Patents by Inventor David A. Ernest

David A. Ernest 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).

  • Publication number: 20240177429
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system comprises a planar optical waveguide having opposing first and second faces, an in-coupling (IC) element configured for optically coupling a collimated light beam from an image projection assembly into the planar optical waveguide as an in-coupled light beam, a first orthogonal pupil expansion (OPE) element associated with the first face of the planar optical waveguide for splitting the in-coupled light beam into a first set of orthogonal light beamlets, a second orthogonal pupil expansion (OPE) element associated with the second face of the planar optical waveguide for splitting the in-coupled light beam into a second set of orthogonal light beamlets, and an exit pupil expansion (EPE) element associated with the planar optical waveguide for splitting the first and second sets of orthogonal light beamlets into an array of out-coupled light beamlets that exit the planar optical waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2024
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Applicant: Magic Leap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. SCHOWENGERDT, Mathew D. WATSON, David TINCH, Ivan Li Chuen YEOH, John Graham MACNAMARA, Lionel Ernest EDWIN, Michael Anthony KLUG, William Hudson WELCH
  • Patent number: 11935206
    Abstract: A virtual image generation system comprises a planar optical waveguide having opposing first and second faces, an in-coupling (IC) element configured for optically coupling a collimated light beam from an image projection assembly into the planar optical waveguide as an in-coupled light beam, a first orthogonal pupil expansion (OPE) element associated with the first face of the planar optical waveguide for splitting the in-coupled light beam into a first set of orthogonal light beamlets, a second orthogonal pupil expansion (OPE) element associated with the second face of the planar optical waveguide for splitting the in-coupled light beam into a second set of orthogonal light beamlets, and an exit pupil expansion (EPE) element associated with the planar optical waveguide for splitting the first and second sets of orthogonal light beamlets into an array of out-coupled light beamlets that exit the planar optical waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc
    Inventors: Brian T. Schowengerdt, Mathew D. Watson, David Tinch, Ivan Li Chuen Yeoh, John Graham Macnamara, Lionel Ernest Edwin, Michael Anthony Klug, William Hudson Welch
  • Publication number: 20240073401
    Abstract: A head mounted display can include a frame, an eyepiece, an image injection device, a sensor array, a reflector, and an off-axis optical element. The frame can be configured to be supported on the head of the user. The eyepiece can be coupled to the frame and configured to be disposed in front of an eye of the user. The eyepiece can include a plurality of layers. The image injection device can be configured to provide image content to the eyepiece for viewing by the user. The sensor array can be integrated in or one the eyepiece. The reflector can be disposed in or on the eyepiece and configured to reflect light received from an object for imaging by the sensor array. The off-axis optical element can be disposed in or one the eyepiece. The off-axis optical element can be configured to receive light reflected from the reflector and direct at least a portion of the light toward the sensor array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Zhiheng JIA, David COHEN, Lionel Ernest EDWIN, Charles Robert SCHABACKER
  • Patent number: 11890470
    Abstract: An example of a system for programming a neurostimulator may include a storage device and a user interface. The storage device may be configured to store waveform building blocks. The user interface may include a display screen, a user input device, and an interface control circuit. The interface control circuit may include a waveform composer configured to allow for composition of one of more building blocks and composition of a pattern of neurostimulation pulses using selected one or more waveform building blocks. The waveform composer may include a library controller and waveform building block editors. The library controller may be configured to display a library management area on the screen. The displayed library management area allows a user to manage the stored waveform building blocks. The waveform building block editors may each be configured to allow the user to compose a type of the waveform building blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventors: David Ernest Wechter, David Lubensky, Brian Hoffer
  • Publication number: 20230332804
    Abstract: A building heating and cooling system includes a structural foundation member that extends into a borehole. A heat exchange loop is installed within the foundation member for heat exchange with ground surrounding the foundation member. The heat exchange hoop is interconnected with a heat pump for providing heating or cooling to the building by heat exchange with ground surrounding the foundation member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Seyed Masih Alavy GHAHFARROKHY, Ladislav RAK, Jun WANG, David Ernest SALT, Afroozalsadat ALAVI, Jaroslava Marie-Magdalena PARSLOW, Seth B. DWORKIN, Ayman Mahmoud Bayomy MAHMOUD, Aggrey MWEISGYE, Hiep V. NGUYEN
  • Patent number: 11771573
    Abstract: A joining arrangement between a main tube and a side arm (5) in a side arm stent graft (1). The side arm (5) is stitched into an aperture (11) in the main tube and is in fluid communication with it. The aperture is triangular, elliptical or rectangular and the side arm is cut off at an angle to leave an end portion having a circumferential length equal to the circumference of the aperture. The side arm can also include a connection socket (76) comprising a first resilient ring (79) around the arm at its end, a second resilient ring (80) spaced apart along the arm from the first ring and a zig zag resilient stent (82) between the first and second rings. The zig-zag resilient stent can be a compression stent. Both the main tube and the side arm are formed from seamless tubular biocompatible graft material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventor: David Ernest Hartley
  • Patent number: 11701058
    Abstract: A personal impact monitoring system is described herein comprising a monitoring station that receives impact events sent from personal impact monitors using a monitoring station receiver. The impact events which specify impact parameters associated with the impact events are stored in a data storage location associated with the monitoring station. Software operating on the operating station is configured to receive the impact events from the data storage location and to perform calculations based on the impact events to identify notable impact events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: i1 SENSORTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Lawrence V. Calcano, David Thomas Brown, Christopher C. Genau, David Ernest Snyder, James M. Stearns, Brian Michael Ronald, Jesse David Harper, John F. Harris
  • Publication number: 20230195425
    Abstract: An entity modeling system integrated with a low-code application development platform may have a web/mobile-based user interface that can run in a browser environment on user devices ranging from desktop computers to smart phones. Users such as a subject matter expert may access an entity model designer tool of the system to model an entity. Responsive to user interaction with an entity composition function, the system may access a data store over a network and generate a view including a collection of entity building block(s) retrieved from the data store. Responsive to the user selecting a first entity building block from the collection to add to the entity, the system may automatically extend the entity to include settings of the first entity building block. The settings may include at least one of a property, permission, action, behavior, or resource to the entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: John Patino-Bueno, Cheranthian Muthuvinayagam, David Ernest Jenkins, Richard Winfield Bolling, John Martin Pratt, Michael Robert Spampinato, Dana Lawrence Khoyi
  • Publication number: 20230135269
    Abstract: A portable monitor used to measure landfill gas, landfill well parameters, and/or gas from a well, biogas facility, subterranean location, and any other testing location. The portable fluid monitor is particularly useful in measuring gas pressures and compositions of gases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Charles Daniel Elkins, David Ernest Walder, Holden Chase Leblanc, Steve Woodrow Smith, Daniel Dwayne Duncan
  • Publication number: 20230118608
    Abstract: A stent graft for placement in a vessel of a patient, the stent graft that has a tubular body of graft material, the tubular body having a proximal inflow end, a distal outflow end, a main lumen therethrough, a longitudinal access, and a sidewall from the first end to the second end. At least one stent is along the length of the tubular body. One or more shaped recesses are formed of a concave or recessed portion of graft material that extends into the lumen of the stent graft. A fenestration is in the recessed portion with a fenestration and an internal branch extends from the or each fenestration toward the proximal end of the tubular body of graft material. The internal branch may have a tubular portion and a funnel portion, wherein the tubular portion extends into the main lumen and the enlarged funnel portion is attached to sidewall and forms the at least one shaped recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventor: David Ernest Hartley
  • Publication number: 20230100876
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, kits and systems for enhancing the efficacy and longevity of denervation procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    Inventors: Bryan Allen Clark, Akshay Ashok Gupte, Bryce Calvin Beverlin, II, David Ernest Wechter, Kate Taylor
  • Patent number: 11607551
    Abstract: A neurostimulation system includes a programming control circuit and a user interface. The programming control circuit may be configured to generate a plurality of stimulation parameters controlling delivery of neurostimulation pulses according to one or more neurostimulation programs each specifying a pattern of the neurostimulation pulses. The user interface includes a display screen, a user input device, and a neurostimulation program circuit. The neurostimulation program circuit may be configured to allow for construction of one or more pulse trains (PTs) and one or more train groupings (TGs) of the one or more neurostimulation programs, and to allow for scheduling of delivery of the one or more neurostimulation programs, using the display screen and the user input device. Each PT includes one or more pulse blocks each including a plurality of pulses of the neurostimulation pulses. Each TG includes one or more PTs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventor: David Ernest Wechter
  • Patent number: 11593072
    Abstract: An entity modeling system integrated with a low-code application development platform may have a web/mobile-based user interface that can run in a browser environment on user devices ranging from desktop computers to smart phones. Users such as a subject matter expert may access an entity model designer tool of the system to model an entity. Responsive to user interaction with an entity composition function, the system may access a data store over a network and generate a view including a collection of entity building block(s) retrieved from the data store. Responsive to the user selecting a first entity building block from the collection to add to the entity, the system may automatically extend the entity to include settings of the first entity building block. The settings may include at least one of a property, permission, action, behavior, or resource to the entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: OPEN TEXT SA ULC
    Inventors: John Patino-Bueno, Cheranthian Muthuvinayagam, David Ernest Jenkins, Richard Winfield Bolling, John Martin Pratt, Michael Robert Spampinato, Dana Lawrence Khoyi
  • Patent number: 11540874
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, kits and systems for enhancing the efficacy and longevity of denervation procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc., Regents of the University of Minnesota
    Inventors: Bryan Allen Clark, Akshay Ashok Gupte, Bryce Calvin Beverlin, II, David Ernest Wechter, Kate Taylor
  • Patent number: 11529225
    Abstract: A stent graft for placement in a vessel of a patient, the stent graft that has a tubular body of graft material, the tubular body having a proximal inflow end, a distal outflow end, a main lumen therethrough, a longitudinal access, and a sidewall from the first end to the second end. At least one stent is along the length of the tubular body. One or more shaped recesses are formed of a concave or recessed portion of graft material that extends into the lumen of the stent graft. A fenestration is in the recessed portion with a fenestration and an internal branch extends from the or each fenestration toward the proximal end of the tubular body of graft material. The internal branch may have a tubular portion and a funnel portion, wherein the tubular portion extends into the main lumen and the enlarged funnel portion is attached to sidewall and forms the at least one shaped recess.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventor: David Ernest Hartley
  • Publication number: 20220249839
    Abstract: An example of a system for programming a neurostimulator may include a storage device and a user interface. The storage device may be configured to store waveform building blocks. The user interface may include a display screen, a user input device, and an interface control circuit. The interface control circuit may include a waveform composer configured to allow for composition of one of more building blocks and composition of a pattern of neurostimulation pulses using selected one or more waveform building blocks. The waveform composer may include a library controller and waveform building block editors. The library controller may be configured to display a library management area on the screen. The displayed library management area allows a user to manage the stored waveform building blocks. The waveform building block editors may each be configured to allow the user to compose a type of the waveform building blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: David Ernest Wechter, David Lubensky, Brain Hoffer
  • Publication number: 20220221057
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a gasket assembly (1) for sealing between conduits passing through two respective bodies. The gasket assembly comprises a primary seal (10), wherein the primary seal comprises a first sealing surface (14) adapted to form a seal with the first body of said respective bodies, and a second sealing surface (15) adapted to form a seal with the second body of said respective bodies. The primary seal is coupled to a primary seal carrier (30), the primary seal carrier comprising one or more secondary seals (43a, 43b), the one or more secondary seals being adapted to form a seal with one or more of the first and second bodies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: David Ernest MCKAY
  • Patent number: 11331487
    Abstract: An example of a system for programming a neurostimulator may include a storage device and a user interface. The storage device may be configured to store waveform building blocks. The user interface may include a display screen, a user input device, and an interface control circuit. The interface control circuit may include a waveform composer configured to allow for composition of one of more building blocks and composition of a pattern of neurostimulation pulses using selected one or more waveform building blocks. The waveform composer may include a library controller and waveform building block editors. The library controller may be configured to display a library management area on the screen. The displayed library management area allows a user to manage the stored waveform building blocks. The waveform building block editors may each be configured to allow the user to compose a type of the waveform building blocks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation
    Inventors: David Ernest Wechter, David Lubensky, Brian Hoffer
  • Patent number: D968646
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MSG Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: James Lawrence Dolan, David Ernest Dibble, Jonathan Lawrence Mallie, Aric Gabriel Braselton, Nicholas Craig Reynolds, Maria Charlotta Knutsson-Hall, Cawsie Jijina
  • Patent number: D968651
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: MSG Entertainment Group, LLC
    Inventors: James Lawrence Dolan, David Ernest Dibble