Patents by Inventor Steven Todd

Steven Todd 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: 12288306
    Abstract: A technology is described for aligning an image data set with a patient using an augmented reality (AR) headset. A method may include obtaining an image data set representing an anatomical structure of a patient. A two-dimensional (2D) X-ray generated image of at least a portion of the anatomical structure of the patient in the image data set and a visible marker may be obtained. The image data set can be aligned to the X-ray generated image by using data fitting. A location of the visible marker may be defined in the image data set using alignment with the X-ray generated image. The image data set may be aligned with a body of the patient, using the visible marker in the image data set as referenced to the visible marker seen on the patient through the AR headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Novarad Corporation
    Inventors: Wendell Arlen Gibby, Steven Todd Cvetko
  • Publication number: 20250131663
    Abstract: Technology is described for referencing anatomical structure using an AR headset. The method can include registering a marker located on a distal anatomical structure. The marker may have a pose that includes a position and orientation in a 3D coordinate system of the AR headset. Another operation may be identifying a proximal anatomical structure to which the distal anatomical structure is connected. The marker may be registered at a second pose having a second position and second orientation. A joint pivot axis and angle may be determined with respect to the proximal anatomical structure by comparing the first pose and the second pose. The joint pivot axis may then be displayed, using the AR headset. The technology may also use a pointer device to automatically find an anatomic path and anatomic length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventors: Wendell Arlen Gibby, Steven Todd Cvetko, Joel Lyon, Ryan West
  • Publication number: 20250110028
    Abstract: Embedding compositions with light-attenuating properties for preparing specimens for sectioning and imaging are disclosed. An embedding composition may be a colloidal suspension including a continuous phase such as optimal cutting temperature compound (OCT), paraffin, or epoxy, etc., and a dispersed phase such as carbon powder, red blood cells, or barium sulfate, etc. The dispersed phase may reduce the transmission and/or scattering of light within the embedding composition, resulting in reduction or elimination of artifacts such as edge brightening, glow, and/or blurring. In some cases, the light-attenuation properties of an embedding composition may be adjusted to approximate or match those of the specimen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Inventors: Steven Toddes, Janeen L. Vanhooke
  • Publication number: 20250093946
    Abstract: An AR headset is described to co-localize an image data set with a body of a person. One method can include identifying optical codes with a contrast medium in a tubing on the body of the person using the AR headset. The image data set can be aligned with the body of the person using the fixed position of the image visible marker with the contrast medium in the tubing with respect to the optical code referenced to a representation of the image visible marker. In one configuration, an image data set can be scaled by comparing a measured size of the image visible marker (e.g., gadolinium tubing) in the captured image data set to the known size of the image visible marker. In addition, a center of an optical code may be identified to more accurately align the image data set with a body of a person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventors: Wendell Arlen Gibby, Steven Todd Cvetko
  • Publication number: 20250061672
    Abstract: A technology is described for aligning an image data set with a patient using an augmented reality (AR) headset. A method may include obtaining an image data set representing an anatomical structure of a patient. A two-dimensional (2D) X-ray generated image of at least a portion of the anatomical structure of the patient in the image data set and a visible marker may be obtained. The image data set can be aligned to the X-ray generated image by using data fitting. A location of the visible marker may be defined in the image data set using alignment with the X-ray generated image. The image data set may be aligned with a body of the patient, using the visible marker in the image data set as referenced to the visible marker seen on the patient through the AR headset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2024
    Publication date: February 20, 2025
    Inventors: Wendell Arlen Gibby, Steven Todd Cvetko
  • Publication number: 20250045374
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for relationship and attribute management are described. In some examples, a verifier service performs a verification process using a relationship decentralized identifier (DID) that provides proof of a relationship between the holder and a DID management service. An attribute request is that specifies an attribute is transmitted from the verifier service to the DID management service. The DID management service provides the verifier service with information based on the attribute once the holder provides an authorization response that authorizes usage of the attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventors: Andrew Lei, Mukund Shankar SimhaRaghu, Emery Schoenly, Steven Todd Johnson
  • Publication number: 20250045311
    Abstract: Disclosed are various approaches for facilitating verifier integrations using computer models. An exemplary system of the present disclosure comprises a computing device comprising a processor and a memory; and machine-readable instructions stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to at least: receive an unstructured claim query for a data document from an entity computing device, wherein the data document is structured in accordance with a data document schema; parse the unstructured claim query to identify attributes that are then converted to a machine-understandable representation of the unstructured claim query; prepare, using a predictive model that is trained to understand data documents that are structured in accordance with the data document schema, a query response to the machine-understandable representation of the unstructured claim query by evaluating contents of the data document; and transmit the query response to the entity computing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 6, 2025
    Inventor: Steven Todd Johnson
  • Publication number: 20250036801
    Abstract: According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method for using information in conjunction with a data repository includes encrypting data associated with the information with an encryption key, sending at least the encrypted data to the data repository, and possibly deleting the information. The method also includes receiving a request for the information from a remote device, and sending a request for the encrypted data to the data repository. The method further includes receiving the encrypted data from the data repository, decrypting the encrypted data using the encryption key, and sending the information to the remote device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2024
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Applicant: Neustar, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Todd KIRSCH
  • Publication number: 20240424736
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using a non-stick conductive material to automate tool touch-off in an additive manufacturing process are provided. A substrate comprises a first conductive layer, an intermediate binder layer, and a second non-stick conductive layer. The non-stick conductive layer may comprise perfluoroalkoxy alkanes and carbon nanotubes. An electrical connection may be made between the first conductive layer and the second non-stick conductive layer. When used with an additive manufacturing device, when the nozzle of the device contacts the substrate, a circuit may close resulting in a detectable voltage drop. When the voltage drop is detected, a reference point for the additive manufacturing device may be set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2024
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Todd LaPlant, Matthew Wayne Trimmer, Nicholas Christopher Ogden, Mark Douglas Smith, Ruben Arturo Pino
  • Publication number: 20240399383
    Abstract: A tool for feeding material into a mill having a roller and forming a nip gap. The tool broadly comprises a baseplate, a guide plate, and a ram. The baseplate is configured to be positioned on the mill over the roller and forms a slot. The guide plate is configured to be positioned in the slot of the baseplate near the nip gap. The guide plate forms a chute for feeding the material into the nip gap. The ram is configured to be inserted into the chute to urge the material into the nip gap while preventing a user's fingers and other foreign objects from nearing the nip gap through the chute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2024
    Publication date: December 5, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin Douglas Williams, James Peter Hickson, Steven Todd LaPlant, Phillip C. Davis
  • Publication number: 20240386682
    Abstract: Technology is described that includes a method for aligning an image data set with a computed 3D coordinate of a point representing a feature. The method can include receiving 2D (two dimensional) image data from a first medical imaging device, wherein the 2D image data has a location and graphical mark for a point representing a feature. A 3D coordinate of the point in the 3D coordinate system can be computed using a location and orientation of the first medical imaging device with respect to the AR headset. A 3D image data set obtained from a second medical imaging device and a virtual marker identifying the feature in the 3D image data set may be received. The 3D image data set may be aligned to the patient anatomy by aligning the virtual marker in the 3D image data set to the point in the 2D image data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2024
    Publication date: November 21, 2024
    Inventors: Steven Todd Cvetko, Wendell Arlen Gibby
  • Publication number: 20240341853
    Abstract: An AR headset is described to co-localize an image data set with a body of a person. The image data set of a portion of the body may be identified. The image data set can include a virtual anatomical marker to identify an anatomical location. A spatial location may be identified using a physical pointer object in a field of view of the AR headset. A spatial location of a visible anatomical feature as identified using the physical pointer object may be recorded. The registration may be triggered based on an input that the physical pointer object is located at a visible anatomical feature of the body of the person. Further, the image data set may be aligned with the body of the person using the spatial location recorded for the visible anatomical feature as referenced to the virtual anatomical marker in the image data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: October 17, 2024
    Inventors: Wendell Arlen Gibby, Steven Todd Cvetko
  • Patent number: 12103234
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using a non-stick conductive material to automate tool touch-off in an additive manufacturing process are provided. A substrate comprises a first conductive layer, an intermediate binder layer, and a second non-stick conductive layer. The non-stick conductive layer may comprise perfluoroalkoxy alkanes and carbon nanotubes. An electrical connection may be made between the first conductive layer and the second non-stick conductive layer. When used with an additive manufacturing device, when the nozzle of the device contacts the substrate, a circuit may close resulting in a detectable voltage drop. When the voltage drop is detected, a reference point for the additive manufacturing device may be set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Todd LaPlant, Matthew Wayne Trimmer, Nicholas Christopher Ogden, Mark Douglas Smith, Ruben Arturo Pino
  • Publication number: 20240307946
    Abstract: A feeding assembly is for feeding material to a press system. The press system includes a shell press having a die set structured to form the material into a plurality of shells. The feeding assembly includes a support element, a feed roll including an integral shaft, a drive assembly driving the feed roll and including a motor and a drive shaft, the drive shaft, and a pinch roll cooperating with the feed roll to receive and move material therebetween. The longitudinal axis of the integral feed roll shaft is laterally offset with respect to the longitudinal axis of the motor drive shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: DENNIS CORNELIUS STAMMEN, Steven Todd Albright, Bryan Lee Schoenlein, Neil Albert Zumberger, Edward Eugene Donaldson
  • Publication number: 20240308271
    Abstract: A guard for a seal of a wheeled industrial machine, the guard comprising an cylindrical, annular body having a first plate, a second plate with an upper portion and a lower portion, and a connecting portion extending between the first plate and the second plate; wherein the first plate extends in a radially inward direction from the connecting portion and includes a plurality of holes; wherein the upper portion is configured to extend into a corresponding slot of a rotating element of a wheel of the wheeled industrial machine; and wherein the lower portion is configured to extend toward an axle of the wheeled industrial machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 19, 2024
    Applicant: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Hari Prasad KAFLE, Steven Todd HAROLDSON, James William SCHAFFER, Robert Leo GOSDA, Daniel Patrick VERTENTEN
  • Patent number: 12090489
    Abstract: A tool for feeding material into a mill having a roller and forming a nip gap. The tool broadly comprises a baseplate, a guide plate, and a ram. The baseplate is configured to be positioned on the mill over the roller and forms a slot. The guide plate is configured to be positioned in the slot of the baseplate near the nip gap. The guide plate forms a chute for feeding the material into the nip gap. The ram is configured to be inserted into the chute to urge the material into the nip gap while preventing a user's fingers and other foreign objects from nearing the nip gap through the chute.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Douglas Williams, James Peter Hickson, Steven Todd LaPlant, Phillip C. Davis
  • Patent number: 12094461
    Abstract: A system that is capable of controlling multiple entertainment systems and/or speakers using voice commands. The system receives voice commands and may determine audio sources and speakers indicated by the voice commands. The system may generate audio data from the audio sources and may send the audio data to the speakers using multiple interfaces. For example, the system may send the audio data directly to the speakers using a network address, may send the audio data to the speakers via a voice-enabled device or may send the audio data to the speakers via a speaker controller. The system may generate output zones including multiple speakers and may associate input devices with speakers within the output zones. For example, the system may receive a voice command from an input device in an output zone and may reduce output audio generated by speakers in the output zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert Williams, Steven Todd Rabuchin, Gregory Michael Hart
  • Publication number: 20240273740
    Abstract: Technology is described to enable alignment of an image data set with an anatomy of a person using an augmented reality (AR) headset. The device may include an image visible marker that is detectable by a medical imaging device and an optical marker. A common connector can removably join the image visible marker to the optical marker and define a fixed distance between the image visible marker and the optical marker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Wendell Arlen Gibby, Steven Todd Cvetko
  • Publication number: 20240248530
    Abstract: A technology is described for using a medical implement or a fluoroscopic image with reference to an image data set and a body of a person. A method may include detecting visual image data of a body of a patient and a medical implement. The optical codes on the body of the patient and on the medical implement may be identified. One operation is aligning the image data set with the body of the person using one or more optical codes on the body of the person and the fixed position of an image visible marker with respect to the optical code. A position of the medical implement with respect to the body of the person may be determined using one or more optical codes on the medical implement and the body of the person to reference the medical implement to the image data set and the body of the person.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Wendell Arlen Gibby, Steven Todd Cvetko
  • Patent number: D1053713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Dennis Cornelius Stammen, Robert Joseph Will, Christopher Lawrence Macke, Patrick Kevin McCarty, Robert Herbert Brussell, Greg Scott Williams, Steven Todd Albright