Patents by Inventor Gary Shaw
Gary Shaw 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).
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Publication number: 20230089871Abstract: A conventional flow tube for a metabolic cart is usually a straight length of pipe whose inner diameter is fixed by the respiratory burden imposed by the flow tube on the user, with a smaller diameter imposing a higher respiratory burden. The ratio of the straight flow tube's length to diameter is fixed by fluid dynamics, so increasing the flow tube's diameter causes the flow tube's length to increase. As the flow tube gets longer, it exerts more torque on the user's neck and jaw, creating discomfort. Reducing the flow tube's length causes an undesired increase in the respiratory burden but increasing the flow tube's diameter to reduce the respiratory burden makes the flow tube less comfortable, making the flow tube unconformable, hard to breathe through, or both. Bending the flow tube makes it possible to increase the flow tube's propagation length without increasing the flow tube's lever arm length.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Holly MCCLUNG, Reed Wasson HOYT, Lawrence M. Candell, Joseph M. MAHAN, Gary A. Shaw, Andrew M Siegel, Robert Linton STANDLEY, Kyle THOMPSON
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Patent number: 11464426Abstract: A conventional flow tube for a metabolic cart is usually a straight length of pipe whose inner diameter is fixed by the respiratory burden imposed by the flow tube on the user, with a smaller diameter imposing a higher respiratory burden. The ratio of the straight flow tube's length to diameter is fixed by fluid dynamics, so increasing the flow tube's diameter causes the flow tube's length to increase. As the flow tube gets longer, it exerts more torque on the user's neck and jaw, creating discomfort. Reducing the flow tube's length causes an undesired increase in the respiratory burden but increasing the flow tube's diameter to reduce the respiratory burden makes the flow tube less comfortable, making the flow tube unconformable, hard to breathe through, or both. Bending the flow tube, e.g., in an L shape, makes it possible to increase the flow tube's propagation length without increasing the flow tube's lever arm length.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: October 11, 2022Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Holly McClung, Reed Wasson Hoyt, Lawrence M Candell, Joseph M. Mahan, Gary A Shaw, Andrew M Siegel, Robert Linton Standley, Kyle Thompson
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Publication number: 20220160257Abstract: A fluid dynamic valve passively allows fluid flow out of a moving stream in one flow direction and not in the reverse. This allows the collection of fluid from a single direction of an AC fluid flow. The siphoned portion of the flow has a flow rate proportional to the mainstream flow. This device can collect exhaled breath or selective entrenchment during inhale. In one orientation, it can meter aerosolized particles into an inhale breath stream for pulmonary delivery, without complicated breath timing or drug loss due to drug adsorption to the back of the throat. Alternatively, a user can breathe through the device and a proportional amount, relative to the volumetric flow rate, of each exhale can flow into an auxiliary chamber for analysis. In addition, the device has a low respiratory burden and is comfortable to use.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2021Publication date: May 26, 2022Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Kyle THOMPSON, Gary A. SHAW, Andrew M. SIEGEL, Lawrence M. CANDELL
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Patent number: 11259717Abstract: A fluid dynamic valve passively allows fluid flow out of a moving stream in one flow direction and not in the reverse. This allows the collection of fluid from a single direction of an AC fluid flow. The siphoned portion of the flow has a flow rate proportional to the mainstream flow. This device can collect exhaled breath or selective entrenchment during inhale. In one orientation, it can meter aerosolized particles into an inhale breath stream for pulmonary delivery, without complicated breath timing or drug loss due to drug adsorption to the back of the throat. Alternatively, a user can breathe through the device and a proportional amount, relative to the volumetric flow rate, of each exhale can flow into an auxiliary chamber for analysis. In addition, the device has a low respiratory burden and is comfortable to use.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Kyle Thompson, Gary A Shaw, Andrew M Siegel, Lawrence M Candell
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Publication number: 20210316142Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 23, 2021Publication date: October 14, 2021Inventors: Timothy A. Fayram, Alexander Yeh, Gary Shaw, Randolph Kerry Armstrong, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco, Brad Holinski
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Publication number: 20210307642Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods related to modeling, monitoring, and/or managing metabolism of a subject include measuring a respiratory quotient (RQ) level in a subject and/or optimizing and executing a nonlinear feedback model to model energy substrate utilization in the subject based on at least one of a macronutrient composition and caloric value of food consumed by the subject, an intensity and duration of activity by the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of glycogen storage in the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of de novo lipogenesis in the subject, a quality and duration of sleep by the subject, and/or an RQ level in the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2021Publication date: October 7, 2021Inventors: Lawrence M. Candell, Christopher Ferraiolo, Gary A. Shaw, Andrew M. Siegel, George Zogbi
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Patent number: 11129985Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Timothy A. Fayram, Alexander Yeh, Gary Shaw, Randolph Kerry Armstrong, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco
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Patent number: 10994139Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy or data signal using an implantable device.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2017Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: NEUSPERA MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Timothy A. Fayram, Alexander Yeh, Gary Shaw, Randolph Kerry Armstrong, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco, Brad Holinski
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Patent number: 10925513Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods related to modeling, monitoring, and/or managing metabolism of a subject include measuring a respiratory quotient (RQ) level in a subject and/or optimizing and executing a nonlinear feedback model to model energy substrate utilization in the subject based on at least one of a macronutrient composition and caloric value of food consumed by the subject, an intensity and duration of activity by the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of glycogen storage in the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of de novo lipogenesis in the subject, a quality and duration of sleep by the subject, and/or an RQ level in the subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2016Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Lawrence M. Candell, Christopher Ferraiolo, Gary A. Shaw, Andrew M. Siegel, George Zogbi
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Patent number: 10931372Abstract: A dual-mode imaging receiver (DMIR) can acquire and maintain SOA free-space optical communication (FSOC) links without a precision mechanical gimbal. Unlike other FSOC technologies, a DMIR can operate without precise spatial alignment and calibration of the transmitter's or receiver's spatial encoders (precision pointing) in static (fixed point to point) geometries. Instead, a DMIR uses electronic receive beam selection to acquire and track transmitters with coarse mechanical pointing and a single aperture. And because the DMIR can operate with just one aperture, it does not need a beacon at the transmitter since it does not transition from a wide field-of-view acquisition aperture to a narrow field-of-view detection and decoding aperture even in dynamic geometries.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Gary A Shaw, Lawrence M Candell, Pablo I. Hopman
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Publication number: 20200252127Abstract: A dual-mode imaging receiver (DMIR) can acquire and maintain SOA free-space optical communication (FSOC) links without a precision mechanical gimbal. Unlike other FSOC technologies, a DMIR can operate without precise spatial alignment and calibration of the transmitter's or receiver's spatial encoders (precision pointing) in static (fixed point to point) geometries. Instead, a DMIR uses electronic receive beam selection to acquire and track transmitters with coarse mechanical pointing and a single aperture. And because the DMIR can operate with just one aperture, it does not need a beacon at the transmitter since it does not transition from a wide field-of-view acquisition aperture to a narrow field-of-view detection and decoding aperture even in dynamic geometries.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 10, 2020Publication date: August 6, 2020Inventors: Gary A. Shaw, Lawrence M. Candell, Pablo I. Hopman
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Patent number: 10653242Abstract: A racing gaming chair having a seat frame, a back frame, a pedal assembly attachment and a steering wheel assembly attachment. The back frame is pivotally attached to the seat frame. The pedal assembly attachment is operably attached to at least one of the back frame and the back frame. The pedal assembly attachment is adapted for attachment of a pedal assembly thereto. The steering wheel assembly attachment is operably attached to at least one of the seat frame and the back frame. The steering wheel assembly attachment is adapted for attachment of a steering wheel assembly thereto.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2018Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: Ace Casual LimitedInventors: Jose Ortiz, Gareth Case, Gary Shaw
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Patent number: 10638956Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods related to modeling, monitoring, and/or managing metabolism of a subject include measuring a respiratory quotient (RQ) level in a subject and/or optimizing and executing a nonlinear feedback model to model energy substrate utilization in the subject based on at least one of a macronutrient composition and caloric value of food consumed by the subject, an intensity and duration of activity by the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of glycogen storage in the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of de novo lipogenesis in the subject, a quality and duration of sleep by the subject, and/or an RQ level in the subject.Type: GrantFiled: December 7, 2017Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Lawrence M. Candell, Christopher Ferraiolo, Gary A. Shaw, Andrew M. Siegel, George Zogbi, Holly Lehmann McClung, Reed Wasson Hoyt, Kyle Thompson
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Publication number: 20200069059Abstract: A racing gaming chair having a seat frame, a back frame, a pedal assembly attachment and a steering wheel assembly attachment. The back frame is pivotally attached to the seat frame. The pedal assembly attachment is operably attached to at least one of the back frame and the back frame. The pedal assembly attachment is adapted for attachment of a pedal assembly thereto. The steering wheel assembly attachment is operably attached to at least one of the seat frame and the back frame. The steering wheel assembly attachment is adapted for attachment of a steering wheel assembly thereto.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2018Publication date: March 5, 2020Inventors: Jose Ortiz, Gareth Case, Gary Shaw
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Patent number: 10581521Abstract: A dual-mode imaging receiver (DMIR) can acquire and maintain SOA free-space optical communication (FSOC) links without a precision mechanical gimbal. Unlike other FSOC technologies, a DMIR can operate without precise spatial alignment and calibration of the transmitter's or receiver's spatial encoders (precision pointing) in static (fixed point to point) geometries. Instead, a DMIR uses electronic receive beam selection to acquire and track transmitters with coarse mechanical pointing and a single aperture. And because the DMIR can operate with just one aperture, it does not need a beacon at the transmitter since it does not transition from a wide field-of-view acquisition aperture to a narrow field-of-view detection and decoding aperture even in dynamic geometries.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Gary A. Shaw, Lawrence M. Candell, Pablo I. Hopman
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Publication number: 20200022618Abstract: A conventional flow tube for a metabolic cart is usually a straight length of pipe whose inner diameter is fixed by the respiratory burden imposed by the flow tube on the user, with a smaller diameter imposing a higher respiratory burden. The ratio of the straight flow tube's length to diameter is fixed by fluid dynamics, so increasing the flow tube's diameter causes the flow tube's length to increase. As the flow tube gets longer, it exerts more torque on the user's neck and jaw, creating discomfort. Reducing the flow tube's length causes an undesired increase in the respiratory burden but increasing the flow tube's diameter to reduce the respiratory burden makes the flow tube less comfortable, making the flow tube unconformable, hard to breathe through, or both. Bending the flow tube, e.g., in an L shape, makes it possible to increase the flow tube's propagation length without increasing the flow tube's lever arm length.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Holly MCCLUNG, Reed Wasson HOYT, Lawrence M Candell, Joseph M. MAHAN, Gary A Shaw, Andrew M Siegel, Robert Linton STANDLEY, Kyle THOMPSON
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Publication number: 20200022617Abstract: A fluid dynamic valve passively allows fluid flow out of a moving stream in one flow direction and not in the reverse. This allows the collection of fluid from a single direction of an AC fluid flow. The siphoned portion of the flow has a flow rate proportional to the mainstream flow. This device can collect exhaled breath or selective entrenchment during inhale. In one orientation, it can meter aerosolized particles into an inhale breath stream for pulmonary delivery, without complicated breath timing or possible large scale drug loss due to drug adsorption to the back of the throat. Alternatively, a user can breathe through the device and a proportional amount, relative to the volumetric flow rate, of each exhale can flow into an auxiliary chamber for analysis. In this arrangement, the fluid dynamic valve replaces the mechanical pump in a metabolic measurement apparatus. It collects a proportional volume of the exhale and none of the inhale for mixing-chamber breath analysis.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Kyle THOMPSON, Gary A Shaw, Andrew M Siegel, Lawrence M Candell
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Publication number: 20190068279Abstract: A dual-mode imaging receiver (DMIR) can acquire and maintain SOA free-space optical communication (FSOC) links without a precision mechanical gimbal. Unlike other FSOC technologies, a DMIR can operate without precise spatial alignment and calibration of the transmitter's or receiver's spatial encoders (precision pointing) in static (fixed point to point) geometries. Instead, a DMIR uses electronic receive beam selection to acquire and track transmitters with coarse mechanical pointing and a single aperture. And because the DMIR can operate with just one aperture, it does not need a beacon at the transmitter since it does not transition from a wide field-of-view acquisition aperture to a narrow field-of-view detection and decoding aperture even in dynamic geometries.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2018Publication date: February 28, 2019Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Gary A. Shaw, Lawrence M. Candell, Pablo I. Hopman
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Publication number: 20190022394Abstract: Generally discussed herein are systems, devices, and methods for providing a therapy (e.g., stimulation) and/or data signal using an implantable device. Systems, devices and methods for interacting with (e.g., communicating with, receiving power from) an external device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: NeuSpera Medical Inc.Inventors: Timothy A. Fayram, Alexander Yeh, Gary Shaw, Randolph Kerry Armstrong, Milton M. Morris, Elia Junco
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Publication number: 20180125391Abstract: Systems, apparatus, and methods related to modeling, monitoring, and/or managing metabolism of a subject include measuring a respiratory quotient (RQ) level in a subject and/or optimizing and executing a nonlinear feedback model to model energy substrate utilization in the subject based on at least one of a macronutrient composition and caloric value of food consumed by the subject, an intensity and duration of activity by the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of glycogen storage in the subject, a rate and maximum capacity of de novo lipogenesis in the subject, a quality and duration of sleep by the subject, and/or an RQ level in the subject.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Lawrence M. Candell, Christopher Ferraiolo, Gary A. Shaw, Andrew M. Siegel, George Zogbi, Holly Lehmann McClung, Reed Wasson Hoyt