公开(公告)号：US09717618B2

公开(公告)日：2017-08-01

申请号：US14471169

申请日：2014-08-28

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera ,  William David Duncan ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Wayne R. Kindsvogel ,  Elizabeth A. Sweeney

IPC: A61B19/00 ,  A61F5/00 ,  A61F2/04 ,  A61L27/54 ,  A61L29/14 ,  A61L29/16 ,  A61K35/741 ,  A61L29/08 ,  A61L31/00 ,  A61L31/04 ,  A61L31/06 ,  A61L31/10 ,  A61L31/14 ,  A61L31/16 ,  A61K38/16 ,  A61K35/745 ,  A61K35/747 ,  A61K35/00

CPC classification number: A61F5/0076 ,  A61F2/04 ,  A61F2002/045 ,  A61F2210/0004 ,  A61F2210/0057 ,  A61F2210/0076 ,  A61F2220/0016 ,  A61F2240/001 ,  A61K35/74 ,  A61K35/741 ,  A61K35/745 ,  A61K35/747 ,  A61K38/168 ,  A61K2035/115 ,  A61L27/54 ,  A61L29/08 ,  A61L29/148 ,  A61L29/16 ,  A61L31/005 ,  A61L31/048 ,  A61L31/06 ,  A61L31/10 ,  A61L31/145 ,  A61L31/148 ,  A61L31/16 ,  A61L2300/252 ,  A61L2300/604 ,  A61L2300/62 ,  A61L2420/02 ,  A61L2420/06

Abstract: A gastrointestinal device and methods of manufacturing said gastrointestinal device are described and include a flexible tubular structure including an inner surface and an outer surface, a plurality of at least one type of commensal microbe associated with at least a portion of at least one of the inner surface and the outer surface, and a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end and the distal end forming a flow conduit through the flexible tubular structure; and at least one anchor structure including one or more gastric wall-engaging components configured to engage a wall of the gastrointestinal tract of the subject.

公开(公告)号：US20170203843A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-20

申请号：US14995332

申请日：2016-01-14

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Alistair K. Chan ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Muriel Y. Ishikawa ,  Jordin T. Kare ,  Lowell L. Wood, JR.

IPC: B64D1/08 ,  B64C39/02 ,  B64D9/00

CPC classification number: B64D1/08 ,  B64C39/024 ,  B64C2201/128 ,  B64D9/003

Abstract: A system and method for payload management for an unmanned aircraft system is disclosed. The payload management system and method may comprise a containment system configured to contain payload carried by the UAV/aircraft. The UAV/aircraft may be configured to carry payload in an external pod as part of the containment system. The pod carried by the UAV/craft may be fillable/inflatable to contain payload and facilitate aerodynamic performance of the UAV/craft carrying payload (e.g. on a mission from originator to destination for delivery in operating conditions). Systems and methods may provide managing and monitoring for payload carried by UAV/aircraft (e.g. with instrumentation).

公开(公告)号：US20170200815A1

公开(公告)日：2017-07-13

申请号：US14984722

申请日：2015-12-30

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Kenneth G. Caldeira ,  Bran Ferren ,  William Gates ,  W. Daniel Hillis ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Muriel Y. Ishikawa ,  Jordin T. Kare ,  John Latham ,  Nathan P. Myhrvold ,  Clarence T. Tegreene ,  David B. Tuckerman ,  Thomas Allan Weaver ,  Charles Whitmer ,  Lowell L. Wood, JR. ,  Victoria Y.H. Wood

IPC: H01L29/66 ,  H03K17/687 ,  H01L29/84

CPC classification number: H01L29/66977 ,  B82Y10/00 ,  B82Y40/00 ,  H01L29/423 ,  H01L29/84 ,  H03K17/687

Abstract: A method of controlling a Casimir-effect device includes applying a voltage to a field-effect gate of the Casimir-effect device. The Casimir-effect device includes a conducting material and a semiconductor. The conducting material and semiconductor are separated by a gap to form the field-effect gate over at least a portion of the semiconductor facing the gap. The method further includes altering, in response to the applied voltage, a density of free charge carriers in the portion of the semiconductor facing the gap to control a nanoscale Casimir force between the conducting material and the portion of the semiconductor facing the gap.

公开(公告)号：US09687404B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-27

申请号：US14469169

申请日：2014-08-26

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Jesse R. Cheatham, III ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Muriel Y. Ishikawa ,  Jordin T. Kare ,  Eric C. Leuthardt ,  Nathan P. Myhrvold ,  Elizabeth A. Sweeney ,  Clarence T. Tegreene ,  Charles Whitmer ,  Lowell L. Wood, Jr. ,  Victoria Y. H. Wood

IPC: A61H23/02 ,  A61H1/00

CPC classification number: A61H1/008 ,  A61B5/1118 ,  A61B5/4836 ,  A61B5/6824 ,  A61B5/6828 ,  A61F5/0104 ,  A61F5/0109 ,  A61F2005/0155 ,  A61F2005/0188 ,  A61H2201/1207 ,  A61H2201/1238 ,  A61H2201/1635 ,  A61H2201/164 ,  A61H2201/165 ,  A61H2201/5058 ,  A61H2201/5097 ,  A61H2230/207 ,  A61H2230/50 ,  A61H2230/60

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to a garment system including at least one muscle or at least one joint activity sensor, and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one muscle or the at least one joint activity sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively compress against or selectively relieve compression against at least one body part of a subject. Embodiments disclosed herein also relate to methods of using such garment systems.

公开(公告)号：US20170176589A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-22

申请号：US15450476

申请日：2017-03-06

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Alistair K. Chan ,  William D. Duncan ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Lowell L. Wood,, JR.

IPC: G01S13/89 ,  G01S15/89 ,  A01C23/04 ,  B64D43/00 ,  A01C7/10 ,  A01G25/16 ,  A01B69/00 ,  B64D1/18 ,  G01S13/88 ,  A01C7/08

CPC classification number: G01S13/89 ,  A01B69/00 ,  A01B79/005 ,  A01C7/085 ,  A01C7/102 ,  A01C21/005 ,  A01C23/04 ,  A01G25/167 ,  B64D1/18 ,  B64D43/00 ,  G01S7/412 ,  G01S13/885 ,  G01S13/887 ,  G01S13/888 ,  G01S15/89

Abstract: A soil detection and planting apparatus. The apparatus includes a vehicle and a controller coupled to the vehicle. The apparatus further includes a planting device coupled to the vehicle, the planting device configured to plant seeds or plants into a soil material. The apparatus includes a ground penetrating radar sensor coupled to the vehicle. The ground penetrating radar soil sensor is configured to scan the soil material up to a designated depth beneath a surface of the soil material, wherein the ground penetrating radar soil sensor is further configured to provide a sensor feedback signal to the controller with respect to an intrinsic characteristic of the soil material. The controller is configured to instruct placement of a seed or a plant into the soil material based on the feedback signal.

公开(公告)号：US09681557B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-13

申请号：US14292397

申请日：2014-05-30

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Tom Driscoll ,  William D. Duncan ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Muriel Y. Ishikawa ,  Jordin T. Kare ,  Robert C. Petroski ,  Clarence T. Tegreene ,  David B. Tuckerman ,  Charles Whitmer ,  Lowell L. Wood, Jr. ,  Victoria Y. H. Wood

IPC: B23K3/04 ,  H05K3/34 ,  B23K1/00 ,  F24J3/00 ,  B23K1/012

CPC classification number: H05K3/3494 ,  B23K1/0016 ,  B23K1/012 ,  F24V99/00 ,  H05K2203/0195 ,  H05K2203/081 ,  H05K2203/087 ,  H05K2203/304

Abstract: A heating apparatus includes a gas supply for providing a base gas, a generator configured to excite the base gas to produce a metastable gas mixture that includes a metastable gas, and a housing. The housing includes a wall shaped to contain the metastable gas mixture and selectively enclose a reactive element of a target component. Interaction between the metastable gas and at least one of a coupling material and the reactive element transfers energy to selectively heat the at least one of the coupling material and the target component.

公开(公告)号：US20170156662A1

公开(公告)日：2017-06-08

申请号：US15386434

申请日：2016-12-21

Applicant: ELWHA LLC

Inventor： Eleanor V. Goodall ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Jordin T. Kare ,  Eric C. Leuthardt ,  Mark A. Malamud ,  Gary L. McKnight ,  Tony S. Pan ,  Katherine E. Sharadin ,  Elizabeth A. Sweeney ,  Clarence T. Tegreene ,  Charles Whitmer ,  Lowell L. Wood, JR.

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/11 ,  A61N7/00 ,  A61N2/00 ,  A61N5/06

CPC classification number: A61B5/4836 ,  A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/0022 ,  A61B5/0059 ,  A61B5/01 ,  A61B5/021 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/026 ,  A61B5/0402 ,  A61B5/0476 ,  A61B5/0488 ,  A61B5/0537 ,  A61B5/0816 ,  A61B5/1121 ,  A61B5/14542 ,  A61B5/45 ,  A61B5/4824 ,  A61B5/7275 ,  A61B5/7282 ,  A61B5/7455 ,  A61B2090/365 ,  A61B2562/06 ,  A61B2562/164 ,  A61N1/0456 ,  A61N1/0492 ,  A61N1/36003 ,  A61N1/36014 ,  A61N1/36021 ,  A61N2/002 ,  A61N2/008 ,  A61N5/06 ,  A61N5/0625 ,  A61N7/00 ,  A61N7/02 ,  A61N2005/0659 ,  A61N2005/067 ,  A61N2007/0073 ,  A61N2007/0078 ,  A61N2007/0095 ,  B32B3/08 ,  B32B7/12 ,  B32B25/08 ,  B32B25/20 ,  B32B27/08 ,  B32B2274/00 ,  B32B2307/546 ,  B32B2307/7166 ,  B32B2307/724 ,  B32B2535/00 ,  G16H20/30 ,  G16H40/40 ,  G16H40/63 ,  G16H40/67 ,  G16H50/30

Abstract: Systems and methods are described for monitoring an individual subject and facilitating a motion regimen of the individual subject. In an aspect, a system includes, but is not limited to, a deformable substrate; a sensor assembly configured to generate one or more sense signals based on detection of at least one of a movement of the body portion or at least one physiological parameter of the body portion; a processor configured to receive the one or more sense signals, the processor including circuitry configured to identify a physiological state of the individual subject based on at least one of the movement of the body portion or the at least one physiological parameter of the body portion; and an effector operably coupled to the processor and configured to effect at least one predetermined motion of the body portion corresponding to a motion regimen responsive to control by the processor.

公开(公告)号：US09664021B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-30

申请号：US15074623

申请日：2016-03-18

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Roderick A. Hyde ,  Nathan P. Myhrvold ,  Lowell L. Wood, Jr.

IPC: G01V3/30 ,  E21B43/24 ,  E21B47/10 ,  E21B49/08 ,  E21B43/243

CPC classification number: E21B43/2401 ,  E21B43/24 ,  E21B43/243 ,  E21B47/102 ,  E21B49/08 ,  G01V3/30

Abstract: A method for enhancing the recovery of hydrocarbon deposit includes the step of sensing a material property of an underground volume. A three-dimensional map identifying the spatial variation in the sensed material property of the underground volume is generated. Propagating electromagnetic radiation is transmitted in the volume based on the map. The propagating electromagnetic radiation transmission is varied in at least one of frequency, polarization, wavelength, frequency, amplitude, mode, and phase in response to the variation in the material property of a region within the volume to which the propagating electromagnetic radiation is directed. Accordingly, the volume is heated in a spatially varying manner to heat material in the volume and thereby induce the flow of hydrocarbon deposits from the volume.

公开(公告)号：US09662354B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-30

申请号：US15290043

申请日：2016-10-11

Applicant: Elwha LLC

Inventor： Roderick A. Hyde ,  Wayne R. Kindsvogel ,  Gary L. McKnight

IPC: A61K35/26 ,  C12N5/22 ,  A61K35/17 ,  C12Q1/68 ,  C12N5/0783 ,  A61K35/12

CPC classification number: A61K35/17 ,  A61K2035/124 ,  C12N5/0636 ,  C12N2510/00 ,  C12Q1/68 ,  C12Q1/6883 ,  C12Q2600/158

Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to methods, devices, and computer systems thereof for the derivation of T CAR libraries (Universal Subject or Individual Subject) for personalized treatment of disease in a subject. In certain embodiments, differential screening of normal and diseased tissue expression data is utilized to determine disease-specific antigens and thereby generate T CAR cells reactive to such antigens to form a disease-specific library. In certain embodiments, determination of the most effective T CAR clones from the disease-specific library is based on the subject's own disease-specific antigens. In certain embodiments, a subject is treated with a therapeutically effective amount of T CAR clones.

公开(公告)号：US09659735B2

公开(公告)日：2017-05-23

申请号：US14706485

申请日：2015-05-07

Applicant: ELWHA LLC

Inventor： William David Duncan ,  Roderick A. Hyde ,  Jordin T. Kare ,  Max N. Mankin ,  Tony S. Pan ,  Lowell L. Wood, Jr.

IPC: H01J1/48 ,  H01J3/02

CPC classification number: H01J1/48 ,  H01J3/021 ,  H01J2203/0232 ,  Y10T29/49204

Abstract: Graphene grids are configured for applications in vacuum electronic devices. A multilayer graphene grid is configured as a filter for electrons in a specific energy range, in a field emission device or other vacuum electronic device. A graphene grid can be deformable responsive to an input to vary electric fields proximate to the grid. A mesh can be configured to support a graphene grid.