Patents by Inventor Kevin Walker

Kevin Walker 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: 20240299806
    Abstract: A system for predicting a resting position of a golf ball may use ball tracking sensor data to identify an impact location of the ball. Modeling of ball movement following impact may be performed that incorporates measured ball impact physics, impact coordinates, and material properties of ground or objects to which the impact coordinates correspond and, together with historical shot data corresponding to the impact coordinates or an encompassing zone, bounce and roll behavior and/or final resting position predictions may be generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Applicant: PGA TOUR Enterprises, LLC
    Inventors: Barry Walker, Jeremy Craven, Jonas Henrik Gredenhag, Walter Kenneth Lovell, Kevin Kerr, Spencer Border
  • Publication number: 20240277735
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of treating Parkinson's Disease and/or Lewy body disease or disorder(s), including Parkinson's disease dementia and dementia with Lewy bodies, comprising administering to a subject ATH-1017.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 22, 2024
    Applicant: Athira Pharma, Inc.
    Inventors: Hans J. Moebius, Xue Hua, Kevin Church, William Walker, Leen H. Kawas
  • Patent number: 12064148
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a surgical instrument configured for attachment to a surgical device. The surgical instrument includes a distal region having a curved internal surface configured to mate with a curved external surface of the surgical device, a rotational locking feature that limits rotational movement of the instrument with respect to the surgical device, and an axial locking feature that limits axial movement of the blade with respect to the surgical device. Methods of using the surgical instruments include sliding the axial locking feature past a corresponding axial locking feature on the surgical device, locking the axial locking feature to the corresponding axial locking feature on the surgical device (thereby limiting axial movement of the elongated blade with respect to the surgical device), adjusting the position of the surgical device using the surgical instrument, and disengaging the axial locking feature (for example, by using a disengagement instrument).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: MIRUS LLC
    Inventors: Noah Roth, Wayne Gray, Kevin R. Strauss, Ryan O'Flaherty, Clint Walker, Antonio Terrell
  • Patent number: 12042512
    Abstract: The use of a composition which comprises lignosulfonate and is substantially free of elemental sulphur for the prevention and treatment of pathogenic and medical disorders in humans and animals. In some embodiments the lignosulfonate is radically polymerized. In some embodiments the composition is formulated as an animal feed additive or supplement. The disclosure also encompasses a method of preventing or treating a pathogenic or medical disorder in a human or animal subject by administering the composition to the subject in an effective dose to attenuate the pathogenic effect of a pathogen or other biological agent, thereby enabling the subject to mount an effective immune response to the pathogen or other biological agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Attenubiotics Inc.
    Inventor: Ralph Kevin Walker
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20240075058
    Abstract: The use of a composition which comprises lignosulfonate for the prevention and treatment of pathogenic and medical disorders in humans and animals. In some embodiments the composition is substantially free of elemental sulphur. In some embodiments the lignosulfonate is radically polymerized. In some embodiments the composition is formulated as an animal feed additive or supplement. The disclosure also encompasses a method of preventing or treating a pathogenic or medical disorder in a human or animal subject by administering the composition to the subject in an effective dose to attenuate the pathogenic effect of a pathogen or other biological agent, thereby enabling the subject to mount an effective immune response to the pathogen or other biological agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Ralph Kevin Walker, Sudha Bhavanam
  • Publication number: 20230345916
    Abstract: An insect dispensing system is described. The insect dispensing system includes a plate diverting structure supported by a frame. A first plate of the structure includes a set of channels and a second plate of the structure includes a set of apertures. The plates are aligned such that one end of each channel is aligned with one of the apertures. A population of insect pupae suspended in a liquid is dispensed into the set of channels via an inlet. As the liquid flows through the system, it is distributed among the set of channels, ultimately exiting via the apertures into a set of catch basins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Applicant: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Peter MASSARO, Angus KITCHELL, Johanna OHM, Martin LOZANO, Daniel GREELEY, Kevin WALKER
  • Publication number: 20230145048
    Abstract: In one or more implementations, body features of a subject can be tracked and a pose estimation produced using an unconstrained video sequence. The video sequence constitutes a physical record of the body features of the subject. A set of 2D coordinates corresponding to the body features of the subject can be received from a first neural network and 2D Keypoints are detected and transmitted to a second neural network. The second neural network can return corresponding depth estimation values, which can be processed to generate a set of 3D coordinates that correspond to the body features of the subject in camera space. Furthermore, one or more non-linear optimizations can be applied to fit a predetermined skeleton to the generate 3D Keypoints, and produce the pose estimation corresponding to the body features of the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Kevin Walker, Mike Rogers, Chris Bowles, Matthew Oakes, Mike Taylor, Vincent Drouard
  • Publication number: 20230022879
    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: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventor: Kevin Walker
  • Publication number: 20220280556
    Abstract: The use of compositions comprising lignosulfonate for attenuation of SARS-CoV-2 virus replication. The compositions can be used in methods for preventing and treating COVID-19 and other medical disorders caused by or associated with SARS-CoV-2 virus replication in humans and animals. In some embodiments the compositions are substantially free of elemental sulphur. In some embodiments the lignosulfonate is radically polymerized. In some embodiments the compositions are formulated as an animal feed additive or supplement. The disclosure encompasses compositions comprising lignosulfonate and methods of preventing or treating COVID-19 by administering compositions comprising lignosulfonate to human or animal subjects in an effective dose to attenuate the pathogenic effect of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventor: Ralph Kevin Walker
  • Patent number: 10949649
    Abstract: A method for locating and tracking facial features in an unconstrained video sequence includes: in a face-detecting process, delineating, with region-bounding coordinates, the face of the subject within an image selected from the sequence; detecting, in the selected image, a small set of landmarks, corresponding to the face of the subject, using a convolutional neural network, trained to take as input an image region corresponding to the face of the—subject and to return a set of coordinates at computational speeds approximating real time; projectively fitting a three-dimensional character model to the detected landmarks, and using the fitted model to estimate physical locations of additional landmarks, so as to provide a complete hypothesized set of facial landmarks; and in a feature tracker process, updating the hypothesized set of facial landmarks to improve convergence between predicted feature locations and their actual physical locations based on data sampled from the selected image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Image Metrics, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Walker, Mike Rogers, Mike Taylor, Matthew Oakes, Vincent Drouard, Carl Moore
  • Publication number: 20200272806
    Abstract: A method for locating and tracking facial features in an unconstrained video sequence includes: in a face-detecting process, delineating, with region-bounding coordinates, the face of the subject within an image selected from the sequence; detecting, in the selected image, a small set of landmarks, corresponding to the face of the subject, using a convolutional neural network, trained to take as input an image region corresponding to the face of the—subject and to return a set of coordinates at computational speeds approximating real time; projectively fitting a three-dimensional character model to the detected landmarks, and using the fitted model to estimate physical locations of additional landmarks, so as to provide a complete hypothesized set of facial landmarks; and in a feature tracker process, updating the hypothesized set of facial landmarks to improve convergence between predicted feature locations and their actual physical locations based on data sampled from the selected image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Inventors: Kevin Walker, Mike Rogers, Mike Taylor, Matthew Oakes, Vincent Drouard, Carl Moore
  • Publication number: 20200054670
    Abstract: The use of a composition which comprises lignosulfonate and is substantially free of elemental sulphur for the prevention and treatment of pathogenic and medical disorders in humans and animals. In some embodiments the lignosulfonate is radically polymerized. In some embodiments the composition is formulated as an animal feed additive or supplement. The disclosure also encompasses a method of preventing or treating a pathogenic or medical disorder in a human or animal subject by administering the composition to the subject in an effective dose to attenuate the pathogenic effect of a pathogen or other biological agent, thereby enabling the subject to mount an effective immune response to the pathogen or other biological agent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Ralph Kevin Walker
  • Patent number: 10501764
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of making compounds useful for production of paclitaxel and analogs or derivatives thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Board of Trustees of Michigan State University
    Inventor: Kevin Walker
  • Patent number: 10386013
    Abstract: An enclosure mounting assembly for mounting different sized enclosures onto support poles or flat support walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Walker, Nathan Potteiger
  • Publication number: 20180231175
    Abstract: An enclosure mounting assembly for mounting different sized enclosures onto support poles or flat support walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin Walker, Nathan Potteiger
  • Publication number: 20180132374
    Abstract: An enclosure assembly for housing printed circuit boards and related electrical components that provides secured component mounting in outdoor environments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Kevin Walker, Tod M. Harlan, Gottlieb Oyster, Nathan Potteiger
  • Patent number: 9967993
    Abstract: An enclosure assembly for housing printed circuit boards and related electrical components that provides secured component mounting in outdoor environments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2018
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact Development and Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Walker, Tod M. Harlan, Gottlieb Oyster, Nathan Potteiger
  • Patent number: D916929
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Audrey Lee, Kevin Walker, Dae-Han Yi
  • Patent number: D922727
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Inventors: Chad Simper, Kevin Walker