Patents by Inventor John Fisher

John Fisher 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).

  • Composite bone implants
    Patent number: 9901450
    Abstract: The invention provides natural multi-composite bone implants such as bone-connective tissue-bone and osteochondral implants for the replacement and/or repair of, for example and in particular a damaged or defective bone-meniscus-bone joint or a bone-patella tendon-bone joint or osteochondral lesions, methods of preparing the composites and uses thereof. The invention also provides natural or native composite bone-connective tissue-bone and osteochondral matrices or scaffolds that are substantially decellularized for subsequent transplantation/implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: University of Leeds
    Inventors: Eileen Ingham, Gemma Jones, Hazel Fermor, John Fisher, Jahid Hasan
  • SLURRY DISTRIBUTION DEVICE FOR CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING
    Publication number: 20170368663
    Abstract: An apparatus for chemical mechanical polishing includes a rotatable platen having a surface to support a polishing pad, a carrier head to hold a substrate in contact with the polishing pad, and a polishing liquid distribution system. The polishing liquid distribution system includes a dispenser positioned to deliver a polishing liquid to a portion of a polishing surface of the polishing pad, and a first barrier positioned before the portion of the polishing surface and configured to block used polishing liquid from reaching the portion of the polishing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Yen-Chu Yang, Stephen Jew, Jianshe Tang, Haosheng Wu, Shou-Sung Chang, Paul D. Butterfield, Alexander John Fisher, Bum Jick Kim
  • SLURRY DISTRIBUTION DEVICE FOR CHEMICAL MECHANICAL POLISHING
    Publication number: 20170368664
    Abstract: An apparatus for chemical mechanical polishing includes a rotatable platen having a surface to support a polishing pad, a carrier head to hold a substrate in contact with the polishing pad, and a polishing liquid distribution system. The polishing liquid distribution system includes a dispenser positioned to deliver a polishing liquid to a portion of a polishing surface of the polishing pad, and a first barrier positioned before the portion of the polishing surface and configured to block used polishing liquid from reaching the portion of the polishing surface. The first barrier includes a solid first body having a first flat bottom surface and having a first leading surface configured to contact the used polishing liquid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Yen-Chu Yang, Stephen Jew, Jianshe Tang, Haosheng Wu, Shou-Sung Chang, Paul D. Butterfield, Alexander John Fisher, Bum Jick Kim
  • Panel and Method for Fabricating, Installing and Utilizing a Panel
    Publication number: 20170335567
    Abstract: The insulating barrier of a panel including has a first stratum and a second stratum, each having a plurality of ridges that face each other, and run athwart of each other. Clearance between at least some adjacent pairs of the ridges provide a mechanical chase that reaches across at least most of the panel. A cladding overlaying at least one side of the insulating barrier is denser than the barrier. The mechanical chase is in the form of a groove through which a utility feed can be routed when the panel is to be mounted in a building.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Applicant: Aryan Twenty 5 LLC
    Inventors: Punit Chugh, John Fisher, Bill Chaleff
  • STAPLE INSERTION DEVICE
    Publication number: 20170274514
    Abstract: A staple insertion device includes a staple drive chamber, staple reservoir, staple feed mechanism, and staple drive member. The staple drive chamber is formed between a backing plate and a jam plate removably attached to the backing plate. The staple reservoir is configured to receive and hold a plurality of staples and extends from the backing plate to a staple reservoir terminal plate. The staple feed mechanism is operatively connected to the staple reservoir and is configured to feed the plurality of staples from the staple reservoir into the staple drive chamber through the backing plate. The staple drive member is configured to advance downwardly through the staple drive chamber so as to drive a staple out of the staple drive chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 28, 2017
    Inventor: Eugene John Fisher
  • Composite Bone Implants
    Publication number: 20170232145
    Abstract: The invention provides natural multi-composite bone implants such as bone-connective tissue-bone and osteochondral implants for the replacement and/or repair of, for example and in particular a damaged or defective bone-meniscus-bone joint or a bone-patella tendon-bone joint or osteochondral lesions, methods of preparing the composites and uses thereof. The invention also provides natural or native composite bone-connective tissue-bone and osteochondral matrices or scaffolds that are substantially decellularised for subsequent transplantation/implantation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Publication date: August 17, 2017
    Inventors: Eileen Ingham, Gemma Jones, Hazel Fermor, John Fisher, Jahid Hasan
  • Panel and method for fabricating, installing and utilizing a panel
    Patent number: 9725902
    Abstract: The insulating barrier of a panel including has a first stratum and a second stratum, each having a plurality of ridges that face each other, and run athwart of each other. Clearance between at least some adjacent pairs of the ridges provide a mechanical chase that reaches across at least most of the panel. A cladding overlaying at least one side of the insulating barrier is denser than the barrier. The mechanical chase is in the form of a groove through which a utility feed can be routed when the panel is to be mounted in a building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Aryan Twenty 5, LLC
    Inventors: Punit Chugh, John Fisher, Bill Chaleff
  • Wrist worn sensor
    Publication number: 20170113059
    Abstract: The invention is a wrist worn Photoplethysmography Sensor (“PPG”) and Pulsed Electro Magnetic Field (“PEMF”) integrated into a thin ergonomic wristband. The invention will measure heart rate, oxygen saturation, and heart rate variability. In addition to PPG measurements, the PEMF generator treats a user's blood with an electromagnetic field tailored to the individual. The electromagnetic field washes red blood cells and/or erythrocytes and/or any other vertebrate organisms which principal means of delivering oxygen and other cellular nutrients to the body tissues via blood flow through the circulatory system for optimal CELLHEALTH™.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventor: Richard John Fisher
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETECTING LEAKS IN A FUEL CELL STACK
    Publication number: 20170110746
    Abstract: Systems and methods for testing a fuel cell stack include a vacuum source, a test head including at least one isolated vacuum plenum configured to be positioned in fluid communication with a first portion of the fuel cell stack, the isolated vacuum plenum in fluid communication with the vacuum source, and a detector in fluid communication with the at least one isolated vacuum plenum for detecting the presence of a particular constituent of a fluid provided in a second portion of the fuel cell stack, where the second portion of the fuel cell stack is separated from the first portion of the fuel cell stack by at least one of an electrolyte and a fuel cell seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventors: Jerome A. Mack, Jonathan Cerrona, John Fisher, James Wilson, Tad Armstrong, Harald Herchen
  • Systems and methods for low power time-domain measurement of complex impedance
    Patent number: 9575105
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the invention enable low-power accurate measurement of complex impedance at a range of frequencies of interest to determine a frequency response of a test sample. The system requires only a few external precision components that are not integrated into a microprocessor, thereby, providing a low-cost alternative to existing designs. In certain embodiments, low-power operation is accomplished by utilizing a simplified digital signal processing scheme that requires only a small number of ADC samples. Measurement accuracy is achieved by a digital conversion to baseband that does not suffer from channel matching issues and by utilizing a single analog path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin James Witt, John Fisher Di Cristina
  • Acellular vascular products
    Patent number: 9510933
    Abstract: A product comprising a natural acellular xenogenic vascular tissue matrix having at least an 80% reduction in DNA content as compared to an untreated control vascular tissue matrix and being antigenically inert by being substantially free of epitopes capable of reacting with pre-formed human antibodies and also without having the ability to substantially activate complement. The invention also includes methods of preparing such products and uses of the products especially in bypass surgery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Tissue Regenix Limited
    Inventors: Eileen Ingham, John Fisher, Stacy-Paul Wilshaw
  • Techniques for storing data in bandwidth optimized or coding rate optimized code words based on data access frequency
    Patent number: 9430375
    Abstract: A technique for operating a data storage system that includes a non-volatile memory array controlled by a controller includes storing, in the non-volatile memory array, first data whose frequency of access is above a first access level in a bandwidth optimized code word. Second data whose frequency of access is below a second access level is stored in the non-volatile memory in a code rate optimized code word.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles John Camp, Timothy John Fisher, Bryan Bordeaux Grandy, Thomas Parnell, Andrew Dale Walls
  • Photovoltaic Microstructure and Photovoltaic Device Employing Nanowires with Single-Side Conductive Strips
    Publication number: 20160172514
    Abstract: A photovoltaic device includes an array of photovoltaically active microstructures each having a generally cylindrical outer periphery and a reflective metal portion on one side thereof. The photovoltaic device is oriented such that the metal portions face away from the sun, reflects light into a respective photovoltaically active microstruture, and provides a conductive path for charge carriers in parallel to an outer conductive layer, which may be a transparent conductive oxide layer. Direction deposition of metal can be employed to form the reflective metal portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Bob Smith, John Fisher
  • RECIPIENT LOCATION AWARE NOTIFICATIONS IN RESPONSE TO RELATED POSTS
    Publication number: 20160142358
    Abstract: In one aspect, a method is provided, including the following method operations: receiving a request to generate a first post data item at a first location; providing for presentation of the first post data item at a second location; receiving a request to generate a second post data item at the second location, the second post data item being in reply to the first post data item; identifying a destination for notification about the second post data item; providing in association with the destination a notification identifying the second post data item, the notification being associated with the first location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2013
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Applicant: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Yonatan Zunger, Lan Liu, Justin Lewis, Cynthia Johanson, Henry Wong, Nundu Janakiram, Prasenjit Sarkar, Brett Hobbs, John Fisher, Dan Peterson
  • DESULFURIZATION OF FLUE GAS FROM AN AMINE PROCESS
    Publication number: 20160136573
    Abstract: A method for disposing of excess sulfur dioxide in a flue gas from thermal oxidation of an acid gas stream including hydrogen sulfide recovered from a rich amine solution of an amine plant servicing at least one well head, includes cooling the flue gas to about 300 to about 650 degrees Fahrenheit, injecting a dry sorbent into the flue gas after the step of cooling the flue gas, reacting the dry sorbent after the step of injection, with the sulfur dioxide of the flue gas for sufficient time for formation of reaction byproduct and treated gas, and separating the reaction byproduct from the treated gas. Examples of the dry sorbent include calcium hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate, and trona, as well as magnesium hydroxide and sodium carbonate, and combinations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Jonathan Wood Byers, John Fisher George, III, Jonathan E. Norman, Daniel E. Charhut
  • Three-Dimensional Metamaterial Devices with Photovoltaic Bristles
    Publication number: 20160064583
    Abstract: A metamaterial of an array of photovoltaic bristles may enable each photovoltaic bristle to have a high probability of photon absorption. The high probability of photon absorption may lead to increased efficiency and more power generation from an array of photovoltaic bristles. A completed photovoltaic device may benefit from further total efficiency gains by implementing a corrugated structure in the metamaterial and/or an assembled solar panel of metamaterials. Various methods to manufacture these metamaterial devices may include utilize stamping methods, photolithographic techniques, etching techniques, deposition techniques, as well as the creation of vias to form arrays of photovoltaic bristles for the metamaterial photovoltaic devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Robert SMITH, Mark R. SCHROEDER, Larry BAWDEN, John FISHER, John BOHLAND
  • Three-Dimensional Photovoltaic Devices Including Cavity-containing Cores and Methods of Manufacture
    Publication number: 20160043251
    Abstract: Various stamping methods may reduce defects and increase throughput for manufacturing metamaterial devices. Metamaterial devices with an array of photovoltaic bristles, and/or vias, may enable each photovoltaic bristle to have a high probability of photon absorption. The high probability of photon absorption may lead to increased efficiency and more power generation from an array of photovoltaic bristles. Reduced defects in the metamaterial device may decrease manufacturing cost, increase reliability of the metamaterial device, and increase the probability of photon absorption for a metamaterial device. The increase in manufacturing throughput and reduced defects may reduce manufacturing costs to enable the embodiment metamaterial devices to reach grid parity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2015
    Publication date: February 11, 2016
    Inventors: Robert SMITH, Mark R. SCHROEDER, Larry BAWDEN, John FISHER, John BOHLAND
  • Grilling apparatus
    Patent number: D762409
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Brand Developers Ltd.
    Inventor: James John Fisher
  • plant named ‘SER-WISH’
    Patent number: PP27057
    Abstract: A new and distinct Salvia hybrid cultivar named ‘SER-WISH’ is disclosed, characterized by unique bright red-purple to purple flowers and a dark purple calyx color. Plants are upright, dense and have a long flowering season. The new variety is a Salvia, typically produced as an outdoor ornamental plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Inventor: John Fisher
  • Handle and support arrangement for power tool
    Patent number: D788560
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: BRAND DEVELOPERS LTD.
    Inventor: James John Fisher