Patents by Inventor Ronald Craig

Ronald Craig 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: 12208205
    Abstract: An airway management device comprising a body having a proximal end for receiving an oxygen supply tube and an distal end for insertion into a trachea of a patient; said body including a linear portion adjacent to the proximal end and a curved portion adjacent to the distal end; said body including an external shell and having a first bore through said shell for receiving the oxygen supply tube; wherein flexural strength for said airway management device is provided by said shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Inventor: Ronald Craig Wight
  • Publication number: 20240023944
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a biopsy device for performing soft tissue biopsy on any major organ through the venous system, and a method for using the biopsy device. The biopsy device of the present disclosure is a system that is sufficiently flexible such that the system can be guided manually and with existing tools i.e., fluoroscopy for visualisation and simple guidewires. Once in place, the biopsy device of the present disclosure can generate enough force and can transmit that force to the distal cutting end of the system to penetrate the organ and obtain a biopsy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kamarjit Singh MANGAT, Gabriel Hong Chun TAN, Ronald Craig WIGHT, Chun Siong LEE
  • Publication number: 20240023945
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a catheter for insertion into a subject and navigation to a target organ, the catheter comprising: a first elongated tube and a second elongated tube; the first elongated tube having a first lumen with a first proximal end and a first distal end; and the second elongated tube having a second lumen with a c-shaped cross section forming a channel with a second proximal end and a second distal end, the second elongated tube sharing a common wall with the first elongated tube.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kamarjit Singh MANGAT, Gabriel Hong Chun TAN, Ronald Craig WIGHT, Chun Siong LEE
  • Publication number: 20230013052
    Abstract: An airway management device comprising a body having a proximal end for receiving an oxygen supply tube and an distal end for insertion into a trachea of a patient; said body including a linear portion adjacent to the proximal end and a curved portion adjacent to the distal end; said body including an external shell and having a first bore through said shell for receiving the oxygen supply tube; wherein flexural strength for said airway management device is provided by said shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Ronald Craig WIGHT
  • Patent number: 11471629
    Abstract: An airway management device comprising a body having a proximal end for receiving an oxygen supply tube and an distal end for insertion into a trachea of a patient; said body including a linear portion adjacent to the proximal end and a curved portion adjacent to the distal end; said body including an external shell and having a first bore through said shell for receiving the oxygen supply tube; wherein flexural strength for said airway management device is provided by said shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Inventor: Ronald Craig Wight
  • Patent number: 11423599
    Abstract: An image rendering method comprises receiving 3D model data for a 3D model and processing the 3D model data to render image data for a hogel view to a render target. Processing the 3D model data to render the image data comprises defining a frustum having an origin at an image plane and rendering multiple sides of the frustum in a single pass without duplicating geometric shapes that pass through the image plane. The frustum comprises a plurality of side planes and having a top portion of the frustum and a bottom portion of the frustum, the plurality of side planes having a set of side plane edges that pass through the origin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: 3D Patents, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett, III, Kendall Heath James, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Publication number: 20220118206
    Abstract: An airway management device has a body (6) including an external shell moulded from a polypropylene copolymer (PP) blended with a thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) of styrene-ethylene/butylene-styrene (SEBS), the external shell extending from a proximal opening to a distal tip of the body (6), the external shell having a curved portion (35) and a linear portion (37). Methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventor: Ronald Craig WIGHT
  • Patent number: 11208863
    Abstract: A ball launcher and method for actuating wellsite equipment at a wellsite is disclosed. The wellsite has wellhead equipment positioned at an inlet of a wellbore. The ball launcher includes a housing, a ball release, and a housing extension. The housing has a passage for receiving balls. The ball is release positionable about the housing. The ball release includes a feeder to selectively and sequentially release the balls from the housing. The housing extension includes a hopper tube and a feed tube. The hopper tube has an inlet to receive the balls from the housing, the feed tube extending at an angle from the hopper tube. The feed tube has an exit a distance above the wellhead equipment to release the balls therethrough whereby the balls are dropped into and activates the wellsite equipment in the wellbore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: GR Energy Services Management, LP
    Inventors: James William Anthony, Marion M. Ringo, David Chesney, Roma Montifar, Thomas Bell, Tyler Chaney, Joel Henry, Ronald Craig Smith, Steven Robert Olsen
  • Publication number: 20210209830
    Abstract: An image rendering method comprises receiving 3D model data for a 3D model and processing the 3D model data to render image data for a hogel view to a render target. Processing the 3D model data to render the image data comprises defining a frustum having an origin at an image plane and rendering multiple sides of the frustum in a single pass without duplicating geometric shapes that pass through the image plane. The frustum comprises a plurality of side planes and having a top portion of the frustum and a bottom portion of the frustum, the plurality of side planes having a set of side plane edges that pass through the origin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett, III, Kandall Heath James, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Patent number: 10937223
    Abstract: One embodiment comprises receiving scene data for a scene, the scene data including data for a plurality of triangles, loading a plurality of viewpoints and processing the scene data using a plurality of parallel rendering pipelines of a graphics processing unit to render image data for a plurality of hogel views of the scene in parallel to a set of render targets, the plurality of hogel views based on the plurality of viewpoints. Processing the scene data using the plurality of parallel rendering pipelines comprises rasterizing a same triangle from the plurality of triangles in parallel for each of the plurality of hogel views prior to moving to a next triangle from the plurality of triangles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: 3D PATENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett, III, Kendall Heath James, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Publication number: 20200367867
    Abstract: A balloon-anchored, biopsy device includes a first elongated tube, a second elongated tube, and a flexible biopsy needle. A section of the first elongated tube near the distal tip may include a balloon for insertion into a blood vessel that when inflated, anchors the section in the blood vessel near a biopsy site. The second elongated tube includes a beveled distal exit of a second lumen, which may be positioned at the biopsy site when the first elongated tube is anchored in the blood vessel by the inflated balloon. The flexible biopsy needle is configured to exit the beveled distal exit for penetration into tissue at the biopsy site at a predefined angle between a longitudinal axis of the section of the first elongated tube and a longitudinal axis of the flexible biopsy needle, and to acquire a biopsy sample of the target organ at the biopsy site.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Kamarjit Singh MANGAT, Rachel Tsui Ying HONG, Andrew Chin Cheung LAU, Gabriel Hong Chun TAN, Ronald Craig WIGHT
  • Publication number: 20200209806
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a plurality of integrated active holographic elements (Hogels). Each hogel includes one or more light-emitting elements, a micro-lens array, and circuitry to drive the one or more light-emitting elements. The circuitry may be implemented as a quad flat no leads (QFN) package. In some implementations, a plurality of integrated active hogels may be coupled together to form a tile, which includes tile circuitry to drive the integrated circuits of each of the hogels. Multiple tiles may be coupled to one another to form a panel, which includes panel circuitry to drive each of the tiles. Multiple panels may be coupled to one another to form a display device, which may include a display circuit coupled to the panel circuitry of each of the panels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: 3D Patents LLC
    Inventors: Thomas L. Burnett, III, Kendall Heath James, Nicholas Flynn Jameson, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Publication number: 20200193675
    Abstract: One embodiment comprises receiving scene data for a scene, the scene data including data for a plurality of triangles, loading a plurality of viewpoints and processing the scene data using a plurality of parallel rendering pipelines of a graphics processing unit to render image data for a plurality of hogel views of the scene in parallel to a set of render targets, the plurality of hogel views based on the plurality of viewpoints. Processing the scene data using the plurality of parallel rendering pipelines comprises rasterizing a same triangle from the plurality of triangles in parallel for each of the plurality of hogel views prior to moving to a next triangle from the plurality of triangles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett, III, Kendall Heath James, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Patent number: 10573056
    Abstract: A system comprising a multi-view processing unit to provide a plurality of parallel rendering pipelines to render multiple views of a scene in parallel to render targets. The multi-view processing unit comprises a multi-view processing unit memory storing a plurality of viewpoints and a multi-view processing unit processor configured to receive a request to render a scene, load the plurality of viewpoints and implement the parallel rendering pipelines to render the scene based on the plurality of viewpoints, the plurality of parallel rendering pipeline configured to render, in parallel, image data for multiple views to a set of buffers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: 3D PATENTS, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett, III, Kendall Heath James, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Publication number: 20200054848
    Abstract: An airway management device comprising a body having a proximal end for receiving an oxygen supply tube and an distal end for insertion into a trachea of a patient; said body including a linear portion adjacent to the proximal end and a curved portion adjacent to the distal end; said body including an external shell and having a first bore through said shell for receiving the oxygen supply tube; wherein flexural strength for said airway management device is provided by said shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Ronald Craig WIGHT
  • Patent number: 10549056
    Abstract: An airway management device comprising a body having a proximal end for receiving an oxygen supply tube and an distal end for insertion into a trachea of a patient; said body including a linear portion adjacent to the proximal end and a curved portion adjacent to the distal end; said body including an external shell and having a first bore through said shell for receiving the oxygen supply tube; wherein flexural strength for said airway management device is provided by said shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Inventor: Ronald Craig Wight
  • Publication number: 20180253884
    Abstract: A system comprising a multi-view processing unit to provide a plurality of parallel rendering pipelines to render multiple views of a scene in parallel to render targets. The multi-view processing unit comprises a multi-view processing unit memory storing a plurality of viewpoints and a multi-view processing unit processor configured to receive a request to render a scene, load the plurality of viewpoints and implement the parallel rendering pipelines to render the scene based on the plurality of viewpoints, the plurality of parallel rendering pipeline configured to render, in parallel, image data for multiple views to a set of buffers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Lawrence Burnett III, Kendall Heath James, Ronald Craig Larcom
  • Publication number: 20170050238
    Abstract: A sleeve (110) for use in metal casting has a sleeve body, where a longitudinal axis (B) has a side wall (116) formed around it, defining a sleeve interior. The sleeve body is open at a first end (118). A core (120) is formed integrally along an interior surface extends into the sleeve interior. The sleeve body and the core are formed of a gas-permeable refractory material. At least the core contains material for generating heat when heated by a molten metal. The core extends along the side wall from the first end to a second end. The core has a width that is constant or decreases in a radial direction away from the side wall, especially with a triangular profile, with a base thereof in contact with the side wall. The sleeve body is cylindrical or frustoconical, with a diameter that decreases from the open first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 23, 2017
    Inventors: Ronald Craig AUFDERHEIDE, Steven JOHNSTON, Lee R. HORVATH, Sean HARMON
  • Publication number: 20160346493
    Abstract: An airway management device comprising a body having a proximal end for receiving an oxygen supply tube and an distal end for insertion into a trachea of a patient; said body including a linear portion adjacent to the proximal end and a curved portion adjacent to the distal end; said body including an external shell and having a first bore through said shell for receiving the oxygen supply tube; wherein flexural strength for said airway management device is provided by said shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventor: Ronald Craig WIGHT
  • Patent number: 9374693
    Abstract: A cell phone with software to provide options to auto-respond to incoming text message or phone calls with a pre-stored text message or audio message. In some embodiments, the auto-response text message can be one selected by the user from among a plurality of pre-stored text messages. In other embodiments, the user can also choose an auto-response audio message to play to callers. In some embodiments, the cell system makes a determination of the speed at which cell phones in the system are moving for at least phones to which incoming text messages or phone calls are directed, and automatically determines whether or not to send an automated response message. In some embodiments, the cell phone makes a determination of its speed and asks the user if he or she wants to auto-respond to incoming texts or calls or both if moving at driving speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Inventors: Julia Olincy, Ronald Craig Fish