Patents by Inventor Andrew Funk

Andrew Funk 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: 10788222
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a cooking or cooktop appliance is provided herein. The exhaust system may include a casing, an image monitor, and an air handler. The casing may define an air inlet and an air outlet above the cooktop appliance. The image monitor may be supported on the casing above a cooktop surface. The image monitor may include an imagining surface extending in a lateral direction between a first edge and a second edge. The air handler may be mounted within the casing in fluid communication between the air inlet and the air outlet to motivate an airflow therethrough. The air outlet may be defined proximal to the first edge and defines a coolant airflow path extending along the lateral direction across the imaging surface from the first edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Bernard Froelicher, James Lee Armstrong, Michael Andrew Funk
  • Publication number: 20200274502
    Abstract: An exemplary audio enhancement system substantially eliminates latency by returning audio input signals in amplified form directly in the analog domain to the source, thereby reducing signal degradation and removing redundancy from digital and analog audio transmission and processing architectures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Nevin Steinberg, Andrew Funk, Jason Crystal
  • Patent number: 10716477
    Abstract: A medical system may include a shaft member and a structure physically coupled to the shaft member. A portion of the shaft member may be sized to be delivered through a bodily opening leading to a bodily cavity. The structure may include at least two flexible couplings, each flexible coupling extending transversely from an intermediate portion of a respective one of at least two elongate members of the structure. The flexible coupling extending transversely from the intermediate portion of a first one of the at least two elongate members forms at least a part of a first closed loop arranged to receive a portion of the flexible coupling of a second one of the at least two elongate members therethrough to limit a spacing between the intermediate portions of the first and the second ones of the at least two elongate members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: KARDIUM INC.
    Inventors: Aldo Antonio Salvestro, John Andrew Funk, Kelly Wilson Watkinson, Saar Moisa
  • Publication number: 20200164181
    Abstract: A catheter sheath device may include an elongate member and a moveable member. The elongate member may include a first lumen, and the moveable member may include a second lumen. The moveable member may be physically coupled to a portion of the elongate member to permit relative movement therebetween. A first relative movement between the moveable member and a portion of the elongate member may cause the second lumen to be positioned at a first location that permits delivery of at least a portion of a catheter into the second lumen but not into the first lumen from the second lumen. A second relative movement between the moveable member and the portion of the elongate member may cause the second lumen to be positioned at a second location that permits delivery of the at least the portion of the catheter through both the second lumen and the first lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Ashkan Sardari, Ian Garben, Calvin Dane Cummings, Saar Moisa, John Andrew Funk
  • Patent number: 10627118
    Abstract: A cooking engagement system and methods therefore are provided. The system includes a cooktop appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance. The interactive assembly includes an image monitor that presents various images and information to a user, e.g., recipes. The system includes a humidity sensor for detecting operation of the cooktop appliance. When the humidity sensor senses a humidity level that exceeds a threshold, a controller communicatively coupled thereto activates an air handler to move or motivate an airflow across or about the image monitor. In this way, the image monitor may be cooled and condensation is prevented from forming on the imaging surface of the image monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Funk, James Lee Armstrong, Stephen Bernard Froelicher
  • Patent number: 10619863
    Abstract: A cooking engagement system and methods therefore are provided. The system includes a cooktop appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance. The interactive assembly includes an image monitor that presents various images and information to a user, e.g., recipes. The system includes a thermistor for detecting operation of the cooktop appliance. When the thermistor senses a temperature level that exceeds a threshold, a controller communicatively coupled thereto activates an air handler to move or motivate an airflow across or about the image monitor. In this way, the image monitor may be cooled and condensation is prevented from forming on the imaging surface of the image monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Funk, James Lee Armstrong
  • Patent number: 10589069
    Abstract: A catheter sheath device may include an elongate member and a moveable member. The elongate member may include a first lumen, and the moveable member may include a second lumen. The moveable member may be physically coupled to a portion of the elongate member to permit relative movement therebetween. A first relative movement between the moveable member and the portion of the elongate member may cause the second lumen to be positioned at a first location that permits delivery of at least a portion of a catheter into the second lumen but not into the first lumen from the second lumen. A second relative movement between the moveable member and the portion of the elongate member may cause the second lumen to be positioned at a second location that permits delivery of the at least the portion of the catheter through both the second lumen and the first lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: KARDIUM INC.
    Inventors: Ashkan Sardari, Ian Garben, Calvin Dane Cummings, Saar Moisa, John Andrew Funk
  • Publication number: 20200041142
    Abstract: A cooking engagement system and methods therefore are provided. The system includes a cooktop appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance. The interactive assembly includes an image monitor that presents various images and information to a user, e.g., recipes. The system includes a humidity sensor for detecting operation of the cooktop appliance. When the humidity sensor senses a humidity level that exceeds a threshold, a controller communicatively coupled thereto activates an air handler to move or motivate an airflow across or about the image monitor. In this way, the image monitor may be cooled and condensation is prevented from forming on the imaging surface of the image monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Funk, James Lee Armstrong, Stephen Bernard Froelicher
  • Publication number: 20200041141
    Abstract: A cooking engagement system and methods therefore are provided. The system includes a cooktop appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance. The interactive assembly includes an image monitor that presents various images and information to a user, e.g., recipes. The system includes a thermistor for detecting operation of the cooktop appliance. When the thermistor senses a temperature level that exceeds a threshold, a controller communicatively coupled thereto activates an air handler to move or motivate an airflow across or about the image monitor. In this way, the image monitor may be cooled and condensation is prevented from forming on the imaging surface of the image monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Funk, James Lee Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20200041143
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a cooking or cooktop appliance is provided herein. The exhaust system may include a casing, an image monitor, and an air handler. The casing may define an air inlet and an air outlet above the cooktop appliance. The image monitor may be supported on the casing above a cooktop surface. The image monitor may include an imagining surface extending in a lateral direction between a first edge and a second edge. The air handler may be mounted within the casing in fluid communication between the air inlet and the air outlet to motivate an airflow therethrough. The air outlet may be defined proximal to the first edge and defines a coolant airflow path extending along the lateral direction across the imaging surface from the first edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Stephen Bernard Froelicher, James Lee Armstrong, Michael Andrew Funk
  • Publication number: 20200041139
    Abstract: An exhaust system for a cooking or cooktop appliance is provided herein. The exhaust system may include a casing, an image monitor, an air handler, and a diverter plate. The casing may define an air inlet and an air outlet above a cooktop appliance. The image monitor may be supported on the casing rearward from the air outlet. The image monitor may include an imagining surface extending in a vertical direction between a top edge and a bottom edge. The air handler may be mounted within the casing in fluid communication between the air inlet and outlet. The diverter plate may be attached to the casing below the imaging surface. The air outlet may be defined proximal to the top edge and may define a coolant airflow path. The diverter plate may define an airflow curtain path extending outward from the coolant airflow path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: James Lee Armstrong, Michael Andrew Funk
  • Publication number: 20200041346
    Abstract: A cooking engagement system and methods therefore are provided. The system includes a cooktop appliance and an interactive assembly positioned above the cooktop appliance. The interactive assembly includes an image monitor that presents various images and information to a user, e.g., recipes. The system includes an infrared sensor for detecting operation of the cooktop appliance. When the infrared sensor senses a temperature level that exceeds a threshold, a controller communicatively coupled thereto activates an air handler to move or motivate an airflow across or about the image monitor. In this way, the image monitor may be cooled and condensation is prevented from forming on the imaging surface of the image monitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2018
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Andrew Funk, James Lee Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20200015890
    Abstract: A medical device system may include transducers and a structure on which the transducers are located. The structure may include at least a first portion of each elongate member of a plurality of elongate members. Each respective set of a plurality of sets of one or more of the transducers may be located on a respective one of the plurality of elongate members. The structure may be selectively moveable between a delivery configuration in which the structure is sized to be percutaneously deliverable to a bodily cavity and a deployed configuration in which the structure is sized too large to be percutaneously deliverable to the bodily cavity. The second portion of each elongate member of the plurality of elongate members may be arranged in a helical configuration or a twisted, non-helical configuration including at least 360 degrees of rotation when the structure is in the delivery configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: Derrick Kevin TO, Fernando Luis de Souza LOPES, Saar MOISA, Ashkan SARDARI, John Andrew FUNK, Peter Josiah HAWES, Calvin Dane CUMMINGS
  • Publication number: 20190358430
    Abstract: A catheter sheath device may include an elongate member and a moveable member. The elongate member may include a first lumen, and the moveable member may include a second lumen. The moveable member may be physically coupled to a portion of the elongate member to permit relative movement therebetween. A first relative movement between the moveable member and a portion of the elongate member may cause the second lumen to be positioned at a first location that permits delivery of at least a portion of a catheter into the second lumen but not into the first lumen from the second lumen. A second relative movement between the moveable member and the portion of the elongate member may cause the second lumen to be positioned at a second location that permits delivery of the at least the portion of the catheter through both the second lumen and the first lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ashkan Sardari, Ian Garben, Calvin Dane Cummings, Saar Moisa, John Andrew Funk
  • Patent number: 10436690
    Abstract: An impact resistance test method of a glove having a protective material includes applying an impact force, with an impactor, to the glove at a plurality of locations on a section of the glove, measuring, with a load cell, a transferred impact force transferred through the section of the glove, and determining an impact resistance of the glove based on the measured transferred impact force. The impactor has a predetermined weight and is dropped from a predetermined height to apply the impact force to the section of the glove. An apparatus for carrying out the test method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: WELLS LAMONT INDUSTRY GROUP LLC
    Inventors: Dalia Taylor, William Trainer, Andrew Funk, Angela Fisher
  • Publication number: 20190150752
    Abstract: A medical system may include a shaft member and a structure physically coupled to the shaft member. A portion of the shaft member may be sized to be delivered through a bodily opening leading to a bodily cavity. The structure may include at least two flexible couplings, each flexible coupling extending transversely from an intermediate portion of a respective one of at least two elongate members of the structure. The flexible coupling extending transversely from the intermediate portion of a first one of the at least two elongate members forms at least a part of a first closed loop arranged to receive a portion of the flexible coupling of a second one of the at least two elongate members therethrough to limit a spacing between the intermediate portions of the first and the second ones of the at least two elongate members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Aldo Antonio SALVESTRO, John Andrew FUNK, Kelly Wilson WATKINSON, Saar MOISA
  • Publication number: 20190142546
    Abstract: A medical device flushing apparatus may include an enclosure and at least one fluid-providing channel. The enclosure may include an interior surface defining at least part of a flushing cavity configured to receive a structure of a medical device. The at least one fluid-providing channel may interrupt the interior surface of the enclosure, the at least one fluid-providing channel configured to provide fluid to the flushing cavity. Each of the at least one fluid-providing channel may point, in a fluid-providing direction, toward an interior of the flushing cavity, each fluid-providing direction pointing away from a centroid of the flushing cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2018
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Ian GARBEN, Calvin Dane CUMMINGS, John Andrew FUNK
  • Patent number: 10278590
    Abstract: A medical system may include a shaft member and a structure physically coupled to the shaft member. A portion of the shaft member may be sized to be delivered through a bodily opening leading to a bodily cavity. The structure may include at least two flexible couplings, each flexible coupling extending transversely from an intermediate portion of a respective one of at least two elongate members of the structure. The flexible coupling extending transversely from the intermediate portion of a first one of the at least two elongate members forms at least a part of a first closed loop arranged to receive a portion of the flexible coupling of a second one of the at least two elongate members therethrough to limit a spacing between the intermediate portions of the first and the second ones of the at least two elongate members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: KARDIUM INC.
    Inventors: Aldo Antonio Salvestro, John Andrew Funk, Kelly Wilson Watkinson, Saar Moisa
  • Publication number: 20180264225
    Abstract: A distal end portion of an elongate shaft member of a catheter may be inserted into liquid within a vessel. While the distal end portion of the elongate shaft member is inserted in the liquid in the vessel, a manipulable portion of the catheter system may be manipulated within the liquid to remove undesired fluid therefrom. The liquid may be pressurized to cause the liquid to flow into a lumen of the elongate shaft member from the distal end of the elongate shaft member at least toward the proximal end of the elongate shaft member to flush undesirable fluid from the lumen. The distal end portion of the elongate shaft member of the catheter may be inserted into the liquid within the vessel while at least the elongate shaft member is in a substantially horizontal orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Ashkan SARDARI, Saar MOISA, John Andrew FUNK
  • Publication number: 20180264230
    Abstract: Medical systems are disclosed which may include an elongate shaft member and a plurality of steering lines operable to cause bending of the elongate shaft member via movement of at least one of the steering lines. A respective second end portion of a first proximal steering line may terminate at a first proximal termination portion of the elongate shaft member, and a respective second end portion of the first distal steering line may terminate at a first distal termination portion of the elongate shaft member. The elongate shaft member may be formed of materials of different hardness to provide preferential bending in desired directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: John Andrew FUNK, Saar MOISA, Ashkan SARDARI