Patents by Inventor Christopher G. Hill

Christopher G. Hill 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).

  • Patent number: 12232767
    Abstract: In examples, a method of operating a surgical device comprises disengaging an obturator from a funnel portion of a cannula; removing a shaft portion of the obturator from a cannula lumen of the cannula; disengaging a seal cartridge from the funnel portion of the cannula; and removing the seal cartridge from the funnel portion after removing the shaft portion of the obturator from the cannula lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Joseph Mozloom, Jr., Christopher Brock Stone, Andrew S. Berkowitz, Steven G. Hall, Jeffrey P. Wiley, Richard Patrick Chesnes, Jeffery T. Kirk, Aren Calder Hill
  • Patent number: 5857179
    Abstract: A computer method and apparatus determines keywords of documents. An initial document by term matrix is formed, each document being represented by a respective M dimensional vector, where M represents the number of terms or words in a predetermined domain of documents. The dimensionality of the initial matrix is reduced to form resultant vectors of the documents. The resultant vectors are then clustered such that correlated documents are grouped into respective clusters. For each cluster, the terms having greatest impact on the documents in that cluster are identified. The identified terms represent key words of each document in that cluster. Further, the identified terms form a cluster summary indicative of the documents in that cluster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Digital Equipment Corporation
    Inventors: Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, Mark R. Adler, Christopher G. Hill