Patents by Inventor Scott Kennedy
Scott Kennedy 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: 20240142429Abstract: Disclosed is a pool water monitoring system and monitoring techniques. A pool monitoring system may include a monitoring unit and a computer application. The monitoring unit includes a surface based unit, a submersible cable connection assembly, and a submerged sensing device. The submerged sensing device is configured to measure water parameters, a submersible cable connection assembly connects the surface based unit and the submerged sensing device together. The surface based unit is configured to receive the measured water parameters via the submersible cable connection. The surface base unit is operable to wirelessly communicate with the computer application of the client device. The computer application is operable to receive the measured water parameters transmitted by the surface base unit; evaluate the measured water parameters; and present indications, on a touchscreen of a client device, of the measured water parameters and evaluation results of the measured water parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2023Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Justin Miller, Josh Kennedy, Scott Eklund
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Patent number: 11947073Abstract: An eye-mountable device is provided that includes a plurality of rigid polymer layers separated by liquid crystal layers. Certain eye-mountable devices includes a first rigid polymer layer, a second rigid polymer layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second rigid polymer layers. The liquid crystal layer has a refractive index that is electrically controllable between an ordinary refractive index and an extraordinary refractive index, and the first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer include materials having a refractive index similar to the ordinary refractive index of the liquid crystal layer. The first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer may also include a combination of monomer-derived units that provide cast-moldable materials with high oxygen permeability. Methods for fabricating the eye-mountable device and for changing the focal length of the eye-mountable device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Twenty Twenty Therapeutics LLCInventors: Scott Kennedy, Jeffrey George Linhardt, Angela DiCiccio
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Publication number: 20230391381Abstract: Embodiments relate to a damping system, and in particular a clutch mechanism for an extended travel draft gear having components arranged such that movement of clutch mechanism components transforms kinetic energy into thermal energy via friction, while allowing for an extended length of travel. An arrangement of clutch component geometries, lengths, angles, etc. allows for motion along a longitudinal axis of the clutch mechanism to be damped via energy dissipation.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2022Publication date: December 7, 2023Applicant: A. Stucki CompanyInventors: Joseph Michael Shoup, James Scott Kennedy, Neil Aaron Brant
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Publication number: 20230019629Abstract: Disclosed is a hopper car gate assembly including a frame configured for attachment to a hopper car body. The frame defines an opening and includes a beam, wherein the beam has a slot formed therein. A stop plate is removably attached to the beam to selectively obstruct the slot. The assembly has a door supported by the frame. A stop block is attached to the door, wherein the stop block is located on the door such that when the door is inserted into the frame the stop block is aligned with the slot. With the stop plate attached to the beam, the stop block engages with the stop plate to define an open position and prevent further movement of the door in the open direction. With the stop plate detached from the beam, the stop block passes through the slot to allow removal of the door from the frame.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Applicant: A. Stucki CompanyInventors: Neil Aaron Brant, James Scott Kennedy, Joseph Jeffrey Dawson
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Patent number: 11550167Abstract: Ophthalmic devices and ophthalmic systems including alignment sidewalls and blend zones disposed therethrough are described. An example ophthalmic device may include a first and a second optical element having alignment sidewalls shaped to cooperatively couple. The alignment sidewall may include blend zones disposed in the sidewall shaped to transition the sidewall from a ridge to a surface of an optic zone of the optical element. The alignment sidewalls may define a cavity disposed between two coupled optical elements when the alignment sidewalls are cooperatively coupled into which a liquid crystal may be disposed. A method of assembling an ophthalmic device is described. An example method may include aligning a blend zone of a first optical element with a mating blend zone of a second optical element. The example method may further include cooperatively coupling alignment sidewalls of the first optical element and the second optical element.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2019Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Jeremy Emken, Scott Kennedy, Kristopher Lavery
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Patent number: 11547496Abstract: A system (100) and device (300) for mounting and tracking a tracker array during a surgical procedure are described. For example, the system includes a surgical navigation system (700) including a position tracking system (702) configured to track one or more tracker arrays, and a device (300) for mounting a tracker array (306) onto a patient during the surgical procedure. The device includes an intramedullary (IM) canal component (304) configured to be inserted into an IM canal (310) within a bone (312). The device further includes a tracker pin (308) configured to penetrate at least a portion of the bone and engage an inserted end (411, 413) of the IM canal component, and a tracker array (306) affixed to the tracker pin. The IM canal component is configured to engage the IM canal of the bone to stabilize the tracker array during the surgical procedure.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Roger Ryan Dees, Jr., Branislav Jaramaz, Scott Kennedy Laster
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Publication number: 20220228934Abstract: Torque sensing devices, systems, and methods are capable of measuring and/or determining a torque being transmitted through a shaft by measuring the torsional deformation of the shaft over a short length thereof. Such devices, systems, and devices have a sensor positioned adjacent to the outer surface of the shaft as it rotates, the sensor being positioned to maintain a substantially constant distance between the sensor and the outer surface of the shaft. The sensors may be variable reluctance (VR) sensors rigidly attached to a frame mounted on a bearing (e.g., a hanger bearing), which is mounted on the shaft, such that relative radial motion between the shaft and the VR sensor is minimized (e.g., so that they move in unison). Reducing this amount of motion results in a more accurate torque measurement.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2022Publication date: July 21, 2022Inventors: Daniel E. Kakaley, Scott Kennedy, Charles A. Clifton, William Arlendo Smith, Gary Martin, Russell E. Altieri, Douglas Swanson
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Publication number: 20220212699Abstract: Embodiments relate to a railcar damping system configured for placement in a railcar center sill having longitudinally spaced stops defining a center sill pocket. The system includes a damping assembly configured for receiving and dissipating external forces acting on a coupler connected to the damping system. Various embodiments of the damping system include a longitudinally moveable member, at least one stop and at least one follower block. Some embodiments include a housing. The shape, positioning, and configurations of these features allow for differentiated travel between buff and draft movements.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2022Publication date: July 7, 2022Applicant: A. Stucki CompanyInventors: Joseph Michael Shoup, James Scott Kennedy, Neil Aaron Brant
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Patent number: 11379793Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing implants for surgical procedures. In some implementations, a model that has been trained using data indicating characteristics of other patients and items used in surgeries for the other patients is obtained. Using the model and patient characteristics for a patient, such as the height and weight of the patient, the items needed for a surgery for a particular patient can be identified. For example, the likelihoods that different sizes of an implant component will be needed can be identified and used to determine which sizes of components should be provided at a medical facility and in the operating room for the patient's surgery.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Scott Kennedy Laster, Stuart Raymond Morris-Hipkins, David Clark Kelman
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Publication number: 20220125515Abstract: Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and surgical computing devices are illustrated that improve surgical planning using machine learning. With this technology, a machine learning model is trained based on historical case log data sets associated with patients that have undergone a surgical procedure. The machine learning model is applied to current patient data for a current patient to generate a predictor equation. The current patient data comprises anatomy data for an anatomy of the current patient. The predictor equation is optimized to generate a size, position, and orientation of an implant, and resections required to achieve the position and orientation of the implant with respect to the anatomy of the current patient, as part of a surgical plan for the current patient.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2020Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Shawn P. MCGUAN, Scott Kennedy LASTER, Zachary C. WILKINSON, Sied W. JANNA, Daniel FARLEY
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Patent number: 11298140Abstract: A patient-matched cutting block including a surface or point contact features adapted to at least partially conform to or reference a patient specific anatomy. The cutting block having guide slots configured for guiding the movement of cutting tools relative to the patient specific anatomy or features configured to mate to and guide standard cutting guides relative to patient specific anatomy in order to form plateau and eminence resections of the patient specific anatomy.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2019Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Christopher Wilkinson, Brian W. McKinnon, David Timothy Mehl, Luke Andrew Gibson, Scott Kennedy Laster
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Publication number: 20210263191Abstract: An eye-mountable device is provided that includes a plurality of rigid polymer layers separated by liquid crystal layers. Certain eye-mountable devices includes a first rigid polymer layer, a second rigid polymer layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second rigid polymer layers. The liquid crystal layer has a refractive index that is electrically controllable between an ordinary refractive index and an extraordinary refractive index, and the first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer include materials having a refractive index similar to the ordinary refractive index of the liquid crystal layer. The first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer may also include a combination of monomer-derived units that provide cast-moldable materials with high oxygen permeability. Methods for fabricating the eye-mountable device and for changing the focal length of the eye-mountable device are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Scott Kennedy, Jeffrey George Linhardt, Angela DiCiccio
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Patent number: 11035983Abstract: An eye-mountable device is provided that includes a plurality of rigid polymer layers separated by liquid crystal layers. Certain eye-mountable devices includes a first rigid polymer layer, a second rigid polymer layer, and a liquid crystal layer between the first and second rigid polymer layers. The liquid crystal layer has a refractive index that is electrically controllable between an ordinary refractive index and an extraordinary refractive index, and the first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer include materials having a refractive index similar to the ordinary refractive index of the liquid crystal layer. The first rigid polymer layer and second rigid polymer layer may also include a combination of monomer-derived units that provide cast-moldable materials with high oxygen permeability. Methods for fabricating the eye-mountable device and for changing the focal length of the eye-mountable device are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: VERILY LIFE SCIENCES LLCInventors: Scott Kennedy, Jeffrey George Linhardt, Angela DiCiccio
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Patent number: 11023856Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing implants for surgical procedures. In some implementations, a model that has been trained using data indicating characteristics of other patients and items used in surgeries for the other patients is obtained. Using the model and patient characteristics for a patient, such as the height and weight of the patient, the items needed for a surgery for a particular patient can be identified. For example, the likelihoods that different sizes of an implant component will be needed can be identified and used to determine which sizes of components should be provided at a medical facility and in the operating room for the patient's surgery.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2018Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Smith & Nephew, Inc.Inventors: Scott Kennedy Laster, Stuart Raymond Morris-Hipkins, David Clark Kelman
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Patent number: 11016311Abstract: An eye-mountable device is provided that includes electronics encapsulated within a rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material. The eye-mountable device includes an electroactive lens that can be operated to control an overall optical power of the eye-mountable device to restore an amount of visual accommodation of an eye to which the device is mounted. A method for fabricating the eye-mountable device is provided that includes applying an adhesive to secure lenses of the electroactive lens together and to maintain an amount of liquid crystal in the space between the lenses. The rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material can then be formed around the electroactive lens, electronics, or other elements of the eye-mountable device. The rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material can be mountable to a corneal surface of an eye or can be disposed on or within a soft polymeric material that is mountable to the corneal surface of the eye.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLCInventors: Scott Kennedy, Jeremy Emken
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Publication number: 20210051953Abstract: A cleaning and/or disinfecting composition comprising: at least one carboxylic acid; at least one alkali metal halide salt; and at least one antibacterial compound is disclosed. The composition can be used to clean and/or disinfect a surface or water system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2019Publication date: February 25, 2021Applicant: LEGIOGUARD PTY LTDInventors: Andrew Scott Collins, Scott Kennedy Goulter
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Publication number: 20200397514Abstract: A system (100) and device (300) for mounting and tracking a tracker array during a surgical procedure are described. For example, the system includes a surgical navigation system (700) including a position tracking system (702) configured to track one or more tracker arrays, and a device (300) for mounting a tracker array (306) onto a patient during the surgical procedure. The device includes an intramedullary (IM) canal component (304) configured to be inserted into an IM canal (310) within a bone (312). The device further includes a tracker pin (308) configured to penetrate at least a portion of the bone and engage an inserted end (411, 413) of the IM canal component, and a tracker array (306) affixed to the tracker pin. The IM canal component is configured to engage the IM canal of the bone to stabilize the tracker array during the surgical procedure.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: December 24, 2020Inventors: Roger Ryan DEES, JR., Branislav JARAMAZ, Scott Kennedy LASTER
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Patent number: 10852921Abstract: A system and method facilitated on the Internet wherein users connected to the Internet via a system comprised of, a computer driven mobile GPS and/or AGPS enabled device, or, a stationary or portable computing device capable of connecting to the Internet, a corresponding mobile application and/or website portal with user account access, and an Application Programming Interface (API) for the user to interact with a user centric secure online database, engage with a method of constructing, saving, and sharing user defined specific geographic point location identity data sets or files exclusively that is not designed as a social interaction community involving tracking or proximity sensing of the user device. A system and method that is designed and intended for the purposes of constructing, saving, modifying, and sharing user defined geographic location identity data sets or files exclusively and absent requirements of engaging in actively tracking user devices.Type: GrantFiled: December 27, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Latloc, LLCInventor: Scott Kennedy
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Publication number: 20200326561Abstract: An eye-mountable device is provided that includes electronics encapsulated within a rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material. The eye-mountable device includes an electroactive lens that can be operated to control an overall optical power of the eye-mountable device to restore an amount of visual accommodation of an eye to which the device is mounted. A method for fabricating the eye-mountable device is provided that includes applying an adhesive to secure lenses of the electroactive lens together and to maintain an amount of liquid crystal in the space between the lenses. The rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material can then be formed around the electroactive lens, electronics, or other elements of the eye-mountable device. The rigid, gas-permeable polymeric material can be mountable to a corneal surface of an eye or can be disposed on or within a soft polymeric material that is mountable to the corneal surface of the eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Inventors: Scott Kennedy, Jeremy Emken
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Patent number: D935042Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: November 2, 2021Assignee: LIGHT PATH TO WELLNESS INC.Inventor: Scott Kennedy