to automatically rotate according to a predetermined indexing sequence. The rotary actuator, the controller and a power source are operatively carried on the body for inserting downhole in the wellbore. When the indexing device is disposed downhole and the rotary actuator is operatively coupled to the wellbore device to be rotated, the indexing device automatically rotates the wellbore device through successive rotational steps according to the predetermined indexing sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2012Publication date: February 6, 2014Applicant: SEMJET WELL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventors: Albert Dale JOSEPH, Thomas JENKINS
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Publication number: 20130179482Abstract: Information is stored in a data pattern. The data pattern includes an identity table, a version table that includes at least one reference to the identity table, and an audit table that includes at least one reference to the version table. The identity table stores information identifying the information. The version table stores version information identifying one or more versions of the information identified in the identity table. The audit table stores audit information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information was modified. The audit table may also store effectiveness information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information is in effect.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: July 11, 2013Applicant: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventors: Laurence W. Becker, Mark Kleidon, Brent Thomas Jenkins
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Patent number: 8479541Abstract: A knitting needle with a jointed tip is disclosed. The knitting needle comprises a shank having a first end comprising a protuberance and a second end having an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper and lower portions of the shank each configured to comprise a dip. The dips of the upper and lower portion configured to form a track wherein a tip may be coupled. The tip comprising a working end and a non-working end. A plurality of ridges runs along the non-working end of the tip. The ridges are configured to allow the non-working end to be coupled in the track formed by the dips of the upper and lower portions of the shank. The joint tip knitting needle may apply to single-pointed, double-pointed, circular, and/or cable knitting needles configurations.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2012Date of Patent: July 9, 2013Inventors: Amy Elisabeth Baily, Matthew Thomas Jenkins
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Patent number: 8464206Abstract: A method and system for providing a consistent flow documents and data content across different organizational units of a company or agency where the documents and data come from different enterprise systems and data stores but are related to linked processes that share models for organizing the content in the business context and in a format that enables a user to relate the content to the process step or steps they are performing. The system includes a network service that enables a configuration utility to automatically discover the objects and metadata and provides for a mapping of selected fields of the metadata to regions displayed in the user interface view with provision for filtering the data by mapping selected fields to a user input form. Thereby, a business analyst can create solutions without writing and maintaining complex program logic for each combination of presentation environment, enterprise system and data store.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2008Date of Patent: June 11, 2013Assignee: Open Text S.A.Inventors: Paul Thomas Jenkins, Daniel Wray Barkley, Robert W. Boender, Adam Murray Howatson, Willard Carter Morton, Jr., Cheryl Lynne McKinnon, Florian Müller, Martin Sumner-Smith, Matthew David George Timmermans
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Patent number: 8452392Abstract: A system and method for use in iontophoretic anesthesia of a tympanic membrane are disclosed. The system generally includes an earplug and an electrode device. The earplug includes at least one sealing member for sealing the earplug in an ear canal. The method involves using the system on a human or animal subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2009Date of Patent: May 28, 2013Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: John H. Morriss, Greg Liu, Rohit Girotra, Bernard H. Andreas, Scott J. Baron, Paul G. Hayter, Thomas Jenkins, Richard R. Newhauser, Jr., Jeffrey A. Walker
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Patent number: 8429792Abstract: A cleaning appliance includes a motor arranged to drive a fan for generating suction air flow and a cleaner head having a drivable agitator with a dedicated motor. The agitator drive motor has a selectively-operable switch and a resettable circuit breaker arranged such that, when the switch is activated, the circuit breaker is reset. A button actuates the switch and simultaneously resets the circuit breaker. When there is a blockage so that the circuit breaker trips out the motor, the user can reset the circuit breaker and restart the agitator motor by the simple act of depressing one button, thereby obviating the need for a separate control.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2007Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Stuart Lloyd Genn, James Dyson, Thomas Jenkins
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Patent number: 8414473Abstract: A device for dilating an ostium of a paranasal sinus of a human or animal subject may include: a handle; an elongate shaft having a proximal end coupled with the handle and extending to a distal end; a guidewire disposed through at least a portion of the shaft lumen; a dilator having a non-expanded configuration and an expanded configuration; and a slide member coupled with at least one of the guidewire or the dilator through the longitudinal opening of the shaft for advancing the guidewire and/or the dilator relative to the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2009Date of Patent: April 9, 2013Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Jenkins, Eric Goldfarb, Tom Thanh Vo, Joshua Makower, Robert N. Wood, Jr., Ronda M. Heiser, Christopher Larsen, Daniel T. Harfe
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Patent number: 8320887Abstract: An apparatus, including: a light source; a controller configured, in response to the occurrence of a first event involving the apparatus, to control the light source to produce a first, time-varying, illuminative effect that varies between maxima and minima of illumination intensity over a period of time following the occurrence of the first event, wherein the variation in the first illuminative effect is indicative to a user that the first event has occurred; and the controller being further configured, in response to the occurrence of a second event involving the apparatus, to control the light source to produce a second, time-varying, illuminative effect that varies between maxima and minima of illumination intensity over a period of time following the occurrence of the second event, wherein the variation in the second illuminative effect is indicative to a user that the second event has occurred.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2008Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Nokia CorporationInventors: Gary Wingett, Thomas Jenkins, Daniel Wilkinson Gratiot
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Patent number: 8292887Abstract: A bipolar, plasma-generating electrosurgical apparatus and system wherein the return electrode is enclosed within an electrosurgical shaft, and the active electrode is located on the outside surface of the shaft such that in treating the tissue, the tissue is exposed to plasma generated on the active electrode, but is minimally exposed to electric fields generated between the active and return electrodes. Due to the configuration of the electrodes, electric fields generated between the electrodes are directed away from the target tissue and inwardly towards the return electrode within the shaft, thereby electrical stimulation of neuromuscular structures in the tissue by the electric fields is minimized.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: ArthroCare CorporationInventors: Jean Woloszko, Thomas Jenkins, George Morrison
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Patent number: 8244716Abstract: Information is stored in a data pattern. The data pattern includes an identity table, a version table that includes at least one reference to the identity table, and an audit table that includes at least one reference to the version table. The identity table stores information identifying the information. The version table stores version information identifying one or more versions of the information identified in the identity table. The audit table stores audit information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information was modified. The audit table may also store effectiveness information identifying when each of the one or more versions of the information is in effect.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Oracle International CorporationInventors: Laurence W. Becker, Mark Kleidon, Brent Thomas Jenkins
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Patent number: D658291Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2010Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Acclarent, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Jenkins, Eric Goldfarb