Patents by Inventor Kevin To

Kevin To 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).

  • Sports light having single multi-function body
    Patent number: 12007098
    Abstract: A sports lighting fixture including a single cast body which combines the functions of the base, heatsink, reflector housing, and interconnection gaskets, with many cast female holes that are later tapped with threads to eliminate the need for any nuts as fasteners. As a result, the single body becomes multi-functional. Channels may be cast into the single piece body to allow for heat pipes to be press fit. Several locations on the body may include tapped holes to attach mounting hardware (lens retainer), visors, power supply, and LED array printed circuit board. The body includes a cavity to receive a reflector. The reflector may be a single unit or segmented. The cavity may alternatively be coated with reflective material. The body incudes heat fins which extend from the back of the fixture and transition forward around the reflector cavity toward a front opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Sportsbeams Lighting, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin C. Baxter, Wei Cao, Jianjun Gu
  • High bandwidth control of turbofan/turboprop thrust response using embedded electric machines
    Patent number: 12006880
    Abstract: Systems and methods for high bandwidth control of thrust response for turbofan or turboprop engines are provided. Such systems and methods include an engine control system that processes a rate command and a feedback signal from an engine to generate separate fuel and electric machine control signals that respectively control fuel and electric machine dynamics of the engine to produce engine dynamics that result in desired thrust response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Harry Kirk Mathews, Jr., Stefan Joseph Cafaro, Brendon Leeker, Kevin Graziano
  • EGR pump system and control method of EGR pump
    Patent number: 12006896
    Abstract: A method of operating exhaust gas recirculation pump for an internal combustion engine including: providing an EGR pump assembly including an electric motor coupled to a roots device having rotors, the EGR pump operably connected to an internal combustion engine; providing an EGR control unit linked to the EGR pump assembly; providing sensors linked to the EGR control unit; determining if a motor speed is within a predetermined target in step S1 wherein when motor speed=predetermined target then; determining if a motor torque is within a predetermined target in step S2 wherein when motor torque=predetermined target then; determining if a motor temperature is within a predetermined target in step S3 wherein when motor temperature=predetermined target then; and maintaining operation of the exhaust gas recirculation pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Eaton Intelligent Power Limited
    Inventors: Douglas Anthony Hughes, Brandon Dennis Biller, Jim Kevin Spring, Jesse Drummond, Matthew Fortini
  • Hard-packaged safety needle device
    Patent number: 12005243
    Abstract: A hard-packaged safety needle device comprises a needle hub having a needle cannula extending therefrom and a hard needle enclosure including a needle cover and a cap. The needle cover has an elongated body and a ribbed surface configured to create an interference fit with a proximal portion of the hub. The cap includes a body having an open distal end, a closed proximal end, and a cavity defined by the open distal end and the closed proximal end, the open distal end of the cap abutting an open proximal end of the needle cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventor: Kevin M. Ryan
  • Two position medical handpiece seal
    Patent number: 12007030
    Abstract: A two-position handpiece coupling seal is provided. The two-position handpiece coupling seal includes a neck disposed at a first end that is configured to receive an implement. The two-position handpiece coupling seal has a first seal disposed about the neck of the two-position handpiece coupling seal. The first seal is configured to engage with a surface of a housing of a handpiece that uses the two-position coupling seal in a first position. The two-position handpiece coupling seal has a second seal disposed about a bore of the two-position handpiece coupling seal at a second end of the two-position handpiece coupling seal opposite the first end. The bore is configured to receive a driveshaft and the second seal is configured to sealingly engage with the driveshaft when the bore receives the driveshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Gyrus ACMI, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Cooper Edwards
  • Thermally managed storage system for a vehicle
    Patent number: 12005758
    Abstract: A thermally managed storage system for a vehicle that includes a partition structure that couples with and is expandable in a compartment of the vehicle. The partition structure includes a first wall fixed with the compartment and a plurality of second walls that are each moveable between a retracted position and an extended position. The plurality of second walls forms a space between the first wall and the plurality of second walls in the extended position. A casing is disposed in a space and selectively couples with a climate control system of the vehicle via a fluid connection with the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Hrecznyj, Michael M. Azzouz, Scott Nydam, Marcos Silva Kondrad, Kevin Wayne Preuss, Chris Robert Sculthorpe
  • Hinged needle shield and needle assemblies
    Patent number: 12005242
    Abstract: A needle shield assembly for use with a needle assembly is disclosed. The needle shield assembly includes an elongate needle shield comprising a shield portion, a hub connection portion and a bridge portion including a living hinge having a thickness. The bridge portion joins the hub connection portion and the shield portion. The hub connection portion includes a partially circular receiving ring having a diameter sized to frictionally receive a flange of a hub of the needle assembly. The shield portion includes two longitudinal walls defining a cavity and a needle assembling receiving cavity between the two longitudinal walls defining a recess. The shield portion is configured to pivot from an open position in which a needle cannula is exposed, to a closed needle protecting position in which a distal end of the needle cannula is within the longitudinal opening of the shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Kevin M. Ryan, Angela Huenerfauth
  • Reflector optics for a vehicle retrofit headlamp
    Patent number: 12007089
    Abstract: In an embodiment a reflector optical system includes a reflector body having a rotational symmetry about a longitudinal axis and including a first reflector optic portion having a substantially concave shape and a second reflector optic portion extending along the longitudinal axis, the first reflector optic portion facing the second reflector optic portion, wherein the first reflector optic portion includes a plurality of first reflective surfaces and the second reflector optic portion includes a plurality of second reflective surfaces in spaced light-receiving relation to the plurality of first reflective surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Seichter, Kevin Bayer, Hans Guenter Mayer, Ralf Lindner
  • User interfaces related to time with an editable background
    Patent number: 12008230
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally describe user interfaces related to time. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for displaying and enabling an adjustment of a displayed time zone are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for initiating a measurement of time are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling and displaying a user interface using a character are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling and displaying a user interface that includes an indication of a current time are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling configuration of a background for a user interface are described. In accordance with embodiments, user interfaces for enabling configuration of displayed applications on a user interface are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Teofila Connor, Aurelio Guzman, Eileen Y. Lee, Christopher Wilson, Alan C. Dye
  • Fluidic devices, systems, and methods for encapsulating and partitioning reagents, and applications of same
    Patent number: 12005454
    Abstract: The disclosure provides devices, systems and methods for the generation of encapsulated reagents and the partitioning of encapsulated reagents for use in subsequent analyses and/or processing, such as in the field of biological analyses and characterization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: 10x Genomics, Inc.
    Inventors: Rajiv Bharadwaj, Kevin Ness, Debkishore Mitra, Donald A. Masquelier, Anthony Makarewicz, Christopher Hindson, Benjamin Hindson, Serge Saxonov
  • Composite ultrasonic material applicators with individually addressable micro-applicators and methods of use thereof
    Patent number: 12005463
    Abstract: A material applicator for controlling application of at least one material on a substrate includes a housing and an array plate with an applicator array positioned within the housing. The applicator array has a plurality of micro-applicators and each of the plurality of micro-applicators has an ultrasonic transducer, a material inlet, a reservoir, and a micro-applicator plate with a plurality of apertures. The applicator plate is in mechanical communication with the ultrasonic transducer such that at least one material is ejected through the plurality of apertures as atomized droplets when the ultrasonic transducer vibrates the micro-applicator plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Motor Company
    Inventors: Kevin Ellwood, Mark Nichols, Wanjiao Liu, Christopher Seubert
  • Flexographic printing with repeating tile of randomnly-positioned feature shapes
    Patent number: 12007690
    Abstract: A method for fabricating a flexographic printing plate for printing image patterns including one or more uniform image regions includes defining a repeating tile having a pattern of feature shapes positioned at pseudo-random feature locations. A plate formation pattern corresponding to the image pattern is determined wherein the repeating tile is applied in a tiled arrangement to the uniform image regions. The plate formation pattern is used to form a flexographic printing plate, wherein regions of the flexographic printing plate corresponding to the uniform image regions of the image pattern include a pattern of raised features in positions corresponding to the feature positions in the repeating tile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
    Inventors: Thomas F. Kaltenbach, Kam Chuen Ng, James S. Honan, Kevin Edward Spaulding
  • Methods to control thermal variation during tube consumption in glass tube converting
    Patent number: 12006244
    Abstract: Methods for producing articles from a glass tube include securing a working end of the glass tube in a glass tube holder of a converter having a plurality of processing stations including a heating station and a forming station. An initial length of the glass tube includes a plurality of serial segments, each of the plurality of serial segments corresponding to one article and having an article number. The methods include heating the working end of the glass tube in the heating station, adjusting an amount of heating of the glass tube in the heating station based on the article number at the working end of the glass tube, and forming a feature of the article in the forming station. Adjusting the amount of heating based on the article number reduces variation in tube temperature, article dimensions, or both, from one article number to the next article number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Christelle Ruby Barnard, Joseph Michael Matusick, Kevin Patrick McNelis, Connor Thomas O'Malley
  • Direct data transfer system
    Patent number: 12007914
    Abstract: The present description concerns a system comprising a processor and an SDMA circuit of direct transfer of a data sequence between a source memory circuit and a destination memory circuit, a sub-region of the source circuit comprising the elements of a data array, the SDMA decoding computing kernel information called BIT_PATTERN of an elementary data pattern to be transferred defined from an elementary array having a predefined size smaller than the size of said data array and intended to identify an elementary array window of said array, each element of the elementary array comprising a bit capable of taking a state “1” or “0” according to whether the element belongs or not to said pattern, the SDMA recovering the data of said array associated with elements of the BIT_PATTERN having their bit at “1”.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventor: Kevin Mambu
  • Implantable medical device with varied composition and porosity, and method for forming same
    Patent number: 12005616
    Abstract: A method for forming a thermoplastic body having regions with varied material composition and/or porosity. Powder blends comprising a thermoplastic polymer, a sacrificial porogen and an inorganic reinforcement or filler are molded to form complementary parts with closely toleranced mating surfaces. The parts are formed discretely, assembled and compression molded to provide a unitary article that is free from discernible boundaries between the assembled parts. Each part in the assembly has differences in composition and/or porosity, and the assembly has accurate physical features throughout the sections of the formed article, without distortion and nonuniformities caused by variable compaction and densification rates in methods that involve compression molding powder blends in a single step.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: HAPPE SPINE LLC
    Inventors: Jeffery A. Farris, Kevin Lee Brown, Douglas B. Snell, Ryan K. Roeder, Mark G. Messman
  • Hydrodissection and posterior capsule opacification prevention during capsulotomy procedure
    Patent number: 12004999
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide hydrodissection and/or PCO prevention or reduction in a patient undergoing eye surgery. In one embodiment, the invention is a surgical device for cutting and excising a portion of tissue, for example in performing a lens capsulotomy. A capsulotomy tip is inserted into an eye through an incision in the surface of the eye. The capsulotomy tip includes a suction cup to provide suction to the lens capsule. Then suction is applied via the suction cup to secure the capsulotomy tip to the eye. In some embodiments, after the capsulotomy tip is secured to the lens capsule, a cutting element of the capsulotomy tip is used to cut a tissue of the eye. Fluid is pushed through the capsulotomy tip and the capsulotomy tip is removed from the eye. Moreover, disclosed is an intraocular lens (IOL) to be used in conjunction with the surgical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Centricity Vision, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Guild Keller, Thomas Haynes McGaffigan, Kevin L. Waltz, Thomas Milton McNicholas
  • Fire door system for conveyor
    Patent number: 12005280
    Abstract: In one or more arrangements, a system is presented for preventing the spread of fire through a conveyor opening in a fire wall. In one or more arrangements, a fire door system is connected to the fire wall and/or conveyor proximate to the conveyor opening. The fire door system includes a door assembly, a door frame assembly, and an actuator. The door frame assembly is connected to the fire wall, covers portions of the opening below the conveyor and between belts of the conveyor, and forms a door opening above the conveyor. The door assembly is configured to move between a closed position, where door assembly covers the door opening, and an open position, where the door assembly at least partially uncovers the door opening. The actuator is configured to cause the door to be moved to the closed position in response to fire.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: FORTYFIVE FABRICATION, LLC
    Inventor: Kevin Walker
  • Modular assembly for a portable hemodialysis system
    Patent number: 12005169
    Abstract: A modular assembly for a portable hemodialysis system may include a dialysis unit, e.g., that contains suitable components for performing hemodialysis, such as a dialyzer, one or more pumps to circulate blood through the dialyzer, a source of dialysate, and one or more pumps to circulate the dialysate through the dialyzer, and a power unit having a housing that contains suitable components for providing operating power to the pumps of the dialysis unit. The power unit may be selectively connected to the dialysis unit and provide power (e.g., pneumatic power in the form of pressure and/or to vacuum) to the dialysis unit for the pumps when connected to the dialysis unit, but may be incapable of providing power to the dialysis unit when disconnected from the dialysis unit. The dialysis unit and the power unit are sized and weighted to each be carried by hand by a human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Dean Kamen, Jason A. Demers, Michael J. Wilt, Kevin L. Grant, Shannon Prescott, David E. Collins
  • Shoe
    Patent number: D1030272
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: NIKE, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Becker
  • Anode assembly for a heat exchanger
    Patent number: D1030985
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Rheem Manufacturing Company
    Inventors: Robert Stuart Glass, Terence Sean Doyle, Juan Carlos Montanez, Owen Lewis Joyce, William Kevin Carpenter, Timothy Curtis Simmons, Alexander Adam Papp