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).
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Publication number: 20210212833Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2021Publication date: July 15, 2021Applicant: KICVENTURES, LLCInventors: KINGSLEY R. CHIN, RICHARD FRANCIS, OSCAR HERRERA, JOSHUA FINKEL, VITO LORE, DARRYL CAMPBELL-SPAULDING
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Patent number: 11058839Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 23, 2014Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: INTERSURGICAL AGInventor: Richard Francis Bowsher
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Publication number: 20210175207Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Charles L. Arvin, Bhupender Singh, Richard Francis Indyk, Steve Ostrander, Thomas Weiss, Mark Kapfhammer
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Patent number: 11031373Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventors: Charles L. Arvin, Bhupender Singh, Richard Francis Indyk, Steve Ostrander, Thomas Weiss, Mark Kapfhammer
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Patent number: 11031343Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 21, 2019Date of Patent: June 8, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Charles Leon Arvin, Richard Francis Indyk, Bhupender Singh, Jon Alfred Casey
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Patent number: 11003413Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Christopher Russell LaRosa, Sam Kvaalen, Thomas Chadwick Walters, Richard Francis Lyon, Robert Steven Glickstein, Rushabh Ashok Doshi, Molly Castle Nix, Jason Matthew Toff
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Publication number: 20210007844Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby
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Publication number: 20200402912Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2019Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Charles Leon Arvin, Richard Francis Indyk, Bhupender Singh, Jon Alfred Casey
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Publication number: 20200360137Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2020Publication date: November 19, 2020Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Alexander Hill, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby, James R. Keogh
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Publication number: 20200354224Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2018Publication date: November 12, 2020Inventors: Richard Francis REIDY, John E. LOTT, Gerhardt E. WISSLER, Mark C. HILL
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Publication number: 20200321466Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 2, 2019Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: IGNASI CORTES, ALBAN ZAKA, TOM HERRMANN, EL MEHDI BAZIZI, RICHARD FRANCIS TAYLOR III
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Publication number: 20200312812Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 29, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Charles L. Arvin, Bhupender Singh, Richard Francis Indyk, Steve Ostrander, Thomas Weiss, Mark Kapfhammer
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Patent number: 10786352Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: TWELVE, INC.Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby
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Publication number: 20200260207Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 29, 2020Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Brian Kemler, Justin Wooyoung Lee, Richard Francis Lyon, Malcolm Graham Slaney
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Patent number: 10729541Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Twelve, Inc.Inventors: Richard Francis, Scott Robertson, Marian Lally, Alexander Hill, Katherine Miyashiro, Paraic Frisby, James R. Keogh
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Patent number: 10696317Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Steiner InnovationsInventors: Richard Francis Steiner, Donald William Steiner
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Patent number: 10681485Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 2, 2019Date of Patent: June 9, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Ricardo Antonio Garcia, Brian Kemler, Justin Wooyoung Lee, Richard Francis Lyon, Malcolm Graham Slaney
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Patent number: 10666865Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: Google LLCInventors: Richard Francis Lyon, Gary Embler, Iain Richard Tyrone McClatchie, Jason Holt
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Publication number: 20190388641Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2018Publication date: December 26, 2019Applicant: Intersurgical AGInventor: Richard Francis BOWSHER
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Publication number: 20190338943Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2019Publication date: November 7, 2019Inventor: Richard Francis Putnam