Patents Assigned to Dynamics Inc.
  • Hopping robot
    Patent number: 8849451
    Abstract: A robot includes a chassis, a motive subsystem configured to maneuver the chassis, a hopping actuator attached to the chassis and configured to launch the robot, and at least one leg pivotable with respect to the chassis to pitch the chassis upward at a selected launch trajectory angle. A control subsystem automatically actuates and controls the motive subsystem when the robot is airborne and uses the rotational momentum of the motive subsystem to control the attitude of the robot chassis in flight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Boston Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred Anthony Rizzi, Michael Patrick Murphy, John Joseph Giarratana, Matthew David Malchano, Christian Allen Weagle, Chris Aaron Richburg
  • Apparatus and methods for solution processing using reverse osmosis
    Patent number: 8840792
    Abstract: Equipment, systems, processes and techniques for conducting reverse osmosis processing of solutions are described. The techniques can be applied to provide diluted solution (i.e. purified solvent), concentrate solution or each. A variety of specific equipment, example systems and processes are depicted and described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Solution Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Calvin Wohlert
  • ADAPTABLE BEZEL ASSEMBLY FOR EXTREME SERVICE CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20140268654
    Abstract: A display assembly includes a first bezel part and a second bezel part each defining a substantially rectangular frame that encloses an open area. The first frame is sized and arranged to substantially align with the second frame. The second bezel part is capable of secure attachment to the first bezel part at an interface that defines at least one gap between the first frame and the second frame. A display screen has a display edge portion disposed in the gap between the first frame and the second frame. The display screen extends across the open area. Optionally, the display assembly includes an EMI screen and/or a touch screen aligned with the display screen and having an edge portion received in the gap, where the EMI screen, display screen, and touch screen are each individually removable from the display assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: C-Marine Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles J. Wagner
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REAL-TIME MONITORING OF DISPLAYS DURING INSPECTION
    Publication number: 20140266244
    Abstract: Described are techniques for maintaining reliable and reproducible conditions for panel inspection, i.e. pixel and line defect detection, while at the same time preventing large-scale panel damage. One implementation involves an apparatus for identifying a defect in an electronic circuit incorporating a circuit driving module configured to apply an electrical test signal to the electronic circuit; a defect detection module configured to identify the defect in the electronic circuit based at least on the applied electrical test signal; a signal monitoring module configured to measure the electrical test signal at the electronic circuit; and a control module operatively coupled to the signal monitoring module and the circuit driving module and configured to control at least the circuit driving module based on the electrical test signal measured at the electronic circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Photon Dynamics Inc.
    Inventors: Viacheslav MINAEV, Raul Albert MARTIN, Thomas E. WISHARD, Michael Sean CASSADY, Jongho LEE, Thomas H. BAILEY, Sriram KRISHNASWAMI
  • SPECTRALLY-CONTROLLED BACKLIGHTING FOR LCD DISPLAYS
    Publication number: 20140265928
    Abstract: A display backlight assembly includes a light guide panel having first and second principal faces and at least one edge surface. A display screen is aligned with and substantially perpendicular to the first principal face of the light guide panel. The assembly also includes a light source with one or more white LEDs and one or more first color LEDs, where each first color LED emits a first color of light that is red, green, blue, or yellow. Each white LED and each first color LED is positioned to emit light into the light guide panel. A controller is electrically coupled to the light source and capable of independently setting an intensity value for each white LED and for each first color LED. The controller controls illumination of the LEDs independently as needed to provide backlighting with the selected intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: C-Marine Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles J. Wagner
  • Intestinal sleeve
    Patent number: 8834405
    Abstract: A gastrointestinal implant device is anchored in the duodenum and extends beyond the ligament of Treitz. All food exiting the stomach is funneled through the device. The gastrointestinal device includes an anchor for attaching the device to the duodenum and an unsupported flexible sleeve. The anchor can include a stent and/or a wave anchor and is collapsible for catheter-based delivery and removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: GI Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Meade, Andy H. Levine, David A. Melanson, John F. Cvinar
  • Anchors with biodegradable constraints
    Patent number: 8834553
    Abstract: An implant includes a collapsible anchor to be deployed within a lumen and a protrusion coupled to the anchor. The protrusion, in a constrained state, extends a distance from an exterior surface of the anchor and, in an unconstrained state, extends further from the exterior surface of the anchor. Also included is a biodegradable constraint, such as a biodegradable tube or suture, configured to maintain the protrusion in the constrained state until the constraint releases. The implant may include additional biodegradable constraints, each constraint configured to maintain the protrusion in a different constrained state and to degrade over a different predetermined period after the implant has been deployed within the lumen. The protrusion may include a bi-directional barb or an open loop. The protrusion may be configured to penetrate a wall of the lumen and to allow tissue to grow about the protrusion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: GI Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Melanson, Christopher Nutting, Barry Maxwell, Peter Shank, John Panek
  • Systems and methods for waveform generation for dynamic magnetic stripe communications devices
    Patent number: 8827153
    Abstract: Dynamic magnetic stripe communications devices are provided as magnetic stripe emulators. A device, such as an application specific integrated circuit, may include a waveform generator that retrieves data from memory and may generate waveforms from the retrieved data to be communicated by the magnetic stripe emulator and received by a magnetic stripe reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Dynamics Inc.
    Inventors: Randy L. Rhoades, David J. Hartwick
  • NUCLEIC ACID SAMPLE PREPARATION
    Publication number: 20140248627
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating a nucleic acid from a fluid comprising cells. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity nucleic acid isolated from complex fluids such as blood or environmental samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Biological Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajaram KRISHNAN, David CHARLOT, Eugene TU, James MCCANNA, Lucas KUMOSA, Paul SWANSON, Robert TURNER, Kai YANG, Irina DOBROVOLSKAYA, David Liu
  • NUCLEIC ACID SAMPLE PREPARATION
    Publication number: 20140238860
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating a nucleic acid from a fluid comprising cells. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity nucleic acid isolated from complex fluids such as blood or environmental samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: Biological Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajaram KRISHNAN, David Charlot, Eugene Tu, James McCanna, Lucas Kumosa, Paul Swanson, Robert Turner, Kai Yang, Irina Dobrovolskaya, David Liu
  • Nucleic acid sample preparation
    Patent number: 8815555
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating a nucleic acid from a fluid comprising cells. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity nucleic acid isolated from complex fluids such as blood or environmental samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Biological Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajaram Krishnan, David Charlot, Eugene Tu, James McCanna, Lucas Kumosa, Paul Swanson, Robert Turner, Kai Yang, Irina Dobrovolskaya, David Liu
  • Advanced payment options for powered cards and devices
    Patent number: 8814050
    Abstract: Advanced payment applications are provided to improve the functionality of cards and devices. For example, a user interface may be placed on a card (e.g., a physical button) or a telephonic device (e.g., a virtual button on a capacitive touch screen). Manual input provided to this user interface may, for example, cause an item purchased on credit to be paid via one or more user accounts (e.g., bank accounts) as soon as the next credit statement posts or becomes due. A user may decide to pay for an item when the next statement becomes due at a point-of-sale magnetic stripe reader by using an interface on a card to cause information to be communicated through the infrastructure indicative of a user's desire to pay the for an item when the next statement becomes due.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Dynamics Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Mullen, Philip W. Yen
  • Nucleic acid sample preparation
    Patent number: 8815554
    Abstract: The present invention includes methods, devices and systems for isolating a nucleic acid from a fluid comprising cells. In various aspects, the methods, devices and systems may allow for a rapid procedure that requires a minimal amount of material and/or results in high purity nucleic acid isolated from complex fluids such as blood or environmental samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Biological Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajaram Krishnan, David Charlot, Eugene Tu, James McCanna, Lucas Kumosa, Paul Swanson, Robert Turner, Kai Yang, Irina Dobrovolskaya, David Liu
  • AGGLOMERATE REDUCTION IN A NANOWIRE SUSPENSION STORED IN A CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20140231282
    Abstract: Methods and articles of manufacture for storage and shipping of nanowires are disclosed. One disclosed method includes: (a) providing a nanowire suspension including nanowires suspended in a liquid; and (b) disposing the nanowire suspension in a container for storage and shipping, where the container is configured to inhibit agglomeration of nanowires from the nanowire suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Innova Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Eugene Young, Arjun Daniel Srinivas, Matthew R. Robinson
  • AGGLOMERATE REDUCTION IN A NANOWIRE SUSPENSION STORED IN A CONTAINER
    Publication number: 20140231281
    Abstract: Methods and articles of manufacture for storage and shipping of nanowires are disclosed. One disclosed method includes: (a) providing a nanowire suspension including nanowires suspended in a liquid; and (b) disposing the nanowire suspension in a container for storage and shipping, where the container is configured to inhibit agglomeration of nanowires from the nanowire suspension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Applicant: Innova Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Eugene Young, Arjun Daniel Srinivas, Matthew R. Robinson
  • Encapsulated polymer network liquid crystal material, device and applications
    Patent number: 8801964
    Abstract: Polymer network liquid crystal materials have improved mechanical properties such as rigidity and hardness and substantially improved electro-optical performance. The PNLC material can be manufactured with an emulsion process so as to simplify substantially the manufacturing process. Each LC droplet can be configured with the polymer network extending substantially across the LC droplet, and the polymer network may comprise a material to lower substantially the switching voltage, such as a fluorinated acrylate that may interact with the liquid crystal so as to lower the surface tension of the LC droplet. The PNLC material may comprise an interfacial layer combined with the polymer network so as to decrease substantially the driving voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Photon Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventor: Xianhai Chen
  • Advanced laminar flow water condensation technology for ultrafine particles
    Patent number: 8801838
    Abstract: This technology relates to the enlargement by water condensation in a laminar flow of airborne particles with diameters of the order of a few nanometers to hundreds of nanometers to form droplets with diameters of the order of several micrometers. The technology presents several advanced designs, including the use of double-stage condensers. It has application to measuring the number concentration of particles suspended in air or other gas, to collecting these particles, or to focusing these particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Aerosol Dynamics Inc.
    Inventors: Susanne V. Hering, Gregory S. Lewis, Steven R. Spielman
  • Use of a gastrointestinal sleeve to treat bariatric surgery fistulas and leaks
    Patent number: 8801647
    Abstract: Method for treating a Roux-en-Y patient having fistulas and leaks as a result of bariatric surgery. A gastrointestinal implant device is anchored in the esophagus and extends through a stomach pouch into an intestine anastomosed to the stomach pouch to prevent fistulas and other damaged tissue from making contact with food and fluids entering the esophagus. The gastrointestinal implant device includes an unsupported flexible sleeve and an anchor coupled to a proximal portion of the sleeve. The flexible sleeve is open at both ends, and adapted to extend below a jejunum. The anchor is adapted to be retained within the esophagus, preferably just above the gastroesophageal (GE) Junction. The anchor can include a stent such as a wave anchor and is collapsible for catheter-based delivery and removal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: GI Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Melanson, Manoel dos Passos Galvao Neto
  • Anti-Obesity Devices
    Publication number: 20140194805
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for limiting absorption of food products in specific parts of the digestive system is presented. A gastrointestinal implant device is anchored in the pyloric portion of the gastrointestinal system and extends beyond the ligament of Treitz. All food exiting the stomach is funneled through the device. The gastrointestinal device includes an anchor for anchoring the device in the pyloric portion and a flexible sleeve that extents into the duodenum. The anchor is collapsible for endoscopic delivery and removal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: GI Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Andy H. Levine, David A. Melanson, John C. Meade
  • Gastrointestinal implant with drawstring
    Patent number: 8771219
    Abstract: A gastrointestinal implant device includes a flexible, floppy sleeve, open at both ends, that extends into the duodenum. The device further includes a collapsible anchor coupled to the proximal portion of the sleeve. The device further includes a drawstring that is threaded through a proximal end of the anchor, and barbs that extend from the exterior surface of the anchor. The collapsible anchor can be a wave anchor. The drawstring can be used to collapse at least a proximal portion of the implant device. This is useful in removing or repositioning the implant device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: GI Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: John C. Meade, Andy H. Levine, David A. Melanson, Ronald B. Lamport, John F. Cvinar