Patents by Inventor Peter Howard

Peter Howard 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: 11284916
    Abstract: An atherectomy catheter includes an elongate flexible catheter body, a cutter near the distal end of the catheter body, a drive shaft connected to the cutter and extending within the catheter body, an imaging element near the distal end of the catheter body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Avinger, Inc.
    Inventors: Himanshu N. Patel, John B. Simpson, Anthony J. Fernandez, Richard R. Newhauser, Priyanshu Gupta, Michael Zung, Wendy Ngo Lam, Maegan K. Spencer, Peter Howard Smith, Stephen C. Davies, Nicholas J. Spinelli, Charles W. McNall, Theodore W. Ketai, Manish Kankaria, Mark W. Askew, Kent C. B. Stalker
  • Patent number: 11241010
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of succinate dehydrogenase Inhibitors for extending shelf life and storage stability of fruits and vegetables, to a method for extending shelf life of fruits and vegetables by applying a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor to the crops prior to the harvest of the fruits or vegetables and to a fruit or vegetable treated with a succinate dehydrogenase Inhibitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Rieck, Helene Lachaise, Gilbert Labourdette, Peter Howard Davies, Dominique Steiger, Luk De Maeyer, George Hauley Musson, IV, Lorianne Fought, Sylvain Tafforeau
  • Publication number: 20220015647
    Abstract: A monitoring device wearable by a person to be monitored, comprising: one or more sensing means for sensing cardio, respiratory, physiological and/or other information from the person; processing means for analysing the sensed information; memory means for storing the sensed and/or analysed information; and communication means for transmitting at least the analysed information. At least one waveform acquired from the sensed cardio, respiratory, physiological and/or other information is digitised in real time; analysis of the sensed and/or digitised information is performed in real-time and a welfare indication of the person computed in real-time; and the computed welfare indication of the person is transmitted by the communication means and/or stored in the memory means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Applicant: Hidalgo Limited
    Inventors: Justin PISANI, Peter HOWARD, Daniel CADE, Stephen Ward
  • Patent number: 11206975
    Abstract: A drive assembly for driving an imaging catheter has a rotatable fiber and a rotatable drive shaft. The drive assembly includes a fiber optic rotating junction and a motor configured to rotate the rotatable portion of the fiber optic rotating junction. In some embodiments, the drive assembly includes a sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the fiber optic rotating junction and a processor configured to obtain the detected rotational position and stop the motor only when the fiber optic rotating junction is in a predetermined rotational position. In some embodiments, the motor includes a hollow shaft through which at least a portion of the fiber optic rotating junction extends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Avinger, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Y. Tachibana, Charles W. McNall, Michael Zung, Peter Howard Smith, Brian Chiu, Douglas Joseph Scott Bourne, Priyanshu Gupta
  • Patent number: 11191906
    Abstract: An apparatus and methods for tracking administering of medication by syringes is provided. The apparatus may include a plunger head for a syringe. The plunger head may include a transducer that sends and receives ultrasonic signals. The plunger may also include an antenna and a microcontroller that interfaces with the transducer and the antenna. The plunger may also include a power source that powers the microcontroller and the transducer. The transducer, the antenna, the microcontroller, and the power source may be at least partially encapsulated in an elastomer housing that fits within a barrel of the syringe. The microcontroller may be programmed with instructions to calculate data representative of the quantity of medication dispensed from the barrel and transmit the data to a remote device via the antenna.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin David Krasnow, Peter Howard Smith, Travis Deyle, Russell Mirov
  • Patent number: 11172375
    Abstract: A method and system for determining deployment parameters of a set of customer premises equipment (CPE) in a housing environment. A housing database (2) and a simulation database (3) connected to a processor (4) are present, the housing database (2) storing housing information, and the simulation database (3) storing simulation data with Wi-Fi performance parameters for a subset of housing types. The processor (4) clusters the stored housing information based on the Wi-Fi performance parameters, associates each of the clustered housing parameter sets with one of the subset of housing types, and for a specific one of the housing types determines deployment parameters based on data obtained from the simulation database (3). The matching of a specific housing environment with one of the subset of housing types allows to quickly and efficiently optimize deployment parameters, such as number, type and placement of CPE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Liberty Global Europe Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Howard Joyce, Sarah Louise Haggarty, Richard Mark Dobson, Adrian John Jolyon Drury
  • Publication number: 20210282026
    Abstract: A method and system for determining deployment parameters of a set of customer premises equipment (CPE) in a housing environment. A housing database (2) and a simulation database (3) connected to a processor (4) are present, the housing database (2) storing housing information, and the simulation database (3) storing simulation data with Wi-Fi performance parameters for a subset of housing types. The processor (4) clusters the stored housing information based on the Wi-Fi performance parameters, associates each of the clustered housing parameter sets with one of the subset of housing types, and for a specific one of the housing types determines deployment parameters based on data obtained from the simulation database (3). The matching of a specific housing environment with one of the subset of housing types allows to quickly and efficiently optimize deployment parameters, such as number, type and placement of CPE.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Liberty Global Europe Holding B.V.
    Inventors: Peter Howard Joyce, Sarah Louise Haggarty, Richard Mark Dobson, Adrian John Jolyon Drury
  • Patent number: 10942163
    Abstract: Devices for micro-fluid mixing micro-fluids are presented, together with example methods for micro-mixing using example devices. An example device may include a micro-volume fluid chamber (?VFC), a micro-volume mixing chamber (?VMC), and a source of a target micro fluid. The ?VFC may include two slidably-mounted piston segments that divide the ?VFC into three sub-volumes, one of which initially contains a mixer micro-fluid. The source of the target micro fluid may be triggered to deliver the target micro-fluid into another of the sub-volumes via an inlet channel. A propellant may be triggered to drive axial motion of the piston segments, causing the sub-volumes to compress. Through this action, the mixer micro-fluid may be expelled via a first outlet channel into the ?VMC, and the target micro-fluid may be expelled via a second outlet channel into the ?VMC. As the piston segments move, they block and unblock the inlet and outlet channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin David Krasnow, Eric Peeters, Peter Howard Smith, Ethan Glassman
  • Publication number: 20210023706
    Abstract: A robot control system determines which of a number of discretizations to use to generate discretized representations of robot swept volumes and to generate discretized representations of the environment in which the robot will operate. Obstacle voxels (or boxes) representing the environment and obstacles therein are streamed into the processor and stored in on-chip environment memory. At runtime, the robot control system may dynamically switch between multiple motion planning graphs stored in off-chip or on-chip memory. The dynamically switching between multiple motion planning graphs at runtime enables the robot to perform motion planning at a relatively low cost as characteristics of the robot itself change. Various aspects of such robot motion planning are implemented in particular systems and methods that facilitate motion planning of the robot for various environments and tasks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel Sorin, George Konidaris, Sean Murray, William Floyd-Jones, Peter Howard, Xianchao Long
  • Publication number: 20200367812
    Abstract: Devices are provided to automatically inject drugs or other payloads into or beneath skin. These devices include an injector configured to drive a hollow needle into the skin and subsequently to deliver the payload through the hollow needle. Applied suction acts to draw blood from the puncture formed in the skin through the hollow needle, into the device, and to a sensor, blood storage element, or other payload. In some examples, the blood is drawn through the hollow needle when the hollow needle is penetrating the skin. In some examples, these devices are additionally configured to retract the hollow needle from the skin and/or to perform some other functions. These devices can be wearable and configured to automatically access blood or deliver a payload into skin, for example, to operate at one or more points in time while a wearer of a device is sleeping.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Benjamin David Krasnow, Eric Peeters, Peter Howard Smith
  • Publication number: 20200333497
    Abstract: A metal detector and method of operation are disclosed, wherein the metal detector includes a balanced coil system, a receiver unit, a drive coil with at least one capacitor forming a series resonant circuit connected to a transmitter unit having a converter, and a drive controller generating: a first square wave signal set to a fixed/selectable operating frequency and applied to a first drive switch connected on one side to a first voltage potential and on another side to a centre tap of a half-bridge circuit, and a second square wave signal set to the fixed/selectable operating frequency applied to a second drive switch connected on one side to a second voltage potential and on another side to the centre tap, via which a drive current is supplied to the drive coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Mettler-Toledo Safeline Ltd.
    Inventor: Peter Howard
  • Publication number: 20200315654
    Abstract: An atherectomy catheter includes an elongate flexible catheter body, a cutter near the distal end of the catheter body, a drive shaft connected to the cutter and extending within the catheter body, an imaging element near the distal end of the catheter body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: Himanshu N. PATEL, John B. SIMPSON, Anthony J. FERNANDEZ, Richard R. NEWHAUSER, Priyanshu GUPTA, Michael ZUNG, Wendy Ngo LAM, Maegan K. SPENCER, Peter Howard SMITH, Stephen C. DAVIES, Nicholas J. SPINELLI, Charles W. MCNALL, Theodore W. KETAI, Manish KANKARIA, Mark W. ASKEW, Kent C.B. STALKER
  • Patent number: 10791976
    Abstract: A system for needle-free drawing of blood is disclosed. A hand-portable device can include an evacuated negative-pressure barrel with a membrane sealing an aperture at a distal end, and a housing affixed to a proximal end. An accelerator barrel can be positioned within the negative-pressure barrel and fixed to the housing, with an open proximal end in a chamber in the housing, and an open distal end aligned with the aperture. The chamber can be filled with pressurized gas, and a trigger valve can hydrostatically separate the chamber from the open proximal end of the accelerator barrel. A micro-particle positioned within the accelerator barrel can be accelerated to high speed by an abrupt surge of gas by releasing the trigger valve. The micro-particle can attain enough momentum to pierce the aperture membrane and penetrate adjacent dermal tissue. A resulting micro-emergence of blood can be drawn into the negative pressure barrel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Eric Peeters, Peter Howard Smith
  • Patent number: 10765361
    Abstract: Devices are provided to automatically inject drugs or other payloads into or beneath skin. These devices include an injector configured to drive a hollow needle into the skin and subsequently to deliver the payload through the hollow needle. Applied suction acts to draw blood from the puncture formed in the skin through the hollow needle, into the device, and to a sensor, blood storage element, or other payload. In some examples, the blood is drawn through the hollow needle when the hollow needle is penetrating the skin. In some examples, these devices are additionally configured to retract the hollow needle from the skin and/or to perform some other functions. These devices can be wearable and configured to automatically access blood or deliver a payload into skin, for example, to operate at one or more points in time while a wearer of a device is sleeping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin David Krasnow, Eric Peeters, Peter Howard Smith
  • Publication number: 20200250360
    Abstract: The present invention is concerned with the control of harmful organisms that can occur when growing crop plants. The present invention provides a method, a computer system and a computer program product that make data obtained in field trials amenable to the calibration and optimization of forecasting models for the attack on plants by harmful organisms and hence allow the development of improved models.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Holger HOFFMANN, Bjoern KIEPE, Gang ZHAO, Peter Howard DAVIES, Hans-Juergen ROSSLENBROICH, Hubert SCHMEER
  • Patent number: 10688255
    Abstract: A medication injection device includes a barrel and a plunger disposed to dispense a fluid from the barrel. A dosage tracking system is coupled to output data indicative of the fluid dispensed. A controller is disposed within the medication injection device and coupled to receive the data from the dosage tracking system. The controller includes logic that when executed by the controller causes the controller to perform operations including determining, based on the data, whether an air shot event occurred while dispensing the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Russell Mirov, Benjamin David Krasnow, Peter Howard Smith, Travis Deyle
  • Patent number: 10675433
    Abstract: A prior art demand valve has been modified to make it more responsive to persons with impaired oxygen delivery by replacing its sensing diaphragm and associated mechanically actuated valve actuator with a solenoid activated proportional control valve coupled to an analog pressure transducer via a pulse width modulated current driver circuit. The pressure transducer responds to detected pressure changes in a patient's breathing tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: MGC DIAGNOSTICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: David A. Blanton, Charles Peter Howard
  • Publication number: 20200141473
    Abstract: A vertical or block chain connector for linking between two closed chain links includes a lower element and an upper element configured to engage with the lower element to form the chain connector in an assembled condition. In use the lower element is disposed vertically below the upper element in the assembled connector. The upper element is a sliding fit with the lower element and the direction of the sliding connection is in a straight line perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the connector and in a plane which is parallel to the horizontal axis when the connector is vertically oriented in use.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventor: Peter Howard
  • Publication number: 20200120932
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of succinate dehydrogenase Inhibitors for extending shelf life and storage stability of fruits and vegetables, to a method for extending shelf life of fruits and vegetables by applying a succinate dehydrogenase inhibitor to the crops prior to the harvest of the fruits or vegetables and to a fruit or vegetable treated with a succinate dehydrogenase Inhibitor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 23, 2020
    Inventors: Heiko Rieck, Helene Lachaise, Gilbert Labourdette, Peter Howard Davies, Dominique Steiger, Luk De Maeyer, George Hauley Musson, IV, Lorianne Fought, Sylvain Tafforeau
  • Patent number: D887367
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: ACTEURO LIMITED
    Inventor: Peter Howard