Patents by Inventor Scott A. Rasmussen
Scott A. Rasmussen 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: 20240099849Abstract: A surgical implant device, including: an implant body; a porous layer disposed adjacent to the implant body, wherein the porous layer includes a lattice of intersecting struts; and a plurality of needle structures protruding from the porous layer opposite the implant body, wherein at least some of the plurality of needle structures traverse the porous layer and are anchored to the implant body. The plurality of needle structures that traverse the porous layer and are anchored to the implant body are coupled to one or more intersecting struts of the lattice. Optionally, some of the plurality of needle structures are spaced apart from the implant body and are anchored only to the porous layer. Preferably, one or more of the implant body, the porous layer, and the plurality of needle structures are formed by an additive manufacturing technique.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: John C. STEINMANN, Scott RUCKER, Tim RASMUSSEN, John P. STEINMANN, Trace CAWLEY, Thomas ROSS, Ernesto RIOS, Andrew OLCESE
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Patent number: 11649638Abstract: A board and batten siding panel is provided with the ability to hide the securing flange under siding panels installed on a building wall. The siding panel can be customized to have the look of a wooden panel, while retaining the benefits and durability of a non-wooden material, such as metal.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 16, 2023Assignee: QUALITY EDGE, INC.Inventors: Mark Allen Bredeweg, Kathryn Elizabeth Ostreko, Darrin Pritchard, C. Scott Rasmussen
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Publication number: 20220341184Abstract: A board and batten siding panel is provided with the ability to hide the securing flange under siding panels installed on a building wall. The siding panel can be customized to have the look of a wooden panel, while retaining the benefits and durability of a non-wooden material, such as metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: October 27, 2022Applicant: QUALITY EDGE, INC.Inventors: Mark Allen Bredeweg, Kathryn Elizabeth Ostreko, Darrin Pritchard, C. Scott Rasmussen
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Patent number: 11255092Abstract: A building siding panel is provided with an internal channel for weeping away water and the ability to hide the securing flange when the siding panel is installed on a building wall. The siding panel can be customized to have the look of a wooden panel, while retaining the benefits and durability of a non-wooden material, such as metal.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: February 22, 2022Assignee: QUALITY EDGE, INC.Inventors: C. Scott Rasmussen, Zachary Pritchard
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Publication number: 20210025175Abstract: A building siding panel is provided with an internal channel for weeping away water and the ability to hide the securing flange when the siding panel is installed on a building wall. The siding panel can be customized to have the look of a wooden panel, while retaining the benefits and durability of a non-wooden material, such as metal.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Applicant: QUALITY EDGE, INC.Inventors: C. Scott Rasmussen, Zachary Pritchard
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Patent number: 10571932Abstract: This document describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to navigate an unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a navigation system that includes a sensor, configured to gather environmental data, and a computing system configured to navigate the UAV. The computing system compares the environmental data to a specified data signature in the one or more spectra and determines a position of the unmanned aerial vehicle in the unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a hybrid generator system including an engine configured to generate mechanical energy and a generator motor coupled to the engine and configured to generate electrical energy from the mechanical energy generated by the engine. The UAV includes a rotor motor configured to drive a propeller to rotate. The navigation system is powered by the electrical energy generated by the generator motor.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2019Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Top Flight Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. DeBitetto, Long N. Phan, Scott Rasmussen, Sanjay Sarma
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Publication number: 20190155314Abstract: This document describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to navigate an unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a navigation system that includes a sensor, configured to gather environmental data, and a computing system configured to navigate the UAV. The computing system compares the environmental data to a specified data signature in the one or more spectra and determines a position of the unmanned aerial vehicle in the unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a hybrid generator system including an engine configured to generate mechanical energy and a generator motor coupled to the engine and configured to generate electrical energy from the mechanical energy generated by the engine. The UAV includes a rotor motor configured to drive a propeller to rotate. The navigation system is powered by the electrical energy generated by the generator motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Inventors: Paul A. DeBitetto, Long N. Phan, Scott Rasmussen, Sanjay Sarma
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Patent number: 10198011Abstract: This document describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to navigate an unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a navigation system that includes a sensor, configured to gather environmental data, and a computing system configured to navigate the UAV. The computing system compares the environmental data to a specified data signature in the one or more spectra and determines a position of the unmanned aerial vehicle in the unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a hybrid generator system including an engine configured to generate mechanical energy and a generator motor coupled to the engine and configured to generate electrical energy from the mechanical energy generated by the engine. The UAV includes a rotor motor configured to drive a propeller to rotate. The navigation system is powered by the electrical energy generated by the generator motor.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2018Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Top Flight Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Paul A. DeBitetto, Long N. Phan, Scott Rasmussen, Sanjay Sarma
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Publication number: 20190011934Abstract: This document describes an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) configured to navigate an unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a navigation system that includes a sensor, configured to gather environmental data, and a computing system configured to navigate the UAV. The computing system compares the environmental data to a specified data signature in the one or more spectra and determines a position of the unmanned aerial vehicle in the unmanned aerial vehicle highway. The UAV includes a hybrid generator system including an engine configured to generate mechanical energy and a generator motor coupled to the engine and configured to generate electrical energy from the mechanical energy generated by the engine. The UAV includes a rotor motor configured to drive a propeller to rotate. The navigation system is powered by the electrical energy generated by the generator motor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2018Publication date: January 10, 2019Inventors: Paul A. DeBitetto, Long N. Phan, Scott Rasmussen, Sanjay Sarma
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Patent number: 10178372Abstract: An optical assembly for three-dimensional image capture includes first and second optical channels that are fixed with respect to one another. Each channel is configured to direct light onto at least a portion of an image sensor. The first and second optical channels each include an aperture for receiving the light, an objective lens for focusing the light into an intermediate image on an intermediate image plane, and an eyepiece lens for collimating the intermediate image.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: THE CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY, INC.Inventors: Juha-Pekka J. Laine, Scott A. Rasmussen, Francis J. Rogomentich, Robert A. Larsen
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Patent number: 10132085Abstract: A drip edge assembly having an underlying drip edge. A body portion includes first and second ribs extending therealong. The body portion includes an inner edge having a fold and an outer edge that includes a protrusion. A vertical wall extends downward from the body portion and includes a lower kick defining an inwardly-facing channel. An overlying drip edge includes a body portion having first and second ribs extending therealong. The body portion includes an inner edge having a fold and an outer edge that includes a protrusion. A vertical wall extends downward from the body portion and includes a lower kick defining a rearwardly-facing channel. The lower kick of the underlying drip edge is configured to define a pivot axis about which the overlying drip edge rotates during assembly.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: Quality Edge, Inc.Inventors: Mark Allen Bredeweg, Craig Scott Rasmussen
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Publication number: 20180223537Abstract: A drip edge assembly having an underlying drip edge. A body portion includes first and second ribs extending therealong. The body portion includes an inner edge having a fold and an outer edge that includes a protrusion. A vertical wall extends downward from the body portion and includes a lower kick defining an inwardly-facing channel. An overlying drip edge includes a body portion having first and second ribs extending therealong. The body portion includes an inner edge having a fold and an outer edge that includes a protrusion. A vertical wall extends downward from the body portion and includes a lower kick defining a rearwardly-facing channel. The lower kick of the underlying drip edge is configured to define a pivot axis about which the overlying drip edge rotates during assembly.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2017Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Quality Edge, Inc.Inventors: Mark Allen Bredeweg, Craig Scott Rasmussen
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Patent number: 9689164Abstract: A roof panel includes a planar body having top and bottom edges, with a downturn edge extending therebetween, and an opposing channel edge. The downturn edge overlays a channel edge of an adjacent panel. The bottom edge overlays a top edge of another adjacent panel. A plurality of courses extends between the channel and downturn edges. Each course includes a nesting ridge to receive the downturn edge of an adjacent panel and to position a top surface of the panel flush with adjacent panels. Surface channels and contoured ridges are defined within each course. A drain aperture of the drip edge aligns with an adjacent channel edge to direct material through the drain aperture and onto adjacent panels. A gable member engages an edge when the panel has one or fewer laterally adjacent panels, wherein the gable member is flush with the adjacent planar body.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATIONInventors: Craig Scott Rasmussen, Donald Mark Wilkinson, Marc Richard Spetoskey, Mark Allen Bredeweg, Nick Kooyer, Mark Armock, Brad Walbridge, Austin Harms
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Patent number: 9684309Abstract: A guidance, navigation and control (GNC) system guides an aircraft based on a special partial differential equation (PDE). The system does not depend on a predetermined desired flight path. To overcome effects of unpredictable wind speed and direction, systems and methods effectively repeatedly determine the worst landing the wind can cause and issue flight control commands that minimize among these worst outcomes. A function C that satisfies the PDE calculates smallest miss distance a guidance system can bring about by appropriately steering an aircraft, given the aircraft's current heading, current location relative to a target and current remaining amount of time to fly. The system repeatedly determines at least a component of a current gradient of the function C. A value of the gradient component is used to select an appropriate flight control command, such as turn left or turn right.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2016Date of Patent: June 20, 2017Assignee: The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.Inventors: David W. Carter, Scott A. Rasmussen
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Patent number: 9593488Abstract: A roof panel includes a planar body having top and bottom edges, with a downturn edge extending therebetween, and an opposing channel edge. The downturn edge overlays a channel edge of an adjacent panel. The bottom edge overlays a top edge of another adjacent panel. A plurality of courses extends between the channel and downturn edges. Each course includes a nesting ridge to receive the downturn edge of an adjacent panel and to position a top surface of the panel flush with adjacent panels. Surface channels and contoured ridges are defined within each course. A drain aperture of the drip edge aligns with an adjacent channel edge to direct material through the drain aperture and onto adjacent panels. A gable member engages an edge when the panel has one or fewer laterally adjacent panels, wherein the gable member is flush with the adjacent planar body.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATIONInventors: Craig Scott Rasmussen, Donald Mark Wilkinson, Marc Richard Spetoskey, Mark Allen Bredeweg, Nick Kooyer, Mark Armock, Brad Walbridge, Austin Harms
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Publication number: 20160266582Abstract: A guidance, navigation and control (GNC) system guides an aircraft based on a special partial differential equation (PDE). The system does not depend on a predetermined desired flight path. To overcome effects of unpredictable wind speed and direction, systems and methods effectively repeatedly determine the worst landing the wind can cause and issue flight control commands that minimize among these worst outcomes. A function C that satisfies the PDE calculates smallest miss distance a guidance system can bring about by appropriately steering an aircraft, given the aircraft's current heading, current location relative to a target and current remaining amount of time to fly. The system repeatedly determines at least a component of a current gradient of the function C. A value of the gradient component is used to select an appropriate flight control command, such as turn left or turn right.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Inventors: David W. Carter, Scott A. Rasmussen
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Patent number: 9370814Abstract: A pre-notched drip edge assembly and related method includes a plurality of drip edge sections interconnected end-to-end to form a continuous water barrier along a roof edge. Each drip edge section has a formed one-piece construction with a top flange and a bottom flange having an inverted L-shape with upper and lower legs. The forward edges of the top flange and the upper leg are integrally interconnected along a folded-over nose having a wedge-shape. A pair of notches are formed in the opposite ends of each drip edge section which extend through the upper edge of the lower leg and the forward edges of the upper leg and the top flange to define flat end tab areas that are inserted into the noses of the next adjacent drip edge sections to horizontally and vertically locate the same along the building roof.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2014Date of Patent: June 21, 2016Assignee: QUALITY EDGE, INC.Inventors: C. Scott Rasmussen, Paul W. Vander Laan
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Publication number: 20160123013Abstract: A roof panel includes a planar body having top and bottom edges, with a downturn edge extending therebetween, and an opposing channel edge. The downturn edge overlays a channel edge of an adjacent panel. The bottom edge overlays a top edge of another adjacent panel. A plurality of courses extends between the channel and downturn edges. Each course includes a nesting ridge to receive the downturn edge of an adjacent panel and to position a top surface of the panel flush with adjacent panels. Surface channels and contoured ridges are defined within each course. A drain aperture of the drip edge aligns with an adjacent channel edge to direct material through the drain aperture and onto adjacent panels. A gable member engages an edge when the panel has one or fewer laterally adjacent panels, wherein the gable member is flush with the adjacent planar body.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2016Publication date: May 5, 2016Inventors: Craig Scott Rasmussen, Donald Mark Wilkinson, Marc Richard Spetoskey, Mark Allen Bredeweg, Nick Kooyer, Mark Armock, Brad Walbridge
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Patent number: D754885Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2013Date of Patent: April 26, 2016Assignee: Quality Edge, Inc.Inventors: Craig Scott Rasmussen, Donald Mark Wilkinson, Marc Richard Spetoskey, Austin Timothy Harms, Bradley John Walbridge
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Patent number: D776833Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2014Date of Patent: January 17, 2017Assignee: CERTAINTEED CORPORATIONInventors: Craig Scott Rasmussen, Donald Mark Wilkinson, Marc Richard Spetoskey, Austin Timothy Harms, Bradley John Walbridge, Mark Allen Bredeweg