Patents by Inventor DIRK DUNCAN

DIRK DUNCAN 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: 20210158721
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a cognitive evaluation system that includes a display device, a plurality of user input actuators, and a computer-readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors. The processor cause the system to provide a plurality of cognitive evaluation tests to one or more users over a first period of time, determine baseline cognitive evaluation information for at least one user of the one or more users based at least in part on test results from the plurality of cognitive evaluation tests, administer one or more additional cognitive evaluation tests to the at least one user via the display and the plurality of user input actuators, and identify, based at least in part on test results from the one or more additional cognitive evaluation tests, a cognitive impairment condition of the at least one user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Ovidiu Lucian STAVRICA, Dirk Duncan EIDE
  • Patent number: 10759059
    Abstract: A system automatically loads a bin with a filled deformable container such as a sack of produce being conveyed along horizontal rollers. A movable support structure has a coupling end attachable to a robotic arm, and a lifting end supporting a plurality of parallel rods. By means of the robotic arm and a programmable logic controller, the plurality of parallel rods can be positioned between and parallel to the horizontal rollers, raised when the container is conveyed to a loading position above the parallel rods, moved to a predetermined position above the bin, and rotated to allow the container to slide downward along the parallel rods and into the bin under force of gravity. The loading sequence can be repeated a number of times, changing the predetermined position each time to stack a plurality of the containers in a desired configuration such as overlapping rows of offset sacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 1, 2020
    Assignee: SOUTHERN FIELD WELDING, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Neil Justesen, Dirk Duncan, James Claude Murphy
  • Publication number: 20190232503
    Abstract: A system automatically loads a bin with a filled deformable container such as a sack of produce being conveyed along horizontal rollers. A movable support structure has a coupling end attachable to a robotic arm, and a lifting end supporting a plurality of parallel rods. By means of the robotic arm and a programmable logic controller, the plurality of parallel rods can be positioned between and parallel to the horizontal rollers, raised when the container is conveyed to a loading position above the parallel rods, moved to a predetermined position above the bin, and rotated to allow the container to slide downward along the parallel rods and into the bin under force of gravity. The loading sequence can be repeated a number of times, changing the predetermined position each time to stack a plurality of the containers in a desired configuration such as overlapping rows of offset sacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: MICHAEL NEIL JUSTESEN, Dirk Duncan, James Claude Murphy
  • Patent number: 10293491
    Abstract: A system automatically loads a bin with a filled deformable container such as a sack of produce being conveyed along horizontal rollers. A movable support structure has a coupling end attachable to a robotic arm, and a lifting end supporting a plurality of parallel rods. By means of the robotic arm and a programmable logic controller, the plurality of parallel rods can be positioned between and parallel to the horizontal rollers, raised when the container is conveyed to a loading position above the parallel rods, moved to a predetermined position above the bin, and rotated to allow the container to slide downward along the parallel rods and into the bin under force of gravity. The loading sequence can be repeated a number of times, changing the predetermined position each time to stack a plurality of the containers in a desired configuration such as overlapping rows of offset sacks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Southern Fabrication Works, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Neil Justesen, Dirk Duncan, James Claude Murphy
  • Publication number: 20180237235
    Abstract: A system automatically loads a bin with a filled deformable container such as a sack of produce being conveyed along horizontal rollers. A movable support structure has a coupling end attachable to a robotic arm, and a lifting end supporting a plurality of parallel rods. By means of the robotic arm and a programmable logic controller, the plurality of parallel rods can be positioned between and parallel to the horizontal rollers, raised when the container is conveyed to a loading position above the parallel rods, moved to a predetermined position above the bin, and rotated to allow the container to slide downward along the parallel rods and into the bin under force of gravity. The loading sequence can be repeated a number of times, changing the predetermined position each time to stack a plurality of the containers in a desired configuration such as overlapping rows of offset sacks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: MICHAEL NEIL JUSTESEN, DIRK DUNCAN, JAMES CLAUDE MURPHY