Patents Issued in July 30, 2024
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Patent number: 12048833Abstract: An instrument head including an exit opening (23), a first feed line (11) for feeding a first fluid, a second feed line (12) for feeding a second fluid, and a reservoir (24) for storing the second fluid fed via the second feed line (12) is disclosed. The reservoir (24) is in fluid communication with the first feed line (11) and/or is adapted to be brought in fluid communication with the first feed line (11) via at least a valve (25) arranged in the instrument head, to deliver the second fluid stored in the reservoir (24) via the exit opening (23).Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBHInventors: Andreas Fech, Klaus Fischer, Lars Blobel, Waldemar Wandel, Markus Enderle
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Patent number: 12048834Abstract: A drive assembly for a drug delivery system includes a plunger member configured to engage and move a stopper within a container, with the plunger member having a first position and a second position axially spaced from the first position, a leadscrew configured to move the plunger member from the first position to the second position, and a biasing member configured to bias the leadscrew in a rotational direction, where rotational movement of the leadscrew is configured to move the plunger member from the first position to the second position.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Richard A. Cronenberg, Jose Luis Charvet, Abhijitsinh Raj
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Patent number: 12048835Abstract: A syringe including a proximal end, a distal end, and a cylindrical sidewall extending between the proximal end and the distal end, wherein the distal end comprises a conical distal end wall and a fluid nozzle at a distal end of the conical distal end wall; a cylindrical load bearing wall extending axially from the cylindrical sidewall past a proximal end of the conical distal end wall; and a plurality of radial ribs positioned around a periphery of the conical distal end wall, wherein a longitudinal axis of the plurality of radial ribs extends radially inward from the cylindrical load bearing wall towards the fluid nozzle over at least a portion of the conical distal end wall.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: BAYER HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Michael Spohn, Kevin Cowan, Patrick Campbell, Gerald Callan
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Patent number: 12048836Abstract: This application relates to force reduction in injection devices. According to a first aspect, the specification describes an injection device comprising: a medicament container; a stopper translatably disposed within the medicament container; a plunger rod, the plunger rod comprising a plunger head; a drive mechanism for displacing the plunger rod into the medicament container; and a force reduction feature, wherein the plunger rod is operable to displace the stopper; and wherein the force reduction feature is arranged to damp at least a part of a plunger rod motion when the plunger rod is driven by the drive mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SanofiInventors: Michael Helmer, Stefan Wendland
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Patent number: 12048837Abstract: The invention provides a syringe for use in an ophthalmic injection. The syringe comprises a body, a stopper and a plunger. The body comprises an outlet at an outlet end and the stopper is arranged within the body such that a front surface of the stopper and the body define a variable volume chamber from which a fluid can be expelled though the outlet. The plunger comprises a plunger contact surface at a first end and a rod extends between the plunger contact surface and a rear portion. The plunger contact surface is arranged to contact the stopper but not couple thereto, such that the plunger can be used to force the stopper towards the outlet end of the body, reducing the volume of the variable volume chamber, but not to move the stopper away from the outlet end.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NOVARTIS AGInventors: Andrew Bryant, Heinrich Buettgen, Wolfgang Papst, Marie Picci
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Patent number: 12048838Abstract: The present invention relates to an RFID tag enabled shield assembly that provides a sterile enclosure of a medicament delivery port of a medicament container. The container can be a needleless pre-filled syringe, a vial, a cartridge, or a collapsible bag or pouch. The RFID tag is fixedly attached to one or more components of the shield assembly through co-molding or another form of permanent or removable attachment. The present invention also relates to a method of tracking the life cycle of a medicament container or a medicament injection device where the RFID tag enabled shield assembly attached to the medicament container. Data is written to or read from the RFID tag during the entire life cycle of the medicament container or injection device, including assembly, packaging, storing, distribution and use.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AGInventors: Markus Bauss, Thomas Dietl
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Patent number: 12048839Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cap assembly for a medicament delivery device. The cap assembly comprises: a cap body arranged to be mounted to a proximal end of a medicament delivery device for protecting and for removing a medicament delivery member shield. The cap body has an inner cap structure defining a channel extending along the central axis of the cap body, and a gripping member configured to be received in the channel. The gripping member is radially flexible and has a first leg, a second leg, and a connecting portion extending between the first leg and the second leg. The first leg and the second leg each has a proximal portion that is radially flexible and extends distally from the connecting portion. Each proximal portion has an inclined section extending radially inwards in an axial direction away from the connecting portion.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SHL Medical AGInventor: Andrew Moore
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Patent number: 12048840Abstract: The present application discloses a safety injection device including a needle, a needle hub, an elastic member, a slider, a needle shield, a protective sleeve, and an outer cover. The needle hub, the elastic member, the slider, the needle shield and the protective sleeve are sleeved in sequence with the needle as a shaft. The slider is configured to rotate irreversibly after a single use. The safety injection device according to the present application has a simple and reasonable structure, and is safe, stretchable, and easy to use. In addition, it avoids fear of the needle tip during injection when use. After use, the injection device utilizes the eccentric principle to prevent from being fully depressed again, and the needle tip will not be exposed again, thereby more effectively avoiding the risk of cross infection caused by accidental contact with the needle tip after use.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NINGBO MEDSUN MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventors: Zhicheng Chen, Fengxia Wu
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Patent number: 12048841Abstract: A surgical fluid thermal treatment system can be used during a procedure to heat or cool surgical fluid, e.g., prior to introducing the fluid into the body of a patient. In some examples, the system includes an open basin into which fresh surgical fluid is dispensed and a heater that heats the fluid in the basin. The system may also include a volume measurement device that measures the volume of fluid in the basin. The system may have a user interface that a user interacts with to check fresh fluid into the basin. The user may also interact with the user interface to check medical tools into the basin and check medical tools out of the basin. A controller associated with the system can track the volume of fluid removed from the basin during the course of a procedure.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: MICROTEK MEDICAL, INC.Inventors: Heidi Frances Hendrix, David Richard Rawlings, Sean Corrigan, Tomas Matusaitis
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Patent number: 12048842Abstract: A pericardial access device includes a first tube, a second tube coupled to the first tube, and a biasing mechanism coupled to the second tube. The pericardial access device is moveable between an expanded configuration and a contracted configuration. The biasing mechanism biases the pericardial access device towards the expanded configuration, and the pericardial access device moves towards the contracted configuration when a force is applied to the second tube.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Inventor: Gil Vardi
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Patent number: 12048843Abstract: A system for minimizing misalignment notifications for a TETS having an implantable blood pump, an external controller having a power source and a processing circuitry, a transmission coil in communication with the external controller, a receiving coil configured for transcutaneous inductive communication with the transmission coil, and an implantable controller in communication with the receiving coil and the implantable blood pump. The implantable controller having a power source configured to receive power from the receiving coil. The processing circuitry may be configured to: operate in a first mode where an alert is generated when a power efficiency transfer between the transmission coil and the receiving coil is below a first predetermined threshold; and operate in a second mode where the alert is only generated when the power remaining in the power source for the implantable controller is below a first predetermined power source threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Eric A. Schilling, Brian D. Kuhnley, Erin N. Reisfeld, Stephen M. Nelson, Nathanael O. Mason
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Patent number: 12048844Abstract: Apparatus and methods for treating back pain are provided, in which an implantable stimulator is configured to communicate with an external control system, the implantable stimulator providing a neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy designed to cause muscle contraction to rehabilitate the muscle, restore neural drive and restore spinal stability; the implantable stimulator further including one or more of a number of additional therapeutic modalities, including a module that provides analgesic stimulation; a module that monitors muscle performance and adjusts the muscle stimulation regime; and/or a module that provides longer term pain relief by selectively and repeatedly ablating nerve fibers. In an alternative embodiment, a standalone implantable RF ablation system is described.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Mainstay Medical LimitedInventors: Peter Andrew Crosby, Dan Sachs, Prashant Brijmohansingh Rawat, Jason Alan Shiroff, Johannes Petrus Heemels
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Patent number: 12048845Abstract: Implantable devices are provided herein, along with methods of fabricated such implantable devices. An exemplary method of fabricating an implantable device includes coupling electronics to a conductive via at a first side of a first glass substrate. The conductive via extends from the first side through the first glass substrate to a second side of the first glass substrate. The method further includes attaching a second glass substrate to cap the first side of the first glass substrate and form a hermetically sealed chamber containing the electronics, rounding edges of the implantable device after attaching the cap.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Teliatry, Inc.Inventor: Rahul Saini
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Patent number: 12048846Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for simulating neuromodulation therapy. An identification of a particular neuromodulation-therapy implant device, an identification of a particular neuromodulation-therapy algorithm, and subject records corresponding to a subject may be received. neuromodulation-therapy simulator may execute to generated predicted performance metric for the particular neuromodulation-therapy implant device. The predicted performance may correspond to predicted physiological responses of the subject when the particular neuromodulation-therapy algorithm is executed by the particular neuromodulation-therapy implant device. The predicted performance metrics may be output.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Rune Labs, Inc.Inventors: Brian Marc Pepin, Miroslav Tchavdarov Kotzev
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Patent number: 12048847Abstract: This application is generally related to systems and methods for providing a medical therapy to a patient by tracking patient activity and adjusting medical therapy based on occurrence of different types of activities performed by the patient while automatically balancing stimulation program duration.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Advanced Neuromodulation Systems, Inc.Inventor: Christopher S. L. Crawford
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Patent number: 12048848Abstract: In one example, the disclosure describes a method comprising receiving, by processing circuitry, information indicative of one or more evoked compound action potential (ECAP) signals. The one or more ECAP signals are sensed by at least one electrode carried by a medical lead. The processing circuitry determining that at least one characteristic value of the one or more ECAP signals is outside of an expected range. Responsive to determining that the at least one characteristic value of the one or more ECAP signals is outside of the expected range, the processing circuitry performs a lead integrity test for the medical lead.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Jiashu Li, Duane L. Bourget, Kristin N. Hageman, Hank Bink
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Patent number: 12048849Abstract: A subcutaneous device that includes an electronics-containing housing and a clip configured to anchor the device to an internal structural body component of a patient is injected and anchored to the structural body component. An instrument pre-loaded with the device is caused to be inserted through an incision in the patient and advanced to the structural body component. A pushing force is received on the instrument that causes the clip of the device to be pushed onto the structural body component so that the structural body component is located in a sandwiching region between a top portion of the clip and the housing of the device. Force is applied to the structural body component between the top portion of the clip and the housing of the device to anchor the device to the structural body component.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Calyan Technologies, Inc.Inventor: Yatheendhar D. Manicka
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Patent number: 12048850Abstract: A unique, environmentally-friendly micron scale autonomous electrical power source is provided for generating renewable energy, or a renewable energy supplement, in electronic systems, electronic devices and electronic system components. The autonomous electrical power source includes a first conductor with a facing surface conditioned to have a low work function, a second conductor with a facing surface having a comparatively higher work function, and a dielectric layer of not more than 200 Angstroms in thickness sandwiched between the respective facing surfaces of the first conductor and the second conductor. The autonomous electrical power source is configured to harvest minimal thermal energy from any source in an environment above absolute zero. An autonomous electrical power source component is also provided that includes a plurality of autonomous electrical power source constituent elements electrically connected to one another to increase a power output of the autonomous electrical power source.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: FACE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONInventor: Clark D Boyd
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Patent number: 12048851Abstract: A method for strengthening, toning, and firming muscle tissues, the method includes receiving parameters for operating a magnetic muscle stimulation device. The parameters include: a first waveform frequency; one or more pulse durations; a second waveform frequency that is non-zero; causing, a first alternating current having one or more first pulses to flow for a first length of time through a coil according to the first waveform frequency; causing, a second alternating current having one or more second pulses to flow through the coil for a second length of time according to the second waveform frequency lower than the first waveform frequency. The method includes repeating the causing of the first and second alternating currents for a plurality of iterations to provide a continuously pulsed time-varying magnetic field that alternates between the first and the second waveform frequencies to generate a treatment session.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Zeltiq Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: George Frangineas, Jr., Theodorus Johannes Virginia Caberg
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Patent number: 12048852Abstract: A light delivery device for delivering light therapy includes a light source configured to emit light, one or more first piercing members extending from a distal surface of the light delivery device, the one or more first piercing members being light-transmissive and being configured to be inserted into a subdermal or intradermal portion of the skin of the subject as the distal surface is placed against the skin of the subject. The one or more first piercing members are configured to, when inserted into the skin of the subject, deliver the light to the subdermal or intradermal portion of the skin of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: StimuSIL, Inc.Inventors: Juan Mazzuchelli Barón, Ana Isabel Villalba Villar, Pablo Villalba Villar, Guillermo Cantalapiedra Pro, Mehmet Alpaslan Kosoglu
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Patent number: 12048853Abstract: A light irradiation apparatus includes first and second light sources that emit first light and second light, respectively. The first and the second lights have mutually different wavelengths at timings close to each other, regardless of overlap between the first light and the second light. The first light has a wavelength band for inducing destruction of bacteria by damaging a cell of the bacteria as the first light acts on a photosensitizer present in the bacteria. The second light has a wavelength band for inducing the destruction of the bacteria by changing the structure of a genetic material present in the cell of the bacteria. A dose of the second light source is less than 1/10 of a dose of the first light source.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SEOUL VIOSYS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yeong Min Yoon, A Young Lee, Hee Ho Bae, Joon-Pio Hong
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Patent number: 12048854Abstract: Described herein are oral care compositions comprising a crosslinked polyvinylpyrrolidone complexed with hydrogen peroxide, together with particular co-polymers as additional excipients; including some embodiments which further comprise a calcium abrasive.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventors: Suman Chopra, Dennis Ontumi, Prakasarao Mandadi, Venda Porter Maloney
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Patent number: 12048855Abstract: An air breathing device includes a casing and an air passage cavity encompassed by the casing. The device includes an air intake port and an air discharge port that connect the air passage cavity to the outside of the casing. The device includes a damper (gravity or motorized) that allows the air to flow into the air passage cavity during inhalation through the air intake port. The device includes a damper (gravity or motorized) that allows the air to exit the air passage cavity during exhalation through the air discharge port. The device includes a retractable display screen to display content to the wearer. The device includes a fixed display screen to display images of the mouth of the wearer captured by a camera lens or simulated based on the wearer's captured voice. The device includes UV lights, filters, network connections, camera lenses, speakers, microphones, ear plugs, and heating coils.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: BLUE TRON TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventor: Reza Pezeshki
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Patent number: 12048856Abstract: A multi-layer rolling fire curtain assembly includes: a rotatable curtain roller positionable about a structure opening; a multi-layer fire curtain wrappable about the curtain roller and to be deployable from the curtain roller between an extended position and an open position, the fire curtain having a first end fixed to the curtain roller, and a free end, the free end being movable between a retracted position and an extended position. The fire curtain has: a fire resistant inner curtain layer arranged closer to the curtain roller, and a fire resistant outer curtain layer arranged opposite the inner layer. The inner and outer layers are affixed to one another by horizontally oriented connection seams, to connect the inner and outer layers to each other, the connection seams being configured so that the outer and inner layers are spaced apart by a plurality of baggy areas formed between adjacent connection seams.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: MCKEON ROLLING STEEL DOOR CO., INC.Inventors: Andrew C. Lambridis, Ashraf Gomaa
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Patent number: 12048857Abstract: A method of proportioning a finished foam at or near a hazard comprising proportioning and delivering a first finished foam to the hazard, determining if the first finished foam extinguishes or suppresses the hazard, if not, selecting an amount of a fluorinated additive, and proportioning a foam solution including the selected amount of the fluorinated additive to form a fluorinated finished foam. A foam injection system is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Tyco Fire Products LPInventors: Eric LaVergne, John D. Morrison, John P. Libal, Brent Gaspard, Adam Staszak
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Patent number: 12048858Abstract: A novel modular weight station includes a frame, a first set of receivers, and a second set of receivers. The frame includes a first support column, a second support column, and a cross support coupled between the first and second support columns. The first set of receivers are coupled to the frame and orientated to face in a first direction while the second set of receivers are coupled to the frame and oriented to face in a second direction. The receivers are configured to removably engage an additional structural component.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Samson Equipment, Inc.Inventors: Brian Lee Schroeder, David Lee Schroeder, Oliver Matthew Johnson
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Patent number: 12048859Abstract: Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide fitness devices and methods for switching a training mode. The fitness device may include a resistance module and at least one type of fitness equipment. The resistance module may be detachably connected with the at least one type of fitness equipment. The resistance module may provide resistance to the at least one type of fitness equipment. The at least one type of fitness equipment may include a switching device to switching the training mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SHENZHEN THOUSANDSHORES TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Ding He, Zhi Liu, Hui Xu
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Patent number: 12048860Abstract: A strength training assembly includes a stand and a frame movable along the stand in a vertical direction. The frame includes a cradle configured to receive a barbell. The strength training also includes a drive system coupled to the frame and controllable to affect a velocity of the frame relative to the stand, a force sensor coupled to the frame such that the force sensor moves with the frame, the force sensor configured to provide a signal indicative of an amount of force exerted on the force sensor by a user, and a controller configured to receive the signal from the force sensor and control the drive system such that the velocity of the frame varies as a function of the amount of force exerted on the force sensor.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: OxeFit, Inc.Inventors: Peter Neuhaus, Tyson Cobb, Caroline Lamb, Jeremy Gines
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Patent number: 12048861Abstract: An exercise machine with a slidable carriage and accessories providing for a plurality of exerciser positioning surfaces and gripping handles. The exercise machine generally includes one or more lifting handles for raising or lowering either end of the exercise machine with respect to a ground surface. The exercise machine may also include a plurality of wheels each including a ridge adapted to engage with a corresponding groove in a track of the exercise machine. The exercise machine may also include a handle including a pair of arms which are positioned at a distance just greater than a width of the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Lagree Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Sebastien Anthony Louis Lagree, Todd G. Remund, Samuel D. Cox, Andy H. Gibbs
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Patent number: 12048862Abstract: The invention is embodied in an exercise system that can allow its user to counterbalance the effects associated with a predominantly sedentary lifestyle though a fitness device that comprises a combination of (a) supporting the lower body in a manner that permits a user's upper body to act as a third class lever with the user's hips operating as fulcrum and (b) engaging in resistance exercises with the upper body in a horizontal position, unsupported above the greater trochanter.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Inventors: Thomas Walter Drath, Daniel Albert Drath
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Patent number: 12048863Abstract: There is provided a skill level determination and management system and method. The system includes a sensor for automatically sensing shot data of a golf shot hit by a golfer on a range area towards a target on the range area. A comparing component is provided for comparing an end location of the golf shot to a target location and grading the shot, taking into consideration at least a difference between the end location of the golf shot and the target location, and a skill level associated with the golfer. A skill level management component is provided for updating the skill level associated with the golfer based on the grade.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2019Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: ALPHAWAVE GOLF (PTY) LTDInventors: Sarel Jacobus Marais, Nicholas Ian Longley, Nardus Matthysen
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Patent number: 12048864Abstract: Golf balls including at least one modified dimple group are disclosed. The modified dimple group comprises one or more modified dimples forming an axially symmetric pattern about a Correction Area Centroid located on an axis of symmetry at a latitude greater than 0°, where 0° represents the hemispherical pole and 90° represents the equator. The modified dimples can be altered, for example, by changing dimple coverage, dimple diameter, dimple depth, dimple edge angle, dimple volume, dimple cross-sectional shape, and/or dimple plan shape. Optionally, the dimples have a catenary cross-sectional shape and the modified dimples are altered by changing the shape factor and/or chord depth. Such modifications preferably produce a golf ball that flies more consistently regardless of orientation when struck than a corresponding golf ball without such modifications.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Acushnet CompanyInventors: Courtney N. Engle, Michael R. Madson
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Patent number: 12048865Abstract: Disclosed herein is a golf club head that comprises a strike face. The strike face has a central region, defined by a forty millimeter by twenty millimeter rectangular area centered on a center of the strike face and elongated in a heel-to-toe direction. Within the central region, the strike face has a characteristic time (CT) of no more than 257 microseconds. Within the central region, no less than 25% of the strike face has a coefficient of restitution (COR) of at least 0.8. Within the central region, no less than 60% of the strike face has a CT of at least 235 microseconds. Within the central region, no less than 35% of the strike face has a CT of at least 240 microseconds.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: TAYLOR MADE GOLF COMPANY, INC.Inventors: Joseph H. Hoffman, Matthew D. Johnson, Todd Beach
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Patent number: 12048866Abstract: A golf club head including a face element having a face surface, a rear surface, and a reinforcement device with a reinforcement element that extends out from the rear surface of the face element toward a rear end and away from a front end of a golf club head. The reinforcement element includes a looped rib having an outer perimeter surface and an inner perimeter surface. The face surface is nearer to the rear surface proximal to the face center than proximal to the face perimeter. The outer perimeter surface of the reinforcement element is filleted with the rear surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Karsten Manufacturing CorporationInventors: Eric J. Morales, Ryan M. Stokke, Eric V. Cole, Cory S. Bacon
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Patent number: 12048867Abstract: The present specification discloses a play and practice apparatus, system and associated methods of use and kits comprising such play and practice apparatus and/or system. In particular aspects, the play and practice apparatus, system and associated methods of use are utilized for practice and/or games utilizing a ball. In one aspect, the play and practice apparatus has a first playing surface and a second playing surface substantially opposing the first playing surface, and the ball can be a volleyball. In another aspect, the play and practice apparatus is useful as a training aid as well as for playing a game utilizing the play and practice apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Inventor: Jonathan Burk
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Patent number: 12048868Abstract: A plurality of motion sensors capable of capturing IR video, depth video, and RGB images. Periodically emitting IR pulses. Capturing IR video, depth video, and RGB images of a user. Generating a point cloud of the user. Generating a 3D model of the user including the point cloud of the user. Inputting the IR video, depth video, and RGB images into a machine learning model. Estimating a set of joints of the user in the 3D model. Tracking, based on the estimated set of joints of the user in the 3D model, the user's motion over a period of time. Determining a number of repetitions of an exercise performed by the user. Determining a feedback value. Calculating, based on the number of repetitions and the feedback value, a user exercise score. Providing, via a graphical user interface, the user exercise score and the feedback value to the user.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Tempo Interactive Inc.Inventors: Joshua Augustin, Moawia Eldeeb
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Patent number: 12048869Abstract: A bicycle simulator including a frame support portion for supporting a bicycle frame, the bicycle frame connecting front and rear wheels of the bicycle; and a base portion supporting the frame support portion. The frame support portion includes a first support bar having one end portion thereof fixed to the bicycle frame, a second support bar having one end portion thereof fixed to the base portion, and a connection portion for connecting the other end portion of the second support bar and the other end portion of the first support bar. The first support bar is connected to be rotatable about one axis with respect to the second support bar.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2020Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: REAL DESIGN TECH CO., LTD.Inventor: Joong Sik Lee
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Patent number: 12048870Abstract: A wearable training apparatus has a vision-control assembly for engaging a user's face about the user's eyes. The vision-control assembly has a see-through area about the user's eyes and an opaque area surrounding the see-through area at least on a temporal side and an inferior side thereof. The opaque area is for substantially blocking at least major portions of the natural monocular vision-areas of a natural field of vision (FOV) of the user's eyes, said natural monocular vision-areas being peripheral to a natural binocular vision-area on respectively temporal sides. The see-through area is for forming a reduced FOV about a gaze direction. The reduced FOV has a span encompassing at least a major portion of the natural binocular vision-area of the natural FOV of the user's eyes about the gaze direction thereof, said natural binocular vision-area being at an angular center of the natural FOV.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: 1241620 ALBERTA LTD.Inventor: Lyle Mast
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Patent number: 12048871Abstract: A binding for a snowboard, a kitesurf or a wakeboard, including a base, a highback that is movable around a first axis of rotation mounted on the base and a lever, of which a power lever arm controls, rotatably relative to the base, a resistance lever arm that cooperates with the highback to move it around the first axis of rotation between an open position and a closed position. The lever pivots around a second axis of rotation mounted on a bow of the base and in opposition to a toe strap relative to the first axis of rotation so that the power lever arm can be used as a ramp in counterforce against a stopper of the toe strap to move the highback between the open position and the closed position.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NIDECKER SAInventors: David Partridge, David Fernandez, Jean-François Pelchat
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Patent number: 12048872Abstract: Disclosed is an apparatus including a touch sensitive user interface and a processor. The processor is configured to detect a first contact at a first position on the user interface, determine a movement of the first contact from the first position and if the movement is less than a predetermined movement threshold, when a release of the first contact is detected, move a first object on the user interface from an initial position on the user interface to an area at or near the first position. If the movement is greater than the predetermined movement threshold to identify a second position corresponding to an area near an end point of the movement and when the release of the first contact is detected, execute an action on the second position from the first object.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Supercell OyInventors: Touko Tahkokallio, Jonne Loikkanen, Jon Franzas
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Patent number: 12048873Abstract: A handheld video game controller is operable in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) mode to allow for sending controller input data to a target BLE device in a manner that bypasses any operating system (OS) restrictions that might otherwise be imposed on game controller input. When operating in the BLE mode, the handheld video game controller pairs (establishes a radio link) with a BLE device executing a client application used for video game streaming. During gameplay, the video game executes on a host computer and the player provides user input to the game controller to control an aspect of the video game. In response to such user input, the game controller sends controller input data to the BLE device via a radio of the game controller. The player may switch between operating the game controller in BLE mode and receiver mode using input gestures on the game controller.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Valve CorporationInventors: Austin Palmer, Sam Lantinga, Nathaniel Brown, Corey Wharton
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Patent number: 12048874Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems directed towards providing scaled engagement and views of an e-sports event. Instead of providing the same distribution of live e-sport event data to all remote viewers of a live e-sports event, features associated with e-sports gaming network could be used to customize the distribution of live e-sport event data to promote immersive viewer experience. The enhanced immersion can also be carried out in a virtual reality or augmented reality setting. The features would be capable of providing additional information, different views, and a variety of different commentators for the e-sports event so that the viewer can be more engaged when viewing the particular e-sports event. With the increased engagement from remote viewers, the distribution of live e-sports event data can also be further modified for monetization by incorporating advertisements as well.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLCInventors: Steven Trombetta, Christopher Thielbar, James Fairbairn
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Patent number: 12048875Abstract: Recommendations for in-game content are provided to players of an online game. An instance of a virtual space is executed in which an online game is conducted and implemented to facilitate presentation of a view of the virtual space to users through client computing platforms associated with the users. Device specification sets of the client computing devices are determined and recommendations for in-game content are presented to the users based on the obtained device specification sets of the client computing devices associated with the users.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Kabam, Inc.Inventors: Clifford J. Harrington, Kent Wakeford
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Patent number: 12048876Abstract: A server-side gaming method performed by a framework for monitoring the delivery of remotely-rendered content to a user device. The framework comprises a provisioning server for generating and managing impression content, a remote server for generating a plurality of frames of remotely-rendered content that comprise gaming content and the impression content, and an API, for sending and receiving data between the user device and the remote server. The method comprising obtaining received frame information from the user device, using the API, that represents the frames of remotely-rendered content received by the user device. It is determined whether the received frame information comprises data relating to a new frame, where the new frame comprising new gaming content and new impression content. Based on the determination, an indication that the new impression content has been received at the user device is sent from the remote server to the provisioning server.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Bidstack Group PLCInventors: Arvids Kokins, Francesco Petruzzelli
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Patent number: 12048877Abstract: Exemplary venues allow for members of an audience at different locations within these venues to simultaneously interact with an interactive content. The interactive content can convey one or more requisite actions to be performed by the members of the audience. However, the one or more requisite actions can reach members of the audience at different instances in time. These exemplary venues can effectively compensate for these different instances in time such that the accuracy and/or the synchronization of one or more response actions, which are performed by the members of the audience in response to the one or more requisite actions, can be characterized as no longer being dependent upon their distance from the interactive content. Rather, the accuracy and/or the synchronization of the one or more response actions by the members of the audience to the one or more requisite actions can be considered as being related to the performance, for example, timing, of the one or more response actions themselves.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2021Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: MSG Entertainment Group, LLCInventors: Andrey Dobrikov, Sarah Huth, Aaron Pulkka, Benjamin Poynter
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Patent number: 12048878Abstract: This application provides a method and apparatus for controlling a virtual object, a device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product. The method includes displaying, in a picture of a virtual scene, a virtual object moving in a first motion state and a switching control for switching a motion state of the virtual object; in response to a state switching operation triggered based on the switching control, controlling the virtual object to switch from the first motion state to a second motion state; and in response to a direction adjustment operation triggered based on the switching control, adjusting a motion perspective of the virtual object, and adjusting the picture of the virtual scene corresponding to the adjusted motion perspective, to control the virtual object to move in the second motion state in the adjusted picture of the virtual scene.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Zefeng Yang, Jiaqi Pan
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Patent number: 12048879Abstract: An information processing system includes a controller which receives an operation input of a user and an information processing unit which performs an information process based on the operation input received by the controller. The information processing unit includes a game progress unit which controls an own character in the virtual space based on the operation input of the user to draw the virtual space with the corresponding color of the own character and a battle determination unit which performs a battle determination based on a drawing state of a corresponding color of an enemy character, which is different from the corresponding color of the own character, to a virtual space and a drawing state of the corresponding color of the own character to the virtual space.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: NINTENDO CO., LTD.Inventor: Shintaro Sato
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Patent number: 12048880Abstract: A method and a device for displaying an interactive item are disclosed. In an example method, under a condition that a perspective item is in an assembled state, when detecting that an occluded interactive item is included within a viewing angle range of a controlled virtual object in a virtual scene and the occluded interactive item meets a perspective condition, the occluded interactive item may be displayed in the virtual scene in a perspective manner, so that the controlled virtual object may see the occluded interactive item through an obstacle, thereby extending a capability for the controlled virtual object to obtain information, and rendering a living environment of virtual objects with different interactive items more balanced. The disclosed implementations improve attractiveness of a shooting game by enriching interactivity.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Jinhao Yang, Lingyun Lin
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Patent number: 12048881Abstract: A game guide system, method, and apparatus are provided. A system for providing computer simulated game guidance content, comprising a game guide database, a game objectives database, a network connector configured to communicate with a plurality of user devices over a network, and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to receive a game guide request from a user, receive an audio segment recorded from a game by a user device associated with the user, identify the game and a game objective from the game objectives database based on the audio segment, select a content item in the game guide database based on the game objective, and provide the content item to the user.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: Sony Interactive Entertainment LLCInventor: Alvin J. Daniel
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Patent number: 12048882Abstract: A method includes selecting a computing device interaction, configuring a user accessory based on the selected computing device interaction, and performing the computing device interaction using the configured user accessory. The method also includes quantifying a computing device interaction performance of one or more users and controlling the user accessory based on quantifying the computing device interaction performance. A body part of one of the one or more users is inserted into or received by the user accessory.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2023Date of Patent: July 30, 2024Assignee: HYTTO PTE. LTD.Inventor: Dan Liu