Patents by Inventor Paul A. Francis

Paul A. Francis 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: 20230077090
    Abstract: A magnification adjustable projection system is provided that includes an imaging system having an object or image space, a first deformable lens plate located within the object or image space for contributing a first magnification power to the imaging system as a function of an amount of curvature of the first deformable lens plate, and a second deformable lens plate located within the object or image space for contributing a second magnification power to the imaging system as a function of an amount of curvature of the second deformable lens plate. The projection system also has first and second bending apparatuses that adjust the curvature of the first and second deformable lens plate through a range of curvature variation for adjusting the magnification power of the imaging system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Robert Dennis Grejda, Brian Monroe McMaster, Paul Francis Michaloski
  • Patent number: 11540805
    Abstract: A system comprising a multi-modal ultrasound probe configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes associated with a respective plurality of configuration profiles; and a computing device coupled to the handheld multi-modal ultrasound probe and configured to, in response to receiving input indicating an operating mode selected by a user, cause the multi-modal ultrasound probe to operate in the selected operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Susan A. Alie, Nevada J. Sanchez, Tyler S. Ralston, Christopher Thomas McNulty, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Paul Francis Cristman, Matthew de Jonge, Keith G. Fife
  • Patent number: 11540650
    Abstract: A refrigerator has an open front, an air curtain system having at least one upper air egress having an outer edge and at least one lower air-recovery ingress. The air curtain system is adapted to produce a substantially vertical air curtain over at least part of the open front of the refrigerator. The refrigerator has a plurality of shelves between the egress and the ingress a plurality of shelves between the egress and the ingress including a first shelf that has an aerofoil positioned in front of it, the first shelf being located in the upper half of the open front of refrigerator. The refrigerator also includes a second shelf that does not have an aerofoil positioned in front of it, the second shelf being located below the first shelf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Aerofoil Energy Limited
    Inventors: Paul Francis McAndrew, Matthew Piers Burke, Ian Stuart Turner
  • Publication number: 20220415296
    Abstract: An ultrasound apparatus includes an ultrasound transducer array configured to transmit and receive ultrasound signals and an acoustic lens that includes signal-attenuating particles in a polymer matrix configured to provide signal attenuation and impedance matching for the ultrasound signals. The acoustic lens is disposed over a first surface of the ultrasound transducer array. The signal-attenuating particles include PEBAX.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Applicant: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Susan A. Alie, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Christopher Thomas McNulty, Paul Francis Cristman
  • Patent number: 11531157
    Abstract: A first multimode optical fiber carries a mode division multiplexed (MDM) optical signal. The MDM optical signal is transmitted into a second multimode fiber from the first multimode optical fiber. The first and second multimode fibers are coupled via a fiber connector. The lateral offset between the two fibers at the connector is less than 2 ?m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Earl R. Parsons, Paul Francis Kolesar, Michael Aaron Kadar-Kallen
  • Patent number: 11526694
    Abstract: Methods and systems for training a model labeling two or more organic structures within an image. One method includes receiving a set of training images. The set of training images including a first plurality of images and a second plurality of images. Each of the first plurality of images including a label for each of the two or more organic structures and each of the second plurality of images including a label for only a subset of the two or more organic structures. The method further includes training the model using the first plurality of images, the second plurality of images, and a label merging function mapping a label from the first plurality of images to a label included in the second plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Hongzhi Wang, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood, John Paul Francis
  • Patent number: 11520299
    Abstract: A system includes a shared data center having at least one data storage unit and at least one processing unit. The shared data center is configured to service one, two, or more industrial automation systems. For each of the one, two, or more industrial automation systems, the shared data center is configured to receive process-related data associated from at least one local device in at least one local system, analyze the process-related data from the local device, and provide instructions to at least one client device associated with the local system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Francis McLaughlin, James Michael Schreder, Jason Thomas Urso, David Barry Granatelli
  • Publication number: 20220354459
    Abstract: A system comprising a multi-modal ultrasound probe configured to operate in a plurality of operating modes associated with a respective plurality of configuration profiles; and a computing device coupled to the handheld multi-modal ultrasound probe and configured to, in response to receiving input indicating an operating mode selected by a user, cause the multi-modal ultrasound probe to operate in the selected operating mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Applicant: BFLY Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Susan A. Alie, Nevada J. Sanchez, Tyler S. Ralston, Christopher Thomas McNulty, James Scott Zahorian, Paul Francis Cristman, Matthew de Jonge, Keith G. Fife
  • Publication number: 20220339624
    Abstract: A thin-walled microplate suitable for use in the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technique comprising a plurality of thin-walled tubes or wells arranged in a fixed array, each well having an upper portion with an open top and a lower, frustoconical portion having a substantially flat bottom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventor: Paul Francis Day
  • Patent number: 11481282
    Abstract: A method of fault-tolerant process control includes providing a network process control system in an industrial processing facility (IPF) including a plant-wide network coupling a server to computing platforms each including computing hardware and memory hosting a software application for simultaneously supporting a process controller and another process controller or an I/O gateway. The computing platforms are coupled together by a private path redundancy network for providing a hardware resource pool. At least some of the computing platforms are directly coupled by an I/O mesh network to a plurality of I/O devices to field devices that are coupled to processing equipment. Upon detecting at least one failing device in the hardware resource pool, over the private path redundancy network a backup is placed into service for the failing device from the another process controller or I/O gateway that is at another of the computing platforms in the hardware resource pool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Francis McLaughlin, Jason Thomas Urso, James Michael Schreder, John Rosa-Bian, Norman Swanson, Jethro F. Steinman
  • Patent number: 11475870
    Abstract: The disclosed embodiments relate to a portable ultrasound device. Specifically, the disclosed embodiments relate to an acoustic lens positioned at an ultrasound probe. The acoustic lens may be configured for impedance matching and signal attenuation. In one embodiment, ultrasound signal attenuation is provided by forming an acoustic lens as a solid admixture of signal attenuating particles in a polymer matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Susan A. Alie, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Christopher Thomas McNulty, Paul Francis Cristman
  • Patent number: 11467759
    Abstract: A system and method for extending the path length of an electromagnetic wave signal traveling between apertures is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: LYTELOOP TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Paul Francis McManamon, Daniel Damaghi, Ohad Harlev, Armand Vedadi-Comte, Alan Eli Willner, Charles Rocco Palanzo, Ryan Justin Howard
  • Patent number: 11446001
    Abstract: A universal ultrasound device having an ultrasound probe includes a semiconductor die; a plurality of ultrasonic transducers integrated on the semiconductor die, the plurality of ultrasonic transducers configured to operate a first mode associated with a first frequency range and a second mode associated with a second frequency range, wherein the first frequency range is at least partially non-overlapping with the second frequency range; and control circuitry configured to: control the plurality of ultrasonic transducers to generate and/or detect ultrasound signals having frequencies in the first frequency range, in response to receiving an indication to operate the ultrasound probe in the first mode; and control the plurality of ultrasonic transducers to generate and/or detect ultrasound signals having frequencies in the second frequency range, in response to receiving an indication to operate the ultrasound probe in the second mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: BFLY Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Susan A. Alie, Nevada J. Sanchez, Tyler S. Ralston, Christopher Thomas McNulty, Jaime Scott Zahorian, Paul Francis Cristman, Matthew de Jonge, Keith G. Fife
  • Patent number: 11449716
    Abstract: Methods and systems for training a model labeling two or more organic structures in an image. One method includes receiving a set of training images including a first plurality of images and a second plurality of images. Each of the first plurality of images including a label for a first subset of the two or more organic structures and each of the second plurality of images including a label for a second subset of the two or more organic structures, the second subset being different than the first subset. The method also includes training the model using the first plurality of images, the second plurality of images, and a label merging function mapping a label included in the first plurality of images to a label included in the second plurality of images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignees: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Hongzhi Wang, Tanveer Fathima Syeda-Mahmood, John Paul Francis
  • Patent number: 11431785
    Abstract: A system for managing compositions of software components or applications is disclosed. In particular, systems in which the software components or applications communicate with one another using message-oriented middleware are considered. The system is fed by one or more data feeds, and produces a plurality of processed feeds for respective applications. The data items in the input data feeds are processed by the software components or applications which form a data feed processing graph, with each application having a processing path (or egress-rooted tree) which results in the processed feed for that application. Managing such systems is complex. This complexity is tackled by having each component processing a data feed item add an annotation to the data feed item, so that the cumulative annotation which is seen in the processed feed for an application provides a history of the processing carried out on the input data feed(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS public limited company
    Inventors: Daniel Charles Spaven, Paul Francis McKee
  • Publication number: 20220265229
    Abstract: An intraoperative specimen imaging system is provided. The intraoperative specimen imaging system includes a mammography imaging system configured to acquire imaging data. The intraoperative specimen imaging system also includes a specimen holding system configured to hold a tissue sample, wherein the specimen holding system is retrofittedly coupled to the mammography imaging system, wherein the intraoperative specimen imaging system is configured to acquire imaging data for generating three-dimensional (3D) images of the tissue sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Inventors: Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Paul Francis Fitzgerald, Sholom Michael Ackelsberg
  • Publication number: 20220251227
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compounds that bind to human GITR, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Petra VERDINO, Paul Francis CAIN, Melinda Ann LACERTE, Stacey Lynn LEE, Mark Andrew WORTINGER
  • Publication number: 20220252698
    Abstract: A wavelength converter for LiDAR systems, such as automotive LiDAR, is disclosed. Implementation of the wavelength converter in LiDAR systems makes possible generation and modulation of laser light in the silicon response region, conversion of the laser light to an eye-safe wavelength for emission and reflection from a target, and efficient conversion of the wavelength of the laser light to the silicon response region. The wavelength converter may implement a single-loop counter-propagating wavelength conversion scheme which provides both up-conversion and down-conversion of the signal within the same loop. The wavelength conversion design also has the potential for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication to enable a combined LiDAR and V2V communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Hamed Pourbeyram Kaleibar, Paul Francis McManamon, Yu-Hsiang Cheng, Michael Etienne, Ohad Harlev
  • Publication number: 20220251075
    Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein Ring A, Y, R1-R8, m, n and p are defined herein. The novel cycloalkyl and heterocycloalkyl benzisoxazole sulfonamide derivatives are useful in the treatment of abnormal cell growth, such as cancer, in patients. Additional embodiments relate to pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and to methods of using the compounds and compositions in the treatment of abnormal cell growth in patients.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Oleg Brodsky, Samantha Elizabeth Greasley, Robert Louis Hoffman, Pei-Pei Kung, Paul Francis Richardson, Paul Anthony Stupple
  • Publication number: 20220210252
    Abstract: A process control system (PCS) includes a cable connection including physical cables including a first cable for connecting between a process controller and an I/O access device, and an independent second cable for connecting the process controller and a second node being the I/O access device or another device. The I/O access device is for coupling to I/O module(s) to receive an output of the I/O access device. An output of the I/O module is coupled to a field device coupled to processing equipment. The process controller and I/O access device each include a processor and memory that implement send and receive logic for communicating using any of multiple redundancy protocols including a first and a second redundant protocol. The cable connection is for supporting simultaneously communicating between the process controller and the second node utilizing both the first redundant protocol and the second redundant protocol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Harshal S. Haridas, Joseph Pradeep Felix, Jay William Gustin, Paul Francis McLaughlin, Jason Thomas Urso