Patents by Inventor Matthew Henry ANDERSON
Matthew Henry ANDERSON 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: 20240187930Abstract: A method includes monitoring an upstream traffic demand at a first access point and based at least in part on the upstream traffic demand on the first access point, communicating a message that causes a mobile device to transmit upstream messages to the first access point and to receive downstream messages from a second access point. The first access point is physically closer to the mobile device than the second access point.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2022Publication date: June 6, 2024Inventors: John M. SWARTZ, Robert E. BARTON, Jerome HENRY, Matthew A. SILVERMAN, Fred J. ANDERSON
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Publication number: 20240147245Abstract: A method for adaptive presence-based radio configuration of access points in a venue includes defining a number of regions in the venue in which access points are deployed, each region having a center point, and assigning a first access point to a first region, positioned at the center of the first region. The method also includes affecting a first energy level in the first region, which corresponds to a power of a transmit signal emitted by the first access point, and assigning to the first region a configurable capacity value that determines an acceptable overlap constraint between the first energy level of the first region and an energy level of a neighboring region. The method further includes generating data describing a tessellation graph in which a possible map of the access points is formed using an iterative descent process based on the first energy level and the overlap constraint.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Jerome Henry, Robert Edgar Barton, Fred Jay Anderson, Matthew Aaron Silverman, John Matthew Swartz, Joshua D. Suhr
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Patent number: 11759079Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for providing a notification of a wet floor are provided. A scrubbing robot for scrubbing a floor and having one or more liquid carrying components has a sensor coupled to it positioned for collecting data about an area of the floor proximate to the scrubbing robot and along a path over which the robot has travelled. An application is stored on the computer for determining that liquid is on the floor by analysing the data for a presence of a second set of parameters corresponding to or crossing (from above to below or from below to above) a set of threshold parameters that is indicative of the presence of liquid on the floor. A notification module coupled to the scrubbing robot issues at least one of a human detectable and a computer detectable notification in response to the application determining that liquid is on the floor.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: A&K Robotics Inc.Inventors: Anson Yan Shun Kung, Andrew Chu-Shuan Liu, Jessica Hil-Yin Yip, Matthew Henry Anderson, Ranjit Singh Khangura
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Patent number: 11378953Abstract: Autoscrubbers are capable of being operated in a manual (e.g. walk-behind) mode and an autonomous (operator free) mode and capable of switching between such operational modes. Apparatus and methods for steering such autoscrubbers use steering torque mechanisms to apply steering torques independently to left and right drive wheels. Steering systems for autonomous operation may be retrofit onto existing walk-behind autoscrubbers to implement this functionality. The autonomous control capability may not detract appreciably from an operator's ability to use the autoscrubber in a manual (walk-behind) mode.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2020Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: A&K Robotics Inc.Inventors: Matthew Henry Anderson, Anson Yan Shun Kung, Jacob Michael Perron, Alexander Joseph Yuen
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Patent number: 11263596Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques are disclosed for selecting and dispatching a worker to assist a robot. The system may include a computer comprising a processor and a computer readable memory. The computer readable memory may include lists of worker criteria items for a plurality of workers and a list of assistance criteria items for a robot. The system may include a triggering application executable by the processor for identifying triggering data corresponding to a triggering item within sensor data from the robot. A ranking application may also be stored on the computer and may be executed in response to an identification of triggering data corresponding to the triggering item. The ranking application may be operable to cross-reference the worker criteria items on each of the first lists with the assistance criteria items on the second list and to generate a ranking of the plurality of workers based on the cross-referencing.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: A&K Robotics Inc.Inventors: Matthew Henry Anderson, Jessica Hil-Yin Yip, Anson Yan Shun Kung, Ranjit Singh Khangura, Bikram Adhikari, Alexander Joseph Yuen
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Publication number: 20210011474Abstract: Autoscrubbers are capable of being operated in a manual (e.g. walk-behind) mode and an autonomous (operator free) mode and capable of switching between such operational modes. Apparatus and methods for steering such autoscrubbers use steering torque mechanisms to apply steering torques independently to left and right drive wheels. Steering systems for autonomous operation may be retrofit onto existing walk-behind autoscrubbers to implement this functionality. The autonomous control capability may not detract appreciably from an operator's ability to use the autoscrubber in a manual (walk-behind) mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Inventors: Matthew Henry ANDERSON, Anson Yan Shun KUNG, Jacob Michael PERRON, Alexander Joseph YUEN
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Patent number: 10824143Abstract: Autoscrubbers are capable of being operated in a manual (e.g. walk-behind) mode and an autonomous (operator free) mode and capable of switching between such operational modes. Apparatus and methods for steering such autoscrubbers use steering torque mechanisms to apply steering torques independently to left and right drive wheels. Steering systems for autonomous operation may be retrofit onto existing walk-behind autoscrubbers to implement this functionality. The autonomous control capability may not detract appreciably from an operator's ability to use the autoscrubber in a manual (walk-behind) mode.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2018Date of Patent: November 3, 2020Assignee: A&K Robotics Inc.Inventors: Matthew Henry Anderson, Anson Yan Shun Kung, Jacob Michael Perron, Alexander Joseph Yuen
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Publication number: 20200315421Abstract: Methods, systems and apparatus for providing a notification of a wet floor are provided. A scrubbing robot for scrubbing a floor and having one or more liquid carrying components has a sensor coupled to it positioned for collecting data about an area of the floor proximate to the scrubbing robot and along a path over which the robot has travelled. An application is stored on the computer for determining that liquid is on the floor by analysing the data for a presence of a second set of parameters corresponding to or crossing (from above to below or from below to above) a set of threshold parameters that is indicative of the presence of liquid on the floor. A notification module coupled to the scrubbing robot issues at least one of a human detectable and a computer detectable notification in response to the application determining that liquid is on the floor.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 17, 2020Publication date: October 8, 2020Inventors: Anson Yan Shun KUNG, Andrew Chu-Shuan LIU, Jessica Hil-Yin YIP, Matthew Henry ANDERSON, Ranjit Singh KHANGURA
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Patent number: 10751878Abstract: Methods and systems for billing the use of a robot, including methods and systems for reducing a robot's functionality based on a user's account information. In some embodiments, the system comprises a computer readable memory comprising a database with a user's account information, a processor operably coupled to the computer readable memory and to a robot, a checking application stored on the computer readable memory and executable by the processor for determining if the user's account is active based on the account data and a functionality reducing application stored on the computer readable memory executable by the processor for reducing the robot's functionality to a reduced state if the checking application determines the user's account is not active and limiting the robot's functionality to the reduced state until the checking application determines that the user's account is active.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2017Date of Patent: August 25, 2020Assignee: A&K Robotics Inc.Inventors: Matthew Henry Anderson, Jessica Hil-Yin Yip, Anson Yan Shun Kung, Ranjit Singh Khangura
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Publication number: 20190179307Abstract: Autoscrubbers are capable of being operated in a manual (e.g. walk-behind) mode and an autonomous (operator free) mode and capable of switching between such operational modes. Apparatus and methods for steering such autoscrubbers use steering torque mechanisms to apply steering torques independently to left and right drive wheels. Steering systems for autonomous operation may be retrofit onto existing walk-behind autoscrubbers to implement this functionality. The autonomous control capability may not detract appreciably from an operator's ability to use the autoscrubber in a manual (walk-behind) mode.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2018Publication date: June 13, 2019Inventors: Matthew Henry ANDERSON, Anson Yan Shun KUNG, Jacob Michael PERRON, Alexander Joseph YUEN
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Publication number: 20180189748Abstract: Methods, systems, and techniques are disclosed for selecting and dispatching a worker to assist a robot. The system may include a computer comprising a processor and a computer readable memory. The computer readable memory may include lists of worker criteria items for a plurality of workers and a list of assistance criteria items for a robot. The system may include a triggering application executable by the processor for identifying triggering data corresponding to a triggering item within sensor data from the robot. A ranking application may also be stored on the computer and may be executed in response to an identification of triggering data corresponding to the triggering item. The ranking application may be operable to cross-reference the worker criteria items on each of the first lists with the assistance criteria items on the second list and to generate a ranking of the plurality of workers based on the cross-referencing.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2018Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Matthew Henry Anderson, Jessica Hil-Yin Yip, Anson Yan Shun Kung, Ranjit Singh Khangura, Bikram Adhikari, Alexander Joseph Yuen
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Publication number: 20180161980Abstract: Methods and systems for billing the use of a robot, including methods and systems for reducing a robot's functionality based on a user's account information. In some embodiments, the system comprises a computer readable memory comprising a database with a user's account information, a processor operably coupled to the computer readable memory and to a robot, a checking application stored on the computer readable memory and executable by the processor for determining if the user's account is active based on the account data and a functionality reducing application stored on the computer readable memory executable by the processor for reducing the robot's functionality to a reduced state if the checking application determines the user's account is not active and limiting the robot's functionality to the reduced state until the checking application determines that the user's account is active.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2017Publication date: June 14, 2018Inventors: Matthew Henry ANDERSON, Jessica Hil-Yin YIP, Anson Yan Shun KUNG, Ranjit Singh KHANGURA