Patents by Inventor James Bain

James Bain 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: 20240127926
    Abstract: A medical system may include a patient system configured to determine a condition of a patient and deliver a neuromodulation therapy. The patient system may include a patient device having a user interface configured to enable patient interaction by the patient with the patient system. The patient system may include a triage system configured to select a triage tier from two or more triage tiers available for selection and indicative of a priority ranking for patient intervention. The triage system may be configured to use both the interaction and the condition to select the triage tier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Kyle Harish Srivastava, Nina Pehler, Diana-Lyn Catherine DeCarlo, Rex James Woon, Dat Thanh Huynh, Amarpreet Singh Bains
  • Patent number: 11112245
    Abstract: An Acousto-Optic Gyroscope (AOG) consisting of a photonic integrated device embedded into two inherently matched piezoelectric surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators sharing the same acoustic cavity is disclosed. The micromachined strain-based AOG uses the effective index of the optical waveguide due to the acousto-optic effect rather than conventional displacement sensing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Gianluca Piazza, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ashraf Mahmoud, Lutong Cai, Md Shofiqul Islam Khan, Tamal Mukherjee, James Bain
  • Patent number: 10954001
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hanging inspection systems for aircraft from floor beams of those aircraft. One embodiment is a method that includes selecting a floor beam of an aircraft, attaching a hanging support to a floor beam, and placing an inspection system at a mount of the hanging support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventor: Richard James Bain
  • Patent number: 10883359
    Abstract: Methods and tools for cutting a component in a wellbore are include use of a downhole tool that is tripped into a wellbore. The downhole tool includes at least one sensor that determines whether a quality of a cement around casing satisfies a predetermined standard. The casing is cut to remove an axial section of the casing and the at least one sensor determines whether at least a segment of the axial section of the casing remains adhered to the cement after the casing is cut. A casing removal tool can be activated to remove any remaining segments of casing in the axial section. A plug can be formed in the area where the axial segment of the casing was removed. The downhole tool may include a cutting tool with a laser, abrasive jet, or other cutting element shielded from wellbore debris by a fluid stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Wellbore Integrity Solutions LLC
    Inventors: David A. Stokes, James Bain, Walter E. Friedl, Douglas A. Pipchuk
  • Publication number: 20190120624
    Abstract: An Acousto-Optic Gyroscope (AOG) consisting of a photonic integrated device embedded into two inherently matched piezoelectric surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonators sharing the same acoustic cavity is disclosed. The micromachined strain-based AOG uses the effective index of the optical waveguide due to the acousto-optic effect rather than conventional displacement sensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventors: Gianluca Piazza, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ashraf Mahmoud, Lutong Cai, Msi Khan, Tamal Mukherjee, James Bain
  • Publication number: 20180245450
    Abstract: Methods and tools for cutting a component in a wellbore are include use of a downhole tool that is tripped into a wellbore. The downhole tool includes at least one sensor that determines whether a quality of a cement around casing satisfies a predetermined standard. The casing is cut to remove an axial section of the casing and the at least one sensor determines whether at least a segment of the axial section of the casing remains adhered to the cement after the casing is cut. A casing removal tool can be activated to remove any remaining segments of casing in the axial section. A plug can be formed in the area where the axial segment of the casing was removed. The downhole tool may include a cutting tool with a laser, abrasive jet, or other cutting element shielded from wellbore debris by a fluid stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: David A. Stokes, James Bain, Walter E. Friedl, Douglas A. Pipchuk
  • Publication number: 20180237167
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for hanging inspection systems for aircraft from floor beams of those aircraft. One embodiment is a method that includes selecting a floor beam of an aircraft, attaching a hanging support to a floor beam, and placing an inspection system at a mount of the hanging support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventor: Richard James Bain
  • Patent number: 9997700
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an RRAM cell includes providing a metal-insulator-metal stack and exposing a subsection of a MIM stack to particle bombardment and/or radiation. Exposing a subsection of the MIM stack to particle bombardment and/or radiation forms localized defects in the functional layer of the MIM stack, thereby reducing the required forming voltage of the RRAM cell and further providing precise control over the location of a conductive filament created in the MIM stack during forming of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Mohamed Abdeltawab Abdelmoula, Marek Skowronski, Abhishek A. Sharma, James A. Bain
  • Patent number: 9246549
    Abstract: An optical device includes a near field transducer; and a dielectric resonant structure coupled to the near field transducer; wherein the dielectric resonant structure comprises a dielectric material that decreases a dissipation of energy in the dielectric resonant structure, relative to other dissipations of energy associated with other materials; and wherein the decrease in the dissipation of energy increases an efficiency of energy transfer from the near field transducer to a target structure, relative to other efficiencies of energy transfer from the near field transducer to the target structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: James A. Bain, Matthew J. Chabalko, Tuviah E. Schlesinger, Yi Luo, Yunchuan Kong
  • Publication number: 20150318472
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing an RRAM cell includes providing a metal-insulator-metal stack and exposing a subsection of a MIM stack to particle bombardment and/or radiation. Exposing a subsection of the MIM stack to particle bombardment and/or radiation forms localized defects in the functional layer of the MIM stack, thereby reducing the required forming voltage of the RRAM cell and further providing precise control over the location of a conductive filament created in the MIM stack during forming of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2014
    Publication date: November 5, 2015
    Applicant: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Mohamed Abdeltawab Abdelmoula, Marek Skowronski, Abhishek A. Sharma, James A. Bain
  • Patent number: 8779661
    Abstract: An electric light having a semiconductor mounted to a base (6). The semiconductor, preferably a LED is at least partly surrounded by a liquid container (18), which is filled with liquid such that the liquid is in thermal conducting path with the liquid and the base. The light emitted from the semiconductor passes through the liquid. An electronic ballast (16) is provided in the base between supply contacts (8) and semi conductor (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Inventor: James Bain Smith
  • Publication number: 20140099054
    Abstract: An apparatus and corresponding method in which the apparatus includes a dielectric waveguide and a metallic waveguide. The dielectric waveguide has an effective mode index and a longitudinal dimension. The metallic waveguide has a longitudinal dimension and supports a surface plasmonic mode of propagation for a wavelength lambda. The metallic waveguide and the dielectric waveguide are adjacent to each other and overlap each other by a length along the longitudinal dimensions of both the dielectric waveguide and the metallic waveguide, wherein the length is greater than the wavelength lambda in the metallic waveguide. The metallic waveguide is coupled to the dielectric waveguide where the metallic waveguide and the dielectric waveguide overlap each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: Eric J. Black, James A. Bain, Stephen P. Powell, Tuviah E. Schlesinger
  • Publication number: 20140050486
    Abstract: An optical device includes a near field transducer; and a dielectric resonant structure coupled to the near field transducer; wherein the dielectric resonant structure comprises a dielectric material that decreases a dissipation of energy in the dielectric resonant structure, relative to other dissipations of energy associated with other materials; and wherein the decrease in the dissipation of energy increases an efficiency of energy transfer from the near field transducer to a target structure, relative to other efficiencies of energy transfer from the near field transducer to the target structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: James A. Bain, Matthew J. Chabalko, Tuviah E. Schlesinger, Yi Luo, Yunchuan Kong
  • Patent number: 8511392
    Abstract: The present invention provides a swivel sub for connection in a work string between a workstring and a downhole apparatus. The swivel sub includes a first substantially cylindrical body, including a sleeve portion having one or more teeth and a second substantially cylindrical body being partially located within the sleeve portion. The bodies are arranged to rotate relative to each other. The swivel sub also includes a sliding sleeve, having one or more teeth arranged mutually engage with the first teeth is axially moveable between disengaged and engaged positions, in one embodiment by a pressure differential being created in the sub. Further, the present invention provides methods for of running the tool, with particular application to setting and hanging of liners and screens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2013
    Assignee: Tercel Oilfield Products UK Limited
    Inventors: Paul Howlett, James Bain
  • Publication number: 20120299475
    Abstract: An electric light having a semiconductor mounted to a base (6). The semiconductor, preferably a LED is at least partly surrounded by a liquid container (18), which is filled with liquid such that the liquid is in thermal conducting path with the liquid and the base. The light emitted from the semiconductor passes through the liquid. An electronic ballast (16) is provided in the base between supply contacts (8) and semi conductor (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2011
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventor: James Bain Smith
  • Publication number: 20120279709
    Abstract: A downhole locator apparatus, including a tool body having a central axis defined therethrough, and at least one locator lug radially expandable from the tool body, in which the at least one locator lug is configured to be received in an annular groove formed in an inner surface of a casing string, in which the at least one locator lug is configured to move radially between a retracted position and an expanded position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: James Bain, Murray Fearn, Brian Cruickshank, Charles Dewey, Mahavir Nagaraj
  • Patent number: 8289659
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling the position of a magnetic head element and/or the magnetic head element to media spacing in a data storage device. At least one microactuator is embedded in a hard disk drive slider laterally displaced from the magnetic head element. Activation of the microactuator translates the magnetic head element in a lateral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2012
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: James A. Bain, William C. Messner
  • Publication number: 20120234559
    Abstract: The present invention provides a swivel sub for connection in a work string between a workstring and a downhole apparatus. The swivel sub includes a first substantially cylindrical body, including a sleeve portion having one or more teeth and a second substantially cylindrical body being partially located within the sleeve portion. The bodies are arranged to rotate relative to each other. The swivel sub also includes a sliding sleeve, having one or more teeth arranged mutually engage with the first teeth is axially moveable between disengaged and engaged positions, in one embodiment by a pressure differential being created in the sub. Further, the present invention provides methods for of running the tool, with particular application to setting and hanging of liners and screens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2012
    Publication date: September 20, 2012
    Applicant: TERCEL OILFIELD PRODUCTS UK LIMITED
    Inventors: Paul HOWLETT, James BAIN
  • Patent number: 8243397
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a micromachined rotary actuator constructed of a central portion and an outer portion at least partially surrounding the central portion and separated from the central portion by an in-plane gap. A plurality of arms are each connected at one end to the central portion and at another end to the outer portion so as to span the in-plane gap. The arms are constructed of a plurality of horizontally stacked materials positioned to enable the arms to bend in-plane when heated. Conductors are positioned within the actuator for heating the arms. Because of the rules governing abstracts, this abstract should not be used to construe the claims.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: Carnegie Mellon University
    Inventors: William C. Messner, James A. Bain, Gary K. Fedder
  • Patent number: D741520
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Inventor: James Bain Smith