Patents by Inventor Benjamin Michael

Benjamin Michael 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).

  • Publication number: 20190054289
    Abstract: Retention devices for use with an implantable medical device (IMD) are disclosed. An illustrative retention device may comprise an elongate body including a bore configured to receive and substantially surround an implantable lead of the IMD and an outer surface configured to receive a suture. The retention device may also include a securing mechanism configured to push against tissue of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: CARDIAC PACEMAKERS, INC.
    Inventors: G. SHANTANU REDDY, ANDREW L. DE KOCK, BENJAMIN MICHAEL NITTI
  • Publication number: 20190031402
    Abstract: A resealable closure for a container in which package integrity is indicated by a structure which connects the closure to a remaining portion of the container which must be broken in order to gain access to the contents of the container for a first time. The package integrity feature, in one form, includes a structure associated with the closure, wherein upon opening the closure for a first time, the structure stretches, increasing a length of the structure until the structure eventually breaks, leaving one or both residual ends of the broken structure rippled or curved upward from the remainder of the container. In one alternative form, the structure is associated with a pull tab of the sealing panel, which comprises the closure, whereby either the structure must be broken first, prior to pulling back the sealing panel, or while pulling back the sealing panel for a first time, the structure breaks, prior to gaining access to the contents therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Deborah Lyzenga, Jeffrey Thomas Weber, Scott Wiliam Huffer, Benjamin Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20190023422
    Abstract: Spacecraft servicing devices or pods and related methods may include a body configured to be deployed from a host spacecraft at a location adjacent a target spacecraft and at least one spacecraft servicing component configured to perform at least one servicing operation on the target spacecraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: James Garret Nicholson, Daniel Carl Treachler, Oliver Benjamin Ortiz, James Dulin Reavill, Benjamin Michael Hekman, Robert Bryan Sullivan, Carlos Guillermo Niederstrasser, Mark Lieberbaum, Michael Joseph Glogowski, William A. Llorens, Kenneth Siu-Kin Chow, Peter Michael Cipollo
  • Patent number: 10176319
    Abstract: The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a method that includes receiving, by a processing device in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) system, package metadata including one or more attributes for each of a plurality of packages. Each of the plurality of packages includes one or more components of one or more applications to execute on the PaaS system. The method further includes receiving threat metadata including one or more attributes for each of a plurality of threats. The method further includes storing the package metadata or the threat metadata in one or more data stores. The method further includes comparing, by the processing device, the attributes of the packages to the attributes of the threats to determine that at least one package among the packages includes at least one threat from the threats.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: Red Hat, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel McPherson, Benjamin Michael Parees, Cesar Augusto Wong
  • Patent number: 10170853
    Abstract: An electrical connector comprises a casing and a connector module. The casing has a retaining member. The connector module has an electrically insulating contact carrier and a plurality of electrically conductive contacts. The connector module is at least partially surrounded by the casing and is retained at the casing by the retaining member. The retaining member exerts a retaining force on the connector module in a direction along a mating direction of the electrical connector. The connector module is removable from the retaining member in a direction transverse to the mating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignees: Connecteurs Electriques Deutsch, TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Fabien Houvenaghel, Benjamin Michael Grab, Frederic Duval, Thierry Corriou
  • Patent number: 10157250
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium, includes instructions to receive a first circuit design, determine one or more variations of the first circuit design using register retiming with speculative circuit design changes, determine one or more performance improvements of the variations when fed clock signals over the first circuit design, determine one or more tradeoffs of the one or more variations of the first circuit design in comparison to the first circuit design, display a summary of the one or more variations of the first circuit design, the one or more performance improvements, and the one or more tradeoffs, and provide a user-selectable user interface element to enable selection of the first circuit design, at least one of the one or more variations of the first circuit design, or a combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ALTERA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Benjamin Michael Joshua Gamsa, Gordon Raymond Chiu
  • Patent number: 10142448
    Abstract: The technology provides a mobile communication device having separable components, including a control module configured for only short-range wireless communication and a docking station module configured for both long-range wireless communication and short-range wireless communication. The control module includes a touch-sensitive display, a short-range wireless transceiver and a processor that electrically couples the touch-sensitive display and the short-range wireless transceiver. The docking station module includes a docking area that receives the control module, a docking short-range wireless transceiver configured to communicate with the control module, a long-range wireless transceiver that is configured to communicate with a long-range network and a docking processor that electrically couples the docking short-range wireless transceiver and the long-range wireless transceiver. The technology provides a sleek light-weight control module having full functionality of the docking station module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Paul John Kudrna, Benjamin Michael Finney, David Kazmierz Szczypinski, Oleg Los
  • Publication number: 20180336994
    Abstract: An embedded coil assembly embodiment includes a ferrite ring having an annular axis. The ferrite ring is positioned on a conductive metal surface. A plurality of separate, spaced apart conductive structures extend over the ferrite ring and are attached to the conductive metal surface in a first region of the conductive surface positioned radially outwardly of the annular axis of the ferrite ring and in a second region of the conductive surface positioned radially inwardly of the annular axis of the ferrite ring. An encapsulation layer covers, the ferrite ring and at least a portion of the plurality of conductive structures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2017
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Haiying Li, Benjamin Michael Sutton, Ming Li
  • Patent number: 10118741
    Abstract: A resealable closure for a container in which package integrity is indicated by a structure which connects the closure to a remaining portion of the container which must be broken in order to gain access to the contents of the container for a first time. The package integrity feature, in one form, includes a structure associated with the closure, wherein upon opening the closure for a first time, the structure stretches, increasing a length of the structure until the structure eventually breaks, leaving one or both residual ends of the broken structure rippled or curved upward from the remainder of the container. In one alternative form, the structure is associated with a pull tab of the sealing panel, which comprises the closure, whereby either the structure must be broken first, prior to pulling back the sealing panel, or while pulling back the sealing panel for a first time, the structure breaks, prior to gaining access to the contents therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Inventors: Deborah Lyzenga, Jeffrey Thomas Weber, Scott William Huffer, Benjamin Michael Davis
  • Publication number: 20180285697
    Abstract: Camera or object pose calculation is described, for example, to relocalize a mobile camera (such as on a smart phone) in a known environment or to compute the pose of an object moving relative to a fixed camera. The pose information is useful for robotics, augmented reality, navigation and other applications. In various embodiments where camera pose is calculated, a trained machine learning system associates image elements from an image of a scene, with points in the scene's 3D world coordinate frame. In examples where the camera is fixed and the pose of an object is to be calculated, the trained machine learning system associates image elements from an image of the object with points in an object coordinate frame. In examples, the image elements may be noisy and incomplete and a pose inference engine calculates an accurate estimate of the pose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2018
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Jamie Daniel Joseph Shotton, Benjamin Michael Glocker, Christopher Zach, Shahram Izadi, Antonio Criminisi, Andrew William Fitzgibbon
  • Publication number: 20180276601
    Abstract: A system includes a customer administration portal communicatively coupled to a customer administration interface, a mobile device data application program interface (API), and a tracking API. The customer administration portal is configured to receive information corresponding to each of a plurality of mobile devices via the mobile device data API. The customer administration portal is configured to receive a tracking code associated with each of the plurality of mobile devices and a location of each of the plurality of mobile devices via the tracking API. The customer administration portal is configured to associate the information corresponding to each of the plurality of mobile devices with the tracking code and the location of each of the plurality of mobile devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: Nathan Edward Poynter, Benjamin Michael Jones
  • Publication number: 20180254608
    Abstract: A tunable source includes a short-cavity laser optimized for performance and reliability in SSOCT imaging systems, spectroscopic detection systems, and other types of detection and sensing systems. The short cavity laser has a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response and single transverse, longitudinal and polarization mode operation, and includes embodiments for fast and wide tuning, and optimized spectral shaping. Disclosed are both electrical and optical pumping in a MEMS-VCSEL geometry with mirror and gain regions optimized for wide tuning, high output power, and a variety of preferred wavelength ranges; and a semiconductor optical amplifier, combined with the short-cavity laser to produce high-power, spectrally shaped operation. Several preferred imaging and detection systems make use of this tunable source for optimized operation are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Alex Ezra CABLE, Vijaysekhar JAYARAMAN, Benjamin Michael POTSAID
  • Patent number: 10060046
    Abstract: A crystal puller for growing a crystal ingot includes a housing, insulation, a crucible assembly, a heat shield, and a dust barrier. The housing encloses a growth chamber, and has an upper wall with an inner surface and an aperture. The insulation separates an inside of the housing into an upper area and a lower area, and has a central opening. The crucible assembly is within the lower area to contain the melt. The heat shield is adjacent the central opening of the insulation, and forms a labyrinth gas path with the crucible assembly. The dust barrier extends from the inner surface of the upper wall to one of the insulation and the heat shield, and forms a seal with the upper wall around the aperture to inhibit particles from entering the growth chamber through the upper area of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: Corner Star Limited
    Inventors: Steven Lawrence Kimbel, Benjamin Michael Meyer, Salvador Zepeda, Steven John Ferguson
  • Publication number: 20180235648
    Abstract: Thrombectomy catheter systems, accessory devices, and methods for making and using such devices are disclosed. An example thrombectomy system may include a catheter shaft having a proximal portion, a distal portion, and a lumen extending at least partially through the catheter shaft. A high pressure tube may be disposed within the lumen. The high pressure tube may be designed for communication with a fluid source. A fluid jet emanator may be coupled to the high pressure tube. The fluid jet emanator may have at least one jet orifice. The catheter shaft may include a first orifice disposed proximally of a distal end of the catheter shaft and a second orifice disposed proximally of the first orifice. An accessory device may be disposed within the lumen. The accessory device may include a helical distal region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2018
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Michael Wilke, Debra M. Kozak, Michael P. Schrom, Daniel T. Quillin
  • Publication number: 20180200617
    Abstract: A thumbstick for a user input device comprises a tiltable post operable to output a control signal based on its position, with the post comprising external threads and a post anchor feature. An adjustable tensioning mechanism is configured to modify a tilt tension of the post. A cap comprises a cylindrical stem that defines a cavity. A base is moveable with the post and comprises a first cylindrical portion extending into the cavity, and a second cylindrical portion comprising internal threads and a base anchor feature. The internal threads mate with the external threads of the post to fasten the post to the base, and the base anchor feature abuts the post anchor feature to prevent displacement of the base toward the proximal end of the post.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Dustin John Tiffany, Benjamin Michael Finney, Aaron Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20180193890
    Abstract: A guide roller configured to guide a wire to or from a work roller in a wire rolling line includes a rolling-element bearing having a rotatable outer ring, a fixed inner ring, and rolling elements between the outer ring and the inner ring. The outer ring has a profile configured to guide the wire on a radially outer surface thereof. The guide roller is configured as a double row preloaded rolling-element bearing and is installable as a finished component on a fixed shaft of the wire rolling line without adjusting the preload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Inventors: Henning Kern, Benjamin Michael
  • Patent number: 9997891
    Abstract: A tunable source includes a short-cavity laser optimized for performance and reliability in SSOCT imaging systems, spectroscopic detection systems, and other types of detection and sensing systems. The short cavity laser has a large free spectral range cavity, fast tuning response and single transverse, longitudinal and polarization mode operation, and includes embodiments for fast and wide tuning, and optimized spectral shaping. Disclosed are both electrical and optical pumping in a MEMS-VCSEL geometry with mirror and gain regions optimized for wide tuning, high output power, and a variety of preferred wavelength ranges; and a semiconductor optical amplifier, combined with the short-cavity laser to produce high-power, spectrally shaped operation. Several preferred imaging and detection systems make use of this tunable source for optimized operation are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignees: Thorlabs, Inc., Praevium Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Ezra Cable, Vijaysekhar Jayaraman, Benjamin Michael Potsaid
  • Patent number: 9989240
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system and housing provide a lamp including a heat sink including: an annular tube including a first end and a second end, a plurality of fins extending radially from an exterior surface of the annular tube, wherein a length of each fin extends from the first end of the annular tube to the second end of the annular tube; a plurality of light sources in thermal contact with the heat sink; a driver circuit operative to provide the input voltage and current for the plurality of light sources; and a capper positioned at the second end of the annular tube, wherein the capper is operative to be received in a socket. Numerous other aspects are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: GE LIGHTING SOLUTIONS, LLC
    Inventors: Raghu Ramaiah, Thomas Alexander Knapp, Thomas Clynne, Benjamin Michael Pax
  • Patent number: 9958255
    Abstract: An agile optical imaging system for optical coherence tomography imaging using a tunable source comprising a wavelength tunable VCL laser is disclosed. The tunable source has long coherence length and is capable of high sweep repetition rate, as well as changing the sweep trajectory, sweep speed, sweep repetition rate, sweep linearity, and emission wavelength range on the fly to support multiple modes of OCT imaging. The imaging system also offers new enhanced dynamic range imaging capability for accommodating bright reflections. Multiscale imaging capability allows measurement over orders of magnitude dimensional scales. The imaging system and methods for generating the waveforms to drive the tunable laser in flexible and agile modes of operation are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignees: THORLABS, INC., PRAEVIUM RESEARCH, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Michael Potsaid, James Yi Jiang, Vijaysekhar Jayaraman, Scott Barry, Anjul M. Davis Loiacono, Alex Ezra Cable
  • Patent number: D830712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Qatar Airways Q.C.S.C.
    Inventors: Nigel Anthony Goode, Benjamin Michael Rowan, Christopher James Haslam, Felix Karsten Haeffner, Elizabeth Kyle Scorgie