Patents by Inventor Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes 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: 12359500
    Abstract: A replacement link for a rolling grill enclosure having a longitudinal body disposed about a longitudinal axis, and a first end grommet contiguous with a first end of the longitudinal body, the first end grommet having a discontinuous first grommet body disposed about a first center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: CORNELLCOOKSON, LLC
    Inventors: Brian Fernando, Michael Richard Wheat, Richard Ryan Carroll, Thomas Hugh Moyer
  • Patent number: 12185977
    Abstract: A device includes an access cannula, a puncturing element, a handle. The access cannula includes a lumen extending therethrough. The access cannula is sized and shaped to extend through an endoscopic shaft to a target tissue within a living body. The puncturing element is sized and shaped to extend through the lumen of the access cannula and distally out a distal end of the access cannula. The handle includes a handle body and a mechanism for advancing the access cannula from a proximal position relative to the puncturing element, where a puncturing tip of the puncturing element is exposed distal to a distal end of the access cannula, to a distal position relative to the puncturing element, where the distal end of the access cannula covers the puncturing tip of the puncturing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Ramin N. Tehrani, Christopher A. Benning, Gregory Thomas Hughes
  • Patent number: 12179166
    Abstract: A media tank includes a housing having a first housing portion coupled to a second housing portion at an interface between the first and second housing portions, the first and second housing portions collectively defining an interior volume of the housing, and a divider positioned within the interior volume of the housing at the interface between the first and second housing portions to separate the interior volume into a first chamber at least partially defined by the first housing portion and the divider and a second chamber at least partially defined by the second housing portion and the divider. The first housing portion is coupled to the second housing portion via a friction weld at the interface. An annular gap is provided between the divider and the first housing portion. Flash from the friction weld is received within the annular gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: A. O. SMITH CORPORATION
    Inventors: Philip David Dailey, Christopher Thomas Hughes
  • Publication number: 20240249166
    Abstract: A system for identifying a corrosion risk during the design of a mechanical assembly, the system comprising: a design data unit for storing design data representing the mechanical assembly; a corrosion data unit for storing corrosion data; and a processor configured to: obtain design data from the design data unit; obtain, from the corrosion data unit, corrosion data relevant to the obtained design data; make a comparison of the obtained design data with the obtained corrosion data to identify a corrosion risk associated with the design; and provide, based on said comparison, an indication of the corrosion risk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Inventors: Nicholas Ekow Austin, David Cebon, Thomas James Alexander Prankerd Smith, Thomas Hugh Riddell Smith
  • Publication number: 20240116355
    Abstract: A vehicle (8) comprising a vehicle body (81), a ground-engaging wheel (7), a suspension arm (1) by means of which the wheel (7) is mounted on the vehicle body (81), an electric motor/generator (2) with a mechanical driveline by means of which the motor/generator (2) is connected to the wheel (7) such that rotation of the wheel (7) about a wheel axis (B) may be driven by the motor (2) or rotation of the wheel may drive the generator (2), wherein the motor/generator (2) is mounted on the suspension arm (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Applicant: FR8 Technology Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Hughes, Aniruddha Shrikant Kabra
  • Patent number: 11871962
    Abstract: A device includes an access cannula, a puncturing element, a handle. The access cannula includes a lumen extending therethrough. The access cannula is sized and shaped to extend through an endoscopic shaft to a target tissue within a living body. The puncturing element is sized and shaped to extend through the lumen of the access cannula and distally out a distal end of the access cannula. The handle includes a handle body and a mechanism for advancing the access cannula from a proximal position relative to the puncturing element, where a puncturing tip of the puncturing element is exposed distal to a distal end of the access cannula, to a distal position relative to the puncturing element, where the distal end of the access cannula covers the puncturing tip of the puncturing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Ramin N. Tehrani, Christopher A. Benning, Gregory Thomas Hughes
  • Patent number: 11751751
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a device may include a shaft having a distal end, and a tip at the distal end of the shaft. The tip may include an opening defined by a surface of the tip. An instrument inserted through the shaft may extend distally out of the opening. The device also may include an elevator for engaging the instrument. The elevator may include a proximal end fixed relative to the surface of the tip, a proximal portion extending distally from the proximal end, and a distal portion extending distally from the proximal portion. A force exerted on the elevator bends the proximal portion to deflect the distal portion without bending of the distal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Calabrese, Mark D. Wood, Gregory Thomas Hughes, Brian Gaffney
  • Patent number: 11737492
    Abstract: A chewing tobacco preserving assembly for preserving freshness of chewing tobacco includes a tobacco can which contains chewing tobacco. A canister is provided for insertably receiving the tobacco can. The canister is thermally insulated thereby inhibiting the tobacco can from being in thermal communication with ambient air for preserving freshness of the chewing tobacco. A lid is removably attachable to the canister for enclosing the tobacco can in the canister.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventors: Brian Coates, Thomas Hughes
  • Patent number: 11743048
    Abstract: Methods and apparatuses are described herein for improved communications between a service and end devices via a gateway. A token may be in a signed encrypted state when sent to untrusted devices and may be signed, but not encrypted, when used by trusted devices. Untrusted devices may receive the encrypted token and may use it to access services. An untrusted device may send the received encrypted token to the gateway, which may then send the token to its issuer so that the token issuer may decrypt the data payload. The token may then be sent back to the gateway, which may then read the decrypted data and verify whether the untrusted device is permitted to access the requested service. The gateway may then send, within the trusted domain, the request and token to the service provider so that the untrusted device can obtain access to the requested service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Asad Haque, Ahmad Al Tamimi, Liesheng Long, Thomas Hughes, III
  • Publication number: 20230127000
    Abstract: A media tank includes a housing having a first housing portion coupled to a second housing portion at an interface between the first and second housing portions, the first and second housing portions collectively defining an interior volume of the housing, and a divider positioned within the interior volume of the housing at the interface between the first and second housing portions to separate the interior volume into a first chamber at least partially defined by the first housing portion and the divider and a second chamber at least partially defined by the second housing portion and the divider. The first housing portion is coupled to the second housing portion via a friction weld at the interface. An annular gap is provided between the divider and the first housing portion. Flash from the friction weld is received within the annular gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Philip David Dailey, Christopher Thomas Hughes
  • Patent number: 11631457
    Abstract: A method and system for improved foggy-fine programming includes data that can be written to SLC memory. Then, the data can be decoded and then both foggy and finely written to MLC. After the decoding, the data can be stored in DRAM located in a front end or in a SRAM located in a flash manager prior to being written to MLC. After storing in either the DRAM or SRAM, the data is then decoded and written to MLC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan D. Bennett, Thomas Hugh Shippey, Ryan R. Jones
  • Patent number: 11368513
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a middleware application for user-interface-driven applications include receiving, at the middleware application, queries from different dynamic user interface modules associated with respective front-end applications. The front-end applications are authenticated using authentication data included in the query and verification data external to the middleware application. In response to each query, the middleware application receives data from different external data sources, each being a separate instance of the same back-end service. The data is used to generate objects declaring instances of user interface elements, which are sent by the middleware application to the requesting dynamic user interface module for rendering at the associated front-end application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Modo Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hughes Speller, III, Brian Lawrence Patt, Evan Arthur McCullough, Ryan Zhao Chan
  • Patent number: 11330965
    Abstract: In one aspect of the present disclosure, a device may include a shaft having a distal end, and a tip at the distal end of the shaft. The tip may include an opening defined by a surface of the tip. An instrument inserted through the shaft may extend distally out of the opening. The device also may include an elevator for engaging the instrument. The elevator may include a proximal end fixed relative to the surface of the tip, a proximal portion extending distally from the proximal end, and a distal portion extending distally from the proximal portion. A force exerted on the elevator bends the proximal portion to deflect the distal portion without bending of the distal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew Calabrese, Mark D. Wood, Gregory Thomas Hughes, Brian Gaffney
  • Publication number: 20220108745
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to improved foggy-fine programming. The data can be written to SLC memory. Then, the data can be decoded and then both foggy and finely written to MLC. After the decoding, the data can be stored in DRAM located in a front end or in a SRAM located in a flash manager prior to being written to MLC. After storing in either the DRAM or SRAM, the data is then decoded and written to MLC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Western Digital Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan D. Bennett, Thomas Hugh Shippey, Ryan R. Jones
  • Patent number: 11288201
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a non-volatile memory and a controller coupled to the non-volatile memory. The controller includes an interface configured to send first data to be stored to the non-volatile memory. The controller further includes a control circuit configured to generate updated control information based on storing of the first data to the non-volatile memory. The interface is further configured to concurrently send second data and the updated control information to be stored at the non-volatile memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Karin Inbar, Einat Lev, Roi Kirshenbaum, Ofer Sharon, Uri Peltz, Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan David Bennett, Thomas Hugh Shippey
  • Patent number: 11278875
    Abstract: A metal-containing chabazite zeolite, which has an FTIR peak area ratio between the peak at 900-1300 cm?1 (Si—O—Si asymmetric stretch) and the peak at 765-845 cm?1 (˜805 cm?1 is Si—O—Si symmetric stretch) of at least 55. A method for preparing metal-containing CHA zeolites with high SCR activity at low reaction temperatures from alkali cation-free reaction mixtures that contain the three OSDA structures: metal-polyamine, N,N,N-trimethyl-1-adamantyl ammonium (TMAda+) and TMAOH. The metal-containing CHA zeolites produced by the disclosed method can be identified by XRD, FTIR spectroscopy, FT-VIS spectroscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. A method of selective catalytic reduction of NOx in exhaust gas using the material described herein is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Ecovyst, Inc
    Inventors: Lifeng Wang, Bjorn Moden, James Thomas Hughes, Hong-Xin Li
  • Publication number: 20220074263
    Abstract: A replacement link for a rolling grill enclosure having a longitudinal body disposed about a longitudinal axis, and a first end grommet contiguous with a first end of the longitudinal body, the first end grommet having a discontinuous first grommet body disposed about a first center.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: CORNELLCOOKSON, LLC
    Inventors: Brian FERNANDO, Michael Richard WHEAT, Richard Ryan CARROLL, Thomas Hugh MOYER
  • Patent number: 11211119
    Abstract: Data can be written to SLC memory. Then, the data can be decoded and then both foggy and finely written to MLC. After the decoding, the data can be stored in DRAM located in a front end or in a SRAM located in a flash manager prior to being written to MLC. After storing in either the DRAM or SRAM, the data is then decoded and written to MLC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: WESTERN DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich Gorobets, Alan D. Bennett, Thomas Hugh Shippey, Ryan R. Jones
  • Publication number: 20210391002
    Abstract: Data can be written to SLC memory. Then, the data can be decoded and then both foggy and finely written to MLC. After the decoding, the data can be stored in DRAM located in a front end or in a SRAM located in a flash manager prior to being written to MLC. After storing in either the DRAM or SRAM, the data is then decoded and written to MLC.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2020
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Sergey Anatolievich GOROBETS, Alan D. BENNETT, Thomas Hugh SHIPPEY, Ryan R. JONES
  • Patent number: 11153363
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a middleware application for user-interface-driven applications include receiving, at the middleware application, queries from different dynamic user interface modules associated with respective front-end applications. The front-end applications are authenticated using authentication data included in the query and verification data external to the middleware application. In response to each query, the middleware application receives data from different external data sources, each being a separate instance of the same back-end service. The data is used to generate objects declaring instances of user interface elements, which are sent by the middleware application to the requesting dynamic user interface module for rendering at the associated front-end application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Modo Labs, Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Hughes Speller, III, Brian Lawrence Patt, Evan Arthur McCullough, Ryan Zhao Chan