Patents by Inventor James A. Blake

James A. Blake 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).

  • Patent number: 12193817
    Abstract: A biological fluid collection device (10) that produces a stabilized biological sample with head-to-tail uniformity through the capturing of a high concentration front and subsequent redistribution of the high concentration front throughout a biological fluid is disclosed. The biological fluid collection device includes an inline mixer (16) used for head-to-tail mixing of a concentrated flow front. The mixing is achieved via a two-stage process. First, a front fraction of the flow is captured within a centered mixing chamber (30) via capillary assisted flow action. Second, the captured front volume is then slowly released throughout a small exit hole (36) and recombined with the rest of the flow volume that was diverted around the centered mixer chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Milan Ivosevic, Ryan W. Muthard, Alexander James Blake
  • Publication number: 20240252078
    Abstract: A biological liquid collection device designed to draw blood using an “atmospheric-balanced vacuum” to ensure the blood is exposed to the sample atmospheric partial pressure oxygen and partial pressure carbon dioxide levels as found in standard arterial blood gas syringes, resulting in blood gas sample stabilization during collection and a superior vacuum shelf-life by reducing the gas permeation rate through the plastic tube. The biological liquid collection device comprises a collection module for receiving a biological liquid sample, an evacuated container having an open end and a closed end wherein the evacuated container contains the collection module therein, and a closure for closing the open end of the evacuated container. The evacuated container comprises a gas composition that is substantially equal to the gas composition of the atmosphere outside of the evacuated container. A method for forming the atmospherically balanced vacuum collection device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander James Blake, Sylvine Raverdy-Wilson, Adam Edelhauser
  • Patent number: 11986297
    Abstract: A biological liquid collection device designed to draw blood using an “atmospheric-balanced vacuum” to ensure the blood is exposed to the sample atmospheric partial pressure oxygen and partial pressure carbon dioxide levels as found in standard arterial blood gas syringes, resulting in blood gas sample stabilization during collection and a superior vacuum shelf-life by reducing the gas permeation rate through the plastic tube. The biological liquid collection device comprises a collection module for receiving a biological liquid sample, an evacuated container having an open end and a closed end wherein the evacuated container contains the collection module therein, and a closure for closing the open end of the evacuated container. The evacuated container comprises a gas composition that is substantially equal to the gas composition of the atmosphere outside of the evacuated container. A method for forming the atmospherically balanced vacuum collection device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Alexander James Blake, Sylvine Raverdy-Wilson, Adam Edelhauser
  • Patent number: 11758994
    Abstract: A storage container includes a rigid bottom, a first side wall, a second side wall, a third side wall, a fourth side wall and a top, wherein the first, second, third and fourth side walls each comprise primarily fabric. The top defines an opening to an interior of the storage container. A rigid exterior frame includes a first side wall frame portion connected to the first side wall, a second side wall frame portion connected to the second side wall, a first top frame portion, and a second top frame portion, the first top frame portion interconnecting the first side wall frame portion and the second side wall frame portion, the second top frame portion interconnecting the first side wall frame portion and the second side wall frame portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: BIG TIME PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Jarrod Thomas Streng, Christopher Weed, Mark Butts, Ryan Kubica, James Blake Fievet, Jing Li
  • Publication number: 20230248092
    Abstract: A glove includes a glove body in a shape of a hand and having a palm side and a dorsal side opposite the palm side. A protective structure is located on the dorsal side. The protective structure includes multiple openings with thermoplastic boundary segments and surrounding thermoplastic main segments that provided for a two-stage impact configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Matthew WEED, James Blake FIEVET
  • Publication number: 20230230111
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein are related to systems and methods for forecasting demands for a transportation service. In one aspect, a set of neural network models may be implemented, where each neural network model can be configured to predict a booking status of a category of carriers on a corresponding date from a range of dates before a departure date. In one aspect, for each neural network model, a corresponding set of configuration values can be determined. Examples of the corresponding set of configuration values includes at least one of a number of layers, a number of neurons, and an activation function of the each neural network model. The set of neural network models can be constructed, according to corresponding sets of configuration values, and the constructed neural network models can be trained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: OneSky Flight LLC
    Inventors: Durga Nagalla, Michael Campobasso, William Lanphear, Tyler Wise, Zack Hagerty, James Blake
  • Patent number: 11625465
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented platform for managing electronic instruments and electronic endorser verification information in order to validate endorser identity. A generated link and a verification information request are sent in one or more messages targeted a phone number of a computing device associated with a target party. The verification information request includes a request for imagery of the target party captured by the computing device. An endorsed electronic instrument and electronic verification information is received from the computing device, including received imagery data and a time stamp indicating when the received imagery data was captured. The received imagery data is validated at least according to whether the time stamp is sufficiently recent, and whether the received imagery data sufficiently matches expected imagery data of the requesting party based on performing a facial recognition on the received imagery data and the expected imagery data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Filevine, Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan M. Anderson, Nathan Morris, James Blake, Wesley A. Cooper
  • Publication number: 20230002502
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to methods and products for reducing side effects associated with immunotherapy using immune agonist antibodies. In certain embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of reducing one or more side effects associated with immunotherapy using an immune agonist antibody alone, or in combination with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, in a subject suffering from a cancer, the method comprising modifying the gut microbiota in the subject and thereby reducing the one or more side effects associated with the immunotherapy in the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicants: South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute Limited, The Flinders University of South Australia
    Inventors: David John Lynn, Stephen James Blake
  • Publication number: 20220395066
    Abstract: A divider assembly including a divider having a divider wall, a first divider attachment structure coupled to a first end of the divider wall, and a second divider attachment structure coupled to a second, opposite end of the divider wall. Each of the first and second divider attachment structures has one of a protrusion configured to be slidably received in a correspondingly-shaped channel, or a channel configured to slidably receive therein a correspondingly-shaped protrusion, to thereby retain the divider in place. The first and second divider attachment structures each have a pair of parallel flanges that closely receive the divider wall therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Jarrod Thomas STRENG, Christopher Matthew WEED, Mark Lee BUTTS, Ryan Lee-Nowland KUBICA, James Blake FIEVET, Jing LI
  • Patent number: 11485484
    Abstract: A strut assembly for a vibration isolation device is disclosed, comprising a piston spindle; a first elastomeric member and a second elastomeric member bonded to the piston spindle and in contact with an upper housing and a lower housing, respectively; a first strut support and a second strut support attached to or integral with the upper housing and the lower housing, respectively; a first strut spindle and the second strut support configured to be placed in the first strut support and the second strut support, respectively; and one or more removable struts configured to be engaged to the first strut spindle and to the second strut spindle, wherein at least one of the first or second strut spindles is removable such that the one or more struts can be replaced without breaking a bonding of the first elastomeric member, the second elastomeric member, or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventors: Mark Wiinikka, Scott Hemmen, Nathan P. Green, James Blake
  • Patent number: 11452350
    Abstract: A divider assembly including a divider having a divider wall, a first divider attachment structure coupled to a first end of the divider wall, and a second divider attachment structure coupled to a second, opposite end of the divider wall. Each of the first and second divider attachment structures has one of a protrusion configured to be slidably received in a correspondingly-shaped channel, or a channel configured to slidably receive therein a correspondingly-shaped protrusion, to thereby retain the divider in place. The first and second divider attachment structures each have a pair of parallel flanges that closely receive the divider wall therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: BIG TIME PRODUCTS, LLC
    Inventors: Jarrod Thomas Streng, Christopher Matthew Weed, Mark Lee Butts, Ryan Lee-Nowland Kubica, James Blake Fievet, Jing Li
  • Publication number: 20220240610
    Abstract: A glove includes a body portion defining a space to receive a body portion of a hand, and a plurality of digit portions extending from the body portion, including a set of finger portions and a thumb portion, wherein each digit portion defines an elongated digit receiving space. A first finger portion of the set of finger portions includes a knitted back side segment, a grip side segment and a first knitted fourchette segment extending from the knitted back side segment to the grip side segment. The first knitted fourchette segment and the knitted back side segment are of a continuous knit. The first knitted fourchette segment has a thickness that is less than a thickness of the knitted back side segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Christopher Matthew WEED, Mark Lee BUTTS, James Blake FIEVET, Jing LI, Jarrod Thomas STRENG
  • Patent number: D972784
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: The Hillman Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Lee Butts, James Blake Fievet, Jing Li, Christopher Matthew Weed
  • Patent number: D974002
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Matthew Weed, Mark Lee Butts, Jarrod Thomas Streng, James Blake Fievet, Jing Li
  • Patent number: D1028416
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Lee Butts, James Blake Fievet, Jing Li, Jarrod Thomas Streng, Christopher Matthew Weed
  • Patent number: D1044142
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Matthew Weed, James Blake Fievet
  • Patent number: D1052846
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Lee Butts, James Blake Fievet, Jing Li, Jarrod Thomas Streng, Christopher Matthew Weed
  • Patent number: D1054648
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Matthew Weed, James Blake Fievet
  • Patent number: D1057350
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Matthew Weed, James Blake Fievet
  • Patent number: D1057351
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: THE HILLMAN GROUP, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher Matthew Weed, James Blake Fievet