Patents Examined by Steven O. Douglas
  • Patent number: 12286048
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a lifting and lowering sequence of a load carrying body (20) of a vehicle (1) and to a vehicle comprising a chassis structure (10) and the load carrying body (20) pivotally mounted on the chassis structure (10) with respect to a pivot axis being substantially parallel to either a pitch axis (Y) or a roll axis (X) of the vehicle, wherein the vehicle (1) comprises sensing means (11) provided on the chassis structure for measuring roll angle and pitch angle of the chassis structure and sensing means (21) provided on the load carrying body for measuring roll angle and pitch angle of the load carrying body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATION
    Inventor: Jonas Hagerskans
  • Patent number: 12280213
    Abstract: An expiratory limb is provided that is configured to remove humidified gases from a patient and configured to provide improved drying performance by providing a tailored temperature profile along the limb. Limbs for providing humidified gases to and/or removing humidified gases from a patient are also provided, the limbs having improved gas residence time at constant volumetric flow rate. The improved residence time can be achieved by providing a limb comprising multiple lumens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Robert Andrew David Milne, Timothy Dee Gierke
  • Patent number: 12279997
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint mechanism that renders easy alignment between a striker and a latch. One mode of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint mechanism for restraining a wheelchair to a restraining member installed on a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint mechanism includes an engagement target portion and an engagement portion. The engagement target portion includes a striker having a rod shape extending in up-down directions. The engagement portion includes: a housing member to house the striker; a latch to limit separation of the striker from the housing member; and a guide member to guide the striker towards the housing member. The guide member includes a first guide surface and a second guide surface, which face each other in width directions of the wheelchair and have a distance therebetween decreasing towards the housing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Keisuke Toda, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Jacob Richter, Chandra Jinka, Doug Krueger, Tracy Joseph, Enoch Morishima
  • Patent number: 12280706
    Abstract: A cargo storage system has at least one pair of rails configured to extend along a length of the cargo storage area in a horizontal direction, the pair of rails comprising a first rail configured to extend along a first side of the cargo storage area, and a second rail configured to extend along a second side of the cargo storage area opposing the first rail. The cargo system further has a plurality of support beams extending between, and supported by, the first rail and the second rail. Different configurations of the rails, profiles for the rails, and platform members to be secured between the support beams are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: MAXILODA LIMITED
    Inventor: David Edward Clapson
  • Patent number: 12274651
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a wheelchair restraint apparatus that renders easy adjustment of a restraining position of a wheelchair inside a vehicle. One aspect of the present disclosure is a wheelchair restraint apparatus configured to restrain a wheelchair inside a vehicle. The wheelchair restraint apparatus includes a main body having a seat belt, and a restrained mechanism to and from which the wheelchair is attachable and detachable; and a slide mechanism configured to cause the main body to slide with respect to the vehicle. The restraint mechanism is configured to restrain the wheelchair in a state where a part of the wheelchair is inserted to the restraint mechanism in a traveling direction of the wheelchair.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: TOYOTA BOSHOKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tokuyuki Nishikawa, Keisuke Toda, Katsuhito Yamauchi, Jacob Richter, Chandra Jinka, Doug Krueger, Tracy Joseph, Enoch Morishima
  • Patent number: 12274665
    Abstract: Increasing blood circulation, lowering intracranial pressure, and increasing cerebral perfusion pressure during the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation by gravity-assist due to elevation of one or both of the torso and head of an individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: Resuscitation Innovations LLC
    Inventor: Keith G. Lurie
  • Patent number: 12268909
    Abstract: A set of designs for an electrically heated respirator/face mask to kill or deactivate airborne viruses and bacteria by creating a seamless thermal and/or humidity chamber/barrier around the wearer's nose and mouth area; in addition to efficiently filtering the tiny particles according to NIOSH N95 standards, it reduces the chance of contracting the disease. The designs include various combinations: a disposable or reusable N95 respirator with or without an exhalation valve, disposable or reusable medical face mask, both with or without integrated and replaceable filter layers, and a reusable respirator with filter cartridges. Each design comprises multiple layers with an active thermal filter with a heating element, which is made of graphene. The respirator is connected via a USB cable to a power unit. A control module is used to turn the device on and off and optionally control the inner temperature and humidity through sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventor: Weining Tan
  • Patent number: 12268603
    Abstract: A delivery catheter for a stent. The delivery catheter may comprise a distal end and a proximal end. The distal end includes a stent attachment region adapted to receive a stent. The stent may be of the self-expanding type. The catheter further comprises a handle at its proximal end and at least one sheath which may at least partially circumferentially cover said stent such as to retain it in a collapsed configuration. The sheath is coupled at its proximal end to an actuator located on said handle portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Symetis SA
    Inventors: Jacques Essinger, Stephane Delaloye, Jean-Luc Hefti, Luc Mantanus
  • Patent number: 12262882
    Abstract: A medical device for sealing a defect in a body includes a wire frame that includes a plurality of wires that form a first occluding member and a second occluding member, the wire frame including a defect-occupying portion disposed between the first occluding member and the second occluding member. The defect-occupying portion is adapted to fill a wide range of potential defect sizes, such that no more than five devices of a range of sizes are required to effectively seal a range of nominal defect sizes of approximately 8 to 35 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob A. Goble, Brandon A. Lurie, Steven J. Masters, Scot K. Mathena, Richard L McClure
  • Patent number: 12263359
    Abstract: This invention offers a fully protective cowl neck garment with various fasteners designed to attach additional protective gear, such as gloves and shoe coverings. Additionally, a temperature sensor shield is located on the hat and protective mask. This allows the clients or patients the ability to see and to monitor the temperature of their caregivers. The caregiver's temperature is visible on the hat, as well as the face mask. This makes the caregivers accountable to their clients or patients, as well as their colleagues and coworkers. This invention eliminates the worry of contact with infectious diseases or dangerous liquids, by utilizing elastic manual ties and hook-and-loop fasteners to ensure the garment is secured fully on a user's body. Overall, this invention ensures medical professionals, firemen, emergency medical personnel, government workers, and so forth, are protected fully from contagious and infectious diseases, liquids, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Debra Sharon Johnson
  • Patent number: 12263990
    Abstract: A system for securing containers together includes posts, legs or support features that protrude from a panel of a first container and that fit into matched apertures on an adjacent panel of a second container. The posts, legs or support features are secured within or through the matched apertures or within matched apertures on interlock blocks that are on or attached to the adjacent panel of a second container through braces, brackets, clamps and pins (magnet or spring loaded) that engage the posts, legs or support features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: RADIUS OUTFITTERS INC.
    Inventors: Cody West, Asa Engstrom
  • Patent number: 12263364
    Abstract: A unique filtering face-piece respirator or mask that is constructed of filtration media capable of sub-micron particle absorption or filtration. Utilizing existing and broadly available low cost media, the mask is patterned from a single sheet of material. It is constructed in a manner that creates an adequate seal as it fits snugly to the user's face, creates structure to ensure a low volume air gap, and deploys unique vertical pleats to increase surface area in order to decrease pressure drop across the mask. Specifically, the design enables the user to inhale and exhale with a pressure drop below 0.4 inches of water at elevated breathing rates of up to 110 liters per hour. Valve design and positioning enable more than 90% of used air to be exited the mask.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Inventor: Jason Nicholas Rich
  • Patent number: 12257380
    Abstract: An apparatus including a first cartridge, a sensor, and a controller. The first cartridge can include a first release device configured to release a first substance into a housing. The controller can be configured to receive data from the sensor. The controller can determine an amount of first substance released by the first cartridge based on the data. The first release device can be controlled based on the determined amount of first substance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Logic Technology Development, LLC
    Inventor: Eli Alelov
  • Patent number: 12257968
    Abstract: The invention relates to a front underrun protection device for a heavy vehicle comprising a beam configured to extend from side to side of the vehicle at a lower front position thereof and to absorb collision energy. The beam is at least partly made of a plastic or polymeric material. The beam comprises a housing beam member having at least one channel extending along the housing beam member, and at least one reinforcement beam member adapted to fit into the channel of the housing beam member. The reinforcement beam member is arranged in the channel and arranged to extend along the housing beam member. The reinforcement beam member is provided with a plurality of wall elements comprising transversal wall elements distributed along and extending across the reinforcement beam member and longitudinal wall elements extending in a longitudinal direction of the reinforcement beam member between the transversal wall elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Gowtham Kannakaje Laxman, Madhuchandra Koogenahalli Sadashivaiah, Sudhindra Keralapura Seetharamaiah, Bharath Channappa, Vinay Lohith
  • Patent number: 12252267
    Abstract: A cargo restraint system may comprise an inner shaft and a first outer tube coaxially configured to rotate about an axis and a first restraint located about the first outer tube and configured to rotate about the axis. A second outer tube coupled to the inner shaft configured to rotate about the axis and a second restraint located about the second outer tube and configured to rotate about the axis. The first restraint and the second restraint may include a head configured to rotate about the axis and a plunger configured to translate between an engaged state and a disengaged state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: GOODRICH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Zachary Meyer, Brandon David Lee, Wallace Harold Larson, Alexander Mitchell Heyd
  • Patent number: 12252047
    Abstract: A back pad assembly for a material handling vehicle is provided that includes a back pad, a framework, and a mounting frame. The back pad includes a center portion, a first side portion, and a second side portion. The first side portion defines a first curved profile, and the second side portion defines a second curved profile. The first curved profile and the second curved profile are arranged on laterally-opposing sides of the center portion. The framework includes a first mounting bar and a second mounting bar. The framework is coupled to the back pad. The first and second mounting bars are adjustably supported by the mounting frame to enable the back pad to be selectively mounted at varying heights along the mounting frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Raymond Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel B. Miller, Gregory W. Smiley, Joseph T. Yahner, Kurt R. Lutz, Kurt R. Werner, Michael W. Konieczny, Frank J. Witkowski, III, Howard Scott Ryan
  • Patent number: 12239595
    Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of differential air pressure systems and methods of using such systems. The differential air pressure system may comprise a chamber configured to receive a portion of a user's lower body and to create an air pressure differential upon the user's body. The differential air pressure system may further comprise a user seal that seal the pressure chamber to the user's body. The height of the user seal may be adjusted to accommodate users with various body heights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: AlterG, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric R. Kuehne, Mark A. Shughart, Sean Tremaine Whalen, Douglas Frank Schwandt, Robert Tremaine Whalen
  • Patent number: 12239173
    Abstract: An invention to house a disposable dust mask or N95 mask in an independent comfortable and reusable face mask frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventor: Jeffrey James Wood
  • Patent number: 12233769
    Abstract: A floor mat for a vehicle includes a first panel, a second panel pivotably coupled to the first panel, and an actuator operably coupled to and positioned beneath the first panel. The actuator is operable to move the first panel in a vehicle-forward direction from a first position to a second position. Movement of the first panel toward the second position causes the second panel to pivot relative to the first panel from a lowered position to a raised position. In the lowered position of the second panel, the vehicle-uppermost portion of the second panel is positioned at a first vehicle-elevation. In the raised position of the second panel, the vehicle-uppermost portion of the second panel is positioned at a second vehicle-elevation that is greater than the first vehicle-elevation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Gian Carlo Morlet Ugalde, Jedidiah Paul Durkin
  • Patent number: 12226367
    Abstract: An inflatable belt 100 for use in a BFR system with an outer belt material 102 hermetically sealed to an inner belt material 101 along a perimeter, thereby forming at least one inflatable chamber 103, the inflatable chamber having an input port 104 for accepting a gas into the chamber, the inflatable belt further comprising a first fastening means 110 in communication with the outer belt material, for attaching to a second fastening means 111 in communication with the outer belt material, thereby locking a circumference of the inflatable belt, when wrapped around a user's limb, efficacy feedback means 200 for gathering efficacy feedback data 205, for use in prescribing, monitoring and adjusting one or more training parameters of a BFR training session and/or program based on evaluation of the efficacy feedback data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Inventors: James Stray-Gundersen, Sean Tremaine Whalen