Patents by Inventor Benjamin David

Benjamin David 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: 11567091
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus that enable drying and curing a plurality of specimens carried by a plurality of microscope slides. Slide carriers are positioned at a first position while the slide carrier holds the microscope slides. Each of the specimens can be carried by one of the microscope slides. The slide carrier can be robotically moved to move the slide carrier into a circulation loop defined by a heater apparatus. The specimens and/or microscope slides can be convectively heated while the slide carrier is located in the circulation loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Donald Michael Barnett, Delroy Eccleston Clarke, Joseph Leporini, Benjamin David Randall, William Eric Raves, Robert Bennett Singer, Duwayne Dennis Snyder, Michael James Thompson, Matthew Annin Thurman
  • Publication number: 20230022476
    Abstract: A method performed by at least one computing system and including performing a document identifying operation on a corpus of documents. The documents are associated one each with a plurality of numeric tier scores. The operation identifies results including one or more of the documents. The method includes calculating each tier score in a portion of the numeric tier scores and organizing the documents into tiers based at least in part on the numeric tier scores. The portion of the numeric tier scores is identified based on the results. The tiers are ranked from most to least relevant and include relevant and non-relevant portions. The method includes sending any of the tiers in the relevant portion one at a time to one or more reviewer computing devices in an order determined by the ranking. Any of the tiers in the non-relevant portion are not sent to reviewer computing device(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Benjamin David Sexton
  • Patent number: 11541158
    Abstract: An exhaust gas flow control system for an oxygenator of an extracorporeal ventilation system connected to an oxygenation gas supply line and to an exhaust line for removal of exhaust gas comprises a flow control path, a pressure control path, an exhaust flow regulator responsive to the controller, and an exhaust gas pressure regulator responsive to a controller configured to maintain a pre-determined pressure level in the exhaust line. This provides a better degree of control over the pressure across the oxygenator from oxygenation gas inlet to exhaust.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Spectrum Medical Ltd.
    Inventors: Stephen Turner, Benjamin David Garbutt
  • Publication number: 20220412326
    Abstract: Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide methods for driving shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator wires in a more power-efficient manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Andrew Benjamin David Brown, Daniel Burbridge
  • Publication number: 20220396877
    Abstract: A gas inlet element for a CVD reactor includes a cylindrical main body, which together with an outer wall, forms a gas outlet face. The outer wall surrounds at least one gas distribution chamber. A plurality of gas outlet openings originating in the gas distribution chamber open out into the gas outlet face. A cooling device includes a plurality of cooling channels running adjacently but separately in the outer wall, and the gas outlet openings extend between the cooling channels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Marcel KOLLBERG, Benjamin David WRIGHT, Merim MUKINOVIC, Barry O'NEIL, Marc PLUMMER
  • Patent number: 11521148
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for building a score plan for a healthcare organization, its providers, its payers, and/or its patients and presenting the results of the score plan on one or more score card user interfaces. Score cards graphically display an entity's progress towards meeting quality measure objectives. The score cards provide information on percentage completion of one or more quality measure objectives by the entity and/or quality measure objectives that may be difficult for the entity to achieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: CERNER INNOVATION, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Wilkerson, Kevin Krizek, Patrick O'Brien, Bharat Sutariya
  • Patent number: 11511550
    Abstract: Systems and methods for forming and applying decorations onto substrates are disclosed. According to some aspects, a decoration may be formed on a carrier web at a decoration forming station positioned along a web path. The decorations may be transported along the web path to an application station at which the decorations are applied to substrates from the carrier web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: ACTEGA North America Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Lux, Andrew W. Marsella
  • Patent number: 11514893
    Abstract: Techniques performed by a data processing system for processing voice content received from a user herein include receiving a first audio input from a user comprising spoken content, analyzing the first audio input using one or more natural language processing models to produce a first textual output comprising a textual representation of the first audio input, analyzing the first textual output using one or more machine learning models to determine first context information of the first textual output, and processing the first textual output in the application based on the first context information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erez Kikin-Gil, Emily Tran, Benjamin David Smith, Alan Liu, Erik Thomas Oveson
  • Publication number: 20220376546
    Abstract: A system, module, and method for generating reliable, high quality power on demand and off-grid includes a photovoltaic array for delivering DC power; a generator having a size ranging from about 5 kW to about 30 kW, and comprising an engine powered by hydrocarbon gas filtered through a coalescing filter and comprising an extended lubrication system; an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) comprising a storage battery, the UPS being coupled to the photovoltaic array for receiving the DC power, and to the generator by a bi-directional inverter for receiving, transmitting, and qualifying DC or AC power; and an intelligent controller coupled to the UPS for controlling output of the DC or AC power to at least one air compressor capable of providing compressed air to one or more pneumatic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin David KLEPACKI, Craig Antony HOWARD, Connor Stanford O'SHEA
  • Patent number: 11497534
    Abstract: A spinal construct comprises a fastener including a first portion defining an implant cavity and a second portion configured to penetrate tissue. A member defines a cavity configured for disposal of at least a portion of the first portion. The member includes an implant engaging surface fixable within the implant cavity and connected to a connecting element fixable adjacent the first portion. Systems and methods of use are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Cowan, Robert A. Farris
  • Publication number: 20220341305
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to a hydraulic fracturing pump comprising a fluid end assembly, the fluid end assembly comprising a cylinder body configured to receive a respective plunger from a power end; a suction bore configured to house a valve body, a valve seat, and a spring; a suction cap; and a spring retainer, wherein a surface of one or more of the cylinder body, the suction bore, the suction cap, and the spring retaining serves as a cathode, and wherein the fluid end comprises at least one of a plunger anode, a suction cap anode, a spring retainer anode, a valve top anode, a valve seat outer diameter anode, and a valve seat inner diameter anode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Jacob A. Bayyouk, Frazer Craig Brownlie, Trevor Hodgkiess, Brian Witkowski, Benjamin David Engstrom, Collin Garner
  • Patent number: 11479031
    Abstract: A printing assembly may include a first continuous cylinder and a first jogging assembly. The first continuous cylinder may be configured to apply print media to a flexible substrate responsive to contact with the flexible substrate. The first continuous cylinder may include a plurality of partitions configured such that only one of the partitions is aligned for contact with the flexible substrate at any given time, and each of the partitions may have a unique print characteristic associated therewith. The first jogging assembly may be operably coupled with the first continuous cylinder to move the first continuous cylinder along an axis thereof to change alignment of the partitions relative to the flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: APEX BRANDS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin David Kemp, Graydon Alecander Carpenter
  • Patent number: 11476709
    Abstract: In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a wheel end apparatus for a vehicle is provided that includes a wheel hub assembly configured to be mounted to a spindle and a wheel hub of the wheel hub assembly. The wheel end apparatus includes a coil of wire and at least one magnet of the wheel hub assembly configured to move relative to one another with rotation of the wheel hub around the spindle. The wheel end apparatus includes a wheel end device operably coupled to the coil of wire to receive electrical power generated by relative movement of the coil of wire and the at least one magnet. Further, the wheel end apparatus includes communication circuitry operably coupled to the wheel end device and configured to wirelessly communicate wheel end device information with a wheel end monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Consolidated Metco, Inc.
    Inventors: Cody Seibert, Brian Bove, William Joseph Edwards, Benjamin David Mortensen
  • Publication number: 20220327288
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for automatically generating a program based on a natural language utterance using semantic parsing. The semantic parsing includes translating a natural language utterance into instructions in a logical form for execution. The methods use a pre-trained natural language model and generate a canonical utterance as an intermediate form before generating the logical form. The natural language model may be an auto-regressive natural language model with a transformer to paraphrase a sequence of words or tokens in the natural language utterance. The methods generate a prompt including exemplar input/output pairs as a few-shot learning technique for the natural language model to predict words or tokens. The methods further use constrained decoding to determine a canonical utterance, iteratively selecting sequence of words as predicted by the model against rules for canonical utterances. The methods generate a program based on the canonical utterance for execution in an application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin David VAN DURME, Adam D. PAULS, Daniel Louis KLEIN, Eui Chul SHIN, Christopher H. LIN, Pengyu CHEN, Subhro ROY, Emmanouil Antonios PLATANIOS, Jason Michael EISNER, Benjamin Lev SNYDER, Samuel McIntire THOMSON
  • Patent number: 11468006
    Abstract: A method performed by at least one computing system and including performing a document identifying operation on a corpus of documents. The documents are associated one each with a plurality of numeric tier scores. The operation identifies results including one or more of the documents. The method includes calculating each tier score in a portion of the numeric tier scores and organizing the documents into tiers based at least in part on the numeric tier scores. The portion of the numeric tier scores is identified based on the results. The tiers are ranked from most to least relevant and include relevant and non-relevant portions. The method includes sending any of the tiers in the relevant portion one at a time to one or more reviewer computing devices in an order determined by the ranking. Any of the tiers in the non-relevant portion are not sent to reviewer computing device(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: JND HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventor: Benjamin David Sexton
  • Publication number: 20220313240
    Abstract: Endoscopic and self-deploying gastrointestinal suture retention systems are provided herein. Such systems provide prolonged residency in the gastrointestinal tract for chronic physiological monitoring or controlled drug release in the gastrointestinal tract. A self-deploying system includes a substrate, sensor and torsion springs and an endoscopic system includes a tubular device that includes detachable components at the distal portion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin David Pless, Daniel Bacher
  • Publication number: 20220318292
    Abstract: A data processing system implements displaying, on a first device to a first participant, a first user interface for presentation of audio content, the first user interface including a navigation tool configured to visually represent contextual events in the audio content and a first selectable indicator linked to a second participant. The data processing system further implements receiving a first user selection of the first selectable indicator; and initiating, in response to at least the first user selection, a first telecommunication session between the first participant and the second participant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Erez KIKIN-GIL, Benjamin David SMITH, Colleen Griffiths ESTRADA
  • Publication number: 20220313166
    Abstract: An integrated physiological monitoring and tissue anchoring device is provided. The device includes a detachable clamp at the distal portion that includes a sensor configured to sense a physiological parameter from the gastrointestinal tract. A handle at the proximal portion of the device is configured to actuate the clamp into a closed configuration in which gastrointestinal tissue is grasped by the clamp. A cable connects the handle to the clamp and has a frangible section near the clamp such that the clamp is detachable from the cable at the frangible section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin David Pless, Daniel Bacher
  • Patent number: 11460011
    Abstract: Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present techniques provide methods for driving shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator wires in a more power-efficient manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS LIMITED
    Inventors: Andrew Benjamin David Brown, Daniel Burbridge
  • Patent number: D967343
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: DELTA FAUCET COMPANY
    Inventor: Benjamin David Stoler