Patents by Inventor Richard A. Davi

Richard A. Davi 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).

  • SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ESTABLISHING VOICE AND DATA CONNECTION
    Publication number: 20170070548
    Abstract: A system and method for improved voice and data communication is described. One embodiment includes a method for data communication with an end user, the method comprising connecting to an agent device; receiving a data session request from the agent device, wherein the data session request comprises a target telephone number; establishing a data session between the agent device and an end-user device associated with the target telephone number; and transmitting data messages between the end-user device and the agent device using the data session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Richard A. Davis, Anthony J. Brittain
  • Oval tibia guide
    Patent number: 9579111
    Abstract: A guide apparatus having a body having a central axis defined therethrough and a first channel and a second channel formed therethrough, a handle coupled to the body, the handle having a locking mechanism configured to prevent movement of the body relative to the handle in a first direction along the central axis of the body, and an arm coupled to the handle, the arm configured to engage at least a portion of a bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.
    Inventors: Bernard Joseph Bourque, William Richard Davis, Michael Charles Ferragamo
  • Transdermal Stimulator and Medicant Medical Delivery Device
    Publication number: 20160367773
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the nasal clip is infused with a volatile medicant and/or therapeutic aromatic that volatilizes under body temperature to permeate into the septum mucosa of a user's nose. In a second embodiment, the nasal clip has limbs that are pre-stressed to engage the septum mucosa so that the intermittent stimulation caused by the frequency of each heart beat and the heat in the inhaled warm breath help release the volatile medicants and aromatic materials. In a third embodiment, the nasal clip is integrated with an oxygen delivery cannula to allow delivery of oxygen with the medicant and/or therapeutic aromatic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventor: Richard A. Davi
  • ABSORBENT INGESTIBLE AGENTS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS OF MANUFACTURE AND USE
    Publication number: 20160361351
    Abstract: Appetite suppression and weight management achieved through pre-meal ingestion of temporary gastric bulking agents in the form of superabsorbent polymer hydrogels (SAPHs) selected from among a group consisting of crosslinked polycarboxylic acid moieties is described. The preferred compositions and manufacturing methods of ultrapure preparations of ingestible forms; as well as the preferred methods of use, dosage and administration; distribution and delivery of SAPH materials are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Davis, Lior Sher
  • System and method for establishing voice and data connection
    Patent number: 9521259
    Abstract: A system and method for improved voice and data communication is described. One embodiment includes a method for data communication with an end user, the method comprising connecting to an agent device; receiving a data session request from the agent device, wherein the data session request comprises a target telephone number; establishing a data session with an end-user device associated with the target telephone number; and transmitting data messages between the end-user device and the agent device using the data session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Inventors: Richard A. Davis, Anthony J. Brittain
  • Methods and systems for controlling networked electronic switches for remote detonation of explosive devices
    Patent number: 9518454
    Abstract: A method and system are disclosed for controlling a plurality of perforating gun assemblies arranged in a gun train and lowered into a wellbore. The perforating gun assemblies are connected to a top sub controller that is also lowered into the wellbore. The top sub controller includes a first communications module to communicate with an above-ground control panel via a wireline and a second communications module to communicate with a switch sub in each the plurality of perforating gun assemblies via a network bus. Each switch sub has a unique network address. During assembly, the control panel automatically detects the order of the perforating gun assemblies in the gun train based on polling each of the switch subs of the plurality of perforating gun assemblies using the respective unique network addresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Company (California) LLC
    Inventors: Peter J. Current, Michael R. Hathaway, Steven D. Nelson, Richard A. Davis, Joshua A. Curtis, Joe E. Carvalho, Ruben G. Aguila
  • Humidity sensor
    Patent number: 9513242
    Abstract: A humidity sensor may include a first substrate having a recess formed in a first side, a second substrate and an insulating layer supported by the second substrate. The second substrate and the insulating layer may be supported by the first side of the first substrate and extend over the recess to form a diaphragm with the insulating layer facing the recess. The diaphragm may be at least partially thermally isolated from a remainder of the second substrate. A resistive heater element may be supported by the diaphragm. A pair of sensing electrodes are electrically separated from each other and supported by the diaphragm. A sensing material is disposed over the pair of sensing electrodes, wherein an electrical property of the sensing material changes in response to a change in moisture content of the sensing material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Scott E. Beck, Carl Stewart, Richard A. Davis
  • Media isolated pressure sensor
    Patent number: 9470593
    Abstract: A pressure sensor includes a pressure sensing element and a top cap. The pressure sensing element includes a bonded wafer substrate having a buried sealed cavity. A wall of the buried sealed cavity forms a sensing diaphragm. One or more sense elements may be supported by the sensing diaphragm and one or more bond pads are supported by the upper side of the bonded wafer substrate. Each of the bond pads may be positioned adjacent to the sensing diaphragm and electrically connected to one or more of the sense elements. The top cap may be secured to the upper side of the bonded wafer substrate such that an aperture in the top cap facilitates passage of a media in a downward direction to the sensing diaphragm. The top cap may be configured to isolate the bond pads from the media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2016
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Richard A. Davis, Carl Stewart
  • Absorbent ingestible agents and associated methods of manufacture and use
    Patent number: 9457048
    Abstract: Appetite suppression and weight management achieved through pre-meal ingestion of temporary gastric bulking agents in the form of superabsorbent polymer hydrogels (SAPHs) selected from among a group consisting of crosslinked polycarboxylic acid moieties is described. The preferred compositions and manufacturing methods of ultrapure preparations of ingestible forms; as well as the preferred methods of use, dosage and administration; distribution and delivery of SAPH materials are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: WELLOSOPHY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Richard Davis, Lior Sher
  • THERAPEUTIC OXIDATIVE FORMULATIONS AND METHODS OF USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20160271096
    Abstract: Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions of multi-component systems which comprise at least one peroxidic species, solubilized with a stabilizing solvent, in combination with a chelating dye, and an aromatic redox compound. Further, the present invention relates to methods or use of the pharmaceutical composition for treating, preventing, or managing a disease of a subject in need thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2014
    Publication date: September 22, 2016
    Inventors: Richard Davis, Dmytro Berezhnoy
  • GENETIC MARKERS AND USES THEREFOR
    Publication number: 20160262360
    Abstract: The present invention relates, inter alia, to methods for determining whether or not an animal and/or its offspring is more likely than not to have an increased tolerance to heat, an increased resistance to ticks, and/or a desirable coat texture. It also provides methods for selecting or rejecting animals, one or more cells or embryos, estimating the worth of an animal, generating animals having a desired genotype/phenotype, cloning and breeding animals and herd formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2014
    Publication date: September 15, 2016
    Applicant: Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited
    Inventors: Mathew Douglas Littlejohn, Stephen Richard Davis
  • PRESSURE SENSOR HAVING A BOSSED DIAPHRAGM
    Publication number: 20160257561
    Abstract: A method includes forming a mask that defines a masked area and an unmasked area on a front side of a substrate, and implanting a buried layer corresponding to the unmasked area on the front side of the substrate. The method also includes forming an epitaxial layer having a back side on the front side of the substrate and on a front side of the buried layer, and creating an opening into a back side of the substrate up to a back side of the epitaxial layer and a back side of the one or portions of the buried layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Inventors: Carl Stewart, Richard Davis, Gilberto Morales
  • URETHRAL PATENCY IMPLANT
    Publication number: 20160242894
    Abstract: A urethral scaffold is provided for expanding a portion of the urethra that extends through the prostate. The scaffold is expandable and has a plurality of undulating circumferential members disposed between a proximal end and a distal end of the scaffold. A central section of the scaffold has a width that exceeds the width at the distal end of the scaffold. The scaffold is made of a material that reacts with urine or with tissue surrounding the urethra to reduce the volume of the scaffold such that the scaffold can self-explant without an interventional procedure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: August 25, 2016
    Inventor: H. Richard Davis
  • Outboard Motor Lighting System
    Publication number: 20160236757
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to lighting systems employed in outboard motors used as marine propulsion systems, and to marine vessel assemblies employing outboard motors with such lighting systems, and related methods of operation and implementation. In one example embodiment of a lighting system, the lighting system includes a first cowling panel portion including a reflective strip portion, and a second cowling panel portion that, in combination with the first cowling panel portion, at least partly defines an interior region within the cowling. The lighting system also includes a lighting source that is positioned within the interior region and positioned so that, when operating, first light is emitted toward the reflective strip portion and, upon the first light reaching the reflective strip portion, at least some of the first light is directed outward away from the cowling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2016
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Inventors: Eric A. Davis, Richard A. Davis
  • 40mm door-breaching grenade
    Patent number: 9389053
    Abstract: The invention provides a short-range, self-propelled, non-fragmenting breaching device to breach a wide variety of doors and barricades with high efficiency, high gunner safety and low collateral damage. The invention also provides a method of preparing the breaching device and a method of breaching a target using the breaching device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: Nammo Talley, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Willhelm, John Johnson, Wayne Mayville, Glade Hansen, Andrew Richard Davis, Chad Lewis Greenlee
  • AUTOMATED ANALYSIS OF A MOTION
    Publication number: 20160188966
    Abstract: Generating an analysis of a motion is disclosed. A first computing device receives image data that includes a set of user images. Each user image in the set corresponds to a stage of a plurality of consecutive stages of the motion and depicts a user at the corresponding stage. For each stage of the plurality of consecutive stages, a plurality of motion point locations in the corresponding user image is determined. Based on the plurality of motion point locations and reference motion data associated with a reference motion, a user motion report is generated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2016
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Inventors: Tyson Hanish, Robert Schulte, Richard Davis, Melissa A. Schulte
  • Large outboard motor for marine vessel application and related methods of making and operating same
    Patent number: 9365273
    Abstract: An outboard motor for a marine vessel application, and related methods of making and operating same, are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the outboard motor includes a horizontal-crankshaft engine in an upper portion of the outboard motor, positioned substantially positioned above a trimming axis of the outboard motor. In at least another embodiment, first, second and third transmission devices are employed to transmit rotational power from the engine to one or more propellers at a lower portion of the outboard motor. In at least a further embodiment, the outboard motor is made to include a rigid interior assembly formed by the engine, multiple transmission devices, and a further structural component. In further embodiments, the outboard motor includes numerous cooling, exhaust, and/or oil system components, as well as other transmission features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Seven Marine, LLC
    Inventors: Eric A. Davis, Richard A. Davis
  • LARGE OUTBOARD MOTOR FOR MARINE VESSEL APPLICATION AND RELATED METHODS OF MAKING AND OPERATING SAME
    Publication number: 20160129981
    Abstract: An outboard motor for a marine vessel application, and related methods of making and operating same, are disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the outboard motor includes a horizontal-crankshaft engine in an upper portion of the outboard motor, positioned substantially positioned above a trimming axis of the outboard motor. In at least another embodiment, first, second and third transmission devices are employed to transmit rotational power from the engine to one or more propellers at a lower portion of the outboard motor. In at least a further embodiment, the outboard motor is made to include a rigid interior assembly formed by the engine, multiple transmission devices, and a further structural component. In further embodiments, the outboard motor includes numerous cooling, exhaust, and/or oil system components, as well as other transmission features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Inventors: Eric A. Davis, Richard A. Davis
  • Automated analysis of a motion
    Patent number: 9299158
    Abstract: Generating an analysis of a motion is disclosed. A first computing device receives image data that includes a set of user images. Each user image in the set corresponds to a stage of a plurality of consecutive stages of the motion and depicts a user at the corresponding stage. For each stage of the plurality of consecutive stages, a plurality of motion point locations in the corresponding user image is determined. Based on the plurality of motion point locations and reference motion data associated with a reference motion, a user motion report is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: Coley Sports and Entertainment LLC
    Inventors: Tyson Hanish, Robert Schulte, Richard Davis, Melissa A. Schulte
  • HUMIDITY SENSOR
    Publication number: 20160077028
    Abstract: A humidity sensor may include a first substrate having a recess formed in a first side, a second substrate and an insulating layer supported by the second substrate. The second substrate and the insulating layer may be supported by the first side of the first substrate and extend over the recess to form a diaphragm with the insulating layer facing the recess. The diaphragm may be at least partially thermally isolated from a remainder of the second substrate. A resistive heater element may be supported by the diaphragm. A pair of sensing electrodes are electrically separated from each other and supported by the diaphragm. A sensing material is disposed over the pair of sensing electrodes, wherein an electrical property of the sensing material changes in response to a change in moisture content of the sensing material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Publication date: March 17, 2016
    Inventors: Scott E. Beck, Carl Stewart, Richard A. Davis