Patents by Inventor John Eaton
John Eaton 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).
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Publication number: 20240094792Abstract: Aspects relate to techniques for controlling signal voltage levels across a wired data link for data communication between apparatuses. A first device can advertise multiple supported signal voltage levels to a peer device connected by the wired data link. The devices can implement the same signal voltage level(s) or different signal voltage levels. The peer devices can compare and select a compatible signal voltage level for data communication. The first device can provide a signal voltage indication signal that is configurable to a plurality of voltage levels corresponding to a plurality of signal voltages. At least one of the plurality of voltage levels can indicate that the first device can operate the data link at a plurality of signal voltages. In some examples, the wired data link can be a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) link.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2022Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: James Lionel PANIAN, John EATON, Lakshmi BASKARAN, Shrinivas GOPALAN UPPILI
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Patent number: 11915702Abstract: The current document is directed to a methods and systems that use observational data collected by various devices and sensors to generate electronic-data representations of human conversations. The implementations of these methods and systems, disclosed in the current document, provide a highly extensible and generic platform for converting observational data into affect-annotated-timeline outputs that provide both a textual transcription of a conversation and a parallel set of affect annotations to the conversation. The affect-annotated-timeline outputs may be useful to researchers and developers, but also serve as inputs to any of a wide variety of downstream analytical processes and analysis systems that are, in turn, incorporated into many different types of special-purpose analysis and control systems.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: AFFECTIVE SOFTWARE, INC.Inventors: Vladimir Brayman, John Gottman, Connor Eaton, Yuriy Gulak, Rafael Lisitsa
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Publication number: 20240023795Abstract: A flexible circuit assembly for a medical device, the circuit assembly including a circuit board having at least one bending portion and at least one flat portion, and a mechanical support structure coupled to the circuit board. The mechanical support structure includes a first region and a second region extending distally from the first region. The at least one bending portion of the circuit board is a portion of an arm, the arm extending distally from the flat portion, and the at least one bending portion of the circuit board is coupled to the second region of the mechanical support structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2023Publication date: January 25, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Nathan GAWORSKI, Oliver J. GORST, John EATON, Meherdil D. DASTUR, James E. BLOOD, Paul CARNE, Bradley S. SWEHLA
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Publication number: 20230312321Abstract: A container filling valve may include a shuttle and a drive sleeve that are magnetically coupled. Movement of the drive sleeve may move the shuttle from a position in which the filling valve is closed to a position in which the filling valve is open. A container handling arm may include a distal end configured to hold a container and a proximal end that includes a load cell. A low flow setpoint system may be configured to arrest closing of a filling valve when that filling valve is partially closed. A pressure control system may be configured to maintain a desired pressure in a reservoir or in a flow path from that reservoir. A product recirculation system may be configured to adjust flow rate in the product recirculation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: John A. EATON, David William MARTIN, David Jay WARBURTON, Nathan John COLEMAN, Samuel Frank FELLER, Thomas John EVANS, Jason Karl SORGE, Randy A. STRAUB
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Publication number: 20230294049Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for carbonating a liquid at ambient temperature. The system may include a liquid source; a carbon dioxide source; and a contactor for carbonating the liquid. The contactor may include channels and a sparge for carbonating liquid flowing through the channels. The system may produce a liquid having high levels of carbonation at ambient temperature. The sparge may generate microbubbles or nanobubbles to allow for cost-effective carbonation at ambient temperatures. The bubbles may have an average diameter of 100 ?m or less. The system may carbonate liquid at a rate of 1 gram to 10 grams carbon dioxide per liter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: John EATON, Mary Katherine MITCHELL, Stephen BROWN, Ross Peter JONES, Charles Frazer KILBY, Laura Saranne KIMPTON, Andrew Robert POTTER
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Publication number: 20230266589Abstract: Systems and techniques are provided for an adjustable camera system for mouth tracking. An example apparatus can include a housing with an opening formed in a first side of the housing, wherein one or more surfaces of the housing are configured to engage a head of a user; and a structure including a lens configured to receive incident light, wherein the structure is configured to move from a retracted state where at least a portion of the structure is retracted into the opening in the first side of the housing, to an extended state where at least a portion of the structure that includes the lens structure extends from the first side of the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 23, 2022Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: John EATON, Manikandan MEIYOOR VELAYUTHAM, Mario SANCHEZ, Thirukumaran DECHINAMOORTHY, Chiranjib CHOUDHURI
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Patent number: 11679971Abstract: A container filling valve may include a shuttle and a drive sleeve that are magnetically coupled. Movement of the drive sleeve may move the shuttle from a position in which the filling valve is closed to a position in which the filling valve is open. A container handling arm may include a distal end configured to hold a container and a proximal end that includes a load cell. A low flow setpoint system may be configured to arrest closing of a filling valve when that filling valve is partially closed. A pressure control system may be configured to maintain a desired pressure in a reservoir or in a flow path from that reservoir. A product recirculation system may be configured to adjust flow rate in the product recirculation system.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: John A. Eaton, David William Martin, David Jay Warburton, Nathan John Coleman, Samuel Frank Feller, Thomas John Evans, Jason Karl Sorge, Randy A. Straub
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Patent number: 11452246Abstract: A device that includes a board, a package and a patch substrate. The board includes a cavity. The package is coupled to a first side of the board. The package includes a substrate and an integrated device coupled to the substrate. The integrated device is located at least partially in the cavity of the board. The patch substrate is coupled to a second side of the board. The patch substrate is located over the cavity of the board. The patch substrate is configured as an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield for the package.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: QUALCOMM IncorporatedInventors: Charles David Paynter, Ryan Lane, John Eaton, Amit Mano
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Patent number: 11173422Abstract: A beverage dispensing valve may include an inlet to receive carbonated water, a nozzle shell, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage. The nozzle shell may include an aperture open to ambient pressure environment. A method for dispensing a beverage may include flowing carbonated water through an inlet of a beverage dispensing valve, lowering the pressure of the carbonated water sufficient to promote carbon dioxide nucleation, flowing the carbonated water through a chamber vented to environment such that a portion of carbon dioxide nucleated is off-gassed, and introducing a beverage ingredient when the carbonated water reaches a sufficiently low carbonation level. A beverage dispensing nozzle may include an inlet configured to receive carbonated water from a beverage dispensing valve, a nozzle shell including an aperture open to ambient pressure environment, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Chang, John Eaton, Maher Nachawati, William Segiet, Vasily Abashkin, Andrey Balanev, Petr Egoyants, Mikhail Verbitsky
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Patent number: 11166878Abstract: An apparatus for liquefying solid pills includes a grinder configured to grind the solid pills to a powder, a receptacle configured to attach to the grinder and to capture the powder, and a cap configured to attach to the receptacle. The cap includes a port therethrough in fluid connection with the receptacle. The port is configured to mate with a tip of a syringe.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 9, 2021Assignee: Hospi CorporationInventors: Bradford Macy, Jr., Keith Wong, John Eaton, Igal Ladabaum
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Publication number: 20210307218Abstract: A device that includes a board, a package and a patch substrate. The board includes a cavity. The package is coupled to a first side of the board. The package includes a substrate and an integrated device coupled to the substrate. The integrated device is located at least partially in the cavity of the board. The patch substrate is coupled to a second side of the board. The patch substrate is located over the cavity of the board. The patch substrate is configured as an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shield for the package.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2020Publication date: September 30, 2021Inventors: Charles David PAYNTER, Ryan LANE, John EATON, Amit MANO
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Patent number: 10974913Abstract: A tilting tray products sorting apparatus employing belt and/or driven rollers conveyors for traversing tilting tray carriages between loading and unloading stations. A latch member between the carriage carrying tray and base is pivotable between a latched position for maintaining the tray level, and an unlatched position for tilting the tray. Tipping elements at each unloading station are selectively extended for engaging and pivoting the latch member to its unlatched position and tipping the tray. The tipping tray center of gravity maintains the tray in its tipped position. Leveling arms adjacent the conveyor engage tipped trays for pivoting them back to a level position and thereby pivoting the latch member to its latched position. The carriages gravitationally rest on and frictionally engage the conveyor carrying and traversing surface. Side walls along the conveyor maintain the carriages on the conveyor carrying and traversing surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2019Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: Berne Apparel CompanyInventor: John Eaton Nussbaum
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Publication number: 20210024339Abstract: A container filling valve may include a shuttle and a drive sleeve that are magnetically coupled. Movement of the drive sleeve may move the shuttle from a position in which the filling valve is closed to a position in which the filling valve is open. A container handling arm may include a distal end configured to hold a container and a proximal end that includes a load cell. A low flow setpoint system may be configured to arrest closing of a filling valve when that filling valve is partially closed. A pressure control system may be configured to maintain a desired pressure in a reservoir or in a flow path from that reservoir. A product recirculation system may be configured to adjust flow rate in the product recirculation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: John A. EATON, David William MARTIN, David Jay WARBURTON, Nathan John COLEMAN, Samuel Frank FELLER, Thomas John EVANS, Jason Karl SORGE, Randy A. STRAUB
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Patent number: 10836624Abstract: A container filling valve may include a shuttle and a drive sleeve that are magnetically coupled. Movement of the drive sleeve may move the shuttle from a position in which the filling valve is closed to a position in which the filling valve is open. A container handling arm may include a distal end configured to hold a container and a proximal end that includes a load cell. A low flow setpoint system may be configured to arrest closing of a filling valve when that filling valve is partially closed. A pressure control system may be configured to maintain a desired pressure in a reservoir or in a flow path from that reservoir. A product recirculation system may be configured to adjust flow rate in the product recirculation system.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2019Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: John A. Eaton, David William Martin, David Jay Warburton, Nathan John Coleman, Samuel Frank Feller, Thomas John Evans, Jason Karl Sorge, Randy A. Straub
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Publication number: 20200023292Abstract: A beverage dispensing valve may include an inlet to receive carbonated water, a nozzle shell, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage. The nozzle shell may include an aperture open to ambient pressure environment. A method for dispensing a beverage may include flowing carbonated water through an inlet of a beverage dispensing valve, lowering the pressure of the carbonated water sufficient to promote carbon dioxide nucleation, flowing the carbonated water through a chamber vented to environment such that a portion of carbon dioxide nucleated is off-gassed, and introducing a beverage ingredient when the carbonated water reaches a sufficiently low carbonation level. A beverage dispensing nozzle may include an inlet configured to receive carbonated water from a beverage dispensing valve, a nozzle shell including an aperture open to ambient pressure environment, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2018Publication date: January 23, 2020Inventors: Samuel CHANG, John EATON, Maher NACHAWATI, William SEGIET, Vasily ABASHKIN, Andrey BALANEV, Petr EGOYANTS, Mikhail VERBITSKY
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Publication number: 20190225474Abstract: A container filling valve may include a shuttle and a drive sleeve that are magnetically coupled. Movement of the drive sleeve may move the shuttle from a position in which the filling valve is closed to a position in which the filling valve is open. A container handling arm may include a distal end configured to hold a container and a proximal end that includes a load cell. A low flow setpoint system may be configured to arrest closing of a filling valve when that filling valve is partially closed. A pressure control system may be configured to maintain a desired pressure in a reservoir or in a flow path from that reservoir. A product recirculation system may be configured to adjust flow rate in the product recirculation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2019Publication date: July 25, 2019Inventors: John A. EATON, David William MARTIN, David Jay WARBURTON, Nathan John COLEMAN, Samuel Frank FELLER, Thomas John EVANS, Jason Karl SORGE, Randy A. STRAUB
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Patent number: 10328362Abstract: A beverage dispensing valve may include an inlet to receive carbonated water, a nozzle shell, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage. The nozzle shell may include an aperture open to ambient pressure environment. A method for dispensing a beverage may include flowing carbonated water through an inlet of a beverage dispensing valve, lowering the pressure of the carbonated water sufficient to promote carbon dioxide nucleation, flowing the carbonated water through a chamber vented to environment such that a portion of carbon dioxide nucleated is off-gassed, and introducing a beverage ingredient when the carbonated water reaches a sufficiently low carbonation level. A beverage dispensing nozzle may include an inlet configured to receive carbonated water from a beverage dispensing valve, a nozzle shell including an aperture open to ambient pressure environment, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2017Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Chang, John Eaton, Maher Nachawati, William Segiet, Vasily Abashkin, Andrey Balanev, Petr Egoyants, Mikhail Verbitsky
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Patent number: 10294091Abstract: A container filling valve may include a shuttle and a drive sleeve that are magnetically coupled. Movement of the drive sleeve may move the shuttle from a position in which the filling valve is closed to a position in which the filling valve is open. A container handling arm may include a distal end configured to hold a container and a proximal end that includes a load cell. A low flow setpoint system may be configured to arrest closing of a filling valve when that filling valve is partially closed. A pressure control system may be configured to maintain a desired pressure in a reservoir or in a flow path from that reservoir. A product recirculation system may be configured to adjust flow rate in the product recirculation system.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2014Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.Inventors: John A. Eaton, David William Martin, David Jay Warburton, Nathan John Coleman, Samuel Frank Feller, Thomas John Evans, Jason Karl Sorge, Randy A. Straub
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Publication number: 20180282143Abstract: A beverage dispensing valve may include an inlet to receive carbonated water, a nozzle shell, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage. The nozzle shell may include an aperture open to ambient pressure environment. A method for dispensing a beverage may include flowing carbonated water through an inlet of a beverage dispensing valve, lowering the pressure of the carbonated water sufficient to promote carbon dioxide nucleation, flowing the carbonated water through a chamber vented to environment such that a portion of carbon dioxide nucleated is off-gassed, and introducing a beverage ingredient when the carbonated water reaches a sufficiently low carbonation level. A beverage dispensing nozzle may include an inlet configured to receive carbonated water from a beverage dispensing valve, a nozzle shell including an aperture open to ambient pressure environment, and an outlet downstream of the nozzle shell configured to dispense a finished beverage.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2017Publication date: October 4, 2018Inventors: Samuel CHANG, John EATON, Maher NACHAWATI, William SEGIET, Vasily ABASHKIN, Andrey BALANEV, Petr EGOYANTS, Mikhail VERBITSKY
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Patent number: 9775980Abstract: An enteral administration assembly for administering fluids through an enteral device. The administration assembly comprising an inlet, an outlet, and a valve mechanism between the inlet and outlet. The inlet is configured to interlock with only an enteral device to form a sealed connection allowing the passage of fluid between the enteral device and the inlet. The assembly may include a valve or turbulating mechanism comprising a valve and at least one turbulator adapted to change the direction of fluid flowing through the assembly to prevent clogging and flocculation of administered substances.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2013Date of Patent: October 3, 2017Assignee: Hospi CorporationInventors: Bradford Macy, Jr., Igal Ladabaum, John Eaton