Patents by Inventor Allen Tucker

Allen Tucker 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: 11950832
    Abstract: Concepts presented herein relate to an interface module that can be electrically coupled to an electrical stimulation generator, a radio frequency generator and an instrument. A selection module is coupled to the interface module and operates in a first mode to deliver electrical stimulation signals from the electrical stimulation generator to the instrument and in a second mode to deliver radio frequency signals from the radio frequency generator to the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC XOMED, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Lee McFarlin, John C. Bruce, David C. Hacker, Robert Allen Tucker
  • Publication number: 20210204998
    Abstract: Concepts presented herein relate to an interface module that can be electrically coupled to an electrical stimulation generator, a radio frequency generator and an instrument. A selection module is coupled to the interface module and operates in a first mode to deliver electrical stimulation signals from the electrical stimulation generator to the instrument and in a second mode to deliver radio frequency signals from the radio frequency generator to the instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Applicant: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lee McFarlin, John C. Bruce, David C. Hacker, Robert Allen Tucker
  • Patent number: 10980593
    Abstract: Concepts presented herein relate to an interface module that can be electrically coupled to an electrical stimulation generator, a radio frequency generator and an instrument. A selection module is coupled to the interface module and operates in a first mode to deliver electrical stimulation signals from the electrical stimulation generator to the instrument and in a second mode to deliver radio frequency signals from the radio frequency generator to the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lee McFarlin, John C. Bruce, David C. Hacker, Robert Allen Tucker
  • Patent number: 10631912
    Abstract: Concepts presented herein relate to an interface module that can be electrically coupled to an electrical stimulation generator, a radio frequency generator and an instrument. A selection module is coupled to the interface module and operates in a first mode to deliver electrical stimulation signals from the electrical stimulation generator to the instrument and in a second mode to deliver radio frequency signals from the radio frequency generator to the instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lee McFarlin, John C. Bruce, David C. Hacker, Robert Allen Tucker
  • Patent number: 10246220
    Abstract: A food container coupling system includes a food container configured to attach to a can or a beverage container lid/coupler. The food container includes a food compartment with a side wall and a bottom, which has a food compartment coupling structure. The food compartment coupling structure has an inner wall coupling structure with an inner wall jut, and is shaped complementary to the rim of a beverage can and when the food container is mounted to the beverage can, the food compartment coupling structure mates with the beverage can rim. The system may also include a beverage container lid/coupler with a coupling ring adapted to mate with the rim of a beverage container, wherein the rim defines a second plane, and a beverage container lid coupling structure extends from the second plane and can mate with the food compartment coupling structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Buck, Allen Tucker
  • Patent number: 10232997
    Abstract: A food container system is disclosed that includes a food container lid. The lid has a beverage container coupling structure that removably attaches to a beverage container. The beverage container coupling structure circumscribes a footprint of the lid. The lid also has a drink-hole surface within the lid footprint and an annular surface above the beverage container coupling structure and within the lid footprint. The annular surface is connected to the drink-hole planar surface and includes food container coupling structure that removably attaches to a second food container. A food compartment is formed from a food compartment inner wall extending from the annular surface, and a bottom connected to the food compartment inner wall. The lid also includes a drink hole extending through the drink-hole surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2019
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry
  • Publication number: 20180295958
    Abstract: A piggy bank, collection box, or ballot box made from an aluminum can having a slot made near its upper outer rim; preferably having a cover thereon, and preferably one themed for a fundraising or saving purpose or being the terminus of a slide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventor: David Allen Tucker
  • Publication number: 20180204107
    Abstract: A self-contained algorithmic interactive system in the form of an architecturally-based software program running in hardware, wetware, plush, or other physical means which would facilitate its operating characteristic designed to establish a meaningful interaction with a participant, in the form of a conversational dialogue, which could be any of, or combinations thereof, the following: Verbal, non-verbal, tactile, electromagnetic signaling, or visual communicative styles between itself and an external entity, such as a human being, an external application, or another interactive system. To ensure the detail of the interaction remains private, data and information generated during interaction is stored within the confines of the hardware's memory and software system and not exported to an external server or network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventor: Christopher Allen Tucker
  • Publication number: 20180104980
    Abstract: Tools for transforming cans into parts for art and toys. You lock a can into a tube having openings that indicate locations to poke, cut, mark or slot the can, and this physically supports the can and guides the user's tools. Another tool with a flat, tearing area makes dual cuts on both of its sides simultaneously as it rips material away in a strip, leaving rolled edges behind along the cut that are safer and desirably rigid. Another tool can variably position the can in the tube. Finally, metal panels produced by the tube and can are passed through the roller tools' curved, internal cavities, thereby producing useful metal “carpet rolls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 19, 2018
    Inventor: David Allen Tucker
  • Publication number: 20180079567
    Abstract: A food container system is disclosed that includes a food container lid. The lid has a beverage container coupling structure that removably attaches to a beverage container. The beverage container coupling structure circumscribes a footprint of the lid. The lid also has a drink-hole surface within the lid footprint and an annular surface above the beverage container coupling structure and within the lid footprint. The annular surface is connected to the drink-hole planar surface and includes food container coupling structure that removably attaches to a second food container. A food compartment is formed from a food compartment inner wall extending from the annular surface, and a bottom connected to the food compartment inner wall. The lid also includes a drink hole extending through the drink-hole surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry
  • Publication number: 20170312006
    Abstract: Concepts presented herein relate to an interface module that can be electrically coupled to an electrical stimulation generator, a radio frequency generator and an instrument. A selection module is coupled to the interface module and operates in a first mode to deliver electrical stimulation signals from the electrical stimulation generator to the instrument and in a second mode to deliver radio frequency signals from the radio frequency generator to the instrument.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2017
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Applicant: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lee McFarlin, John C. Bruce, David C. Hacker, Robert Allen Tucker
  • Patent number: 9783349
    Abstract: A food container coupling system includes a food container configured to attach to a bottle coupler. The food container includes a food compartment with a side wall and a bottom, which has a food compartment coupling structure extending therefrom. The system also includes a bottle coupler with a top rim and a bottle coupler coupling structure extending from the top rim. The bottle coupler further has an annular opening adapted to fit around the neck of a bottle, a small can or a large can. When the food container is mounted to the bottle coupler, the food compartment coupling structure mates with the bottle coupler coupling structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: SnackTops, Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Buck, Allen Tucker
  • Publication number: 20170247140
    Abstract: A food container coupling system is disclosed that includes a food container configured to attach to a can or a beverage container lid/coupler. The food container includes a food compartment with a side wall and a bottom, which has a food compartment coupling structure. The food compartment coupling structure has an inner wall coupling structure with an inner wall jut, and is shaped complementary to the rim of a beverage can and when the food container is mounted to the beverage can, the food compartment coupling structure mates with the beverage can rim. The system may also include a beverage container lid/coupler with a coupling ring adapted to mate with the rim of a beverage container, wherein the rim defines a second plane, and a beverage container lid coupling structure extends from the second plane and can mate with the food compartment coupling structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2017
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Buck, Allen Tucker
  • Publication number: 20170203893
    Abstract: A food container coupling system is disclosed that includes a food container configured to attach to a bottle coupler. The food container includes a food compartment with a side wall and a bottom, which has a food compartment coupling structure extending therefrom. The system also includes a bottle coupler with a top rim and a bottle coupler coupling structure extending from the top rim. The bottle coupler further has an annular opening adapted to fit around the neck of a bottle, a small can or a large can. When the food container is mounted to the bottle coupler, the food compartment coupling structure mates with the bottle coupler coupling structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald Mark Buck, Allen Tucker
  • Patent number: D801810
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry
  • Patent number: D803051
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry
  • Patent number: D836436
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry
  • Patent number: D836437
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry
  • Patent number: D836438
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry
  • Patent number: D846985
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: SNACKTOPS, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeff Engel, Allen Tucker, Mike Henry