Patents by Inventor Anthony Franklin

Anthony Franklin 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: 11058830
    Abstract: An assistive device for subcutaneous injections or implants. The assistive device is placed under a blood pressure cuff that displaces the skin and subcutaneous tissues of a patient at an insertion site in order to allow guided insertion of a needle or implant applicator into a subcutaneous fat layer. The skin and subcutaneous tissue is displaced or drawn, via pressure applied by the blood pressure cuff, through an injection window of a device body into a hollow cavity of the device body. A guide channel leads from a front side of the device body into the hollow cavity, and an applicator of an adapter is inserted through the guide channel into the subcutaneous fat layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Kathleen Sienko, Ibrahim Mohedas, Amir Sabet Sarvestani, Corey Bertch, Anthony Franklin, Adam Joyce, Jacob McCormick, Michael Shoemaker
  • Publication number: 20190184113
    Abstract: An assistive device for subcutaneous injections or implants. The assistive device is placed under a blood pressure cuff that displaces the skin and subcutaneous tissues of a patient at an insertion site in order to allow guided insertion of a needle or implant applicator into a subcutaneous fat layer. The skin and subcutaneous tissue is displaced or drawn, via pressure applied by the blood pressure cuff, through an injection window of a device body into a hollow cavity of the device body. A guide channel leads from a front side of the device body into the hollow cavity, and an applicator of an adapter is inserted through the guide channel into the subcutaneous fat layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Kathleen Sienko, Ibrahim Mohedas, Amir Sabet Sarvestani, Corey Bertch, Anthony Franklin, Adam Joyce, Jacob McCormick, Michael Shoemaker
  • Publication number: 20140244319
    Abstract: A method for finding and reserving activities, the method comprises receiving, at a search client, search criteria that comprise a search description, a search location and a search time period; searching, by a search tool, for activities stored in an activity repository based on the search criteria, wherein the activity repository stores, for each of a plurality of activities, an activity title, an activity location, and an activity time period and wherein activities stored in the activity repository have been provided by a plurality of activity managers; providing, using the search tool, the search results to the search client, the search results comprising activity data relating to at least one activity identified by the searching; receiving, at the search client, selection input selecting an activity of the search results; and making, in the event that the selected activity is open for reservation, a reservation for the selected activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Inventors: Anthony Franklin, Paul Franklin
  • Publication number: 20070211858
    Abstract: An Y-ray detector apparatus comprises an array of detector pixels arranged into a plurality of sub-arrays. The pixels in each sub-array share a common dose sensing output provided to a dose sensing output conductor which extends to a periphery of the pixel array. The dose sensing output conductor for one sub-array of pixels passes through the area occupied by another sub-array of pixels, which can lead to unwanted cross talk. The invention provides a plurality of additional screening electrodes, with a screening electrode substantially adjacent the dose sensing output conductor for each sub-array of pixels. These screening electrodes reduce cross talk between the dose sensing output and other pixel electrodes. In another arrangement, each pixel further comprises a pixel electrode for each pixel formed at an upper region of the array, and the dose sensing output conductors are formed at a lower regon of the array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2005
    Publication date: September 13, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS, N.V.
    Inventors: Anthony Franklin, Martin Powell, Michael Overdick, Augusto Nascetti, Walter Ruetten, Tiemen Poorter, Lex Alving
  • Publication number: 20070075941
    Abstract: Several possibilities of driving devices (13,14,15) for optical switches, especially displays (1) based on the principle of electrowetting are given. This principle uses optical switches comprising a first fluid (5) and a second fluid (6) immiscible with each other within a space between a first transparent support plate (3) and a second support plate (4), the second fluid being electro˜conductive or polar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2004
    Publication date: April 5, 2007
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Guofu Zhou, Leendert Hage, Rogier Hendrikus Cortie, Mark Johnson, Bokke Feenstra, Robert Hayes, Anthony Franklin
  • Publication number: 20050285043
    Abstract: An X-ray detector apparatus has an array of pixels arranged into a plurality of sub-arrays (40). The pixels in each sub-array (40) share a common output (42). The detector is operable in two modes, a dose sensing mode in which a switching arrangement (50) is turned off and charge flow in response to incident radiation is partially coupled through an off-capacitance of the switching arrangement (50) to the output, and a read out mode in which the switching arrangement is turned on to allow charge to flow between the charge storage element and the output (42) for measurement as a detection signal. The switching arrangement (50) is turned on by first and second control signals to enable a single pixel within the sub-array (40) to be selected. Thus, the resolution of normal read out is per-pixel whereas the resolution of dose sensing is per-sub-array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2003
    Publication date: December 29, 2005
    Inventors: Augusto Nascetti, Martin Powell, Anthony Franklin