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).
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Patent number: 11964422Abstract: Described herein are various embodiments of a valve that may be opened and closed using a thixotropic or “stress yield” material, or other material that temporarily changes phase upon application of energy to the material. More particularly, some embodiments may include a valve that is opened and closed using a granular gel that is a temporary phase change material.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Joshua Muse, Meghan Hughes, Carl David Crane, Thomas Ettor Angelini, Kyle D. Schulze, Tapomoy Bhattacharjee, Wallace Gregory Sawyer, Curtis Taylor
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Publication number: 20240116355Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2021Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: FR8 Technology LimitedInventors: Thomas Hughes, Aniruddha Shrikant Kabra
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Patent number: 11953218Abstract: Architectures or techniques are presented that can prioritize operating a consumption device in a manner that is efficient in terms of consumption of a resource over satisfying a specified demand assigned to the consumption device. This re-prioritizing can be performed in response to a price of the resource exceeding a threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2022Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: Trane International Inc.Inventors: John Hughes, Thomas B. Krugler, Youssef A. Jaber, Steven Brooks
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Patent number: 11948448Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for automatically disarming a security system. For example, a method for automatically disarming a security system is described, comprising determining, by a personal communication device, when a person is in proximity to the person's home or business and, in response to determining that the person is in proximity to the person's home or business, transmitting a disarm command by the personal communication device to a security controller for the security controller to disarm the security system.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: ECOLINK INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Kenneth Sweeney, Thomas Thibault, Thomas Henley, Louis Hughes
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Publication number: 20240090920Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Ramin N. TEHRANI, Christopher A. BENNING, Gregory Thomas HUGHES
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Publication number: 20240022413Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2023Publication date: January 18, 2024Inventors: Asad HAQUE, Ahmad AL TAMIMI, Liesheng LONG, Thomas HUGHES, III
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Patent number: 11871962Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 18, 2021Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Ramin N. Tehrani, Christopher A. Benning, Gregory Thomas Hughes
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Publication number: 20230371790Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: August 3, 2023Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Andrew CALABRESE, Mark D. WOOD, Gregory Thomas HUGHES, Brian GAFFNEY
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Patent number: 11751751Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: April 19, 2022Date of Patent: September 12, 2023Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Andrew Calabrese, Mark D. Wood, Gregory Thomas Hughes, Brian Gaffney
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Patent number: 11737492Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: May 13, 2022Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Inventors: Brian Coates, Thomas Hughes
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Patent number: 11743048Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: September 13, 2021Date of Patent: August 29, 2023Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Asad Haque, Ahmad Al Tamimi, Liesheng Long, Thomas Hughes, III
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Publication number: 20230127000Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2022Publication date: April 27, 2023Inventors: Philip David Dailey, Christopher Thomas Hughes
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Publication number: 20220233059Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Andrew CALABRESE, Mark D. WOOD, Gregory Thomas HUGHES, Brian GAFFNEY
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Patent number: 11368513Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 27, 2021Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: Modo Labs, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Hughes Speller, III, Brian Lawrence Patt, Evan Arthur McCullough, Ryan Zhao Chan
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Patent number: 11330965Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: March 1, 2018Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Andrew Calabrese, Mark D. Wood, Gregory Thomas Hughes, Brian Gaffney
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Patent number: 11278875Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: December 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 22, 2022Assignee: Ecovyst, IncInventors: Lifeng Wang, Bjorn Moden, James Thomas Hughes, Hong-Xin Li
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Publication number: 20220078016Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Asad HAQUE, Ahmad AL TAMIMI, Liesheng LONG, Thomas HUGHES, III
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Patent number: 11153363Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: February 26, 2021Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: Modo Labs, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Hughes Speller, III, Brian Lawrence Patt, Evan Arthur McCullough, Ryan Zhao Chan
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Patent number: 11146398Abstract: 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: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 12, 2021Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLCInventors: Asad Haque, Ahmad Al Tamimi, Liesheng Long, Thomas Hughes, III
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Publication number: 20210282807Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Inventors: Ramin N. TEHRANI, Christopher A. BENNING, Gregory Thomas HUGHES