Patents by Inventor J. Bell
J. Bell 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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Patent number: 12383022Abstract: An article of footwear may have a knitted component with an overfoot portion and an underfoot portion. At least one sole structure may be secured to the underfoot portion of the knitted component. A first knit surface of the underfoot portion may face toward a foot-receiving void, while a second knit surface may comprise a first thermoplastic material. A skin layer may be located between and directly coupled to the sole structure and the second knit surface.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2023Date of Patent: August 12, 2025Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Torrey J. Bell, Lauren Tyndall
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Publication number: 20250235286Abstract: Examples relate to an intraoperative optical strain measurement systems to determine strain within a target tissue material to receive an implant; the system comprising: an input for receiving temporally consecutive images of the target issue material; the temporally consecutive images comprising: at least one reference image and at least one subsequent image taken after the at least one reference image; a strain measurement processor comprising: measurement calculation circuitry, responsive to a data associated with a difference between the at least one reference image and the at least one subsequent image, to determine strain measurement data indicative of strain within the target tissue material, and an output for outputting strain measurement data associated the measure of strain.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2025Publication date: July 24, 2025Inventor: Brett J. Bell
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Patent number: 12348812Abstract: A computing device harmonizes output image properties displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) when a user switches between two or more images of different image formats to display on the GUI. When a user interacts with a user interface to change one or more display properties of an image, a system modifies displayed image properties based on the user's modifications. If the user selects another image with different dynamic range than the first image, the system performs a backend image conversion so that the displayed properties of the second image correspond to the user-selected modifications to the displayed properties of the first image.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2023Date of Patent: July 1, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel Pettigrew, Robert J Bell, Peter H Chou, Michael J Garber, Shaun M Poole
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Publication number: 20250198059Abstract: Aspects herein are direct to, among other things, a knitted component, which may be incorporated into an upper for an article of footwear. The knitted component includes two interconnected knit structures. A first knit structure may form loops on a first set of wales and float across a second set of wales. A second knit structure may float across the first set of wales and form knit loops, tuck stitches, and held loops on the second set of wales. The two structures are not interlooped together, but are interconnected where the first yarn alternatively passes in front of and behind the second yarn. The first structure may be formed from a first yarn and the second structure may be formed from a second yarn, where the first yarn and the second yarn have different tenacities. The knit structures may incorporate various yarn types, knit stitch patterns, and/or constructions.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2024Publication date: June 19, 2025Inventors: Torrey J. Bell, William P. Halligan, Andreas I. Schoppel
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Publication number: 20250185758Abstract: A knitted component for an article of footwear comprises a knit element and a tongue integrally knitted with the knit element. The knit element includes a lateral throat portion overlapping a lateral edge of the tongue and a medial throat portion overlapping a medial edge of the tongue. The lateral throat portion and the tongue are joined by a first knit structure, and the medial throat portion and the tongue are joined by a second knit structure. The first and second knit structures each include one or more courses having a plurality of knit stitches. Each knit structure may also span multiple adjacent courses. A method of manufacturing the knitted component is also described herein.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2025Publication date: June 12, 2025Inventors: Torrey J. Bell, Zhu Feixiang, Casey Pierson
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Publication number: 20250162396Abstract: A structural assembly for an electric vehicle that includes a vehicle frame and a battery structure. The vehicle frame is distinct from a vehicle body. The vehicle frame includes a first section and a second section. The first section includes opposed longitudinal rails. The battery structure is configured to house power storage units and is disposed between the opposed longitudinal rails. The battery structure includes a battery housing that is secured to the opposed longitudinal rails of the first section. The first section and the battery housing are combined into a unitized structure that is removably secured to the second section of the vehicle frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2025Publication date: May 22, 2025Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Henry W. Hausler, Conor Daniel Hennessey, Scott J. Bell, Patrick Daniel Maguire
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Publication number: 20250127255Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to, among other things, a knitted upper for an article of footwear. The knitted upper includes raised tubular structures having transparent or translucent portions, which may include courses knit with only monofilament yarn, and that may include a tensile element that is visible through the transparent or translucent portion. The raised tubular structures are separated by knit base portions, which may include a plurality of integrally knit openings. The raised tubular structures, inlaid tensile elements, and plurality of integrally knit openings may help to created desired containment with unique visual properties in some aspects while also imparting stretch and breathability, thereby increasing the structural integrity of the knitted upper.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Inventors: Torrey J. Bell, Eric Y. Lee
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Publication number: 20250127525Abstract: A bone cutting device, such as a burr or saw blade, is irrigated to cool not only the bone cutting device itself, but also the bone of the subject on which a bone resection procedure is being performed. The bone cutting device can have one or more (e.g., a plurality of) internal flow channels that eject a cooling medium (e.g., water or an inert gas) from the bone cutting device. This emission of the cooling medium can not only flush bone chips from the resection site, thereby reducing frictional heating of the bone cutting device, but can also provide internal cooling to the bone cutting device while flowing through the one or more internal flow channels and also can cool the surface of the bone via conductive heat transfer (e.g., by the flow stream of the cooling medium impinging on the bone surface).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2024Publication date: April 24, 2025Applicants: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. LimitedInventors: Darren J. Wilson, Brett J. Bell
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Publication number: 20250077321Abstract: Techniques are provided for management of state information using a message queue. One method comprises, in response to a change in state information associated with a given service, updating the state information associated with the given service and publishing the updated state information associated with the given service to at least one topic of a message queue. The updated state information may be consumed from the message queue by an additional service, based on one or more topic subscriptions, to update respective state information maintained by the additional service. The state information may comprise a current configuration and/or a current state of (i) software, (ii) a system and/or (iii) an entity. One or more services may maintain a respective local cache of the state information and update at least a portion of the respective local cache in response to updated state information received from the message queue.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2023Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Sriharsha DV, Gouri Shankar Mohapatra, Robert J. Bell, IV
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Patent number: 12233701Abstract: A structural assembly for an electric vehicle includes a vehicle frame and a battery structure. The vehicle frame is distinct from a vehicle body and includes a front section, a rear section and a mid-section disposed between the front and rear sections. The mid-section includes opposed longitudinal rails. The battery structure is configured to house power storage units and is disposed between the opposed longitudinal rails. The battery structure includes a battery housing secured to the opposed longitudinal rails of the mid-section. The mid-section and the battery housing are combined into a unitized structure that is removably secured to the front and rear sections of the vehicle frame.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Henry W. Hausler, Conor Daniel Hennessey, Scott J. Bell, Patrick Daniel Maguire
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Patent number: 12233937Abstract: Vehicle subframes and methods of producing the same are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a subframe of a vehicle including longitudinal members, and lateral extensions extending from the longitudinal members, the lateral extensions extending outward from a longitudinal centerline of the vehicle, outer edges of the lateral extensions including contours to avoid turn radii of steerable tires of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Bhimaraddi Venkaraddi Alavandi, Harsha Kusnoorkar, Scott J. Bell, Vladimir Vladimirovich Bogachuk
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Patent number: 12232569Abstract: A knitted component for an article of footwear comprises a knit element and a tongue integrally knitted with the knit element. The knit element includes a lateral throat portion overlapping a lateral edge of the tongue and a medial throat portion overlapping a medial edge of the tongue. The lateral throat portion and the tongue are joined by a first knit structure, and the medial throat portion and the tongue are joined by a second knit structure. The first and second knit structures each include one or more courses having a plurality of knit stitches. Each knit structure may also span multiple adjacent courses. A method of manufacturing the knitted component is also described herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Torrey J. Bell, Zhu Feixiang, Casey Pierson
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Patent number: 12233698Abstract: A structural assembly for a vehicle includes a vehicle frame distinct from a vehicle body. The vehicle frame includes opposed longitudinal rails. Each rail includes a single, monolithic body having a central internal brace and a pair of opposed ends. One end of the opposed ends is fixed to a first side of the central internal brace and the other end of the opposed ends is fixed to a second side of the central internal brace that is opposite the first side.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Scott J. Bell, Vladimir Vladimirovich Bogachuk, Shawn Michael Morgans, Robert Reiners
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Patent number: 12213658Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for measuring a force applied to a joint during a surgical procedure are disclosed. The device includes an insertion tool, a handle, and one or more force indicators. The insertion tool includes an insertion end and a base end. The one or more force indicators may be attached to the insertion tool and the handle. The insertion end of the device may be inserted into a joint during a surgical procedure and used to apply a force to the joint and/or measure the force using the one or more force indicators when the force is applied.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: February 4, 2025Assignees: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. Limited, Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AGInventors: Branislav Jaramaz, Samuel C. Dumpe, Cedric Corpa De La Fuente, Gary David Carlson, Jr., Brett J. Bell, Brian W. McKinnon, Daniel Farley
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Patent number: 12186042Abstract: Methods and systems of placing a medical fastener at a predetermined depth in a bone are described. A surgical tool can include an attachment assembly configured to interchangeably engage a medical fastener and a cutting element or bone removal tool and a drive assembly coupled to the attachment assembly. The attachment assembly can be configured to automatically release the medical fastener in response to the drive assembly reaching its end or distal-most position to place the medical fastener at a predetermined depth within the bone.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 7, 2025Assignees: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific Pte. LimitedInventors: Samuel C. Dumpe, Brett J. Bell, Constantinos Nikou, Gene Edward Austin
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Publication number: 20250000586Abstract: Trial implant components or inserts (105), bone preparation tools (750), and methods for using same to determine bone characteristics and bone preparation processes for differentially preparing bone regions for cementless implants based on bone characteristics are disclosed. For example, in any preceding or subsequent example, a trial implant component may be configured as a bone property measurement trial implant configured to be inserted within a joint to determine measurement trial information of a bone in forceful contact therewith. In another example, operating characteristics of a bone preparation tool (e.g., voltage, torque, and/or the like) in contact with a patient bone may be measured. The measurement trial information or operating characteristics may be converted to bone characteristic information, such as bone hardness. The bone characteristic information may be used to determine, inter alia, whether a cementless implant may be supported and/or a bone preparation process for an implant.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Applicants: Smith & Nephew, Inc., Smith & Nephew Orthopaedics AG, Smith & Nephew Asia Pacific PTE. LimitedInventors: Erik Woodard, Brett J. Bell, Forrest A. James, Branislav Jaramaz, Constantinos Nikou
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Publication number: 20250004755Abstract: Techniques are provided for management of software testing checkers using an event dispatcher. One method comprises obtaining, by an event dispatcher, a configuration of software testing checkers for evaluating software; in response to a notification of a designated event associated with the software: posting, by the event dispatcher, the designated event to a topic on a message queue using the configuration, wherein at least one software testing checker monitors the topics on the message queue and processes the designated event from the message queue, and wherein the at least one software testing checker: (i) posts one or more output messages, related to the software, to one or more of the topics on the message queue and/or (ii) sends a status result, related to the software, to an external service. The configuration may be specified for a particular software branch and/or repository associated with the software.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2023Publication date: January 2, 2025Inventors: M. Adam Arakelian, Karl M. Owen, Robert A. Ballantyne, Robert J. Bell, IV
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Publication number: 20240374309Abstract: A robotically controlled laser resection device is disclosed. The device is configured in a handheld form factor. The device includes a treatment laser configured to generate a treatment laser beam, a laser scanner configured to direct the treatment laser beam, a water nozzle configured to emit a laminar waterjet, and an aperture configured to emit the treatment laser beam within the laminar waterjet. The components may be contained in a housing with electromagnetic shielding. A tracking marker is attached to the housing to allow navigation of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 13, 2024Publication date: November 14, 2024Inventors: Darren J. WILSON, Brett J. BELL
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Publication number: 20240378767Abstract: A computing device harmonizes output image properties displayed on a graphical user interface (GUI) when a user switches between two or more images of different image formats to display on the GUI. When a user interacts with a user interface to change one or more display properties of an image, a system modifies displayed image properties based on the user's modifications. If the user selects another image with different dynamic range than the first image, the system performs a backend image conversion so that the displayed properties of the second image correspond to the user-selected modifications to the displayed properties of the first image.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: November 14, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel Pettigrew, Robert J. Bell, Peter H. Chou, Michael J. Garber, Shaun M. Poole
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Patent number: 12098886Abstract: An electric induction furnace for heating and melting electrically conductive materials is provided with a lining wear detection system that can detect replaceable furnace lining wear when the furnace is properly operated and maintained. In some embodiments of the invention the lining wear detection system utilizes an electrically conductive wire assemblage embedded in a wire assemblage refractory disposed between the replaceable lining and the furnace's induction coil.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Inductotherm Corp.Inventors: Satyen N. Prabhu, Thomas W. Shorter, Ted Haines, Edward J. Bell