Patents by Inventor John A. Murphy

John A. Murphy 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: 9958459
    Abstract: Provided herein are protein biomarkers for NETosis related diseases, including proteases. Also provided are substrate sequences of such proteases and uses thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Ye Jin, Terry Hermiston, John Murphy
  • Patent number: 9958308
    Abstract: Apparatus and method for determining: proper operation of a cleaning system, the depth of liquid in a drum, the predicted failure of a pump, improving the ability to monitor cleaning system, improving the ability to monitor dairy wash systems, improving the ability to monitor animal husbandry systems, and/or increasing the efficiency with which various types of equipment, fluid levels, and/or systems can be serviced or monitored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Inventor: Roderick John Murphy
  • Patent number: 9954569
    Abstract: A two-part mounting system for easier and more secure transport of a mobile phone or other hand-held electronic device comprising a handle and complementary receiving mount. More specifically, the handle is comprised of a base, a flexible strap, and an adhesive backer, and the complementary mount is dome-shaped and comprised of a rounded top, a slot for receiving the flexible strap, and a bottom for receiving the base. The handle and complementary mount physically interlock by virtue of the shape of the base and receiving mount and the tension of the flexible strap around the complementary mount. The two-part mounting system can then securely attach the electronic device to an additional fixed or mobile mount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: Johnny Rhymes with Connie LLC
    Inventors: John A Murphy, Connie R Rutledge
  • Publication number: 20180097819
    Abstract: An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to analyze data sent by a user to determine a subscriber account associated with the data and a user associated with the data. A database is then queried to determine the number of users of the subscriber account, with a number above a threshold indicating a likely theft of service. This automatic process is accompanied by automated messaging to the user with information as to the measures taken and remedial options. The messaging may be different dependent on whether the user is deemed to be an authorized user having subscriber account administration rights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2017
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Schmidt, John A. Murphy, Henry M. Donzis, Lewis T. Donzis, Peter W. Baron, Rodney D. Frey
  • Patent number: 9936037
    Abstract: A redirection of a URL page request may be performed by monitoring an upstream path from a subscriber to the internet through an ISP. When a URL page request is detected from a subscriber for whom a redirection is required, a redirection device generates a single TCP packet response that mimics a response from the intended destination server. The single TCP packet includes a set FIN bit that closes any active session with the destination server to prevent the subscriber from accepting packets from the destination server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: PERFTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Lewis T. Donzis, Henry M. Donzis, Peter W. Baron, John A. Murphy
  • Publication number: 20180078740
    Abstract: A robotic catheter procedure system for performing a procedure to treat a vascular lesion including a bedside system and a remote workstation is provided. The bedside system includes a first percutaneous device including an end section, the end section structured to allow the first percutaneous device to create a bore through the vascular lesion. The bedside system includes a second percutaneous device. The bedside system also includes a first actuating mechanism configured to engage and to impart movement to the first percutaneous device and a second actuating mechanism configured to engage and to impart movement to the second percutaneous device. The remote workstation includes a user interface and a control system operatively coupled to the user interface and to the bedside system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2013
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: CORINDUS, INC.
    Inventors: John Murphy, Tal Wenderow
  • Publication number: 20180028781
    Abstract: A robotic catheter procedure system includes a bedside system that has a percutaneous device, and an actuating mechanism configured to engage and to impart movement to the percutaneous device. The system also includes a workstation coupled to the bedside system. The workstation includes a user interface configured to receive a user input, ma display device configured to display an image, a control system operatively coupled to the user interface and the actuating mechanism. The control system is configured to generate a control signal and the actuating mechanism causes movement of the percutaneous device in response to the control signal. The control system is configured to slow movement of the percutaneous device via the actuating mechanism as an identified point on the percutaneous device approaches a structure requiring a change in direction of the percutaneous device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Applicant: Corindus, Inc.
    Inventors: John Murphy, Tal Wenderow, David Handler
  • Patent number: 9855101
    Abstract: A robotic catheter procedure system is provided. The robotic catheter procedure system includes a bedside system and a remote workstation. The bedside system includes a percutaneous device and a drive mechanism configured to engage and to impart an axial force to the percutaneous device and to advance and retract the percutaneous device. The bedside system includes an actuator providing torque to the drive mechanism to impart the axial force to the percutaneous device, and the torque provided by the actuator is variable. The remote workstation includes a user interface configured to receive a first user input and a control system operatively coupled to the user interface. The control system is configured to communicate a control signal to the actuator. The control signal is based upon the first user input and a second input, and the actuator provides torque to the drive mechanism in response to the control signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Corindus, Inc.
    Inventors: Tal Wenderow, John Murphy
  • Publication number: 20170354470
    Abstract: The various inventions relate to robotic surgical devices, consoles for operating such surgical devices, operating theaters in which the various devices can be used, insertion systems for inserting and using the surgical devices, and related methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Shane Farritor, Dmitry Oleynikov, John Murphy, Sabrina Varanelli, Jeff Shasho, Nathan Wood, Jack Wilson, Eleanora Pea Allen
  • Publication number: 20170353474
    Abstract: An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to analyze a subscriber's sent e-mail packets to determine a subscriber identity associated with the e-mail packets. A database is then queried to determine a current sending rate of e-mails by the subscriber. A sending rate above an allowed threshold causes the upstream transmission of the e-mail packets to be blocked by injecting connection destroying packets. A subscriber remains blocked from upstream transmission of e-mails until the sending rate as determined by the ISP drops below a second, more stringent threshold. This automatic process is also accompanied by automated messaging to the subscriber with information as to the measures taken and remedial options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Schmidt, John A. Murphy, Henry M. Donzis, Lewis T. Donzis, Peter W. Baron, Rodney D. Frey
  • Patent number: 9833316
    Abstract: A trans-apical implant includes a spacer defining spacer cavity configured to be expanded from a retracted position, a shaft extending from the spacer, the shaft defining an inflation lumen fluidly coupled to the spacer cavity and configured to be fluidly coupled to an expansion medium source, and a spacer valve assembly disposed within at least one of the spacer or shaft, the spacer valve assembly configured to allow selectively allow an expansion medium to flow into the spacer cavity to be selectively expand the spacer from a retracted position to an expanded position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CARDIOSOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Wilson, Jack Robertson, Christopher Seguin, John Murphy
  • Patent number: 9833293
    Abstract: A robotic catheter system including a housing and a drive mechanism configured to engage and to impart motion to a catheter device is provided. The drive mechanism is supported by the housing. The robotic catheter system includes a guide catheter support coupled to the housing. The guide catheter support is located in front of the drive mechanism, and the guide catheter support has a longitudinal axis. The guide catheter support includes a first surface configured to engage a guide catheter and a rotation joint allowing the first surface to be rotated about the longitudinal axis such that the surface is able to engage the guide catheter at a plurality of angular positions relative to a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: CORINDUS, INC.
    Inventors: Tal Wenderow, John Murphy, Thomas Bromander, James J. Kennedy, III, Stanley O. Thompson, Jon Bradley Taylor, Robert Elden
  • Patent number: 9838402
    Abstract: An internet service provider (ISP) is configured to analyze data sent by a user to determine a subscriber account associated with the data and a user associated with the data. A database is then queried to determine the number of users of the subscriber account, with a number above a threshold indicating a likely theft of service. This automatic process is accompanied by automated messaging to the user with information as to the measures taken and remedial options. The messaging may be different dependent on whether the user is deemed to be an authorized user having subscriber account administration rights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: PERFTECH, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan E. Schmidt, John A. Murphy, Henry M. Donzis, Lewis T. Donzis, Peter W. Baron, Rodney D. Frey
  • Publication number: 20170295408
    Abstract: In a set-top-box system, messages from a service provider are stored and delayed until activity from a set-top-box remote is detected. Messages are then generated and provided to a television associated with the set-top-box. Delaying of the message display until set-top-box activity is detected allows short display times, thus preventing burn-in on some television screens, while providing a greater likelihood that messages will be viewed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Lewis T. Donzis, Henry M. Donzis, Peter W. Baron, John A. Murphy, Jonathan E. Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9782564
    Abstract: A drive mechanism for a robotic catheter system including a first engagement surface and a second engagement surface is provided. The first engagement surface and second engagement surface are configured to engage a catheter device to allow the drive mechanism to impart motion to the catheter device. The first engagement surface is textured to facilitate gripping between the first engagement surface and the catheter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Corindus, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Zirps, Tal Wenderow, John Murphy
  • Patent number: 9771554
    Abstract: A device for assembling aggregations of adherent cells includes a gripper moveable within an assembly vessel that fixes aggregations of adherent cells at a membrane of the gripper and, by movement of the gripper, assembles aggregations of cells on a separate membrane within the vessel, thereby creating a three-dimensional assembly of aggregations of cells that fuse and can be employed in surgical procedures as a unitary tissue of adherent cells. The aggregations of cells, as assembled, can assume three-dimensional configurations distinct from any one of the component aggregations of cells assembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignees: Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Morgan, Andrew Blakely, John Murphy, Anubhav Tripathi, William Patterson
  • Patent number: 9764114
    Abstract: A robotic catheter procedure system for performing a procedure on a patient is provided. The robotic catheter procedure system includes a bedside system and a remote workstation. The bedside system includes a percutaneous device and an actuating mechanism configured to engage and to impart movement to the percutaneous device. The remote workstation includes a user interface configured to receive a user input and a display device configured to display an image of a portion of the patient. The image includes a magnification level. The workstation also includes a control system operatively coupled to the user interface. The control system is configured to generate a control signal. The actuating mechanism causes movement of the percutaneous device in response to the control signal, and the control signal is based upon the user input and the magnification level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: CORINDUS, INC.
    Inventors: John Murphy, Tal Wenderow, David Handler
  • Patent number: 9769108
    Abstract: A system and method allows users of a social network system to view different types of information based on rights and privileges associated with the information and attributes and characteristics of each user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
    Inventors: Kenneth M. Bravmann, Benjamin N. Mattias, Jeffrey M. Weaver, Sandeep Reddy Chelamacherla Anand, John Murphy, Charles E. Gotlieb
  • Patent number: 9762461
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for providing services related to managing computer systems. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for providing performance tuning and benchmarking services to remote computer systems. Generally speaking, the service can provide functions to help customers maintain a consistent performance of their databases with minimal downtime by pro-actively addressing issues or bottlenecks with periodic assessments, monitoring of performance metrics that are causing stress throughout the term of the service, reporting violations of agreed upon thresholds for performance, and reactively helping customers address performance issues that arise with reactive tuning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: ORACLE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kavitha Raghunathan, John Masterson, Nick Balch, Clive Bostock, Florin Popescu, John Murphy, Emer Ferns, Mihai Alistar
  • Patent number: 9750576
    Abstract: A robotic system includes a bedside system comprising an axial drive mechanism and a rotational drive mechanism. An engagement mechanism engages and disengages a percutaneous device from at least one of the axial drive mechanism and rotational drive mechanism. A remote work station includes a user interface and a control system operatively coupled to the user interface. The control system is configured to communicate a control signal to the engagement mechanism to engage and disengage the percutaneous device from one of the axial drive mechanism and rotational drive mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: CORINDUS, INC.
    Inventors: John Murphy, Tal Wenderow