Patents by Inventor Joseph Karls

Joseph Karls 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).

  • Publication number: 20250120595
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine an injury risk score for a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: determine, at individual instances based on output signals generated by a sensor group, parameter values for a parameter set including a load parameter, a form parameter, a fitness parameter, a fatigue parameter, and an environment parameter; obtain individual injury reports that characterize individual onsets and/or aggravations of injuries experienced by the subject during manual manipulation of one or more of the loads; determine correlations between the parameter values for the parameter set and the injury reports; determine weighted parameter values for the parameters of the parameter set based on the correlations; and determine an injury risk score for the subject by aggregating the weighted parameter values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 12172938
    Abstract: In an agricultural product, a seed is contained within a composite coating. The composite coating has successive layers, and one or more of the layers can include fertilizer, a binder, and/or lime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Central Garden & Pet Company
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Wipff, III, Kenneth W. Hignight, Debra L. Hignight
  • Patent number: 12144659
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a risk factor related to dehydration and thermal stress of a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by one or more sensors worn on a body of a subject, conveying information related to one or more of location of the subject, motion of the subject, temperature of the subject, cardiovascular parameters of the subject; store information related to the subject; obtain the output signals; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of a water loss metric that correlates with estimated percentage of bodyweight of the subject lost in water; obtain heat index information for a contextual environment surrounding the subject; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of an exertion metric that correlates with exertion of the subject due to work; and determine in an ongoing manner values for an aggregated risk factor of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: GoX Studio, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Publication number: 20230346321
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a risk factor related to dehydration and thermal stress of a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by one or more sensors worn on a body of a subject, conveying information related to one or more of location of the subject, motion of the subject, temperature of the subject, cardiovascular parameters of the subject; store information related to the subject; obtain the output signals; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of a water loss metric that correlates with estimated percentage of bodyweight of the subject lost in water; obtain heat index information for a contextual environment surrounding the subject; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of an exertion metric that correlates with exertion of the subject due to work; and determine in an ongoing manner values for an aggregated risk factor of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Publication number: 20230334971
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide a watch as a dashboard of a plurality of components by utilizing a mesh protocol are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by a module group of one or more modules, configured to conveying information related to the subject, wherein the one or more modules are configured by a mesh protocol to communicate the information via wireless communication; by one or more processors of a watch: receive wireless communication from at least a first module via the mesh protocol; obtain the output signals from the module group based on the mesh protocol; perform analysis on the output signals to determine values to one or more metrics related to the subject; and effectuate, via a user interface of the watch, presentation of the values, wherein the watch includes one or more sensors, and a transmitter receiver that communicates via the mesh protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 11701063
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a risk factor related to dehydration and thermal stress of a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by one or more sensors worn on a body of a subject, conveying information related to one or more of location of the subject, motion of the subject, temperature of the subject, cardiovascular parameters of the subject; store information related to the subject; obtain the output signals; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of a water loss metric that correlates with estimated percentage of bodyweight of the subject lost in water; obtain heat index information for a contextual environment surrounding the subject; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of an exertion metric that correlates with exertion of the subject due to work; and determine in an ongoing manner values for an aggregated risk factor of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: GoX Studio, Inc
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 11676467
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide a watch as a dashboard of a plurality of components by utilizing a mesh protocol are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by a module group of one or more modules, configured to conveying information related to the subject, wherein the one or more modules are configured by a mesh protocol to communicate the information via wireless communication; by one or more processors of a watch: receive wireless communication from at least a first module via the mesh protocol; obtain the output signals from the module group based on the mesh protocol; perform analysis on the output signals to determine values to one or more metrics related to the subject; and effectuate, via a user interface of the watch, presentation of the values, wherein the watch includes one or more sensors, and a transmitter receiver that communicates via the mesh protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: GoX Studio, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 11447431
    Abstract: In an agricultural product, a seed is contained within a composite coating. The composite coating has successive layers, and one or more of the layers can include fertilizer, a binder, and/or lime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: Central Garden & Pet Company
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Wipff, III, Kenneth W. Hignight, Debra L. Hignight
  • Patent number: 11324160
    Abstract: In an agricultural product, a seed is contained within a composite coating. The composite coating has successive layers, and one or more of the layers can include fertilizer, a binder, and/or lime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: Central Garden & Pet Company
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Wipff, III, Kenneth W. Hignight, Debra L. Hignight
  • Publication number: 20220125387
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a risk factor related to dehydration and thermal stress of a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by one or more sensors worn on a body of a subject, conveying information related to one or more of location of the subject, motion of the subject, temperature of the subject, cardiovascular parameters of the subject; store information related to the subject; obtain the output signals; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of a water loss metric that correlates with estimated percentage of bodyweight of the subject lost in water; obtain heat index information for a contextual environment surrounding the subject; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of an exertion metric that correlates with exertion of the subject due to work; and determine in an ongoing manner values for an aggregated risk factor of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Publication number: 20220084682
    Abstract: Systems and methods configured to provide indications of a subject's fitness based on values of a fitness metric for the subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain fitness information related to the subject; present, based on a change in the first value indicating a decline in the real-time state of health, a first notification of the first value via a watch wearable by the subject; present, based on the change in the first value indicating the decline in the real-time state of health, a second notification related to the subject via a second watch wearable by a second subject and/or a client computing platform associated with an administrator; and present, based on a change in the second value indicating a decline in the future state of health, a third notification via the watch, one or more other watches, and/or the client computing platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Publication number: 20220036712
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide a watch as a dashboard of a plurality of components by utilizing a mesh protocol are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by a module group of one or more modules, configured to conveying information related to the subject, wherein the one or more modules are configured by a mesh protocol to communicate the information via wireless communication; by one or more processors of a watch: receive wireless communication from at least a first module via the mesh protocol; obtain the output signals from the module group based on the mesh protocol; perform analysis on the output signals to determine values to one or more metrics related to the subject; and effectuate, via a user interface of the watch, presentation of the values, wherein the watch includes one or more sensors, and a transmitter receiver that communicates via the mesh protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 11229407
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a risk factor related to dehydration and thermal stress of a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by one or more sensors worn on a body of a subject, conveying information related to one or more of location of the subject, motion of the subject, temperature of the subject, cardiovascular parameters of the subject; store information related to the subject; obtain the output signals; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of a water loss metric that correlates with estimated percentage of bodyweight of the subject lost in water; obtain heat index information for a contextual environment surrounding the subject; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of an exertion metric that correlates with exertion of the subject due to work; and determine in an ongoing manner values for an aggregated risk factor of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: GoX Studio, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 11205518
    Abstract: Systems and methods configured to provide indications of a subject's fitness based on values of a fitness metric for the subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain fitness information related to the subject; present, based on a change in the first value indicating a decline in the real-time state of health, a first notification of the first value via a watch wearable by the subject; present, based on the change in the first value indicating the decline in the real-time state of health, a second notification related to the subject via a second watch wearable by a second subject and/or a client computing platform associated with an administrator; and present, based on a change in the second value indicating a decline in the future state of health, a third notification via the watch, one or more other watches, and/or the client computing platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: GoX Studio, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Publication number: 20210378600
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a risk factor related to dehydration and thermal stress of a subject are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by one or more sensors worn on a body of a subject, conveying information related to one or more of location of the subject, motion of the subject, temperature of the subject, cardiovascular parameters of the subject; store information related to the subject; obtain the output signals; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of a water loss metric that correlates with estimated percentage of bodyweight of the subject lost in water; obtain heat index information for a contextual environment surrounding the subject; determine in an ongoing manner, from the output signals, values of an exertion metric that correlates with exertion of the subject due to work; and determine in an ongoing manner values for an aggregated risk factor of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2020
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 11055979
    Abstract: Systems and methods to provide a watch as a dashboard of a plurality of components by utilizing a mesh protocol are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: generate output signals, by a module group of one or more modules, configured to conveying information related to the subject, wherein the one or more modules are configured by a mesh protocol to communicate the information via wireless communication; by one or more processors of a watch: receive wireless communication from at least a first module via the mesh protocol; obtain the output signals from the module group based on the mesh protocol; perform analysis on the output signals to determine values to one or more metrics related to the subject; and effectuate, via a user interface of the watch, presentation of the values, wherein the watch includes one or more sensors, and a transmitter receiver that communicates via the mesh protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: GoX Studio, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Karl Hitt, Robert Bruce Floersheim
  • Patent number: 9961103
    Abstract: A network-based appliance includes a mechanism to intercept, decrypt and inspect secure network traffic flowing over SSL/TLS between a client and a server. The mechanism responds to detection of a session initiation request message from the client, the message being received following establishment of a TCP connection between the client and server. The mechanism responds by holding the session initiation request message, preferably by creating a fake socket to a local process, and then diverting the request message over that socket. The TCP connection is then terminated, and the mechanism initiates a new session in initiation request message, all while the original session initiation request message continues to be held. The server responds with its server certificate, which is then used by the mechanism to generate a new server certificate. The new server certificate is then returned to the requesting client as the response to the session initiation request message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Ronald Becker Williams, Paul Coccoli, John William Court, Gregory Lyle Galloway, Matthew Joseph Kubilus, Steven Ashley Mazur, Joseph Karl Vossen
  • Patent number: 9386965
    Abstract: An ultrasound imaging system combines successive images of a time series to produce high-resolution ultrasound. A piecewise registration process and deemphasizing of high-frequency spatial components may be used to aid in the combination process. A high-definition image may be obtained with or separately from this process by combining different images obtained with different ultrasound frequencies. The images are weighted to accentuate the contribution of high-frequency ultrasound data at the leading edge of imaged structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
    Inventors: Ray Vanderby, Mon-Ju Wu, Joseph Karls, Sarah Kuehl, William A. Sethares
  • Publication number: 20160119374
    Abstract: A network-based appliance includes a mechanism to intercept, decrypt and inspect secure network traffic flowing over SSL/TLS between a client and a server. The mechanism responds to detection of a session initiation request message from the client, the message being received following establishment of a TCP connection between the client and server. The mechanism responds by holding the session initiation request message, preferably by creating a fake socket to a local process, and then diverting the request message over that socket. The TCP connection is then terminated, and the mechanism initiates a new session in initiation request message, all while the original session initiation request message continues to be held. The server responds with its server certificate, which is then used by the mechanism to generate a new server certificate. The new server certificate is then returned to the requesting client as the response to the session initiation request message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Ronald Becker Williams, Paul Coccoli, John William Court, Gregory Lyle Galloway, Matthew Joseph Kubilus, Steven Ashley Mazur, Joseph Karl Vossen
  • Patent number: 9027220
    Abstract: A rivet setting machine is provided. In another aspect, a linear displacement sensor directly senses and detects a position of a rivet-setting punch relative to a nosepiece of a rivet setting machine. A further aspect provides a control system and software instructions for sensing the relative position of a punch and nosepiece used by a programmable controller to determine and monitor a rivet setting position without use of a force sensor, motor current/voltage sensor, or a rotation sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Newfrey LLC
    Inventor: Joseph Karl Schlafhauser