Patents by Inventor Trey Smith

Trey Smith 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: 11826059
    Abstract: A drill guide to facilitate drilling a hole into a bone and inserting an anchor. The drill guide includes a handle extending to a proximal end and a guide shaft extending from the handle to a distal end. A recess extends into the handle at the proximal end. The drill guide also includes a channel extending through the recess and into the guide shaft and a contact surface extending from the recess. The contact surface may be a proximal surface on a ring extending circumferentially within the recess. The contact surface may alternatively be a proximal surface on a protrusion extending from and within the recess. For example, the protrusion is a triangular protrusion extending along the recess toward the channel. The contact surface allows for the use of inserters of varying sizes within the channel of the drill guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Conmed Corporation
    Inventors: Grady Breslich, Trey Smith
  • Publication number: 20210361303
    Abstract: A drill guide to facilitate drilling a hole into a bone and inserting an anchor. The drill guide includes a handle extending to a proximal end and a guide shaft extending from the handle to a distal end. A recess extends into the handle at the proximal end. The drill guide also includes a channel extending through the recess and into the guide shaft and a contact surface extending from the recess. The contact surface may be a proximal surface on a ring extending circumferentially within the recess. The contact surface may alternatively be a proximal surface on a protrusion extending from and within the recess. For example, the protrusion is a triangular protrusion extending along the recess toward the channel. The contact surface allows for the use of inserters of varying sizes within the channel of the drill guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Conmed Corporation
    Inventors: Grady Breslich, Trey Smith
  • Patent number: 11096699
    Abstract: A drill guide to facilitate drilling a hole into a bone and inserting an anchor. The drill guide includes a handle extending to a proximal end and a guide shaft extending from the handle to a distal end. A recess extends into the handle at the proximal end. The drill guide also includes a channel extending through the recess and into the guide shaft and a contact surface extending from the recess. The contact surface may be a proximal surface on a ring extending circumferentially within the recess. The contact surface may alternatively be a proximal surface on a protrusion extending from and within the recess. For example, the protrusion is a triangular protrusion extending along the recess toward the channel. The contact surface allows for the use of inserters of varying sizes within the channel of the drill guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2021
    Assignee: CONMED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Grady Breslich, Trey Smith
  • Publication number: 20200008819
    Abstract: A drill guide to facilitate drilling a hole into a bone and inserting an anchor. The drill guide includes a handle extending to a proximal end and a guide shaft extending from the handle to a distal end. A recess extends into the handle at the proximal end. The drill guide also includes a channel extending through the recess and into the guide shaft and a contact surface extending from the recess. The contact surface may be a proximal surface on a ring extending circumferentially within the recess. The contact surface may alternatively be a proximal surface on a protrusion extending from and within the recess. For example, the protrusion is a triangular protrusion extending along the recess toward the channel. The contact surface allows for the use of inserters of varying sizes within the channel of the drill guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Applicant: CONMED CORPORATION
    Inventors: Grady Breslich, Trey Smith
  • Publication number: 20170064240
    Abstract: A network-accessible computer comprises a network-communications interface configured to receive player-position data via a computer network. The player-position data indicates a multi-dimensional position for each of a plurality of players participating a sporting event. The network-accessible computer further comprises a logic machine configured to derive auxiliary information from at least the player-position data, the auxiliary information not included in the player-position data and indicating specific attributes for one or more of the plurality of players during a period of game activity in the sporting event. The logic machine packages the auxiliary information with the player-position data into a client-readable data package usable by a client computing device to construct a user interface visualizing at least the player-position data and auxiliary information. The logic machine sends the client-readable data package to the client computing device via the network-communications interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Preetinderpal Singh Mangat, Daniel Daigle, David Ferguson, Guillaume LaHaye, Michael Mahar, David Seymour, Trey Smith, Amardeep Tiwana, Simon Warrington
  • Patent number: 9456137
    Abstract: A device for acquiring two-dimensional images of a three-dimensional object including a housing having a receptacle for receiving the object. The receptacle has a floor and an interior sidewall. The sidewall has at least one sight window and a plurality of lights for illuminating the object. A rotatable turntable is positioned on the floor of the receptacle, and the object is positioned on the turntable. At least one camera having an iris is located within the housing and positioned so that the iris can obtain images of the object through the sight window, allowing the camera to obtain still images of the object as the object is rotated on the turntable. There is also provided methods for stitching the still images of the three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional image to facilitate optical character recognition and further data processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: Meditory Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander Brunner, Sidney Trey Smith, Randall Timothy Long
  • Publication number: 20140354769
    Abstract: A device for acquiring two-dimensional images of a three-dimensional object including a housing having a receptacle for receiving the object. The receptacle has a floor and an interior sidewall. The sidewall has at least one sight window and a plurality of lights for illuminating the object. A rotatable turntable is positioned on the floor of the receptacle, and the object is positioned on the turntable. At least one camera having an iris is located within the housing and positioned so that the iris can obtain images of the object through the sight window, allowing the camera to obtain still images of the object as the object is rotated on the turntable. There is also provided methods for stitching the still images of the three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional image to facilitate optical character recognition and further data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Inventors: Alexander Brunner, Sidney Trey Smith, Randall Timothy Long
  • Publication number: 20140281871
    Abstract: Provides a number of methods of mapping form fields on a computer-readable image file, as well as a method for automatically redacting some portions of the image file. One method includes the steps of: performing optical character recognition (OCR) on the image file to produce digitized text. The digitized text is compared with a plurality of keywords to identify at least one known form field on the image file. Each keyword is associated with one of the form fields. Then the location on the image file of any known form fields is compared with the locations of those same form fields within any provided template. Each template has at least one form field in a unique location from the other provided templates, and thereby it is possible to identify the template that matches the image file.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: Alexander Brunner, Sidney Trey Smith, Randall Timothy Long
  • Patent number: 8823770
    Abstract: A device for acquiring two-dimensional images of a three-dimensional object including a housing having a receptacle for receiving the object. The receptacle has a floor and an interior sidewall. The sidewall has at least one sight window and a plurality of lights for illuminating the object. A rotatable turntable is positioned on the floor of the receptacle, and the object is positioned on the turntable. At least one camera having an iris is located within the housing and positioned so that the iris can obtain images of the object through the sight window, allowing the camera to obtain still images of the object as the object is rotated on the turntable. There is also provided methods for stitching the still images of the three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional image to facilitate optical character recognition and further data processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignee: Meditory LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Brunner, Sidney Trey Smith, Randall Timothy Long
  • Publication number: 20130208084
    Abstract: A device for acquiring two-dimensional images of a three-dimensional object including a housing having a receptacle for receiving the object. The receptacle has a floor and an interior sidewall. The sidewall has at least one sight window and a plurality of lights for illuminating the object. A rotatable turntable is positioned on the floor of the receptacle, and the object is positioned on the turntable. At least one camera having an iris is located within the housing and positioned so that the iris can obtain images of the object through the sight window, allowing the camera to obtain still images of the object as the object is rotated on the turntable. There is also provided methods for stitching the still images of the three-dimensional object into a two-dimensional image to facilitate optical character recognition and further data processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: August 15, 2013
    Inventors: Alexander Brunner, Sidney Trey Smith, Randall Timothy Long
  • Publication number: 20060222155
    Abstract: A system for scheduling a conference between callers includes a database that stores scheduling information indicating at least a start time, a duration, and a maximum number of callers for one or more scheduled conferences, the scheduling information reflecting available conferencing resources. A server complex coupled to the database communicates, to a requesting Internet Protocol (IP) user, at least one page including one or more scheduling input fields. The server complex receives scheduling input from the requesting IP user for a requested conference according to the scheduling input fields. The server complex accesses the database to determine, according to the scheduling input, whether sufficient resources are available for the requested conference. If so, the server complex allocates at least some available resources to the requested conference and generates confirmations of the requested conference for communication to the callers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: eMeeting.net, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Summers, Paul Harmon, Trey Smith
  • Publication number: 20050180342
    Abstract: A system for scheduling a conference between callers includes a database that stores scheduling information indicating at least a start time, a duration, and a maximum number of callers for one or more scheduled conferences, the scheduling information reflecting available conferencing resources. A server complex coupled to the database communicates, to a requesting Internet Protocol (IP) user, at least one page including one or more scheduling input fields. The server complex receives scheduling input from the requesting IP user for a requested conference according to the scheduling input fields. The server complex accesses the database to determine, according to the scheduling input, whether sufficient resources are available for the requested conference. If so, the server complex allocates at least some available resources to the requested conference and generates confirmations of the requested conference for communication to the callers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: J. Summers, Paul Harmon, Trey Smith
  • Patent number: D711883
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Meditory LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Brunner, Sidney Trey Smith, Randall Timothy Long