Patents Examined by S. Lee
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Patent number: 11937098Abstract: A user equipment (UE) in a multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) configuration having simultaneous connections with a first next generation node B (gNB) and at least one second gNB over a same carrier. The UE divides uplink (UL) resources into a plurality of groups, determines a spatial relation and a pathloss reference signal (RS) for each one of the plurality of groups based on a transmission configuration indication (TCI) indicating a quasi-co-location (QCL) source RS for a downlink channel and transmits UL data on the UL resources corresponding to each one of the plurality of groups to a respective one of the first gNB or the at least one second gNB.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 11930140Abstract: An information processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to obtain a group datum in which a plurality of print layers to be printed in a stacked manner is grouped, and a display controller configured to make a display unit output a plurality of icons which corresponds respectively to the plurality of print layers included in the group datum, and which is arranged in an order of stacking the print layers corresponding to the icons, as layer configuration information representing a layer configuration of the group datum.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventor: Ryotaro Hayashi
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Patent number: 11928317Abstract: A device with a display and, optionally, a touch-sensitive surface detects a first input corresponding to a request to share first content from a first application while displaying the first application on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device displays a sharing interface that includes a plurality of options for sharing the first content. While displaying the sharing interface, the device detects selection of an affordance in the sharing interface. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a respective user-first sharing option for a respective user, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content with the respective user. In accordance with a determination that the affordance is a protocol-first sharing option for a respective protocol, the device initiates a process for sharing the first content using the respective protocol.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jeremiah D. Shaw, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Stephen O. Lemay, Martin O. Pedrick, Marcel van Os, Imran Chaudhri
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Patent number: 11930598Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to apparatus and methods for producing a downhole electrical component, having steps of providing a non-conductive polymer substrate, establishing an active area on the non-conductive polymer substrate, patterning the active area on the non-conductive polymer substrate with a conductive material through an additive manufacturing process and incorporating the patterned non-conductive polymer substrate into a final arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2022Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Schlumberger Technology CorporationInventors: Swapna Arun Kumar, Srinand Karuppoor
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Patent number: 11929806Abstract: According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method for reporting a plurality of channel state information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system comprises receiving association information related to a plurality of channel state reports and reporting a plurality of channel state information using the association information, wherein in reporting the plurality of channel state information, remaining channel state information except for specific channel state information among the plurality of channel state information is excluded from being reported or is reported in a form of a reduced payload size, according to the association information.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2019Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Kukheon Choi, Jiwon Kang, Jaehoon Chung
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Patent number: 11918767Abstract: Rapidly insertable central catheters (“RICCs”) including catheter assemblies and methods thereof are disclosed. A RICC assembly can include a RICC, an introducer, and a coupling system configured to couple the RICC and the introducer together. A catheter tube of the RICC includes a side aperture in a distal-end portion of the catheter tube, which opens into an introducing lumen extending from the side aperture to a distal end of the RICC. The introducer includes a syringe and an introducer needle having a cannula. The coupling system includes a distal coupler slidably attached to the catheter tube proximal of the side aperture. The cannula extends through a longitudinal through hole of the distal coupler, through the side aperture of the catheter tube, along the introducing lumen of the catheter tube, and through the distal end of the RICC when the RICC assembly is in at least a ready-to-deploy state thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.Inventors: Glade H. Howell, Jason R. Stats, Huy Ngoc Tran
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Patent number: 11922188Abstract: A method of providing a workspace graphical user interface (GUI) for a user of a cloud-based content management platform includes providing the workspace GUI for the user via the cloud-based content management platform. The workspace GUI presents visual representations of documents stored on the user's cloud storage of the cloud-based content management platform and visual representations of workspaces created by the user. Each workspace includes a set of documents previously added to a respective workspace by the user and stored on the user's cloud storage. The method further includes receiving, via the workspace GUI, a user input with respect to a corresponding document stored on the user's cloud storage. The user input indicates a request to add the corresponding document to a particular workspace.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Joshua Smith, Michael Colagrosso, Michael Procopio, Sandor Dornbush, Sean Whipps
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Patent number: 11918577Abstract: The invention relates to dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, including saxagliptin and sitagliptin, for use in the topical eye treatment and/or prevention of retinal neurodegenerative diseases, in particular diabetic retinopathy and its associated microvascular impairment. The invention also encompasses pharmaceutical topical eye compositions for use in the topical treatment and/or prevention of these diseases.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: FUNDACIÓ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D'HEBRON—INSTITUT DE RECERCAInventors: Rafael Simó Canonge, Cristina Hernández Pascual
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Patent number: 11918797Abstract: A syringe body for a syringe for injecting a highly viscous medium has a hollow cylindrical configuration, forms a chamber configured to receive the highly viscous medium, and includes: a distal end portion; a proximal end portion having an opening through which a piston rod arrangement is insertable into the chamber; and a Luer lock connector formed at the distal end portion, the Luer lock connector having an outer cone with a further opening configured to dispense the highly viscous medium and a sleeve-shaped portion with an inner thread. The syringe body has a minimum NPO resistance of over 90 N.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AGInventors: Raymond Moser, Tom van Ginneken, Sebastian Brechler
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Patent number: 11919794Abstract: In a method of manufacturing a tube of quartz glass by molding a hollow cylinder having a wall thickness of at least 20 mm, the cylinder is continuously fed under rotation about a rotational axis into a heating zone at a relative feed rate VC, softened and radially expanded under the effect of a gas pressure. A tube strand is continuously formed and is withdrawn at a withdrawal rate VT. In order to mold thick-walled initial hollow cylinders of quartz glass into tubes with larger diameter, the gas pressure is used as an actuating variable of a diameter regulation for the tube outer diameter or for a geometrical correlated parameter thereof, and in a pressure build-up phase the gas pressure is gradually increased from a lower initial value to a higher final value, and that the following applies to the ratio of VC and VT:VT=VC±0.2·VC.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Heraeus Quarzglas GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Matthias Söhn, Boris Gromann, Eduard Visnow
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Patent number: 11918820Abstract: A leadless biostimulator, such as a leadless cardiac pacemaker, having a header assembly that includes overmolded components, is described. The header assembly includes a helix mount overmolded on a flange of an electrical feedthrough assembly. A fixation element is mounted on the helix mount. The overmolded helix mount fills a recess in an outer surface of the flange to robustly join the header assembly components. The electrical feedthrough assembly includes an electrode contained within the flange to deliver electrical impulses to a target anatomy, and an insulator that separates the electrode from the flange. The overmolded helix mount can conform or adhere to the outer surfaces of the flange and the insulator to electrically isolate the electrode from the flange. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.Inventors: Brett C. Villavicencio, Gintare Kerezyte, Wesley Alleman, Kavous Sahabi
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Patent number: 11918796Abstract: A syringe adapter includes a housing having a first end and a second end positioned opposite the first end, with the housing defining a passageway, and a connector body having a first end and a second end positioned opposite the first end, with the connector body having a connection member configured to be secured to a mating connector. One of the housing and the connector body includes a tab and the other of the housing and the connector body defines a channel that receives the tab, with the connector body movable relative to the housing between a first position where the connector body is restricted from rotating relative to the housing in a first rotational direction and free to rotate relative to the housing in a second rotational direction, and a second position where the connector body is free to rotate in the first and second rotational directions.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Becton Dickinson and Company LimitedInventors: Jayeon Kim, Christopher Lee
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Patent number: 11911570Abstract: An anchor system for securing a catheter to a patient may include an anchor pad, which may include a lower surface, an upper surface, and a window extending through the anchor pad. The lower surface may include an adhesive layer to adhere the anchor pad to skin of the patient. The upper surface may include a catheter securement mechanism. The window may provide access to the skin of the patient for application of a topical skin adhesive at a catheter insertion site disposed within the window.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventor: Jonathan Karl Burkholz
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Patent number: 11917111Abstract: An example image forming apparatus may include a display panel, a memory, and a processor connected to the memory and the display panel. The display panel may display a first screen including a highlight indicator and a menu having a menu option displayed in the highlight indicator. Further, the memory may include a screen transition module to receive a selection of the menu option. Further, the screen transition module may perform a screen transition from the first screen to a second screen that displays a submenu option in the highlight indicator. The submenu option is associated with the selected menu option.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventor: Aparna Kaushal
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Patent number: 11911174Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present application relate to the diagnostic measurement of condition for pressure ulcers. Preferred embodiments utilize pressure measurements at body locations to determine a diagnostic pressure ulcer value. A pressure sensor device generates patient pressure data that is processed by a data processor which utilizes a diagnostic function to determine the diagnostic value that indicates whether corrective action is needed to prevent pressure ulcer formation. One or more sensor devices can be attached to a patient to measure to transmit data for further processing.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignees: University of Massachusetts, Worcester Polytechnic InstituteInventors: Raymond Dunn, John McNeill, Yitzhak Mendelson
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Patent number: 11910888Abstract: Mounts (10) for securing devices (12) to articles (14) comprise a housing (16) and a pin (18) coupled to the housing (16). The housing (16) has a first side (50), a second side (52) opposite the first side (50), and a central axis (54), and the housing (16) is configured to receive the device (12). The pin (18) comprises a piercing end (20) and has an open position (22) and a closed position (24). In the open position (22), the pin (18) extends away from the second side (52) of the housing (16), and the piercing end (20) is spaced away from the housing (16) and is positioned to pierce the article (14). In the closed position (24), the piercing end (20) is closer to the housing (16) than when in the open position (22).Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Elevation Lab, Inc.Inventors: Casey Hopkins, Jacob Hull, Mitchell T. Wilson
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Patent number: 11911889Abstract: A socket tether system is a traditional socket wrench having a socket tethered to the socket wrench. The system has a first lanyard which is configured to connect a tool and a user. The first lanyard extends between a first lanyard and a second lanyard. The second lanyard is configured to make a connection between the tool and an auxiliary tool. The lanyard system is configured to prevent an auxiliary tool associated with the tool from falling when the auxiliary tool becomes disengaged from the tool.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Inventor: Edward K. P. Pascua
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Patent number: 11911608Abstract: A subcutaneously implantable device includes a housing and an anchoring mechanism attached to the housing that is configured to anchor the device to a muscle, a bone, and/or a first tissue. The device further includes a first prong with a proximal end attached to the housing and a distal end extending away from the housing that is configured to be positioned adjacent to a first blood vessel, and a first electrode on the distal end of the first prong that is configured to be positioned adjacent to the first blood vessel. Circuitry in the housing is in electrical communication with the first electrode that is configured to deliver electrical stimulation using the electrode to create an electric field around the blood vessel.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Manicka Institute LLCInventor: Yatheendhar D. Manicka
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Patent number: 11915278Abstract: An automatic system for detecting a damage to a vehicle, comprising: (a) at least one camera for capturing “handover” and “return” images irrespective of the vehicle's movement or orientation relative to the camera; (b) a memory for storing images of basic-parts (c) a first determination unit for, based on the basic-parts images, determine the location of one or more basic-parts within the “handover” and “return” images; (d) a second determination unit configured to, based on the determined locations of the basic parts within the images, determine the locations of “other parts” within the “handover” and “return” images, thereby to form “handover” and “return” part-images, respectively; (e) a transformation unit configured to separately transform each pair of “handover” and “return” part-images, respectively, to a same plane; (f) a comparison unit configured to separately compare pixel-by-pixel each transformed pairs of “handover” and “return” part-images, to detect a difference above a predefined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: RAVIN AI LTD.Inventors: Eliron Ekstein, Roman Sandler, Alexander Kenis, Alexander Serebryiani
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Patent number: 11911591Abstract: A disposable cartridge for a drug delivery device includes a flexible bag to accommodate a liquid medicament and having an opening adjacent to a sidewall, a socket having a fluid channel in fluid communication with a cartridge fluid coupling, and a housing covering at least a portion of the flexible bag and having a receptacle to receive the socket with the flexible bag. The socket extends into the opening of the flexible bag. The flexible bag's sidewall is fixed between the socket and the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Michael Schabbach, Meinolf Werner, Olaf Zeckai