Patents by Inventor Ryan M. Shaffer

Ryan M. Shaffer 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).

  • Publication number: 20240139553
    Abstract: A histotripsy therapy system configured for the treatment of tissue is provided, which may include any number of features. Provided herein are systems and methods that provide efficacious non-invasive and minimally invasive therapeutic, diagnostic and research procedures. The systems and methods herein are configured to measure and display forces acting upon the therapy treatment head during a procedure. In some aspects, buoyancy forces from the acoustic coupling medium are also accounted for.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan M. MILLER, Viktor BOLLEN, Carol L. SHAFFER, Carolyn M. TURNER
  • Publication number: 20170003835
    Abstract: Implementations of enhanced content collaboration technology are disclosed herein. In an implementation, a list of users associated collaboratively with a shared document are ordered in a user interface based at least partly on their respective collaboration states with respect to the document. As their collaboration states changes, updates are received from a collaboration service and the list of users is re-ordered to reflect their updated collaboration states.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventors: Ryan M. Shaffer, Benjamin G. Wilde, Manoj Sharma, Jade Kessler