Pablo G Garcia

6995024, Feb 7, 2006

Aug 27, 2001

09/940264

Chris D. Smith - Mountain View CA, US
Pablo E. Garcia - Redwood City CA, US
Thomas P. Low - Belmont CA, US
Eric J. Shrader - Belmont CA, US

SRI International - Menlo Park CA

G01N 1/10
B01L 3/02
B67D 5/22
B67D 5/08

436180, 422100, 222 57, 222639

An apparatus and device for dispensing femtoliter to nanoliter volumes of liquid samples are disclosed. The apparatus includes a liquid-support plate, two electrodes, a substrate, and a control unit. The liquid support plate has a plurality of liquid-support regions, each capable of supporting a liquid meniscus thereon. The first electrode contains a plurality of electrode connections, each operatively connected to one of the liquid support regions, for electrical contact with a meniscus supported in such region. The substrate has a first side confronting the plate and an opposite side, and a plurality of sample-holding regions formed in the first side. The second electrode is disposed adjacent one of the two substrate sides. Thus, a selected volume of the liquid can be ejected from or to one or more of the liquid-support regions to or from one or more of the sample-holding regions.

8325458, Dec 4, 2012

Apr 16, 2010

12/762260

Harsha E. Prahlad - Cupertino CA, US
Ronald E. Pelrine - Longmont CO, US
Pablo E. Garcia - Menlo Park CA, US
Richard Mahoney - Los Altos CA, US
Joseph S. Eckerle - Woodside CA, US

SRI International - Menlo Park CA

H01T 23/00

361234

An electroadhesive gripping device or system includes a plurality of electroadhesive gripping surfaces, each having electrode(s) and each configured to be placed against respective surface regions of a foreign object, such that one or more electroadhesive forces can be provided between the electroadhesive gripping surfaces and the foreign object. Such electroadhesive forces operating to hold the foreign object against the electroadhesive gripping surfaces while the foreign object is held or moved by the electroadhesive gripping system. The electroadhesive gripping surfaces can be arranged onto a plurality of continuous fingers, and various gripping surfaces on each finger can be coupled together and manipulated with respect to each other by an actuating component, such as a cable actuator. A variable voltage can be delivered to the electrodes to control the amount of electroadhesive force generated, such that only a portion of a foreign object is held or moved.

59412780, Aug 24, 1999

Apr 19, 1996

8/634845

Hubert Allen Upton - Morgan Hill CA
Pablo Garcia - Stanford CA

General Electric Company - Schenectady NY

F16K 3700

137554

A check valve for use in a GDCS of a nuclear reactor and having a motor driven disk including a rotatable armature for rotating the check valve disk over its entire range of motion is described. In one embodiment, the check valve includes a valve body having a coolant flow channel extending therethrough. The coolant flow channel includes an inlet end and an outlet end. A valve body seat is located on an inner surface of the valve body. The check valve further includes a disk assembly, sometimes referred to as the motor driven disc, having a counterweight and a disk shaped valve. The disk valve includes a disk base having a seat for seating with the valve body seat. The disk assembly further includes a first hinge pin member which extends at least partially through the disk assembly and is engaged to the disk. The disk valve is rotatable relative to the first hinge pin member. The check valve also includes a motor having a stator frame with a stator bore therein.

20220296334, Sep 22, 2022

Mar 22, 2021

17/208715

- Santa Clara CA, US
Jocelyn Elaine Barker - San Jose CA, US
Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy - Menlo Park CA, US

A61B 90/00
G06N 3/08
G06N 3/04

Embodiments described herein provide a surgical duration estimation system for continuously predicting real-time remaining surgical duration (RSD) of a live surgical session of a given surgical procedure based on a real-time endoscope video of the live surgical session. In one aspect, the process receives a current frame of the endoscope video at a current time of the live surgical session, wherein the current time is among a sequence of prediction time points for making continuous RSD predictions during the live surgical session. The process next randomly samples N-1 additional frames of the endoscope video corresponding to the elapsed portion of the live surgical session between the beginning of the endoscope video corresponding to the beginning of the live surgical session and the current frame corresponding to the current time. The process then combines the N-1 randomly sampled frames and the current frame in the temporal order to obtain a set of N frames. Next, the process feeds the set of N frames into a trained model for the given surgical procedure. The process subsequently outputs a current RSD prediction based on the set of N frames.

20230107307, Apr 6, 2023

Oct 6, 2022

17/961459

- Santa Clara CA, US
Berk Gonenc - Cupertino CA, US
Bernhard A. Fuerst - Sunnyvale CA, US
Jose Luis Cordoba - Malaga, ES
Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy - Menlo Park CA, US

A61B 34/30
B25J 9/16
B25J 13/08

A surgical robotic system including a surgical table, a surgical robotic manipulator coupled to the surgical table and comprising a plurality of links coupled together by a plurality of joints that are operable to move with respect to one another to move the surgical robotic manipulator, at least one of the plurality of links or the plurality of joints having a portion that faces another of the plurality of links or the plurality of joints, a proximity sensing assembly coupled to the portion of the at least one of the plurality of links or the plurality of joints, the proximity sensing assembly operable to detect an object prior to the surgical robotic manipulator colliding with the object and to output a corresponding detection signal, and a processor operable to receive the corresponding detecting signal and cause the manipulator or the object to engage in a collision avoidance operation.

20210251710, Aug 19, 2021

May 4, 2021

17/307903

- Santa Clara CA, US
Berk Gonenc - Cupertino CA, US
Dennis Moses - Hollywood FL, US
Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy - Menlo Park CA, US

A61B 34/00
A61B 34/37
G01L 1/24
G01D 5/353

A surgical robotic user input apparatus has a fiber optic cable with a handheld user input device attached at one end, and a connector attached at another end. Multiple intrinsic sensors, such as fiber Bragg grating sensors, are in the fiber optic cable. The intrinsic sensors are used to detect a pose of the handheld user input device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

20200367977, Nov 26, 2020

May 21, 2019

16/418693

- Mountain View CA, US
Berk Gonenc - Cupertino CA, US
Bernhard A. Fuerst - Sunnyvale CA, US
Jose Luis Cordoba - Malaga, ES
Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy - Menlo Park CA, US

A61B 34/30
B25J 9/16

A surgical robotic system including a surgical table, a surgical robotic manipulator coupled to the surgical table and comprising a plurality of links coupled together by a plurality of joints that are operable to move with respect to one another to move the surgical robotic manipulator, at least one of the plurality of links or the plurality of joints having a portion that faces another of the plurality of links or the plurality of joints, a proximity sensing assembly coupled to the portion of the at least one of the plurality of links or the plurality of joints, the proximity sensing assembly operable to detect an object prior to the surgical robotic manipulator colliding with the object and to output a corresponding detection signal, and a processor operable to receive the corresponding detecting signal and cause the manipulator or the object to engage in a collision avoidance operation.

20190274768, Sep 12, 2019

Feb 27, 2019

16/286873

- Mountain View CA, US
Berk Gonenc - Cupertino CA, US
Dennis Moses - Hollywood FL, US
Pablo E. Garcia Kilroy - Menlo Park CA, US

A61B 34/00
A61B 34/37
G01D 5/353
G01L 1/24

A surgical robotic user input apparatus has a fiber optic cable with a handheld user input device attached at one end, and a connector attached at another end. Multiple intrinsic sensors, such as fiber Bragg grating sensors, are in the fiber optic cable. The intrinsic sensors are used to detect a pose of the handheld user input device. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.