Patents by Inventor Clifford Roberts

Clifford 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).

  • Publication number: 20240142093
    Abstract: A lighting fixture may include a housing, an illumination source disposed within the housing, and a frame coupled to the housing. The frame may include a first side and a second side abutting the first side to form a joint, wherein a gap extends at the joint and at least one of the first side or the second side is configured to obscure at least a portion of the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: ABL IP HOLDING, LLC
    Inventors: Clifford T. WOOD, Jeff Robert SHANER
  • Patent number: 11093540
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention can be a method for assessing unstructured comments, the method including providing reference data generated from a first set of unstructured comments from a first group; receiving a second set of unstructured comments from a second group; identifying a significant word within each unstructured comment of the second set of unstructured comments; for each significant word identified within the second set of unstructured comments, determining a frequency of occurrence of the significant word; and generating a visualization including a portion of the identified significant words, wherein for each visualized significant word, a first aspect of an appearance of the significant word is based on an extent to which the frequency of occurrence deviates from a frequency of occurrence of the significant word in the first set of unstructured comments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Inventors: Richard Johnson Joi, Clifford Robert Bettmann Piontek
  • Publication number: 20190332622
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention can be a method for assessing unstructured comments, the method including providing reference data generated from a first set of unstructured comments from a first group; receiving a second set of unstructured comments from a second group; identifying a significant word within each unstructured comment of the second set of unstructured comments; for each significant word identified within the second set of unstructured comments, determining a frequency of occurrence of the significant word; and generating a visualization including a portion of the identified significant words, wherein for each visualized significant word, a first aspect of an appearance of the significant word is based on an extent to which the frequency of occurrence deviates from a frequency of occurrence of the significant word in the first set of unstructured comments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Johnson Joi, Clifford Robert Bettmann Piontek
  • Patent number: 10387471
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention can be a method for assessing unstructured comments, the method including providing reference data generated from a first set of unstructured comments from a first group; receiving a second set of unstructured comments from a second group; identifying a significant word within each unstructured comment of the second set of unstructured comments; for each significant word identified within the second set of unstructured comments, determining a frequency of occurrence of the significant word; and generating a visualization including a portion of the identified significant words, wherein for each visualized significant word, a first aspect of an appearance of the significant word is based on an extent to which the frequency of occurrence deviates from a frequency of occurrence of the significant word in the first set of unstructured comments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Inventors: Richard Johnson Joi, Clifford Robert Bettmann Piontek
  • Publication number: 20170032028
    Abstract: In one embodiment, the invention can be a method for assessing unstructured comments, the method including providing reference data generated from a first set of unstructured comments from a first group; receiving a second set of unstructured comments from a second group; identifying a significant word within each unstructured comment of the second set of unstructured comments; for each significant word identified within the second set of unstructured comments, determining a frequency of occurrence of the significant word; and generating a visualization including a portion of the identified significant words, wherein for each visualized significant word, a first aspect of an appearance of the significant word is based on an extent to which the frequency of occurrence deviates from a frequency of occurrence of the significant word in the first set of unstructured comments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Publication date: February 2, 2017
    Inventors: Richard Johnson Joi, Clifford Robert Bettmann Piontek
  • Patent number: 7808534
    Abstract: Vertical and horizontal smear in images produced by a CCD imager can be compensated for by detecting the boundaries of the smear and substituting data from an alternative part of the image, or interpolated data within those boundaries. Vertical, or frame transfer, smear can also be compensated for by producing an error signal from charge accumulated during frame transfer and corresponding to one or more masked rows of the CCD imager. This error signal can be subtracted from the line signals corresponding to each row of the CCD images receiving radiation during image acquisitions. The CCD imager includes a multiplication register. The dynamic range of the imager may be extended by varying the gain of the multiplication register, for example on a line-by-line or frame-by-frame basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2010
    Assignee: E2V Technologies (UK) Limited
    Inventors: Michael John Hazelwood, Samuel Harrison Hutton, Clifford Robert Weatherup
  • Patent number: 7520743
    Abstract: With the disclosed device, some or all of the available oil tank vent gas in a production system can be utilized to augment the primary fuel gas needed by a heater treater unit to separate the gas, oil, and water fractions from raw natural gas extracted at the wellhead. Augmenting the primary fuel gas with vent gas reduces the demand for primary fuel gas, which thereby increases the amount of gas traversing a meter. The disclosed device also provides for an auxiliary burner unit that can directly address any available oil tank vent gas that is not utilized to augment fuel gas as waste gas. A method and apparatus for reducing the venting of raw natural gas emissions from an oil storage tank is described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: Chemical Applications and Engineering, Inc.
    Inventor: Leslie Clifford Roberts
  • Publication number: 20040120938
    Abstract: A formulation for use as a bactericidal agent in the human or animal digestive system includes xanthine oxidoreductase. The formulation may especially be in the form of a formula feed formulation or enteral feed formulation for administration to a human or animal. The formulation is capable of functioning as a “natural antibiotic” to prevent or reduce bacterial infection within the gut, especially the neonatal gut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 24, 2004
    Applicant: The University of Bath
    Inventors: David Russell Blake, Clifford Robert Stevens, Robert Eisenthal, Roger Harrison, Timothy Marc Miller, Rachel Edwards
  • Patent number: 6682732
    Abstract: A composition for use in the treatment of lesions of the human or animal body comprises xanthine oxidoreductase and a pharmaceutically acceptable electron donor system. The composition can accelerate wound healing, especially in a hypoxic environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2004
    Assignee: The University of Bath
    Inventors: David Russell Blake, Clifford Robert Stevens, Robert Eisenthal, Roger Harrison, Timothy Mark Millar, Tulin Bodamyali, Janos Kanczler
  • Patent number: 4508301
    Abstract: In a shelf support formed as a continuous section and capable of supporting a shelf as a cantilever by the cooperation of: a supporting member to lie below and in contact with said shelf, said supporting member being disposed upon a plate for fixing to a wall; and a retaining member to lie above and in contact with said shelf, said retaining member being disposed upon said plate; the improvement comprising, locating a region of said retaining member, spaced from said plate, closer to said supporting member than a region of said retaining member adjacent said plate and providing a ramp surface to urge the retaining member upwards, whereby the shelf is gripped between the supporting member and the retaining member and wherein the supporting member is in contact with the shelf at at least a first location and at least a second location, said second location being closer to said plate than said first location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 2, 1985
    Inventors: Timothy J. H. Nicholson, Andrew L. Lee, Clifford Roberts
  • Patent number: 4385565
    Abstract: A shelf support formed as a continuous section to run the length of the shelf and hold it as a cantilever by the co-operation of a support surface designed to lie below the shelf and a retaining ridge disposed to engage the upper face of the shelf near its edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Inventors: Hubert P. Roberts, Clifford Roberts
  • Patent number: PP16547
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Camellia named ‘Classic Pink’ that is characterized by exceptional cold-hardiness, an attractive compact plant form with very dark glossy green foliage, and formal double very pale pink flowers which are late to bloom. In combination these traits set ‘Classic Pink’ apart from all other existing varieties of Camellia known to the inventor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Inventor: Clifford Robert Parks
  • Patent number: PP29734
    Abstract: A new cultivar of Camellia named ‘Fall Fantasy’ that is characterized by its very floriferous blooming habit, its infloresences with a double rose form, its upright and dense growth habit making it suitable for use as a screening plant, and its rapid growth habit and ease of propagation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Inventor: Clifford Robert Parks