Patents by Inventor Robert J. Downey

Robert J. Downey 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).

  • Pressure sensitive arrangement and method for use thereof
    Patent number: 10610240
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods and computer-accessible mediums can be provided that can, for example, receive information related to a detection of a pulse of a patient(s), and increase a pressure using a hardware arrangement to reach a first pressure level corresponding to the pulse no longer being detected. The pressure can be decreased to reach a second pressure level corresponding to the pulse being again detected, and the pressure can be maintained at the second pressure level to facilitate a venipuncture of the patient(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER
    Inventor: Robert J. Downey
  • PRESSURE SENSITIVE ARRANGEMENT AND METHOD FOR USE THEREOF
    Publication number: 20160310149
    Abstract: Exemplary systems, methods and computer-accessible mediums can be provided that can, for example, receive information related to a detection of a pulse of a patient(s), and increase a pressure using a hardware arrangement to reach a first pressure level corresponding to the pulse no longer being detected. The pressure can be decreased to reach a second pressure level corresponding to the pulse being again detected, and the pressure can be maintained at the second pressure level to facilitate a venipuncture of the patient(s).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Inventor: Robert J. Downey
  • Apparatus for separating and packaging plastic parts
    Patent number: 4901503
    Abstract: An assembly for the receiving of a plurality of plastic parts initially interconnected to one another by runner structures in an array and formed from a multi-cavity plastic mold such that the subject assembly separates the plastic parts from the runner structure, ejects and delivers the runner structure into a recycling assembly and concurrently but independently delivers each of the plastic parts into separate containers through the provision of a delivery structure associated with the subject assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Security Plastics, Inc.
    Inventors: Enidio A. Gomez, Robert J. Downey