Patents by Inventor Eric Benton

Eric Benton 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: 20240170931
    Abstract: An apparatus embodies module pulling container. The module pulling container includes a housing structured to enclose at least one module terminating a cable. The module pulling container includes a front eyelet of the housing and a tapered front end of the housing. The module pulling container further includes a back eyelet and one or more retention members structured to support the at least one module within the module pulling container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: viaPhoton, Inc.
    Inventors: Keith Samuel MARANTO, Mark James SMHRA, Walter Mark HENDRIX, Nathan Eric BENTON, Jeffrey Earl Jones, SR., Christopher Brian HASLEY
  • Publication number: 20230333343
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, methods implement replicator shelves. A blade is slidably connected to a replicator shelf. Communication connectors are positioned on the blade. A support bar, within the replicator shelf, supports a plurality of cables to a plurality of blades comprising the blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: viaPhoton, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Mark Hendrix, Nathan Eric Benton, Mark James Smrha, Wade James Womack
  • Patent number: 11531178
    Abstract: An apparatus implements a fiber breakout assembly. The fiber breakout assembly includes a tube and a plug. The tube includes a trunk portion and a plug receiving portion. The plug includes multiple entry holes and is configured to be inserted into the plug receiving portion of the tube. A crimp post is formed as part of the tube and includes one or more crimp retention features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: ViaPhoton, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Mark Hendrix, James Patrick Nolan, Nathan Eric Benton, Syed Babar Abbas
  • Publication number: 20220057585
    Abstract: An apparatus forms a module. The apparatus includes a housing configured to load the module through a front end of a panel. The apparatus includes a connector cluster. The apparatus includes a set of tabs corresponding to a set of securing members that secure the module to a panel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: viaPhoton, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Mark Hendrix, James Patrick Nolan, Nathan Eric Benton, Syed Babar Abbas, Keith Samuel Maranto, Elizabeth Grace Dabdoub
  • Publication number: 20210349279
    Abstract: An apparatus implements a fiber breakout assembly. The fiber breakout assembly includes a tube and a plug. The tube includes a trunk portion and a plug receiving portion. The plug includes multiple entry holes and is configured to be inserted into the plug receiving portion of the tube. A crimp post is formed as part of the tube and includes one or more crimp retention features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Applicant: viaPhoton, Inc.
    Inventors: Walter Mark Hendrix, James Patrick Nolan, Nathan Eric Benton, Syed Babar Abbas
  • Patent number: 7593556
    Abstract: A sample inspection system has line sensors that generate sample picture data for layers of a sample disposed at different depths of the sample. The line sensors are arranged parallel to each other and displaced from each other in a vertical direction relative to the sample. A lens system focuses the layers of the sample at the different sample depths on the respective line sensors so that pictures of the layers at the different sample depths are read as line picture data by the line sensors. The sample inspection system includes an apparatus that stores the generated sample picture data, allows a planar region of the sample to be designated by a user for display, extracts picture data corresponding to the designated planar region for each of the sample layers from the sample picture data in response to designation of the planar region, and stores the extracted picture data as a set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Assignees: National Institute of Radiological Sciences, SEIKO Precision Inc.
    Inventors: Nakahiro Yasuda, Eric Benton, Hitoshi Ishii, Sumiko Takayama, Shinsuke Inagaki, Isao Kobayashi, Atsushi Higashimata, Yoshihiro Honma, Yosuke Umeshima
  • Publication number: 20070127842
    Abstract: A sample inspection system and method for displaying images of plural sample layers and a predetermined planar region within an image having a very large imaging region. Line sensors generate sample picture data for the plurality of sample layers, a computer stores the generated sample picture data, allows a planar region to be designated by a user for display, extracts picture data corresponding to the designated planar region for each of the respective layers from the sample picture data in response to designation of the planar region, and stores the extracted picture data as a set, and an image processing apparatus for displaying extracted pictures of the respective layers on a display in either an alternative way in which each picture may be selectively displayed individually and alternately, or simultaneously in which two or more of the pictures may be displayed together in a parallel or superposed manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2003
    Publication date: June 7, 2007
    Inventors: Nakahiro Yasuda, Eric Benton, Hitoshi Ishii, Sumiko Takayama, Shinsuke Inagaki, Isao Kobayashi, Atsushi Higashimata, Yoshihiro Honma, Yosuke Umeshima