Patents by Inventor Christopher Roberts

Christopher 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).

  • Conduit Fittings for Conduit and Cable Installations
    Publication number: 20230134178
    Abstract: A conduit body includes a sidewall defining an internal chamber and at least two ports providing access to the internal chamber, and a cover connectable to the sidewall to enclose the internal chamber. The sidewall defines a first surface section adjacent one of the at least two ports, a second surface section adjacent another of the at least two ports, and a radiused transition section connecting the first surface section and the second surface section and configured for reducing frictional drag of a cable pulled though the internal chamber. The first surface section is spaced apart from the second surface section to increase a volume of the internal chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Robert Henley, Steven A. Voelzke, Tabitha Stricklin
  • Sealing devices and surgical implements comprising same
    Patent number: 11633210
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are sealing devices configured for improving sealing functionality with an engaged extension member of an apparatus. More specifically, disclosed herein are trocar sealing devices configured for improving insufflation gas containment in relation to trocars (and/or other related type of devices) that are used for enabling a surgical instrument such, for example, a laparoscope, to gain access to an abdominal cavity (or other body cavity). By providing for such improved insufflation gas containment, sealing devices as disclosed herein are particularly advantageous, desirable and useful in view of long-standing reasons for limiting insufflation gas leakage and in view of newly recognized reasons stemming from outbreak of COVID-19 disease for limiting insufflation gas leakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: ClearCam, Inc.
    Inventors: James Landon Gilkey, Christopher Robert Idelson
  • METHODS FOR PROVIDING AN ALERT OR AN ALARM TO A USER OF A MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230116997
    Abstract: Methods, devices and systems are disclosed for inter-app communications between software applications on a mobile communications device. In one aspect, a computer-readable medium on a mobile computing device comprising an inter-application communication data structure to facilitate transitioning and distributing data between software applications in a shared app group for an operating system of the mobile computing device includes a scheme field of the data structure providing a scheme id associated with a target software app to transition to from a source software app, wherein the scheme id is listed on a scheme list stored with the source software app; and a payload field of the data structure providing data and/or an identification where to access data in a shared file system accessible to the software applications in the shared app group, wherein the payload field is encrypted.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Gary A. Morris, Scott M. Belliveau, Esteban Cabrera, JR., Anna Leigh Davis, Rian W. Draeger, Laura J. Dunn, Timothy Joseph Goldsmith, Hari Hampapuram, Christopher Robert Hannemann, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Patrick Wile McBride, Michael Robert Mensinger, Francis William Pascual, Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, Nicholas Polytaridis, Philip Thomas Pupa, Kevin Shoemaker, Brian Christopher Smith, Benjamin Elrod West, Atiim Joseph Wiley
  • Data breach detection and mitigation
    Patent number: 11630911
    Abstract: A breach detection engine detects and mitigates the effects of breaches across one or more data sources. An index is generated based on one or more data sources and the index is queried using keywords indicative of potential breaches. A database of potential breaches is populated based on the query of the index. The potential breach database is queried using keywords associated with a system identity (e.g., a third party). A likelihood of a candidate breach is identified based on a set of breach criteria weights. A network node associated with a candidate breach determined to be an actual breach is identified for isolation or for the performance of one or more additional security actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: UPGUARD, INC.
    Inventors: Alan James Sharp-Paul, Christopher Robert Vickery, Jonathan David Hendren, Gregory Ford Pollock, Daniel Bradbury, Christian Alan Kiely, Gavin Richard Turner, Michael Franz Baukes
  • Systems and methods to generate a video of a user-defined virtual reality scene
    Patent number: 11631201
    Abstract: Systems and methods for generating a video of a user-defined virtual reality scene are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain a scene definition; obtain camera information for multiple virtual cameras to be used in generating a two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene; execute a simulation of the virtual reality scene from the scene definition for at least a portion of the scene duration; obtain camera timing instructions specifying which of the virtual cameras should be used to generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene as a function of progress through the scene duration; generate the two-dimensional presentation of the virtual reality scene in accordance with the camera timing instructions and the camera information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Mindshow Inc.
    Inventors: Gil Baron, Daniel Andrew Bellezza, Jeffrey Scott Dixon, William Stuart Farquhar, Jason Zesheng Hwang, John Henry Kanikula Peters, Nhan Van Khong, Christopher Robert Laubach, Gregory Scott Pease, Jonathan Michael Ross
  • DOSE DETECTION MODULE FOR A MEDICATION DELIVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20230110794
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dose detection system for use with a medication delivery device in which a dose setting member rotates relative to an actuator during dose delivery. The dose detection system includes a module which is removably attached to the medication delivery device. The module includes a rotation sensor attached to the actuator during dose delivery. A sensed element is attached to the dose setting member and includes surface features detectable by the rotation sensor. The rotation sensor comprises a following member including a contact portion resting against and spring-biased in the direction of the surface features. The contact surface is positioned to move over the surface features during rotation of the sensed element, and the rotation sensor is responsive to the movement of the contact portion over the surface features to detect the rotation of the dose setting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Matthew Thomas ANTONELLI, William Churchill Taliaferro BURKE, Roy Howard BYERLY, Christopher Robert MCCASLIN, Ethan Edward PEASE, Kenneth Alan RITSHER
  • BEAUTY CARE PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20230113258
    Abstract: A beauty care product comprising a sealable plastic container, a sealing means and a beauty care component is provided, wherein the container of which is resistant to random, uncontrolled deformation under a substantial pressure differential between the environment and inside the container, yet having an affordable cost of manufacture and/or being appealing to the consumer. A kit comprising said product thereof, a method of manufacturing said product, and a method of using said product for application onto skin and/or hair are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Victor AKINBOBOLA, Alton Lloyd Finley, Matthew David Joseph, Christopher Robert Kopulos, Nicholas Arthur Ruebusch
  • METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SMART ASSISTANT VOICE COMMAND REQUESTOR AUTHENTICATION
    Publication number: 20230116125
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory computer readable medium are disclosed for controlling Internet of Thing (IoT) devices using voice command requestor authentication. The method includes receiving, on a smart assistant device, a voice command from a first user; identifying, on the smart assistant device, the first user from the voice command; determining, on the smart assistant device, an authentication status of the first user to a perform one or more requests to one or more IoT devices based on the identity of the first user; and sending, from the smart assistant device, one or more instructions to the one or more IoT devices when the first user has been authorized to execute a function of the one or more IoT devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Albert F. ELCOCK, Christopher S. DELSORDO, Christopher Robert BOYD
  • Automotive lift-off hinge with integrated door check
    Patent number: 11624224
    Abstract: An automotive lift-off hinge joint to rotationally connect an automotive door and body comprises first and second door side hinge brackets and a body side hinge bracket. A detent shaft is provided with an interiorly threaded intermediate portion adapted to receive a removable threaded fastener and with a shaped detent shaft feature adapted to engage a similarly shaped pyramidal portion of a guide pin fastened to the body side hinge bracket. The detent shaft is rotationally mounted within a cylindrical check mechanism and secured in relation to the first and second door side hinge brackets. Bushings in door side hinge bracket apertures allow rotation of portions of the detent shaft extending through the apertures. The pyramidal shaped portions are preferably square.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: MULTIMATIC INC.
    Inventor: Christopher Robert Kovach
  • Movable vehicle module system
    Patent number: 11623574
    Abstract: A vehicle module system is disclosed. The system includes a track assembly operably coupled with a body of a vehicle. One or more modules may be removably and slidably coupled with the track assembly. The modules include base structure defining an attachment point. A rail feature is disposed along a bottom portion of the base structure. An attachment feature having a retainer for removably coupling to the attachment point to the base structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Anthony Prozzi, Tyler Carpenter, Jeremy John Malick, John Galin, Christopher Robert Westfall, Andres Almeida Senatore, Daniel Boccuccia, Siddharthan Selvasekar
  • SOFT CHEWABLE FORMED BODY FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO ANIMALS
    Publication number: 20230107039
    Abstract: The invention relates to a formed body for the administration to animals and to a process for the production of the formed body for the administration to animals. The formed body serves in particular for the oral administration of pharmaceutically active substances to animals. The formed body for the administration to animals comprises one or more pharmaceutically active substance, one or more flavouring agents, one or more binding agents, one or more gel-forming agents, one or more fillers, water and glycerol.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Christopher Robert BLAND, Venkata-Rangarao KANIKANTI, Anne-Katrin Laura ORLOVIUS, Philipp KIEFER, Peter KLEINEBUDDE
  • Calibrating position sensor readings
    Patent number: 11619522
    Abstract: A method of correcting a position reading from a position sensing arrangement. The position sensing arrangement is suitable for sensing the position of a revolute joint of an articulated structure, and comprises a disc having a magnetic ring with magnetic pole pairs and a magnetic sensor assembly comprising a magnetic sensor array for detecting the magnetic pole pairs of the magnetic ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: CMR SURGICAL LIMITED
    Inventors: Edward James Mottram, Paul Christopher Roberts
  • SUBSTITUTED 4-AMINO-1H-IMIDAZO[4,5-c]QUINOLINE COMPOUNDS AND IMPROVED METHODS FOR THEIR PREPARATION
    Publication number: 20230097144
    Abstract: Improved methods and intermediates thereof for preparing substituted 4-amino-1H-imidazo[4,5-c]quinoline compounds are described. These compounds are useful as NLRP3 modulators.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Sha Lou, Adrian Ortiz, Christopher Robert Jamison, Eric M. Simmons
  • INFLATOR BRACKET ABSORPTION FEATURE
    Publication number: 20230090937
    Abstract: An inflator bracket includes an elongate body having a first end and a second end. The elongate body defines an aperture proximate to the first end. A hook extends from the first end. An absorption feature has a proximal end coupled to the elongate body proximate to the aperture. The absorption feature defines a curve between the proximal end and a distal end. The distal end is spaced from the elongate body and the aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: John W. Jensen, Christopher Robert Tilli, Christopher Donald Schop, Chuck R. Reese
  • System and method for independently routing vehicles and delivering containers and closures to unit operation systems
    Patent number: 11584628
    Abstract: A system and method for independently routing vehicles and delivering containers and closures to unit operation stations are disclosed. The containers and closures can, in some cases, be transported on the same vehicle. In other cases, the containers and closures can be transported on different vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jason Matthew Orndorff, Christopher Robert Lyman, Elizabeth Marie Fikes, Daniel Richard Royce, Ryan Andrew Burkhard, Nathan E Moore
  • Trim assembly for a vehicle
    Patent number: 11584327
    Abstract: A bracket assembly for a vehicle frame includes a trim piece with a high retention clip. The trim piece incudes a deployable portion that is configured to partially deploy in response to a first predetermined force. An inflator tube is concealed by the trim piece and includes an air curtain. A bracket is operably coupled to the trim piece. The bracket has a deformable portion and side portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Pamela Avendano Arenas, Christopher Robert Tilli, Maria Fernanda Medina Luna
  • RNA Splicing Modulation
    Publication number: 20230047208
    Abstract: One aspect described herein is use of a compound to modulate the production of one or more mature RNA isoforms from a gene transcript in a cell. Another aspect described herein is use of a compound in a method to modulate exon inclusion or exon exclusion in one or more mature mRNA isoforms from a gene transcript in a cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Dadi Gao, Elisabetta Morini, Michael E. Talkowski, Susan A. Slaugenhaupt, Wencheng Li, Kerstin Annemarie Effenberger, Christopher Robert Trotta, Yong Yu, Vijayalakshmi Gabbeta, Amal Dakka, Nikolai A. Naryshkin
  • Enthalpy exchanger
    Patent number: 11578881
    Abstract: A heat and humidity exchanger comprises panels made up of membrane sheets attached on either side of a separator. Channels extend across each panel between the separator and the membrane sheets. The panels are much stiffer than the membrane sheets. Panels are stacked in a spaced apart relationship to provide an ERV core. Spacing between adjacent panels may be smaller than a thickness of the panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: CORE Energy Recovery Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis Warren Mullen, David Erwin Kadylak, Christopher Robert Barr, James Franklin Dean, Guy Timothy Pearson
  • Drinking bottle
    Patent number: D979414
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Flashbay Electronics Hong Kong Limited
    Inventor: James Christopher Roberts
  • Drinking bottle
    Patent number: D979415
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Flashbay Electronics Hong Kong Limited
    Inventor: James Christopher Roberts