Patents by Inventor Andrew Long

Andrew Long 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: 12656516
    Abstract: Methods for performing a marine survey of a subterranean formation using a hybrid combination of ocean bottom seismic (“OBS”) receivers, wide towed sources, and moving streamers are described herein. In one aspect, a sail line separation in a crossline direction is determined based on an average streamer separation and number of streamers. An array of OBS receivers are deposited on a surface of a subterranean formation with an OBS receiver separation that is based on the sail line separation. Wide towed sources and streamers are towed above the array of OBS receivers behind a survey vessel that travels sail lines separated by the sail line separation. The wide towed sources may be activated above the array of OBS receivers. Wavefields reflected from the subterranean formation are recorded at the OBS receivers and receivers located in the streamers as seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2026
    Assignee: PGS Geophysical AS
    Inventors: Manuel Beitz, Martin Widmaier, Andrew Long
  • Publication number: 20260015161
    Abstract: Waste storage devices are provided. The waste storage device is capable of sharing information concerning the health of a user. The waste storage device includes a sampling area in the interior of the container configured to detect the presence of one or more volatile organic compounds. The waste storage device is in communication with a server system capable of generating and delivering a notification to a user. Methods for communicating a health state of a user are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2025
    Publication date: January 15, 2026
    Inventors: Shawn J. Sullivan, David Koenig, Jonathan D. Boulos, Andrew Long, Nickolas Barnes
  • Patent number: 12428220
    Abstract: Waste storage devices are provided. The waste storage device is capable of sharing information concerning the health of a user. The waste storage device includes a sampling area in the interior of the container configured to detect the presence of one or more volatile organic compounds. The waste storage device is in communication with a server system capable of generating and delivering a notification to a user. Methods for communicating a health state of a user are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn J. Sullivan, David Koenig, Jonathan D. Boulos, Andrew Long, Nickolas Barnes
  • Patent number: 12156853
    Abstract: The medication dispensing assembly includes a housing having an interior. A medication bottle is disposed in the interior with its cap assembly facing vertically downwardly. The cap assembly includes outer, middle, and inner pieces. The outer and inner pieces are fixed with one another, and the middle piece is fixed with the bottle. A drive unit is disposed in the interior of the housing and is configured to rotate the bottle and the middle piece of the cap assembly about a vertical axis. The three pieces of the cap assembly have respective medication openings, and rotating the bottle causes individual pills to travel first from the bottle into the inner piece, then into the middle piece, then around the vertical axis, and then outside of the cap assembly through the medication opening of the outer piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Long, Stanley Joe Johnson, Robert E. Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20240108552
    Abstract: The medication dispensing assembly includes a housing having an interior. A medication bottle is disposed in the interior with its cap assembly facing vertically downwardly. The cap assembly includes outer, middle, and inner pieces. The outer and inner pieces are fixed with one another, and the middle piece is fixed with the bottle. A drive unit is disposed in the interior of the housing and is configured to rotate the bottle and the middle piece of the cap assembly about a vertical axis. The three pieces of the cap assembly have respective medication openings, and rotating the bottle causes individual pills to travel first from the bottle into the inner piece, then into the middle piece, then around the vertical axis, and then outside of the cap assembly through the medication opening of the outer piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Long, Stanley Joe Johnson, Robert E. Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20240012169
    Abstract: Methods for performing a marine survey of a subterranean formation using a hybrid combination of ocean bottom seismic (“OBS”) receivers, wide towed sources, and moving streamers are described herein. In one aspect, a sail line separation in a crossline direction is determined based on an average streamer separation and number of streamers. An array of OBS receivers are deposited on a surface of a subterranean formation with an OBS receiver separation that is based on the sail line separation. Wide towed sources and streamers are towed above the array of OBS receivers behind a survey vessel that travels sail lines separated by the sail line separation. The wide towed sources may be activated above the array of OBS receivers. Wavefields reflected from the subterranean formation are recorded at the OBS receivers and receivers located in the streamers as seismic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: PGS Geophysicai AS
    Inventors: Manuel Beitz, Martin Widmaier, Andrew Long
  • Patent number: 11857505
    Abstract: The medication dispensing assembly includes a housing having an interior. A medication bottle is disposed in the interior with its cap assembly facing vertically downwardly. The cap assembly includes outer, middle, and inner pieces. The outer and inner pieces are fixed with one another, and the middle piece is fixed with the bottle. A drive unit is disposed in the interior of the housing and is configured to rotate the bottle and the middle piece of the cap assembly about a vertical axis. The three pieces of the cap assembly have respective medication openings, and rotating the bottle causes individual pills to travel first from the bottle into the inner piece, then into the middle piece, then around the vertical axis, and then outside of the cap assembly through the medication opening of the outer piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Long, Stanley Joe Johnson, Robert E. Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20230393894
    Abstract: A system includes processor hardware configured to execute instructions from memory hardware. The instructions include, in response to designation of an entity within a data store, obtaining information and determining a condition of the designated entity. The instructions include, based on the condition of the designated entity, identifying a set of states. The instructions include obtaining trigger conditions for the selected state, each specifying a set of satisfaction criteria. The instructions include determining whether each trigger condition is satisfied by evaluating the satisfaction criteria based on data corresponding to the designated entity. The instructions include selectively selecting another state based on whether the trigger conditions are satisfied. The instructions include determining, and scheduling for execution, an executable sequence based on the selected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Herzig, Neha Jain, Christina M. Vallery, Andrew Long, Shauna Mooney
  • Publication number: 20230395215
    Abstract: Methods and systems for providing a scalable framework for a digital mesh are provided. The methods and systems perform operations comprising: receiving patient information associated with a patient; receiving, via a graphical user interface, a request for health services for the patient; in response to receiving the request for health services, applying a model to the patient information to select a first type of service of care from a plurality of types of service of care; accessing a mesh application service architecture (MASA) to route traffic comprising a portion of the patient information to a server associated with the first type of service of care; and generating, for display within the graphical user interface, health service information received from the server associated with the first type of service of care.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew Long, Christina M. Vallery, Chris Haddad, Brian S. Mitchell
  • Publication number: 20230395214
    Abstract: A method for automated entity field correction includes receiving one or more target health conditions, obtaining a set of multiple patient entries, stored patient data, stored claims data and stored prescription data, and determining an eligibility status for each patient entry according to specified eligibility criteria, indicative of the patient entry being eligible for targeted outreach regarding the target health condition(s). For each patient entry in an eligible subset, the method includes determining an exclusion status for the patient entry according to specified exclusion criteria, indicative of the patient entry being excluded from targeted outreach regarding the target health condition(s). The method includes accessing stored provider data, and for each patient entry in the non-excluded subset, determining a provider match for the patient entry according to at least a portion of the stored provider data, and transmitting the provider match to a computing device associated with the patient entry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 1, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: Priya Needs, Carol Quinlan, Andrew Long, Beth Taylor, Jason A. Short, Shauna Mooney
  • Publication number: 20230365328
    Abstract: Waste storage devices are provided. The waste storage device is capable of sharing information concerning the health of a user. The waste storage device includes a sampling area in the interior of the container configured to detect the presence of one or more volatile organic compounds. The waste storage device is in communication with a server system capable of generating and delivering a notification to a user. Methods for communicating a health state of a user are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Shawn J. Sullivan, David Koenig, Jonathan D. Boulos, Andrew Long, Nickolas Barnes
  • Patent number: 11816971
    Abstract: A system, wearable device and management device provided for predicting a flashover event. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a wearable device for predicting a flashover event is provided. The wearable device includes at least one thermal sensor configured to generate thermal data associated with an environment, and processing circuitry configured to: determine a risk of ignition of at least one combustible gas in the environment based on the thermal data, and trigger at least one action based on the determined risk of ignition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Andrew Long, Panagiotis D. Stanitsas, Jerome Shanko, Jr., Wesley M. Barbee, Matthew M. Shettel, Matthew Shannon, Johnathan R. Graves, James W. Howard, James B. Snyder, James L. C. Werness, Jr., Jason Patterson, Ravi Raagav Srinivas, Payas Tikotekar
  • Patent number: 11802986
    Abstract: Methods for performing a marine survey of a subterranean formation using a hybrid combination of ocean bottom seismic (“OBS”) receivers, wide towed sources, and moving streamers are described herein. In one aspect, a sail line separation in a crossline direction is determined based on an average streamer separation and number of streamers. An array of OBS receivers are deposited on a surface of a subterranean formation with an OBS receiver separation that is based on the sail line separation. Wide towed sources and streamers are towed above the array of OBS receivers behind a survey vessel that travels sail lines separated by the sail line separation. The wide towed sources may be activated above the array of OBS receivers. Wavefields reflected from the subterranean formation are recorded at the OBS receivers and receivers located in the streamers as seismic data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: PGS GEOPHYSICAL AS
    Inventors: Manuel Beitz, Martin Widmaier, Andrew Long
  • Publication number: 20220105008
    Abstract: The medication dispensing assembly includes a housing having an interior. A medication bottle is disposed in the interior with its cap assembly facing vertically downwardly. The cap assembly includes outer, middle, and inner pieces. The outer and inner pieces are fixed with one another, and the middle piece is fixed with the bottle. A drive unit is disposed in the interior of the housing and is configured to rotate the bottle and the middle piece of the cap assembly about a vertical axis. The three pieces of the cap assembly have respective medication openings, and rotating the bottle causes individual pills to travel first from the bottle into the inner piece, then into the middle piece, then around the vertical axis, and then outside of the cap assembly through the medication opening of the outer piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Long, Stanley Joe Johnson, Robert E. Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20210366255
    Abstract: A system, wearable device and management device provided for predicting a flashover event. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a wearable device for predicting a flashover event is provided. The wearable device includes at least one thermal sensor configured to generate thermal data associated with an environment, and processing circuitry configured to: determine a risk of ignition of at least one combustible gas in the environment based on the thermal data, and trigger at least one action based on the determined risk of ignition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Andrew LONG, Panagiotis D. STANITSAS, Jerome SHANKO, Jr., Wesley M. BARBEE, Matthew M. SHETTEL, Matthew SHANNON, Johnathan R. GRAVES, James W. HOWARD, James B. SNYDER, James L.C. WERNESS, Jr., Jason PATTERSON, Ravi Raagav SRINIVAS, Payas TIKOTEKAR
  • Patent number: 11013641
    Abstract: A garment configured for detecting leakage from an absorbent article underlying the garment and methods of detecting leakage from an absorbent article using such a garment are disclosed. The garment can include a substrate and a wetness detection system. The wetness detection system can include a first wetness detection mechanism disposed at a first detection zone on the substrate. The wetness detection system can further include a second wetness detection mechanism disposed at a second detection zone on the substrate. The second detection zone can be different than the first detection zone. In preferred embodiments, the first wetness detection mechanism and the second wetness detection mechanism can be configured to sense wetness electronically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.
    Inventors: Shawn Jeffery Sullivan, Davis Dang H. Nhan, Rebecca E. Strong, Andrew Long
  • Publication number: 20200393591
    Abstract: Methods for performing a marine survey of a subterranean formation using a hybrid combination of ocean bottom seismic (“OBS”) receivers, wide towed sources, and moving streamers are described herein. In one aspect, a sail line separation in a crossline direction is determined based on an average streamer separation and number of streamers. An array of OBS receivers are deposited on a surface of a subterranean formation with an OBS receiver separation that is based on the sail line separation. Wide towed sources and streamers are towed above the array of OBS receivers behind a survey vessel that travels sail lines separated by the sail line separation. The wide towed sources may be activated above the array of OBS receivers. Wavefields reflected from the subterranean formation are recorded at the OBS receivers and receivers located in the streamers as seismic data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Applicant: PGS Geophysical AS
    Inventors: Manuel Beitz, Martin Widmaier, Andrew Long
  • Publication number: 20200375809
    Abstract: A garment configured for detecting leakage from an absorbent article underlying the garment and methods of detecting leakage from an absorbent article using such a garment are disclosed. The garment can include a substrate and a wetness detection system. The wetness detection system can include a first wetness detection mechanism disposed at a first detection zone on the substrate. The wetness detection system can further include a second wetness detection mechanism disposed at a second detection zone on the substrate. The second detection zone can be different than the first detection zone. In preferred embodiments, the first wetness detection mechanism and the second wetness detection mechanism can be configured to sense wetness electronically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2017
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Shawn Jeffery Sullivan, Davis Dang H. Nhan, Rebecca E. Strong, Andrew Long
  • Patent number: 10085893
    Abstract: An absorbent article includes a front waist region, a back waist region, and a crotch region extending between the front and back waist regions. The front waist region has a front waist edge and the back waist region has a back waist edge. The front and back waist edges define a waist opening when the absorbent article is in a wear configuration. An elastomeric waist band extends around at least a portion of the waist opening adjacent the front and back waist edges and defines a circumference of the waist opening. Each leg cuff member of a pair of leg cuff members defines a respective leg opening when the absorbent article is in the wear configuration and operatively connected to the waist band such that movement of the waist band results in movement of the leg cuff members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Long, Julie Paveletzke
  • Patent number: D1049155
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Evernorth Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Christina M. Vallery, Andrew Long, Shauna Mooney, Eve Ogden