Patents by Inventor R. Bailey

R. Bailey 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).

  • GUIDEWIRES AND THIN FILM CATHETER-SHEATHS AND METHOD OF MAKNG SAME
    Publication number: 20170049594
    Abstract: Guidewires and thin-film catheter-sheaths, fabricated using vacuum deposition techniques, which are monolayer or plural-layer members having ultra-thin wall thicknesses to provide very-low profile delivery assemblies for introduction and delivery of endoluminal devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher E. Banas, Steven R. BAILEY, Christopher T. BOYLE
  • ENDOLUMINAL CARDIAC AND VENOUS VALVE PROSTHESES AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND DELIVERY THEREOF
    Publication number: 20170049565
    Abstract: This invention relates to prosthetic cardiac and venous valves and a single catheter device and minimally invasive techniques for percutaneous and transluminal valvuloplasty and prosthetic valve implantation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Steven R. Bailey, Christopher T. Boyle
  • Method of shutterless non-uniformity correction for infrared imagers
    Patent number: 9508124
    Abstract: A method of correcting an infrared image including a plurality of pixels arranged in an input image array, a first pixel in the plurality of pixels having a first pixel value and one or more neighbor pixel with one or more neighbor pixel values. The first pixel and the one or more neighbor pixels are associated with an object in the image. The method includes providing a correction array having a plurality of correction pixel values, generating a corrected image array by adding the first pixel value to a correction pixel value in the correction array, and detecting edges in the corrected image array. The method also includes masking the detected edges in the corrected image array, updating the correction array, for each correction pixel value in the correction array and providing an output image array based on the correction array and the input image array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John R. Bailey, Rustin W. Allred
  • Methods of soft tissue emulsification using a mechanism of ultrasonic atomization inside gas or vapor cavities and associated systems and devices
    Patent number: 9498651
    Abstract: The present technology is directed to methods of soft tissue emulsification using a mechanism of ultrasonic atomization inside gas or vapor cavities, and associated systems and devices. In several embodiments, for example, a method of non-invasively treating tissue includes pulsing ultrasound energy from the ultrasound source toward the target site in tissue. The ultrasound source is configured to emit high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) waves. The target site comprises a pressure-release interface of a gas or vapor cavity located within the tissue. The method continues by generating shock waves in the tissue to induce a lesion in the tissue at the target site. The method additionally includes characterizing the lesion based on a degree of at least one of a mechanical or thermal ablation of the tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: University of Washington
    Inventors: Oleg A. Sapozhnikov, Michael R. Bailey, Lawrence A. Crum, Tatiana D. Khokhlova, Vera A. Khokhlova, Julianna C. Simon, Yak-Nam Wang
  • Modeling and designing of well drilling system that accounts for vibrations
    Patent number: 9483586
    Abstract: A method and apparatus associated with the production of hydrocarbons is disclosed. The method, which relates to modeling of drilling equipment, includes constructing one or more design configurations for at least a portion of a bottom hole assembly (BHA) and calculating results from each of the one or more design configurations. The calculated results of the modeling may include one or more performance indices that characterize the BHA vibration performance of the design configurations for operating parameters and boundary conditions that are substantially the same or may be different. These results are then simultaneously displayed for a user to facilitate design selection. The selected BHA design configuration may then be utilized in a well construction operation and thus associated with the production of hydrocarbons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Jeffrey R. Bailey, Erika A. O. Biediger, Vishwas Gupta
  • Drilling advisory systems and methods to filter data
    Patent number: 9482084
    Abstract: Integrated methods and systems for optimizing drilling related operations include recording data, parsing the data into intervals and analyzing the intervals to determine if the performance data in each time interval is of sufficient quality for using the interval data in a performance optimization process. The quality assessment may involve evaluating the data against a set of determined standards or ranges. The performance optimization process may utilize data mapping and/or modeling to make performance optimization process recommendations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Dar-Lon Chang, Lei Wang, Paul E. Pastusek, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Gregory S. Payette, Darren Pais
  • Power Tool User Interface
    Publication number: 20160297060
    Abstract: A power tool has a housing, a motor disposed in the housing, a tool holder driven by the motor, a control circuit for controlling the motor, a rotary input rotatable relative to the housing, and a rotational sensor for sensing the rotational position of the rotary input relative to the housing. The rotary input can be a thumbwheel or a handle that rotates relative to the housing. The control circuit receives input from the rotational sensor for controlling motor speed, rotational direction, etc. Other user interface mechanisms are disclosed as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: October 13, 2016
    Inventors: Daniel Puzio, Jason F. Busschaert, Scott J. Eshleman, Craig A. Schell, Daniel N. Lopano, Christine H. Potter, Rouse R. Bailey, Robert S. Gehret, Jesse P. Hill, James D. Hays, Michael K. Forster
  • Balloon catheter having metal balloon and method of making same
    Patent number: 9463305
    Abstract: A metal balloon catheter having a main tubular body, a metal balloon proximate a distal end of the main tubular body, a central annulus extending along an entire longitudinal aspect of the catheter for accommodating a guidewire therethrough and an inflation annulus adjacent the central annulus which extends along the longitudinal axis of the main tubular body and terminates in fluid flow communication with an inflation chamber of the metal balloon. The metal balloon catheter may be either unitary integral metal catheter in which the main tubular body and the balloon are fabricated of metal, or it may consist of a polymeric main tubular body and a metal balloon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher T. Boyle, Steven R. Bailey, Christopher E. Banas, Julio C. Palmaz
  • SCAFFOLD SYSTEM FOR TISSUE REPAIR
    Publication number: 20160287415
    Abstract: A device for treating a damaged tissue includes an expandable scaffold positionable in a portion of a luminal tissue structure of a mammal; and maintained via stent technology, wherein the scaffold is comprised of electrospun fibers composed of a biodegradable compound. The scaffold serves as a temporary template that allows the tissue to be rebuilt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 6, 2016
    Inventors: J. Jordan Massey Kaufmann, C. Mauli Agrawal, Steven R. Bailey
  • In vivo sensor and method of making same
    Patent number: 9433515
    Abstract: Implantable in vivo sensors used to monitor physical, chemical or electrical parameters within a body. The in vivo sensors are integral with an implantable medical device and are responsive to externally or internally applied energy. Upon application of energy, the sensors undergo a phase change in at least part of the material of the device which is then detected external to the body by conventional techniques such as radiography, ultrasound imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, radio frequency imaging or the like. The in vivo sensors of the present invention may be employed to provide volumetric measurements, flow rate measurements, pressure measurements, electrical measurements, biochemical measurements, temperature, measurements, or measure the degree and type of deposits within the lumen of an endoluminal implant, such as a stent or other type of endoluminal conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Steven R. Bailey, Christopher T. Boyle, Denes Marton, Christopher E. Banas
  • Drilling advisory systems and methods with combined global search and local search methods
    Patent number: 9436173
    Abstract: Combined methods and systems for optimizing drilling related operations include global search engines and local search engines to find the optimal value for at least one controllable drilling parameter, and a data fusion module to combine or select the operational recommendations from global and local search engines. The operational recommendations are used to optimize the objective function, mitigate dysfunctions, and improve drilling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Stephen M. Remmert, Paul E. Pastusek, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Matthew T. Prim, Darren Pais, Dar-Lon Chang, Gregory S. Payette
  • Endoluminal cardiac and venous valve prostheses and methods of manufacture and delivery thereof
    Patent number: 9421100
    Abstract: This invention relates to prosthetic cardiac and venous valves and a single catheter device and minimally invasive techniques for percutaneous and transluminal valvuloplasty and prosthetic valve implantation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: ABPS Venture One, Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Palmaz Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven R. Bailey, Christopher T. Boyle
  • Airborne Surveillance Kite
    Publication number: 20160207626
    Abstract: A deployable airborne surveillance kite for flying in a wind over a surface includes a wing, a tail, and a spar coupling the wing to the tail. The kite further includes a thrust rotor mounted to the kite in a vertical orientation for providing vertical lift to the kite. A tether assembly extends from the kite to the surface and couples the kite to the surface providing downward resistance in opposition to the vertical lift provided by the thrust rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 21, 2016
    Inventor: Glen R. Bailey
  • Guidewires and thin film catheter-sheaths and method of making same
    Patent number: 9320626
    Abstract: Guidewires and thin-film catheter-sheaths, fabricated using vacuum deposition techniques, which are monolayer or plural-layer members having ultra-thin wall thicknesses to provide very-low profile delivery assemblies for introduction and delivery of endoluminal devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2016
    Assignee: Advanced Bio Prosthetic Surfaces, Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher E. Banas, Steven R. Bailey, Christopher T. Boyle
  • METHOD OF SHUTTERLESS NON-UNIFORMITY CORRECTION FOR INFRARED IMAGERS
    Publication number: 20160086315
    Abstract: A method of correcting an infrared image including a plurality of pixels arranged in an input image array, a first pixel in the plurality of pixels having a first pixel value and one or more neighbor pixel with one or more neighbor pixel values. The first pixel and the one or more neighbor pixels are associated with an object in the image. The method includes providing a correction array having a plurality of correction pixel values, generating a corrected image array by adding the first pixel value to a correction pixel value in the correction array, and detecting edges in the corrected image array. The method also includes masking the detected edges in the corrected image array, updating the correction array, for each correction pixel value in the correction array and providing an output image array based on the correction array and the input image array.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 24, 2016
    Applicant: DRS Network & Imaging Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: John R. Bailey, Rustin W. Allred
  • System and method for blind image deconvolution
    Patent number: 9286664
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for blind image deconvolution. One method of blind image deconvolution comprises capturing a video using an imaging device and measuring a sharpness degradation metric for the video. The method further comprises determining parameters of a point spread function (PSF) corresponding to the sharpness degradation metric using a predetermined equation and performing deconvolution on at least one frame of the video using the PSF and the determined parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC
    Inventor: John R. Bailey
  • Drilling advisory systems and methods with decision trees for learning and application modes
    Patent number: 9285794
    Abstract: Integrated methods and systems for optimizing drilling related operations include global search engines and local search engines to find an optimal value for at least one controllable drilling parameter, and decision trees to select algorithms such as between learning mode algorithms and application mode algorithms for generating operational recommendations based on the results from global and local search engines. The operational recommendations are used to optimize the objective function, mitigate dysfunctions, and improve drilling efficiency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company
    Inventors: Lei Wang, Stephen M. Remmert, Paul E. Pastusek, Jeffrey R. Bailey, Matthew T. Prim, Dar-Lon Chang, Gregory S. Payette
  • DRILLING A WELLBORE
    Publication number: 20160054729
    Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling a drilling operation based on an MSE value calculated for a depth increment are disclosed herein. In an exemplary method, drilling parameters characterizing a drilling operation in a subterranean formation are received in a control system. The drilling parameters are used by the control system to calculate a depth-based mechanical specific energy (MSE) based on some amount of energy expended by at least a portion of a drilling assembly while drilling at least one identified depth sub-interval of a depth interval of a subterranean formation. The control system uses the calculated depth-based MSE to control the drilling operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Inventors: Gregory S. Payette, Dar-Lon Chang, Darren Pais, Jeffrey R. Bailey
  • Scaffold system for tissue repair
    Patent number: 9259334
    Abstract: A device for treating a damaged tissue includes an expandable scaffold positionable in a portion of a luminal tissue structure of a mammal; and maintained via stent technology, wherein the scaffold is comprised of electrospun fibers composed of a biodegradable compound. The scaffold serves as a temporary template that allows the tissue to be rebuilt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2016
    Assignee: Board of Regents of The University of Texas System
    Inventors: J. Jordan Massey Kaufmann, C. Mauli Agrawal, Steven R. Bailey
  • Method of shutterless non-uniformity correction for infrared imagers
    Patent number: 9251595
    Abstract: A method of correcting an infrared image is provided. The method includes receiving an image from a camera comprising a first pixel with a first pixel value and a neighbor pixel with a neighbor pixel value. The first pixel and the neighbor pixel can be assumed to view the same object. The method further includes storing the first and neighbor pixel values in an image table, generating a corrected image table by adding the first pixel value to a corrected pixel value in a correction table, determining that the camera is not moving, and masking edges in the corrected image table. The method further includes updating the correction table by: determining that the first pixel value and neighbor pixel value are not edges, computing the difference between the first and neighbor pixel values, and storing the difference in the correction table. The method further includes providing an output image table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: DRS Network & Imaging Systems, LLC
    Inventors: John R. Bailey, Rustin W. Allred