Patents by Inventor Todd Barrett
Todd Barrett 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: 9696161Abstract: A celestial compass kit. The kit includes an inclinometer, a camera system with a special telecentric fisheye lens for imaging at least one celestial object and a processor programmed with a celestial catalog providing known positions at specific times of at least one celestial object and algorithms for automatically calculating target direction information based on the inclination of the system as measured by the inclinometer and the known positions of at least one celestial object as provided by the celestial catalog and as imaged by the camera. The telecentric fisheye lens produces an image on the sensor located at or near the focal plane which remains spatially constant within sub-micron accuracies despite thermally produced changes in the focus of the lens.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2011Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Trex Enterprises CorporationInventors: Mikhail Belenkii, Todd Barrett, Timothy Brinkley
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Patent number: 9687403Abstract: An electromechanical latch and ejector to selectively unlatch and eject an object.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Advantage Pharmacy Services LLCInventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Patent number: 9626483Abstract: A method of administering medication. Medication is stored in a plurality of drawers wherein each of the plurality of drawers includes a drawer electrical connector, a medication conveyor, and a non-volatile read/write memory to store data about the drawer. A drawer of the plurality of drawers is inserted into a receptacle of a housing, wherein the receptacle is one of a plurality of receptacles, and the housing also includes a plurality of housing electrical connectors corresponding to the plurality of receptacles, wherein one of the housing electrical connectors is coupled to the electrical connector of the drawer when the drawer is inserted in the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2013Date of Patent: April 18, 2017Assignee: Advantage Pharmacy Services LLCInventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Publication number: 20150367970Abstract: A pill packaging machine and a method of packaging pills. The method includes supplying first and second sheets of flaccid packaging material, rolling the first and second sheets into spaced apart opposed relation and into contact with one another, guiding pills along a guide path toward an ejection path having an ejection outlet that is spaced apart from a line of contact between the first and second sheets, spinning a resiliently deformable ejection roller into frictional contact with the pills to eject the pills through the ejection path out of the ejection outlet to a location between the first and second sheets, and further rolling the first and second sheets to enclose the pills therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2014Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville, Mark Kucera
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Publication number: 20150250312Abstract: A pivotable spring-loadable product, and a latch and ejector assembly, which may include the product, to selectively unlatch and eject an object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 20, 2015Publication date: September 10, 2015Inventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Publication number: 20150148946Abstract: An electromechanical latch and ejector to selectively unlatch and eject an object.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2015Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Publication number: 20150108771Abstract: A solenoid-driven latch and ejector device to latch and selectively unlatch and eject an object. An electromechanical solenoid produces linear motion, and a latch and ejector arm is operatively coupled to the solenoid for pivotal movement about a pivot axis of the arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2014Publication date: April 23, 2015Inventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Patent number: 8983653Abstract: An electromechanical latch and ejector to selectively unlatch and eject an object.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2015Assignee: Advantage Pharmacy Services LLCInventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Patent number: 8731958Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses to facilitate administering of medication.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2009Date of Patent: May 20, 2014Assignee: Advantage Pharmacy Services LLCInventors: John Todd Barrett, Fredrick Patrick Schoville, Spencer K Barrett
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Publication number: 20130331983Abstract: A method of administering medication. Medication is stored in a plurality of drawers wherein each of the plurality of drawers includes a drawer electrical connector, a medication conveyor, and a non-volatile read/write memory to store data about the drawer. A drawer of the plurality of drawers is inserted into a receptacle of a housing, wherein the receptacle is one of a plurality of receptacles, and the housing also includes a plurality of housing electrical connectors corresponding to the plurality of receptacles, wherein one of the housing electrical connectors is coupled to the electrical connector of the drawer when the drawer is inserted in the receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2013Publication date: December 12, 2013Inventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Patent number: 8401385Abstract: A large communication network suitable for nationwide or worldwide utilization. The present invention overthrows the conventional packet switching technologies with an all-optical network. The invention uses tunable laser sources to generate large number of highly stable narrow-band optical signals, each serving as a communication channel. With packet processing replaced by all-optical channels, the network become highly secure and scalable while harnessing the virtually unlimited capacity of fiber-optic. A large number of nodes (called area code nodes) are connected with all-fiber-optic links with all-optical switches. A routing algorithm provides one or more communication links from each area code node to every other area code node so that information never has to change carrier wavelength as it travels the network. Each area code node contains circuits that are provided to connect individual users to the network.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2009Date of Patent: March 19, 2013Assignee: Trex Enterprises Corp.Inventors: Brett Spivey, Eric Korevaar, Hus Tigli, Todd Barrett
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Publication number: 20130018505Abstract: An electromechanical latch and ejector to selectively unlatch and eject an object.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2012Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: Advantage Pharmacy Services LLCInventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville
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Publication number: 20120259458Abstract: Apparatuses to facilitate administering of medication. Cassettes of the apparatuses include several novel aspects.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2012Publication date: October 11, 2012Applicant: ADVANTAGE PHARMACY SERVICES LLCInventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville, Spencer K. Barrett
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Publication number: 20120237217Abstract: A large communication network suitable for nationwide or worldwide utilization. The present invention overthrows the conventional packet switching technologies with an all-optical network. The invention uses tunable laser sources to generate large number of highly stable narrow-band optical signals, each serving as a communication channel. With packet processing replaced by all-optical channels, the network become highly secure and scalable while harnessing the virtually unlimited capacity of fiber-optic. A large number of nodes (called area code nodes) are connected with all-fiber-optic links with all-optical switches. A routing algorithm provides one or more communication links from each area code node to every other area code node so that information never has to change carrier wavelength as it travels the network. Each area code node contains circuits that are provided to connect individual users to the network.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2009Publication date: September 20, 2012Inventors: Brett Spivey, Eric Korevaar, Hus Tigli, Todd Barrett
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Publication number: 20120173143Abstract: A celestial compass kit. The kit includes an inclinometer, a camera system with a special telecentric fisheye lens for imaging at least one celestial object and a processor programmed with a celestial catalog providing known positions at specific times of at least one celestial object and algorithms for automatically calculating target direction information based on the inclination of the system as measured by the inclinometer and the known positions of at least one celestial object as provided by the celestial catalog and as imaged by the camera. The telecentric fisheye lens produces an image on the sensor located at or near the focal plane which remains spatially constant within sub-micron accuracies despite thermally produced changes in the focus of the lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2011Publication date: July 5, 2012Inventors: Mikhail Belenkii, Todd Barrett, Timothy Brinkley
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Publication number: 20110169953Abstract: A system and process for converting a series of short-exposure, small-FOV zoom images to pristine, high-resolution images, of a face, license plate, or other targets of interest, within a fraction of a second. The invention takes advantage or the fact that some regions in a telescope field of view can be super-resolved; that is, features will appear in random regions which have resolution better than the diffraction limit of the telescope. This effect arises because the turbulent layer in the near-field of the object can act as a lens, focusing rays ordinarily outside the diffraction-limited cone into the distorted image. The physical effect often appears as magnified sub-regions of the image, as if one had held up a magnifying glass to a portion of the image. Applicants have experimentally shown these effects on short-range anisoplanatic imagery, along a horizontal path over the desert. In addition, they have developed powerful parallel processing software to overcome the warping and produce sharp images.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 14, 2010Publication date: July 14, 2011Inventors: David Sandler, Mikhail Belenkii, Todd Barrett
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Publication number: 20110097083Abstract: A new networking architecture for data centers, storage networks, and parallel computer centers. This invention eliminates the need for the large complicated core. In essence we replace the large complicated M×M switches at the core of the data center network with simple 1×N (where N is the total number of servers in the data center) switch at every server. Physically, we take advantage of the fact that a single optical fiber can carry thousands of high-bandwidth communications channels to enable the construction of 1×N switches that are roughly equivalent in cost and complexity to a single optical transponder unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Inventor: Todd Barrett
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Publication number: 20100114367Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses to facilitate administering of medication.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 4, 2009Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: Advantage Pharmacy Services LLCInventors: John Todd Barrett, Fred P. Schoville, Spencer K. Barrett
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Publication number: 20070296575Abstract: A disaster alert system and disaster alert devices for use in the system. Each disaster alert device includes a radio receiver, and a processor programmed to monitor radio transmissions from one or more central stations for disaster alerts directed to the location of the disaster alert device. Each alert device also includes an audio unit to alert personnel located at the site of the device to the precise nature of the disaster. The disaster alert devices are pre-programmed with information identifying the precise use location of the warning device. This use location information includes latitude and longitude of the use location and may also include other location information such as street address and zip code.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2007Publication date: December 27, 2007Inventors: Douglas Eisold, Brent Perkins, Paul Johnson, Paul Fairchild, Keneth Tang, Todd Barrett
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Patent number: 7177497Abstract: A porous silicon filter for wavelength multiplexing and de-multiplexing. Preferred embodiments include rugate-type porous silicon filters with pores having continuously varying widths with pore depth an optical cross connect switch. In other preferred embodiments, the pores are filled with a material that changes index of refraction with changes in applied voltage, current or temperature. Important applications of these porous silicon filters are for multiplexing and de-multiplexing in fiber optic communication systems. For example, a preferred embodiment is an all optical fiber optic switch utilizing these filters.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Trex Enterprises Corp.Inventor: Todd Barrett