Patents by Inventor Sebastian A. Padilla

Sebastian A. Padilla 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: 20250223045
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Patent number: 12195189
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: World View Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Publication number: 20230159173
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 6, 2023
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Patent number: 11613364
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: World View Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Publication number: 20210122479
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: April 29, 2021
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Patent number: 10829229
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2020
    Assignee: World View Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Patent number: 10004924
    Abstract: A system is designed to increase diver safety in a high-risk environment containing one or more hazardous materials. The system includes chemically-hardened surface-supplied diving equipment designed to provide full environment isolation for the diver. The system also includes a dive helmet and a surface-return exhaust system, where the surface-return exhaust system includes a demand exhaust regulator that serves as a pressure-actuated valve to enable exhausting to a breathable atmosphere outside of a dive helmet instead of exhausting into the environment containing one or more hazardous materials. The system also includes retrofittable kits enabling the upgrading of contaminant-vulnerable materials of an existing dive helmet. The system also includes fluoroelastomeric materials and components to implement in a closed circuit dive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Paragon Space Development Corporation
    Inventors: Grant A. Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Sebastian A. Padilla, Chad E. Bower
  • Publication number: 20170349291
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2017
    Publication date: December 7, 2017
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Publication number: 20170331177
    Abstract: Described herein are features for high altitude lighter-than-air (LTA) balloon antenna systems and associated methods. One or more long wire communications antennas may be built into the balloon skin. The antenna may extend under, in, on or otherwise along one of the seams formed by connected edges of gores that define the balloon volume. The antenna may include an elongated electrical conductor with a length based on a desired communication frequency. The antenna may be secured with load tape along the seam. The antenna may be included in an LTA balloon system that includes multiple balloons connected in tandem, such as a zero-pressure balloon (ZPB) and one or more variable air ballast super-pressure balloons (SPB).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: November 16, 2017
    Inventors: Taber Kyle MacCallum, William C. Gibson, Sebastian A. Padilla, Rodger Farley, Iain Beveridge, G. Ryan Lee, Tim Basta, Jared Leidich, John Straus, John Z. Maccagnano
  • Patent number: 9694910
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: World View Enterprises Inc.
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus, Jared Leidich, Daniel Pieter Jacobus Blignaut
  • Publication number: 20170137097
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a protective diving system for isolating a diver from a hazardous diving environment. The protective diving system can include a dry suit system including a dry suit and a surface exhaust valve coupled to the dry suit, and a return-surface exhaust assembly configured to exhaust gas from the dry suit system to a breathable atmosphere outside of the diving environment of the diver. The surface exhaust valve is configured to receive gas from the dry suit and exhaust gas to the return-surface exhaust assembly without exhausting to the surrounding diving environment. The protective diving system can further include one or more chemically-resistant components, where the chemically-resistant components include a fluoroelastomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventors: Grant A. Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Sebastian A. Padilla, Chad E. Bower
  • Publication number: 20150284061
    Abstract: This disclosure provides a protective diving system for isolating a diver from a hazardous diving environment. The protective diving system can include a dry suit system including a dry suit and a surface exhaust valve coupled to the dry suit, and a return-surface exhaust assembly configured to exhaust gas from the dry suit system to a breathable atmosphere outside of the diving environment of the diver. The surface exhaust valve is configured to receive gas from the dry suit and exhaust gas to the return-surface exhaust assembly without exhausting to the surrounding diving environment. The protective diving system can further include one or more chemically-resistant components, where the chemically-resistant components include a fluoroelastomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Grant A. Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Sebastian A. Padilla, Chad E. Bower
  • Publication number: 20150284065
    Abstract: A system enabling safe manned and unmanned operations at extremely high altitudes (above 70,000 feet). The system utilizes a balloon launch system and parachute and/or parafoil recovery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Inventors: Taber K. MacCallum, Jacob H. Dang, Robert Alan Eustace, John Zaniel Maccagnano, Julian R. Nott, Sebastian A. Padilla, Sreenivasan Shankarnarayan, John Straus
  • Patent number: 8555884
    Abstract: A system designed to increase diver safety in high-risk environments containing one or more hazardous materials. The system comprises one or more retrofittable kits enabling the upgrading of contaminate-vulnerable materials of an existing dive helmet to provide full environment isolation for the diver. The system preferably utilizes fluoroelastomeric replacement materials and components to convert an open circuit dive system to a closed circuit dive system. Methods of system development are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Paragon Space Development Corporation
    Inventors: Grant A. Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Sebastian A. Padilla, Chad E. Bower
  • Publication number: 20090172935
    Abstract: A system designed to increase diver safety in high-risk environments containing one or more hazardous materials. The system comprises one or more retrofittable kits enabling the upgrading of contaminate-vulnerable materials of an existing dive helmet to provide full environment isolation for the diver. The system preferably utilizes fluoroelastomeric replacement materials and components to convert an open circuit dive system to a closed circuit dive system. Methods of system development are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: July 9, 2009
    Applicant: Paragon Space Development Corporation
    Inventors: Grant A. Anderson, Taber K. MacCallum, Sebastian A. Padilla, Chad E. Bower