Patents by Inventor Steven Scott

Steven Scott 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).

  • REAGENT CHANNEL MIXING SYSTEM AND METHOD
    Publication number: 20200230598
    Abstract: An analysis system may perform operations on an analyte that may be combined with multiple regents prior to being introduced into a flow cell. The instrument may include a volume into which the reagents to be combined with the analyte are aspirated one-by-one. The volume may be formed as a serpentine channel in a valve manifold associated with sippers for aspirating the reagents. The reagents may then be mixed by cycling a pump to move the reagents within the mixing volume or channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Bradley Kent Drews, Michael Dai Wang, Umberto Ulmanella, Stephen Wayne Clark, Johanna Lynn Whitacre, Steven Scott Phelps, Michelle L. Alvarez, Michael Adalbert Niziolek, Debra Sue Bryan, Joshua Augustin Darland
  • LAMINATED GLAZING HAVING A FUNCTIONAL FILM
    Publication number: 20200230924
    Abstract: A laminated glass product, according to the present disclosure, includes a first glass substrate, a second glass substrate, a polymer interlayer laminated between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, a functional film, such as a head-up display film, a printed film, and a switchable film, laminated between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, and a thin adhesive layer formed on the functional film between the functional film and one of the first and second glass substrates, for efficiently laminating such a functional film with improved lamination quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Central Glass Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Wladislaw Bronstein, Steven Scott Christman, Michael Bard
  • FILTER ELEMENTS; AIR CLEANER; ASSEMBLY; AND, METHODS
    Publication number: 20200215475
    Abstract: A filter element, a safety element and fluid cleaner assembly. The fluid cleaner assembly generally includes a housing having a cover and a primary fluid cleaner section. The element generally comprises z-filter media, arranged in a straight through configuration, and an axial seal gasket positioned to extend continuously around at outer perimeter of the straight through flow construction. The fluid cleaner assembly can have a precleaner positioned therein. Methods of assembly and use are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 9, 2020
    Inventors: William Krisko, Wayne W. Bishop, Steven Scott Gieseke, Carolyn J. Finnerty, David W. Nelson
  • Smart file location
    Patent number: 10698826
    Abstract: The disclosure is related to storage devices employing file-aware drivers. In one example, a device may comprise a driver configured to retrieve file system information related to an input/output (I/O) command, determine storage attributes based on the file system information, and store selected data in a preferred region of a data storage medium based on the storage attributes. Another embodiment may be a method comprising inspecting characteristics of an I/O request for a file, setting storage attributes for the file based on if the file is preferred, and storing the file on a data storage medium based on the storage attributes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC
    Inventors: Daniel Robert McLeran, Steven Scott Williams
  • MEDICAL DEVICE THAT APPLIES ELECTRICAL STIMULATION TO THE SPINAL CORD FROM INSIDE THE DURA FOR TREATING BACK PAIN AND OTHER CONDITIONS
    Publication number: 20200179684
    Abstract: This invention provides an device for electrical stimulation of the spinal cord. The device has an electrode assembly with a sufficiently thin profile to be implanted between the pial surface of the spinal cord and the dura mater, and secured to the dura. Electrodes on the electrode assembly are directed towards the surface of the spinal cord, and connected through the dura to a signal generator located outside the dura. Following implantation, the subject is treated by transmitting electrical signals from the signal generator through the leads to the electrodes, stimulating the subject's spinal cord.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicants: Universty of Iowa Research Foundation, University of Virginia Patent Foundation
    Inventors: Matthew A. Howard, Timothy Brennan, Brian Dalm, Marcel Utz, George T. Gillies, Steven Scott, Randall S. Nelson, Robert Shurig
  • Monolithic Outboard Gear Beam Support Fitting
    Publication number: 20200140066
    Abstract: A breakaway support configured to selectively release an actuator from a fitting and a method of providing the breakaway support. The breakaway support includes a race positioned between the actuator and the fitting. The second end of the actuator is connected to the fitting via a ball joint is positioned within the race. The ball joint permits the actuator to pivot about the ball joint in a vertical plane between a first position and a second position. The breakaway support includes a first knuckle that causes the actuator to release from the fitting when the actuator moves in a first direction beyond the first position. A portion of the fitting or a second knuckle may cause the actuator to release from the fitting when the actuator moves in a second direction beyond the second position. A portion of the actuator may break to release the actuator from the fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Inventors: Steven Scott Heer, Eric Sean Kamila, Benjamin Joseph Palmer
  • Managing migration events performed by a memory controller
    Patent number: 10642727
    Abstract: A microcontroller may be implanted to manage migration events performed by a separate memory controller to non-volatile memory. Migration events, such as failed writes at the memory controller or wear leveling migrations to move data from one storage location to another may be detected by the microcontroller. The destination location and the data to be migrated may be identified by the microcontroller. The microcontroller may then instruct the memory controller to copy the data to the destination location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Volpe, Mark Anthony Banse, Steven Scott Larson
  • Reagent channel mixing system and method
    Patent number: 10625260
    Abstract: An analysis system may perform operations on an analyte that may be combined with multiple regents prior to being introduced into a flow cell. The instrument may include a volume into which the reagents to be combined with the analyte are aspirated one-by-one. The volume may be formed as a serpentine channel in a valve manifold associated with sippers for aspirating the reagents. The reagents may then be mixed by cycling a pump to move the reagents within the mixing volume or channel. For this, the reagents may be aspirated from a recipient into the volume or channel, ejected back into the recipient, and this process may be performed repeatedly to enhance mixing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: ILLUMINA, INC.
    Inventors: Bradley Kent Drews, Michael Dai Wang, Umberto Ulmanella, Stephen Wayne Clark, Johanna Lynn Whitacre, Steven Scott Phelps, Michelle L. Alvarez, Michael Adalbert Niziolek, Debra Sue Bryan, Joshua Augustin Darland
  • Performance monitoring for storage-class memory
    Patent number: 10593380
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques for monitoring the performance of a storage-class memory (SCM). In some embodiments, a performance monitoring circuit at an interface between the SCM and a memory controller of the SCM receives transaction commands from the memory controller to the SCM, measures statistics associated with the transaction commands, and determines a utilization rate of the SCM based on the statistics. Based on the determined utilization rate of the SCM, future transaction requests can be optimized to improve the utilization rate of the SCM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Volpe, Mark Anthony Banse, Steven Scott Larson, Douglas Lloyd Mainz
  • Systems and methods of preparing stabilized lipid assemblies
    Patent number: 10576456
    Abstract: Direct polymerization of lipid monomers or polymer scaffolding of non-lipid monomers coupled with irradiation or redox polymerization performed at neutral pH resulted in stabilized lipid assemblies. An initiator-buffer component and NaHS03 redox mixture polymerizes reactive lipid monomers at near neutral pH conditions to preserve functionality of reconstituted membrane proteins. Improved stability of black lipid membranes (BLMs) is attained by chemical cross-linking of polymerizable, hydrophobic and commercially available non-lipid monomers partitioned into the suspended lipid membranes, and by suspending the BLMs across low surface energy apertures. Substrate apertures having low surface energy modifiers with amphiphobic properties facilitated a reproducible formation of BLMs by promoting interactions between the lipid tail and the substrate material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
    Inventors: Steven Scott Saavedra, Craig A. Aspinwall, Saliya N. Ratnayaka, Leonard Bright
  • Filter elements; air cleaner; assembly; and, methods
    Patent number: 10500533
    Abstract: A filter element, a safety element and fluid cleaner assembly. The fluid cleaner assembly generally includes a housing having a cover and a primary fluid cleaner section. The element generally comprises z-filter media, arranged in a straight through configuration, and an axial seal gasket positioned to extend continuously around at outer perimeter of the straight through flow construction. The fluid cleaner assembly can have a precleaner positioned therein. Methods of assembly and use are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2019
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: William Krisko, Wayne W. Bishop, Steven Scott Gieseke, Carolyn J. Finnerty, David W. Nelson
  • Convertible folding ladder
    Patent number: 10487577
    Abstract: A convertible folding ladder incorporates first and second rigid ladder sections, each comprising opposing spaced apart longitudinal rails, a plurality of spaced apart rungs between the rails, and a connector plate formed with one end of at least one of the longitudinal rails. Each connector plate of the first ladder section defines at least three spaced apart pin holes adapted for being selectively aligned with pin holes defined by the connector plate of the second ladder section. First and second fastener pins are adapted for being removably inserted through the aligned pin holes, such that the ladder is convertible between multiple different configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: PATRIOT3, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles Louis Fuqua, Steven Scott Kahre
  • Write failure handling for a memory controller to non-volatile memory
    Patent number: 10459662
    Abstract: Failed write handling can be implemented at a memory controller for non-volatile memory. Failure of a write to a storage location in the non-volatile memory may be detected. An indication of the failure may be sent to a microcontroller for the non-volatile memory which may return an instruction to write to a different location in the non-volatile memory. Reads and writes to the storage location of the failed write may still be allowed, in some embodiments, by redirecting the reads and writes to a copy of data of the failed write stored in a copy buffer in the memory controller.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas A. Volpe, Mark Anthony Banse, Steven Scott Larson
  • BRAIN NAVIGATION METHODS AND DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190321106
    Abstract: A system for differential recording connectable to an electrical lead with at least two electrodes, including: the lead having a distal end; at least one amplifier electrically connectable to the at least two electrodes, wherein the at least one amplifier subtracts a signal recorded by one of the at least two electrodes, from a signal recorded by the other one of the at least two electrodes to generate a differential signal; a memory configured for storing said differential signal and reference indications of electrical signals associated with neural tissue; a processing circuitry for detection of an anatomical position, wherein the processing circuitry calculates an anatomical position of the electrical lead based on processing of the differential signal and the reference indications of electrical signals associated with the neural tissue.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Publication date: October 24, 2019
    Applicant: Alpha Omega Neuro Technologies Ltd.
    Inventors: Hagai BERGMAN, Omer NAOR, Jubran ELFAR, Imad YOUNIS, Adi BALAN, Zvi ISRAEL, Dan VALSKY, Odeya MARMOR, Renana EITAN, John RIZIK, Majd SLEEM, Paul MCSHERRY, Steven SCOTT, Benjamin MATTER
  • Standup paddleboard with viewport
    Patent number: 10421527
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a personal watercraft, such as a standup paddleboard, provided with a viewing window that allows the user to view the underwater environment. The viewing window may be watertight and constructed from at least two durable, transparent panels. The area between panels may be sealed from air and water infiltration. A user may add waterproof lights to the bottom of the standup paddleboard in order to allow viewing of the underwater marine environment at night.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: SUPMARINE, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Scott McKellar, Mark Everett McKellar
  • Scalable computer image synthesis
    Patent number: 10424106
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a memory may store programming for selecting values describing a frame of pixels by modeling, based on camera data, object data, and material data, a geometric projection of light in a visual simulation, the modeling including identifying voxel data and building a voxel tree from the voxel data. A processor may, responsive to executing the programming, invoke one or more of a clipping module to generate a portion of the voxel data, a depth occlusion module to check for spatial visibility of one or more outputs of the clipping module and generate an output including one or more layers of a voxel tree, a re-projection module to conditionally generate a re-projection layer of the voxel tree, and an aggregation module to aggregate data of a final layer of the voxel tree with preceding layers to select an individual one of the values. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Inventor: Steven Scott Glazer
  • Universal redemption vehicle
    Patent number: 10417645
    Abstract: A reward point system comprising an industry vertical reception unit for receiving a user selected monetary value in a selected industry vertical, a point collection unit for receiving a quantity of points associated with the monetary value in the selected industry vertical, a redemption vehicle profile creation unit for generating a profile, and a redemption vehicle generation unit for loading the profile onto a redemption vehicle wherein the points on the redemption vehicle can be redeemed at any merchant in the selected industry vertical. Also provided are methods for utilizing said system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: SIX CONTINENTS HOTELS, INC.
    Inventors: Steven Scott Sickel, Michael John Kopec, Marc Elliot Berman
  • Systems, devices, and methods related to the individualized calibration and/or manufacturing of medical devices
    Publication number: 20190274598
    Abstract: Systems, devices, kits, and methods are provided herein in the form of example embodiments that relate to calibration of medical devices. The medical devices can be sensors adapted to sense a biochemical attribute. The embodiments can be used to determine calibration information specific to an individual medical device. The embodiments can determine the calibration information by reference to one or more parameters obtained during manufacturing of the medical device. The embodiments can also determine the calibration information by reference to in vitro testing of the medical devices. The embodiments also apply to systems incorporating those medical devices in their use in the field. Also described are embodiments of modifications to surfaces of sensor substrates, such as through applied radiation and/or the creation of a well, to aid in the placement and/or sizing of a sensor element on the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2018
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Steven Scott, Christopher J. Bennell, Claire Bhogal, Katie A. Cranfield, Marc B. Taub, Bree M. Winter, Owen D. Reynolds, Jean-Pierre Babka, Dharmendra S. Patel, Christopher A. Thomas, Udo Hoss, Mark S. Yahnke, Tahir S. Kahn
  • CLOSED-LOOP TESTING OF INTEGRATED CIRCUIT CARD PAYMENT TERMINALS
    Publication number: 20190266584
    Abstract: Technologies for closed-looped testing of integrated circuit card payment terminals include loading a test profile onto an integrated circuit payment card. Authorization request and response messages are locally generated and translated to simulate acquirer processor processing and payment network processing. An outcome report indicative of the outcome of the test transaction is generated and transmitted to a remote certification server. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Patricia Lynn WALTERS, Steven Scott COLE
  • HUMERAL ARTHROPLASTY
    Publication number: 20190231543
    Abstract: Arthroplasty components include an articular surface and a bone-facing surface. The bone-facing surface includes a concave arrangement of planar surfaces which converge as they approach a middle portion of the articular surface. Instruments and implantation methods are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Steven Scott Goldberg, Daniel F. Justin