Patents by Inventor Steven J. Frank

Steven J. Frank 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: 11937950
    Abstract: In at least one example, a medical device is provided. The medical device includes at least one therapy electrode, at least one electrocardiogram (ECG) electrode, at least one acoustic sensor, and at least one processor coupled with the at least one acoustic sensor, the at least one ECG electrode, and the at least one therapy electrode. The at least one processor can receive at least one acoustic signal from the at least one acoustic sensor, receive at least one electrode signal from the ECG electrode, detect at least one unverified cardiopulmonary anomaly using the at least one electrode signal, and verify the at least one unverified cardiopulmonary anomaly with reference to data descriptive of the at least one acoustic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Shane S. Volpe, Gregory R. Frank, Thomas E. Kaib, Steven J. Szymkiewicz, Gary A. Freeman
  • Patent number: 11899931
    Abstract: A hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing one or more memory objects within an object-based memory space. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The memory module can provide an interface layer below an application layer of a software stack. The interface layer can comprise one or more storage managers managing hardware of a processor and controlling portions of the object-based memory space visible to a virtual address space and physical address space of the processor. The storage managers can further provide an interface between the object-based memory space and an operating system executed by the processor and an alternate object memory based storage transparent to software using the interface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11782601
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to an instruction set of an object memory fabric. This object memory fabric instruction set can be used to define arbitrary, parallel functionality such as: direct object address manipulation and generation without the overhead of complex address translation and software layers to manage differing address space; direct object authentication with no runtime overhead that can be set based on secure 3rd party authentication software; object related memory computing in which, as objects move between nodes, the computing can move with them; and parallelism that is dynamically and transparent based on scale and activity. These instructions are divided into three conceptual classes: memory reference including load, store, and special memory fabric instructions; control flow including fork, join, and branches; and execute including arithmetic and comparison instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11775171
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to implement an object memory fabric. Object memory modules may include object storage storing memory objects, memory object meta-data, and a memory module object directory. Each memory object and/or memory object portion may be created natively within the object memory module and may be a managed at a memory layer. The memory module object directory may index all memory objects and/or portions within the object memory module. A hierarchy of object routers may communicatively couple the object memory modules. Each object router may maintain an object cache state for the memory objects and/or portions contained in object memory modules below the object router in the hierarchy. The hierarchy, based on the object cache state, may behave in aggregate as a single object directory communicatively coupled to all object memory modules and to process requests based on the object cache state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11768602
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to an instruction set of an object memory fabric. This object memory fabric instruction set can be used to provide a unique instruction model based on triggers defined in metadata of the memory objects. This model represents a dynamic dataflow method of execution in which processes are performed based on actual dependencies of the memory objects. This provides a high degree of memory and execution parallelism which in turn provides tolerance of variations in access delays between memory objects. In this model, sequences of instructions are executed and managed based on data access. These sequences can be of arbitrary length but short sequences are more efficient and provide greater parallelism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11755201
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to implement an object memory fabric including hardware-based processing nodes having memory modules storing and managing memory objects created natively within the memory modules and managed by the memory modules at a memory layer, where physical address of memory and storage is managed with the memory objects based on an object address space that is allocated on a per-object basis with an object addressing scheme. Each node may utilize the object addressing scheme to couple to additional nodes to operate as a set of nodes so that all memory objects of the set are accessible based on the object addressing scheme, which defines invariant object addresses for the memory objects that are invariant with respect to physical memory storage locations and storage location changes of the memory objects within the memory module and across all modules interfacing the object memory fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11755202
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to implement a hardware-based multi-node processing system of an object memory fabric. Hardware-based processing nodes operatively coupled may each include object memory modules storing and managing memory objects, each memory object being created natively within the memory module and managed by the memory module at a memory layer, and each memory object including memory object data and memory object metadata. The memory object metadata may include triggers that specify additional operations to be executed by any object memory module of the hardware-based processing nodes when the respective memory object is located at the respective object memory module and accessed as part of the respective object memory module processing requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11733904
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Publication number: 20230050168
    Abstract: Accurate tissue segmentation is performed without a priori knowledge of tissue type or other extrinsic information not found within the subject image, and may be combined with classification analysis so that diseased tissue is not only delineated within an image but also characterized in terms of disease type. In various embodiments, a source image is decomposed into smaller overlapping subimages such as square or rectangular tiles. A predictor such as a convolutional neural network produces tile-level classifications that are aggregated to produce a tissue segmentation and, in some embodiments, to classify the source image or a subregion thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventor: Steven J Frank
  • Patent number: 11579774
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to an instruction set of an object memory fabric. This object memory fabric instruction set can include trigger instructions defined in metadata for a particular memory object. Each trigger instruction can comprise a single instruction and action based on reference to a specific object to initiate or perform defined actions such as pre-fetching other objects or executing a trigger program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11573699
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. Embodiments can implement an object memory fabric including object memory modules storing memory objects created natively within the object memory module and may be a managed at a memory layer. The memory module object directory may index all memory objects within the object memory module. A hierarchy of object routers communicatively coupling the object memory modules may each include a router object directory that indexes all memory objects and portions contained in object memory modules below the object router in the hierarchy. The hierarchy of object routers may behave in aggregate as a single object directory communicatively coupled to all object memory modules and to process requests based on the router object directories.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Publication number: 20220350486
    Abstract: A hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing one or more memory objects within an object-based memory space. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The memory module can provide an interface layer below an application layer of a software stack. The interface layer can comprise one or more storage managers managing hardware of a processor and controlling portions of the object-based memory space visible to a virtual address space and physical address space of the processor. The storage managers can further provide an interface between the object-based memory space and an operating system executed by the processor and an alternate object memory based storage transparent to software using the interface layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 3, 2022
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Publication number: 20220326859
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a hardware-based processing node of a plurality of hardware-based processing nodes in an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing a plurality of memory objects in a hierarchy of the object memory fabric. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The object memory fabric can utilize a memory fabric protocol between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes to distribute and track the memory objects across the object memory fabric. The memory fabric protocol can be utilized across a dedicated link or across a shared link between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Publication number: 20220261168
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Publication number: 20220137818
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods to implement an object memory fabric. Object memory modules may include object storage storing memory objects, memory object meta-data, and a memory module object directory. Each memory object and/or memory object portion may be created natively within the object memory module and may be a managed at a memory layer. The memory module object directory may index all memory objects and/or portions within the object memory module. A hierarchy of object routers may communicatively couple the object memory modules. Each object router may maintain an object cache state for the memory objects and/or portions contained in object memory modules below the object router in the hierarchy. The hierarchy, based on the object cache state, may behave in aggregate as a single object directory communicatively coupled to all object memory modules and to process requests based on the object cache state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Publication number: 20220100370
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to an instruction set of an object memory fabric. This object memory fabric instruction set can be used to provide a unique instruction model based on triggers defined in metadata of the memory objects. This model represents a dynamic dataflow method of execution in which processes are performed based on actual dependencies of the memory objects. This provides a high degree of memory and execution parallelism which in turn provides tolerance of variations in access delays between memory objects. In this model, sequences of instructions are executed and managed based on data access. These sequences can be of arbitrary length but short sequences are more efficient and provide greater parallelism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Applicant: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11281382
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a hardware-based processing node of a plurality of hardware-based processing nodes in an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing a plurality of memory objects in a hierarchy of the object memory fabric. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The object memory fabric can utilize a memory fabric protocol between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes to distribute and track the memory objects across the object memory fabric. The memory fabric protocol can be utilized across a dedicated link or across a shared link between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11269514
    Abstract: A hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing one or more memory objects within an object-based memory space. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The memory module can provide an interface layer below an application layer of a software stack. The interface layer can comprise one or more storage managers managing hardware of a processor and controlling portions of the object-based memory space visible to a virtual address space and physical address space of the processor. The storage managers can further provide an interface between the object-based memory space and an operating system executed by the processor and an alternate object memory based storage transparent to software using the interface layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11256438
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback
  • Patent number: 11231865
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for managing processing, memory, storage, network, and cloud computing to significantly improve the efficiency and performance of processing nodes. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention are directed to a hardware-based processing node of an object memory fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Assignee: Ultrata, LLC
    Inventors: Steven J. Frank, Larry Reback