Patents by Inventor Nicholas A. Allen

Nicholas A. Allen 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: 20240130091
    Abstract: Techniques for mitigating loss of vaporized working fluid in a two-phase immersion cooling system may be implemented using one or more supplemental condensers that facilitate condensation of vaporized working fluid when the immersion tank is open, and one or more vapor collection points that are in fluid communication with at least one supplemental condenser. One or more fluid displacement devices may be configured to create suction pressure at the one or more vapor collection points. One or more vents may be positioned in the door. The one or more vents may be configured to permit movement of air from outside the immersion tank into an interior portion of the immersion tank without permitting loss of vaporized working fluid. A directional blowing device may be configured to blow a gaseous substance against a computing device in a downward direction as the computing device is being pulled upward out of the immersion tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Andrew KEEHN, Ioannis MANOUSAKIS, Winston Allen SAUNDERS, Husam Atallah ALISSA, Eric Clarence PETERSON
  • Publication number: 20240122706
    Abstract: A replacement heart valve prosthesis is loaded onto a balloon mounted onto a balloon shaft of a catheter system. The balloon shaft is rotatably engaged with an actuator on the handle of the catheter system. Rotation of the actuator by a first amount in a first direction permits rotation of the heart valve prosthesis by a known amount during the procedure so that alignment of the commissures of the replacement valve with the commissures of the existing valve can be predictably achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Jason L. Quill, Dannah Dean, Cameron James Albin Murto, Edward James Anderson, Brad James Traeger, Payton Kristine Parmett, Nicholas Weldon Pensa, Joseph Allen Duerr
  • Publication number: 20240117419
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a particle comprising a magnetic material and a carbon layer on the outer surface of the magnetic material. The carbon layer may comprise graphite, such as Graphite from the University of Idaho Thermolyzed Asphalt Reaction (GUITAR). The particle may further comprise a single stranded nucleic acid moiety, such as single stranded DNA or single stranded RNA, conjugated to the carbon layer. The disclosed particles are useful as nucleic acid sensors, PCR reagents, and in nucleic acid synthesis applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: I. Francis Cheng, Dipak Koirala, Peter B. Allen, Forrest Dalbec, Jeremy May, Kailash Hamal, Nolan Nicholas
  • Publication number: 20240110333
    Abstract: A process for separating trichomes from non-trichome materials, and more particularly to a process using water to wet the mixture and/or using one or more of a screen, an enzyme, a hydrocylone, and flotation to extract the trichomes from non-trichome materials.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Raul Victorino Nunes, Nicholas William Geary, Jason Allen Stamper, Bryan Keith Waye, Khosrow Parviz Mohammadi
  • Patent number: 11946397
    Abstract: An engine system optionally including: a crankcase of an engine having a blow-by gas passing therethrough; a liquid source containing a liquid; and an oil separating apparatus in fluid communication with the blow-by gas. The oil separating apparatus having a coalescing filter to separate oil from the blow-by gas. Separate from the blow-by gas and the coalescing filter, the oil separating apparatus is in fluid communication with the liquid source to receive the liquid. The liquid is passed through the oil separating apparatus in a heat exchange relationship with the blow-by gas to maintain a desired temperature range for the blow-by gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Rodney Allen Lawrence, Brandyn A. Stack, Joshua Amiel Lehe, Nicholas Edwin Wainscott, Eric John Forthofer
  • Patent number: 11937929
    Abstract: Behavioral and mental health therapy systems in accordance with several embodiments of the invention include a wearable camera and/or a variety of sensors (accelerometer, microphone, among various other) connected to a computing system including a display, audio output, holographic output, and/or vibrotactile output to automatically recognize social cues from images captured by at least one camera and provide this information to the wearer via one or more outputs such as (but not limited to) displaying an image, displaying a holographic overlay, generating an audible signal, and/or generating a vibration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Catalin Voss, Nicholas Joseph Haber, Dennis Paul Wall, Aaron Scott Kline, Terry Allen Winograd
  • Patent number: 11939067
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods to enclose electrical contacts for de-icing equipment utilized on fixed-wing aircraft and rotary-wing aircraft, such as helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft. In some implementations, enclosing electrical contacts for a de-ice heater blanket may ensure that high-quality electrical connections are made between conductors of one or more de-icing cables and the electrical contacts of the de-ice heater blanket. Such high-quality electrical connections may be maintained even during aircraft operations conducted in below-freezing ambient environments, rainy and/or wet environments, dusty desert environments, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas Allen Torske
  • Publication number: 20240090915
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a high-powered compact ultrasonic transducer having an integral piezoelectric ceramic force sensing element utilized to enable enhanced tissue selectivity with a piezoelectric based transducer. Some implementations additionally or alternatively relate to methods and apparatus for driving ultrasonic surgical devices, such as methods and apparatus that modulate an amplitude of a drive signal, provided to an ultrasonic surgical device, in accordance with a selected tissue selectivity level. For example, the amplitude of the drive signal for a given tissue selectivity level can be varied with time in accordance with amplitude modification parameters that are particularized to the given tissue selectivity level. Some of those implementations additionally implement a corresponding duty cycle, for the drive signal, that corresponds to the selected tissue selectivity level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel J. Cotter, Prakash Manandhar, Nicholas Allen, Saurav V. Gupta
  • Patent number: 11934778
    Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for providing sentiment analysis of content. In order to determine the overall sentiment of content, a request is received by a sentiment analyzer, which then identifies a content identification number and retrieves comments associated with the content identification number. The sentiment analyzer pre-processes the comments, which includes removing all personal identifying information from the comments. The sentiment analyzer sends the pre-processed comments to a natural language processing service, and in turn, receives sentiment indications corresponding to the comments provided. Based on the sentiment scores, the sentiment analyzer generates a sentiment analysis and displays the sentiment analysis in the graphical user interface generated by the sentiment analyzer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Intuit, Inc.
    Inventors: Harpreet Singh Hira, Abhay Dhundiraju Sastry, Priyadarshini Rajendran, Sanmathi Sathyanarayana Naga, Tak Yiu Daniel Li, Majo Paulose, Jasen Paul Stine, Darpan Sharma, Nicholas Allen McHenry
  • Patent number: 11864785
    Abstract: Some implementations provide a high-powered compact ultrasonic transducer having an integral piezoelectric ceramic force sensing element utilized to enable enhanced tissue selectivity with a piezoelectric based transducer. Some implementations additionally or alternatively relate to methods and apparatus for driving ultrasonic surgical devices, such as methods and apparatus that modulate an amplitude of a drive signal, provided to an ultrasonic surgical device, in accordance with a selected tissue selectivity level. For example, the amplitude of the drive signal for a given tissue selectivity level can be varied with time in accordance with amplitude modification parameters that are particularized to the given tissue selectivity level. Some of those implementations additionally implement a corresponding duty cycle, for the drive signal, that corresponds to the selected tissue selectivity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Integra LifeSciences Enterprises, LLLP
    Inventors: Daniel J. Cotter, Prakash Manandhar, Nicholas Allen, Saurav V. Gupta
  • Patent number: 11855947
    Abstract: A server maintains a gallery of ephemeral messages. Each ephemeral message is posted to the gallery by a user for viewing by recipients via recipient devices. In response to a gallery view request from any of the recipient devices, the ephemeral messages in the gallery are displayed on the requesting device in automated sequence, each message being displayed for a respective display duration before display of the next message in the gallery. Each ephemeral message has an associated message availability parameter. Each ephemeral message is removed from the gallery, thus being unavailable for viewing upon request, at expiry of the corresponding message availability parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Allen, Donald Giovannini, Chiayi Lin, Robert Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20230277520
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising niacin, berberine, one or more of silymarin, silibinin, and Siliphos®, lipoic acid, taurine, and phosphatidylcholine. Such compositions are useful for treating or preventing obesity, metabolic and hepatic and neurodegenerative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Mark BROSSO, Nicholas Allen MOORE
  • Patent number: 11684618
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising niacin, berberine, one or more of silymarin, silibinin, and Siliphos®, lipoic acid, taurine, and phosphatidylcholine. Such compositions are useful for treating or preventing obesity, metabolic and hepatic and neurodegenerative disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: PROSTASIS, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Brosso, Nicholas Allen Moore
  • Publication number: 20220411078
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods to enclose electrical contacts for de-icing equipment utilized on fixed-wing aircraft and rotary-wing aircraft, such as helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft. In some implementations, enclosing electrical contacts for a de-ice heater blanket may ensure that high-quality electrical connections are made between conductors of one or more de-icing cables and the electrical contacts of the de-ice heater blanket. Such high-quality electrical connections may be maintained even during aircraft operations conducted in below-freezing ambient environments, rainy and/or wet environments, dusty desert environments, and so forth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventor: Nicholas Allen Torske
  • Patent number: 11531970
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide an image modality maintenance care package are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a solution predictor to predict a solution for servicing an imaging device based on the at least one of an error code or an identified issue and information related to previous solutions corresponding to the at least one of the error code or the identified issue. The apparatus further includes a care package generator to generate a customized data structure corresponding to the solution, the customized data structure including automated solutions to service the imaging device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sridhar Nuthi, Nicholas Allen, Deborah Babula
  • Patent number: 11531901
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide an image modality maintenance smart find are disclosed. The example method includes identifying an imaging device based on an image of the imaging device. The method further includes determining at least one of a make, a model, or a modality of the imaging device based on the identification. The method further includes identifying a fleet of imaging devices corresponding to the imaging device. The method further includes storing error information corresponding to an issue of the imaging device in correspondence with the fleet of imaging devices and update a model corresponding to the fleet based on the error information. The method further includes deploying the model to a device of a technician.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Sridhar Nuthi, Nicholas Allen
  • Patent number: 11522822
    Abstract: A server maintains a gallery of ephemeral messages respectively comprising visual media content, such as user-provided photographic content or user-provided video content. Each ephemeral message is posted to the gallery by a user for viewing by recipients via recipient devices. In response to a gallery view request from any of the recipient devices, the ephemeral messages in the gallery are displayed on the requesting device in automated sequence, each message being displayed for a respective display duration before display of the next message in the gallery. The gallery has a global gallery availability parameter, and each message has a gallery participation timer. The gallery is made unavailable for viewing upon expiry of the gallery availability parameter or upon expiry of the gallery participation timer of a last posted message in the gallery, whichever occurs first.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Snap Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas Allen, Donald Giovannini, Chiayi Lin, Robert Murphy, Evan Spiegel
  • Publication number: 20220370432
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions comprising niacin, berberine, one or more of silymarin, silibinin, and Siliphos®, lipoic acid, taurine, and phosphatidylcholine. Such compositions are useful for treating or preventing obesity, metabolic and hepatic and neurodegenerative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Mark Brosso, Nicholas Allen Moore
  • Patent number: 11427335
    Abstract: Briefly, the disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods to enclose electrical contacts for de-icing equipment utilized on fixed-wing aircraft and rotary-wing aircraft, such as helicopters and tiltrotor aircraft. In some implementations, enclosing electrical contacts for a de-ice heater blanket may ensure that high-quality electrical connections are made between conductors of one or more de-icing cables and the electrical contacts of the de-ice heater blanket. Such high-quality electrical connections may be maintained even during aircraft operations conducted in below-freezing ambient environments, rainy and/or wet environments, dusty desert environments, and so forth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: TEXTRON INNOVATIONS INC.
    Inventor: Nicholas Allen Torske
  • Publication number: 20220256972
    Abstract: Articles of footwear including a thermo-molded upper having a skin composed of one or more low melting point thermoplastic polymers. The skin may include at least one of: a base layer composed of a low melting point thermoplastic polymer and a grid layer including a yarn composed of a low melting point thermoplastic polymer. The uppers may be formed by placing a skin and an inflatable bladder into a mold cavity and heating the mold to a predetermined temperature. The inflatable bladder may be inflated such that the skin is pressed against an interior surface of the heated mold cavity to cause the skin to take on the shape of the internal surface of the mold cavity, thereby forming an upper for an article of footwear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald Daniel BECKER, Edward John MUSHO, Charles Griffin WILSON, III, Robert LEIMER, Howard Hunter BARNEY, Nicholas Allen GROENEWEB, Ian James HENNEBERY, Kelli Amelia GEORGE, Alistair HATHER, Carl ARNESE, Jacques PERRAULT