Patents by Inventor Robert Kiefer

Robert Kiefer 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).

  • Patent number: 11959987
    Abstract: In a method for an actuation of a magnetic resonance device for capturing image data from an examination region of an examination object, at least one first control sequence is provisioned, the magnetic resonance device is actuated according to the at least one first control sequence to capture first data from the examination object, the first data is analyzed with respect to a property to generate a result, and, based on the result, a selective performance of one of: a selection of a further control sequence, and termination of the actuation of the magnetic resonance device, is performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AG
    Inventors: Robert Grimm, Berthold Kiefer, Heinrich von Busch
  • Patent number: 11737800
    Abstract: Attachment devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The attachment devices can be fenestrated. The fenestrations can control the flow of fluid out of and/or into the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Robert A. Kiefer
  • Patent number: 11458669
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for changing cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of flat braided sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The flat braided sutures can have a textile first cross-sectional shape that can be changed to a textile second cross-sectional shape. The systems can have a heater and a die. The flat braided sutures can be movable through the heater and the die. When the flat braided sutures are in the heater, the flat braided sutures can be heatable from a textile first temperature to a textile second temperature greater than the textile first temperature. When the flat braided sutures are at the textile second temperature, the textile first cross-sectional shape can be changeable to the textile second cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: ATEX Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Kiefer, Nathan Spangenberg, Stephanie Burke, Matthew Oltman, Thomas R. Molz
  • Publication number: 20220266502
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for changing cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of flat braided sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The flat braided sutures can have a textile first cross-sectional shape that can be changed to a textile second cross-sectional shape. The systems can have a heater and a die. The flat braided sutures can be movable through the heater and the die. When the flat braided sutures are in the heater, the flat braided sutures can be heatable from a textile first temperature to a textile second temperature greater than the textile first temperature. When the flat braided sutures are at the textile second temperature, the textile first cross-sectional shape can be changeable to the textile second cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: US BioDesign, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. KIEFER, Nathan SPANGENBERG, Stephanie BURKE, Matthew OLTMAN, Thomas R. MOLZ
  • Patent number: 11155947
    Abstract: Methods and systems for braiding sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The sutures can have alternating bifurcated and non-bifurcated lengths. The sutures can have looped-ends, with both ends of the loop having contiguous braiding with the adjacent body or remainder of the suture. Braiding machines can have one or more bifurcating bars that can controllably obstruct or allow passage of the shuttle and carriers of the braiding machine. The controllable bifurcating bars can result in u-turns in the shuttle and carrier paths, such as a path encircling a horngear adjacent to the bifurcating bar, or passage of the shuttle and carrier across the bifurcating bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: Lake Region Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert A. Kiefer, Nathan Spangenberg
  • Patent number: 10888363
    Abstract: Attachment devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The attachment devices can be fenestrated. The fenestrations can control the flow of fluid out of and/or into the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Robert A. Kiefer
  • Publication number: 20200330142
    Abstract: Attachment devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The attachment devices can be fenestrated. The fenestrations can control the flow of fluid out of and/or into the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: October 22, 2020
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, Robert A. KIEFER
  • Publication number: 20200056312
    Abstract: Methods and systems for braiding sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The sutures can have alternating bifurcated and non-bifurcated lengths. The sutures can have looped-ends, with both ends of the loop having contiguous braiding with the adjacent body or remainder of the suture. Braiding machines can have one or more bifurcating bars that can controllably obstruct or allow passage of the shuttle and carriers of the braiding machine. The controllable bifurcating bars can result in u-turns in the shuttle and carrier paths, such as a path encircling a horngear adjacent to the bifurcating bar, or passage of the shuttle and carrier across the bifurcating bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventors: Robert A. Kiefer, Nathan Spangenberg
  • Publication number: 20200015873
    Abstract: An attachment device with a radially expandable section is disclosed. The attachment device can have helical threads, for example, to facilitate screwing the attachment device into a bone. Methods of using the same are also disclosed. The attachment device can be positioned to radially expand the expandable section in cancellous bone substantially surrounded by cortical bone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: January 16, 2020
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO, Michael P. IGOE, Robert A. KIEFER, Wade K. TREXLER
  • Patent number: 10509785
    Abstract: A database system stores data as hypertables that represent partitioned database tables. Each hypertable comprises chunks of data that may be distributed across multiple locations, each location comprising at least a storage device. The database system provides an interface that allows database queries seamlessly to hypertables as well as standard tables. The database system dynamically creates chunks as records are added to a hypertable. The database system defines a new partitioning strategy if the storage configuration of the database system is changed by adding new locations or removing existing locations. The records added to the hypertable before the storage configuration was changed continue to be stored as chunks distributed according to the previous partitioning policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: Timescale, Inc.
    Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström
  • Publication number: 20190374269
    Abstract: Attachment devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The attachment devices can be longitudinally expandable and/or compressible. The attachment devices can have an increasable and/or decreasable length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventors: Robert A. KIEFER, E. Skott GREENHALGH
  • Publication number: 20190275207
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an implantable medical device comprising a composite graft material including a first biologic component, such as an acellular tissue matrix, and a second non-biologic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Sangwook Park, Aaron Barere, Christopher T. Wagner, Robert Kiefer, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • Publication number: 20190184062
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an implantable medical device comprising a composite graft material including a first biologic component, such as an acellular tissue matrix, and a second non-biologic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Sangwook Park, Aaron Barere, Christopher T. Wagner, Robert Kiefer, E. Skott Greenhalgh
  • Publication number: 20190188204
    Abstract: A database system stores data as hypertables that represent partitioned database tables. Each hypertable comprises chunks of data that may be distributed across multiple locations, each location comprising at least a storage device. The database system provides an interface that allows database queries seamlessly to hypertables as well as standard tables. The database system dynamically creates chunks as records are added to a hypertable. The database system defines a new partitioning strategy if the storage configuration of the database system is changed by adding new locations or removing existing locations. The records added to the hypertable before the storage configuration was changed continue to be stored as chunks distributed according to the previous partitioning policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström
  • Publication number: 20190168441
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for changing cross-sectional sizes and/or shapes of flat braided sutures and the resulting constructs are disclosed. The flat braided sutures can have a textile first cross-sectional shape that can be changed to a textile second cross-sectional shape. The systems can have a heater and a die. The flat braided sutures can be movable through the heater and the die. When the flat braided sutures are in the heater, the flat braided sutures can be heatable from a textile first temperature to a textile second temperature greater than the textile first temperature. When the flat braided sutures are at the textile second temperature, the textile first cross-sectional shape can be changeable to the textile second cross-sectional shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: US BioDesign, LLC
    Inventors: Robert A. KIEFER, Nathan SPANGENBERG, Stephanie BURKE, Matthew OLTMAN, Thomas R. MOLZ
  • Publication number: 20190167326
    Abstract: Attachment devices and methods of using the same are disclosed. The attachment devices can be fenestrated. The fenestrations can control the flow of fluid out of and/or into the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.
    Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, Robert A. KIEFER
  • Patent number: 10073903
    Abstract: A database system stores data as hypertables that represent partitioned database tables. Each hypertable comprises chunks of data that may be distributed across multiple locations, each location comprising at least a storage device. The database system provides an interface that allows database queries seamlessly to hypertables as well as standard tables. The database system dynamically creates chunks as records are added to a hypertable. The database system defines a new partitioning strategy if the storage configuration of the database system is changed by adding new locations or removing existing locations. The records added to the hypertable before the storage configuration was changed continue to be stored as chunks distributed according to the previous partitioning policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Timescale, Inc.
    Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt
  • Patent number: 10073888
    Abstract: A database system stores data as hypertables that represent partitioned database tables. Each hypertable comprises chunks of data that may be distributed across multiple locations, each location comprising at least a storage device. The database system provides an interface that allows database queries seamlessly to hypertables as well as standard tables. The database system dynamically creates chunks as records are added to a hypertable. The database system defines a new partitioning strategy if the storage configuration of the database system is changed by adding new locations or removing existing locations. The records added to the hypertable before the storage configuration was changed continue to be stored as chunks distributed according to the previous partitioning policy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Timescacle, Inc.
    Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt
  • Publication number: 20180246950
    Abstract: A database system stores data as hypertables that represent partitioned database tables. Each hypertable comprises chunks of data that may be distributed across multiple locations, each location comprising at least a storage device. The database system provides an interface that allows database queries seamlessly to hypertables as well as standard tables. The database system dynamically creates chunks as records are added to a hypertable. The database system defines a new partitioning strategy if the storage configuration of the database system is changed by adding new locations or removing existing locations. The records added to the hypertable before the storage configuration was changed continue to be stored as chunks distributed according to the previous partitioning policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt
  • Publication number: 20180246934
    Abstract: A database system stores data as hypertables that represent partitioned database tables. Each hypertable comprises chunks of data that may be distributed across multiple locations, each location comprising at least a storage device. The database system provides an interface that allows database queries seamlessly to hypertables as well as standard tables. The database system dynamically creates chunks as records are added to a hypertable. The database system defines a new partitioning strategy if the storage configuration of the database system is changed by adding new locations or removing existing locations. The records added to the hypertable before the storage configuration was changed continue to be stored as chunks distributed according to the previous partitioning policy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt