Patents by Inventor Richard Francis

Richard 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: 20210212833
    Abstract: A bone fusing implant device includes an elongated body extending along a longitudinal direction, and has one or more elongated grooves extending along the longitudinal direction on an outer surface of the elongated body and one or more elongated ridges alternating with the one or more elongated grooves and extending along the longitudinal direction on the outer surface of the elongated body. The elongated body includes a first segment having an outer surface with cortical threads, a second segment having an outer surface with cancellous threads, a top segment and a bottom segment. The first segment is configured to engage a cortical bone with the cortical threads and the second segment is configured to engage a cancellous bone with the cancellous threads. The cortical threads and the cancellous threads are formed on the one or more elongated ridges and do not extend into the one or more elongated grooves.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Applicant: KICVENTURES, LLC
    Inventors: KINGSLEY R. CHIN, RICHARD FRANCIS, OSCAR HERRERA, JOSHUA FINKEL, VITO LORE, DARRYL CAMPBELL-SPAULDING
  • Patent number: 11058839
    Abstract: A sealing cushion for a respiratory mask assembly has a patient interface portion having a resiliently deformable membrane for engagement with a patient's face, and an aperture formed therein for receiving a nasal and/or mouth region of the patient's face. An inner surface of the deformable membrane comprises a plurality of projections arranged in separate groups of projections positioned in a plurality of localized regions of the deformable membrane. The projections in each of the separate groups of projections are arranged such that each projection in the group of projections engages with an adjacent projection in the group of projections when the deformable membrane is deformed during engagement of the deformable membrane with the patient's face, in use, thereby providing the deformable membrane with an increased resistance to further deformation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: INTERSURGICAL AG
    Inventor: Richard Francis Bowsher
  • Publication number: 20210175207
    Abstract: A multi-die integrated circuit device and a method of fabricating the multi-die integrated circuit device involve a substrate. Two or more dice include components that implement functionality of the multi-die integrated circuit. The components include logic gates. The multi-die integrated circuit device also includes a spacer disposed between the substrate and each of the two or more dice. Each of the two or more dice makes direct electrical contact with the substrate without making direct electrical contact with the spacer through holes in the spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Charles L. Arvin, Bhupender Singh, Richard Francis Indyk, Steve Ostrander, Thomas Weiss, Mark Kapfhammer
  • Patent number: 11031373
    Abstract: A multi-die integrated circuit device and a method of fabricating the multi-die integrated circuit device involve a substrate. Two or more dice include components that implement functionality of the multi-die integrated circuit. The components include logic gates. The multi-die integrated circuit device also includes a spacer disposed between the substrate and each of the two or more dice. Each of the two or more dice makes direct electrical contact with the substrate without making direct electrical contact with the spacer through holes in the spacer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Charles L. Arvin, Bhupender Singh, Richard Francis Indyk, Steve Ostrander, Thomas Weiss, Mark Kapfhammer
  • Patent number: 11031343
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures are provided in which a first chip on a substrate has at least one first protruding section, the first protruding section including first interconnect locations, a second chip on the substrate having at least one second protruding section, the second protruding section including second interconnect locations and the first chip and the second chip are arranged such that the first protruding section is interdigitated with the second protruding section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Charles Leon Arvin, Richard Francis Indyk, Bhupender Singh, Jon Alfred Casey
  • Patent number: 11003413
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for removing a sound recording from an audio recording (e.g., an audio recording embedded in a media file) are presented. The system can include an identification component, a first subtraction component and a second subtraction component. The identification component identifies a sound recording in a mixed audio recording. The first subtraction component determines a local linear transformation of the sound recording and subtracts the local linear transformation of the sound recording from the mixed audio recording to generate a new mixed audio recording. The second subtraction component compares one or more segments of the sound recording with one or more corresponding segments of the new mixed audio recording and reduces a power level of the new mixed audio recording based at least in part on correlation of the one or more corresponding segments with the one or more segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Christopher Russell LaRosa, Sam Kvaalen, Thomas Chadwick Walters, Richard Francis Lyon, Robert Steven Glickstein, Rushabh Ashok Doshi, Molly Castle Nix, Jason Matthew Toff
  • Publication number: 20210007844
    Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the anchoring member and having an annular first portion coupled to the anchoring member and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The extension member is folded in a delivery configuration such that the first portion overlaps the second portion. When released from the a delivery catheter, the extension member unfolds such that the first portion extends radially outwardly from the anchoring member and the second portion extends radially outwardly from the first portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby
  • Publication number: 20200402912
    Abstract: Semiconductor structures are provided in which a first chip on a substrate has at least one first protruding section, the first protruding section including first interconnect locations, a second chip on the substrate having at least one second protruding section, the second protruding section including second interconnect locations and the first chip and the second chip are arranged such that the first protruding section is interdigitated with the second protruding section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Charles Leon Arvin, Richard Francis Indyk, Bhupender Singh, Jon Alfred Casey
  • Publication number: 20200360137
    Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member having an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the fixation frame and extending radially outward therefrom. The extension member includes a plurality of wires, at least a portion of which include an inner core surrounded by an outer material. The wires include a plurality of recesses extending through at least a portion of the thickness of the outer material, and a therapeutic agent in the recesses for delivery to the anatomy when the prosthetic heart valve device is positioned at a native annulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Alexander Hill, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby, James R. Keogh
  • Publication number: 20200354224
    Abstract: A process for producing nanoparticles of a substance, including in a first chamber, forming a dispersion of a substance in a fluid and bringing the fluid into a supercritical state; passing the dispersion from the first chamber through a cooling device or into a cooling zone in a second chamber, wherein the cooling device or cooling zone configured to reduce temperature of the dispersion below a temperature at which the fluid forms solid particles such that nanoparticles of the substance are formed, wherein the second chamber comprises a surface configured to receive the solid particles of the fluid and the nanoparticles of the substance; allowing pressure to decrease and/or temperature to increase in the second chamber to transform the solid particles into a gaseous state, removing the fluid in the gaseous state and with the nanoparticles remaining on the surface; and collecting the nanoparticles from the surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Inventors: Richard Francis REIDY, John E. LOTT, Gerhardt E. WISSLER, Mark C. HILL
  • Publication number: 20200321466
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to semiconductor structures, and more particularly to asymmetric field effect transistors (FET) on fully depleted silicon on insulator (FDSOI) semiconductor devices for high frequency and high voltage applications and their method of manufacture. The semiconductor device of the present disclosure includes a semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) layer disposed above a substrate, the SOI layer having a source region, a channel region, a drift region and a drain region, where the drift region adjoins the drain region and the channel region, a gate structure disposed on the channel region, a multilayer drain spacer disposed on a drain-facing sidewall of the gate structure and covering the drift region, and a source spacer disposed on a source-facing sidewall of the gate structure, where the source and drain spacers are asymmetric with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2019
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Inventors: IGNASI CORTES, ALBAN ZAKA, TOM HERRMANN, EL MEHDI BAZIZI, RICHARD FRANCIS TAYLOR III
  • Publication number: 20200312812
    Abstract: A multi-die integrated circuit device and a method of fabricating the multi-die integrated circuit device involve a substrate. Two or more dice include components that implement functionality of the multi-die integrated circuit. The components include logic gates. The multi-die integrated circuit device also includes a spacer disposed between the substrate and each of the two or more dice. Each of the two or more dice makes direct electrical contact with the substrate without making direct electrical contact with the spacer through holes in the spacer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: October 1, 2020
    Inventors: Charles L. Arvin, Bhupender Singh, Richard Francis Indyk, Steve Ostrander, Thomas Weiss, Mark Kapfhammer
  • Patent number: 10786352
    Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the anchoring member and having an annular first portion coupled to the anchoring member and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The extension member is folded in a delivery configuration such that the first portion overlaps the second portion. When released from the a delivery catheter, the extension member unfolds such that the first portion extends radially outwardly from the anchoring member and the second portion extends radially outwardly from the first portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: TWELVE, INC.
    Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby
  • Publication number: 20200260207
    Abstract: A method includes providing, for each respective audio channel of a plurality of audio channels provided by an operating system of a computing device, a set of successive audio processing stages to apply to the respective audio channel. The method also includes providing, by the operating system, an application programming interface (API) configured to set a plurality of parameters for adjusting the set of successive audio processing stages for each respective audio channel. The method additionally includes receiving, via the API and from an application running on the computing device, one or more values for one or more parameters of the plurality of parameters. The method further includes adjusting, by the operating system, the plurality of audio channels based on the received one or more values for the one or more parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Brian Kemler, Justin Wooyoung Lee, Richard Francis Lyon, Malcolm Graham Slaney
  • Patent number: 10729541
    Abstract: The present technology is a prosthetic heart valve device, and related systems and methods, for treating a native valve of a human heart having a native annulus and native leaflets. One embodiment comprises a valve support, a prosthetic valve assembly within the valve support, and an anchoring member having an upstream portion and a downstream portion. The device further includes an extension member coupled to the fixation frame and extending radially outward therefrom. The extension member includes a plurality of wires, at least a portion of which include an inner core surrounded by an outer material. The wires include a plurality of recesses extending through at least a portion of the thickness of the outer material, and a therapeutic agent in the recesses for delivery to the anatomy when the prosthetic heart valve device is positioned at a native annulus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: Twelve, Inc.
    Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Alexander Hill, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby, James R. Keogh
  • Patent number: 10696317
    Abstract: The system provides a roller shade apparatus that can be affixed to any of a plurality of infant and toddler carriers (including strollers, playpens, car seats, rockers, and the like). A pair of adjustable clips allow for the roller shade to be mounted on carriers of a variety of widths. Once in place, the shade can be unrolled to the desired length and an adjustable cord with clamp (with Velcroâ„¢ backing pad) can be affixed to the body of the carrier to secure the shade in place. This allows the apparatus to be used in a variety of carriers with variable dimensions. The apparatus provides easy adjustment to various carrier designs with the use of ball joint swivels, spring clamps and an adjustable length cord.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Steiner Innovations
    Inventors: Richard Francis Steiner, Donald William Steiner
  • Patent number: 10681485
    Abstract: A method includes providing, for each respective audio channel of a plurality of audio channels provided by an operating system of a computing device, a set of successive audio processing stages to apply to the respective audio channel. The method also includes providing, by the operating system, an application programming interface (API) configured to set a plurality of parameters for adjusting the set of successive audio processing stages for each respective audio channel. The method additionally includes receiving, via the API and from an application running on the computing device, one or more values for one or more parameters of the plurality of parameters. The method further includes adjusting, by the operating system, the plurality of audio channels based on the received one or more values for the one or more parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Brian Kemler, Justin Wooyoung Lee, Richard Francis Lyon, Malcolm Graham Slaney
  • Patent number: 10666865
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of panoramic still and motion photography. In a first embodiment, a camera apparatus for panoramic photography includes a first image sensor positioned to capture a first image. The first image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. The camera apparatus also includes second image sensor positioned to capture a second image. The second image sensor has a rolling-shutter readout arranged in portrait orientation. Finally, the camera apparatus includes a controller configured to signal the second image sensor to start capturing the second image before the first image sensor finishes capturing the first image. At least a portion of the first image is in front of the second image relative to a forward direction of the camera apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
  • Publication number: 20190388641
    Abstract: A patient interface assembly comprising a patient interface, a connector for connecting the patient interface to a conduit, and a conduit joined to the connector in a non-releasable manner. The patient interface comprises a first connection formation and the connector comprises a second connection formation, the patient interface and the connector being connectable such that, in a connected configuration, the first connection formation and the second connection formation are engageable with each other, with a snap fit, to provide a non-releasable connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2018
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Applicant: Intersurgical AG
    Inventor: Richard Francis BOWSHER
  • Publication number: 20190338943
    Abstract: A novelty candle includes an elongated cylindrical durable glass body having a first height and a first diameter, the body having a first end and a second end and defining a concave well adjacent the first end, and a solid portion extending along at least half of the first height, a fuel source disposed within the well, the fuel source including a paraffin wax, a wick at least partially disposed within the fuel source, a murrini coupled to a bottom of the glass body adjacent the second end, and a glass base at least partially covering the murrini and forming a plurality of smooth curvatures with sides of the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventor: Richard Francis Putnam