Patents by Inventor Richard A. Swift

Richard A. Swift 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: 20250114574
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to medical devices and methods of assembling medical devices, such as MRI-compatible interventional wireguides. An example of a wireguide includes a series of individual segments, a plurality of connectors, and a plurality of spacers. Each segment in the series of individual segments has a first end and a second end. Each connector of the plurality of connectors joins adjacent segments in the series of individual segments to one another such that a first end of a first segment and a second end of a second segment in the series of individual segments are attached to a connector of the plurality of connectors. A spacer of the plurality of spacers is disposed between each pair of adjacent segments in the series of individual segments. Each of the segments in the series of individual segments is electrically insulated from an adjacent segment in the series of individual segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2024
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ram H Paul, JR., Richard Swift, Shuo Yang, Tracy Willis, Gary Neff
  • Patent number: 12263104
    Abstract: A stent comprises a framework that includes a sequence of cells that each occupy a discrete segment of the stent length, and each of the cells includes a plurality of struts with ends connected at respective vertices. In some forms the framework includes T-bars that connect adjacent cells, where the T-bars have a column that has a minimum width perpendicular to the long axis that is wider than a maximum width of each of the struts, and the column defines at least one slot. In other forms, the framework exhibits geometries that facilitate a high packing density for the framework when the stent is in a compressed tube or loading configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Swift, Sam C. Mullins, Stephen T. Clancy
  • Publication number: 20250004986
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for creating, deleting, and restoring volume snapshots in a remote data store are disclosed. A storage volume and a storage operating system are implemented in a software container. Through a user interface, a user may create a snapshot of the volume to a cloud storage. A user may also delete individual snapshots from the cloud storage. Further, deletion of a most recent snapshot may occur by awaiting deletion (though marking as deleted to the user) until a next snapshot is received. Snapshots in the cloud storage are manipulatable even after destruction of the source volume (by destruction of the container, for example). A controller outside the container is used by implementing the same API as the controller in the container had. Full restores of snapshots in the cloud are also possible even when the original container and volume have been destroyed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Komatsu, Ardalan Kangarlou, Richard Swift, Rajesh Rajaraman, Ling Zheng
  • Patent number: 12128197
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to medical devices and methods of assembling medical devices, such as MRI-compatible interventional wireguides. An example of a wireguide includes a series of individual segments, a plurality of connectors, and a plurality of spacers. Each segment in the series of individual segments has a first end and a second end. Each connector of the plurality of connectors joins adjacent segments in the series of individual segments to one another such that a first end of a first segment and a second end of a second segment in the series of individual segments are attached to a connector of the plurality of connectors. A spacer of the plurality of spacers is disposed between each pair of adjacent segments in the series of individual segments. Each of the segments in the series of individual segments is electrically insulated from an adjacent segment in the series of individual segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ram H Paul, Jr., Richard Swift, Shuo Yang, Tracy Willis, Gary Neff
  • Patent number: 12126678
    Abstract: The application relates to modular electronic apparatus (1) for distribution of RF communication signals. The apparatus comprises a chassis (2) arranged to removably receive plural modules (3), at least some of which are arranged to receive and process RF communication signals. A communication path (17) is provided for modules to communicate with each other and/or with the chassis. Plural modules received in the chassis. When a module is received in the chassis, it is arranged to broadcast a message over the communication path indicating its presence in the chassis and its type. At least one other module is arranged to adapt its behaviour in response to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: ETL SYSTEMS LIMITED
    Inventors: Esen Bayar, Sebastien Francis Butstraen, Simon Richard Swift
  • Publication number: 20240261120
    Abstract: A stent comprises a framework that includes a sequence of cells that each occupy a discrete segment of the stent length, and each of the cells includes a plurality of struts with ends connected at respective vertices. An adjacent pair of the cells are attached to one another by a plurality of T-bars that each include a column defining a long axis that extends parallel to the stent axis, and a top bar attached to one end of the column. An opposite end of the column is attached to a first cell, and the top bar is attached at opposite ends to a second cell of the adjacent pair of cells. The column has a minimum width perpendicular to the long axis that is wider than a maximum width of each of the struts, and the column defines at least one slot. The top bar includes a curved edge on an opposite side from the column, and the curved edge straddles the long axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Applicant: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Swift, Sam C. Mullins, Stephen T. Clancy
  • Publication number: 20240126636
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated remediation of issues arising in a data management storage system are provided. Deployed assets of a storage solution vendor may deliver telemetry data to the vendor on a regular basis. The received telemetry data may be processed by an AIOps platform to perform predictive analytics and arrive at “community wisdom” from the vendor's installed user base. In one embodiment, an insight-based approach is used to facilitate risk detection and remediation including proactively addressing issues before they turn into more serious problems. For example, based on continuous learning based on the community wisdom and making one or both of a rule set and a remediation set derived therefrom available for use by cognitive computing co-located with a customer's storage system, a risk to which the storage system is exposed may be determined and a corresponding remediation may be deployed to address or mitigate the risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Nibu Habel, Jeffrey Scott MacFarland, John Richard Swift
  • Publication number: 20240126632
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated remediation of issues arising in a data management storage system are provided. Deployed assets of a storage solution vendor may deliver telemetry data to the vendor on a regular basis. The received telemetry data may be processed by an AIOps platform to perform predictive analytics and arrive at “community wisdom” from the vendor's installed user base. In one embodiment, an insight-based approach is used to facilitate risk detection and remediation including proactively addressing issues before they turn into more serious problems. For example, based on continuous learning based on the community wisdom and making one or both of a rule set and a remediation set derived therefrom available for use by cognitive computing co-located with a customer's storage system, a risk to which the storage system is exposed may be determined and a corresponding remediation may be deployed to address or mitigate the risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Nibu Habel, Jeffrey Scott MacFarland, John Richard Swift
  • Patent number: 11924274
    Abstract: The application relates to modular electronic apparatus (1) for distribution of RF communication signals. The apparatus comprises a chassis (2) arranged to removably receive plural modules (3), at least some of which are arranged to receive and process RF communication signals. A communication path (17) is provided for modules to communicate with each other and/or with the chassis. Plural modules received in the chassis. When a module is received in the chassis, it is arranged to broadcast a message over the communication path indicating its presence in the chassis and its type. At least one other module is arranged to adapt its behaviour in response to the message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ETL Systems Limited
    Inventors: Esen Bayar, Sebastien Francis Butstraen, Simon Richard Swift
  • Patent number: 11921671
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and machine-readable media for creating, deleting, and restoring volume snapshots in a remote data store are disclosed. A storage volume and a storage operating system are implemented in a software container. Through a user interface, a user may create a snapshot of the volume to a cloud storage. A user may also delete individual snapshots from the cloud storage. Further, deletion of a most recent snapshot may occur by awaiting deletion (though marking as deleted to the user) until a next snapshot is received. Snapshots in the cloud storage are manipulatable even after destruction of the source volume (by destruction of the container, for example). A controller outside the container is used by implementing the same API as the controller in the container had. Full restores of snapshots in the cloud are also possible even when the original container and volume have been destroyed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: NETAPP, INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoshi Komatsu, Ardalan Kangarlou, Richard Swift, Rajesh Rajaraman, Ling Zheng
  • Patent number: 11896507
    Abstract: A stent comprises a framework that includes a sequence of cells that each occupy a discrete segment of the stent length, and each of the cells includes a plurality of struts with ends connected at respective vertices. An adjacent pair of the cells are attached to one another by a plurality of T-bars that each include a column defining a long axis that extends parallel to the stent axis, and a top bar attached to one end of the column. An opposite end of the column is attached to a first cell, and the top bar is attached at opposite ends to a second cell of the adjacent pair of cells. The column has a minimum width perpendicular to the long axis that is wider than a maximum width of each of the struts, and the column defines at least one slot. The top bar includes a curved edge on an opposite side from the column, and the curved edge straddles the long axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Richard A Swift, Sam C Mullins, Stephen T Clancy
  • Publication number: 20240036965
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated remediation of issues arising in a data management storage system are provided. Deployed assets of a storage solution vendor may deliver telemetry data to the vendor on a regular basis. The received telemetry data may be processed by an AIOps platform to perform predictive analytics and arrive at “community wisdom” from the vendor's installed user base. In one embodiment, an insight-based approach is used to facilitate risk detection and remediation including proactively addressing issues before they turn into more serious problems. For example, based on continuous learning based on the community wisdom and making one or both of a rule set and a remediation set derived therefrom available for use by cognitive computing co-located with a customer's storage system, a risk to which the storage system is exposed may be determined and a corresponding remediation may be deployed to address or mitigate the risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: NetApp, Inc.
    Inventors: Nibu Habel, Jeffrey Scott MacFarland, John Richard Swift
  • Publication number: 20240037050
    Abstract: The application relates to modular electronic apparatus (1) for distribution of RF communication signals. The apparatus comprises a chassis (2) arranged to removably receive plural modules (3), at least some of which are arranged to receive and process RF communication signals. A communication path (17) is provided for modules to communicate with each other and/or with the chassis. Plural modules received in the chassis. When a module is received in the chassis, it is arranged to broadcast a message over the communication path indicating its presence in the chassis and its type. At least one other module is arranged to adapt its behaviour in response to the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Esen BAYAR, Sebastien Francis BUTSTRAEN, Simon Richard SWIFT
  • Publication number: 20240015210
    Abstract: The application relates to modular electronic apparatus (1) for distribution of RF communication signals. The apparatus comprises a chassis (2) arranged to removably receive plural modules (3), at least some of which are arranged to receive and process RF communication signals. A communication path (17) is provided for modules to communicate with each other and/or with the chassis. Plural modules received in the chassis. When a module is received in the chassis, it is arranged to broadcast a message over the communication path indicating its presence in the chassis and its type. At least one other module is arranged to adapt its behaviour in response to the message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Esen BAYER, Sebastien Francis BUTSTRAEN, Simon Richard SWIFT
  • Publication number: 20230381460
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to medical devices and methods of assembling medical devices, such as MRI-compatible interventional wireguides. An example of a wireguide includes a series of individual segments, a plurality of connectors, and a plurality of spacers. Each segment in the series of individual segments has a first end and a second end. Each connector of the plurality of connectors joins adjacent segments in the series of individual segments to one another such that a first end of a first segment and a second end of a second segment in the series of individual segments are attached to a connector of the plurality of connectors. A spacer of the plurality of spacers is disposed between each pair of adjacent segments in the series of individual segments. Each of the segments in the series of individual segments is electrically insulated from an adjacent segment in the series of individual segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Applicant: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ram H. Paul, JR., Richard Swift, Shuo Yang, Tracy Willis, Gary Neff
  • Patent number: 11724073
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to medical devices and methods of assembling medical devices, such as MRI-compatible interventional wireguides. An example of a wireguide includes a series of individual segments, a plurality of connectors, and a plurality of spacers. Each segment in the series of individual segments has a first end and a second end. Each connector of the plurality of connectors joins adjacent segments in the series of individual segments to one another such that a first end of a first segment and a second end of a second segment in the series of individual segments are attached to a connector of the plurality of connectors. A spacer of the plurality of spacers is disposed between each pair of adjacent segments in the series of individual segments. Each of the segments in the series of individual segments is electrically insulated from an adjacent segment in the series of individual segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Ram H Paul, Jr., Richard Swift, Shuo Yang, Tracy Willis, Gary Neff
  • Publication number: 20230000648
    Abstract: A stent comprises a framework that includes a sequence of cells that each occupy a discrete segment of the stent length, and each of the cells includes a plurality of struts with ends connected at respective vertices. In some forms the hollow cylindrical shape of the framework is moveable among a loading diameter that is smaller than a tube diameter, which is smaller than an expanded diameter, and every strut of the framework is oriented parallel to the stent axis when the hollow cylindrical shape is at the tube diameter. In other forms the framework includes T-bars that connect adjacent cells, where the T-bars have a column that has a minimum width perpendicular to the long axis that is wider than a maximum width of each of the struts, and the column defines at least one slot. In still other forms, the framework exhibits geometries that facilitate a high packing density for the framework when the stent is in a compressed tube or loading configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Applicant: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Richard A. Swift, Sam C. Mullins, Stephen T. Clancy
  • Publication number: 20220370215
    Abstract: A stent comprises a framework that includes a sequence of cells that each occupy a discrete segment of the stent length, and each of the cells includes a plurality of struts with ends connected at respective vertices. An adjacent pair of the cells are attached to one another by a plurality of T-bars that each include a column defining a long axis that extends parallel to the stent axis, and a top bar attached to one end of the column. An opposite end of the column is attached to a first cell, and the top bar is attached at opposite ends to a second cell of the adjacent pair of cells. The column has a minimum width perpendicular to the long axis that is wider than a maximum width of each of the struts, and the column defines at least one slot. The top bar includes a curved edge on an opposite side from the column, and the curved edge straddles the long axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Inventors: Richard A. Swift, Sam C. Mullins, Stephen T. Clancy
  • Patent number: 11452626
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes intraluminal support devices having high radial stiffness regions with smaller diameter and low radial stiffness regions with larger diameter. When deployed to the vasculature of a patient in need of treatment, the high radial stiffness region is sized such that it has approximately the diameter of the vessel in need of treatment, so that it produces substantially zero chronic radial force when the vessel is not being subjected to external compression. The low radial stiffness regions anchor the device to the vessel wall and provide a less-abrupt transition from the high radial stiffness structure. Methods of making and using such devices are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC
    Inventors: Joshua F. Krieger, Richard A. Swift, Seoggwan Kim, Susan G. Sahlgren
  • Publication number: 20220110772
    Abstract: A ureteral stent may comprise an elongate member with an internal-luminal space. The member may have at least one end coiled in a pigtail-shape, a substantially straight portion, and a plurality of side ports wherein the plurality of side ports are located only in the substantially straight portion and are disposed along a spiral or helix where each side port is located radially and longitudinally offset relative to each adjacent side port.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: Cook Medical Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Santanu Chandra, Richard Swift, Conor Heffernan, Nathan Killey, Jonathan Sheets