Patents by Inventor Norman A. Smith
Norman A. Smith 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).
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Publication number: 20240123260Abstract: The disclosed calibration method includes a calibration phantom positioned on an adjustable table on the surface of a mechanical couch, with the phantom's centre at an estimated location for the iso-centre of a radio therapy treatment apparatus. The calibration phantom is then irradiated using the apparatus, and the relative location of the center of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus is determined by analyzing images of the irradiation of the calibration phantom. The calibration phantom is then repositioned by the mechanical couch applying an offset corresponding to the determined relative location of the centre of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus to the calibration phantom. Images of the relocated calibration phantom are obtained, to which the offset has been applied, and the obtained images are processed to set the co-ordinate system of a stereoscopic camera system relative to the iso-centre of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Ivan Meir, Martin Allen, Gideon Hale, Norman Smith, Robert Howe
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Patent number: 11957359Abstract: A device for treating a tissue opening includes a proximal portion including an elongated flexible member, a capsule releasably coupled to a distal end of the flexible member and including a lumen extending therethrough and a clip including a pair of arms movably housed within the capsule. A suture extending along a first one of the pair of arms and including a loop at a distal end thereof extending across an opening extending through the first one of the pair of arms. A suture grabbing element extending laterally from a second one of the pair of arms and including a hook so that, when the pair of arms are moved toward a closed configuration, the hook extends through the opening to grab the loop and draw the distal end of the suture from the first one of the pair of arms toward the second one of the pair of arms.Type: GrantFiled: January 9, 2023Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Samuel Raybin, Paul Smith, Norman C. May, Narunn Suon, Matthew Jagelski, Ray Hewenson Tong, John B. Golden, Kevin James McElwee, Andrew James Whitney
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Publication number: 20240108346Abstract: A device for treating tissue includes a capsule extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end and including a channel extending therethrough, the capsule releasably coupled to a proximal portion of the device and clip jaws, proximal ends of which are slidably received within the channel of the capsule so that the clip jaws are movable between an open configuration and a closed configuration. Clip jaws are configured so that a distance between the distal ends of the clip jaws in an open configuration is between 15 and 18 millimeters. Clip jaws further include barbs extending from a distal portion thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Inventors: Paul SMITH, Ray H. TONG, Kevin McELWEE, Shawn RYAN, Matthew R. JAGELSKI, Norman MAY, Narunn SUON
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Publication number: 20240113974Abstract: Mobile management method, system and client. Method includes receiving a DNS query for a host name from an application on client; retrieving reputation data associated with host name from a local cache on client; and determining a policy based on host name and the reputation data. Based on determined policy for the host name, blocking attempted network flows to a host corresponding to host name to produce blocked attempted network flows. Method also includes sending attempted network flow metadata related to the blocked attempted network flows to a collector on client; transmitting the attempted network flow metadata from the collector to a VPN server pool via a VPN tunnel; and producing an anomaly report from the transmitted attempted network flow metadata. The anomaly report includes at least one of anomalies, cohorts, trends, location boundaries, detected network security issues, detected compromised clients and/or optimized network usage.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2023Publication date: April 4, 2024Applicant: MOBILE SONIC, INC.Inventors: Joseph T. SAVARESE, Steven HECKT, Michael E. BRYANT, Eric C. MCNEILL, Carter SMITH, Elizabeth KIHSLINGER, Thomas Gunther HELMS, Camilla KEENAN-KOCH, Joseph G. SOUZA, Paul HOOVER, S. Aaron STAVENS, Christian E. HOFSTAEDTER, Jonathan SCOTT, Erik OLSON, James Scott SIMPKINS, Stephen Gregory FALLIN, John Harvey HILLOCK, Eivind NAESS, Michael Lee SNYDER, David Michael MIRLY, Marius LEE, Glenn Patrick ARANAS, Norman C. HAMER, Tridib DUTTA, Andrew James HOOVER, Thomas A. SWEET, Mark ANACKER, An PHAN
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Patent number: 11905732Abstract: A door lock assembly with interchangeable lock cylinders is described. The door lock assembly includes a handle. The handle includes a lock cylinder passage to receive a push to lock cylinder or a key to lock cylinder. A spring plate includes a bolt opening to position the lock cylinder. The spring plate further includes a side bolt opening. A side bolt is configured to selectively enter the side bolt opening of the spring plate to lock the lock cylinder and to selectively withdraw the side bolt from the side bolt opening of the spring plate to unlock the lock cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2022Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: Austin Hardware & Supply, Inc.Inventors: Norman A. Smith, Robert Walden
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Publication number: 20240042241Abstract: The disclosed calibration method includes a calibration phantom positioned on an adjustable table on the surface of a mechanical couch, with the phantom's centre at an estimated location for the iso-centre of a radio therapy treatment apparatus. The calibration phantom is then irradiated using the apparatus, and the relative location of the center of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus is determined by analyzing images of the irradiation of the calibration phantom. The calibration phantom is then repositioned by the mechanical couch applying an offset corresponding to the determined relative location of the centre of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus to the calibration phantom. Images of the relocated calibration phantom are obtained, to which the offset has been applied, and the obtained images are processed to set the co-ordinate system of a stereoscopic camera system relative to the iso-centre of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Inventors: Ivan Meir, Martin Allen, Gideon Hale, Norman Smith, Robert Howe
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Publication number: 20230381379Abstract: A void occlusion implant (10) for inserting into a void in a body tissue, the implant (10) comprises a polymeric material which is capable of transitioning from a compressed state to an expanded state upon exposure to a stimulus, wherein in the expanded state the implant is capable of assuming the size and shape of the void and wherein the implant (10) exhibits a peak expansion force of 0.1 to 2N at 37° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Inventors: Andrew NAYLOR, Andrew Peter DOVE, Philip Norman SMITH
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Publication number: 20230330438Abstract: The disclosed calibration method includes a calibration phantom positioned on an adjustable table on the surface of a mechanical couch, with the phantom's centre at an estimated location for the iso-centre of a radio therapy treatment apparatus. The calibration phantom is then irradiated using the apparatus, and the relative location of the center of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus is determined by analyzing images of the irradiation of the calibration phantom. The calibration phantom is then repositioned by the mechanical couch applying an offset corresponding to the determined relative location of the centre of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus to the calibration phantom. Images of the relocated calibration phantom are obtained, to which the offset has been applied, and the obtained images are processed to set the co-ordinate system of a stereoscopic camera system relative to the iso-centre of the apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: Vision RT LimitedInventors: Ivan MEIR, Martin ALLEN, Gideon HALE, Norman SMITH, Robert HOWE
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Publication number: 20230298485Abstract: A data security apparatus has an analog component and control circuitry. The control circuitry receives an incoming digital message and converts it to or from encrypted form using the analog component. The control circuitry drives the analog component with drive signals and receives back a digital representation of what the analog component's sensor outputs. It uses this in making a digital keystream. In operation, the control circuitry makes the drive signals by encrypting a nonce-based value with a key. It can encrypt the digital representation of the sensor outputs that resulted from the drive signal, with the same key. The control circuitry also can also encrypt the nonce-based value with a different key, and then combine this with the encrypted sensor output to generate the digital keystream that is uses in the conversion.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: OPë, LLCInventors: Joshua Norman SMITH, Robert Chad McCOLLUM, Andrey BOGDANOV
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Publication number: 20230293908Abstract: Images obtained by a camera system (10) arranged to obtain images of a patient (20) undergoing radio-therapy are processed by a modeling unit (56,58) which generates a model of the surface of a patient (20) being monitored. Additionally the patient monitoring system processes image data not utilized to generate a model of the surface of a patient being monitored to determine further information concerning the treatment of the patient(20). Such additional data can comprise data identifying the relative location of the patient and a treatment apparatus (16). This can be facilitated by providing a number or retro-reflective markers (30-40) on a treatment apparatus (16) and a mechanical couch (18) used to position the patient (20) relative to the treatment apparatus (16) and monitoring the presence and location of the markers in the portions of the images obtained by the stereoscopic camera (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: VISION RT LIMITEDInventors: Ivan MEIR, Kathryn COOPER, Norman SMITH, Gideon HALE, Martin ALLEN
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Patent number: 11699361Abstract: A data security apparatus includes an analog component. The analog component operates internally with a high degree of entropy. This high degree of entropy resides in the interactions between its internal components in response to an external driving signal. The interactions within the analog component have a level of entropy that is high enough to make digital simulation of the analog component impractical. Because the analog component is impractical to digitally simulate it is referred to as being digitally unclonable. The data security apparatus processes data by encrypting plaintext data into ciphertext and/or decrypting data from ciphertext into plaintext. Part of the conversion between plaintext and ciphertext uses the analog component.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: OPe, LLCInventors: Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum, Andrey Bogdanov
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Patent number: 11633629Abstract: The disclosed calibration method includes a calibration phantom positioned on an adjustable table on the surface of a mechanical couch, with the phantom's centre at an estimated location for the iso-centre of a radio therapy treatment apparatus. The calibration phantom is then irradiated using the apparatus, and the relative location of the center of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus is determined by analyzing images of the irradiation of the calibration phantom. The calibration phantom is then repositioned by the mechanical couch applying an offset corresponding to the determined relative location of the centre of the calibration phantom and the iso-centre of the apparatus to the calibration phantom. Images of the relocated calibration phantom are obtained, to which the offset has been applied, and the obtained images are processed to set the co-ordinate system of a stereoscopic camera system relative to the iso-centre of the apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: VISION RT LIMITEDInventors: Ivan Meir, Martin Allen, Gideon Hale, Norman Smith, Robert Howe
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Patent number: 11635783Abstract: An optical numerical computation method obtains operands that have respective values, and modulates light sources to output light at amplitudes proportional to the operands. The light output for a given operand depends on whether the operand is positive or negative. The positive operands are output at wavelengths different from the negative operands. For operands that have multiple digits, the digits are separately treated so that the least significant digits are modulated with light sources at one frequency, and the most significant digits in two-digit numbers are modulated at another frequency, with positive and negative operands modulated at different frequencies. The light from the light sources enters a light collection cavity where it is sensed with sensors that generate resultant outputs at values indicative of the sensed light value.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: OPe, LLCInventors: Joshua Norman Smith, Robert Chad McCollum
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Patent number: 11628313Abstract: Images obtained by a camera system (10) arranged to obtain images of a patient (20) undergoing radio-therapy are processed by a modeling unit (56,58) which generates a model of the surface of a patient (20) being monitored. Additionally the patient monitoring system processes image data not utilized to generate a model of the surface of a patient being monitored to determine further information concerning the treatment of the patient (20). Such additional data can comprise data identifying the relative location of the patient and a treatment apparatus (16). This can be facilitated by providing a number or retro-reflective markers (30-40) on a treatment apparatus (16) and a mechanical couch (18) used to position the patient (20) relative to the treatment apparatus (16) and monitoring the presence and location of the markers in the portions of the images obtained by the stereoscopic camera (10).Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: VISION RT LIMITEDInventors: Ivan Meir, Kathryn Cooper, Norman Smith, Gideon Hale, Martin Allen
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Patent number: 11454343Abstract: In embodiments, a hot tap clamping system comprises a clamp which fits over and secures against a pipe, an actuator interface, an actuator operatively in communication with clamp, and a hot tap assembly. In a further embodiment, a system for sealing a flowline with a metal seal after hot tapping comprises a sealer, a hot tap drill/plug running tool, and a metal seal plug which is typically configured for use in sealing a flowline, e.g. a pipe, with a metal seal after hot tapping where the metal plug seal is inserted into the pipe and engages with and seals as a hot tap.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: September 27, 2022Assignee: Oceaneering International, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Gregory Restivo, Norman Smith
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Publication number: 20220282525Abstract: A door lock assembly with interchangeable lock cylinders is described. The door lock assembly includes a handle. The handle includes a lock cylinder passage to receive a push to lock cylinder or a key to lock cylinder. A spring plate includes a bolt opening to position the lock cylinder. The spring plate further includes a side bolt opening. A side bolt is configured to selectively enter the side bolt opening of the spring plate to lock the lock cylinder and to selectively withdraw the side bolt from the side bolt opening of the spring plate to unlock the lock cylinder.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 4, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Norman A. Smith, Robert Walden
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Patent number: D947305Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventors: Mark Leposky, Kurt A. Roller, Gerardo Sagaon, Norman Smith
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Patent number: D947306Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventors: Mark Leposky, Kurt A. Roller, Gerardo Sagaon, Norman Smith
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Patent number: D947307Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventors: Mark Leposky, Kurt A. Roller, Gerardo Sagaon, Norman Smith
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Patent number: D947308Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: Callaway Golf CompanyInventors: Mark Leposky, Kurt A. Roller, Gerardo Sagaon, Norman Smith