Patents by Inventor James W. Mann

James W. Mann 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: 11472505
    Abstract: A method of mounting a storage unit to a vehicular apparatus, such as a motorcycle, includes the step of securing a cantilevered mounting member having a mounting plate to the frame of the vehicular apparatus. A storage device can be connected to the mounting plate to stabilize the storage device as the vehicular apparatus is in motion. As a preferred embodiment, the method of mounting begins with the removal of a foot peg from a motorcycle to expose the foot peg mounting bracket to which the mounting member is affixed. The mounting plate of the mounting member can be used to secure articles to be transported by the vehicular apparatus with or without a separate storage device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: James W. Mann
  • Publication number: 20210039736
    Abstract: A method of mounting a storage unit to a vehicular apparatus, such as a motorcycle, includes the step of securing a cantilevered mounting member having a mounting plate to the frame of the vehicular apparatus. A storage device can be connected to the mounting plate to stabilize the storage device as the vehicular apparatus is in motion. As a preferred embodiment, the method of mounting begins with the removal of a foot peg from a motorcycle to expose the foot peg mounting bracket to which the mounting member is affixed. The mounting plate of the mounting member can be used to secure articles to be transported by the vehicular apparatus with or without a separate storage device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventor: James W. Mann
  • Patent number: 10858056
    Abstract: Storage unit mounting apparatus removably and lockably attachable to a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a single, cantilevered support member removably and irrotationally attachable at its proximal end to the vehicle, the distal end of the support member supporting a receiver having integral mounting means to which the storage unit is attachable. The apparatus is especially suited for vehicles such as motorcycles, all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs), bicycles and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Blackbird Dynamics, LLC
    Inventor: James W. Mann
  • Patent number: 9433745
    Abstract: Puncturing tools that cause an aperture to be pierced through the wall of a guidewire lumen of a catheter shaft at a location at which it is desired to have a guidewire exit the guidewire lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Edward H. Cully, Sherif A. Eskaros, Keith M. Flury, James W. Mann, Benjamin M. Trapp, Michael J. Vonesh
  • Patent number: 9289576
    Abstract: Catheter having a proximal section and a distal section. The proximal section having at least a delivery lumen and a guidewire receiving lumen, the guidewire receiving lumen having a proximal guidewire exit port at a location proximal of the distal end of the proximal section. A reinforcing tubular member located in the proximal section delivery lumen extending from substantially the proximal end of the proximal section to a point distal to the proximal guidewire exit port, wherein the reinforcing tubular member transitions from relatively rigid to relatively more flexible from a proximal point to a distal point thereon and has an outer diameter equal to about the inner diameter of the delivery lumen for at least a portion of the reinforcing tubular member that extends distal to the proximal guidewire exit port. The distal section having at least a delivery lumen and a guidewire receiving lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: James W. Mann, Sherif A. Eskaros, Eric C. Lafferty, David J. Messick
  • Publication number: 20160063255
    Abstract: An event data structure is stored in a non-volatile memory that is electrically isolated from a bus accessible by a processor. In response to an event relating to operation of a controller that is separate from the processor, the controller adds event data for the event into an entry of the event data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Jeffrey Kevin JEANSONNE, Valiuddin Y. ALI, James W. MANN
  • Patent number: 9126007
    Abstract: A catheter balloon with integral non-distending regions having a plurality of layers which wind around the balloon material and overlap to form an angle of between 45 and 90 degrees relative to each other upon inflation, and methods of making the non-distending regions are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred A. Alpini, Carey V. Campbell, Sherif A. Eskaros, David R. King, Joseph E. Korleski, James W. Mann, Lonzo C. McLaughlin, Kenneth R. Newcomb, Peter J. Roeber
  • Publication number: 20140175138
    Abstract: Storage unit mounting apparatus removably and lockably attachable to a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a single, cantilevered support member removably and irrotationally attachable at its proximal end to the vehicle, the distal end of the support member supporting a receiver having integral mounting means to which the storage unit is attachable. The apparatus is especially suited for vehicles such as motorcycles, all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs), bicycles and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: June 26, 2014
    Applicant: Blackbird Dynamics, LLC
    Inventor: James W. Mann
  • Publication number: 20140138017
    Abstract: A catheter balloon with integral non-distending regions having a plurality of layers which wind around the balloon material and overlap to form an angle of between 45 and 90 degrees relative to each other upon inflation, and methods of making the non-distending regions are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2014
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
    Inventors: Alfred A. Alpini, Carey V. Campbell, Sherif A. Eskaros, David R. King, Joseph E. Korleski, James W. Mann, Lonzo C. McLaughlin, Kenneth R. Newcomb, Peter J. Roeber
  • Patent number: 8646669
    Abstract: Storage unit mounting apparatus removably and lockably attachable to a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a single, cantilevered support member removably and irrotationally attachable at its proximal end to the vehicle, the distal end of the support member supporting a receiver having integral mounting means to which the storage unit is attachable. The apparatus is especially suited for vehicles such as motorcycles, all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs), bicycles and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2014
    Assignee: Blackbird Dynamics, LLC
    Inventor: James W. Mann
  • Patent number: 7753945
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a deployment system for an endoluminal device. The deployment system includes a confining sheath placed around a compacted endoluminal device. A deployment line is provided in the system that is an integral extension of the sheath. As the deployment line is actuated, the sheath retracts from around the compacted endoluminal device. As the sheath retracts from around the endoluminal device, material from the sheath may be converted into deployment line. Once the sheath is retracted from around the compacted endoluminal device, the endoluminal device expands in configuration and repairs vascular or cardiac structures of an implant recipient. Any remaining sheath material is removed from the implantation site along with the deployment line. The deployment system also includes an endo-prosthesis mounting member placed between the endoluminal device and an underlying catheter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2010
    Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Bruun, Edward H. Cully, James W. Mann, Mark J. Ulm, Michael J. Vonesh
  • Publication number: 20090206624
    Abstract: Storage unit mounting apparatus removably and lockably attachable to a vehicle is provided. The apparatus includes a single, cantilevered support member removably and irrotationally attachable at its proximal end to the vehicle, the distal end of the support member supporting a receiver having integral mounting means to which the storage unit is attachable. The apparatus is especially suited for vehicles such as motorcycles, all-terrain-vehicles (ATVs), bicycles and the like.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Inventor: James W. Mann
  • Publication number: 20090187197
    Abstract: Disclosed is a knitted article, and a method of producing such an article, having at least one PTFE fiber with oriented fibrils forming multiple fiber cross-over points wherein PTFE fiber is self-bonded in at least one of the cross-over points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2008
    Publication date: July 23, 2009
    Inventors: Peter J. Roeber, James W. Mann, Eileen M. Bailey, Anand Narayan
  • Patent number: 7357709
    Abstract: A metal vent having an aperture for the passage of a fluid, a porous membrane sealing the aperture, wherein the components of the vent are assembled by an interference fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2008
    Assignee: Gore Enterprise Holdings
    Inventors: Kenneth S. Zukor, James W. Mann
  • Patent number: 7165114
    Abstract: A messaging system having a network interface unit (NIU) with an embedded services processor (ESP) that provides a general purpose computing capability within the NIU that supports the streaming of data for the messaging system with external computer networks, and that may also have the ability to connect to networks external to the messaging system via that general purpose computing capability is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Inventors: Gary P. Russell, Judith A. Cadmus, Alex C. Freiman, James W. Mann
  • Patent number: 6947969
    Abstract: A second computer accesses voice messaging system data residing on a first computer. The second computer receives a log record range selection from a user interface, creates a log record selection file based on the log record selection, and sends the file to the first computer. The second computer reads a log record file that is received by the second computer in response to sending the file to the first computer. The second computer extracts a log record, receives a log record selection from the user interface, and determines a voice message identification corresponding to the selected log record. The second computer creates a voice message selection file and sends the file to the first computer. The second computer reads a voice message file that is received by the second computer in response to sending the file to the first computer, and extracts a voice message from the file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2005
    Assignee: Unisys Corporation
    Inventors: James W. Mann, Alex C. Freiman
  • Publication number: 20040143315
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a deployment system for an endoluminal device. The deployment system includes a confining sheath placed around a compacted endoluminal device. A deployment line is provided in the system that is an integral extension of the sheath. As the deployment line is actuated, the sheath retracts from around the compacted endoluminal device. As the sheath retracts from around the endoluminal device, material from the sheath may be converted into deployment line. Once the sheath is retracted from around the compacted endoluminal device, the endoluminal device expands in configuration and repairs vascular or cardiac structures of an implant recipient. Any remaining sheath material is removed from the implantation site along with the deployment line. The deployment system also includes an endo-prosthesis mounting member placed between the endoluminal device and an underlying catheter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Steven R. Bruun, Edward H. Cully, James W. Mann, Mark J. Ulm, Michael J. Vonesh
  • Publication number: 20020188686
    Abstract: A second computer accesses voice messaging system data residing on a first computer. The second computer receives a log record range selection from a user interface, creates a log record selection file based on the log record selection, and sends the file to the first computer. The second computer reads a log record file that is received by the second computer in response to sending the file to the first computer. The second computer extracts a log record, receives a log record selection from the user interface, and determines a voice message identification corresponding to the selected log record. The second computer creates a voice message selection file and sends the file to the first computer. The second computer reads a voice message file that is received by the second computer in response to sending the file to the first computer, and extracts a voice message from the file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2001
    Publication date: December 12, 2002
    Inventors: James W. Mann, Alex C. Freiman