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).
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Patent number: 11959987Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AGInventors: Robert Grimm, Berthold Kiefer, Heinrich von Busch
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Patent number: 11737800Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Stout Medical Group, L.P.Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Robert A. Kiefer
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Patent number: 11458669Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: January 22, 2019Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: ATEX Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Kiefer, Nathan Spangenberg, Stephanie Burke, Matthew Oltman, Thomas R. Molz
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Publication number: 20220266502Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2022Publication date: August 25, 2022Applicant: US BioDesign, LLCInventors: Robert A. KIEFER, Nathan SPANGENBERG, Stephanie BURKE, Matthew OLTMAN, Thomas R. MOLZ
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Patent number: 11155947Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 2, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Lake Region Manufacturing, Inc.Inventors: Robert A. Kiefer, Nathan Spangenberg
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Patent number: 10888363Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: July 11, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Stout Medical Group, L.P.Inventors: E. Skott Greenhalgh, Robert A. Kiefer
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Publication number: 20200330142Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2020Publication date: October 22, 2020Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, Robert A. KIEFER
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Publication number: 20200056312Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 2, 2018Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Robert A. Kiefer, Nathan Spangenberg
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Publication number: 20200015873Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, John-Paul ROMANO, Michael P. IGOE, Robert A. KIEFER, Wade K. TREXLER
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Patent number: 10509785Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 22, 2018Date of Patent: December 17, 2019Assignee: Timescale, Inc.Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström
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Publication number: 20190374269Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.Inventors: Robert A. KIEFER, E. Skott GREENHALGH
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Publication number: 20190275207Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: May 21, 2019Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: Sangwook Park, Aaron Barere, Christopher T. Wagner, Robert Kiefer, E. Skott Greenhalgh
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Publication number: 20190184062Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Sangwook Park, Aaron Barere, Christopher T. Wagner, Robert Kiefer, E. Skott Greenhalgh
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Publication number: 20190188204Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 22, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström
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Publication number: 20190168441Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 22, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: US BioDesign, LLCInventors: Robert A. KIEFER, Nathan SPANGENBERG, Stephanie BURKE, Matthew OLTMAN, Thomas R. MOLZ
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Publication number: 20190167326Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2018Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: Stout Medical Group, L.P.Inventors: E. Skott GREENHALGH, Robert A. KIEFER
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Patent number: 10073903Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Timescale, Inc.Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt
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Patent number: 10073888Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 27, 2018Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Timescacle, Inc.Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt
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Publication number: 20180246950Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt
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Publication number: 20180246934Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 27, 2018Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Matvey Arye, Michael J. Freedman, Robert Kiefer, Ajay A. Kulkarni, Erik Nordström, Olof Rensfelt