Patents by Inventor Timothy Higgins
Timothy Higgins 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: 20250110111Abstract: A disposable system, in some embodiments, includes a multi-channel or multi-chamber test cartridge device configured to operate with a testing system for evaluation of hemostasis in a subject by in vitro evaluation of a test sample from the subject. The disposable system, in some embodiments, is configured to interrogate the test sample to evaluate clot stiffness, strength, or other mechanical properties of the test sample to assess the function of various physiological processes occur during coagulation and/or dissolution of the resulting clot.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2024Publication date: April 3, 2025Inventors: Francesco Viola, Timothy Higgins, Andrew Homyk, F. Scott Corey, IV, Franklin F. Regan, IV, William F. Walker, David Bryant, Thomas Givens, Cynthia Ann Lloyd
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Publication number: 20250051098Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2024Publication date: February 13, 2025Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: 12151890Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2023Date of Patent: November 26, 2024Assignee: Ocado Innovation LimitedInventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: 12117436Abstract: A disposable system, in some embodiments, includes a multi-channel or multi-chamber test cartridge device configured to operate with a testing system for evaluation of hemostasis in a subject by in vitro evaluation of a test sample from the subject. The disposable system, in some embodiments, is configured to interrogate the test sample to evaluate clot stiffness, strength, or other mechanical properties of the test sample to assess the function of various physiological processes occur during coagulation and/or dissolution of the resulting clot.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: HEMOSONICS, LLCInventors: Francesco Viola, Timothy Higgins, Andrew Homyk, F. Scott Corey, Franklin F. Regan, IV, William F. Walker, David Bryant, Thomas Givens, Cynthia Ann Lloyd
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Patent number: 12108318Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for transferring information from at least one instrument to an application, including: establishing a central protocol structure, wherein the central protocol structure defines a format for information transmitted utilizing the central protocol structure; transmitting over a short-range wireless communication channel information from the at least one device to the application, wherein the information is formatted in a broadcast packet in view of the central protocol structure; receiving, at the application, information from the at least one device; and performing, within the application, an action with respect to the information within the application, wherein the performing comprises deciphering the information contained in view of the central protocol structure.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 1, 2024Assignee: HACH COMPANYInventors: Brian Alan Harmon, Gregory James Lipinski, Joseph Rockstan Williams, Theophilus Brian Mooney, Timothy A. Higgins, Dan Jonathan Kroll, Vishnu Rajasekharan, Corey Alan Salzer
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Publication number: 20230271784Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: 11685602Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Publication number: 20230122443Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for transferring information from at least one instrument to an application, including: establishing a central protocol structure, wherein the central protocol structure defines a format for information transmitted utilizing the central protocol structure; transmitting over a short-range wireless communication channel information from the at least one device to the application, wherein the information is formatted in a broadcast packet in view of the central protocol structure; receiving, at the application, information from the at least one device; and performing, within the application, an action with respect to the information within the application, wherein the performing comprises deciphering the information contained in view of the central protocol structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2022Publication date: April 20, 2023Applicant: HACH COMPANYInventors: Brian Alan HARMON, Gregory James LIPINSKI, Joseph Rockstan WILLIAMS, Theophilus Brian MOONEY, Timothy A. HIGGINS, Dan Jonathan KROLL, Vishnu RAJASEKHARAN, Corey Alan SALZER
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Patent number: 11595798Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for transferring information from at least one instrument to an application, including: establishing a central protocol structure, wherein the central protocol structure defines a format for information transmitted utilizing the central protocol structure; transmitting over a short-range wireless communication channel information from the at least one device to the application, wherein the information is formatted in a broadcast packet in view of the central protocol structure; receiving, at the application, information from the at least one device; and performing, within the application, an action with respect to the information within the application, wherein the performing comprises deciphering the information contained in view of the central protocol structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: HACH COMPANYInventors: Brian Alan Harmon, Gregory James Lipinski, Joseph Rockstan Williams, Theophilus Brian Mooney, Timothy A. Higgins, Dan Jonathan Kroll, Vishnu Rajasekharan, Corey Alan Salzer
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Publication number: 20230020682Abstract: A disposable system, in some embodiments, includes a multi-channel or multi-chamber test cartridge device configured to operate with a testing system for evaluation of hemostasis in a subject by in vitro evaluation of a test sample from the subject. The disposable system, in some embodiments, is configured to interrogate the test sample to evaluate clot stiffness, strength, or other mechanical properties of the test sample to assess the function of various physiological processes occur during coagulation and/or dissolution of the resulting clot.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2022Publication date: January 19, 2023Inventors: Francesco Viola, Timothy Higgins, Andrew Homyk, F. Scott Corey, Franklin F. Regan, IV, William F. Walker, David Bryant, Thomas Givens, Cynthia Ann Lloyd
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Patent number: 11366093Abstract: A disposable system, in some embodiments, includes a multi-channel or multi-chamber test cartridge device configured to operate with a testing system for evaluation of hemostasis in a subject by in vitro evaluation of a test sample from the subject. The disposable system, in some embodiments, is configured to interrogate the test sample to evaluate clot stiffness, strength, or other mechanical properties of the test sample to assess the function of various physiological processes occur during coagulation and/or dissolution of the resulting clot.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: June 21, 2022Assignee: HEMOSONICS, LLCInventors: Francesco Viola, Timothy Higgins, Andrew Homyk, F. Scott Corey, Franklin F. Regan, William F. Walker, David Bryant, Thomas Givens, Cynthia Ann Lloyd
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Publication number: 20210136540Abstract: An embodiment provides a method for transferring information from at least one instrument to an application, including: establishing a central protocol structure, wherein the central protocol structure defines a format for information transmitted utilizing the central protocol structure; transmitting over a short-range wireless communication channel information from the at least one device to the application, wherein the information is formatted in a broadcast packet in view of the central protocol structure; receiving, at the application, information from the at least one device; and performing, within the application, an action with respect to the information within the application, wherein the performing comprises deciphering the information contained in view of the central protocol structure.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2020Publication date: May 6, 2021Inventors: Brian Alan Harmon, Gregory James Lipinski, Joseph Rockstan Williams, Theophilus Brian Mooney, Timothy A. Higgins, Dan Jonathan Kroll, Vishnu Rajasekharan, Corey Alan Salzer
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Publication number: 20200407164Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 16, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: 10807800Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: April 8, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: 6 River Systems, LLCInventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Publication number: 20190256290Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2019Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: 10294028Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: May 21, 2019Assignee: 6 River Systems, Inc.Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: 10239694Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2018Date of Patent: March 26, 2019Assignee: 6 River Systems, Inc.Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins, Josh Chaitin-Pollak
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Publication number: 20190077601Abstract: A warehouse automation system adapted to improve warehouse operating productivity includes a plurality of carts for transporting products within a warehouse and a controller. The controller is adapted to associate a first one of the plurality of carts with a first person and to control the first cart to lead the first person around the warehouse. According to one advantage, the time the first person spends restocking, picking, counting, sorting, moving, and packing product into customer orders and shipments, for example, is reduced.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2018Publication date: March 14, 2019Inventors: Rylan Hamilton, Jerome Dubois, Christopher Cacioppo, Timothy Higgins
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Patent number: D839447Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: HemoSonics LLCInventors: Francesco Viola, Timothy Higgins, Andrew Homyk, F. Scott Corey, Franklin Francis Regan, IV, William F. Walker, David Bryant, Thomas Givens
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Patent number: D841184Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: HemoSonics LLCInventors: Francesco Viola, Timothy Higgins, Andrew Homyk, F. Scott Corey, Franklin F. Regan, IV, William F. Walker, David Bryant, Thomas Givens