Patents by Inventor Nick Skelton

Nick Skelton 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: 11937955
    Abstract: An intermittent catheter package including a plurality of components and a catheterization tray configured to facilitate a catheterization procedure. The plurality of components include a urinary catheter fluidly connected to a urine-drainage bag and a sampling-port access device configured to fluidly connect to a urine-sampling port of the urinary catheter or the urine-drainage bag for aseptic collection of one or more urine samples. The catheterization tray includes at least a first compartment, a second compartment, and a third compartment configured to hold the plurality of components. The first compartment is configured to hold the urinary catheter. The second compartment is connected to the first compartment by an intercompartment connection. The second compartment is configured to hold the urine-drainage bag. The third compartment is configured to hold the sampling-port access device. Step-by-step instructions are incorporated into the catheterization tray to facilitate the catheterization procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: C. R. Bard, Inc.
    Inventors: Tracey E. Knapp, Eric A. Rehm, Nick Austerman, Sarah Skelton, Caroline Bunn, Robert M. Hine, Brandt Davis
  • Publication number: 20070168408
    Abstract: A parallel system for performing LMS coefficient adaptation includes a data memory, a tap memory, and two or more LMS hardware units. The LMS hardware units utilize data stored in the data memory and coefficients stored in the tap memory for performing multiple LMS coefficient adaptations in parallel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2006
    Publication date: July 19, 2007
    Inventors: Nick Skelton, Harald Bergh, Dake Liu, Tommy Eriksson, Niklas Persson, Stig Stuns
  • Patent number: 6714956
    Abstract: A system and method for accelerating least-mean-square algorithm-based coefficient adaptation which executes in one machine clock cycle one tap of the least-mean-square algorithm including data fetch, coefficient fetch, coefficient adaptation, convolution, and write-back of a new coefficient vector. A data memory stores an input signal. A coefficient memory stores a coefficient vector. A multiplication and accumulation unit reads the input signal from the data memory and the coefficient vector from the coefficient memory to perform convolution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2004
    Assignee: Via Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dake Liu, Stig Stuns, Harald Bergh, Nick Skelton