Patents by Inventor Nathaniel Sharpe

Nathaniel Sharpe 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: 20240367924
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transport device for a laboratory sample distribution system, the transport device comprising a top cover having a transport surface, the transport surface being adapted to carry sample container carriers, an electromagnetic actuation assembly, the electromagnetic actuation assembly being adapted to generate a magnetic field at the transport surface for magnetic drive-interaction with a sample container carrier placed thereon, a support structure for carrying the actuation assembly, a sensor board being arranged in between the support structure and the top cover, the sensor board being adapted to detect a position of a sample container carrier placed on the transport surface with respect to the transport device, and elastic elements which are biased in between the sensor board and the support structure so that the sensor board is held flush against an inside surface of the top cover by a biasing force resulting from the biasing of the elastic elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Nathaniel Sharpe, Matthew Nussbaum, Matthias Edelmann, Christopher William Bates
  • Patent number: 10330566
    Abstract: In illustrative implementations of this invention, a lensometer includes a small aperture camera for capturing an image of light that travels from a display surface, through a subject lens and to the camera. One or more computers are programmed to perform calculations that take the image as an input and that compute, for each respective region in a set of regions of the subject lens, a refractive attribute of the respective region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: EYENETRA, INC.
    Inventors: Matthias Hofmann, Vitor Pamplona, Nathaniel Sharpe, Monica Mitiko Soares Matsumoto, Guilherme de Moraes Uzejka, Meng Yang
  • Publication number: 20180038768
    Abstract: In illustrative implementations of this invention, a lensometer includes a small aperture camera for capturing an image of light that travels from a display surface, through a subject lens and to the camera. One or more computers are programmed to perform calculations that take the image as an input and that compute, for each respective region in a set of regions of the subject lens, a refractive attribute of the respective region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Matthias Hofmann, Vitor Pamplona, Nathaniel Sharpe, Monica Mitiko Soares Matsumoto, Guilherme de Moraes Uzejka, Meng Yang
  • Publication number: 20170172406
    Abstract: In illustrative implementations of this invention, a human user mechanically moves one or more moveable parts in a handheld controller, and thereby optically controls a mobile computing device. In illustrative implementations, the optical control is implemented as follows: A camera onboard the mobile computing device captures images. The images show the motion of the moveable parts in the handheld controller. A camera onboard the mobile computing device analyzes these images to detect the motion, maps the motion to a control signal, and outputs a control signal that controls a feature or operation of the mobile computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventors: Vitor Pamplona, Matthias Hofmann, Nathaniel Sharpe
  • Patent number: 8635731
    Abstract: A full mouth toothbrush for simultaneously brushing the facial, lingual, occlusal and incisal surfaces of all the maxillary and mandibular teeth is provided. The full mouth toothbrush can include a handle, a power source, a motor assembly, and a drive assembly. The full mouth toothbrush can further include a mouthpiece configured to collectively contact multiple surfaces of multiple teeth simultaneously that brushes and, thus, cleans the teeth and gums.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Garner, Heather Brundage, Nathaniel Sharpe, Alexis Hornstein, James Brewster
  • Patent number: 8631531
    Abstract: A device and method for brushing all surfaces of all of a user's teeth simultaneously. The device comprises bristle strip surfaces that envelope all of a user's teeth, the bristle strips comprising bristle bundles that scrub all surfaces of a user's teeth due to a reciprocating motion of the bristle strips. To use the device, a user inserts the toothbrush bristle strips into their mouth so to engage the user's teeth. A power source, motor, and drive assembly are utilized to cause the bristles to reciprocate, cleaning all a user's teeth surfaces simultaneously.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Inventors: Robert Garner, Heather Brundage, Nathaniel Sharpe, Alexis Hornstein, James Brewster
  • Publication number: 20130014331
    Abstract: A full mouth toothbrush for simultaneously brushing the facial, lingual, occlusal and incisal surfaces of all the maxillary and mandibular teeth is provided. The full mouth toothbrush can include a handle, a power source, a motor assembly, and a drive assembly. The full mouth toothbrush can further include a mouthpiece configured to collectively contact multiple surfaces of multiple teeth simultaneously that brushes and, thus, cleans the teeth and gums.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2011
    Publication date: January 17, 2013
    Inventors: Robert Garner, Heather Brundage, Nathaniel Sharpe, Alexis Hornstein, James Brewster
  • Patent number: 7761345
    Abstract: An information sorting decision aid which aids a decisionmaker through the second stage of decision-making of choosing from a large variety of similar products through the use of a graphical preference mechanism together with locally executed recommendation and display logic. A novel combination of a user interface comprising several sliders with Rackham's hypothesis and with a novel weighted matching algorithm to rank products is presented. Each product or service is given a score based on how well its feature strengths match the needs of a user of a system of the invention as expressed by the positions of the sliders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Socrates Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Sean Christopher Martin, David William Nathaniel Sharp