Patents by Inventor Charles R. Sperry
Charles R. Sperry 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: 20240127943Abstract: A pathogen detection and display system is configured to discover and display the location of substances of interest, particularly pathogens that can spread infection. The detection and display system can be used in healthcare facilities on surfaces, medical equipment and devices, patients, and staff, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Cardeya CorporationInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Lawrence J. Pillote, Vincent A. Piucci, Dennis F. McNamara, JR., James M. Wilson, III, Lisa Ruth Stowe, Brett M. Sitzlar, Barbara A. Piucci, David C. Chase
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Patent number: 11951505Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system and method for dispensing a floor coating in a specified ratio of multiple components is disclosed. The system and method may set and maintain a desired ratio of the multiple components by controlling, with a controller, a drive rate of respective pumps configured for propelling the components from a reservoir to a mixer or a dispenser. The controller may be responsive to at least one of a measured actual drive rate, an environmental condition, an actual usage of each component, and an operational parameter of the system, for adjusting a drive rate of the respective pumps to compensate for discrepancies that may affect the ratio of the multiple components.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SWIMC LLCInventors: Kyle Sanford Smith, Murty Venkata Bhamidipati, David Royston Hughes, Robert S. Smith, Peter V. Ferris, Daniel R. Allen, Charles R. Sperry, David M. Kroll
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Patent number: 11862329Abstract: A pathogen detection and display system is configured to discover and display the location of substances of interest, particularly pathogens that can spread infection. The detection and display system can be used in healthcare facilities on surfaces, medical equipment and devices, patients, and staff, for example.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2020Date of Patent: January 2, 2024Assignee: Cardeya CorporationInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Lawrence J. Pillote, Vincent A. Piucci, Dennis F. McNamara, Jr., James M. Wilson, III, Lisa Ruth Stowe, Brett M. Sitzlar, Barbara A. Piucci, David C. Chase
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Publication number: 20230397928Abstract: Arrangements of the innovation relate to a micro-coring system configured to harvest a plurality of cores, either sequentially or simultaneously. In one arrangement, the micro-coring system comprises a harvesting tool configured to harvest and transfer at least one tissue core from a donor site to a recipient site, the at least one tissue core having a diameter of between about 1.0 mm and 3.0 mm diameter. In one arrangement, the harvesting tool comprises: a coring tool configured to penetrate tissue at the donor site and capture a tissue core from the tissue, and an extractor pin disposed within an aperture extending along a longitudinal axis of the coring tool, the extractor pin configured to extract the core from the coring tool.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2023Publication date: December 14, 2023Applicant: Sperry Bio, Inc.Inventors: Anders H. Carlsson, Rodney K. Chan, Charles R. Sperry, Ayn Lavagnino, Karl Wassmann, Vincent A. Piucci, Mark Torselli, Darren Berrouard
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Patent number: 11678775Abstract: Embodiments of the innovation relate to a wipe dispensing system that includes a wipe supply, a drive assembly disposed in operational communication with the wipe supply, a fluid dispensing assembly, and a wipe dispensing controller disposed in electrical communication with the drive assembly and the fluid dispensing assembly. The wipe dispensing controller is configured to receive a wipe criterion which defines a characteristic of a wipe to be provided by the wipe dispensing system, dispose a portion of the wipe supply between a first position and a second position relative to the fluid dispensing assembly via the drive assembly and based upon the wipe criterion, and apply a fluid to the portion of the wipe supply via the fluid dispensing assembly based upon the wipe criterion to generate the wipe.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2021Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: HyResults, LLCInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Vincent A. Piucci, Jr., Dennis F. McNamara, Jr., Lawrence Pillote, Jose Antonio Ramirez, Grayson Martin
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Publication number: 20220401675Abstract: Embodiments of the innovation relate to a ventilator, comprising: a positive displacement pump having a drive motor and configured to output a predetermined volume of inspiratory gas for each rotation of an output shaft of the drive motor; at least one pressure sensor configured to measure inspiratory pressure; and a control unit having a controller comprising a memory and a processor, the control unit disposed in electrical communication with the drive motor and with the at least one pressure sensor. The controller is configured to: receive at least one of an operation signal and a pressure sensor signal, and transmit a drive motor control signal to the drive motor to adjust at least one of a rotational speed of the output shaft and a number of rotations of the output shaft based upon the at least one of the operation signal and the pressure sensor signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2022Publication date: December 22, 2022Applicant: Sperry Medtech Inc.Inventors: Vincent A. Piucci, JR., Charles R. Sperry
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Publication number: 20220183712Abstract: An article is configured for transferring tissue cores from a patient donor site to a patient wound site. The article includes a matrix construction of resilient elastomeric polymer material to support an array of tissue core locators individually defining an opening and individually configured to: (1) receive a tissue core from the donor site into the opening, (2) resiliently hold the tissue core at the opening until and after the sheet is placed upon the wound site, and (3) release the tissue core when the sheet is removed from the wound site at a time that is between 2 and 29 days after the sheet is placed upon the wound site.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Inventors: Charles R. Sperry, Ayn Lavagnino, Vincent Piucci, Karl Wassmann, Evan Kuester, John Stockwell, Peter Scott Turner, Pingyong Xu
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Publication number: 20220053983Abstract: Embodiments of the innovation relate to a wipe dispensing system that includes a wipe supply, a drive assembly disposed in operational communication with the wipe supply, a fluid dispensing assembly, and a wipe dispensing controller disposed in electrical communication with the drive assembly and the fluid dispensing assembly. The wipe dispensing controller is configured to receive a wipe criterion which defines a characteristic of a wipe to be provided by the wipe dispensing system, dispose a portion of the wipe supply between a first position and a second position relative to the fluid dispensing assembly via the drive assembly and based upon the wipe criterion, and apply a fluid to the portion of the wipe supply via the fluid dispensing assembly based upon the wipe criterion to generate the wipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: HyResults, LLCInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Vincent A. Piucci, JR., Dennis F. McNamara, JR., Lawrence Pillote, Jose Antonio Ramirez, Grayson Martin
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Patent number: 11191397Abstract: Embodiments of the innovation relate to a wipe dispensing system that includes a wipe supply, a drive assembly disposed in operational communication with the wipe supply, a fluid dispensing assembly, and a wipe dispensing controller disposed in electrical communication with the drive assembly and the fluid dispensing assembly. The wipe dispensing controller is configured to receive a wipe criterion which defines a characteristic of a wipe to be provided by the wipe dispensing system, dispose a portion of the wipe supply between a first position and a second position relative to the fluid dispensing assembly via the drive assembly and based upon the wipe criterion, and apply a fluid to the portion of the wipe supply via the fluid dispensing assembly based upon the wipe criterion to generate the wipe.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: December 7, 2021Assignee: HyResults, LLCInventors: Charles R Sperry, Vincent A Piucci, Jr., Dennis F McNamara, Jr., Lawrence Pillote, Jose Antonio Ramirez, Grayson Martin
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Publication number: 20210331199Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system and method for dispensing a floor coating in a specified ratio of multiple components is disclosed. The system and method may set and maintain a desired ratio of the multiple components by controlling, with a controller, a drive rate of respective pumps configured for propelling the components from a reservoir to a mixer or a dispenser. The controller may be responsive to at least one of a measured actual drive rate, an environmental condition, an actual usage of each component, and an operational parameter of the system, for adjusting a drive rate of the respective pumps to compensate for discrepancies that may affect the ratio of the multiple components.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Applicant: Dur-A-Flex, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Sanford Smith, Murty Venkata Bhamidipati, David Royston Hughes, Robert S. Smith, Peter V. Ferris, Daniel R. Allen, Charles R. Sperry, David M. Kroll
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Publication number: 20210244432Abstract: Systems and methods for assembling a plurality of tissue grafts are provided. A system includes a pick and place unit, a transfer tool, and a control unit. The pick and place unit includes a moveable arm and the transfer tool is coupled to a distal end of the arm. The control unit is configured to control the moveable arm to move the transfer tool to a donor site and a graft construction site. The control unit is further configured to control the transfer tool to harvest the micro tissue grafts from the donor site and arrange the micro tissue grafts into a supportive matrix to form a custom graft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2019Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Richard Rox Anderson, Charles R. Sperry, Alexander G. Sperry, Joshua Tam, Karl Wassmann
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Publication number: 20200365260Abstract: A pathogen detection and display system is configured to discover and display the location of substances of interest, particularly pathogens that can spread infection. The detection and display system can be used in healthcare facilities on surfaces, medical equipment and devices, patients, and staff, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Applicant: Cardeya CorporationInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Lawrence J. Pillote, Vincent A. Piucci, Dennis F. McNamara, JR., James M. Wilson, III, Lisa Ruth Stowe, Brett M. Sitzlar, Barbara A. Piucci, David C. Chase
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Patent number: 10741278Abstract: A pathogen detection and display system is configured to discover and display the location of substances of interest, particularly pathogens that can spread infection. The detection and display system can be used in healthcare facilities on surfaces, medical equipment and devices, patients, and staff, for example.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2016Date of Patent: August 11, 2020Assignee: Cardeya CorporationInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Lawrence J. Pillote, Vincent A. Piucci, Dennis F. McNamara, Jr., James M. Wilson, III, Lisa Ruth Stowe, Brett M. Sitzlar, Barbara A. Piucci, David C. Chase
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Publication number: 20190350610Abstract: A tissue harvesting and wound closing device includes first and second actuator strip guides of a strip that are slideable along first and second panel guides of a panel, respectively. A first section of a base of the actuator strip has a substantially uniform width between the first and the second actuator strip guides. A second section of the base has a gradually decreasing width between the first and second actuator strip guides. A third second section of the base has a substantially uniform width between the first and second actuator strip guides that is smaller than the first width. When the actuator strip is pulled, the first and second actuator guides slide along the first and second panel guides, respectively, to cut a strip of tissue strip creating an open wound, and a panel pulls proximal tissue on opposite sides of the open wound to close the wound.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2018Publication date: November 21, 2019Inventors: Alexander G. Sperry, Charles R. Sperry, Dennis F. McNamara, JR., Brett Sitzlar, Joshua Tam, Richard Rox Anderson
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Publication number: 20190343343Abstract: Embodiments of the innovation relate to a wipe dispensing system that includes a wipe supply, a drive assembly disposed in operational communication with the wipe supply, a fluid dispensing assembly, and a wipe dispensing controller disposed in electrical communication with the drive assembly and the fluid dispensing assembly. The wipe dispensing controller is configured to receive a wipe criterion which defines a characteristic of a wipe to be provided by the wipe dispensing system, dispose a portion of the wipe supply between a first position and a second position relative to the fluid dispensing assembly via the drive assembly and based upon the wipe criterion, and apply a fluid to the portion of the wipe supply via the fluid dispensing assembly based upon the wipe criterion to generate the wipe.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: HyResults, LLCInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Vincent A. Piucci, JR., Dennis F. McNamara, JR., Lawrence Pillote, Jose Antonio Ramirez, Grayson Martin
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Publication number: 20160306934Abstract: A pathogen detection and display system is configured to discover and display the location of substances of interest, particularly pathogens that can spread infection. The detection and display system can be used in healthcare facilities on surfaces, medical equipment and devices, patients, and staff, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2016Publication date: October 20, 2016Applicant: Cardeya CorporationInventors: Charles R. Sperry, Lawrence J. Pillote, Vincent A. Piucci, Dennis F. McNamara, JR., James M. Wilson, III, Lisa Ruth Stowe, Brett M. Sitzlar, Barbara A. Piucci, David C. Chase
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Patent number: 9034237Abstract: There is provided solid imaging methods and apparatus for making three-dimensional objects from solid imaging material. A tray with a film bottom is provided to hold solid imaging material that is selectively cured into cross-sections of the three-dimensional object being built. A coater bar is moved back and forth over the film to remove any uncured solid imaging material from a previous layer and to apply a new layer of solid imaging material. A sensor is provided to measure the amount of resin in the tray to determine the appropriate amount of solid imaging material to be added, from a cartridge, for the next layer. A shuttle, which covers the tray when the exterior door to the solid imaging apparatus is opened for setting up a build or removing a three-dimensional object, can also be used to move the coater bar and to selectively open one or more valves on the cartridge to dispense the desired amount of solid imaging material.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2012Date of Patent: May 19, 2015Assignee: 3D Systems, Inc.Inventors: Charles R. Sperry, Dennis F. McNamara, Martin Alan Johnson, Richard Ora Gregory, II
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Patent number: 8703037Abstract: A solid imaging apparatus and method employing sub-pixel shifting in multiple exposures of the digitally light projected image of a cross-section of a three-dimensional object on a solidifiable liquid medium. The multiple exposures provide increased resolution, preserving image features in a three-dimensional object and smoothing out rough or uneven edges that would otherwise be occur using digital light projectors that are limited by the number of pixels in an image projected over the size of the image. Algorithms are used to select pixels to be illuminated within the boundary of each image projected in the cross-section being exposed.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: April 22, 2014Assignee: 3D Systems, Inc.Inventors: Charles W. Hull, Jouni P. Partanen, Charles R. Sperry, Patrick Dunne, Suzanne M. Scott, Dennis F. McNamara, Chris R. Manners
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Patent number: 8691154Abstract: The presently disclosed subject matter is directed to an apparatus for the preparation of a cleaning, sanitizing, or sterilizing solution. In some embodiments, the apparatus comprises a modular component, such as a cartridge. The cartridge may contain chemical precursors to allow the generation of chlorine dioxide. The apparatus has a fluid inlet, and separates the fluid into a first flow path, which fills a reservoir. It also has a second flow path, which is heated before passing through the cartridge to create the desired gas. The fluid output from the cartridge is then fed into the reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2012Date of Patent: April 8, 2014Assignee: Diversey, Inc.Inventors: Charles R. Sperry, Vincent A. Piucci, Stephen D. Smith, Dennis F. McNamara, Suzanne M. Scott, John Koke
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Publication number: 20140084517Abstract: There is provided solid imaging methods and apparatus for making three-dimensional objects from solid imaging material. A tray with a film bottom is provided to hold solid imaging material that is selectively cured into cross-sections of the three-dimensional object being built. A coater bar is moved back and forth over the film to remove any uncured solid imaging material from a previous layer and to apply a new layer of solid imaging material. A sensor is provided to measure the amount of resin in the tray to determine the appropriate amount of solid imaging material to be added, from a cartridge, for the next layer. A shuttle, which covers the tray when the exterior door to the solid imaging apparatus is opened for setting up a build or removing a three-dimensional object, can also be used to move the coater bar and to selectively open one or more valves on the cartridge to dispense the desired amount of solid imaging material.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2012Publication date: March 27, 2014Applicant: 3D Systems, Inc.Inventors: Charles R. Sperry, Dennis F. McNamara, Martin Alan Johnson, Richard Ora Gregory, II