Patents by Inventor Patrick D. Boyd
Patrick D. Boyd 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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Patent number: 11969500Abstract: The present technology relates to depots for the treatment of postoperative pain via sustained, controlled release of a therapeutic agent. In some embodiments, the depot may comprise a therapeutic region comprising an analgesic, and a control region comprising a bioresorbable polymer and a releasing agent mixed with the polymer. The releasing agent may be configured to dissolve when the depot is placed in vivo to form diffusion openings in the control region. The depot may be configured to be implanted at a treatment site in vivo and, while implanted, release the therapeutic agent at the treatment site for no less than 3 days.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Foundry Therapeutics, Inc.Inventors: Karun D. Naga, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Stephen W. Boyd, Patrick H. Ruane, Jackie Joe Hancock, Michael Feldstein, Koon Kiat Teu, Honglei Wang, Jingnan Luo, Daniel Boon Lim Seet
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Patent number: 11903441Abstract: This disclosure is directed to articles of footwear with adjustable dimensions. More specifically, the articles of footwear disclosed herein include sole structures with adjustable dimensions. In some instances, an article of footwear includes one or more removable insert members configured for adjusting the dimensions of a foot-receiving cavity of the article of footwear. Additionally or alternatively, a sole structure can include one or more flexible portions that can move between compressed and expanded states to accommodate feet of various dimensions. To accommodate the adjustable dimensions of the sole structures, an upper of the article of footwear can be stretchable.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Ami M. Davis, Daniel J. Gearhardt, Michelle Haines, George S. Kim, Ryan J. Maddox, Austin J. Orand, Richard S. Ramsay, Sarah E. Sowers, Peter P. Williams, II, Patrick D. Boyd
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Publication number: 20230301382Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers defining a pocket space therebetween. The pocket structure further includes a first tapered channel structure positioned in the pocket space between the outer pocket layer and the inner pocket layer, that has an inlet opening and an outlet opening opposite the inlet opening. The first tapered channel structure providing a passageway to the pocket space from the inlet opening edge to the outlet opening edge; and a first tether structure extending from the tapered channel structure to one or more of the outer pocket layer, the inner pocket layer, and a seam joining the outer pocket layer and the inner pocket layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Patrick D. BOYD, Amanda TINDELL, Mark A. VAN WEERD
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Patent number: 11641898Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: May 9, 2023Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Patent number: 11632992Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Patent number: 11553748Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Publication number: 20210330007Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Publication number: 20210330006Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Publication number: 20210330008Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2021Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Patent number: 11089828Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Publication number: 20210204635Abstract: An article of footwear includes a sole structure and an upper. The upper is coupled to the sole structure so as to form a foot-receiving cavity therebetween. The upper comprises a first portion, a second portion, and an expandable panel disposed between the first portion and the second portion. The upper is movable between a compressed configuration and an expanded configuration. In the compressed configuration, the first portion and the second portion are coupled together at a location adjacent to the expandable panel and the expandable panel is collapsed. In the expanded configuration, the first portion and the second portion are spaced apart from each other at the location adjacent to the expandable panel and the expandable panel is exposed. One or more dimensions of the foot-receiving cavity are larger when the upper is in the expanded configuration than when the upper is in the compressed configuration.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Stephen N. Bruno, Ami M. Davis, Daniel J. Gearhardt, Michelle Haines, George S. Kim, Ryan J. Maddox, Austin J. Orand, Richard S. Ramsay, Sarah E. Sowers, Peter P. Williams, II, Patrick D. Boyd
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Publication number: 20210204646Abstract: This disclosure is directed to articles of footwear with adjustable dimensions. More specifically, the articles of footwear disclosed herein include sole structures with adjustable dimensions. In some instances, an article of footwear includes one or more removable insert members configured for adjusting the dimensions of a foot-receiving cavity of the article of footwear. Additionally or alternatively, a sole structure can include one or more flexible portions that can move between compressed and expanded states to accommodate feet of various dimensions. To accommodate the adjustable dimensions of the sole structures, an upper of the article of footwear can be stretchable.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2021Publication date: July 8, 2021Applicant: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Ami M. Davis, Daniel J. Gearhardt, Michelle Haines, George S. Kim, Ryan J. Maddox, Austin J. Orand, Richard S. Ramsay, Sarah E. Sowers, Peter P. Williams, II, Patrick D. Boyd
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Publication number: 20200138145Abstract: An article of footwear includes an upper defining an interior void and having a first region and a second region. The article of footwear also includes a sole structure attached to the upper. The article of footwear includes a cable including a first fastening segment extending across the first region to a first terminal end anchored on one of the upper and the sole structure, a second fastening segment extending across the second region to a second terminal end anchored on one of the upper and the sole structure. The article of footwear further includes a cable lock attached to one of the upper and the sole structure, the cable lock configured to receive the first fastening segment and the second fastening segment and operable to secure a position of each of the first fastening segment and the second fastening segment independently from one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2019Publication date: May 7, 2020Applicant: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Joël Ryp Greenspan, Peter Lam, Tetsuya T. Minami, Austin J. Orand, Patrick D. Boyd
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Publication number: 20200085597Abstract: An attachment system for use with a prosthetic device includes a first component including a first surface, and further including one of a channel and a projection disposed on an opposite side of the first component than the first surface. A second component including a second surface, and including the other of the channel and the projection disposed on an opposite side of the second component than the second surface, the other slidably engaging the channel or the projection to selectively couple the first component and the second component together. One of the first surface and the second surface is operable to be attached to the prosthetic device, and the other is operable to be attached to a sole structure having a ground-engaging surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Jessica Green, Michelle Haines, Monica Judge, Gerry Plasker, Richard S. Ramsay, Nicola J. Reynolds, Patrick D. Boyd
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Publication number: 20200029637Abstract: Aspects herein are directed to a pocket structure that facilitates the secure storage of items stowed within the pocket structure. The pocket structure includes inner and outer pocket layers and a funnel-shaped structure positioned in the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The funnel-shaped structure comprises an inlet opening that forms an opening to the pocket structure and an outlet opening that is in communication with the space between the inner and outer pocket layers. The outlet opening has a smaller circumference compared to the inlet opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Patrick D. Boyd, Amanda Tindell, Mark A. Van Weerd
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Patent number: 10485680Abstract: An attachment system for use with a prosthetic device includes a first component including a first surface, and further including one of a channel and a projection disposed on an opposite side of the first component than the first surface. A second component including a second surface, and including the other of the channel and the projection disposed on an opposite side of the second component than the second surface, the other slidably engaging the channel or the projection to selectively couple the first component and the second component together. One of the first surface and the second surface is operable to be attached to the prosthetic device, and the other is operable to be attached to a sole structure having a ground-engaging surface.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2017Date of Patent: November 26, 2019Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Jessica Green, Michelle Haines, Monica Judge, Gerry Plasker, Richard S. Ramsay, Nicola J. Reynolds, Patrick D. Boyd
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Publication number: 20170281371Abstract: An attachment system for use with a prosthetic device includes a first component including a first surface, and further including one of a channel and a projection disposed on an opposite side of the first component than the first surface. A second component including a second surface, and including the other of the channel and the projection disposed on an opposite side of the second component than the second surface, the other slidably engaging the channel or the projection to selectively couple the first component and the second component together. One of the first surface and the second surface is operable to be attached to the prosthetic device, and the other is operable to be attached to a sole structure having a ground-engaging surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2017Publication date: October 5, 2017Applicant: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Jessica Green, Michelle Haines, Monica Judge, Gerry Plasker, Richard S. Ramsay, Nicola J. Reynolds, Patrick D. Boyd
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Patent number: 8082872Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method provides blind and vision impaired (B/VI) persons with improved Detectible Guidance Markers (DGMs) for navigation in a wide variety of environments, providing information regarding the presence, type, direction, and proximity of various navigational obstacles. A representative but non-exclusive example of an invented unitary DGM includes a plurality of tactually-detectable informational members, including a base member and one or more integral directional members configured to be disposed at a surface of a navigational substrate. A discrete number of directional members conveys an obstacle identity, while different lengths of directional members, and characteristics of other informational members, convey a direction and/or a proximity to an obstacle. Additionally, numerous structural alterations to a surrounding substrate surface cooperatively supplement the detectability and information-conveying benefits of a DGM.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2009Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Navi-Tech, LLCInventors: Robert G. Cook, Patrick D. Boyd
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Patent number: 8052534Abstract: An interactive entertainment system including numerous thematically-related elements, and particularly including one or more pliant, design-bearing ornaments which are transferable and/or attachable nearly anywhere. Each ornament includes and defines a character embodied in a design fixed thereupon, and such characters provide a thematic-basis and continuity throughout the numerous features and elements of the invented entertainment system. The ornaments are typically universally-interchangeable within the system embodiments, being operably attachable and detachable via reciprocal hook and loop fastener, for example, with any of a great variety of structures, each structure configured for coupling an ornament with one or more of a great variety of substrates.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2008Date of Patent: November 8, 2011Assignee: Pak Nak, LLCInventors: Marissa Beth Crouch, Anne Frances Mersereau, James Stewart, Patrick D. Boyd
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Patent number: D698689Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2011Date of Patent: February 4, 2014Inventor: Patrick D. Boyd