Patents by Inventor Dennis Steffen

Dennis Steffen 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: 20240106774
    Abstract: Systems, methods and products for intelligent delivery of communications, where a machine learning engine is trained to identify an output channel for delivery of a communication based on received context information and intended recipient information and to route the communication to the selected channel. An intelligent delivery task in a communication flow model is performed by the machine learning engine, which receives customer/recipient data such as age, region, gender, etc., and context data such as communication type, time of day, working hours, etc., and uses this data to determine which of a set of different channels is likely to be most effecting for sending the communication to the recipient. A user therefore does not have to build a complex static communication flow, but simply adds an intelligent delivery task to the flow. The output channel is dynamically selected and may vary for different recipients and communications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Dennis Reil, Frank Steffen, Martin Richter
  • Publication number: 20060106399
    Abstract: A system includes a drill guide and a gauge wire. The drill guide has two arms rotatable relative to each other about a hinge, with each arm including a split portion of a guide. When the arms are in a closed configuration, the split portions come together to form a tubular guide. Because the arms can be opened and closed about the hinge, the guide can be split and removed from over a drill bit or pin without first removing the drill bit from the bone or the drill from the drill bit or pin. Each arm also includes a semicircular form which when the arms are closed defines a gauge wire hole parallel to the guide which is sized to receive a gauge wire. The gauge wire includes depth indicia along its length which is used to indicate the length of a fixation device for use in a procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2004
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: John Taras, Dennis Steffen