Patents Examined by Kurt Fernstrom
  • Patent number: 10875352
    Abstract: A wall mounted display board system includes a frame; a hinging system to mount on a wall surface and engage with the frame; a panel mounted on a front of the frame; and a castor mounted on a bottom portion of the frame to rest on a ground surface; the hinging system allows the frame and panel to pivot; and pivoting of the hinging system and the frame moves the castor along the ground surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventors: Dony Dawson, Jeffrey R. Weilert, Stephen Savoie
  • Patent number: 10876819
    Abstract: The embodied invention features a combination display with four individual displays to facilitate handgun training with live fire. The first is a target display with a skeletal hand-arm position of a trainee. The second is a side view of the skeletal hand-arm position. The third a target display to provide for viewing the shots as they hit the target. The fourth display is a side view of the trainee as seen by a video camera. All of the displays are recorded during a live round target practice and immediately available for the trainee to view and learn about correct positioning and stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Inventor: Rod Ghani
  • Patent number: 10870047
    Abstract: An example of a training tool includes a first sensor. The training tool deforms from a stationary state when a force is externally applied thereto. The first sensor output according to deformation of the training tool. A processor receives first sensor information based on an output of the first sensor. While a menu is presented, the processor executes a process according to a first instruction performed on the menu, in a case where the received first sensor information indicates an output obtained when the training tool deforms in a first direction, and executes a process according to a second instruction that is performed on the menu and is different from the first instruction, in a case where the received first sensor information indicates an output obtained when the training tool deforms in a second direction opposite to the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: Nintendo Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Kawamoto, Masaki Wada, Hiroshi Matsunaga, Yuji Sawatani, Atsushi Yamazaki
  • Patent number: 10865014
    Abstract: A fluid sample display for displaying actual vehicle fluid samples alongside comparisons of exemplary fluids has a tray with dimples to receive the fluid samples. The dimples are coverable by a movable cover. The tray can have an indicia panel for removably receiving indicia indicative of a vehicle and/or vehicle owner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: H & S Garage Gear, LLC
    Inventor: Richard Smith
  • Patent number: 10861350
    Abstract: Modular frames for instructional use that provide secure mounts for geometric solids are presented. Some contemplated modular frames can be assembled into three dimensional modular devices and are particularly suitable for instructional purposes. Modular devices comprising two or more frames could be coupled via a clip in two or more different configurations. Containers including conductive material and configured to provide a Faraday cage around their contents are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Ark Crystal, LLC
    Inventor: Nassim Haramein
  • Patent number: 10852006
    Abstract: Applications of solid wetting adhesives are described. The Applications include a splash guard, a marker board system, a system to vertically support an item of interest, double side adhesive tape and a cornered mounting piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: ANTEMILAN, LLC
    Inventors: Diane K. O'Rourke, Gerald D. O'Rourke
  • Patent number: 10852216
    Abstract: A neck assembly for an anthropomorphic test device (ATD) includes a plurality of vertebra discs, a plurality of ligament joints each having a joint element disposed between the vertebra discs, and a torsion assembly coupled to one of the vertebra discs to allow rotation about an axis of the one of the vertebra discs to simulate torsion response of a human neck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: Humanetics Innovative Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Zhenwen Jerry Wang, Dominic Isopi
  • Patent number: 10852767
    Abstract: A handwriting support device includes a half mirror; an image display surface; a writing surface, a virtual image of an image displayed on the image display surface being projected on the writing surface. In a case where a real object is inserted onto the writing surface, the image display control unit causes a non-display processed image to be displayed on the image display surface, the non-display processed image being obtained by at least a partial region, of a region of the first image corresponding to a vertically projected region of the real object on the writing surface, being subjected to non-display processing. In the handwriting support device, an image, which is a virtual image of the non-display processed image in which at least a part of an inside of the vertically projected region of the real object is non-displayed, is projected onto the writing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takahiro Sano, Masayuki Naya
  • Patent number: 10847057
    Abstract: A simulated rectum model for training transanal minimally invasive surgery is provided. The model includes three substantially concentric layers, a first layer, a second layer and a third layer, made of electrically conductive hydrogel material sized and configured to simulate a mucosal layer, a muscle layer and a mesorectum layer, respectively. Each layer is made of a dual interpenetrating cross-linked network having a ratio of covalently cross-linked acrylamide to ionically cross-linked alginate. The ratio for each layer is selected for the desired adhesion properties between two adjacent layers. The model is capable of expanding in size when insufflated and simulating a billowing condition. When the model is dissected with electrosurgical instruments, the hydrogel material realistically emits vapor simulating smoke and causes char to build up on instruments. Artificial polyps and transverse folds are molded on the inner surface of the model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: Applied Medical Resources Corporation
    Inventors: Natasha Felsinger, Milan Draganov
  • Patent number: 10847056
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a portable multi-interface Braille key board cell system. The system includes a bump frame and a Braille keyboard module that are assembled together. The Braille keyboard module unit includes a Braille keyboard assembly integrated together with an extendable and retractable wing panel mechanism. The system is further in integration with a controller and a processing unit of a handheld device. The system can further access functions of the handheld device via Braille buttons or presser buttons provided by the Braille keyboard assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Inventors: Te On Peter Lau, Fairoz Mohamed Noor, Alexandre Jacques Henri Caussel
  • Patent number: 10839710
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to systems and related methods of teaching pre-keyboarding and keyboarding on a QWERTY-style keyboard wherein a color-coded row-based metaphorical and visual cuing system is used in a curriculum to make foundational keyboarding skills easy-to-teach and easy-to-learn, including: unilateral hand/finger skills, Home Row hand/finger positions, relational position of symbol location, and the essential keystroke spectrum of Home Row positioning-based finger movements of the left and right hand. The invention provides a dynamic virtual keyboard with colored rows which hexfurcates the QWERTY layout into left- and right-handed row sections, independently toggling the visibility of each in a developmental order to teach keyboarding skills in incremental steps rather than all at once. The invention further provides a dynamic cursor that uses visual indicators that mirror the visual cuing system to reinforce instruction with the dynamic virtual keyboard and aid keyboarding accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: NO TEARS LEARNING, INC.
    Inventors: Janice Z. Olsen, Emily Knapton, Eric Olsen, Robert Walnock, Hank Isaac, Ralph Sklarew
  • Patent number: 10839719
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods based on applied cognitive science, where children play the lead role in storylines staged upon a rule-enforcing apparatus and by so doing, become self-enlightened about denumerability, rank-wise denumerability, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and other change-of-state processes encountered in mathematics and the quantifiable sciences.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Inventor: Anthony John Rankine
  • Patent number: 10839304
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic generating of a Bayes net content graph are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including a mapping matrix. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can generate a user matrix having n columns and p rows. In some aspects, each of the n columns is associated with a student and each of the p rows is associated with a content item. The at least one server can: store the user matrix in the memory; retrieve the mapping matrix from the memory; iteratively identify prerequisite relationships between the skills identified in the user matrix; generate edges between the skills in the user matrix based on the iteratively identified prerequisite relationships; and orient the edges between the skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: James David Corbin, Johann Larusson, David Strong, Todd Fredrich, Timothy Stewart
  • Patent number: 10818199
    Abstract: A medical guidance system providing real-time, three-dimensional (3D) augmented reality (AR) feedback guidance to a novice user of medical equipment having limited medical training, to achieve improved diagnostic or treatment outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: TIENOVIX, LLC
    Inventors: William R. Buras, Craig S. Russell, Kyle Q. Nguyen
  • Patent number: 10818200
    Abstract: A patient simulator system including a simulated head and a simulated fontanelle. The simulated head includes an endoskeleton skull and a skin layer. The simulated fontanelle is incorporated into the skin layer. The endoskeleton skull includes an indented fontanelle region. A fontanelle fitting and a pulse fitting each extend through the endoskeleton skull adjacent the indented fontanelle region. The simulated fontanelle comprises a fontanelle bladder extending within the indented fontanelle region and a pulse bladder extending adjacent the fontanelle bladder. The fontanelle bladder is operably coupled to the fontanelle fitting and communicates with a simulated respiratory system of the patient simulator system to receive either positive or negative pressure, which produces either a swollen or sunken state in the simulated fontanelle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: GAUMARD SCIENTIFIC COMPANY, INC.
    Inventors: Alberto Rodriguez, Victor Fernandez, Yassel Valdes, Lazaro Morales
  • Patent number: 10818196
    Abstract: A mechanical computing system configured to serve as an aid in learning fundamental aspects of coding. The mechanical computing system including a substrate having a flow path between an upstream portion and a downstream portion, and a plurality of repositionable programming members pivotably coupled to the substrate and configured to guide and interact with units dispensed along the flow path from the upstream portion to the downstream portion, wherein a first programming member is configured to pivot relative to the substrate upon interaction with a unit traversing along the flow path, and wherein a second programming member positioned upstream of the first programming member is configured to pivot relative to the substrate based on feedback from the first programming member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Inventor: Paul Garrett Boswell
  • Patent number: 10814214
    Abstract: A cognitive skills game system is provided to teach players cognitive skills. The game system comprises a randomizing device, a game board comprising a game progression, a plurality of player identifiers, a plurality of predefined challenges and a set of rules. Each of the plurality of predefined challenges corresponds to a plurality of predefined expected responses. Each of the plurality of predefined expected responses corresponds to a response reward. The set of rules defining the rules to map an actual response of a player to the plurality of predefined expected responses and the response reward. The response reward defining a player progression of the player identifier along the game progression and the set of rules also defining a game winning condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: IKONA, INC.
    Inventors: Katariina Lahti, Gabriel Levis-Lahti, Jonah Levis, Noah Levis, Ilias Levis
  • Patent number: 10810908
    Abstract: Embodiments provided herein include a resettable injection training device having a body, a plunger slidable relative thereto, an injection simulation member and retractable and extendable shield, wherein the shield releasably locks in a retracted position prior to use. After use of the training device, the shield extends over the injection simulation member to prevent contact with the injection simulation member. Resetting of the slidable shield occurs by applying a force onto a distal end of the shield to retract the shield until a shield locking surface interacts with a locking surface on the body to maintain the shield in a retracted position. Release of the shield from a retracted position to an extended position may occur by moving the plunger toward a distal end of the body until a contact region at a proximal end of the plunger releases the shield locking surface from the body locking surface to release the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: NOBLE INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Jeff Baker, Francis Michael Siemer, Christopher Wai Yin Chung, Shishuang Hou
  • Patent number: 10807011
    Abstract: In an aspect, a toy assembly is provided and includes a housing and an inner object inside the housing. The inner object includes a breakout mechanism that is operable to break the housing to expose the inner object. The breakout mechanism drives a portion of the inner object outwards towards an extended position relative to a remainder of the inner object. The breakout mechanism urges the portion of the inner object towards the extended position through a biasing member, thereby limiting a force applied by the portion of the inner object based on the biasing member, so as to reduce a risk of a poking injury to a user of the toy assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: SPIN MASTER LTD.
    Inventors: David McDonald, Anne N. Charbonneau, Hamid R. Hashemi, Victor Lai
  • Patent number: 10799362
    Abstract: A training kit is provided for practicing aortic valve reconstruction. The aortic valve reconstruction training kit is provided with a blood vessel model and multiple valve leaflet models, and the blood vessel model has a base-capped or base-uncapped cylindrical form having an opening formed on at least the top part thereof. The blood vessel model also has a valve ring part which is formed in the middle of the cylinder and to which the valve leaflet models can be sutured. By using the training kit, it becomes possible to practice a suturing technique that is believed to be the most difficult in aortic valve reconstruction, namely, a technique of accurately suturing a new valve leaflet to a valve ring part, to which an abnormal valve leaflet has been attached, of a cylindrical aorta while viewing the inside of the aorta from above.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2020
    Assignee: JAPANESE ORGANIZATION FOR MEDICAL DEVICE DEVELOPMENT, INC.
    Inventors: Shigeyuki Ozaki, Takahiro Uchida