Patents by Inventor Daniel Allen
Daniel Allen 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: 20200289155Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for insertion tools for implanting electrode leads. In one embodiment, an insertion tool comprises a shaft having an outer cannula and an inner cannula. An actuator may be configured to transition the insertion tool between at least three configurations. In a first configuration, the inner cannula and the outer cannula are configured to receive the lead in the shaft. In a second configuration, the inner cannula and the outer cannula are configured to secure the lead in the shaft. In a third configuration, the inner cannula and the outer cannula are configured to cause the lead to separate from the insertion tool and implant in adjacent tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2019Publication date: September 17, 2020Inventors: Daniel Allen McDonnall, Nathaniel Anthony Srok, Christopher Farand Smith
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Publication number: 20200276031Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sensor systems. In one embodiment, a system may include an implantable component and an external component. The implantable component may comprise a housing and an electrode array configured to receive a plurality of biopotential signals. The housing may comprise a wireless power receiver and a wireless data transmitter to transmit representations of the biopotential signals. The external component may comprise a wireless data receiver configured to receive the plurality of digital representations of the biopotential signals and a wireless power transmitter configured to provide power to the internal component. A shielding component may separate the wireless power transmitter from the wireless data receiver. An interface may be configured to communicate with a prosthesis and configured to cause the prosthesis to implement a voluntary motion based on the plurality of digital presentations of the biopotential signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2020Publication date: September 3, 2020Inventors: Daniel Allen McDonnall, Scott Darold Hiatt, Brian Scott Crofts, Christopher Farand Smith, Andrew Miller Wilder
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Patent number: 10729564Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sensor systems. In one embodiment, a system may include an implantable component and an external component. The implantable component may comprise a housing and an electrode array configured to receive a plurality of biopotential signals. The housing may comprise a wireless power receiver and a wireless data transmitter to transmit representations of the biopotential signals. The external component may comprise a wireless data receiver configured to receive the plurality of digital representations of the biopotential signals and a wireless power transmitter configured to provide power to the internal component. A shielding component may separate the wireless power transmitter from the wireless data receiver. An interface may be configured to communicate with a prosthesis and configured to cause the prosthesis to implement a voluntary motion based on the plurality of digital presentations of the biopotential signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2018Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Ripple LLCInventors: Daniel Allen McDonnall, Scott Darold Hiatt, Brian Scott Crofts, Christopher Farand Smith, Andrew Miller Wilder
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Patent number: 10674470Abstract: Systems and methods for providing mobile network services are described herein. The systems and methods enable a user to register an endpoint for use on a mobile network. When registered on the mobile network, the endpoint can be used for mobile network services, such as placing or receiving audio/video calls.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2019Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.Inventors: Mark Daniel Allen, Prakasa Bellam, Chakravarthi Japa, Mehul Shah, Mikhail Fridman
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Patent number: 10661449Abstract: In an inherently safe robotic tool changer, a master unit couples to a tool unit via a first power source, and decouples from the tool unit using a separate, second power source. The second power source is only available when an attached tool is safely disposed in a tool stand. In embodiments where the first power source is not selectively applied, such as the constant bias provided by a spring, a detent mechanism maintains the master unit in a decoupled state when the master unit is removed from the tool unit. The detent mechanism allows the master unit to couple to a different tool unit upon physically abutting the new tool unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: ATI Industrial Automation, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Zachary, Mack Earl Manning, Daniel Allen Norton
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Publication number: 20200025213Abstract: A fan for a gas turbine engine includes: an annular casing; a disk disposed inside the casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline, the disk including a row of fan blades extending radially outwardly therefrom; each of the fan blades including an airfoil having circumferentially opposite pressure and suction sides extending radially in span from a root to a tip, and extending axially in chord between spaced-apart leading and trailing edges, with the airfoils defining corresponding flow passages therebetween for pressurizing air; the row including no more than 21 and no less than 13 of the fan blades; and wherein each of the fan blades has a solidity defined by a ratio of the airfoil chord over a circumferential pitch of the fan blades, measured at 60% of a radial distance from the root to the tip, of less than about 1.6.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Daniel Allen Wilkin, II, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
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Patent number: 10458426Abstract: A fan for a gas turbine engine includes: an annular casing; a disk disposed inside the casing and mounted for rotation about an axial centerline, the disk including a row of fan blades extending radially outwardly therefrom; each of the fan blades including an airfoil having circumferentially opposite pressure and suction sides extending radially in span from a root to a tip, and extending axially in chord between spaced-apart leading and trailing edges, with the airfoils defining corresponding flow passages therebetween for pressurizing air; the row including no more than 21 and no less than 13 of the fan blades; and wherein each of the fan blades has a solidity defined by a ratio of the airfoil chord over a circumferential pitch of the fan blades, measured at 60% of a radial distance from the root to the tip, of less than about 1.6.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Daniel Allen Wilkin, II, Andrew Breeze-Stringfellow
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Publication number: 20190313873Abstract: An automated cleaning apparatus fashioned for programmed cleaning of a surface wherein the apparatus comprises: a unit housing for an enclosed mechanism, a conductive contact strip provided on a surface, a controller having a processor confirmed to control the output of translational device movement. The apparatus is prompted to travel along the cross-sectional area of the surface in a translational motion, wherein buildup of any undesirable substance is removed from the surface by protruding bristles from the housing of the mechanism that remain in contact with the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2018Publication date: October 17, 2019Inventors: Logan John Phillips, Logan Daniel Allen, Stewart William Jenkins, Dulus Joshua Owen, I, James Michael Hickey, Jacob James Herron, Paula Cox
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Patent number: 10417203Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus for obtaining one or more metadata files, determining, by one or more computers and in accordance with a minor compaction setting, to perform a minor compaction of the one or more metadata files, creating one or more intermediate metadata files that each include at least compacted contacts of one or more of the metadata files, according to the determination to perform minor compaction of the one or more metadata files, determining, in accordance with a major compaction setting, to perform a major compaction of one or more of the intermediate metadata files, and creating one or more snapshot metadata files that each include at least compacted contents of one or more of the intermediate metadata files, according to the determination to perform the major compaction of one or more of the intermediate metadata files.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2017Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventors: Jagannathan Ramnarayanan, Ashvin Agrawal, Anthony M. Baker, Daniel Allen Smith, Hemant Bhanawat, Swapnil Prakash Bawaskar
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Patent number: 10382549Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for distributed data management. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a first member in a distributed data management system having multiple computing members installed on multiple respective computers, a first garbage collection version vector that includes, for each member in the distributed data management system, a garbage collection version that represents a number of garbage collection processes performed by the member on a respective copy of a replicated data region maintained by the member in the data management system. If the first garbage collection version vector is different than a second garbage collection version vector received from a different provider member, a first replication process is performed that is different than a second replication process that is performed when the first garbage collection version vector matches the second garbage collection version vector.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventors: Sumedh Wale, Neeraj Kumar, Daniel Allen Smith, Jagannathan Ramnarayanan, Suranjan Kumar, Hemant Bhanawat, Anthony M. Baker
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Publication number: 20190216619Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for sensor systems. In one embodiment, a system may include an implantable component and an external component. The implantable component may comprise a housing and an electrode array configured to receive a plurality of biopotential signals. The housing may comprise a wireless power receiver and a wireless data transmitter to transmit representations of the biopotential signals. The external component may comprise a wireless data receiver configured to receive the plurality of digital representations of the biopotential signals and a wireless power transmitter configured to provide power to the internal component. A shielding component may separate the wireless power transmitter from the wireless data receiver. An interface may be configured to communicate with a prosthesis and configured to cause the prosthesis to implement a voluntary motion based on the plurality of digital presentations of the biopotential signals.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2018Publication date: July 18, 2019Applicant: Ripple, LLCInventors: Daniel Allen McDonnall, Scott Darold Hiatt, Brian Scott Crofts, Christopher Farand Smith, Andrew Miller Wilder
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Patent number: 10335957Abstract: A robotic tool changer in which the coupling mechanism is actuated using magnetic force is provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a robotic tool changer may include a tool unit operatively connected to a robotic tool and a master unit operative to connect to a robotic arm. The master unit may include a housing and a piston. The piston may be disposed at least partially within the housing and configured to place the master unit in one of a coupled state and a decoupled state. Further, the master unit may be operative to assume the coupled state or the decoupled state in response to altering an orientation of magnetic fields to provide a first magnetic force that moves the piston to the coupled state or provide a second magnetic force that moves the piston to the decoupled state.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2017Date of Patent: July 2, 2019Assignee: ATI Industrial Automation, Inc.Inventors: Kyle Russell Zachary, Daniel Allen Norton
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Patent number: 10162841Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for distributed data management. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a first member in a distributed data management system having multiple computing members installed on multiple respective computers, a first garbage collection version vector that includes, for each member in the distributed data management system, a garbage collection version that represents a number of garbage collection processes performed by the member on a respective copy of a replicated data region maintained by the member in the data management system. If the first garbage collection version vector is different than a second garbage collection version vector received from a different provider member, a first replication process is performed that is different than a second replication process that is performed when the first garbage collection version vector matches the second garbage collection version vector.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventors: Neeraj Kumar, Sumedh Wale, Daniel Allen Smith, Soubhik Chakraborty, Jagannathan Ramnarayanan
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Publication number: 20180362124Abstract: A board pocket or flap shaped device to store objects on a flat rigid or semi-rigid surface for convenient retrieval. The board pocket may be used during a board sport and attached to a board such as a surfboard, paddle-board, kite-surfing board, wake-board, or wind-surfing board. The pocket may also be used for boards used in land and air sports such as skateboards and sky-surf boards. The board pocket employs a thermo-elastic polymer to grip, by friction, the objects to be stored therein. Any objects, for example, surfwax or car keys may be stored and retrieved from the board through a slit or opening in the pocket. The pocket is attached to the board by an adhesive or fastener.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2017Publication date: December 20, 2018Inventors: Logan Ray Norton, Daniel Allen Norton
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Patent number: 10147861Abstract: A thermoelectric generation unit for a cookstove or other heat source is described. The thermoelectric generation unit includes a probe, a thermoelectric module, and a fluid reservoir. The probe draws heat from a heat source such as a wood cookstove. The thermoelectric module generates an electric current based on a heat gradient created by different temperatures of contents of the fluid reservoir and the probe.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: JikoPower, Inc.Inventors: Daniel Allen Parrish, Aaron Zane Owen, Ryan Anthony Ahearn, Michael Jooste
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Patent number: 10136679Abstract: An electronic cigarette includes a housing, an oven positioned within the housing and adapted to heat a substance to generate a vapor from the substance, the oven comprising oven sides and an oven lid seat adjacent a surface of the housing, the oven lid seat comprising oven lid seat sides positioned at angles with respect to each other so that they are not parallel to each other, an external mouthpiece opening, a vapor channel in fluid communication with the external mouthpiece opening and the oven, and an oven lid pivotally attached to the housing and pivotable between a closed position in which sides of the oven lid align with the oven lid seat sides, and an open position.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2018Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Skapa Holdings, LLCInventors: Marcus J. Shotey, Joseph Velasquez, Daniel Allen
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Publication number: 20180304475Abstract: A robotic tool changer in which the coupling mechanism is actuated using magnetic force is provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a robotic tool changer may include a tool unit operatively connected to a robotic tool and a master unit operative to connect to a robotic arm. The master unit may include a housing and a piston. The piston may be disposed at least partially within the housing and configured to place the master unit in one of a coupled state and a decoupled state. Further, the master unit may be operative to assume the coupled state or the decoupled state in response to altering an orientation of magnetic fields to provide a first magnetic force that moves the piston to the coupled state or provide a second magnetic force that moves the piston to the decoupled state.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2017Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Kyle Russell Zachary, Daniel Allen Norton
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Patent number: D836962Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: Bonvi Water, Inc.Inventors: Marcus J. Shotey, Daniel Allen
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Patent number: D897426Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Robinhood Markets, Inc.Inventors: Zane Michael Bevan, Daniel Allen Haire
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Patent number: D897427Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2018Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Robinhood Markets, Inc.Inventors: Zane Michael Bevan, Daniel Allen Haire