Patents by Inventor Craig
Craig 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: 20250253066Abstract: Compositions comprising high levels of high specific activity copper-64, and process for preparing said compositions. The compositions comprise from about 2 Ci to about 15 Ci of copper-64 and have specific activities up to about 3800 mCi copper-64 per microgram of copper. The processes for preparing said compositions comprise bombarding a nickel-64 target with a low energy, high current proton beam, and purifying the copper-64 from other metals by a process comprising ion exchange chromatography or a process comprising a combination of extraction chromatography and ion exchange chromatography.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Brian Regna, Allan Casciola, Lauren Radford, Shaun Loveless, David Pipes, William Uhland, Craig Brunkhorst
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Publication number: 20250250833Abstract: A magnetic safety gate latch assembly and method of operation. The assembly includes: a pool latch tube, a user-actuated lid coupled to the top end of the pool latch tube; a rotatable shaft within the pool latch tube, an upper end of the shaft rigidly coupled to the lid, and a lower end of the shaft including a shaped base. The assembly further includes a magnet housing that at least partially encloses the shaped base and includes an aperture to cooperatively engage with the shaped base. The assembly further includes a bottom cover coupled to the lower end of the pool latch tube and enclosing the magnet housing, the bottom cover including an aperture facing a latch pin housing, the aperture positioned to expose a magnet. The assembly further includes a ferromagnetic latch pin and housing, and a magnetic latch pin guide slidably enclosing the latch pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Christopher Michael Schneider, Craig Kime, Antonello Nizzia, Christopher John Heritage
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Publication number: 20250254215Abstract: Techniques to manage media flows for broadcast with public cloud networks. A request for a media flow is received. A location of the media flow is identified based on a registration database configured to maintain locations of media flows across a media production facility and a public cloud network facility. The media flow is accessed, and at least one of the receiving entity or the requesting entity is configured to generate media based on the media flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Michael J. Strein, Ryan N. McCormick, Craig L. Beardsley
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Publication number: 20250250693Abstract: A gas diffusion electrode membrane for one of a proton exchange membrane electrolyzer or an alkaline electrolyzer includes a substrate formed of one or more gas diffusion layers including a macro porous substrate and microporous layers, the electrode layer including a platinum-based metal alloy. The gas diffusion electrode membrane further including an electrode layer including a platinum-based metal alloy and a membrane integrated with the electrode layer and simultaneously applied to the substrate with the electrode layer, applying the membrane and the electrode layer directly to the substrate being performed at a single location as part of a single process.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Craig S. Gittleman, Swaminatha P. Kumaraguru, Ruichun Jiang
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Publication number: 20250248611Abstract: A method for evaluating characteristics of a blood vessel and/or of blood flowing within the blood vessel comprises (a) delivering light at one or more wavelengths into the blood vessel using a light delivery portion of a catheter, (b) capturing reflected light at each wavelengths and generating a signal corresponding to light captured at each wavelength using a light capturing portion of the catheter, and (c) determining blood flow rate and/or blood flow velocity within the blood vessel from the signal generated in step (b) by the light capturing portion of the catheter. The method may also include the step of (d) determining a wall sheer stress level and/or fractional flow reserve ratio for the blood vessel from the blood flow rate and/or blood flow velocity determined in step (c).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: INFRAREDX, INC.Inventors: Cherry GREINER, Craig GARDNER, Nicholas GIGLIO
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Publication number: 20250249496Abstract: A method including arranging a plurality of flat sheets into a part assembly, consisting of a first outer sheet and a second outer sheet. A friction-modifying layer is applied to the first outer sheet, where the first outer sheet has a first portion and a second portion. The friction-modifying layer is applied at a first thickness in the first portion and a second thickness in the second portion. The first thickness and the second thickness are different thicknesses. The method also includes placing the part assembly on a lower die of a die system with the first outer sheet facing the lower die. The method further includes moving an upper die of the die system in a forming direction toward the lower die to stretch and compress the part assembly between the upper die and the lower die and to super-plastically form the part assembly into the formed part.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Landon Henson, Jacob Spurgers, Craig Jenny
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Publication number: 20250251018Abstract: A bearing system for a rotatable shaft includes a bearing shaft coaxial with the rotatable shaft, a bearing coaxial with the bearing shaft, a bearing housing surrounding the bearing and having a plurality of retention channels disposed axially along the bearing housing, and a dampening assembly comprising a plurality of circumferential seal elements disposed within each of the plurality of retention channels. A first subset of the plurality of seal elements is formed from a first material and a second subset of the plurality of seal elements is formed from a second material.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: Craig M. Beers, Brent J. Merritt, Paul M. Colson
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Publication number: 20250252033Abstract: A method for monitoring the health of a component of a machine includes obtaining non-destructive structural integrity testing data of a component of the machine; utilizing a first machine learning algorithm, which includes a first type of neural network, to extract and quantify one or more features of the component from the non-destructive structural integrity testing data; and utilizing a second machine learning algorithm, which includes a second type of neural network, to perform a health assessment of the component based on the extracted features. The first type of neural network and the second type of neural network are different from each other. The method also includes providing a notification of the health assessment. A computing device is also disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Inventors: David Craig, Peter Boyd, Justin Byers, Jing Fang
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Publication number: 20250252081Abstract: A file system executing on a computing device may store a placeholder for a file on secondary storage of the computing device. The placeholder may comprise a sparse data stream containing none or some of the data of the file and information which enables the remotely stored data of the file to be retrieved from the network. As some or all of the data for the file is being stored remotely, the computing device may rely on a storage virtualization provider to create metadata for the file. Thus, the file system executing on the computing device may receive, from the storage virtualization provider, a request to store metadata associated with the file. In response to this request, the file system may store the metadata as a Binary Large Object (BLOB) in a secondary data stream of the placeholder for the file.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLCInventors: Neal R. CHRISTIANSEN, Craig Ashley BARKHOUSE, Michael J. NOVAK, Ping XIE
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Publication number: 20250248636Abstract: Systems and methods for cortical mapping to optimize placement of a neural interface in a brain of a patient are provided. A method for cortical mapping of a brain of a patient includes implanting an electrode array proximate to the brain of the patient at a position. The electrode array may include a flexible substrate and a plurality of electrodes arranged on the flexible substrate. The method may further include monitoring and electrophysiological mapping of the brain by causing the patient to perform, attempt to perform, or imagine performing an action over a period of time, recording, via the electrode array, neural activity exhibited by the patient in response to the action or imagined action performed by the patient, decoding the neural activity to determine a correspondence between the neural activity and the action, and determining a level of confidence, wherein the level of confidence is based on the correspondence.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2025Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: PRCEISION NEUROSCIENCE CORPORATIONInventors: Benjamin I. RAPOPORT, Adam Poole, Morgan Lamarca, Craig Mermel
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Publication number: 20250252421Abstract: A system includes a processing circuit configured to receive a request associated with an offer. The processing circuit is further configured to determine a category of the offer. The processing circuit is further configured to model the category with the offer to generate a first amount corresponding to a first transaction instrument and a second amount corresponding to a second transaction instrument for the offer. The processing circuit is further configured to generate and provide an interface corresponding to the first amount and the second amount. The processing circuit is further configured to receive a transaction request corresponding to the first transaction instrument or the second transaction instrument. The processing circuit is further configured to authorize the transaction request for either the first amount or the second amount based on the transaction request corresponding to the first transaction instrument or the second transaction instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2024Publication date: August 7, 2025Applicant: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.Inventors: Ramsay Huntley, Timothy Craig Seagren, Judson Murchie
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Patent number: 12381944Abstract: A computer-implemented method for adapting connections between nodes of a layered network. The layered network comprises a plurality of nodes arranged in an ordered set of layers. The ordered set of layers comprises, in order, a core layer comprising a set of core nodes, a second layer comprising a set of second nodes, and one or more outer layers each comprising a respective set of outer nodes. Each core node is connected to at least one other core node. The method is performed by an adapting node, the adapting node being a node of the layered network that is connected to one or more second nodes and multiple core nodes. The method comprises, based on one or more network properties of the layered network, disabling a respective connection between the adapting node and at least one but not all of the multiple core nodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: nChain Licensing AGInventors: Owen Vaughan, Jack Owen Davies, Craig Steven Wright
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Patent number: 12377105Abstract: Compounds of general formula (I): wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5a, R5b X1, X2, Z and Y are as defined herein are positive modulators of the calcium-activated chloride channel (CaCC), TMEM16A. The compounds are useful for treating diseases and conditions affected by modulation of TMEM16A, particularly respiratory diseases and conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: TMEM16A LimitedInventors: Stephen Collingwood, Clive McCarthy, Jonathan David Hargrave, Duncan Alexander Hay, Thomas Beauregard Schofield, Sarah Ellam, Craig Stephen Buxton, Matthew Habgood, Peter Neville Ingram, Chun Yan Ma, Spencer Charles Robert Napier, Abdul Kadar Shaikh, Matthew Raymond Smith, Christopher Charles Stimson, Edward Richard Walker
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Patent number: 12379106Abstract: A method of forming a gas burner membrane. The method comprises forming a plurality of holes in a sheet of material. The holes are formed by laser cutting a required pattern of holes in the sheet of material.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2019Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Beckett Thermal Solutions Ltd.Inventors: Anthony Bailey, Darren Flint, Craig Stuart Orson, David Michael Bruce Killer
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Patent number: 12377521Abstract: Systems and methods for providing real-time modification of cutting process programs using feedback from one or more sensors which measure one or more operational parameters of a cutting process and/or cutting apparatus. The sensor readings may be used to provide real-time modification of a motion program after such motion program has been provided to a motion controller. Examples of such operational parameters may include waterjet pump supply pressure, the abrasive mass flow rate, the force of the waterjet on the target piece, etc. The systems and methods discussed herein also utilize a cutting algorithm or program to calculate actual cut quality based on one or more sensor inputs, and to generate warnings or system shut-downs accordingly. The systems and methods discussed herein also utilize inspection devices to inspect coupons or first articles, and use the inspection data to autonomously modify motion programs and/or cutting process models without user intervention.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: Flow International CorporationInventors: Glenn A. Erichsen, Alex M. Chillman, Jordan J. Hopkins, Adam G. Law, Amanda C. Kotchon, Paul H. Tacheron, Charles D. Burnham, Brian Kent, Mohamed Hashish, Craig D. Sunada, Jiannan Zhou
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Patent number: 12380740Abstract: The disclosure describes a method for luggage management involving electronically acquiring an originating hardcopy bag tag identifier (OP-BTI) from a luggage item's bag tag associated with an originating travel carrier. The method uses the OP-BTI as a unique identifier to query a database for expanded baggage information messages that enumerate a passenger's travel path using a different mode of travel from the originating travel carrier. This process includes checking in a luggage item for the passenger using information from the expanded baggage information messages. The method accommodates various modes of travel and lodging entities, and it includes different acquiring devices for the OP-BTI, such as scanning or radio-frequency communication.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Inventor: Craig Mateer
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Patent number: 12378920Abstract: There is provided a method of operating a gas turbine engine including a combustor. The combustor includes a combustion chamber and a plurality of fuel spray nozzles configured to inject fuel into the chamber. The nozzles include a first and second subset of fuel spray nozzles. The combustor is operable in a condition wherein the first subset is supplied with more fuel than the second. A ratio of the number of nozzles in the first subset to the second is 1:2 to 1:5. The method includes operating the engine so a reduction of 20-80% in an average of particles/kg of nvPM in the exhaust when the engine is operating at 85% available thrust for given operating conditions and when the engine is operating at 30% is obtained when fuel provided to the nozzles is a sustainable aviation fuel instead of a fossil-based hydrocarbon fuel. Also provided is a gas turbine engine for an aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Christopher P Madden, Craig W Bemment, Andrew T Smith, Peter Swann
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Patent number: 12382684Abstract: A semiconductor device include a first semiconductor layer with a first doping concentration. A second semiconductor layer has a second doping concentration and has a first surface and a second opposing surface. The second doping concentration is higher than the first doping concentration. The first surface of the second semiconductor layer is in contact with the first semiconductor layer. A contact is on the second surface of the second semiconductor layer. The contact includes a metal and a semiconductor.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Mattias Dahlstrom, Thomas James Moutinho, Craig Printy, Wibo Van Noort, Tatsuya Tominari
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Patent number: 12378913Abstract: A gas turbine engine includes an engine core with a combustor; a turbine including turbine blades; a compressor as a source of cooling air for the turbine blades; and an inducer to accelerate and direct the cooling air onto the turbine blades, and a modulating valve to allow or block cooling air flow into a subset of airflow passageways of the inducer; and a fuel management system to provide fuel to the combustor. The fuel management system includes a primary fuel-oil heat exchanger and a secondary fuel-oil heat exchanger through which oil and the fuel flow, to transfer heat between the oil and the fuel. A method of operating the engine includes using the modulating valve to adjust the cooling air flow based on turbine inlet temperature; and transferring 200-600 kJ/m3 of heat to the fuel from the oil in the primary fuel-oil heat exchanger at cruise conditions.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2024Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE plcInventors: Craig W Bemment, Benjamin J Keeler, Christopher P Madden, Andrea Minelli, Peter Swann, Martin K Yates
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Patent number: D1086891Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: August 5, 2025Assignee: NUVIK USA, INC.Inventors: Craig Rabey, Dale Rabey