Patents by Inventor David

David 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).

  • Dual band nurse call system
    Patent number: 9183732
    Abstract: A nurse call station and system capable of scalable accommodating a plurality of wireless nodes by incorporating a dual band of 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz for use in transmission and repeating an identification signal. The nurse call system is comprised of various components that includes but is not limited to gateway nodes, transmitter nodes, repeaters, end nodes and locators. Transmitter nodes may be comprised of various transmitter styles including wireless check in stations, wireless emergency call stations and resident bed stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Tektone Sound & Signal Mfg., Inc.
    Inventors: Henry N. Wagner, David Neperud, Scott Lederer, William Steinike
  • Planar vertical DMOS transistor with a conductive spacer structure as gate
    Patent number: 9184278
    Abstract: A planar vertical DMOS transistor uses a conductive spacer structure formed on the sides of a dielectric structure as the gate of the transistor. The planar vertical DMOS transistor with a conductive spacer gate structure reduces the parasitic gate-to-bulk or gate-to-drain overlap capacitance by eliminating the conductive gate material that is formed above the bulk of the semiconductor layer. Meanwhile, the desired distance between the body regions formed on opposing sides of the conductive spacer gate structure is maintained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Micrel, Inc.
    Inventor: David Raymond Zinn
  • Low power digital fractional divider with glitchless output
    Patent number: 9184752
    Abstract: A digital circuit that divides a high speed digital clock by a fractional value is described. The circuit utilizes a divider circuit and shifts the divider clock by a fraction of a phase to achieve the desired fractional division. A clock mux is used to perform the clock shift, and a masking mux is used to eliminate glitches during the clock shift.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Synopsys, Inc.
    Inventors: Skye Wolfer, David A. Yokoyama-Martin
  • Deflection resistant acetabular cup
    Patent number: 9180013
    Abstract: An acetabular shell for use in hip arthroplasty. The shell includes a first wall having an outer surface, an inner surface, and a rim. The shell further includes a second wall extending from the outer surface of the first wall. The second wall has an outer surface, an inner surface, and a rim. The rim of the second wall is spaced outwardly from the rim of the first wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: DEPUY SYNTHES PRODUCTS, INC.
    Inventors: Justin D. Grostefon, David M. Casey
  • Polymorphic firearm controller
    Patent number: 9180365
    Abstract: A game controller includes a first mock firearm action associated with a first weapon mode and a second mock firearm action associated with a second weapon mode. If first mock firearm action is enabled, it can generate a load command when the first mock firearm action is operated. If second mock firearm action is enabled, it can generate a load command when the second mock firearm action is operated. The game controller includes a mode selector, to enable the first mock firearm action when the game controller is in the first weapon mode and to enable the second mock firearm action when the game controller is in the second weapon mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC
    Inventors: David P. Torre, Roy Dimalanta
  • Folding chair
    Patent number: 9179778
    Abstract: A folding chair comprises a supporting leg with two same or symmetrical sides, a seat cushion and a backrest, wherein the supporting leg comprises a front supporting rod and a back supporting rod which are crossed mutually. The front supporting rod extends outwardly to the upside of the seat cushion to form backrest sections. The seat cushion is mounted on a seat cushion rod. The front part of the seat cushion rod is movably hinged on the upper end of the back supporting rod. The back part of the seat cushion is movably hinged on the middle part of the front supporting rod. The front supporting rod or the back supporting rod is hinged with a sliding sleeve. The back supporting rod or the front supporting rod is penetrated through the sliding sleeve to form a movably crossed structure and a stressed support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Zenithen USA LLC
    Inventors: Andrew David Frankel, Shi-Ping Zheng, Tian-Xia Zheng
  • System and method for providing patient registration without fiducials
    Patent number: 9179888
    Abstract: A method for providing patient registration without fiducials comprises the steps of: spatially placing an ultrasound image of a patient randomly at different starting positions relative to a preoperative image; creating an independent registration corresponding to each different starting positions, by optimizing a spatial transformation between the preoperative image and the ultrasound image to provide a first batch of registrations; executing a second registration to fine-tune the alignment between the preoperative image and the ultrasound image; and concatenating the spatial transformation to obtain spatial transformation between the patient in an operating room and a corresponding preoperative image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Dartmouth College
    Inventors: Songbai Ji, David W. Roberts, Alex Hartov, Keith D. Paulsen
  • Port including movable connector
    Patent number: 9184536
    Abstract: A port of a computing system includes a connector movable between a recessed position and an extended position. The connector is extended from the recessed position to the extended position in response to a plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
    Inventor: Mark David Senatori
  • Aircraft, airframes and associated methods
    Patent number: 9180958
    Abstract: Aircraft and airframes include a skin operatively coupled to a structural reinforcement member. The structural reinforcement member and the skin collectively define a run-out region that encompasses a terminal edge of the structural reinforcement member. Within the run-out region, the skin is more flexible than in adjacent portions of the skin. Methods include defining a region of increased flexibility of a skin relative to adjacent portions of the skin, and operatively coupling the skin to a structural reinforcement member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Victor A. Munsen, David Neal Berry
  • System and method for high resolution wireless full disclosure ECG episode monitoring and analysis
    Patent number: 9179851
    Abstract: High resolution full disclosure ECG data is transferred from a body sensor device to a handheld device via a wireless protocol. The handheld device transfers the full disclosure ECG data via a network to a center for analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Biomedical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Eric Baumann, Lev Korzinov, David Bondietti, James E. Ott
  • Process variable transmitter with two-wire process control loop diagnostics
    Patent number: 9182256
    Abstract: A two-wire process variable transmitter for use in an industrial process, including a process variable sensor configured to sense a process variable of a fluid of the industrial process. Output circuitry is configured to provide an output on a two-wire process control loop which is related to the sensed process variable. Loop current measurement circuitry measures a loop current flowing through the two-wire process control loop and terminal voltage measurement circuitry measures a voltage related to a terminal voltage of the process variable transmitter. The terminal voltage can be a voltage measured across an electrical connection of the two-wire process variable transmitter to the two-wire process control loop. Input circuitry is configured to receive a diagnostic command from the two-wire process control loop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Rosemount Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Wehrs, Gregory J. LeCuyer, Jessica Lo, Steven J. McCoy, Brian L. Westfield
  • Antibody specific for CD22 and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 9181343
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides antibodies specific for an epitope present on CD22. The antibodies are useful in various treatment, diagnostic, and monitoring applications, which are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Redwood Bioscience Inc.
    Inventors: David Rabuka, Robert George Edward Holgate, Francis Joseph Carr
  • Visualization instrument
    Patent number: 9179831
    Abstract: A visualization instrument comprising a display support component removably coupled to a component insertable into a target space. The insertable component includes a camera providing images of the target space. The images are presented in a display device supported by the display support component. The insertable component may be discarded after a permitted number of uses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: King Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas W. McGrail, Michael S. Pargett, David J. Miller, Yun Siung Tony Yeh, Randal B. Chinnock, George Grubner, Elizabeth Powell Goodrich, Richard L. Miller, Gary Vincent Palladino, Brian Hack
  • Polypeptides for treating and/or limiting influenza infection
    Patent number: 9181300
    Abstract: Polypeptides are disclosed herein, which recognize and are strong binders to Influenza A hemagglutinin and can be used, for example, to treat and/or limit development of an influenza infection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: University of Washington Through its Center for Commercialization
    Inventors: David Baker, Timothy A. Whitehead, Sarel Fleishman
  • Device for measuring the rotating angle of two objects rotating around an axis in relation to each other
    Patent number: 9182223
    Abstract: A device for measuring the rotating angle of two objects rotating in relation to each other around an axis includes a light source and a polarizer, whereby the light source and the polarizer rotate in relation to each other as function of the rotating angle. The device also includes a receiver measuring the luminous intensity reflected by the polarizer, to produce a signal dependent on the rotating angle. The receiver has at least one initial reception element and the light emitted by the light source is either polarized or becomes polarized. A polarizing filter with an initial direction of polarization is positioned in front of the first reception element. At least one element casting a shadow is positioned in front of the receiver and the receiver has at least one quadrant diode. The position and/or shape of the shadow are varied on the receiver over a rotation of 360°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: SICK STEGMANN GMBH
    Inventor: David Hopp
  • Expansion and reduction of source code for code refactoring
    Patent number: 9182980
    Abstract: An automated programming tool can receive program source code and can expand portions of the program source code to make to make identifiers explicit, insert sets of parenthesis and so on. Expansions can be kept track of so that reductions after refactoring can be confined to altered portions of the program source code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC.
    Inventors: Dustin R. Campbell, Kevin Pilch-Bisson, Cyrus Najmabadi, David J. Poeschl, Vladimir Reshetnikov
  • System and method for providing advertisement data to a mobile computing device
    Patent number: 9183571
    Abstract: A mobile computing device includes a processor, a display coupled to the processor, a memory coupled to the processor and configured to store user-specific data, and a location-determining circuit configured to determine the location of the portable electronic device. The processor is configured to provide advertisement data on the display based upon the location of the portable electronic device and the user-specific data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2007
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Sachin S. Kansal, David D. Daetz
  • User-initiated control of an audio/video stream to skip interstitial content between program segments
    Patent number: 9183885
    Abstract: Various embodiments are described for skipping, filtering, or replacing content from an audio/video stream using text data associated with the stream, wherein the stream has segments of a show interspersed with commercial breaks. A method for processing the stream determines that a commercial break is currently being output for presentation, and monitors for receipt of a user-initiated command to skip the commercial break. When a user-initiated skip command is received during the commercial break, the method automatically skips to a location in the stream that is at or near an end of the commercial break, and seamlessly continues presentation of the stream from that location. If a skip command is not received during output of the commercial break, then output of the current commercial break continues as usual. This methodology is repeated for all subsequent commercial breaks in the stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: EchoStar Technologies L.L.C.
    Inventors: Steven M. Casagrande, David A. Kummer, Charles W. Ergen
  • Radiation therapy patient couch top compatible with diagnostic imaging
    Patent number: 9179880
    Abstract: A radiation therapy patient couch top which provides optimal fields of treatment in a high-energy radiation therapy environment. In addition, the patient couch top provides superior imaging qualities when used in a diagnostic imaging x-ray environment. All metal is eliminated from the treatment/imaging area. This ensures that no metal will be in the way of the radiation treatment beam and that no artifacting will occur when used with diagnostic imaging techniques such as Computed Tomography. By employing moveable fiber reinforced support beams, the main patient support structure can be positioned so that a minimum of electron generation will occur through Compton scattering. By allowing for a removable insert, the top patient surface can be optimized for treatment, diagnostic imaging or the addition of other useful features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: QFIX SYSTEMS, LLC
    Inventors: Daniel D. Coppens, David M. Rabeno, Malcolm W. Kroeber
  • Vehicle charger
    Patent number: D742820
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Yves Albert Behar, Joshua Tree Morenstein, Pichaya Puttorngul, Matthew David Swinton, Jennifer Yoko Olson, Matthew John Malone