Patents by Inventor Ronald W. Myers

Ronald W. Myers 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: 12181400
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Richard Charles Sorenson, Andy Walker Brown, Steven Lowery
  • Patent number: 12111257
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a device for detecting fluid particle characteristics comprising: a fluid composition sensor comprising: an illumination source configured to emit a light beam along a beam axis such that at least a portion of the light beam engages a collection media and illuminates particles disposed within a collection media; an imaging device configured to capture an image of the particles disposed within the collection media; and a light shield comprising: an internal shield portion enclosed within an inner surface of a shield wall; and one or more baffle elements disposed within the internal shield portion and configured to reflect at least a divergent portion of the light beam within the internal shield portion; wherein the light shield extends between the illumination source and the imaging device such that a portion of the light beam emitted along the beam axis passes through the internal shield portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Andy Walker Brown, Sean Braxton
  • Publication number: 20240296589
    Abstract: An imaging chamber configured to receive a flow of a fluid sample is provided. The imaging chamber includes a reservoir and an imaging window. The reservoir includes a contrast-enhancing agent and is configured to receive the flow of the fluid sample. The imaging window of the imaging chamber is downstream from the reservoir.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Andy Walker Brown, Ronald W. Myers, Daniel Yee
  • Publication number: 20240263977
    Abstract: A sensor is disclosed herein. In an example sensor may include a first component including a sensing element, a first power connector, a first ground connector, and a signal connector. The sensor may include a second component including a receiving circuitry, a second power connector, a second ground connector, and a second signal connector. The first and second components may be configured to attach to and detach from each other. Any of the first and second power connectors, the first and second ground connectors, and the first and second signal connectors may be configured such that when the first and second components are attached to each other the first and second power and the first and second ground connectors are electronically coupled before the first and second signal connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2024
    Publication date: August 8, 2024
    Inventors: Basavaprashant DUMPALA, Kumaran S. NARASIMHAN, Gurudutt K. K, Shivaraj ARAKERI, Ronald W. MYERS
  • Publication number: 20240091761
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid sampling cartridge for capturing a fluid sample and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, a fluid sampling cartridge comprises a fluid conduit having an interior conduit portion, wherein the fluid conduit is configured to receive a volume of fluid at a fluid conduit inlet such that the fluid conduit defines a fluid flow path within the interior conduit portion; a capillary component having a first capillary end in fluid communication with the interior conduit portion and configured to receive at least a portion of the volume of fluid to define a fluid sample; and a cartridge housing defining an interior housing portion, wherein the cartridge housing is configured for engagement with the fluid conduit and the capillary component such that at least a portion of each of the fluid conduit and the capillary component is disposed within the interior housing portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventor: Ronald W. MYERS
  • Publication number: 20240011812
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jamie W. Speldrich, Andy Walker Brown, Ronald W. Myers, Richard Charles Sorenson
  • Publication number: 20230077547
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems associated with a sample testing device are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Michael E. Moran, Chen Feng, Suresh Venkatarayalu, Moin Shafai, Adam Dewey McBrady, John Jerred, Charles Licata
  • Publication number: 20230008102
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems associated with aerosol collection devices (such as, but not limited to, breath-aerosol collector devices, breathalyzers) are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Dustin Michael BRANDT, Ronald W. MYERS, Michael E. MORAN
  • Publication number: 20220364973
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a device for detecting fluid particle characteristics comprising: a collection fluid dispense assembly configured to selectively dispense a volume of collection fluid onto an absorbent media disposed within an internal sensor portion of a fluid composition sensor, producing a collection media based on interaction between the volume of collection fluid and the absorbent media; and a controller configured to determine, based on a particle image captured by an imaging device, a particle characteristic associated with a particle captured at the collection media.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald W. MYERS, Andy Walker BROWN, Stephan Michael BORK
  • Patent number: 11391613
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Jamie W. Speldrich, Andy Walker Brown, Ronald W. Myers, Richard Charles Sorenson
  • Publication number: 20220170838
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2022
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Richard Charles Sorenson, Andy Walker Brown, Steven Lowery
  • Patent number: 11333593
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Richard Charles Sorenson, Andy Walker Brown, Steven Lowery
  • Publication number: 20220065780
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a device for detecting fluid particle characteristics comprising: a fluid composition sensor comprising: an illumination source configured to emit a light beam along a beam axis such that at least a portion of the light beam engages a collection media and illuminates particles disposed within a collection media; an imaging device configured to capture an image of the particles disposed within the collection media; and a light shield comprising: an internal shield portion enclosed within an inner surface of a shield wall; and one or more baffle elements disposed within the internal shield portion and configured to reflect at least a divergent portion of the light beam within the internal shield portion; wherein the light shield extends between the illumination source and the imaging device such that a portion of the light beam emitted along the beam axis passes through the internal shield portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Andy Walker Brown, Sean Braxton
  • Patent number: 11221288
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for detecting fluid particles and their characteristics. In various embodiments, a device for detecting fluid particles and their characteristics may comprise a lens free holographic microscope configured to collect fluid particles via inertial impaction. In various embodiments, the collection media may be replaceable within the apparatus. In various embodiments, the impactor nozzle may be selectively configured to avoid optical reflections and scattering from illumination light passing through the nozzle. Various embodiments are directed to a collection media assembly for receiving particles from a volume of fluid within a fluid composition sensor. A collection media assembly may comprise a collection media, an orifice, a seal engagement portion and a frame element configured to facilitate the serial use of a plurality of collection media assemblies within a fluid composition sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Andy Walker Brown, Jamie W. Speldrich, Ronald W. Myers, Richard Charles Sorenson
  • Patent number: 11181456
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a collection media assembly for receiving one or more particles from a volume of fluid within a fluid composition sensor. In various embodiments, the collection media assembly comprises a housing, a transparent substrate, a collection media disposed upon the transparent substrate and configured to receive one or more particles from a volume of fluid received through a fluid inlet; and at least one alignment feature. The housing defines an open lower end configured for interaction with an imaging device, such that the one or more particles received by the collection media are visible through the transparent substrate from the open lower end. Each of the at least one alignment features is configured to engage a corresponding element disposed within the fluid composition sensor so as to constrain relative movement between the collection media assembly and the corresponding element in at least a first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Richard Charles Sorenson, Andy Walker Brown
  • Patent number: 11143583
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Richard Charles Sorenson, Andy Walker Brown, Steven Lowery
  • Publication number: 20210255080
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a collection media assembly for receiving one or more particles from a volume of fluid within a fluid composition sensor. In various embodiments, the collection media assembly comprises a housing, a transparent substrate, a collection media disposed upon the transparent substrate and configured to receive one or more particles from a volume of fluid received through a fluid inlet; and at least one alignment feature. The housing defines an open lower end configured for interaction with an imaging device, such that the one or more particles received by the collection media are visible through the transparent substrate from the open lower end. Each of the at least one alignment features is configured to engage a corresponding element disposed within the fluid composition sensor so as to constrain relative movement between the collection media assembly and the corresponding element in at least a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Richard Charles Sorenson, Andy Walker Brown
  • Publication number: 20210255014
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Jamie W. Speldrich, Andy Walker Brown, Ronald W. Myers, Richard Charles Sorenson
  • Publication number: 20210255081
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to a fluid composition sensor device and method of using the same. In various embodiments, the fluid flow composition sensor is configured to receive a volume of fluid, the fluid composition sensor comprising a housing, a removable fluid flow component, an impactor nozzle, a collection media assembly dock element configured to receive a replaceable collection media assembly comprising a collection media configured to receive one or more particles within the volume of fluid, an imaging device configured to capture an image of at least a portion of the one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor, and a controller configured to determine, based at least in part on the image, at least one particle characteristic of the volume of fluid. The imaging device may be configured to capture the image of one or more particles received by the fluid composition sensor using lensless holography.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Ronald W. Myers, Jamie W. Speldrich, Richard Charles Sorenson, Andy Walker Brown, Steven Lowery
  • Publication number: 20210223155
    Abstract: Various embodiments described herein relate to apparatuses and methods for detecting fluid particles and their characteristics. In various embodiments, a device for detecting fluid particles and their characteristics may comprise a lens free holographic microscope configured to collect fluid particles via inertial impaction. In various embodiments, the collection media may be replaceable within the apparatus. In various embodiments, the impactor nozzle may be selectively configured to avoid optical reflections and scattering from illumination light passing through the nozzle. Various embodiments are directed to a collection media assembly for receiving particles from a volume of fluid within a fluid composition sensor. A collection media assembly may comprise a collection media, an orifice, a seal engagement portion and a frame element configured to facilitate the serial use of a plurality of collection media assemblies within a fluid composition sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Inventors: Andy Walker Brown, Jamie W. Speldrich, Ronald W. Myers, Richard Charles Sorenson