Patents by Inventor William To

William To 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).

  • Publication number: 20240164659
    Abstract: A capnograph system may be used together with a ventilation system for a patient. The capnograph system may include a capnography module with a carbon dioxide detector, which may generate a carbon dioxide signal responsive to an amount of carbon dioxide detected within an air path of the ventilation system. A monitoring circuit may further detect a pressure within the air path. A processing component within the capnography module may generate a pressure signal responsive to the pressure detected in the air path. The pressure signal, alone or in combination with other signals such as the carbon dioxide signal, may be used to detect spontaneous breaths of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventor: Fred William Chapman
  • Publication number: 20240164582
    Abstract: A food processing device includes a base housing having an attachment receiver arranged to receive a food processing attachment that is configured to perform a food processing operation. The attachment receiver includes an electrical connector having a plurality of electrical contacts. The device includes a first processor having a plurality of ports where each port of the plurality of ports is in electrical communication with each of the plurality of electrical contacts. The first processor is configured to: i) receive an identification signal at a first port of the plurality of ports via the electrical connector from a second processor in the received food processing attachment to identify the received food processing attachment, and ii) when an identification signal is not received, monitor a voltage at each of the plurality of ports to identify the received food processing attachment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: SharkNinja Operating LLC
    Inventors: Yaoming Deng, Ted Wood, Noah William Weinstock, Michelle Power, Logan Hinchcliffe, Christopher William Hedges
  • Publication number: 20240172572
    Abstract: ‘NATPH101’ is a distinctive Philodendron plant which is characterized by the combination of a broad spreading to upright growth habit with uniquely colored laminas borne on dark greyed-red petioles that fade with age to dark green with heavy greyed-red to greyed-orange striping, a dark green mature adaxial foliar surface with a light pink general coloration adjacent to the lateral venation, a yellow-green mature adaxial foliar surface with greyed-purple veins and a greyed-orange coloration adjacent to the venation, as well as the uniformity and stability of these characteristics from generation to generation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: Benjamin William Gregory
  • Publication number: 20240171552
    Abstract: System and methods for providing private social networks, which are cloud-based in some instances, are provided herein. A method includes receiving a selection of the digital data on a private user secure data storage device from a first user, receiving a selection of one or more individuals to be given access to the digital data, applying access rights for the digital data, creating a URL that points to a location within the private user secure data storage device where the digital data resides, posting the URL to a plurality of social networks using a shared message, receiving a request from a second user for the digital data when the second user clicks the URL in the shared message, and serving the digital data to the second user directly from the private user secure data storage device without storing the digital data on any of the plurality of social networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: William J Ziebell
  • Publication number: 20240172109
    Abstract: A processing system of a user endpoint device including at least one processor may initiate an audio call for the user endpoint device at a location, select a wireless access point type from among a plurality of wireless access point types for the audio call based on at least one of: performance metrics collected by the user endpoint device at the location or performance metrics for the location obtained by the user endpoint device from a remote database, and implement the audio call via the wireless access point type that is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Catherine Kalke, Prabhakara Aithal, William Rosenberg, Jinhong No
  • Publication number: 20240171535
    Abstract: A messaging apparatus for sending a multimedia message includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and including instructions stored thereon. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the messaging apparatus to send display a list of multimedia contents on a screen based on a search term, receive a user's selection of one of displayed multimedia contents, obtain text content corresponding to the selected multimedia content, receive a user's selection of a graphical representation of the user's emotion, combine, in order, the selected multimedia content, as a first layer, the selected graphical representation of the user's emotion, as a second layer, and the text content, as a third layer, to generate a flattened multimedia message, and send the flattened multimedia message via a messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Suarez, Barry Chandler Williams
  • Publication number: 20240171633
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for a mobile offload station for disconnected terminal operation. For example, the method includes deploying at least one autonomous vehicle (AV) to within a predetermined proximity of a mobile offload station responsive to log data stored on a data storage device onboard the AV exceeding a data storage threshold. The method further includes establishing, by the at least one AV, a data communication link with the mobile offload station responsive to entry into the predetermined proximity. The method further includes transmitting, by the at least one AV, to a storage device onboard the mobile offload station, at least a portion of the log data via the data communication link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: ARGO AI, LLC
    Inventors: Michel H.J. LAVERNE, Sean WILLIAMS, Matthew PUCHALSKI
  • Publication number: 20240171534
    Abstract: A messaging apparatus for sending a multimedia message includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor and including instructions stored thereon. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the messaging apparatus to send display a list of multimedia contents on a screen based on a search term, receive a user's selection of one of displayed multimedia contents, obtain text content corresponding to the selected multimedia content, receive a user's selection of a graphical representation of the user's emotion, combine, in order, the selected multimedia content, as a first layer, the selected graphical representation of the user's emotion, as a second layer, and the text content, as a third layer, to generate a flattened multimedia message, and send the flattened multimedia message via a messaging application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Anthony Seyler, Minh Long Nguyen, Robert Suarez, Barry Chandler Williams
  • Publication number: 20240171553
    Abstract: Systems and methods for creating fingerprints for devices are described herein. In various embodiments, the system includes a device management system operatively coupled to a merchant system. According to particular embodiments, the device management system: 1) receives a first payload correspond to a device from the merchant system, the first payload including data in a particular format; 2) creates a fingerprint for the device by parsing the first payload and creating a record of a section format for each of one or more distinct sections of the particular format; and 3) comparing a format of each subsequent payload that corresponds to the device to the fingerprint for the device to determine whether the device has been compromised.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Bluefin Payment Systems LLC
    Inventors: Timothy William Barnett, Alexander I. Kasatkin, Christopher Hozumi Miyata
  • Publication number: 20240164642
    Abstract: Medical devices are provided, comprising a medical device and a sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: William L. Hunter, Douglas R. Holberg, Jeffrey M. Gross
  • Publication number: 20240164636
    Abstract: A system and method for dynamically assessing a visual function of a subject are provided where the system and method account for fixation eye movement(s); saccade eye movement(s); smooth pursuit eye movement(s); optokinetic nystagmus eye movement(s); and/or blink eye movement, the system for dynamically assessing a visual function of a subject is provided, comprising: i) a visual display; ii) an eye-tracking device configured to detect a gaze position of at least one eye of the subject; and updating in real time the appearance of a first stimulus to provide a second stimulus based on at least one of the updated evidence-of-visibility score and the updated evidence-of-trackability score for the first visual stimulus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Scott William Joseph MOONEY, Glen PRUSKY
  • Publication number: 20240164653
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer product for determining intracranial pressure (ICP) of a subject non-invasively. The method including: applying at least one selected controlled force to an eye of the subject; imaging retinal vascular pulsation of the eye of the subject over at least one cardiac cycle at the at least one selected controlled force; processing the retinal vascular pulsation images to produce retinal vascular pulsation amplitude data as a time-varying signal; decomposing the time-varying signal into at least two frequency components representing the time-varying signal; determining intracranial pressure from a data basis which includes at least information associated with the frequency components, and wherein the retinal vascular pulsation data includes at least retinal arterial pulsation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: LIONS EYE INSTITUTE LIMITED
    Inventors: Dao-Yi YU, William Huxley MORGAN, Anmar ABDUL-RAHMAN
  • Publication number: 20240164860
    Abstract: An input device handle for controlling a robotic system includes a body and a cylinder. The body defines an opening that rotatably receives the cylinder. The cylinder defines a roll axis such that rotation of the cylinder relative to the body about the roll axis is configured to rotate a tool of a robot about a first axis defined by the tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: William Peine
  • Publication number: 20240164731
    Abstract: A method for radiographic imaging of a patient directs imaging radiation to an anatomy of the patient using a radiographic imaging apparatus. A first image of the patient anatomy is captured in a digital detector, and one or more image acquisition factors are electronically stored. A second radiographic image of the same patient anatomy is captured by accessing and using the stored one or more image acquisition factors. A combination of the first and second radiographic images is displayed or transmitted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: William J. SEHNERT, Xiaohui WANG, Levon O. VOGELSANG, David H. FOOS
  • Publication number: 20240164665
    Abstract: A system for classifying the severity of a user's impairment can include a target apparatus, a plurality of inertial measurement units, and a processor. The target apparatus can include a base, a target structure coupled to the base, and a plurality of targets coupled to the target structure. The processor can be configured to classify the severity of the user's impairment based on the data collected from the inertial measurement units. A method can include classifying a severity of a person's impairment based on one or more motion features associated with the person's performance of one or more tasks at a target apparatus. A target apparatus used in assessing physical impairment of a user can include a track system, a target structure coupled to the track system, and a plurality of targets coupled to a central portion and arms of the target structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: University of Pittsburgh - Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
    Inventors: Amit Sethi, Marcus C. Allen, William W. Clark
  • Publication number: 20240164434
    Abstract: An apparatus for enrobing a product portion can include at least one polymer spray head adapted to create at least one flow of polymeric fibers to produce at least one polymer enrobing zone and a conveyor system adapted to move at least one product portion from at least one position below at least one polymer enrobing zone and to at least one position above at least one polymer enrobing zone to drop each product portion through one or more polymer enrobing zones a plurality times at different orientations to enrobe each product portion with polymeric fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Nathan CARROLL, Shannon Maxwell BLACK, Yan Helen SUN, William J. BURKE, Robert SMITH
  • Publication number: 20240165652
    Abstract: Described herein is a coating system comprising an applicator head that is configured to apply a coating to a surface of a workpiece, a shroud comprising a housing and an internal cavity located inside of the housing, and a humidifying apparatus comprising an output that is fluidly coupled to the shroud, wherein the humidifying apparatus configured to introduce a quantity of humid air to the internal cavity of the shroud.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: James M. POHL, Christine J. BALDWIN, Jeffrey A. HAKE, William H. FRANTZ
  • Publication number: 20240164463
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for an intelligent laboratory lockbox. The intelligent laboratory lockbox includes a vault unit and one or more presence sensors configured to detect a presence of a specimen within the one or more compartments of the vault unit. The presence sensor(s) may generate a load status based on sensing a specimen in the vault unit, wherein the load status includes one of a loaded status or an unloaded status. A control unit is operably connected to at least the vault unit and the one or more presence sensors. The control unit is configured to modify a specimen pickup workflow based on the load status.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph ROSE, John EASLER, James WILLIAMS, Jeff RAINES, Nghia TRAN, Dustin SCHOLZ, John Christopher PENROD
  • Publication number: 20240166314
    Abstract: A device and method for sealing a hole in a yacht below a water line by inserting an inflatable bladder into the hole using a push rod and inflating the inflatable bladder to reduce water flow through the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventor: Jeremy Williams
  • Publication number: 20240164544
    Abstract: A clip for securing a cushion to an outdoor furniture item is disclosed. The clip includes a middle portion, a first end portion extending transverse to the middle portion and a second portion that extends transverse from the middle portion. The middle portion is longer than each of the first end portion and the second end portion. The end portions are configured to fit through and overlap portions of a loop in the cushion to hold the cushion to a rail of the furniture item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2024
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: William Stuart Duncan, Sherri Duncan