Patents by Inventor Daniel Hoffman

Daniel 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).

  • Patent number: 12576010
    Abstract: A medicine dispensing device, configured to contain a liquid medicine to be dispensed by the medicine dispensing device and having a plurality of dosing indicia spaced apart from each other around and in relation to a circumference of a surface of the medicine dispensing device, each dosing indicia being of a different height relative to a reference level and corresponding to different dose of the liquid medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: CD Acquisitions, LLC
    Inventors: Caleb Hernandez, Daniel Hoffman
  • Patent number: 12048399
    Abstract: Portable sanitization fluid dispensing devices, systems including such devices, and methods for using such devices are described herein. Such devices, systems, and methods may assist in ensuring proper hand sanitization in sensitive environments, such as medical facilities, laboratories, food and drug preparation facilities, and the like. Devices and systems disclosed herein may be adaptive to, e.g., changing schedules, different users, and different environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Blink Device, LLC
    Inventors: Justin Hulvershorn, Daniel Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20230218482
    Abstract: A medicine dispensing device, configured to contain a liquid medicine to be dispensed by the medicine dispensing device and having a plurality of dosing indicia spaced apart from each other around and in relation to a circumference of a surface of the medicine dispensing device, each dosing indicia being of a different height relative to a reference level and corresponding to different dose of the liquid medicine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Caleb Hernandez, Daniel Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11633243
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an insertion device for a single port robotic surgery apparatus includes a plurality of instrument channels positioned in an interior of a housing and extending along substantially an entire length of the housing, the plurality of instrument channels configured to removably house a plurality of surgical instruments, a plurality of openings in a rear exterior surface of the housing, the plurality of openings providing access to the plurality of instrument channels and configured to facilitate insertion of the plurality of surgical instruments into the plurality of instrument channels, and an illumination device supported at least partially at the rear exterior surface of the housing and positioned proximal to the plurality of openings, the illumination device configured to illuminate the openings to facilitate insertion of the plurality of instruments through the plurality of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: TITAN MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Perry A. Genova, Hans Christian Pflaumer, Aki Hannu Einari Laakso, Allan Katz, Alejandro Espinosa, Eduardo A. Ampuero, Daniel Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11583475
    Abstract: A medicine dispensing device, configured to contain a liquid medicine to be dispensed by the medicine dispensing device and having a plurality of dosing indicia spaced apart from each other around and in relation to a circumference of a surface of the medicine dispensing device, each dosing indicia being of a different height relative to a reference level and corresponding to different dose of the liquid medicine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: CD Acquisitions, LLC
    Inventors: Caleb Hernandez, Daniel Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20220287515
    Abstract: Portable sanitization fluid dispensing devices, systems including such devices, and methods for using such devices are described herein. Such devices, systems, and methods may assist in ensuring proper hand sanitization in sensitive environments, such as medical facilities, laboratories, food and drug preparation facilities, and the like. Devices and systems disclosed herein may be adaptive to, e.g., changing schedules, different users, and different environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Applicant: Blink Device, LLC
    Inventors: Justin HULVERSHORN, Daniel HOFFMAN
  • Patent number: 11311676
    Abstract: A medicine dispensing device including a vessel configured to contain a drug to be dispensed by the medicine dispensing device. The dispensing device includes a first series of zones of varying widths on a first portion of a surface of the vessel, with each zone of the first series of zones corresponding to a pre-determined treatment dose of the preselected drug, the treatment dose of the preselected drug correlated to a physical characteristic of a patient. A second series of zones of varying widths are also provided on a second portion of the surface of the vessel, with each zone of the second series of zones corresponding to a pre-determined prophylaxis dose of the preselected drug, the prophylaxis dose of the preselected drug correlated to the physical characteristic of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Certa Dose, Inc.
    Inventors: Caleb Hernandez, Daniel Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20210369083
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an insertion device for a single port robotic surgery apparatus includes a plurality of instrument channels positioned in an interior of a housing and extending along substantially an entire length of the housing, the plurality of instrument channels configured to removably house a plurality of surgical instruments, a plurality of openings in a rear exterior surface of the housing, the plurality of openings providing access to the plurality of instrument channels and configured to facilitate insertion of the plurality of surgical instruments into the plurality of instrument channels, and an illumination device supported at least partially at the rear exterior surface of the housing and positioned proximal to the plurality of openings, the illumination device configured to illuminate the openings to facilitate insertion of the plurality of instruments through the plurality of openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Perry A. Genova, Hans Christian Pflaumer, Aki Hannu Einari Laakso, Allan Katz, Alejandro Espinosa, Eduardo A. Ampuero, Daniel Hoffman
  • Patent number: 11109746
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an insertion device for a single port robotic surgery apparatus includes a plurality of instrument channels positioned in an interior of a housing and extending along substantially an entire length of the housing, the plurality of instrument channels configured to removably house a plurality of surgical instruments, a plurality of openings in a rear exterior surface of the housing, the plurality of openings providing access to the plurality of instrument channels and configured to facilitate insertion of the plurality of surgical instruments into the plurality of instrument channels, and an illumination device supported at least partially at the rear exterior surface of the housing and positioned proximal to the plurality of openings, the illumination device configured to illuminate the openings to facilitate insertion of the plurality of instruments through the plurality of openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: TITAN MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Perry A. Genova, Hans Christian Pflaumer, Aki Hannu Einari Laakso, Allan Katz, Alejandro Espinosa, Eduardo A. Ampuero, Daniel Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20210210197
    Abstract: Systems and methods designed to capture and utilize the context of a patient's visit along with a general categorization of their personality for the purpose of identifying actions to a healthcare provider for use during the specific patient visit. The actions are intended to be used by the healthcare provider to improve the patient's overall satisfaction with their care and specifically their reported satisfaction on various patient satisfaction feedback surveys. The systems and methods also can serve to improve future patient visits through better understanding, better engagement, improved trust, and better overall experience with healthcare providers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Dmitry Beyder, Daniel Hoffman, Philip Thompson
  • Publication number: 20210196408
    Abstract: An instrument support apparatus for use in a robotic surgery system is disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, and a mounting interface disposed on the housing, the mounting interface being operably configured to receive and support a proximal end of an elongate shaft of a surgical instrument, the instrument including a tool disposed at a distal end of the elongate shaft. The apparatus also includes an automated drive coupled to the proximal end of the instrument and controlled by the robotic surgery system to cause movement of the proximal end for extending or retracting the instrument to position the tool within a surgical operating site. The apparatus further includes a manual actuator disposed on an accessible location on the housing and configured to be rotated by an operator to cause a manual retraction of the instrument in the event of a failure of the automated drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 1, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Hoffman, Tyler Michael, Abraham Shipley
  • Publication number: 20210121638
    Abstract: A medicine dispensing device including a vessel configured to contain a drug to be dispensed by the medicine dispensing device. The dispensing device includes a first series of zones of varying widths on a first portion of a surface of the vessel, with each zone of the first series of zones corresponding to a pre-determined treatment dose of the preselected drug, the treatment dose of the preselected drug correlated to a physical characteristic of a patient. A second series of zones of varying widths are also provided on a second portion of the surface of the vessel, with each zone of the second series of zones corresponding to a pre-determined prophylaxis dose of the preselected drug, the prophylaxis dose of the preselected drug correlated to the physical characteristic of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Caleb Hernandez, Daniel Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20200397660
    Abstract: A medicine dispensing device, configured to contain a liquid medicine to be dispensed by the medicine dispensing device and having a plurality of dosing indicia spaced apart from each other around and in relation to a circumference of a surface of the medicine dispensing device, each dosing indicia being of a different height relative to a reference level and corresponding to different dose of the liquid medicine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Caleb Hernandez, Daniel Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20200113414
    Abstract: In some embodiments, an insertion device for a single port robotic surgery apparatus includes a plurality of instrument channels positioned in an interior of a housing and extending along substantially an entire length of the housing, the plurality of instrument channels configured to removably house a plurality of surgical instruments, a plurality of openings in a rear exterior surface of the housing, the plurality of openings providing access to the plurality of instrument channels and configured to facilitate insertion of the plurality of surgical instruments into the plurality of instrument channels, and an illumination device supported at least partially at the rear exterior surface of the housing and positioned proximal to the plurality of openings, the illumination device configured to illuminate the openings to facilitate insertion of the plurality of instruments through the plurality of openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Perry A. Genova, Hans Christian Pflaumer, Aki Hannu Einari Laakso, Allan Katz, Alejandro Espinosa, Eduardo A. Ampuero, Daniel Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10155165
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to increasing an attribute of a virtual item type in a virtual space. Users, having virtual item instances of a virtual item, may be presented with an offer to increase a performance level of virtual item instances of the virtual item as a group in exchange for pooled consideration from the users as a group. The performance level of the virtual item instances of the virtual item may be increased as a group in exchange for the users, as a group, tendering the pooled consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: ELECTRONIC ARTS INC.
    Inventors: Kevin Lee, Christopher Yu, Aaron Port, Daniel Hoffman
  • Patent number: 10037479
    Abstract: Systems and methods for eye tracking include a video capture component that provides a video of an environment and a set of gaze tracking coordinates for the video. A library stores a plurality of feature sets representing respective areas of interest with respective object labels. An image annotation component extracts a plurality of features from a region of interest and matches the extracted features to an area of interest in the library to produce a selected area of interest and a confidence value. A verification component accepts the selected area of interest if the confidence value meets a threshold value and sends the region of interest to a human expert to assign an object label if the confidence value does not. The library is dynamically updated in response to input from the human expert to add new areas of interest and new object labels to the library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: MEDSTAR HEALTH
    Inventors: Allan Fong, Daniel Hoffman, Raj Ratwani, A. Zachary Hettinger
  • Publication number: 20180147492
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to increasing an attribute of a virtual item type in a virtual space. Users, having virtual item instances of a virtual item, may be presented with an offer to increase a performance level of virtual item instances of the virtual item as a group in exchange for pooled consideration from the users as a group. The performance level of the virtual item instances of the virtual item may be increased as a group in exchange for the users, as a group, tendering the pooled consideration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin Lee, Christopher Yu, Aaron Port, Daniel Hoffman
  • Patent number: 9901826
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure relates to increasing an attribute of a virtual item type in a virtual space. Users, having virtual item instances of a virtual item, may be presented with an offer to increase a performance level of virtual item instances of the virtual item as a group in exchange for pooled consideration from the users as a group. The performance level of the virtual item instances of the virtual item may be increased as a group in exchange for the users, as a group, tendering the pooled consideration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Aftershock Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Lee, Christopher Yu, Aaron Port, Daniel Hoffman
  • Publication number: 20170091591
    Abstract: Systems and methods for eye tracking include a video capture component that provides a video of an environment and a set of gaze tracking coordinates for the video. A library stores a plurality of feature sets representing respective areas of interest with respective object labels. An image annotation component extracts a plurality of features from a region of interest and matches the extracted features to an area of interest in the library to produce a selected area of interest and a confidence value. A verification component accepts the selected area of interest if the confidence value meets a threshold value and sends the region of interest to a human expert to assign an object label if the confidence value does not. The library is dynamically updated in response to input from the human expert to add new areas of interest and new object labels to the library.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Allan Fong, Daniel Hoffman, Raj Ratwani, A. Zachary Hettinger
  • Patent number: 9122671
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to the testing of a system that includes software or hardware components. In some embodiments, a testing framework generates a set of test cases for a system under test using a grammar. Each test case may perform an action, such as provide an input to the system under test, and result in an output from the system under test. The inputs and outputs are then compared to the expected results to determine whether the system under test is performing correctly. Prior to generating the set of test cases from the grammar, the testing framework processes the grammar to identify attributes of the test cases to be derived from the grammar and facilitates the modification of the grammar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2015
    Inventors: Nathan John Walter Kube, Daniel Hoffman, Kevin Yoo