Patents by Inventor James A. Higgins

James A. Higgins 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: 9021231
    Abstract: A method of operation of a storage control system includes: partitioning logical addresses into a number of subdrives, the logical addresses associated with a memory device; and monitoring a data write measure of one of the subdrives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Smart Storage Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James Fitzpatrick, Bernardo Rub, Mark Dancho, James Higgins, Ryan Jones
  • Patent number: 9021319
    Abstract: A method of operation of a non-volatile memory system includes: generating a test stimulus for a page in a memory array; measuring a test response from the page in the memory array based on the test stimulus; calculating a measured effective life of the page from the test response; and determining a use plan according to the measured effective life for accessing the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2015
    Assignee: Smart Storage Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: James Fitzpatrick, Bernardo Rub, James Higgins, Ryan Jones, Robert W. Ellis
  • Publication number: 20150113206
    Abstract: The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable biasing for wear leveling in storage systems. In one aspect, the method includes (1) determining, for each erase unit of a plurality of erase units in the storage medium, an age metric, (2) determining a representative age metric of the plurality of erase units, (3) for each respective erase unit of the plurality of erase units, biasing a respective garbage collection control metric for the respective erase unit in accordance with the age metric of the respective erase unit in relation to the representative age metric of the plurality of erase units to generate an adjusted garbage collection control metric for the respective erase unit, and (4) performing garbage collection for the storage medium in accordance with the adjusted garbage collection control metrics of the plurality of erase units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicant: SanDisk Enterprise IP LLC
    Inventors: James Fitzpatrick, James Higgins
  • Patent number: 8996092
    Abstract: A garment is provided with an electrode and indicia to facilitate placement of the garment. The indicia is used to orient the garment such that the electrode is placed in precise orientation with respect to a stimulation site to facilitate intraoperative monitoring during surgical procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: ProNerve LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thramann, James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20140106686
    Abstract: System enhancement(s) are disclosed that can add capabilities, such as, using Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) and/or Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and/or Frequency Division Duplex (FDD) capabilities along with Multi-Input Multi-Output (MIMO) antennas and/or Global Positioning System (GPS) synchronization. The use of two radios in both the base-station and the subscriber-station, i.e., customer premises equipment (CPE), e.g., can allow frequency division to be utilized, exploiting higher receive gains at the CPE while not affecting transmissions occurring on the other radio's frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Digital Path, Inc.
    Inventors: James A. HIGGINS, Brock EASTMAN
  • Patent number: 8626317
    Abstract: A bite block for use during intraoperative monitoring of nerves is provided. The bite block is formed of a resilient material to inhibit injury to one or more teeth or the tongue of the patient. The bite block includes at least one access port angled with the respect to a plane and sized to slidingly receive an electrode. The electrode may be advanced through the access port and into the tongue of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: ProNerve, LLC
    Inventor: James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20130325997
    Abstract: A remote asset control system for optimized asset performance under a variety of circumstances, such as network communication path failures, software maintenance, software faults, hardware faults, hardware maintenance, computer system maintenance, computer system failure, undetected data errors, configuration errors, human error, power outages, malicious network attacks, and the like, having a means to create, modify, and delete asset policies, an object oriented asset policy inheritance scheme that generates composite asset policies, an asset policy transference and caching scheme, condition driven asset policy enforcement, permission-based asset policy mechanism for throttling energy or water consumption, asset replacement simplification, query capability to enumerate actual asset deviance as compared to the currently enforced composite asset policy, real-time control asset policies, atomic activation and deactivation of asset policies, which are part of the policy inheritance hierarchy, ensuring composite
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2011
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: ALEKTRONA CORPORATION
    Inventors: James Higgins, Christopher D. Leidigh, Jeffery Weiss
  • Patent number: 8577477
    Abstract: An endotracheal tube usable for intraopertive monitoring of the laryngeal nerve. The endotracheal tube includes at least one electrical contact that is movable along and about an exterior sidewall of the endotracheal tube and connected to the exterior sidewall by a connector when the electrode is placed in a position to optimize the conductivity between the nerve being monitored and the electrical contact. The electrical contact may be connected using a locking tube, tape, adhesive, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: ProNerve, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thramann, James Higgins
  • Patent number: 8506641
    Abstract: An arthrodesis implant is for a finger joint of a hand of a patient. The arthrodesis implant may include an extramedullary proximal anchor including a first member having a fastener-receiving passageway therethrough to receive a fastener to anchor the first member to an extramedullary portion of a proximal bone of the finger joint of the hand of the patient. The arthrodesis implant may also include an intramedullary distal anchor having a second member for being anchored within an intramedullary portion of a distal bone of the finger joint of the hand of the patient, and a coupling for securing the first and second members together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2013
    Assignee: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation
    Inventors: Thomas James Graham, H. Brent Bamberger Do, James Howard Calandruccio, James Higgins, Thomas A. Wiedrich, Louise M. Focht
  • Publication number: 20130061019
    Abstract: A method of operation of a storage control system includes: partitioning logical addresses into a number of subdrives, the logical addresses associated with a memory device; and monitoring a data write measure of one of the subdrives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SMART STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: James Fitzpatrick, Bernardo Rub, Mark Dancho, James Higgins, Ryan Jones
  • Publication number: 20130061101
    Abstract: A method of operation of a non-volatile memory system includes: generating a test stimulus for a page in a memory array; measuring a test response from the page in the memory array based on the test stimulus; calculating a measured effective life of the page from the test response; and determining a use plan according to the measured effective life for accessing the page.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SMART STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: James Fitzpatrick, Bernardo Rub, James Higgins, Ryan Jones, Robert W. Ellis
  • Publication number: 20130060994
    Abstract: A method of operation of a non-volatile memory management system includes: selecting a specific time period by a unit controller; establishing a first time pool having super blocks written during the specific time period; and promoting to a second time pool, the super blocks from the first time pool, at the lapse of the specific time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2012
    Publication date: March 7, 2013
    Applicant: SMART STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: James Higgins, James Fitzpatrick, Mark Dancho
  • Publication number: 20130054881
    Abstract: A method of operation of an electronic system includes: forming a superblock by organizing an erase block according to a wear attribute; detecting a trigger count of the wear attribute of the superblock; updating a metadata table with the trigger count; and triggering a recycling event of the superblock based on the metadata table.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Applicant: SMART STORAGE SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Robert W. Ellis, James Fitzpatrick, James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20120257163
    Abstract: An ophthalmoscope includes a wearable headset. The wearable headset has a light source, a beam splitter reflecting infrared radiation from the light source to an eye, a camera collecting radiation reflected by the eye through the beam splitter, an analog to digital convertor receiving a raw signal from the camera based on the collected radiation, the analog to digital convertor converting the raw signal to a digital signal; a black and white to color converter converting the digital signal into a color signal, a streaming video converter processing the color signal into a video signal, and a pair of video monitors displaying an image of the eye based on the video signal. The wearable headset also has a video transmitter, the video transmitter transmitting the video signal to a computer over a network, the computer extracting a plurality of images from the video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 11, 2012
    Applicant: Dyer Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: David S. Dyer, James Higgins
  • Patent number: 8260427
    Abstract: A garment is provided with a tube that may be used to facilitate placement of needle electrodes into a patient to facilitate intraoperative monitoring during surgical procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: ProNerve, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thramann, James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20120130216
    Abstract: A bite block for use during intraopeartive monitoring of nerves is provided. The bite block is formed of a resilient material to inhibit injury to one or more teeth or the tongue of the patient. The bite block includes at least one access port angled with the respect to a plane and sized to slidingly receive an electrode. The electrode may be advanced through the access port and into the tongue of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2010
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: ProNerve, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thramann, James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20120010651
    Abstract: A garment is provided with a tube that may be used to facilitate placement of needle electrodes into a patient to facilitate intraoperative monitoring during surgical procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: ProNerve, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thramann, James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20120010492
    Abstract: A garment is provided with an electrode and indicia to facilitate placement of the garment. The indicia is used to orient the garment such that the electrode is placed in precise orientation with respect to a stimulation site to facilitate intraoperative monitoring during surgical procedures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2010
    Publication date: January 12, 2012
    Applicant: ProNerve, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thramann, James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20110306861
    Abstract: An endotracheal tube usable for intraopertive monitoring of the laryngeal nerve. The endotracheal tube includes at least one electrical contact that is movable along and about an exterior sidewall of the endotracheal tube and connected to the exterior sidewall by a connector when the electrode is placed in a position to optimize the conductivity between the nerve being monitored and the electrical contact. The electrical contact may be connected using a locking tube, tape, adhesive, etc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: ProNerve, LLC
    Inventors: Jeff Thramann, James Higgins
  • Publication number: 20100245765
    Abstract: An opthalmoscope includes a wearable headset. The wearable headset has a light source, a beam splitter reflecting infrared radiation from the light source to an eye, a camera collecting radiation reflected by the eye through the beam splitter, an analog to digital convertor receiving a raw signal from the camera based on the collected radiation, the analog to digital convertor converting the raw signal to a digital signal; a black and white to color converter converting the digital signal into a color signal, a streaming video converter processing the color signal into a video signal, and a pair of video monitors displaying an image of the eye based on the video signal. The wearable headset also has a video transmitter, the video transmitter transmitting the video signal to a computer over a network, the computer extracting a plurality of images from the video signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: Dyer Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: David S. Dyer, James Higgins