Patents by Inventor DANIEL RUSH

DANIEL RUSH 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).

  • EXTERNAL FIXATION SYSTEM WITH MULTI-PIN CLAMP AND ATTACHMENT POST
    Publication number: 20240122624
    Abstract: An external fixation system for treatment of bones includes first and second clamps for locking pins that are inserted into bones. At least one clamp includes a socket having a recess. An attachment post includes a distal portion configured to be inserted into the socket recess. A tightening nut is rotationally coupled to a shaft of the attachment post and has an internal threading adapted to be threaded to the external threading of the socket. When the tightening nut is rotated to cause the distal portion of the post to be further inserted into the recess, the sides of the distal portion of the post create an interference fit with the sides of the socket recess to lock the post to the first clamp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jesse Rush, Justin Vent, Peter Evans, David E. Laird, SR., Daniel J. Myers, Richard Scheinfield
  • USING BIPARTITE NETWORKS TO DETERMINE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN ANALYTES AND CHEMICAL TREATMENTS
    Publication number: 20240079083
    Abstract: A data-driven algorithm including various network analysis routes to characterize the production of known and putative specialized metabolites and unknown analytes triggered by different exogenous compounds. Bipartite networks quantify the relationship between metabolites and treatments stimulating their production through two routes. A direct route determines the production of known and putative specialized metabolites induced by a treatment. An auxiliary route is specific for unknown analytes. Various network centrality metrics rank treatments based on their ability to trigger a broad range of specialized metabolites. The specialized metabolites are ranked based on their receptivity to various treatments. This enables tracking the influence of any exogenous treatment or abiotic factor on metabolomics output for targeted metabolite research.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Muralikrishnan Gopalakrishnan Meena, Matthew J. Lane, Armin Guntram Geiger, Daniel Allan Jacobson, Joanna Tannous, Tomas A. Rush
  • WIRELESS VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20220153325
    Abstract: A vehicle control system includes a controller configured to be operably deployed onboard a first propulsion-generating vehicle of a multi-vehicle system, and a wireless communication unit configured to be electrically coupled to the controller. The controller is configured to control the wireless communication unit to wirelessly communicate first vehicle control signals to a second propulsion-generating vehicle of the multi-vehicle system that is immediately adjacent and mechanically coupled to the first propulsion-generating vehicle, while the first propulsion-generating vehicle and the second propulsion-generating vehicle are in a non-cable-connected state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Mauricio Bernes, Adam Hausmann, Sergio Brutman, Victor Perez, Daniel Rush, Steve Seip, Maurice Hutchins
  • VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20220063689
    Abstract: System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Wolfgang Daum, Martin Paget, Daniel Rush, Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Ballesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico, Suresh Govindappa, Manibabu Pippalla, Sethu Madhavan, Arunachala Karthik Sridharan, Prabhu Marimuthu, Jared Klineman Cooper, Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Paul Kenneth Houpt, David Lowell McKay
  • Universal Filtering Mouthpiece for Smoking Devices
    Publication number: 20220007713
    Abstract: A universal filtering mouthpiece for smoking devices comprising a flexible and substantially conical shaped body having a small diameter end and a large diameter end; a hollow smoke passage which runs axially through the conical shaped body from the small diameter end to the large diameter end; a filter cartridge housing centered axially at the mouthpiece end of the said flexible and substantially conical shaped body which communicates with the hollow smoke passage and capable of housing a removable filter; and a disposable, high-airflow filter cartridge consisting of a rigid cylindrical frame having rounded edges, the rigid cylindrical frame housing a smoke filter inside the inner diameter of said rigid cylindrical frame. The universal filtering mouthpiece for smoking devices is readily implementable across a wide variety of smoking devices such as, but not limited to, pipes, bongs, hookahs, water pipes, electronic cigarettes, cigarettes, and pre-roll cigarettes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2020
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Applicant: Moose Labs, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Rush, Jason Rush, Maria Testa
  • Vehicle control system and method
    Patent number: 11208129
    Abstract: System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Transportation IP Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Wolfgang Daum, Martin Paget, Daniel Rush, Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Bellesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico, Suresh Govindappa, Manibabu Pippalla, Sethu Madhavan, Arunachala Karthik Sridharan, Prabhu Marimuthu, Jared Klineman Cooper, Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Paul Kenneth Houpt, David Lowell McKay
  • Elevator suspension and/or driving assembly having at least one traction surface comprising exposed weave fibers
    Patent number: 11193220
    Abstract: An exemplary elongated elevator load bearing member includes a plurality of tension elements that extend along a length of the load bearing member. A plurality of weave fibers transverse to the tension elements are woven with the tension elements such that the weave fibers maintain a desired spacing and alignment of the tension elements relative to each other. The weave fibers at least partially cover the tension elements. The weave fibers are exposed and establish an exterior, traction surface of the load bearing member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: John P. Wesson, Gopal R. Krishnan, Timothy D. DeValve, Vijay Jayachandran, Daniel Rush
  • Method for tensioning of a load bearing member of an elevator system
    Patent number: 11124384
    Abstract: A method of tension adjustment for a load bearing member of an elevator system includes measuring a load on a load bearing member of an elevator system via a load cell operably connected to the load bearing member, the load cell and the load bearing member connected to an elevator car disposed in a hoistway, the measured load equated with a tension of the load bearing member. The measured tension to a preselected range and an adjustment of the tension of the load bearing member is determined. Adjustment instructions are communicated to a handheld electronic device and the communicated adjustment instructions are performed thereby adjusting the tension of the load bearing member to within the preselected range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 21, 2021
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventor: Daniel Rush
  • VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210080948
    Abstract: A vehicle control system and method determine that a vehicle moving in a manned operative state is approaching a defined zone. The vehicle is controlled based on manual input received from an operator onboard the vehicle while in the manned operative state. The system and method also switch the vehicle from the manned operative state to an unmanned operative state responsive to the vehicle approaching the defined zone and the operator disembarking from the vehicle. The movement of the vehicle is controlled in the unmanned operative state of the vehicle during travel of the vehicle inside the defined zone. The vehicle is autonomously controlled or remotely controlled while in the unmanned operative state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Adam Franco, Adam Hausmann, Daniel Rush, Derek Woo, Robert Palanti, Nelyo Oliveira, Carlos Paulino, Marshall Tetterton, Maurice Hutchins, Lee Covert, Joseph Nazareth
  • INFRASTRUCTURE DETECTION AND MONITORING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20210041398
    Abstract: An infrastructure detection and monitoring system includes a remote data storage system that receives and communicates sensor data and signals regarding infrastructure health. The remote data storage system processes and/or stores at least a first sensor data portion and generates advisory signals based on the first sensor data portion. The advisory signals are communicated to a receiver device responsive to the sensor data indicating that the health of the infrastructure indicates imminent failure. Additionally or alternatively, the receiver device can generate one or more control signals responsive to the advisory signals or responsive to the sensor data indicating that the heath of the infrastructure indicates imminent failure of the infrastructure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Henro Van Wyk, Luciano Antinossi C. da Mata, Felipe Rezende de Carvalho, Adam Franco, Adam Hausmann, Daniel Rush, Derek Woo, Robert Palanti, Nelyo Oliveira, Carlos Paulino, Marshall Tetterton, Maurice Hutchins, Lee Covert, Joseph Nazareth
  • System and method of measuring and diagnosing ride quality of an elevator system
    Patent number: 10723588
    Abstract: A system and method of measuring and diagnosing the ride quality of an elevator system, including (a) operating the mobile device to acquire ride quality data, (b) operating the mobile device to transmit ride quality data to an external computing device, (c) operating the external computing device to compare the acquired ride quality data to pre-determined system data to create performance data, (d) operating the external computing device to perform a ride quality diagnostics based at least in part on the performance data, and (e) operating the external computing device to transmit the ride quality diagnostics to the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: George Scott Copeland, Soumitra Borthakur, Jinho Song, Daniel Rush
  • Brake operation management in elevators
    Patent number: 10538412
    Abstract: A method includes determining that an elevator car is arriving at a landing at which re-leveling is anticipated; upon the elevator car arriving at the landing at which re-leveling is anticipated, initiating the at least one of a brake cycling operation and a power cycling operation to reduce elevator car sag at the landing; monitoring transfer of weight to or from the elevator car at the landing over a period of time; terminating the at least one of the brake cycling operation and the power cycling operation upon at least one of (i) the transfer of weight to or from the elevator car at the landing over the period of time being less than a threshold and (ii) the elevator car sag at the landing meeting a sag threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Amir Lotfi, Randall Keith Roberts, Ronnie E. Thebeau, Michael Garfinkel, Edward Piedra, Dennis Hanvey, Daniel Rush
  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING VEHICLE ORIENTATION IN A VEHICLE CONSIST
    Publication number: 20190263430
    Abstract: A system and method includes determining, with a sensor assembly disposed onboard a first aerial vehicle, a direction in which a fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle, and determining an orientation of the first aerial vehicle relative to a second aerial vehicle based at least in part on the direction in which the fluid flows within or through the first aerial vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Eugene Smith, Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Wolfgang Daum, Martin Paget, Daniel Rush, Sameh Fahmy, Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Ballesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffret James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico, Suresh Govindappa, Manibabu Pippalla, Sethu Madhavan, Jared Klineman Cooper, Huan Tan, John Michael Lizzi, Charles Burton Theurer, Balajee Kannan, Romano Patrick, Brad Thomas Costa, James D. Brooks, Micahel Scott Miner, Harry Kirk Matthews, JR., Bradford Wayne Miller, Neeraja Subrahmaniyan, Brian Joseph McManus, Frank Wawrzyniak, Ralph C. Haddock, III, Robert James Foy, James Glen Corry, Steven Andrew Kellner, Joseph Mario Nazareth, Brian William Schroeck, Shawn Arthur McClintic
  • BRAKE OPERATION MANAGEMENT IN ELEVATORS
    Publication number: 20190202658
    Abstract: A method includes determining that an elevator car is arriving at a landing at which re-leveling is anticipated; upon the elevator car arriving at the landing at which re-leveling is anticipated, initiating the at least one of a brake cycling operation and a power cycling operation to reduce elevator car sag at the landing; monitoring transfer of weight to or from the elevator car at the landing over a period of time; terminating the at least one of the brake cycling operation and the power cycling operation upon at least one of (i) the transfer of weight to or from the elevator car at the landing over the period of time being less than a threshold and (ii) the elevator car sag at the landing meeting a sag threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2019
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Amir Lotfi, Randall Keith Roberts, Ronnie E. Thebeau, Michael Garfinkel, Edward Piedra, Dennis Hanvey, Daniel Rush
  • LOCOMOTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190176862
    Abstract: System includes a controller configured to obtain one or more of a route parameter or a vehicle parameter from discrete examinations of one or more of a route or a vehicle system. The route parameter is indicative of a health of the route over which the vehicle system travels. The vehicle parameter is indicative of a health of the vehicle system. The discrete examinations of the one or more of the route or the vehicle system separated from each other by one or more of location or time. The controller is configured to examine the one or more of the route parameter or the vehicle parameter to determine whether the one or more of the route or the vehicle system is damaged. The system also includes examination equipment configured to continually monitor the one or more of the route or the vehicle system responsive to determining that the one or more of the route or the vehicle is damaged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Wolfgang Daum, Martin Paget, Daniel Rush, Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Ballesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico, Suresh Govindappa, Manibabu Pippalla, Sethu Madhavan, Arunachala Karthik Sridharan, Prabhu Marimuthu, Jared Klineman Cooper, Joseph Forrest Noffsinger, Paul Kenneth Houpt, David Lowell McKay
  • LOCOMOTIVE CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20190106135
    Abstract: A locomotive control system includes a mobile platform that moves under remote and/or autonomous control, a sensor package supported by the mobile platform that obtains information relating to a component of a railroad, and one or more processors that receive the sensor information and analyze the information in combination with other information that is not obtained from the sensor package. The processors also generate an output that displays information relating to one or more of a status, a condition, and/or a state of health of the component of the railroad; initiates an action to change an operational state of the component; identifies a hazard to one or more locomotives traveling within the railroad; and/or collects the information relating to the component. Optionally, the component is not communicatively coupled to an information network and the mobile platform provides the information obtained by the sensor package to the information network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Ajith Kuttannair Kumar, Wolfgang Daum, Martin Paget, Daniel Rush, Sameh Fahmy, Brad Thomas Costa, Seneca Snyder, Jerry Duncan, Mark Bradshaw Kraeling, Michael Scott Miner, Shannon Joseph Clouse, Anwarul Azam, Matthew Lawrence Blair, Nidhi Naithani, Dattaraj Jagdish Rao, Anju Bind, Sreyashi Dey Chaki, Scott Daniel Nelson, Nikhil Uday Naphade, Wing Yeung Chung, Daniel Malachi Ballesty, Glenn Robert Shaffer, Jeffrey James Kisak, Dale Martin DiDomenico
  • Brake operation management in elevators
    Patent number: 10252879
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to determining that an elevator car of an elevator system is approaching a landing, obtaining, by a controller, a value for at least one parameter associated with the elevator system based on the determination that the elevator car is approaching the landing, determining that the elevator car arrives at the landing within a threshold distance, determining, by the controller, when to engage in at least one of a brake cycling operation and a power cycling operation based on the value for the at least one parameter and based on determining that the elevator car arrives at the landing within the threshold distance, and initiating the at least one of a brake cycling operation and a power cycling operation at a time corresponding to the determination of when to engage in the at least one of a brake cycling operation and a power cycling operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Amir Lotfi, Randall Keith Roberts, Ronnie E. Thebeau, Michael Garfinkel, Edward Piedra, Dennis Hanvey, Daniel Rush
  • METHOD FOR TENSIONING OF A LOAD BEARING MEMBER OF AN ELEVATOR SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20180334358
    Abstract: A method of tension adjustment for a load bearing member of an elevator system includes measuring a load on a load bearing member of an elevator system via a load cell operably connected to the load bearing member, the load cell and the load bearing member connected to an elevator car disposed in a hoistway, the measured load equated with a tension of the load bearing member. The measured tension to a preselected range and an adjustment of the tension of the load bearing member is determined. Adjustment instructions are communicated to a handheld electronic device and the communicated adjustment instructions are performed thereby adjusting the tension of the load bearing member to within the preselected range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventor: Daniel Rush
  • ELEVATOR SUSPENSION AND/OR DRIVING ASSEMBLY HAVING AT LEAST ONE TRACTION SURFACE COMPRISING EXPOSED WEAVE FIBERS
    Publication number: 20180087195
    Abstract: An exemplary elongated elevator load bearing member includes a plurality of tension elements that extend along a length of the load bearing member. A plurality of weave fibers transverse to the tension elements are woven with the tension elements such that the weave fibers maintain a desired spacing and alignment of the tension elements relative to each other. The weave fibers at least partially cover the tension elements. The weave fibers are exposed and establish an exterior, traction surface of the load bearing member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: John P. Wesson, Gopal R. Krishnan, Timothy D. DeValve, Vijay Jayachandran, Daniel Rush
  • Mouthpiece for smoking device
    Patent number: D998882
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Rush, Maria Testa, Jason Rush