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).
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Publication number: 20240127926Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Kyle Harish Srivastava, Nina Pehler, Diana-Lyn Catherine DeCarlo, Rex James Woon, Dat Thanh Huynh, Amarpreet Singh Bains
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Patent number: 11112245Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITYInventors: Gianluca Piazza, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ashraf Mahmoud, Lutong Cai, Md Shofiqul Islam Khan, Tamal Mukherjee, James Bain
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Patent number: 10954001Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: November 17, 2017Date of Patent: March 23, 2021Assignee: The Boeing CompanyInventor: Richard James Bain
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Patent number: 10883359Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 4, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: Wellbore Integrity Solutions LLCInventors: David A. Stokes, James Bain, Walter E. Friedl, Douglas A. Pipchuk
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Publication number: 20190120624Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Inventors: Gianluca Piazza, Mohamed Mahmoud, Ashraf Mahmoud, Lutong Cai, Msi Khan, Tamal Mukherjee, James Bain
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Publication number: 20180245450Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 4, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: David A. Stokes, James Bain, Walter E. Friedl, Douglas A. Pipchuk
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Publication number: 20180237167Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2017Publication date: August 23, 2018Inventor: Richard James Bain
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Patent number: 9997700Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 1, 2014Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Mohamed Abdeltawab Abdelmoula, Marek Skowronski, Abhishek A. Sharma, James A. Bain
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Patent number: 9246549Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 16, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: James A. Bain, Matthew J. Chabalko, Tuviah E. Schlesinger, Yi Luo, Yunchuan Kong
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Publication number: 20150318472Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2014Publication date: November 5, 2015Applicant: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Mohamed Abdeltawab Abdelmoula, Marek Skowronski, Abhishek A. Sharma, James A. Bain
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Patent number: 8779661Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 21, 2011Date of Patent: July 15, 2014Inventor: James Bain Smith
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Publication number: 20140099054Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2013Publication date: April 10, 2014Applicant: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: Eric J. Black, James A. Bain, Stephen P. Powell, Tuviah E. Schlesinger
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Publication number: 20140050486Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2013Publication date: February 20, 2014Applicant: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: James A. Bain, Matthew J. Chabalko, Tuviah E. Schlesinger, Yi Luo, Yunchuan Kong
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Patent number: 8511392Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 30, 2012Date of Patent: August 20, 2013Assignee: Tercel Oilfield Products UK LimitedInventors: Paul Howlett, James Bain
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Publication number: 20120299475Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2011Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventor: James Bain Smith
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Publication number: 20120279709Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2011Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: SMITH INTERNATIONAL, INC.Inventors: James Bain, Murray Fearn, Brian Cruickshank, Charles Dewey, Mahavir Nagaraj
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Patent number: 8289659Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 5, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: James A. Bain, William C. Messner
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Publication number: 20120234559Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2012Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: TERCEL OILFIELD PRODUCTS UK LIMITEDInventors: Paul HOWLETT, James BAIN
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Patent number: 8243397Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Carnegie Mellon UniversityInventors: William C. Messner, James A. Bain, Gary K. Fedder
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Patent number: D741520Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Inventor: James Bain Smith