Patents by Inventor Charles A. Roberts
Charles 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).
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Publication number: 20240174394Abstract: Disclosed herein is an externally-powered strapping tool that includes a strapping tool assembly configured to perform one or more strapping operations; and an external power source operatively coupled thereto, the external power source being attached to the strapping tool assembly in a substantially immovable manner. Also disclosed herein is a strapping tool assembly that includes one or more strapping tool subassemblies configured to perform one or more strapping operations; a power transfer subassembly operatively coupled to the one or more strapping tool subassemblies, the power transfer subassembly configured to transfer motive power from the external power source to the one or more strapping tool subassemblies; and attachment means configured to releasably attach the strapping tool assembly to the external power source, the attachment means further configured to hold the external power source in a substantially fixed position relative to the strapping tool assembly when the attachment means is engaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2024Publication date: May 30, 2024Inventors: Joshua Robert Sikora, Stephen William Sikora, Charles Russell Patzer
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Patent number: 11997812Abstract: A cover is disclosed, including: a first gasket that is placed along a portion of the cover that is to join with a heat sink; a second gasket that is placed around a cutout region of the cover, wherein the cover is configured to couple to a circuit board associated with the power module and expose a component on the circuit board through the cutout region; and a fastener that is configured to engage with the heat sink.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2022Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Richard Fine, Peter H. J How, Charles Ingalz, Steven Nicholas Grolle, Stephen Robert Bannick
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Patent number: 11993340Abstract: A system comprises a slave cylinder for a motorcycle. The slave cylinder may include a rod with a height which is hydraulically adjustable by a hydraulic pressure adjuster. A motorcycle slave cylinder is also provided which includes a rod having a height. The motorcycle slave cylinder also includes a hydraulic pressure adjuster. The hydraulic pressure adjuster hydraulically adjusts the height of the rod above the motorcycle slave cylinder.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: OX-MOTORCYCLE PRODUCTS, LLCInventor: Charles Robert Schueller
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Publication number: 20240166612Abstract: The invention provides arylthioether acetamide and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and their use in the treatment of medical conditions, such as bacterial infections, and in inhibiting LpxA activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 18, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Michael Dominic RYAN, Alastair PARKES, Olivier RĂ©mi BARBEAU, Adele FAULKNER, Maisie HOLBROW-WILSHAW, Michelle SOUTHEY, Angelo SANZONE, Christophe BOLDRON, Elise GADOULEAU, Timothy GORMAN, Kate SPEAR, Thomas Martin KRULLE, Vasileios ROUMPELAKIS, Spencer Charles Robert NAPIER
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Publication number: 20240169326Abstract: The problems of allowing organizations to more easily connect teachers with learners and facilitating knowledge transfer from the teachers to the learners is addressed by methods and systems that provides members/employees of an organization with personal wallets that contain funds. Members/employees provide instruction to one another, transferring funds from a wallet associated with the learner to a wallet associated with the teacher either before or after the instruction is provided. In some cases, feedback on the teacher's performance is collected and the amount of funds transferred to the teacher for providing the instruction to the learner is based on the feedback. In some cases, after the learner completes the instruction, a skills wallet associated with the learner is updated to show that the learner has received the instruction. In some cases, learner or teacher performance is displayed to the organization via a leaderboard or other performance display.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 20, 2023Publication date: May 23, 2024Applicant: Blenheim Chalcot LTF LimitedInventors: Charles Stuart Mindenhall, Josie Jane Filmer, Lee Robert Arthur
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Patent number: 11991869Abstract: A system is including: an overmolded layer that is placed above a top surface and below a bottom surface of a circuit board, wherein the overmolded layer exposes at least communication interfaces on the circuit board and surrounds a heat generating component on the circuit board; a conductive layer that is placed over the overmolded layer on the top surface of the circuit board, wherein the conductive layer exposes the communication interfaces of the circuit board and covers the heat generating component on the circuit board; and wherein heat from the heat generating component is transferred into the conductive layer.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.Inventors: Steven Nicholas Grolle, Gargi Kailkhura, Peter H. J. How, Charles Ingalz, Andrew Diao, Stephen Robert Bannick
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Patent number: 11990992Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for triggering an alarm during a sensor jamming attack. In one aspect, a monitoring system sensor unit is disclosed that includes a sensor, a communication unit configured to communicate with a monitoring system using a range of frequencies, and a jamming detection unit. The jamming detection unit may include a processor and a computer storage media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include detecting a sensor jamming event, selecting a different form of communication other than the range of radio frequencies for the communication unit to communicate with the monitoring system, and providing, to the communication unit, an instruction to communicate with the monitoring system using the form of communication, wherein the communication unit may communicate, to the monitoring system using the form of communication, the sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2022Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: Alarm.com IncorporatedInventors: Stephen Scott Trundle, Alexander Lawrence Reeder, Charles Richard Alpert, Noah Robert Weingart
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Patent number: 11982563Abstract: An apparatus powered by batteries may include a first processor and a second processor. The first processor may consume more electrical power than the second processor. The second processor acquires data from one or more sensors. At a predetermined time or other trigger, the second processor activates the first processor that is then used to send the acquired data to an external device. For example, items are stowed on the apparatus that includes weight sensors. The second processor awakens hourly, acquires weight data indicative of the weight of items stowed on the apparatus, and returns to a sleep mode. After 24 hours of acquiring weight data, the second processor activates the first processor to send the accumulated weight data to an external device, such as a server, using a network interface. Power consumption is substantially reduced, allowing the apparatus to operate without external power for extended periods of times.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Andrew William Staats, Charles Robert Watson, David Buuck, Dave Jonathan Lefkow, Paul Ellis
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Patent number: 11981464Abstract: A strapping tensioning and sealing tool is disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, the strapping tensioning and sealing tool includes a tensioning assembly, the tensioning assembly configured to apply tension to a piece of strapping; and a sealing assembly, the sealing assembly comprising at least one cam member, at least one crimping jaw member, and a motive power source, the at least one cam member operatively coupling the at least one crimping jaw member to the motive power source, and the at least one crimping jaw member of the sealing assembly configured to crimp a strapping sealing member so as to secure the piece of strapping around a package or bundle of items.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Golden Bear LLCInventors: Joshua Robert Sikora, Stephen William Sikora, Charles Russell Patzer, Jack Louis Kime
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Patent number: 11983395Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for dynamically modifying electronic content presented on a user device by third-party content providers based on goals associated with one or more entities. A content modification system may receive inputs related to goals for a user. The content modification system may synthesize the goals associated with the user. When the user uses a user device to request content from a third-party server, the content modification system may obtain the content and extract items included within the content. The content modification system may modify the content based on the synthesized goals, such as re-arranging the items, highlighting some of the items, or adding and/or removing items. The content modification system may cause the user device to present the modified content.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: PayPal, Inc.Inventors: Gwendolyn Phelan Roberts, Vladimir Bacvanski, Michael Charles Todasco
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Patent number: 11978987Abstract: 1. An inverter device is disclosed, including; an enclosure comprising a plurality of sides; an antenna port in a first side of the plurality of sides; and an antenna pass through module comprising: an exterior connector assembly comprising a plurality of pins and a base, wherein the plurality of pins are operable to be connected to respective ones of a plurality of antennas, wherein the plurality of pins passes through the antenna port to an exterior of the enclosure, wherein the base of the exterior connector assembly is sealed against the first side on an interior of the enclosure to provide ingress protection; and an interior antenna circuit configured to: terminate connections from a plurality of transceivers within the interior of the enclosure; and select antenna signals from at least the plurality of pins on the exterior connector assembly to route the plurality of transceivers.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.Inventors: Steven Nicholas Grolle, Peter H. J. How, Charles Ingalz, Stephen Robert Bannick, Andrew Diao, Mark Daniel Goldman
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Publication number: 20240145960Abstract: A substrate assembly includes a first substrate having a first surface and an oppositely facing second surface. Signal pathways are provided on the first surface. The signal pathways extend to first openings which extend inward from an edge of the substrate. First ground pathways are provided on the first surface. Each of the first ground pathways are positioned adjacent at least one of the signal pathways. The first ground pathways extend to second openings which extend inward from the edge of the substrate. Signal contacts are mounted to the first substrate. The signal contacts have first mounting surfaces which provide mechanical and electrical engagement with the first openings. Ground contacts are mounted to the first substrate. The ground contacts have second mounting surfaces which provide mechanical and electrical engagement with the second openings.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Applicant: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Charles Raymond GINGRICH, III, Keith Edwin MILLER, Scott Eric WALTON, Tim Robert CHEVALIER
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Patent number: 11969715Abstract: A catalyst for direct decomposition removal of NOx from an exhaust gas stream to N2 and O2, the catalyst comprising a dual dispersed supported metal oxide material, which comprises MOx-CuOx dispersed on a CO3O4 spinel oxide support, wherein M is selected from the group consisting of Zn, Ce, Mg, Tb, and Gd. The dual dispersed supported metal oxide catalysts have good activity and selectivity for N2.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc.Inventors: Torin C. Peck, Benjamin A. Grayson, Charles A. Roberts
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Patent number: 11973375Abstract: An annular axial flux motor includes a rotor mounted on an annular subsection of a rotatable cam ring and a stator mounted on an annular subsection of a carrier frame. The rotor includes two Halbach arrays of permanent magnets spaced from each other on the cam ring along an axial direction. The stator includes multiple phase electrical windings printed on multiple layers of a printed circuit board (PCB) that are stacked along the axial direction. The multiple layers are positioned between the Halbach arrays, with active side of the Halbach arrays facing to opposite sides of the multiple layers. The Halbach arrays are configured to generate a symmetrical magnetic field and the multiple phase electrical windings are configured to have a same rotor-dependent torque constant, such that the stator can generate a constant torque to rotate the rotor and the cam ring within a finite travel range.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2019Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: Magic Leap, Inc.Inventors: Arno Leon Konings, Charles Robert Schabacker, Jason Donald Mareno
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Publication number: 20240135658Abstract: Generating a location-specific three-dimensional model in response to a location query can provide users with a better understanding of a location through providing better interactivity, better perspective, and better understanding of dimensionality. Generation of the models can be enabled by leveraging a three-dimensional asset database and segmentation methods. The location-specific models can provide further utility by further including situation specific simulated effects, such as simulated weather or traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2024Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Ignacio Garcia Dorado, Charles Goran, Jordi Serrano Berbel, Luke Barrington, Bilawal Singh Sidhu, Thomas Windheuser, Thomas Robert Escobar, Jan Stria
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Publication number: 20240131500Abstract: Provided is a methodology to improve soil performance by dispersing stabilized low C:N non-highly polymerized porous lignocellulose catalytic that improves porosity, carbon capture, and microbial activities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2023Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Griffin William Roberts, Robert K. Herrington, Trish Lyn Jackson, Alain Charles Briancon
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Patent number: 11968793Abstract: An insulating enclosure is disclosed, including: an opening in a side of the insulating enclosure, wherein the opening provides a conductor within a conduit passage into an interior of the insulating enclosure, wherein the conductor is to carry current from the inverter module, wherein a conductive sheath of the conduit is mechanically connected to the insulating enclosure via the opening; and a conductive liner, wherein the conductive liner provides a ground plane for components within the insulating enclosure, wherein the conductive liner covers at least a portion of the side of the insulating enclosure, and wherein the conductive liner is electrically connected to the conductive sheath of the conduit.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2023Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Robert Bannick, Peter H. J. How, Charles Ingalz, Christopher Breckenridge Todd, Mark Daniel Goldman
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Patent number: 11965972Abstract: A method for determining a location of a vehicle includes a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) location system in a manufacturing environment. The method includes determining, when a key cycle transition condition of the vehicle and a vehicle gear transition condition of the vehicle are satisfied, a location parameter of the vehicle using an auxiliary location detection system, where the location parameter includes a location of the vehicle, identification information of the vehicle, and a timestamp of the vehicle. The method includes determining a vehicle time period based on the location parameter and a previous location parameter of the vehicle and validating a manufacturing routine of the vehicle when the location parameter satisfies a location condition and the vehicle time period satisfies a time condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Joseph Stanek, Allen R. Murray, Fahad Liaqat, Sikder Imam, Daniel Robert Taylor, Charles Robert Maxwell Zine
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Patent number: 11963652Abstract: A handheld vacuum cleaner includes a dirt separator. The dirt separator includes a chamber having an inlet through which dirt-laden fluid enters and an outlet through which cleansed fluid exits the chamber. A disc located at the outlet rotates about a rotational axis and comprises holes through which the cleansed fluid passes.Type: GrantFiled: July 27, 2018Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Dyson Technology LimitedInventors: Charles Howard Percy-Raine, Andrew John Isaacs, Alexander Michael Campbell-Hill, Stephen Robert Dimbylow
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Patent number: D1030494Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2023Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: Reckitt Benckiser Health LimitedInventors: Stefano Porcini, Charles Albert Prescott, Arvid Edward Roach, Paul Robert Scott, David Brian Seal, Michael Thomas Seum, Jillian Kaye Tackaberry, Rodrigo Andres Torres Torres, Christopher Ryan Watson