Patents by Inventor Benjamin Rice
Benjamin Rice 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: 20240041609Abstract: A patient specific shoulder guide is provided that includes a hub and a plurality of peripheral members. Each of the peripheral members has a peripheral member height dimension between the patient specific contact surface and a side of the peripheral member opposite the patient specific contact surface. At least one of the peripheral members is a low profile peripheral member in which the peripheral height dimension is less than the peripheral height dimension of at least one other of the peripheral members or is less than the hub height.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Howmedica Osteonics Corp.Inventors: Charles L. PENNINGER, Shawn M. GARGAC, Robert Benjamin RICE, Anne Marie SCHLAMB, George S. ATHWAL, Robert D. GRAHAM, Marine GODELU
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Patent number: 11766336Abstract: A patient specific shoulder guide is provided that includes a plurality of peripheral members coupled with a peripheral body. The peripheral members have a patient specific contact surface. An open space (e.g., a single open space) is or can be provided radially between a central channel and an inner periphery of the peripheral body. The open space(s) can extend from a side of a spoke to another side of the same or a different spoke. The spoke can be a single spoke in some embodiments. The single open space can extend more than 120 degrees between circumferential ends of the open space.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2021Date of Patent: September 26, 2023Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.Inventors: Charles L. Penninger, Shawn M. Gargac, Robert Benjamin Rice, Anne Marie Schlamb, George S. Athwal, Robert D. Graham, Marine Godelu
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Publication number: 20220354550Abstract: Provided is a slot anchor guide that includes a medial portion and a lateral portion, the medial portion includes a medial projection configured to span a slot of a fixation plate, where the slot anchor guide is configured to guide an anchor through a predetermined position of a slot of the fixation plate and to mate with the fixation plate to allow a surgeon to place the fixation plate on a bone face by manipulating the lateral portion. Also provided is a tuberosity fracture plate that includes a tuberosity end having a first portion configured to overlay a first tuberosity and a second portion opposite the first portion, a distal portion coupled with and extending away from the tuberosity portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2022Publication date: November 10, 2022Applicant: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.Inventors: Robert Courtney, JR., William Matthew Kuester, Robert Benjamin Rice
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Patent number: 11426220Abstract: An anchor trajectory guide and methods of use thereof are provided. The guide includes a body that has a medial side. The medial side can be placed over a lateral side of a fixation plate. The anchor trajectory guide also includes a locator and a plurality of guide apertures. The locator is disposed on or through the medial side of the body. The locator can be mated with the fixation plate. The guide apertures are disposed through the body at positions corresponding to define anchor locations and orientations to provide good purchase adjacent to or in cortical bone around a medial side of a humerus.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 30, 2022Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.Inventors: Robert Courtney, Jr., William Matthew Kuester, Robert Benjamin Rice
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Publication number: 20210259844Abstract: A patient specific shoulder guide is provided that includes a plurality of peripheral members coupled with a peripheral body. The peripheral members have a patient specific contact surface. An open space (e.g., a single open space) is or can be provided radially between a central channel and an inner periphery of the peripheral body. The open space(s) can extend from a side of a spoke to another side of the same or a different spoke. The spoke can be a single spoke in some embodiments. The single open space can extend more than 120 degrees between circumferential ends of the open space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Charles L. Penninger, Shawn M. Gargac, Robert Benjamin Rice, Anne Marie Schlamb, George S. Athwal, Robert D. Graham, Marine Godelu
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Publication number: 20200237418Abstract: An anchor trajectory guide and methods of use thereof are provided. The guide includes a body that has a medial side. The medial side can be placed over a lateral side of a fixation plate. The anchor trajectory guide also includes a locator and a plurality of guide apertures. The locator is disposed on or through the medial side of the body. The locator can be mated with the fixation plate. The guide apertures are disposed through the body at positions corresponding to define anchor locations and orientations to provide good purchase adjacent to or in cortical bone around a medial side of a humerus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2018Publication date: July 30, 2020Inventors: Robert Courtney, Jr., William Matthew Kuester, Robert Benjamin Rice
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Patent number: 9202113Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjudicating votes made on voter-marked paper ballots. Voter-marked paper ballots may be scanned to obtain optical image data of the voter-marked paper ballots. The optical image may be analyzed to determine the votes contained in the ballot for tabulation purposes. One or more votes on the ballot may be identified as requiring adjudication by an election official. Adjudication information, according to various embodiments, is appended to the optical images of the voter-marked paper ballots such that the image of the ballot and the image of the adjudication information may be viewed in an optical image. The optical image may be stored in a file format that allows the ballot image and the appended adjudication information to be viewed using readily available image viewers.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Dominion Voting Systems, Inc.Inventors: James Hoover, Justin Bales, Steven Bennett, Eric Coomer, Sean Dean, Geneice Mathews, Benjamin Rice
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Publication number: 20150071501Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjudicating votes made on voter-marked paper ballots. Voter-marked paper ballots may be scanned to obtain optical image data of the voter-marked paper ballots. The optical image may be analyzed to determine the votes contained in the ballot for tabulation purposes. One or more votes on the ballot may be identified as requiring adjudication by an election official. Adjudication information, according to various embodiments, is appended to the optical images of the voter-marked paper ballots such that the image of the ballot and the image of the adjudication information may be viewed in an optical image. The optical image may be stored in a file format that allows the ballot image and the appended adjudication information to be viewed using readily available image viewers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2014Publication date: March 12, 2015Inventors: JAMES HOOVER, JUSTIN BALES, STEVEN BENNETT, ERIC COOMER, SEAN DEAN, GENEICE MATHEWS, BENJAMIN RICE
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Patent number: 8913787Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjudicating votes made on voter-marked paper ballots. Voter-marked paper ballots may be scanned to obtain optical image data of the voter-marked paper ballots. The optical image may be analyzed to determine the votes contained in the ballot for tabulation purposes. One or more votes on the ballot may be identified as requiring adjudication by an election official. Adjudication information, according to various embodiments, is appended to the optical images of the voter-marked paper ballots such that the image of the ballot and the image of the adjudication information may be viewed in an optical image. The optical image may be stored in a file format that allows the ballot image and the appended adjudication information to be viewed using readily available image viewers.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: December 16, 2014Assignee: Dominion Voting Systems, Inc.Inventors: James Hoover, Justin Bales, Steven Bennett, Eric Coomer, Sean Dean, Geneice Mathews, Benjamin Rice
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Publication number: 20130301873Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices are described for adjudicating votes made on voter-marked paper ballots. Voter-marked paper ballots may be scanned to obtain optical image data of the voter-marked paper ballots. The optical image may be analyzed to determine the votes contained in the ballot for tabulation purposes. One or more votes on the ballot may be identified as requiring adjudication by an election official. Adjudication information, according to various embodiments, is appended to the optical images of the voter-marked paper ballots such that the image of the ballot and the image of the adjudication information may be viewed in an optical image. The optical image may be stored in a file format that allows the ballot image and the appended adjudication information to be viewed using readily available image viewers.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2012Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicant: DOMINION VOTING SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: James Hoover, Justin Bales, Steven Bennett, Eric Coomer, Sean Dean, Geneice Mathews, Benjamin Rice
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Publication number: 20070132508Abstract: In one embodiment, a power supply controller is configured to use a plurality of ramp signals to generate a plurality of PWM control signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2005Publication date: June 14, 2007Inventor: Benjamin Rice
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Publication number: 20060055389Abstract: In one embodiment, an error amplifier of a power supply controller forms differential error signals that are used to set an active and inactive state of a power switch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2004Publication date: March 16, 2006Inventor: Benjamin Rice
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Publication number: 20060055381Abstract: In one embodiment, a power supply controller has a plurality of PWM control channels. The PWM control signals of the PWM control channels are selectively alternated among the outputs of the power supply controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2004Publication date: March 16, 2006Inventor: Benjamin Rice
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Publication number: 20050237040Abstract: In one embodiment, a multiphase power control system uses two control lines from a PWM section to control the switch controllers of the system. The two control signals contain power control information in addition to timing information. The switch controller uses the two control signals to facilitate enabling and disabling a power switch of the multiphase power control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2004Publication date: October 27, 2005Inventor: Benjamin Rice