Patents by Inventor William J. Post

William J. Post 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: 11934860
    Abstract: Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network experience shifting, and, in particular embodiments, using either a roaming or portable hypervisor associated with a user or a local hypervisor unassociated with the user. In some embodiments, a network node in a first network might receive, via a first network access device in a second network, a request from a user device to establish roaming network access, and might authenticate a user associated with the user device, the user being unassociated with the first network access device. Based on a determination that the user is authorized to access data, content, profiles, and/or software applications that are accessible via a second network access device, the network node might establish a secure private connection through a hypervisor or container communicatively coupled to the first network access device to provide the user with access to her data, content, profiles, and/or software applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: CenturyLink Intellectual Property LLC
    Inventors: Charles I. Cook, Kevin M. McBride, Matthew J. Post, William R. Walker
  • Patent number: 10398290
    Abstract: A view optimizing assembly for use with a laparoscope includes an elongate cylindrical body configured to hold a laparoscope therein and a deflector assembly attached to the elongate cylindrical body. The elongate cylindrical body includes a plurality of channels in a wall thereof, and the plurality of channels are configured to allow a flow of fluid or gas therethrough. The deflector assembly is configured to circumferentially enclose a distal end of the laparoscope and extend beyond the distal end of the laparoscope. The deflector assembly includes a plurality of passageways within a wall thereof, and each passageway is aligned with a different channel of the elongate cylindrical body so as to direct the flow of gas or fluid exiting the channels across a lens of the laparoscope in a plurality of different flow paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: Floshield, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Lyle Poll, Matthew J. Huddleston, William J. Post, Thomas J. Ward, Caroline M. Crisafulli, Adam Landis
  • Publication number: 20150265138
    Abstract: A view optimizing assembly for use with a laparoscope includes an elongate cylindrical body configured to hold a laparoscope therein and a deflector assembly attached to the elongate cylindrical body. The elongate cylindrical body includes a plurality of channels in a wall thereof, and the plurality of channels are configured to allow a flow of fluid or gas therethrough. The deflector assembly is configured to circumferentially enclose a distal end of the laparoscope and extend beyond the distal end of the laparoscope. The deflector assembly includes a plurality of passageways within a wall thereof, and each passageway is aligned with a different channel of the elongate cylindrical body so as to direct the flow of gas or fluid exiting the channels across a lens of the laparoscope in a plurality of different flow paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Wayne Lyle POLL, Matthew J. HUDDLESTON, William J. POST, Thomas J. WARD, Caroline M. CRISAFULLI, Adam LANDIS
  • Patent number: 9050036
    Abstract: The present application discloses several embodiments of a devices for maintaining visualization with a surgical scope. The embodiments of the device are adapted to shield, defog or clean the lens of the surgical scope while the surgical scope is being used to perform a surgical procedure within a patient's body. In one embodiment, a view optimizer is provided that is adapted to deliver at least one fluid to the objective lens of the laparoscope to clean and/or defog the objective lens of the laparoscope without the need to remove the laparoscope from the surgical field. In additional embodiments, a view optimizer is provided that is adapted to create leakage or venting of gas from the body cavity so as to ensure continuous gas flow from an insufflator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Minimally Invasive Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne Lyle Poll, Matthrew J. Huddleston, William J. Post, Thomas J. Ward, Caroline M. Crisafulli, Adam Landis
  • Publication number: 20080319266
    Abstract: The present application discloses several embodiments of a devices for maintaining visualization with a surgical scope. The embodiments of the device are adapted to shield, defog or clean the lens of the surgical scope while the surgical scope is being used to perform a surgical procedure within a patient's body. In one embodiment, a view optimizer is provided that is adapted to deliver at least one fluid to the objective lens of the laparoscope to clean and/or defog the objective lens of the laparoscope without the need to remove the laparoscope from the surgical field. In additional embodiments, a view optimizer is provided that is adapted to create leakage or venting of gas from the body cavity so as to ensure continuous gas flow from an insufflator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2007
    Publication date: December 25, 2008
    Applicant: MINIMALLY INVASIVE DEVICES, LLC
    Inventors: Wayne Lyle Poll, Matthew J. Huddleston, William J. Post, Thomas J. Ward, Caroline M. Crisafulli, Adam Landis
  • Patent number: D435143
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2000
    Inventor: William J. Post, Jr.