Patents by Inventor Robert Shipley
Robert Shipley 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: 20230143122Abstract: A seating assembly is provided that includes a seating assembly frame that includes a seatback frame, and a seat frame. The seating assembly further includes a seatback panel coupled to an upper portion of the seatback frame and movable between a stored position relative to the seatback frame and an extended position relative to the seatback frame, and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the seatback panel and the seating assembly frame and movable between a first position and a second position in response to an actuating force.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2023Publication date: May 11, 2023Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Johnathan Line, Joseph Kish, Ratan Howlader, Ian James, Robert Shipley, Patrick Davis, Nicholas Alphonse Billardello, David Frederick Lyons, Sean West
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Patent number: 11577631Abstract: A seating assembly is provided that includes a seating assembly frame that includes a seatback frame, and a seat frame. The seating assembly further includes a seatback panel coupled to an upper portion of the seatback frame and movable between a stored position relative to the seatback frame and an extended position relative to the seatback frame, and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the seatback panel and the seating assembly frame and movable between a first position and a second position in response to an actuating force.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 14, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Johnathan Line, Joseph Kish, Ratan Howlader, Ian James, Robert Shipley, Patrick Davis, Nicholas Alphonse Billardello, David Frederick Lyons, Sean West
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Publication number: 20220281361Abstract: A seating assembly is provided that includes a seating assembly frame that includes a seatback frame, and a seat frame. The seating assembly further includes a seatback panel coupled to an upper portion of the seatback frame and movable between a stored position relative to the seatback frame and an extended position relative to the seatback frame, and an adjustment mechanism coupled to the seatback panel and the seating assembly frame and movable between a first position and a second position in response to an actuating force.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 3, 2021Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Johnathan Line, Joseph Kish, Ratan Howlader, Ian James, Robert Shipley, Patrick Davis, Nicholas Alphonse Billardello, David Frederick Lyons, Sean West
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Publication number: 20200132473Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining vehicle location in parking structures. Example methods may include receiving, by one or more computer processors coupled to at least one memory, first data from one or more devices of a vehicle, the first data indicative of the vehicle being in a parking structure; receiving, second data from the one or more devices of the vehicle, the second data indicative of a landmark associated with the parking structure; determining, based on the second data, a feature of the landmark; and causing to transmit a signal indicative of information associated with the feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 26, 2018Publication date: April 30, 2020Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Robert Shipley, Erick Lavoie
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Publication number: 20160087409Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods related to gas discharge tubes (GDTs). In some embodiments, a plurality of GDTs can be fabricated from an insulator plate having a first side and a second side, with the insulator plate defining a plurality of openings. Each opening can be dimensioned to be capable of being covered by first and second electrodes on the first and second sides of the insulator plate to thereby define an enclosed gas volume configured for a GDT operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: John KELLY, Johan SCHLEIMANN-JENSEN, Jan HEATH, Craig Robert SHIPLEY, Gordon L. BOURNS
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Patent number: 9289597Abstract: A guide catheter system includes a guide catheter having a proximal end, a distal end, an outer wall and a first, second and third electrode wherein the first, second and third electrodes are spaced longitudinally apart from each other on the outer wall of the catheter, and an electrical impulse generator connected to the guide catheter wherein the electrical impulse generator includes a circuit for selecting an adjacent pair of electrodes to use as a bipolar electrode system to send an electrical impulse and a method of use thereof to treat vasospasm.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: March 22, 2016Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Eric A. Mokelke, Robert Shipley
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Patent number: 9202682Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods related to flat gas discharge tubes (GDTs). In some embodiments, a plurality of GDTs can be fabricated from an insulator plate having a first side and a second side, with the insulator plate defining a plurality of openings. Each opening can be covered by first and second electrodes on the first and second sides of the insulator plate to thereby define an enclosed gas volume configured for GDT operation. Various examples related to such GDTs, including electrode configurations, opening configurations, pre-ionization features, grouping of a GDT with another GDT or device, and packaging configurations, are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2014Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: Bourns, Inc.Inventors: John Kelly, Johan Schleimann-Jensen, Jan Heath, Craig Robert Shipley, Gordon L. Bourns
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Patent number: 8958874Abstract: An autonomic status indicator representative of a sympathetic/parasympathetic balance of a subject can use atrioventricular (AV) delays measured during recovery from (or in response to) elevated atrial pacing while the subject is at rest.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2013Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Barun Maskara, Robert Shipley, Stephen B. Ruble
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Patent number: 8958873Abstract: A cardiac pacing system controls the progression of a cardiac disorder such as heart failure by delivering cardiac stress augmentation pacing to create or augment regional stress in the heart according to a delivery schedule programmed for a patient. Various events associated with the patient's conditions, activities, and other treatments may render the cardiac stress augmentation pacing risky or ineffective. The system detects such events before and during each cardiac stress augmentation pacing session and modifies the delivery schedule in response to the detection of each event to ensure patient safety and therapy efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2010Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy, Allan C. Shuros, Craig Stolen, Robert Shipley
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Publication number: 20150039059Abstract: A guide catheter system includes a guide catheter having a proximal end, a distal end, an outer wall and a first, second and third electrode wherein the first, second and third electrodes are spaced longitudinally apart from each other on the outer wall of the catheter, and an electrical impulse generator connected to the guide catheter wherein the electrical impulse generator includes a circuit for selecting an adjacent pair of electrodes to use as a bipolar electrode system to send an electrical impulse and a method of use thereof to treat vasospasm.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: ERIC A. MOKELKE, ROBERT SHIPLEY
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Patent number: 8886306Abstract: A device and method for delivering electrical stimulation to the heart in order to improve cardiac function in heart failure patients. The stimulation is delivered as high-output pacing in which the stimulation is excitatory and also of sufficient energy to augment myocardial contractility. The device may be configured to deliver high-output pacing upon detection of cardiac decompensation.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2009Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Joseph M. Pastore, Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy, Robert Shipley, Allan C. Shuros
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Patent number: 8849395Abstract: A guide catheter system includes a guide catheter having a proximal end, a distal end, an outer wall and a first, second and third electrode wherein the first, second and third electrodes are spaced longitudinally apart from each other on the outer wall of the catheter, and an electrical impulse generator connected to the guide catheter wherein the electrical impulse generator includes a circuit for selecting an adjacent pair of electrodes to use as a bipolar electrode system to send an electrical impulse and a method of use thereof to treat vasospasm.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Eric A. Mokelke, Robert Shipley
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Publication number: 20140239804Abstract: Disclosed are devices and methods related to flat gas discharge tubes (GDTs). In some embodiments, a plurality of GDTs can be fabricated from an insulator plate having a first side and a second side, with the insulator plate defining a plurality of openings. Each opening can be covered by first and second electrodes on the first and second sides of the insulator plate to thereby define an enclosed gas volume configured for GDT operation. Various examples related to such GDTs, including electrode configurations, opening configurations, pre-ionization features, grouping of a GDT with another GDT or device, and packaging configurations, are disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 21, 2014Publication date: August 28, 2014Inventors: John KELLY, Johan SCHLEIMANN-JENSEN, Jan HEATH, Craig Robert SHIPLEY, Gordon L. BOURNS
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Publication number: 20140058471Abstract: An autonomic status indicator representative of a sympathetic/parasympathetic balance of a subject can use atrioventricular (AV) delays measured during recovery from (or in response to) elevated atrial pacing while the subject is at rest.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2013Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Barun Maskara, Robert Shipley, Stephen B. Ruble
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Patent number: 8594791Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatus for treating hypertension with electrical pre-excitation pacing therapy. Electrical pre-excitation of a hypertrophic region advances the timing of the regional contraction and reduces its contribution to the overall contraction. Such pre-excitation pacing therapy may be beneficial to hypertensive patients with an abnormal distribution of ventricular wall stress/strain.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2012Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Rodney W. Salo, Robert Shipley
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Patent number: 8577456Abstract: An autonomic status indicator representative of a sympathetic/parasympathetic balance of a subject can use atrioventricular (AV) delays measured during recovery from (or in response to) elevated atrial pacing while the subject is at rest.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2010Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Barun Maskara, Robert Shipley, Stephen Ruble
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Patent number: 8548586Abstract: This document discusses, among other things, an apparatus comprising at least one implantable cardiac depolarization sensing circuit, an electrical stimulation circuit, and a pacing mode controller. The implantable cardiac depolarization sensing circuit is configured to obtain a sensed depolarization signal from a ventricle and the electrical stimulation circuit is configured to provide pacing electrical stimulation energy to at least one implantable ventricular electrode. The pacing mode controller delivers pacing therapy according to a first pacing mode that is a normal operating mode, and delivers pacing therapy according to second and third pacing modes. The second and third pacing modes increase mechanical stress on at least a particular portion of the ventricle as compared to the pacing therapy delivered during the first pacing mode. The pacing mode controller alternates between the second and third pacing modes when switched from the normal operating mode to a stress augmentation mode.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2009Date of Patent: October 1, 2013Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy, John R. Zielinski, Joseph M. Pastore, Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Allan C. Shuros, Robert Shipley
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Patent number: 8521278Abstract: A pacing system delivers cardiac protection pacing to protect the heart from injuries. The pacing system receives a set of inputs and calculates parameters for delivering optimized cardiac protection pacing tailored for different stress levels. The system automatically adjusts heart rate to optimize cardiac protection pacing in a closed-loop system. In one embodiment, a method for delivering pacing pulses for cardiac protection is provided. Intrinsic atrioventricular (AV) intervals are sensed. The intrinsic AV interval and a predetermined equation relating the AV interval to an optimal AV delay are used to provide a maximum positive rate of left ventricular pressure change during systole. An AV delay is calculated using a predetermined percentage of the optimal AV delay to deliver ventricular pacing pulses to provide a desired level of stress for cardiac protective pacing therapy (CPPT) to provide a cardiac conditioning therapy to improve autonomic balance.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2009Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Allan C. Shuros, Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy, Robert Shipley
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Patent number: 8401642Abstract: Cardioprotective pre-excitation pacing may be applied to stress or de-stress a particular myocardial region delivering of pacing pulses in a manner that causes a dyssynchronous contraction. Such dyssynchronous contractions are responsible for the desired cardioprotective effects of pre-excitation pacing but may also be hazardous. Described herein is a method and system that uses measures of a patient's physiological response to ventricular dyssynchrony to control the duty cycles of intermittent pre-excitation pacing.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Robert Shipley, Shantha Arcot-Krishnamurthy, Allan C. Shuros, Jason J. Hamann
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Patent number: 8295928Abstract: Described herein are methods and apparatus for treating hypertension with electrical pre-excitation pacing therapy. Electrical pre-excitation of a hypertrophic region advances the timing of the regional contraction and reduces its contribution to the overall contraction. Such pre-excitation pacing therapy may be beneficial to hypertensive patients with an abnormal distribution of ventricular wall stress/strain.Type: GrantFiled: October 24, 2011Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.Inventors: Rodney W. Salo, Robert Shipley