Patents by Inventor Kevin Sexton

Kevin Sexton 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).

  • Patent number: 12370338
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an immersive distraction apparatus including an attachment portion including an engagement element and a front plate having two cut outs fitting lenses therein and a base portion coupled with the attachment portion having a display aperture sized to receive a device. The immersive distraction apparatus mountable on a surgical head frame using one or more connectors such that an immersive distraction therapy can be provided to a patient undergoing surgery via a virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: BioVentures, LLC
    Inventors: Erika Petersen, Mohamed Abdeldayem, Adria Abella Villafranca, Kevin Sexton, Joseph Sanford
  • Patent number: 12360081
    Abstract: A gas sensor device including a housing, a porous member through which the analyte gas is transportable in operative connection with the a of the housing to separate an inner chamber of the housing from the ambient environment, a gas sensor responsive to the analyte gas within the inner chamber, a source of pressure waves positioned within the inner chamber and spaced from the porous member so that any pressure waves emitted from the source of pressure waves that are transmitted out of the inner chamber are transmitted through the porous member, a sensor responsive to pressure waves, and circuitry in operative connection with the sensor responsive to pressure waves to relate a phase of a measured response of the sensor responsive to pressure waves to a state of blockage in the porous member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jerin Miller, Ryan Alan Sherry, Robert Kevin Sexton, Robert Eric Uber
  • Patent number: 12360080
    Abstract: A gas sensor device to detect an analyte gas in an ambient environment includes a housing including an inner chamber and a port, a porous member through which the analyte gas transports in operative connection with the port to separate the inner chamber from the ambient environment, a sensor responsive to the analyte positioned within the inner chamber, a source of pressure waves positioned within the inner chamber, a sensor responsive to pressure waves positioned within the inner chamber; and circuitry in operative connection with the sensor responsive to pressure waves to relate a response of the sensor responsive to pressure waves to a state of blockage in the porous member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jerin Miller, Ryan Alan Sherry, Robert Kevin Sexton, Robert Eric Uber
  • Patent number: 12055521
    Abstract: A method of detecting at least a blockage status in a porous member separating a measurement chamber of a device including a gas sensor positioned within the measurement chamber which is responsive to an analyte in an ambient environment to be sampled, includes emitting pressure waves from a pressure wave source which travel within the measurement chamber, measuring a first response via a first sensor responsive to pressure waves positioned at a first position within the measurement chamber, measuring a second response via a second sensor at a second position, different from the first position, and in fluid connection with the pressure wave source, determining the blockage status of the porous member based upon a functional relation of the first response and the second response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Sexton, Nicholas Emidio Ciccone, Jerin Miller
  • Publication number: 20240189540
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an immersive distraction apparatus including an attachment portion including an engagement element and a front plate having two cut outs fitting lenses therein and a base portion coupled with the attachment portion having a display aperture sized to receive a device. The immersive distraction apparatus mountable on a surgical head frame using one or more connectors such that an immersive distraction therapy can be provided to a patient undergoing surgery via a virtual reality environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Erika Petersen, Mohamed Abdeldayem, Adria Abella Villafranca, Kevin Sexton, Joseph Sanford
  • Patent number: 11911569
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an immersive distraction apparatus including an attachment portion including an engagement element and a front plate having two cut outs fitting lenses therein and a base portion coupled with the attachment portion having a display aperture sized to receive a device. The immersive distraction apparatus mountable on a surgical head frame using one or more connectors such that an immersive distraction therapy can be provided to a patient undergoing surgery via a virtual reality environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BIOVENTURES, LLC
    Inventors: Erika Petersen, Mohamed Abdeldayem, Adria Abella Villafranca, Kevin Sexton, Joseph Sanford
  • Publication number: 20230191059
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an endotracheal tube cuff having a first layer, a second layer, and one or more sensors in a space between the first and second layers. The one or more sensors are operable to measure pressure between the endotracheal tube cuff and a tracheal wall of a patient. Also disclosed herein are methods of detecting a leak and preventing ischemia using the endotracheal tube cuff.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: THOMAS NIENABER, ADRIA ABELLA VILLAFRANCA, KEVIN SEXTON, JOSEPH SANFORD, SARAH PEREZ
  • Publication number: 20230165520
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for non-invasively predicting a hemodynamic state and/or an anesthetic depth of a patient, such as a pediatric patient. The method may include receiving a peripheral venous pressure (PVP) waveform from the patient, cleaning the PVP waveform, transforming the PVP waveform into the frequency domain, and automatically predicting the hemodynamic state and/or the anesthetic depth of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: KEVIN SEXTON, JINGXIAN WU, MORTEN JENSEN, HANNA JENSEN, MELVIN DASSINGER, III, KAYLEE HENRY, JOSEPH SANFORD, ALI AL-ALAWI, PATRICK BONASSO
  • Publication number: 20220349862
    Abstract: A method of detecting at least a blockage status in a porous member separating a measurement chamber of a device including a gas sensor positioned within the measurement chamber which is responsive to an analyte in an ambient environment to be sampled, includes emitting pressure waves from a pressure wave source which travel within the measurement chamber, measuring a first response via a first sensor responsive to pressure waves positioned at a first position within the measurement chamber, measuring a second response via a second sensor at a second position, different from the first position, and in fluid connection with the pressure wave source, determining the blockage status of the porous member based upon a functional relation of the first response and the second response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Sexton, Nicholas Emidio Ciccone, Jerin Miller
  • Patent number: 11482859
    Abstract: A system includes a two-conductor loop in which the loop current or current signal is controlled by a loop current controller to be proportional to a signal output from a sensor. The system further includes energy harvesting circuity in electrical connection with the two-conductor loop which includes a second current controller in parallel electrical connection with the loop current controller and a power converter in electrical connection with the second current controller. The second current controls a portion of current drawn from the two-conductor loop and delivered to the power converter from an output port thereof. The portion of the current drawn from the two-conductor loop is returned to the loop current controller from the energy harvesting circuit. Noise in the portion of the current drawn from the two-conductor loop by the second current controller is controlled by the second current controller to be below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Sexton, Mark Flori Zanella, Sr.
  • Patent number: 11415562
    Abstract: A method of detecting at least a blockage status in a porous member separating a measurement chamber of a device including a gas sensor positioned within the measurement chamber which is responsive to an analyte in an ambient environment to be sampled, includes emitting pressure waves from a pressure wave source which travel within the measurement chamber, measuring a first response via a first sensor responsive to pressure waves positioned at a first position within the measurement chamber, measuring a second response via a second sensor at a second position, different from the first position, and in fluid connection with the pressure wave source, determining the blockage status of the porous member based upon a functional relation of the first response and the second response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Sexton, Nicholas Emidio Ciccone, Jerin Miller
  • Publication number: 20220031997
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is an immersive distraction apparatus including an attachment portion including an engagement element and a front plate having two cut outs fitting lenses therein and a base portion coupled with the attachment portion having a display aperture sized to receive a device. The immersive distraction apparatus mountable on a surgical head frame using one or more connectors such that an immersive distraction therapy can be provided to a patient undergoing surgery via a virtual reality environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Erika Petersen, Mohamed Abdeldayem, Adria Abella Villafranca, Kevin Sexton, Joseph Sanford
  • Publication number: 20210111557
    Abstract: A system includes a two-conductor loop in which the loop current or current signal is controlled by a loop current controller to be proportional to a signal output from a sensor. The system further includes energy harvesting circuity in electrical connection with the two-conductor loop which includes a second current controller in parallel electrical connection with the loop current controller and a power converter in electrical connection with the second current controller. The second current controls a portion of current drawn from the two-conductor loop and delivered to the power converter from an output port thereof. The portion of the current drawn from the two-conductor loop is returned to the loop current controller from the energy harvesting circuit. Noise in the portion of the current drawn from the two-conductor loop by the second current controller is controlled by the second current controller to be below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Publication date: April 15, 2021
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Sexton, Mark Flori Zanella, SR.
  • Patent number: 10897133
    Abstract: A system includes a two-conductor loop in which the loop current or current signal is controlled by a loop current controller to be proportional to a signal output from a sensor. The system further includes energy harvesting circuitry in electrical connection with the two-conductor loop which includes a second current controller in parallel electrical connection with the loop current controller and a power converter in electrical connection with the second current controller. The second current controls a portion of current drawn from the two-conductor loop and delivered to the power converter from an output port thereof. The portion of the current drawn from the two-conductor loop is returned to the loop current controller from the energy harvesting circuit. Noise in the portion of the current drawn from the two-conductor loop by the second current controller is controlled by the second current controller to be below a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: MSA TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Sexton, Mark Flori Zanella, Sr.
  • Publication number: 20200400615
    Abstract: A gas sensor device including a housing, a porous member through which the analyte gas is transportable in operative connection with the a of the housing to separate an inner chamber of the housing from the ambient environment, a gas sensor responsive to the analyte gas within the inner chamber, a source of pressure waves positioned within the inner chamber and spaced from the porous member so that any pressure waves emitted from the source of pressure waves that are transmitted out of the inner chamber are transmitted through the porous member, a sensor responsive to pressure waves, and circuitry in operative connection with the sensor responsive to pressure waves to relate a phase of a measured response of the sensor responsive to pressure waves to a state of blockage in the porous member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: JERIN MILLER, RYAN ALAN SHERRY, ROBERT KEVIN SEXTON, ROBERT ERIC UBER
  • Publication number: 20200393415
    Abstract: A gas sensor device to detect an analyte gas in an ambient environment includes a housing including an inner chamber and a port, a porous member through which the analyte gas transports in operative connection with the port to separate the inner chamber from the ambient environment, a sensor responsive to the analyte positioned within the inner chamber, a source of pressure waves positioned within the inner chamber, a sensor responsive to pressure waves positioned within the inner chamber; and circuitry in operative connection with the sensor responsive to pressure waves to relate a response of the sensor responsive to pressure waves to a state of blockage in the porous member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: JERIN MILLER, RYAN ALAN SHERRY, ROBERT KEVIN SEXTON, ROBERT ERIC UBER
  • Publication number: 20200363306
    Abstract: A method of detecting at least a blockage status in a porous member separating a measurement chamber of a device including a gas sensor positioned within the measurement chamber which is responsive to an analyte in an ambient environment to be sampled, includes emitting pressure waves from a pressure wave source which travel within the measurement chamber, measuring a first response via a first sensor responsive to pressure waves positioned at a first position within the measurement chamber, measuring a second response via a second sensor at a second position, different from the first position, and in fluid connection with the pressure wave source, determining the blockage status of the porous member based upon a functional relation of the first response and the second response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Robert Kevin Sexton, Nicholas Emidio Ciccone, Jerin Miller
  • Patent number: 10788458
    Abstract: A method of detecting at least a partial blockage in a porous member separating an inner chamber of a device having a gas sensor responsive to an analyte positioned within the inner chamber and an ambient environment includes emitting pressure waves within the inner chamber and measuring a change in phase of a response via a sensor responsive to pressure waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jerin Miller, Ryan Alan Sherry, Robert Kevin Sexton, Robert Eric Uber
  • Patent number: 10788457
    Abstract: A method of detecting at least a partial blockage in a porous member separating an inner chamber of a device having a gas sensor responsive to an analyte positioned within the inner chamber and an ambient environment includes emitting pressure waves within the inner chamber and measuring a response via a sensor responsive to pressure waves positioned within the inner chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Jerin Miller, Ryan Alan Sherry, Robert Kevin Sexton, Robert Eric Uber
  • Publication number: 20200179601
    Abstract: One aspect of the present disclosure is a system for hemodynamic resuscitation. The system includes an intravenous access device having a pressure sensor element configured to detect a peripheral venous pressure value in response to an occlusion of a peripheral vein. The system also includes a controller device that is configured to receive a signal from the pressure sensor comprising the peripheral venous pressure value, to process the signal to determine a hemodynamic parameter based on the peripheral venous pressure value, and to generate a resuscitation score based on the hemodynamic parameter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin Sexton, Susan Eagle, Kyle Hocking, Franz Baudenbacher, Colleen Brophy, Richard Boyer