Patents by Inventor John Kaufman
John Kaufman 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: 9798343Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for quantifying operating strategy energy usage. One embodiment describes an industrial control system that includes a tangible, non-transitory, computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions executable by a processor of the industrial control system.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Philip John Kaufman
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Patent number: 9785126Abstract: The present disclosure describes system and methods for inferring energy usage at multiple levels of granularity. One embodiment describes an industrial automation system including a first industrial automation component, a first sensor coupled to the first industrial automation component, in which the first sensor measures a first amount of power supplied to the first industrial automation component, a second industrial automation component that couples to the first industrial automation component, and an industrial control system that infers energy usage by the first industrial automation component and the second industrial automation component based at least in part on the first amount of power supplied to the first industrial automation component.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2014Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Philip John Kaufman
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Publication number: 20170061508Abstract: A parking garage system includes a plurality of parking garages. Each parking garage has a plurality of parking sectors and each parking sector has a plurality of parking spaces. A digital system tracks an occupancy level of each parking sector and an anticipated departure time of vehicles parked in each parking space. The digital system further directs vehicles to a particular parking sector based on the driver's anticipated departure time. The digital system also advises potential customers of occupancy level and parking rates and communicates information regarding occupancy level and parking rates to other parking garages.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2016Publication date: March 2, 2017Inventors: Sourabh Sen, John Kaufman, Atul Sharma, Samuel Haber
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Publication number: 20170027680Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Applicant: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Carr, JR., Andrzej J. Chanduszko, John D. McDermott, John A. Kaufman
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Patent number: 9498318Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted and to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2013Date of Patent: November 22, 2016Assignee: C.R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Carr, Jr., Andrzej J. Chanduszko, John D. McDermott, John A. Kaufman
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Publication number: 20160296317Abstract: A stent used in reducing a diameter of a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) for secondary restriction of flow through a TIPS tract is disclosed. In one example approach, a reducing stent comprises a tube-shaped framework with a tubular material affixed around an outer surface of the framework and extending through the interior of the framework to define a reducing passage in the interior of the framework. In another example approach, a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt system including a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt and a reducing stent mounted within an interior of the transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2016Publication date: October 13, 2016Applicant: OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITYInventors: Hans Timmermans, John Kaufman
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Publication number: 20160281807Abstract: A system and method for electro-mechanical brake wear adjustment includes an adjustable end plate configured to translate along an axis, a piston configured to translate along the axis relative to the adjustable end plate, a disc pack disposed between the adjustable end plate and the piston, such that movement of the piston toward the adjustable end plate compresses the disc pack against the adjustable end plate, the disc pack including a brake plate facing a brake disc, an actuator operatively coupled to the adjustable end plate and configured to move the adjustable end plate relative to the disc pack along the axis, and a controller operatively coupled to the actuator and configured to effect motion of the adjustable end plate via the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2015Publication date: September 29, 2016Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: John Kaufman, Timothy Hinch
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Patent number: 9414843Abstract: Described are devices, methods and systems useful for achieving occlusion of vascular vessels. Percutaneous procedures are used to occlude and obliterate the greater saphenous vein, for example in the treatment of varicose vein condition caused by venous reflux. Certain embodiments encompass the deployment of one or more vascular occlusion devices via a through-and-through percutaneous procedure that leaves the vascular occlusion device or devices in a through-and-through condition.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignees: Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Cook Biotech Incorporated, Oregon Health & Science UniversityInventors: Dusan Pavcnik, John A. Kaufman, Thomas Osborne, Brian Bates, Umesh Patel, Likang Chin, Chad S. McAlexander, Bhavin Shah
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Patent number: 9406036Abstract: An industrial control system is provided. The system includes tagged data that is collected from a plurality of sustainability factor-associated data sources across an industrial automation environment, where the tagged data is associated with a portion of a process that is attributed to the sustainability factor data sources. A manufacturing model is associated with the tagged data, where the manufacturing model is employed to enhance the efficiencies of the process.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: ROCKWELL AUTOMATION TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Philip John Kaufman, Marcia Elaine Walker, Steven Anthony Lombardi
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Publication number: 20160147241Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods that provide an energy usage auto-baseline used for diagnostics and/or prognostics. One embodiment describes a method that includes determining, using an industrial control system, energy usage associated with an industrial automation component over a period of time based at least in part on an operational parameter associated with the industrial automation component, generating, using the industrial control system, an energy usage baseline associated with the industrial automation component based at least in part on the energy usage, in which the energy usage baseline includes an expected energy usage associated with the industrial automation component, and sending, using the industrial control system, a notification to a display of the industrial control system, in which the notification indicates that the industrial automation component is potentially experiencing a fault when the energy usage exceeds the energy usage baseline.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventor: Philip John Kaufman
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Publication number: 20160147242Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods for quantifying operating strategy energy usage. One embodiment describes an industrial control system that includes a tangible, non-transitory, computer readable medium storing a plurality of instructions executable by a processor of the industrial control system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventor: Philip John Kaufman
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Publication number: 20160147205Abstract: The present disclosure describes system and methods for inferring energy usage at multiple levels of granularity. One embodiment describes an industrial automation system including a first industrial automation component, a first sensor coupled to the first industrial automation component, in which the first sensor measures a first amount of power supplied to the first industrial automation component, a second industrial automation component that couples to the first industrial automation component, and an industrial control system that infers energy usage by the first industrial automation component and the second industrial automation component based at least in part on the first amount of power supplied to the first industrial automation component.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2014Publication date: May 26, 2016Inventor: Philip John Kaufman
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Publication number: 20150322975Abstract: A hydraulic system associated with an ejector truck is configured to move an ejector plate and a rear gate. The hydraulic system may cause the rear gate to begin moving before the ejector plate. As well, the hydraulic system may reduce the delay in initiating the movement of the ejector plate and the rear gate, and increase the moving speed of both the ejector plate from the retracted position to the extended position and the rear gate from the closed position to the open position.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2014Publication date: November 12, 2015Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: John Kaufman, Adam Adeeb, Carl McIlheran
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Patent number: 9129231Abstract: The claimed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate analysis, processing, or reporting in connection with energy consumption data and/or emissions or sustainability factors associated with an automation process. In particular, the architecture can obtain process-level or machine- or device-level energy consumption data collected during execution of an automation process. The data can be analyzed or processed, with general or application-specific results output to a specified recipient and/or formatted (e.g., parsed, filtered, or transformed) according to a general or application-specific scheme.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: September 8, 2015Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip John Kaufman, Marcia Elaine Walker
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Publication number: 20150058313Abstract: The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating dynamic sustainability searches. A sustainability search component executes a query, and returns one or more results that satisfy a set of search criteria and a set of sustainability factors. The search criteria can include keywords, such as product types, process types, and additional features related to the keywords, such as price, location, brand, and so forth. The sustainability factors are alternative cost measures for a given process, product, or plant element. The sustainability search component can analyze the returned results, and rank the results based on sustainability.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2014Publication date: February 26, 2015Inventors: Marcia Elaine Walker, Philip John Kaufman
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Patent number: 8892540Abstract: The innovation relates to systems and/or methodologies for facilitating dynamic sustainability searches. A sustainability search component executes a query, and returns one or more results that satisfy a set of search criteria and a set of sustainability factors. The search criteria can include keywords, such as product types, process types, and additional features related to the keywords, such as price, location, brand, and so forth. The sustainability factors are alternative cost measures for a given process, product, or plant element. The sustainability search component can analyze the returned results, and rank the results based on sustainability.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Marcia Elaine Walker, Philip John Kaufman
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Publication number: 20140148839Abstract: An absorbable and expandable closure member used to occlude or exclude a body lumen or cavity, such as a blood vessel, fallopian tube, duct, aneurysmal sac, etc., comprising a closure member comprising one of more sheets of a biomaterial that are rolled, stacked, or folded to form a multilayer construct of a generally cylindrical configuration for deployment through a delivery system, either as a singularly or part of a multiplicity of closure members. The biomaterial is derived from a source material, such as small intestinal submucosa or another remodelable material (e.g., an extracellular matrix) having properties for stimulating ingrowth of adjacent tissue into the biomaterial deployed within the bodily lumen. The closure member is deployed to the bodily lumen from a delivery sheath, cartridge, and/or over a inner guiding member, such as a wire guide or catheter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: May 29, 2014Inventors: Dusan Pavcnik, John Kaufman, Clay D. Fette
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Patent number: 8670962Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are provided for simulating components and processes using discrete, variable-granularity, component-specific data relating to energy consumption or other sustainability factors. Simulations can be analyzed and optimized to facilitate forecasting of sustainability factors and determine advantageous modifications to the components or processes.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2012Date of Patent: March 11, 2014Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Philip John Kaufman, Marcia Elaine Walker
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Publication number: 20140058437Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted and to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: C. R. BARD, INC.Inventors: Robert M. Carr, JR., Andrzej J. Chanduszko, John D. McDermott, John A. Kaufman
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Patent number: 8574261Abstract: A removable blood clot filter includes a number of locator members and anchor members disposed radially and extending angularly downward from a hub. The locator members include a number of linear portions having distinct axes configured to place a tip portion approximately parallel to the walls of a blood vessel when implanted and to apply sufficient force to the vessel walls to position the filter near the vessel centerline. The anchor members each include a hook configured to penetrate the vessel wall to prevent longitudinal movement due to blood flow. The hooks may have a cross section sized to allow for a larger radius of curvature under strain so that the filter can be removed without damaging the vessel wall.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.Inventors: Robert M. Carr, Jr., Andrzej J. Chanduszko, John D. McDermott, John A. Kaufman