Patents by Inventor Joseph Fisher

Joseph 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).

  • ENDOTRACHEAL CUFF PRESSURE REGULATION CIRCUIT AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20130098363
    Abstract: Cuff pressure modulation results in decreased severity of injury to the subglottic region and upper trachea. A simple device is capable of modulating the pressure in the cuff of a regular endotracheal tube, by coordinating the pressure level to be maximal during the inspiratory phase and minimal during the expiratory phase. This allowed for regular positive airway pressure ventilation as during inspiration the seal was maintained between the ETT and the tracheal mucosa by the inflated cuff, but during expiration cuff deflation allowed the cuff pressure to drop in the subglottic and tracheal area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Inventors: Vito Forte, Joseph Fisher
  • Multi-dimensional scroll wheel
    Patent number: 8416198
    Abstract: A multi-dimensional scroll wheel is disclosed. Scroll wheel circuitry is provided to detect input gestures that traverse the center of the scroll wheel and to detect multi-touch input. The scroll wheel can include a first plurality of sensor elements arranged in a first closed loop and a second plurality of sensor elements arranged in a second closed loop, the first and second closed loops being concentrically arranged about the center of the scroll wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lakshman Rathnam, Louis Bokma, Fletcher Rothkopf, Andrea Mucignat, Erturk Kocalar, Benjamin Lyon, Joseph Fisher
  • Apparatus, system and method for tracking drugs during a repackaging and administering process
    Patent number: 8403224
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and method for tracking drugs during a transfer and administering process to reduce labeling errors that can occur during that process. The system includes a storage container reader that is configured to read a set of one or more storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia positioned on a container containing a drug. The set of one or more storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia identifies the drug. The system further includes an indicia-generating device that is configured to generate a drug-delivery-container-associated indicia identifying the drug based on the storage-container-associated machine-readable indicia. The set of one or more drug-delivery-container-associated indicia includes a set of one or more drug-delivery-container-associated machine-readable indicia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: University Health Network
    Inventors: Ludwik Fedorko, Joseph Fisher, Bryan Drew Miller, Bryan Kowalchuk
  • Integrated contact switch and touch sensor elements
    Patent number: 8395590
    Abstract: An input device providing integrated contact switch and touch sensor elements is disclosed. A contact switch and touch sensor can be integrated so that they share a common sensor line, achieving space, cost and manufacturing savings over input devices that utilize distinct sensor lines for each of its sensor elements. By configuring a contact switch and touch sensor to share a common sensor line, a controller can use a single pin to scan both the contact switch and touch sensor elements, rather than using distinct pins to scan distinct sensor lines associated with each sensor element. By using fewer pins to scan the same number of sensor elements, a smaller controller can be used which can reduce the size and cost of the input device, and increase manufacturing throughput time associated with the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2013
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Fisher, Erturk Kocalar, Lakshman Rathnam
  • Multiparameter FACS assays to detect alterations in cellular parameters and to screen small molecule libraries
    Patent number: 8334238
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel methods of detecting alterations in cell cycle regulation in a cell or a cell population and screening for agents capable of modulating cell cycle regulation through the use of multiparameter assays and a fluorescence-activated cell sorter (FACS) machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Rigel, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Fisher, James Lorens, Donald Payan, Alexander Rossi
  • Systems and methods for providing a system-on-a-substrate
    Patent number: 8334704
    Abstract: This relates to systems and methods for providing a system-on-a-substrate. In some embodiments, the necessary components for an entire system (e.g., a processor, memory, accelerometers, I/O circuitry, or any other suitable components) can be fabricated on a single microchip in “bare die” form. The die can, for example, be coupled to suitable flash memory through a substrate and flexible printed circuit board (“flex”). In some embodiments, the flex can extend past the substrate, die, or both, to allow additional, relatively large components to be coupled to the flex. In some embodiments, the die can be coupled to the flash memory through the flex and without a substrate. In some embodiments, component test points can be placed on the flash memory side of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gloria Lin, Bryson Gardner, Jr., Joseph Fisher, Jr., Dave Goh, Barry Corlett, Dennis Pyper, Amir Salehi
  • Compact input device
    Patent number: 8330061
    Abstract: Compact input devices formed on flexible substrates are disclosed. The input devices may be formed using three or more conducting layers. By including three or more conducting layers, the diameter of the input device may be minimized. In addition, to improve the flexibility of portions of the input device mounted, some portions of the input device may be made to have fewer layers than other portions of the input device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Fletcher Rothkopf, Jan Moolsintong, Joseph Fisher, Wendell Sander, Erturk Kocalar
  • Systems and methods for providing vias through a modular component
    Patent number: 8310835
    Abstract: This relates to systems and methods for providing one or more vias through a module of an electrical system. For example, in some embodiments, the module can include one or more passive and/or active elements of the electrical system around which a packaging has been plastic molded. The module can be stacked under another component of the electrical system. Vias can then be provided that extend through the module. The vias can include, for example, electrically conductive pathways. In this manner, the vias can provide electrical pathways for coupling the component stacked on top of the module to other entities of an electronic device including the electrical system. For example, the component can be coupled to other entities such as other components, other modules, printed circuit boards, other electrical systems, or to any other suitable entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gloria Lin, Bryson Gardner, Jr., Joseph Fisher, Jr., Dennis Pyper, Amir Salehi
  • Photovoltaic solar power generation system with sealed evaporative cooling
    Patent number: 8283555
    Abstract: A solar power generation system includes a plurality of individual modules, each formed from a photovoltaic cell, a solar concentrator, a sealed evaporative cooling system and a heat sink. The solar concentrator focuses sunlight onto a front side the cell to generate electricity. The cooling system circulates a coolant in a liquid state to an evaporative cooling chamber having a wall defined at least partially by a back side of the cell to remove heat from the cell by direct contact between the coolant and the cell, and emits coolant in a vapor state to a condenser where the vapor coolant is condensed to a liquid state. The heat sink may be any suitable body of water, such that the condenser may be at least partially submerged therein. The modules are combined to form a platform that is rotated on the body of water by a drive device to provide tracking of the sun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Solaris Synergy Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuri Kokotov, Michael A. Reyz, Joseph Fisher
  • NON-INVASIVE ARTERIAL BLOOD GAS DETERMINATION
    Publication number: 20120215124
    Abstract: A breathing circuit for use in conjunction with a ventilator serving a mechanically-ventilated patient includes an expiratory gas airflow pathway; an inspiratory gas airflow pathway; and a gas mixing mechanism operable to mix inspiratory gas and expiratory gas in an amount sufficient to equilibrate the patient's PETCO2 and arterial PCO2 such that the patient's PETCO2 is a clinically reliable approximation of the patient's PaCO2.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Inventors: Joseph Fisher, James Duffin, Jorn Fierstra
  • Device to reduce SLOSH energy absorption and its damaging effects through the reduction of the flow of one or more outflow vessels of the cranium
    Publication number: 20120197290
    Abstract: A first embodiment can be a device comprising a means to reduce SLOSH energy absorption in a fluid containing organism by reducing the flow of one or more outflow vessels of the cranium by compressing said vessels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2011
    Publication date: August 2, 2012
    Inventors: David William Smith, Joseph Fisher
  • Printed Circuit Board With Integral Radio-Frequency Shields
    Publication number: 20120140423
    Abstract: Electrical components such as integrated circuits may be mounted on a printed circuit board. To prevent the electrical components from being subjected to electromagnetic interference, radio-frequency shielding structures may be formed over the components. The radio-frequency shielding structures may be formed from a layer of metallic paint. Components may be covered by a layer of dielectric. Channels may be formed in the dielectric between blocks of circuitry. The metallic paint may be used to coat the surfaces of the dielectric and to fill the channels. Openings may be formed in the surface of the metallic paint to separate radio-frequency shields from each other. Conductive traces on the surface of the printed circuit board may be used in connecting the metallic paint layer to internal printed circuit board traces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Publication date: June 7, 2012
    Inventors: Joseph Fisher, JR., Sean Mayo, Dennis R. Pyper, Paul Nangeroni, Jose Mantovani
  • Fuel cell apparatus with a split pump
    Patent number: 8187758
    Abstract: A fluid pump and connector assembly is particularly suited for use in connecting a fuel cartridge to a fuel cell system. The assembly has a first sub-assembly comprising a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, a flexible diaphragm in fluid communication with the inlet and outlet, and a first connector. The assembly also has a second sub-assembly comprising a second connector adapted to connect to the first connector, an actuator and a reciprocating member coupled to the actuator and contacting the diaphragm when the first and second sub-assemblies are connected, wherein a reciprocating motion of the actuator and member causes the diaphragm to reciprocate and pump fluid from the inlet to the outlet without exposing the fluid to the second sub-assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Ardica Technologies Inc.
    Inventors: Tobin Joseph Fisher, Jonathan Louis Glassman
  • HYDROGEN GENERATOR
    Publication number: 20120121996
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a fuel supply for a fuel cell, the fuel cell including a liquid storage area that includes a liquid reactant, a reaction area that includes a solid reactant, wherein the liquid reactant is pumped into the reaction area such that the liquid reactant reacts with the solid reactant to produce reaction components, a product collection area that receives the reaction components, a barrier, and a container with an interior volume that substantially encloses the reaction area, liquid storage area, product collection area. The barrier separates and defines several of the aforementioned areas, and moves to simultaneously increase the product collector area and decrease the liquid storage area as the liquid reactant is pumped from the liquid storage area and the reaction components are transferred into the product collection area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: ARDICA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Tobin Joseph Fisher, Jesse Thomas
  • BUTTONS WITH MODULATED BIAS VOLTAGES
    Publication number: 20120050964
    Abstract: Electronic devices may use buttons to gather user input. Button status monitoring circuits may be provided that apply a time-varying bias voltage to each button. The time-varying bias voltage may be held at a fixed non-zero level when the state of the button is being monitored and may be held at a level of zero volts when the state of the button is immaterial and is not being monitored. The reduction of the bias voltage across the button when the button is not being monitored prevents undesired acceleration in dendritic growth when the electronic device is exposed to moisture. The bias voltage may be pulsed by using a control circuit. The control circuit may generate a series of square wave pulses that are applied across the terminals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2011
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Inventors: Joseph Fisher, JR., Stephen Brian Lynch, Robert Caston Curtis
  • BEVERAGE HOLDER AND TRANSPORTING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20120018469
    Abstract: A beverage holder and transporting device for holding, transporting and drinking from beverages such as coffee in paper cups, beverages in cans and plastic cups and other cylindrical beverage containers. The device generally comprises a formed u-shaped rectangular clip with a radius on top of each end. The bottom of the clip has a u-shaped bend that also incorporates the same radius of both sides of the clip and this radius closely matches the radius of the beverage container with which the device is used. At the top of the device there is a finger hole cylinder or ring that allows for the user to insert a finger to support the device and thereby the beverage container. The device clip is slid up between the insulating sleeve and the beverage container. This compression allows the beverage container to be supported firmly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: January 26, 2012
    Inventor: Stephen Joseph Fisher
  • Hydrogen generator
    Patent number: 8100993
    Abstract: A hydrogen gas generator generates hydrogen gas by mixing two reactants. The generator has a reaction chamber for receiving a solid reactant. The chamber has a reaction product separator impermeable to the solid reactant and a biasing means for biasing reactant products against the separator. The generator also has a liquid reactant dispenser for storing a liquid reactant and is fluidly coupled to the reaction chamber, such that dispensed liquid reactant reacts with the solid reactant in the reaction chamber to produce hydrogen gas and a waste product that are substantially permeable through the separator. The generator also has a product collector coupled to the reaction chamber for collecting hydrogen gas and waste product that have passed through the separator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ardica Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tobin Joseph Fisher, Jesse Thomas
  • CONNECTOR AND MEDICAL DEVICE SYSTEM INCORPORATING SAME
    Publication number: 20110277240
    Abstract: In one aspect, the invention is directed to a connector for connecting a medical device to a support member on a patient support device, such as a stretcher. The connector includes a support member connector that is fixedly connectable to the support member and a device connector for fixedly connecting to the medical device. The device connector is movable relative to the support member connector between a first position wherein the device connector is positioned to hold the medical device adjacent the patient support device and a second position that is inboard of the first position relative to the patient support device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Veso Tijanic, Joseph Fisher, Bryan Kowalchuk, Bryan Drew Miller, Kevin Ramkhelawan, Kevin Kowalchuk, Cliff Ansel, David Dunn, Ludwik Fedorko
  • N-(2-arylethyl)benzylamines as antagonists of the 5-HT6 receptor
    Patent number: 8044090
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), which are antagonists of the 5-HT6 receptor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Eli Lilly
    Inventors: Zhaogen Chen, Michael Philip Cohen, Matthew Joseph Fisher, Bruno Giethlen, James Ronald Gillig, Jefferson Ray McCowan, Shawn Christopher Miller, John Mehnert Schaus
  • SYSTEM FOR THE DETECTION OF RARE DATA SITUATIONS IN PROCESSES
    Publication number: 20110178963
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting a rare situation in a process described by a plurality of parameters, the apparatus comprising: a parameter value inputter, for inputting values of at least two interrelated parameters of the plurality of parameters, the interrelated parameters constituting at least one cluster, and a rare situation detector for detecting a rare situation according to an alert policy, the alert policy being based at least on an output value of an alert model, the alert model configured to provide the output value as a function of the input parameter values of parameters constituting the at least one cluster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2005
    Publication date: July 21, 2011
    Applicant: Insyst Ltd.
    Inventors: Jehuda Hartman, Joseph Fisher, Yuri Kokolov, Efim Entin