Patents by Inventor James C. Hansen

James C. Hansen 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: 11925522
    Abstract: A custom tool for forming a dental restoration in a mouth of a patient includes a first mold body providing for a customized fit with at least one tooth of the patient. The first mold body includes a portion corresponding with at least a first surface of the tooth and an interproximal portion corresponding with an interproximal surface of the tooth, the interproximal portion being of unitary construction. The first mold body is configured to combine with the tooth of the patient to form a mold cavity encompassing a first portion of missing tooth structure of the tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: James D. Hansen, Joseph C. Dingeldein, Mary C. Doruff
  • Patent number: 11925526
    Abstract: A custom tool for bonding orthodontic appliances in a mouth of a patient, the custom tool comprising: a facial body for a patient-specific, customized fit with the facial side of a plurality of teeth of the patient, a lingual body for a patient-specific, customized fit with the lingual side of the plurality of the teeth of the patient, wherein the lingual body. wherein the facial body and lingual body are configured to combine with the teeth of the patient to position orthodontic appliances on the plurality of teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: James D. Hansen, Joseph C. Dingeldein, John M. Pilgrim
  • Patent number: 11842913
    Abstract: The disclosure describes devices and systems for a two-sided seal for a load port, and methods for using said seal. A factory interface for an electronic device manufacturing system can include a load port for receiving a substrate carrier. The load port can include a frame adapted for connecting the load port to a factory interface, the frame comprising a transport opening. The load port can also include a seal coupled to the frame. The seal can include a first contact point configured to engage with a load port door when the load port door is in a first position, and configured to disengage with the load port door when the load port door is in a second position and a second contact point configured to engage with a front of a substrate carrier when the substrate carrier is docked on the load port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas B. Baumgarten, Paul B. Reuter, James C Hansen
  • Publication number: 20230094114
    Abstract: The disclosure describes devices and systems for a two-sided seal for a load port, and methods for using said seal. A factory interface for an electronic device manufacturing system can include a load port for receiving a substrate carrier. The load port can include a frame adapted for connecting the load port to a factory interface, the frame comprising a transport opening. The load port can also include a seal coupled to the frame. The seal can include a first contact point configured to engage with a load port door when the load port door is in a first position, and configured to disengage with the load port door when the load port door is in a second position and a second contact point configured to engage with a front of a substrate carrier when the substrate carrier is docked on the load port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Douglas B. Baumgarten, Paul B. Reuter, James C. Hansen
  • Patent number: 7466243
    Abstract: A hardware system for passively detecting wires from a mobile transportation system is provided. The hardware system includes a main processor in the hardware system that uses plural commands to manage a preprocessor module and a linker module, wherein the pre-processing module pre-processes a digital image taken from a digital camera of the transport system and reduces non-wire like clutter from the digital image and identifies pixels that can be classified as wire like; and the linker module links the identified pixels to determine if a wire like structure is present and a binary output from the linker module is sent to an output select module that allows a user to select a video output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2005
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Christian C. Witt, Dennis J. Yelton, James C. Hansen, Christopher J. Musial
  • Patent number: 5690687
    Abstract: A rate responsive pacemaker generates an initial histogram of a rate control parameter. The histogram is then normalized to conform to preselected characteristics. For example. By linearizing a portion of the histogram. The new histogram is used to map the parameter into a corresponding pacing rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 25, 1997
    Assignee: Pacesetter, Inc.
    Inventor: James C. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4901725
    Abstract: A rate-responsive pacemaker whose rate control parameter is minute volume derived over a bipolar lead. An algorithm based on averaged samples and zero crossings provides enhanced accuracy. Sustained exercise at high pacing rates is possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Telectronics N.V.
    Inventors: Tibor A. Nappholz, John R. Hamilton, James C. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4901726
    Abstract: A rate-responsive heart pacer in which rate-control parameter (RCP) values are arranged in a percentile ranking and mapped onto a percentile ranking of a desired rate distribution. By monitoring the RCP values over an extended time interval and developing a corresponding percentile ranking, the pacemaker automatically self-adapts to long-term changes in RCP measurements and insures that the desired rate distribution is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Telectronics N.V.
    Inventor: James C. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4856522
    Abstract: A rate-responsive heart pacer in which rate-control parameter (RCP) values are arranged in a percentile ranking and mapped into a percentile ranking of a desired rate distribution. By monitoring the RCP values over an extended time interval and developing a corresponding percentile ranking, the pacemaker automatically self-adapts to long-term changes in RCP measurements and insures that the desired rate distribution is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 15, 1989
    Assignee: Telectronics N.V.
    Inventor: James C. Hansen
  • Patent number: 4716903
    Abstract: An implantable pacemaker which stores in memory the representation of an ECG signal by compressing the data. Whenever the input signal changes by a threshold amount from the last time data was recorded, a representation of the time interval which has elapsed is recorded. In a maximimally efficient system, the only information which must be stored are the successive elapsed times, along with indications of when the input signal changes slope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: Telectronics N.V.
    Inventors: James C. Hansen, Tibor A. Nappholz, Robert H. Whigham