Patents by Inventor Arnold Peters
Arnold Peters 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).
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Publication number: 20180019847Abstract: Presented herein is a communication protocol defining a process of communication (data exchange) between devices. This process consists of organizing a sequence of content fields separated by a separator marker in a meaningful way with the purpose of defining an inter-machine language. The use of a single data type in the protocol along with message uniformity results in the simplest conceptual way of transmitting machine states while meeting all objectives [multiple routing options, etc.]. This means a single computational method of minimal complexity can process all messages. The order of the (meaning of the) leading fields is always the same regardless of the type of message. This further facilitates simple processing: read/write or broadcast messages are all processed the same way. The method favors simplicity and robustness making it ideal for devices with limited state vectors such as sensors and actuators. The use of text or alphanumeric fields like Base64 may be used in lieu of integers.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2016Publication date: January 18, 2018Inventor: Arnold Peter Ruymgaart
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Patent number: 9828107Abstract: The present invention provides a vehicle with redundant systems to increase the overall safety of the vehicle. In other aspects, the present invention provides a method for learning control of non-linear motion systems through combined learning of state value and action-value functions.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: STC.UNMInventors: Arnold Peter Ruymgaart, Lydia Tapia, Aleksandra Faust, Rafael Fierro
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Publication number: 20170231674Abstract: Reduced bone fracture fixation devices and methods for using the same are provided. Aspects of the reduced bone fracture fixation devices include a body dimensioned to be positioned in a reduced bone fracture, wherein the body has a wedge shape configuration sufficient to exert a force on bone of the reduced bone fracture and maintain reduction of the reduced bone fracture. The devices, kits and methods of the invention find use in a variety of applications, such as in applications in which it is desired to repair a reduced bone fracture.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2017Publication date: August 17, 2017Inventors: Arnold Peter C. Weiss, Amy L. Ladd, Roy Fiebiger, Gary B. Hulme, Jeffrey J. Christian
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Publication number: 20170224499Abstract: An implant (30) for a mammalian bone joint (3) for spacing a first bone (2) of the joint from a second bone (1) of the joint while allowing translational movement of the second bone in relation to the first bone is described. The implant comprises (a) a distal part (31) configured for intramedullary engagement with an end of the second bone, (b) a proximal part (34) having a platform (15) configured for non-engaging abutment of an end of the first bone and translational movement thereon, and (c) an articulating coupling (10, 16) provided between the distal and proximal ends allowing controlled articulation of the first and second bones. The bone-abutting platform is shaped to conform to and translate upon the end of the first bone. A kit for assembly to form the implant of the invention, and the use of the implant to treat osteoarthritis in a bone joint, are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2017Publication date: August 10, 2017Applicant: National University of Ireland, GalwayInventors: Gerry CLARKE, Brendan BOLAND, Mark BRUZZI, Amy l. LADD, Arnold-Peter C. WEISS
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Publication number: 20170131122Abstract: An optical sensor (10) comprises an optical cavity defined by a dielectric body and responsive to one or more physical environmental conditions, and a waveguide (70) having a terminal end spaced apart from the optical cavity such that light is optically coupled from the terminal end of the waveguide (70) to the optical cavity. The waveguide (70) is arranged such that, in use, it is maintained at a first temperature that would not damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity when the dielectric body is maintained at a second temperature sufficient to damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2016Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: OXSENSIS LIMITEDInventors: Arnold Peter Roscoe HARPIN, John Paul DRAKE, Stephen Geoffrey TYLER
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Patent number: 9610109Abstract: Reduced bone fracture fixation devices and methods for using the same are provided. Aspects of the reduced bone fracture fixation devices include a body dimensioned to be positioned in a reduced bone fracture, wherein the body has a wedge shape configuration sufficient to exert a force on bone of the reduced bone fracture and maintain reduction of the reduced bone fracture. The devices, kits and methods of the invention find use in a variety of applications, such as in applications in which it is desired to repair a reduced bone fracture.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.Inventors: Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Amy L. Ladd, Roy Fiebiger, Gary B. Hulme, Jeffrey J. Christian
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Publication number: 20170045384Abstract: A method of assembling an optical sensor for measuring pressure and/or temperature is disclosed. The optical sensor is adapted for use in high temperature environments, such as gas turbines and other engines. The method comprises fabricating a sensor element formed of a pill having an enclosed cavity, bonding the pill to a front end of a spacer, bonding a lens to the back end of the spacer to form the optical assembly, aligning an optical fibre to the optical assembly, and fixing the fibre in position by fusing the fibre to the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2016Publication date: February 16, 2017Applicant: Oxsensis LimitedInventors: Arnold Peter Roscoe Harpin, Stephen James Fasham, Stephen Geoffrey Tyler
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Patent number: 9448105Abstract: An optical sensor is disclosed for measuring pressure and/or temperature. The optical sensor is adapted for use in high temperature environments, such as gas turbines and other engines. The optical sensor comprises an optical assembly having a sensor element, a spacer and a lens arranged along the optical axis. The sensor element is spaced from the lens by the spacer. An optical fiber is coupled to the optical assembly for illuminating the sensor element. The optical assembly is resiliently mounted in a housing such that the optical assembly is insulated from shock to the housing. There is also disclosed a method of assembling the optical sensor.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2012Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: Oxsensis Ltd.Inventors: Arnold Peter Roscoe Harpin, Stephen James Fasham, Stephen Geoffrey Tyler
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Patent number: 9404771Abstract: An optical sensor (10) comprises an optical cavity defined by a dielectric body and responsive to one or more physical environmental conditions, and a waveguide (70) having a terminal end spaced apart from the optical cavity such that light is optically coupled from the terminal end of the waveguide (70) to the optical cavity. The waveguide (70) is arranged such that, in use, it is maintained at a first temperature that would not damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity when the dielectric body is maintained at a second temperature sufficient to damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2014Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: Oxsensis Ltd.Inventors: Arnold Peter Roscoe Harpin, John Paul Drake, Stephen Geoffrey Tyler
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Patent number: 9125706Abstract: An embodiment of a bone stabilization and distraction system of the present disclosure includes a light-sensitive liquid; a light source for providing light energy; a light-conducting fiber for delivering the light energy from the light source to cure the light-sensitive liquid; a delivery catheter having a proximal end in communication with the light-conducting fiber and the light-sensitive liquid, an inner lumen for passage of the light-conducting fiber, and an inner void for passage of the light-sensitive liquid; and an expandable body removably engaging a distal end of the delivery catheter, wherein the expandable body has a closed end, a sealable open end, an inner cavity for passage of the light-sensitive liquid, an external surface and an internal surface, and wherein the expandable body has an insertion depth with a fixed dimension, a width with a fixed dimension, and a thickness with a changeable dimension.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2014Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: IlluminOss Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Rabiner, Anthony W. O'Leary, Narissa Y. Chang, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Lionel C. Bainbridge
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Publication number: 20150080900Abstract: An embodiment of a bone stabilization and distraction system of the present disclosure includes a light-sensitive liquid; a light source for providing light energy; a light-conducting fiber for delivering the light energy from the light source to cure the light-sensitive liquid; a delivery catheter having a proximal end in communication with the light-conducting fiber and the light-sensitive liquid, an inner lumen for passage of the light-conducting fiber, and an inner void for passage of the light-sensitive liquid; and an expandable body removably engaging a distal end of the delivery catheter, wherein the expandable body has a closed end, a sealable open end, an inner cavity for passage of the light-sensitive liquid, an external surface and an internal surface, and wherein the expandable body has an insertion depth with a fixed dimension, a width with a fixed dimension, and a thickness with a changeable dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2014Publication date: March 19, 2015Inventors: Robert A. Rabiner, Anthony W. O'Leary, Narissa Y. Chang, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Lionel C. Bainbridge
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Publication number: 20150008917Abstract: A rapid cycle dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) NMR apparatus comprises (i) a cooling unit, configured to cool a sample in a capillary, (b) a DNP polarization unit configured to polarize the sample in the capillary, (c) a stripline-based NMR detector comprising a stripline for NMR analysis of the sample in the capillary, (d) a transport unit configured to guide the capillary from the DNP polarization unit to the stripline of stripline-based NMR detector; and (e) a heating unit configured to heat the sample in the capillary before analysis of the sample by the stripline-based NMR detector. Fast (1D-3D) NMR measurements with high resolution may be obtained.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2012Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Arnold Peter Maria Kentgens, Petrus Johannes Maria van Bentum
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Patent number: 8915966Abstract: An embodiment of a bone stabilization and distraction system of the present disclosure includes a light-sensitive liquid; a light source for providing light energy; a light-conducting fiber for delivering the light energy from the light source to cure the light-sensitive liquid; a delivery catheter having a proximal end in communication with the light-conducting fiber and the light-sensitive liquid, an inner lumen for passage of the light-conducting fiber, and an inner void for passage of the light-sensitive liquid; and an expandable body removably engaging a distal end of the delivery catheter, wherein the expandable body has a closed end, a sealable open end, an inner cavity for passage of the light-sensitive liquid, an external surface and an internal surface, and wherein the expandable body has an insertion depth with a fixed dimension, a width with a fixed dimension, and a thickness with a changeable dimension.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: December 23, 2014Assignee: IlluminOss Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Rabiner, Anthony W. O'Leary, Narissa Y. Chang, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Lionel C. Bainbridge
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Patent number: 8870965Abstract: An embodiment of a bone stabilization and distraction system of the present disclosure includes a light-sensitive liquid; a light source for providing light energy; a light-conducting fiber for delivering the light energy from the light source to cure the light-sensitive liquid; a delivery catheter having a proximal end in communication with the light-conducting fiber and the light-sensitive liquid, an inner lumen for passage of the light-conducting fiber, and an inner void for passage of the light-sensitive liquid; and an expandable body removably engaging a distal end of the delivery catheter, wherein the expandable body has a closed end, a sealable open end, an inner cavity for passage of the light-sensitive liquid, an external surface and an internal surface, and wherein the expandable body has an insertion depth with a fixed dimension, a width with a fixed dimension, and a thickness with a changeable dimension.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2010Date of Patent: October 28, 2014Assignee: IlluminOss Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Rabiner, Anthony W. O'Leary, Narissa Y. Chang, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Lionel C. Bainbridge
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Publication number: 20140246610Abstract: An optical sensor (10) comprises an optical cavity defined by a dielectric body and responsive to one or more physical environmental conditions, and a waveguide (70) having a terminal end spaced apart from the optical cavity such that light is optically coupled from the terminal end of the waveguide (70) to the optical cavity. The waveguide (70) is arranged such that, in use, it is maintained at a first temperature that would not damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity when the dielectric body is maintained at a second temperature sufficient to damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2014Publication date: September 4, 2014Inventors: Arnold Peter Roscoe HARPIN, John Paul DRAKE, Stephen Geoffrey TYLER
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Publication number: 20140202253Abstract: An optical sensor is disclosed for measuring pressure and/or temperature. The optical sensor is adapted for use in high temperature environments, such as gas turbines and other engines. The optical sensor comprises an optical assembly having a sensor element, a spacer and a lens arranged along the optical axis. The sensor element is spaced from the lens by the spacer. An optical fibre is coupled to the optical assembly for illuminating the sensor element. The optical assembly is resiliently mounted in a housing such that the optical assembly is insulated from shock to the housing. There is also disclosed a method of assembling the optical sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: OXSENSIS LTDInventors: Arnold Peter Roscoe Harpin, Stephen James Fasham, Stephen Geoffrey Tyler
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Patent number: 8705045Abstract: An optical sensor (10) comprises an optical cavity defined by a dielectric body and responsive to one or more physical environmental conditions, and a waveguide (70) having a terminal end spaced apart from the optical cavity such that light is optically coupled from the terminal end of the waveguide (70) to the optical cavity. The waveguide (70) is arranged such that, in use, it is maintained at a first temperature that would not damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity when the dielectric body is maintained at a second temperature sufficient to damage the optical coupling to the optical cavity.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2008Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: Oxsensis Ltd.Inventors: Arnold Peter Roscoe Harpin, John Paul Drake, Stephen Geoffrey Tyler
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Publication number: 20130211522Abstract: Reduced bone fracture fixation devices and methods for using the same are provided. Aspects of the reduced bone fracture fixation devices include a body dimensioned to be positioned in a reduced bone fracture, wherein the body has a wedge shape configuration sufficient to exert a force on bone of the reduced bone fracture and maintain reduction of the reduced bone fracture. The devices, kits and methods of the invention find use in a variety of applications, such as in applications in which it is desired to repair a reduced bone fracture.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2012Publication date: August 15, 2013Inventors: Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Amy L. Ladd, Roy Fiebiger, Gary B. Hulme, Jeffrey J. Christian
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Publication number: 20130043984Abstract: A remote control that provides consumers the ability to remotely control the functionality of the buttons by playing an audio file on a Bluetooth device. Each button on the remote has its own specified audio file. The audio files are specifically formatted so that they can be played on a variety of Bluetooth capable devices (Phone, Computer, Tablet) with an audio player. When the appropriate audio file is played, the remote functions as though a button was pressed. This invention eliminates the need for defining special Bluetooth protocols that are required for remote control and the associated hardware/software for such control. Instead, the Smart Remote allows for a standard, universal process for remote control across different operating systems (Windows, Android, Apple, etc. . . . ), without regard to the manufacturer of the controlling device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2011Publication date: February 21, 2013Inventor: Arnold Peter Goetzke
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Publication number: 20130013008Abstract: An embodiment of a bone stabilization and distraction system of the present disclosure includes a light-sensitive liquid; a light source for providing light energy; a light-conducting fiber for delivering the light energy from the light source to cure the light-sensitive liquid; a delivery catheter having a proximal end in communication with the light-conducting fiber and the light-sensitive liquid, an inner lumen for passage of the light-conducting fiber, and an inner void for passage of the light-sensitive liquid; and an expandable body removably engaging a distal end of the delivery catheter, wherein the expandable body has a closed end, a sealable open end, an inner cavity for passage of the light-sensitive liquid, an external surface and an internal surface, and wherein the expandable body has an insertion depth with a fixed dimension, a width with a fixed dimension, and a thickness with a changeable dimension.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2012Publication date: January 10, 2013Inventors: Robert A. Rabiner, Anthony W. O'Leary, Narissa Y. Chang, Arnold-Peter C. Weiss, Lionel C. Bainbridge