Patents Examined by E. To
  • Patent number: 11992769
    Abstract: Techniques including data collection, organization and usage are provided, including in connection with computer-based gaming. Methods and systems are provided for establishing a set of data chronicling at least a portion of a duration of a computer-based gaming event that includes at least one user engaging in gaming using a computer or a computer-based device. Event data is obtained for chronicling chronologically ordered in-game events. Hardware and software related data is obtained that relates to the computer or the computer-based device and is relevant to the chronicling of the portion of the gaming event. Utilizing a distributed ledger technology or blockchain, the event data and the hardware and software related data are recorded in establishing the set of data chronicling at least a portion of the duration of the gaming event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: NANT HOLDINGS IP, LLC
    Inventors: Nicholas J Witchey, John Wiacek, Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 11992328
    Abstract: A single breast pump device (1) is adapted to enable realization of at least two batches (A, B) of breast milk as a direct result of a single pumping session to be performed on at least one user's breast, which batches (A, B) are different as far as the value of at least one quality parameter of the breast milk is concerned. The single breast pump device (1) comprises a detection unit (50) for performing real-time detection of the at least one quality parameter in a flow of breast milk and outputting a detection signal representing an actual value of the at least one quality parameter, and further comprises a controller (70) for receiving the detection signal from the detection unit (50) and using the signal in a process of determining an appropriate setting of the single breast pump device (1) as far as the choice of a destination position of the milk is concerned. A double breast pump device (2) is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Jozef Johannes Maria Janssen
  • Patent number: 11992777
    Abstract: An instant lottery ticket game system includes a set of scratch-off lottery ticket blanks, each lottery ticket blank having a front face and a back face and a game play area on the front face with play indicia that presents a pre-determined game outcome, the play indicia covered by a scratch-off coating (SOC). A coating layer is applied over at least the game play area such that an entirety of the front face presents an empty composition area void of lottery ticket indicia. The set of lottery ticket blanks are housed within an automated dispenser. An interface is configured with the dispenser and is in communication with a printer associated with the dispenser and accepts input of composition indicia from a patron for printing on portions of or the entirety of the front face to generate a finished scratch-off lottery ticket prior to dispensing the finished lottery ticket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Scientific Games, LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey D. Martineck, Sr., Scott B. Garrison
  • Patent number: 11992347
    Abstract: A medical cart apparatus includes at least one component and at least one holster that is tilted with respect to a horizontal plane and is configured to hold or store the at least one component. The medical cart apparatus is ergonomic and conveniently and securely stores elements in the cart. The holster is configured as a storage area, holder, or receptacle, and the holster has a back wall, at least one side, at least one side cut-out, a lip at an entrance of the holster, and a bottom surface that is tilted at the angle with respect to the horizontal plane. The side cut-outs of the holster provide visibility by showing whether a component is in the holster or not, and provide accessibility by facilitating or allowing easy insertion and easy takeout of the at least one component from the holster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Canon U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventors: Aleksey Danilkin, Zachary Hastings, Jacquelyn Nicole Phelps, Jacob Brauer, Alexander Altshuler
  • Patent number: 11992403
    Abstract: A collapsible and expandable prosthetic mitral valve stent is provided with improved recapture into a distal lumen of a delivery sheath. Various embodiments comprise a valve support within the interior of a stent frame and defining a flow channel therethrough, wherein the top or upstream of the valve support comprises a row, or a plurality, of stent cells that are bent radially inward at least partially over the flow channel. Some embodiments may comprise a recapture assist mechanism, such as an open paddle, attached to one or more of the inwardly bent stent cells and adapted to receive and/or engage a wire to aid in positioning, expansion, recapture and/or implanting the device in a patient's heart chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: 4C Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan Berndt, Sounthara Khouengboua, Saravana Kumar
  • Patent number: 11992757
    Abstract: Data characterizing two players enrolled in a tournament of an online video game is received. Each player is executing a separate instance of the online video game. The online video game is asynchronous between the two players. The data is received by a tournament server hosting the tournament and separate from a game server providing game data to clients associated with the two players. An instruction for synchronous initiation of gameplay between the two players is generated. The instruction is transmitted to the clients associated with the two players, the instruction causing synchronous initiation of the asynchronous games for the two players. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Skillz Platform Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Paradise, Miriam Aguirre
  • Patent number: 11992433
    Abstract: Devices, systems and methods for controlling the temperature of all or part of the body of a human or animal subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak
  • Patent number: 11992434
    Abstract: Cold plates through which refrigerant flows define a slot between them that can receive a cassette through which sterile working fluid with a relatively low flow rate flows from an intravascular heat exchange catheter or external pad. The slot may have bulge cavities along the edges to permit the membrane of the cassette to expand and thus establish fluid supply and return passageways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Circulation, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Thomas Dabrowiak, Craig Wendell Pendry, Christoph Matthias Pistor
  • Patent number: 11993603
    Abstract: A medicament with excellent JAK kinase (Janus Kinase) inhibitory activity can be used to prevent, treat and/or improve an autoimmune disease (e.g., psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, Sjogren's syndrome, Behcet's disease, multiple sclerosis, systemic lupus erythematosus and the like). The present invention also provides a pharmaceutically acceptable composition containing the compound and a method for preparing these compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignees: INSTITUTE OF MATERIA MEDICA, CHINESE ACADEMY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES & PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE, CHINA PARMACEUTICAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Tiantai Zhang, Dayong Zhang, Chengjuan Chen, Yuan Yin, Runan Yu, Lei Shu
  • Patent number: 11992911
    Abstract: A tool changing mechanism includes a tool base housing, a mandrel disposed therein and having a chamber and a keyway provided axially, and first and second linked units. A first shoulder portion is provided at an end of the keyway, and pulling jaws are disposed at the other end. The first linked unit has a first pulling rod, an end of which has an external thread, and the other end has a connecting portion driven by a pneumatic cylinder. The second linked unit has a second pulling rod, an end of which has an internal thread, and a pressing head is disposed at the other end. The second pulling rod has a sliding key located in the keyway. The first pulling rod is screwed into the second pulling rod, and the relative screwing rotation therebetween attains tool pulling for fixing or tool loosening for removing the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: PRECISION MACHINERY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTER
    Inventors: Chia-Hsuan Cho, Yu-An Liu
  • Patent number: 11992473
    Abstract: Compositions including metabolites that are small molecules, and salts and derivatives thereof, and methods for treatment or prophylaxis of conditions related to the quality of aging are provided, including compositions and methods for treating conditions that negatively impact longevity and the quality of aging, including inflammation, anemia, hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, hyperinsulinemia, liver disease, iron overload, impaired skin integrity, wound healing, scarring, pain, allergies, sleep disorders and problems, and gastrointestinal disorders and problems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Epitracker, Inc.
    Inventor: Stephanie Venn-Watson
  • Patent number: 11992918
    Abstract: Apparatus includes a production tooling having a dispensing surface with a plurality of cavities and formed into an endless belt. An abrasive particle feeder dispenses shaped abrasive particles onto the dispensing surface and into the plurality of cavities. A resin coated backing receives shaped abrasive particles from the cavities of the production tooling at a deposit point. A detecting device detects a pattern transition zone as the production tooling moves in the direction of travel and provides pattern transition zone detection data to one or more controllers to control a speed of the production tooling and/or a speed of the resin coated backing as the detected pattern transition zone passes the deposit point to change a pattern density of the shaped abrasive particles in a portion of the resin coated backing corresponding to the pattern transition zone of the production tooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Joseph B. Eckel, Thomas J. Nelson, Aaron K. Nienaber, Ann M. Hawkins, Amelia W. Koenig, Negus B. Adefris
  • Patent number: 11992899
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method that includes providing a first blank including an upper major surface, a lower major surface, and a plurality of side surfaces that connect the lower major surface to the upper major surface. The upper and lower major surfaces each includes a coating that includes aluminum, and the side surfaces are devoid of the coating. The method also includes forming an additive layer on at least one of the side surfaces that is devoid of the coating, and includes laser welding the first blank including the additive layer to a second blank, wherein a thickness of the additive layer is such that during the laser welding, the laser irradiates a material of the additive layer without irradiating the coating to form a weld pool that includes the material of the additive layer and does not include the aluminum of the coating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: FCA US LLC
    Inventors: Mark R Fistler, Robert B Ruokolainen
  • Patent number: 11992976
    Abstract: According to some aspects, a method is provided of casting an object from a mold, the method comprising obtaining a mold comprising a hollow shell of rigid material, the material comprising a thermoset polymer having a plurality of pores formed therein, providing a metal and/or ceramic slurry into an interior of the mold, exposing at least part of the mold to a low pressure environment so that a net flow of gas is produced from the interior of the mold into the low pressure environment. According to some aspects, a method of forming a porous mold is provided. According to some aspects, a photocurable liquid composition is provided, comprising a liquid photopolymer resin, particles of a solid material, in an amount between 30% and 60% by volume of the composition, and a water-soluble liquid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Formlabs, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex McCarthy, Maxim Lobovsky, Martin Galese
  • Patent number: 11993041
    Abstract: Provided is a tire vulcanizing bladder comprising fluororubber, wherein a plurality of grooves extending in a width direction are formed on a circumference of an outer surface of the tire vulcanizing bladder, and a plurality of recesses connecting the grooves to each other are formed between the grooves. Also provided is a pneumatic tire comprising one or more fluorine-containing particles having a maximum diameter of 1.0 ?m or more per area of 100 ?m2 of a tire inner surface, wherein a plurality of bladder ridges extending in a tire width direction are formed on a circumference of the tire inner surface, and a plurality of protrusions connecting the bladder ridges to each other are formed between the bladder ridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: BRIDGESTONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Junichi Oride, Yasuhiro Oda, Isao Matsumura, Yuya Morita
  • Patent number: 11993419
    Abstract: A packaged food product includes a container and a food product. The container has a rim and at least one wall extending away from the rim. The at least one wall defines a storage area, and the food product is retained within the storage area such that the food product is in contact with the at least one wall. The at least one wall is readily deformable by a hand of a user to reduce a volume of the storage area. Reducing the volume of the storage area causes the food product to exit the storage area. The container includes an integral tool portion including a tine extending from a distal end of the tool portion for breaking up the food product after removal from the storage area. The food product can be a wet cat or dog food.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Blue Buffalo Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Sean Evelich, Nicole Kandoth, James E. McCay, Noel R. Pollen, Trond Erik Tollefsen
  • Patent number: 11993090
    Abstract: A printing device includes a panel unit including: a display panel; a capacitive touch sensor in which a position detection sensor and a cover glass are laminated and which includes a first side and a second side located facing each other; and a panel circuit board, the capacitive touch sensor in the second attachment state is disposed so that the first side is lower than the second side, and a size of a first frame area located along the first side in a frame area that does not receive an input of operation information of the capacitive touch sensor in a direction from the first side to the second side is larger than a size of a second frame area located along the second side in the frame area in the direction from the first side to the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Yoshiyuki Yamaguchi, Toru Matsuyama
  • Patent number: 11993449
    Abstract: A compostable lid intended to seal a beverage capsule is provided. The lid is composed of a multilayer complex successively comprising a non-woven material wherein at least 50% by weight of the fibers are composed of polylactic acid (PLA), an adhesive layer suitable for coming into contact with food, and a support layer composed of a vegetable parchment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: AHLSTROM OYJ
    Inventors: Valerio Miozzo, Hervé Planchard, Florence Vidal, Mireille Roux
  • Patent number: 11993104
    Abstract: A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, a first ply, and a discontinuous second ply composed of a pair of ply pieces. The first ply has a central portion and a pair of first side portions extending from both ends of the central portion to the inner side in the tire radial direction. Each of the ply pieces has an inner end portion disposed on the outer side in the tire radial direction of the central portion and a second side portion extending from the inner end portion to the inner side in the tire radial direction. The first ply is provided with a plurality of ventilation holes, and the density of the ventilation holes in the central portion is higher than the density of the ventilation holes in the pair of first side portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO TIRE CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaya Miyake
  • Patent number: D1028717
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Silgan White Cap LLC
    Inventor: Darren Neputy