Patents by Inventor Brian Hoffman
Brian Hoffman 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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Patent number: 11958512Abstract: A vehicle monitoring device includes a camera or other optical sensor configured to be disposed at a trailing end of a first vehicle system. The camera or other optical sensor is configured to output one or more images or video of a field of view behind the first vehicle system. The monitoring device also includes a controller configured to receive output from one or more sensors and to activate the camera or other optical sensor to output the one or more images or video based on the output from the one or more sensors. The output from the one or more sensors indicates one or more of a change in movement of the first vehicle system, a temperature, an acoustic sound, or movement of a second vehicle system.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: WESTINGHOUSE AIR BRAKE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATIONInventors: Carl L. Haas, Padam D. Swar, Danial Rice, Christopher Claussen, Joseph W. Gorman, James A. Oswald, Ann K. Grimm, Kevin Angel, James Trainor, Phillip A. Burgart, Kendrick W. Gawne, Robert Hoffman, Tim Gibson, Brian Kurz
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Publication number: 20240074927Abstract: Disclosed herein are person support apparatuses for continuous lateral rotation therapy. The apparatus includes a person support surface configured to support a subject, the person support surface including an actuating device for rotating the person support surface, one or more sensors configured to detect parameters of the subject and the person support surface and generate sensor data indicative of the same, and a controller. The controller is operable to cause movement of the person support surface into the predetermined angle of rotation and determine, based on the sensor data, whether the subject is in the predetermined angle of rotation. If the subject is not in the predetermined angle of rotation, the controller generates and transmits a correction control signal to the actuating device to cause the person support surface to move the subject into the predetermined angle of rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 7, 2024Applicant: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: Olivia Gubitose Boyce, Jacqueline Burris, Brian Hoffman, Frank Sauser
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Patent number: 11906255Abstract: A power generation assembly for a weapon system converts waste energy from a firing event to electric power. The power generation assembly directs expanding burning propellant gasses within the weapon system into a turbine array to generate electric current. The electric current is rectified to trickle charge a battery bank which then powers the weapon system.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Alexander Smtih, Brian Hoffman, Michael Colonnello
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Patent number: 11835312Abstract: A remote weapon station (RWS) system for an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) includes a dedicated weapon, multi-axis gimbal and ammunition handling capabilities with all operations functioning remotely and wirelessly. The RWS system is a gas powered, or self-powered, belt fed, rotating bolt lock weapon. In addition, the RWS is man-portable and air-droppable as the major subsystems may be latched together in the field without tooling or needing to make electrical connections.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventors: Brian Hoffman, Alex Smith, Michael Colonnello, Eric Binter
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Patent number: 11596417Abstract: The present application discloses various embodiments of a hemostatic device with improved comfort features over the known prior art, including hemostatic devices having attachment straps with non-linear edges and/or non-planar skin-facing edges.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignee: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Victoria Moore O'Brien, Brian Hoffman
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Publication number: 20230012280Abstract: The present application discloses devices and methods for monitoring the performance of a hemostasis device during a hemostatic procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: January 12, 2023Applicant: Terumo Medical CorporationInventors: Brian Hoffman, Linda Trask, Katherine Arazawa
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Patent number: 11390445Abstract: A packaging cushion includes a first liner and a second liner opposite one another and each defining an inner surface. A transverse liner axis extends normal to the inner surfaces. The packaging cushion includes a mesh bonded to and disposed between the first and second liners. The mesh has a top mesh surface and an opposed bottom mesh surface. The mesh defines a plurality of nodes and a plurality of legs interconnecting the plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes defines 1) a top node surface defined by the top mesh surface, 2) a bottom node surface defined by the bottom mesh surface, and 3) a transverse node axis extending substantially normal to the top and bottom node surfaces. The transverse node axes of at least some of the plurality of nodes are each oriented at an oblique angle relative to the transverse liner axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Hoffman, Michael Ralph, Timothy Alan Talda
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Patent number: 11364053Abstract: The present application discloses a hemostatic device comprising a flexible, adjustable closure device that is adapted to fit the lower leg and foot of patients having a range of anatomical differences in leg and foot shape and size, the hemostatic device further comprising at least one compression element that is adapted to apply targeted pressure to a surgical vascular access site located on the patient's lower leg or foot. In some embodiments, the compression element is moveable such that it may be used to apply pressure to a select one of common arterial access points located on the lower leg or foot.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2019Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Terumo Medical CorporationInventors: Brian Hoffman, Kendra Krentz
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Publication number: 20220096097Abstract: The present application discloses various embodiments of hemostasis devices with folded balloon assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: March 31, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Victoria Moore O'BRIEN, Brian HOFFMAN, Kenichi HAZAMA, Nicholas VARAMO
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Publication number: 20220087689Abstract: The present application discloses various methods of constructing hemostasis devices with folded balloon assemblies.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Victoria Moore O'BRIEN, Brian HOFFMAN, Kenichi HAZAMA, Nicholas VARAMO
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Patent number: 11130620Abstract: A laminate includes an outer liner having a filament mesh disposed between a paper sheet and a resin layer. The resin layer and mesh extend between first and second opposed lateral edges of the sheet. A cushion layer is disposed over the resin layer. An inner liner of kraft paper is disposed over the cushion layer. A region of the resin layer is activated into an adhesive bonding the cushion layer and inner liner to the sheet. The laminate defines first and second longitudinally adjacent portions. The outer liner in the first portion has opposed first and second peripheral portions extending laterally outward from opposed lateral edges of the cushion layer and inner liner to the first and second lateral edges of the sheet, whereby a first width between the lateral edges along the first portion exceeds a second width measured the lateral edges along the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Brian Hoffman
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Patent number: 11123944Abstract: Dunnage may be applied to surfaces of items by nozzles coupled to one or more robotic arms that may be operated in six degrees of freedom within three-dimensional space. The dunnage is applied in substantially hollow pieces or sections by one or more 3D printing processes, e.g., by deposition. Such pieces or sections may be applied in one or more series or patterns along surfaces of an item prior to enveloping the item in one or more wraps or covers, or depositing the item in one or more containers. Various characteristics of the dunnage, such as materials from which the dunnage is formed, diameters or thicknesses of the dunnage, the series or patterns in which the dunnage is applied to the surface of the item, or any other factors may be selected based on one or more attributes of the items, such as dimensions or shipping and handling instructions.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Hoffman, Alexandra Hartford, Mohan Mahadevan, John Matrecano, Timothy Talda
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Patent number: 11084637Abstract: A laminate includes an outer liner having a resin layer disposed on a paper sheet. The resin layer extends between first and second opposed lateral edges of the sheet and defines a moisture barrier. A cushion layer is disposed over the resin layer. An inner liner of kraft paper is disposed over the cushion layer. A region of the resin layer is activated into an adhesive bonding the cushion layer and inner liner to the sheet. The laminate defines first and second longitudinally adjacent portions. The outer liner in the first portion has opposed first and second peripheral portions extending laterally outward from opposed lateral edges of the cushion layer and inner liner to the first and second lateral edges of the sheet, whereby a first width between the lateral edges along the first portion exceeds a second width measured the lateral edges along the second portion.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: August 10, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Brian Hoffman
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Patent number: 10967995Abstract: A package preparation system includes a material conveyable along a longitudinal direction and including two folded layers of polymeric film joined at a fold. The fold extends longitudinally and defines a first side of the material opposite an open second side. A first welding device forms partition welds located between the two folded layers and extending from the fold to a terminus inward of the open side. A second welding device forms first and second seal welds that extend from the fold to the open side and are spaced from each other by a length extending longitudinally and traversing a plurality of the partition welds. The system includes a device comprising a nozzle insertable in the open side, and clamps that traverse the length and temporarily seal the open side around the nozzle while the nozzle inflates interior channels defined between the plurality of partition welds.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2018Date of Patent: April 6, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Hoffman, Alexandra Kay Hartford, Mohan Mahadevan, John Gaetano Matrecano, Timothy Alan Talda
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Publication number: 20200390469Abstract: The present application discloses a hemostatic device comprising a flexible, adjustable closure device that is adapted to fit the lower leg and foot of patients having a range of anatomical differences in leg and foot shape and size, the hemostatic device further comprising at least one compression element that is adapted to apply targeted pressure to a surgical vascular access site located on the patient's lower leg or foot. In some embodiments, the compression element is moveable such that it may be used to apply pressure to a select one of common arterial access points located on the lower leg or foot.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2019Publication date: December 17, 2020Applicant: Terumo Medical CorporationInventors: Brian Hoffman, Kendra Krentz
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Publication number: 20200309888Abstract: A method of predicting the resistance of a biological sample to the damaging effects of ionizing radiation applied to the biological sample is described, where the method includes measuring by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy the amount of divalent manganese (Mn2+) present in the biological sample; and then determining the resistance of the biological sample to the ionizing radiation based on the measured amount of the divalent manganese.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Applicant: The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military MedicineInventors: Michael Daly, Brian Hoffman
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Patent number: 10773839Abstract: A method of preparing a packaging laminate includes conveying a mesh of paper material having perforations against a rigid edge causing, at substantially each perforation, a mesh portion at the leading side to have an average elevation lower than that of a mesh portion on the trailing side of the perforation. The method includes expanding the perforations into cells separated from one another by legs interconnected by nodes defined in the mesh Top and bottom surfaces of the legs and nodes are reoriented from an initial orientation substantially parallel with a direction of conveyance of the mesh to an expanded orientation oblique to the direction of conveyance, such that, in the expanded orientation, the top surfaces of the nodes are substantially parallel with each other. The method includes attaching an outer liner to at least some of the bottom surfaces so as to form the packaging laminate.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Timothy Alan Talda, Brian Hoffman, Paul Roy Raines, Jr.
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Publication number: 20200275936Abstract: The present application discloses various embodiments of a hemostatic device with improved comfort features over the known prior art, including hemostatic devices having attachment straps with non-linear edges and/or non-planar skin-facing edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2019Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Victoria Moore O'Brien, Brian Hoffman
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Patent number: 10717583Abstract: A packaging cushion includes a first liner and a second liner opposite one another and each defining an inner surface. A transverse liner axis extends normal to the inner surfaces. The packaging cushion includes a mesh bonded to and disposed between the first and second liners. The mesh has a top mesh surface and an opposed bottom mesh surface. The mesh defines a plurality of nodes and a plurality of legs interconnecting the plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes defines 1) a top node surface defined by the top mesh surface, 2) a bottom node surface defined by the bottom mesh surface, and 3) a transverse node axis extending substantially normal to the top and bottom node surfaces. The transverse node axes of at least some of the plurality of nodes are each oriented at an oblique angle relative to the transverse liner axis.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: July 21, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Brian Hoffman, Michael Ralph, Timothy Alan Talda
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Patent number: 10712113Abstract: A gun barrel with piecewise helical barrel fluting comprises a single start non-stop feature of alternating and intersecting right hand and left hand helical segments. Piecewise helical barrel fluting combines the ease of manufacture of a single start fluting with the improved performance benefits of a multi-start approach, namely increased barrel stiffness and resulting performance with respect to firing accuracy and firing precision.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 14, 2020Assignee: The United States of America as Represented by the Secretary of the ArmyInventor: Brian Hoffman