Patents by Inventor David Roberts

David 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: 11965147
    Abstract: A laundry care or dish care composition can include a poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative, wherein the poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative includes: (i) a poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone of glucose monomer units, wherein greater than or equal to 40% of the glucose monomer units are linked via alpha-1,6 glycosidic linkages, and wherein from 0% to less than 30% of the glucose monomer units are linked via alpha-1,3 glycosidic linkages, and optionally at least 5% of the backbone glucose monomer units have branches via alpha-1,2 and/or alpha-1,3 glycosidic linkages; and (ii) at least one organic group linked to the poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone through a linkage moiety; wherein, the poly alpha-1,6-glucan backbone has a weight average degree of polymerization of at least 5; and wherein, the poly alpha-1,6-glucan derivative has a degree of substitution of linkage moiety of from 0.20 to 1.00.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Mark Robert Sivik, Kristine Lynn Fliter, Neil Thomas Fairweather, Gang Si, David Good, Zheng-Zheng Huang, Helen Lu, Douglas Adelman
  • Publication number: 20240126038
    Abstract: A panel system includes a chassis holding one or more tray arrangements, which are each configured to receive one or more cassettes at two or more bays. The tray arrangements and cassettes cooperate to define a cassette sensor arrangement and a port occupancy sensor arrangement having separate interface points. The cassette sensor arrangement may include electronic memory storing physical layer information about the cassette. All active components of the port occupancy sensor arrangement are disposed on the tray while the electronic memories of the cassette sensor arrangement are stored on the cassettes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Ryan Edward ENGE, Paula LOCKHART, Scott Martin KEITH, David Jan Irma VAN BAELEN, Jacob C. ANDERSON, Steven Walter KNOERNSCHILD, Brian J. FITZPATRICK, Pedro MALDONADO, Gary Federico GIBBS, James J. SOLHEID, Matthew J. HOLMBERG, Matthew Robert KIENER
  • Publication number: 20240117682
    Abstract: A cutting element assembly includes a cutter support including a cutter bore. A cutting element is in the cutter bore and a resilient element is integral with the cutter support. The resilient element is longitudinally compressible and has a displacement of greater than 0.1 mm and optionally less than 2 mm. Another cutting assembly includes a cutter support coupled to multiple cutting elements. A resilient element of the cutter support is compressible based on a force applied to the cutter support through one or more of the cutting elements. The resilient element can include a slit in the cutter support. A slit may, for instance, extend perpendicular or transverse to an axis of the cutting elements and allow the cutter support to flex and close off or reduce a size of the slit when forces act on one or more of the cutting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: David Robert Evan Snoswell, Ashley Bernard Johnson, Mauro Caresta, John Mervyn Cook
  • Publication number: 20240118495
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a coupler includes a glass tube having a refractive index n3 and a passageway, a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide positioned within the passageway, each of the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide comprising a core surrounded by a cladding. The glass tube further includes a tapered region having a taper length. A coupling region is present between the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide within the tapered region. A refractive index of the cladding is less than a refractive index of the core, and a lowest refractive index of the cladding of the first optical waveguide and the second optical waveguide is n2. Additionally, n3 is lower than n2 such that a value of ?2-3 is 0.07%??2-3?0.125, where ?2-3 equals (n22?n32)/2n22.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Agnivo Gosai, Jeremy Alexander Graham, SR., William James Miller, David Lee Weidman, Aramais Robert Zakharian
  • Publication number: 20240115882
    Abstract: Devices, systems and techniques are used for cancer treatment. An example control device may be configured to be communicatively coupled to a radiation source of a radiotherapy device and a position sensor of the radiotherapy device. The example control device may be used to calculate, for a sliding window of a radiotherapy treatment, a positional error between: a measured target position signal determined from a series of images and sampled at the acquisition times of the images, and an estimated target position signal. The example control device may generate a computer-executable instruction configured to alter the radiotherapy treatment in response to the positional error violating a threshold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Joshua Freedman, Fabienne Lathuiliere, Kevin John Brown, David Roberts, Sebastien Tremblay
  • Patent number: 11953737
    Abstract: An optical ferrule connector is provided. The optical ferrule connector includes a body including a beveled surface, a plurality of optical fibers embedded in the body, each of the plurality of optical fibers extending along a transmission direction and terminating in a fiber tip that is oriented coplanar to the beveled surface, and a plurality of optical elements, each optical element of the plurality of optical elements located at an associated fiber tip of an associated optical fiber, each optical element operable to manipulate or otherwise focus light into or out of a core of the associated optical fiber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Smiths Interconnect Canada Inc.
    Inventors: David Robert Rolston, Mohammadreza Sanadgol Nezami, Shubhankar Mishra, Shanglin Li
  • Patent number: 11951878
    Abstract: A vehicle is provided that includes a vehicle body defining a cabin interior, a plurality of seats located within the cabin interior, each seat having an adjustable seat base and an adjustable seat back, a monitoring system for detecting and monitoring a pet within the cabin interior, and a controller processing signals generated by the monitoring system and determining a location of the pet based on the monitored signals, the controller further controlling at least one of the adjustable seat base and adjustable seat back of a seat based on the determined location of the pet so that the seat is configured to accommodate the pet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Stuart C. Salter, Hussein H. Berry, Annette Lynn Huebner, Marguerite Lynn Kimball, David Brian Glickman, Gregory Paul Thomas, John Robert Van Wiemeersch
  • Patent number: 11952305
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for processing an optical fiber includes: drawing an optical fiber through a draw furnace, conveying the optical fiber through a flame reheating device downstream from the draw furnace, wherein the flame reheating device comprises one or more burners each comprising: a body having a top surface and an opposing bottom surface, an opening within the body extending from the top surface through the body to the bottom surface, wherein the optical fiber passes through the opening, and one or more gas outlets within the body; and igniting a flammable gas provided by the one or more gas outlets to form a flame encircling the optical fiber passing through the opening, wherein the flame heats the optical fiber by at least 100 degrees Celsius at a heating rate exceeding 10,000 degrees Celsius/second.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: CORNING INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Ravindra Kumar Akarapu, Joel Patrick Carberry, David Alan Deneka, Steven Akin Dunwoody, Kenneth Edward Hrdina, John Michael Jewell, Yuanjie Jiang, Nikolaos Pantelis Kladias, Ming-Jun Li, Barada Kanta Nayak, Dale Robert Powers, Chunfeng Zhou, Vincent Matteo Tagliamonti, Christopher Scott Thomas
  • Patent number: 11951110
    Abstract: Described are methods of preparing reduced 3,7-diamino-10H-phenothiazine (DAPTZ) compounds of formula: wherein: R1 and R9 are independently selected from: —H; C1-4alkyl; C2-4alkenyl; and halogenated C1-4alkyl; each of R3NA and R3NB is independently selected from: —H; C1-4alkyl; C2-4alkenyl; and halogenated C1-4alkyl; each of R7NA and R7NB is independently selected from: —H; C1-4alkyl; C2-4alkenyl; and halogenated C1-4alkyl; each of HX1 and HX2 is independently a protic acid; and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, and hydrates thereof. These methods are particularly useful for producing stable reduced forms, and with high purity. The stability and purity are especially relevant for pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of disease. The compounds are useful for treatment of e.g. tauopathies, such as Alzheimer's disease, and also as prodrugs for the corresponding oxidized thioninium drugs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WisTa Laboratories Ltd.
    Inventors: Claude Michel Wischik, Janet Elizabeth Rickard, Charles Robert Harrington, David Horsley, John Mervyn David Storey, Colin Marshall, James Peter Sinclair, Thomas Craven Baddeley
  • Publication number: 20240109570
    Abstract: Navigating a transportation network by receiving an equipment identifier, querying a section of interest database to obtain at least one section of interest associated, accessing geolocation data from one or more geolocation sensors, querying a one section of interest using geolocation data to identify a next section of interest. With geolocation data, calculating at least one of a time to a next section of interest or a distance to a next section of interest, and determining that a reduction in speed is required, where a reduced speed is an amount of speed by which the speed must be reduced in order for the equipment to achieve a target speed associated with the next section of interest, and providing an alert configured to escalate to the user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Milad Hosseinipour, Michael Trosino, Michael Craft, David Stolnis, Emily Greve, Thomas Robert Krotchko
  • Publication number: 20240108850
    Abstract: A urinary catheter and container. The urinary catheter can include a catheter shaft attached to a handle and a coating disposed on an outer surface of the catheter shaft. The coating can include a hydrogel, water and/or glycerin, and a polyethylene gylcol (PEG). The PEG can have a molecular weight equal to or less than 600, for example one or more of polyethylene glycol (PEG) 300 and PEG 400. The coating can be applied in a wet state and remain wet for an extended period of time in the container, thereby obviating the need for a lubricant, such as a water sachet or gel package, to accompany the catheter in the container. The container can include a gas impermeable foil material. The container can include an adhesive tab covering a perforated section, the adhesive tab including a pull loop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Zhihui Yin, David Fish, Tom Roberts
  • Patent number: 11949189
    Abstract: A circuit board assembly includes a circuit board and an electrical connector having a connector housing holding contacts in a contact array. The connector housing has a mating end configured to be mated with a mating electrical connector in a mating direction. The electrical connector has cables terminated to the contacts and extending from a cable end. A connector mount is used to locate the electrical connector relative to the circuit board. A bracket is coupled to the mounting surface of the circuit board. A biasing member is coupled to the bracket and the mounting feature and is compressible along a compression axis parallel to the mating direction to allow the electrical connector to float in the mating direction relative to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Chad William Morgan, John Joseph Consoli, Timothy Robert Minnick, Justin Dennis Pickel, Douglas Edward Shirk, David Allison Trout, Michael Streckewald
  • Patent number: 11949752
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mobile event streaming system that receives customer application lifecycle and user events including a message, event source and a destination then processes data for consumption by one or more customers, generating a secure data stream and sending the processed data over the generated data stream. An example system for receiving, processing, and delivering customer application lifecycle and user engagement data includes a server system having at least one processor, memory and a network interface where the memory stores program instructions for receiving, storing, processing and transmitting messages via the network interface. The mobile event streaming system may be a distributed content delivery service wherein the content delivered via the service is processed. Processing the data comprises the addition of metadata, one or more identifiers such as user, and event identifiers including predictions of future user engagement to enable real-time data consumption by customers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Airship Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael James Herrick, Adam C. Lowry, Cory David Hoffman Kolbeck, Michael Shane Robert McHugh
  • Patent number: 11946017
    Abstract: The current invention relates to a method of separating polyunsaturated fatty acids containing lipids from a lipids containing biomass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignees: Evonik Operations GmbH, DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Manfred Bärz, Marc Beiser, Georg Borchers, Stephen Robert Cherinko, Mathias Dernedde, Michael Diehl, Xiao Daniel Dong, Jürgen Haberland, Michael Benjamin Johnson, Robert Cody Kertis, Jochen Lebert, Neil Francis Leininger, Kirt Lyvell Matthews, Sr., Holger Pfeifer, Christian Rabe, Shannon Elizabeth Ethier Resop, Ginger Marie Shank, Vinod Tarwade, David Allen Tinsley, Daniel Verkoeijen
  • Patent number: 11947711
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for real-time feature level software security are described herein. A request may be received from a computing device for data from the feature of the software application. The request for data may include authorization information of a user of the computing device. It may be identified that the feature of the software application contains code containing a reference to a security configuration service. A security configuration may be determined for the feature of the software application by comparing a resource identifier and a feature identifier of the feature of the software application to a set of security configurations of the security configuration service. The security configuration may provide access rules for the feature of the software application. A response may be sent to the computing device based on a comparison of the received authorization information of the user of the computing device to the determined security configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
    Inventors: Adam Sanders, David L. Frost, Mark Robert Fichtner
  • Publication number: 20240100364
    Abstract: Timing-based methods, systems, and computer readable mediums for a gated linear accelerator include synchronising a local clock of the linear accelerator with a clock of a patient monitoring system, determining latencies within one or more MR-gated radiotherapy processes and implementing latency based interlocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Christopher Knox, Joshua Freedman, Kevin John Brown, David Roberts
  • Publication number: 20240104190
    Abstract: The invention is directed to systems, methods and apparatus for securing documents. The system comprises a server having a processor and a data storage device for storing documents, at least one document provider connected to the server, the at least one document provider operable to provide user documents to the server for storage in the data storage device, the user documents containing at least one object of security concern, and at least one document consumer connected to the server, the at least one document consumer operable to receive the user documents containing the at least one object of security concern from the server.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Brian John Cepuran, Daryl McMillan, David Robert Lockhart, Dariusz Grabka
  • Publication number: 20240102901
    Abstract: Provided herein are devices and methods for isolation and detection of an analyte from a sample. In some embodiments, provided herein are devices and methods of use thereof for vertical flow-based isolation and detection of analytes in a liquid sample, such as a urine sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Jay Warrick, Cody Carrell, Brianna Mullins, David Beebe, Ryan Shogren, Patrick McMinn, Mitch Geiger, Madalyn Gill, Jeffrey Robert Staszak, Visnu Devi Fraenkel, Antonio Gatta, Eric S. Mackey, McKayla Rae Barber, Randi Marie Degg, Madeline Sides, Douglas Paul Barnes, Franklin Cheng Zhong, Mindy Phung
  • Patent number: D1021892
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Scott A. Myers, David A. Pakula, Rasamy Phouthavong, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Ashutosh Y. Shukla, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1022568
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: PepsiCo, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Alvarez, Xavier Cortadellas, Sean Joseph Huls, William Owen Stock, Matthew K. Lider, Yang Ouyang, David Robert Schlesinger, Joshua Stough, Sarah White