Patents by Inventor James R. Rowland

James R. Rowland 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: 10537683
    Abstract: A finger grip for receiving and retaining a syringe body of an injection syringe. The finger grip is easily pressed directly onto the syringe and employs a centering feature and a pair of one way, flexible latches that allow easy attachment to a syringe body yet ensures retention during normal and abnormal use. If a high horizontal component force is applied during normal or abnormal use, the finger grip will not become disconnected in an uncontrolled fashion from the syringe body, which might cause injury and/or damage to a patient being injected. The flexible latches may prevent detachment of the finger grip from the syringe below separation force of about 25 lbs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Johnson & Johnson Surgical Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Ruddocks, Walter A. York, Brent L. Burchfield, Jeffrey R. Burger, Joseph M. Lehman, Neal J. Kelly, Ken P. Monk, James R. Rowland, Nicole M. Samuelson
  • Publication number: 20180117256
    Abstract: A finger grip for receiving and retaining a syringe body of an injection syringe. The finger grip is easily pressed directly onto the syringe and employs a centering feature and a pair of one way, flexible latches that allow easy attachment to a syringe body yet ensures retention during normal and abnormal use. If a high horizontal component force is applied during normal or abnormal use, the finger grip will not become disconnected in an uncontrolled fashion from the syringe body, which might cause injury and/or damage to a patient being injected. The flexible latches may prevent detachment of the finger grip from the syringe below separation force of about 25 lbs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventors: David A. Ruddocks, Walter A. York, Brent L. Burchfield, Jeffrey R. Burger, Joseph M. Lehman, Neal J. Kelly, Ken P. Monk, James R. Rowland, Nicole M. Samuelson
  • Patent number: 5999923
    Abstract: Techniques for optimizing decision making apparatus by instrumenting the apparatus and running it on test data which has the characteristics of the data upon which the decision making apparatus is to be used. The information provided by the instruments is then used to reorder the application of the criteria used by the decision making apparatus to the data. The techniques are applied in rule-based system which employs a decision network to evaluate the rules. The decision network is instrumented and the rule-based system is run on the test data. The results returned by the instrumentation are used to determine how to rearrange condition elements in the rules so that the flow of data through the decision network is minimized. The condition elements are then rearranged in that fashion and the modified rule-based system is employed on real data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1999
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Thaddeus Julius Kowalski, Maria Jesus Peman, James R. Rowland
  • Patent number: 5699507
    Abstract: A method of analyzing a plurality of code segments to determine the similar static and dynamic features of the code segments compares the static and dynamic features of each of the code segments. Each code segment is comprised of one or more lines of program instructions. One or more predetermined static attributes are extracted from each code segment. Each code segment is then run so that the dynamic attributes of the code segment can be determined. The dynamic attributes are extracted from each code segment and a distance function is computed which is based on the extracted static and dynamic attributes for a given pair of code segments. The distance function produces a distance measurement which indicates the relative degree of similarity between the given pair of code segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 16, 1997
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Goodnow, II, Jonathan Isaac Helfman, Thaddeus Julius Kowalski, John J. Puttress, James R. Rowland, Carl Robert Seaquist
  • Patent number: 5590329
    Abstract: Disclosed is a software generation system (SGS) based memory error detection system which may be utilized to detect various memory access errors, such as array dimension violations, dereferencing of invalid pointers, accessing freed memory, reading uninitialized memory, and automated detection of memory leaks. Error checking commands and additional information are inserted into a parse tree associated with a source code file being tested at read-time which serve to initiate and facilitate run-time error detection processes. Wrapper functions may be provided for initiating error checking processes for associated library functions. A pointer check table maintains pointer information, including valid range information, for each pointer that is utilized to monitor the use and modification of the respective pointers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: Lucent Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: James E. Goodnow, II, Thaddeus J. Kowalski, James R. Rowland