Patents by Inventor Brett A. Krueger
Brett A. Krueger 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: 20220257096Abstract: Various systems and methods may guide, support, and/or house instruments. One exemplary system includes a guide tube having a manipulation section and mated with rails carrying instrument control members. Moving the rails with respect to the guide tube, or another point of reference, can control movement of the manipulation section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 28, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Barry WEITZNER, Paul J. SMITH, John B. GOLDEN, Brian J. INTOCCIA, Naroun SUON, Katie KRUEGER, Brian TINKHAM, Michal WEISMAN, Brett A. KRUEGER
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Publication number: 20220237486Abstract: A method includes receiving state inputs pertinent to a system and determining prospective instructions for the system based on at least one of the state inputs. For each prospective instruction, the method includes simulating execution of the prospective instruction to predict at least one corresponding predicted outcome for execution of the prospective instruction and executing a plurality of evaluators. Each evaluator has a corresponding objective and is configured to, for each prospective instruction: evaluate the prospective instruction based on whether the at least one corresponding predicted outcome for execution of the prospective instruction satisfies the corresponding objective of the evaluator; and output an evaluation of the prospective instruction. The method also includes selecting a suggested instruction from the prospective instructions based on the evaluations of the prospective instructions of one or more evaluators, and suggesting execution of the suggested instruction for the system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Kruevio LLCInventors: Brett A. Krueger, Kraig T. Krueger
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Patent number: 11344185Abstract: Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for guiding, supporting, and/or housing instruments. One exemplary system includes a guide tube having a manipulation section and mated with rails carrying instrument control members. Moving the rails with respect to the guide tube, or another point of reference, can control movement of the manipulation section.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Barry Weitzner, Paul J. Smith, John B. Golden, Brian J. Intoccia, Naroun Suon, Katie Krueger, Brian Tinkham, Michal Weisman, Brett A. Krueger
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Publication number: 20190231466Abstract: Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for guiding, supporting, and/or housing instruments. One exemplary system includes a guide tube having a manipulation section and mated with rails carrying instrument control members. Moving the rails with respect to the guide tube, or another point of reference, can control movement of the manipulation section.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Barry WEITZNER, Paul J. SMITH, John B. GOLDEN, Brian J. INTOCCIA, Naroun SUON, Katie KRUEGER, Brian TINKHAM, Michal WEISMAN, Brett A. KRUEGER
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Patent number: 10299874Abstract: Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for guiding, supporting, and/or housing instruments. One exemplary system includes a guide tube having a manipulation section and mated with rails carrying instrument control members. Moving the rails with respect to the guide tube, or another point of reference, can control movement of the manipulation section.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Barry Weitzner, Paul J. Smith, John B. Golden, Brian J. Intoccia, Naroun Suon, Katie Krueger, Brian Tinkham, Michal Weisman, Brett A. Krueger
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Publication number: 20170017889Abstract: A method includes receiving inputs indicative of a user state of a user. The received inputs include one or more of: sensor inputs from one or more sensors in communication with the data processing hardware; application inputs received from one or more software applications executing on the data processing hardware or a remote device in communication with the data processing hardware; or user inputs received from a graphical user interface. The method further includes determining possible information to propose to the user based on the received inputs and executing behavior routines having corresponding objectives. Each behavior routine is configured to evaluate the possible information based on whether the possible information is related to or achieves the corresponding objective. The method includes selecting suggested information from the possible information based on evaluations of one or more behavior routines for presentation to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: Blackwerks LLCInventors: Brett A. Krueger, Kraig T. Krueger
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Patent number: 9460394Abstract: A method includes receiving inputs indicative of a user state of a user. The received inputs include: 1) sensor inputs from one or more sensors; 2) application inputs received from one or more software applications; and/or 3) user inputs received from a graphical user interface. The method includes determining a collective user state of the user based on the received inputs and obtaining user data of other users that includes a collective user state of each corresponding other user. The method includes displaying, on a screen, other user glyphs representing the other users. Each other user glyph: 1) at least partially indicates the collective user state of the corresponding other user; and/or 2) is associated with a link to a displayable view indicating the collective user state of the corresponding other user and/or the inputs used to determine the collective user state of the corresponding other user.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 4, 2016Assignee: Blackwerks LLCInventors: Brett A. Krueger, Kraig T. Krueger
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Publication number: 20160110065Abstract: A method includes receiving inputs indicative of a user state of a user. The inputs include sensor inputs from one or more sensors, application inputs received from one or more software applications, and user inputs received from a graphical user interface. The method includes determining possible information for the user based on the received inputs and executing behaviors having corresponding objectives. Each behavior is configured to evaluate the possible information based on whether the possible information is related to the corresponding objective. The method further includes selecting suggested information from the possible information based on evaluations of one or more behaviors for presentation to the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Blackwerks LLCInventors: Brett A. Krueger, Kraig T. Krueger
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Publication number: 20160110647Abstract: A method includes receiving inputs indicative of a user state of a user. The received inputs include: 1) sensor inputs from one or more sensors; 2) application inputs received from one or more software applications; and/or 3) user inputs received from a graphical user interface. The method includes determining a collective user state of the user based on the received inputs and obtaining user data of other users that includes a collective user state of each corresponding other user. The method includes displaying, on a screen, other user glyphs representing the other users. Each other user glyph: 1) at least partially indicates the collective user state of the corresponding other user, and/or 2) is associated with a link to a displayable view indicating the collective user state of the corresponding other user and/or the inputs used to determine the collective user state of the corresponding other user.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Blackwerks LLCInventors: Brett A. Krueger, Kraig T. Krueger
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Publication number: 20160112836Abstract: A method includes receiving inputs indicative of a user state of a user. The inputs include sensor inputs from one or more sensors and/or user inputs received from a graphical user interface displayed. The method includes determining a collective user state based on the received inputs and determining one or more possible activities for the user and one or more predicted outcomes for each activity based on the collective user state. The method includes executing one or more behaviors that evaluate the one or more possible activities and/or the corresponding one or more predicted outcomes. Each behavior models a human behavior and/or a goal oriented task. The method further includes selecting one or more activities based on the evaluations of the one or more possible activities and/or the corresponding one or more predicted outcomes and sending results including the selected one or more activities to a screen.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: April 21, 2016Applicant: Blackwerks, LLCInventor: Brett A. Krueger
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Publication number: 20150238180Abstract: Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for guiding, supporting, and/or housing instruments. One exemplary system includes a guide tube having a manipulation section and mated with rails carrying instrument control members. Moving the rails with respect to the guide tube, or another point of reference, can control movement of the manipulation section.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2015Publication date: August 27, 2015Inventors: Barry WEITZNER, Paul J. SMITH, John B. GOLDEN, Brian J. INTOCCIA, Naroun SUON, Katie KRUEGER, Brian TINKHAM, Michal WEISMAN, Brett A. KRUEGER
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Patent number: 9084621Abstract: Disclosed herein are various systems and methods for guiding, supporting, and/or housing instruments. One exemplary system includes a guide tube having a manipulation section and mated with rails carrying instrument control members. Moving the rails with respect to the guide tube, or another point of reference, can control movement of the manipulation section.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2007Date of Patent: July 21, 2015Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Barry Weitzner, Paul J. Smith, John B. Golden, Brian J. Intoccia, Naroun Suon, Katie Krueger, Brian Tinkham, Michal Weisman, Brett A. Krueger
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Patent number: 9058563Abstract: A method includes receiving inputs indicative of a user state of each user of a group of users. The inputs include sensor inputs from one or more and/or user inputs received from a graphical user interface. The method includes determining a collective user state for each user based on the received inputs and determining one or more possible activities for the group of users and one or more predicted outcomes for each activity based on the collective user states. The method includes executing one or more behaviors that evaluate the one or more possible activities and/or the corresponding one or more predicted outcomes, selecting one or more activities based on the evaluations of the one or more possible activities and/or the corresponding one or more predicted outcomes, and sending results including the selected one or more activities from the computing device to one or more screens.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: June 16, 2015Assignee: Blackwerks LLCInventors: Brett A. Krueger, Kraig T. Krueger
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Patent number: 9026941Abstract: A method includes receiving inputs indicative of a user state of a user. The inputs include sensor inputs from one or more sensors and/or user inputs received from a graphical user interface displayed. The method includes determining a collective user state based on the received inputs and determining one or more possible activities for the user and one or more predicted outcomes for each activity based on the collective user state. The method includes executing one or more behaviors that evaluate the one or more possible activities and/or the corresponding one or more predicted outcomes. Each behavior models a human behavior and/or a goal oriented task. The method further includes selecting one or more activities based on the evaluations of the one or more possible activities and/or the corresponding one or more predicted outcomes and sending results including the selected one or more activities to a screen.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Blackwerks LLCInventors: Brett A. Krueger, Kraig T. Krueger
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Patent number: 8695829Abstract: A spill inhibitor for a container includes a spill inhibitor body configured to be releasably secured to or integral with a container. The spill inhibitor body defines an opening therethrough and has a plurality of compliant finger projections extending from the spill inhibitor body. The finger projections are arranged to impede movement of an item through the opening of the spill inhibitor body for controlling passage of the item through a mouth of the container.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2013Date of Patent: April 15, 2014Inventors: Brad D. Krueger, Katie L. Krueger, Brett A. Krueger, Thomas A. Krueger
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Publication number: 20130240524Abstract: A spill inhibitor for a container includes a spill inhibitor body configured to be releasably secured to or integral with a container. The spill inhibitor body defines an opening therethrough and has a plurality of compliant finger projections extending from the spill inhibitor body. The finger projections are arranged to impede movement of an item through the opening of the spill inhibitor body for controlling passage of the item through a mouth of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2013Publication date: September 19, 2013Applicant: Kalytera, Inc.Inventors: Brad D. Krueger, Katie L. Krueger, Brett A. Krueger, Thomas A. Krueger
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Patent number: 8490814Abstract: A spill inhibitor for a container includes a spill inhibitor body configured to be releasably secured to or integral with a container. The spill inhibitor body defines an opening therethrough and has a plurality of compliant finger projections extending from the spill inhibitor body. The finger projections are arranged to impede movement of an item through the opening of the spill inhibitor body for controlling passage of the item through a mouth of the container.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Inventors: Brad D. Krueger, Brett A. Krueger, Katie L. Krueger, Thomas A. Krueger
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Patent number: 8453864Abstract: A spill inhibitor for a container includes a spill inhibitor body configured to be releasably secured to or integral with a container. The spill inhibitor body defines an opening therethrough and has a plurality of compliant finger projections extending from the spill inhibitor body. The finger projections are arranged to impede movement of an item through the opening of the spill inhibitor body for controlling passage of the item through a mouth of the container.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2008Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Inventors: Brad D. Krueger, Brett A. Krueger, Katie L. Krueger, Thomas A. Krueger
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Publication number: 20110135222Abstract: A spill inhibitor for a container includes a spill inhibitor body configured to be releasably secured to or integral with a container. The spill inhibitor body defines an opening therethrough and has a plurality of compliant finger projections extending from the spill inhibitor body. The finger projections are arranged to impede movement of an item through the opening of the spill inhibitor body for controlling passage of the item through a mouth of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2011Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: Kalytera, Inc.Inventors: Brad D. Krueger, Brett A. Krueger, Katie L. Krueger, Thomas A. Krueger
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Publication number: 20090194547Abstract: A spill inhibitor for a container includes a spill inhibitor body configured to be releasably secured to or integral with a container. The spill inhibitor body defines an opening therethrough and has a plurality of compliant finger projections extending from the spill inhibitor body. The finger projections are arranged to impede movement of an item through the opening of the spill inhibitor body for controlling passage of the item through a mouth of the container.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2008Publication date: August 6, 2009Inventors: Brad D. Krueger, Brett A. Krueger, Katie L. Krueger, Thomas A. Krueger