Patents by Inventor Kevin Marks

Kevin Marks 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: 20240206965
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a medical probe including an expandable basket assembly. The basket assembly includes a spine, and the spine includes a deformed region, a spine protrusion, that can be used to deposit an electrode. The electrode can be formed of an electrode assembly that can include an insulative layer and an electrode layer. The electrode assembly is deposed on the spine protrusion so as to avoid the need of separate electrode components that must be positioned along the length of the spine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Ishan KHAN, Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Assaf GOVARI
  • Publication number: 20240198954
    Abstract: A door interface system for a vehicle door includes a sensor and a visual indicator. The sensor may be a proximity sensor and may be positioned proximate to the visual indicator such that it will detect an object proximate to the proximity sensor. The visual indicator may convey the position of the sensor and/or a status of the vehicle door. The door interface system is configured to control the vehicle door based at least in part on detecting an object proximate the visual indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Zoox, Inc.
    Inventors: Auver Cedric Austria, Michael Moshe Kohen, Kevin Mark Karol, Ishan Sain, Amy Chong, Andrew Allen Haskin, Jingyi Zhang
  • Publication number: 20240197391
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes an expandable basket assembly for a medical probe, which may include a single unitary structure comprising a plurality of spines converging at a central spine intersection, the central spine intersection being positioned on a longitudinal axis of the expandable basket assembly at a distal end thereof. The plurality of spines may include a first layer and a second layer attached to the first layer and including a central cutout about the central spine intersection that exposes the first layer at the central spine intersection. The plurality of spine may include a central electrode attached to the first layer at the central spine intersection via a central aperture in the first layer at the central spine intersection. The second layer may be configured to articulate independently of the first layer at the central spine intersection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Applicant: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Thanh NGUYEN, Abubakarr BAH, Keshava DATTA
  • Publication number: 20240180614
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a spine member for an end effector, the spine member extending along a longitudinal axis from a proximal end to a distal end. The spine member includes a unidirectional proximal stop member to allow an electrode to slide in a direction distally but not proximally and a distal stop member to prevent an electrode from sliding past.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas KEYES, Nathaniel JENKINS, Kevin Justin HERRERA, Athanassios PAPAIOANNOU, Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Ishan KHAN
  • Patent number: 11971114
    Abstract: A solenoid adapter for a solenoid valve that permits use of different solenoids with different solenoid bowls is provided. Specifically, a reverse flow solenoid adapter enables use of a reverse flow solenoid with a forward flow solenoid bowl, while a forward flow solenoid adapter enables use of a forward flow solenoid with a reverse flow solenoid bowl. The adapters include a lower section to mount into a valve solenoid bowl, an upper portion including an adapter solenoid chamber to receive a solenoid, and flow-reversing passages that duct a vent passage flow path from the valve solenoid bowl to the adapter solenoid chamber such that the flow path transitions from a flow configuration of the valve solenoid bowl to a flow configuration required for the solenoid to function and returns to the flow configuration of the valve solenoid bowl as the path circulates back to the valve solenoid bowl.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Rain Bird Corporation
    Inventors: Kevin Mark Irwin, Kevin James Markley, Nicholas James Watts
  • Publication number: 20240133669
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a target to rotate about an axis; an excitation coil to carry an excitation signal; and a first sense coil to carry a sense signal induced by the excitation signal. The first sense coil comprises two or more lobes in one or more planes that are perpendicular to the axis. The two or more lobes comprise a first lobe at a first position relative to the axis and a second lobe at a second position relative to the axis. The second position is substantially the same radial distance from the axis as the first position is from the axis. The second position is at an angular distance of ? from the first position, where ?=180°±?/2, and ? is a measurement range for angular-position sensing (e.g., ?=60°) within a range of 50% to 150% of ?.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Ganesh Shaga, Kevin Mark Smith, Hwangsoo Choi, Surendra Akkina, Sudhneer Puttapudi
  • Publication number: 20240134656
    Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring, managing, and maintaining a distributed network of information handling systems. The system includes a first information handling system and a second information handling system. The first information handling system creates a software bundle. The second information handling system receives the bundle from the first information handling system, and executes an executable included in the bundle. The executable changes a configuration of the second information handling system from a first operating state to a second operating state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Streete, Kevin Marks
  • Patent number: 11957456
    Abstract: Patient support apparatuses include a frame, support surface, and a controller. The controller provides notification to a user of a service event relating to the patient support apparatus. The controller limits functionality of a component of the patient support apparatus based upon a severity of the service event. The controller may also, or alternatively, detect when a control is activated by a user and, in response to such activation, determine whether the patient support apparatus has been marked for use or marked for servicing. If marked for use, the controller responds in a first manner, and if marked for service, the controller responds in a different manner. In other embodiments, a method is provided for determining an order in which multiple patient support apparatuses should be service. In still other embodiments, the patient support apparatus automatically changes to an unusable configuration when in need of high priority service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu, Annie Désaulniers, Kevin Mark Patmore, Thomas Joseph Durlach
  • Patent number: 11912233
    Abstract: A door interface system for a vehicle door includes a sensor and a visual indicator. The sensor may be a proximity sensor and may be positioned proximate to the visual indicator such that it will detect an object proximate to the proximity sensor. The visual indicator may convey the position of the sensor and/or a status of the vehicle door. The door interface system is configured to control the vehicle door based at least in part on detecting an object proximate the visual indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZOOX, INC.
    Inventors: Auver Cedric Austria, Amy Chong, Andrew Allen Haskin, Kevin Mark Karol, Michael Moshe Kohen, Ishan Sain, Jingyi Zhang
  • Patent number: 11897597
    Abstract: Flap pressure shape biasing is disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a flight monitor to determine a movement parameter of an aircraft, the movement parameter corresponding to at least one of a Mach number of the aircraft, an airspeed of the aircraft, or a vertical acceleration of the aircraft, and a spoiler controller to adjust a position of a spoiler of the aircraft to reduce pressure on a flap based on the movement parameter by moving a pressure transition away from the flap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Kevin Mark Johnsen, Ryan L. Pettit, Heidi M. Haugeberg, Ryley Thies Ohlsen
  • Publication number: 20240031485
    Abstract: A method comprises establishing a communication session between an agent and at least one of a caller and a called party. The method comprises establishing a communication session between an agent and at least one of a caller and a called party and monitoring the communication session for one or more audit triggers. The method comprises detecting the one or more audit triggers. The method comprises, in response to detecting the one or more audit triggers, sending a notification to a client, the notification identifying one or more communication session auditing procedures available for the communication session. The method comprises receiving, from the client in response to the notification, a request to audit the communication session using at least one of the available one or more communication session auditing procedures. The method comprises performing the requested at least one communication session auditing procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas V. Curtin, Kevin Mark Beale, Daniel R. Cropp
  • Patent number: 11878095
    Abstract: A medical probe includes a shaft, an expandable membrane and a probe maneuvering assembly (PMA). The shaft is configured for insertion into a cavity of an organ of a patient. The PMA is located inside the expandable membrane and includes a first elastic element, which is fitted along a longitudinal axis of the PMA and is configured to expand the membrane by shortening the PMA, and to collapse the membrane by elongating the PMA. The PMA further includes a second elastic element, which surrounds at least a portion of the first elastic element and is configured to deflect the membrane relative to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas Beeckler, Joseph Thomas Keyes, Kevin Justin Herrera, Alexander David Squires, Kevin Mark Okarski
  • Publication number: 20230382165
    Abstract: A tire-inflation system for a small trailer may include a fluid pressure source mountable to the trailer, and air conduits providing sealed fluid communication between the air pressure source and the small trailer's pneumatic tires.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2021
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Mark Hennig, Benjamin Tyler Morgan, Thomas C. Musgrave, IV, Jonathan Gravell, James Raymond Snider, Charles Blanton Robertson, Steven R. Miller
  • Publication number: 20230362301
    Abstract: A system comprises an applications server configured to communicatively couple to a softswitch, a resource server, and a database. The applications server is configured to receive, from the softswitch, an indication that a call from a calling party directed to a called number was received and determine, in response to the indication that the call was received, whether to route the call to an available agent or to a speech-enabled intelligent script associated with one of the called number or the calling party. The applications server is configured to instruct the softswitch to route the call to the speech-enabled intelligent script in response to a determination to route the call to the speech-enabled intelligent script. The applications server is configured to instruct the softswitch to route the call to the available agent in response to a determination to route the call to the available agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas V. Curtin, Alena L. Aiken, Kevin Mark Beale, Wayne Paul Waldner, Daniel R. Cropp, Alan D. Tucker
  • Publication number: 20230346465
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes an irrigation hub for an ablation catheter comprising a cylindrical member extending along a longitudinal axis. The cylindrical member can comprise a proximal end having a first outer diameter and a recess extending inwardly along the longitudinal axis forming an interior portion, a distal end having a second outer diameter, the second outer diameter being less than the first outer diameter, and an irrigation inlet chamber disposed proximate the interior portion and configured to receive fluid from an irrigation supply. The cylindrical member can further comprise a plurality of irrigation openings disposed generally transverse to the longitudinal axis from a distal portion of the irrigation inlet chamber and a flow diverter extending into the distal portion of the irrigation inlet chamber to block fluid flow and redirect fluid flow out of the plurality of irrigation openings in a direction generally transverse relative to the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Mark OKARSKI
  • Publication number: 20230346464
    Abstract: A medical probe is presented including an expandable basket assembly coupled to a distal end of a tubular shaft. The basket assembly includes a cloverleaf cutout structure at its distal end and spines extending proximally from the cloverleaf structure and coupling to the tubular shaft. The cloverleaf structure includes a sinusoidal-like member extending from one spine to an adjacent spine in a direction around the longitudinal axis. The sinusoidal-like member meanders around a first, second and third virtual circle such that the first and third virtual circles are approximately the same distance from a longitudinal axis of the medical probe and approximately the same size and the second virtual circle is between the first and second virtual circles, closer to the longitudinal axis, and having approximately 90% of the first open area of the first and third virtual circles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Athanassios PAPAIOANNOU, Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Mark Okarski, Justin George Lichter
  • Publication number: 20230346461
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a spine retention hub for a basket type catheter, which may include a cylindrical member including a plurality of first irrigation openings, a first portion at a distal end of the spine retention hub having a first diameter, a second portion proximate the first portion and having a curved section with a first radius of curvature in a longitudinal direction, and a third portion proximate to the second portion at a proximal end of the spine retention hub, having a third diameter that is approximately three times the first diameter, a plurality of relief lands, and a plurality of brackets. Each bracket may be disposed at the proximal end of the spine retention hub, overlap a portion of a respective relief land, and may be, along with a respective relief land, configured to receive and retain a respective spine section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Abubakarr BAH, Thanh NGUYEN, Keshava DATTA
  • Publication number: 20230346455
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes a medical probe including a tubular shaft, a contact force sensor assembly, a spine retention hub, and an expandable basket assembly. The contact force sensor can include a first bayonet mount portion and the spine retention hub can include a second bayonet mount portion to couple the spine retention hub to the contact force sensor by interlocking with the first bayonet mount portion. The expandable basket assembly can include a plurality of spines and at least one electrode coupled to each of the plurality of spines. Each of the plurality of spines can be configured to bow radially outward from the longitudinal axis when the expandable basket assembly is transitioned from a collapsed form to an expanded form.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Athanassios PAPAIOANNOU, Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Mark Okarski, Justin George Lichter
  • Publication number: 20230346463
    Abstract: The disclosed technology includes an electrode for a medical probe having an elongated body. At least a portion of the elongated body can be electrically conductive. The elongated body can define a lumen that extends through the elongated body along a longitudinal axis of the elongated body. The electrode can include a locking stub that extends at least partially into the lumen so that the locking stub is locked to a member inserted into the lumen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Mark OKARSKI, Thanh NGUYEN, Abubakarr BAH, Keshava DATTA
  • Publication number: 20230346466
    Abstract: A medical probe is presented including an expandable basket assembly coupled to a distal end of a tubular shaft. The basket assembly includes a cloverleaf cutout structure at its distal end and spines extending proximally from the cloverleaf structure and coupling to the tubular shaft. The cloverleaf structure includes a sinusoidal-like member extending from one spine to an adjacent spine in a direction around the longitudinal axis. Dimensions of the sinusoidal-like member can be configured to provide a lateral stiffness of the expandable basket assembly within a predetermined range and a maximum peak stress during retraction of the expandable basket assembly into an intermediate catheter such that the maximum peak stress is less than a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Joseph Thomas KEYES, Kevin Justin HERRERA, Christopher Thomas BEECKLER, Athanassios PAPAIOANNOU, Justin George LICHTER, Kevin Mark OKARSKI