Patents by Inventor John McNeill

John McNeill 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: 11689836
    Abstract: A headset implements an earloop microphone and includes a housing. An earloop of the headset secures the headset to an ear of a user. A first microphone is acoustically coupled to a first opening in the housing. A second microphone is acoustically coupled to a second opening in the housing. A third microphone is acoustically coupled to a third opening in the earloop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Plantronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob T. Meyberg Guzman, John A. Kelley, Nicholas W. Paterson, Iain McNeill
  • Publication number: 20210361225
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present application relate to the diagnostic measurement of condition for pressure ulcers. Preferred embodiments utilize pressure measurements at body locations to determine a diagnostic pressure ulcer value. A pressure sensor device generates patient pressure data that is processed by a data processor which utilizes a diagnostic function to determine the diagnostic value that indicates whether corrective action is needed to prevent pressure ulcer formation. One or more sensor devices can be attached to a patient to measure to transmit data for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Raymond Dunn, John McNeill, Yitzhak Mendelson, Hamsa Abujrida
  • Publication number: 20190104982
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods of the present application relate to the diagnostic measurement of condition for pressure ulcers. Preferred embodiments utilize pressure measurements at body locations to determine a diagnostic pressure ulcer value. A pressure sensor device generates patient pressure data that is processed by a data processor which utilizes a diagnostic function to determine the diagnostic value that indicates whether corrective action is needed to prevent pressure ulcer formation. One or more sensor devices can be attached to a patient to measure to transmit data for further processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Raymond Dunn, John McNeill, Yitzhak Mendelson
  • Publication number: 20180263236
    Abstract: A rodent trap includes a housing, a central separation mount, a top plate, first and second door members, and first and second trip levers. The central separation mount separates the housing into first and second traps. The first and second door members are attached to the housing to allow closure and opening of first and second entrances. When a rodent enters the rodent trap, the weight of the rodent on a first food tray causes the first trip lever to engage with the first door member such that the first door member closes the first entrance, thereby trapping the rodent inside the first trap. Similarly, the weight of the rodent on a second food tray causes the second trip lever to engage with the second door member such that the second door member closes the second entrance, thereby trapping the rodent inside the second trap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: John McNeill
  • Patent number: 9181726
    Abstract: A device for lifting a post out of the ground, including a part for engaging the post and an elongate body having a handle for applying a lever action to the part in order to lift the post from the ground, wherein the part is coupled to a stand and the stand is moveable relative to the body from a stowed condition to a deployed condition whereat the body is pivotally supported above the ground for rotation about the stand in order to effect the lever action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Peter John McNeill
    Inventor: Peter John McNeill
  • Publication number: 20150202296
    Abstract: The invention relates to formulations that demonstrate the feasibility of oral absorption comprising glucose-like peptide-1 compounds and specified delivery agents, and to methods of stimulating GLP-1 receptor in a subject in need of such stimulation, by administration of the formulation of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Inventors: Mohammed Amin KHAN, Bryan Edward Jones, John Mcneill McGill
  • Publication number: 20140031287
    Abstract: The present invention relates to novel compounds, methods, and formulations useful for the oral delivery of a GLP-1 compound or an MC4 agonist peptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Jason Herr, Louis Nickolaus Jungheim, John McNeill McGill, Kenneth Jeff Thrasher, Muralikrishna Valluri
  • Publication number: 20140005106
    Abstract: The invention relates to formulations that demonstrate the feasibility of oral absorption comprising glucose-like peptide-1 compounds and specified delivery agents, and to methods of stimulating GLP-1 receptor in a subject in need of such stimulation, by administration of the formulation of the present invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 2, 2014
    Applicant: Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed Amin KHAN, Bryan Edward Jones, John Mcneill McGill
  • Patent number: 8546581
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel compounds, methods and formulations useful for the oral delivery of a glucagon like peptide-1 compound or a melanocortin 4 receptor agonist peptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Nickolaus Jungheim, John Mcneill McGill, III, Kenneth Jeff Thrasher, Robert Jason Herr, Muralikrishna Valluri
  • Patent number: 8492330
    Abstract: The invention relates to formulations that demonstrate the feasibility of oral absorption comprising glucose-like peptide-1 compounds and specified delivery agents, and to methods of stimulating GLP-1 receptor in a subject in need of such stimulation, by administration of the formulation of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2013
    Assignee: Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed Amin Khan, Bryan Edward Jones, John McNeill McGill
  • Publication number: 20130099184
    Abstract: A device for lifting a post out of the ground, including a part for engaging the post and an elongate body having a handle for applying a lever action to the part in order to lift the post from the ground, wherein the part is coupled to a stand and the stand is moveable relative to the body from a stowed condition to a deployed condition whereat the body is pivotally supported above the ground for rotation about the stand in order to effect the lever action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventor: Peter John McNeill
  • Patent number: 8274136
    Abstract: A semiconductor patch antenna for microwave radiation having a wide pin-junction or pn-junction with the depletion region or embodiments having a separating buried oxide (SiO2) layer between p- and n-doped regions as the natural resonator volume. Embodiments that do not include a metal ground plane and/or a metal patch are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2012
    Assignee: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Sergey N. Makarov, Reinhold Ludwig, Francesca Scire-Scappuzzo, John McNeill
  • Patent number: 8121971
    Abstract: An information integration environment identifies the current drilling sites, and drilling equipment and processes at those current drilling sites. Based upon that identification, and upon data received from the drilling sites, servers access and configure software agents that are sent to a host client system at the drilling site; these software agents operate at the host client system to acquire data from sensors at the drilling site, to transmit that data to the information integration environment, and to derive the drilling state and drilling recommendations for the driller at the drilling site. These software agents include one or more rules, heuristics, or calibrations derived by the inference engine, and called by the information integration environment. In addition, the software agents sent from the information integration environment to the host client system operate to display values, trends, and reliability estimates for various drilling parameters, whether measured or calculated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2012
    Assignee: BP Corporation North America Inc.
    Inventors: Michael L. Edwards, Cesar A. Gongora, Ganesh Iyer, David McGriffy, John McNeill, Donald F. Shafer, Chris Tolleson, David Wight
  • Publication number: 20110197051
    Abstract: Images for information handling system manufacture and maintenance are created and managed by manipulating the images as virtual machines through a secure remote network interface, such as a virtual private network or virtual desktop infrastructure. Operating system and application installation and updates, such as service packs and patches, are performed on a virtual machine of the image to adjust the image as desired, and then the image is transformed for loading on physical information handling systems, such as newly manufactured information handling systems or deployed information handling systems in need of maintenance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2010
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: John Mullin, Campell McNeill, Christopher Speers, Dana Ragsdill, John Tracey, Lawrence Smithmier
  • Publication number: 20110190205
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel compounds, methods and formulations useful for the oral delivery of a glucagon like peptide-1 compound or a melanocortin 4 receptor agonist peptide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Nickolaus JUNGHEIM, John McNeill MCGILL, III, Kenneth Jeff THRASHER, Robert Jason HERR, Muralikrishna VALLURI
  • Patent number: 7947841
    Abstract: The present application relates to novel compounds, methods and formulations useful for the oral delivery of a glucagon like peptide-1 compound or a melanocortin 4 receptor agonist peptide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Louis Nickolaus Jungheim, John McNeill McGill, III, Kenneth Jeff Thrasher, Robert Jason Herr, Valluri Muralikrishna
  • Patent number: 7939494
    Abstract: The invention relates to formulations that demonstrate the feasibility of oral absorption comprising glucose-like peptide-1 compounds and specified delivery agents, and to methods of stimulating GLP-1 receptor in a subject in need of such stimulation, by administration of the formulation of the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Emisphere Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mohammed Amin Khan, Bryan Edward Jones, John McNeill McGill
  • Patent number: 7896807
    Abstract: A physiologic data acquisition system includes an analog input, a sigma-delta front end signal conditioning circuit adapted to subtract out DC and low frequency interfering signals from and amplify the analog input before analog to digital conversion. The system can be programmed to acquire a selected physiologic signal, e.g., a physiologic signal characteristic of or originating from a particular biological tissue. The physiologic data acquisition system may include a network interface modulating a plurality of subcarriers with respective portions of an acquired physiologic signal. A receiver coupled to the network interface can receive physiologic data from, and send control signals and provide power to the physiologic data acquisition system over a single pair of wires. The network interface can modulate an RF carrier with the plurality of modulated subcarriers and transmit the resulting signal to the receiver across a wireless network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Edward A. Clancy, John A. McNeill, William R. Michalson
  • Patent number: 7837177
    Abstract: According to one aspect of the present invention there is provided a manually operated post handling assembly including a main body, a post driver that is integral with or connected to the main body and a post extractor being adapted to move between a deployed position and a stowed position within the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Inventor: Peter John McNeill
  • Publication number: 20100258919
    Abstract: A semiconductor patch antenna for microwave radiation having a wide pin-junction or pn-junction with the depletion region or embodiments having a separating buried oxide (SiO2) layer between p- and n-doped regions as the natural resonator volume. Embodiments that do not include a metal ground plane and/or a metal patch are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2010
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Sergey N. Makarov, Reinhold Ludwig, Francesca Scire-Scappuzzo, John McNeill