Patents by Inventor Kevin McCullough

Kevin McCullough 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: 20240070393
    Abstract: An online concierge system generates suggested instructions for presentation to a user. The online concierge system access instruction examples corresponding to a target item category and generates candidate instruction representations based on instruction messages within each instruction example. The online concierge system generates preliminary scores for the candidate instruction representations that are directly related to an intra-category frequency of use of the instruction tokens of the candidate instruction representation within the target item category. The online system normalizes these preliminary scores for the candidate instruction representations based on the inter-category frequency of use of the instruction tokens in all item categories to generate final scores for the candidate instruction representations. The online concierge system selects a set of instruction representations based on these final scores and generates suggested instructions based on the set of instruction representations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Shishir Kumar Prasad, Cameron Nicholas Taylor, John Salaveria, Joey Loi, Kevin McCullough
  • Publication number: 20240024673
    Abstract: Neuromodulation devices and methods of their use are described in which a therapeutic device is configured to generate a treatment for treating pain such as the reduction of the symptoms of chronic and acute pain as well as for treating other conditions. The neuromodulation device generates an output electrical signal in the form of pulses with a fast rise-time spike waveform followed by a longer-duration, lower amplitude primary phase waveform. The output signal includes a broad range of frequency components, with time constants tuned so as to interact with specific cell membrane or cellular components. The output signal may be conducted to the patient via electrodes. The pulses are triggered at variable intervals which prevent habituation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander B. Izvorski, Shaun Rahimi, Kevin McCullough
  • Patent number: 11801383
    Abstract: Neuromodulation devices and methods of their use are described in which a therapeutic device is configured to generate a treatment for treating pain such as the reduction of the symptoms of chronic and acute pain as well as for treating other conditions. The neuromodulation device generates an output electrical signal in the form of pulses with a fast rise-time spike waveform followed by a longer-duration, lower amplitude primary phase waveform. The output signal includes a broad range of frequency components, with time constants tuned so as to interact with specific cell membrane or cellular components. The output signal may be conducted to the patient via electrodes. The pulses are triggered at variable intervals which prevent habituation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hinge Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander B. Izvorski, Shaun Rahimi, Kevin McCullough
  • Patent number: 11157883
    Abstract: A computer-based method for determining an effect of operational readiness for a vehicle in a fleet of vehicles based on a component replacement simulation is described. The method includes querying, using a fleet performance optimization tool, a maintenance data database. The method also includes analyzing the data set using a power law process to predict a next component removal for each vehicle based on hours of operation for each vehicle. The method also includes determining an effect of operational readiness for the selected vehicle based on the simulation. The method further includes ranking each vehicle in the fleet of vehicles based on the operational readiness of each vehicle. The method also includes displaying, based on the ranking, the operational readiness of each vehicle on the user interface to facilitate actual replacement of at least one component on at least one of the vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANY
    Inventors: Shuguang Song, Ken D. Bouvier, Jay Kevin McCullough, Peter James Lake, Matthew Kyle Fay
  • Publication number: 20210008368
    Abstract: Neuromodulation devices and methods of their use are described in which a therapeutic device is configured to generate a treatment for treating pain such as the reduction of the symptoms of chronic and acute pain as well as for treating other conditions. The neuromodulation device generates an output electrical signal in the form of pulses with a fast rise-time spike waveform followed by a longer-duration, lower amplitude primary phase waveform. The output signal includes a broad range of frequency components, with time constants tuned so as to interact with specific cell membrane or cellular components. The output signal may be conducted to the patient via electrodes. The pulses are triggered at variable intervals which prevent habituation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: Thimble Bioelectronics, Inc. d/b/a Enso
    Inventors: Alexander B. IZVORSKI, Shaun RAHIMI, Kevin MCCULLOUGH
  • Patent number: 10792495
    Abstract: Neuromodulation devices and methods of their use are described in which a therapeutic device is configured to generate a treatment for treating pain such as the reduction of the symptoms of chronic and acute pain as well as for treating other conditions. The neuromodulation device generates an output electrical signal in the form of pulses with a fast rise-time spike waveform followed by a longer-duration, lower amplitude primary phase waveform. The output signal includes a broad range of frequency components, with time constants tuned so as to interact with specific cell membrane or cellular components. The output signal may be conducted to the patient via electrodes. The pulses are triggered at variable intervals which prevent habituation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Thimble Bioelectronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander B. Izvorski, Shaun Rahimi, Kevin McCullough
  • Publication number: 20190354939
    Abstract: A computer-based method for determining an effect of operational readiness for a vehicle in a fleet of vehicles based on a component replacement simulation is described. The method includes querying, using a fleet performance optimization tool, a maintenance data database. The method also includes analyzing the data set using a power law process to predict a next component removal for each vehicle based on hours of operation for each vehicle. The method also includes determining an effect of operational readiness for the selected vehicle based on the simulation. The method further includes ranking each vehicle in the fleet of vehicles based on the operational readiness of each vehicle. The method also includes displaying, based on the ranking, the operational readiness of each vehicle on the user interface to facilitate actual replacement of at least one component on at least one of the vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Shuguang Song, Ken D. Bouvier, Jay Kevin McCullough, Peter James Lake, Matthew Kyle Fay
  • Patent number: 10407605
    Abstract: A polymer composition that has an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 2.0 W/m-K or more is provided. The composition comprises 100 parts by weight of at least one aromatic polymer; from about 10 to about 50 parts by weight of an inorganic material having a hardness value of about 2.5 or more based on the Mohs hardness scale; and from about 20 to about 80 parts by weight of a thermally conductive particulate material having an average size of from about 1 to about 100 micrometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventors: Young Shin Kim, Kevin A. McCullough, Xinyu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20180154147
    Abstract: Neuromodulation devices and methods of their use are described in which a therapeutic device is configured to generate a treatment for treating pain such as the reduction of the symptoms of chronic and acute pain as well as for treating other conditions. The neuromodulation device generates an output electrical signal in the form of pulses with a fast rise-time spike waveform followed by a longer-duration, lower amplitude primary phase waveform. The output signal includes a broad range of frequency components, with time constants tuned so as to interact with specific cell membrane or cellular components. The output signal may be conducted to the patient via electrodes. The pulses are triggered at variable intervals which prevent habituation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: Thimble Bioelectronics, Inc. d/b/a Enso
    Inventors: Alexander B. IZVORSKI, Shaun RAHIMI, Kevin MCCULLOUGH
  • Patent number: 9862809
    Abstract: A camera module that comprises a molded part is provided. The molded part includes a polymer composition that has an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 2.0 W/m-K or more. The polymer composition includes an aromatic polymer and a thermally conductive particulate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Ticona LLC
    Inventors: Young Shin Kim, Kevin A. McCullough, Xinyu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20170029596
    Abstract: A camera module that comprises a molded part is provided. The molded part includes a polymer composition that has an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 2.0 W/m-K or more. The polymer composition includes an aromatic polymer and a thermally conductive particulate material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Young Shin Kim, Kevin A. McCullough, Xinyu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20170029682
    Abstract: A polymer composition that has an in-plane thermal conductivity of about 2.0 W/m-K or more is provided. The composition comprises 100 parts by weight of at least one aromatic polymer; from about 10 to about 50 parts by weight of an inorganic material having a hardness value of about 2.5 or more based on the Mohs hardness scale; and from about 20 to about 80 parts by weight of a thermally conductive particulate material having an average size of from about 1 to about 100 micrometers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Young Shin Kim, Kevin A. McCullough, Xinyu Zhao
  • Publication number: 20160314628
    Abstract: Methods and maintenance systems for use in analyzing data related to maintenance of at least one vehicle are disclosed. One example method includes retrieving, by a computing device, a plurality of diagnostic entries associated with at least one fault message from a database of diagnostic entries, each diagnostic entry including an identified corrective action and a date on which the identified corrective action was taken; identifying a plurality of groups of diagnostic entries, wherein the diagnostic entries in a group have a same corrective action, and each group has a confidence level associated with its corrective action; and weighting the confidence level for each group based on an age of the plurality of diagnostic entries in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventors: Steven David Chapman, Peter J. Lake, Jay Kevin McCullough
  • Patent number: 9396592
    Abstract: Methods and maintenance systems for use in analyzing data related to maintenance of at least one vehicle are disclosed. One example method includes retrieving, by a computing device, a plurality of diagnostic entries associated with at least one fault message from a database of diagnostic entries, each diagnostic entry including an identified corrective action and a date on which the identified corrective action was taken; identifying a plurality of groups of diagnostic entries, wherein the diagnostic entries in a group have a same corrective action, and each group has a confidence level associated with its corrective action; and weighting the confidence level for each group based on an age of the plurality of diagnostic entries in the group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Steven David Chapman, Peter J. Lake, Jay Kevin McCullough
  • Publication number: 20160104125
    Abstract: A method, computing system and computer program product provide additional information relating to maintenance actions to address an issue with a structure. For each maintenance action that has corrected an issue, a first group of structures in which the issue has reoccurred and a second group of structures in which the issue has not reoccurred are identified. The method then determines an actual correction duration value for each of the structures in the first and second groups, generates a correction duration estimate for the structures in the first group using the actual correction duration values and uses the correction duration estimate to identify a portion of the structures in the second group. The method also uses the actual correction duration values calculated for the first group and the identified portion of the second group to generate a fix duration estimate representing an overall time estimation for issue reoccurrence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Steven David Chapman, Peter Lake, Jay Kevin McCullough
  • Patent number: 9283617
    Abstract: A screw and method for processing metal, metallic alloys, and metal matrix composites in a plastic injection molding machine is disclosed. The screw includes shank with a screw shaft extending from the shank. The screw shaft includes a rear portion proximate to the shank, a middle portion proximate the rear portion, and a front portion proximate the middle portion. Flights extend from the rear portion of the screw shaft for advancing material through the plastic injection molding machine into the middle portion of the screw shaft. Flights may optionally be included in the front portion of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: COOL OPTIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Kevin A. McCullough
  • Patent number: 9044806
    Abstract: A method of metal injection molding on a plastics injection molding machine having a heated barrel with an increasing temperature gradient is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a metal alloy feedstock including a first metal alloy with a first melting point and a second metal alloy with a second melting point that is higher than the first melting point, the first metal alloy and the second metal alloy providing a gradient in composition of solids to liquids paralleling the temperature gradient of the heated barrel, feeding the first metal alloy and the second metal alloy into the plastics injection molding machine, heating the first metal alloy and the second metal alloy within the plastics injection molding machine to about 500-700° F./260-372° C.; and forming an equilibrium of about 5% to about 30% solids to liquids between the first metal alloy and second metal alloy within the heated barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: COOL POLYMERS, INC.
    Inventors: Kevin A. McCullough, James D. Miller
  • Patent number: 8997676
    Abstract: A trim vane assembly for amphibious armored vehicles and having a trim vane movable along a generally horizontal path between a deployed position in which the trim vane extends rearward from the vehicle and a stowed position in which the trim vane is positioned beneath the amphibious vehicle. In the retracted position, the trim vane movable is flush against or received within the vehicle bottom such that the trim vane supplements the belly armor. Similarly, the trim vane extends from or overlaps with the bottom of the vehicle when extended into the deployed position to provide continuous bottom face of the vehicle extending from the front of the vehicle to the end of the trim vane. Conventional trim vanes are rotated between a vertical orientation against the rear of the vehicle and a horizontal position extending from the rear of the vehicle reducing viscous drag.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: BAE Systems Land & Armaments, L.P.
    Inventors: Peter C. Chu, Michael Kevin McCullough, John J. Brownfield
  • Publication number: 20150039177
    Abstract: Methods and maintenance systems for use in analyzing data related to maintenance of at least one vehicle are disclosed. One example method includes retrieving, by a computing device, a plurality of diagnostic entries associated with at least one fault message from a database of diagnostic entries, each diagnostic entry including an identified corrective action and a date on which the identified corrective action was taken; identifying a plurality of groups of diagnostic entries, wherein the diagnostic entries in a group have a same corrective action, and each group has a confidence level associated with its corrective action; and weighting the confidence level for each group based on an age of the plurality of diagnostic entries in the group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Applicant: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Steven David Chapman, Peter J. Lake, Jay Kevin McCullough
  • Patent number: 8825276
    Abstract: Methods and maintenance systems for use in analyzing data related to maintenance of at least one vehicle are disclosed. One example method includes receiving at least one fault message, receiving a maintenance event log for a vehicle. The maintenance event log including at least one maintenance event associated with the at least one fault message. The example method further includes automatically identifying a corrective action within a most recent maintenance event of the at least one maintenance event and storing a diagnostic entry including the at least one fault message and the identified corrective action, such that the diagnostic entry is retrievable from the computing device to evaluate a subsequent like fault message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: The Boeing Company
    Inventors: Peter James Lake, Davis Scott Kinney, Anne Kao, Stephen R. Poteet, Steven C. Runo, Jay Kevin McCullough, Steven D. Chapman, Yun-Ho Sikora, David Charles Augustine