Patents by Inventor John A. Ross

John A. Ross 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: 12233212
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide for an inspiratory limb for a breathing circuit that includes a first segment that comprises a first heater wire circuit and a second segment that comprises a second heater wire circuit. The inspiratory limb can include an intermediate connector that includes a connection circuit that electrically couples the first heater wire circuit to the second heater wire circuit. The inspiratory limb can be configured to operate in two modes wherein, in a first mode, electrical power passes through the first electrical connection to provide power to the first heater wire circuit without providing power to the second heater wire circuit, and in a second mode, electrical power pass through the first electrical connection to provide power to both the first heater wire circuit and the second heater wire circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Po-Yen Liu, Peter Alan Seekup, Anthony James Newland, Malcolm David Smith, Ping Si, Helgard Oosthuysen, Matthew Robert Wilson, Ian Lee Wai Kwan, Sinaa Alnashi, Paul James Tonkin, Kiel Anthony McCool, David Robert Kemps, Yayi Lin, Callum McDonald Ross, David John Sims
  • Publication number: 20250057329
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are portable cribs comprising a frame, fabric, and feet. The portable cribs described herein are easily collapsible, transportable, and deployable. In some embodiments, to deploy a collapsed, portable crib, fabric is coupled to the feet, the feet are coupled to the frame, and the fabric is pulled up and over the frame and secured to the frame. Portable cribs according the present disclosure may also include a mattress that may be coupled with the fabric at the bottom of a deployed crib. Also disclosed herein are portable crib systems comprising a portable crib and an accessory structure configured to be removably attached to the top of the portable crib. Accessory structures disclosed herein are collapsible and, thus, portable. Portable crib systems disclosed herein may also include accessories configured to attach to the system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Grace Adele Rose BUDGETT, Ryan CHUCKEL, Cole Justin DERBY, John Michael ELAM, Daniel Kendall HARDEN, Lauren HISHINUMA, Aaron HITCHINS, Katie LEVESQUE, Tihomir LIPTAK, Logan ROSS, Thomas UNDERHILL
  • Patent number: 12229746
    Abstract: A method implemented on an augmented reality (AR) electronic device includes receiving a request to activate a transaction card account on a transaction card. The transaction card account is activated on the transaction card. A virtual representation of account information corresponding to the transaction card account is displayed on the AR electronic device. The exterior of the transaction card is free of account identifying information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: John Ross Neale, William R. Breed, Jasvir K. Singh, Geraldine M. Carolan, Kristine Collings, Kourtney Eidam
  • Patent number: 12225949
    Abstract: Bras for high impact, high support activities are provided. A bra comprises a band that wraps around a torso. The band includes first and second cup regions, and a channel that runs below the collective cup regions. A gore is formed above the channel and between the respective cup regions, adjoining the respective cup regions. A molded cradle is fitted into the channel. For each cup region, a tessellated encapsulating bra cup is fitted therein. Each tessellated encapsulating bra cup includes a plurality of tiles. Respective tiles in the plurality of tiles that are further away from the cradle are larger in size than respective tiles in the plurality of tiles that are closer to the cradle. Each tessellated encapsulating bra cup has a generally concave first inner face and a generally convex first outer face. The tessellated encapsulating bra cups collectively contribute cantilevered support to the bra.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: The Gap, Inc.
    Inventors: Brett Roddis, Melissa Lawrence, John Kelly, Zachary Michael Goldberg-Poch, Philip Isaac Oaks, Carolina Isabel Rodriguez, H. William Smith, IV, Daniel Ross Tachibana
  • Patent number: 12222459
    Abstract: Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Woolpert, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathan Lee Hopper, Joseph R. Seppi, Rodney Ross Faulkner, II, Mark Douglas Smits, II, Joong Yong Park, Mark Stephen Millman, Eric Josef Cahoon, Christopher T. Cotton, Joshua Gluckman, Alexander Cheff Halterman, Grady Tuell, Andrew Wallace Stark, John Henry Gerhard, William Jeffrey Lillycrop
  • Publication number: 20250026637
    Abstract: An apparatus and process for steam reforming can be configured to produce at least one product with reduced carbon dioxide and/or nitrogen oxide emissions. Some embodiments can be better adapted for retrofitting a pre-existing steam reforming process while other embodiments can be better adapted for use in a newly constructed facility. Embodiments can be configured to utilize a synthetic air oxidant to provide combustion that results in formation of a flue gas having relatively high carbon dioxide concentrations that may also have low nitrogen and low nitrogen oxide concentrations. A control system can be configured for utilization in such embodiments to control the steam reforming process and/or oxidant formation process as well. Some embodiments can also be configured to provide carbon dioxide recovery that can permit recovery of a second product stream comprised of carbon dioxide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Publication date: January 23, 2025
    Applicant: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Jay A. THAKKAR, Alan D. BERGER, Eugene S. GENKIN, David Ross GRAHAM, David G. DeMARIA, John Patrick LINDSAY
  • Publication number: 20250009220
    Abstract: A multifunctional visualization instrument is provided that, in certain embodiments, includes a body having a proximal end and a distal end. The multifunctional visualization instrument includes a display screen on the body and a camera stick at the distal end of the body and comprising an arm and a camera. The arm of the camera stick is sized to fit within a channel of a removable laryngoscope blade. The multifunctional visualization instrument includes a port on a surface of the laryngoscope, configured to mate with an introducer and a steering input for steering the introducer, displayed on the display screen simultaneously with an image of the patient captured by the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Applicant: Covidien AG
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Hua Yang, Matthew John Ross McGrath, Michael Ng, Andrew J. Gano, Rhea Marie May
  • Publication number: 20240403964
    Abstract: A hybrid real-world and virtual cell service provides requesting tenants with hybrid cells that include a real-world entity acquired by the hybrid real-world and virtual cell service and a virtual entity configured to provide virtualized services for managing the real-world entity. The hybrid real-world and virtual cell service maintains a plurality of types of real-world entities as well as templates comprising workflows, machine images, and/or software containers for automatically implementing virtualized services for managing the real-world entities. Tenants of the hybrid real-world and virtual cell service may be allocated a hybrid cell comprising a real-world entity and an associated virtual entity. The tenant may use the real-world entity to provide services to customers of the tenant and may rely on the provided virtual entity to manage customer interactions, on behalf of the tenant, without tenant interactions being required for managing the customer interactions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Applicant: Authentic Insurance Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Cole K. Riccardi, Saravanakumar Shanmugam Sakthivadivel, Kyle Babirad, Ezekiel B. Scherl, Madina Bolat, William Mandelbaum, Jacob Eli Haas Frank, Logan John Ross
  • Publication number: 20240405517
    Abstract: Apparatuses including spark gap structures for electrical overstress (EOS) monitoring or protection, and associated methods, are disclosed. In an aspect, a spark gap array includes a sheet resistor and an array of arcing electrode pairs formed over a substrate. The array of arcing electrode pairs includes first arcing electrodes formed on the sheet resistor and a second arcing electrode arranged as a sheet formed over the first arcing electrodes and separated from the first arcing electrodes by an arcing gap. The first arcing electrodes and second arcing electrode are electrically connected to first and second voltage nodes, respectively, and the arcing electrode pairs are configured to generate arc discharges in response to an EOS voltage signal received between the first and second voltage nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: David J. Clarke, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, Stephen Denis Heffernan, Patrick Martin McGuinness, Padraig L. Fitzgerald, Edward John Coyne, Michael P. Lynch, John Anthony Cleary, John Ross Wallrabenstein, Paul Joseph Maher, Andrew Christopher Linehan, Gavin Patrick Cosgrave, Michael James Twohig, Jan Kubik, Jochen Schmitt, David Aherne, Mary McSherry, Anne M. McMahon, Stanislav Jolondcovschi, Cillian Burke
  • Publication number: 20240405519
    Abstract: Apparatuses including spark gap structures for electrical overstress (EOS) monitoring or protection, and associated methods, are disclosed. In an aspect, a vertical spark gap device includes a substrate having a horizontal main surface, a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer each extending over the substrate and substantially parallel to the horizontal main surface while being separated in a vertical direction crossing the horizontal main surface. One of the first and second conductive layers is electrically connected to a first voltage node and the other of the first and second conductive layers is electrically connected to a second voltage node. The first and second conductive layers serve as one or more arcing electrode pairs and have overlapping portions configured to generate one or more arc discharges extending generally in the vertical direction in response to an EOS voltage signal received between the first and second voltage nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: David J. Clarke, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, Stephen Denis Heffernan, Patrick Martin McGuinness, Padraig L. Fitzgerald, Edward John Coyne, Michael P. Lynch, John Anthony Cleary, John Ross Wallrabenstein, Paul Joseph Maher, Andrew Christopher Linehan, Gavin Patrick Cosgrave, Michael James Twohig, Jan Kubik, Jochen Schmitt, David Aherne, Mary McSherry, Anne M. McMahon, Stanislav Jolondcovschi, Cillian Burke
  • Publication number: 20240405518
    Abstract: Apparatuses including spark gap structures for electrical overstress (EOS) monitoring or protection, and associated methods, are disclosed. In an aspect, a spark gap device includes first and second conductive layers formed over a substrate, where the first and second conductive layers are electrically connected to first and second voltage nodes, respectively. The first conductive layer includes a plurality of arcing tips configured to form arcing electrode pairs with the second conductive layer to form an arc discharge in response to an EOS voltage between the first and second voltage nodes. The spark gap device further includes a series ballast resistor electrically connected between the arcing tips and the first voltage node, where the ballast resistor in formed in a metallization layer over the substrate and a resistance of the series ballast resistor is substantially higher than a resistance of the second conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: David J. Clarke, Alan J. O'Donnell, Shaun Bradley, Stephen Denis Heffernan, Patrick Martin McGuinness, Padraig L. Fitzgerald, Edward John Coyne, Michael P. Lynch, John Anthony Cleary, John Ross Wallrabenstein, Paul Joseph Maher, Andrew Christopher Linehan, Gavin Patrick Cosgrave, Michael James Twohig, Jan Kubik, Jochen Schmitt, David Aherne, Mary McSherry, Anne M. McMahon, Stanislav Jolondcovschi, Cillian Burke
  • Publication number: 20240390052
    Abstract: An improved system described herein equipped with one or more Pulsed Field Electroporation (PFE) electrodes configured to cause localized and targeted PFE output at the targeted tissue, for example, in an ear, nose, or throat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: James H. Atkins, JR., John Ross Saunders, Jetmir Palushi
  • Publication number: 20240389845
    Abstract: A laryngoscope system includes a body having a handle and an arm, a camera mounted on a distal end of the arm, and a removable blade having a channel sized to fit over the arm to couple the blade to the body. The blade includes a magnet, and a sensor disposed in the body is responsive to the magnet. The laryngoscope system also includes a processor disposed in the body and programmed to enable at least one monitoring function in response to a signal from the sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: COVIDIEN AG
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Matthew John Ross McGrath, Michael Ng
  • Publication number: 20240392286
    Abstract: An improved system described herein equipped with one or more Pulsed Field Electroporation (PFE) electrodes configured to cause localized and targeted PFE output at the targeted tissue, for example, in an ear, nose, or throat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Inventors: James H. Atkins, JR., John Ross Saunders, Jetmir Palushi
  • Publication number: 20240383511
    Abstract: A method determines a change of a state of a track section of a railroad. The track section includes a first end electrically connected to a first track device, a second end electrically connected to a second track device, and rails connecting the first end with the second end. The track section is associated with at least one computing unit. At least one of the first and second track devices is in communication with the computing unit. Upon initialization of the method, the state of the track section is a first predetermined state. At least one of the first track device and the second track device is a receiving track device, which measures a received current intensity at a receiving end. The method includes a first monitoring of the received current intensity and a second monitoring of a transmitted current intensity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher J. SCHUCHMANN, Jeffrey FRIES, John ROSS, Anuka SAWH, Shilpa CHERIAN
  • Patent number: 12129358
    Abstract: The present invention relates to stabilizer composition for halogen-containing polymer. It has recently been found that tin-based thermal stabilizers with a bridging alkyl group between two tin centers are effective stabilizers while having effectively double the molecular weight of the corresponding non-alkyl bridged stabilizer. It is expected that ongoing experimentation will confirm that the alkyl bridged stabilizers have much lower volatility which leads to greater retention of the stabilizer in the finished article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: PMC Organometallix, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin John Ross, Gene Kelly Norris
  • Publication number: 20240352320
    Abstract: A method for making needle coke includes processing a feed comprising one or more renewable feedstocks in the presence of a cracking catalyst under fluidized catalytic cracking conditions to obtain a heavy cycle oil, delayed coking the heavy cycle oil under coking conditions to obtain an intermediate coke product, and calcining the intermediate coke product under calcinating conditions to obtain needle coke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: October 24, 2024
    Inventors: Tengfei Liu, Joel Edward Schmidt, Richard Grove, Robert Montgomery, Jon Peters, Christopher John Ross, Mahdi Khademi
  • Patent number: 12121223
    Abstract: A multifunctional visualization instrument is provided that, in certain embodiments, includes a body having a proximal end and a distal end. The multifunctional visualization instrument includes a display screen on the body and a camera stick at the distal end of the body and comprising an arm and a camera. The arm of the camera stick is sized to fit within a channel of a removable laryngoscope blade. The multifunctional visualization instrument includes a port on a surface of the laryngoscope, configured to mate with an introducer and a steering input for steering the introducer, displayed on the display screen simultaneously with an image of the patient captured by the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien AG
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Hua Yang, Matthew John Ross McGrath, Michael Ng, Andrew J. Gano, Rhea Marie May
  • Patent number: 12082787
    Abstract: A laryngoscope system includes a body having a handle and an arm, a camera mounted on a distal end of the arm, and a removable blade having a channel sized to fit over the arm to couple the blade to the body. The blade includes a magnet, and a sensor disposed in the body is responsive to the magnet. The laryngoscope system also includes a processor disposed in the body and programmed to enable at least one monitoring function in response to a signal from the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Covidien AG
    Inventors: Peter Douglas Colin Inglis, Matthew John Ross McGrath, Michael Ng
  • Patent number: 12082863
    Abstract: An improved system described herein equipped with one or more Pulsed Field Electroporation (PFE) electrodes configured to cause localized and targeted PFE output at the targeted tissue, for example, in an ear, nose, or throat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Aventix Medical Inc.
    Inventors: James H. Atkins, Jr., John Ross Saunders, Jetmir Palushi