Patents by Inventor Allen Carroll

Allen Carroll has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12239779
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to devices and systems for providing both negative-pressure therapy and instillation, In some embodiments, both negative-pressure and instillation may be provided to a tissue site in a low-profile context that may also prevent siphoning of instillation fluid during negative pressure application. For example, a single bridge may include a negative-pressure pathway with supports and an instillation pathway, and the instillation pathway may be configured with respect to the negative-pressure pathway so that at least a portion of the instillation pathway collapses upon application of negative pressure to the negative-pressure pathway. Collapse of at least a portion of the instillation pathway may be sufficient to close the instillation pathway.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company
    Inventors: Benjamin Andrew Pratt, Justin Rice, Thomas Alan Edwards, Christopher Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 12231016
    Abstract: An electric motor built for exposure to high pressure fluid includes a unitary metal sleeve that provides a fluid barrier between the rotor and the stator. An overmolded resin encapsulates the stator windings and reinforces the sleeve to minimize deformation of the sleeve under high fluid pressures. The overmolded resin also fixes the positions of insulation displacement connectors connected to the stator windings, thereby avoiding mechanical brackets and fasteners for holding the insulation displacement connectors in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Carroll, Lee L. Snider, Mohammad Khandan-Barani, Ronald G. Flanary, Allen Duncan, Travis S. King
  • Patent number: 12102509
    Abstract: In some non-limiting examples, a system for stimulating tissue growth at a tissue site may include a porous foam and a moisture barrier. The porous foam may include an exterior-facing surface, a tissue contact surface, and a plurality of struts positioned at the tissue contact surface. The plurality of struts may be configured to contact the tissue site and to create tissue deformation at the tissue site without the application of a reduced pressure. The moisture barrier may be configured to cover the exterior-facing surface of the porous foam and to trap moisture at the tissue site. Also provided are other systems, apparatus, and methods suitable for stimulating tissue growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Solventum Intellectual Properties Company
    Inventors: T. Blane Sanders, Christopher Allen Carroll, Hannah I. Grothues
  • Patent number: 12082997
    Abstract: A dressing interface for connecting a negative-pressure source to a dressing may have a coupling member comprising an aperture, a first adhesive region having a first region peel strength, and a second adhesive region having a second region peel strength less than the first region peel strength. The dressing interface may further have a flange coupled to the coupling member, and a conduit housing coupled to the flange and extending through the aperture in the contact layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Justin Rice, Matthew Francis Cavanaugh, II, Christopher Brian Locke, Christopher Allen Carroll, Benjamin Stokes, Benjamin Andrew Pratt, Thomas Alan Edwards
  • Patent number: 12001296
    Abstract: Techniques for continuous lock-minimal checkpointing and recovery with a distributed log-based datastore are described. A continuous, fault-tolerant checkpoint process is run on a node in a cluster in a compute-optimized or memory-optimized manner, thereby checkpointing the in-memory replica state of the node to a durable checkpoint datastore. A node can partially restore its replica state by obtaining checkpoint data, which includes an identifier of a low-water mark in a journal shard. The node can attach to the journal shard using the low-mater mark as the point of attachment, enabling the node to finalize the restoration of the replica state to be current.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhiram Kumar Hare Ram Singh, Theodore Allen Carroll, Nathaniel Vaughan Langman, Michael Anthony Sciscenti
  • Patent number: 11883263
    Abstract: A dressing that includes a contact layer having walls defining a plurality of holes and a retainer layer comprising portions protruding into holes of a contact layer is provided herein. Systems, methods and kits using the dressing for debriding a tissue site are also provided herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Justin Rice, Christopher Allen Carroll, Shannon C. Ingram
  • Patent number: 11874822
    Abstract: Techniques for multi-stream transactional event processing under ACID semantics in a distributed log-based append-only datastore are described. A transaction coordinator writes events that are part of a transaction to a transaction buffer, where the events can be made visible to clients involved in the transaction while other clients are not aware. Upon committing the transaction, an optimistic concurrency control based technique is utilized to attempt to obtain locks on all events involved in the transaction across one or multiple shards by one or multiple designated writer nodes. When all involved writer nodes indicate that they are able to commit their events, the transaction can be committed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Abhiram Kumar Hare Ram Singh, Theodore Allen Carroll, Nathanial Vaughan Langman, Michael Anthony Sciscenti
  • Patent number: 11771817
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a tissue site comprising a negative-pressure source configured to be fluidly coupled to the tissue site; an instillation source configured to be fluidly coupled to the tissue site; and a controller operatively coupled to the negative-pressure source and to the instillation source. The controller can be configured to operate the negative-pressure source and the instillation source to intermittently deliver negative pressure to the tissue site for a negative-pressure interval and deliver instillation fluid to the tissue site for an instillation interval. A purge volume of instillation fluid may be delivered to the tissue site at a purge frequency. In some examples, the purge volume may be delivered through the second fluid conductor and removed through the first fluid conductor during a negative-pressure interval.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: KCI Licensing, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett L. Moore, Justin Rice, Christopher Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 11392402
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to enabling migration of services between a first and second environment, while maintaining a local availability of those servers within the first environment. Specifically, embodiments enable the services to remain locally available with the first environment without modification of operation of clients within the first environment. A migration gateway is provided in the first environment that, on migration of a service from the first to the second environment, can announce availability of the service at the gateway. The gateway can then act as a proxy for the service in the second environment. In one configuration, the gateway adopts an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a server that has been migrated, such that clients may be unaware that migration has occurred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Theodore Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 11349368
    Abstract: An electric motor built for exposure to high pressure fluid includes a unitary metal sleeve that provides a fluid barrier between the rotor and the stator. An overmolded resin encapsulates the stator windings and reinforces the sleeve to minimize deformation of the sleeve under high fluid pressures. The overmolded resin also fixes the positions of insulation displacement connectors connected to the stator windings, thereby avoiding mechanical brackets and fasteners for holding the insulation displacement connectors in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Carroll, Lee L. Snider, Mohammad Khandan-Barani, Ronald G. Flanary, Allen Duncan, Travis S. King
  • Patent number: 10811927
    Abstract: An electric motor built for exposure to high pressure fluid includes a unitary metal sleeve that provides a fluid barrier between the rotor and the stator. An overmolded resin encapsulates the stator windings and reinforces the sleeve to minimize deformation of the sleeve under high fluid pressures. The overmolded resin also fixes the positions of insulation displacement connectors connected to the stator windings, thereby avoiding mechanical brackets and fasteners for holding the insulation displacement connectors in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Carroll, Lee L. Snider, Mohammad Khandan-Barani, Ronald G. Flanary, Allen Duncan, Travis S. King
  • Patent number: 10574114
    Abstract: An electric motor built for exposure to high pressure fluid includes a unitary metal sleeve that provides a fluid barrier between the rotor and the stator. An overmolded resin encapsulates the stator windings and reinforces the sleeve to minimize deformation of the sleeve under high fluid pressures. The overmolded resin also fixes the positions of insulation displacement connectors connected to the stator windings, thereby avoiding mechanical brackets and fasteners for holding the insulation displacement connectors in position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Moog Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew Allen Carroll, Lee L. Snider, Mohammad Khandan-Barani, Ronald G. Flanary, Allen Duncan, Travis S. King
  • Patent number: 10473310
    Abstract: A lighting assembly can be quickly and efficiently mounted to a crown of a drilling rig derrick in order to provide wide-area illumination of the derrick and surrounding work location. An adjustable support frame member can be operationally attached to a hand rail of a derrick crown using fixed-length bracket members, adjustable-length bracket members and/or a combination(s) thereof. Lighting-emitting light source elements are adjustably attached to the support frame, and can be selectively aimed to direct light as desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Location Illuminator Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Charles Allen Carroll
  • Publication number: 20180187873
    Abstract: A lighting assembly can be quickly and efficiently mounted to a crown of a drilling rig derrick in order to provide wide-area illumination of the derrick and surrounding work location. An adjustable support frame member can be operationally attached to a hand rail of a derrick crown using fixed-length bracket members, adjustable-length bracket members and/or a combination(s) thereof. Lighting-emitting light source elements are adjustably attached to the support frame, and can be selectively aimed to direct light as desired.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventor: Charles Allen Carroll
  • Publication number: 20170229931
    Abstract: A straight line lamination for an electric motor has alternating finger segments and hinge segments to be rollable after windings are installed to form a circular motor stator. The lamination is configured such that inner edges of a back iron region are non-arcuate in shape to provide extra back iron material near the hinge segments for mitigating torque constant roll off.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2016
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Inventors: Lee L. Snider, Charles James Ford, Matthew Allen Carroll, Ronald G. Flanary, II
  • Patent number: 9214344
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a pillar-supported array of micro electron lenses. The micro-lens array includes a base layer on a substrate, the base layer including an array of base electrode pads and an insulating border surrounding the base electrode pads so as to electrically isolate the base electrode pads from each other. The micro-lens array further includes an array of lens holes aligned with the array of base electrode pads and one or more stacked electrode layers having openings aligned with the array of lens holes. The micro-lens array further includes one or more layers of insulating pillars, each layer of insulating pillars supporting a stacked electrode layer. Another embodiment relates to a method of fabricating a pillar-supported array of micro electron lenses. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Alan D. Brodie, Yehiel Gotkis, Allen Carroll, Leonid Baranov
  • Patent number: 9081287
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a method of measuring overlay errors for a programmable pattern, area-imaging electron beam lithography apparatus. Patterned cells of an overlay measurement target array may be printed in swaths such that they are superposed on patterned cells of a first (base) array. In addition, the overlay array may have controlled-exposure areas distributed within the swaths. The superposed cells of the overlay and base arrays are imaged. The overlay errors are then measured based on distortions between the two arrays in the image data. Alternatively, non-imaging methods, such as using scatterometry, may be used. Another embodiment relates to a method for correcting overlay errors for an electron beam lithography apparatus. Overlay errors for a pattern to be printed are determined based on within-swath exposure conditions. The pattern is then pre-distorted to compensate for the overlay errors. Other embodiments, aspects and features are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Walter D. Mieher, Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 8893059
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to a pattern data system for maskless electron beam lithography. The system includes a renderer that receives pre-exposure die image data, performs rendering of the pre-exposure die image data to generate raster data. The system further includes a plurality of data distributors communicatively coupled to the renderer. Each data distributor adapts the raster data to characteristics of an associated pattern writer. Other embodiments, aspects and feature are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventor: Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 8373144
    Abstract: One embodiment relates to an electron-beam apparatus for writing a pattern on a target substrate. The apparatus includes a plurality of arrays of actively-controlled pixel elements at a surface of a reflective electron patterning device. The plurality of arrays of actively-controlled pixel elements are arranged so that there is an area without any actively-controlled pixel elements in a region surrounding an optical axis of the objective lens. The plurality of arrays may be arranged to each lie on a circle centered on the optical axis. Other features, aspects and embodiments are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2013
    Assignee: KLA-Tencor Corporation
    Inventors: Mark A. McCord, Paul F. Petric, Allen Carroll
  • Patent number: 7575726
    Abstract: A catalytic converter device, useful with a self-cleaning oven, is provided. The device includes (a) a dish-shaped body formed of a mesh of metal strands, the body having a base member, sidewalls projecting from the base member, and a flange extending out from the sidewalls, the mesh having a plurality of apertures therethrough; (b) a catalytic material on at least the surface of the mesh; and (c) one or more locking tabs extending from the sidewalls, wherein the locking tabs and flange cooperate to secure the device within an orifice of a gas vent so exhaust gases will pass through the apertures. The locking tabs can be formed by punching a hole in the sidewall, such that each locking tab remains integral with the sidewall, the locking tab projecting from an edge of the hole distal the flange and at angle toward the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2009
    Assignee: Applied Technology Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Joseph Allen Carroll, Robert L. Mitchell