Patents by Inventor Thomas Dahl

Thomas Dahl 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: 12232995
    Abstract: Embodiments of the inventive concepts disclosed herein are directed to an angular digital device for joint deformity or imbalance. A device formed from a dense soft material shaped to fit a digit with straight segments and angled transitions at the interphalangeal joint levels such that rotational force(s) are created at the joint line(s). Additionally, an ‘open transition’ design with a dorsal strap element is described, and a design with an additional moldable, semi-rigid component added. A retention strap is described to prevent the splint from migrating off during sleep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Inventors: Greg Peter Watchmaker, Randy Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20240325052
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are external fixation frames for correcting bone deformities. The external fixation frames include a top fixation ring and a bottom fixation ring coupled to one another by at least two struts. A half ring is coupled to bottom fixation ring. The bottom fixation ring is u-shaped. One or more rocker members may be coupled to the bottom fixation ring. The half ring may be hingedly coupled to the bottom fixation ring such that it can rotate with respect to the bottom fixation ring from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2024
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Applicant: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Singh, Yves Stephane Crozet, Vinzenz Andreas Burgherr, Mark Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20240298125
    Abstract: A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second side of the receiver housing, wherein the pass-through passage is partially defined by the wall defining a receiver opening. The hearing aid assembly also includes an earbud configured to fit over at least a portion of the receiver housing and partially cover the open side of the receiver channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: Sidney A. Higgins, Brian Thomas Dahl
  • Patent number: 12035944
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are external fixation frames for correcting bone deformities. The external fixation frames include a top fixation ring and a bottom fixation ring coupled to one another by at least two struts. A half ring is coupled to bottom fixation ring. The bottom fixation ring is u-shaped. One or more rocker members may be coupled to the bottom fixation ring. The half ring may be hingedly coupled to the bottom fixation ring such that it can rotate with respect to the bottom fixation ring from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: STRYKER EUROPEAN OPERATIONS HOLDINGS LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Singh, Yves Stephane Crozet, Vinzenz Andreas Burgherr, Mark Thomas Dahl
  • Patent number: 11930327
    Abstract: A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second side of the receiver housing, wherein the pass-through passage is partially defined by the wall defining a receiver opening. The hearing aid assembly also includes an earbud configured to fit over at least a portion of the receiver housing and partially cover the open side of the receiver channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney A. Higgins, Brian Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20240035367
    Abstract: Methods and systems for predicting downhole measurement data at the earth surface include predicting a first estimate value of a property of interest using a first processor in a downhole tool using a first predictor and predicting a second estimate value of the property of interest using a second processor of a surface unit and using a second predictor, the second predictor including identical data processing as the first predictor. A measurement value of the property of interest is obtained using a sensor arranged in the downhole tool. The first processor compares the measurement value with the first estimate value and determines if the measurement value is within a predetermined threshold relative to the first estimate value. In response to the measurement value being within the predetermined threshold of the first estimate value, a wellbore operation based on the second estimate value is performed using the second processor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Dmitriy Dashevskiy, Thomas Dahl, Christian Hansen
  • Patent number: 11785403
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a test shell for assessing fit in an ear of a user of an ear-wearable device, such as a hearing aid. The test shell includes a body having an aperture end and an ear canal end, the aperture end defines a first aperture, and the body defines a shell cavity extending away from the first aperture in a direction of the ear canal end. The body includes a transparent or translucent material and is sized to fit within an ear of the user of an ear-wearable device. Other embodiments are also included herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Dahl, Julian Taylor Struksheats, Westley Gordon Gentry
  • Patent number: 11752923
    Abstract: A two line spring reel unit, including a housing defining a first opening and a second opening; a first anchor and a second anchor, inside and fixed to the housing; a first spiral spring having an inner end held by the first anchor and a second spiral spring having an interior end held by the second anchor; a first spool, fixed to rotate about a first pin, and a second spool set to rotate about a second pin and wherein the first spiral spring has an outer end attached to the first spool and the second spiral spring has an outer end attached to the second spool; and a first tension member, wrapped about the first spool and extending out of the first opening and a second tension member wrapped about the second spool and extending out of the second opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Inventor: Michael Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20230254653
    Abstract: A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second side of the receiver housing, wherein the pass-through passage is partially defined by the wall defining a receiver opening. The hearing aid assembly also includes an earbud configured to fit over at least a portion of the receiver housing and partially cover the open side of the receiver channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 26, 2023
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Sidney A. Higgins, Brian Thomas Dahl
  • Patent number: 11595769
    Abstract: A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second side of the receiver housing, wherein the pass-through passage is partially defined by the wall defining a receiver opening. The hearing aid assembly also includes an earbud configured to fit over at least a portion of the receiver housing and partially cover the open side of the receiver channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Sidney A. Higgins, Brian Thomas Dahl
  • Patent number: 11352883
    Abstract: Examples of techniques for performing a wellbore construction operation in a wellbore are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computer-implemented method includes: performing a rheology test on a test fluid, the test fluid being representative of a fluid pumped through the wellbore, to generate test fluid data; performing, by the processing device, a data analysis on the test fluid data to generate at least one parameterized correlation; measuring a first property of the fluid to generate measured data; calculating, by the processing device, a second property of the fluid in the wellbore by using the parameterized correlations and the measured data to generate calculated data; and changing a parameter of the wellbore construction operation based at least in part on the calculated data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: BAKER HUGHES, A GE COMPANY, LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Dahl, Roland May, Reza Ettehadi Osgouei, Rosa Swartwout, Dennis Clapper
  • Publication number: 20220089080
    Abstract: A two line spring reel unit, including a housing defining a first opening and a second opening; a first anchor and a second anchor, inside and fixed to the housing; a first spiral spring having an inner end held by the first anchor and a second spiral spring having an interior end held by the second anchor; a first spool, fixed to rotate about a first pin, and a second spool set to rotate about a second pin and wherein the first spiral spring has an outer end attached to the first spool and the second spiral spring has an outer end attached to the second spool; and a first tension member, wrapped about the first spool and extending out of the first opening and a second tension member wrapped about the second spool and extending out of the second opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventor: Michael Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20220082008
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for performing an operation in a wellbore penetrating the earth's formation. The apparatus includes a string and a first processor. The string is disposed in the wellbore. The first processor a first processor determines, by using a first friction test at a first friction test time, a first friction parameter between a first selected subregion and the wellbore and a second friction parameter between a second selected subregion and the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Joern Koeneke, Matthew Forshaw, Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20220070596
    Abstract: Embodiments herein relate to a test shell for assessing fit in an ear of a user of an ear-wearable device, such as a hearing aid. The test shell includes a body having an aperture end and an ear canal end, the aperture end defines a first aperture, and the body defines a shell cavity extending away from the first aperture in a direction of the ear canal end. The body includes a transparent or translucent material and is sized to fit within an ear of the user of an ear-wearable device. Other embodiments are also included herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Brian Thomas Dahl, Julian Taylor Struksheats, Westley Gordon Gentry
  • Publication number: 20210401465
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are external fixation frames for correcting bone deformities. The external fixation frames include a top fixation ring and a bottom fixation ring coupled to one another by at least two struts. A half ring is coupled to bottom fixation ring. The bottom fixation ring is u-shaped. One or more rocker members may be coupled to the bottom fixation ring. The half ring may be hingedly coupled to the bottom fixation ring such that it can rotate with respect to the bottom fixation ring from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Singh, Yves Stephane Crozet, Vinzenz Andreas Burgherr, Mark Thomas Dahl
  • Patent number: 11141196
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are external fixation frames for correcting bone deformities. The external fixation frames include a top fixation ring and a bottom fixation ring coupled to one another by at least two struts. A half ring is coupled to bottom fixation ring. The bottom fixation ring is u-shaped. One or more rocker members may be coupled to the bottom fixation ring. The half ring may be hingedly coupled to the bottom fixation ring such that it can rotate with respect to the bottom fixation ring from a first position to a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Stryker European Operations Holdings LLC
    Inventors: Manoj Kumar Singh, Yves Stephane Crozet, Vinzenz Andreas Burgherr, Mark Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20210245216
    Abstract: Separating flexibly rolled strip material can include a buffer device for temporarily storing the flexibly rolled strip material; a first feed device behind the buffer device; at least one length measuring device for continuously measuring a length of the strip material; a thickness measuring device for continuously measuring a thickness of the strip material along the length; a second feed device behind the first feed device; a separating device behind the second feed device; the first and second feed devices being configured to move the strip material from the buffer device to the separating device depending on the thickness measurement and the length measurement; the thickness measuring device being arranged between the buffer device and the first feed device; and the length measuring device being arranged behind the first feed device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Joachim Ivo, Thomas Dahl, Andreas Barchet, Christian Brüser, Alexander Eick
  • Publication number: 20210243540
    Abstract: A hearing aid assembly includes a receiver speaker enclosed within a receiver housing. The receiver housing defines a circuitous receiver acoustic channel, wherein the receiver channel defines an open side along at least a portion of the receiver channel. The receiver channel also defines a pass-through passage extending from a first side of the receiver housing to a second side of the receiver housing, wherein the pass-through passage is partially defined by the wall defining a receiver opening. The hearing aid assembly also includes an earbud configured to fit over at least a portion of the receiver housing and partially cover the open side of the receiver channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Sidney A. Higgins, Brian Thomas Dahl
  • Publication number: 20210205872
    Abstract: Producing a product from flexibly rolled metallic strip material comprises feeding a flexibly rolled strip material; determining a measured thickness profile of the strip material over the length of the strip material and calculating a desired cutting position for a blank to be produced from the strip material; separating a blank from the strip material in the desired cutting position; rotating the blank depending on the determined measured thickness profile such that the blank is aligned with its thickness profile in a defined processing position which differs from the desired cutting position; processing the blank in the processing position by a processing unit, wherein the blank is processed to form a product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Publication date: July 8, 2021
    Inventors: Joachim Ivo, Thomas Dahl, Andreas Barchet, Christian Brüser, Alexander Eick
  • Publication number: 20210140299
    Abstract: A drilling system and method of obtaining a flow pattern in a wellbore. The drilling system includes a device for adjusting an operational parameter of the drilling system, and a processor. The processor trains a machine learning program to identify a flow boundary in parameter space between a first flow pattern region related to a first flow pattern for a multiphase flow and a second flow pattern region related to a second flow pattern for the multiphase flow. The processor identifies the flow boundary for a flow of the multiphase flow in the wellbore and adjusts an operating parameter of the drilling system in the wellbore based on the identified flow boundary to operate the drilling system in one of the first flow pattern region and the second flow pattern region to obtain one of the first flow pattern and the second flow pattern in the wellbore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Dahl, Reza Ettehadi Osgouei, Roland May, Roger Aragall, Charles Anthony Thompson