Patents by Inventor Brett A. Roberts

Brett A. Roberts 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: 11986595
    Abstract: A mask assembly includes a mask interface and a headgear assembly. The mask interface includes a housing and a seal that seals around a user's nose and/or mouth in use. The headgear assembly secures the mask interface to the user's face in use. The headgear assembly can include a top strap, a rear section, and side arms. The top strap can be manually adjustable. The rear section can be temporarily expanded to allow for donning and/or doffing of the mask assembly. The side arms can be automatically adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: Fisher & Paykel Healthcare Limited
    Inventors: Mark Arvind McLaren, Brett John Huddart, Jeroen Hammer, Matthew Robert Geoff Slight, Vitaly Kapelevich, David Monroy Felix
  • Publication number: 20240163529
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method and audio processing system for performing dynamic range adjustment of spatial audio objects. The method comprises obtaining (step S1) a plurality of spatial audio objects (10), obtaining (step S2) at least one rendered audio presentation of the spatial audio objects (10) and determining (step S3) signal level data associated with each presentation audio channel in said set of presentation audio channels. The method further comprises obtaining (step S31) a threshold value and, for each time segment, selecting (step S4) a selected presentation audio channel which is associated with a highest or a lowest signal level, determining (step S5) a gain based on the threshold value and the representation of the signal level of the selected audio channel, and applying (step S6) the gain of each time segment to corresponding time segments of the spatial audio objects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Applicant: DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dirk Jeroen BREEBAART, Brett G. Crockett, Ryan Michael Friedrich, Jordan Robert Glasgow, Derek Christian Jones, Eric Whelan Yeargan
  • Patent number: 11961976
    Abstract: An example outdoor mounted device includes a first battery configured to operate at a low temperature range that at least includes negative 20 Celsius; a second battery configured to operate at a high temperature range; a temperature sensor; and processing circuitry configured to: determine, based on data received from the temperature sensors, a current temperature; responsive to determining that the current temperature is within the low temperature range, cause one or more components of the computing device to operate using electrical energy sourced from the first battery; and responsive to determining that the current temperature is within the high temperature range, cause the one or more components of the computing device to operate using electrical energy sourced from the second battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: James Robert Lim, Wei Li, Brian Conner, Brett Wilson
  • Patent number: 11955034
    Abstract: An apparatus for supporting signage at a support structure is disclosed. The apparatus has a torsion member configured to be attached to the signage, at least one base member configured to be attached to the support structure, and at least one hinge assembly that is disposed between the torsion member and the at least one base member, the at least one hinge assembly including a base hinge subassembly and a second hinge subassembly that are attached together. The base hinge subassembly is attached to the at least one base member. The second hinge subassembly is attached to the torsion member. The torsion member is rotatable in a first rotational direction about the second hinge subassembly and a second rotational direction about the base hinge subassembly, the first rotational direction being different from the second rotational direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Inventor: Brett Robert Roe
  • Patent number: 11945166
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices for post-processing additively manufactured objects are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a plurality of additively manufactured objects on a rotor, the plurality of additively manufactured objects having excess material thereon. The method can include removing the excess material from the plurality of additively manufactured objects by rotating the plurality of additively manufactured objects via the rotor. The method can further include applying energy to the plurality of additively manufactured objects to cure a portion of each additively manufactured object while the plurality of additively manufactured objects are on the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Viswanath Meenakshisundaram, Srinivas Kaza, Chunhua Li, Lance Robert Pickens, Shawn Stromenger, Jun Sato, Siobhan O'Leary, Peter Webber, Brett E. Kelly, Jennifer Chavez
  • Publication number: 20240102573
    Abstract: A tire inflation valve having anti-rotation features has an external valve seat, and includes a valve body, a valve stem extending through the length of the valve body, and anti-rotation features disposed interior to the valve body. The valve stem is configured to move relative to the valve body, such that a resilient seating surface disposed at a proximal end of the valve stem is displaced relative to a valve seat formed by an exterior surface of a proximal end of the valve body. The anti-rotation features may include a complementary slot and protrusion, a keyway and complementary protruding ridge, and/or complementary channels and lateral protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Brett Robert COURTNEY, James Mathew AMARAL, Nick ANDERSON, Jon WOOD
  • Publication number: 20240072131
    Abstract: Strategic placement and patterning of electrodes, vias, and metal runners can significantly reduce strain in a power semiconductor die. By modifying the path defining electrodes, vias, and metal runners, as well as patterning the material layers thereof, strain can be better managed to increase reliability of a power semiconductor die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Jenner Lichtenwalner, Edward Robert Van Brunt, Thomas E. Harrington, III, Shadi Sabri, Brett Hull, Brice McPherson, Joe W. McPherson
  • Patent number: 11915802
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to efficient tertiary analysis of genomic data. The technology disclosed includes splitting a genomic data file into a plurality of segments, and storing segments in the plurality of segments across nodes of a distributed storage system, pushing the segments from the nodes of the distributed storage system to nodes of a distributed, in-memory computing engine, distributing directives of tertiary analysis job contexts for the genomic data file across the nodes of the distributed, in-memory computing engine, directly executing the distributed directives on the segments stored on the nodes of the distributed, in-memory computing engine to cause parallel processing of the segments, and aggregating results of the parallel processing across the nodes of the distributed, in-memory computing engine to produce an output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SHARECARE AI, INC.
    Inventors: Brett Robert Redinger, Kartik Thakore, Sandra Ann R Steyaert, Walter Adolf De Brouwer, Srivatsa Akshay Sharma, Lijing Guo
  • Patent number: 11904644
    Abstract: An inflation valve for a tubeless tire may include a valve body defining a cavity having a proximal opening and a distal opening. A valve stem extends through the cavity and includes a plug at a proximal end of the valve stem. The proximal opening of the cavity is defined by a beveled surface, and an outer diameter of the beveled surface is larger than an inner diameter of the valve body. The valve is transitionable between: a) a closed position, where a resilient surface of the plug engages the beveled surface to seal the cavity, and b) an open position, where the resilient surface of the plug is spaced from the beveled surface to unseal the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Santa Cruz Bicycles, LLC
    Inventors: Brett Robert Courtney, James Mathew Amaral
  • Publication number: 20240053865
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for interpreting a user external data reference value and a user data change input value, accessing an external data source in response to the user external data reference value, receiving source data from the external data source, updating the source data in the external data source in response to the external data source and the user data change input value, and providing an updated display value for a document in response to the user data change input value and the source data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 11877540
    Abstract: A Tray and Trellis System includes vertical posts or legs, longitudinal members, and cross members. Combs include tines fixed at one end to longitudinal members on one side, and releasably engaged at their other end to other longitudinal members on the other side. Further combs include tines fixed to a cross member at one end, and releasably engaged to another cross member at the other end. There may be intermediate cross members having tines fixed to them and other tines releasably engaged to them. Fixation of the tines may be by clips, rings, welding, bonding, fastening, or by molding as a single piece. The releasably engaged ends of the tines may be engaged with snap-fit slot features in the longitudinal members, the cross members, or the clips or rings, or may be engaged with open grommets inserted into openings in the longitudinal members or cross members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Bartrom, Ted R. E. Martin, Brett A. Roberts
  • Publication number: 20230380587
    Abstract: A table assembly comprising a table including a top member and at least a first leg support member, the top member forming a substantially flat top surface and circumscribed by an outer edge, the at least one leg support member supporting the top member in a substantially horizontal position, a table dock secured to the top member and forming an elongated channel having a dock length dimension and at least a first display panel circumscribed by a panel edge and having at least one straight edge having a panel length dimension, the dock length dimension less than panel length dimension, wherein at least a portion of the straight edge of the panel is receivable within the dock channel with the panel extending out the open first and second ends of the channel to support the panel in a substantially upright orientation with at least a portion of the display panel extending to a height above the flat top surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: David J. Battey, Sean M. Corcorran, Timothy Elms, Jeffrey Coffey, Duck Young Kong, Brett Robert Kincaid, Mark William Schoolmeester, Elger Oberwelz, Thomas Overthun, Jake Eisner, Cody Jay Holstege, Michael Skibinski
  • Patent number: 11811794
    Abstract: The technology disclosed provides systems and methods related to preventing exfiltration of training data by feature reconstruction attacks on model instances trained on the training data during a training job. The system comprises a privacy interface that presents a plurality of modulators for a plurality of training parameters. The modulators are configured to respond to selection commands via the privacy interface to trigger procedural calls. The procedural calls modify corresponding training parameters in the plurality of training parameters for respective training cycles in the training job. The system comprises a trainer configured to execute the training cycles in dependence on the modified training parameters. The trainer can determine a performance accuracy of the model instances for each of the executed training cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: Sharecare AI, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Gabra Zaccak, William Hartman, Andrés Rodriguez Esmeral, Devin Daniel Reich, Marina Titova, Brett Robert Redinger, Philip Joseph Dow, Satish Srinivasan Bhat, Walter Adolf De Brouwer, Scott Michael Kirk
  • Publication number: 20230342003
    Abstract: Systems and methods include interpreting a first user input from a first user, the first user input comprising a text flow entry, interpreting a second user input from the first user, the second user input comprising at least one of: an in-line data access entry or a table-based calculation entry, positioning a text entry value on a unified document surface in response to the first user input, creating at least one data structure in response to the second user input, the at least one data structure comprising data from an external data source, the external data source being external to the unified document surface, and positioning the at least one data structure on the unified document surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 11775136
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for a accessing a data element, providing a first view in response to the data element, the first view comprising at least a portion of the data element, determining a visualization element (VE) in response to the data element, and further in response to at least one of a user visualization selection or a user context value, and providing a second view in response to the VE and the data element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Coda Project, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Patent number: 11759008
    Abstract: A table assembly comprising a table including a top member and at least a first leg support member, the top member forming a substantially flat top surface and circumscribed by an outer edge, the at least one leg support member supporting the top member in a substantially horizontal position, a table dock secured to the top member and forming an elongated channel having a dock length dimension and at least a first display panel circumscribed by a panel edge and having at least one straight edge having a panel length dimension, the dock length dimension less than panel length dimension, wherein at least a portion of the straight edge of the panel is receivable within the dock channel with the panel extending out the open first and second ends of the channel to support the panel in a substantially upright orientation with at least a portion of the display panel extending to a height above the flat top surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: STEELCASE INC.
    Inventors: David J. Battey, Sean M. Corcorran, Timothy Elms, Jeffrey Coffey, Duck Young Kong, Brett Robert Kincaid, Mark William Schoolmeester, Elger Oberwelz, Thomas Overthun, Jake Eisner, Cody Jay Holstege, Michael Skibinski
  • Patent number: 11755709
    Abstract: The technology disclosed relates to authenticating users using a plurality of non-deterministic registration biometric inputs. During registration, a plurality of non-deterministic biometric inputs are given as input to a trained machine learning model to generate sets of feature vectors. The non-deterministic biometric inputs can include a plurality of face images and a plurality of voice samples of a user. A characteristic identity vector for the user can be determined by averaging feature vectors. During authentication, a plurality of non-deterministic biometric inputs are given as input to a trained machine learning model to generate a set of authentication feature vectors. The sets of feature vectors are projected onto a surface of a hyper-sphere. The system can authenticate the user when a cosine distance between the authentication feature vector and a characteristic identity vector for the user is less than a pre-determined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SHARECARE AI, INC.
    Inventors: Axel Sly, Srivatsa Akshay Sharma, Brett Robert Redinger, Devin Daniel Reich, Geert Trooskens, Meelis Lootus, Young Jin Lee, Ricardo Lopez Arredondo, Frederick Franklin Kautz, IV, Satish Srinivasan Bhat, Scott Michael Kirk, Walter Adolf De Brouwer, Kartik Thakore
  • Patent number: 11726635
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes methods and systems for interpreting a table grouping input value associated with a table, wherein the table comprises a plurality of categories and a plurality of associated data sets corresponding to the plurality of categories, determining an aggregation value in response to the table grouping input value, wherein the aggregation value corresponds to at least one of the plurality of categories, and in response to the aggregation value, providing an aggregated table view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Coda Project, Inc.
    Inventors: Melissa Ming-Sak Boucher, Jeremy Edward Britton, Luke Bayes, Monica F. Caso, Alexander W. Deneui, Christopher Leland Eck, Nigel Robin Ellis, Filipe P. Fortes, David Lilja Greenspan, Brett Robert Hobbs, Matthew B. Hudson, Timothy Andrew James, Kenneth Francis Mendes, Shishir S. Mehrotra, Trevor Michael O'Brien, Lane Patrick Shackleton, Rhed Shi, Hariharan Sivaramakrishnan, Jason Peter Stowe, Jason Andrew Tamulonis, Himanshu Vasishth, Ramesh Krishna Vyaghrapuri, David Richard Wright, Irvin Zhan, Roger Mathieu Zurawicki
  • Publication number: 20230057109
    Abstract: A tire inflation valve having anti-rotation features has an external valve seat, and includes a valve body, a valve stem extending through the length of the valve body, and anti-rotation features disposed interior to the valve body. The valve stem is configured to move relative to the valve body, such that a resilient seating surface disposed at a proximal end of the valve stem is displaced relative to a valve seat formed by an exterior surface of a proximal end of the valve body. The anti-rotation features may include a complementary slot and protrusion, a keyway and complementary protruding ridge, and/or complementary channels and lateral protrusions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Brett Robert COURTNEY, James Mathew AMARAL, Nick ANDERSON, Jon WOOD
  • Publication number: 20230027689
    Abstract: A leash includes a strap of flexible material forming a loop and a body including at least two passageways extending through the body. The strap extends through each of the passageways, and the loop of the strap is formed by a continuous length of the strap that extends between the passageways. The strap slides through the passageways as desired to increase or decrease the size of the loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Brett Robert Kincaid, Marianne Wanda Menger