Patents by Inventor John N. Irwin, III
John N. Irwin, III 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: 11934508Abstract: Systems, methods, and software products provide increased trust in authentication of a user to an authentication server when a trusted witness client device witnesses the authentication of the user on the user's root client device. Both the root and the witness client devices cooperate to present the user with an interactive task during the authentications and each client device independently captures movement of the user performing the interactive task, during which, the user is authenticated to the root client device. An increased level of trust in the authentication of the user is achieved by the authentication server when the captured movements match expected movements of the user performing the interactive task and the authentication server has proof that the witness client devices witnessed a successful authentication.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: Orchid Sound Technologies, LLCInventors: John N. Irwin, III, Priscilla Babb, R. Maxwell Flaherty, J. Christopher Flaherty
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Publication number: 20240005693Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a biometric sensing device that combines sensing with an actuator for two way communication between a finger on a surface and the device. The sensor can also function as an actuator. A finger can be authenticated based on an image of the finger generated by the sensor and also based on a response to energy delivered to the finger by the actuator. Two way communication can provide more robust authentication than fingerprint sensing alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Morten Fischer Rasmussen, Gerard Touma, John N. Irwin, III
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Publication number: 20230414299Abstract: Systems, devices, and method for performing a medical procedure on a patient are provided. A system includes a tissue interface device and a console. The tissue interface device is configured to image tissue and/or deliver energy to tissue. The tissue interface device includes a transmission assembly. The console is configured to transmit energy to the tissue interface device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2021Publication date: December 28, 2023Inventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, John N. Irwin, III, Andre T. Khoury-Yacoub, J. Christopher Flaherty, R. Maxwell Flaherty
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Publication number: 20230350999Abstract: Systems, methods, and software products provide increased trust in authentication of a user to an authentication server when a trusted witness client device witnesses the authentication of the user on the user's root client device. Both the root and the witness client devices cooperate to present the user with an interactive task during the authentications and each client device independently captures movement of the user performing the interactive task, during which, the user is authenticated to the root client device. An increased level of trust in the authentication of the user is achieved by the authentication server when the captured movements match expected movements of the user performing the interactive task and the authentication server has proof that the witness client devices witnessed a successful authentication.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: John N. Irwin, III, Priscilla Babb, R. Maxwell Flaherty, J. Christopher Flaherty
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Publication number: 20230310203Abstract: A medical appliance for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a biasing member for inserting behind and exerting a force upon the patient's soft palate or tongue, wherein the biasing member is inserted in a reduced or minimized form and then expanded or firms once in place to exert the force. The appliance may be nasally inserted or be placed through the mouth. In a particular configuration, both the soft palate and tongue are biased to prevent obstruction of the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2022Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Michael Friedman, John N. Irwin, III, William J. Gorman, John T. Garibotto, J. Christopher Flaherty
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Patent number: 11645862Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a biometric sensing device that combines sensing with an actuator for two way communication between a finger on a surface and the device. The sensor can also function as an actuator. A finger can be authenticated based on an image of the finger generated by the sensor and also based on a response to energy delivered to the finger by the actuator. Two way communication can provide more robust authentication than fingerprint sensing alone.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Orchid Sound Technologies LLCInventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Morten Fischer Rasmussen, Gerard Touma, John N. Irwin, III
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Patent number: 11517471Abstract: A medical apparatus for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient is provided. The apparatus has an elongate member with a middle portion, a first fixation element and a second fixation element. The middle portion applies a force to a segment of a patient's airway.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2020Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: LUMEN DEVICES, LLC.Inventors: J. Christopher Flaherty, John T. Garibotto, William J. Gorman, John N. Irwin, III, Michael Friedman
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Patent number: 11510806Abstract: A medical appliance for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a biasing member for inserting behind and exerting a force upon the patient's soft palate or tongue, wherein the biasing member is inserted in a reduced or minimized form and then expanded or firms once in place to exert the force. The appliance may be nasally inserted or be placed through the mouth. In a particular configuration, both the soft palate and tongue are biased to prevent obstruction of the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Lumen Devices, LLC.Inventors: Michael Friedman, John N. Irwin, III, William J. Gorman, John T. Garibotto, J. Christopher Flaherty
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Publication number: 20220072338Abstract: A medical device includes a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array configured to emit ultrasound to target tissue, and at least one thermoelectric cooler mechanically coupled with the CMUT array and configured to cool non-target tissue heated by the ultrasound. The medical device may be implemented in a catheter together with a solid thermal conductor coupled to the thermoelectric cooler and extending along the catheter, to conduct heat away from the thermoelectric cooler. A catheter or catheter sleeve includes a tubular wall for insertion into a body channel, and at least one thermoelectric cooler coupled to the tubular wall for cooling the body channel wall. A catheter sleeve includes tubular casing for insertion into a body channel and capable of encasing a catheter, and at least one sensor coupled to the tubular casing for sensing one or more properties of the body channel wall, such as temperature and pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Arif Sanli Ergun, Andre Khoury, Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, John N. Irwin, III
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Publication number: 20220004617Abstract: A passwordless authentication method authenticates a user to access a remote computer. A mobile device receives a flash pattern included on a webpage by an authenticator. A body part of a user of the mobile device is biometrically authenticating at the mobile device. Concurrently with the authenticating, a modulated optical signal based upon the flash pattern is emit toward the body part and detected remission of the modulated optical signal by the body part is recorded as a remitted pattern. An indication of authenticity of the user, as determined by the step of biometrically authenticating, and the remitted pattern are communicated to the authenticator, and the user is authenticated to the website based upon the indication of authenticity and a match of the remitted pattern to the flash pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: January 6, 2022Inventor: John N. Irwin, III
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Patent number: 11154730Abstract: A medical device includes a capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) array configured to emit ultrasound to target tissue, and at least one thermoelectric cooler mechanically coupled with the CMUT array and configured to cool non-target tissue heated by the ultrasound. The medical device may be implemented in a catheter together with a solid thermal conductor coupled to the thermoelectric cooler and extending along the catheter, to conduct heat away from the thermoelectric cooler. A catheter or catheter sleeve includes a tubular wall for insertion into a body channel, and at least one thermoelectric cooler coupled to the tubular wall for cooling the body channel wall. A catheter sleeve includes tubular casing for insertion into a body channel and capable of encasing a catheter, and at least one sensor coupled to the tubular casing for sensing one or more properties of the body channel wall, such as temperature and pressure.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Ultra HOM, LLCInventors: Arif Sanli Ergün, Andre Khoury, Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, John N. Irwin, III
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Publication number: 20210295005Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a biometric sensing device that combines sensing with an actuator for two way communication between a finger on a surface and the device. The sensor can also function as an actuator. A finger can be authenticated based on an image of the finger generated by the sensor and also based on a response to energy delivered to the finger by the actuator. Two way communication can provide more robust authentication than fingerprint sensing alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2021Publication date: September 23, 2021Inventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Morten Fischer Rasmussen, Gerard Touma, John N. Irwin, III
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Patent number: 11023704Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a biometric sensing device that combines sensing with an actuator for two way communication between a finger on a surface and the device. The sensor can also function as an actuator. A finger can be authenticated based on an image of the finger generated by the sensor and also based on a response to energy delivered to the finger by the actuator. Two way communication can provide more robust authentication than fingerprint sensing alone.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Orchid Sound Technologies LLCInventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Morten Fischer Rasmussen, Gerard Touma, John N. Irwin, III
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Publication number: 20210085514Abstract: A medical apparatus for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient is provided. The apparatus has an elongate member with a middle portion, a first fixation element and a second fixation element. The middle portion applies a force to a segment of a patient's airway.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 17, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: J. Christopher Flaherty, John T. Garibotto, William J. Gorman, John N. Irwin, III, Michael Friedman
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Publication number: 20200306474Abstract: A medical device for the treatment of one or more sleep apnea disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient is provided. The device includes a scaffolding element positioned about a distal portion of an elongate shaft. The scaffolding element receives a volume of fluid to expand the scaffolding element to exert a force upon a soft palate and/or base of a tongue of a patient. The scaffolding element provides a helical breathing pathway when inserted into an airway of the patient and transitioned to an expanded state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2018Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: J. Christopher Flaherty, Tai Kien, John N. Irwin, III, R. Maxwell Flaherty
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Publication number: 20200257874Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a biometric sensing device that combines sensing with an actuator for two way communication between a finger on a surface and the device. The sensor can also function as an actuator. A finger can be authenticated based on an image of the finger generated by the sensor and also based on a response to energy delivered to the finger by the actuator. Two way communication can provide more robust authentication than fingerprint sensing alone.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 6, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Morten Fischer Rasmussen, Gerard Touma, John N. Irwin, III
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Patent number: 10691912Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a biometric sensing device that includes a sensing device and an integrated optical system for authentication. For instance, the sensing device can be an ultrasonic sensing device that can generate an image of a fingerprint and the optical system can transmit light to a finger through the ultrasonic scanning device. In some instances, the acoustic biometric sensing device can generate a liveness parameter associated with a finger based on a reflection of the light.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Orchid Sound Technologies LLCInventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Morten Fischer Rasmussen, Gerard Touma, John N. Irwin, III
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Patent number: 10660787Abstract: A medical apparatus for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient is provided. The apparatus has an elongate member with a middle portion, a first fixation element and a second fixation element. The middle portion applies a force to a segment of a patient's airway.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Lumen Devices, LLCInventors: J. Christopher Flaherty, John T. Garibotto, William J. Gorman, John N. Irwin, III, Michael Friedman
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Publication number: 20200138621Abstract: A medical appliance for the treatment of one or more sleep disorders such as obstructive sleep apnea in a patient, the appliance comprising: a biasing member for inserting behind and exerting a force upon the patient's soft palate or tongue, wherein the biasing member is inserted in a reduced or minimized form and then expanded or firms once in place to exert the force. The appliance may be nasally inserted or be placed through the mouth. In a particular configuration, both the soft palate and tongue are biased to prevent obstruction of the flow of air in the nasopharyngeal airway.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Michael Friedman, John N. Irwin, III, William J. Gorman, John T. Garibotto, J. Christopher Flaherty
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Patent number: 10592718Abstract: Aspects of this disclosure relate to a biometric sensing device that combines sensing with an actuator for two way communication between a finger on a surface and the device. The sensor can also function as an actuator. A finger can be authenticated based on an image of the finger generated by the sensor and also based on a response to energy delivered to the finger by the actuator. Two way communication can provide more robust authentication than fingerprint sensing alone.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Orchid Sound Technologies LLCInventors: Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub, Morten Fischer Rasmussen, Gerard Touma, John N. Irwin, III