Patents by Inventor John Helm
John Helm 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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Patent number: 12201466Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for acquiring image data of a subject. The image data can be collected with an imaging system in a selected manner and/or motion. More than one projection may be combined to generate and create a selected view of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2023Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.Inventors: Patrick A. Helm, Rasika A. Parkar, Robert Reddy, Kyo C. Jin, Seunghoon Nam, Andre D. A. Souza, Xiaodong Tao, David Adams Garlow, John R. Martin
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Patent number: 11394625Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2020Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaran, John Helm, Zheng Peter Xu
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Publication number: 20210250253Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2020Publication date: August 12, 2021Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaran, John Helm, Zheng Peter Xu
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Patent number: 10841180Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaran, John Helm, Zheng Peter Xu
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Patent number: 10794576Abstract: A hinge apparatus and method of use are provided for securing to a slide of a retrofit kit and to an opening of a fixture. The hinge apparatus includes a hinge configured to couple to the opening of the fixture, a top section coupled to the hinge, a lower section coupled to the top section and having a cavity formed therebetween, the cavity configured to be coupleable to the retrofit kit, a hinge brake securement device coupled to the top section, a neck extending outwardly from the hinge brake securement device, a hinge brake coupled to the neck, and a notch coupled to the hinge brake, the notch configured to be receivable at the slide of the retrofit kit.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2019Date of Patent: October 6, 2020Assignee: Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc.Inventor: John Helms
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Patent number: 9807830Abstract: An LED driver apparatus provides discrete output current configuration. User interfaces such as dip switches enable user selection of output current settings. LED driver circuitry includes an inverter, a primary transformer winding coupled to the inverter switches and providing resonant inductance, and a secondary transformer winding coupled on a first end to an output rectifier. Various circuit branches are coupled in parallel between the output rectifier and the secondary winding, each including a switching element driven between open and closed states associated with the user-selected output current setting. The circuit branches may be coupled to respective secondary winding taps, wherein output current is regulated according to an effective turns ratio defined by the closed circuit branch.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: UNIVERSAL LIGHTING TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Wei Xiong, John Helms
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Patent number: 9801262Abstract: A power over Ethernet (PoE) interface device includes a knockout adapter. The knockout adapter is configured for mounting to a conduit knockout opening in an LED luminaire. The interface device includes a power assembly having an input section and an output section. The power assembly is connected to the knockout adapter such that the output section is positioned inside the luminaire when the knockout adapter is mounted to the luminaire. The power assembly further includes a data connector mounted to the input section. The data connector is configured to receive PoE signals from a data cable coupled to the data connector. Power output terminals are mounted to the output section and electrically coupled to the data connector. The power output terminals may be configured to couple the PoE signals from the data connector to an LED light source in the luminaire.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc.Inventor: John Helms
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Publication number: 20170201430Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2017Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaran, John Helm, Zheng Peter Xu
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Patent number: 9693404Abstract: A multi-channel LED driver is provided with a negative current sensing method for inherent output short circuit protection, as well as protection from output misconnection. A plurality of power converters are configured to drive respective LED arrays, each power converter respectively comprising a first stage configured to provide current through a primary winding of an isolation transformer. A second stage has a capacitor coupled in parallel with a secondary winding of the isolation transformer, a current sensing resistor coupled between the secondary winding and a circuit ground for the second stage. A filtering circuit is coupled on a first end to a node between the secondary winding and the current sensing resistor, and on a second end to the circuit ground. A feedback circuit is coupled between the first stage and the filtering circuit, and configured to deliver a control signal corresponding to current through the secondary winding.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Universal Lighting Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Wei Xiong, Mark Arias, John Helms, Haiqing Yang
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Patent number: 9553781Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2015Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: PAYPAL, INC.Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaran, John Helm, Zheng Peter Xu
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Publication number: 20160043911Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaren, John Helm, Zheng Peter Xu
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Patent number: 9197514Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaran, John Helm, Zheng Xu
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Publication number: 20110246526Abstract: A method and a system implementing a service level agreement based storage access system. A service level agreement based storage access system presents a single interface for data storage consumers and translates generic data operation requests to data operation request specific to a storage server. The SLA based storage access system also monitors storage server performance and may throttle processes to ensure service level agreements are not violated.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: October 6, 2011Inventors: Yuri Finkelstein, Kumar Rethinakaleeswaran, John Helm, Zheng Xu
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Publication number: 20070162332Abstract: A host receives one or more listings of property or goods or services. A plurality of rewards and criteria for providing such reward to users who enter into transactions corresponding to the listings are received. A claim from the user that he has entered into a transaction corresponding to one of those listings is received. The claim is validated. In response to the validation, provision of a reward to the user in accordance with the criteria is facilitated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventor: John Helm
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Publication number: 20070162333Abstract: A host identifies a user at a client computer and transmits listings of property or goods or services to the client computer for display to the user. The host logs the transmitted listings and the dates of the transmissions. A claim from the user that he has entered into a transaction corresponding to one of those listings is received. The claim is validated if the user entered into the transaction after the corresponding listing was transmitted for display to the user. In response to the validation, provision of a reward to the user is facilitated.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2006Publication date: July 12, 2007Inventor: John Helm
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Publication number: 20060211574Abstract: A method for treating plants in need of growth promotion, comprising applying to said plants, to the seeds from which they grow or to the locus in which they grow, a non-phytotoxic, effective plant growth promoting amount of an amide compound having the formula A-CO—NR1R2 in which A is an aryl group or an aromatic or non-aromatic, 5- or 6-membered heterocycle which has from 1 to 3 hetero atoms which are selected from O, N and S; where the aryl group or the heterocycle may or may not have 1, 2 or 3 substituents which are selected, independently of one another, from alkyl, halogen, CHF2, CF3, alkoxy, haloalkoxy, alkylthio, alkylsulfinyl and alkylsulfonyl; R1 is a hydrogen atom; R2 is a phenyl or cycloalkyl group which may or may not have 1, 2 or 3 substituents which are selected, independently of one another, from alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkoxy, alkenyloxy, alkynyloxy, cycloalkyl, cycloalkenyl, cycloalkyloxy, cycloalkenyloxy, phenyl and halogen, where the aliphatic and cycloaliphatic radicals may be partiallyType: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2004Publication date: September 21, 2006Inventors: Jan Buberl, Steven Broscious, Hendrik Ypema, David Millhouse, John Helm, Todd Burkdoll