Patents by Inventor Nathan McDonald

Nathan McDonald 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: 11986666
    Abstract: Illumination devices for impinging light on tissue, for example within a body cavity of a patient, to induce various biological effects are disclosed. Biological effects may include at least one of inactivating and/or inhibiting growth of one or more pathogens, upregulating a local immune response, increasing endogenous stores of nitric oxide, releasing nitric oxide from endogenous stores, and inducing an anti-inflammatory effect. Biological effects may include upregulating and downregulating inflammatory immune response molecules within a target tissue. Wavelengths of light are selected based on intended biological effects for one or more of targeted tissue types and targeted pathogens. Light treatments may provide multiple pathogenic biological effects, either with light of a single wavelength or with light having multiple wavelengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: KNOW Bio, LLC
    Inventors: Adam Cockrell, Jacob Kocher, David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble, Antony Paul van de Ven, Nathan Stasko, F. Neal Hunter, Rebecca McDonald
  • Publication number: 20240075312
    Abstract: Illumination devices for impinging light on tissue, for example within a body cavity of a patient, to induce various biological effects are disclosed. Biological effects may include at least one of inactivating and/or inhibiting growth of one or more pathogens, upregulating a local immune response, increasing endogenous stores of nitric oxide, releasing nitric oxide from endogenous stores, and inducing an anti-inflammatory effect. Biological effects may include upregulating and downregulating inflammatory immune response molecules within a target tissue. Wavelengths of light are selected based on intended biological effects for one or more of targeted tissue types and targeted pathogens. Light treatments may provide multiple pathogenic biological effects, either with light of a single wavelength or with light having multiple wavelengths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Adam Cockrell, Jacob Kocher, David T. Emerson, Michael John Bergmann, Thomas Matthew Womble, Antony Paul van de Ven, Nathan Stasko, F. Neal Hunter, Rebecca McDonald
  • Publication number: 20220054060
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for drawing blood from a user by skin puncture instead of venous puncture and storing it for analysis. The system includes a receptacle configured to engage an area of skin of the user at a blood draw location and store blood drawn from the user; a lancet device disposed within the receptacle configured to puncture the skin of the user at the blood draw location; a vacuum device configured to reduce a pressure within the receptacle such that the skin at the blood draw location is drawn into the receptacle before the lancet device punctures the skin, and to enhance blood flow while blood is drawn from the user; and a housing configured to house the receptacle, the lancet device, and the vacuum device. The receptacle, the lancet device, and the vacuum device may be modular and removably coupled with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Applicant: INVITAE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sean Emerson GEORGE, Nathan MCDONALD, Eric OLIVARES, Robert EVANS
  • Patent number: 11166658
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for drawing blood from a user by skin puncture instead of venous puncture and storing it for analysis. The system includes a receptacle configured to engage an area of skin of the user at a blood draw location and store blood drawn from the user; a lancet device disposed within the receptacle configured to puncture the skin of the user at the blood draw location; a vacuum device configured to reduce a pressure within the receptacle such that the skin at the blood draw location is drawn into the receptacle before the lancet device punctures the skin, and to enhance blood flow while blood is drawn from the user; and a housing configured to house the receptacle, the lancet device, and the vacuum device. The receptacle, the lancet device, and the vacuum device may be modular and removably coupled with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: INVITAE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sean Emerson George, Nathan McDonald, Eric Olivares, Robert Evans
  • Publication number: 20210267487
    Abstract: In an embodiment, there is provided a method of predicting respiratory motion in real-time. The method includes training, by a training module, a recurrent neural network circuitry in real time. The training is performed over a training time interval. The training is based, at least in part, on a training data set. The training data set includes a training number of measured position samples. The measured position samples are related to respiratory motion of a patient target region. The method further includes predicting, by the trained recurrent neural network circuitry, a future position of the patient target region at a future point in time based, at least in part, on a prediction data set. The future point in time is a look ahead time interval in the future relative to a prediction time interval. The prediction data set includes a prediction number of measured position samples.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Applicant: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    Inventors: Zhaoran Huang, Alex Hollingsworth, Clare Thiem, Nathan McDonald, Zhizhuo Liang
  • Publication number: 20200134563
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for the generation of a consolidated data repository report in order to visualize a consolidated and holistic view of the work for an entire organization. Such consolidated data reports may be transformed and modified to further enhance the visual and readability aspects of the report.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Publication date: April 30, 2020
    Inventors: W. Nathan MCDONALD, IV, Jordan M. ROSENBERG
  • Publication number: 20180028102
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method for drawing blood from a user by skin puncture instead of venous puncture and storing it for analysis. The system includes a receptacle configured to engage an area of skin of the user at a blood draw location and store blood drawn from the user; a lancet device disposed within the receptacle configured to puncture the skin of the user at the blood draw location; a vacuum device configured to reduce a pressure within the receptacle such that the skin at the blood draw location is drawn into the receptacle before the lancet device punctures the skin, and to enhance blood flow while blood is drawn from the user; and a housing configured to house the receptacle, the lancet device, and the vacuum device. The receptacle, the lancet device, and the vacuum device may be modular and removably coupled with the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Sean Emerson GEORGE, Nathan McDONALD, Eric OLIVARES, Robert EVANS
  • Patent number: 8680906
    Abstract: Apparatus for generating a truly random binary bit value in which the resistance of memristive devices serve as the analogue bit values. Resistance values and the randomness by which they are generated stems from the inherently non-uniform, irreproducible variations in the materials of which the system is composed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force
    Inventors: Nathan McDonald, Joseph E. Van Nostrand, Bryant T. Wysocki, Seann M. G. Bishop, Nathaniel C. Cady
  • Publication number: 20050065975
    Abstract: A document mapping system including a set of element classes, each element class having an associated set of documents elements and an associated set of format and mapping rules, identifying means for identifying one or more document elements within an original document, and mapping means for creating and displaying a map of document sections linked by labels representing the respective documents elements associated with those document sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2002
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventor: Nathan McDonald