Patents by Inventor Thomas A. Fuller
Thomas A. Fuller 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: 20240096671Abstract: Described are substrate containers that are useful for holding or transporting substrates such as semiconductor wafers and microelectronic devices, in a clean environment, as well as methods of using the substrate containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Matthew A. Fuller, Gary Gallagher, Thomas Martin Adrian
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Patent number: 11816640Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an event with an online conferencing component. The methods comprise: receiving, by a feedback processing system, a user input selecting an event from a plurality of scheduled events which each have an online conferencing component provided by a web conferencing service; enabling, by the feedback processing system, an electronic feedback message composing function and a numerical rating selection function for a duration of time determined based on a duration setting of a timer; performing, by the feedback processing system, the electronic feedback message composing function to compose an electronic feedback message for an individual associated with the selected event; and performing, by the feedback processing system, the numerical rating selection function to select a numerical rating for the individual associated with the selected event.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: Next Jump, Inc.Inventors: Yong-Chul Charles Kim, Meghan Messenger, Greg Kunkel, Thomas Fuller
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Publication number: 20230335284Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electronic system for the assessment of emotional state. The system allows individual employees to specify their emotions using a set of emojis. The system provides a graphical user interface that displays a list of different emotions and associated emojis that the user can select. The system allows the user to write an entry about his thoughts and emotions in conjunction with the selected emojis and send the message with the emojis to individuals with whom he chooses to share. The system provides a list of company-wide employees from which the user can select. The system receives the messages and implements data structures to process the received messages and produce individual and company-wide emotional state information.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 16, 2023Publication date: October 19, 2023Inventors: Yong-Chul Charles Kim, Meghan Messenger, Greg Kunkel, Thomas Fuller
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Patent number: 11682490Abstract: The present invention is directed to an electronic system for the assessment of emotional state. The system allows individual employees to specify their emotions using a set of emojis. The system provides a graphical user interface that displays a list of different emotions and associated emojis that the user can select. The system allows the user to write an entry about his thoughts and emotions in conjunction with the selected emojis and send the message with the emojis to individuals with whom he chooses to share. The system provides a list of company-wide employees from which the user can select. The system receives the messages and implements data structures to process the received messages and produce individual and company-wide emotional state information.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2020Date of Patent: June 20, 2023Assignee: Next Jump, Inc.Inventors: Yong-Chul Charles Kim, Meghan Messenger, Greg Kunkel, Thomas Fuller
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Patent number: 11672565Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a medical implant introducer (100) and methods of its use. The introducer (100) may include a handle (120), an implant-holding cavity disposed distally from the handle (120), a fluid supply conduit (122) fluidly coupled to an interior portion of the implant-holding cavity, and a distal nozzle (110) having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a middle portion in between the proximal portion and the distal portion, the middle portion having a tapered profile such that the proximal portion is larger than the distal portion, and a distal opening (112), wherein an implant in the implant-holding cavity may be expelled from the introducer (100) through the distal opening (112).Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2022Date of Patent: June 13, 2023Assignee: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Jose Pablo Viquez, Eckart Holst, Solange Vindas, Ariel Seidner H., Matthew Solar, Roberto De Mezerville, Juan José Chacón Quirós, Thomas Fuller, Nathalia Araujo
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Publication number: 20230169470Abstract: Systems and methods for operating an event with an online conferencing component. The methods comprise: receiving, by a feedback processing system, a user input selecting an event from a plurality of scheduled events which each have an online conferencing component provided by a web conferencing service; enabling, by the feedback processing system, an electronic feedback message composing function and a numerical rating selection function for a duration of time determined based on a duration setting of a timer; performing, by the feedback processing system, the electronic feedback message composing function to compose an electronic feedback message for an individual associated with the selected event; and performing, by the feedback processing system, the numerical rating selection function to select a numerical rating for the individual associated with the selected event.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2023Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Yong-Chul Charles Kim, Meghan Messenger, Greg Kunkel, Thomas Fuller
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Patent number: 11556900Abstract: Electronic systems and methods for developing a person's cognitive skills such as feedback giving skills are contemplated. The systems and methods provide a procedure through which participants follow to formulate and issue feedback to other individuals. Feedback is given through a feedback app. The systems and methods involve participation of feedback recipients and also judges. The procedure involves each feedback recipient giving a presentation in a period of time and each judge providing feedback to each presentation. The procedure is performed by executing an event which can be created from an event app provided by the system. The event app also executes the created event, and completion of the event allows the system to provide feedback results to the participants, feedback recipients, judges, and other individuals based on information received during the event. The flow of the event is also controllable from the event app.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: January 17, 2023Assignee: Next Jump, Inc.Inventors: Yong-Chul Charles Kim, Meghan Messenger, Greg Kunkel, Thomas Fuller
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Publication number: 20220280190Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a medical implant introducer (100) and methods of its use. The introducer (100) may include a handle (120), an implant-holding cavity disposed distally from the handle (120), a fluid supply conduit (122) fluidly coupled to an interior portion of the implant-holding cavity, and a distal nozzle (110) having a proximal portion, a distal portion, a middle portion in between the proximal portion and the distal portion, the middle portion having a tapered profile such that the proximal portion is larger than the distal portion, and a distal opening (112), wherein an implant in the implant-holding cavity may be expelled from the introducer (100) through the distal opening (112).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Inventors: Jose Pablo Viquez, Eckart Holst, Solange Vindas, Ariel Seidner H., Matthew Solar, Roberto DE MEZERVILLE, Juan José Chacón Quirós, Thomas Fuller, Nathalia Araujo
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Publication number: 20220261758Abstract: The systems and methods involve a feedback application, a feedback processing application, an analytics application, and an event moderating application. The feedback application allows users to submit feedback and displays received feedback anonymously to feedback recipients. The feedback processing application anonymizes the submitted feedback and the data to be retrieved from the feedback processing application and provide the anonymized feedback and data to the feedback application. The feedback processing application includes technology to protect feedback giver's identity and increase the speed of anonymizing the feedback and data and providing the anonymized feedback and data to the feedback application. The analytics application examines user's feedback giving and receiving behavior and evaluate their feedback empathy and authenticity and their learning behavior.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: August 18, 2022Inventors: Yong-Chul Charles Kim, Meghan Messenger, Greg Kunkel, Thomas Fuller
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Publication number: 20220218907Abstract: Disclosed and claimed is a medical delivery device with a separable housing comprising a durable component and a disposable component. The durable component comprises a handle portion of the device that may be connected to a compressed gas source to allow for the input of pressurized gas into the device. The disposable component comprises a cartridge containing a plurality of doses of biological or non-biological material and a supersonic barrel through which the dose is propelled out of the device and into the subject. When all of the doses in the cartridge have been administered, or when the device is to be used with a different subject, the cartridge is removed, and a new cartridge attached to the durable component.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: July 14, 2022Inventors: Hannah Elise Frizzell, Kristyn Rene Aalto, Amanda Kay Woodcock, Dennis Earl McCabe, Deborah Lynn Fuller, James Thomas Fuller
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Patent number: 11369519Abstract: Disclosed is an eye mask adapted to cover the eyes and the eyelids of a user. The mask includes a main body including an electrical heater and a battery configured to supply the electrical heater and a removable member removably linked to the main body. The removable member includes a wall forming a reservoir provided with retaining orifices adapted to retain a liquid, in particular water, under the effect of the surface tension between the liquid and walls of the orifices. Also disclosed is a method of using such a mask.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: LABORATOIRES THEAInventor: Edmund Thomas Fuller
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Patent number: 11363743Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling large numbers of computing devices in a data center are disclosed. The devices are positioned on shelves in racks and are connected via network switches. The computing devices are oriented so that their cooling fans all exhaust waste heat to one side of the rack into a hot aisle, and each position is offset from positions on neighboring shelves above and below the current shelf. The racks can be offset, or the positions within the racks can be offset. Each computing device on the rack can also be angled horizontally and or vertically to improve airflow. Multiple racks can be configured together into sloped regular polygons, with the interior forming the hot aisle, and deflectors can be installed to further improve airflow.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Core Scientific, Inc.Inventor: Thomas Fuller
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Publication number: 20220143233Abstract: A metal ionic antimicrobial surface configured for external use on a surface location in an indoor environment. A surface structure includes a pair of opposed major surfaces, one surface forming an exposed layer having a pattern of conductive strips and corresponding insulative spacings with a power pod structure secured to the surface structure. The power pod structure houses a battery and a power control circuit electrically connected to the conductive strips. In embodiments, the battery has an amp-hour capacity of 150-1500 mAh, an average width of each conductive strip of copper and silver metallic ions and each insulative spacing is between 0.1 to 0.5 millimeters, and the power control circuit includes a voltage booster circuit that maintains a constant low voltage of 2.5V-4.5V.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 23, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Aionx Antimicrobial Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Wharton, Zackary G. Lowe, Charles G. Rudolf, Thomas A. Fuller, David K. Tabbutt, Mark D. Loewen, Seth R. Zimmerman
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Publication number: 20220050230Abstract: Compact lens systems that may be used in small form factor cameras. The lens system may include a master lens with two or more lens elements arranged along an optical axis and having refractive power, and an optical actuator located on the object side of the master lens that may provide autofocus (AF) and/or optical image stabilization (OIS) functionality for the camera. An aperture stop for the camera may be included in the optical actuator, for example between a substrate and a flexible optical element of the optical actuator. Including the aperture stop in the optical actuator rather than in the lens stack may allow the optical actuator to be smaller in the X-Y dimensions (perpendicular to the optical (Z) axis) than it would be in a similar camera with the aperture stop located in the lens stack.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2021Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Paul Christian Thomas Fuller, Iain A. McAllister, Yoshikazu Shinohara
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Patent number: 11238408Abstract: The systems and methods involve a feedback application, a feedback processing application, an analytics application, and an event moderating application. The feedback application allows users to submit feedback and displays received feedback anonymously to feedback recipients. The feedback processing application anonymizes the submitted feedback and the data to be retrieved from the feedback processing application and provide the anonymized feedback and data to the feedback application. The feedback processing application includes technology to protect feedback giver's identity and increase the speed of anonymizing the feedback and data and providing the anonymized feedback and data to the feedback application. The analytics application examines user's feedback giving and receiving behavior and evaluate their feedback empathy and authenticity and their learning behavior.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Next Jump, Inc.Inventors: Yong-Chul Charles Kim, Meghan Messenger, Greg Kunkel, Thomas Fuller
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Patent number: 11237605Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling large numbers of computing devices in a data center are disclosed. The computing devices have cooling fans that can have their fan speed set by management instructions. The devices are mounted in racks in a two-dimensional array and connected via network switches with ports corresponding to their location in the racks. The computer devices are oriented so that their cooling fans all exhaust waste heat to one side of the rack. Instructions are sent to the computing devices to set one or more attributes such as fan speed, operating frequency and voltage according to one ore more patterns. The patterns can be linear or nonlinear and can be shifted, rotated, or changed over time periodically or based on temperature or other performance measurements from the computing devices.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2020Date of Patent: February 1, 2022Assignee: Core Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Lawrence Kom, Thomas Fuller
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Publication number: 20220030749Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling large numbers of computing devices in a data center are disclosed. The devices are positioned on shelves in racks and are connected via network switches. The computing devices are oriented so that their cooling fans all exhaust waste heat to one side of the rack into a hot aisle, and each position is offset from positions on neighboring shelves above and below the current shelf. The racks can be offset, or the positions within the racks can be offset. Each computing device on the rack can also be angled horizontally and or vertically to improve airflow. Multiple racks can be configured together into sloped regular polygons, with the interior forming the hot aisle, and deflectors can be installed to further improve airflow.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: January 27, 2022Inventor: Thomas Fuller
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Publication number: 20210368654Abstract: Systems and methods for cooling large numbers of computing devices in a data center are disclosed. The computing devices have cooling fans that can have their fan speed set by management instructions. The devices are mounted in racks in a two-dimensional array and connected via network switches with ports corresponding to their location in the racks. The computer devices are oriented so that their cooling fans all exhaust waste heat to one side of the rack. Instructions are sent to the computing devices to set one or more attributes such as fan speed, operating frequency and voltage according to one ore more patterns. The patterns can be linear or nonlinear and can be shifted, rotated, or changed over time periodically or based on temperature or other performance measurements from the computing devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2020Publication date: November 25, 2021Inventors: Lawrence Kom, Thomas Fuller
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Publication number: 20210353831Abstract: Scaffolding constructs, medical devices comprising scaffolding constructs, and related methods of manufacturing and treatment are described. The scaffolding construct may comprise a biocompatible material, such as a polymer, copolymer, or hydrogel. The scaffolding construct may be porous and at least partially bioresorbable. Further, for example, the scaffolding construct may define a cavity for securing a medical implant therein.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: Establishment Labs S.A.Inventors: Ariel SEIDNER H., Nathalia ARAUJO, John HANCOCK, Thomas FULLER, Arikha MOSES, Roberto DE MEZERVILLE, Juan José CHACÓN QUIRÓS
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Patent number: 11178021Abstract: A system and method for managing large numbers of computing devices such as cryptocurrency miners in a data center are disclosed. A three-dimensional (3D) model of the data center is created using machine-readable codes. The 3D model includes device and bin location information. Status data is captured from the computing devices, associated with location, stored in a database, and used to populate the 3D model, which is rendered in various two-dimensional and 3D views to provide the user with information helpful in managing the data center.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Core Scientific, Inc.Inventors: Ganesh Balakrishnan, Thomas Fuller, Chandra Ponneganti, Kristy-Leigh Minehan